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A Dream Realized.

Here is something rich and original which comes from
a correspondent in Old Georgia: -
Three negroes in the northern part of Georgia started
from their cabins in the evening on "possum hunt
During the night good fat opossums captured,
which they ate for supper and as all three OF the
hunters lived in different cabins discussion arose as to
who should possess the remaining opossnm After much
talk and deberation Bose said " Gemmen tells you
wot ter do Use gwineter seteit We must lay down an
dream der monin' each mus tell his dream, an dc
ngger dat dreams de mos and biggest gets dc possum
They all agreed and to sleep La the morning when
they woke Bose asked: well, Jim wot did you dreamY
was in Washington yer knows dat big capitol build
in da is got dar? We sar, dreamed seed dat build
in bein drawed down to Georgy, by two muskeeters
ssWhat y said Nmrod, 81 beats dat dreamed had
'er pocketbook full elefants." "Yer bofe done did
WE'LL said Bose, but beats yer boe, fer when drapt
on der groun res austed dat got up IN der
night de possum. Bose too had just "done gone
and done it,"
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peserters at Large from the Volunteer servic

The Secretary of War has recently issued order
that further dishonorabe discharges SHALL granted
those who appear the records of the War Depart
eserters large from the volunteer service our
ing the late of the rebellion.
The effect of this order will be to deprive many brave
soldiers and their heirs of the pension they might othe
wise have received it is confidently hoped that Con-
gress will direct dshonorabe discharges to be issued as
before.
OF those who have been charged with deserton
and afterwards received either honorable or dlshon
orabe discharge and also those borne as deserters at
large who prove 80 the satisfaction oil the var be
partment that the charge of deseron is borne against
them enormously made and is contrary TO ac are
affected by this order of tile Secretary The astclass
obtain honorable discharges.
We would dissiade those of this at present excluded
class from filing applications for pension as Congress w
most probably grant them relief
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Probable Extension of Time

Our readers are generally for they have been re-
peatedy notified OF the fact that under the provisions OF
the pension awof January 25 iS79 pensions for the
late war ony) date from the discharge or death OF the
soldier if applied for before July !, 1880 If the claim
should be fled prior to that date, pension can only
commence from the date of filing the application Now
in conversation with influential members of Congress OF
both political pares during the last session. gathered
the impression that at the next meeting OF Congress
this time for filing in order to secure the amount due from
the of the discharge death of the soldier will be
extended Soldiers let candidates for the House OF hep
resentaves in all parts of the country understand your
wishes in regard to this matter Forward then your
claims as usual order that they may be speedily taken
ND when Congress aforesaid grants this extension No
statutes Of limitation should defeat the rights of the men
who saved this Republic.
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REFERENCES.

AS this may unacquained with
append hereto specimens OF the
letters several gentlemen OF poi
military distinction, and widely known throughout the
S BgLvIDKRE, ILLINOIS, October "a, 1875.
take great recommending Captain GEORGE e.
LEMON Washington D. O. all persons who may have
before the Depart
L be Thoroughly quauned
with Department rules In ali
especially Paymaers
had occasion TO employ him Tor
Of soliciting of and have f0und
him very active successful gallant ohcer
honorable successful practioner rec
ommend him strongly to al III his services.
o - S. A. HURLBUT, NJ. q.
Fourth District. UiHots,
Major General o. s. Vols.
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TRENroN, n. u. FEB gs, 1880.
Ep1roR NArIoxAn TR1Bu0E:

EDITOR NATIoSAE TRIBUNE
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rights
passes work for National Almshouse
ioA us p ~ JAMES HIGGINS.
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j. d. FERGUSON
HOWARD, Elk Co, KAN, Feb. 60, 1850.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE:

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
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- MRS. JOHN STANDLEY.
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Property taken by the Army im States
mot i'm HnsGrrecGiOR.

Claims of this character special attention.
In addition prosecute military and naval
claims trademarks.
Copyrghts business before the General Land once
OF the Interior department. a Tue
depar the Government.
from ali
proinptude, and thoroughness in al
intrusted to our hands.
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A. F. BURNHAM.
NORTH wlLBRAHAM, MASS, Feb. 2, Il

EpIrcR NATIONAL TRIBUNE;
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ELLSWORTH, MAINE, Feb. s,.ISs0.
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get subscribers enough to shall order another one
Yours truly ,r,,~ru.,,
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E..amsa w arrasats.

Survivors March 1850 and certain heirs
hundred sixty OF land not already
Soldiers of the late not entitled
highest
assignments perfected
Correspondence invited
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MOSES BOWMAN.

Almost every mail brings such approvals of the clock
as are above shown Now let all who wish the clock and
paper subscribe the above rates. recently received
from our manufacturers the following notice.
In consequence of the steady advance in the costs of
raw material and labor wish to inform you that the
prices manufactures subject to change without
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KANSAS. BARBOUR Co, WEST VA, March 1s, 1880
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Restoration t0 Pension Roll.
Pensiol

unusty dropped from the pension
roll stricken thererom by reason Of
their pension tor period OF three years. or Y rc
have their pensions renewed p CORE
spending with this house.
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HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, ID. O., March l, Is

HOUSE v REPREs
WASHINGTON, ID. O.. March l. 1878.
having acquaintance WITH captain
f. Tor the past few years and OF tne
his extensive
and OF his reliability honorable dealings connected
"A ". RICE Chairman.
Committee Oa Pensions House Reps.
w. F.S SLEMONS nj. o..
Second District OF Ark.
w. r. LYNDE, NJ. o.,
Fourth District OF vas.
R. w. TOWNSHEND, M. C-
Ntneteeah District Of H.
Anv person information standing anu
refer n his vcinit Congressional Dstrlot
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HousR or REPRESENTATIVES,,
WAsHIHGToN, ID. c., March

From several years with Captain George f.
Lemon city, cheerluy commend him as o.
qualified attend collec
Bounty and other claims against the government M
experience that line give him superior advantages
W. PSPRAGUE, Nj. O.,
Fifteenth District Of Oho
ID. STRAW BRIDGE, M. ",
Thirteenth District Of PennsytUdntG
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good running perfect lite gem. would not
take fve-dollar gold-pece for IL.
Also THr TRrRNE came time Every soldier who
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Yours, with respect,
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Increase OF Pensions.

Pension liberal than formerly and many
entitled to higher rate than they receive
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War of aSI2.

surviving officers and soldiers of this whether In the
4) days if in battle or skirmsh for less
widows who have not renarrieu are
entitled to pension eight month Proof of 10y
atty ) II longer required in these claims.
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Amounts due collected without unnecessary delay.
cannot be collected without the furlough.
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CITIzRN NATIONAL BANK.

W
r. collec
ton OF war claims Washng CITY, thorough able and
exceedingly of business OF high CHARACTER
interests all
ing war claims be conhded to safer
hands.
President
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Heirs.

widows minor children, dependent mothers, faith
minor brothers and sisters in the order named, are en-
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Prisoners Of w an.
EusrEougBs Assstfofas.

Ration money promptly collected.
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Send us Fifteen Subscribers, with 81 and we vii
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BocA, CAL, Jan. go, 1850.

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Horses Lost iss Service.

Claims Of this character promptly attended to.
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Pensions.

If wounded injured have contracted any disease,
ever slight the disability apply at once Thousands emit
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bounty aassa Pay.

Collections promptly made.
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GEORGES II LEMON,

OFFICES, 6i5, IS Street, tcltzeus National Bauk9
washington, ID. G.
Pensions.
If wounded injured disease, how
,ver slight the disability apply Thousands entitled
Heirs.
widows minor children dependent mothers fathers and
brothers and sisters in the order named are entitled
War OF aSE2.
military or naval service Of the states who served
fourteen az days or Il IN battle @ Or snsn M l1T aTs
e pension Of eght x n aos o month pro0' OF 10Y
Increase of Pensions.
Pension liberal than formerly and many are
entitled to higher rate than they receive
Restoration tO Pension Roll.
Pensioners unuy dropped from the
@ % 70 Draw their pension for period three years by
their pensions renewed by CORE
H.arad Warrants.
survivors wars 1890 March 1855 and certain hors
received. Soldiers of the late war not entitled
and ans ppereosS Tor en AZ
Correspondence invited
Prisoners OF War.
Ration money promptly collected.
FmrEOugGs As3sti0ns.
Amounts due collected without delay
be collected without the furlough
Horses Lost im Service.
Claims of this character promptly attended to.
bounty and Pay.
Collections promptly made
ProDerfy taken by fhe Army i'm States
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26

THERE has for many years been a
very striking similarity in the politics OF
Rhode Island and Vermont. A single
party in each state has things all its own
way. can do whatever it pleases without
fear of rebuke by the people. so that its
whole caucus and convention work is
gangrened with dishonesty and srickery.
The party convention in Rhode Island
this year sent Blaine delegates to Chica-
go, against its will, by the old game
remembered in Brattleboro-of having
a committee appointed to name them in
stead of balloting in open convention.
Mr.. Littlefield was nominated for gov
ernor, and Lieut. Gov. Howard. vino was
one of the candidates. charges that be
was told by the machine managers on
two occasions that, if he would pay
$4,000, he could have the nomination,
and the Providence Star charges that
Littlefield has paid this amount for the
chance, or has agreed to pay it, and that
the postmaster of Providence visited the
back towns and disbursed the fund in sea-
son to secure the convention 1t also
charges that Fay paid heavily. The only
difference between the two states seems
to be that up here in Vermont the organs
can be depended on to keep such "fami-
ly secrets"
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26

Senators Conkling, Cameron and Lo-
gan are courageous men, but they are
much too shrewd to run the risk of COM
hitting political suicide in that way. If
they become convinced, before the
national convention meets, that the nom
ination of Gen Grant would involve seri-
GUS danger, they will be the first to look
about for some other and safer candidate.
-NeW York Tribune.
They are as well Convinced" as they
ever will be that Gen. Grant is not
"safe candidate" that with decent DEM
ocratic nomination, he would be over
whelmingly beaten at the polls. They
are some of the shrewdest and most OBJ
servant politicians in the country, and
they know how to measure popular senti-
ment as well as anybody. They see, just
as well as the Tribune does, that though
Grant might carry two or three Southern
States, he would lose every doubtful one
in the North, from New York, Ohio and
Indiana down to Oregon and New lamp
shire, and that he would not be sure even
of Massachusetts. If they nominate
Grant therefore it will be with cleal I'M
derstanding that he cannot be fairly
elected, but must be carried in on bayonets.
This is the plan of the third term move
ment. There is no gainsaying it, and UNI
less the Republican party is strong
enough to throttle it in its convention,
there is trouble ahead. The stolen presi-
dency in 1876 has set the country to slid
ing rapidly down hill which leads to
anarchy or monarchy. The hope of
patriots must be that the Republican con-
vention will resist Grant.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26
NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.

Butler cannot carry many of his Re.
publican followers over to the Democrats
unless he can make it appear that the
Democrats are likely to eject the next
president. 1 he Butler Republicans are
nearly all machine politicians. nuch as
they admire Butler, they are fonder still
of the spoils that come from success In
a State election alone, he might hold a
considerable number of them; in ma
tional one, no man of the Butler stripe
vino has not irretr,evably lost his stand
ing with the Republican party will leave
it, 7empleton's Boston Letter.
But unless the people shall heed the
warning voice Of Judge Field and the
venerable Judge Clifford, there is GER
tainly but little hope that they will stop
short f an obliteration of State lines as
well rs State autonomies, or rest in their
assault upon the constitution. until they
have made this consolidated govern
ment, supreme over every inch of land
once known as the United States of the
American republic Washington Post.
The press IF the South is greatly shock.
ed that Massachusetts repudiates her con-
tract with the Troy and reenfield rail
road company. denying the right of re-
demption offs own property. The Louis
vile CourierJOurntt says: 1T is das-
tardly piece of business. The state of
MassacL usetts has been guilty tor two
years IF IL foul act of reputation. of the
meanest and most contemplate kind
Minnesota and Massachusetts stand side
by side in the business of reputation.
1t was Washburne who said to Conk-
ling, You lie." Elciting no response,
he resumed the conversation after few
minutes and said: II don't know as you |
un derstood what said, and don't wish |
to have any mistake made. | said You
lie.'"
When the empire does come the peo-
pie of the North will be amazed at the
influence and power the South will ac-
quire under the new order of things.
Any rebellion on the part of Massachu-
sets or Rhode Island will be promptly
put down by southern generals in COM
mand of the army.-AttaHta, Ga, Con-
stitutiOn.
Dea. Richard Smith of the Cincinnati
Gazette is apparently for Edmunds. This
is what he says: ave don't want an Ohio
man. nor an Illinois man, mol an Indiana
man. so much as we want United States
man who will stand up before
he people of this country an embodi-
nent of sound principles. of ability and
f purity of character"
Among other scandals Of Rhode Island
politics is the amusing and frank error
IF renurter who gave as the resolution
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26

The proposed unseatng of Kellogg is
the last excuse the Republicans in Con-
gress find for paving the ground and
believing on the sectional issue. Sena-
tor Hoar pronounces the effort .'as great a
crime as the It bellion," and Conklipg and
Blaine may be depended on to point it
out as indicative of the desperate wick
edness of the Democracy. But the utter
righteousness of all their fuss must be
evident from the slightest study OF KEEL
lOgg's case. His title to a seat in the
Senate is no better than Gov. Garcelon's
would be if the recent counted-in legisla-
ture of Maine had gone through the form
of electing him. To be sure the Senate has
once before passed on his case, and by
partisan vote the Republicans had control.
without pretending to take any testimony
he was admitted; 10 rip up this old ~
cision now would set dangerous prece.
dent for the partisan Congrt sses of the
future, and be serious wrenching of a
constitutional principle. But the fact re-
mains that he has no moral right in
the Senate, and Senator Hoar knows it
as well as any body. 1t is pity that his
cause should be upheld by such dema-
goguical methods as Hoar adopts, instead
of by temperate legal arguments like
Senator Carpenters.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26
The Marshals' Question Settled.

The old question of the employment
of deputy marshals at federal elections,
which has furnished the excuse for 50
much disgraceful partisan wrangling in
Congress, was settled by compromise in
the House Friday. The radical members of
both parties, whose highest conception of
their duty is the making of stump
speeches and lawyer-like pettifogging on
all public questions, tried hard to keep
up the fight on the old lines; but Mr.
Garfield and Field on the Republican
side, and Springer and Tom Ewing on
the Democratic, rose to the level OF real
state manship. Tney caused amend
ments to be engrafted on the deficiency
bill, which provide that federal elections
shall have supervision by federal au-
thority. AS anybody who desires only
honesty and fairness, is willing should be
done, but that the marshals shall be
taken equally from both parties and
shall be appointees of the circuit courts.
Then the bill was passed, 10 Republicans
voting with the body of the Democrats
for it, and or 8 bourbons joining the
demagoguic Conger, and the party-bound
Republicans in opposing. The bill is yet to
be passed upon by the Senate, but it is
impossible to believe that that body will
kill so meritorious a measure.
The good which the proposed system
will work IN politics, ought to be patent
to any one who has watched the evil
workings of the old methods. In the
elections of 1873, 1896 special deputy
marshals were appointed in SO congress
sonal districts, nearly all doubtful. and
in 1876, IL 6lO in about 60 districts.
Every one of these were Republicans,
working for Republican success, and i.
needs no argument 10 prove that they
must have been of very great partisan.
and often illegitinate, advantage. In
New York and Philadelphia undisputed
evidence shows that they We're of the
very worst class of society, bummers,
thieves, shoulder htters, and Jail birds,
that they did very great injustice by ar
btu srily arresting thousands of men.
who had perfect right to vote, and shut
ting them up until after election. SO as
to trick the Democracy out of so many
votes. On the other hand, as was proved,
by experience of 1878 in Democratic New
York city, where tens of thousands of
illegal votes were cast, some sort of SUI
pervision and regulation is necessary to
protect the federal Congress from the
grossest of frauds in the election of its
members. The supreme court has de-
cided that such supervision can be con.
stitutionally had. This bill provides a
fair way of doing it, without injustice to
other. parties. That it should be 80 bitterly
fought by the partisans, shows that they
do not want fair elections, and it is sad
evidence of the desperately demoralized
condi tion of our politics.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26

The Massachusetts, legislature seems
determined to take away all semblance
of concealm ent of the liquor traffic. The
committee on that subject has just re-
ported bill which proposes to shut up
every back door and back staircase of u
liquor saloon. 1t forbids the sale ofliqnor
in any apartment not looking upon the
street, and it abolishes screens, blinds
and stained glass, as well as all ''recepta-
Giles" and advertising signs. Should it
become law, there would doubtless be
less tippling among men claiming re-
spectability. A regard for public opinion
would prevent many men, especially
young men, with weakness for liquor
from drinking in such public manner
as this bill requires. LISA great advance
over the foolish restrictive policy which
prevails in this State, and did in Massa-
chusetts up to 1874, and whose only effect
is to hide from sight the cankering evil.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26

No "Old man of the Sea" can be al
lowed to ride the democracy to defeat in
the ensuing presidential campaign. Dem
ocrats must shake off the incubus of per-
sonalism with which the party is handi-
capped, and as our contemporary says,
let the watchword be Principles, not
men, NeWbnrgh, (N Y } Register.
The only candidate who would be
weaker than Tilden would be one named
and backed by Tammany Hall or the I'M
scrupulous gang of intriguers in Indiana
who are trying to galvanize Hendricks
into possible andIdate.-Sprinqfel
Republican.
Edmunds, the Vermont senator, is
gaining ground in Blaine's strongholds,
AMI it is pretty near time for the Multi
gan senator TO have another fit.-Indid
napDiis Sentinel.
When Grant comes to be slaughtered
in the Convent ion-as he deserves to 5e
slaugntered-the Green Mountain candi-
date may loom up like the snow-clad
peaks of his native state.-New York Sun