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GEN. d. b. MCkIBBoN tells funny story
concerning his first experience in drilling the
officers of a new regiment. In the school that
he established for the officers he not only taught
the movements, but he took especial pains to
assure himself that his pupils understood their
spirit. One day he called up q great, tall. lum-
bering, shock headed Lieutenant to recite. The
man began in confusion, which was still fur
Their increased by sharp order from Gen.
McKibbon to take his hand out of his pocket
and assume the position of a soldier. The mans
big hand then sought his breast, when another
order brought it down to his side and his mind
to a state of mild desperation.
"Suppose, now" said Gen. McKibbon, you
had your line formed facing in this direction
and the enemy should suddenly appear on your
right and rear, what would you do?"
The Lieutenant fumbled little, and finally
said: II would order the regiment to about
face and begin firing"
SIN that case" said the General, "you would
be pretty apt to kill your officers and le-closers.
What would you do with them2"
"Well," said the man. wrought up to the last
point, if they were - fools enough not to
get out of the way of the guns damn 'em, they
ought to be shot"
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SHERMAN ON GRANT.
Manly Letter in Regard to the Dead Chieftai

A Manly Letter in Regard to the Dead Chieftain.
Gen. w. T. Sherman has written the follow
ing letter in relation to Gen. Grant and a recent
statement in the North american Reriew:
ST LOUIS, Mo-, JAM II, 1886.
Reu. George Morrison, Baltimore.
DEAR SIR: have received your letter of the 9TH
inst, with newspaper slip incosed. OF course,
have read carefully the first volume of Gen. Grant
Memoirs, and regard it as admirable in every sense,
and now await the second volume, which doubt
not will be equally valuable and interesting.
From the day reported to him from Padueah
until his death relations as brothers rather
than as commander and commanded, and it is
utterly impossible tina: | could have written or
spoken the words as quoted in the December num-
Der of the North american Rerie,c.
L have very large correspondence and converse
freely with thousands of people and, is natural,
as we often speculate what might have been had
Gen Grant gone to the rear and c. F. Smith fought
the battle of Shiloh what might have been had
navy, etc; but that could have written the posi-
tive expression that had C.. +. Smith lived, Gen.
Grant would have disappeared from history" is an
impossibility. Personally, want to live in peace,
to avoid all controversy, but confident in good
time shall learn on what authority hearsay
this publication is based incose with this slip
containing my last public utterance about Gen.
Grant when announced his death to his old COM
rades of the Army of the Tennessee. L don't be-
Iieye any man, living dead has borne more will
ing testimony to Gen. Grants great qualities es-
pecally as demonstrated at Henry, Doneison,
Shiloh and Vicksburg, than myself.
Yours, truly, w. T. SHERMAN.
Gen Sherman incloses u printed copy of a
portion of his speech to the Army of the Ten
nessce announcing the death of Gen. Grant and
eulogizing him in the most fattering terms.
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OPINIONS ON GRAND ARMY RULES.
BY PAST CoMMANDER-I IN CHIEF ]
RESIGE


TNoTICE-Inquiries on Grand Army matters OF
general interest and proper for publication will be
answered in this column by Past Coinmander-in-
Chief Beath. 1t will be of course understood that
such answers are simply personal or in the way of
advice which one conirade may properly give an
other. Questions requiring official answers must
be submitted to the proper authoriEieS.I
REJECTION OF APPLICANTS.
comrade in Massachusetts proposed for MEM
bership IA veteran soldier who rejected. He
asks has the Post right to blackball man with
such II record? And if So ought not the reasons to
be made known to him?
similar question has been asked and answered
before There can be question to the legal
right of any conlrade to hlaclbal applicant if
he sees proper. His motives cannot be questioned
and il must be assumed he has SO voted because it
was right.
Judge Advocate General Douglas In Opinion
XIV, quoted on page -, Blue Book concsely COW
ers this point The mode of election by ballot
gives to every comrade voting unquestionable
right and opportunity to express his opinion. The
ballot should be SO conducted that no comrades
vote should be known, and he cannot from the ma
ture of the case be called Ill question for exercising
his choice No comrade ought TO be influenced by
personal dislike or malice, but should decide in
every case upon his honest convictions. Yet, il he
does not lie cannot be restrained of his privilege
He must answer to his own conscience.
SERVED IN THE REBEL ARMY.
Can soldier who conscripted into the rebel
army left it at first opportunity. volunteered in
the Union army, served to close of and has an
honorable discharge, be admitted to membership
in the G.A.R.?
No. The Article Of the Rules and Regulations
on this subject is clear and explicit.
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UNUSUAL interest is felt among the COM
rades in New York of all parties in the can
didacy of Comrade G. E. Hawkins, now
Superintendent of Normal Glasses under the
Board of Regents, for the Office of Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, which will be
filed by vote Of the Legislature at the
approaching session. Comrade Hawkins
when boy enlisted in the 142d II. Y, and
followed its colors through all its varied
experiences. He carried the flag of his regi-
ment into the ramparts at Fort Fisher, and
was severely wounded at Petersburg, but
remained at the front until the surrender.
He is an enthusiastic GAR man and one of
the most attractive of speakers at campfres
and other gatherings of veterans. He passed
through all the Offices in his Post, and is
now a Past Post Commander His career as
an educator has been equally Creditable
with that az a soldier, as he has for years
been recognized as in the very front rank of
New York teachers. He was twice elected
State School Commissioner. His election
would be a compliment to the GAR. and
the great body of private soldiers, of whose
intelligence and courage he is so fine an
example
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DOWN TO A FINE POINT.

When one scans the pension-rolls the first
thing that arrests the attention is the mar
velous exactnes5 to which the scientists who
compose the local Examining Boards have
pushed their determinations of the disability
under which pensioners labor. Thus, we
find some men get the princely stipend OF
81 q month, while others are allowed S1.33
Some get $1.87, others receive So, Others
SLY, and still others 1925, 1898, $3.50
s266, and SO On, by very easy gradations oil
8, TO- l2l, and Is cents month.
OF course outsiders are much puzzled to
know how the man who gets 81 a month
contrived to get exactly enough malaria or
lead into his system to entitle him to just
three cents day and no more Of relief from
the Government, and they can only wonder
at the astonishing development Of medical
science which can satisfactorily determine
that the rheumatism one man got in the
swamps of the Chickahominy amounts to
but three cents day, while his comrade
who stood beside him acquired pretty nearly
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THE nomination of Gen. Chas. NJ Shelley,
of Alabama, for Fourth Auditor of the
Treasury was on the 10th inst referred to
the Committee on Finance, of which Senators
Aldrich, Of Rhode Island, and Harris, of
tennessee, were constituted special COM
mittee TO investigate the case The charges
which led to this reference related to
Gen. Shelley's alleged acts in Alabama, aud
included Ku Kluxism and other forms of
intimidation. 1t is noticed that these charges
are mainly from men of his own party, and
that the Republicans of his District are the
ones that defend him and pronounce the
accusations frivolous and false This matter
has special interest to our people generally
on account of the excellent record that Gen
Shelley has made since he has been in Office
and especially the manner in which the
claims Of soldiers and sailors for pensions
which were referred to him by the Commits
sioner Of Pensions have been acted upon
They have gone through his Bureau with
much more rapidity than under any of his
predecessors, and for this he is entitled to
their thanks, and all who desire efficiency
in Government service will be solicitous that
his confirmation be not defeated.
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"IT is queer how some pork biles,' re-
marked the old lady. The Englishmen who
sided with the Southern COnfederacy and
denounced our efforts to maintain the Union
as inspired by lust for empire" are resist
ing any attempt of Ireland to get local self
government. They point out how "glori-
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THE soldiers at Pulaski, Ind, without

THE soldiers at Pulaski, Ind, without
regard to party, are very much disturbed
over the displacement of Postmaster A. w.
Lewis by one G. o. Haden, who, it is said,
was a rebel during the war, glories in the
fact, and is fond of Boosting on the streets at
all times that he is a rebel STILL and if he
chose to would hoist the rebel flag over the
post-office. 1t is believed that these facts
are not known at Washington, or he would
not be permitted to retain his appointment,
for his reasonable utteranceS are as obnoxi-
GUS to the Democrats in the neighborhood as
they are to the Republicans.
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our cents worth. This IS getting the science
of medicine down rs fine as Sir Hudibrass
logic, which -
could divide
A hair 'twixt its north and northwest side.
Our information is that it is only the
medical talent represented on our Examin-
ing Boards that is able to make these subtle
physiological gradations. NJ. Pasteur is
probably more intimately acquainted with
the human organism than any other man
alive, but we have not yet heard that ne has
decided after preliminary examination
that one patient had three cents worth of
hydrophobic virus in his system, while
another had three and a-half cents worth.
In very many cases we find that the
difference of rating between one class of PEN
sioners and another is only eight cents a
month. This gets the difference down to
about one-guarter of cent day. 1t
seems singular, does it not, that one bullet
could only hurt man quarter of a
cent worse than another-that one muscle
racking mud march should put 81 a month
into the pockets of the broken down man
who made it, while another, and probably
equally bad one secured for its victims $217.
But these are among the wonders Of modern
science, as demonstrated by some Of the
Boards of Examining Surgeons!
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By mistake the authorship of the poem
"Post Griswold," published in our last issue
was given to Capt. E. A. Griswold. The
author is Capt. E. A. Hartshorn, member
of Post Griswold, of Troy, N. Y. This fine
poem can be used by many Posts by substi-
tuting their own name for that of Girls
void" and ON appropriate local name for
Trojan" in third verse, and the same can
be sung at Campfires to "Auld Lang Syne.
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THE Department of Pennsylvania has
been particularly fortunate in its Com
mander. No Department has ever had a
better one than Austin Curtin. He has in a
high degree the qualities necessary for such
an officer. Indefatigable, painstaking, full
of tact and genuine comradeship, and with
soldier-rccord as good as any mans, he is
emphatically the right man in the right
place.
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CoRPoEAL TANNER is deEghting the
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THE number Of pension certificates issued
during the week ending Jan 16, 1886, was
as follows: Original, 701; increase, 626 !;
reissue, rs; restoration, Sc duplicate, IL {;
accrued, IA; Act of March 3, 1883, Z;
Order April 3, 1884, 13; Act of March 3,
1857; total, ,541; reissue same date, 7.
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ROYALTY is losing something Of its grip
every day. We are now being treated to
the spectacle Of the gentleman who rules
Bavaria "by the Grace CT God" being chased
by constables, armed with writs of attach
ment and repleyin. just SIS they would any
common debtor who cannot pay more than
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PERSONAL.
Incidents, Accidents and Happenings Where Com
raieS are Concerned.

Admiral Porter Is quite seriously i'll at his resi-
dence in Washington. He was compelled to decline
an inv itaton to President Cleveland's first state
dinner.
The impression prevails In Army circles that
Brcyet Mai Gen. IL. i. Morrow, Colonel Of the 2Ist
Inf, will be made Judge Advocate General of the
Army in place of Gen. ID. G.. Swain. who was
peuded for II years by sentence of court-martial.
Morrow Colonel OF the 9th Mich. of the
regiments OF the famous - Iron Brigade" and
served with distinction through the WAR.
The old soldiers in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, arc
considerably exercised over the removal from his
position OF +. w. Wirtb, who has been IN the rail
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There is loud call from the people of
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MEETING OF THE PENSION COMMITTEE.
The National Pension Committee Of the
Grand Army of the Republic is now in ses-
sion in Washington, and much good may be
expected from its presence here at this time.
The personnel of the committee is such rs,
even without considering its representative
capacity, would gain it earnest attention for
any recommendations OF statements that ii
made. Such men as COMMANDMENTS Chief
Burdett, Past Commanders in Chief
Merrill, Wagner and Kountz, John Line
han, of New Hampshire, and Corp. Jas.
Tanner, of New York, are listened to with
attention everywhere, no matter whether
they speak individually Or officially. All
these are now present, except Corp. Tanner,
who is daily expected. They have met with
the most cordial reception from Members of
Congress and officials, and given every rea-
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fruitful of important legislation for the ex-
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General sherman on The Tribune.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE U. S.,
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To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
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