St. Paul daily globe., 1884-07-23

Stoddard Post, Worthington, and their faini-
lies, are the guests of B. N. Carrier, SO Roy
alston avenue.
The delegations continued to arrive all
night
The benefit concert will be given in Mar
ket hall tomorrow evening.
Mrs. j. Mansfield Irving, who win recite
the poem at the camp fire this evening, is
the junior vice-president at the Forsythe Re.
lief corps of Toledo, o.
Major L. s. Willard and wife, of Austin,
Mimi, and G. F. Hensen, of Kansas, are the
guests Of j. D. Woodworth, No. 129 Highland
avenue.
Miss Ella Woodford, of Millville, N. Y, is
visiting her brother, j. E. Woodford, during
the encampment.
John D. Billings, department commander
for state of Massachusetts, will be the guest
of Hazen ]. Burton.
| The following appointments on the staff of
the department commander are announced:
Thomas H. Reeves, post 4, acting assistant
adiutant general; John A. Gilman, post 73,
aid-de-camp; ]. A. Towers, post 4, aid-de-
camp; 0. L. Crosby, post ~, aid-de-camp.
| Owing to urgent private business, Capt. J.
L. Washburn, of Mankato, will be unable to
attend the National encampment, and First
Lieut.. D. F. McGraw will have charge of Co.
F in the parade to-day.
Ben. D. Nurse, former well known news
| paper man of st. Louis and Indiana polls,
Adjutant General Carnahan, Judge Ham
mond, and other prominent Hoosiers, regis
tered at the Indiana headquarters yesterday
and last night.
1t is the intention, prior to the final ad-
journment of the G. A. R., to have general
meeting of resident and visiting Indianans, al
1 which there will be an address of welcome,
responses, and Interchange of thought and
| sentiment.
1t would hardly do 10 make special or spe-
cific mention, but the artistic display made
in many Of the show windows of our various
merchants are not only an attraction, but
study as well, and before which crowds
gather in countless numbers. There is in
quite number of cases as much taste dis
played as that shown by the artist who puts his
ideas and fancies on canvas.
General Manson, candidate for lieutenant
governor on the Democratic state ticket, In
diana, with his gray hair and long, gray
beard, is the patriarch of the Hoosier delega-
ton. Though venerable in appearance he is
yet hale and hearty, and likes nothing better
than to bivouac with the boys in blue.
To the old soldier-he who, for two, three
or four years, marched to the stirring strains
of TRAMP, tramp, tramp" or who, later
with Sherman, went down through Georgia,
the present is an occasion which touches
and vivrates upon their very heartstrings,
bringing forth that music which can only
emanate from the soul, and reviving in their
memories recollections Of the past, brought
out in their most vivid character by the an
nual recurring reunions of those who fought
that the Union might be preserved. On
every corner, In almost every group, are
gathered those who, amid the excitement of
their surroundings, are again, as it were,
going through the active scenes of the war
of the rebellion. Some are holding one
another by the hand, and with grasp and
shake, relating how they met one another at
'sReseca,n ''Stone River" s'Chicamauga," :"
sAtlanta,' erich Mountain" tiPittsburg
Landing" "Corinth,'' ''The Wilderness u
''Gettysburg,' and so on down through the
list Of struggles for American freedom and
American independence. Thus it is that
these reunions are productive of good, still
further cementing and making stronger and
firmer the cites that bind.n The gladness
of the hour is the gladness of year, and
each years. reunion is the assurance of the
pcrmanency of the Republic. Politics does
not, and we hope never will, have influence
in these annual gatherings Of the boys in
blue, but meeting as they do in honor and
remembrance of ''the days that tried naen IS
souls,'' we are more than ever constrained
to sing: tr.m ag
4 ssShould auld acquaintance be forgot,
| And never brought TO mind.
Should aud acquaintance be forgot,
In the days of auld lang syne!'