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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-24
Grant Responsible.

A former staff officer contributes to
the Boston Traveller the following anec-
dotes of Grant: Grant had no fear of
responsibility; no fear of Secretary STAN
ton. / never knew him to show fear of
anything. In September, 1864, while
at Harper's Ferry, returning from
visit to Sheridan, he learned that
Wade Hampton had slipped in rear
of the left flank of the Army of the Po-
tomac and carried off our entire beef
herd-two thousand head. When Sec
rotary Stanton heard of the loss of the
cattle he wanted somebody's scalp, and
telegraphed: who is responsible for
the loss of the cattle herd p To which
Grant replied, Il am There was no
hair raised that time. For several
DAYS afterwards the rebs,' with much
mooing' and lowing frequently
called out, Hello, Yanks; don't you
want some beef?' While this was 60
ing on the old man would jokingly say,
Il have the best commissary in the
army; he not only feeds my army but
that of the enemy also 1t was only a
few months after this that he directed
the same officer at AppomattoX to feed
General Lees furnishing army. When,
shortly after this loss, Sheridan made a
big haul of stock in the valley Grant
felt better. Though the animals were
not so large nor in such good condition
as ours, they were in such numbers and
of such size as to stop Johnny Reb's
mouth. On the morning of the day
the army captured Petersburgh Grant
stopped to write dispatch, leaning
against one of the few fences left stand
ing, near house, the upper part of
which had been abandoned by the
women and children. These had taken
refuge in the cellar and were crying
from fear, as the house was being rid
died by the confederate artillery. The
writer stood near the general, thinking
between shots that it was no place for
him, but not seeing how he could leave
while the acknowledgement remained
When Grant had finished his dispatch
looking round and apparently appre.
ciating, for the first time, what a hot
place he was in, he quietly said l see
no use in staying here and moved on
very closely followed by his staff, to E
place where an unoccupied man coult
feel cooler"
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The Northern Volunteers.

Mr.. Leyburn says: The topic which
seemed to lie uppermost and heaviest
on his General Lee's) heart was the
had fallen in the bloody strife. In this
particular he regarded the struggle as
being almost unequal. The North, he
said, had indeed sent many of her valu
able young men to the field; but as in
all large cities there is a population
which can well be spared, she had from
this source and from immigrants from
abroad unfailing additional supplies.
The South, on the other hand, had none
but her own sons, and sent and sacri-
feed the flower of her land" Some
thing of this sort has been reported by
Chaplain Pepper in an account of an
interview which he had with Lee dur
ing the march of Sherman's army
through Richmond, at the close of the
war, but we can hardly think that either
Leyburn or Pepper caught fully the
spirit of what the great confederate
leader said. The sacrifice of the youth
of the nation was awful, and no doubt
he mourned over it; and the loss of
southern manhood was greater in pro-
portion than the loss of northern man
hood; but the implication that our ar
mics were not composed of as valuable
material as those of the South is hardly
worthy of Lee. To be sure there were
many foreigners in our ranks and worth
less scoundrels, both native and foreign,
but the mass of the volunteers were ma
tive Americans, and the mass of the
volunteers, both native and foreign
born, were thinking soldiers, who took
up war as a stern duty to the country,
and put aside their arms on the return
of peace to become law-abiding and in
dustrious citizens. The rowdies and
idlers of our large cities were not greatly
disposed to share the risks and hard
ships of campaign, and while our for
eign-born citizens in this country in
1861 bore their full share in the task of
preserving the Union, the stream of
immigration fell off sharply during the
four years of the civil war. There may
be some controversy as to the fighting
of the Union and the rebel soldiers,
and we are disposed to concede that nc
better body of fighting men ever trod a
battlefield than Lees army of northern
Virginia: but in intelligence, in indus
trial value, in moral character, we be-
lieve the federal soldiers stood higher
than the confederate soldiers. What
suffered almost utter destruction at the
South was her aristocracy. Young
and old, these leaders of the people
flung themselves into the war and laid
their bodies in the foremost rows OF
dead on every desperate battlefield, the
few surviving returning penniless tc
ruined estates. 1t was the destruction
of this class that made the revolution
seem so disastrous at the South; but a
the North there was no aristocracy il
those days to lose, and when the far
mer's boy or the young mechanic or the
lad from college fell, his mother nigh
weep, "but there were many better
men than he in Sparta" Moreover
when the survivors came back each one
brought in his head or in his hands tn,
means of new individual and nationa
wealth. 1t was in the nature of tn,
struggle ofaristocracy against democracy
that inequality lay.-Bu6alo Courier.
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Questions Answered.

G. w. H., Newport Chaplain How
ard, who was so suddenly brought into
notice as commander of the Calling
guns in a recent fight with the Riel in
surgents, is native of Connecticut
and belongs to the United States Reg
ular Army. He was granted leave of
absence for thirty, which was extended
to sixty, days. 1t was during this time
he won his greatest fame.
S. n. E., Groton.-Y our claim for
Communication for rations while a pris-
oner has been allowed, but cannot be
paid until congress makes an appropria-
ton for that purpose. The appropria-
ton for bounties, etc., to volunteers
and their heirs has been exhausted.
1t is said that more than seven hundred
letters day are received by the second
auditor in relation to such claims now
pending in his office.
O. p. w., Burlington.-Th surgeon
of board for the examination of APP
plicants for penson is as free to give his
testimony in any pension claim as he
would be had he not been appointed to
that office. And any surgeon who gives
that as a reason for Withholding impor-
tant testimony in a pension claim should
be reported to the pension office, for
such reason is based on ignorance OF
dishonest motives. The testimony of
an examining surgeon is accepted al
the pension office without oath when
his Office is stated in connection with
his signature.
O. G. H., Milton.-The following is
the first verse of the poem YOU ask for
Our campfres shone bright on the mountains
That frowned on the river below,
While stood by our guns in the morning
And eagerly watched for the foe;
When a rider came out from the darkness
That hung over mountain and tree
And shouted; Boys, up and be ready,
For Sherman will march to the sea-"
The poem was written by Adiutant 5
II. Byers, while in prison at Columbia
S. G.. He had no decent place to sleel
and was accustomed to keep walking
half the night and then sleep in thu
day. On one of those midnigh
" trudges,' while walking up and dowI
the prison-pen, the lines began to creel
through his brain, and he wrote then
down in the morning. A comrade Sc
them to music and the boys sang them
A copy was carried North, concealed il
the wooden leg of an exchanged com
rade, and published, and General Sher
man promoted the author to place Oh
his staff
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Pensions Granted.

To F. A. Hart, North DuXbury, $4 a
month and S72 arrears; John A. Smith,
Braintree, "a month and $50 arrears
Gel M. Town, Barre, Sc month and
$500 arrears; Amos Walston, Williston,
81 month and 1896 arrears; Charles
r. White, Calais, IS month and 1854
arrears; Orson c. Turner, Waterbury,
an increase of pension from $4 to Sc a
month; Lewis w. Flint, Williemstown
an increase from S4 to IS month and
1854 arrears; A. p. Cameron, Worces.
ter, an increase from 81 to S12 amonth
and $3.50 arrears, granted on an appeal
to the secretary of the interior: Edwin
Goodwin, West Randolph, an increase
from IS to SIG month.
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Gbe Soldiers Budget.
A Second Review Of the Army.

I read last night of the grand review
In washngton's chiefest avenue-~
Two hundred thousand mep in blue,
! think they said was the number
Till seemed to hear their trampling feet
The bugle blast and the drums quick beat
The clatter of hoofs in the stony street,
The cheers of the people who came to greet,
And the thousand details that to repeat
Would only my verse cucumber
Till fell in revere, sad and sweet,
And then to fitful slumber
When, lol in a vision seemed to stand
In the lonely Capitol ON each hand
Far stretched the portico dim and grand,
Its columns ranged like martial band
OF sheeted spectres, whom some command
Had called to a last reviewingl
And the streets of the city were white and bare
No football echoed across the square,
Bat out of the misty midnight air
heard in the distance a trumpet blare,
And:the wandering night-winds seemed to bear
The sound of far tattooing.
Then held my breath with fear and dread
For into the square, with brazen tread,
There rode a figure whose stately head
Overlooked the review that morning;
That never bowed from its firm-set seat
When the living column passed its feet
Yet now rode steadily up the street
To the phantom buges warning,
Till it reached the Capitol square, and wheeled
And there in the moonlight stood revealed
well-known form, that in state and field
Had led our patriot sires;
Whose face was turned to the sleeping camp,
Affair through the rivers fog and damp,
That showed no flicker, nor waning lamp,
Nor wasted bivouac fire.
And | saw phantom army come,
with never a sound of fife or drum,
But keeping time to throbbing hum
OF waiing and lamentations
The martyred heroes of Malvern Hill,
OF Gettysburgh and Charlottesville,
The men whose wasted figures fill
The patriot graves of the nation.
And there came the nameless dead, the men
who persisted in fever swamp and fen,
The slowly starved of the prison-pen,
And, marching beside the others,
Came the dusky martyrs of Pillows fight,
with limbs enfranchised and bearing bright
l thought-perhaps twas the pale moonlight
They looked as white as their brothers.
SO all night long marched the nations dead,
With never a banner above them spread,
Nor badge, nor motto brandished;
OF the silent bronze reviewer
With never an arch save the vaulted sky,
with never flower save those that lie
On the distant graves-for love could buy
No gift purer or truer.
So all night long swept the strange array,
So all night long till the morning gray
watched for one who had passed away
With reverent awe and wonder,
Till blue cap waved in the length ming line,
And knew that one who was kin of mine
Had come, and spake-and To- that sign
Awakened me from my slumber. Bret hart
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-24

TIRED, languid, dull, exactly ex-
presses the condition of thousands of
people at this season. The Oppressive
effects of warm weather and the weak
condition of the body can only be cor
rected by the use of reliable tonic
and blood purifier like Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, Why suffer longer when a rem
edy is so close at hand? Take Hoods
Sarsaparilla now. 1t will give you I'M
told wealth in health, strength and
energy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-24
Desirable Farm for Sale.

Said farm is situated one mile south of Plainfeld
Springs on the main road to Chelsea, containing
about two hundred acres some fifty of 1t being re-
claimed meadow, ertrd grass land, most OF which is
work. Keeps about thirty.fve head of cattle.
Neyer,faing water at the buildings; Apple and
and timber easy of access. Also the stock, hay,
grain, farming and sugar tools and about twenty
i've cords dry stove wood, with farm If desired.
For twenty years 1t has been my aim to improve
this farm for pleasant home but circumstances
and health make 1t absolutely necessary to sell.
Possession given at any time. j. L. LADD.
Plainhed VT, January TO- 1885. s3-tf
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advertisements.
CutiCura!
DISFIGURlNG HUMORS,
ITCHING TORTURES AND
LOATHSOME SORES.

L HAVE TRIED for eleven years to have my wife
i cured of terrible skin disease. The CUTfCURA
Purifier, internally, and CUTIoURA, the great Skin
Cure, and CUTICURA SOAP, an exquisite Skin Beau
tiier, externally have done in six weeks what I
have tried for eleven years to have done. You shall
have the particulars as soon as I can give them to
you and as so well known in this part of the
country. 1t will benefit you, and the remedies will
cure all who use them CHAS. II. WHITE.
Maysye. XIV.
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RI.OTCHES Cured.

I used your CuTICuRA REMEDIES for Blotches
and am completely cured, to my inexpressibe Joy
CUT1cURA SOAR is the best have ever used and to
the profession It is invaluable for cleansing the skin
thereby removing all =" cork" grease, paint and all
the stuff used by them, leaving the skin pure ant
white and soft. My greatest pleasure is in recon
mending such an article. II. MACK,
Champion Comique Roller Skater.
youngstown, Ohio.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-24

COP is a sun. He is the infinite good.
Nothing but living, sensible COM
munion with him can displace heavi-
ness from the heart and happiness over
the live. II. Pearson.
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REST For ANYTHING

Having used your CUTICURA REMEDIES for eigh-
anxious to get 1t to sell on commission can recon-
mend II beyond any remedies have used for
letter Burns Cuts etc. In fact IL is the best med
cineI have ever tried for anything. X. S. HORTON
MYRTLE Miss,
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CUTICURA REMEDIES are sold everywhere, Price
CUTICURA, so cts; REsoLvENT, al; SOAP % cts
Prepared by the POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co.
Boston, Mass.
Send for GLOW to Cure Skin Diseases
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rAAI Sunburn, Pimpes, Backheads and Oily
] AIN, skin, use the CUTIcURA SOAP.
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Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston

Weary sufferer from Rheu-
matism, Neuralgia, Weak
and Sore Lungs, Coughs and
Colds, Weak Back, Weak
Stomach and Bowels, Dys-
pepsia, Female Weakness,
Shooting Pains through the
ese Plasters. Placed over the
hey prevent and cure Ague
liver Complaints, and protect
Isand ills. 25c.
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NEVER A COMPLAINT.

Since have been selling your CUT1oURA RENE
DIES have never heard single complaint, but on
well pleased with them, and they outsell all others
L. Il. CUBBERLY, Druggist
Andrews, Ind,
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sCROFULOUS SORES.

had dozen bad sores my body, and tried al
remedies could hear Of and at last tried your Gu
T1CURA REMEDIES, and they have cured me:
JNO. GASKILL.
Hebron, Thayer County, Penn.
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COLLINS
vol1Nc ELECTRIC
PLAsTERs

Loins and Back, try the
pit of the Stomach, Il
Pains, Bilious Collie, Ii
the system from a thou
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
4 STRANGE NEW BIRD.
An Australian Brush Turkey the Latest Adj
difion 10 the /oolo2iCai Garden.
PHILADELPHIA Press


just stir that bird up. Tom" said
Superintendent Brown, of the Zo0lOgi-
cal Garden, yesterday morning to an
attendant in the decr-hOuSe. The re.
suit of the stirring-up process was the
sudden appearance from beneath a feed
box Of remarkably long-lcgged, dingy-
black fowl that looked like very i'm
mature Thanksgiving turkey.
That bird isn't much to look at. "
said the superintendent. "but there is
not another such on this continent. 1t
is the first Of its species ever exhibited
in America. and the only others of its
kind on exhibition are at the London
geological Gardens
The latest addition to Mr.. Browns
family Of curioSities is an Australian
brush turkey. learncdly Taieg0iia Ia
H0mi, landed in New York last week
from merchant ship, and at once
snapped up for the geological Garden.
A pair Of the birds were imported at Il
venture by sailor. but the male was
accidentally killed after landing. much
to Superintendent Browns chagrin.
The newcomers much the size. shape,
and color of half-grown domestic tur-
key, but its legs are extraordinarily
long and its feet very large. while its
stride in walking is of great length. \
curious brilliant red and yellow plumage
aGOrns its neck, from the head half way
to the breast. 1t is extremely wild,
but has not been frightened out Of its
appetite.
The brush turkey is remarkable
from the fact that it matches its eggs by
means of heat generated by sponta-
ncous combustion. Three or four, and
sometimes halfa dozen. of the females
lay their eggs in one spot and the males
cover them with sand. leaves. small
twigs, and the like, the mounds often
being six or eight feet in height and
from eighteen to twenty-five feet in di-
ameter. When the young are Matched
they remain about twelve hours IN the
mound and then scratch their way out.
The birds are found in Australia, New
Guinea, and adjacent islands. The
brush turkeys in the London geological
Gardens breed annually, and build just
such curious mound-nests as i'll their
native wilds.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
Fish Dentistry.

The gist of a story told by Seth
Green in the american ARgier is con-
tanned in the following CHANGING to
glance at the fish in an aquarium in
the window OF a confectionery estab-
lishment in Rochester. \. Y, | noticed
that all the fish but one bore scars Of
conflict. The fish were California and
brook trout, and the injuries were in
flicted by one of the former. 1t seems
that one of the trout was of sour.
quarrelsome disposition, and had been
in the habit of worrying the others per-
sistently. suggested the removal of
the offending trout, as we are OCCASION
ally troubled by such fellows among the
trout in the Caledonia tish-ponds, and
the usual remedy is to spear and make
an end Of the would-be destroyer Of
his sellow-companions. One Of these
quarrelsOme trout would otherwise
wound and cause the death Of
large number of others. But the
proprietor objected to adopting the
remedy suggested, and trouble continu-
ed to exist in the aquarium. ! revisit
ed the establishment day or two sub
sequently. Procuring pair of
pinchers, ] took the big trout from the
water and extracted its teeth, and
those that could not be drawn | cut
down with knife, exercising as much
care aspossible. so as not to injure the
fish by handling. The offending fisd,
although apparently none the worse for
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
The Heather in Richmond Yesterday
,rds clear and cold.
Range Of Thermometer Yesterday.
MAIL CONTRACTS AWARDED.
some or the Successful Bidders for yirRin.a
Routes.

Washington star.
Contracts for carrying the mails in
Virginia for the next four years have
been awarded at the Post-0tiice De
partment. and the following are those
in this vicinity From Ncwport's News
to Norfolk. J. Il. Colgrove, 81. 300 ::
from Fairfax Courthouse to Vienna.
six times a week. John II. Taylor,
Sis; from Fairfax Station TO Fairfax
Courthouse, twice daily, r. l.. Sisson.
SlO0; from Theological Seminary to
Alexandria, six times week, Il. w.
Beedy, sl54 from Annandale to
Washington. six times a week. b.
W. Beedy, s4lS; from Vienna to Lang
ley. six times week, James 7. Robey,
sl99; from Pleasant Valley to Hcrn-
don. three times week. b. W. Bcedy.
slG0; from Leesburg to North Fork l..
six times a week. II. W. Becdy. 1898 ::
from Lee,burg to Point of Rocks. Nd.
six times week. George +. Rinker,
$685. from Leesburg to Evergreen
Mills. once a week, W. b. Catching,
s63 from lcesburg to Middlcburg,
six times a week. George c. Reeves,
s349; from Round Hill to Winchester,
six times a week. j. ID. Goahert. sj14 ;
from Unison to Round Hill, six times
week. i. W. Beedy. $500 from
Arcola to Loudoun. six times a week
Willis karner. s249; from Loudoun
to Prospect Hill, six times a week. Ed
gar VI. Jackson. 1926 from Clark 5
gap to Point of Rocks. six times a
week. G.. W. Russell. s24j from Win
chester to Rock Enon Springs, thirteen
times week. j. r. Pigg, 1920; from
Fortress Monroe to Hampton. six times
IA week, Il. W. Becdy. $40.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

the consideration Of the Interstate CON-
mcrcc bill.
Mr.. pugh addressed the Senate at
some length. He favored the commits
sion bill and opposed the Reagan bill.
II was impossible, Mr.. pugh thought,
at this stage of the investigation Of the
railroad problem, to fix into binding
and inAexible statute an entire code OF
detailed regulations a. was done by the
Reagan bill. The commission system
had practical flexibility about it that
gave promise Of great usefulness both to
citizen and railroad, while under the
Reagan bill the courts would be treating
the railroads as public enemies.
Messrs. Beck and Kenna briefly ques-
toned Mr.. Pugh in the course OF his re-
marks.
The Senate at 4:07 p. NJ. went into
executive session, and when at p.
NJ. the doors were rcopened the Senate
adjourned till Monday next.
House Of Representatives.
The House was called to order by the
Clerk, who read a communication from
Speaker Carlisle designating Representa-
tive Blackburn as Speaker pro TEN. for
to-day.
The Speaker laid before the House a
message from the President transmit
ting in response to the House resolution
a report from the Secretary Of War
relative to the Congo conference. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign At
fairs. Also, communication from the
Secretary of the Navy in response to
House resolution calling for information
concerning the recent collision of the
Tallapoosa. Referred.
Mr.. Townshend, of Illinois, reported
the post-ofiice appropriation bill, and it
was referred to the Committee OF the
Whole.
The House then, at 30 p. NJ, went
into Committee Of the Whole on the pri-
vate calendar.
When the committee rose the House
passed half-dozen private bills.
The Speaker laid before the House
the following message from the Presi-
dent:
To the Horse # Representatives:
When the expedition for the relief of
Lieutenant Greedy and party was being
prepared. in the early part of the year
1884, and the search for suitable YES
sells was being made, the Alert, then
the property Of Great Britain, and
which had been the advancc-ship of the
expedition under Sir George Mares, was
found to be peculiarly fitted for the in
tended service. This Government i'm
mediately offered to purchase that YES
sci: upon which her Maiesty's Gov
eminent generously presented her to
the United States. refusing to ac-
cept any pay whatever for the YES
sci. The Alert rendered important and
timely service in the expedition for the
relief Of Lieutenant Greedy and party,
which in its result proved satisfactory
to the Government and people of this
country. | am of the opinion that the
Alert should now be returned to her
MajcSty's Government, with a suitable
acknowledgment for its generous and
graceful acts of courtesy in so promptly
putting the vessel at the service of the
United States, and therefore recommend
that authority may be given me by
Congress to carry out this purpose.
Referred.
The House then. at o'clock, took a
recess until 3 o'clock, the evening ses-
sion to be for the consideration of PEN
sion bills.
The House at its evening session
passed thirty pension bills and adjourn
ed until tomorrow.