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NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, }
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. :
KANSAS Cry. Mo-, Sept. "a. }


:, Cornrades.-The Commander-in chief upon assuming
the duties of his Office desires TO touch elbows and
keep step with the department commanders and all
tho comrades. that there may be- no break along the
est active work. Every Grand Army post should be
recruiting station There Is necessity for this.
We confronted with the fact hat thousands
OF honorably discharged soldiers and sailors
Army OF the Republic. The names of all these
our old companions In arms, who live within rea
sonabie distance of Grand Army post should be
foU nd our rolls Until this is ione orraniza-
ton has not reached its maximum. It Is for you,
comrades, to say whether shall advance retreat.
We cannot stand stl--we must advance. Let it be
understood that as in 1868, the politics religion
or comrsde was not questioned that as then we
did not permit differences those questions to di
vide us, IL shall be Fraternity, charity and
loyalty is platform broad enough for every survivor
of the Union army to stand upon. Standing upon
that platform the spirit of true comradeship protects
comrades sectarian aud political opinions from
adverse criticisms His opinions on these questions
he Is entitled To. With them his comrades have moth
members OF the graudest civic organ
izstion in the world. let US one and
all hew TO this line. As officers, let practice
what we preach. BY so doing we may reasonably
hopei TO increase IN numbers, aud usefulness and
strength the bonds OF comradeshp that should bind
o,ber--a comrsdeship the warp and wool of which
are fraternity and charity woven in the loom OF
y valty.
Comrades the commander.in-ch;ef asks that which
he believes he will receiveyour active cooperation
in advancing the lines OF our order. With your as
sistance much be accomplished; without it his
labor will be in vain Department commanders WILL
early day possible, notify these headquarters
of the time and place of holding the encampment in
each department.
This letter is subscribed by your comrade in E. c.
and L.. WIN. WARsER.
Commander-in-chief.
Official EUGENE F. wErGE1. Adiutant general.
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CINCINNATI. Sept. 24-By a rearraneement of
plan the arguments in the Ives-Staynor case
were continued and concluded to-day. Judge
SHREDDER. instead of delivering his decision to-
day will deliver il at 10 o'clock to morrow fore
noon. If wholly favorable TO the defendants it
will take the case from the jury and dismiss the
defendants Experts, however, believe that
the best the defendants have TO hope for il that
some of the testimony already given may be
ruled out, and that they will have to stand trial
and make defense
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Baggsgeman Commits Suicide.

PITTsBURG, Sept. 24-When the night ex-
press on the Fort Wayne road. which left Chica-
go for this city yesterday afternoon, arrived at
Alliance o., this morning, VIM. Sims. the bag
gage master, was found dead in the express car
with a bullet wound IN his head and revolver
lying by his side The cause of the suicide is
not known. He was In good spirits last night
and an hour before his body was discovered was
chatting pleasantly with the express messenger.
The deceased lived in Pittsburg and was un-
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BOSTON, Sept. A-Tbe authorities at police
headquarters were notified this morning Of the
disappearance OF Mr.. John Thornton Wood,
distin guisbed scientific man. who left Washing
ton to come here. He was due here on Sept.
IL, and after visiting a number Of professors at
Harvard was to continue his journey to Thorn
toms Ferry, n. Y. It's known that he reached
Boston, but since then all trace of him is lost
He is seventy years old, elk feet high, $50 pounds
in weight, with long white beard mustache
and hair. He acts nervously but is slow in
Var1xy
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A Timely Release.

DUBLIN, Sept. 24-Mr. Alexander Blame.
whose release from Londonderry Jail occurred
to-day was liberated upon FIVE minutes notice,
by q telegram from Dublin Castle, the prison
doctor certifying that his life would be endan-
gered by his further incarceration.
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Collector Kuhn Sustained

Special TO the Indianapolis journal
WAsHINGToN. Sept 24.-The Secretary OF the
Treasury has affirmed the decision Of the sur
vsyor of customs at Indianapolis in assessing
duty at the rate of 100 per cent. ad valorem on
certain boxes imported by Charles Mayer & Co.
The Importation consists of an ark containing
a number Of wooden figures of animals. The
importers entered the figures only. and claim in
their appeal that the arks are boxes intended
for the transportation and safekesping OF the
figures, and are accordingly free OF duty.
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I O. O +. BI.etinc po.,norea-

RICHMOND. Va, Sept. 24-Graud Master For
rster, OF the United Order Of Odd fellows of the
United States and Canada. has postponed the
meeting of the Grand Lodge at Nashville, Tenn,
from the Cd of October to Nov 81, on account of
yellow fever In the South.
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valusbls Horses Burned.

LOUISVILLE. Sept. 24-violin. worth s., 900,
owned by Charles Dickerman, of New York,
and Misty Way. worth $4,000. owned by Cyrus
Morter, OF Marion, Ind, were burned to death
In the burning Of ]. B. Shocksnys stable, at the
lair grounds, to-day.
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but is expected to be in his usual health in a
few days There were alarming reports in
circulation tonight as to his condition. but they
were unfoundsd.
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Farm-House Robbed of Valuable Papers.
special to the IpdianaDols Journal
RICHMOND, Sept. 24-John Oxer's farmhouse,
located about sixteen miles from Richmond.
over in Preble county. Ohio, was burglsrzed
while they were off visiting yesterday, of about
50. 900 in notes, a gold watch and some money.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-Justiee Stanley
Matthews, OF the Supreme Court, is i'll with
catarrhal darrhoea at his residence in this city,
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THE GRAND ARMY.

Letter from the Comm and ar-in- Chief Urging
an Increase of Its Numbers.
WASHINGTON, Sept. "a Representative War
nor. OF Missouri, in his official capacity as Com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public, issued the following tonight:
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ARREARs or PENSIONS.

Every dollar of.the arrears of pension is
an honest debt long overdue, and dishonored
by non-payment. The veterans have been
systematically defrauded by the Govern
nent's failure to meets its obligations to
them
The proper place for the millions of idle
money in the Treasury vaults is in the poclE-
cts OF the veterans, and in the tills OF the
grOcers, dry-goods and clothing merchants
shoe dealers. and other retailers to whom
they are indebted.
This VIII be an honest and just dlstribu-
tion Of the Nations surplus which viii be
the most effective way TO guard against any
stringency IN the money market by the with
drawal Of the circulating medium. Instead
Of striving 70 derange the business of the
country by uncalled-for revenue tinkering
let our Congressman do their duty by paying
the Nations debts TO her veterans and re-
moving the stigma of dishonesty and in
gratitude that now rests upon her.
Do not tinker Nth the reUenae Use ae
saypTns 70 pay The debt to The veteran and tae
toadsoldeT
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Col. Theodore Yates, retired q. 3. A. y AZ tns.
Ebbitt House for a few days He entered The sery~
ice in April. 1851 as Capsain Of the Is No, bus
In the August following was made Captain Of The
81 o. 8 Inf, OF which Gen. sherman was then
Colonel. He retired in 1867 with the rank Of
Colonel, having been In command Of he lSth InL
when he was wounded.
Gen. Edward r. Warner. Major on The retired
list Of the Army. Is visiting friends "a his old rei-
uacnt, the 81 o. 8 Art. al the Arsenal here Dur
Ing the he did historic service in the old sixth
Corps and being promoted a. last 10 Maor IN 1855.
went at once on the retired list. he has azed his
residence so Montrose. Pa.
Lieut. John r. C. CoGln. o. 8. Navy. has been
here during the holiday SEASON. visiting his liier
at 1901 [ street. Prof John H. @. CoGin who was
retired years ago for age.
Lieut.. Richardson Clover, z. 3. Navy, L It tho
Ebbitt Horse for few days. bus Is not aceosupa-
MED by his wife. who IS the daughter q the la.s
Senator John +. Miller, OF California.
Commander John J. Read. who Is IN command
Of the only vessel that the United States has upon
the great lakes Of the Northwest, i here for
week and resting himself at his Old d le. the Eb-
bitt House. The service on the lakes Is a farce bus
the treaty Of 1914 enforces Is on this country and
therefore Commander Read and his prs,9scessors
as well As the men who come after him. have :
picnic.
Lieutenant Commander John r Merry. g. q
Navy, is here In Washington FROM Ehrse years
cruise in Asiatie waters. He wiz be remenlbered
By our readers as the officer who was guysd 50
extensively at the time the TaIlapoosa" sunk IN
Nantucket Roads, but since that time he has made
full cruise abroad as First Lieutenant Of the Marion
and no one could have found FAULT with his usyis-
ton or seananship. In times agone It was Tho
/ fashion TO joke navy-man on the coast here and
/ especially those connected with the TaIlaEooss;
but no one ever thought that hfr Merry lacked any
/ knowledge Of seamanship. or that it was through
his fault that the Tallapoosa took sand"
| PAX Chung Yang who IL 8 Prince In his native
| land Of Korea, arrived here last Monday evening,
with retinus Of Is subOrdinates and servants and
/ took quarters at the Ebbist House The only thiuz
notable about this advent IS that Korea has never
before sent an embassy 10 foreign county and
Prince Yang IS accredited 10 EmhassadoE
extraordinary instead Of Minister Resident a. al a
the representatives Of Europeaa Governments ara
designated
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number of 97,726, or more than one-third of
the whole number of disabled soldiers of
the Union get 81 months cents day
or lessl The idea would be intensely comic
if it were not so awfully sad.
Think of these 100000 veterans, who at
the outbreak of the war were all stalwart
young men; all trained to money making
callings; all engaged in their ife-work,
with brilliant chances of success; all sacri-
fcing present gains and future prospects, to
go to the rescue of the country, and who
had their future blasted by the hardships of
the war, now having doled ont to them as
"lavish generosity" from 81 to 10 cents a
day!
Think of how they, with unreckoning
generosity, gave the priceless wealth of
their young lives, health and strength to
the Government which now splits up cent
into halves and thirds to discriminate be-
tween one pensioner and another!
To continue the examination of the Ia
BILE:
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Tne way we have paid the principal and
interest Of the great debt since the rebellion
is only second in glory to the achievements
Of cur arms. It has had incalculable good
effects ia All directions. and it win be harm
ful 10 the last degree to stop the process at
this stage by reducing the revenues in order
20 saddle on our children and our children's
children that thing Of enormous evil -
a permanent National debt Our peo-
sle have never begrudged the money
Saken 70 pay our National debt and
shey DO not now They want the debt paid
es soon as possible. ara politicians who
think they DO not are making serious mis-
take. The people do not ask for dollar OF
remission Of present taxation, so long as a
single creditor Of tie NatioD-veteran or
ondholder-remains unpaid. Let US hand
over an uumortgaged country to our de
Bcendants
De not tb,Ler srih the reyeaUe Use tn,
sulolrs 70 pay the debts to Tie 0eteran and III,
b0adkolder
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HE mTooK MEpIcINE.n

An inscription on Spanish tombstone
reads:
Twas well; would be better; took medicine !;
am here.
This is pregnant with meaning for us in
consideration Of our National finances. The
body polite is healthy-eminently SO.
Everything is prosperous in the highest de-
gree. There is no malady anywhere. Shall
we take the medicine which the revenue
tinkers insist on forcing down our Threats
because they haye cranky notion that it
will make us "better?" Common sense
reyolts at such empiricism.
The revenue thinkers have always brought
infinite trouble on the country when they
have been allowed to have their way. We
have only to look back to the disastrous
consequences which followed the adoption
OF the tariffs of 1912 and 1857 to see what is
certain to follow the ilI-advised meddling OF
these economic quacls with the business In
terests of the country.
Let well enough alone.
DO not tinker Nth the recenue! DeUote The
surplus to paying the cOuatry's debts to Ueterons
and the JoadholderS.
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II used to be said that farthings were
coined to give the Scotch an opportunity to
subscribe to charitable enterprises" When
we look over the pension-ron and find six
men getting $212 month, and one $2.12a,
27s getting $2.G6, % getting $2.66s, and so
on, it would appear that the cent is made
capable of subdivision in order to allow the
Government to be lavishly generous to
the men who gave all that they had to res
cue it from destruction.
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TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. c, JANUARY T. 1855.
ARTICLES FORTHCOMING.

THE CAVALRY BUREA Its Work
IN tie Western Armies BE- Col Albert G.
Bracket. 81 G. S. CaU., Fort Clark, Tx
ELATaGORDA BAY.-7he Thirteenth Corps
IN Teras Ia 1858. By E B. L'gkiR, Co. Z,
1871 de-, Weld, he
GSHERH4N7S BUl[1ERS"-Ho,g they did
their Work By HeaTy S. Sanford Co. G,
1st Mich Engineers and Mechanics, Green
ollie, Mich
HANGING REBEL SPLES,-Am Incident
at Frederick. DID,, during The Gettysburg
Campaign. BE- J. J. Am6ler, Go. Z, 18th
IT., Wapsllo, Iona.
IETHE VALLEK-TR Shenandoah Cam
i,oign Of 1862 By Gen. Henry CGpehart,
Fargo, Oak.
on 10 RTCHHOND-A Graphic NasTGtiUe
Of Capture and Cg,tirity. By George B.
Crawford, Co. @, LIST W. Va. WeJlsbarg, ". ia.
HAEKENSs zOUA VES-TRe First Bayo-
aet Charge. BIZ J. Il. T. Whifaey, Sergeant,
@. B, Oh n T., Ne1r York Cty.
PORT HUDSOK-A Spirited Account q
this THp0rsa5t Siege aud Battle. By Wiiber
T. H'e5JeT. Lampasas, Ter.
PICK AND SHOYEL-Campaigning sritH
he Engineers By Halter II. Parcels, Go.
q, 5Ofh A. T. Eng, Leriston, Pa.
ACROSS TIE PLAIEs.-A Narratiue Of q
wild IresteTn Tip IN 1857. By ". thorn
Ton Parker, late Actiag assistant Surgeon
Us A., Newport, T. 7
CAHdBA PRLS0K-Life and Deoth in fI.i,
Place 81 Confinement. By G. J. 9reHaman
LERISBERG.-Canl paigaiag and Fighting
"a Hest Virginia. By John 2, BO0tt, Ser
geaat, Co. G, 36fh Ohio, Harr5eIl, o.
TIE HILD CATlS',-Soasetsiag About III
105fh Pa By g T. d. S."
LEREBEL PRLsONs.-TEc graphic story 0
LieHt Wide, SIS I'D. By Frank H. Agers
Dosiiaq5oR, Ind.
A WAG0NH4STERiS STORY.-An egisod
Of Mosbg's career IN the Shenandoah. B
H. T. Hargro0e, Brou1as bills, 4. J.
FORT PFLL0W-7Ee story Of The tragedy 0
Agra j.. 1864 By Z. C. George, I'll. Kan
CQl.. Shegi1ld, Pa.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

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The 10000 disabled veterans upon whom
the Government is now lavishing its gen.
erosity " in sums ranging from 81 to Is cents
a day, each made pecuniary sacrifice in
wages alone of from $500 to So, 900 in order to
enter its service and fight its battles. Every
one of them turned his back on employ
ment which would have paid him from
$500 to $4,000 a year, to accept less
than $500 q year from it, and encounter
numberless hardships and dangers, and
finally to wreck his health and strength
so that he has been much less able since his
discharge TO gain livelihood than he was
before he entered the army. 1t is cruel, in
sulting and meanly dishonest to now put
such a man off with beggarly dole of a
few cents day. Let Congress do the decent,
honorable thing, and enact that no pensioner
should receive less than So a month.
Twenty-seven cents day is little enough in
all conscience to offer a man whose serv-
ice for his country has impaired his ability
to make living.
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THE LoaAN MoNuMENr.

The Logan monument fund still grows,
but not by any means as it should. If there
is loving duty which every loyal man,
woman and child beneath the protecting
shadow of the Star Spangled Banner should
at once perform, it is that of paying sub
stantial tribute to the Great Volunteer
Here are two letters which we have received
during the week, which voice sentiment
that should move every heart:
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Inclose find postal
note of 81 to apply to Logan monument fund And
l would like say to the comrades of Kansas,
Don't let Illinois and other States beat u.s." We,
I think, car hoe our row with any of them.-A. j.
MAXWELL, Chetopa, Kan.
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WORK OF THE PENSION OFFICE.

During the week ending Jan. Z, 1888,
4,028 claims were received, of which SOB were
original invalid go widows; war Of 1912;
8 bounty land 20 navy old war; 1873 on
account of Mexican service, and 2,775 appIi-
cations for increase
The receipt of mail matter during the
week were 49, 100; 26,478 letters and circu-
lars were sent out. The names and post
Office addresses of 1922 officers and COM
rades were furnished for the use of claim
ants The number Of medical examinations
reported during the week was 1855. The
amount of fees for the same was $12612.35,
an average cost of $4.58; 678 reports of Spe-
cial Examiners were also received during the
week
To show the enormous increase in the
work of the Pension Office, it is only neces-
sary to state that from July 1, 1886, to Dec.
81 of the same year, the receipts Of mail
matter amounted to 967, 1858 pieces. During
a corresponding period for the year just
closed the receipts were 1907, $50 pieces, or
an increase for the six months of 1887 OF
239, 1892 pieces.
The mail matter sent out from July i, 10
Dec. 81, 1856, amounted to 821, 552 pieces
For the corresponding period of the yea1
1887 the number of letters and circulars sent
out amounted to 982,471 pieces, or an in.
crease of 160,919.
The increase in the receipt of original in
valid claims for the last six months of 18s,
az compared with the corresponding period
of 1886 was 5,847 cases. The increase ii
widows applications was 1861, and the in
crease in the number of applications for in
creased pensions was 1883.
Report of certificates issued during weel
ending Jan. Z, 1888: Original, 63l; increase
COG; reissue, 124; restoration, 48; duplicate
10; accrued, 81; arrears, O.; Act of Marcel
3, 1888, 5; Order of April 8, 1884, 6; Act o
March 8, 1886, O; Order Oct 7, 1886, 2; Ac
of Aug. 4, 1885, 3; Supplemental, Act Aug
4, 1886, 10; Mexican war, 1893; total, 1,72s
Reissue same date, 0.
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MAI. GEO. w. E DORSEY, of Nebraska
presented in the House of Representatives
last Monday the joint resolution Of the Ne
braska Legislature asking for the repeal
of the limitation of the Arrears of
Pensions, and the passage of the bill recon-
mended by the National GAR. Pension
Committee.
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WITH the soldiers loyal friend, Hon. R.
w. Townshend, of Illinois, at the head of
the important Committee on Military At
fairs, the veterans can be sure that their in
terests-so far as that Committee is CON
eerned-win be well taken care of
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ONE of the new memhers of the House,
of whom great influence and usefulness can
be confidently predicted, is Hon. John A.
McShane, of Omaha, Neb. Mr.. McShane is
a man of unusual ability in many direc-
tons. he is young, broad-minded, practi-
cal, and one who finds way to succeed with
whatever he undertakes. He is one of the
wealthiest men in Nebraska, and made every
dollar of his money himself. How well he
is esteemed by his neighbors is shown by
his election as a Democrat in Republican
District.
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In all 1888 of the 297, 726 "invalids ~
or almost exactly one-half-get less than S.
month-less than 81 cents day, and Jf0e-
segeatEs of this number get less than Is
cents day!
VIII any man who has any regard for his
own utteIances presume to say that this
beggaTly allowance to men who broke
themselves down in the morasses about
Vicksburg, in the poison-exhaling swamps
of Louisiana, on the bleak mountains of Ten
nessee, on the blood-drenched road from the
Wilderness to Appomattox, is an honest full
fllment of the Governments promises and
pledges?
1t is beyond denial that any man who is
disabled to degree that will receive the
recognition of the Examining Surgeons,
under the stringent rules which govern
these proceedings, is disabled to an extent
that makes an allowance of even So a month
ridiculously inadequate. If he is hurt at all,
he is certain to be hurt far beyond the power
of So a month to make good If the United
States owes him anything on account of the
injuries be incurred in its service, it owes
him more than beggarly q cents OF less
day.
The blame for this lies wholly with Con-
gress. It has time and again been urged to
legislation that would cure this fragrant in
justice, but it has neglected or refused
One of the last services rendered to the vet
eran by thelate John A. Logan an earnest
effort to secure the passage of law which
would make 50 month the lowest rate OF
pension. Failing in this, he strove to have
the minimum rate made SIS, and then 81.
That this was not done is continuing
shame to our Lawmakers. It will cost com
paratiYely little to increase all pensions
which are now less than S. to that amount
The additional annual expenditure would
be but s., 299, AIS, which is trifing to such
| Nation as ours
Let Congress do this at once, and removt
the reproach of misery meanness in dealing
| with the men to whom it owes everything