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after the fight, and was not engaged. They
were then stationed at Fort Ellsworth, and Mr..
Brady was put on duty as Acting Adjutant of
the regiment.
He was soon transferred to the 63d n. Y,
and was commissioned Adjutant of that regi-
ment
He soon saw plenty of service with Meagher's
Irish Brigade, leading the color company of his
regiment in the desperate charge at Maryes
flights. He was wounded twice in this en-
gagement and was sent to the hospital.
After returning to the front he served as
Captain and 1uspectOr-General on the staff of
Gen. Zook. and was at his side when the latter
fell, mortally wounded, in the struggle for Lit
tie Round Top at Gettysburg.
On the skirmish-line at the crossing of the
North Anna, in the Wilderness campaign, he
was wounded in the arm, but did not leave his
command
At Cold Harbor juno 8, 1864, while serving
as Major on staff duty, he received one of the
phenomenal wounds of the war, in view of the
fact that he recovered. He was shot clear
through the abdomen, from side to side, with
musket ball, and was regarded as mortally
hurt. In December, however, he surprised his
comrades by reporting for duty, but was order
ed back to the hospital for another 80 days. He
then rejoned his command in front of Peters
burg, and was in the field to the end of the war.
During all this time he had been on staff
duty. serving with the rank of Captain, Major
and Leutenant-C Colonel. in the Judge-Advo-
Gates, Adjutant-G Generals and Inspector Gen.
erals departments of the Second Corps, making
unavailing efforts to be transferred to the line,
until finally he was promoted to be Colonel of
his regiment, and mustered it ont rs such in
July, 1865.
Alter the war he was appointed Naval Store
keeper, and held that position at the Norfolk
Navy Yard until the Office was abolished. He
served as Chief Accountant ut tho Navy Yard
till he resigned to become Clerk of tho Court at
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If Grand Master Workman Powderly

If Grand Master Workman Powderly
continues to bear himself with the circum-
spection, ability and good sense that have
thus far characterized his course, he will
be recognized as one of the really great
men of the country. He has had q
very trying role to play, but he has con-
Quoted himself in way to win admiration
from all sides So far he has not made a
mistake, but has shown himself the equal in
all respects of the ablest men that could be
brought against him. The next few weeks
will be q critical period for him, but if he
comes out of them as well as he has from
those which have, interviewed since he first
came into public notice. he will occupy an
enviable position, indeed.
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Mississippi; also from Chattanooga to Atlanta,

Mississippi; also from Chattanooga to Atlanta,
Sherman's march to the sea, and through the
Carolinas. He was successfully promoted to
Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel by
breyet, and commanded his regiment at the
front the latter part of the war.
In the battle at Corinth, Miss, Oct. 4, 1862,
he received a severe gunshot wound in the
face from bullet which entered near the right
eye and yet remains in the wound. He is
spoken of in the official report of the battle as
"a young officer Of great promise who is Sc
verely and it is feared MORALLY wounded, who
held his company in perfect order until two
thirds of his men were killed and wounded"
His regiment was one of those that immedi-
ately supported Battery Robiuett on that day,
and without works or protection of any kind
met the repeated charges of the enemy in that
terrible battle.
After the surrender of Johnston's army to
Sherman he brought his regiment to the grand
review at Washington, remained in command
of it till it was mustered out at Louisville,
Ky, and then returned to his home at New
Castle Pa, where he has ever since resided.
After the war he studied law. was admitted
to the bar, and has since been i'll active and
successful practice. He was elected and served
as District Attorney from 1868 to 1871. He
was appointed by the Governor of PennsylYa-
MIA and served as a member of the Commission
to Codify Laws in 1877 and 1873.
we IcSIeG W say Hc ID StIII ID Uut,
considering his success in the army, at the bar,
and in politics, there is yet hope that he may
succeed IN changing his manner of living.
lie has been an active Grand Army man,
holding important positions in his Post and in
the Department of his State.
He was elected to the 10th Congress as a Re-
publican by the largest majority ever given
any candidate in the district. In Congress his
business capacity was recognized by the Speaker,
who placed him Oh the important Committee
on Public Lands.
Col. Jackson is a strong talker on the stump,
and is proving himself an industrious and care
full Member of the House. He has taken an
active part this session before the Ways and
Means Committee in favor of hgh-protect
i've tariff and against the Morrison bill. He
is an active, useful friend of the rights of his
soldier comrades, and insists that our present
pension laws are not liberal-that they are not
even just to the soldier, but should be amended
so that he may obtain justice from the Govern
ment he saved. He is popular with the SOL
ders of his district, looks carefully after their
interests, and votes right on all questions in
which they are concerned.
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The Widows Increase.
The following circular letter to Pension
Agents has been issued bt Commissioner Black:

PENSION OFFICE,
WASHINGTON D. c., March q, 1886
SIR: The act of Congress approved March 10,
1886 increases the monthly rate of pension in all
cases of widows, minor children and dependent
relatives now on the pension roll or hereafter placed
thereon in which the present monthly payment is
less than that amount, from said date.
1t is the intention of the Commissioner that no
Ecw certificate shall be issued under this act to pen
sioners on the rolls and that the amount due
each pensoner TO June 4, 1886 and thereafter shall
be paid by the u. ;. Pension Agents without spe-
cific instructions i'll any case.
Upon the receipt of the executed voucher for the
June, 1856 payment in any case in which the rate
Is increased by said act instructed to include
in the payment the additional amount due eacu-
lated from March 19, 1885, TO June 5, 1886 incIu-
sive.
You will make the proper corrections in the
duplicate receipts attached to the voucher and you
will cause TO be stamped across the face of the
voucher the words Increased to SD per month
from March 49, 1886, pursuant to act of that date
This course has been determined upon after con-
sultation with the accounting officers of the Treas
ury Department, who will interpose objection to
the settlement of the accounts of your payments
made pursuant TO these instructions.
To secure uniformity in the manner of stamping
vouchers You are instructed to purchase rubber
stamp with the words - Increased TO SI2 per month
from March TO- 1856, pursuant to act Of that date,
In plain letters the stamp to be three inches long
by one wide, and you will submit the account for
the purchase thereof i'll the usual manner.
You will understand that the act includes in its
operation all widows of the war of 1872 and of de-
pendent fathers, and that it excludes survivors of
the of 1872 and further that the increase does
not affect the additional 81 per month provided on
account of minor children.
1T is the intention of the Commissioner that as
practicable there shall be furnished to you
n sufficient number of the circulars proposed to be
printed. embodying the terms of the said act and
signed by the Secretary of the Interior and himself
Upon their receipt you viii promptly forward a
copy to the last known address of each pensioner
whose rate is increased by said act, with printed
instructions, which will also be forwarded 10 you,
to have of said circulars securely attached to
each pension certificate, part OF which 1t Will be-
come.
Transmit herewith copy of the act referred to-
Very respectfully, JoKE G. BLACK,
Commissioner.
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Portsmouth, Va. He held this position from
July, 1870, till June, 1877; was rendered the
position of Clerk of the Court of Appeals of
Virginia, but declined; was delegate from
Virginia to the National Republican Convention
in 1880, and delegate-at-large from Virginia to
the Convention of 1884. He was elected as a
Republican to the 10th or present Congress,
where he is a very useful member.
Col. Brady has been prominent in the Ma
tional Republican Soldiers and Sailors organi-
zation, which he represented on its first Ma
tiOnal Executive Committee. In 1876 he was
Major General of the Boys in Blue for Virginia,
being commissioned by the late President Gar
field, who at that time was Commander in
Chief of the Order.
In politics he has always been a Republican,
being prominent in the coalition with the Re-
adjusters of Virginia, through which the State
was ruled for several years, and to which the
Republicans owe two members of the United
States Senate at the present time.
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cessity of reducing taxation" he talks about
something that does not exist, and he puts
out of sight very tangible necessity that
does exist.
There is not the slightest necessity for
reducing the tax on whisky, but there is a
very decided necessity for taking every dis
abled soldier Of the Nation from the poor
house in which he may be languishing, and
for placing him in home of his own.
There is not the slightest necessity for
swelling the gains Of the wholesale liquor
dealer or brewer by abolishing their annual
dues, but there is a strong necessity for saw
ing the National honor by relieving the des-
titutiOn of the widows and orphans of those
who fell in the struggle for the National
life
There is no earthly reason why it should
be made easier and cheaper to start saloon,
but there is every reason why the orphans
of the country's defenders shall not lack
bread, clothes, and school-books.
There is no necessity whatever for taking
off the tax of % cents on each key Of beer
brewed-the beer-drinkers would not get a
particle of benefit from the reduction-but
there is the strongest necessity that no man
who served his country well in her hour of
need shall now be abandoned to want and
wretchedness in the hour of his need and her
prosperity.
There is not the slightest necessity for
making diamonds and jewelry, French silks
and Dutch laces Rhine wines and cognac
brandy, Havana cigars and Turkish tobacco
cheaper to those who buy them, but there is
a stern necessity that no man who bore the
burden of the battle shall be compelled to
take his bread from the cold hand of charity.
In short, the scheme of the demagog is to
cheat the soldier that the rich man may be-
come richer-to take hardly-earned bread
from the mouths of the widow and the
orphan that the brewer and distiller, the
rectifier and the saloon-keeper may fatten
and wanton in wealth. He would defraud
of the barest comforts of life those to whom
the Nation owes everything, in order to
pamper and fatten those to whom the coun-
try owes nothing
That is what the false and swindling
clamor of reducing taxation to defeat pen
SiOns means.
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THE LABOR TROUBLES.

The labor troubles that are now disturbing
the various great industries of the country
are bound to work out good and substantial
results This will be vehemently denied by
those who are suffering loss or inconveni-
ence by reason of them, but it is neverthe-
less true.
1t is true for the reason that we are pre-
eminently reasoning and reasonable peo-
pie, who are educated to debate and discuss
everything that relates to our interests and
to arrive at settlements that will do sub
stantial justice to all the parties to the dis
pute. We are also, individually and collect
lively, a strong people, with the power and
the willingness to enforce an acceptance of
the result of discussion upon all parties.
This is the way the present agitation will
end. The strikers believe that they have
suffered grievances at the hands of their
employers, and they have made an emphatic
protest against them. The unanimity with
which they have joined in this protest, and
the sacrifices they are making to maintain
it, show that they certainly have much rea-
son for their course The employers, on the
other hand, deny that these grievances ex-
list, and both parties have presented their
cases at the bar of public opinion. The
matter is now being tried before the high
court of the whole people. and no one will
deny that it is being ably tried. Both sides
are represented by men Of genuine ability,
whose acts and utterances have commanded
attention and respect. The rights of labor
and the rights of capital are being argued
calmly, intelligently, and clearly. The
people are being informed as to both
with the minuteness and thoroughness that
we have been in the habit Of having politi-
cal issues presented to us, and we are getting
clearer conceptions of the relations Of labor
and capital than we, or any other people,
have ever had. The result will be an intelli-
gent verdict and a more satisfactory adjust
ment of these relations than has ever been
secured in this or any other country. The
groundwork will be laid for peaceable and
harmonious cooperation of these great forces
in our civilization and prosperity which will
bear rich fruits, and carry forward our
country far beyond any other.
Whatever the result will be- it will have
to be in accordance with the good sense and
sense of justice Of the entire country, and an
acquiescence in it will be enforced by the
irresistible weight of public opinion. The
strikers will probably not get all that they
ask, nor will the employers secure all that
they want. But the compromise will, without
doubt, be just and equitable, according to the
present lights.
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SOLDIERS IN CONGRESS.
COL. OSCAR L. JACKSON.

The Representative of the 9th District of
Pennsylvania, Col. Oscar L. Jackson, is one of
the soldiers of the late war who saw four years
severe and meritorious service in the Union
army. He was born in the district he repre-
sents in Western Pennsylvania, Sep. Q 1910, of
Scotch-Irish ancestry, who settled in that State
at an early date. He is fairly educated, but not
q college graduate His early years were mostly
spent on a farm, with some experience as clerk
in a country store.
At the breaking out of the war he was teach
ing school in Hooking Co, o. Recruiting a
company in that and adjoining Counties, he
entered the army in 1861 as Captain in the 63d
Ohio. His regiment become part of the we'll
known Army of the Tennessee and served
with it through the war. With it he took part
in the campaigns in Missouri, Tennessee and
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PERSONAL.

Gen. and Mrs. Van Cleve, of ST. Pei, celebrated
their golden wedding last week. Among the pres
ents was an old-fashioned gold watch. Fifty years
ago Lieut.. Van Cieve gave it TO his young bride
The young folks were poor, and it came about that
the watch had to be sold. The buyer kept it care
fully, and surprised the veteran and his wife by
presenting it to them on the 10th anniversary of
their marriage.
Brevet Maj. Gen. l.. A. Grant, OF Minneapolis
MIMI formerly commander o. the "Old Vermont
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GEN. GRANTS BOOK,

In answer to very many inquiries we will say
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of Gen. Grants Personal Memoirs, published
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NO DANCER OLE RIOTS.

IL Is absurd lot alarmlStS 10 lnSlSU t1at we
are on the eve of any such disturbance as
the Pittsburg riots or the troubles which
now af1lict Belgium.
| In the first place, the riots at Pittsburg
were not properly chargeable to the strike.
They were the result of very bitter feeling
on the part of the people of that city against
the Pennsylvania Railroad. In carrying out
the railroad policy of the trunk lines of that
day, which was to cut down the freight rates
from Chicago to the seaboard to the lowest
local rates, the Pennsylvania Road had in
CURED the enmity of the Pittsburg people,
as the other trunk lines had gained that Of
the other important cities on their lines,
which they had reduced to the condition Of
"way-stations," in order to carry on the
fight for the Chicago business. The Pitts
burg people very foolishly connived at the
disorders which destroyed the roads prop
erty, and for which they have since had to
pay dearly.
The riots in Belgium are similarly pro-
voked by local bitternesses, which do not ex-
list here.
But above all, the workingmen have
learned many things since the unhappy days
which saw the Pittsburg buildings in flames.
hat ctrily in,
order to be successful must have the sup
port of public opinion. They have learned,
also, that the surest way to array public
opinion against them is to commit outrages
or allow outrages to be committed in their
name. They can afford nything else better
than this, and what relatively few acts of
violence have been committed in the course
of the present strikes have been as unfortu-
nate things as could well have happened
them. So powerful are they in driving peo-
pie into hostility that the shrewdest things
the employers could do would be to incite
and connive at similar acts of violence.
The workingmen understand this, and
will, we are sure, exert the whole power of
their organization to guard against recur-
renee of these deeds of lawlessness.
A NATIONAL VETERANS RIGHTS UNION.
The ex-soldiers and sailors Of Washington
have organized a Veterans Rights Union
on the same model as that which has
achieved such good results in the State Of
New York. At it's head is Comrade w. S.
Odell, of Indiana, gentleman of pleasing
address, an earnest worker, and Jealous
comrade. His associates are men of similar
stamp, and there is every reason to expect
that the organization will open up for itself
an extended field Of usefulness.
1t is the intention not only to do whatever
can be done in the Departments at Washing
ton for the interests of the comrades, but to
present such matters to Congress as may be
thought desirable to bring to that body's
notice, and to assist in the organization of
Veterans Rights Unions in every State and
Territory.
There isgreat need of such an organization,
and the men who have taken hold of it are
the right men in the right place.
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THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.
The splendidly written account of the bat
tie of Bull Run, the publication of which
begins in this weeks paper, forms part
of Gen. John A. Logan's forthcom-
ing book, "The Great Conspiracy" which
is published by A. r. Hart & Co, New York,
and which will shortly be put upon the
market We need not say that it is Won
derfully interesting work, for that is shown
by the character of the matter we publish
this week.
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COL. JAMES D. BRADY.

Col. James D. Brady. of Petersburg, Va, is a
native of Virginia, born at Portsmouth, April
3, 1913. His position in the war was somewhat
anomalous, being gallant soldier in the Army
of the Potomac throughout the contest. He
was educated in the common schools and en-
gagged in mercantile pursuits being temp orarily
in New York when the war broke out. He
enlisted at once as private in the 37th n. Y
and started for the front. The command
arrived at the scene of the first Bull Run Just
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