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Let Go that Jib.

TO THE EDITOR: How many boys in blue
have been sailors or fishermen, and how many
know of the hardShipS of sailors life? There
is no particular difference between private in
the rear rank and man before the mast 30. h
have their hard and their easy times But to
the yarn. / shipped aboard of mackerel
catcher belonging to Boston, Mass one time
and was to go the whole season in her. She
was sharp boat, good sailer and carried
crew OF ten men. We were going to try for
mackerel on our shore, so we got under weigh
for the eastern coast of Maine. Before we
sailed one Of the owners, by the name
OF McClain, brought aboard a sick man. a rela-
tive 'of his. Medicine would do him no
good; he was far gone in consumption.
and they thought the change would do him
good. He was young man, and very feeble
He never had been OH board vessel before in
his life. He had nothing to do with the work
ing OF the schoGner-no duty whatever. If he
was inclined while we were hove-to for fish, to
try his luck, why, he did Well, we ran out
of Townsend Harbor one morning and stood
to the eastward, and we had a good fresh breeze
10 the south and west; we had passed Pemaauid
Point and almost made the Island Of Monhe-
gon when we struck a school of mackerel
Everything was excitement. Our skipper
lufed her right UP into the wind and some of
the boys hauled in the mainsheet, while he
gave the order to let the foresail run down
All this time our sick boy was standing for
ward, when she shipped sea that wet all
hands forward, and the skipper at the same
time hallooed out at the top Of his voice. and
seemed TO look right at the greenhorn, Let
go that jib." The fellow was mad. He was
wet and the motion of the vessel had sent
him into the lee scuppers. He picked himself
up and said: You go to thunder with your
old jib. amt touching on it. And that amt
the worst OF 1T, amt a-going too. II.
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He Loves the Trihunc.

To THE EDITOR: have read your valuable
paper every week, regularly. for over two
years. 1t is, to the soldier, positively the best
paper ever saw or heard of. prize it second
to my bible only. 1t is not filed up with ficti-
tious stories, but is alive with valuable infor-
nation to all who happen to read it. but espe-
cially to the soldier. / love to read the per-
sonal "reminiscences of that noble Gen. o. O.
Howard; Saving the Nation. by Carleton u;
Fighting Them Over, etc. 1t makes my mind
wander back to the dark days of the rebellion,
when, with many brave comrades, l rode
through portions of Kentucky, Middle and
East Tennessee Alabama. Georgia, and finally
with Gen. Sherman to Savannah and through
the Carolinas to the surrender of Johnston
JOSIAH SMEGG, Liverpool Pa.
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Another GETTYSBURG Monument.

On the 18th inst. the Second Division Cav
airy Association, about $50 in number, and ac-
companied by several hundred friends, went to
Gettysburg to unvail the shaft marking the
spot where they on the Sd Of July, 1861 had a
fierce struggle with Stuarts Cavalry. The
shaft is located about three miles east of Get
tysburg. The material is Maine granite. Gen.
J. Il. Mcintosh, of New Brunswick, n. j.,
turned the monument over to the care of the
Battlefield Memorial Association and it was
received By Vice President ID. A. Buehier Col.
". Brooke Rawle, of Philadelphia, delivered
the Grafton OF the day, which was an interest
ing sketch Of the engagement. After supper
the survivors of the Sd Pa. held their annual
Reunion in the room Of Post 9, and later pub
lie meeting was held in the courthouse, at
which poem was read by Lieut.. L. p. Toble
and number Of short addresses were made.
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Pnlific.l Nominations

Connecticut-2d District NJ. s. Chapman,
Rep.
New Jersey-Hudson County District, Lewis
A. Brigham, Rep
Louisana-2d District, Gov. Michael Hahn,
Rep.
New York-30th District, Robt. S. Green
leaf Dem; 10th District Paul Smith, DEM;
32d District. John VI. Farquhar, Rep
Observation-Disclosures \. Dunhorn, Dem.
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The Elections.
OHIO.

Complete returns make the pluralities in this
State from ll,3zl for Secretary 10 16,41S for
Congressman. Unexpectedly the Prohibition
and Greenback votes increase proportionately
with those OF the Democrats and Republicans
The Prohibition vote last year was 1902 this
year it is $50. The Greenback vote last year
was 1857; this year it is 300. The Prohibi-
ton and Greenback vote is Il, 447, or ,I26 more
than Robinson's plurality. The rest Of the
Republican State ticket has an average majority
over all of over 5000. The total vote is 49,
393; last year it was us, 163 In October. 1880,
it was 724,967. There is no change in Con-
gressmen except an increase of $50 in Romeis's
majority over Hurd
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Hon. II. II WATERS. Independence. Kan.

u. ". A IEINtTItnuGnCG,
DEAR CoHRADE: Your letter of the 10th is at
hand, and read with mingled surprise and pleas
ure,-surprise that you should be the particular in
dividual vino banked" for that poker game in
lSG2 and inquired about by me in THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE; pleasure, that / have made the dscov-
cry. Your plea that you are but . friend of the
banker IN that game Is entirely too gauzy to de-
ceive an old veteran of the 44th Ohio. No, you
don't come that on me. Your suggestion that the
game WAS played by the Kansas boys is also of
that transparent stuff commonly called flimsy";
for how did you happen to have n " friend" among
those Kansas regiments banking for poker game?
o, Waters, have found you out at last. You
belong to that "innumerabe caravan who, while
stealing chickens, robbing beehiyes, or playing
poker during the war, content TO let the
Chaplain write home 10 the effect The morals of
the command are excellent, and especially is this
OF Co. Ii, whose Sergeant takes particular pride
in seeing that no vulgarty, no gambling, etc, is
allowed among the soldiers" Well, well, old COM
rade, will not scold you, for / know how it was
myself 1 am glad have found you, and am glad
TO hai! You, Wei done, good and faithful ID Ohio
Cavalry Here Is the suter check and here also
Is your money. No comrade pay me for dciv-
erlng TO him Elenlento of regmental history.
Hang It TO your watch chain. wear it at home and
abroad, Wherever you go, and wear II with pride.
IL Is as noble an emblem for you the badge of
the Legion of Honor was TO Napoleon's Old
Guard. 1t Will remind you of many hard fought
field of many an onerous campaign 1t will be a
rlch souvenir for your son f you have one) to
when you are gone He can point to it with pride
when questioned by his companions, and while his
youthful bosom sweils with emotion, he can say
without blush, My father belonged TO the "a
Ohio Cav, and did his level best to save his country
and our grand old flag"
Take the chip" You have won the pot"
and your = ante on next game is returned with
thanks. If you ever meet one of the old 4ith Ohio
or Sth Ohio Cav, give him my kindest regards and
If he is hungry give him his dinner, and shall be
well paid and this chip will have been redeemed
remember those trying times of 81 years ago.
We were then facing the foe in East Tennessee
under the grand, good and aihery Burnside. What
a noble commander he was How he sympathZed
with us, with no labored effort, when, after a day
OF hard marching or harder fighting, we sat down
beside our fire to feast on bran bread and glad to
get IT. The history of our Knoxville campaign
has never been written and fear il never will be-
Glorious Burnside and Sanders are dead, and
gallant Howard can only generaize the story of
our efforts. Such is the fate of soldiers who do not
have of bstory's pets for their General-THEo.
BoTfIN, Co. +, 4Ith Ohio, Mound City, Kan.
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WEST VIRGINIA.

The complete returns Of the West Virginia
election are not all in and probably will not be
for some days yet, since the State, though small
has so many remote mountain counties without
telegraph and very splendid mail facilities,
which makes its communication with Wheel
ing or CharlestOwn quite slow and uncertain
but II is conceded by both sides that the Demo-
cratic majority will be about 5000. The Re-
publicans jubilate over large gains and the
DemOcrates are more than satisfied at having
carried the State at all. The vote polled was
very large, being about 6,0O0 for the Demo
Gratis and $4,000 for the Republicans, or an in
crease for the latter of 10000 and~for the for
mer of $4,000 over the vote of 1880, making a
net Republican gain of 5000. One of the most
striking features of the election is that the
Republicans gained most in the counties which
were most distinctiyely rebel during the war
and sent the largest number of men into the
Confederate camps. For example, in Randolph.
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To THE EDITOR: The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
is doing more to ameliorate the condition of the
ex-soldiers of the Union than all the other
papers in this broad land combined, and only
needs TO be seen to be appreciated by every old
soldier in the country.-HIRAM c. WALKER.
First Lieut., Co. c, 10th Ill. Cav, Silver Cliff,
Colo.
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One Touch of Nature.
Detroit Free Press. I

I17Nt'Vtt
They have man on trial in Dunkirk for
assault and battery, but as soon as he tells the
jury that he cuiled the man who kicked his
dog the verdict will be: mot guilty, and
don't you forget it!'
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EXecuti0nS BY Electricity.

A bill Was introduced in the Legislature Of
Vermont on the 18th inst. by the opponents Of
capital punishment, providing for the eXecu-
ton OF murderers By electricity.
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where the first rebel company in the State was
raised, the Republicans gained over 500. and
in Harrison County, Stoncwall Jackson's home,
the Republican gain is 900
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The Deadly Whip-poor.will.

Detroit Free Press.
IF a whip-poor- sings under your window
for three successive nights you are a goner. 1t
has been tried in Virginia and it kills some
body every time.
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THAT GAME OF POKER,
sad tic Interesting Correspondence that Grew Out
of It.


Of It.
To TIE EDITOR: If you will give space in
your paper to the following correspondence, it
VIII explain itself:
(lI. N. Waters, Receivcr)
u. s. LAND OFFICE,
lEDEpENDENCE. KAN, Oct. TO, 1854.
THEo. BoTEIN Esq, Mound City, Kan.
DEAR SIR AND CoIRADE: have read your notice
in The NATIONAL TRIBUSE OF Oct. TO the menu
bers of the 2d Ohio Cav, asking if we remember
our trip along the border in Kansas in 1862, and
stopping at Mound City, and also POKER game
We remember the trip, the stop at Mound City
but that poker game" think you have the I'd
Ohio Cav mixed up with the I'd, 9th or 9th Kan
Cav, or the lfh Kan. Inf that were ia the neigh
borhood 81; that time. think the game referred 30
was played with one or the other of those rcgi-
ments, and the poker chip referred to a sUtlcr
check of the 2d Ohio Cav, procured by the Kansas
boys of our suicr to play poker with thereby
ating the impression back home that the I'd Ohio
played poker.
As friend of the banker that night, will in
close 80 cents and redeem the chip | want il To
remind me of other days long gone by.
Theodore, II Is just 81 years ago to-day that re-
ceivcd Il bullet in my left arm, which produced a
compound fracture of the humerus, SO Doc. Mercy
nolds our Assistant Surgeon says. | have the
bullet and arm left yet. Send the check.
want il 10 hang on the end of my watch chain.
Truly, yours, IL. NJ. WATERS
Sergt Co. H. I'd Ohio.
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POLITICAL.

At Montpelier, on the 18th inst, Senator
Morrill, was reelected to the United States
Senate.-Gen. Logan left Chicago Sunday
last for Dubuque, where he will begin his
western speaking campaign, covering the
States Of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. He will
be accompanied throughout the tour by Col.
Patrick DOnan, Of Dakota, and one or two
ltler SPEAKERS.
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Meditations on Mount Mitchcll.-Ary Scheffcr and
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To THE EDITOR: II you will give space in
your paper to the following correspondence, it
viii explain itself:
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What is The Waterbury Watch?

WElar IS he waterbury Watch!
an at ~ pCyet yind Inisc
m nse
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The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05
Your Catechism.

1t may not be said in the exact words
that follow, but it is more than said, it is
acted, by countless millions. But let us
put 1t in words and see how it looks in
plain English II believe in God, the
Almighty Creator of the Heavens and of
the earth. believe that, as the first
man could not create himself, God Gre
ated him and from him the human
family, and ordained that they should
increase and multiply and replenish the
earth and subdue it. That He, the Su-
preme One, gave man imperative wants,
but that this earth-the soil and the
mines and the waters-contained all
that was necessary to supply those wants
| bv the exercise of industry"
But, alas here arose the great mistake.
That He, the Father of us all, made a
gift of those lands and waters to compar-
atively few bad men, leaving the whole
human family to slagger under the bur-
then of their wants with not foot of
ground to stand upon. This was indeed
great mistake of the Creator, and how
He came to make it iszpast our compre-
hension. However, as He made the mis-
take we must not repne but bow down
to His will, however mistaken it may be.
Stop" you cry this is impiety. 1t
is disappearing the holy name of the Al
mighty. How dare you say such athing ?
God never willed such monstrous folly
and injustice. His will has been set
aside by evil men-and by that one
crime this world, endowed with all the
elements of a terrestrial paradise, has
been turned into all the suffering that is
possible to terrestrial hell"
And now we also cry "stop! reflect" "
Do you indeed believe that the realtors
will has been set aside and tn will of
those felons set up in its stead Ies, you
have lust said 80. And do yo. obey the
will of the felons and disobey the will OF
the Creator? That is just what you do
and are doing. And do you still call
yourselves Christians? How dare you
Those felons with their explosives and
steel points frighten your cowardly souls
into obedience. And that robbing, muir,
dering scoundrel stands pointing his
finger of scorn at you and crying out
with the voice of the spheres,
~ smile to see
Men not afraid of God, afraid of me-"
And that is your position. Loyal to the
land thief-a rebel to Almighty God.
Men will soon come to realize this ter
rible Truth. And when one man re
alizes it he will, as sacred duty
teach it to another. 1t must from it
very nature become general and ther
! vain will be all the explosives and stee
points, and for the great thief-the fathe
of all thieves-"time will be no longer.
Irish Wsrld.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05
A WARNING.

Well crumble up wealth by making it
Improbable to be rich. The poor man
shall haye larger income in proportion
as he is poor The rich man shall have
a lesser income in proportion as he is
rich. You will say, is that just?" My
friends, it is safe. Man is more valuable
than money. You say, then capital
will 60 to Europe" Good heavens, let it
go.
If other states wish to make them
selves vassals to wealth, SO will not we.
We will save country equal from end
to end. Land, private property, all sorts
of property shall be so dearly taxed that
it shall be impossible to be rich; for it
is in wealth, in incorporated, combining,
perpetuated wealth, that the danger of
labor lies.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-04-05
DENVER COLORADO, SATURDAY. APRIL s. 1884

for S3.000,OOO. Now labor goes about,
like Socrates, asking questions. We
don't assume anything. When We were
little boys and did our sums on the slate
and the answer came out wrong, We
didn't break the slate. We went to the
master, and he said, go back ;there's q
mistake somewhere; if you examine,
you will find it," came into civiliza-
tion in which two men out of three don't
have enough to eat, / came into New
York, where i. is rich man that sup
plies a lodging for houseless poverty. /
say to myself, "That course isn't right; /;
there's a mistake somewhere. Thou
shalt do unto another as you would have
another do unto YOU. The end of things
is New York. That don't cohere. Where
is the mistake? It's somewhere +; and
the labor movement is trying to find it
out. Ill.,. H..
ONE THING TO BE DoNE.u
Again, gentlemen, We have another
doubt to express. Are you quite certain
that cabital-the child of artificial laws,
the product of society, the mere growth
of social life-has a right to only an
equal burden with labor, the living
spring? We. doubt it so much that we
think we have invented way to defeat
Tom Scott, of The Pennsylvania Central.
We think we have devised little plan
Abraham Lincoln used to have little
story-bY which we will save the con-
gress of the nation from the moneyed
corporations of the state When we get
into power there is one thing we mean
to do. If man owns single house, we
will tax him 500. If he owns ten houses
of like value, we won't tax him, 81 900,
but $1,000. If he owns hundred houses
we won't tax him $4,000, but $50, 900,
and the richer man grows, the bigger
his tax, so that when he is worth $40,-
100000 he don't have more than $4,000
year to live on. Laughter. Well
double and treble and quintuple and sex
tuple and increase tenfold the taxes, till
Stewart, out of his uncounted mill ons,
and the Pennsylvania Central, out of its
measureless income, shall not have any
thing more than moderate lodging and
an honest table. The corporations we
would have are those of associated labor
and capital, cooperation.