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The National tribune., 1882-04-01

IT WILL be seen that Commissioner Dud-
ley, in his communication to the Select
Committee On Reform in the Civil Service,
which we publish in another column Of
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, makes some valu-
able suggestions in reference to the appoint
ments, which it is to be hoped viii soon be
made, IN the clerical force Of the Pension
Bureau. "How to appoint" and whom to
appoint" are important questions for con-
sideration, and General Dudley sensibly re-
marks that the examining foTce-those who
do the real work Of the office" must eXer-
else sound discretion and form ripe and
well-considered Judgments" and he ADDS,
that az far as possible they should be Sc
Iected from among those who fought for the
Nations life, "who will care more to speed
ily get ante-mortem pensions for the vete-
rams. rather than calculate how long they
cap make their own employment last" AS
he also very forcibly says, preference should
he given-other things being nearly equal
10 their sons, widows, and daughters. The
Commissioner very properly proposes tc
have rigid examinations, written and oral
IF his suggestions are acted upon, and Con
gress makes the necessary appropriation fol-
increasing The force Of the Pension Office
.le equipment viii soon be such as to en-
able The work of auditing the many thou
sands of pending claims to be conducted
without further inexcusable delays and EN-
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

harshly than he had spoken before
"Never mind the flowers. i don't
want no flowers. Send me something
else. Send me gallon of good Key
stone whisky. You know where to
send it-506 Fifth avenue. Give me
that money and go and make out the
put"
The brokers' commission was only
$40, while his bill for the keg of Bass
and the demijohn of whisky was
Sl5.S0: but he was delighted at being
enabled to accommodate his customer.
When the bargain was afterward
related at Delmonico's another
broker retorted why, there is
nothing new in that. / have been
keeping the old fellow in groceries for
two or tire years past. But there is
one thing to be said about Sage. If
you spend dollar on him you are
almost sure to make $40, and if you
spend SO you make 500. think if
anybody had the pluck to spend few
hundred and buy him horse or some
thing of that sort, he would make his
fortune, provided the old man did not
jump the game after he got the
horse"
Mr.. Sage is supposed to be worth
S20.OOO,OO0, and his fortune has been
accumulated solely by this kind of
strict personal attention to the details
of all business transactionp. He is
one of the thirty New Workers whose
joint wealth is estimated at over one
thousand millions of dollars, and
would probably be still larger were
thew all like him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

Spencer in that city three times in as
many days this week on Wall street
and other public streets. and convers-
ed with him once. It is said that the
friend of Spencer, who went to Col
Bliss and asked that Spencer be ex-
cused from attendance at the recent
trials, was Secretary of the Navy
Chandler, who is said to be engaged in
some mining ventures with the ex-
senator.
1t is pitiful to read now that Com
mander belong was incompetent to
take command of an Arctic expedi-
ton. Capt. Neibaum, of San Fran
cisco. says he was the last man who
furnished belong with supplies. He
was in the employ of the Alaska Fur
company. and parted with Capt. De
Long at the northern point of Alaska
with the impression on his mind that
the commander of the Jeanette knew
nothing about the service he was un-
dertaking. He refused TO take the
proper guns, although they were
pressed upon him; they took no fish
ing tackle at all, and all their chances
for life thrown away through igno-
rance. 1t Is pity that this should
have been so, and the only good that
can now come of printing these things
is to prevent a repetition of such
plumbers. 1t may be long time be-
fore another such expedition will be
sent to the north pole, but if the funds
were offered there would be volunteers
enough at once, and it may be safely
said that the most competent would
not be the first to volunteer. Scien-
tific knowledge was not enlarged by
the Jeanette expedition. The whole
story is one sad scene of suffering and
Of dnath
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
In and Out of Wall Street.
New York SUM-

Yet there is at least one man who
always makes money in the street;
but then he is an exceptional being,
and his resources are unfathomable.
That man is the Hon. Russell Sage.
His main income comes from the sale
of privileges. Never mind how dull
the market may be or which way 1t
goes, there are always people willing
to buy puts and calls, as protection
against big losses, and Uncle Russell
is always ready to sell them, especially
if the broker is man of the world
and treats him nicely. The other day
one of them promised a customer to
buy for him ninety days put on 200
shares of Wabash preferred at As. The
stock was selling at So, and the bro
ker thought he was sure to get it.
But Mr.. Sage happened to be in one
of his close-fsted moods and would
not sell it above As. The broker
showed him two brand-new hundred
dollar bills. But nothing seemed to
work.
~Tn tell you, Mr.. Sage. what / viii
do. III give you $500 in cash and
send to your house ten-gallon keg OF
Bass ale for yourself and basket of
flowers for madam. You would really
oblige me by selling that put. ]
promised to get it for a good Gus
toner easfs2 lr
Never mind the flowers" answered
the old gentleman, somewhat less
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
THE TOMB OF JACKSON.
A Visit to the "Hermitage"-Jack.
sons Devotion to His Wife.

Nashville Correspondence Courler-Journal.
The Hermitage" is approached
through long row of cedars on either
hand. Here, in this quaint old build
ing, main rooms and shed rooms of
brick, with wooden columns and
wooden coping in front, reside Col
Andrew Jackson, adopted grandson of
the hero, with his wife and mother
and two old negroes, man and wife,
about sixteen years old when pur-
chased by Jackson nearly sixty years
ago. Gen. Jackson and his wife
sleep side by side in the little garden
near the residence, each beneath a
broad granite slab. Inscribed in old
fashioned Roman letters are the words
on the slab which covers Mrs. Jack
son, composed by her devoted hus-
band.
Here lies the remains of Mrs. Ra-
chel jackson, wife of President Jack
son, who died the 22nd of. December
1928" The old hero had been elected
president his first term. but did not
take his seat till March 4, following.
The inscription recounts her virtues
in words forcible and tender, and
closes: ........ ....-...
"A being so gentle and yet so vir.
tuous, vile SANDER might wound, but
could not dishonor. Even death. when
he tore her from the arms of her
husband, could but transport her
to the bosom of her God
The day of the funeral Jackson,
feeble and heart-broken, walked
slowly behind the coffin, leaning upon
long cane he was accustomed al
that time to carry about his farm. AS
the friends of the dead gathered about
to look for the last time upon her face
Gen. Jackson lifted his cane as if APP
pealing to heaven, and by look com.
manding silence, said. slowly and
painfully, and with voice full of bit
ter tears: .......
In the presence of this dear saint
can and do forgive all my enemies
But those vile wretches who have
slandered her must look to God fol
mercy"
One of the most beautiful and To
deeniing traits In all this rugged and
heroic nature was the unalterable love
and devotion he bore his wife. Fol
seventeen years after her death the
memory of this noble woman was
cherished, until the summer of 1845
when he WAS laid to rest beside the
only woman heever loved Loved with
romantic tenderness and strength
SURPRISING the dream of fiction.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

"The most perfect telegraph line in
the world" as we are assured, is just
about to be put in operation between
New York and western cities. This
new enterprise uses a superior wire
and works on improved methods.
What other lines do in minutes it will
do in seconds. This is literally to dis
lance competition. Besides this, mes
sages will be sent, as stated, in the
handwriting of the correspondent and
without the aid of skilled operators,
only person to turn a crank being
required. Pictures, music and
what not may be sent by the same
device. All this is to be done by the
Postal Telegraph company, whose
capital is S21. 100000 and whose Stock
is owned by statesman and business
men whose names are familiar to the
country. These facts are given out by
Lester "A. Bartlett, who has charge Of
the construction of the work. There
appears to be almost too much of it.
But there's no doubt whatever that a
new and powerful corporation has en-
tered upon business, with very ample
means to prosecute its enterprise as il
may see. fit and as its interests may
suggest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Suit has begun in the supreme court
of New York city by William s. VIII
iams against the Western Union,
Norvin Green, Thomas j. Eckert. Ed
win ID. Morgan, G. 7. Huntington ct
al, for an injunction against the de-
PENDANTS, restraining the payment Of
the proposed January dividend of IN
per cent on 38,926, $50 of capital stock
of the company, on the ground that
this is illegal stock, and has been so
declared by the superior court.
Henry Yule Hind renews the charge
of conspiracy between the Ottawa
customs officials and the bureau of
statistics of Washington, to alter the
records of the governments of the
United States and Canada regarding
the expectations of fish from the
United States to Canada and British
and North America. Now NIB r 80 he
wrote from Windsor to Secretary Ere
linghuysen, giving the details of the
manipulated records. He asks ex-
haustiye inquiry and a thorough re-
formation of the civil service by
which frauds have been committed.
At Kansas City, on April 3. an Off
Ger attempted to arrest two colOred
men who were running away with
stolen tuD of butter. One OF the ne
groes shot the officer dead. That night
a mob captured a colored man named
Harrington and hanged him to the
Bluff-street bridge "A day after it
was proven that Harrington had died
an innocent man, and a negro named
Grant was arrested, tried and found
guilty of murder. Since then NJ. V.
Jones, nephew of the murdered po-
liceman, was charged with being the
leader of the mob which hanged Hair
rington. Jones was tried for murder,
but the jury failed to agree.
The New York Tribune says: In
invited, without the hacking of any
religious organization or the churches
or clergy of the city, Geo. o. Barnes,
the mountain evangelist from Ken
lucky, whose peculiar methods have
created a sensation wherever he has
laborer, on Friday evening began
series of revival meetings at Claren-
don hall. With him are his daughters.
Mary and Georgia, both typical SOUTH
ern girls, and with good natural voices.
The hall was fairly filed. His text
was, ~God is Love and Nothing Else,n
upon the last two words of which he
labored with special emphasis. He
announced his intention to. stay in
New York an indefinite period. .
Counsel for the government in the
star route cases say they have infor-
nation that Ex-senator Spencer, the
missing witness for the prosecution,
has gone to Kingston, Cahada, but a
mar, who has inst arrival az JVoch;ro
ton from New York says he saw
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
Railroad Men Before the Legislature.


We do not know whether or not 1t
is true, as reported, that the owners
of railroads being operated in Texas
are going to make concerted move
ment before the coming legislature to
secure the repeal of the law that pro-
hibitS charge of more than three
cents a mile for carrying passengers.
But it is not at all improbable. If the
law is oppressive, it is unjust. And
if unjust it ought to be repealed. The
Age is under very little obligation to
the railroads. IL has asked of them
very few favors and they are not
much given to granting favors with
out being asked. But that is nothing
to the point. The Age knows some
thing of the benefits the state has de
rived from their construction and OPP
Grafton.
They have furnished facilities for
travel, and for the transportation of
merchandise, and of the products of
farms and grazing lam.
They have induced immigration,
and attracted capital.
They have caused farms to be
opened, and towns and cities To be
built.
They have multiplied workshops
and factories and stores and school
houses and churches.
They have given employment to la
Dor, and rewarded industry, and fur
nished large percentage of the money
that has been the life current of COM
merce.
They have encouraged the educa-
ton, increased the wealth, and pro-
NOTED the prosperity of the people.
Whether there is any authority in
the legislature to regulate the rate of
passage at all; and whether, if the
authority exists, it was rightfully eX-
ercised in the passage of the three
centS-a-mile act, are questions we do
not now propose to discuss. We
write now of the action only that it
is said the railroad men propose to
take before the legislature. And we
write of that because the fact that
railroad men propose going before the
legislature, seems to have excited the
Indignation of some of our brethren
of the press.
In our Judgment the railroad men
may go before the legi stature with
reason and propriety; and may pre-
sent their grievances before the hon.
orable body. and ask for such measures
of relief, as they think they are en-
titled to. They may reasonably de-
mand of the legislature that they shall
be dealt with. if not in spirit of lib
erality, at least in spirit of justice.
The may righfully insist that dem.l-
goguery. pandering to false and fool
ish clamor, shall not make them the
victims of injustice, wrong and OPP
preston.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
The Boston Cyclone.
$780,

A respondent Boston man explains
what struck the Hub city thus: 1.-THE
Democratic capture of the municipal
government on Tuesday was the antic-
ipated sequel of the Butler manufac-
ture of votes for the state election.
Moreover, nearly 1900 of the better
class of citizens, made apathetic by
the rather colorless administration of
the past year, failed to vote. Mayor
elect Palmer, an ex-high school
teacher and ex-state senator, able
enough but viciously ambitious,
disappointed in the Republican party,
turned fierce Butlerite three years
ago. Whitmore, the Mephistopheles
of the Democratic city committee and
of the coming administration. is also
a renegade Republican of good Bos-
ton family, a learned antiquarian and
property owner. His official noti-
tication to candidate Palmer that he
was expected to put only Democrats
into office Mortified civil service re-
formers, and was supposed to have
killed his man. But he calculated his
elements of success more accurately,
and the best sweep is clean one. All
the worst aldermen are elected"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
THE GREENBACKERS.
The Old Platform and the Old Name
Must Go.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 90. = The national
convention of the observation-disclosures
party met at 3 o'clock to-day. After
the noon hour members held an in
formal talk among themselves, in
which it was developed that the prin-
cipal questions before the convention
would be the adoption of platform,
also the propriety of changing the
name of the party. This latter is eX-
pected to cause lively fight. There
will be four distinct propositions to
rename the party as the National"
the autobiography" the "Independ-
ent," and the "Whig." 1t is also prob
able that some action will be taken by
the latter on the prohibition question.
Among those present are, Col Jesse
Harper, of Illinois, Gen. John B.
Weaver, of Iowa, Gen. b. J. Cham
bers, of Texas, John Studebaker. Rev.
G.. De La Matyr, of Indianapolis,
Britton 4. Hill, of st. Louis,
Col. 5. +. Norton. of Chicago. r.
NJ. Springer, of Washington, and
Others. President Harper made a
few Introductory remarks, stating
that he considered the time opportune
for laying the principles of the Green
back-Labor party before the people;
hence he decided to call theconvention
together. He had issued 1900 circu-
lars calling the meeting, and had re-
ceived 300 replies endorsing his action.
Nothing in the way of principle was
settled at the late election. One party
was put out and the other put in and
that was all there was about it. He
said among the replies to his circular
were many from leading jurists and
prominent bankers. All these he laid
before the convention.
The chairman was followed by
Britton A. Hill and other distinguished
gentlemen, who discussed the politi-
cal situation in brief speeches.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
POLITICAL POINTS.

If one Democratic victory makes a
bowling civil service reformer of a
man like Arthur, what win two DEM
ocratie victories accomplish ? asks the
Atlanta Constitution.
Anybody producing a member of
congress who isn't and hasn't been for
years in favor of civil service reform
will be handsomely rewarded by leav-
ing, him at the counting-room of the
Philadelphia Press.
Folger will go, the Denver Tribune
asserts. He is uncomfortable where
he is, and wants to go into a different
atmosphere. He will live in political
history as "the man who could not
tumble"
A Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Herald writes; "Haye you
been in to see the political cadavers 2
1t looks like morgue in there" said
an irreverent member of the press in
the lobby of the correspondents gal
lery, as Keifer's hammer struck the
desk with the customary double
thump that brought into being the
second session of the forty-seventh
congress.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
John B. Cough ON Prohibition.

II desire to ask you if it is fair, In
view of the recent complete upheaval
in politics at the fall elections over
the country. to attribute the defeat of
the party claiming to represent the
temperance element in the state to the
free whisky idea 7"
Nov, that is question that takes
time to answer, if done properly.
could hardly say it was fair. am not
in favor of putting this element into
politics. 1t does not belong
there. / am moral-suasion-
idea man. believe in laboring with
the young; for if we educate them
properly in this regard they will come
out all right. and the whisky traffic
will be killed by limitation. / make
it practice to not support the traffic
in any manner. If cannot buy good
groceries because drink is sold ON the
premises. / buy bad ones, and submit
to 1t, because / viii lend no support
to those who deal in spirits" I
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
My Son Donald.
washington Special. ]


my son Donald can be reelected to
the senate if he desires to be-" said old
Simon Cameron here last week.
This remark and number of
Others which the venerable SEN
ator made, has furnished u foun-
dalton for many reports that
there has been a reconciliation in
Pennsylvania between the half-breeds
and the stalwarts. Three men sat on
a sofa in the senate chamber last week
Simon Cameron, Don Cameron and
Senator Mitchell. From this circum-
stance perfect harmony is assured, but
pretty careful inquiry in the Pennsyl-
yania delegation does not show that
there have been any oyertures of peace
of late, or that the present apparently
friendly sentiments between the Penn
sylvania senators has any other origin
than that of ordinary courtesy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28
Legislation Stopped for Dinner.

Senator David Davis is said to be
very much displeased with the deter
mination of the senate to sit daily un-
til 8 p. NJ, as he likes to dine at 4.
Senator Ben Wade, when he was pres
ident pro TEN. of the senate, was
equally anxious for an early adjourn
ment. One day, when Senator Garrett
Davis was making long speech, Mr..
Wade sat quiet until it was o'clock,
when he said: "Will the senator
from Kentucky suspend his remarks
for the introduction of a motion 2"
Certainly" said Mr.. Davis. The
senator from Ohio" said Mr.. Wade,
moves that the senate do now adj
journ. Senators, those in favor say
aye, those opposed mol The motion
is carried, and the senate stands adj
journed until tomorrow at II o'clock
As Mr.. Wade was the only senator
from Ohio in the chamber, or even in
the senate at that time, his GOODNESS in
putting his own motion and declaring
it carried was much admired.