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The yfsIspd sseckS.

Our business nsn sna also the farming
-o.n-,snitv are a=eply interested ib the war
On the lizard socks, and We have rttto
fini single man whose syraPs.hy is NO. sn-
tlrely With Viilari. We have made 1t our
business to erquire seaschingly into the feel
ips. Of the community. and with one voice
.li express the hope that he win retain what
he has worked so hard to make success
where others failed. We NAV kick and
erowl occasionally, bat when it comes to a
tes. the present management will find that
walia Walk appreciates their good work
and will stand in with them
It is not necessary to enter into particulars
in referring to the complicated organic and
unctional difficulties to which the more deli
cate classes Of American women are srbiect
but we take pleasure in saving that Mrs.
lydia z. Pinkhams grest remedy for al thesa
troubles has an unbornded popularity.
Tariff reform IS the gatchwori OF the
Democratic party.
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ST. PauI's School!
4 BOARDING AND DAy

@SCHOOL FOX GfRLS. -
'sHE TWELFTH YEAR OF THIS
! school for girls viii begin Wednesdsy.
September 5th 1873. Miss Minnie A. Miller.
selected IS teacher Of eocu:ien BY Prof Allen
Of tie State Narnsl-chool Of California, viii
give instructions In that important branch OF
educa.icn. Mid n. G. Craig, from the Phil
ssieIphia School CT Design, where she took the
Sarah Peter Medal" Tor superior excelence
In design and execution viii give lessons IN
Drawing, Printing and Decorative AIT gener.
ally, aud also il French-it n expected that
iys the aid Of portable kiln We shAl be abe
to bzrn decorated China The friends OF the
scho,l vii Be glad to learn that Mis- Caulk-
ing. formerly 50 popular - 9 music teacher,
viii again Be sn Instructor and N
conjunction with Mrs Martin and
Miss Slater, vii hsve charge Of the mr<ic.
Ire mot thorough instruction given and 70
pa:rs spsred 20 make the school happy hone
far those Gha become members Of the house
hold For su.they parti:ulzss address
REV. II u. LATHR0P, d. D..
auge2-lm Wk.H Wslla, w. 7.
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Mr.. Hayes is getting very lavish with
Mr.. Tilden's salary. He has Just giyen
g, 900 of il TO eha.eh
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Whitman College!
Fall Term Begins September
=, 1888.

Facnlty sarne as isst year, with the al !iticn
os Aiiss A. =, Cush,nan. lady os both Nor
ma. and Collegiate education, ard for s.1 year
the zuoc-.frl p.iFcipsl Gi the high school ~
p ineryi!i-. Ohio. II needed other teachers
viii be secured when The n=w bai:lins is ready
for use IN October. The institution affords
six complete courses of study: Ciassie-l- lat
.rsv. Scientific, Normal, CommnTcizi, md
Co,lere- Preparatory. German, French, Span-
III. Italian ard Music taught in Connection
With tie c1llese, hy competent. teachers An
or,tional cnurs- OF instruction IL the general
principles of Law will commence With the
winter term For catalogue or further particu-
iaIs, address
Al AxDEEsoS, PK D., Pres.
S-2i-d&w-Im ALA Nalia, w I.
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1 British SnnS.

The Hon. Wm. Smythe, Pine Minister
Of the Pro.iaciai Gorernm ut 0: B;.;i,h C5l-
unibii. showed his rGie1ess and Ignorance
Oi Aaae.icsn politics b. irsdit.ng the Seas
paper Delegation. ahJls cn her Wit 10
Victoria, In his address h poorheei-,l the
disruption Of oar nn;an, aAG kindly p.cn.i.-
ed to recelve this Nortleest Ealp!rc, dron
such al event, INTO the open aat hospitable
arms Of BciJi,h Columbia Thr foaniatiou
iyr bis diTlIaLion was :ns diversified lpter.
ests and rcpa!a.ion o: tire different sections
Of our union.
Now. Nr. Wm. Sa,Ithe, Ne fought this
s.me snl jet out twenty Years Ego, sEl de-
c'iei foE a.. t;:..e. % sCch decisive rlanuer
that the world WAS Impressed 81 a the nsw
truth. tat II IS oasIc: 10 salacth over these
differences in oas Legislative Hal, tan ue.
io-c aay International p=see Conference, or
ugoa auy bate lied. Cur United States
Congress c4n more eguitab!y, lLd peac5fui'y
a5.aag, II Sc DIFF -roGce5 3etscan tie state,
tAa:. 2ly miais' . .a.poteGiary osuli d,
between thor9 ssm- s.ejo4s, were tlry se+-
srate latioas I.sok o.er our history,
Mr Suy ;he, ana b ~iser.
Wh;teiaw Reid for t,,9 Un.Jed States
Sana;e is the lstast journalistic item.
5lr Reid Is best kaoEu rs tie husband
Of y. o. Mills S5,009,G0 aaughrer.
r.
Il would be Just such medicine ss thc
4 pnhi:cln palry should tale, TO have
Reid fofce himself to ;he from. under the
same thres: aad roser Ina; placed Stanley
Matthews Upon the Bench. WIKI the
Trijpne, Mills money, and aot letter, lie
would make 4 very strong fight i'll the
convention, jus: such fight as always
wins in Republican convention. There,
the man with the longest financial OF mo-
nopoly pile, reaches the p-rsinmon-
However aatterns To the craft, We Do NJ:
see any valid claims presented.
In all the moiherly solicitude which the
Republican press pretend fur the Hoadiey
ticket ia Ohio, 1t has never occurred to
these seIf-constituted ps'rons of Democ-
racy, that this great party dissensior, in
which they have included gentleman
George, the Enquirer, Hoadley and other
e1ponepts. there is nothing of substance,
but row among Ward politicians in the
city Of Cincinnati, and strikers in Hamil-
ton county. As old A5e expressed It,
there vii be as many cats in the back
yard If not more, IN the morning after
all his caterSaulin. The Democrats of
Ohio are not Il ,hting each other 10 XIII.
DR.. Pierce's " Pieasau. Par-..:.e Pellets q
are sugar-coa.ed and inclosed in clzss bot
tics. their v!rtue being thereby preserved
uniupaired for any length of time, in any
climate, 60 that they are always fresh and
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Incia.. Drasersss prvPoss that Con.
gress shall iares,i.s,a efrau k by uh,ch
IA. Rspablesas carried ,h-, State in
lass.
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S, p. AKIN. BEN SELLING. Il. =. Dose
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Tariff reform IS the gatchwori Of the
Democratic party.
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IL PROBATE. la the matter of the es-a.e OF
Insrs fclI.t. pscet tS,l.
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In the Probate Court Of Wai!a Wa!!a County
Washin.toa i'er.it ~.
, Z II \; yI,d "a
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A Good Joke on General Nelson.

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIRUNE:
l have been reader OF your valuable paper
for the last three months and think II is
the best soldiers paper published. / take great
delight lii reading the accounts Of the various
battles and marches, and was especially pleased
with the account OF Nelson's trip over the noun
taIns OF Eastern Kentucky and up the Big
Sandy. | must tell you of an incident that
happened to our general. About 10 O'Clock on
the day before the Joy Mountain fight, as we
were turning bend in the river, we saw across
the river aud some distance ahead large
open field, and probably mile away on a side
hill was log house, where there was some
thing moving aTound, which the general thought
were human beings. He ordered halt, looked
steadily IN that direction short time, and
then, in his loud voice, asked if they were
peacea5le citizens or were in arms. As no
answer came back, he again made the same
request calling louder if possible, than the first
time, with the addition that if they didn't an
sWer him Immediately he would fire As
before, there was no answer, so he turned to
the captain Of the two pieces of artillery, who
had been viewing them with his field glasses,
and who was nearly expiring with laugh
ter, and ordered him to load one of his guns
with shell and send it over to see if they
wouldn't answer. The first she'll fell little
short, but the second dropped close to the
house. Then commenced the fun. There had
been herd of cattle quietly feeding on the
side hill, but when that screeching shell drop
ped among them they hoisted their tails and
away they went over the hill for other pasture
grounds out of the reach of Nelson's shells.
From all along the lines the shout went up:
Are you peaceable citizens or are you in
arms?" until the general threatened to place
the officers under arrest if it was not stopped.
ii. II. VAN CAMP,
DECATUR, Mich. Co. c, 9th o. WI
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River Bridge and how the cotton was run up
on ramrods and guns as signal to surrender ;
ti was on the detail that built the bridge across
the Black River that night, over which we cross
ed the morning of the 18th at Vicksburg;) how,
instead of sleeping aud resting at night, we
were dragging cannon up the hills with ropes
and digging and building protection for our
guns, which in the morning would open out on
the Johnnies as morning salute; of the day,
long to be remembered, at Jackson, after the
fall of Vicksburg, May 22d, and how in camp at
Port Hudson we tried alligator soup and meat;
of our campaign up the Teche, Western Louis
lana; of our skirmishing around Alexandria,
La, when cotton was king; how Banks Or
deTed US to burn our camp equipage and
fall back and intrench when no enemy ad-
vanced; how, after gaining our position, the
boys hooted Banks and staff and cheered and
threw their hats and caps to General McCIer-
nand and staff as they passed US how at Vel
low Bayou the Thirteenth Corps lay in sight all
day while the Sixteenth Corps were being cut to
pieces and killed Off because somebody did not
want to bring on general engagement; Of our
expedition from Pensacola around to Biakeley;
of the advance and charge on Blakeley, and our
trip to Ships Island in charge of prisoners.
And / would like to hear from some one who
knows aboutthe Chickasaw Bluffs affair in Jan'y
and December, '62 and '63; how some Of US lay
fiat on our faces under heavy fire for four
hours before we could move; how, after re-
treating to Yazoo River and going aboard boats,
we lay there until next morning when the
rebS advanced on u.s., so as to give them good
Smelling from our gunboats; and, finally, of our
trip ON board the old Sam Gatz for Arkansas
Post. c. M. Moody
CLIFTON KAN
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state Aia to Massnchnsstts solalers.

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
l indorse every word of the letter of PEN
sioner," published in THE TRIBUNE, July 26,
1888, in regard TO State aid in Massachusetts,. In
this town our names are not published, but in
every other particular we arc used in the way
he describes. On May 1st we were all cut down
one-h half and number taken off the rolls en-
tirely. The seleetmen here are willing to pay
us the State aid allowed by law, but say the
commissioner of State aid ordered the reduc-
ton. Now, the law reads that the selectmen
may grant State aid as follows" &c. And
would like to know where the commissioner
gets the authority to go behind the law and
order the selectInen of different towns to stop
a pensiOned soldier or his widow from reCeiY-
ing State aid? 1t is an outrage, and has caused
great deal of suffering, and viii cause more
than one deserving comTade or their widows
or orphans to apply to the town for help.
ask you: Is it right to SO humliate us when the
intention of the law was to relieve Us {?
MILFORD, Mass. ANOTHER PENsIOSEB.
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depot buiiing in which was posted about forty
men of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth veteran
battalion of Illinois. We held the tort till the
rebs gained the platform outside the building,
on level with Ms, and grasped our guns and
called out for us to surrender which, of course
was all we could consistently do just then
Thirty seven of US Were placed under guard and
received from the rebel General Featherstone
quitea compliment. He said: I" If all your army
fought in proportion as you have day against
odds. the war would have been ended long
ago" He also gave our guard written order
that we should be well treated while in their
charge, and we were. OF course there were
few attachments of our army, placed as we
were, who would not have fought as well as
we, but, of course, we did not want to tell him
so then Nearly the entire regiment or two
regiments the Fourteenth aud Fifteenth
were captured by detail, at Woodshed and Ac-
worth, after we We're, and the rebs made the
forest ring with their ZIP! yip!" For they
said: We've got old sherman's craeker-li line
now!"
Subscriber" says, also, that the Fifteenth
Illinois was in Colonel Rowlet's brigade at Ala
toona. So mistakes will happen, as | happen
to know. Would like to hear from the sergeant
who had sixteen-shooter, with which l shot
a rebel horse that day at Big Shanty
Yours, in F., G. and L.,
Ell. s. LOWRY,
BATAVIA, ILL. Fourteenth Illinois Inf.
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| heard that an Indiana regiment had captured
Tag that had been taken RON an iowa regi-
ment at Shiloh, and thfuksug II might have
been taken to'the State House, / wrote to the
Acknowledgement of Indiana, but could get no
trace OF L now, if any Hoosier, Confederate or
any other IMAM can help me 20 trace cut and
recover that flag 1t will be immensely crafty
ing not only to ME but also TO our company and
regiment and the ladies OF the T. I. u. I will
add. that when home on French Through, alter
a SIX months imprisonment, the ladies' of the
same university presented Us with auolher flag,
which Is now in the possession 81 the tnen pre-
ceptress OF the university, Miss Z. A. L0rin,
now at Ciarnda Iowa II. T. GRANyIs.
COlor-bearer 18th Iowa Y. v /
FAYETTE, Iowa
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tenth o. V. T., and participated in the first
land engagement of the war, at Philippi, W.
Va, June 3, 1861. He is correct as regards
date and regiment, but when he says the first
amputation was performed upon the leg of a
Confederate major, and that he died the next
day, hundreds-yes, thousands-wi1l testify
that he is mistaken.
The facts are: The wounded man did not
die; was not an officer, and consequently could
not carry q sword he was not soldier, there
fore could not have been an officer, but a pri-
waite citizen, which he was The writer was
there, and knows whereof he speaks He
would refer Mr.. Plumer to THE TRIBUNE of
July II, eth page in which an article by T. F.
s., Church vile, Va, on this same subject, ex-
plains it in nutshell. Besides, we are prom
ised a statement by the wounded man himself,
James E. Hanger who is alive and in business
at Richmond, Va. ]. l.. MILLIKAN
WASHINGTON G. H., OHIO.
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The yicksburg Campaign.
To tho Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:

10 inc Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
As am reader of your valuable paper, and
feel deep interest in its welfare and pros
perity, often feel like writing for its COLUMNS,
but, from lack of general knowledge of events
outside of my own immediate vicinity or sur
ronndings, / feel that / am at loss to write in
such way AS to interest its readers. was a pri-
vate in company A, Sixty-ninth Indiana v. l..
Thirteenth Army Corps, and would like to hear
from the comrades who were with us on the
famous Ficksburg campaign. on our march from
Miliiken's Bend to Richmond, La; how we
waded through water and mud, employed ca
noes yawls and mud-scows to gain passage ;
how We rugged up mud-scow with howitzer
aboard for a gunboat, and after we reached Old
James plantation ON the Mississippi how any
ious we were 10 see the gunboats coming down
the river after running the blockade at Vicks-
burg; of our fighting on the LIST of May at Mag
nolia Hills, or Shaffer's Plantation, where, out
of about 1so men engaged we lost sixty-one
men killed and wounded, by standing the charge
of two rebel regiments, after singing Rally
Round the Flag, Boys" Qong will the boys
of the Sixty-ninth remember that song-iust
as we had finished singing the rebs charged us J
Of our fighting st Champion Hills. ct Black
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The Fight at Champion Hllls. Miss.

TO the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
In your last you asked who the three were
who were buried on the hill at the battlefield
the boys TO tell, and, as they have not as yet
answered, viii do my best to tell you. One
of the men was the Northumberland of the
Nineteenth Arkansas infantry, who was shot
through the thigh and bled to death. He, with
tine other two, were buried there, at his request.
The other two belonged to the Sixth Mississippi
battery, which was taken by Us. All of their
horses and most Of the men were killed or
wounded The ground was literally covered
with dead and wounded in front Of and around
the battery. The Seventeenth Iowa and Tenth
Missouri infantry was sent out TO take the bat
terry and stay the tide of battle and I'll the place
made vacant by Hoveys division that had run
out OF ammunition and were totally cut up
We were met at the foot of the hill by one of
the stat Of General Grant, who said: Boys,
you are our only hope. If you viii do as you
have done heretofore, the day is ours" Our two
regiments numbered about $50 fighting men and
officers, lhaving lost over l50 men at jackson
on the lAth); the loss in the two regiments was
about 40. But when we had made the fifth
charge, captured the battery and the last stand
Of colors they had on the field-we numbered
about 800, Hoyey's men falling into our ranks.
some crying, some swearing, but all begging
for bunch of cartridges. Among the first to
hang on was the Eleventh Indiana / would
be pleased TO hear from some of the Eleventh
Indiana, and have their opinion Of The battle.
G. ID. GRAY,
Capt. Co. B, 10th No. Vol Inf.
GLEEWooD Mo.
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Who Has This Flag,
tor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
The successful effort, recently published in
THE TRIBUNE, of a comrade recovering his
colors, has induced me to make similar effort
You can more fully understand the intensity OF
my desire to that end when l tell you that
"our flag" was presented to our company by
the ladies of the Upper Iowa University. BY
them | was chosen to carry it, and when our
company afterward became the color company
l was made eolor-bearer of the regiment, and I
add, with justifiable pride. that / held that
position on every march and in every skirmish
and engagement the regiment participated in.
Until the muster out, period of four years and
four months, returning home withouta scratch.
Our entire regiment was captu4sd at the
close of the first days fight at sssiloh, and
rcbel officer came up to me saying, Here,
I'll take that" and that was the In saw of
it, except, when going to the rear, itl. ID us on
the shoulder of horsemen. A few years ago
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Bradley's Brigade at Franklin, Tenn.
he Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
am more and more in love with our paper.
Each number makes it more valuable; IN fact.
couldn't do without It, The incidents of the
camp, the march, the battle, the prison, as told
by the comrades, are highly interesting TO me.
as have had experience IN each. / have lust
read, with pleasure, the very thrilling and
truthful account OF the battle of Franklin, by
CoDrade j. J. Frinney, Of the Fiily-scventh
Indiana, and ] wish to thank Comrada
Frinney for the kind words spoken Of my hr;-
gade, and TO return 10 him the hearty greeting
OF one Of Bradley's tThird) brigade Bradley
was formerly the colonel Of my regiment, and
a Drawer man never drew sword Oh, how
well i remember the terrible suspense of that
fatal afternoon. Waiting and watching. out in
front Of the main line, with the whole robel
army coming on u.s. hoping for an order that
would take us back 10 the works and save us
from ruin: bat no order came. Right here,
want TO take issue with UomTaie FIaney, and
relieve General SehOheld Of the unjust charge
OF that biunder Of leaving our two lI1gades out
IN front. The blame, think, land. so far as /
Know, so thought every man and officer In the
Third brigade belonged to our division COM
mander, General Wagner. The order. as we
understood il Afterwards, was for the brigadcs
TO remain in advance until tho rebel slkirmisn-
ers camo up, check them. then quietly go
back in the works and Tot the rebel army come:
but Wagnerdid notsend the order TO the brigade
commanders. That is certainly as we under
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La FAYErTE. IND.
To the lilo NArIoNAL TRInrNE:

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Comrsde Blodgett having shown me the LET
Ter that be has written, / wish to-say that /
distinctly remember reading a communication
IN the Philadelphia bqHircr about the cues
tons now at issue IN your columns The au-
thor said that Captain Naylor. commanding at
MOccasn Point, had destroyed q rebel camp
situated On the side of lookout Mountain. and
had prevented the wagon trains from passing
along the roads on the side Of the mountain
As regards the signal flag. / never heard it
disputed that Comrade De Spain, Of the Tenth
Indiana battery, did the shooting, until / saw
IL contested IN your columns.
When ] was discharged for physical disabil-
iry IN 1868. | waited until the spring OF 1865.
when j could stand it no longer. and went on
board the ganbOat Stone River, IN Alabama,
and served at my own expense, not being
recognized as a soldier or sailor. but doing any
duty that might be required Of me.
Now, as 10 families there were four brothers
81 rs, all in the service at one time. Dr. T. f.
q. Nayl0r was too old for active service, but
was assistant surgeon Of the Indiana Legion,
on duty during the Morgan raid; Charles A.
Aayior, captain Of Sixteenth Indiana battery /:
VIM. A. Aaylor. captain Of Tenth Indiana bat
terry, and myself, first lieutenant of company
a, Tenth Indiana regiment and captain and
major of Harris Light Second New York Cav
airy. Can you beat it2 Respectfully,
JHO. L. SAYLoR,
Major Second New York Cavalry.
La EAEETTE, ISD.
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Affair of Monroe station.-allntooua.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Being one of the boys, / have a slight reool.
lection of a trip on the Hannibal and ST. Joe
Railroad, from Palmyra to Monroe Station
bio. In July, 1861, word came to us at Quincy
H., that the Sixteenth Illinois regiment was
surrounded and in danger of being starved into
surrender, at a little station in Missouri, and
our regiment-the Pi0as Fourteenth Illinois
was at once sent to the rescue. We passed sew
eral burning wood-pileS on the cars, where the
air would be so heated and full of smoke that
We would have to hold our breath, or gasp be-
tween the puts OF smoke. At one place we
formed bucket-line to pond and filled the
tender OF our engine with water because the
tank had been destroyed; and we often had to
stop and repair the railroad, with the rebs in
sight ahead of us tearing up another place.
We were armed with the old Harper's- Ferry
musket and they would side around lust
out OF range, and taunt US by shouts and way
ing of hats. We arrived at Monroe about sun
down, and found the Sixteenth fortified around
school building, short distance from the
main part of the town They had two pieces
of artillery, loaded with mnsiSet-powder and
chains from the ears. The rebs had burned
the depot and several cars, and had left several
marks OF cannon-balls on the brick walls of
the building around which the Sixteenth were
camped. The two brass pieces were turned
over to our regiment aud a detail made to man
thein- ihese guns were considered part of our
regiment till about the time of the battle of
Shiloh. The Fourteenth went back to Hanni-
bal and staid one night, then went out again
on the Hannibal and st. Joe to Brookfield.
About that time there was an attempt made to
burn the railroad bridge over the Charitan
River, but it was saved by the company of boys
in blue stationed there.
In theassaut on Aliatoona, "Subscribcr saws
Big Shanty was held by a large body of rebel
cavalry on Monday morning, tile Sd of Octo-
Der, 1864. Such may have been the case, but
we did not know it and did not acknowledge
it until about 3 o'clock p M. Of that day, when
division Of Hoods army, under the COM
mand Of General Featherstone, charged the