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tied your cash and submitted your statement,
another teller is told to take your desk the
next day. He takes your statement the next
morning, and takes your cash and counts it.
Ii it agrees with the statement, ali right; il
not, of course he would Immediately protest
and decline to be charged with what he
couldn't find. Then you see you would be in
difficulty at once. A teller never knows
when such change is to be made, and so hs
must be honest"
THE BOND VAULT,
which probably contains the largest amount OF
money value, is situated just west of the north
door, and. besides the bonds belonging to the
Government. also holds large amount of
bonds. reaching many millions, in trust for Ma
tional banks, which have deposited them TO
secure their circulation. Across the hall FROM
this vault, and on the west corridor, is the
National Bank Redemption vault. the Division
extending down the corridor to the west en-
trance. The Redemption Division for United
States notes is in the northeast corner of the
building, and its vault is on the north corridor,
underneath that Of the Loan Division vault,
which is between the Office of the Treasurer
and the north entrance. The District of Column
bia vault. which contains the bonds and securi-
ties of the District, of which the Treasurer Of
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COUNTING THE CASH.
Turning the Coin, Notes, Securities
and Bonds over to a New Custodian.

Whenever a change takes place in the Office
of Treasurer Of the United States all the money
aud securities that are stored in the various
vaults in the Treasury building. and for which
the Treasurer is responsible, must be counted
to see il the balances stated in the reports that
are made daily to the Secretary of the Trea-
sury are actually on hand. The necessity for
this count is obvious. The Treasurer has to
give bond in the sum of $4,000 for the
faithful custody aud care of the Government
money. and no new officer is going to give such
a bond until he knows by actual count what he
is becoming responsible for. No Treasurer
wants to retire from Office until count of the
cash on hand has been made, 50 that he may
know certainly that the reports of balances
which he has daily signed are correct. Still
further. the Secretary OF the Treasury who is,
in addition to his other duties, responsible for
the Treasurer and that which he controls, is
going to allow the retirement of one Treasurer
and the induction of another until it is aseer-
tanned By actual count that all the money, coin,
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THE administration has been premature
in recalling our troops from the Isthmns.
The reoceupation of Colon and Panama by
the Colombian troops goes for very little.
The Colombian Confederation is held to-
gether by mere rope of sand. Putting
down q rebellion this week does not prevent
another and still stronger one starting next
week. The only assurance that can be given
the world of peace on the Isthmus is by the
establishment there of permanent and strong
garrisons of American troops, and the sooner
we begin to shape our policy toward that
the more creditabie it will be for us as
nation.
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The advocacy Of silver as the "poor mans
money" is a mean sort Of. demagogy. The
poor man is entitled TO just the same kind
of money as the rich, and any attempt to
work off on him something cheap and depre-
ciated is low swindle. We are heartily in
favor of any rational scheme for making sill
yer good enough money for anybody. If
possible, let it be made equal to gold and
maintained SO; but if nybody is to be paid
a dollar which may be worth only 80
cents next week, let it be the man who is
able to stand the loss, and not him who has
to buy his family's daily bread with the
hard-earned wages Of his daily toll.
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come such obstacles as embarrass the bring
ing of their armies together.



THE kaleidoscope of war rumors has had
some strange and startling shifts during the
week. First we had the magnificent speech
of Premier Gladstone, which commanded
the attention and admiration Of the whole
world for its elevation of tone and its lofty
appeal to the Judgment of the world for a
justification Of the English motives in break
ing the peace Of nations and its startling
arraignment of Russian perfdy. 1t had its
immediate effect on Parliament, which voted
without question an adequate appropriation
to prepare for immediate hostilities, and on
the press and people Of the British empire,
which with one accord applauded the Pre-
mier's position, and began to make ready for
the struggle. Hardly had the echoes of
this speech died away when there came
news that Russia was making overtures for
peace, and this took such definitive shape
that England could not refuse the olive
branch held out, and met the advances in
the same spirit which they were apparently
made. There has been some letting down of
the tensity of the war feeling in consequence
of this and an abatement of the preparation
for the conflict. Still there are many who, re-
membering the sinuous course Of Russian
diplomacy in the past, and the steadfastnesS
with which, in spite of apparent yielding,
she presses her ultimate object, refuse to
believe that this really means peace. They
are confident that it means only short post
ponement of the inevitable contest for SUI
premacy in Central Asia.
On the heels of this comes the news that
China. freed from the pressure of the French
in Tonquin, has taken up the old dispute
with Russia concerning the boundary of
Marchooria, where, unquestionably, Russia
has done China a great deal of injustice,
which the latter power proposes to have re-
paired, or else she will immediately begin
hostiiities. This would be startling news
didn't we remember what poor figure the
Chinese cut in their struggle with France,
and how ill prepared she is to attempt to
force Russia to do her justice. Chinese di-
plomacy and Russian diplomacy are fair
matches for each other, both being equally
crooked and wanting in the elements of
frankness and good faith, which are coming
to be a more and more dominant quantity in
the diplomacy Of the Eastern World.
At the same time the followers of I'll
Mahdi, of whom we have heard little during
the preparations for the struggle with Rus
STA, developed a sudden activity, which may
be but shrewd move on the part of the
English Government to attract attention
from the situation in Afghanistan to the
Valley of the Nile, where the situation is
simpler and easier to be dealt with.
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MINISTER KELLEY.

Mr.. Kelley, Of Virginia, whose appoint
ment to King Humbert's Court has been
changed to that of Kaiser Franz Josef on
account of the disfavOr with which he is
regarded by the italian Government, made
a very laundering attempt to smoothe
things over with the latter. He said
in a speech that while he had de-
nounced the annexation of Rome by the
Italian Government, he now acauiesced
in it, because the people of Italy had done
so themselves; and that removed the matter
from protest and discussion by outside
parties. He illustrated this principle by
saying that the Government under which
he himself lived was founded "upon gross
and bloody violation of fundamental rights"
but nevertheless he acquiesced in it and
gave it his loyal support because the great
bulk of the American people had done so.
A more discreditable thing has hardly come
from the lips of any prominent American in
the past decade. In the first place it is
grossly untrue The voice of the whole
world,-in which millions of Mr.. Keiley's
own associates in the late rebellion join,--
approves Of the rightfulness of the assertion
of the authority of the United States over its
rebellious citizens, and says that that as
scrtion was made with unparalleled mercy
and restraint That Mr.. Kelley is now ac-
credited as Minister to Vienna is monument
of the Nations charity toward the men who
assailed its life.
But what sort Of fitness to represent our
dignity abroad can that man have who be-
gins his official career by declaring that the
Government which he represents owes its
power to gross and bloody violation of
fundamental rights?
Mr. Kelley seems to sorely lack very much
that shonld adorn the man whom we send
abroad in an official capacity.
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GETTING AT EACH OTHER,

Quota, or Shawl, where the English are
massing their forces for>the march on Herat,
is a little town in the mountains that form
the boundary between Beloochistan and
Afghanistan, and about 600 miles from Herat.
To reach it the English ascend the Indus
River from the Arabian Sea to Sukkur--
about 300 miles-in boats, and then march
across the mountains about the same dis
lance 1t is 5000 feet above the level Of the
ca, or more than twice the average hight of
the Alleghanies The route thence to Herat
lies across ranges Of high mountains, which
viii make it enormously difficult and ex-
pensive to move and supply an army. 1t
is very much as if we were called upon to
move and supply an army by wagon roads
alone from Leavenworth to Salt Lake City.
OF course, when war breaks out railroads
will at once be built, and, doubtless, the ma
terial for these is already accumulated, but
they viii be immensely expensive. One
line alone, from Kandahar to Herat, it is
estimated, will cost about 100000. To
carry the road from the Indus to Quetta and
Kandahar must cost double that, so there
viii be an expenditure Of say $50, 100000 at
the very outset for the one item of railroads
Russia is no better of, if, indeed, she is as
well. She viii have to send all her troops
and supplies from sebastopol across the
Black Sea to Poti, thence by rail about 500
miles to the Caspian, across the Caspian,
about $50 miles, to Mikaloysk, and thence
across deserts and mountains another 500
miles to Sarakhs. She is already beginning
the construction of railroad from the Cas-
plan TO Sarakhs, which viii cost her fully as
much as the Quetta-Kandahar Road will
cost England.
Those people must be very anxious to go to
war. when they can calmly propose to over
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For THE NATIONAL tribune
SONS OF VETERANS.
HELEN HINSDALE RICH.

Hail. worthy sons of noble sires.
Upon the altar of your youth
kindle the white and sacred fires
OF love for country, honor, truth.
Now, in the morning of yonr prime.
Prepare to meet mans every foe;
Reach upward to the nights of Time
And clasp the stars of long ago.
Touch with clean hands and reverent lips
The tattered banners they have borne,
Who manned our gallant battle-shipS,
With British cannon plowed and torn.
Swear by each consecrated fold,
That ciieered great hearts in deadly throe,
Their wcll-earned honors to uphold
Who swept the seas Of long ago.
Sons of brave men who fought with him,
The grand Ulysses of our day,
When Lincoln cried to Heaven, and grim,
Red monster Treason forced the fray.
Whose every drop of loyal blood
sound and perfect life, we know,
Leaps to attain the patriot flood
That ebbed for Freedom long ago.
Ny lads. would you model seek?
A knight Of labor, valor rare?
The first to serve. the last to speak,
Who conquors fate, subdues despair.
To AL loves sweet traditions true,
With honor chaste as mountain snow.
Who leaves u Union saved for you,
The foremost chief of long ago.
Who gagged no comrade by his dress,
The plain and modest soldier then,
Yet lion of the Wilderness,
To-day the best beloved of men.
Pale martyr. from his gentle hand
The rose of unity will blow,
To wreathe anew his native land
In holy bonds of long ago.
o, patient soul! The rcace of God
Hath found thee ere the vail Is rent;
Evangels from their blest abode
Hath made thy torture sacrament.
Grant, of all chivalry the flower,
Hath pierced the futures starry glow
That crowns his ripe, immortal hour
With Lincoin's. saint of long ago.
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Why He Sw0re.

farmer in Victoria County, Texas, had all
his corn and cotton cut down by the late frost
The morning after the frost he went out and
took look at his field. Then he used pro-
fame language for about half an hour, until a
Clergyman happened to ride by and heard the
roaring of the torrent of profanity. The clergy
man demonstrated with the nauseated granger,
and asked him if he did not known where he
would land if he kept that up.
"That's just why l swear" responded the
farmer II want to have dead sure thing of
getting to place where there are no late
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Christians Have Rights.

A member of the Arkansaw Legislature. in
speaking of the bill concerning the carrying
of pistols. said: Gentlemen of the Legislature
of Arkansaw, please hear me. For several
months I have heard you fellows talk about
fool things, but now you hit me where live.
think that every man ought to tote pistol,
for the Constitution specially says that q mans
religion must not be hampercd. l am religi-
Gus man, and tote a pistol. Consequently all
religious men must tote 'em. Understand, fol-
Ter citizens. that don't want to interfere with
no mans right, but to feel free and easy we
must all tote gum"
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OBITUARY.

CARRoIL.-At Smithfeid, H.. Wm r. Carroll,
late private Co c. LIST Mo. Engineers.
GooDHgE-On April Is, Harvey J.. Goodhue, OF
A. @. Taylor Post late private Co q. LIST Me. Cav.
HAILErT.-On the 18th ult, Howard Hallet, of
e: J. Stanley Post, Lower Salem, o. Comrade
iiaett WAS one of the first to respond 20 the call
for three years volunteers at that time being only
is years of age. He enlisted In Co. 1, 25th Ohio.
He was wounded at Bull Pasture Mountain MAY s,
1852 At Gettysburg he also received wound,
and was taken prisoner
STUART.-On the 10th of March, VIM. S. Stuart. of
Liberty Post, No. $751; Liberty, Kan. Comrade
Stuart was native of New York State. He left
homo when Is years old and he has never heard
from any of his relatives since. He served in the
Mexican war and war of the rebellion. He leaves
wife and two children, and is supposed to have q
sister living in New York State.
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ON THE PACIFIC COAST,

The tour of the Commander in Chief on
the Pacific Coast has been perfect ovation,
alike creditable to the loyalty of the people
of that wonderful country, to the grand
Order which has SO well commended itself
to the esteem and affection of the people, and
lastly to the gallant private soldier who has
been selected by the suffrages of his comrades
as the representative head of the millions of
brave men who saved the Nations life.
The National tribune., 1885-05-07

THE English papers report that much of
the canned meat supplied by English dealers
to the Government turns out to be abso-
lutely rotten that the cartridges will not
go of, and the swords prove to be of very
inferior metal. Disagreeable as this showing
may be, we can rest assured that the state
of the Russian commissariat and ordnance is
a hundredfold worse. In England, as in
this country, whatever is corrupt is pretty
certain to be shown up and the showing up
has very lettering effect upon men dis
posed to evil. But in q despotism like Rus
STA, where the press is dumb and the people
have absolutely no voice, corruption flourishes
like mildew in damp closet, and rotten
ness eats into the heart of everything con-
nected with the administration.
The National tribune., 1885-05-07

THE decision of the Plenary Council Of the
Catholic Church that the Grand Army of the
Republic is not a secret society in the mean
ing of the Church's prohibitions is already
bearing good fruit. Last Monday Robinson
Post, No. 9, Hazleton, Pa, buried the body
Of James johnson, one of its members, from
the Catholic Church Of St. Gabriel The
comrades of Robinson Post and of William
Lazarus Post were in full uniform
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GETTYsBs re AND BALTIMORE.

In next weeks NATIONAL TRIBUNE viii
be devoted a large amount Of space to full
accounts of the Excursion to Gettysburg
and the Reunion of the Army of the Poto-
be written up in the best style, and be inter-
esting reading for people in all parts of the
country.
The National tribune., 1885-05-07

THE men who are, pushing the petition to
President Cleveland to pardon jeff Davis
are strangely ignorant of the law. The Presi-
dent has about as much to do with the mat
ter as he has with trying the Rev. Hcber
Newton for heresy. Mr.. Davis can only be
restored to citizenship by a two-thirds vote
of Congress- ~ 1:
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THE English talk about erecting monu-
correspondents who have been killed or may
be killed in the service of their journals. 1t
would be great deal better to force the
War Office to adopt some regulation recog-
nizing the rights Of war correspondents to a
place with the armies in the field, and emit
tied to assistance in getting correct news.
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GEN. CARLN.

The next installment of Gen. Carlin's
very interesting memoirs will tell of the
rapid pursuit Of Braggs Army after it was
driven from Missionary Ridge, the reorgan-
ization of the Army of the Cumberland at
Chattanooga, and the opening Of the Atlanta
Campaign.
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country.
AN ARTICLE By MAJ.-GEN. M. ID. LEG
GIFT

GETT.
Maj .-Geu. n. ID. Legeett has consented TO
contribute to enr columns within the next
few weeks an article on the operations of his
division before the battle of Atlanta, July
%, 1854. Cen. Leggett commanded the
Third Division of the Seventeenth Corps in
that engagement, which did much of the
very heaviest fighting on that sanguinary
field, and his part was SO conspicuous and
honorable that lac was promoted to Major
General for gallant and meritorious conduct
in the fight. He is man that writes quite
as well as he fights, so that his account will
be wildly interesting.
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G.. A.R. LAW.
Decisions, Rulings and Discussions ON CoatroYerted
Points.
BY B. B. BEArH, PAST OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


Inquiries of general nature will be answered
in this column but il will be considered that such
replies are merely for general information and are
personal and official Official decisions only
be given by the proper authorities of the GAR
Correspondents must state all the facts connected
with any ease submitted.l
Please inform me how to get card to join some
other GAR. Post. our Post ut Berlin, Mich.
has surrendered its charter. and was not able to
be there. consequently have nothing to show
member except my badge.-Highland 8.
Warner, Co. @. Sd Mich, Six Corners, Mich
Ans,nsr. Transfer cards for those who were MEM
bers of Posts disbanded be obtained by
application to Department Headquarters. Apply
to o. F. Lockhead. A. A. g., Flint. Mich.
Is there anything i'm GAR. Regulations to
compel q member to march under the Odd Fellows
banner on Decoration Day?-Jacob Gump, Ballou.
Ohio.
ASs,ger. Certainly not
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How slow military men are to learn any
thing is illustrated by Gen. Middleton's
declarations, that if the, rebels act as stub
bornly when he next encounters them as
they did at Fish Greek, he will scatter them
with bayonet charge That is the way
Braddock talked 1870 years ago. The best
thing Gen. Middleton can do with his bayo-
nets is to sell them, to the first dealer in
scrap-iron that will pay the price of old nails
for them. Otherwise, he viii start national
cemetery of first-class dimensions on the next
battlefield. The day of bayonet charges is
gone by-a long ways by. The man is a
fool who will order bayonet attack on
line of men armed with breech- leaders, and
especially on such men as the Indians and
Half Breeds Of the Northwest, whose educa-
ton in craftsmanship began as soon as they
could lift gun.
The National tribune., 1885-05-07

THE campaign which Land Commissioner
Sparks has opened up against the land
grabbing cattle-ranchers begins with prom
Using vigor. If he goes on as he has begun
land thieving will be brought to an end.
The Brighton Ranch Company is receiving
his attention now, and is more interested
than pleased over the fact. The company
has fenced in about 100000 acres between
the Platte and the Loupe Rivers in Nebraska.
Proceedings were brought in court to COM
pei it to remove its fences. It sought to
nullify the proceedings by changing its
fences, so that the description in the pro-
ceedings would not apply. Gen. Sparks de-
cided that this juggling was Of no avail.
The decision is quite as pleasant to the
actual settlers as it is disagreeable to the
insolent land grabbers.
The National tribune., 1885-05-07

A VERY instructive contribution on the
organization and workings of the Brooklyn
Employment Bureau appears in this weeks
paper. It should be studied by comrades
everywhere, who are anxious to organize
some systematic way of providing for the
relief of those around them