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Year: 1877

TIE WEATHER. deep depression is advarc-
ing toward the coast from the Ohio Valley
with heavy winds aud rains From the ur-
usual distribution Of prcssurcs we anticipate
severe sto.m from the advancing area Of low
barometer. 1t may be interesting to the reader
to know that this depression has travelled
directly across the continent from the Pacific
coast, and has been attended throughout by
heavy gales. One of these probably the
cause OF the recent ovcrturnng Of the cars on
the Utah Railroad. In the northeast the
pressure is rising rapidly after the storm
area that passed of the coast in that dircc-
fion quite recently. The winds on the At
Iantic coast generally northwcsterly. In
the eastern Gulf they northcriy, ia the
western southcasterly TO southerly and in the
central and lake districts variable. The weather
New York and its vicinity to-day will DO
xurmer and cloudy with rains and increasing
sssterly winds.
Year: 1877

TRIBUNE know very well that many slight and
ill-conducted papers purportng to be devoted
to the cause of the soldier have futtered for al
brief hour and perished, and that this fact oper-
ates against the immediate success of any paper
advocating the same cause.


We refer with just pride to the numbers of
our periodical already published, as containing
articles of pith and moment upon things and
measures of immediate and palpable import
ance.


We do not hesitate to criticise fearlessly any
measure, no matter what It's source, and to ex-
press our honest opinion upon the probable
results.


We admire and regard Mr. Bentley, and con-
slider him one of the very best officers we have
ever known, but we have believed him to be in
error, and we choose to say SO because it is our
duty.


And SO we say that SO long as we control this
paper we shall lose no opportunity to attack
what we believe to be wrong and to defend
what we believe to be right.


The one claim that we make to public conf
dence and support is bold and intelligent dis
cussion of measures proposed and manly assertion
of our own carefully considered views.


We know that we have had an experience In
matters of pensions that few have reached, and
believe we can readily see the advantages or
evils of changes proposed.
/ All these qualities we mean to put into our
paper, and we do it first for the benefit of our
subscribers, and, second, for our own.


NJ IL ~, ll1cb ~ Va
prefer very greatly that the paper shall be self
sustaining, and we will not break our hearts
should it actually make money.


We send out again a iarge edition, very con-
siderably larger than our permanent snbscrip-
tion-list. We send it that all may have an
opportunity of judging of it. We send it in
the hope and expectation that all to whom
we send it will become permanent subscribers,
aud thus do us double favor, by furnishing
the benefit of their subscription-mon and re-
ducing at the same time the heavy burden OF
transient postage.


i We ask every man and woman who shall
read this number, and who believes in the i'm
scribe at once and forward their subscription tc
us. The financial condition of paper is not
the only thing benefited by large list; its
influence is largely measured by It's number Of
subscribers.


One effort by the friends of the cause will
put all difficulties out of the way and give us
all the strength we want to pursue vigorously
our appointed way


We mean to make the paper such in character
and spirit that no man interestedin the subjects
of which we treat who has once enjoyed the
reading of the NATIONAL TRIBUNE shall ever be
content to do without it.


The question is with you, readers. Will yor
help or will you give us the cold shoulder
VIII you give us the aid of the money asked
for fighting your eauseg Will you give us th'
strength of your names on our subscription-list
so that we may speak in your names and BY
your authority?
Year: 1877

RAILRoApFREIGHTs. Washington Ter
ritary sent a majority of asses to her
Legislature, and rs consequence, the bill
to regulate freight on railroads was voted
down. If there is one honest paper IN
that territoryin the interest of the people,
it should piliory every member who voted
to kill the bill, and see ii they don't have
more scads to flourish around than the
honest pay of legislators viii warrant.
Such crying in Justice as the people OF
that territory labor and groan under, IN
the unmerciful exactions Of petty rail-
roads. is enough to make horse laugh
when it Is known that ten line enact
ment BY the recent assembly would have
prevented it for all future time The
strong giant of the body corporate was
bound with the withes of the monopollsts,
through the agency Of the servants OF the
people, and 50 they viii continue bound
until they have the sense and determlna-
ton to send up representatives who VIII
obey the behests of the people rather than
pocket the pay of the corporaaonlsts.
Oregon had such legislature in her last,
and, as consequence, the locks were
opened out TO the public in such a way
that all the ingenuity OF the monopollsts
cannot devise way 10 shut them up, and
thereby inauglrate such carnival OF op-
preston as now exists in Washington ter
ritory--Greg0n City Enterprise.
Year: 1877

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.-The
great wall of China was measured in
many places by Mr.. Unthank, an Ameri-
can engineer, lately engaged on survey
for a Chinese railway. His measure
ments gave the height at eighteen feet,
and width on top Of fifteen feet. Every
few hundred yards there is 4 tower twenty
four feet square and from twenty to forty
FIVE feet high. The foundation OF the
wall is of solid granite. Mr.. Unthank
brought with him brick from the wall,
which is supposed IT, have been made TWO
hundred years before the time Of Christ.
In building this immense stone fence to
keep out the Tartars, the builders never
attempted to avoid mountains or chasms
to save expense. For one thousand three
hundred miles the wall goes over plain
and mountain, and every foot of the
foundation is solid granite, and the rest
of the structure solid masonary. In
some places the wall is built smooth up
against the bank, or canons, or preclplces
where there is sheer descent of one
thousand feet. Small streams are arched
over, but III the larger streams the wall
runs to the waters edge, anu tower Is
built on each side. On the top of the wall
there are breastworks. or defenses, facing
in and ont, SO the defending force can
pass from one tower To another without
being exposed to an enemy on either side.
To calculate the time of building or
cost of this wall is beyond human skill
So far as the magnitude of the work Is
concerned, it surpasses everything in
ancient or modern times of which there is
any trace. The pyramids OF Egypt are
nothing compared to it.
Year: 1877

OgscrR. NEN HaPPIEST IN WEDLock-
No woman viii love man the better
forbeincrenowned or prominent Though
he be the first among men she VIII Dc
pro,,der not fonder as Is often the case
She viii not even be proud But give her
love. appreciation, kindness, and there
is M sacrifice she would not make for his
content and comfort The man who loves
her well is her hero and her king. No
less hero to her, though he is not to any
other; ; no less a king though his only
kioadom is her heart and home. 1t Is
very exceptional woman who will not be
all she can be to an attentive husband.
and a very exceptional one who viii not
be very disagreeable if she finds herself
wiIlfully neglected. 1t would be easy to
hate man who having bound womanto
him made no effort to make her happy;
hard not TO love one who is constant
and tender, and when woman loves she
always strives to please The great men
OF this world have always Been wretched
in their domestic relations, while mean
and common men have been exceedingly
happy. The reason Is very PLAIN. Alb
sorbed in themselves those who desire the
worlds applause were careless to the Ut
tie world at home, while those who had
none Of this egotism strove to keep the
hearts that were their own and we're hap
DIV in their tenderness.
Year: 1877

Every day come new evidences Of the
need of an increased army to preserve order
in the Northern States. At Waterford, Pa,
few nights ago, party OF able bodied
men, well disguised, seized an unfortunate
woman, stripped her, smeared her all over
with tar, then covered her with feathers and
placed her astride rail After carrying her
about mile they left her by the roadside.
Year: 1877

LONG BRANCH, March 2.-The
steamer Rusland lies about the same as
Yesterday, although the surf has been
high. The weather wa. so thick at times
to-day that one could hardly see the
steamer from tho shore. The lighters
that came down yesterday had to leave.
Nothing has been done towards dis
charging the cargo, it being too rough
to work in the surf boats. The Coast
Wrecking Companys steamer Relief has
been anchored of shore about half mile
waiting for orders. A huge pump Of the
Wrecking Company was put to work for
a while to-day, dischsrging barrel OF
water each second, but seemed 10
make no impression on the water IN the
ship. Tie steamer still crush.s out the
timbers of the old ship Adonis, and the
shore is strewn with fragments for miles.
TIE bow OF the steamer resting on the
o;d wreck does no. sink, but the stern is
settling badly; it is at least loot lower
to-day than yesterday. rhe longshore-
men say the ship shows signs o'weakness
and do not hesitate to assert that she will
never be got off and that it Hdoubtful
whether the cargo can be saved.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, March 2l.- With the
exception o. Vice President Wheeler,
who is expected to head the Louisiana
Commission, only one invitation has
been extended by the President, that be-
ing Senator David Davis, OF Illinois, who
it appears is somewhat reluctant to sc-
cept the office, because of the attention
required to be given by him just now to
other matters. The President is reluc-
tant to speak OF the gentlemen who have
been spoken of in connection with
this mission, but it is freely admitted
that the wish of the Government
is that it shall constitute delegation
second to none that has ever had IN its
keeping a question of such momentous
interest. Upon the appointment OF such
a commissionto examine into the condl-
tion of Louisiana, there is no room to
doubt the absolute unanlinlty OF the
Cabinet.


Up to this time little has been done in
the Cabinet so Tar as oouth
Carolins ls conceaned. Another
session, which will be held to-
morrow or upon the day alter
will finish this question, and it can also
bo taken as positive that the settlement
of affairs in South Carolina will not in
volve the sending OF commission to
that State


The President will soor. issue procIs-
nation calling Congress together on the
1.h of June.


Alter the determination OF the South
Carolina question the Cabinet will give
attention to some appointments OF
prominence in cases where commissions
will soon expire.
Year: 1877

At a Cabinet meeting yesterday, 1t
was resolved to call a special session OF
Congress about Monday, June 4. The
extra session of Congress is made neces-
ssry in this way: The House passed the
army appropriation bill at the last session,
attaching proviso requiring the Presi-
dent to withdraw the army from political
duty and detail it to the performance
of its constitutional duties. This, Mr.
HAYES political friends in the Senate
would not agree to, hence the bill making
provision for the maintenance OF the
army fell between the two honses. Now,
HAYES has been telling the people of the
South and Of the country all along, that
il is his intention 10 withdraw the troops
from their illegal work in South Caro-
lima and Louisiana; but so far he las
failed to keep his word.


At the same Cabinet meeting at which
it was resolved to call Congress together
for the purpose of voting supplies to the
army, it was resolved not to withdraw
the troops as props to the carpet-bas
governments in the two PROSTATE and
bleeding States. If Mr.. HAYES intends
to persist in this policy, it Is hardly worth
his while to call together Democratic
House with a hope that it will sppro-
pris,e money to enable him to continue
to defy the Constitution, the laws and
al overwhelming public sentiment on
this subject.
Year: 1877

MANNERS AT TABLE.--As do the old Sc
will the children do. If, when child
asks for biscuit, it is picked up by the
parent and handed around one at time,
or thrown to the child, there is no chance
to reprOve the child when it does the
same to the parent. When parent eats
with knife, and forgets to use the fork,
the child is warranted in doing the same
A chatty, cheerful table is always to be
desired, free from formal stiffness; but
freedom is not rudeness, ease is not boor-
ishness; good breeding will show its
presence quicker at table than in the par
lar or saloon. Let parents be careful to
set the example, and the children will
not be slow to do likewise.
Year: 1877

Two stories of suicide are in all minds
tO-day-One Of them a story of life in a
palace, the other a story of life in a ten
ement house. The actors in the two ter
rible dramas were socially as far removed
from each other as the poles. The one
was rich the other poor; the one refined
the other without culture. The one
lived in luxury with friends in abund-
ance, with wealth and with all the com
forts that wealth can provide; the other
lived in narrow quarters, upon scanty
food and with little or no comfort. One
thing only they had in common. and
that was intoieIable wretchedness, and
the wretChedness was wrought in both
cases by alcohol.


In one case it was a poor workingmap.
who gave way to despair and killed his
children and himself because his wife
was drunken. In the other a refined.
cultured, sensitive woman, young wife
who had all that wealth and social coz
nections could procure, who was account
ed particularly fortunate and happy, vol
unfairly went to her death to escape the
intolerable torture of life with husband
who was q victim Ofstrong drink.


With thesC tragical stories for text it
would be easy to write sermon; but the
lessons that the story suggest are trite
and worn with much reiteration. The
stories themselves carry their moral with
them as similar stories told every day in
the newspapers dc, and they who heed
them not would not heed even though
one should rise from the dead.-N J
kUeTing Post.
Year: 1877

There was once famous sign over
a large hotel in London. There were
three men, one standing on the shoul-
ders of the other. On the top stood
the King, the crown on his head, the
purple on his shoulders, the sceptre
In his hand, and beneath it was the
legend, I GOVERN ALL" Below
him stood the Soldier, and from his
lips came the words, 81 FIGHT FOX
ALL" Below him came the Parson
robed in black and his hands meekly
folded, and he said "I PRAY FOR
ALL" Below them all stood the
Brawny Worker with apron at his
front and the mallet in his hand. Upo
his brawny shoulders stood the three
Superintendents, and from his lips
came thls legend, 81 PAY FOR ALL.


This story illustrates the fact thai
upon the workingmen re ts the bur-
dens of government, and when ma
tion is administered as this is at pres
ent, to the advantage of the bondhotd-
ing fe,c at the expense of the tdboring
many we undermine the very founda-
tion of the whole social fabric. Labor
becomes scarce, wages decline, busi-
ness fails, prosperity vanishes, and the
permanency of the government itself
is reduced to q question of the length
of time the industrial interests can
carry the ever increasing load. Pass
the Silver bill, repeal the Resumption
act, and unload in time.
Year: 1877




A little girl came into our oihce aud IN
beseeching tone requested that we should buy
from her the privilege to cast a vote for a pair
OF gold bracelets to he presented by some
Temperance Association to the young lady re-
ceving the largest number Of votes. Her
grown sister Was a candidate, and the little
ten year old child was making canvass in
her behalf. a friend was standing by who
pronounced this practice Of canvassing NUS
sance. and suggested that j; was the duty Of
the press to publicly rohuke it. We half
promised to do so, and thought we would, but
how can we? Just as We had prepared our
bill Of indictment the appealing face Of thai
little child stole across the paec and entered
plea Of oxcusable carncstncss, and sitting rs
an impartial court we were compelled TO adj
NIT the soundoess Of the pleading. II it hal
been man who approached US thus we
could have told him that be was engaged in
very small business and have dismissed his
presence. Or lift had even been woman, we
could have suggested that she might have
found more suitable employment. But as lt
was only sweet earnest, pleading child, we
fell, that TO Ler The work was as important and
as real as that which The business man finds in
his world. To the banker, the merchant, the
manufacturer, or the Professional man with
his world Of business before and around hin,
tho work Of the little girl may haze seemed
insignificant, and when interrupted in bis work
to listen to her little request, may have pro-
nounced her a nuisance Bot did he stop 20 re-
fec, that the child world is as real TO the child
as the mans world is 30 ,he man, he would
listen to her with moro consideration. What
if these grave little men aud women with
their puagy features sneirei with dirt and
molasses do come 10 Us with their childish
p,ans. are we TO crush them out? Their
world ministers 10 their pleasures and 70 their
necessities In their world all the riches Of the
greatest miliouares DO not represent 10 them
what the sunshine, the flowers, a doll, jack
knife. mothers kiss, mean 20 these small
atoms Of humanity Please, sir, give nc
ten cents for vote" was said with inst as
much carnestness ~ the merchant betrays
in an neifort 10 sell his goods TO customer, md
the bank president about to embark 10 some
business speculation could not feel more anxi-
ETY. than that which played upon the face Of
the child canvasser. 7. may be a nuisance,
but il not justl6able is at least SO eScusablcibat
instead Of condemning, we have been coz
strained TO advocate the cause ofthc children
Whed,ng Regisier.
Year: 1877

Never be afraid OF becoming an "olj maid,
fair reader. An old maid i, far more homo
able than a heartless wife. and single blessed
ncss" is greatly superior in point of happiness
TO welded life without love Fall not in
love. dear girls beware says the song. Bu.
we do not agree With tie scng on this ques-
ton. On the contrary, we hold that it is
good thing to fall 10 loyc, II the loved object
be a worthy one. To AL in love with an
honorable man is as proper as it is for an
honorable man TO fall il love with a yihuous
and amIable woman ard what could be
more gratifying spectacle even to the angels
in heaven, than sight 50 pure-so approach
ing in its devotion % the celestial?


No; fall in love as soon as you please, la
dies provided II be with suitable person.
Fall 10 love- spd then marry but never mar
ry unless you do love. That's the great point.
Never marry merely for "a home or "a bus
band i" Never degrade yourself by becoming
a party 10 such an alliance. Never sell your
self, body and soul. on terms 90 contemplate.
Love dignifes all things, it ennobles all con-
ditions. With love the marriage rite is truly
a sacrament. Without it The ceremony IS a
base fraud, aud the act human desecration.
Marry for love or not all BE an "olJ maid
If fortune throw not 10 your way the man Of
your heart and tho the wiiless may sneer,
and the jester may laugh. you will still have
your reward 10 an approving conscience aud a
CON paratively peaseful life.
Year: 1877

subject. It this should prove to be
the fact, which tits most probable is
doubtful, no such agreement could
be binding, as no one had the power
or tho right to contract it. II Major
Burko, acting for Governor Nichols,
undertook to make such a contract
no one in Louisiana knew Of it but
he and Gov. Nichols, and neither
has any power in the premises. It
had been tondly supposed that we
had heard the last of the Louisiana
business in Congress. We have been
congratulating ourselves too soon. 1t
is ali to be raked up again from the
beginning. The wrongs of Louisiana
will again be the fruitful text for the
contending parties in Congress to
doScant upon, and in the discussion
over the settlement of the Louisiana
question will the opposers and the
upholders of the Presidents policy
make their big fight.


THE EXTRA SESSION.


Friends Of the President now ad-
NIT freely that it was a mistake for
him not TO have called the extra ses4
sion of Congress last month, and they
think that he realizes this hims eff
Had he called tho session for the
first week of juno Congress would
have come together at time when
the disafected in the Presidents own
party had formed no plans, and were,
in fact, halting between two opinions,
and when most all, if not every one
Of them, could have been propitia~
ted by tho wise distribution of exc
cu'ivo favors. In October the case
will be vastly different. Abundant
opportunity will have been affo, ded
tor tho interchange Of opinions and
formation Of plans. The .fices will
by that time have boen mostly dis.
posed of, all the disappointed Office
seek ers will be ready to take mp the
hue and cry of the leaders in the re
volt. Finally, if the fall elections
shall have resulted disastrously to
the Republican party, the blame will
fall entirely upon tho President, and
this will strengthen very much the
Republican opposition to him.
Year: 1877

Torpedo balloons are proposed by
correspondent of the Scientific
American. The idea is to float the
balloons over the enemy, and drop
the torpedo by means Of electricity
sent over aiwire. 1t is calculated
that a city could be totally destroyed
in this way by dropping a sufficient
quantity of nitro~glycerine.
Year: 1877

\ BAD CoNDluUN'-Mrxicoi is the coun-
Try which the republican leaders at Wash
ingron desire this Republic to pattern after
That unfortunate land has now three Presi-
dcntS--Or Two, raiher-Une Of the three
having been taken prisoner and divested OF
nli pcwer. The p. iiticians and soldiers there
pay no attention TO the will of the people as
expressed at the polls, and the Consequence is
here is continual anarchy ana distress. As
il i in Mexico, SO will it be in this country
If the people allow themselves to be over-rid-
den By the politicians and office holders who
have at their command the baYonets of the
regular army. Last November the voters
of the United States chose President
in the person of Samuel J. Tilden, of New
York, ty vast majority; but this President
the men who axe now in power at Washing
ton propose TO set aside for the purpose of inau-
gura'iug his defeated competitor, Mr. Hayes
The question now Is. will the people permit
this? Will they allow themselves to be
tramprd on in this way snd their votes
treated as though they had never been cast {?
If they do, then all hope for the future may
as well he abandoned and all filth in the
permanency of republican governmeutihrown
away. The people of this country shudder
at the ihunght of this orce free government
b ing reduced to condition like that of
Mexico But such will inevitably be The re-
suit unless they insist on their will being re-
srec'ed and abided by. If they allow the
cunspirators at Washington TO succeed in the
infamous design which they now have in
contemplation. there viii be no end TO the
evils that will follow. Oyerset the coasti-
turiou and defy the laws to the extent OF in
eugurating the defeated candidate over the
rightfgl President, and anarchy will at once
usurp the throne of ponce, and desOlation
and wre'chedness prevail. Bad as is the
condition of Mexico. that condition is hap
piness compared 10 what the situation would
be- IN this republic. Are the people thinking
of these thingsE We earnestls hope they are,
for they concern not only the political, but
the social and moral welfare of every man in
the country.
Year: 1877

negro being asked what he was in Jail for.
said it was for borrowing money. Bot, said
the questioner, they don't put people in jail
for borrowing money Yes said the darkey,
but had to knock the man down free o. f.
times befo lie would lend it to me-