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Bismarck, D. T.f Nov. 13, 1875. THE TRIBUlfE- the Tri-Weekly TRIBUNE made its appearance on Monday. In this respect the TBIBUKB takes another step forward the enlargement of the Weekly to doable its former size, of course, follows And now is a fitting time to announce its determination to hereafter be Repub lican in politics, but it *will aim to be candid, just and courteous in its edito: rial expressions rather than offensive to those who entertain contrary views. For upwards of two years the TBIBUNB maintained its Independent character but the field for an independent journal was found too small, and the writer found that while he was gaining no credit for independence he was con stantly misunderstood and misrepre sented because he was not neutral. And while the field for a Republican paper may be still smaller,we have cho sen to pin those colors to our masthead, confident that a few will rally round them. And they shall go down only with the ship. As the TBIBUMB has been contsantly improved in tone and appearance since April, 1874, so its publishers will con tinue to improve it in the future, their special aim being to build up a newspa per which will be commended for its integrity and sprigbtliness. Congress meets early in December. The territorial division bill will be in troduced at the beginning of the ses sion, and our people Should leave no stone unturned to secure its passage and the advantages that will follow. We have many strong frietids in Con gress,but it is possible others should be sent to support th'jm. judge Kidder will make the bill his pet and will put it through if it is among the possibili ties. .WVshottld haven strong ally in £ol Kingbut forihis erabarrolaments, but Coll King i* not robbed of his strength, eVen- If the Philistines.hate laadeaerfous inroads on his reputation* as they will discover ere long. Senator McMillan assures the Writer tfiai he wiM do all in his power to push tire matter, and he will undoubtly takr up the contest where Senator Ramsey left it. Wo are' confident that the measure is so just that even the Demo crats will not think it becomes them to defeat it. Partisan opposition on their part ia the House is all we have to fear. The petitions for division will be ready for circulation to-morrow. Many of our readers are familiar with the Lick murder trials in St. Paul. AH concerned, three in number, were found guilty and one sentenced to be hung. Now a son of the murdered wo man causes the arrest of her husband, who, on the occasion of the murder, was seriously injured, charging him with the murder. This was the theory of th* defense and they seem to have prevailed upon the step-son to take the same view, but the evidence was eon elusive against the convicted ones. The following good joke is got off on Safe Bowles, of the Spriagfield Repub lican: The other day Sam Bowles went to church, in Springfield, Mass., and, feel ing the .effect of his severe editorial la bors through the week, fell to napping. By-and-by he was awakened by the preacher, who struck h's desk and shou ted: 4,Who shall be able to stand up in the presence of the Lord on that aw ftil day? And Sam Bowles, rising in his pew, remarked: "Charles Francis Adams is the only man lhat can do it and I nominate him for that position. The greatest revival of the age is an tieipatcd in Brooklyn throagh the labors or Moody and Sankey. There is no place that needs & revival more than Brooklyn, and a cotemporary suggests that the first efforts of the praying band should be devoted to Brothers Beecher and Shearman with a view to their conversion. The defeat of the Tam many people in New York would in dicate that Gotham too is ripe for conversion. Weather items are the execption in the THIBUXE but the Almighty never made weather more delightful than Bis »inarckers have enjoyed for two weeks past. The roost exaggerated* seemingly descriptions of Indian summer would scarcely do the subjectjustice. Gen. Hazen admits that pen can not portray the beauties of ear Dakota Indian sum mer. It seems the story of Orville Grant's and Gen. Babcock's indictment in St.: Louis for complicity in revenue frauds was false. About thirty of those in dicted plead guilty and were sentenced accordingly* It seems the Galveston disaster was the result of a lightning stroke. So far no passengers have been recovered nor the bodies of any dead. Minneapolis now leads St. Paul in population by about 2,COO. St. Paul 33,000 Minneapolis, 35,000. And St. Paul concedes this fact. Split tickets of almost every possible combination were peddled in Minneapo lis on election day. There were at least fifty of these combinations. Cowen, it is said, will go out of the the Interior Department, stud will be succeeded by fir. Barber, at present Tkira Assistant Postmaster General. The libel suit of Bowen against the Brooklyn Eagle was set down for trial on the 8th inst. So the Beecber busi ness is liable to last for some time yet. It was Voltaire who said'that it is more easy to write about money than to have it and those who have it laugh at those who can only Write'about it--" Gen. Longstreet has pnfehased a half interest in a hotel' in Gainesville! G., and will see whether he "knows how^o keep a hotel*" ^Xhe Prince of 7 •t That. Saratoga treasurer flourished many years on the people's money-sib' leo in a noval manner, but he finally came to grief. These arc Vs*d timos fpr defaulting officers. v- Wales seems .t^be hav- ing'S high old'time in India., rA'proph et Js not without lionorsjfve in'hisown country and iiis owr. 'family,Is a inflec tion sometimes irtdul^ed l^yUbe Prince Col. W.f.S. King.and John G. Shu maker, the Pacific Mail "attorneys,1 are in Washfngton. The littirhds just fre-. turned from EuropeJind.',tne former is trying to obtain a hearing,.beforp the meeting' of Congress* 11 11 There are said to be 1,000,000,000 bees in California, ^.fter spelling the name of their favorite poet, Bret Harte, a few million times, more or less, it re quires the use of1 all the remaining B's to tell about the wonderful 'Big Bonanza. I 111' Tie St. Paul Dispatch don't enthuse over the election a bit. It says: 44 have emptied five bushels of rejected political communications, which had ac« cumulated upon our table, into the waste basket, and shall invest the pro ceeds, derived from the rag man, in pocket handkerchiefs, with which to wipe our weeping eyes. The Minneapolis Mail d'd not cover itself with glory in the .recent election. It opposed Charley Gllmaii ana he was re-electei to the House of Representa tives. It raised the standard of revolt against Pfoender and led the column of his defamers, and lo he was elected and in all Hennepin county Dike, to whom it gave its support, received twenty votes. The Washington Star details the efforts of the Post Master General to break up the straw bids in that depart ment in relation to carrying the msils in the southwest by which it appears one firm cleared over $75,000 last year selling out contracts. The Government has broken up this business in many instances altogether and in others has secured a reduction of about fifty per eent. in the cost of carrying the mails. Lieut. Crittenden met with a serious accident at Abercrombie, Inst week. While out hunting he exploded a car tridge with a knife and a piece of the shell was blown into one eye, and the other filled with powder, lie will lot-e one of them and possibly the other. He had but recently joined the 17th Infanta? from West Point. We 'J 7 ,J Aaa «l-' Il was Asa Brasbear iiimsei^ if hp' told thest^ry. Asa, as everybody Louis ville knows, is not unacqiaaiqjted with! cards. It it possible that he ia better, acquainted with the Queen, of Clubs than he is with the Queen of Shebt. Kt is probable that the blue apd gold ofthe King of Diamonds is' a more familiar custom to him than the picture of Solo* mon arrayed in all bis glory. It ia also highly probable that Asa ia fond oft social glass or two. Bat this is how he happened to tell the story: Asa is lame of one leg, and we asked him one day what was the matter with the defective limb. 44 How did I happen to break my leg, did you say? Well, it was a carious thing, and I'll tell you about it. You see I'd been drinking pretty bard for a week or so, and thought I'd lay off and get over it. I live up in the third story, thirty feet or so from the ground, and my window comes almost down to the floor. It's mighty easy to fall out of that window, and there's^ a brick pave ment down below which isn't as soft aa a feather bed. So you see a fellow that'd fall down there would be mighty apt to hurt himself* I fell down there once, and I know bow it is myself. 44 It was nearly dark when I went tg my room that evenfhS and ,1 thought I'd sleep awhile and see if the trouble in my head wouldn't stop. It was a whizzing sort of feeling, and I didn't feel exactly right about what I saw. (n fact, the last drink jt took lhat day there was a .fiy in it at,least Ithougbt so, but Jimmy, who wasbehindrthebay, looked sort o' funny whea a^kedhim to take it out.- Howsoever, Isoonfell asleep, and slept, I don't know bpw long but I woke up rather suddenly, apd heard a strange kind of noiseoCtt side the ,door. It wasawiul dark, and the noise on- the stepssbunded like, a thousand men with, felt slippers on striking a ihousand rattan canes on 04 steps, and all in military line. All at once music struck up,:.,.but. the door suddenly operied^ and a blate o' light came in that blinded me bq that I cop Id n't see any more than when, .the door was shut. When I got. over, the daze, looked down on ih^ flooT, and there wasa long file of saJdiers^not ope of 'era higher'n my finger,, fall a marchi)^ into, t^e room, headed by a band of pin sic, and with the Kurnel, who. Wasn't bigger'n any p' tbe r,est: of 'em, mounted non %&prse\f:o^respjon'41ny t1:Well*'they marched in to the room ^and formed in files in front of my bed, andItwhs looking:atall the tiqae. Wheni they had, all got fixed in pjroper ranks, the fellow on trie horse got down and the band stopped play ing.,. After he touched tho floor the Kurnel cojn menced to, grow and before he stored growin'he was as much as gighifget tall. I kept a lookin'. at himalithe time, and then he got upon the bed ahil took a screw from his pocket and .screw edit into the eealin'. Then ^e ®topped down again and caught one 'o them lit tle soldiers by the nape of the neck and' tied a string around his neck and step ped upon the bed. And.I was a lookin' at him all the: time. Then he tied the other end of the String short up on the screw, and let. go, a'.,the. little soldier. The poor little feller kicked around for awhile and grew black in the face and then died I s'pose at least he didn't make any more fuss that night. When the Kurnel saw he was dead hegot down1 again, and as soon as he torched the floor he began to groir smaller and smaller until he was no bigger'n he was at first. Then he got on his horse ahd the band commenced to play, and he shouted, Forward, march,' and the lit tle soldiers commenced marchin' out of the room. 44 Now, there was one little soldier that seemed to be watchin' me all the 'time, and when the rest of 'em commen ced marchin' opt, he slipped back from one? file to the other, and so on until htf had got to the rear rank. When the la*t of the little soldiers but him had got out of the door, this little chap he came runnin' back to the bed and says: "4 Asa, put down your leg.' Well, I put down my leg and the little cuss climbed straddle my foot. Now, Asa,' says he, up in the bed.' 411 put my leg up on the bed agaijn« and the little soldier ran up to the side of my pillow. 44 Asa.' savs he,' did'you see the Kur nel hang that little soldier 44 4 Yes,' says I, I was a lookin' at him all the time.' 44 4 Well, Asa,' says he,' he's a com in' back to do the same thing to you in a minute.' 44 4 Good'God,' aays I, do?' 44 4 T:' .. :!M,"-, 4,4 44 4 4 what must I Asa, says he, very solemn, 4 only thing you can do is just to jump out o' that winder.' *4 And I jumped. And that'a how I happened to break ray leg." The writer then enquired of Asa what he supposed was the explanation of what he saw in the room. 44 Well," says Asa,44 after I was taken back to my room, and the doctor had Set my leg, I told him all about it, ahd he laughed and said he ^Opposed it lias the iimjams. And I s'pose it was thefn, tco. the "U frrnn-SevsttikulfaQd*. ceatrivanceft) aodi *4 ith«/ |alf aduffers waited Jearsh«for.' thrtr.cyyttituoltg). The upper shelves thecUietiiit/thii VaniMrheytten^ konls vevtf crowded muatering ^grouod Cor the in curables, «od iUcapablea of bevs^iold belongings. might faxwy thea» Hotel des Iavalides of tbings wo»nded and' fractured ilk the general battle jof life, There4Were hladea of knives with-! out handles, and handlea without blades there were ancierit tea-pots that leaked— but might be mended, and doubtless would be of somejgood in a future dfcy there were cracked plates and tea cupa there wero china dish covers without dishes to match a co|fee-mill: that wouldn't grind, and shears that wouldn't cut, and snuffers that wouldn't snuff in short, every specif of decayed .utility. Miss Dorcas had in the days ef her youth been blest with a brother of an active, inventive turn of mind the secret crypts and recesses of the closets bore marks of his unfinished projections. There were all tthe 44 wheels and weights and other internfd confusions of a clock, which he had pulled to pieces with a view of introducing an improvement into the machinery, which never waS in troduced but the wheels and weights, were treasured up with pious care, wait ing for wmebedy to put them together giain. All this srray of litter was fated to come down from its secret recesses, sat deep,, dark closets, its high shelves and perches, oft tiro solemn days of the year devoted to nouse-cleaning, when Miss Dorcas,'like a good general, looked' them over and reviewed them^ expatiat ed on their probable capabilitiest and resisted gallantly any suggestions of Black Dinah, tiweook and maid of all work, or Mrs. Betsey, that isome order ought to be taken te .rid the house of them. i.- Dear me, Dorcas," Mrs. Betsey would aay, 44whatis theuseof keeping such a clutter and litterof things that nothing can be done with and that never ean:be iused -il fj :-:i4 Beteoy Ann Benthusen/' would, be tthte reply, 44_you always tre .a careless little thing. You never understood any moreabout housekeeping, than a cfnary bird—not a bit^V rt Aq Mass. |)orca^'s view, Mrs. Betsey^ with her snow'white curls and ber caps^was still a frivolous j^oung creature, qotpfit tor be trusted with a serioua 0p)Aipu jOt\ the, nicer poiQtftofhouseholdu»anagemfn^ "Jjfowt Who knowsBet^ny^ but.1 some tiqae, vi may meetsome poorw^rthyyqjung man who may be atrijggling along as an in ventor and may like to have, thesa Wheels and weights t' I'm sure brother. Dick said they, were wonderfully well WfelU but,Dorcaa. all thpse cracked cups and broken, pitchers 1 do think -tbey.'Mre.drcadAiiV'» .:•»« .? y.! Now, Bfetsey,! fh^ *p.! (Fye the Family" waa! a solemn, venerable and awe-inspiring reality. What, or why, or bow it was no mortal could Say.' Old Jacoh 'Vanberheyden, the grand father, had been in his day busy among famous And influential men, and had even been to Europe as a sort of attache to the first American diplomatic corps. He had been also a thriving merchan t, and got to himself houses, and lands, and gold and silver. Jacob Vanderhey den, the father, had inherited substance and kept up the good name of the femi-' ly, and increased and_ strengthened its connections. But his son and«heir, Dick Vanderheyden, Miss Dorcas's elder brother, had seemed to have no gifts but those of dispersing, and had mud dled away the family fortune in all sorts pull your leg of speculations and adventures as fast as his father and grandfather toad made it. The sisters had been left with an income much abridged by the im prudence of the brother and the spend thrift disposition of Mrs. Betsey's hus band they were forsaken by the re treating waves of rank and fashion their house, instead of being a center of good society, was encompassed by those ordinary buildings devoted to pur poses of trade whose presence is deem ed incompatible with genteel residence. And yet, through it all, their confidence in the rank and position of their family continued unabated, the old house, with every bit of old, queer fbrniture in it, the old window-curtains, the old tea cups and saucers, the old bed-spreads and towels, all bad a sacredness, such as pertained to no modern things. Like the daughter of ZiOn in sacred song, Miss Dorcas 44 saapaai of rthe psst.. fperfwbre picces of.every had tvii %frn 'of *£11 fret sis ter's gowns, and ^f the mortal habili ments of many ahd many one beside robes«f brides who had long been turn ed to dust fragments of tarnished gold** lace from old court dresses ffcdecl* Crumpled, artificial flowers,, once worn on the head of beauty gauzes and tissues, old and wrinkled, that had Once set off the triumphs Of the gay—all mingled in ber crypts and drawers and tranks, Sdd ea£h had its story, fiach, held in her 'withered hand, brought back to memory the thread of some ro mance Warm with the color and flavor of a lite long passed away. Then there were collections, saving and medicinal for Miss Dawson had in great force thai divine instinct of womanhood that makes her perceptive of the healing pdwer inherent in all things. Never an orange or ah apple was pared on her premises when the peeling was' not carefully garnered— dried on newspaper^ ahd neatly stored away ik paper bags for sick-room useev Tuere were closets smelling of elder blow, catnipv feverfew and dried rose leaves, which grew in a bit of old garden soil back Of the house a spot sorely retrenched and cutdoWii'from the ample proportions it used to bav*, as little by little had been soid ofl^ but still retain ing a few growing things, in Which Miss DorcaS^ delighted. The lilacs tbatonoe Were bushes there had grown gaunt and high, ahd looked in at the chamber win dows with an antique ahd grandfktheriy air quit* ai apiece with everything else about the old vamterheyden house. The andieht Sisters had" few outlets into the society of modemNew ¥ork Now and- then, ta attay viSit came from some elderly' person who still remem bered the Vanderheydeps, ahd, perhaps, about once a year they went to the ex pense of a carriage to return the call, and rolled'Up into the new part of the toforh like shadows of the past. But, generally, their path oi life .led within the ftftrroW' limits Of the hoitse. f^Old Dinah, the soU black servant remaioiag, was the last remnaut of former retinue of negro servants held by old Jacob When New York was -a slave State, and a tribe of black retainers was one of the osfenutions of health. All were gOhe now, and only Dinah remained, deVotecf tlci the relics 'of th^ old family, clinging with a cat-like attachment to theo1d|lSce .iy She was like maoy of her race/4 jolly hearted, {pig 44 took pleasure in their dust and favored the stones thereof." The old blue willow patterned china, with mandarins standing in impossible places, and bridges and* pagodas grow ing up, a£ the world was made, out of nothing, was to Miss Dorcas consecrated porcelain—even its broken fragments" were impregnated with the sacred flavor of ancient gentility. Miss Dorcas's own private and per* s6ual closet's, drawers ahd baskets were hSadied, giggling, faithful "old creature, Who-• Said heSr4 5of a kind of new^eownfr jthaV they are ^manufacturing in Londo,\ihat makes. old china' better than, new and when they, get it over here^ I'm gomg to mend these jalt up. You wp^ldn't have mie throw away qhina, would ybu The Word family, qhina" was. a settler, for both Mrs. Betsey and Miss DorcaS and- old' Dinah -were united in one fundamental«cticle:of .faith: that 44 44 W^ll Ditiah Dorcis. 44 11 44 Yem'm" to 'Miss Doraas, and-took her own way about most' matters and Miss' Dorcas, satisfied that hWr Way was not, on.the Whole, a bad one'in itie ultimate results, winked at her iree handling of orders, and ,consented to'accept her, as we do Nature, for what could be got out of Iwr*. They aW going to- have -mince-pie and broiled chicken for dinner over theref" said Mrs. Betsey, when the two laclWs were sested St their own dinner tablethat dayJ ''^How in the world did you know that asked Miss Dorcas. met 44 their sir! in at the provision store, and struck up'an acquaintance, and Went in to help hev put tip 'a bedstead,' and so she stopped a while in the kitchen.. The tall gentlc Qun with black hair tb the busband—I thought all the white he was/' Mid Mrs. Betsey.,v The- other One is aMr. Fel- lbwS, a great" Triend' of theirri Mary griff'( ni'r- t4Mary .:? •?. !~who'lii! Mary said Mis^ Why, Mary MtfArthur^their girl— they only k^ One, but she has a'little 'daughter about e^bt years old to help.. wish we hid a little girl, or something. that one ihight train for a waiter to answer, door-beM* Ind do litile things." 44 Our door-bells don't calt for* much, attention, and little girl is nothing but )a plague," interposed MissDorcas. 44 Dinah ha& quite fallen in love with Mrs,' Henderson," said Mrs 'Betsey she ssys that she is the hsndsomest, plainest-spoken lady she's seen for a great while.'* We'll call upon her when they get well settled^"' said'Miss Dorcas*defi nitely. 44 Miss Dorcas settled this with the air of a princess. She felt that such a meritorious little person as the one over the way ought to be encouraged by peo ple or good old families. Our readers will observe that Miss Dorcas listened wiihout remonstrance^ and with some appearance of interest to the items about minced-pie and broiled chickcn but high moral propriety, as we all know, is a cold, windy height and if a person is placed on it once or twice a day, it is as much as ought to be demanded of human weakness. For the rest of the time one should be allowed, like Miss Dorcas, to repose upon one's laurels. And,,after all, it i.s interesting, when life is moring in a very stagnant current, even to know what your neighbor has for dinner (Continued next week*) i. ..I •Chicago was garrisoned by a regiment if Militia on the occasion of the recent election.