New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1866-06-01
NEW OREGON HOW ARD COUNTY. IOWA, JUNE l. 1886

angelic when Lincoln died compared
to the way you look now? Poor repub-
licans-how dreadfully grief wears up
on you!
A RADICAL CRowD.--A Republic
an in Maine, who had served out
his time, thirty days in the Augusta
Jail was asked when he came out how
no liked it. Il had a bully time" sais
he. ''There were seventy-six Inmates
of the Jail and not d ID .de,nocrs t
among the lot.
The. UNION EAND IT'S, LOSSES 49,
President Lincoln, in April, 1861, call
ed for Is, O00..militia.. for three months
service, the army Of the United States
had on Its rolls $4,000 men. During
the ensuing year 2,6Ss,523 men
were enlisted Of whom 2,O4s, lO3 left
the army alive. Of the remain
der 96,0S9 died in battle Or of
wounds, while lS4,33 died of disease.
The number Of white troops enlisted
was about 2. 100000. The number CT
deaths among them 25i,112, or one
death out Of ten. The number
of colorcd troops was 1SO 900 Of
whom 20, 298 died, or about one cut Of
six, being nearly double that IF tie
deaths among the white troops. Out
of every eight deaths among the white
troops, three died on the field Of bat
tie, and five from disease. OF every
nine deaths among the blacks, one died
on the field of battle, and eight from
disease. The mortality among the
volunteers was nearly Is .per cent.
greater than among the regulars.
These statistics are taken from otfic-
ial records, but while they give the
number Of those who died in the ser
vice, they make no mention Of he host
obliged to leave the army ard Who
went home to die.
The Oskaloosa Herala records 8
marriage by which the groom becomes
brother to his father, uncle to his b:asll-
ers and sisters, and son to his GRAND =
mother, and the bride becomes daugh-
ter to ner sister, ard sister to her faith
CT, and aunt to her brot hers and sis
ters.
The Chicago Times says tbs junior
morning Abolition newspaper Concern
OF chat city recently attempted to win
a compliment c.om the niohnous. Ex-
aminer by the subjoined:
The Richmond Examiner, ti.s abless.
lrankcst and most truthful Of Southcvr
Journals, is known to enjoy saa peca-
llar protection Of President Johnsoa.
The Examiner made 200! this com
mendation for frankness and truthful
ness in the following reply:
Ah' Dana, you think to delule US
with hattery. You, perhaps, hope
that we will retort in kind, and call
your paper the very paragon cf North
ern journalism; but we would lose all
our claim as the ''nost truthful" if
We venturel to return yoxr compli-
ments, and We assert the frankness
that you attribute to us when We avow
that We think you very weak fellow
as to brain, very coon as to frankness
and one who hates truth as a cat does
water. Moreover, We happen to know
that you do not 'enjoy the peculiar
protection of President johnson" n"-as
all the world knows, too, by reason of
you: missing that little Office Of collec-
tor Of the port Of New York.
After this snub from d retol news
paper, the beggar and spy should sub
side for short time.
The Civil Rights bill has been de-
clared unccas situtional, the telegraph
says, By Judge Abel, of the first Dis
tries Court New Orleans, ard not blnd-
ing. He argues also that Congress i.