Year: 1876

IHE NAIlONh.
ment of the British army shows the highest
death rate among the troops was in Dublin.
This piece of information Is not surprising.
ireland peyer was healthy place for an Eng
lish soldier.


The tramps having tired of their predatory
incursions and aimless peregrinations, are de-
sirous of holding convention where the wis
dom and talent of their band can be brought
together and decide upon plans for more
prosperous future. We would recommend
New York as desirable place, only it might
depopulate Brooklyn.


Once more the gentle intonations Of William
Aliens silvery voice are waited o'er the land.
He says: "If the hard money Democrats pre-
vail the party will go to the devil" The only
trouble about this is they would have to come
away from him before they could go to him.
Let that party stay away from the congenial
presence of his majesty once, and it would be
far worse than 4 rat in 4 strange garret.


If the Democratic National Executive Com
mittee have any regard for meritorious con-
duct, they will look twice at Kentucky before
deciding where to hold their convention. 1t is
the meeting place of Ku-Kluxism, the last
Commonwealth to admit negro witnesses in
court, the keystone of Democracy, and the
garden-spot of apple jack. Will the insatiate
Democracy require more qualifications than
these:


This February weather keeps man uncom-
fortably suspended between an oYercoat and
linen duster. 1t has proven itself to be
cnpious breeder OF throat and lung diseases,
the mortality from these affiictions being thus
far greater than for several years past. To
great extent the astroogers have predicted
correctly that we are to have mild Centen-
nial year-an open winter and moderare
summer.


Ben. Hill, who for the past twenty-five years
has teen at variance with Bob Toombs, has at
last been reinstated in the good graces Of the
latter by means Of his speech in the ex-Con-
federate House of Representatives, in defense
of the enormities at Andersonville. Bob de-
clared that he could not have treated the sub
ject better himself, and that Ben has rendered
all true Georgiars service which they never
can repay. Who says that Georgia has not
been thoroughly reconstructed, and that the
people down there have not thoroughly ac-
cepted the situation: When Ben. Hill comes
to the Senate year hence, the nation will not
be at a loss for fiery speeches. Mr.. Norwood
had better make hay when the sun shines.


The Union Herald OF South Carolina says:
awe can tell the Washington REPUBLICAN
that its repetition of worn-out ISLANDERS will act
upon the people of this State very much as the
late speech of Whipper did. 1t will serve only
to demonstrate how truly the Governor and
his friends here represent the cause of political
reform when they oppose the ascendancy of
those men who now squat at the ear of the
editor of the Washington REPUBLICAN,"
Squat is very fair, but not strictly true. They
sit down in cane -bottomod chairs that would
inspire any man to tell the whole truth, and
no instance has occurred yet where they have
failed to catch the inspiration.


The same feeling peryades the Neapolitans
as that which exists in 4 country town in an
ticipation of a circus. Mount Vesuvius has
been growing and rumbling and threatening
to boil over and send her molten lava coursng
down its broad sides into the valleys below.
Thus far its internal labors have brought forth
nothing save smoke and scattering cinders. For
this reason the inhabitants of Naples are be-
coming nervous, which is inspired from a fear
that no eruption will occur, and consequently
the great tide Of humanity which always
rushes into the city to witness the grand pyro-
technics of nature will be checked. Theland-
lords are invoking the inner man of Mother
Earth to cast up accounts.


Under the caption, elias Cuba been devas-
tated ?'' the New York World answers its own
question by attempting to prove the negative.
The World seems anxious to have the devas-
tation theorists demonstrate how the insur-
rection could have caused falling of in
sugar exported to us, and all increase for us
in price thereby since 1865. The fact is the
quantity has increased instead of decreasing,
but this matter is very readily explained when
it is known that the vast current of imports to
the Old World has been turned towards Amer
lea since the opening Of the struggle. It is
not because there has been an increase in the
sugar estates, or in the cultivation of the ar.
ticlc that the quantity has been augmented,
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to their interest to turn the tide of traffic
towards the United States, owing to the cheap
ness of transportation and the increase of de-
mand. The World knows, but, owing to its
settled determination to aid in adding ruin
and misery to the Island, it will not acknowl-
edgeit, that one third of that country has been
laid barren waste, whose fertile fields have
productive capacity sufficient to furnish the
whole United States with an ample supply of
sugar every year. AT least five hundred mag
nificent estates are to-day idle and Of no ben
eft to mankind except as camping grounds
for the forces of the oppressed and the op-
pressor. The further continuation of the
strife of the Island is lot only fragrant dis
grace to our higher civilization, but a source
of pecuniary benefit to the World of New
York, and gravely disastrous to the CONNER