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The National tribune., 1883-03-08
General Sherman Defends the Sword.
From the ". Y. Sun.l


Edward w. Box of Carroll street, Brooklyn,
the indefatigable autograph hunter, lately re-
ceived the following reply from General Sher-
man, in response to letter requesting him to
subscribe to the sentiment, The pen is might
ier than the sword":
WASHINGTON, Feb. g. 1888.
DEAR Mr. Box: Your long letter of the 4th is re-
ceived.
| prefer not to make scraps of sentimental writ
ing. When | write anything 1 want it to be real
and connected in form, as, for instance, in your
quotation from Lord Lyttons play of Richclieu," :"
THE pen is mGhtier thar the sword" Lord Lyt-
ton would never have put his signature TO so naked
IA sentiment. Surely viii not.
In the text there WAS prefix or qualification:
Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword"
Now, this world does moi often present the condi-
ton of facts herein described. Men entirely great
are very rare, indeed; and even Washington, who
approached greatness near any mortal, found
good use for the sword and the pen, each in its
proper sphere.
You and / have seen the day when great and
good man ruled this country {Lincon), who welded
powerful and prolific pen, and yet had to call to
his assistance q million of flaming swords.
No, cannot subscribe to your sentiment, THE
pen is mightier than the sword which you ask me
to write because it is not true
Rather, in the providence of God, there is time
for all things time when the sword may cut the
Gordian knot, and set free the principles of right
and justice, bound up in the meshes of hatred,
venge, and tyranny that the pen OF mighty men
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
The Fla. Fired Up0n,

Tho steamship Valencia commanded by Capt.
Hess, which has Just arrived at New York from
Laguayra, reports that she was fred Mt with solid
shot 10y Dutch fort III the harbor of Curacao. Two
United States consuIs were on board Mt the time,
and the American flag was flying mt the staff and
the Dutch flag mt the fort, according TO custom.
The story is all the remarkable from the fact
that no cause can be assigned for the outrage. y
circumstantial account of the attack accompanied
by alidayits of eyewitness, has been forwarded
To Washington to the proper authorities by Horatio
u: Beach, United States consul at Puerto Cabello,
who saw the occurrence.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
The Truth Ab0at Psnsiean.
from the FuItoa IN " Pafriaal !

IfTOW Nc TUEtO5i ". II fdTIsA1
The soldier who has lost leg arm or eye, who
has been wounded or had his health injured so as
to produce physical, disability and unfit him for
labor orusness, IS entitled TO pension even If he
be worth million of dollars 1t is not true that n
man must be piliper before he have n pen
sion 1t is not question of being rich poor. 1t
is not question ofcharity. II is matter of justice
aud equity, OF fuGlEingn contract The soldier is
entitled to n pension as n Tight-not as a beggar
seeking aims and Grazing share of other people S
property 10 which hs has no right.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08

the battlefield of Vhickamauga, to be sent to
Bakers wife, who;i was expected. would have
been a widow long before the money reached
her, is still missjpg.s Baker arrived at his home
alive, and settled down to earn his living at
peaceful calling. ,aBd the money had almost
passed out of his mind, until he saw in a news
paper, as above stated, the name of Colonel
Sawyer, who says that he wrapped the money
in sheet torn from note book, hastily wrote
upon it, by the, light of the pale moon, the ad-
dress given to. hin, and started it upon its
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
COLORADO.

Comradc George K. Kimbail, Dodd Post, No
8, Golden, Col, late captain company E, Col
orado infantry, and afterwards captain COM
pauy C, Colorado cavalry, asks that all COM
rades in the Second Colorado whether when
infantry or cavalry send him their addresses,
with view of making arrangements for a
social Reunion of Colorado soldiers at Denver
ct the TING Of the National Encamnment
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
4 Union Flag in a Rebel Prison.

"I noticed in recent issue of THE TRIBUNE a
letter from Il comrade giving his experience at Ty-
lcr Texas. Language is powerless to depict the
horrors of that prison. | had taste of them my
self having been captured while Oh the Red River
expedition. WcsUcceedcd, however, i'll preserving
our rcgnental flag during our incarceration, and
afterwards displayed it to the rebels at the
mouth of Red River when were exchanged |
should be glad to hear from any OF my fellow
prisoners. &C. S. Smith, Delphos Kan.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
Section I.54 Again.

Among the applicants for the position of post
master at this place were three cX-soders, one of
whom received five wounds at the battle of Shiloh
ami sustained the loss of his right arm above the
elbow. Their claims. however, were all ignored
and the office given to q foreigner, a man who
became voter only about seven years ago. Now,
my prejudice may be very strong, but l have al
ways thought that, everything else being equal,
the soldier ought to be preferred for civil Office
Subscriber, Mount Sterling. III.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
All Old Cast of Benjamin Franklin.

- noticed in a recent copy of The TRIBUNE an
article i'll relation to the manuscripts of Benjamin
Franklin | have in my possession a small east of
Franklin made of Al very fine clay. The following
date is stamped on it: l777, Mini L. Il. Franklin,
America 1t made in France and take it to
ne correct. 1t was presented TO me some fifty
years ago."-H. 4. Davenport, New Geneva, Pa.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
Represents the Interests of the Soldier.
1.-THE Ver1U Ind.) ReUeiUe.

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, Washington ID. c., has
now as large the RereHe. 1t is the organ of the
Grand Array of the Republic, contains much inter.
estng war history, and represents the interests OF
soldiers.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
VIII Try to Worry Along Without It.

81 hope the editor of THE TRIBUNE will live as
long as our eX-soldicrs need defender. If his
wind ever fails him, will try TO procure trumpet
for him, with which he stand the top of
Washington monument and blow the editors OF
the anti-soder press into the next world"
WELCOME, MINN. LEONARD GOLDSMITH.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
Of SpecinI Inferr,t 10 SoIdie-s.

TIC DdIIy IFtTJo D8E.,I AFyUS.I
One of the papers published ut the national capl-
ta and of especial interest to soldiers Is THE NA-
TIoNAL TRIBUNE, This excellent paper has Jtss
been enlarged to ffty-six columns, and Is printed
by new Scott web perfecting press, built especially
for its use.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
The Greatest Paper Ever Issued.

''Your issue of February 22d is the greatest paper
that issued from printing press, and
going to devote ten days TO getting recruits for it,
Whatever the future may bring of fame to you,
THE TRIBUNE has already immortaizcd itself in
the hearts and homes of our comrades. John j.
Rider, BuZzards Bay, Mass.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
An cx-Confederate Wants the Tribune.

~ have read several copies of TIE TRIBUNE and
want 10 subscribe for it, Please send me the paper
at once. l not in the Union, bat in the South
ern army. ii. stu ucker, Millville, Ky.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08
The RnIInua.

dyspeptic or constipated, should address, with
two stamps and history of case for pamphlet,
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The National tribune., 1883-03-08

The vote, it should be stated. was not a true
test Of the sentiment of the Senate, since a
number of the ScnatOrS-as, for instance, Sen
atJls Voorhees, and Ingails-yotcd in the mega
tive on the ground that if the original bill was
amended in any respect it would necessitate
sending it back to the House and il might be
impossible to secure any action by that body at
such late hour in the session.
The amendment having failed to carry, Mr..
Mitchell Pa cndcavorcd To secure the incor-
p0rJtion of It's provisions concerning the
increase of pensions for impairment of eye
sight and hearing in Mr. Platt's amendment,
but lis amendments were promptly voted down.
4 vote was then taken on Mr.. Platt5 amend
mont, and it was adoptcd-yeas 81, nays 8, as
follows:
Ycas-Barrow, Bayard,f DEL Beck, Blair Call
Cameron, iWisl. Coke C0nser Davis lii) Ed
HUnds Garland George Groome, Hale Harris, Hill
MILAN, MaNcy, Mitchell Morgan, Plat, Pugh
Sgwe!i, S!atCr,' (OT..) Vest. Walker.
Nays Harrison, Logan (IIl.,) McDnl, Miller
Gal Miller, ~. ~, Rollins, Sawyer, Van Wyc1,
Voorhees,
Here, again, several SenatOrs-including Lo-
gan and Noorhces-yOtcd III the negative, un-
der the apprehension that to amend the bill in
amy form would result in its defeat.
At this Stage OF the debate, Mr.. Call ID Fla
offered the following as an additional section
TO the bill:
SEC. -. That 81 pension of $3.50 per month is
hereby granted to all the survivors of the soldiers
OF ttc Mexican and Indian up 10 and before
the year lsoG.
Tl.is led to = long discussion as to the pro-
pricty of pcnsioning Mexican veterans ire
spective Of physical disability,
Mr.. Blair { n. H. offered the following pro-
yiso to be added to the section:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-11
A NEGRO Paradise.
[From the Philadelphia Record


Capt. Dow, of the wrecked English
steamship Athos which arrived in thi
port, relates an interesting story. Til
Athos, which is an iron ship, valued {
over $3.50, 900, sailed from New York Il
Jamaica, in September last. She had
reached the Bahama Banks in safety
but ran ashore off the Great Inagua Isl
and, one of the Bahamas. The steame
was for six months exposed to terrif
northwesterly gales. She was blow
high upon the beach, and the crew es
capped with difficulty to the land. He1
they found veritable negro paradis'
The island is literally overrun with IF
groes. They are the lords of the LAM
skilled in trade ana acquainted wit
rude arts. Only few white people liz
on the island, ana they are but Ii
agents of English merchants. The e.
ports from this curious island aggrega
four vessel loads of salt a year. and
imports consist of four cargoes of MT
chandise brought IN exchange fort
salt. The ships cargo of silk, fine Liz
broadcloths, brandy, champagne
provisions had been thrown overbo
when the vessel ran ashore, and was
along the beach for miles. It was
cred by the natives, and grand 3
carnival and high debauch was inau
ated. In few days the island
scene OF wild dissipation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-11

A WORKMAN employed in Staten
Island malt house slid down with co.
900 bushels of malt the other day and
was landed in the top of pine tree 15e
feet away, from which he jumped to the
ground in safety. 1t was hop, skip
and Jump with him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-11
OREAMLAND.
BY WALTER L. SAWYER

Only in visions does the Future wait
To tell us of the mysteries to be:
Yet even thus we linger at the gate
That opes eternity,
Except in dreams, the Past comes not again
With all its vanished weight of JOY and fears:
But blindly we retrace, in grief and pain,
The saddened bygone yearsl
The Present lives; to bane or to bless
Within its guidance does the Future hide;
The Past holds over it with tenderness
All good is at its side.
To live within the Present--yet to take
From out the Future and the darkened Past
All hopes and lessons that for goodness make
May this be ours at last
Youths Companion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-11
CLARENCE F1Tz-RERBERr sends

CLARENCE FITz-RERBERT sends
beautiful poem beginning, 81 will
at Heavens gate" We ii
you are about right Clarence. Pei
who write that kind of poetry sell
get any farther than the gate. Y.
probably continue to wait there
after the rest of us have passed on in
unless you reform and quit wri
poetry and learn TO spell heaven ,
one v.-Batrtingtora Hawkeye.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-11

DINK DAVIS, the lucky Philadelphia
who won over 100000 from the New
York faro-houses a few weeks ago, has
been bucking the tiger" In that city
with great success again. The other
day he played in a Barclay Street game
till the bank eturned up the box and
would deal for him no more. He had
won ST., 900.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15
Stealing the Public Domain.

Uncle Sam is still doing "land Of
flee" business of some considerable
magnitude. According to the report of
the commissioner of public lands, the
sales for the year ending November 1st,
embraced 19,O3O,769 acres, and Indian
lands 399, ,2s5 acres, an increase over
1882 of about 100000 acres, and over
1881 of about 100000 acres. The re-
ceipts from all sources in connection
with the disposal of public lands were
$11 ,0SS, ,479, and from the sales of Indian
lands 1925, ,4O4; total $11 ,713,ss3. Public
lands were disposed of as follows:
Public sales, 273,069 acres; private en-
tries 9, 1855 acres; mineral entries 81
$40; homestead entries Sill ,O14; timber
culture entries 4,110,93O; entries with
military bounty land warrants, 45,414;
entries with land claim scrip 10,5S0; to-
tai number of entries and filing posted
during the year 35l, ,6s5, aggregating
100000 acres. The increse in the
number of claims recorded in 1888 was
55,548 over the year 1882. This show
ing must come largely from Dakota,
where the rush of emigration has been
heaviest.
The commissioner suggests amend
ments to the homestead, desert land,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15

THE Washington St0r publishes an
interview with United States District
Attorney Corkhill in regard to the in
vestigation now making by that officer
into the fraudulent operations of pen
sion attorneys. The District Attorney
says large number of attorneys have
engaged in fraudulent practices, and he
has received hundreds of letters since
the publication of his communication
to Secretary Teller, containing specific
complaints of attempted frauds on the
parts of firms engaged in the pension
business in this city. He estimates that
soldiers and their relations have been
defrauded of a million dollars through
the fraudulent practices of these attor-
neys, and expresses an intention of
bringing the matter to the attention of
the grand jury. Colonel Corkhill re-
news the request that all soldiers or
others having copies of deceptive circu-
lars from agents in this city, or knowl-
edge of any fraudulent transaction on
their part, will mail him full informa-
ton upon the subject in order that he
may bring the guilty parties to justice.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15

and pre-emption laws, for the purpose
of preserving the public land for actual
settlers. He proposes a residence oftwo
years on homestead claim. The late
frauds that have been unearthed in the
various claim offices of the States and
Territories where public lands are still
for sale, call loudly for some reform leg
islatiOn. a man who will steal an acre
of Government land is as much thief
as he who robs store or bank, and
should be hunted down as mercilessly.
The public land belongs to the people,
and the representatives of the people
should protect them. 1t is to he hoped
that the secret agents of the Govern
ment, who are now engaged i'm ferriting
out the land frauds in the Northwest,
will be ready to present to the next
Congress such detailed report of their
findings as will open the eyes of Con-
gressmen to the enormity of the crime
against the people that is being carried
on i'm this claim business. But papers
in Dakota speak of these agents as gov
ernment spies, sent around to harrass
settlers and to hang up honest entries,
and say that citizens in the State are
more interested in keeping the public
lands for inhabitants than the Commits
sioner can be. It is probably fact that
these pretended investigators are simply
dead-beats sent out from Washington
in order to get IS per day and mileage
for doing nothing but harrassing acutal
settlers. Let there be no respect 'oi
persons, but just punishment meted
out to all transgressors. 1t would
be interesting to see in print just
how many of the 251 ,6S5 entries and
filings made during the year bear the
ear marks of fraud, and appended there.
to list of the names of the individuals
who are attempting to perpetrate the
wrong on posterity. Let the Demo
cratic Congress right these wrongs and
preserve the public lands for actual set.
tiers.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15

ACCORDING to the signs cropping out
there will be q strong attempt made al
the approaching Congress to erect two
new States out of the Territory of Da.
kota. This movement proceeds from a
bitter sectional warfare that has grown
up between Northern and Southern Da-
kota, the latter of which has recently
framed new constitution preparatory
to her admission. The northern men
declare that the convention that framed
this constitution was fraud upon the
people, inasmuch as not one in twenty
of the voters of the Territory were given
opportunity to vote upon the question
of its authorization. Meantime the cap
itol building at Bismarck is rapidly ap-
preaching completion, at cost of about
quarter Of million of dollars, exclu-
ave of the grounds.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15

Mrs. MARY V. PROCTOR of the Leba-
non, Ohio, Patriot, will be candidate
for election to clerkship in the House
of Representatives She is every way
qualified for the position, and the ex-
ample of the Senate should be followed
in the House, by the election of a wo-
man to one of the clerkships. Mrs.
Proctor has done much service for the
party in able editorial work, and de-
serves recognition. She ought to be
elected. Cambridge Je6ers0nidn.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15

IT appears that the owner of the
great Dalrymple farm in Minnesota,
containing 10000 acres of wheat land,
and the owners of other mammoth
farms in that State are contemplating
the sale of their lands in smaller par
GELS, say 100 acres, to each purchaser.
1t may be source of great personal
pride to contemplate so many wide
acres under ones ownership, but there
is spirit abroad in the land that an
tagonizes such unnatural and unjusti-
fable absorption of the soil that yields
the bread to the millions. A man with
home of his own, no matter how
humble, is not naturally and necessari-
ly dangerous citizen, but deprive the
masses of homes, and the means of ac-
quiring them, and you light match in
the vicinity of q powder magazine.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15

JUDGE SIMEON S. BRINKERIIoFF, who
was recently murdered in Kansas, was
a brother of DR.. Brinkerhoff, of FIRE.
mont, and while resident of this State
several years ago, was a man of consid-
erable influence in Northern Ohio.
Later particulars are to the effect that
the bullet which killed Judge Brinker-
hof, intended by the murderer for
another person, passed first through
this PERSONS hand. The wounded man
then drew a revolver and shot and
killed the murderer.-Bee.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

IN pursuance of an order of the Probate Court Of
L Henry County, Ohio, will offer for sale, at pub
lie auction the 18th day of November, A. D. 1885,
at 10 O'Clock a. m. of said day. upon the premises,
the following described real estate situated In the
county of Henry and State Of Ohio, to-wit:
The undivided one-half of the south half of the
southwest quarter of section thiryone, town three
north Of range eight east.
Appraised OF 81 900.
Terms Of sale-one-third cash in hand, one-third
In year and third in two years from day of
sale with interest; deferred payments to be secured
by mortgage on premises sold.
SILAS R. CHRISTMAN,
Administrator Of Charles W. Curtis, deceased.
By Tyler & Donnelly. I'd
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15

REPUBLICAN organs are trying to
make political capital out of the result
in Virginia by proving that it was done
not so much to a desire to rebuke Ma
honeism as to the revival of democratic
or southern hatred for the negro. If
sufficient feeling can be worked up on
this lay, the next republican national
convention may decide upon Blaine
and bloody shirt platform. At any
rate this revival-of-southern-h bu-
siness will do to offset the loss the re-
publican party has sustained by reason
of civil rights bill failure.-Penny Press.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15
ON November 10Th thrOuphOut the

On November 10th, throughout the
world the memory of Martin Luther,
the great reformer, was honored. The
exercises at some points were gotten up
in grand style, especially so at the place
of his birth, Eisleben, where four hun
dred years ago, between. II and 12
o'clock at night, Martin Luther was
born. On the following day of his birth
the ceremony of baptism was performed
by priest, when the childreceived the
name of Martin, after the patron saint
of that day. Sixty-three years later, on
the 18th of February, 1547, the great
Reformer died at the place where he
was born.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15

AFTER the October election the Re
publicans claimed that the liquor deal
ers of this State defeated their ticket.
Then, that was horrible! Now we find
these consistent gentlemen jubilating
because the liquor dealers of New York
defeated the Democratic candidate for
Secretary of State and elected Repub-
lican Legislature that will not imperil
their interests! Such is politics.-Pyd6l
Dealer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-15
Group. A Mothers Tribute,

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Mrs. EMMA GEnNEY."
159 West 12sth ST., New York, May IL, lsSo.
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