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A COlnreh Evn,,...son

lhjon DIiaware f' railroad ran a colored ex-
7lay iIgln T Centerville, Md, to this city
Tie Of tbo ine crowd was intensly character
lOre snl sTg negro population of the Eastern
2ck, ,m uiu reminded one of the yerdant
qarte,Iv9'Sy mock to Wilmington on "Big
Aye, uay. They are amusing them
st mopcy "ou9u Jun town spending their har-
ingon tIa, Ild some Of the sharper Will
"'aeKs haYe good thing OF it.
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probibition NIaioritv in Iowa,

DEs MONIES, July 1.-The State register
now has the returns of the vote for the pro-
hibition amendment to the State constitu-
tion from all the counties in the State. In
80 counties the amendment has aggregate
maiorities for it of 5O,724 and aggregate
majorities against it of 81 SIT, giving it a
net majority of y, ,907.
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THE MORNING SUMMARY
WORK OF THE WIRES LAST
NIGHT AND TO-DAY.
NEW POSTMASTER AT LAUREL.
Various Events Briefly Told--StrikerB'
Places Fully Supplied-watex Spouts
Out West-General News.
tAssociated Press dispatches to the Gazette.

ASSOCIATED Press dispatches to the Gazette
PHILADELPHIA, July 3.-The Pennsylva-
mia railroad officials announce this morning
that they now have a full force of freight
handlers employed at all the freight piers in
New York and at Harsimer's core
grain elevators on the Jersey City
side that they are now in position TO
promptly handle all east and west bound
traffic, and that they anticipate no further
delay in the delivery of goods, the majority
of their men having gone to work at the old
rate of pay.
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Prize Fight i'm New Hampshire.

MANCHESTER, N. H., July 2.-Billy
Welch and Dave Phalen fought prize fight
at "The Palms." a suburb Of this city this
afternoon, Forty-three rounds were fought,
and the battle was decided in Phalen's
favor ON foul by Weleh, Both men were
badly punished,
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PERSONAL.

Ex-Sergeant-at-Arms John G.. Thompson
has decided not to try to run for Congress
this year
j. II. Haverly, Baekus, the negro minstrel,
and 2. T. Barnum are in Europe looking
for new attractions wherewith to embellish
the coming season of shows.
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Cnal MIners ANA stril,e.

CUMBERLAND, Mp, July 2.-The miners
in the Meyersdale and Elk Garden regions
struck at noon Saturday for an advance
from fifty to sixty-fve cents per ton. They
also say they will not resume work until the
advance asked in the Cumberland region is
granted. This is undoubtedly the result of
the combination formed at Bedford, Pa, on
Thursdav and Friday last
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The Delaware Truck.

James F. Daley, chairman of the Della
ware Fire Company's Committee on Truck
left last evening for Elmira, N. Y, on bust
ness connected with the new apparatus.
The truck will be received about the middle
of the month.
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Arabi Pasha appears to divide his worship
between Mars and Venus, for few weeks
apo, in the midst of his troubles with the
Khediye, he added to his household third
wife-the daughter Of one Mustapha Pasha,
and a lady OF rank and fortune.
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LOCAL.LACONICS.

Canine exterminator Hunt has been sue
ceeded by George A. Coony.
The Republican Leagues regular meeting
will be held Wednesday evening.
The annual meeting of the Rehoboth
Beach Association will be held at Rehoboth
Beach at p. M, on Wednesday, July ~.
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Counterfeit $40 BINS in Circulation.

A clever imitation of $40 bill of the issue
of 1875 has been circulated I'm large num-
bers in eastern Pennsylvania during the past
few weeks. The number of these bad bills
current has caused some uneasiness among
the Treasury officials, as the counterfeit is
well calculated to deceive, slight irregu-
larity in the shape of letters printed on the
top Of the bill being its principal defect.
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Stln SpeanIlIasa.

Church ttiy Taylor, formerly of St. Paul's R. C,
Vhcepso I's iS, city, but now an inmate of st,
shORas .trIsy, AtgIoey, Westmoreland county Pa. ,
Or six woSlI W. stricken with paralysis about FIVE
still 1cns sneaa, ago, is slightly improving, but
nfornn,ia nnt,iGveiliess. A letter containing the
Father Son Kon, was received on Saturday Inv
''' Aeilley of st. Peters Cbnrch uA' 'S
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Indications.

tAssoclated Press dispatch to the Gazeste.l
WASHINGTON, July 3.-For the Middle
Atlantic States, warmer, fair, followed by
cloudy weather and local rains; variable
winds; stationary or lower pressure.
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An Engine to be Repaired

Engine No. 8G1, of the Pennsylvania
railroad, came into the railroad shops this
morning for repairs. She is generally
wrecked and dilapidated.
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A Now Postmaster Appointed.

ASSOCIATED Press dispatch to the Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, July 3.-The only postal
change in Delaware last week, was the ap-
pointment of George E. Smith as post
master at Laurel, Sussex county.
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AnAhhItinn to the Library.

The afternoon Sunday school of the Sec
ond Baptist Church will remain closed until
the first of September, by which time an ad-
dition will be made to the library.
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THE DAY WE CELEBRATE.
Preparations for the Fourth of July
How 1t VIII be Observed In and Around
WilmingtOn-NO Patriotic Features.

The Fourth of July will be celebrated in
this city and throughout the State In various
ways. Picnics and excursions will be quite
numerous, and base ball will attract con-
siderable attention. In order that all alarms
Of fire may be quickly responded to Chief
Engineer Murphy of the Fire Department
has made the following assignments for the
various fire companies:
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Soroner's Inquest.

Yesterday mslqln went to Listens Point
body Of tbs anu pn, held sn inquest upon the
The ideptite, uaknown ~ sailor fopnd drowned,
Established VI Vle dead man has not been
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The Experts and Quickstep had bout
Saturday afternoon, the former winning by
score of 21 to 13.
Since Our Boys have been organized, more
than two years, they have played 20 games,
winning 10. Their record this season is as
follows
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LOCAL FIELp sPORT.
The Defiance Badly Beats Our Boys
Other Games.

The Defiance nine defeated Our Boys at
base ball on the Rodney street grounds on
Saturday afternoon by a score of 12 to 0.
The score In detail Is as follows
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Those Bold. Fad Men.

We refer, of course, to the pension claim
agents. 1t appears from recent statements
in the New York Herald and other oracular
journals that they have been guilty of sew
eral very horrible crimes. 1t is openly
charged that they secured the passage of the
Arrears of Pensions Act and it is more than
suspected that they had hand in the late
war.
1t must be admitted that there Is good
deal of truth in both accusations. Take the
last, for instance: we know of our own
knowledge that among these bold, bad men
are a number who had the unblushing au-
dacity to join the army at the very outbreak
of hostiities and remain in it until peace
was declared. Some of them even had the
impudencs to try 20 stop the enemy's bull
lets by interposing their own persons, and
had to be sent to the hospital as a conse-
quencs of their effrontery. They actually
had SO little appreciation of their own de-
pravity as to accept promotion on account
of alleged bravery in battle. Yes, it must
he admitted that some of these bold, bad
men did have something to do with the war
AS to the charge that they were instru-
mental in securing the passage of the PEN
sion Arrears Act we fear that there is some
truth in that also. The letters which they
have received from soldiers in all parts of
the country thanking them for their exer-
tions, are alone sufficient to convict them of
the crime. And their crime, it must further
be admitted, was premeditated. They did
not hesitate to urge the passage of the act in
public, as well as private, and instead of i'm
ploring Congress to turn a deaf ear to the
appeals of the pensioners, they had the
indecency TO ask that they be heard.
But worse charges than these might be
brought against them. 1t might be said,
with equal truth, that they have wilfully
helped many a needy soldier to get pen
sion when his claim had lain for years neg
lected in the Pension Bureau, and discour-
teously refused to accept any other reward
than the pittance allowed by law for their
services. 1t might be urged that, even at
this moment, they are insolently demanding
an Increase of the clerical force in the Pen
sion Bureau so as to insure action on the
two hundred odd thousand pending claims
before the close of the century. They have
been guilty of all these things!
There are, of course, among the pension
claim agents, some who disgrace their call
ing by fraudulent practices, but, on the other
hand, the majority, aa Senator Call said in
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the Senate last week, are business mel Of
intelligence and spotless character.
Tho I.abor Troubles.

The extensive strikes that have lately
taken place in various sections of the coun-
try are, not without reason, believed to por-
tend general uprising of labor at no distant
day. Five years have now elapsed since the
last great industrial revolt against the de-
crees of capital, and there are those who
fancy they see in the recent demonstrations
at Chicago and Omaha the development Of
the same spirit of irritation and distrust
among the working classes which produced
the riots of 1877. There is, as we have said,
some reason for this apprehension, since any
thing is possible when latent feeling of
dissatisfaction is known to exist among the
laborers in any branch of industry, but it
should be remembered that the general con-
dition of trade does not at all resemble that
which prevailed during the four years of
business depression which followed the
panic of 1873. The discomfort of labor had
its origin at that time quite as much in the
lack of employment as in the reduction Of
wages, and actual Hunger and Poverty hur-
ried the strikers into acts of lawlessness
that were not contemplated at the outset
1t was the last ditch in the irrepressible
conflict between Labor and Capital, and
Labor was blind to the consequences when
it took the leap The situation is very dit
ferent at present. Factories and mills are
running on full time those who are willing
to work find no difficulty in obtaining en-
ployment, and the tramp has disappeared
almost entirely from the country. 1t is
true that strikes are of frequent occurrence,
but they are no longer undertaken as for
lorn hope, and indicate industrial prosperity
rather than Distress for Labor is as prone
to take advantage of Capitals necessities as
! Capital of LabOrs helplessDess. The wild
| speculation that is going on at the present
moment In Wall street, where the Gould
syndicate are endeavoring TO bull the price
of worthless stocks, will furnish the alarm
! lists with much better pretext for their
sinister predictions than any accidental in
dustriaI disturbance is likely to afford
| them
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commerce lies in the fact that the British gov
ernment has steadily pursued the policy of
subsidizing its lines of steamships, thereby
enabling them to compete successfully for
foreign trade.
The way to revive our shipping interests
is clearly to follow Englands example. Ii
it be true that we cannot build ships as
cheaply on this side of the water, it is SIM
ply because the business is still in its in
fancy, and not because of a lack of skill or
proper materials. 1t is unquestionably true
that Mr. John Roach, as well as all Amerl-
can ship builders, would benefit largely by
the subsidizing of American steamship lines,
since the moment that the business of ocean
carriage is made profitable to American steam
ship owners great demand for American
steamships will spring up, but the coun-
try would benefit still more largely, since
the millions that are now annually paid to
foreign nations for the transportation of our
exports to foreign ports would 90 into the
pockets of our own people. If it be true,
as it undoubtedly is, that the maintenance
of the'protective tariff has built up Ameri-
can manufactures, it is also true that the
adoption of the subsidy plan would build up
American shipping The demagogues in
Congress who oppose this plan on the ground
that at the outset it Will enrich John Roach,
might, with as much justice, oppose our
present tariff, on the ground that it has
made millionaires of men who twenty or
thirty years ago were struggling mechanics.
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A Suggestive Comparison.


Since the close of our unhappy civil war
Europe has thrice been ravished by the
sword. and no one can tell at what moment
the armed peace that exists at present may
he rudely broken. AS Tennyson says, the
Nations "do but murmur, snarllng at eacn
others heels" but few such frebrands as
General Skobeleffs speech, thrown In among
the pack would soon set them by the ears.
1t is not with the prospect of another war
in the old world, however, that we propose
to concern ourselves. 1t is sufficient to call
attention to the striking contrast between
the condition of the United States after the
conflict which threatened to dissolve the
Union and that of any of the European
states at the close of long and desperate
struggle. What took place when Lee sur
rendered and the rebellion was declared at
an end? The volunteer army, as everybody
knows, was disbanded as quickly as possi-
bic, the navy reduced to a peace footing
the forts evacuated, and military rule re-
placed everywhere throughout the South by
the civil authority, all the extraordinary
expenses of the Government were Topped off
at the same time, and the necessary steps
were taken to begin the task of paying off
the debt in which the war had involved US.
All this was made possible by the fact that
with peace we had conquered security as
well; no ghost of another war disturbed the
Nations confidence, and so ii comes about
that to-day Nation Of fifty millions of peo-
! pie maintains a standing army of less than
thirty thousand. To support it costs but
| tithe of the Governments revenues. What
| is the case on the other side of the Atlantic
Look at the inmense military establish
ments of France, Germany, Austria, and
Russia! See how they grow with every
war, their strength a menace to the peace o
the world rather than protection! Consider
what fabulous sums are annually required
to arm, feed, and clothe these monstrou!
armies, and how heavily the people art
taxed to provide the necessary revenue
| Think also how the farm, the workshop, tht
mines all trades and professions are robbed
to furnish recruits! Note how fercely th
flame of popular discomfort burns in all tn
continental countries and with what fearful
zeal the leaders of free thought are hunted
down by the peoples rulers!
What would not the Emperor Of German.
or the Car of Russia give to see his countr..
Tapped in the profound secure, and healthfu
peace that followed upon the suppression G
our own rebelli0n to have no standing arm,
to maintain, no grinding taxes to impose, n
terrible society of assassins to repress?
Has it ever occurred to anyone that neve
in the history of the world has war of sucl
awful proportions entailed so little after-sut
fering as our own? If any such though
has been suggested by such a comparison a
we have drawn, then certainly it will not b
disputed that this Government ought not t
grudge one penny of the sum, whatever
may be, that now or hereafter may be re
quired to pension the soldiers whose sacri
fees made this magnificent result possible
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The Last of the Poets.

The death of the poet Longfellow brings
the fact forcibly home to Us that the race of
great American poets is well nigh extinct.
Emerson, Whittier, and Lowell alone remain
of that little band of singers who have inn
parted to American poetry whatever fame
it NAV possess in the lteratures of the world,
and they, too, may at any moment pass away.
Upon whom will their mantle fall? Of
mere makers of rhymes We still have
plenty, 70 be sure, as the pages of our maga-
zines attest, but of writers of immortal verse
scarcely one. One can almost pardon the
"barbaric yawp" of Walt Whitman when
we read the shallow, affected rhapsodies
which are current in the periodicals of the
day. There is a lack of wholesome senti-
ment and barrenness of idea in the poetry
of the day that makes one despair Of the
future of American song New England,
which used to be the hotbed Of American
literature, seems at last to have become
sterile, or at best produces only few delicate
hybrids which wither at the first touch of
frosty criticism. The West, which should
ere this have grown US a poet or two, has
produced nothing better than Bret Harte
and joaquin Miller, both of whom bid
fair to survive their regulations. The South,
where sentiment has never been rudely
jostled by trade, ought also to have con-
tributed something enduring to American
verse, but the South, too, has proved disap-
pointing. The late Sydney Lanier possessed
a spark or two of the divine fire, but alasi
death carried him off before the blaze had
been fairly kindled. Timrod, who has left
US a thin volume of poems, had all the
metrical skill of Tennyson; but he wrote at
an unpropitious season, and few men of
letters even are acquainted, we imagine,
with the rare beauty of his verses. As for
Paul Hayne and Father Ryan, who at
present are the approved poets of the South,
theirs is but an ephemeral popularity, un-
sustained by any phenomenal merit in their
work, and it must inevitably perish with
the generation that gave it being. 1t is not,
however, altogether unaecountable that
period of stagnation, real or apparent, should
succeed to the productive era Of Bryant,
Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson, and Whittier.
The history of English literature reveals
many q similar hiatus, during which the
spirit of true poety seemed to elude the
Grasp of the human intellect; yet it has
never failed to reappear at last with stronger
pinions and soar to higher realms Of fancy.
The National tribune., 1882-04-01

ALMOST every measure Of justice that our
ex-soldiers have obtained from Congress
they have had to fight for, and the struggle
is not yet over. The Arrears of Pensions
Act would have been repealed long ago but
for gallant efforts of such statesmen as
Senators Ingalls, and Voorhees,, and the
spirit with which THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
replied to the ISLANDERS of the daily press
To secure the legislation which is still
needed in order TO establish the claims OF
the pensioner and soldier upon the Govern
ment, will require the combined labors of
all who are interested in seeing full justice
done to the Nations defenders, and TO that
end we trust that our subscribers will exert
themselves to extend the circulation of THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE by every means At
their command.
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WASHINGTON, D. c., APRIL l, 1882.

In sending lis subscription for THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE from Laurence, ,MdSS.,
Gen. George S. Merrill, CommGnder-in- Chief OF
The Grand Arny Of the Republic, says:
"THe bold GdC0cacy Of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE Of the rights Of the soldier eijcits my
hearty approval Keep on as you hare begun,
and do not consider your ,gort accomplished
until ccerg soldier 1rEo is entitled TO pension
receres ii, and erery soldiers ,riSo'0 and ercry
soldiers child are prOrided for By the Gorern-
meat (Sjgned) GEO. ). MERRILL"
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Our Flag on the Seas

The announcement in the annual report
or the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company that
Il has concluded to withdraw its support
from the American line Of steamers plying
between the ports of Philadelphia and
Liverpool, on the ground that the line can
not be made self-sustaining, is conclusive
evidence that without a change in our ma
tional policy 1t is idle to hope for any speedy
revival of American shipping interests.
The American line of steamers, which is the
only line running between the United States
and Europe that flies the American flag, was
started and conducted apparently under the
most favorable auspices. The Pennsylvania
Railroad diverted, as far as was possible, all
the ocean freights at its command to the
line, but it was, notwithstanding, operated
at a heavy loss. The ships Of the line were
all built in Philadelphia, and were first-class
in every respect, and cost little, if any, more
than similar vessels couldhave been purchased
for in the yards of the Clyde. The failure OF
the line was due solely to the fact that the ex-
penses of operating it were heavier than its
revenue could bear. The result would have
been the same, therefore, had these steamers
been bought abroad convincing proof OF
The fallacy Of the argument that ali that is
needed to build up our decaying commerce
is the repeal Of the navigation laws, denying
to foreign-built ships al American register.
II is well, therefore, to reflect that the
secret Of the wonderful growth Of British
The National tribune., 1882-04-01

Now that Congress has disposed Of the
anti-poIygamy and Chinese bills, it viii,
perhaps, find time to consider some of the
pending measures affecting the interests of
our ex-soldiers. Four months Of the session
have already gone by and still nothing has
been done towards increasing the clerical
force in the Pension Bureau. How long
must the Nations defenders be kept waiting
Tor the pensions that are due them?
The National tribune., 1882-04-01

THE bondholder may well view with
complaisance the efforts of such Legislators
as Senator Beck to defeat all pension meas
ures. Why should he care,-now that the
rebellion has been put down and the fnan-
cial security of the Government re-estab-
hshed,-what becomes of the brave fellows
who made his bonds worth a premium on
their face value?
The National tribune., 1882-04-01

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE circulstes in
every State and Territory of the Union, and
in almost every town where there is an ex-
soldier of the Union Army, and advertisers
will find it an Invaluable medium for max
ing the character of their goods known to
the public. Terms made known on sppiea-
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Che 21afiona1 Gribmrs

THE VALIDITY OF TIE PUBLIC DEBT OF TIE UNITED
STATES AUTHORIZED Law, INCLUDING DEsTs INCURRED FOR
esrvENT or PENSIONS soUNTEs FOR SERVICES IN SUP
PRESSING suRRECTIoN OR REBELLION SHALL NOT Sc CUES
7oNE3.'-SEc. :, ART. XIV, CONSTITUTION or The UNITED
STATES.
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commission will be, but we cannot believe
that it will ignore the question of distance
as the chief element in the cost of trans
portation, in order to give New York
monopoly of the business of the country.