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THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one tiu e $1.00 One square, two times 1.25 One square three times 1.50 A square is the width of a column and one inch deep. Liberal inducements offered for contract Advertisements. Be as Near Right as You can. The world stretches widely before you, A field for your muscle and brain ; And though clouds may often float o’er you, And often come tempests and rain, Be fearless of storms which o’ertake you— Push forward through all like a man— Good fortune will never forsake you, If you do as near right as you can. Remember the will to do rightly, If used, will the evil confound ; Live daily by conscience, that nightly Your sleep may be peaceful and sound. In contests of right never waver— Let honesty : bape every plan, And life will of paradise savor, If you do as near right as you can. Though foes' darkest scandal may speed, And strive with-their shrewdest of fact, To injure your fame never heed, But justly and honestly act; And ask of the Ruler of Heaven To save your fair name as a man, And all that you ask will be given, If you do as near right as ycu can. Mother’s Curtains. “What are you doing in that corner. Josie ? ” said Annie Gray, coming in to call her sister out to roll hoop, and finding her sitting in the corner of their mother’s room, with her bright face resting on her two little brown hands, very quiet and thought ful. ‘‘Want to earn some money,” said the little girl, “and I don’t know how.” “Earn money for what ?” “I want, to earn enough to buy curtains for mother’s windows.” “0, Josie! A girl eight years old to earn enough money for that. What put that in your head?” . “Mother’ did herself. She wants them so much. And when I asked her why she didn’t buy them, she said: ‘Because I have so many little mouths to feed and so many little bodies to keep warm and com fortable. We have enough for that, thank God, but we’ve nothing to spare for fancies, and the curtains are only a fancy of mine !’ And I felt so sorry, Annie, ’cause mother did look as if she’d like her fancy very much. But since yesterday I’ve felt worse than ever about it, for when that telegram came to say that Aunt Clara was so sick, and mother must come to see her, and she was getting ready in such a hurry’ 1 saw her open that box which shuts with a spring and takesome money out of it, and she sod to father. ‘How fortunate it is that I have this money, now that you are so hard pressed. I have been putting away a dime every week to see whether I could spare it to buy some muslin curtains for our room. There is a dollar here, and it will just take me out to Clara’s and back again.’ I felt so bad, Annie, that a great big lump came into my throat and my eyes came all wet. It was such a disap pointment for mother, and shejnst trierl to look as if it wasn’t a bit. Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could earn money enough to buy some ?” “Oh! yes. lovely,” said Annie; “but then we couldn’t you know.” “How hard would, you be willing to work for it?” asked a voice from the other side of the room. “Would you give up your whole Saturday ?” Josie sprang up and ran to the speaker, who sat busy making up an embroidered chair. “Oh ! I’d do anything,” she said, eagerly, “and give up this Friday afternoon, too.” “Well, that chair must be finished on Monday, and it is to be made over before fliis new cover is put on.” Josie skipped into the next room—her uncle’s shop (he was a cabinet maker) and came skipping back again. “I see it. Aunt Lottie,” said she, all on tip-toe with expectations. “That chair must be picked over before to-morrow night. I was going to send for a boy to do it, because I shall not have time. It will be a long tiresome day’s work, but if you choose to do it I will give you a dollar.” “And that will buy the curtains, for I saw some with beautiful big scallops on the edge, marked one dollar, in the window, and mother was with me, and she said they were prettv coarse muslin, but they’d do very nicely for peor people s windows. Oh, AuntLuttie! Dear good Aunt Lot tie!” And Josie squeezed and hugged the “dear good Aunt Lottie” until she had to cry for mercy. “It will be very hard work, Josie,” she said, as soon as she was released. “Are you shure yon will not be discouraged?” “And so horrid, too,” said Annie, turn ing up her little nose with a look of infinite disgust. “You’ll be all dirty, and as hairy as anything. I wouldn’t do it, Josie. Mother will save up money enough by and by,” As soon as breakfast was over she asked for her work, and Aunt Lottie, first pin ning her up in a great calico apron of her own, and knotting a handkerchief over her brown curls, brought out the first basket and set it before her. All the forenoon the busy fingers labored, diligently, pulling to shreds the matted hair. Lower and lower grew the heap in the basket, higher and higher grew the mound on the floor beside the little work woman, until at twelve o’clock when Uncle Reuben came in to dinner, the great basket stood empty, and with a sigh of re lief as bie 1 as the basket, Josie stepped down from bef seat. “Well done, honey bee,” said Uncle Reuben, “and the hair looks prime, too. I couldn’t have done it better mysell.” “But how red your face is and how tired you look,” cried Annie; and your hands! Oh, what awful dirtv hands !” * “The hands will wash and the face will cool,” said Uncle Reuben. “I think that, when mother comes home and sees the p.etty curtains in the window, she won’t complain of either hands or face.” Tired little Josie looked rested already as Uncle Reuben lifted her up to kiss her crimson face, and when dinner was over she went to work with great zeal. Aunt Lottie had offered to give her half of the money and let the boy finish the hair, but / she would not consent; and although she had to sit alone—for her aunt dared not to bring the delicate embioidery with which she was busy near the flying threads of hair and dust—she went bravely, on. Oh, how the little back did ache and how the little brown eyes did sting! But when Uncle Reuben came in again at sun set, the work was done, and the weary child lay asleep in her chair. He stepped up very softly to her side and laid a bright new dollar note in her lap. Never was there a happier heart than Josie’s when, after supper, he took her out (DEVOTEQ) TO (POLITICS ^.JLQ) QEJJE^L JIEWS. VOL. I. WINSTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1872. NO. 31. to walk, and let her buy, with her own hard-earned money, the curtains for moth er’s room. Yes, she was happier just once in her life, and that was when her mother, going up to her room, when she returned from her journey, asked: “Why, who put those pretty curtains up here?” And on hear ing from Aunt Lottie of her little girl’s unselfish love, took her in her arms and said: “Mv own blessed, darling child! I’d rather have these than the finest lace curtains that ever hung in a palace.” A Frightful Scene —Not long ago the telegraph brought us the intelligence of a dreadful flood at Vellore, British India. Detailed accounts have now been received, and show the violence and ex tent of the c ilamity. One thousand lives were lost, about two thousand people left houseless, and many more utterly desti tute of necessaries of life. The flood was the result of a cyclonic storm and deluge of rain. Early iw May the storm commenced, and for two days it poured incessantly, the water streaming out of the clouds as if “in bunches.” Shortly after the rain ceased the whole town was startled by the sudden descent of what seemed to be a sea of water, which swept like a storm-wave over the whole canton ment, entering the very windows of some of the houses, and driving the occupants to the roofs or upper stories, covering the road to a depth of five feet, and carrying every thing that could not re sist its force before it. * Its approach was so sudden that there was no time to make preparations for escape. A confused roar of rushing waters, accompanied by the crashing of walls and trees, was heard and people looked out of their houses to behold their compounds covered with water, and their very lives threatened by the rapidly rising flood. The cause of the flood was soon surmised. The flood waters had come from some of the large irrigation tanks situated on higher ground a few miles out of Vellore. They are all connected with one another, and the supposition is that the higher tank went first, and brought down all the others like a pack of cards. Alto gether forty tanks in the neighbor hood burst their bands. What the vol- time of water was that came rushing down on the lower part of Vellore may be imagined when we say that the flood is stated to have been 1 mile in width, and eight or ten feet in depth in the main channel. Interesting to Insurers.—An inter esting case has just been decided in the United States. Circuit Court at Chicago, which will be of interest to both insurers and insured. A lawyer of that city lost his entire property by the great fire, but his policy having expired a day or two previous the company refused to settle his claim. A suit followed, the lawyer grounded his demand upon the fact that lie bad nub Loen appxiocG by the company of the expiration of the policy, as is customary, and asserting that such fail ure of notice was, in effect, a renewal. The jury, however, found for the defend ant, A new trial was moved for on the above ground, but the motion was over ruled, the judge holding that the practice of the company was simply the voluntary granting of a privilege it was not really bound to grant, and no contract could be implied because of it, and that to make a policy valid the premium must really be paid. Not Guilty.—Mrs. Priest, of Wells River, Vt., was accused by the Lvndon Union of having eloped. In the follow ing terse and exhaustive, somewhat feminine, epistle she denies the accusa tion : “Editor' Lyndon Union —I, the wife of Cummings Piiest, of Wells River. Lave not eloi-ed with Ishmael Jackson, as stated in the Union. Neither had I any desire or thoughts of it. I went home and was gone three days, and then my husband came after me. The people of Wells River are in a pretty small busi ness if it has got so any one can’t go and see their mother without they have eloped with some fellow. They have got to have something to talk about, for if they at tend to their own business it would go harder with them than the measles or canker-rash did with the children last fall, and more would be sick, I am sure. But the greatest trouble with them is, they are all mad because they can’t get some one to elope with.” The Grain Movement. — Notwith standing that the navigation season of 1872 opened fully six weeks later than that of last year, it now looks, says a Buffalo paper as though the movement of grain from the West through Buffalo would be larger than it was in 1871. Be that as it ma; , it certainly will be heavier than the movement of any other season but the last since 1862. The receipts of grain, estimating flour as wheat during the month of June this year was 471,920 bushels in excess of the receipts in the corresponding month last year. The re ceipts from the opening of navigation to June 30, 1972, were 15,187,508 bushels, against 18,616,508 bushels in 1871, show ing a falling off of 3,479,004 bushels. This discrepancy is equal to the receipts for about one week, while the harbor opened last year on April 1, and this sea son vessels had great difficulty in reach ing port as late as May 18. Frightful Death Rate.—During the week ending June 22, the death rate of New York was equal to 35.5 per 1000 per annum, while that of Berlin showed an annual rate of 39 per 1000. In Rome, for the week, ending June 9, the rate was 36 per 1000, On the other hand, during the week ending June 22, the death rate of London was 19 per 1000; that of Paris 22, and that of Brussels, 21 per 1000. It is noticeable that in Berlin the deaths from infantile diarrhea show ed a rapid increase in the first half of June, similar to that which was wit nessed in New York. When any mode of punishment loses the support of public opinion its efficacy is gone, for there will be great reluc tance to convict of an offence for which it is the penalty, and thereby the offen der will be likely to escape with no pun’ ishment atall. At Paducah, Ky., a short time ago, a man was arrested for steal ing a pair of shoes, but as the punish ment would be the whipping post, the jury refused to convict him, although there was no doubt of his guilt. It is a question whether hanging as the penalty of murder is not having much the same effect.' Japan Described by a Native. A Japanese author, Kato Sukeichi, has written a valuable statement on com mercial relations with foreign nations, a translation of which, by.Mr. W. C. As ton, appears in “ The Phoenix,” a maga zine devoted to Chinese and Japanese subjects. The statement commences with a patriotic description of the islands: “Great Japan, ruled by our wise Emperors, is superior to all other countries in the world. It has a moder ate climate, and there are no intolerable extremes of heat or cold. Therefore trees and herbs grow luxuriantly, rice, wheat, and all kinds of grain are pro duced in abundance, and rape, radishes, and other vegetables attain a great size. The tea plant and silk are originally in troduced from China, but by reason of the goodness of the Japanese soil, their cultivation has been even more success ful here than in their native country, where our. teas and silks are highly valued. This fact alone is sufficient to prove the goodness of the Japanese soil. It cannot be said that there are not in China and in Europe countries which enjoy as good a climate as Japan, but then they contain deserts or bare ranges of mountains extending for hundreds of miles, and rendering wide regions un fit for cultivation, or else the crops are inferior, owing to some noxious quality in soil. Tn Japan there axe no such districts. It is true that in Dewa, Oshiu, and other provinces there are wide plains which remain uncultivated, but this is not on account of the barrenness of the soil. They lie waste because the inhabitants are few in number and in sufficient for the labor of reclaiming them. That such should be the case is no more than mi^ht be expected, seeing that there is sufficient food and clothing for the inhabitants without bringing these remote districts under cultivation. Nor are the mountains of Japan so high as to shut out the light of the sun and render agriculture impossible. On the contrary, from their sides are dug gold and silver, copper and iron, in sufficient quantity to supply the wants of the nation. In truth, Japan is the very finest country on the face of the globe. We have now entered into friendly re lations with the countries beyond the sea, and their subjects are, incessantly visiting Japan : we have become ac quainted with the character of the na tives of each, and are, able to compute the amount of its productions, but among the three thousand countries of the world, there is none which excels Japan. A foreigner resident of Yoko hama once said—‘ Take any of the best seaports in the world, if there is simul taneous competition, some articles of produce will soon be exhausted, but here at Yokohama all nations have been open ed, and yet there is not the least sign of exhaustion. It would be difficult to find anywhere else in the world a seaport where produce comes to market all the more plentifully the more it is bought.’ UMS^WaS aDOUT five j-oltrs ^u, 15^4. x^^.- the trade has increased tenfold, and there is not a month in which transac tions do not take place to the amount of 2,000,000 rios., (ounces of silver). Truly, Japan is the very first among the fine countries of the world! But though we who have been born in such an excellent country have no need to go abroad for our supplies, and have quite sufficient for our wants without trading with for eigners, there are, nevertheless, good reasons why our country, though it wants for nothing, should maintain com mercial relations.” The Measles Peddler.—George A Townsend has been gathering legions of the “Long Island Pilgrim Fathers,” and adds this bit to the common stock of traditional lore: “’Twas only ’bout seventy years ago,” said the driver who carried as, “that the East Hampton folks u 'dertook to get the better of a peddler who came among ’em with the measles. He was smart as a fish-hook, and mea sles, or no measles, he would go to meetin’ next day, being Sunday, in order to hev it understood thet he had arriv. Everybody knowed him! The landlord of the tavern where the peddler stopped sez . ‘Don’t you go to meetin’, man, with them measles cornin’ aout all over you !’ ‘ Yes, I will,’ sez the man ; ‘for,’ sez he, ‘a trade is a trade, and there is no place like a meetin’ to adver tize notions. I’ll go and hear the Word expounded!’ And go he did. Now, you see, the landlord told the people, and, says he, ‘That peddler all bruk out with measles, and he went to church among the children.’ The young men got right daown mad, and made it up to whip the peddler ; but he, bearin’ tell of 4he feelm’ had gone over to South ampton. Haowever, they give chase, and tuk him up, and fetched him back- and there they ducked him in the horse, pond, and rid him on a rail. Well, naow! what do you think that pesky peddler did? He sued the town, through Lawyer Aaron Burr, and rekivered §1,000 dam ages! And, by George, he giv ninety on ’em the measles, and twenty-two died! ‘A trade’s a trade,’ sez he, as he left town !” A Pilgrimage.—Dr. Bourne, of San Francisco, is a vegetarian in practice as well as theory. The doctor left Port land, Oregon, a short time since, walking the entire distance to Marysville, and he will continue his little stroll on foot until he reaches his home in San Francisco. The walking time occupied by the doctor from Portland to Marysville, amounted to twenty-six days, and the distance traversed about six hundred and eighty or seven hundred miles, he coming by the W aveiville route. The doctor is sixty-six years of age, and took this trip to verify his pet theory that vegetarian diet is productive of more strength and endurance than a mixed diet, where meats are introduced. During the trip he has eaten nothing but crackers, baked from unbolted wheat flour, with occasion ally a little fruit by way of desert, and drank only cold water. The old gentle man took his heavy staff in hand, a local paper says, and started on his way to San Francisco with an easy stride, which would bother half our young men to keep step with. Lynch Law in California.—A special dispatch says that two laborers demand ed employment on a farm near Banta-, Alameda County, California, and were told by the farmer that he had a sufficient number of Chinamen engaged to harvest the crop and would not need their servi ces. The next morning they were de tected firing the grain stacks and were captured, i he prisoners were tried by the neighboring farmers and hanged. Evening Dresses. With the arrival of midsummer, says a fashion journal, low necked dresses are seen in the ball rooms of fashionable resorts; but a decided preference is shown for the high surplice corsage with Mary Antoinette drapery and half long sleeves. This is not only true of rich failles and satins, but also of the diaphanus tulles and taFatan . These are made with heart-shaped waists and basques of silk covered with the transparent material of the dress. The fashion of ruffling the skirt to the waist behind and to the knee in front, and wearing an apron tu nic is considered the best style for ball dresses. . ' A fancy for white dresses again pre vails, and almost all colored dresses are combined with white' in some way. Chambery gauze, grenadine, and em broidered Swiss muslin are the white fabrics most seen. Pretty and effective dresses are obtained by entirely covering akirts of sky blue, faded rose, ecru, or Nile green with pleated flounces of trans parent white gauze. The coisage is of the silk, plainly covered with gauze. Ladies somewhat advanced in years use black tulle flounces on pearl, buff, or reseda silks. Divs; may be freshened and made very stylish by the use of such trimmings, Dinner dresses have invariably high postillion waists, witlr folded drapery of lace or silk on the bosom. A youthful and pretty dress to be worn at Newport is of white silk dotted about with stars of bright violet purple. The demi-train has a deep flounce,trimmed with two nar row ruffles of purple silk, bias, gathered, and piped with white. The heading is two standing frills, ore white, the other purple, both pleated and held by a shell ruche. The apron front overskirt has a very bouffant back. The basque is a graceful postilion, with Marie Antoinette revers and sabot sleeves. A Lost Boy.—The Boston Traveler thinks the following story a good illus tration of the way a good many striplings in “jacket and trousers” miss their “bearings” and their wits: The pet of a family residing not far from Lagrange street, is a boy who has recently passed his fifth year, and having just donned his first jacket and trousers, is attending a primary school. The other afternoon he failed to come home at the usual hour much to the alarm of the household, and after a long search he was found, some time after dark at the Providence depot. He was sent to bed without much expla nation, though it is possible his treat ment was what Solomon would have recommended in such an emergency. The next morning he was down to the breakfast table, evidently none the worse for the lesson and perhaps the wiser. Taking advantage of a lull in the con versation customary at the morning meal he turned his grave countenance toward the lady at the head of/the table, and g^-U.^,.,- P*-—.. —^1- 4- I.I’ ovp.v.-L.U1O-../1 -.Gn/L he exclaimed: “I’ll tell you, mamma, ■ how it happened. After school I went part of the way home with Mary , and at a corner of the street where she left me. I kissed her, and she kissed me, and then I found I was lost.” There was an explosion round the table just at that time. It is suspected this is not the first young gentleman who has been lost under similar circumstances. An Accident to a Farmer.—Accord ing to a Cleveland paper, the following is the way accidents occur in that part of the country : An old but unusually thoughtful farmer, residing near enough to this city to do his.trading here, went into his cornfield last week to hoe his corn, and, in order to give a crow or two a salute, should he see any, strapped bis double-barrelled shot-gun to his back. As he warmed up to bis work, he caused his hoe handle to circulate with more than its wonted rapidity about him ; and, finally, the end of the hoe handle hitting the trigger of the gun, touched it off. The old farmer felt a gill or two of shot pass through his scalp aud hat ; and, supposing he had been shot at by an assassin in the rear, he, though wounded,- seized his gun, and wheeling suddenly around, blazed away at the supposed shooter. He was still more surprised not to see a man, but his dog, writhing in the agonies of dissolution. He is out, now, hoeing corn again ; but his head is covered with bandages and plaster, and his dog does not frisk about his heels as formerly. TEACHER and Pupil.—A day-school teacher, who had as a pupil one of those hard, repulsive, wilful, mean, abomina ble girls whom one sometimes meets; one of the most difficult subjects to man age in the world when she once sets her self to defy the authority of a teacher, because you cannot just do with a girl what you can with a boy, and she is so much more ingenuous. In this instance rebuke and entreaty and punishment were all equally of no effect. At last, passing a lumber yard one day, the teacher, unobserved, discovered her hard subject with “baby-brother” in her arms, laughing and crooning and crying over him. In an instant she had found the common ground, the way tQ the warm heart of the hard case lay wide open; and the next day after school “How is baby brother?” wrought the victory over stubborness. “Baby-broth er” became a common bond, and.the sympathy thus excited became the secret of the teacher’s success with tlie rough and hardened girl. The Philadelphia Platform. The Republican Party of the United States assembled in National Convention, in the City of Philadelphia, on the Sth and 6th days of June, 1872, again declares its faith, appeals to its history, and announces its position upon the questions before the country. First— During eleven years of supremacy, it has accept ed, with great courage, the solemn duties of the time. 11 suppressed a gigantic rebellion ; emancipated tour millions of: laves ; decreed the equal citizenship of ail, and established universal bufferage. Exhibiting unpar- ralleled magnanimity, it criminally punished no man for political offenses, and warmly welcomed all who proved their loyalty by obeying the laws and dealing justly with their neighbor s It has steadily decreased with a firm hand the r ‘sultant disorders of a great war, and initiated a wise policy toward the Indians. The Pacific Railroad and similar vast enterprises have been generously aided and successfully conducted, the public a ds freely given to actual settlers, immigration protected and encour aged, and afull acknowledgment of the naturalized citi zens’ rights secured from European Powers. A uni form national currency has been provided, repudiation frowned down, the national credit sustained un ier most extraordinary burdens, the new bonds negotiated at low er rates. The revenues have been carefully collected and honestly applied. Despite the annual large reduction of rates of taxation, the public debfehas been reduced dur ing G n. G' ant’s Presidency at the rate of one hundred million dollars a year. A great financial crisis has b en avoided, and peace and plenty prevail throughout the land. Menacing foreign difficulties have been peacefully and honorably compromised, and the honor and power of the nation kept.in high respect throughout the world. This glorious record of the past is the party’s be-t pledge 'or the future. We believe the people will not intrust the Government to any party or combination of men com posed chiefly of those who have resisted every step of this beneficial progress. Second.—Complere liberty and exact equality in the enjoyment of all civil, political and public rights should be esta lished and effectually maintained throughout the Union by efficient and appropriate State and Fede ral legis) 'tion. Neither the law nor its administration should admitof any discrimination in respect o citizens by reason of race, creed, color or previous condition of e> vitude. ■ Third.— The recent amendments to the National Con stitution should be cordially sustained, because they are right, not meely tolerated because they are law, and should be carried out according to their spirit by appro priate legislation, the enforcement of which can be safely trusted only th the party that secured tho e amendments. Fourth.—The National Government should seek to maintain an honorable peace with all nations, protecting its citizens everywhere, and sympathizing with all peo ples who strive for greater liberty. Fifth.— Any system of the civil service under which the subordinate positions of the Government are considered lewards for mere party zeal is fatally demoralizing, and we therefore favor a reform of the system by laws which shall abolish the evils of patronage, and make Honesty, efficiency and fidelity the essential qualifications for public position, without practically creating a life tenure of office. Sixth.—We are opposed to further grants of the public lauds to corporations end monopolies, and demand that the national domain be set apart for free Homes for the people. Seventh.— The annual revenues, alter paying the cur rent debts, should furnish a moderate balance for the reduction of the principal, and the revenue, except so much as may be derived from a tax on tobacco and li quors, be raised by duties upon imp rtations, the duties on which should be so adjusted as to aid in securing re munerative wages to labor, and promote the industries, growth and prosperity of the whole country. Eighth—We hold in undying honor the soldiers and sailors whose valor saved the Union ; their pensions are a sacred debt of the nation, and the widows and orp.ians of those who died for their country are entitled to the c..re of a generous and grateful people. We favor such additional legislation as will extend the bounty of the Government to all our soldiers and sailors who were honorably discharged, and who in the time of duty be came disabled, without regard to the length of service or the cause of such discharge. Ninth-Tile doctrine of Great Britain and other European Powers concerning allegiance—“ Once a sub ject, always a subject”—having at last, through the efforts of the Repub iean Party, been abandoned, and the American idea of the individual right to transfer his allegiance having been accepted by European nations, it is the duty of our Government to guard with zealous care the rights of adopted citizens against the assumption of unauthorized claims by their former Governments ; and we urge the continual and careful encouragement and protection of voluntary immigration. Tenth—Toe franking privelege ought to be abolished, and the way prepared for a speedy reduction in the rate of postage. Eleventh-Among the questions which press for atten tion is that which concerns the relations of capital and labor, and the Republican Party recognize the duty of so shaping legislation as to secure full protection and the amplest field for capital and for labor, the creator of capital, the largest opportunities, and a just share of the mutual profits of these two great servants of ciziliza- tion. Twelfth—We hold that Congress and the President have only fulfilled an imperative duty in their measu es for the suppression of violent and treasonable organiza tions in certain lately rebellious regions, and for the pro tection of the ballot-box. and therefore they are entitled to th- thanks of the nation. Thirteenth—We denounce repudiation of the public debt in any form or disguise as a national crime. We witness with pride the reduction of the principal of the debt, and of the rates of interest upon the balance, and confidently expect that our excellent national currency will be per fected by a speedy resumption of specie payments. Fourteenth—Tae Republican Party is mindful of its S&lijSP’&g&U&l M 1 ® Jpy-ll_K o, iy‘u. IP. America for their sion to wider fields of usefulness is received with satis faction, and the honest demands of any class of citizens for additional rights should be treated with respectful consideration. Fifteenth—We heartily approve the action of Congress in extending amnesty to those lately in rebellion, and rejoice in the growth of peace and fraternal feeling throughout the land. .Sixteenth—The Republican Party propose to respect the rights reserved by the people to themselves as carefully as the powers delegated by them to the State and to the Federal Government. It disapproves of the resort to unconstitutional laws for the purpose of removing evils by int rfere:.ce with rights not sur inhered by the peo ple to eit er the State or Nat onal Governments. Seventeenth—It is toe duty of the National Government to adopt such measures as will tend to encourage Ameri can commerce and ship-building. Eighteenth—We believe that the modest patriotism, the earnest purpose, the sow d judgment, and practicl wis dom, the incorruptible integrity, and th illustrious ser vices of Ulysses S. Grant have commended him to the heart of the American people, and, witlj him at our head, we start to-day upon a new march to victory. Grant in War and in Peace. IN WAR. “ No terms except unconditional and mmediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works.”—To Gen. Buckner, at Fort Donelson, Feb. 16, 1862. “The effusion of blood you propose stopping by this course can be ended.at any time you may choose by an uncon ditional surrender of the city and garri son.”—To Gen. Pemberton, at Vicks burg, July 3, 1863. “ We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result to this time is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over 5,000 prisoners in battle, whilst he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I propose, to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.”—To Secretary Span ton, from before Spottsylvania, May 11, 1864. “I care nothing for promotion, so long as our arms are successful.”—Grant to Sherman, February, 1862. “ If my course is not satisfactory, re move me at once. I do not wish in any way to impede the success of our arms.” —Grant to Halleck, Feb. 6, 1862. “No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing in g ood iaith any order I may receive from those in authority over me. ”—Grant to Secretary Chase, May 29. 1863. IN PEACE. “ This is a Republic, where the will of the people is the law of the land.”-- Grant’s Letter to President Johnson, August, 1867. “I shall have no policy of my own to interfere against the will of the people.” Grant’s Letter May 29, 1868. “ Human liberty is the only true foun dation of human government.”—Grant’s Letter to the citizens of Memphis. “Let us have peace.” — Grant’s Lei ter, May 29, 1868. THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY FREDERICK T. WALSER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TKttMS; TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. ONE DOLLAR FOR SIX MONTHS. THREE MONTHS FOR FIFTY CENTS O“ Deductions Made for Clubs. The Difference.—At Bolougne, dur ing the reception of Queen Victoria, some years ago, a number of English ladies, in their anxiety to see everything, pressed with such force against the soldiers who were keeping the line, that the latter were obliged to give way, and generally were—to use the expression of policemen—“hinderedin the execution of their duty.” The officers in command observed the state of affairs, called out, “ One roll of the drum—if they don’t keep back, kiss them all.” After the first sound of tbe drum, the ladies took to flight. “If they had been French,” said a Parisian journal, “they would have remained to a woman.” Greeley’s Opinion of Grant. We clip the following opinions of Gen. Grant, given at different times from speeches, and from editorials, from the month and pen of Horace Greeley : ‘“Ven. Grant never has been defeated, and never will be.”—Horace Greeley, speech at Cooper Institute, 27th, May, 1868. “ While asserting the right of every Republican to his untrammeled choice of a candidate for next President until a nomination is made. I venture to sug gest that Gen. Grant will be far better qualified for that momentous trust in 1872 than he was 1868.”—Horace Greeley speech on the 5th January, 1871. “Grant a failure ?” How? In what? Have we not peace and plenty in the laud? Is not our flag displayed and re spected on every sea? What foreign foe molests or threatens us ? Who fears insurrection at home, or invasion from abroad? In which of our thirty-six States are the masses wanting work, dis contented suffering ?—Tribune. “Grant and his policy deserves the very highest credit. ”—Horace Greeley. “The people of the United States know Gen. Grant—have known all about him since Donelson and Vicksburg ; they do not know his slanderers, and do not care to know them.”—Horace Gree ley. ■ Defeat of Greeley Sure.—Th re are no indications that Greeley is alluring much strength from the Republicans, aud as the Democrats are confessedly hopelessly in the minority, it is hard to imagine on what foundation their brag rests, even if all the Democrats were dis posed to vote for him. Considering this point, the Buffalo Express says: “We know that there is a large number of straight-out Democrats who will never go to the polls and vote for Greeley, what ever else they may do, and it is equally certain that but an insignificant fraction of the great Republican party can be seduced from their allegiance by this un scrupulous intrigue between an ambi tious renegade and a hungry crew of Democratic office-seekers. The lines are now drawn. Mr. Greeley is the Demo cratic candidate, and as such his defeat is sure.” Tit for Tat.—A compositor, now in the office of the Newark (N. J.) Advertiser, asking Mr. Greeley’s influence to pro cure a government clerkship, in Wash ington. “Can you saw wood ?” queried the philosopher. “ Yes sir,” falteripgly replied the applicant. “ Then stay away from Washington,’' was the only advice vouchsafed. The compositor now tends the same advice to Mr. Greeley, “no matter whether he can saw wood no not. ” Why the Brag is So Loud. The unusual amount of boasting in which the adherents of Greeley are in dulging at the present time, and the enormous demands they are making upon the credulity of the public,receives an explanation from the Providence Journal. That paper says : “It is not on grounds of principle or of policy that the. Greeley movement can be sustained; it is not on such grounds that it makes its appeal. It is led' and engineered by men whose opinions agree in nothing but this—that they want office and posi tion, which they cannot get under Grant They are content with any revenue sys- tem. from prohibition to free trade, they care nothing for amnesty, which, indeed, might affect them unfavorably; by admitting a few rival aspirants for one class of voters on which they largely rely. How much they care for reform may be inferred from the men with sT^s^'w w^ if^^ pend. They hope to attract to their support the discontented, the disappoint ed, those who, like themselves, lack advancement ; and the first argument, the only effectual one with these is the promise of success. Hence the immense amount of brag with which they carry on the campaign. It springs not from con fidence, but from the desire to inspire confidence in others ; it is not the assur ance of success, but one of the means by which they hope to accomplish it. It is a sort of Chinese mode of warfare with an immense noise of gongs and tom toms and show of red lanterns, but with very little powder.” For the Boys. — Henry Ward Beecher has written this: I never saw anybody do anything that I did not watch him and see how he did it, for there is no telling but that some time I might have to do it myself. I was going across a prairie; my horse began to limp. Luck ily I came across a blacksmith’s shop, but the smith was not at home. I asked the woman of the house il she would al low me to start the fire and make the shoe, She said I might if I knew how. So I started a fire and heated the shoe red hot and turned it to fit my horse’s foot, and pared the hoof, and turned the points of the nails out cunningly, as 1 bad seen the blacksmith do, so that in driving into the hoof they should not go into tbe quick, and shod the horse. . At the next place I went to, I went straight to a smith, and told him to put the shoe on properly. He looked at the horse’s foot and paid me the greatest compli ment I ever received in my life. He told me if I put on that shoe I had better follow blacksmithing all my life. Now, I never should have known how to do this if I had not looked on and seen others do it. • Facts and Fancies. Salt Lake City is overrun with “ low- grade lawyers.” The salmon fishing in Canada is un commonly good this year. The Lord has made many fine farms from which he received but little rent. A flourishing Kentucky town in the mountains has never been visited by a circus. If God is our guide, He will be our guard; He always protects whom he leads. Southerm Minnesota has a compact organization of well-disciplined horse thieves- Good counsels observed are chains to grace, which neglected prove halters to strange, undutiful children. Suffering seasons are sifting seasons, in which rhe Christian loses his chaff and the hypocrite his corn. Apostacy begins with littles ; it is call ed drawing back; not running back ; beware of “ an evil heart unbelief^” Men will never know us by our faith, for that is within us ; they know us by our works, which is visible to them. The phrase “ what difference will it make a hundred years hence,” has been the cause and excuse of much wrong do ing. An irritable man, who was disappoint ed in his boots, threatened to eat up the shoemaker, but compromised by drink ing a cobbler. Overseers of factories and all other establishments should keep vigilant watch, this hot weather, that conflagra tions be not invited by facilities furnish ed for spontaneous combustion. A gentleman was introduced to a young lady recently, and addressed her as follows : “Where do you live, when at home ?” To which she promptly re plied : “When I’m at home, I live there.” The emotional-insanity plea has spread to the Indians. One of them, the other day, when arrested for killing and scalp ing some white men, being asked to ac count for the eccentricity, said, “ Me heap crazy ; me too much crazy.” A woman writes to the New York Tribune to say that really women cannot stand up in horse-cars and ferry-boats —unless, she hints, men will slop admir ing small and pretty feet, and allow them to wear broad soled, low-heeled shoes. Sixty young officers have been dis missed from the Prussian. army. They had obtained their commissions daring the war for bravery in the field. "• without having passed the ordi? aminations. They are now for not having succeeded si^ ing the necessary qualified ing. « There was lately a j £we“fty-sev^' J ’9^^ burglary cum mitted by another, having pleaded guilty under the vague assurance of pre tended friends that it would be better for him. Luckily for him, the real delin quent was a merciful aud self sacrificing thief, and made a confession. It is said that Johann Strauss and Offenbach were formerly intimate friends in Vienna, but some months ago they had a difficulty, and Strauss composed an operetta in Offehbach’s style for the express purpose of eclipsing his former friend. He was so successful that the enraged Offenbach intended to challenge him, but the duel was prevented by the interference of mutual friends. . The Pennsylvania Canvass. — The Pittsburg Commercial, a careful observer, and cautious in its statements, adds its testimony to the cheering accounts of Republican prospects in Pennsylvania. It says that the substance of the evidence given by capable and credible persons, who have just completed trips through tbe State, is that, while hardly a corpor al’s squad of Republicans can be found who will vote the Baltimore ticket, there are many Democrats who declare their purpose of voting for President Grant in preference to Greeley. The business interests in both parties are also substan tially united against the Democratic candidate. Galloping Curates.—Mr. Anthony Trollope is greatest in depicting clerical characters. But we do not remember, in all his novels, any mention of “ gal loping curates.” Forty years ago, says a reviewer, in lately discussing the dis establishment question, there was a staff of “ galloping curates” in almost every county town. The smallest parishes had no resident incumbent; and the Sunday “duty” was done, in a most perfunctory manner, by these clerical perambulators, who took two, three, or even four services in as many parishes, but never dreamed of bestowing a single hour of week-day labor on any of them. This is worth following up by an illus tration from the same source. In some parishes there was no service for weeks together. It once happened that a non- resident incumbent came into the neigh borhood and expressed a wish—perhaps not altogether unreasonably—to per form service in the church of one of his parishes. Word was sent over to the principal farmer, who was also church warden. But here a mo t embarrassing circumstance presented itself. It was the beginning of harvest ; tbe weather had been showery and uncertain, and the churchwarden was obliged to reply that they would h^ve had much pleasure in seeing their clergyman among, them, but unfortunately there had been a de ficiency of barn accommodation, and the church was full of peas.—Once a Week. The nomination of Horace Greely for the Presidency by the Democratic Party has been made, says the New Haven Journal, “ not because one Democrat in ten thousand believes him a fit and proper man for the responsible duties of the station, not because the party has changed its principles and purposes, but as a last desperate effort to steal into power and place on false pretenses, and under false colors.” A gentleman now at Saratoga,, who has recently travelled over Illinois, and who knows its political feeling thorough ly, says that there are more Democrats for Grant than there are Republicans for Greeley in that State. Economizing Wood.-As humanity mul tiplies, animals and trees must diminish. Already the forests are being so rapidly destroyed by tbe progrees of art, fires and carelessness of proprietors as to excite an apprehension of a scarcity of timber very much sooner than formerly imagined. In short, wood for all purposesis alreadv dear and becoming mord costly. Tens of thous ands of saw mills are rasping sawdust enough annually to freight a navy—a very small part of which is utilized in packing ice. It might and ought to be all saved and manufactured into planks, floor boards and moulded, into vessels, furniture and hun dreds of forms in which it might be used insted of going lamentably to waste. When mixed with insoluble glues and pressed as it may be, there is no calculating the profit that is yet to be realized in manufacturing sawdust. A new sourse of industry that would give employment to immense num Fers of laborers and ingenious artists is in the future. Those who first begin tbe enter prise will reap a larger harvest than the inventer of paper collars, which has grown to colossal proportions, and still coining fortunes even for small adventurers. Chicago has eleven granaries, with facilities for elevating and storing about 8,580,000 bushels. Buffalo has thirty one granaries, capable of holding 7,415,- 000 bushels. Brooklyn has a storing capacity of 12,750,000 bushels. The Linn. (Mo.,) Democrat refuses to be delivered to its life-long opponent. For itself it says : “Mr. Belmont is re puted to have said the Democracy must take Greeley or die. Then, we propose i to die a little, as it is but death, anyhew. ” A colored man in Ohio said the other day : “ I do not know much for I was a slave all my younger days; but! know who my friends and benefactors are ; the candidates who are supported by the Kuklux and their apologists can’t get my vote.” A Utica girl at the proper hour pullsa string which reverses a picture, on the back of which appear in large characters the words, “Ten o’clock is my bed-time,” and her admirers Like the gentle hint and depart.
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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