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Year: 1879

In previous number of THE TRIBUNE, we adverted to
tives and friends at home. few days ago, incident
ally upon the following which abounds in natur-
al pathos TO excite feelings too deep for utterance
The noble fellow who wrote it belonged to Pennsyva
regiment and his photography indicates him to be of
German origin. The Germans regarded being of
phlegmatic nature, but people devoted in
their patriotism dearly love their kindred and
friends


PETERSBURG, VA, June 25, 1854
DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER


| did write letter you yesterday and said in that
when to the company at dinner time with soup
for the company they had Lewis laying dead in the rifle
pit and he shot from rebel sharpshooter while he
was setting the rifle pit with the other boys in the
ing about o'clock He shot June %, right in the
head and right dead-he coulden speak more-he
fell the ground and said out with him till night and
then 6ierSed him nice nice place In the woods.
Samuel Eckrot, Frank Keonig William Bells, Benjamin
Drebelres and carried him out at the woods and
Captain helped beried him. Mother he is 6eried nice,
and you can't get him home present. and you better
dry to fetch him hoe for if get him home you can't
how he lookshe all black before 6iered
him. D0Red fetch him home-leave him 5ieried here
where he is beried. took very hart when him
laying the ground but | hope he is with Lucy in
Heaven where there rebels and trouble and
hope you will not take it hart that you can't him and
Lucy more-we will take it easy hope
that they both good place and will pray for
them that may meet them day nuther Moth
take it easydont take it hart. did bieried him
ncehe died easy, he diden find much out of his death
must come to close by saying am well at present


Your loving son.


j NJ AZ Pa REQ
Year: 1879

The Post, of Washington, d. c., is recognized as
the able organ of the Democracy of this country,
and pleased to read the following opinion in
its editorial columns:


The ex-solders all the country very emphatic
in their denuncation of Commissioner Bentleys scheme
for dividing the States into sixty districts and appointing
The proposition is TO constitute lawyer and doctor
court to examine any pensioner applicant often
they please. They make him spend all his time going
TO and from their place of business call him from his
Year: 1879

the aant before magistrate after notice to the app-
cants attorney and thus without any of the cumbrous
machinery of the bill the underhand, irresponsible
spying adopted reach the desired end. First of all,
however the Commissioner should understand that he
the amoner of the Government the enemy of the pen
soners and that the povertystricken suitor at his
office treated f he does not have every advantage of
counsel of knowing the evidence against him. and of
competent judicial decision of his
Year: 1879

This beautiful work of art which we publish this
month would make handsome ornament for any
room in the dwelling. Cut it out close around the
border of the engraving and paste it smoothly upon
a white card board sheet Let there be margin
of about two inches between the frame and the pie.
ture The glass and frame will cost but trihe
Year: 1879

Let one go from every County in the United
States where there are Union Soldiers The follow
ing is proper form which we will send you on re-
ceipt of stamp We have forwarded many already
In large cities the petition should be kept at par
ticular locality, and soldiers should be informed by
advertisement where it is to be found Remem-
Der that in this world of ours If you ,oant money
due you, you must generally ask for ii.
Year: 1879

TO the Honorable Senate and House Of Representatives. in


Congress assembled.


The petition of the soldiers who served in the Union
Army during the War of the Rebellion, respectfully rep
resents:


That whereas it is conceded that the passage of what
is known the Equalization Bounty Bill is measure of
justice recognized already by it's passage several times in
the House of Representatives. and the present is the
opportune time pass this BILL for the Treasury
flowing with funds which could be devoted to no nober
purpose than to discharge obligation to the who
sruction therefore beg of your honorable bodies most
respectfully yet earnestly and without delay pass this
bill and thus perform act for which you will ever merit
thanks and gratitude. And your memoriasts will
ever pray.
Year: 1879

home every day week in the year The power proposed
to be thus placed would be almost unlimited AS bull
doing machine and political farce this BILL should it
become law, would be literally immense But it must not
become y
Year: 1879

A lady writer in one of our exchanges
furnishes some of the reasons why Eve
did not keep hired girl. She says:


There has been a great deal said about
the faults of women and why they need
so much waiting on. Some one Ca man,
of course) has the presumption to ask
"why, when Eve was manufactured of a
spare rib, servant was not made at the
same time, to wait upon her ?" she didn't
need any. A bright writer has said Adam
never came whining to Eve with a rag
ged stocking to be darned, buttons to be
SeWed on, gloves to be mended, fright
y-quick-nowp; because he never
read the newspapers until the sun went
down behind the palm trees, and he,
stretching himself, yawned out, "isn't
supper ready, my DEAR" Not he. He
made fire and hung the kettle over it
himself,we'll venture, and pulled the rad
ishes, peeled the potatoes, and did every
thing else he ought to do. He MIXED
the COWS, fed the chickens and looked
after the pigs himself, and never brought
half dozen friends for dinner when
Eve hadn't any fresh pOmegranates. He
never stayed out till IL o'clock at night
and then scOlded because pooE-Eve was
sitting up and crying inside the gates.
He never loafed around corner groceries
while Eve was rocking little Gains
cradle at home. He did not call Eve up
from the cellar to get his slippers and
put them in the corner where he left
them. Not he. When he took them off
he put them under the fig tree beside his
Sunday boots. In short, he did not think
she was especially created for the pur-
pose of waiting on him, and wasn't un-
der the impression that it disgraced a
man to tighten wifes cares little.
That's the reason Eve did not need a
hired girl, and with it was the reason
her fair descendants did.
Year: 1879

the face of the loyal people, must be
withdrawn and buried out of sight. And
this is where the bloody shirt will come
in


). The financial administration of the
government, under which 760 millions
of the debt caused by the rebellion has
been paid off, the annual interest on the
outstanding bonds reduced thirteen mil
lions, and the currency. brought up to
par with coin, is success. This sue
cess, too, was achieved in spite of the Op-
position of the Democratic party and
without its aid. That the imitation of
an irredeemable paper money would be
a curse second only to that of repudia-
tion, both of which mischievous measur-
es were supported, directly or indirectly,
by the Democratic party.


6. That the scandalOus conduct of the
Ohio Legislature, in demOralizing the
benevolent institutions of the State, in
outrageous attempts to revise and re-
verse the will of the people as declared
by their Suffrages, and in foisting upon
them by legislative usurpation defeated
candidates for local offices, merits the
most indignant rebuke of every intelli-
gent voter of the State.


The foregoing is, in substance, the Re
publican Indictment of the Democratic
party. Upon that it is to be tried before
the people of Ohio and the verdict will
be rendered in October


The Democratic party is on the de-
fensive, and there it will remain until
the polls close. The several clauses in
the Indictment will furnish the heads
for Republican campaign speeches, and
writers, and takers. The topics are so
prominent, and at the same time familiar,
and the proof so absolute and so handy
to every newspaper reader, that evasion
is out of the question and satisfactory
answers impossible.


Nor can the defense succeed by en-
deavoring to make one count in the bill
so prominent as to overshadow another.
They are all so prominent and so impor-
tant that no one can be Overshadowed
The issues are all living issues, and each
one appeals to the common sense of the
people for righteous verdict.-Cin.
Gazette.
Year: 1879

AFTER all the clamor concerning the
rights of States in which Democratic
politicians indulge, and the preposterous
claims set up for the uses of nullifica-
ton, it is apparent that the people of the
United States, in spite of the political
idiots of all breeds, are Nation. The
main question is. What shall the Ma
tionality be? The States lately in the
Southern Confederacy are of the Solid
South, and they are compacted. They
are building up Nationality that is the
most despotic, exclusive and vehement
ever known among men. The attach
ment of the Southern man to the South
is greater than that of the Russians,
Germans or French to their own country.
The violence with which the doctrine of
the supremacy of the States is asserted,
is not for the benefit of any or all of the
States, but is disguise for the assump-
ton Of the superiority of the South to
all the rest of the country. The South
ern cry against sectionalism amounts to
demanding for the South the command
of the whole country. The question is
whether one who does not consent to be
subject to the South has any sort of right
to take part in the government of the
United States. The Northern Demo-
crat is, under the rule of the Confeder-
ates of the Caucus, not a citizen Of the
United States, but subject Of the Solid
South, which is the latest and worst
form of the Southern Confederacy. That
is not the Nation we spell with a big n
| Il Gin. Commercial.
Year: 1879

ding is given from the most reliable re-
ports that we have been able to obtain
in relation to it. Our reporter had an
interview with Prof. Mott at the depot
Monday evening rs he was leaving the
city, and he has also converscd with 9th
erS who were there, and all the main
facts narrated above may be relied upon
by the reader as absolutely correct.
There is considerable hard feeling among
the Spiritualists of the city because so
few of them were invited to be present
on accession of so much Importance, but,
as we have said before, the whole affair
was intended to be strictly private, and
we should not have felt at liberty to re-
port 1t. full of interest as it was, were it
not for the fact that hundred silly ru-
mOrs are atiOat in regard to the occur
renee which can only be corrected by a
plain statement of the facts-and such
we have herein endeavored to give.
Year: 1879

BUTTERMILK.-Asa a drink for men at
work in the hot sun, buttermilk is far
preferable to cider, metheglin, or any
preparation of Beer whatever, as it is not
only cooling and refreshing, but also
strengthening. OF course, there are
plenty of people who are constantly dos
ing themselves with blood searchers,
liver purifiers and stomach invigorators,
who would laugh at the mention of but
termilk as medicine, and yet if they
could be once persuaded to try drinking
glass of that fresh beverage every day,
they would soon find it corrective of
their poor appetites and "clogged-up liv-
ers." In little book of "Plain Diree-
tions for the care of the sick" written
by an intelligent physician of Philadel-
phia, who has under his medical super
vision several charitable institutions, we
find buttermilk mentioned as being very
useful, especially in fevers, as an article
of diet for the sick.
Year: 1879

| DURING the war some Democrat shot
off the leg of the Democratic candidate
for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. And
now the Democratic papers of that State
are making great hurrah over the fact
that General Rice lost his leg, while they
are extremely reticent concerning the
other additional and more important
fact that he would have two legs to-day
if Democrat had not shot one Of them
off.-AtchisOn (Kan.) Champion.
Year: 1879

TRIBUNE OFFICE, March l5 a. ma steady down.
ward movement In the barometer yesterday morning
and afternoon was followed by a rise IN tue evening
Partly CLOUDY aud cloudy weather with sprinkng OF
rain about 4:3O p M. was followed by clear weather
durlne the night The temperature ranged between 3s


and 40 the average being 5o higher than on Thursday
The amount OF moisture In the air Is large


Ceary or part cloudy weather may Do expected III
this city and vicinity fO-dav.
Year: 1879

The YORK TRIBUNE Is growing more
and more exactIuE every II Is lot Wiling now 70
allow tue average southern Editor free use OF the ef-
fective phrase - God forbdw Perhaps the day Will
come in this country when men OF prejudice VIII be
found ID the south ready 20 deny the New Lugiand de
Year: 1879

lovely pure young girl with world Of native strength
and energy ods how she steers her ra bark rocks
whrpoos constantly threaten 10 engu her Even the
strength and Of her young affections are so
many terrible uoube. Tined In the hercest fur
mace loves sake tempted by wealth
and from the strong arms that should
protection scong to yieh jot or uSe of her
honest the heroine who figures IN the intricate
Of most powerful stories written
sINLESs CRIME" truly mystical secret that battles
the readers perception The strange mystery
beginning the tale and floats before the
eyes ike the pillar in the desert Every thrill
ing werawn character tends TO darKen the
occult meaning Of the strange ite-"A SIN
LESS CRIME until at the end all is cleared and the
reader well satisfied dEds that he has participated in all the
lights and shades OF Overwhelmingly intricate hearts
drama
Year: 1879

This Is the way in which Louisville girl
disposes OF young man, according to the
COUrier-J0urn0 . You have asked me pom
tcdly If could marry you, and | have ans
wercd you pointedly that can. can marry
a man who makes love monthly to different
girl lean marry Il man whose main occupa
ton seems to be to join in gauntlet in front OF
churches and theaters and comment audiby
on the people who are compelled to pass
through it. | can marry Il man whose only
means Of support is an aged father. | car
marry man who boasts that any girl can be
won with the help OF good tailor and an ex
pert tongue. can marry such a man, but
WON'T"
Year: 1879

1t is singular that the English people are so
sensitive about peuro-pneumonia in America
That country has Lot been able to stamp II out
since its introduction. Agricultural journals
there continually report the increase Of the
disease. With her herds rotten with the con
taglOn, where is the future roast beef of old
England to come from II must be from the
United States or nowhere. Canada Is not large
ly a stock-eXporting country ION account OF
climate) and never can be-
Year: 1879

Hence this is just the subject of sponla-
neOus production at the present ii .e.
They are found in various animal juices,
preserved meats, and, in fact, in or about
various substances where the microscop-
ist will take time and trouble 10 hunt them
up. Of course they are very minute, often
having form like the silent, colorless
jointed bodies, without visible means Of
locomotion. They are apparently multi
piled by division of their bodies. They
are the first living thing found in purely
ing animal matter, and often in vegetable
matter also. Further, they are the small
est known animalcules, and as such are to-
day on account of their very littleness used
rs examples of spontaneous generation.
Doubtless an improvement in the micro
scope or the result of more extended OBJ
servation will change the views of those
scientists that now believe in the theory.
OF course this is more than probable yet
should the truth lie in either direction it
can and will be accepted. 1t is from those
infnitesmal germs, in their numerous
forms, that contagion is supposed to exist,
and as germs OF contagion l will speak Of
them in my next.
Year: 1879

DRESSING IN TIE STREET. In reference
to a recent robbery Of lady OF earring
diamonds, New York paper says: The
public thoroughftrcs are not the places for
the showing of costly ornaments, and both
her regard for her personal safety and her
good taste shoni forbid Il lady's putting
them on when she walks abroad. They
are adapted to the house and 10 full dress
occasions, and not to the streets. 1t is true
it is very rare occurrence for Il woman
to be so robbed, and thousands Of women
daily walk the most fcquentcd streets
with very valuable Jewels on their persons
in plain sight; but though they may not
be waylaid as this lady WAS in Fifth ave
nue., their expensive ornaments attract
attention, which is the purpose, we sup.
pose, for which they are worn, and invite
both the envy and the greed of m my peo-
pie who look at them. 1t is Il very pretty
sight of fine afternoon, that OF the
throng of handsome and elegantly dressed
women taking their promenade on Fifth
avenue. No other street in the world can
show faircr procession; but unless the
ladies are actually out TO make show OF
themselves, some Of them dress more
conspicuousy than is necessary, and en-
courage an amount of observation which
modest women are accustomed to regard
as impertinent. We do not apply these
remarks to the Ia Y who was SO roughly
assailed last Friday, though her expert.
ence will probably teach her to hereafter
leave her jewels ut home when she walks
out, for she was not Ostentatiously dressed
but we beg TO suggest that all ladies able
10 wear rich and snowy garments, the
taste and proprieiy OF saving them for
| other occasions and for other places than Il
promenade in the crowded thOroughfares


for which they may better choose aheil
more unobtrusive gowns. That is, if lheil
purpose is not TO put themselves on public
exhibition and to stimulate envy.
Year: 1879

WANT or COURAGE.-A great deal of
talent is lost in the world for the want of
4 little courage. Every day sends TO the
grave obscure men. who have only re-
mained in obsuurity because their timidity
has prevented them from making their first
effort, and who. if they could have been
induced TO begin. would in all probability
have gone great lengths in the career Of
fame. The ftct is in order to do ANYTHING
in this world, that is worth doing, we
must not stand shivering on the brink and
think Of the cold and danger, but jump in
and scramble as we can. 1t will not do to
he perpetually calculating risks and adj
justing nice chances 1t did very well
before the flood, when man could consult
his friends upon Il publication for one hun
dred and fifty years, and then live to see
its success for six or seven centuries after
wards; but at present, waits, and doubts,
and hesitates. and consulls his brother,
and his uncle, and his particular friends.
till one day H. finds lie is sixty years of
age; that he has lost so much time in
consulting first cousins and particular
friends that lie has no time left TO follow
their advice. There is such little times
for over squcamishness at present, the Op
pOrlunity so easily slips away, the very
period Of his life Mt which man chooses to
venture, if ever, is 50 confined that it is no
bud rule 10 preach up the necessity, in
such instances, of violence done TO feelings
and of efforts made in defiance of strict
and sober calculation.
Year: 1879

An UNPLEASANT ADvENruEE.-TwO
soldiers of an Anglo-Indian regiment near
Lucknow, left their encanpment to indulge
in Iath. They had II portion of jungle
to cross, and in doing so, the foot of one of
them slipped into hole. This proved TO
be nm old elephant trap, The soldier got
his foot withdrawn from the trap, though
at the cost of his shoe, which the closeness
of the branches caused to come off. On
looking down to see whittier the shoe had
gone, and if it were recoverable, he beheld
Il sight which made him shake from sheer
horror. Through the opening made by
his foot he saw an enormous boa constric-
tor, with its body cOlrd up and its head
curved, watching the opening above and
evidently prepared to dnrt on the falling
prey. Ilurrying from the spot the two
soldiers informed their officers, WHO
repaired to the trap with fire arms, The
creature WIS still there, and had most
probably remained in the place fer a long
time, preying on the unfortunate animals,
great and small, which tumbIed into his
den. Ball and swan-shot soon brought
the reptiles life to c'oSe, and it was
pulled cut of the hole 1t proved to be
fifteen feet long, and about the general
thickness of Il mans thigh.
Year: 1879

BATS. - Bats live their active lives in the
night; when sunlight comes they fly away
10 their holes, there to sleep until twilight
comes again, when they resume the occu'
cupalion Of insect killing. The female
bat has rather hard time Of it, as she is
the nest and the food Of her young until
they are themselves able to fly Often,
says II writer, have seen Il female bat,
with her young clinging to her breast,
flying about in search of food, and the lit
tie ones were not so small either. How
else could they grl along? The old ones
make no nest if they wanted to ever so
much they could not, and the chances are
that, fom tHcir wandering habits, they
sprud The day in one place and The next in
ano her Two or three miles distant just rs
they hcppen to be when the day ovrrlakes
them, and if they left their young behind
them, their exact locality might be forgot
ten. When the young ones are able to
shift for themselves the mothers life is
easier, md until winter comes to kill their


insect food, she lives luXuriantly. Then,
when all nature is prepared TO put on the
livery of winter. bats instead of leaving
the scenes where they have passed the
summer repair to their haunts in The
caves and walls, and hanging by thcil
hind feet, in little groups of five or six to-
gelh"r, pass the drrary season in one un-
broken sleep.
Year: 1879

Another collection of one million can
ceIed postage stamps is explained. Some
time ago Philadelphia gentleman offered
to obtain for an old lady life residence in
a home for tho friendless if she would
collect such an amount of stamps. The
undertaking enlisted the attention of Miss
Chloe Lankton of New Hartford Conn,
who began to assist the old lady. The
result is that the million Of stamps have
been gathered, the sum of eight hundred
dollar; has been paid for them, and the
collector is now enjoying II comfortable
home in tse Methodist House in Philadel-
phia.
Year: 1879

We concur fully with the editor OF the Vim


dicdtor in sustaining the noble and patriotic
course OF the New Orleans DEMOCRAT in its
defence OF the cause OF Democracy, and appeal
to the people to rally to its support. It has
certainly merited the patronage Of all true
friends OF reform OF the abuses which have
ruined and prostrated the interests and pros
perity OF Louisiana. We are largely in
debted to the bold and independent position
which they have taken In behalf OF the cause
of Democracy for our present success, and
which has provoked so much yirulence and
persecution by the opposition at the present
time to this excellent Journal. Therefore we
say to the people, sustain your State paper,
the champion of the people and the death
knell OF tyranny and Radicalism.
Year: 1879

CEDAR RAPIDS. Iowa. jan. 2s.-At Centre Point,
yesterday evening. George Davenport. while
waiting for a companion to scare the rabbit
out OF the bush when his gun slipped down


and the trigger striking the stump the con-
and cut of the top of his head. killing him in
stantly. The wound was a ghastly one, the
blood and brains being scattered around in
Year: 1879

New YoRK. Jan. 2s.-A special from London
ports that on the sixteenth instant he saw
vessel on fire. fifty miles west of Fastnet. On
70 EenasF basd ne saw ne
and was told to keep my course or / would
burn too. was told that II I made any state
look out for myself on my next voyage out.
The movements OF the steamer were myste-
rious. She did not have the appearance of a
war vessel or merchant steamer and her decks
were crowded with men.