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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-28
THE ELECTION OF GEN. LOGAN.

There is strong satisfaction everywhere
at the manner in which the long struggle in
Illinois has terminated. 1t was impossible
for anyone to escape the conviction that
Gen. Logan was entitled to the place, and
that any other result than the one arrived
at would have been defeat of the wishes of
the people of Illinois. The defeat would not
have been so offensive, it is true, had Col.
Morrison, Gen. Black or Hon. X. w. Town
shend been elected, as if the choice had
fallen on Mr.. Lambert Tree, rs was threat
ened. Col. Morrison and Gen. Black were
good soldiers, and they and Mr.. Townshend
are men of long training and decided ability
in public affairs, and either would have very
fifty represented Illinois in the Senate, while
Mr.. Tree is merely rich nobody, who would
simply have been another millionaire added
to the too-numerous plutocats in the Upper
House.
Gen. Logan's victory is victory for the
old soldiers, whose illustrious representative
and champion he is, and it is victory for
the middle classes of the country against the
corporations and monopolies, which are
threatening to gain complete control of the
Senate. Gen. Logan is poor man, and this
is one of his highest claims to honor. He has
devoted his magnificent abilities wholly to
the service of the people, and given them
what if applied to the advancement of his
own interests would have made him a mil
lionaire many times over. The people every
where are beginning to thoroughly under
stand this, and it has matte John A. Logan
the foremost man in the Republican party
as it will in all probability make him the
foremost man in the Nation in 1888. Moth
ing but his death can prevent his nomina-
ton for President, and almost certain cleo
ton,
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-28
An EXCELLENT WORK.

Mrs. Mary W. Westcott, of Swanton, Saline
Co., Neb, a lady of fine literary abilities and
enthusiastic devotion to the cause of the old
soldier, is compiling collection of letters
written by soldiers during the war, which
she entities FOOTBALLS of Loyalty" The
publication is to be for the benefit of the
Womans Relief Corps and the GAR, and
she is anxious to have the assistance of COM
rades everywhere in providing her with let
tiers written during the war which are of
value and interest. She is woman of high
character, and her husband is Commander of
the Post at Swanton. She appeals to COM
rades everywhere-and we indorse her APP
peal-who have letters Of the kind that she
desires to make copies Of them and send
them to her, for in this way they will do
genuine service to good cause
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ONE of the best of the changes in the new
version of the Old Testament is that of Isaiah
xix: 10, from
And they shall be broken in The purposes thereof
all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
To
All they that work for hire shall be grieved in
soul.
In the Old Version Job says of the hippo
potamus:
Behold he drinketh up a river and hasteth not
he trusteth tina. he can draw up Jordan into his
mouth.
The New Version puts it:
Behold if river overflow, he trembleth not
He is confident, though Jordan swell even to his
mouth.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-28
GAR. LAW.
Decisions, Rulings and Discussions COntrorerted
Points.
BY R. B. BEATH, PAST coMMASDER-IS-cHl

BY r. B. BEATH, PAST CHIEF.
Tothe comrade from Lebo, Kan, who writesus fav-
oring the amendment to the Rules and Regulations
allowing the admission of men who. having been
forced into the rebel service. and who deserted and
then served in the Union army navy and received
honorable discharges we would say that the matter
was committed to n committee, who will report
thereon at the National Encampment at Portland.
The subject is one of very great importance. end
have doubt that il will be fully and ably dis
cussed Mt the Encampment, and such action taken
rs may seem best in the interests OF the GAR.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-28
ENGLAND-AND RUSSIA.

Although nothing can be learned posi-
lively as to the negotiations now pending
between England and Russia in regard to
the Afghan frontier settlement, there is lit
tie doubt that the relations between the two
countries are strained to the utmost. The
air is full of rumors, nearly all of which,
however, lack confirmation. Out of the mass
of these there are few facts obtainable,
which are certainly not reassuring to the
wishers for peace. Perhaps the most signi-
fcant of these is that the household troops
which had been in Egypt were stopped on
their way home at Alexandria and ordered
to remain there until further orders, and a
member of the Government did not hesitate
to say in Parliament that they might be
needed for service elsewhere" 1t is also
undeniable that there has been no abate-
ment in the energy with which the prepare
tions for war are being carried on, and as
these preparations involve the expenditure
VI q dulOuAU VI luOHOy, "hiSh VIII w
| almost useless unless active hOstilities occur,
the fact has much weight in the scale against
the probability of peace.
It is rumored that Russia has returned a
very unsatisfactory reply to the English
proposition as to what matters might be
submitted to arbitration, and On the other
hand England has refused to accept the
! King of Denmark as arbitrator.
| Taking in consideration the bitterness of
| the war parties in England and Russia the
chances of a peaceful adjustment of the diff
fculties can hardly be said to be hopeful as
they were last week.
with the English Government in its negotia-
tions, is the evidence of very substantial
offended by the expulsion of some 10000
Poles from the German empire. Eight thou
sand of these unfortunate people have al
ready been handed over to the tender mer-
cies of their old masters, and the remaining
$4,000 will be allowed a few weeks in which
to sell out their little possessions. This is a
most extraordinary procedure, and is with
out precedent certainly in the history of this
century, and we doubt if it had a parallel
in that of the 18th. 1t seems that most OF
those expelled had actually been admitted
to citizenship in the German Empire, but
the agreement with the Government was
disregarded and the unhappy people were
driven across the frontier at the points OF
German bayOnets .
England's complications will be still fur.
Their increased if the rumor is confirmed
that France is looking around to find pre-
text for quarrel. This idea has got such q
hold in England that several newspapers
there declare that the maintenance of the
troops in Egypt is not due to any fear OF
trouble with Russia, but on account Of the
discovery that French agents have been en-
deavoring to stir up trouble among some Of
the tribes on the Red Sea, in order TO find a
pretext to land the troops from several trans
ports which are cruising along the coast.
Whatever may be the outcome of all this
there can be no doubt that at present Eu-
rope seems to be on the verge of conflict
of greater magnitude than any that has oc-
Cured within the memory of this gen.
Grafton.
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Magazines.
OBITUARY.

Inyasions OF Death in the Ranks OF Our Comrades.
Dow.-At Chelsea, Mass, April 80, Albert F.
Dow, late private, Co. G., 39th Mass
BATCHELDoRE.-At Templeton. Mass April 26,
Dr. Joseph Cummins Bateheldore, 10 years and II
months old. He entered the army Assistant Sur
geon of the 18th Mass March L. 1862 was subse-
quentIy Surgeon of the 4th r. l.
MARSToS.-At Troy, VT, April 16, o. II. Marston,
age - years. At the time of his death he was q
member of T. B. Alexander Post Newport Center,
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pressed himself as feeling very well. His
physicians stated after the examination on
Sunday last that the ulcers at the base of the
tongue have shown no tendency whatever to
increase during the week, and that the gen.
eral condition of the patient was favorable.
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THE Washington correspondent of tn,

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says:
Mai E. S. Dodd, of Toledo, to-day filed his appl-
cation for Territorial District Attorneyship, either
Idaho d Washington. His Endorsements are very
strong He has earnest letters from Pendleton and
Payne and Thurman and all the leading Democrats
of Ohio of all shades and factions He is irstclass
man. and his only drawback is that he hasn't a
strong Copperhead record. If he can show Of some
thing heavy in that line or can prove that he was
ever q member OF the knights of the Golden Circle
his calling will be made sure.
Maj. Dodd is not only a prominent men,
Der of the Ohio bar, but before he was of age
held the rank OF Major III an Ohio regiment,
where he.served with distinction. He is n
Grand Army com-ade, and was member of
the staff of Grand Commander Beath.
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J. L. BENNETT, A. A. G., Department of
Illinois, writes us that so much of the Gen.
eral Order published last week as stated the
price of DR.. Stephenson's picture, ETC., was
not in the original order, as signed By the
Commander
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-28

THE number of pension certificates issued
and signed during the week ending May %,
1885, was as follows: Original, 1885, in
crease, 1852; reissue, 143; restoration, 90.
Total, 2,153.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., MAY %, 1885.

To any person who Will send US
a club of ten new subscribers to
THE TRIBUNE we will present
a new q. A. IL. watch, incl0Sed
in a handsome satin-lined case,
and warranted to keep accurate
time.
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THE Panama Canal Company's expen

THE Panama Canal Companys expenses
are $4,000 day. 1t is the rush of this
outward flow that produces the "revolu-
four factions there, all eager to have the
exclusive right o. robbing the diggers of
their wages.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-05-28
TRIBUNETS.

Cape Anu Advertiser: Out of every 600 people
born into this world of sin and sorrow, 500 either
do not know good story when they hear it, forget
it after they have heard it, do not know how to
repeat it themselves, or haven't good judgment
about when TO introduce it.
Another dear illusion knocked silly. The sloe-
eyed belle of the burning desert,-the Arab maiden
of the high iDstep and coffee-with-cream complex
ion so dear to the heart of the poet and romancer,
is barren ideality. A British officer says that
there is no such thing good-looking Arab
woman. They are ugly, dark, and scrawny, with
evil in their countenances and hearts. Our trip to
the Nile is therefore, abandoned.
Mr.. cox AND HIS MISSION.
Constituents.
o. Sammy dear Sammy don't goI
We want you in Congress, you know,
And our big royal Grover
Has led us to clover;
So, Sammy, dear Sammy, don't goi
lfr. Cor.
Constituents dear don't you know
That Grover has said must go.
I'd sooner quit joking
Than do so provoking
a thing as decline, don't you know?
The President
Yes, gentlemen Sammy must go,
His value very well know,
But the more that you praise him
The more do you raise him
In my estimation, you know
The Sultan I'm the distance.)
Come, Sammy. my funny one, come;
I've got fresh barrel of rum;
We'll get = half-seas over''
And roll in fresh clover;
So, Sammy, my funny one, come,
Columbus (O.) Dispatch.
Louisville Commercial: It's mighty small Office
that seeks the man and finds him not at home.
Harper's Weekly: During the late civil war Secre-
tary Gideon Welles ordered that the sailors of the
squadron off Port Royal should be deprived of their
morning grog. The brave tars proceeded to make
the decks of the gaes resound with these pathetic
lines:
Jack loves his gill
But know he hadn't orter;
But at seven bells
He'll curse the WelleS
That gave him naught but water.
The Boston Pilot: Englshmen are not the only
people who write books about place before visit
ing it. Col. Ingersoll is the author of work on
!" He'll"
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IT is emphatically denied that any dissen-
sions disturb the harmony of the relations
between the President and his Cabinet.
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From the nature of the articles published
in the numbers of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
sent me, observe that it is published in the
interest of the soldiers of the civil war. In
this you have my hearty sympathy. and |
will endeavor in my own sphere of action to
cooperate with you in all practicable meas
ures to that end, without money and with
out price. With great respect,
Your obedient servant,
". T. SHERMAN.
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General Sherman on The Tribune.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE q. S.,
WASHINGTON, d. c.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
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NEvADA's anti-treating law is a failure.
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,n1lalD .. ne xnaT0s eOsI Oos As seoOsO elsss v,TTEs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr.. LOWELL is the only American who has slept at
Windsor Castle as the guest of royalty.
Mrs. A. T. STEWART has signed agreement to
pay SIS, 600 annually for the Protestant Episcopal
institutions recently transferred by her to the corpora
ton of Garden City.
VICTOR HUGO, who survived to such old age was
when born such tiny frail and grotesquely hideous
bit of humanity that the doctors declared he could not
possibly live to grow up.
SENATOR SEwELI. of New Jersey is going to slip
off Europe next Saturday very quietly so that the
newspapers shall not find it out. His experiment will
be watched with interest.
CARLoTTA PATTI will return to America for con-
cert tour next season. Her husband NJ. Ernest de
Munck the voloncest, will be a member of her COM
pany Mr.. Max Strakosch will manage her tour.
NJ EDWARD PASCAL young and aristocratic
Partisan who met tragic death recently had mania
for the collection of old brass candle shutters leaving
no less than 256 of the articles for his executors
place a value on
Miss CLEvELAND's book, to which reference has
been made will be collection of lectures delivered at
Elmra and they will be published under the general
title Sketches of History" The work is not expect
ed to be ready for some months.
The latest discovery of gold diggngs is in the Santa
Rosa mountains of Chihuahua. Mexico an almost in
tested by rattlesnakes and hostile Indians Fabulous
reports of wealth. however, have started the usual
caravans of adventurous to the locality from
Eagle Pass, New Mexico.
PARIS correspondents constantly convey the idea
that Mrs. Bonanza Mackay fits occasionally from her
Paris mansion to her Florence palace but the Mrs.
Mackay at Florence is Mrs Donald Mackay, of Bos-
ton. who is quite famous as her Paris prototype
for her wonderful toilets and elegant entertainments.
IN the Journal des Debats NJ. de Parville says he
was present at the birth of the word microbe" and
that 1t came into existence in the hall of the Acad
emie des Sciences one Monday in February, at half
past in the afternoon" This is perhaps the only
case on record in which the introduction of new
word has been accurately timed
THE correspondence of Peter the Great is being
prepared for publication. commission of Russian
literary appointed to bring together the ma
terials for such work and thoroughly have TIL y
accomplished their task that they have collected
than 5000 letters and documents of the highest In
relating to the great Gar Among these docu
ments are Some of the exercise books in which the
young Peter wrote his lessons There is also letter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-27

THE salary of Mayor Wilhelm, the newly
elected mayor of Vincennes, has been reduced
by the City Council 5000. The Mayor has
been enforcing the liquor law to the letter,
and the Council has carried out the threat of
the saloon-keepers that his salary would be
reduced if he did so. The good people Of
Vincennes look upon the action of the Coun-
duty as an outrage, and there is little doubt
that the saloon-keepers themselves will find
out that they have sown the wind, to reap the
xyhir wind
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have been accomplished, and the affairs Of
the country will be in the hands of Democrats
only. The Pearson sop thrown to the
mugwumps was unique, aad will
not be duplicated. The Pillsburys, the
Troups, the Montgomerys, the Meads,
and the Higgnses are coming to
the 'front.' The cry of dismayed mugwumps
will not keep them back, and if present indi-
cations are to be trusted, the changes win be
much more rapidly accomplished hereafter. If
Mr.. V.las's acts are not in consonance with
the Presidents wishes, the latter can stop him
with word. Few are simple enough to think
that the Postmaster general would dare act in
a manner Objectionable to the President. 1t
is fair to argue that Mr.. Villas was a faithful
servant to Mr.. Cleveland
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DIR. sunderland.s Church.

Washington Letter.
good deal of stuff has been written about
DIR. Sunderland's church in connection with the
Presidents attendance tn ere. One correspond
not been for the lucky accident of the President
choosing it for his church the society would have
been forced to disband.
1t is not so. The church is very large one, and
was once a very fashionable one, but the tide of
fashion set the other way, and so, as a great
many people prefer to worship fashion rather
than God they went also. 1t left a small con-
gregation, with large and expensive church to
heat and light and poor congregation compar-
Sunday, and the church has always paid its way,
and there was no idea of disbanding. 1t is the
financially poor and unwealthy working people
who keep church together, for each one does
his part.
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New YOrk Specla
Democratic politician. who claimed to have
information from the Greystone conference said:
':Nr Manning's object in going to see Mr.. Til
den was to get counsel on the Bayard matter.
1t is no longer a secret that Bayard and Manning
are pulling apart in the Cabinet, and that it Is
with the utmost difficulty that an open rupture
has thus far been prevented. The whole Tiden
influence was opposed to Bayards appointment.
Mr. Tilden himself advised against it,
but Mr. Cleveland thought that public sentiment
demanded that the Delaware statesman should
be brought into the Cabinet He had strong
reliance in Bayards capacity as a politician.
Events have proved that Bayard was the mistake
of the Cabinet. think that the question with
Manning now is whether he shall keep cool and
let Bayard go on until after the New York cleo
tions or open up vigorous warfare upon him
at once in the Cabinet and have him tipped over
board 1t will not be long before we know what
Tilden advises, as Manning will undoubtedly fol-
low in the course he marks out"
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THE COLORED RACE.
Figures Showing that Their Numbers Are I'm
creasing Very Rapidly.

Cincinnati Special
At the session of the Presbyterian General
Assembly this morning, Rev. DR.. r. II. Allen.
secretary of the Freedmens Aid Society, made q
strong speech following the presentation OF the
report of that society. To illustrate his remarks
he had hung on the wall, back of the platform a
map twenty feet long by twelve feet wide, show
ing the ratio of black to white population in the
Southern States. 1t was very startling map
and when explained by the earnest speaker
made strong and lasting impression. Here are
a few OF his significant facts: Twenty wears ago.
at the close of the war, there were in the South
ern States 3,947,000 colored people, and now
there are more than 1000, 600. Then there were
in Mississippi 900, 900 negroes now 600 000 Then
there were in South Carolina 400, 900, now more
than 600 000 Five hundred colored babies are
born in the United States every day.
The colored population of the United States
doubles every twenty years. the white .popu-
lation only once in thirty-fve years-eight
years will not have passed before the negroes
will be in a numerical majority in some of the
Southern cities. At the present rate of increase
in 1885 there will be 96,000,0 600 white people in
the United States and 1872 600 900 coored people.
TIE day is not far distant when it will be q
physical impossibility to continue the present
practical disfranchisenlent of the colored people
of the Southern States In South Carolina the
colored man has bought and paid for 270 900
acres of land, which e cultivates. In the South
he pays taxes on more than sol 900 900 worth of
property. He is editing, printing and publish
ing LOG newspapers, and yet of the 1000 600 coli
ored people of this country, more than 5000, 600
cannot read nor write
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THERE is no escape from it. Base ball is to
flourish by night as well as by day. When it
was found that the game could not be played
successfully by electric light owing to the
shadows cast, it was thought that thereafter
the nights would be serene and only day made
hideous; but this hope is dispelled by the dis
covery that the balls can be made luminous.
After being dipped in luminous preparation
they resemble meteors when shot through the
air, to such degree that the night game will
probably become known as celestial instead Of
national
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THE statement made by one Of the Cabinet
members that many Republicans in the de-
partments are retained on account of the
strong Democratic backing they have secured
is likely to cause trouble in the camp. The
Atlanta Constitution demands that the names
of Democratic congressman and officials who
are engaged in keeping Republicans in Office,
and thereby selling out their constituents, be
made known, that they may be dealt with ac-
cording to their deserts. When published, it
will probably be found that these too-confding
representatives believed the oft-repeated as
sertion that this was to be reform admin
istration, and governed themselves accordingly
by recommending that good men be retained
in Office, instead of giving the victors the
spoils.
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The Indiana Ofice-seekers.

Washington Special.
That crowd of Indiana politicians which has
been banging about ever since Inauguration
until Hendricks went home, was the worst set
that has been here. The men who composed it.
talked longer, and louder, and more disconnected
than any two other entire States. The impress
sioh among outsiders was naturally that they
took their cue from Mr.. Hendricks. OF course,
he had to listen. but he might have taken fire.
quent occasions to discountenance their senti
inents of discomfort Now that these fellows
have followed their idol to his Western home,
comparative peace hovers over the historic Viii
lard,s: There is no doubt that the movement on
the Virginia postmasters has had much to do
with defending the course CT the administration.
The declarations of the Villas letter brared up
the whole ofice-seeking fraternity.