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Year: 1879

SAM CARY, of Ohio, the Greenback bolter,
who thought he saw more fodder in Il bolt
from the Greenbacl party than by remaining
therein, goes Colonel DANIELS, of this city,
two hours better in their little game of find
ing out upon how little labor people can be
fed and keep soul and body together. CARY
advocates four hours n day, while DANIELS
is represented as procloiming for two. Both
these statesmen have lived some forty or
fifty years, and it is possible that both have
been stalwart toilcrs but we think it would
trouble either or both to show that they
have averaged one hour day at practical
productive labor since they have attained
their majority. In this vast country, with
so many virgin acres courting cultivation,
and such widespread industries inviting la
Dor, to teach the doctrine of universal lazi-
ness and idleness is the most dangerous
dogma relating to individual and National
thrift and prosperity yet enunciated outside
the lunatic asylum Labor is the only in
dex to success. The lack of it is the great
est cause of our existing woes.
Year: 1879

EWING has gone to Ohio to open his cam
paign, and to avoid having lonesome time
he should have taken company with him
Those "dollars of the daddies" patriots
who have heard that he has seen TILDEN,
will OF course come around once, and but
only once, if the first turn exhausts the
bar'l, or if they do not find the cask and its
coveted contents. Then will feeling of
loneliness come over him, for he is not in
sympathy with the people. He is too fclile,
and they feel that they cannot trust him.
On the other hand it is stated that Mr..
FOSTER, who has just opened his campaign,
is having q genuine triumphal progress
through Ohio. Wherever he goes crowds
and enthusiasm await him. He attended
the Republican convention of CoshOcton
County last week, and the demonstration
made in his honor was something unprece-
dented in that Democratic stronghold.
There was procession, music, and gayly-
trimmed hall in which the convention met,
and there was no limit to the crowd and
its enthusiasm. Mr.. FOSTER made an ad-
mirable address to the convention, and q
speech in the evening in response to SER
enade. What gives peculiar zest to the
FOSTER campaign is the fact that in nearly
every locality where he holds meetings il
his triumphal round among the people
Democrats identify themselves with hi
campaign by taking part in the exercises
While this has been going on in the Repub
lican party, poor EWING has been wander
ing about between New York. Washington
and Ohio making up sick lip and com


prosecute vigorous campaign, and whin


ing about being ruined by enemies in hi;
own party.
Year: 1879

THE Opposition has again reached the
conclusion that the GRANT boom is subsid-
ing This is pleasing portent to the third
tain to preface an active revival of the
boom. 1t is true that Congress is not in
session, and that, in consequence, there is no
apparent necessity for GRANT" just now
but this pacific condition of affairs is cer-
tain forerunner of some Democratic blum
der which will revive that necessity. 1t
may not be until next winter, when Con-
gress reassembles but, sooner or later, the
blunder will be made
Year: 1879

THE Republicans of Pennsylvania have
taken a noble stand aud have inaugurated
vigorous campaign. Their platform is
sound and stalwart, and their cause that of
truth, justice, and patriotism. The DEM
lican party Of that State this year if the
Republicans do their duty. Wisconsin also
has set out on n Stalwart Republican cam
paign with every prospect and assurance OF
securing noble victory at the ballot-box
Year: 1879

Chicago Times.


The Courier er-Journal, with more
credulity than would be expected,
takes the story that Grant really
doesn't want the Presidency with a
sigh of relief, exclaiming Good
sooth, a merry day; and there'll be an
end of the fever and the worry and
the fret of it, God wOt Not less to
Grant than the rest of us, heaven be
praised For why should Grant want
again to be President, supposing he
could be? He is well quit of it. If,
on his entrance in at the Golden gate,
he should announce his fixed deter
mination never again to be candi-
date for office, as Washington and
Jackson did, he would immortalize
his name and enshrine himself in the
hearts of all his countrymen, without
regard to sect, party or previous con
dition. Then would the grateful
homage of his country assert itself,
restoring him to the retired list, with
big pay, and he could come to Ken
tucky, buy stock farm and with
the angels stand, just as the Ken
tuckiahs do. Grant is no fool, and
stranger things have happened than a
refusal on his part to clutch at the
army helmet which floats before the
fancy of the stalwarts." Let not the
Confederate brigadiers lay the fatter-
ing unction to their souls that they
are to be thus easily rid of the hero Of
Appomattax and the friend of the
whisky crooks, If Grant lives he'll
go for EN-.
Year: 1879

THE curious story is told that the
body of Mr.. Benjamin Singerly. who
died at Pittsburg in 1876 Of sunstroke,
when taken up recently to be rein
tered was found to be completely
petri6ed. He was a very heavy man
in life, weighing 1893 pounds, but when
taken up in a stone state the body
weighed 925 pounds The flesh had
changed to a yellOwish stony substance
and was as imperVious as marble.
Even the dress suit in which he was
buried had turned to stone. The
Pittsburg Post states that these facts
have been verified by trustworthy per.
sons. After this we will reopen the
case of the Cardiff giant, which was
generally pronounced shrewd decep-
tion
Year: 1879

Nashville Banner.


An estimable lady, a resident Of
Memphis, who, like all others in that
ill-fated city during the yellow fever
scourge, has sorrowful recollection
of the months of gloom that hung like
a pail over every household, and is
still mourning for the loved and lost,
writes friendly letter to a young lady
of Edgefeld, the Introductory Of
which is couched in the following
mournful but eloquent thoughts:


Let us pass over the dark days
the winter of my soul-since last we
parted; pass over the severe ordeal that
awaited my return, the breaking up of
a home, around which clustered the
most sacred associations, like Ossean 4
music, pleasant and mournful to the
soul pass over the sleepless nights,
the aching void, the longing for a
touch of vanished hand, and the
sound a voice that is still, and, 10
Spring is here, bright and blooming
as a young bride. who comes forth ia
meet her lord. Happy those who can
drink to the full of the sweet pleas
ures this season affords, but the heart
that Fate hath wasted no spring can
restore, and is song will be joyous no
more, never more.
Year: 1879

A man will make up his mind to bear
punishment. He risked and the
chances went against him. He forfeited
all, but yielded to premises. Then he
finds these promises all deceptive, and
that every appeal for leniency Is treated
with contempt and contumely. This is
the condition things are assuming now !;
and every hour longer that the odious
and oppressive laws are allowed to ietter
the people of the South is dangerous to
peace and dangerous to human liberty in
this country =; and it may be more dan
gerous to the liberty of the North than
the South.


Congress will meet on the eighteenth
of March. 1t will meet to undo the
wrongs perpetuated upon the people of
the South. 1t will meet to make this
Union once more land of liberty to
strike from the limbs Of the people the
legal shackles that have bound every part
of the country to make the white Dem
ocratic brother South equal in law with
the African negro. None but enemies
to human liberty will oppose this. If
with this great object in view Democratic
statesmen allow dissension to weaken
their party on the question of who shall
be Speaker, we shall fear that the day
Of the redemption of the Union from the
hands of the Thugs will be put afar off.
In the ex-Speaker the House has had
well-tried, able and skillful presiding Of
ficer, and this is not the time to risk ex-
periments. Mr.. Randall should CON-
mand solid vote of the party at any
other time we might hope to see this
honor conferred upon some Southern
gentleman.
Year: 1879

IN THE real estate business there are
often "bulls" aud "bears" Just as in the
stock business. If you don't want to
buy, go to bgll if you want to sell,
90 TO bear. Recently friend of ours
went to bull and made au offer, which
was denied with great emphasis-he had
been offered very much more for the
property and refused it; there was a
standing offer of 500 more for it-he
could get it at anytime. The gentleman
thought that very strange, and made the
offer to the owner. 1t was gladly accepted
and the property transferred. The rea
estate bull nevertheless blindly continued
to ask one hundred dollars more for the
property for several weeks after it wa.
sold, and did not discover that it had
been transferred until sometime after a
wag had made him an offer that he would
''take into consideration"
Year: 1879

FROM every quarter of the country
there come favorable reports in regard to
business prospects. Dry goods, groceries,
manufacturing operations, and, last and
best of all, real estate, which is sure
prognostic, feel the stimulus of healthy
movement and reviving confidence. The
opening of navigation will soon add to
the activity now apparent. 1t is about
time to lay off our sackcloth and ashes
and lend our aid to the renewal of con.
tidence and prosperity. Record.
Year: 1879

EFFECT OF THE BURNSIDE RESOLUTION
ABRoAD-How 1T is RECEIVED By M. DE
LEssEps.


lBY CABLE TO THE HERALD


PARIS June 80, 1879.
NJ. de Lesseps wishes to convey to the people
of the United States the assurance that he is
highly satisfied with the resolution introduced
into the Senate by General Burnside on the
25th inst, in relation to the Panama
canal, because it expressed exactly
his own sentiment on the subject He has
always been of the opinion that the canal
should be entirely independent of the control Of
any and every government. While neutrality
should be assured, the canal can only be con-
structed with the aid of factor which has no
nationality-namely, money. This, M. de
world.


NO EGYPTIAN REPRIsAIs.


Referring to this resolution offered by Senator
Burnside the Rspubiique Francaise combats
the idea that the United States should view the
construction of the Darien canal under Euro
pean auspices with disquietude, and points out
that the undertaking is independent Of official
support control that no European govern
ment will contribute tarthng or man to the
construction of the canal, and that the COM
pany will merely ask all the Powers to consider
the canal absolutely neutral territory.
Year: 1879

forbade me the soil of the country that
had defended upon the field OF battle, and
for which had suffered eight months in
the underground easement; he caused the
arrest of my aged father and had him sent
to Spain, escorted by gendarmes; he had
accused us falsely, miseraby, before the
tribunal oil being the authors or the accom-
plices OF the Commune. This is what he
did to us But this is no excuse for impul-
sive reprisals on my part. You, on the con-
trary, had been the friend of the father, of
the mother of this child vilifed by YOU


They made you Senator, and you
accepted from these criminals" place ut
the Luxembourg beside the Persignys,
Rouhers and the Saint .Pauls. You were a
"plebiscitaire" in 1870. What had be-
come of this ''crime OF December" And
had you not covered it with the skirts of
your laced garments, with your ballot on
which the word most displayed covered
everything else of anterior date? And your
daughter--was it not in the arms OF
the Empress that she died Were
you not at Biarritz for eight days
trembling, weeping, gratefula Why
is this date of December invoked by
you in order to strike down widow, a
mother, u benefactressp This came very
tardily; and it was necessary for
you to enshroud yourself with it
before the Senate, before the Piebiscite,
and especially before letting the Sow
ereign of rance install herself as
sister of charity in the bosom of your
child. Courtssan OF power, Of fortune. you
Year: 1879

We would call the attention of oul
Wilmington merchants to the fact that
the Weekly REPUBLICAN, is one Of the
best mediums in the State to advertise
in. Our rates have been reduced so
that all who may wish can afford to
place their card in its columns. It has
a large and healthy circulation and
reaches the best portion of the farmers
of New Castle and Kent counties. Will
mington merchants should control the
trade of the Peninsula and surround
ing country, and the Weekly REpUBLr.
CAN Is the medium to reach them with.
Call and get our rates.
Year: 1879

The Augusta, Ga, "Chronicle" o
the 23d instant says


We fail to see how the following facts
can be negatived:-That General
Toombs is to receive a fee Of $S, 900, to
go to himself and the Attorney General.
That the money was paid in advance
and checked out by General Toombs be.
fore the bill passed the Legislature.
That the bill is just in Itself, as the
road was entitled to relief, we are pre-
pared to admit. There must have been
some agreement or bargain between the
parties, because the money was depos
tied subject to General Toombs' draft,
and was to be retained if the bill did
not pass. The money was not to be
drawn out of the Georgia Railroad Bank
until the bill did pass. We learn, also
"by authority" that the money was
drawn out before the passage Of the
bill.
Year: 1879

In 1877 Anthony Hale was arrested
on the charge Of conspiring to cheat and
defraud Western dealer of liquors
and bill Of indictment was found
against him, but-the prosecutor Jeina
seldom in Philadelphia-the trial was
continued from time to time, notwith.
standing Hale's anxiety to have the
case disposed Of. He wentto Brazil in
1878 to help build railroad, and upon
his return, after Icing away nearly a
year, he found his bail was about to be
proceeded against. He surrendered
himself and, after being confined for
four s,nths, applied for his release
under the two-term rule, but Judge
Biddle decided that the rule did not ap.
ply to him because he had become a
fugitive from justice. He remained in
prison two or three months afterwards,
and day or go ago was released, and
informed that a man he did not know
had become bail for him.
Year: 1879

From the Georgetown Inquirer.


There Is a great deal Of adverse criti


cism in this section on tue recent &C


ton Of the Chancellor and Governor II


making an order Of 1850 year upon tn,


poor fund Of Sussex county for the sup


port in Kirkbride's asylum, Philadel
phia, Of a demented son Of Loxley R
Jacobs. The law under which the or.
der was made is very old, having been
passed before the counties of the State
had made provision for the care of the
insane. Recently Sussex county bull,
an asylum for this unfortunate class and
to complete it had to borrow money,
and from a balance Of this loan the first
payment under the order spoken Of had
to be made. Those who object to the
action of the Chancellor and Governor
do 30 on the ground that the county is
able to care for its own insane in its
own asylum, and that it may pave the
way for many similar orders upon the
poor fund, for the outside Of the State.
Of persons now being provided for in
the comfy insane asylum and whose
claims for extra consideration are quite
as strong and meritorious as those of
The case under consideration.
Year: 1879

who has seen better days as membe,
of one Of the first families of Virginia
is now earning her living by plying ar
awl at the shoemaker's bench in Peters
burg. She served an apprenticeship O.
four years, and, it is said, can now turn
out as good shoe as any man in the
business who has not had more expe-
rienoa. She is now thinking of manu-.
featuring shoes on her own account, and
if she can find a suitable one, she may
be induced to accept a male partner,
provided he will agree not to make love
to her and offer to dissolve the mercan-
tile partnership and go into domestic
nna
Year: 1879

to stop this sort of thing at the
South? 1t has gone on long enough.
Apparently, Southern citizens are abb
solutely incapable of understanding
that Northern Indignation, in such
cases, is entirely irrespective of the
opinions or the color of the victim.
The North believes in real freedom.
Moreover, it may as well be said that
the North means to have real free
dom prevail, at all elections in every
part of this country at which the
course Of our common Government is
in any degree affected. In plain
terms, that is the right Of every law
abiding citizen-not only to have a
free vote himself, but to be overcome
only by the votes of others.


This has become a large question.
By methods essentially like those en-
plOyed against an Independent Con-
federate in Yazoo county, Mississippi
the South has been made solid. The
people of the North do not believe
that the free will of that section has
been expressed in any recent election.
They believe that one-third of the
electoral votes in this country, one
third of the seats in Congress, and
more than onethird of the States, are
controlled by a law-defying mobocra-
cy, the most Infamous kind of gov
ernment known among men. 1t
seems to the people of the North high
time that those who refuse to govern
themselves with decency, fairness and
respect for law, should cease to have
any hand in governing the United
United States.
Year: 1879

the first aim of Southern politics, for


no difficulty of situation would justify


the rest OF the country in conniving


at general disregard of vital consti-


tutional principles and guarantees,


which is the present policy of the


Southern whites under Democratic


auspices. Our correspondent proposes


there shall be a different voting popu-


lation, and insists that if this is "a


nation with big N" it shall pass a


national election law prohibiting vot-


ing except to those who can read and


write. Here there would be question,


but he can have another voting popu-


lation without such law, and with


out any question whatever. Any


State may require an educational quail


ification for voters. Why, then, do


not he and his friends urge such


qualification in his State? It would


reduce its Congressional representa-
ton. Undoubtedly it would but is


not such reduction better than an
archy? The whites control many of
the Southern States. They complain


of the ignorant black vote But the
legal remedy is III their own hands.


Why do they not use it? For two
reasons: they know that it would
greatly reduce the white vote as well
as the colored, and they prefer to sup
press the colored vote, and still count
it with the white in the basis Of repre-
sentation, and to accuse citizens else
where who expose and denounce the
iniquity as cherishing sectional hate
Really our Southern brethren have
learned our courage, and they ought
now to credit us With some common
sense. There is not the slightest vim
dictive feeling in this part of the
country toward Southerners, whatever
the fervor of platform rhetoric may
be. But the only way to good un-
derstanding and to the disappearance
OF the bloody shirt is plain proof that
Southerners seek to remedy their un-
doubted difficulties by just, legal, and
means. At present the
Democratic plan is to obtain complete
control of the national government
by fraudulent and forcible suppress
sion Of the colored vote wherever nee
essary. This is the overthrow of
popular government and sheer usurpa-
ton, and it is this that the Republi-
can party unitedly opposes.
Year: 1879

One of the BlOtches on Our Civilization.


While on the street the other day


we saw man crippled in both limbs,
so that he was compelled to shuttle
laboriously along on his knees. He
carried an accordeon, and occasionally
stopped to peer at the upper and lower
windows of a house, thus seeking an
audience for his music. Aside from
his distorted feet, he appeared in excel
lent health, and the dexterity with
which he fingered the keys of his in
strument showed no lack of manual
vigor.


He was accompanied by a woman
apparently thirty years old, robust,
active person, who assisted him in
crossing the street, and carried tin
cup, which we inferred was to receive
the contributions Of soft-hearted peo-
pie who might express their pity for
the cripple III pecunluy way. While
we contemplated the two, however,
the abject appeals of the man and the
listless expectancy of the woman
elected no responses of copper or
nickel from the passing multitude or
OLI NHlIOWS.
after we had turned away there was
dropping of coins into the tin cup,
but we heard it not, and our refec-
tions ran somewhat after this manner:
There is a man who could be useful
in many ways he has health, strong
hands; in some sedentary occupation
he could by industry earn a comforta-
bic livelihood and be independent.
There is woman in whose appear
ance we can find nothing to excuse
her mendicancy. Were she willing to
earn her bread by honest labor, she
could easily find the opportunity. In
deed, she could earn enough to keep
herself and her crippled companion in
state much better than that which
is dependent upon begging" We no.
ticed that the complexion and features
of the two mendicants were of the
type which is best illustrated by the
Italian, and we were reminded by that
fact that some of our acquaintance
who WELD the crayon and splash the
canvas, would probably find some very
artistic elements in the faces and atti-
tudes Of the beggars. But somehow
or other we could not dwell upon their
esthetics. To our mental view, the
practically vicious side of their con-
duct persisted in occupying the fore
ground. We saw them as two indo-
lent loiterers in the highway of civil
ization, stolidly, abjectly, soliciting
the public to give them money that
they might live without labor, without
sense of responsibility. With evident
capabilities for usefulness, they were
more than wasting their best years.
1t could not be that this truth did not
press upon their recognition from time
to time but in their pitiful Incidence,
or slavery to the habits of beggary, it
failed to arouse more than temporary
thrill Of self-condemnation. The next
moment they had settled again into
the old channel of thought, heedful
only of the needs of the present, and
planning how to supply them without
rendering aught of compensation.
How many such wretches we jostle
against on the busy thoroughfares!
Who will show them how to live?
WHO will show them any good?"
Year: 1879

Hazing will soon be among the
things that were. Six cadets have
just been expelled from West Point
for this offense; and the authorities
of Princeton College, taking Time by
the forelock, have notified the parents
or guardians of every member Of the
Sophomore Glass that any student
found guilty of hazing will be ex-
PEELED at once. Hazing is both an
unmanly and an illegal practice, and
it is good omen that two of the fore
most educational institutions in the
country have determined to break it
up Examiner and Chronicle.
Year: 1879

Democratic papers are now finding
fault with Charley Foster because he
wasn't in the Union army. The same
papers in the time of the war raked
hell to find missiles to hurl at every
man who wore the blue. The impu-
dence Of the men who thus presume
upon the ignorance of the people was
never matched this side.of the internal
regions Newark American.