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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-04-04

Among those who will contribute
special articles to THE NATIONAL TR1B-
UNE this Fall and Winter are:
GEN. DANIEL E. SICKLES, the gall
liant old commander of the Third Corps
ex-Minister to Spain, and at present Repre-
sentative in Congress from New York City.
GEN. JAMES A. BEAVER, hero of
Cold Harbor, and Ex-Governor of Pennsyl-
vania.
GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER, ex-Gov-
ernor of Michigan, and Past Commander-in-
Chief, Grand Army of the Republic
GEN. LUCIUS FAIRCHILD, ex-Gov-
ernor of Wisconsin, and Past Commander-in-
Chief, Grand Army of the Republic.
GEN. JAMES II. KIDD, 9th Mich.
Cav, who commanded the famous Michigan
Cavalry Brigade at Cedar Creek and else
where.
THE CANNONEER, whose story of
Battery Il, 4th U. S. Art, was admittedly
the best narrative of q private soldier ever
written, will contributed sketch of Mink's
famous New York battery.
GEN. o. o. HOWARD, who commanded
successfully the Eleventh and Fourth Corps.
and the Army of the Tennessee, is writing O
series of monographs on the Atlanta Cam
paign, taking up each stage of the operations
IN detail.
GEN. DAVID M. STANLEY, COM
mander of a division at Corinth, and of the
Fourth Corps on the Atlanta campaign, and
at Franklin.
GEN. CYRUS BUSSEY, ex-Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, formerly COM
mander of the Cavalry Division, Army of
the Tennessee, commander of the District of
Arkansas. etc.
GEN. JAMES s. NEGLEY, who COM
manded "Negley's Brigade" and division
in the Army of the Cumberland and was
Member of Congress from Pennsylvania in
the 41st and 10th Congresses.
GEN. JOHN POPE, who commanded
the Army of the Mississippi and the Army
of Virginia. The last literary work done by
the distinguished soldier were two articles
for THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, giving his
experiences when young Lieutenant ex-
plOring the Wilds of the Far West.
GEN. B. Fl. G.. MINTY, commander of
the famous "Saber Brigade" of Cavalry, of
the Army of the Cumbeland.
GEN. THOMAS W. SWEENY, who
commanded a division in the Army of the
Tennessee. During his long service at the
front Gen. Sweeny wrote frequently to his
family and friends, giving graphic accounts
of the exciting events. Since his death his
son has collected these letters and prepared
them for publication. They are very inter-
esting.
All these are highly important histori-
cal contributions.
They are scritten especially for The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and aeiH appear
IN no other paper.
Other attractions will be announced
shortly.
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One Which is Not "Purged," and in Which
There Are No Suspensions.

Wv W lncn Is MOI anu III w u1Sb
There Are No Suspensions.
On the Mexican Pension Roll
there are the names Of 1920
survivors and 2. 2S2 widows. and
something over 5000 cases were
pending at Latest reports. This
makes "a total Of 25.49S. or sew
eraI thousand more men than
the United States had i'm Mexico
al amy one Time during the war.
These all receive either s. or
&I2 n month.
Among the names are those
of the widow Of Gen. Samuel
Cooper. "a New Yorker 10y birth,
who was Acknowledgement OF
the United States Army at the
outbreak Of the war. and used
his position TO aid the rebels i'm
preparing for the struggle. He
resigned his position TO become
Adiutant-f5enera of the South
ern Confederacy. and Ofiiciafed
as such until the rebellion col.
Iapsed. Mrs. Cooper has been
drawing a pension since june
@. 1857.
The widow of Thomas j.
(s'St0newaII" JacI sBn, who
was next To Lee the most popu-
lar commander Of the rebel
armies.
Tkse widow of Mai .-Gen. George
IL. Pickett. who commanded q
division i'm fEhe rebel army.
Tire widow of Mai .-Gen. Gideon
j. Pillow. W f0 com AIasIsGed "a di-
vision ina the rebel army.
HE widow Of LietIf.-esen. APP.
Hill. WHO commanded enc of
Tie three corps Of Lees army.
The widow of Sidney Smith
Lee. who was dismissed from
the Navy for ~goiRg over TO tIie
enemy" and afterward became
"a Commodore i'm the rebel navy.
Brighten. Jas. IL. Chalmers.
who was FORESTS chief lieu.
Tenant.
Maf.-Gen. Dabney HI. Maury.
who commanded tie rebel
troops AT the bafaIe Of ChicIka-
saw bayou.
Hon. y. B. Maxey. late United
States Senator from Texas. WHO
has been drawing his pension
since May e. ISs7. He was "a
Majer-GeReraI i'm the rebel
ARMY.
Hon. Jas. ". George. Senator
from Mississippi, and who
served i'm the rebel army as n
Colonel. The number of HIS
certificate f. IS.2I5.
Tlae widows above mentioned
are of men who were educated
Rt tile Government expense. and
afferward fought 10 destroy the
Government. They went on the
roll al once, while last April
there were pending the claims
of HAS, $40 widows Of Union SOL
dfers who had not yet been able
40 get ON the roll.
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TRIBUNE TS.

The Atlanta Constitution says that "parity
between the metals I" in the Chicago platform
apparently meant fve-cent cotton and q
mortgage on the mule"
Indianapolis Journal: The paie-faced pas
senger looked out Of the car windows with
exceeding interest Finally he turned to his
seat mate:
"You must think I never rode on the cars
before" he said "but the fact is, pardner,
jest got out of the pen this mornin', an it does
me good to look around. It's goin' to be mighty
tough, though, facin' my old-time friends.
s'pose, though, you amt got much idea how
man feels in case like that"
perhaps have better idea of your feel
ings than you think" said the other, with a
sad smile. II am just getting home from
Congress"
Atlanta Constitution: "This is To third time
you have been brought before me for stealing"
said the Judge. Cant you live honestly2"
"Not under the present Administration, sub;
thar's got ter be . change in National politics
fust"
80
Philadelphia Press: Problem In current
mathematics: "If You take billion dollars
from q deficit. what do you gst?"
Chorus of Democrats; "A Carlisle surplus"
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THE CENTURY WAR BOOK.

Teach your children the history Of the
worlds greatest war by providing them
with bound volume Of that inccmpara-
bic record of our great civil strife. THE
CENTURY WAR Book with THE Ma
TToNAL TRIBUNE for one year costs only
$3.50, express prepaid. The original
edition was published at $40 and s2s
per set. Peoples Pictorial Edition, Just
as good, at one-seventh the money.
Three hundred and twenty large, beau
fully bound pages, $50 illustrations
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PERSONAL.

The family Of Marcus Butler, Windsor, N. O.,
has war record which seems quite unsurpass-
BILE. He says: "My grandfather Butler was a
soldier in the Revolutionary war; my great
grandfather Folk was soldier in the Revolu-
tionary war; my uncle Ryon Butler enlisted
in the war of 1872; my father and were SOL
diers in the late war of the rebellion. My
father died in rebel prison, and now have
two boys in the United States Army; and
would be glad to learn of some one who can
show better war record. has been any
truer to the American flag than my family has
BEEN"
Before the war;" says the Worcester Gazette,
"Adam Badeau was literary worker in New
York, and Mt one time he was writing for the
Herald, or some other paper, a sssies of clever
sketches of local celebrities-well-known men
about town. Badeau wanted to sketch old
Rufus Blake, for many years favorite at
Wallack's, and still remembered for his Kit
C0sey and Jesse Rural by older New Yorksrs
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IHE revolt IN SuDa mas taken new
and most unexpected phase. Two
weeks ago the Spanish papers were con-
fdently informing us that the rebellion
was mostly confined to the American
newspapers, that it was simply the work
of handful of banditti, who were en-
deavoring to give their crimes the dig
nifty of patriotism, and that substan-
tally all of them had been captured.
Then the old Southern trick of race
rising was adopted. 1t was said that
one of the leaders was a negro who was
trying to repeat the history of San Do
mingo. But one morning it was an
nounced that considerable force of
Spanish troops had been defeated in a
pitched battle, that Spain was hurryin 6
troops to the island by the ten thou
sand, that the Captain General had been
removed and another appointed, and
that the Spanish Ministry had had to
resign. The insurgents seem to be con-
Quoting themselves with much ability,
and if they should manage to stand off
the Spanish troops for few months, and
organize a Provisional Government, it is
not impossible for them toachieve theirin-
dependence. The people of this country
are beginning to take very lively inter
est in the matter, and if the insurgents
show staying power it will be impossible
to prevent their receiving large reinforce
ments from American young men who
are anxious for adventure, and ready to
fight anywhere for whatever seems the
cause of liberty. Of course, this Govern
ment would do everything possible to
prevent its citizens joining in the strug-
gle, but it is only short sail to the coast
of Cuba, and if the young men of this
country get it into their heads that it is
the right and proper thing to help the
struggling Cubans out-and this they
are very likely to dot will be impossi-
bic to prevent thousands of them swarm
ing into the island. All of our own and
the Spanish Navies would not be sufi-
cient to properly watch the innumerable
inlets along the South Atlantic and Gulf
Coasts, from which swift-sailing schooners
may slip out with loads of men and
arms, and make the coast of Cuba. 1t
will not take many thousand young
Americans in Caba to defy the utmost
force that Spain can send against them.
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Br-MErALrsM does: not make ran

BI-METALIsM does not make rapid
progress among the English farmers, in
spite of the depression of agriculture
there. Their speakers and writer's tell
them that the monetization of silver
would benefit only few Americans, who
have immense quantities of silver which
they are anxious to unload upon the rest
of the world, and to allow them to do
this will be even more disastrous than
the results of unloading limitless quanti-
ties of grain and meat upon the British
markets.
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WHEREVER Americans, and especi-
ally old soldiers. go, they carry love of
their country with them. A comrade in
South Africa sends us a copy of The
Cape Times, containing an account of
the celebration of Washington's birth
day by the Americans residing in the
country. There were 200 present. and
formed the american Society of South
Africa" which has, among other objects,
that of building an aAmerican Palace I"
in Cape Town, and hold exhibitions of
American products in the principal
towns. isvi g.
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THE AMERICAN FARMER.

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Every number is filled with bright,
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"REMINISCENCES OF THE ATLANTA
CAMPAIGN

Mai.-Gen. Richard w johnson, who com
manded brigade or division in the Army of
the Cumberland from The formation until
severely wounded at New Hope Church, and
who commanded a division of cavalry at
Nashville, has written an interesting sketch
Of some OF has renembrances Of The Atlanta
Campaign, which will appear in an early
Issue OF TBE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. Many
thousand readers will be glad TO hear from
their old commander.
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THE corrupt ring of penitentiary
lessees and other cormorants in Tennessee
have finally decided that Turney has a
majority of from 1000 to 5000 over
Evans. Will the Tennesseans stand this
robbery
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-04-04

WHY haven't the English-toadying
New York Times and Egening Post
something to say about the outrageous
way in which England is Outlying"
little Nicaragua and Venezuela? They
went into spasms over the United
Statess very proper demands upon
Chile.
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Army, =. 413,117,900 marks.
Pension Fund, 40905,600
Invalid .. 25,452,000
479.475.500

If we assume that the German mark
is equal to % cents of our money, this
makes a total of s119,86S,S75 in our
money. But this is only the beginning.
The military expenses of the German
Empire have been greatly increased
since 1892 by the addition of more
regiments and batteries.
Next the Kingdoms of Bavaria, Sax
ony, and Wurtemburg manage their own
armies in peace, and their military
budgets do not appear in the above.
Exact figures are not obtainable, for the
reason that Germany does not propose to
allow her neighbors to know all that she
is doing in regard to her army. 1t is
generally believed, however, that her
annual military expenditures do not fall
much short of s20O,0oo,ooo year.
Then, most of the States constituting
the German Empire have pension budg
cts of their own. Next, it is impossible
to say just where German pension ex-
penditures begin or end. The Govern.
ment has an infinite number of ways of
taking care of her veterans and their
widows. They are given the preference
in every kind of employment under the
Government. In fact, man cannot
get any. sort-of place unless he has an
honorable discharge from the army.
The railroads and telegraph are owned
by the Government, and substantially
all the employees are veterans or sons
and daughters Of veterans. Military
service is strictly considered in all these
appointments. The men and women
who watch the bridges and crossings
are always disabled veterans or their
widows.
In2-addition to all this the Emperor
now favors general service pension to all
men who participated in the great war
with France.
1t must be kept in mind all the time
that the entire German army has not
during the three generations done so
much fighting as the American army
during the war of the rebellion, and it
did not do SO much hard fighting in
overruning France, nor lose so many
men in killed and wounded, as the Armies
of the Potomac, James, and Shenandoah
in the final campaign against Richmond.
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MILITARY EXPENSES.

Germany lays out annually on her army
and navy about $160,000.O00, or about one
third her entire revenue This is almost
exactly the sum which the United States
expended in 1893 upon military pensions
alone, the expenditure for the army and navy
in the same year aggregating $52,5O0,0OO in
addition. The actual expenditures for the
German army last year, including pensions
and invalid fund, were little over $127,-
100000. The annual payments of the United
States for pensions alone during the four
years of the last Administration averaged
$131 100000 In 1899 the pension appro-
priations amounted to So, SOC, 600, OF nearly
90 per cent. of the revenues; by 1893 they
had increased to $4,000 900, or about 80
per cent. of the revenues-not far from the
one-third of the revenues that Germany
spends on her great military establishment.
The French army, another of the burden
some establishments of the Continent, cost
last year Sis, 900, 900, or less than our annual
expenditure for military pensions; and it
will also surprise most American readers to
know that the annual cost Of the army and
navy of Great Britain, which is about the
same as that of Germany, or Si60,0O0,000,
including pensions and annuities, is almost
equaled by our pension list alone.-Phita-
deIphia Times.
This is the same old stuff. The Times
knows much better than this, but it does
not choose to tell the whole truth.
The Statesn,an's Yearbook gives the
following army expenses of Germany
for the fiscal year ending March 81,
1892:
Army, =. 413117,9 300 marks.
Pension Fund, 40905 800
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
MEXICAN PENSION ROLL.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., APRIL 4, 1895
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he WASHINGTON POST OFFICE As secOsOcusss NATTER.
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OUR SPECIAL ARTICLES.

Among those who will contribute
special articles to THE NATIONAL TRIB-
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29
Gro he COntiu ued.
Lend a Hand

A small messenger boy, crossing La
fayette Square, Washington. one sun
day morning, was Juggling with both
hands a basket containing~some potted
palms and roses. lie was a pathetic
figure, that little chap, and every one
in the park was noticing him. IL was
such a warm morning, and he at last
set the big basket down and looked at
it helplessly.
Tired out, are you, my boy?" came
a friendly voice from behind him; and
the messenger glanced up at "A dis.
tinguishcd looking man.
''Yes, sir."
Have you far to go?"
Eyes, SIR"
We'll, ] am going your way; ! can
And the gentleman picked up the
basket and carried IL for some distance,
the little chap trudging at his side.
As he walked along. the small boy
grew confidential, told who he WAS
ald where he lived, and finally, in q
burst OF goodcomiadeship,. asied his
companion where he lived.
Just acros the street from where
] met you" was the answer, as the
gentleman slipped a coin in the boys
hand; ''in that white house opposite
Lafayette Park" f-s
IL was the occupant of the White
House, the President of the United
States, who was carrying the boys
basket.
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29
CANAL FIGURES TOO Low.
Nicaragua Conn Issloners Report Far
From Cheering.

WASHINGTON, Nov. GA serious
blow has been dealt To the Nicaragran
Canal Company's project for the con-
%struction of water way across tho
lsthnus by the report OF the Nicara-
guam canal commission. Inevitable
delay and "A further and more thor
ough investigation OF the entire sub
ject are declared to be necessary be-
fore even the engineering feasibility
of any canal across Nicaragua can be
decided upon.
The report of the Nicaragua canal
commission, nov in the Presidents
hands, points out that IL is not prac-
ticable nor advisable to attempt the
construction Of the Nicaragua canal
upon the data at present availab BILE,
and that the undertaking would be
fraught with hazards too obvious to
disregard. That knowledge may be
had OF the physical and typographical
conditions affecting the construction
and maintenance Of u canal across
Nicaragua, upon which to form q final
judgment as to the feasibility, per-
manency and cost, the commission
recommends an appropriation by Con-
gress of S35O, 900 for extensive adj
ditional surveys n examinations,
covering a period Of eighteen months.
With the data at hand, however.
the commission makes a provisional
estimate of cost $l33, az, 500, or nearly
double that OF the Maritime Canal
Company's unconditional estimate of
500, 500, $50. The commission makes
Its estimate provisional, for the com.
missioncrs hold that the existing data
are inadequate as a basis for csti-
mating the cost OF many structures.
Some portions of the work will cost
more; others less The report says the
official estimate by the company of
$50. 800, $50 is insufficient TOR the work;
that In several important eases the
quantities must be increased and, In
numerous cases, the unit prices do not
make proper allowance for the differ
ence in the cost OF the work between
the United States and Nicaragua.
The general trend of the entire re-
port is certainly very unfavorablc to
the canal company,
The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-29
CAMPos TO AMERICA.
The Cuban Captain General shows why
Rebels should Not No Recognised.

The b Captain General Shove why
Rebels should Not Ne Recognised.
NEW York, Nov. /. THE World
publishes a special cable from Santa
Clara, Cuba, signed by Martinez dc
Campos, governor general of Cuba. lie
says among other things; ~ think tho
Cuban bel!igerents' position at present
gives them no claim ON the United
States for recognition. There is an
active rebellion IN Cuba, but the in
surRents hold no seaport, no interior
town. There are numerous villages
named on the map which consist of
five or ten nuts. Sometimes the in
surRents remain for u period of time
in n Of the hamlets. When / send q
column OF troops To IL they dis
appear in the wild, painless
country that exists in the only
district In which they operate. The
great North American soldier, General
Grant, ably covered the subject of the
recognition Of the belligercncy Of tho
rebels In the former revolution. He
stated in = public document, with
which ] am familiar. that there were
no grounds for him to recognize Cuban
beiligerency when the people who
sought recognition held no port or
town. President Grant created q
precedent, and | hear now from Mad
rid that the government does not an
ticipate any over acts OF u%nfriendii-
ness on the part Of the United States"