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The National tribune., 1879-05-01

statues from each State in the Union, representing
her most prominent departed citizens
Many improvements have been made in our pub
lie buildings since the war, and structure Of
massive workmanship and ornate decorations, built
of granite, and intended for the joint use of the
Departments of State, War, Navy, and Justice has
been erected on the old site of the War and Navy
Departments 1t is of great height, length, and
breadth, and is ornamented with series of columns
and emblematic descriptions appropriate to
tionaty
There are five prominent hotels in Washington
the National-"the boys" would hardly know it
now, it has been so overhauled and repaired-the
Metropolitan Ebbitt, Wizards, Riggs and Airing
ton. The two latter are new the former being To-
Gated opposite the Treasury Department, on 18th
street at the corner of and the latter on Vermont
avenue, at the corner of II. BY the way we must
not forget to state, for the information of the
boys" who have often enjoyed his select steam
ed and other comforts that Harvey is still at the
corner of 1lth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Ford's old theatre, on 10th street, where Lincoln
was aasassinated, is occupied by the Govern
ment for a Medical Museum, and the house where
he died. opposite thereto, is tenanted by " The
Sentinel" an old Washington newspaper The
city has increased rapidly IN population. 1t now
numbers probably 100000 people, one-half of whom
perhaps reside east of 7th street The forts around
the city fast being eveed by the elements, the
plow and the shovel On the site of old Fort Reno
stands the thriving village of Tennallytown, and
where infantry fought cavalry charged and artil-
lery Numbered, the dligent gardener cutivates his
truck for the Washington market May centuries
roll by ere we again shall be called upon to this
beautiful city from the hands Of those who would
dishonor and disown its flag and bring reproach
upon the name of free institutions throughout the
world
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Decoration Day.

Bear in mind that ere you receive another number
of our paper, Decoration Day +" win have come
and gone On that day, when many celebrations
and ceremonies will take place interesting to the
soldiers we wish you would bear us in mind, and
send either written or printed accounts of what
at the graves of our heroes. How forci-
bly, the words of Collins arise in our minds, when
we think Of them:
How sleep the brave who sink rest,
by all their cOuntry's wishes blest:
When Spring with dewy fingers cold,
Returns deck their hallowed mold
there shall u
Than Fancy's have trod
BY fairy hands their knel ; rung,
by forms unseen their dirge sung.
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell weeping hermit there
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Abraham Lincoln.

We write these words in the latter days of April
two weeks succeeding the anniversary of the death
Of Abraham Lincoln and in view of the buildings
where he was assassinated and breathed his last
Some reflections upon the life of the man at such a
time, naturally arise We do not purpose to pronounce
a eulogy, notice at length the character of our
martyr President but briefly to refer to the one
leading trait manifested by him We aude to his
deUotion to the soldiers. He looked upon them to
the nation, and his for them extended from
the moment that he called for IS 900 men, down to
the period of his death His warm and almost wo-
manly interest in them unbounded. He under
stood and appreciated all their hardshps their sac
rifces their beroism If they were specially noticed
for vaor he was ever ready to promote them; were
they sick in the hospital he not unfrequenty visited
them; and when they deserted, at times, allured
thereto often by desires to meet loved home
and captured and sentenced to be shot he was
ever ready to pardon them, if there any mti-
eating circumstances, At private gatherings and
at mass assembages during the war the great theme
on which he almost constantly dwelt was: What
shall loe do for the soldier8-hoac shall re reloard
the soldiers? Six weeks previous to his death was
written his last will and testament to the American
people, in which we find these words:
With malice toward none, with charity for all, With
mness in the right God gives the right let
strive to finish the work to bind the nations
wounds for him who shall have borne the battle
and for his widow and his orphan to do all which may
achieve and cherish just and lasting peace among
selves and with all nations
''To care for him who shall have borne the battle,
and for his widow and hisaorphan." What gratitude
the head of the nation here exhibits. What a strong
tide of sympathy arises in his noble soul In his
great Grafton the battlefield of Getty ysburgh July
A. 1863 pronounced by such critical magazine as
compositions in the English language, he said,
speaking of the soldiers who fell that sangunary
field
We do not honor them, they honor usn
4 What an expressive magnificent sentence And
why does the honor thus rest? Because when
death seals forever the lips of valor and devotion
the record of life is made up and the spirit is stamped
and sancti6ed, with the approval of Deity. Thence
forth these names are hallowed and shed honor
upon the living with whom they once associated
The spirit of Lincoln has joined the hosts of those
who laid down their lives that Liberty might live
yet shall his immortal name go down the coming
ages with those of the patriot soldier, of whom the
poet wrote:
Rest on embamed and santed dead
Dear as the blood ye gave
No impious footsep there shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
/. While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot,
, proudly
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=" If any attempts TO tear down the American
flag, shoot him on the spot"

The author of this famous Dispatch Gen. John
4, Dir--died in New FORK on the 2lst of April
aged eighty-one years. His name viii go down in
history as ever Loyal to his country and faithful
TO all his public trusts, civil and military
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Rest ON, embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood ye gave,
No impious footstep there shall tread
The herbage of your grave
Nor shall your glory be forgot,
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot,
Where Valor proudly sleeps"
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ACREs OF DIAMnNnS.
Extraordinary Accumulation OF Coal In
This IIarbOr Waiting a Rise.
Pittsburgh Evening Telegraph,

Extraordinary Accumulation OF Coal In
This IIarbOr Waiting Rise.
Pittsburgh Evening Telegraph.
There is at present a remarkable sight to
be seen in the Ohio and NIonongahels
rivers. An Unprecedented amount Of
coal lies in harges, &C., between the head
of Brunot's Island and Dam No, l. This
amount cannot be accurately or hardly be
approximately elyostimated. Well informed
parties give 100000 to 100000 bush.
els rs at present loaded in the pool and in
the district named. The latter estimate
may be too high, but the former is scarce
ly too low.
This state ofaffairs was brought about
by two causes. First, the long inactivity
Of the miners were followed by the victory
gained by them in securing three cent
rate. When operations began they work.
ed like men pressed by debt aud refresh.
ed by rest. To-day there is hardly an
operator but must suspend operations in a
few days for want OF empty craft, unless
sufficient water comes to enable "empties'
to get in. Already the various landings
below the first lock are crowded with acres
of black diamonds, and still they come.
Between noonon Saturday and midnight
last (Nonday) night 1903 barges passed
through Lock No. 2, and ut one time
on Sunday morning twenty.eight tow
boats were waiting their turns at
the same narrow gate. BY this time over
200 barges have gotten through and are
added to the immense fleets below. But
the number Of barges that must take their
chances through the several locks is i'm,
mense also, and should a sudden and briei
"coal barge stage" be forthcoming, the
valley OF the Monongahela is destined 10
be azure with the maledictions OF coal mer
in general and those engaged in squeezing
coal craft through in particular. Enemies
Of the lock system accept this state Of az
fairs as strengthening their position against
the improvement" system, which the
friends OF Chanoine dams hold that witt
an improved river such 'jams" woulC
mover occur. e6ts5
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,ryyy OLD AGE.
,.Il to the Once sweet singer at HeE
Home In England.

,.il TO the Once sweet singer nj HeE
Home In England.
,,j,p Letter 10 Philadelphia Telegraph.
lpd before quit the theme Of song and
dupers. let me mention a glimpse that
sught before leaving London Of the
..bi,ies Of the past. On leaving the
SINE Of Nine. Albani, | crossed the street
b look at the dwelling OF Jenny Lind.
me- home stands back from the street, and
arden, that must in summer be a very
sgpet Of flowers aRd verdure, extends in
S,rt Of il. A bust Of the great singer,
F;esi,e,I and in marble, stands in a large
sy window that fronts the garden. And
Sesiie the bust sat an elderly lady in q
Tbae mob cab and white cashmere
6,Tl engaged in partaking ol
he afternoon cup OF tea that
bms so prominent a feature in En-.
5i.h social life. She was talking to some
one in the room, and as she turned to the
window | saw again the face that l had
htlooked upon, crowned with roses and
lighted with inspiration, on the stage oi
Trpler Hall, twenty.eight long years ago.
Under the distigurng cap, the fair hair,
nOw plentifuly streaked with gray, was
een rolled back in precisely the same
ashton as that which set all the girls in
America to twisting back their tresses in
those bygone years. In other respects
Jenny Lind has greatly changed. Few
could have recognized in the pale, worn
Iineaments Of the elderly lady the well
nigh angelic countenance Of the greatest
singer Of our day and generation. /
permitted myself but one glance, moi
wishing to violate even by q look the
sanctty Of that tranquil home. | am
told that Madame Lind.Goldschmidt, as
she styles herself, is very eccentric and
peculiar. She still interests herself IN
music, being the leader Of the Bach Choir
sPrivate association, to which some OF the
inst ladies' Of London belong; and so Sc
we're Is size in her requirements, and SC
strict in demanding their fulfillment, that
her high.bOrn pupils are often tempted to
rebel. Her eldest daughter had an ex'
trenely pleasing voice, and it is said thai
Jenny Lind for time cherished the hope
oi seeing her own artistic glories revived
athe person Of her child. But, unfortu'
alIely, the young lady had neither inheri'
tel her mothers genius nor her ardent
passion for art. She was indolent, and
would not study; so that hope is at an end
Probably it is us well. From all that
could hear, it appeared that her voice wa!
inaOwise one Of exceptional power and
beauty. And to have been the daughter
OI Jenny Lind and to achieve only a mod
tate SUCCESS, would have been result by
no means enviable.
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VOLUME XXvII.-NUMBER 9SO.

Lively TINE IN CoUNCiL.- city dads,
In discussing the difficulty between Stunt.
Brown and Purifier Greaves, OF the Gas
Works, last night, got pretty we'll warmed
up, and In the heat Of debate many hard
words were exchanged. Atone time, there
was q fair prospect OF o personal encoun.
ter between two OF the members. Mr..
Phllo. Kimberly, who had been cham.
pioning Supt, Browns cause with good
deal ot earnestness during the evening,
while on the floor making an intlammS.
tory speech, made some reflections
upon the Gas Investigating Committee,
and their relations to GreaYes, which Dr.,
Reeves, chairman Of that committee, pro.
nounced as unqualidedly false. Klmber.
ly, In a highly excited manner, rushed
across the room toward the Doctor, with
his clenched fist extended, and asked him
II he meant TO imply that be Kimberly
was liar. The Doctor repeated the asser.
ton, when Kimberly advanced In a
threatening manner TO strike him, declar-
ing that he would allow no man 10 cali
him liar. Mr.. Arkle, who was in the
chair, left his seat and rushed forward 10
separate the eombatants; two or three
gentlemen sitting In the vicinity, however,
had already taken hold OF Kimberly and
pulled him back. Kimberly frothed like
q Gagged lion, and struggled TO release him.
sell, but was dragged of and quieted
down. Quiet was restored in o few mo.
ments, and business was proceeded with
as usual. The little incident created CON.
siderable Of stir, as the lobby was fairly
packed with spectators.
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FOREIGN NOTES.

The assailant OF General Drentlines has
been arrested at Kief.
1t is stated that the King OF Spain has
signed decree re.establishing State
siege in the Basque provinces.
The Republicd Francdise pronounces the
statement that Minister Waddington and
Leteyre cannot remain in the same cabinet
an idle invention.
The German Government has resolved
to restrict the sales Of silver temporarily
and may possibly suspend them altogether.
1t is believed this indicates disposition
to increase the coinage OF silver.
At meeting OF miners representing
thirty collieries at Durham, England, yes,
terday, it was decided TO return TO work but
to give n iortnights notice for 20 per cent
advance in wages so as to insure full in,
quiry.
A Paris dispatch states that the debate
on Saturday in the Chamber OF Deputies
promises to be the turning point in the
history Of the Cabinet, and will show a dis
tinct division Of the Left.into the Moder
ates and Radicals.
The negotiations over the transfer Of the
administration Of Eastern Roumelia tc
Governor Aleka Pasha has been satisfac
torilY concluded. Russia has promised
that as soon as Aleka Pasha arrives in
Phillipopolis General Stalypin will remove
the Russian headquarters elsewhere.
A London dispatch says the Swiss pie
biscite does not actually revive capital pun
ishment, but leaves each canton at liberty
TO re.enact or not both the conditions Q
validity, viz: An aggregate majority ant
q majority OF cantons have been securet
In favor OF this permissive measure. Thu
Catholics and Conservatives advocated
the measure, pointing to the increase ii
crime sincethe death penalty was abolish
cd.
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PERSONAL MESrloX.-AIayor Sweeney
has gone TO Baltimore on business, TO be
absent several days.
Pilot Witten, OF the steamer Emma
Graham, Is still indisposed, but hopes 10
stand his regular watch up on the Graham
this week.
The lllustrious individual known as
Peanut" Joshua Scott left Yesterday
morningat 1885 for Fairmont, where he
was married last night to Miss Annie
Rogers, Scott returned with his dusky
bride on the late train last night.
Mr.. Chris. Behrens, OF Behrens 4 Co..
spent yesterday In Pittsburgh, buyine
fixtures for their new grocery store that
they will open about the first OF June, al
1910 Market.
GOV. Mathews was expected home from.
the West last night.
Bishop Simpson delivered sermon at
the st. Clairsvflle NJ. +. Church, last night,
Many years ago the Bishop was pastor Of
the NJ. i. congregation at st. Ctairsyille,
Mr.. ]. R. Ball, Of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, was
in the city yesterday, en- route to San
Francisco, CAL!
Gen !. H. Duval will be Post Command.
ant at the sham battle.
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COLoRED CONYENrIoN
At RIchmond-They Agree to Consul
With Leading Republicans as to IN
Course to Purzue.

At Riehmond-They Agree to Consult
With Lending Republicans as to the
Course to Pursue.
RrcItMoND, May 20.-In the Colored
Convention a committee Of three was ap'
pointed to go to Washington, to consult
with the leading Republicans upon the
best course 10 pursue in their efforts "a
secure amelioration and improvement oil
the condition Of the colored race. The
Committee on Grievances made their re,
port, setting forth at great length the
wrongs and grievances Of the colored peo.
pie, and submitting a series Of resolutions,
recommending the colored people of the
State to organize societies for the pur.
pose OF petitioning the legislative and
judicial departments Of the State,
for full recognition Of their rights as
citizens, and il such rights are not fully
accorded, that they are advised to emf.
CRATE to other States and territories where
there is no distinction on account Of color
denying the constitutional power OF q
State to prohibit marriages on account OF
color; expressing sympathy with Edmund
Kinney and wife (now in the penitentiary
for intermarryingl, and pledging every Of
fort to have this obnoxious and unconsti,
tutional law wiped out; recommending
thorough organization OF the colored peo,
Pile for bettering their political, financial and
commercial condition, and finally endors,
ing the efforts Of their suffering and op'
pressed colored brethren Of the South to
leave the States of oppression and find
other homes where their political opinions
and rights will be respected. After some
debate the report was adopted with but q
few negative votes.
The Executive Committee and commit
tee to prepare an address 10 the people O.
Virginia were appointed, and the Conven
ton adjourned sine die.
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pREspYrRRlAN clruRcu sovrn,
FOREIGN NEWS.
ENGLAND.
COMMERCIAL pAlLuREs-TnRy FLOODS IN hun
amy


COMMERCIAL PAILuREs-TltR FLOODS IN HUN
GARY.
LONDON, May 2O.-R. G. Thielleran, cot.
ton manufacturer at Preston, has failed.
Liabilities ES6,0O0.
@. NJ. Smith, iron manufacturer at Mid
dlesborough, has failed. Liabilities GGO,'
900.
W. Blake 4 Co. and Seymour & Co.,
both OF Rotterdam, have failed In conse.
quence OF the failure OF the Afri.
canische Handelsyerening. The LA.
bilities OF the latter will fall heayi.
y on the Messingen Bank, Darmstadt
Bank and Bank Of Rotterdam. One oi
the directors tried to commit suicide at
Antwerp. He Is now in the hospital, as II
Is not expected his extradttion will be de-
manded. Another director OF the same
company fled to Spain with his family.
The latter, whose name Is Plncoa, was a
man Of great commercial influence. He
was leader Of the Liberal party.
correspondent who has just traversed
the Danube from Guirgevo to Buda, in
Pesth, telegraphs that the Danube Is very
high a short distance above Bazias, where
the Austrian shore becomes low and fiat.
The flood extends great distance inland
between these points, and Belgrade river
Is from ten to fifteen miles wide. At Bel
grade 1t is fully twenty miles wide. Near
ly all the Austrian villages between Pesth
and Bazias have water in the streets.
The floods continuing SO late in the season
must cause great damage to crops.
tRcutTINn ulTrpps
Plaisted Is at Newcastle to arrange a
match with Nicholson.
Wallace Ross, unable to obtain an oppo-
nent in England, has started for America
10 participate in the summer regattas,
where he hopes TO make a match with
Riley. He promises to return to England
In Autumn when he maytry for the cham
Hanlan has returned to Scottswood and
will resume training to-day.
THE ERIE R. R. SHAREHOLDERS.
The bondholdes and shareholders Of
the Erie Railroad Company to-day re-
ceived the report of the reconstruction
trustees up TO September 80, 1878. Reso-
luttons were unanimously adopted ap-
provingthe report and accounts, and ex-
pressing the satisfaction OF the English
stockholders that larger interest in the
bonds is being taken by Amer
lean holders, from whom the meeting
trusts that the Board may be gradually
strengthened by the addition Of a high
class Of business men having a substantial
holding in the company.
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A LuNArlc ARRESTED AND JAtLED.-On
Monday afternoon Officer Davis found a
man on Chapline street, near the Capitol
building, acting very strangely. The
stranger was unable to give any account Of
himself, further than that his name was
Henry Miller. He was taken into custo.
dy and lodged in the lookup. Yesterday
morning Miller was turned over to Justice
W. W. Miller by City Sergeant Sweeney,
as supposed lunatic. The Justice duIy
examined him and adiudged him insane,
and he was committed to jail for safe keep.
ing, Miller is perhaps thirty.ive or forty
years OF age, and evidently stranger in
the city, as no one has been found who is
able to give any information concerning
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GERMANY.

A RESIGNATION roR VARIOUS REASONS.
BERLIN. May 20.-In Parliament to-day,
the Vice President read a letter from Won
ForckerbreCk announcing his resignation
Of the Presidency ofthe House on grounds
Of i'll health and antagonism between his
own views and those of the majority Of
the Reichstag.
Herr Won Forekenbeck's resignation oil
the Presidency Of the Reichstag shows
that the Liberals have been beaten on all
hands by the Conservatives and Clericals.
Bismarck's star is in the ascendant. II
isrumored that approximation Of fclemency
relative to the enforcement OF the Faux
law, will be issued on the occasion OF the
Emperor's golden wedding.
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NEw ORLEANS, May 9O.-Thc Auxiliary,
Sanitary Association, to-day commenced
the important work otsystematically flush,
ing the street gutter with river water.
This will be done daily the entire length
OF the city,8 miles. They hope by this
means to abatethe nuisance OF foul cutters
The French Market and that quarter OF the
city will be supplied by powerful pump
and engine. Theassociation are construct
ing nuisance boats and have ordered {
number Of sweeping machines and are
laborinR faithfully in the interests Of tht
sanitary reforms throughout the city.
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,lsplyG Boston merchant, who has
-, ,.turnci from the West, says: ~
r.. = never seen the time when the pros
~, ~ lor the West looked so bright ]
!,i,,,l ~ particularly the activity in all the
satn.nts Of manufacture, especially in
s,,biuery, and still more in the specially
Nm. manufacture OF agricultural imple'
..st. Wherever went I was informed
m. manufacturers that they were work.
!, ,isht and day, and yet were unable to
.,athe constantly increasing demand.
Ssi,lbe tirst aud surest indication Of
,g,pips prosperity, as it shows there is a
.,Dslence among the farmers that there
Ill be demand for their crops OF all
,I"
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NEW YoRK, May 2O,-The sales Of cotton
for future delivery, to-day and yesterday
reach the enormous total of 25O,Ooo bales
AT an advance Of to lc per pound, which
in the cotton trade is very large rise
There has not been so excited q sSent rs y
On Cotton Exchange for q long wnile a.
WAS NJ wItnesSad both yesterday and to-day,
when adyices OF y strong market IN LAYER
nooI MI and putting OF the screws by the
hills compelled the l'shorts" to rush u
and cover on their contracts,