Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-09-27
4, stand Back, white Soldiers.

The pay department announces its readiness 10
pay the bounties to negro soldi RS, granted by
the Ruinp Congress in June last. twill require
S2e, e,ooo, 900 (twenty millions OF dollars to meet
such claims. This will drain tho Treasury So
low that the white soldiers will have to wait
many months yet before their claims can he set
tied. Compress provided bounty FOR the whito
soldiers out of "any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated ;''abut usIhe negro bill
was pas sed first the darkcy soldiers claims mus,
'allbe paid before the white soldiers can reach q
dollar. Let the ''boys in blue" remember, that
Frank Thomas is .measurnbly responsible for this
Outrageous Discrimination IN favor of the negro
Let IL tnotae forgotten either that !the sum Of
$500 each was appropriatel for the negroes, at
though none of them ,seryed three years, while
the, sum Of Sloo only wps voted TO the white sol
dicrs of 1861 and 1862 for three years service
The negro was thereby accorded the palm for
for fighting during the war, or in other words
was contrasted totbe white stllie. in the pro-
portion Of three to one. The ides Of November
promise to furnish Thomas ar other illustration
Of the truth of the adage that comparison, are
odous, tor his share Il this shabby treatment
of " hitc veterans -. S''''''' 'A' = :.
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a ;GRAssHorrER PLAGUE. IN KANsAs.--THEy
IlfDE THE SrNa AND SToF RALRoAt TakiSs.--Our-
wcsterh exchanges are all more or less excited
on the subject of grasshoppcrs, which are repre-
s.nted us humorous rs loctsts In Egypt during
the reign Of Pharaoh, some time ago. ,...uu
The Wyandotte Gazette slss that on Cross
! creek, between Fuptkd and Wamega, they fill
the air like snaw flakes in a winter storm. In
Marshall county they luire mtlc their appear
ance in nlvriadS, ft,inS Immense Injury 10 the
crops and grass. The insects are said to resem-
| BILE somewhat our common prairie grasshopper,
with Some Of the clihiaeterstics of the loculst-
They are travelling, east,i and. destroying every
| thing vegetable along the route.
The Kearney IIIefafH says tht whole eohntryT
for miles around Is fitted with grasshoppers.t
4 They are destroying the crops--stnlk and branch
with alarming brevity. BY therlas Of this
cultivated vegetation, and win then commence
on prairie grass and sod prodaction. gaT -
| The kgpsas City Journal is informed BY John
| r.. Griffin, Esq, who has just returned from
Junction City, Kansas, that that section IS over
run with grass-hoppers. =, They come in swarms
/ from the west so thick that The sun is hidden
whcrevcr they appear Te;- are; f,ring sumpttr-
| onsly, stripping corn-fieli5 and cating up the
| grass, weeds and leaves on the trees. The Law
renee Tribune, we also notice, makes mention OF
their advent and says their ravages have so far
4 been confined to Tract IL mles wide and 300
miles long. Some idea of the vast quantity oi
these insects may be inferred from the fact. OF
! their having got oil the railroad track of the
| Uhion Pacific road in such numbers rs 10 cause
the wheels to slip on the rails. The, freight
train due at Wyandottc evening before last was
actually detained several hours in consequence
Of the grasshoppers having takcn possession Of
! the road.