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Hcrrill, 1'asl Commander-in-Chief of ihc Grand Army of the Jiejmblic, says: u17ic hold advocacy of The National Tribune of ihc rights of the soldier elicits my hearty approval. Keep on as you have began, and do not consider your work accomplished until every soldier icho is entitled to a pension receives it, and every soldia-'s tcidow and every soldiers child arc provided for bf ) ihc Govern ment. . Signed) Geo. S. Merrill." Washington, D. C, June 2-i, 1SS2. I cordially approve of the endorsement given by Past Commander-in-Chief Merrill to TllK National Tribune. I consider it the ablest j,apcr devoted to the interests of the soldier pub lished in ihc country. I earnestly commend it to all comrades of the Order. Pail VanDervoort, Commander-in-Chief. G. A. B. Ask your friends to subscribe for The National Tribune. At one dollar' per year it is the cheapest and best weekly newspaper published, and especially valua ble to ll ex-soldiers and sailors. The Department of Virginia lias the honor of receiving the first visit from the new Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army. Who Avould have thought twenty years ago that what' was then the theatre of war would one day be the home of so many ex-Union soldiers ? If Northern men continue to emigrate to the Old Dominion in such numbers as they are now doing the time may come when the Department will muster a very large membership. TnE National Tribune ought to be kept on file in every Post and at the headquar ters of every Department of the Grand Army. Its weekly record of events in the Order is invaluable for reference. Price only one dollar per year. H aryest is now in progress in many of the western and northern States, and the crop reports bear out the early predictions of a plentiful yield of all cereal products. There is no longer reason to apprehend any disaster to our agricultural interests or any resulting depression in the general busi ness of the country. We shall have some thing to be thankful for next Thauksgiving day, after all, and every soldier can afford to spare a dollar for The National Tkibune. Midsummer, is already upon us, bring ing in its train abundant crops and the promise of renewed industrial activity. It is the season of the year, too, for the holding of soldiers' Reunions in all sections of the country, and the friends of The National Tribune should seize the opportunity to make a vigorous canvass for new subscribers. We have extended the period during which subscriptions will be received at the low rate of one dollar per year to October 1st with a special view to this fact, and we .rust our ex-soldiers and sailors will hasten o avail themselves of our offer. If every me of our subscribers will send us the iaiv.es of three or four of our friends, we hall be well content, and we cannot help hinking that the good work which The national Tribune has done in the inter st of the soldier during the present session f Congress entitles it to all the assistance bat its friends can render in the way of extending its circulation. We rkgket to learn that the probabili ties of the Senate concurring in the House b'll granting an increase to $40 a month of a1! pensioners who lost a limb in the service ai.-not such as to encourage us to believe tiiut the measure will become a law at the present session of Congress. There is really no excuse for this delay on the part of the fc'enatc.- The subject was thoroughly con sidered when it came before the House, and the justice of the increase promptly recog nized. Let our Senators do a graceful act by disposing of the inoosuro before adjourn ing. The increase, though slight, will prove of great benefit to our suffering veterans. Let it pass at once. ronnr "Wise, Pound 1'oollsh. The conflict between the British naval forces in the harbor of Alexandria, com manded by Admiral Seymour, aril the Turk ish garrison, nominally under the authority of the Khedive, but actually under the personal control of Arabi Pacha, Minister of War, has at last begun. In addition 'to the magnificent fleet of war ships now engaged in bombarding Alexandria and the iron-clads that have been dispatched to reinforce the Mediterranean squadron, troop-ships and transports with 8,000 picked men the flower of the British army have sailed for Gibraltar, whence they can be sent as an army of occupation wherever occasion may demand. Add to this ibat several regiment3 of natives and regulars have been dispatched from Bombay to guard the lower lino of the Sues canal, and it will be seen that England will soon be in a position to give Arabi Pacha all flic fighting he is likely to want, in spite of his boast that having defied all Europe he could easily take care of Jobn Bull, acting alone and independent of the other powers. The fact is, that England is for ouo thoroughly in earn est. Her pocket nerve has been touched and the sensation is decidedly acute. That pocket is stuffed full of Egyptian securities, which are pretty sure to become as Avorthless as waste paper unless she takes measures to insure their payment, and she has also a very pretty East Indian trade which will be jeopardized unless she takes measures to keep the Suez canal open. Whenever the British lion gets up and roars you may be sure that some disaster is threatened to British commerce. If we mistake not, it was about some petty question of cramming her tea down our throats that she undertook to thrash her American colonies a century or so ago. and got thrashed herself, by the way ! Still, notwithstanding this little defect in her moral vision, we must say that the dash and spirit which the mother country dis plays when her authority is called in ques tion is a refreshing spectacle, and we con fess to a secret joy that it is Egypt and not the United States that she is preparing to blow into the remote ages with her eighty ton Armstrong guns, which are capable of sending a ton of metal spinning through the air at the rale of a mile in four seconds! Indeed one cannot read the accounts which are published of the British naval prepara tions without feeling that we should be utter ly powerless to cope with John. Bull should he take a fancy to bombard our Atlantic sea ports. The smallest of all the ironclads com posing the fleetnowlyingat Alexandria would bo more than a match for our whole navy, for onr guns would be powerless to pierce her armor, and our ships too slow ever to come into close quarters with her. The Lan caster which, as it happens, is at this very moment lying, with the Quinnebaug, in the outer harbor of Alexandria, liaving gone thither to look after any stray Americans that might need protection, is known to possess the best battery which we have afloat, but it will be seen by the comparison which we are about to make, that a lattery of toy pistols would be of quite as much service as against the monster guns of the British fleet. She mounts nothing but old-fashioned smooth bore Dahlgrens, converted into eight-inch rifles, carrying a charge of Iwenty-five to thirty pounds of powder, and throwing a projectile of ISO pounds. The utmost energy which they arc capable of developing is only equal to the effect of 2,G27 tons of metal falling from a distance of one foot upon any object, whereas the eighty-ton Armstrong guns with which, the British ship Inflexible, for in stance, is armed, are of sixteen calibre, are charged with 370 pounds of gunpowder, carrying a projectile weighing 3,700 pounds develop an initial velocity of a mile in four seconds, have an energy of 27,213 foot tons, and will send a bolt through seven inches of iron at a distance of a quarter of a mile. Imagine our toy cannon attempting t o answer the fire of such a monster as this! But it is something more than humiliating to reflect that in the event of war with any first, or even second-class naval power, we should be at the mercy of the enemy's guns. It is also alarming. Upon what principle of statesmanship am we justify ourselves for neglecting our seacoast defences and letting our navy go to pieces? It takes time to cast cannon and time to build ships. Wre can do both if we have time, but in an emergency we should bo helpless. It is all very well to say that we are at peace with all the world, and that all the world is anxious to retain our friendship. Nevertheless, no one can foresee what international complications may arise at any moment, and wc should be in a position not only to defend our own territory, but to compel the recognition of our rights by other nations, if they should ever bo disputed. Wo do not need a great navy like that of England to patrol the seas, but the few ships that avc do require for purposes of defence in the event of war should be equal to the finest afloat and armed with the most effective guns known to modern ordnance. We can afford the expense, and it is a " penny wise, pound foolish" policy that restrains Congress from voting the money. We will send sample copies of TnE Na tional Tribune to any comrade of the Grand Army who is willing to make a can vass of the members of his Post and send us a club of subscribers. Don't destroy your copy of The Na tional Tribune when you have read it through, but give it to some friendly com rade. There arc thousands of our ex-soldiers and sailors who would bo glad to take such a paper if they knew the character of its contents, and you should help to make it known to them. Remember that the greater the number of its subscribers the greater as sistance it will be able to render you in championing the rights ol the soldier before Congress and in the Departments. Shohclcir, the Soldier. By the death of General Skobeleff the Czar loses one of his most distinguished officers and Russia one of her most devoted sou3. In the hearts of his countrymen, indeed, he occupied much the same place as did General Grant in the affections of all loyal Americans at the close of the Avar, and although the Emperor saw fit to formally rebuke his too frank avowal of Pan-Slavic or anti-German principles there can lie no question that he but spoke the real senti ments of the Russian nation and was from that moment more than ever its'idol. Sko bcleff, however, resembled Grant in no other respect, and acquired his reputation by means of personal daring rather than by the display of great strategic skill. Like the lamented Custer, he courted danger, and his impetuosity frequently carried him into perils which tlie responsibilities of command should have prompted him to avoid. Yet no one can .read the story of his romantic military career without feeling that to this very trait of his character the success which attended his campaigns was largely due, and that if he sometimes rashly exposed his per son it was for the purpose of communicating something of his own ardor and intrepedity to his men. It was his wont to go into bat tle dressed in a dazzling uniform of white and mounted on a white charger, whereby ho became, of course, a conspicuous mark for the enemy's bullets, but it is an open ques tion whether the moral effect of this specta cle upon his troops did not more than counter-balance the risk which it involved. Cer tainly in the fierce engagements before Plev na, during the last Russo-Turkish war, when he led the charge on one of tho most formid able redoubts in person, his presence alone gave victory into his hands. To say of him that he bore a charmed life is no idle com pliment; for in that single engagement he lost no less than 8,000 of 'the 12,000 men in his command, and he was himself constantly in the thick of the fight, his horse shot under him and he a more inviting target for tho Turkish riflemen than any private soldier. Fond of luxury and personal dis play at other times, he was in Avar the very incarnation of military ardor and insensible alike to fatigue, exposure, or danger of any sort. The prestige of success clung to him as it did to the great Napoleon, and the men of his division adored him Avith the same unreasoning devotion that Bonaparte com manded in the heyday of his military glory. Skobeleff came naturally by his soldierly qualities. They descended to him from his grandfather, himself a scarcely less notable figure in the military history of Russia, though raised from the ranks to the dignity of a general, and Avcro reproduced in his,t father, a no less gallant, if less distinguished1' officer. The grandson got his first Avhiff of' gunpoAvdcr in Poland when a lad of eigl - . having already displayed his martial I v.;t by participating in a students' outbre. t tho University of Moscow, for which h( -. ' promptly expelled from the college; aii .', :r' the Khiva campaign, Upon which he en after graduating from the St. Peters i. Military Academy at the age of tweuty three, he gained at once the rank of a colonel and the reputation of being the most daring officer in the service. Attached to General Kauffman's staff, he afterwards look part in the first expedition against Khokaud and his gallantry was rewarded Avith the honors of a major-general. A year later, at the head of a command of his own, he completed the conquest of the province and Avas appointed governor. The outbreak of the Russo-Turkish Avar found him on the banks of the Danube, and one of the first to swim his horse across in tho assault upon the Turkish position at Sininitza. He came out of that Avar a lieutenant-general the youngest in commission and tho idol of the Avhole army, having undergone such a baptism of fire as has seldom tried the soul of the most illustrious soldier. At thirty two Skobeleff Avas sighing, like Alexander, for more Avorldslo conquer! ne is dead at thirty-seven dead, perhaps, at the very moment when he had caught his first glimpse of the new era that amid the smoke of Nihilistic explosions and the rattling of the chains of Siberian exiles is beginning to dawn for his beloved country. An intense nationalist in all his ideas and feelings, trusted absolutely by his country men, and Avorshiped devoutly by all Pan-SlaA-ists, ho seemed destined to play a still greater part in the affairs of Russia, and his sudden death Avill be mourned throughout the Empire Avith a sincerity and depth of grief such as is seldom occasioned by the death of a soldier. "Who is Kesnotisiblo? The investigation by the United States Inspector into tho circumstances attending the sinking of tho steamboat Scioto on the Ohio River, by Avhich so many li'es Averc lost on the evening of the Fourth of July, Avill doubtless determine tho question of responsibility, but it is extremely proble matical Avhcthcr or not any punishment will be imposed on the guilty party or par tics. The eaplaiu of the ill-fated boat lost his son by tho accident, and it is quite possi ble that he Avill not bo held to that strict accountability for tho catastrophy which the case Avduld otherwise seem to demand. It is indeed no easy matter to fix tho respon sibility fbr the criminal neglect which, as a rule, is tho cause of such fatalities. The absence of criminal intent inclines the aver age jury to mercy, and it is apt to lose sight of the fact that there are times Avhen a blunder is Vorse than a crime. It ought always to bo remembered that Avhenever the captain of a steamboat or tho conductor of a raihvay train disobeys or neglects to observe the rules prescribed for the safety of the passengers under his charge he that mo ment places their lives in jeopardy, and, since their care is his special duty cannot, therefore, be excused on the ground that his neglect was unintentional. The truth is, there is no class of criminals which it is so dangerous to treat with' leniency as this, for the reason that laxity in their punishment is sure to produce a feeling of indifference in others as to the consequeuces of a breach of official duty and multiply the chances of accident in the future, Avhcreas the rigorous imposition of the full penalty which the law provides in cases of criminal neglect resulting in manslaughter must, on tho con trary, tend to quicken their sense of personal responsibility and compel the exercise of greater caution. Thus, in the present case, it Avould be a sad mistake to inflict no other punishment on the captain or the Scioto than to take a way his certificate ; he should be held on a charge of manslaughter, and the owners of tho boat, if possible, should bo compelled to pay the penalty fixed for A-io-latiug the United States statute regarding the carrying of a greater number of passen gers than allowed by the steamer's license. We have little hope that this Avill be done, bat it ought to be done. The truth is that the public Avill ahvays bo at the mercy of negligent officials until the owners or direct ors of transportation lines are compelled to bear their just portion of the blame, and it is therefore made to their personal interest to exercise greater care in the selection of their employees and adopt more efficient safeguards against accident. There was", as Ave haAe before intimated, something more than a good joke in the suggestion of Punch that railroad directors should be compelled to ride on the locomotive, in order to insure the safety of the passengers in the coaches. So long as the subordinate only, and not the principal, is held responsible for accidents in Avhich the loss of life is involved, so long it Avill be idle to look for any diminution in the number or fatality of such accidents. The moment, hoAvever, that the actual man agers of a company are compelled to undergo tho penalty for criminal neglect as avcII as their incapable or inefficient employees, that moment the public niay bo .sure of expe rienciug a great change for the better. It is notorious that many corporations employ men in responsible positions who are known by them to be unfit therefor, simply because they are willing to work for lower wages than the better class of labor, and coroners' inA-esligations' have frequently brought to light cases Avhere the cause of accident was the imposition on otherwise reliable officials of more Avork than they could reasonably bo expected to attend to. Once send the directors or managers of a corporation to jail along with the guilty employees, and Ave an swer for it that there Avill be an immediate i and yisible improvement in the personnel of tab road. The truth is that the public have only " ,r, Ives to thank in many cases for the -1 .'; :. i Avhich attend modern travel. They du k- protest enough against the reckless- Be?5 3;" officials; they are not ready enough ,iotbf;!g suit against common carriers for I daai.e"S sustained through their bad man-,-fXi'"i': They do not sufficiently appreci-t- fact that the conscience of all stock companies and of many individual capital ists can be reached only through tho pocket nerA'e, and that appeals to their humanitj are altogether useless. It. is natural that it should be so, and it is but a Avasto of time and eloquence to rave against their soullessness. To compel them to do their whole duty l)y the public it is only neces sary to demonstrate that neglect of duty Avill involve financial loss. A rru(lorn Hero. It is opportunity which makes heroes. Many a man hns undoubtedly lived and died in obscurity Avho, had the occasion eA'er presented itself, would have Avon undying fame. One can never tell Avhat capacity for self-sacrifice resides in the human heart until the time comes Avhen it is needed, and tho stuff that heroes are made of exists sometimes Avhere you Avould least expect to find it. We are fond of ascribing to heroes Avhom Ave have never seen an air of distinc tion Avhich they seldom possess, and Ave think of them usually, as A-ery different from other people in their personal appearance, when, as a matter of fact, they resemble very much tho rest of mankind. Poets and novelists and dramatists all make their heroes handsome, and it is quite natural that nobility of soul and person should be associated together in the imagination. Mrs. llcmans could not Avrilo of Casabianca, the boy avIio stood on the burning deck, Avitkout telling us also "Iioav bright and beautiful he stood," and although her verses have become hackneyed with time and been parodied un mercifully, thoy undoubtedly touched a" popular chord at the time of their produc tion. It is quite natural, avo any, that the popular fancy should associate personal comeliness, or at least distinction of ap pearance, Avith heroism of soul, but popular fancy almost always errs in doing so. We are reminded of this fact by a little incident which occurred on tho lino of the Now Jer soy Southern Railroad one night last week, and Avhich revealed ihe oxistenco of a hero in a man Avho, prior to that time, had doubt less been regarded as a very common-place sort of person. Tho man was Thomas Wise, an ox-Union soldier, Avho av:is terribly wounded and crippled for life on tho bloody field of Antietam. On tho night in ques tion ho Avas smoking his pipe at his little home near the big railway bridge across tho Shrewsbury River, Avhen an express train dashed by and ho heard a snapping of metal and jolting of cars that startled him and filled him Avith fear lest thero had been a repetition of tho recent terriblo accident near Long Branch and tho train had plunged fromthe track into the stream below. On looking again, however, he saw that it had crossed the bridge in safety and Ava3 speed ing away as if nothing had occurred. A man of less noble instincts Avould have been content to return to his pipe and his meditations, but this crippled soldier had the soul of a hero, and; although it Avas no part of his duty, he could not rest until he had satisfied himself whether or not some unseen danger lurked aloug the line for the unsuspecting passengers, who would presently be passing over it in the trains that Avere to follow. So this crippled veteran climbed up on the abutment of the bridge and craAvling out on the trestlework came at last to a place Avere the trades had been displaced by the express, and the next train that passed over the spot must inevitably be derailed and sent crashing over the sides of the bridge into the river. One ' glance was enough, and with tho fear before his eyes that a train Avould be upon him before he could give the warning ho craAvled back over tho trestle and managed at last to reach the signal man, two hundred yards aAvay. He was in time. The signal man would not believe him until he had seen for himself, but ho hung out his flag and the danger Avas aA'erted. A telegram to the nearest station brought down a force of section hands, the rails were respiked, and the track was made safe asain. But for this unpretentious act of heroism on the part of a crippled soldier a shocking accident must have occurred and many precious lives been sacrificed. "Nothing very thrilling about all that," you say? Well, perhap3 not; and yet if the Union army contained many such soldiers as Thomas Wise its victories are easily ac counted for. Here was a man Avhose sense of duty to his fellow-man was so fine that he never stopped to consider what concern of his it Avas Avhether human life Avas in peril or not, but at the risk of his OAvn under took to ward off the danger and where Avill you find a larger measure of a hero than that? It Avas but the Avork of a feAv moments, and the incident vrill doubtless be quickly forgotten: but if anyAvhere the Recording Angel keeps a roll of the heroes in this selfish, mercenary Avorld of ours, Ave may be sure that tho name of Thomas Wrise is written there in letters of eternal lfcht. Tho Closa or the Session. Tho first session of the Forty-seventh Congress draws toAvard3 its close, although it is .impossible at this writing to predict the precise date of adjournment, and the coming Avcek will probably witness the passage of the appropriation bills upon Avhich the tAvo Houses have as yet reached no agreement, and possibly the dispersion of the members to their widely-scattered homes. It is to be regretted that the lack of time has compelled several important measures, as, for instance, the Bankruptcy bill, to be laid over until the next session, butnpon the whole the record of work actually accomplished is far, from insignificant, and it is, perhaps, well that some of the things left undone should never be done at all. The passage of the Tariff and Utah Com mission bills Avill alone suffice to make the session memorable. Our ex-soldiers and sailors have pretty substantial reasons for being satisfied Avith the legislation secured in their interest. It is true that several measures, such as that providing for the in demnification of such of our soldiera as Avere tortured in southern prison pens, failed to receive that consideration to which their importance entitled them, but Avhen Ave consider how gloomy the outlook Avas at the beginning of the session we cannot but feel that more has been accomplished than at one time there Avas reason to expect, while there is every prospect that the next session Avill find Congress still more favorably dis posed to recognize the just claims of the soldier than it has suoavu itself during the latter part of the present session. It must be remembered that Congress had scarcely assembled, in December last, before the enemies bf the Arrears bill began the agita tion for its repeal, and avo now knoAv that they Avere confident of success. They had the aid of such powerful neAvspapers as the New York Herald and the Now York Sun, and they counted upon stampeding both parties by their allegations of fraud and corruption. Had Commissioner Bentley still been in office they would doubtless have had a cunning ally in him also, but fortunately ho had been succeeded by an old soldier in the person of Commissioner Dudley, AA'hose business-like conduct of the Peusiou Bureau soou Avon tho confidence alike of pensioners, Congress, and tho coun try. Their plans were Avell laid, but they evidently underestimated the Avarmth of the popular affection for our crippled veterans aud tho degreo to Avhich Congress Avas sensiblo of it. As it AA-as, from the day that Senator Ingalls turned tho tables on them' by introducing his famous resolution, re affirming tho principle embodied in the arrears bill, they steadily lost ground, until finally they Avere forced to abandon the struggle and retire from tho field. Tho debate in tho Senato over the Ingall3 resolution aroused the Avholo country, and A7hen Senator Voorhees entered tho lists in defense of tho Arrears bill he carried nearly every Senator on tho Democratic side of the Senate Avith him. It was Avorse than a defeat for tho opposition it was a rout; and oven Senator Beck Avas glad of the oppor tunity to relapse into discreet silence. There can be no doubt thnt the attitude AA'hich tho Senato look thus early in the session had a most salutary effect on the deliberations of tho House Pension Committees. Tho pro-A-ision Avhich Avas made in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial appropriation bill for increasing the clerical force in the Pen sion Bureau and kindred offices, and the uuauimous passage of tho forty-dollar total disability bill, attest the truth of this state ment. Had the Senate shown any signs of AvaA-ering neither of these measures Avould havo had a chanco of suc,ces3. Our readers will bear Avitness that during this entire period The National Tribune Avas on tho alert to protect the interests of the soldier at all points, and earnest in the advocacy of his rights, and that its labdra were appreciated. i3 sufficiently shown by the fact that since the first of the year ita circulation has more than doubled. It realizes, however, that it has really but entered upon its mission, and that the work Avhich still remains for it to do will tax ito resources to the utmost. When Congress reassembles next December- it will be for 'the short session, when only the most per sistent effort can avail to secure action on any measure other than the regular arrcro priation bills, and to make an effectual contest for tho passage of the important pension and bounty measures that go over from the present session it must enjoy tho united support of our ex-soldiers and sailor3 in every section of the country. Between now and the first of December we want to enroll the name of every comrade of tho Grand Army and every ex-soldier and sailor, whether a pensioner or not, on our subscrip tion rolls. We all have a common interest in the establishment of the just claims of the soldier and their full recognition by Congress, and. the spirit of comradeship should prompt those who are not in need to give at least their moral support to those Avho are. To work, then! The Congressional elections will take place the coming autumn, and. during the canvass our ex-soldiers and sailors will Avant the aid of The National Tribune to po3t themselves on the records of the candidates, so that they can voto intelligently when election day comes round. The National Tribune does not concern itself with partisan politics, but it doe3 concern itself with everything that affects the welfare of our cx-scldiers and sailors, and our readers may be sure that it will oppose the return to Congress of every candidate the record of whose votes proves him to be their enemy. . ... ... , , .. ,.M, " Disgusting "that is the only word thataccurately describes thesquabble thathas arisen between the Rev. Mr. nicks, Drs. Lamb, Hartigan and Sowers, and Mrs. ScoA-ille, over the autopsy on Guiteau and the disposal of his remains. These people seem to take pride in airing their dirty linen in public, and they imagine that everybody is as deeply interested in their affairs as them selves, Avhereas, the only feeling that they have succeeded in arousing is one of intense repugnance and aversion. What sort of a person must Mrs. Scoviile be to deliberately invite a bid for the purchase of her dead brother's corpse, and Avhat sort of a clergy man must Hicks be to involve himself in a A-ulgar dispute Avith the doctors touch ing the conduct of the autopsy ? It really seems as if everybody connected with the Guitean case had been defiled by contact Avith the assassin. Bah ! let us consign the hideou3 spectacle once and for all to the shades of oblivion ! The price of The National Tribune is only one dollar per year to those who subscribe prior to October 1st. No other weekly newspaper publishes such a variety of entertaining. and instructive reading for the money. Send your soldier friends a copy and ask them to subscribe. -'''' ...... One of the sensations in Congress last Aveek Avas the attack made, on President Arthur by Representative Bayne, of Penn sylvania, and the reply thereto by Congress man Butterworth, of Ohio. The question was as to the character of President Arthur's removals and appointments to office as com pared to those of the late President Garfield, and tho discussion, we need, hardly say, served no other purpose than to amuse and delight the Democratic members of the House. Do our Republican friends consider it a part of their duty to provide such diver sions for the Opposition? H not, it occurs to us that such squabbles are as impolitic as they are painful and unprofitable. Tho country at large cordially approves tho course pursued by President Arthur just as it supported the administration of Presi dent Garfield, and there is neither occasion nor excuse for invidious comparisons be tween the two. The National Tribune circulates in the most distant States and Territories, and it has subscribers at all the leading post offices in the country. If all ita readers t Avould take tho same interest in extending its circulation that is manifested by the class Avhose letters appear in our Soldiers' Column, it Avould soon have a larger list of subscrib ers than any other Aveekly neAVspaper in tho country, and its influence and ability to ad vanco the interests of the soldier Avould be increased proportionately. Self-interest, if no higher motive, ought to prompt tho readers of The National Tribune to en gage individually in the Avork of camassing . for subscribers among their soldier friends. Until October 1st Ave Avill send The Na tional Tribune for one year to any ad dress for the trifling sum of one dollar. TnnRE appears to be a great deal of un necessary delay in getting the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive bill from the Con ference Committee. One very important clause in the bill is that making an appro priation to pay for increased clerical forco in the Pension Bureau. This clause has, it is true, been approved by both Houses, but it cannot become operative until the bill passes as an entirety. The committee should bear this important fact in mind. The claims of nearly 300,000 soldiers and sailors remain pigeon-holed because of insufficient clerical force to examine them. Such a delay is inexcusable. Congress should re member that these are honest debts and should bo paid as promptly as those of the bondholders. Had the legislation been more prompt the ucav pension force might now be at Avork on these long-delayed claims. Subscribe for The National Tribune, and learn Avhat Congress has done for our ex-soldiers and-sailors during the session that is now draAving to a close. Only one dollar per year,