New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-26

are being made here for and every day there any
amount Of drill but they 60 in II will be all up with
them. Long the Jug goes 20 the WELL twill be broken
last and trust that II they do they viii be licked
and leave to be widows defenders; and hope
shall soon be ont of the widows livery" There were
firearms and ammunition stored IN the room where tIs
inceudary letter found, aud the wonder Is that he
room held 10 lis fnstenmgs over much condemned dew
Itry The Irish lad convicted and his case VIII 20
before the amiabe lady 10 whom he referred WIN such
simplicity ana pathos IN his letter TO friend Paddy
The German military officers are never will
ing to let well enough alone. When the armies were
marshaed in the East last Spring Bismarck demanded
an increased appropriation for the army, and not long
aftcrward Count Won Motke declared in sensational
speech that the French Army larger and more ex
pcnsve than the German Army. The reserves were IN
creased Notifications ordered, and the en-
gncers set to work to find imperfectons In the military
system. one Of the ideas which they are adopting
is the telephone. An instrument has been arranged by
the railway regiment the parade ground near Berlin
and the gueers talking 81 employing large num-
Der Of telephones for military PURPOSES what they
want for field operations Is apparatus "hch may be
used at pleasure rs telephone OF as printing i'
ment
The Hon. Montgomery Blair, in presiding
over charity convention In Baltimore last week. under
took explain why there were so many tramps III 'he
United States There has been an enormous accumula-
ton OF wealth in the hands of the few John JACOB
Aston" he remarked was in former years the wealth
lest man in the country. and yet was not worth nan
million in $50 while there are hundreds OF NIL
onaires, whose incomes millions, and even tens OF
millions" He computes Nanderblts income as equai 10
the earrings OF 10000 workngmen, ana that OF Iood
and Brien M 500 600 900 o. which equal to the earn
ings of 10000 laborers. Three hundred such incomes
he goes on TO saw would absorb the earnings Of $4,000
600 laborcrs 1t is certainly startling condition OF
things" he adds that at least l,2OOOOO abe-Dodeu III
telligent and energetic men have been suddenly el'
without employment, TO wander through country
Astounding IN natural wealth, and capable OF supporting
ten times its present population. while all its wealth
accumulated in comparatively few hands" This is more
comfortable for the tramps than for the capitalists
Have the unfortunate gentlemen who are cursed win
millions Of money rights which society j. hound 10
respoct Is II worth while to allow lhem lo on Ioins
up S1OOOOOOO year, when th,ra are 'ogOeo tr4mps,
-Ced and unemployed and nobody 10 eId mem 90 d
10 nay for having their boots BACKED II may noe n
necessary haqg the millionaire hut something ought
to be done in behalf of the aD.e-DOCIcu tamis J
The hatred of all things Russian which
some Of the English papers manifest Is carried 10 uhre
sonabe lengths Here The Pail MAJ gazette, FOR in
stance affirming that the Old nobility have never for
given the Car for introducing the emancipation policy
Il impoverished many OF Them" il says; II destroyed
the power and prestige Of them al; t was an act rrpus
naut 10 their scli-As! fcudacss FOR pomp ana COM
maud and they have revcnged themselves by stuDpoAy
courng 10 hwart all the other reforms which the Ear
had IN view This short-s,chted policy has deprived
them Of the compromising advantages they might have
obtained for Alexander wiling 90 establish cOnSu-
tu.ora government and TO remove the weight OF adj
miuistratye trammels which prevents the country from
developing its resources From the Prussian and Aus
tran courts from his family for the alarms OF bis
brothers had by this time been aroused and even from
foreign ambassadors whom he sounded he received the
advice 10 lct well alone Why should ne destroy the only
autocracy in Europe for the sake of experimenting ids
which had only produced confusion elsewhere The
democratic craze would sme Russia all too soon ana II
was folly for an Emperor 20 advance its coming ny
NJ Nl,Ifl how
admirable work that the emancipation OF the sci was
wrought ont the hearty cooperation OF the uohic m
the Cars reform policy, and that the Russian a-l"t
racv is an aIistOcuCy ~ Oiceh0dcrs rather tAa OF
BIRTH for the barriers between the peaSantrY ana the
middle classes on one side. and the mobiles on the ohei
are not a. Ugh as in other European states in many
respects Russian society Is thoroughly democratic.