Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-11-14
NUMBER 45.
From the Oakland TranscTipt.l
The second American Olympiad.

Among the ancient Greeks, time was reckoned
by periods of four years, which were marked by
the celebration of the Olympic Games. These
festivals began 776 years before the Christian
Era, when a certain feet-footed Cor9bus Yas
victor in race.
Henceforward the chronology of our own ma
ton will be marked by similar periods. Sup
posing that the second era of our Republic be-
gan with the last administration of Abraham
Lincoln, that stalwart giant of the prairies was
the victor in the first contest. The second great
race has just been won by another, whom, q
thousand years hence, the archaeological student
will rank with Caesar, Alexander, Cyrus and Ma
poleon. While Mcclellan and Seymour shall
have been lost and forgotten in the wastes of
time Lincoln and Grant will be still handed
down from one generation to another, the one as
the greatest liberator, the other as the most
brilliant conqueror of his age. And if a Demo-
crat has lived contemporary with these great men,
whose name shall be mentioned then, it will
have been Wilkes Booth like the UNANIMOUSLY i'm
mortal Erostratus who set fire to the dome Of
Ephesus.
We need not wait for the returns to know that
General Grant has been elected President. We
know that the party of barbarsm, of cruelty and
bloodshed has been put down, and that all the
blasphemous incantations of He'll itself cannot
revive it. A few months hence, when that
drunken harlequin, Andrew Johnson shall have
been driven away from the Presdention man
sion, peace will be fully restored, and justice
will resume her sway throughout the country.
He who had the strength and courage to conquer
rebellion, will be found equal to the mainten-
ance of peace in every province Of the republic.
When the fainting Man of Sorrows was bearing
his cross up the accursed mount, one who lived
by the wayside came out, spat upon and revlled
him. Turning upon his tormentor, the august
sufferer said "Tarry thou till come" Then
went forth the Wanderer on his eternal rounds,
| mos fhn of Tadm0r PerSe-
polls, journeying by the cloudy river of Egypt,
ering to the melancholy bittern in the pools
of Babylon, shrinking as the Roman plowshare
grated among the ruins of the Holy City.
Wherever the genius Of desolaton lowered,
there, uncontrolled, even by the tender love and
pity of the beautiful Miriam the heart
broken, death-nvoking prayer of Salathiel. Like
the curse of the imperishabe sacrilege will be
that of the traitor party who deserted its country
in the days of her sore travail.
We are glad that the struggle is over We
are tired of the everlasting controversy, which
has continued, 10 these seven years, though it
has been in the cause of Freedom, Justice and
Truth. We are a-weary of speaking bitter things
of our countrymen. Turn we then back from
pursuing the routed Asyrians together with all
the victorious soldiers of Freedom saying
has forth the trumpet that shall call
sitting before his judgmentssat
Oh, be swift soul to answer hm-be jubilant my feet
For God is marching on"
THE New YORK TRIBUNE.-It is no trfing mat
ter to regularly issue daily paper Of the di-
mensions Of the Tribune, as will be seen by the
following statistics taken from its own columns
. The Tribune is printed on a sheet measuring
y by 81! inches, weighing 65 pounds ream.
One issue of 24O, 900 copies of the weekly alone
requires 40 reams, 500 sheets each, at 65 pounds
to the ream, making the total weight Of sin.
gle issue 81 200 pounds more than fifteen
tons. The paper when turned out from the
mills is folded half the size of the sheet and put
in bundles containing two reams 900 sheets
each. The bundles compressed to almost
| the soldty of bound volume and measure
about inches. Two hundred and forty piled
one upon another would make column lao feet
in height with 81 by 231 inches side measure
ment If each of the 240 900 copies of the
Weekly Tribune addressed singly the per-
son who subscribes for it, and it required but
ten seconds to write the name of the subscriber,
post Office and State it would take one person
67 days of ten hours each, to perform the labor,
but to accomplish the work in day of ten
hours 81 persons would be required for each is
sue, or it would take ten persons every day in
the year to write paper for each subscriber.
OF course do not address each paper to an in
dividual subscriber though do so address
several thousand copies each week, not with pen
in hand, but by machinery"