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debt which has been paid off. The burden of
taxation has rested directly upon them. as it
always does rest upon the great mass of middle

debt which has been paid off, The burden of
taxation has rested directly upon them, as it
always does restupon the great mass of middle
class people. The monied and commercial
classes of the Eastern cities, which are the
main inspirers of this shrek against pensions,
pay relatively little of the taxes of the country.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, with his millions of Govern
ment bonds and his palatial residence in New
York City, pays less direct personal taxes than
many Kansas farmer who, 20 years ago, was
carrying a musket in the rear rank of a fight
ing regiment, and came out Of the army with
nothing but his last instalment of pay.
The pensioners have co-operated with their
comrades in this great work of increasing the
country's wealth, and of paying Off its warm
debtedness. They have contributed to the full
measure of the strength and ability left them
by the injuries of the war to build up the
Where they have not given so much to the
country of late years. it has been because they
gave so much in earlier years.
The summing up of the whole matter is this:
the pensioner is not at war with any class. He
is a man who has done his best for the benefit
of all classes. He and his comrades preserved
the life of the Nation, and by so doing main
tanned the value of every dollars worth of
property the people owned. Since then ne and
his comrades have added enormously to this
obligation by the enrichment of the country
through their enterprise and industry. Out of
the wealth that he has so effectively helped to
preserve and increase, it is proposed to give
him what is justly his d1e-a comfortable
maintenance for the remainder of his days.
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COMMANDERS and members of Grand Army
Posts throughout the United States contem-
plating going TO the Grand Reunion at Mime
apolis, in July, should not forget the albert
Lea Route" which, for its superior equipment,
beautiful scenery, etc, etc, has deservediy
become a most popular line between Chicago,
Minneapolis and st. Paul Through trains
leave the Great Rock Island Depot (the most
centrally located in Chicago daily. For fur
ther particulars address E St john, General
Ticket and Passenger Agent, Chicago, III.
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ANCIENT INFANTRY.
The Formation of an Egyptian Battalion 400 B

The Formation of an Egyptian Battalion 400 B. G.
[GeH Stone in Jour11eI Military Service Institution
oftss United states, June
The formation of the battalion for combat
was as follows:
The 100 captains formed the front rank of
the battalion. and each captain had his 100
men in file behind him, corporal at the head
of each nine men. The chief of each 1000
men was in front of the center of his two
companies, while the colonel commanding the
grand battalion was in front OF its center.
The leaders were not mounted ON horseback,
but were mounted IN two-wheeled chariots,
drawn, usually, by two horses. In the ehaFiOts
were carried a supply of javelins and arrows
for the use of the chief, VINO usually had in
the chariot with him soldier, who held a
buckler to cover him from the arrows of the
enemy while he dealt about him with his bow
and spears.
In the early days, and down to the time of
Sesostris, the officers and non-eOmmissiOned
officers carried buekIers and swords, while the
private soldiers of infantry carried each q
buckler and a battle-ax. Sometimes the
battIe-ax was accompanied By, and sometimes
replaced by, a spear.
1t is easy to see that Moses drew from the
military organization of Egypt that which he
adopted for the IsraeliteS and later on the
Greeks their formations. Both these nations
took their first lessons in civilization and or
ganization from Egypt
In the earliest monuments and records of
the Egyptian army there is no sign of the
existence of the horse as military animal,
while in the monuments of the 18th dynasty,
the war-horse is everywhere indicated 1t is
probable that the war-horse was first intro
duced by the Shepherd Kings, who came in
from Syria about A, 100 years ago. 1t is certain
that the horse formed an important agent in
the military establishment of Egypt, under
a. l. ~
years before the Christian era. and the lack Of
monuments erected during the 500 years OF
struggle between the Shepherd Kings and the
Thehians explains easily the lack of record on
this subject Sesostris had at one time 10000
war chariots in line, drawn by horses.
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A sT1NGY CONGRESS.
PretentioHs Savings in Some Directions and PrOdi
gaiity in Others.

gaiits in Others.
The financial legislation of the session of
Congress just ended has not been sach as can
ever be reviewed with any satisfaction Every
thing has been sacrificed to the anxiety to
make a show of economy for use IN the coming
campaign. In spite OF every effort by the
patriotic men who are anxious to build I'D our
Navy to what it should De, no money whatever
could be got for either that purpose or for
carrying on the work of fortifying our sea-
coast The only money that could be got for
the Navy was obtained by compromise which
gave half the amount of the naval appropria-
ton of last year to carry on the Navy for SIX
months, until the Presidential election is over
and Congress meets again. But $4,000. 900
were appropriated for pensions, though this IS
made up by unexpended balances from previous
years. No money was appropriated to pay the
French claims, which should have been paid
last year; nor for re-marking the boundary be-
tween Mexico and the United States, thing
to which we are bound by treaty. These things
make false showing of economy by postpOning
the payment of just debts. The Army bill was
cut down >, 100000; the 5undPy civil bill ST.
363, 900, and so on. The House refused To con-
eur in the Senates plan to give P450, 900 for a
re-survey of all the public lands, in spite OF the
urging of the hardships endured by Western
homesteaders, who have settled on the pTairies
far in advance Of the surveys, and are unable
to perfect their titles.
In spite OF this pairing down on everything
really necessary or desirable, the total appro-
priations go, 000,090 in excess Of last year.
This is mainly on account of the river and
harbor bill, which gives SI4000,000 more than
last year. The reason for this is that the con-
gressional elections occur this Fall, and mem
bers want to return to the bosom of their con-
stituents with good round appropriation for
some local improvement. TO help in making
their calling and election sure. The remainder
of excess is made up of 81. 100000 for tie New
Orleans Exposition, 81 100000 for the Missis-
sippi River, 100000 for the tobacco rebate,
and so on.
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! RARE cHaNcE.

The most f.ln-Ele Of military works is IN
Soubtedly thc Tc5cEioa Record. the Official pub
lication Of the War Department Volumes
one. two. riaree and FIVE Of this work are now
out Of priat, bat THE TRIBUNE has managed
to secure 3 complete set eleven Volumes and
VIII send the SCI to any address on receipt Of
S17- Address simply THE NATIONAL TRIB-
Xxx Washington, d. c.
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cE,S. LOGAN IS = ooDFATIEER.

How Gen. Logan happened to become a
-godfasher' is graphically told in an article
on oar first page. The story has never before.
we believe, appeared in print, but the facts are
familiar to many Of the survivors of the Eff
teenth Corps, aud il is one OF those instances
where truth Is stranger than fiction 1t affords
better insight into Gen. Logan's trae charac-
ter shaa almost any other actual occurrence
that we can cali TO mind.
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they do not at all object to him in domestic
positions, which necessitate personal contact

THE Board of Managers of the National Sol
diers' Homes stopped at Augusta. Ne, last
Thursday, on their return from visit to the
Home at Togus, and paid their respects to the
Republican nominee for President. In the
course of the interview the conversation
turned on the question of pensioning our ex-
soldiers and sailors, and Dir. Blaine expressed
himself as of the opinion that a too liberal
policy could not be used towards the veterans
by the Government" That was well said, and
we trust Mr.. Blaine will be equally explicit
in his forthcoming letter Of acceptance.
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Or orR first page this week we print the
full text OF the address recently delivered by
Geii. ". I. Sherman befoie Post No. l3l, of
st. Loais,--of which he is membor--on the
life and services Of that gallant officer and true
patriot, Cen 7. Z. q. Ransom. The address
is Characteristic Of the General--discriminat-
ing, yet appreciative, and full Of the deepest
personal interest. Especially notable is the
burst Of patriotic feeling with which ii con-
ciudes, his euiogy Of the Grand Army, and
hisceclaEation Of profound sympathy and aiIec-
ton for our veterans generally.
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1t IS announced By the Chicago, Milwaukee,
& ST. Paul Railway Company that purchasers
OF excursion tickets for Minneapolis realizing
via that route, are given until August 10 To re-
turn home tgith0ut extra charge. This VIII en-
able g. A. T. members to make trips from Min
neapolis to other points OF interest in the
Northwest, including the Yellowstone National
Fark and the immense wheat fields OF Dakota
Further information, with maps and pam
phlets. can be obtained by addressing f. 81.
CARPENTER, General Passenger Agent, MIlEau-
kee WISCONSIN.
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TRY TIT. COMRADES

We have now on our subscription lists 49,
600 names of old comrades, who are our warm
and devoted admirers and friends. From them
come every week thousands of letters praising
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE as the paper the sol
diers of the country have long waited for, and
which, having come. they welcome with en-
thusiasm. But enormous as this number is
greater number, we are confident, than any
other weekly paper in the country can show
it is not yet what it should be. We should
have double that many inside the next six
months. There are yet million and hall
comrades alive who take vivid interest in all
that pertains to the war, and who viii become
supporters and admirers of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE whenever it is brought to their no
tice. Every one of our present subscribers can
do his comrades who are non-subscribers q
favor by showing them THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE, pointing out its excellences and asking
them to subscribe for it. He viii find it a
pleasant and easy task to get them as much
interested in the paper as he is himself, and
the result viii be beneficial all around. Try
it, comrades.
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Some Of the G.. A. r. Posts have fitted up
their halls tastefully, and have an organ or
piano for music A small organ answers the
purpose as an accompaniment to the old war
songs, and adds greatly to the social enjoyment.
Now that there seems TO be general revival
of interest in the meetings, we would suggest
that every g. A. r. hall be provided with
some such musical instrument. III another
column w. W. Kimball < Co, Chicago. adver-
tise organs with the G. A. r. monogram We
have made careful inquiry and are satisfied
that this house manufactures a superior IN
strument. and one likely to give satisfaction,
whether for the use of the G.. A. r Post or CT
the family. The firm has long sustained q
high reputation for good work and honorable
dealing.
The National tribune., 1884-07-10

The number of pension certificates issued
and signed during the week ending July 5,
1854, were as follows: Original, LIZ; increase.
621; reissue, so; restoration, 2i; duplicate, o;
arrears, o; total, 1874.
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DURING the recent meeting at Atlanta of
Commissioner Orr said that he had delicate
statement to make He had invited by circu-
lar several of his friends and the teachers gem
orally to be present at the National Conven-
ton He had learned, however, that pro-
gram for the convention has been made out
and that those to whom subjects OF Southern
education are allotted are not representative
Southern men. The representative for Georgia
was a negro. He mentioned this fics for the
benefit of those who felt a delicaey in present
ing themselves with such a representative.
Our Southern friends seem to have special
an.ratiy to the 9 educated Negro although
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A NUarBERLEss CONSTITUENCY.

This week THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE goes to
10000 regular subscribers. This enormous
number is hardly equaled by another weekly
paper in the Nation. Other newspapers calcu-
late that for every subscriber they have five
readers, which would make the number who
will read this weeks NATIONAL TRIBUNE
nearly SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND. There is
probably even larger proportion of readers to
subscribers for it than for other papers, since
no paper is so extensively borrowed and passed
from hand to hand. We think we risk moth
ing in claiming that THREE-oUARTERs OF A
MILLION persons will read this weeks paper.
The rapidity with which The NATIONAL.
TRIBUNE has obtained this immense constit-
uency has been one of the phenomena of jour
nalisrn. Other papers of recognized ability and
national reputation have been for more than
half century striving to gain the half of the
circulation that we enjoy to-day. The only
secret Of our success is that THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE has made itself just the paper that
its readers wanted and made itself superior in
its field to all competitors.
The National tribune., 1884-07-10

We PRINT, on another page, an admirable
discourse on the Love of Country" BIZ the
Rev. C. o. Hammer, of Dryden, n. Y. 1t is
extremely interesting historically, and one Of
the most eloquent invocations to patriotism
that has ever been brought to our attention.
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TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON. D. c. July 10. 1854

To any person WHO viii send us
n club OF tea new subscribers to
TIE TRIBUNE we VIII present
a new Waterbury watch, inclOsed
ia a handsome satin-lined case,
and warranted TO keep accurate
time.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
(EsTABLlst4ED 1879

ITO CARE ron ssss WAC BATTLE AND Fcs
Nrs WIDOW AND ORPHANS. So AsRsF4An LINCOLN.
Tee vaLirsTs OF THE PUBLIC cFHT OF rFsE UNITED
ereTrs AUTcRzsS o. law INCLUDING INQUIRED FOR
PAYMENT OF Pensions FIR SERVICES m SUP
PRESSING fEsURRzcT3R REBELLION, SHALL NOT eE CUES
1fcsgD SIC O. ART XIV, CONSTITUTION OF TIE UNITED
STATES.
coHsorR ~ TIT fntEs- FsPER TO TIE INTER
Esrs or r.lt SOLDER rurtsED COUNTRY. EARNESTLY
eosweN0 II TO "a coSHsoss or THE osoER."
PAU VsKDeRooRT,
C,osnsssOgs4s- CfHeF, @. A. r..
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.rt towards the accomplishment of it's OBJ.

part towards the accomplishment of it's OBJ
jects.
Here is the preamble to the constitute on of
the Order as it stands to-day:
We the undersigned, mothers, wives, daughters
and sisters of the soldiers. sailors and marines of
the late of the rebellion, and other loyal oon,e
do unite in permanent organization.
Let it stand!
The National tribune., 1884-07-10
SOLDIERS DAY AT THE NEW ORLEANS
SHOW,


Correspondence has been entered into be-
tween the managers of the great Worlds Ex-
position, which is to be held at New Orleans
ON December 1, and the Grand Army Posts in
that city, with a view to arranging for a sol
diers' day. the date of which is to be fixed
later ON, and the suggestion has been received
with favor. Such an event would doubtless
form the occasion for the largest reunion OF
taken place, and we are confident that it
would be one of peace and good win. Besides,
New Orleans, in December, is one of the pleas
ATTEST and most interesting cities in the world
and the low excursion rates will enable every
body to go that wants to.
The National tribune., 1884-07-10

VIZ ARE glad TO learn that during his CON-
ing visit to Poston, Gen. Sheridan is TO be
honored with a rOusing Campfire, rendered by
the Grand Army Posts Of that city and vicinity.
The General is not fond of speech making, aud
detests fuss and feathers, but he viii find it
impossible to Withstand the hospitality Of our
Bay sEate veterans.
The National tribune., 1884-07-10

During the past session of Congress the
President approved $40 bills and vetoed one
the Fitz-Jehn Porter bill. Seven bills became
laws without the Presidents signature, and six,
passed within the last 10 DAYS of the session,
failed OF becoming Laws because they were not
signed and returned to Congress before ad-
iournment.
The National tribune., 1884-07-10

OWING to the pressure OF work at the Gov
eminent Printing Office, we are unable to pre-
sent our readers this week with official copies
of the Desertion and Soldiers Home bills, as
passed by Congress shortly before It's adjourn
ment but they viii be published in our next
issue
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SUPPER.

Re'isrcs.-Cold meats, corned-beef, roast beef.
roast pork, OK tongue tomato soy.
Pastrg.-Aiiace pie. green apple pie, blackberry
pic, peach pie ecfIee, tea, etc
Dunn YirfraHs Uranus"
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The Waterbury, watch which you sent ne has
proved n zoad one and keeps excellent time.
Msy Ia.siSs.l-.i .s.sLs.Als,sEs.s, NcD.
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DINNER.

Meass.-Roast beef. potatoes with brown gravy,
srloin of beef sparerib of pork apple sauce; mutt
ton with mint sauce, veal with jelly. fresh pork,
savory dressing boiled picked pork and e;s5bage,
st. Louis s. c. ham, pressed corned-beef feoltlt.
Fe9etabtes.-AIashed potatoes stewed tomatoes,
green peas. string beans. stewed turnips, cold
slaugh, potato salad. lettuce salad.
DesseTt.-Pfum pudding. cream sauce green ap-
pie pie, peach pie, blackberry pie pound cake,
sponge cake ice cream, raisins, tea, coffee, beer
and cigars, iced tea.
The National tribune., 1884-07-10

VETO OF THE FETZ-J0HN PORTER BILL.
The reasons with which the President ac-
companied his veto of the Fitz-John Porter
bill are simply unanswerable
They do not deal with the true merits of the
case at all. Perhaps wisely-certainly quite
shrewdly-the President did not open up the
question Of the claimants guilt or innocence,
further than to point out that the main pre-
sumptions were against his innocence
Unconstitutional reasons were all-sufficient.
The bill was very clearly an invasion of the
Chief Executives prerogatiyes, and one that no
President could permit. If Congress could in
one instance dictate who should be appointed
to an office it might create, it could go on with
! equal right and designate the appontees to all
/ offices, new or old-an encroachment of the
legislature upon the executive department
that is in direct defiance of the spirit and let
ter of the Constitution.
Next it invaded the province Of the Judi
ciary quite as arrogantly as that of the Execu-
tive, thus forcing the President-if he signed
ito not only submit to having his own pre-
negatives encroached upon, but to be an accom-
plice in serious attack upon those of the Ju-
dietary.
There is another powerful reasonable I'M
connected with the merits of the case-which
the President might have given. 1t is this
What occasion existed for singing out from
| the great number of men who were cashiered
or in other ways fell under the ban during the
war this special instance? Why should the
Fitz-JohR Porter case be re-opened and the
verdict reversed by Congress any more than
scores and hundreds of other cases in which
great hardships are alleged to have wrought by
verdiets of courts-martial? Certainly Fitz
John Porter's being Major General should moi
open the fountains of mercy and reparation fol-
him any more quickly than for some Sergeant
or Lieutenant whose stripes or straps were tori
off by court-martial.
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marrels Of Endurance.

We are indebted to Capt. d. J. Craigie, Co. 7,
18th o. S. Inf, stationed at Plattsburg Bar
racks, n. Y, for copy of the eompany's 4th
of July menu 1t shows that our Regulars are
still maryes Of endurance.
BREAKFAST.
Corned-beef hash, potato hash, ham and eggs.
soft bread coffee and tea, etc.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-12

reduee the uaess of their stonemasons
They tried to redscs the rllstssers in
that town, il NE recollect rightly. but
they did not At Least NOT yet.-lAbor
Herald.
The Tndcs Congress Of Canada, ct its
recent Toronto meeting. affirming that
the future welfare Of the working peo-
pie Of the Dominion OF Canada required
the prohibition OF further importations
of Chinese labor.
Miners in the low-grade division OF
the Allegheny Valley railroad, in Penn
sylyania, where the screen system is in
use, were notified of 1U per cent re-
duction to take place on the first. The
miners refuse to disclose their plans,
but fears are entertained that another
strike will be ordered
The strike agitation is spreading in
the iron districts of the North of France,
in Lorraine and in other districts. The
furnaces in the Upper Valley of the
Moselle have been blown out. A ma
jority of the iron manufacturers in Lor-
raine are reducing their employees to 10
per cent and limiting the number of
workmen and the hours of labor.