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A Companion Of kossnth.

To THE EDITOR: In your issue of June %
noticed an article on the suicide of a companion
of Kossnth-Emil Steger, ex- Captain of I'd ILL.,
J.. A., ETC. Having served with Comrade Emil
Steger for two years i'll Co. L, I'd III. l.. A, l
wish to give a brief sketch of his life, as re-
lated to me by him while we were in tent to-
gether in camp at Carrollton, La in the Fall
of 1868. If l am not mistaken, Comrade Steger
told me he was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Ger
many, and was educated as a civil engineer.
At the commencement of the rebellion in
Austria he was one of the bold advocates of
liberty. and with Capt. A. Schwartz and many
other Hungarians fought for freedom, but their
little band was defeated and scattered. Some
fled to Switzerland, and then to America.
Comrade Steger was one of the unfortunate
ones, and was captured, tried, convicted, and
sentenced to seven years in prison. He told
me that while i'll confinement his sister brought
him books, one of which he read over % times
and knew it all by heart. Tears would run
down his cheeks while he would relate to me
his prison confinement. After his term of
seryitude was out he, with assistance of friends,
emigrated to America, and followed civil en-
gineering. At the commencement of the late
rebellion he was in St. Louis, and at the first
call for volunteers he obeyed his country's call
and enlisted in Co. A, 1st Mo. l.. A., then COM
manded by Capt A. Schwartz, as brave q sol
dier as ever enlisted in the Union ranks. The
company did good service in Missouri, and
during the month of September. 1861, it was
ordered to Fort Holt, in Kentucky. where the
writer was then transferred from K, 18th ILL.,,
to the battery to which COmrade Steger be-
longed This was my first acquaintance with
Comrade Steger 1 found him to be soldier
of strong Union principles. Our stay in Fort
Holt was of short duration, being ordered over
the Ohio River to Cairo where our battery was
reorganized- changed from Co. A. LIST Mo. L. A.,
to Co Z, I'd Ill. l.. A. After our reorganization
Comrade Steger was promoted to Sergeant, and
the writer to O. NJ. Sergeant We both served
in this capacity until after the battle of Fort
Denelson. when / was sent sick to hospital.
Lieut. Hanger having died from wounds re-
ceived, Comrade Steger was promoted to First
Lieutenant. After l returned to the battery
again l found Comrade Stcger in command of
the battery, and as good and efficient an officer
as ever wore the shouderstraps. / served with
him until about the 1st of January, 1864, when
| was ordered to report to Gen. U. S. Grant at
Wick sburg Miss. i parted with Comrade Steger
on the most intimate terms and never beard
from him until l saw the article in The Ma
TIoNaL TRIBUNE.-A. T. BANDER, G. NJ. Serg't
Go. l., I'd Ill. L. A Carbondale, Ill.
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Patient and Slow to Anger.
[Ne,c York Sun


Grant was somewhat under the medium size,
measuring about 5 feet inches in hight,
Though he was compactly and powerfully built,
his feet and hands were small and neatly shaped,
his head large, his hair brown and thick his
eyes gray and strong, his jaws square and firmly
set, his muscles were elastic, close grained, and
enduring, and his temperament an excellent
compound of the sanguine nervous and lynn
phatic His endurance in his prime was very
great, his temper was even and quiet, his voice
low and gentle. his language was always simple
and clean, and his mouth never soiled by pro-
family man of but few words in public, he
was a most agreeable and constant talker in
private, especially with those in whom he had
confidence or with whom he was familiar. He
was kindly and considerate to his staff, obedient
to those above him, and lenient to those below
him in rank. He was patient slow to anger,
and has been heard to say that even under the
severest insult he never became indignant till
a week after the insult had been given, and
then only at himself for not having sooner
discovered that he had been insulted or mis-
nspd
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A GRASPING MONOPOLY,
That Charges FpneraI Professions ExtortiOEate
Tolls,

To THE EDITOR: The United States Govern
ment has purchased Arlington and established
National Cemetery at that place. where are
buried a very large number of the brave de-
Tenders of the flag of oar country. The ceme-
terry is still kept open for the burial of deceased
comrades who were enrolled among the loyal
defenders of the Nation. 1t is kept in beautiful
condition by loving hands, and the National
Government, through it's Quartermaster's De-
pntment, grants permits to the friends of
honorably- discharged soldiers to bury their
soldier dead in this lovely spot. All this from
a generous Government.
| want to ask the question Why is it that
i'll making the journey from this city to Airing
ton a grasping monopoly is permitted to make
the friends of a deceased soldier pay duty to
them in toll for crossing bridge which has
paid the corporation that built it 10 times its
original cost with an enormous interest COM
pounded from year to year?
Why is such an outrage and National dis
grace allowed to exist?
There are at this time residing within this
District more than 5000 honorably discharged
Union soldiers who are entitled to be buried
at Arlington. Many of them desire no more
lovely spot for their last resting place.
Yet when the final musterout of our comrade
shall come and his mortal remains are being
conveyed in charge of sorrOwing comrades. fol-
lowed by the sorely bereaved wife and children,
all must halt at the Aqueduct Bridge, George
town, and pay tribute to the amount of 80 cents
for each carriage in the funeral cortege, to help
fill the already overloaded Golfers of soulless
corporation Why, | ask can such disgrace
full outrage exist at our National Capital? Let
u.s. for decency's sake for the fair fame of our
lovely city. have a free bridge across the Poto-
mac to the beautiful city of our noble dead at
Arlington.
With somewhat extended acquaintance
throughout our broad land, 4 know of no toll
bridge or toll road in the whole country where
funeral professions charged toll, except the
Aqueduct Bridge at Georgetown, ID. Z.
The same great outrage is annually perpe-
trated by the same shameless corporation upon
the devoted, loving friends of our country
gallant defenders who visit Arlington on Me-
mortal Day to perform a sacred duty to the
memory of our dead comrades.
If our National Congress will not give us a
free bridge to Arlington, is there no way to
compel these sharks and extortioners 20 make
their bridge free, at least. for funeral process
sions and on Memorial Day y?-GRAND ARMY,
Washington, d. G..
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His 4th Of ,uly Tablet.

itOdHy JOuTHm.
At o'clock in the morning of the Sth of
July Gen. Grant wrote what for him was a long
tablet, in which he spoke of the use Of medi-
cines in his disease and his familiarity with his
own treatment, alluding to the habit he had
sometimes of getting up himself and applying
cocaine taking garge, and cleaning out his
mouth when he needed relief. In this tablet
he said that if he kept on taking medicine and
treating himself he would become quite a spe-
cialst in the treatment OF diseases. He added
that when he was educated for the life of a SOL
der he had no idea that he would live TO see
the rank of soldier raised two grades hi CHER
and to have himself occupy both of the exalted
positions; that he was never much of a poll
tician and yet had been two times President
that he had never been much of a book reader
and yet he now found himself the author of a
book that was almost already in print He
closed with facetious remark that if he ever
got well perhaps he would be al authority on
medicine
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He Lost His Place.
JHbseonn (t,,,,ru,ie

On Il recent visit to this city, Maj Gen.
Nasan Brayman, of Ripon, Wis, was presented
by Mrs Edward Roby with n copy of Mrs.
Sherwocd's Camp Fire and Memorial Poems"
On his return home he wrote 3Irs. Roby let
ter Of thanks, from which we are permitted to
make the following extract
81 have many impromptn hooks in poetry
and prose, very patriotic and commonplace, to
which pay little attention. When thanked
y1n for the present of Mrs. Sherweoi's book, /
felt a sense of wcarincss under the obligation
to read it in compliment to yoC. ] began, read
few lines, then read them over to my dear
wife, whose appreciation Of good poetry and
patriotic sentiment is as ready as mine. Well,
we read, and read right along for an evening,
only pausing to wipe away the tears that wonld
come, and to recover voice to go ON; just pre-
tending to have lost the place, you know. We
voted in solemn family conclaye of two, that
Mrs Sherwood's patriotic and social pieces arc
entirely out of and above the region OF mere
rhyme and sentiment. and that many of them
viii live as long as the memory Of the scenes
that inspircd them"
This beautiful compliment to the inspiring
soul work of Mrs. Sherwood, by an old soldier,
an author and poet, is worthily bestowed.
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SCIENTIFIC CHAT.

An asparagus diet is now recommended for
certain forms of kidney disease.
Faith cures are recognized by the London
Lancet, which says there is question that they
wrought. There is miracle in faith healing,
but it would be miracle if faith healing did not
occur under favorable conditions. The mistake
that has been made Is in prOciaimlng faith cures
q religious function.
In Italy there CHANGED to dwell one Maj Won
Hruschka, a German and one of natures bee-keep-
One day Maj Won HruSchka was in his
apiary, and his CHANGED to be there, too The
boy carried tin pail which had a string tied to it.
The Major gave the boy piece of honey, putting
it into the tin pail Then the youth, boy-like, be-
gan to swing the pail with the honey in it round
and round i'll circle, holding it by the string. A
moment after he had ceased this amusement the
Major happened to look again at the piece of honey.
What WAS his surprise to find that the honey was
all drained out neatly and perfectly from that side
of the comb which had been On the outside of the
circle as the boy swung the pail around by the
string The Major thoughtfully turned the comb
over and bade the boy swing again. This time the
other side of the comb all drained out and that
night Maj Won HruschlSa went to bed thinking.
lie thought and thought and experimental till he
gave bee keepers the honey extractor, which whirs
the honey out of the comb by centrifugal force,
leaving the comb to be filled again by the bees and
the liquid honey clean, pure and beautiful, to be
eaten by people.
- Professor s. A. Forbes. of the Illinois State
College at Champaign, who has been investigating
the cause of the remarkable mortality among the
perch in Lake Mendoza, Wis, has just rendered a
report, in which he says it was due to spherical
germ, about one-twenty- y-five-thousandth of an
inch in diameter, which attacked the liver and
kidneys. forming assesses and destroying the
cells of the organ. The germ belongs to group
of various members which produce smallpox,
chicken and hog cholera. The fish were killed by
tons.
According to a New York professor the COM
mon idea that fly uses its wings like bird is a
mistake. The wing of the insects. he says, is COM
paratively narrow and it makes up for the want of
expanse by lateral motion. 1t does not beat back
and forth in one place. but makes movement as
if describing the figure 8. The number of vibra-
tions is $50 a second.
To keep postage stamps in the pocket or
memorandum- book without sticking, New Or
leans post-office clerk advises people to rub the
sticky side over the hair two or three times The
oil of the hair coats the mucilagc and prevents 1T
from sticking.
Physicians in the Sandwich Islands have come
to the conclusion that the only way to stop the
with leprosy microbes They think the operation
will be success. but have found one yet will
ing % submit to II.
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A Grateful Hop

A Newfoundland dog owned by q farmer of
Brandtsville, n. j., broke his leg about four
years ago. DIR. W. c. Bennett, who resides in
a neighboring town, set the broken bone. While
driving through Brandtsville few days ago
he recognized the dog. He had occasion to
stop, and the dog Immediately came up to him
and made the most lively demonstration of joy
1t was with difficulty that the Doctor could
keep his feet. The dog jumped upon him, and
by every possible way in his power tried to
express his gratitude. The Doctor thinks the
dog knew him, and remembered the setting of
the bone.
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I,auces in the Rebel Army.

To THE EDITOR: As to lances in the Confed-
crate service, it is fact that small troop of
cavalry was so armed when Burnside first
entered East Tennessee, but the carbines and
s:ibers of the Union troops soon put an end to
That funny business" The writer was an
iDrsed at Wayneahoro. Ga, in 1854. by a lance
in the hands of q disinounted member Of
Georgia regiment.-STIRUP, Lansing, Mich.
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Nrr,ous. Debilitated Men.

Yor are allowed free trial Of thirty days of the
use of DIR. Dyes Celebrated voltaic Belt with
Electric Suspensary Appliances. for the speedy
relief aud permanent cure OF Nervous Debility,
loss of Vitality and Manhood, and all kindred
troubles. Also. for many other diseases. Com
ulcte restoration to health, vigor and manhood
puaranteed No risk is incurred. illustrated
pamphlet, with full information, terms, ETC.,
mailed free my addressing VOltaic Belt Co.,
MasSilSu, Mich.
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Experience i'm Paris.

[
CongratulatOry friend-Just arrived from the
Continent, eh? You are looking remarkably
well. How long were you in Paris?
Returned tourist-About six weeks.
How did you manage? You can't talk
French"
"Oh, gestures went great way. Sometimes
/ sketched what wanted"
Made a drawing of it, eh? And you were
always understood?"
'Well, not always Once I made a drawing
of mushroom. Now, what do you think the
waiter brought me. The idiot brought me an
umbrella"
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FOR THE LADIES.

A New Jersey man. hearing that his wife in
tended to elope, considerably went away from
home on the evening named as to remoye every
obstacle. His wife suspected the cause of his alb
sencc and dismissed her eandestne suitor. Moral /:
Never try to be smarter than woman. III you do
you will get left. burlington Tree Press.
Miss Mary Anderson refuses to make any Eu-
ropean engagements OH the plea that she con:cm-
plates IL tour round the world
- Mrs Henry Ward Beecher is writing book.
- Jean Ingelow pronounces her name with the
soft sound of G..
- Miss Blanche Williams of Brantford, Canada,
Is the first coored woman permitted to ma
trculs:e sit Torunto University.
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The Rs.lpe ef the Thirteenth Corus.

To THE EDITOR: In the proceedings of the
last National Encamrment, published in THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE Inoiice that committee
was appointed for the purpose of designing a
badge for the Thirteenth Corps. For the benefit
of that committee would state that a call
of Adi't-Gen. Walter X. Scates, of Chicago, Ill.,
shortly after the war, meeting of the Thir-
teenth Corps was held at old metropolitan Hail.
the Thirteenth Corps Association was formed,
and badge adopted. i resembled our present
GAR badge somewhat only the star was more
after the French Legion Of Honor pattern. The
names of the engagements Of the corps were on
the badge, and think We adopted the pattern
partly from badges that some Of the members
had worn during the wal, as there were several
designs. We had an electrotype made and copies
of the design circulated, and am sorry to say
that mine has been lost long time. There
was a contract made with leading jjeweler to
make the badge. ! left the city for the West
shortly afterwards, aud have never since heard
anything of our association or the bad &c adopted.
Are there any of the readers Of The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE who attended that meeting in Metro
poitap Hall in the Spring Of 1866, who has a
design of the badge2 Is Walter b. Scates, who
called and presided at the organization, alive?
Think the committee should consider, to some
extent the badge that was designed and adopted
by the only exclusive gathering Of the old
Thirteenth Corps since the war, and that al
most Immediately at the close of the war. Let
us hear from the Thirteenth Corps on the SUBJ
ject.-JoHN W. SCOTT, 83d Chic, Holden, Mo.
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Ga0d EyCuse.
buffalo Ea-Dress.

IbHDHO EIi1feSSI
School board visitor, while examining
scholar" Where is the North Pole?"
don't know, sir" Don't you? Are you not
ashamed that you don't know where the
North Pole is?" why, sir, if Sir John
Franklin and DR.. Kane and Capt. Mares and
Markham couldn't find it, how should know
pbarn ic 3V
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Getting the Drop on the Stery.

The other evening Judge Reilly and DR..
Nelson were telling some Of their stories, when
a flock of black birds few overhead 4" / killed
70 Of those birds at one shot down on the east
Shore" said Judge Reilly. "Sho! that's moth
ing" said the Doctor, Il killed 122 one time" !"
Look here, Doctor" said the Judge, after
this you can tell yours first"
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Going Fishing.

Gentleman Ito grocer)-Two gallons Santa
Cruz, one gallon Old Tom. two gallons Maryland
Club, four dozen Popmery Sec, four dozen
Milwaukee and six boxes Reina Vics.
Groceries sir. That all, sir?
Gentleman-Er-do you keep fishing tackle?
Groceries, sir, full line. sir.
Gentleman-Put in q couple of fish hooks
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GEN. GRANT.
What the Veterans Think of His Last Resting
Plnce.

What the Veterans Think Of His Last Resting
To THE EDITOR: Grant belongs to the Ma
ton, therefore, let his remains be buried within
the limits of the District of Columbia, where
the represents tatives of our national domain and
where the Ministers and Consuls of all Nations
may be able to do honor to the man we all love
to honor His march from the cabin to the
White House his rise from First Lieutenant
to Commander in Chief of the Army, and the
magnificent work he did for his country and
for humanity make. it peculiarly appropriate
that his final resting place should be within
the limits of the District Of Columbia.-F. NJ.
HUFF, Co. B, 18th Ind, Warren, Ind.
To THE EDIToR:. All The Posts of this De-
partment have met and passed appropriate reso-
lutions, growing out of tile death of our old
comrade and commander, Gen. Grant. A large
delegation from the Posts and many of the De-
partment officers will attend the funeral.
While we wesuhmit to the wishes of the family in
regard to his last resting place, am sure at
least nine -tenths Of his old comrades were
anxious to have him put orest at Washington,
and they condemn ii the strongest terms the
mistake the family 4ave made III accepting II
spot, intended as sacred ground. i'll place de-
voted as n pleasure resort. TO all classes OF the
people of II great city. To me, it iooks almost
like desecrating tho tomb OF greatness The
Union Veteran Association of Mary also
held meeting and passed appropriate rcsOlu-
tions-SIXTH ARMY CORPS. baltimore Md.
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Soldiers Memorial.

IN the main front of the new English Luthe.
ran Church, recently erected at Topeka, Kan,
is situated the Soldiers Memorial Window, be-
ing gothic opening 12x24 feet, glazed with
stained cathedral glass, in which, i'll brilliant
colors are depicted the several badges of the
Grand Army ofthe Rcpuhiic, the Woman'S Re-
lief Corps, and the Sons of Veterans. -
II also has all the Army Corps badges in satu.
raj colors, burning altar, the dove of peacc,
and sheaf of plenty: broken column, urn and
scroll, draped in National flags. Above these
appears the open Bible. the monograms of the
Evangelical Church and the Christian Com
mission, while above all in the apex OF the arch
appears the cross and crown.
On Sunday, Jan. 4, 1885. there WAS held a
special and imposing memorial service dedi-
eating this window to the memory of the sol
diers The members Of the g. A. E.. the Wenun s
Relief Corps aud the Sons of Veterans were
largely represented in the immense c0ngrega-
tion which filed the church to eser3swing.
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Try II On CO.

6" Is confidence in mankind OH the increase ?"
asks the Baltimore Telegraph Leave water
melon on your front steps over night and make
a test case.
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The Way 1t Ia.
4 IRnrIi,lOlon FreSS Press

Huntington Fress Prcss.l
A radical writer says that sliced cucambers
will remove freckles. So they will. Freekled
people are just as liable to fatal diseases as any
Indy
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Ayers Ague Cure never fails to cure Fever
and Ague, and all naiar;gi disorders. War
rauted.
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supporting the batteries ut every place where
they were by the vivid imagination If many,
whose stories were invented Tor the purpose ii
frightening the ignorant
'' The truth is that Il was and is to me one Of
the great wonders how we ever succeeded i'll
putting down the rebellion. with nearly the
cEtare South iB ar-Hs,-and there were but few
that were not in arms who did not sympathize
fully with those who were while in the North
q strong political party, as an organization,
prayed and worked ior the success of secession
and rebellion. The only ones of the party who
did not sympathize with the rebellion were a
few old men who knew The benefits of d gov
ernment, those who entered the Union army,
tbese who had friends in the service, and
tlase who were taught to revere the Union in
early youth. The remainder of that party that
desired our success were but few and far be-
tween. They arc now the ones, however, who
saved the Government, preserved the Consti-
tuition, the flag, and our honor, and are going
TO reform all abuses and make everybody pros
porous and happy. The Colonel here who lost
an aTm for his country, is laid aside rs worth
less crockery :; and as for myself, who gave
seven sons to the service of my country, i am
of DO use whatever. Of course. j am very old,
but supposed that it would be considered an
homer to me to have made so great a sacrifice
So I~ent out TO one of the Reformers' meetings
this Fall, and instead of being invited On the
stand and referred TO as an cid man who had
given Up his whole family for his cOuntry's
cause, / Ias permitted to sit on the ground and
hear an old Secessionist and rebel sympathizer
extollod to the Skies with great applause fol-
loving, and one Of our best and most gallant
soldiers ridiculed and abused as if he had been
pirate during the war So it is and SO it goes.
j am poor. So are we all that spent our time
in aiding our country. The mistake we made
was not to have staid ut home and made for
Tunes, and lot these men, who now enjoy their
fortunes made during the war, have gene and
served in the army and showed their love OF
country. We would n0sy have been the patriots
and the ones to he intrnstcd with public affairs.