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Year: 1879

Awake, my love, you've slept full long,
Awake aud hear lovers song;
Time speeds away with rapid flight,
Aud / must sing my song ere night
Shall usher in the coming morn,
When from my love / must be gone.
Then let the hours that fly so fast
Bring to US now rich repast
OF mental JOY in pleasures bowl,
On which we both may feast the soul;
These happy hours can't always last
Love seems TO make them fly more fast.
Then wilt thou, dear, some token give
That in my bosom hope may live.
To soothe a lovers restless heart,
o give it love before we part;
The hour TO part is drawing nigh,
Say, shall hope live or shall it die !


August II, 1873.
Year: 1879

There is nothing which fills the
soul Of Young tnan with conster-
nation so much as TO take his best
girl to prayer meeting and have
the pastor call upon "our stranger
friend for a few remarks and q
prayer"
Year: 1879

A man took his goat to the dairy
fair in New York last week, label
ed him, "Gilt Edge" and was much
disappointed at not receiving a
premium. He was confident that
there was no better butter in the
show.-New Haven Register.
Year: 1879

Believe me when I tell you that thrift OF
time will repay you i'm after life with usury
Of profit beyond your sanguinc dreams, and
that the waste of IL viii make you dwindle.
alike in intellect and in moral statue. be-
yond your darkest reckonings.-w e. Glad
Year: 1879

AS the happy couple were leav-
ing the church, the husband said
to the partner of his welded life:
Marriage must seem q dreadful
thing to you; why, you are all of
tremble, and one could hardly hear
you say Il will.'" 81 will have
more courage and say it louder
next time," said the blushing bride.
Year: 1879

THE EXERCISE OF THE VETO POWER.


What sophistry and Misrepresentation can
do is being done by the Democratic party
to convince the country that the President
has no legitimate veto power that can be
thrust between them and their mischievous
purposes. 1t contends that it can pass laws
removing all barriers between the elective
franchise and fraud and corruption, and the
President has no power to veto such meas
urcs. The absurdity of such proposition
is shown by reference TO the Constitution
itself 1t says:


Every bill which shall have passed the
House of Representatives and the Senate
shall, before it becomes law. be presented to
the President of the United States. If he ap-
proves he shall sign it, but If not, he shall
return it with his objections to that House in
which il shall have originated, who shall enter
the objections at large on their journal and
proceed to reconsider 1t. If, after such re-
consideration, two.thirds of that House shall
agree to pass the bill, it shall be seut, together
with the objections, to the other House, by
which it shall likewise be reconsderod, and
If approved by two-thrds Of that House, it
shall become q law.


This language is clear and explicit in re-
vealing the abstract fact that the acts OF
Congress can no more become laws without
Executive approval than that the President
can approve and make laws which Congress
has not enacted. The Constitution makes
both the legislative and executive branches
of the Government responsible for the char
acter of the laws which pass upon the stat
ute book for the government of the people
Indeed, the Constitution seems to lean more
strongly toward the executive than the legis-
lative branch of the Government in bestow-
ing power, for while it explicitly sets bound
aries TO the legislative branch, it places nC
limit rs to the character of the objections
which the President may interpose to pre-.
vent an enactment. from becoming law
This simple fact disarms all the assumptions
and sophistry now urged against the eXer.
else OF the veto power under Executive
judgment and sense of duty.


It is evident that the policy of the pres
ent Congress is to coerce, intimidatc, ol
wheedle the President, if possible into {
tame submission to the wrongs that the
majority may attempt. We are confident
that this game will not succeed. The Pres
ident has already suffered all that he pro-
poses to suffer at the bar of public opinion
for yielding TO expediency under n trust in
Democratic good faith. His condolences
have been betrayed, his motives have beer
misudged, and his concessions have beer
abused to an extent which finds no futur,
trust in Democratic professions Or demands
If Congress has the power to override hi
Judgment, then his responsibility is at n
end, but if he voluntarily approves palpa
BILE wrong then it will confront him will
overwhelming power
Year: 1879

velopment of Democratic policy, misman-
agement, and misrule in the present Con-
gress. The people North and West are
rapidly being brought to their senses, un-
der the progress of events as the Democrats
are now shaping them in the Government.
These indications are rapidly arousing the
loyal people to n sense of danger.


There is no reason for doubling that the
next two years will awaken the more loyal
people Of the nation to the necessity Of re-
covering tho Legislative power which has
passed out of Republican hands into those
Of men who are known rs enemies to the
Union and revilers of the Constitution. The
Republican party has, we trust, studied the
lesson of adversity with profit Then again
large number in each Northern commu-
nifty who had become supine in politics
will find cause for arou sing themselves to
future action, under the promised develop
ments of the next two years. The loyal
people will not trust the Democratic party
after such abuse of power rs now seems in
evitable under the inspirations which are
urging it on from wrong and crime to still
more bold and indeicnsiblc outrages, thus
filling calendar that it cannot confront al
the bar of public judgment. The decadence
of the Democratic party will continue un'
der its fragrant abuses of power until II
reaches hopeless minority in the Govern
ment once more.
Year: 1879

SPEAKER RANDALL assumes with an air
of gravity that this House is fresh from the
people and represents the popular will.
What does he think of those members who
did not come from the popular will at all,
but were fraudulently counted in ?"
Year: 1879

To the Editor of The National Republican;


SIR In Mondays issue Of THE REPUBLICAN
was an article under the above caption, in
which the writer says, speaking Of the national
and State Jurisdictions, "The limit and bound
ary of each are established by written con.
stitution." Now this proposition, though true
in one sense, is calculated to mislead. The in
ference naturally to be drawn from the state
ment is that the two jurisdictions stand upon
the same footing In respect to power, the differ
cnce being only that one is regulated by the
Federal and the other by State constitutional


But beyond this there is a. hrsn1


The Federal Consti.luli


and Congress exercise 5gkySNc!
pressly granteK II necessarily implied.'r But
the States, beside the poworsygranted and i'm
piled in the constitutions, respectively, have
n residuum of power, which they can exercise
except so far rs forbidden by the constitution
In other words, while the Federal Constitu
tion is grant of power the State constitution
is mere limitation of power This distinc
tion has been maintained by all our leading
statesmen North and South, and has been
sanctioned repeatedly by the courts, both State
and Federal, and Republicans cannot afford
| any more than Democrats TO ignore IL.


For the justification and vindication OF the
national election laws we must look into the
| Federal Constitution and its amendmcnts-and
we will not look in vain. At the same time
VIC must be careful not to assume for the Ma
tional Government q sovereignty it does mo-
POSSESS w.
Year: 1879

TODAY the agony of the Democratic
Rspirants for offices within the gift of the
Senate will he ended. At the same time q
large number OF peculiarly disinterested
and unemployed patriots Of that political
faith will begin to argue that this extra
session ought to be very short, because the
people are tired of Congress any way.
Year: 1879

Jurisdiction of Senator BUTLER, of South
Carolina, to be chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Civil Service and Retrenchment
was natural thing for the Democratic
caucus to do. He is thorough exponent,
as the representative of the South Carolina
rife clubs, of the Democratic idea of Civil
Service, and as n leader of the Red Shirt
Democracy Of that State has done his share
In the way of Retrenchment-of the negro
vote
Year: 1879

SENATOR WINDOWS colored migration
proposition has evidently had the direct
effect in the South to create desire among
the blacks to attempt, in their own behalf,
q realization of some of its benefits without
Government aid. The result is that hun
drcds and thousands of them, with and
without due preparation, are leaving the
homes Of their birth to essay n new life in
the Great West. No reasonable man will
blame them, for, having had tantalizing
taste of freedom, it is but natural that they
should ycarn for more complete enjoy
ment of its benefits. They may suffer the
priyations Of poverty, be pnched with hum
ger, and become dependent upon the charity
of strangers in this adventure; they may
even fail and be compelled TO return TO the
localities from whence they are attempting
to flee but they would be untrue TO them
selves and unworthy OF the privileges o
free citizenship if they did not make The
effort to better their condition. So long a,
they are denied the common and inherent
rights of manhood in one locality it is not
only their privilege, but their duty, to shake
its dust from their heels and 20 North, East
or West, rs inclination may direct, in tho
pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
Year: 1879

THE Greenbackers in the House have one
chance left for their redemption from the
thralldom of the natural inclnations they
nearly al! yiosa to in adhering to the Demo-
cratic party. They can stand aloof from
both parties on the question of repeating
the national election laws or, better yet,
they can assert the integrity of their devo.
Won to good government by opposing the
hditious efforts of the Democracy to wipe
from the statute books every Safeguard
against fraud in those elections. Ifthey do
not elect to accept one of these two positions
they will record themselves in favor OF
fraud and corruption.
Year: 1879

CONGRESS opens with signs of hesitation
and Generalization among the leaders of
the majority party. The BECK Programme
will be strictly adhered to, however, and the
utmost effort will be made to destroy every
barrier against fraud in our national cleo
tions. The hesitation referred to arises from
Doughfoce temerity; but the party lash
will be applied in due time, and spinal
stiffness will be asserted all along the line,
Year: 1879

IT is remarked that Mr.. RANDALL owes
his election to be Speaker to the Republic
can press of the North. The outcry from
that quarter against the further encroach-
ment Of Confederate power in the Govern
ment was effective in frightening the Solid
South out of proper logical, and manly
assertion of its claims. There is some
truth in this; but another fact must not be
forgotten in the same connection, and that
is that RANDALL propitiated the Solid
South by promising majority Of the COM
mittee chairmanships to the Confederate
Brigadiers. These are the only promises
among the many he made during his late
canvass that he will faithfully keep. The
result will be the same in effect, so far as
the South is concerned, rs it would if
BLACKBURN had been elected, for the Bour-
bons will control the House through its
committees and through its Speaker, who
is nothing more nor less than their obse-
quious Doughlacc tool,
Year: 1879

of story that son of the Great and


Good" head thereof did attend q public
ball at Jacksonville, Fla, which was also
attended by General SHERMAN. But the
son-of-his-iather has set the matter at rest
by rushing into print and denying the out
rageous aspersion. He desires the world
and the rest of mankind to take notice that
he as the son of his father, would certainly
have avoided meeting the man who was
" guilty of the cruelty of burning Columbia,
and the cowardice of denying it,' But
this notice was superfuous, Everybody
knows that it is the habit-in their blood


as it were-of the HAMPToNs to avoid
meeting the hero of the March to the Sea-
Year: 1879

THE Boston HerdlPs Washington special
says, ION the authority of Maine Congress
man." that there was no political significance
whatever in the withdrawal of the nomina-
titn of Collector Fox of Bangor The Presi-
dent had received request to have the
nomination withheld until certain papers
were received. He ordered this TO be done,
but the name was sent in by mistake This
led to the withdrawal, but Mr.. Fox's name
will be sent in again in few days, as there
is no dissatisfaction with him, and his reap
poin,ment is generally desired in Bangor.
There are two other candidates, but they
have no special strength.
Year: 1879

THE Potter Committee is sliding right
back to Louisiana matters and getting as far
away from the cipher dispatches as possible.
No use. The Democratic party has got to
bury its clothes lift wants to get rid of that
stencil.
Year: 1879

THE New York Mail says the preponder-
ance OF the ability on the Republican side of
the Potter Committee was almost painfully
evident and Mr.. Marble had need of all his
nonchalance and careful preparation, when
under the searching cross-examinatons OF
Reed and Hiscock.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as q guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
Year: 1879

States supreme Court compelled to uphold this
procedure.


lnervial transactions OF this kind preserves all
equities with notice and Furnishes fraud. and, In our
opinion. ought to become "a law.


The following is the bill referred to:-


bill to facilitate the negotiation of bills Of ladii
and other commercial instruments. and to puni !
fraud therein.


Be it enacted &C., That whenever any party in the
course of any commercial transaction between the
United States and any foreign nation, between any
of the United States shall deliver to any special on
common carrier. by land water, or both or to any
warehouseman or other custodian, any personal
property whatever and shall take therefor any bill
of adipg shipping receipt warehouse receipt agree
ment certificate other voucher in which instru-
met it shall be stated that such property is deliver
able to the order OF any party whatever nam "a
therein the absolute title i'll full to and the right OF
possession of such instrument and to any and
all of such personal property mentioned therein.
shall be transferable by tho Endorsement OF the party
mentioned therein land subsequent indorsers) and
the delivery Of such instrument; and upon such in
dorsenent and delivery such title and right of pos
session shall immediately vest in the transeree sub
ject only to any liens and conditions which may he
mentioned in said instrument; provided that it any
such instrument shall that it is not negotiable
then this section shall apply 10 tnor to the prop
erty mentioned therein; and provided further. that
if the actual notice of other equities shall be received
by the transferec before settlement or payment he
shall be bound by such notice.


SIC. 2.-That this act shall be construed literally
for the purpose of securing negotiabty to all the
instruments mentioned, and the transfer of owner
ship of the goods. wares and merchandise other
personal property mentioned in such instruments.


SEC. 3.--Tnat IT any person shall knowingly make
issue. indorse transfer any instrument Intended
by this act when the property mentioned therein Is
not situated as therein mentioned, such person, in
addition to any and all other penalties pre-
scribed by law, shall be guilty Of msdemeanor and
punished according to law No party dealing in
good faith with any such instrument shall be liable
indorser thereon after the same shall have been
transferred and accepted by the subsequent trans
feree.


THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DIFFICULTY.


General Eppa Hunton, of Virginia. whose indict-
ment Oh the ground of, sending challenge to Mr..
Columbus Alexander, in July last is now being
sidered by the Grand Jury. said Tonight that he
would not be surprised if an indictment should be
found. He does not. however, anticipate any
trouble therefrom. 1t is rumored tonight that
Captain Sheppard, the principal witness in the case,
has left the city.
Year: 1879

Scarcely week passes that we do not
read Of some woman who seeks to hurry
up her kitchen fire by the use of kero-
sene, and dies in the attempt. So COM
mon is the occurrence that the telegraph
has invented the word kerosened," as
a short way of expressing the terrible
kind of death which results from this
dangerous practice. Caution upon eau
tion has been given through the press,
the paragraphers have emphasized the
warning by making fun of it, but all to
no purpose. Death still turks in the
kerosene can, and seizes his victims with
regular and remorseless frequency. To
pour kerosene from can upon fire is
as dangerous piece of business as to
throw q lighted match into keg of
gunpowder, and the people who have
perhaps done it and escaped destruction
have done SO only by a miraculous in
terposition OF Providence -Spri'sgfeM
! (MGSS.) Union.
Year: 1879

Men are often capable of better things
than they perform.


Unbidden guests are often welcomest
when they are gone.


A judicious silenceis better than truth
spoken without charity.


A mind too vigorous and active serves
only to consume the body.


Flattery is like your shadow; it makes
you neither larger nor smaller.


Justice consists in doing no injury to
any one; decency in giving no offence.


They who presume most in pros
perity are soonest subject to despair in
adversity.


We follow the world in approving
others, but we go before it in approving
ourselves.


To the proud man who has erred, the
great difficulty is to know when atone
ment has been made.


Men are vainer of those qualities
which they fondly believe they have
than of those they really have.


The secret of efficiency and success in
our enterprises is to act at once on our
ideas while our fancy is yet warm and
in glow with them.
Year: 1879

Hair dressing shows decided variety
and change. Three styles of hair dress
ing are noticeable. Slender oval faces
adopt the following: The back hair is
tied high; two thick braids (each plaits
of three) fall in two loops; the front
hair is waved fringe, and cluster of
three puffs is pinned about the looped
plaits. The high coiffure is adopted by
the possessors of full, round faces; the
back hair is combed up from the nape of
tile neck, and that on the temples
combed back to meet it, the whole being
massed in two or three long puffs; the
front hair is parted in the center, and falls
in half rings at the sides. The third
fashion is the simple classic head-dress,
with the Greek coil low at the back; the
front hair is simply parted and waved,
and the back hair firmly plated in a
tress of three. Very little hair is re-
quired, but the head should be finely
shaped, Us the outline is clearly dis
played. Dark tortoise shell pins are
worn in fair hair, while silver ornaments
are preferred by brunettes. Natural
flowers are more worn than artificial
ones, and some young girls adopt a
flower and introduce it into every toilet
where a flower is admissible.-S
field Union.
Year: 1879

A gentleman was once travelling
the Soonderbuus in Il native
boat, that is to say, Il boat surmounted
by Il mat-constructed cabin. 1t was
December, and as the cold north wind
came oozing in through the mating
he drew his blanket over him on getting
into bed. He awoke earlier than usual
the next morning, feeling very cold, and
wondering at the large amount of morn
ing light that pervaded his cabin. 10
his dismay he found not only that he
was blanketless, and that q hole two fee
square had been cut in the mating, but
that the sheet on which he had lain was
no longer on the bed. The inference
was clear that he had had nocturnal
visitor He had heard stories of sheet
lifting before; but not till now, that he
had himself been successfully practieed
upon, did he believe that the feat could
be accomplished. The scoundrel who
covets the sheet under you approaches
your bedside armed with feather, with
which he gently tickles your ear. Ac-
customed rs you are to the buzz OF mos
quitoes-which, by the way, have a no.
table penchant for singing in ones ears
you only fidget in your sleep, and,
turning on your side, press the ear that
has been operated on on the pillow. I'M
mediately the one-half of the sheet thus
released is rolled up lengthwise close
under your back. The feather is then
again cautiously applied to the exposed
ear; you turn once more, and the other
half of the sheet is released. One more
tickle adroitly administered disengages
the sheet altogether, and the rascal no
doubt inwardly chuckles as he leaves
you to your slumber.
Year: 1879

ga distinguished physician who has
spent much time at Quarantine, re-
marks the Memphis appeal, "said that
a person whose head was thoroughly
washed every day rarely took contagious
diseases. but where the hair was allowed
to become dirty and matted it was hardly
possible to escape infection. Many per-
sons find speedy relief for nervous head
ache by washing the hair thoroughly
in weak soda water. Thave known Sc
we're cases almost wholly cured in ten
minutes by this simple remedy. A friend
finds the greatest relief in cases of rare
cold,' the cold symptoms entirely leav-
ing the eye and nose after one thorough
washing of the hair. The head should
be thoroughly dried afterward, and
avoid drafts of air for q little while
Year: 1879

A French astronomer has found out
what is the trouble with the weather
in Europe, which has been unusually
wet and cold for months. II is because
there haven't been any s'lE 9 pots to speak
OF. Sun-spots are now generally agreed
by astronomers ito be boiling eruptions
of white-hot hydrogen, large enough
sometimes for the earth to be tossed
bodily into one of them, and when they
are in operation the heat given out by
the luminary is greatly increased. These
spots have certain periodicity, and the
French astronomer already predicts a
very hot summer in 1881, so that every
body will have plenty of time to get
ready.
Year: 1879

A Ridgewood IN. J) woman died
the other day, and her husband, know.
ing that she had kept an account in a
savings bank, called at the bank to
draw out the deposit, which he sup
posed amounted to about $40. To
his surprise he learned that it reached
81 200. To his greater surprise he was
informed that he could not draw it, as
the money was deposited in the name
of his wife's sister. But the greatest
surprise of all was when it was added
that the money was held by his sister,
in-law in trust for his deceased wife's
sonl 1t appeared that she had an il
legitimate son in Germany before
coming to America, and in sixteen
years of married life her husband had
never heard a whisper of his wife's
strange secret. During the whole of
that time she had been carefully saw
ing for her son out of the money al
lowed her by her husband for house,
hold expenses.
Year: 1879

no longer be tho curse of civilized
communities. The yearning fer drink


is caused by the unnatural abstraction


from what are termed "solids" OF


the aqueous element they contain


uncooked beef, for example, containing
from seventy to eighty per cent, and
some vegetables even larger proportion


Of water. There would be less thirst


and consequently less desire to drink,
if our food were consumed in its nat.
ursl state, without being first subject
ed to the action of fire. Clothing, our
adviser also thinks, is a mistake, but
he admits that the world is not yet
far enough advanced in civilization to
go about undressed. Whatever diff
ferences of opinion may exist as to
this anti-cooking theory, there cannot
be doubt that in getting rid of the
kitchen with all it's abuses-including
the cook-housekeepers would be
spared vast amount of worry, and
on this account alone would
live to greater age that at present.