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C, L. Vallandieham.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Please
give us iii your (Our)TRIBUNE a short his
| torical sketch of Vallandigham, of Ohio,
who for his reasonable words and acts
was forced to leave the North and by an
officer put through the lines into the
Southern Confederacy (so-called) in 1863.
Give the date of his tragic death.-J. f..
c., Denver, Colo.
element l.. Vallandigham was born in
New Lisbon, o., in 1882 and educated for
a lawyer. He went into politics on the
Democratic side, was elected to the Leg
islature, and to the Both, 36th and 37th
Congresses from the Dayton (O.) District.
He was 4 rabid pro Slavery man, and
bitterly opposed to the war. He did every
thing he could to hamper the Government
in its operations, and finally became the
leader of the "Sons of Liberty" or
knights of the Golden Circle" He was
arrested in 1863 for discouraging enlist
ments, encouraging assertions, etc, tried
by Military Commission, and sent
through the lines to the Southern Confed-
eracy by the way of Murfreesboro. He
made his way to Canada, and directed the
organization of the Knights from there.
He came back in 1864, was nominated for
Governor of Ohio, but beaten by more
than 100000 majority. He was the
leader of the Northwestern Conspiracy"
which contemplated. at the first severe
check received by the Union armies, to
rise all over Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Kentucky with 100000 organ
lied men, release the $4,000 rebel prison
crs then confined in those States, break
the country in two again at the Allega-
MES, and establish a Northwestern Con
federacy. He died June II, 1871, from the
accidental discharge of a pistol, with
which he was illustrating his theory of
the defense of murderous scoundrel he
was defending.-EDIToR NATIONAL TRI-
BUNEl
The National tribune., 1900-11-29
The Great Trans Siberian Railroad.

The present Tsar, when AZ Tsario-
vich, he was travelling in the Far East,
wheeled the first barrow and laid the first
stone of the railway at Viadiyostok on
May 10, 1891, and his enthusiastic support
has assured the success achieved. The
speed with which construction has fol
lowed is without parallel in railway-build-
ing. The whole line was divided into sew
en- sections. and work carried on upon
them SO far as possible simultaneously.
The Siberian plan presented no engineer
ing difficulties, since for 900 miles the
surface does not show higher rise than
400 feet; but as all wood, water, food, and
labor had to be supplied from the base,
the difficulties of organization were very
great. But the first portion, from Chelya-
binsk to Omsk, 492 miles, WAS opened fUr
traffic in December, 1885; the second,
from Omsk to OBJ, 3SS miles, in 1896; the
third, from OBJ to KrasnOyarsk, 476 miles,
later in the same year; the fourth, from
Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk, 672 miles, in Au-
gust, 1893. Thus the rail-head reached a
point 3,371A miles east of Moscow, and
as the train had also reached Khabarofsk,
on the Amur, from Yladivostok the east
ern terminus, Il distance of 475 miles, in
the same month and year, n total of 2503
miles of railway had been laid and opened
for traffic in seven years The Siberian
railway will cross Altogether 80 miles of
bridges, and of, these the line to Irkutsk
required large number, including such
important ones rs those over the Irtysh
at Omsk, 700 yhi1ls; over the OBJ at Krivo-
shekovo, $40 yards; over the Yenissei at
Krasnoyarsk, $50 yards, and over the IDA
at Mini Udinsk, $50 yards. Moreover, be-
fore reaching 1rkutsk there is some very
stiff grading work in a mountainous coun-
try. BY this performance Russia holds
the worlds record for railway building
She may well be proud Of it.
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Gave Drummer His Horse.

Among the many letters received by
Mrs. Cox since the death of her husband,
the late Gen. Jacob d. Cox, one of the
most interesting is one from Jerome J.
Musser, an ex-drummer boy of Co. A,
10Th Ohio, First Brigade, Third Division,
Twenty-third Corps The letter is under
an Anderson Qnd.) date of Aug. s, and is
as follows:
81 know you will pardon an ex-soldier
of the civil war for intruding on you in
your hour of sorrow: In 1868 l was a
drummer boy in the 10th Ohio. being at
that time Is years old. One day, while
marching through Tennessee, the heat was
terrible | was footsore, weary, loaded
down with my knapsack, canteen and hav-
ersack, with five days ratiOns, in addition
to my drum.
Gen. John D. Cox was then com
handing the Third Division, Twenty third
Corps, to which my regiment belonged
On the day in question my regiment was
in advance of the division, with the Gen
eral and his staff just ahead of us. The
General halted his horse, hailed me and
said: My drummer boy, you must be
tired. Get up here and ride my horse.
At the same time he dismounted and
placed me in the saddle. Taking my
drum, he marched at the head of the col
umn for several miles.
Those who have not experienced the
fatigue of long march in hot weather can
not appreciate what that kindness meant
to a boy. 1t gave me courage and faith
in my superior officers, and i have car
ried the incident of that day in my mem
DRY ali these years. l have watched Gen.
Cox's career through his long and event
full life with keen interest / beg to
assure you that l greatly sympathize with
you in your hour of bereavement. Though
l am obscure and unknown TO you, and
was probably forgotten by the General,
| have, nevertheless, had a very warm
place in my heart for him."
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VETERANS PREFERENCE.
More Posts Which Have Endorsed the Brom-
well Bill.

Adjt.-Gen. T. NJ. Sterrett, st. Louis,
Mo, sends THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE the
following additional list of Posts which
have Endorsed the Veterans Preference
Bill:
Post Is, Alabama; Posts, 124, 179, 169,
141, 127. 20, California and Nevada; Posts
.. lob, Colorado and Wyoming; Posts 8,
IS, 63, l, 90. Connecticut; Post q. Idaho;
Posts 1913, 81, 100, 347, ISL, %, 100, 479,
20, 81, 1o1. 81, 147, 2oS, So. 466, III,
Iowa. Posts Z, 40, 169. 405. $50, 149, 81,
456, 240, so, $50, 23S, So, ~, 90, 153, 464,
II, 63, Kansas; Posts 20, 17S. 1856, 2, q,
80, 33. Kentucky; Posts 35, 46, 43, 6, %,
Louisiana and Mississippi; Post %, Mary
land; Posts 1913, 191, %, 200, 1919. %, 81,
1S4, %, SO, Massachusetts; Posts 425. 126,
316, 351, PIP, IS, 44S, 6, 262, 156, Michi-
gan; Posts 1872, "a, 1877, 119, 90. 1856, 81,
Minnesota; Posts II, 322, %, III, 1887,
los, 271, 544, 10, 400, $50, 2S2. Missouri
Posts II, II, New Hampshire; Post 3,
New Mexico: Posts, 600, 1851, ITO, PAT,
2l9, 40S, 394, 4. 6. 1875, $50, IS, ISL, 40,
800, Go, GOT, $50, New York; Posts 10, 8,
Nebraska; Posts 20, 81, -. 70, 10, SO, 81,
10I, "a, 50, New Jersey; Posts 113, 2S3,
426, 537, AZ, 1877, 60, 800, 81, $50, 1872,
36S, 241, PSI, 277, 352, 56S, 81. go, 10,
los. %, POI. 80. 159. %. 49,, %, 435,
Ohio; Posts l, z, 20, 10, Oregon; Posts 1,
81, SIC, 500, 20, 4O7, 366, 357. PA, 70,
256, 81, Pennsylvania; Post 10, Rhode
Island; Post Z, South Dakota; Posts 20,
30. Tennessee; Posts 10, IS. Texas: Posts
26, III. Al, Z, 60, ia, Vermont: Posts AZ,
80, 30, Virginia and North Carolina; Posts
100, GA, Washington and Alaska; Post
102, Wisconsin.
The National tribune., 1900-11-29

Many persons have never heard of the
Naval War College at Newport. X. l. In
the Nep LippincoH for December Lieut..
John Morris Ellicott has an interesting
article in which he says:
This institution has President and a
college staff on duty the year round, and
class of % to 80 officers ordered in at
tendance from June TO September, inclu-
sive. The class is composed mainly of Of
ficcrs of executive and command rank, and
is divided for work into committees of six
to eight members, the senior in each being
Chairman. The committees are assigned
SC"aTate rooms, with chart tables and
desks. Work for the class is cut out by
the staff during the Winter, including
strategic situations" based upon imag-
mary wars between the United States and
various foreign powers. To make the
wording of these impersonal, the United
States is always designated as THE Blue"
and the foreign power as THE Red" The
military and naval forces of the two coun-
tries are compiled and classified, and all
their bases and lines of communication
carefully studied before the situation" is
prepared.
Copies of this situation are then given
to the Chairmen of two committees, one
being informed that he is Commander-in-
commands THE Red" and they are in
formed that the game is to be played on
certain day.
On the day appointed for the game a
large chart table is placed in a central
room; upon the table is tackled a chart of
the theater of operations, and beside this
are placed red and blue lead-pencils, rul-
ers, dividers, duplicating notebooks, and
n record-sheet, while around the board are
hung for reference telegraphic-cablem maps,
consulate maps, and coaling-station maps.
There is also provided spinning arrow to
decide the direction of the wind or nature
of the weather when this is of Importance;
also, a table of classes of vessels, with
fighting values, speeds, endurance and Wis
Utility.
The National tribune., 1900-11-29
NATIONAL TRIBUNE wAsHINdoa c. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 49, 1900

ride of two lpurs NC were at Tien Tsin.
Here we were made as comfortable as
possible TO wait the departure of some
steamship from Taku. 2S miles off, at the
mouth of the Pei ,Ho. Tien Tsin is in
ruins. and paid much more dearly than
pekinG, in the property destroyed and the
lives lost, to leueH this great uprising of
the Chinese hordes. Upon looking
around Us in Tien Tsin at the terrible de-
StructiOn done to this great commercial
city we feel 3that it most certainly has
paid the penalty for the release of our
selves and all the beSieged at Picking
2EA M. NJ. J.
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Curious Advertisements.
Ne1 Lippincott.

"a country clergyman would feel most
thankful to any benevolent lady who
would kindly take into her service a
strong, motherless girl of 16, whom he is
anxious to get from home, but whom he
fulness."
And still more robust in its candor is
the following irresistible appeal:
Required kind master for an excel
lent black retriever dog. Owner parts
with him on no other account than his saw
age tendencies"
Who got that dog. one wonders vainIy,
and who secured the services of the strong
Young thief
The National tribune., 1900-11-29
Work of the Pension ONCE.

The report of certificates issued for the
week ending Nov. II shows:
Army invalid: Original, 10; increase and
additional, 1879; reissue, 20; restoration
and renewal. II, restoration and renewal
by transference, IA; restoration and re-
newal and reissue, ETC., l; restoration and
renewal and reissue by transference, 4; du-
plicate, o; accrued, SO; total, 366.
Army invalid (act of June q, 1890
Original, 274; increase, 271; additional, rs;
reissue, 8; restoration and renewal, 81 ;
restoration and renewal by transference,
3; restoration and renewal and reissue,
etc, 3; supplemental, 4; duplicate, Is; &C
crued, 119; total, 81.
Army invalid (war with SPAIN: Origi-
nal, ST; increase and additional, 2; reissue,
l; total, SO.
Army widow, ETC.: Original, "a; restora-
ton and renewal, 3; restoration and re-
newal and reissue, etc, /; duplicate, s.;
accrued, /; total, "a.
Army widow, etc. (act of June q,
and renewal, 4; restoration and renewal
and reissue, etc, l; supplemental, 1; dupli-
cate, 3; accrued, /; total, 301.
Army widow, etc. (war with SPAIN:
Original, 81.
Navy invalid: Increase and additional, 8.
Navy invalid TACT of June 81, 1900:
Original, p increase ID; additional, 2; re-
cate, 1; total, AZ.
Navy invalid (war with SPAIN: Origi-
nal, 5.
Navy widow, ETC.: Original, 1.
Navy widow TACT Of June q, 1900:
Original, 6; duplicate, 1; total, Z.
Navy widow (war with SPAIN: Origi-
nal, 2.
Indian wars-Survivors Accrued, /.
Mexican War-Survivors: Original, 1;
increase and additional, 4; duplicate, 9; ac-
crued, 10; total, II.
Mexican War-Widows: Original, Is.
Totals: Original, 755; increase and ad-
575; reissue. Al; restoration and
So; restoration and renewal by
transference, II; restoration and renewal
and reissue, etc., g.: restoration and re-
newal by reissue by transference, 4; sup
elemental, B; duplicate, 40; accrued, 21S.
Total, LIPS.
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DO not let your subscription
expire. Remember that you do
not have a chance in the cash
prizes distributed Dec. 81, I'M
less you are a regular yearly
subscriber on the books at that
date. Sec page 8.
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DO not put OF sending in
your subscription, and then
when you read the names and
addresses Of the prize winners.
wish you had some of the cash.
Act now. See page 8.
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The above is from The NafiOn-
al Tribune Premium List, 1900
1901, sent fee on application.

Scad in your neighbours sub.
scriptiOn as well AS your own.
IL will give You another chance
at that cash prize. See page 8.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets AL druggists
refund the money II 1t falls TO cure. E. W. Groves
signature is on each box. Csc.
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OUT OF THE
DRAGONS MOUTH.
Legationer's Story of the Journey
from Picking to the Coast.
COUNTRY LAID WASTE.
Dead Chinese Strew the Route and Rus
slams Continue the Slaughter.
COUNTRY LAID WASTE.
DIFFICULTIES OF TRAVEL.

staggering Army Officers, inexperienced
Boatmen and the Treacherous sandbars
Delay the Party.
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Initial Letter.

Each and every spoon will be engraved
free of charge with your initial letter.
We will send set of these beautiful tea
spoons, marked, postpaid, for club Of only
three yearly subscribers at 81 each.
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returned to US we will replace, free of Charge,
the spoon damaged in making the test,
provided you tell sorie of your neighbors
what the test proved. We make this offer
because such test is the best advertise
ment we can get, leading as it does to ad-
ditional orders We absolutely guarantee
each and every spoon to be as described and
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A COLD RECEPTION.

We heard stentorian voice call out:
Say, got any grub for the refugeesT
1t really seemed that they were going
to offer the refugees" some refreshments;
but, no. With Minister Conger's guests
We found our way up to the officers quar-
tiers. They were then outside their coy
tents, on the green grass under the trees,
smoking, chatting, having what seemed TO
us q most delightful time. No one rose
TO speak 10 us, but priyate-God bless
him!-gave us some cold boiled water and
some watermelon. He said, too, that he
was sorry that their meal was just over,
for they could have given us some pota-
toes and beef.
Potatoes and beefr For nine long
weeks We had not seen potatoes, and our
beef had been horsemeat. We endeav-
ored to conceal our anguish, and while we
were talking a staggering young officer,
with big black eyes and hat tipped jauntily
on one ear, arose languidly from his seat
and yelled, in loud, Observation-Disclosures
like tones:
Take your boats at once They are
waiting"
We departed from this small oasis with
something like regret Threading our way
through boxes and mules's heels, for the
beasts were tethered by hundreds all over
the fiat river bank, we reached the large
fiat rice-boats that were to bear US TO TieD
Tsin.
The masts had been taken down and
run lengthwise of the boats. Over them
were hung mating and brown canvas.
forming canopy. Our trunks were soon
dropped into the hold and we arranged our
mattresses in the spaces allotted to each.
Tbirty-hve were put upon three boats, l3
each on two and nine on another. These
boats also held eight soldiers of the 9th
u. S. and a non commissioned officer, be-
side the crews of impressed coolies-for-
merly Boxers, for all river-men were Box
ers-for polling and towing the heavy
barges.
In another boat were soldiers, our
guard; in another Maj. Foote, civilians
from the British Legation, and Miss Con.
The National tribune., 1900-11-29

guard. 1t will be sent postpaid as premium
for club of only two yearly subscribers
and 25 cents in stamps additional.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-03-29

Senator Wolcott, OF COL, is the first
member of the Senate to own an auto
mobile. He uses it every day in going
to and from the Capitol, the depart
ments and the White House, and says
he does so for economy, because it is
cheaper and less trouble than pair OF
horses and carriage. There are quite
a number of Senators, however, who
get along without carriages, using the
street cars to get about.
The House Committee on Foreign AT.
fairs will this week begin an investiga-
ton of the charge made by Mr.. Mac
rum, that while he was United States
Consul at Pretoria, his ofic mail was
Opened by British Military officials
Mr.. Macrum is in Washington to testi-
fly and to produce any other evidence
of the truth of his charge, which Off
Gals of the Department Of State believe
to be entirely based upon imagination
worked up by prejudice.
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Robbed the Grave.

A startling incident, of which Mr..
John Ollyer Of Philadelphia, was the
subject, is narrated by him as follows:
VI was in a most dreadful condition.
My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunk
en-, tongue coated, pain continually in
back and sides, no appetite-gradually
weaker day by day. Three physicians
had given ME up. Fortunately, a friend
advised trying Electric Bitters;' and tc
my great Joy and surprise, the first
bottle made q decided improvement
l continued their use for three weeks
and am now we'll man. l know they
saved my life. and robbed the grave o.
another victlm." No one should fail
to try them. Only 500, guarantee al
Waters Pharmacv.
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ROAD NOTICE.

We, the undersigned citizens and taxpay,
ers of Frederick County, Marylan do hereby
give notice that we intend to petition the
Board of County Commissioners, Monday,
April 10Th, A. D. 1900, to close portion of
the public road leading from the Frederick
& Emmitsburg turnpike south of Fishing
Creek, near Lewistown, to County road at
Eichelbergers, and relocate the same, run
ming through the lands of Geolte W. Miller
and D. c. Winebrenner and Henry Unver.
yacht.
Said road 80 to be relocated to be thirty
feet wide, according to the Act of Assembly
made and provided.
H. l.. GAVER,
D. r. WACHTER,
JOHN II. HILL,
mch16t and ten others.
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vited to submit competitive designs.
Every distinguished European visitor
to the National Capitol comments upon
the absence of any public monument to
Gen. Grant, and the numerous monu-
ments to soldiers Of lesser prominence
adds to their wonder why there is none
to Grant.
A resolution has been offered in the
House and Senate. by Representative
Lentz, of Ohio. and Senator Allen, re-
spectively, demanding the recall Of Fed
eral troops from shoshone county Ida
ho, unless the permit system Of work be
revoked. the right Of habeas corpus be
restored, and martial law be abolished
at once. The House Committee on Mil,
itary affairs is still taking testimony in
it's investigation of the use Of Federal
troops in Idaho, The Governor of Ida
no, one of the witnesses, has the courage
of his convictions, be they right or
wrong. He said to the committee: VI
assume responsibility for every arrests
in Shoshone county by Gen. Merriam OF
anyone else"
After having served tor sixteen years
and in every important division of the
United States Patent Office, including
that of Commissioner of Patents, Mr.
A. P. Greeley, who resigned few days
ago. leaves it benefited by his manage.
ment. his example, and his stern re-
preston Of rapacious swlndling patent
attorneys, many Of whom, including
John Wedderburn. were dibbarred
through him. There is too little in
ducement for men of Mr.. Greeley's cal
iber to remain In the civil service. The
government should pay the Commits
sioner of Patents salary equal to that
Of a justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Mr.. Greeley. who is an
able lawyer and an authority on mat
tiers relating to foreign patents and
trade. marks, will practice in Washing
ton, D. G.
The Senate is to haye an opportunity
to vote on the Porto Rico tariff with
out outside complications, as Senator
Foraker asked for and obtained a vote
of the Senate re, committing his bill pro-
viding a civil form of government for
the island, to the committee, in order
that an attempt may be made to pass
the House bill levying duty of Is per
cent. on Porto Rican products. Whether
that can be done is question upon
which there are two decided opinions.
1t is understood that the votes to pass
the bill have been pledged, but the re-
publican Senators who favor free trade
have threatened to filibuster to prevent
a vote being reached on the bill. Con
ferences are still going on and some
agreement may be reached. Mean
while, the money which has been col
lected under the Dingley tariff is avail
able for public use in Porto Rico, and
General Davis has been directed to free.
ly use it.
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Representative Payne, of N. Y, floor
leader of the majority of the House, re-
pudiated and denied the public reports
that contributions to the campaign fund
were in some way involved in the Por-
to Rico tariff bill. He said that the two
great trusts in sugar and tobacco would
benefit most by getting their sugar and
tobacco from Porto Rico free of duty
and not by paying Is per cent. duty,
and consequently that if there We're
any Noodle" influence, 1T was in favor
of free trade,
A bill authorizing the President to
appoint a commission to visit China and
Japan for the purpose of studying COM
merclal conditions and making report
as to the best method of increasing our
trade with those countries, has been
passed by the Senate. During the DIS
cussion, Senator Hoar took occasion to
reiterate his opinion, which is shared by
many, that Senators and Representa-
tives are constitutionally ineligible tor
appointment upon any sort of Federal
commission. 1t is expressly understood
that no member of Congress is to be a
member of this Commission.
Congress has taken the first step TO-
wards the erection of a suitable memor.
ial, in Washington, toGen. U. s. Grant,
Without an opposing vote, the House
passed bill appropriating $4,000 to
be spent in securing designs for a me-
mortal to Gen. Grant. The bill pro-
vides that eminent artists shall be in