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WASHINGTON, MARCH %, 1883.
RUIZ SPANISH EXposrTION.

Now that Spain has seen fit to snub
the United States in her unique ar
Iangements for celebrating the fourth
centenary of the Discovery of Amer
lea, we may reasonably expect the
proposed commemoration in this
country to receive new and vigor-
ous impetus
That the Government at Madrid
should ignore all that makes the
achievements of Columbus histor-
ically memorable, estimating the
value of those achievements by their
results, renders ii so much the more
incumbent upon the United States to
do full and fitting honor to the occa-
SION, and illustrate to the world, what
Spain appears to have never known
or at best to have forgotten, how the
opening of the Western Continent to
the refugees of European despotisms
paved the way for American inde-
pendencc, for Constitutional Govern
ment, for the grandest of all Repub-
lies, for the highest development of
civfl liberty.
Had it not been for the establish
ment Of the American political sys-
TEN, upon basis of equality and toll
Grafton, the Latin races with which
Spain is all of sudden so enamored,
would still be the barbaric vassals of
their Spanish conquerors, and would
make but melancholy show in the
Madrid Exposition as exemplars of q
progressive and enlightened age.
1t was here that they found their
inspiration; it was from the United
States that they derived whatever de-
gree of freedom they have since at
tanned and the capacity for enjoying
it; it was from the illustrious work of
the Anglo-Saxon founders of this great
Government that the Latins, chatting
under centuries of ignorance and op-
preston, borrowed their constitutional
models, and it is for these reasons that
the '"Three Americas cemented by
a commsn bond of Union and looking
forward to a common destiny, will
combine to celebrate the Quadricen-
tennial at Washington and lay the
foundations of a Permanent Exposi-
ton.
That Spain does not appreciate the
fraternal significance, the political
force and moral impressiveness of
such reunion of the free nations of
America, is matter of small conse-
quence in itself She has the right to
run her own expositions in her own
way, and may be content to celebrate
thep past four hundred years of New
World civilization by leaving out
the three hundred years of most es-
sential importance to the completeness
of the history. Not so with the people
of the United States, as all Europe,
including Spain, Italy and Portugal,
will be here to see in 1892.
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CRITICunAR.
slable yalues- -Pnecs on horses.

10 WAIT WHITMAN.
by kind permission of the New York
Herald
Thou limner of the inexplicability OF in
tclleCtuality,
In whose fundamental concepts, embod-
led mentalities enormous,
Emerging, irradiating resistless, sweep
through the unalterable innnities;
Sitting enthrOncd, monarch the mighty,
amidst the anarchy of metre,
Abiding, continuing, contributing, con-
fusing, conducting to lunacy,
Confronting the iudistinct with the in
distinguishable in the realm
or Poesy-the rythmiC, allluent, luXu-
rious, heroic, abstract,
And striding Pegasus, string.halted, spa
vined, foundered, wind-broken and
with the bolts,
Get down and come in out of the wet.
Miss Rose Cleveland, II is said, will
deliver an address on the subject, "Why
is Not Woman the Equal of Men ?" be-
fore the International Council of Wo-
men. We refer Miss Cleveland to the
Creator, 1904 b. @.
De Jack-holding bloody finger in
his hand; You can't fool with a buzz
saw, can you?
Sawyer-heartlessly: No; but you can
buzz-saw with fool, sometimes.
Yesterday when the lightning struck
the Capitol and the thunder reverberated
through the rotunda, newspaper man
was talking to q visitor, and the visitor
was startled ont of his wits.
Good heavens" he exclaimed, "whats
that?"
ooh, nothing" replied the newspaper
man, coolly, its only Symes orColorado
making a speech in the House."
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hr.spECIAL NOTICE.

HAtl1S5sPECIAL NOTICE.
There will be a meeting of the stockholders
of the Corcoran Fire Insurance Company at
2, 1888 for the purpose of eecting o Directors
for the ensuing year. Polls open at ~ m.
and close at p. m.
q MCCLELLAND. Secretary.
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BOARDING.

OO0D TABLE BOARD AT 1911 Hath ST
W NV; references given.
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LOST AND FOUND.

I OST-YEsTERDAY EYENING-A PENSION
IL Certificate In the name OF Andrew
Galooley, Company II, 5Sih Illinois Vols So
reward for its return to Mr.. WILSON, U. s.
Pension Office.
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NTARINPS DANCING ACADEMY, 9TH AND
.UM sts-Mr. Marinis classes are now
ready for the reception of pupils. For
Misses and Masters, Tuesday and Saturday;
Thursday evenings. For particulars send for
circular
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yNTANTED-A GOOD, ACTIVE WHITE BOY
w torun errands and make himself gen
orally useful; must bring reference, Apply at
$40 9th ST W.
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yXIANTID-AGENTS on THE LAST NEW
w book "The Temperance Movement,
by Senator Blair. AppIyto w. +. MORSE,
500 + st W, Room 80
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Tie DeGress Battery IeaIn.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / have again
TO ask yon for space IN your valuable paper to
explain the position of the First Division,
Fifteenth Corps July p, at Atlanta. In THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE Of March Is, Comrade
Dixon asks for information in regard to Gen
Lightburn's report, which / viii try and fur
nish him; but before doing so will call bis
attention to Gen. Woods's report:
/ Immediately moved the Second Brigade for
ward TO attack IN flank and rear, and the First
Brigade TO attack in flank and front. Ihig~proved
successful, and in less than Is minutes | bad re-
taken DeGresss battery and driven the enemy
from the rne-pts the left as far the railroad
The whole rebel line then fell back and the works
were re-occupied 10y our troops. While moving back
the First Brigade 10 re-occupy ther orr nal posi-
tioH the enemy made q charge orr right (4h
reverse of an old rebel battery. The enemy were
driven back with great slaughter, and made no
further attack that night
Col Williamson in his report also makes
mention Of this attack and Of the repulse of
the rebels, and Gen. Logan does likewise. Now
mark the wording Of the latter's report:
Gen. Woods then moved his First and Second
BTlgaoes forward attacking in front and flank and
m flank and rear. At the same time the Second
DIVISION, followed by Col Mersey's Brigade ad-
vauced upon the enemy's front. The movement
was successful. Woodss Division striking the enc
nay + flank. 80 began to break, aud soon afterWard
the Second Division charging his front the line OF
works. DeGress's battery, and two guns of Battery
A were recaptured. Gen. Woods then swung his
Second Divisions was Feoccupied with no further
opposition except fierce assault Oh the 4tll Iowa.
which repulscd.
viii now give that part Of Gen Lightburn's
report that refers TO this part of the battle:
At2 O'Clock p. m. pursuant to orders, assumed
command OF the division and at 32gp ma nv whole
! line attacked, which resisted with spirit
until the line was broken on the main road, when
the whole command broke la confusion to the rear
Finding IL impossible TO check the retreat pro-
ceeded Immediately to the works occupied in the
! morning, ordering THAT the command be there
checked, reformed and retake the position lost
and II possible recapture the batteries; which
was ultimately done, with the assistance of Gen
! Woodss Division and one brigade Of the Sixteenth
/ Corps commanded by Col. Mersey. reeapturng all
Of the guns OF Battery IL and two Of Battery A.
4 ] think these statements cannot be refuted.-
JAMES WILSON, Co. i, 9th Iowa, Flandreau
! OAK.
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The onptnre Of Huntsville. Ala.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: l was tele
graphing at Huntsville " afoe de wah,V and
when the war broke out / came home, but
was able TO learn very directly-as q telegrapher
will-what happened there after / left.
Huntsville was headquarters Of the Memphis
d Charleston Railroad, and a man whom |
shall call o. l.. X the is now in Washington,
engaged within gunshot of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE Office was, during the var Super
intendent of the telegraph at Huntsville. He
had been South for 20 years, but was a native
Of Philadelphia, aud loyal blood ran in his
veins
1t was a bad night, and the mail-train COM
two heavy trains Of troops going down the road
on their way TO reinforce Beauregard at Pitts
burg Landing, and o. h. K. staid up that night
10 direct in person where each train should
pass the others. About midnight a scout came
into the telegraph Office at the depot and re-
ported to Mr.. o. L. X. that the Yankees were
at MeridianVille, a town 10 miles north of
Huntsville, on the Fayetteville road. Mr.. O..
l.. X. complimented him for his valuable sery-
ices, and lest the information should go further
told him he should have the best bed at the
depot, and so put him to bed. Now there were
a great many engines in the round house and
a large amount of rolling-stock in the yards.
After Mr.. O. l.. K. had safely passed the trains,
there being no one about the office but himself
he locked up, went home and told his wife
that they would wake up in the United States
in the morning, and so they did. And this is
how Gen. Mitchell happened to take so much
Memphis & Charleston Railroad Toliing-stock.
/ "A. A. GILDERsLEEVE, Pittsburg, Pa.
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he also plfr.rs wIth the LIentenant.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: There are
many contradictions in our paper which do
not particularly interest me; but the article in
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE of the 10Th ult
headed Nelson's Division" by Fl. Choate,
First Lieutenant, Co. D, 9Th KY, is something
I know to be incorrect, and so does he, If he
was with Nelson at that time.
On Thursday, April 3, p member Of the 31st
Ind. borrowed my horse to take ride, At
noon he came in and told me that Gen. Nelson,
who was the advance of Buel's army, was cut
at Horse Creek, four miles east Of town (Savan-
nah, and was going into camp. He told me
Col. Bob Stewart, of Terre Haute, Ind, with
his I'd Ind. Cav, was Nelson's escort. He and
/ both we're intimately acquainted with great
many of the 2d Ind Cav. He had told them
was in Savannah, and several sent word they
would call on me the next day, which they did
Whilst they were with me many officers passed
by toward the steamboat landing and amongst
them the boys pointed out their General Mel
SOM, and said he could beat the whole army
swearing. In the evening these officers went
back, many of them not knowing for certain
whether they were afoot or on horseback.
On Saturday April 5, a train of perhaps so
wagons, said to be part of Buall's commissary
train, came into Savannah, went to the river,
loaded, and went back 70 camp In the after
noon of that day an officer was pointed out to me
as Gen Buell.. Sunday morning about an hour
after the firing had commenced at Shiloh our
army came pell-mell into town. some running,
some cheering and some struggling. Buell.,
Beauregard young Johnston and Gran/all
agree about the time Buelfs first troops got
across the river, that it was near sunset.
Now, how does that Kentucky Lieutenant
know that Grants reserve artillery stood all
Sunday afternoon without any one TO work it,
even without man to guard it? Lieut.. Choate
had better review the history Of that memora-
bic battle before he writes any more on it. and
if he has no positive dates TO guide him he had
better quit the business.
/ know nothing of Duck River Bridge, but
do know Buell's army could have gone to Pitts
burg Landing Saturday, April 5, and I further
know that Beauregard found out Friday night
by his scouts that Bnel'5 army was at Horse
Creek four miles east of Savannah, and induced
Johnston to attack Grant on Sunday morning
instead Of Buell. making the attack Monday
r. d. PARSONS, 7th III. Cav, Amelia Neb.
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The Spy at Frederick City.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: r. W. Locke,
of Chelsea, Mass, asks some person to give an
account Of the capture and hanging of the
rebel spy Richardson near Frederick City,
Md, and VIM. L. Hart, Co. G, 7th Ind, Bran
DON Iowa, processes to DO so, but signally fails,
and will endeayor to tell what 1 know about
the matter.
He (Richardson) was, when captured, all
alone, standing by his horse alongside of the
pikea few miles north of Frederick, and claimed
TO one of our scouts who saw him there that he
lived at a mill in the vicinity. The scout had
met the old gent on different occasions before
this, and asked him to accompany him to Gen.
Beauford's headquarters, and while there he
was searched, and on his person was found COM
munications between leading rebel Generals
and plot detailing how division of our cav
airy was to be decoyed in one of the mountain
gaps and destroyed 1t is hard to believe that
the rebels had the impotence to be in that
vicinity, as ali that country was occupied by
our troops from the 1st Of July up to the time
our army left the State viii Mr. Hart state
where the spy was hung, and what time of day
it happened, and how long he was to hang,
etc.?-S. r. EyRIL, Co. F, 18th Pa Cav, Wat
sontown, Pa.
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EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Just at dusk
on the evening of April s, 1864, at the final as
sault on the Nineteenth Corps, the regiment on
the extreme right of the Union-liue found the
Confederates had pushed around their right
and rear aud were delivering a sharp fire from
that direction. At this time a staff officer,
taking advantage of the repulse of the Confed-
crate forces in the direct front, moved this
regiment forward at the right-oblique and
double-quick. and as a result isolated and capt
ured these COnfederates, who had pushed too far
forward. On their return with their prisoners
this regiment received a hot voIIey from a Union
regiment that had taken their place in line, it
being then quite dark and impossible to dis
tinsuish friend or foe. VIII any member of
this regiment, and particularly its Adiutant,
who was present at the time, send its designa-
tion to this paper and obi &c the writer. These
prisoners constituted probably large portion
of the very limited captures made by our forces
on that day of disaster.-B., Thompson, Conn.
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EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In 1861, when
the late war broke out five brothers lived in
Porter, Ind, about three miles southeast of
Valparaiso, on Morgan Prairie. These brothers
were named Hiram, James, Sanford, Anthony
and Orlando. The first four named enlisted
under the first call for three-months troops, to
the best Of my recollection. In june 1868, the
younger brother, William Orlando myself, en-
listed in the G3d Ind. During his service one
Of the brothers (Anthony) was wounded, and
died in 1865, after he came out of the army.
But since the war the three other brothers who
first enlisted -Hiram, James and Sanford
have never been heard from. Whether they
were killed in battle or taken prisoners and
died in prison is not known. | write this in
the hope that they, if alive, may see or hear OF
it; or If dead, that some eomrade may know
of 1t, and write to the younger brother, the
writer, who is very anxious TO know of their
fate. Any comrade who can give me reliable
information in regard to any or all of them will
do me a lasting iaYor.-W. o MATHEWS, Elm
Springs, Ark.
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SHILOH.
Comrade CofTman Discusses the Battle with Lieut.
Choate.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your issue
of Jan. 10 saw a communication from Lieut..
81. Choate of the 9th KY. Now as one who
was in the fight at Shiloh both days. do GER
tainly take issue with the Comr8de in two OF
his structures on Grants army. The first is as
to the demoralized condition of the army on
the 9th of April. He says: Had the rebels
made the charge on the reserve artillery, moth
ing on that side could have stopped them until
they captured Grants army" Now, do not
know what he means by reserve artillery, for
all of the artillery was in line, forming circle
from the creek on the right to the river on the
left, supported by infantry; and from the best
authority Ammens Brigade did not cross the
Tennessee River until dark. And l believe
with Grant that with the addition of Wal
laces Division, we would have whipped Beau
regards army on Monday if none of Buells
army had got there. Then the Lieutenant
goes on aud makes this statement; "Outside
of Lew Wallaces Division, at 10 a. M Monday
Grant did not have 10000 men in line, and
they did none or very little fighting.
During the main fighting Wallace joined Nc
Cook, throwing Sherman in reserve" That is
certainly news to the men of Sherman's Diyis-
ion.
The Lieutenant's range of vision may have
been superior to that Of most soldiers, but how
it was possible for the comrade TO see all the
movements of the army upon that heavily
tlmbered field IS something wonderful. / 90
know that Sherman's Division was on the move
Monday morning, and attacked the enemy as
soon as found, and staid in the fight all day
until the enemy was routed for our regiment
(the 10th Ohio was in Gen. BucSland's Bri-
gade, of Shermans Division, and in the front
line and made the last charge that routed the
rebels and drove them from the field.
/ am aware that Gen. Buell. wrote his
tory of the battle of Shiloh and had itpublish-
ed after the death of Gen. Grant, aud tried to
claim all the honors of that battle. l do not
doubt the fighting qualities of the Army of
tho Cumberland or Nelson's Division, but l
very much doubt their saving Grants army at
Shiloh for that was done the first day. 1t is a
well-known fact that Beauregards army was as
badly demoralized as was Grants army, aud
the main fighting on Monday was done in the
endeayOr to get away.
The Lieutenant points with pride to other
battles and campaigns of the Army of the
Cumberland, but my opinion is that the record
of the Army of the Tennessee will compare
favorably with it or any other equal number
of men.-DANIEL CoFFMAN, Co. B, 10Th Ohio,
Sterling, Kan.
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The 6th Illinois.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your issue
of March is letter from Henry Stokes, Co. K,
9Th I'll. Cav, in which he says the 9Th H. never
retreated but once, aud then when fighting
Now, l would like to ask Comrade Stokes if it
was Marnaduke's forces that kept them penned
up in Natchez, Miss, white they were camped
at that place, the 9Th Ill. taking the place of
the 4th H. Cav? The 4th I'll. was sent to
Memphis, Tenn, and we had been there but a
the commanding officer at Memphis, with the
signatures Of 300 Of the citizens of Natchez,
Miss, asking him to send back the 4th III. Cav.
to that place, as the rebels were taking horses
and other stock, also everything else that would
be of any use to them; and if / am not mis-
taken it was stated in the petition that the 9TH
did not dare to 90 out and fight the Johnnies,
because they got whipped every time they went
out, especially on the Louisiana side.-ALyIN
w. CHAPLIN, Co. B, 4th Ill. Cav, Utica, III.
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Rocky Face and Buzzards' Roost.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Not wishing
to enter in any controversy with any comrade
or take his laurels in struggle where all did
their duty and did it well, / wish to say a few
words about the capture of Rocky Face and
Buzzards Roost, ON Sunday morning, May z,
1864
The 125th Ohio, Col. Opdycke commanding,
was detailed to flank the left pass Of Rocky
Face, which, under heavy fog, he proceeded to
do, but did not advance far until he came upon
the enemy, strongly intrenched in the pass
and VIC were compelled to fall back carrying our
wounded with u.s. lie again reformed his line
facing the ridge to the west Under cover of
the fog, and ploted by citizen under cover of
the Colouels revolver, we began the ascent Of
Rocky Face by holding TO bushes and hands
until we gained the summit, when our line was
formed and Co. l was placed on the skrmsh-
line. We advanced short distance when we
struck the enemys reserve post, when the or
der 10 charge was given, which we did with a
yell. and drove the Johnnies TO the base Of Buzz
yards R0ost and held our line until reinforced
by the 81 Ky. in the afternoon, when the line
permanently formed and held the position.
our loss in co. was Is killed aud wounded.
The loss of the rest Of the regiment / don't
know.
The 125th was the first Union troops on
Rocky Face, and their flag was the first to float
from the summit. ! myself helped to chop the
bushes off for the Signal Corps to signal from.
We held this position until Monday evening,
when we, with the Sd KY were ordered to
charge BuZZards' Roost, in which we were re-
pulsed and fell back to our old position The
Sd lost very heavily, they having the lead in
the charge. Our killed and wounded amount
ed to 43. Now, comrades, ! don't write this
from newspaper reports, but from memory; and
as / saw things in cur front while on the ridge
that day, had no time to look up what other
regiments were doing, but in conclusion will
say that the Sd Ky.s flag was the first to float
from the nights of Buzzards' Roost after the
surrender of Thursday morning, May II, 1864
| s A. InsTIcE Co. i l25th 0hin Struknr q
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The Five Sisters.

There were FIVE fair sisters, and each had an
aim
Flora would fain be fashionable dame;
Scholarly Susan's selection was books;
Coquetish Cora cared more for good looks;
Anna ambitious, aspired after wealth;
Sensible Sarah sought first for good health.
So she took DR.. Picrce's Golden Medical Dis
covery and grew healthy and blooming Cora's
beauty quickly faded; Susans eyesight failed
from over-study; Flora became nervous and
fretful in striving after fashion, and sickly
family kept Annals husband poor. But sensi.
bic Sarah grew daily more healthy. charming
and intelligent, and she married rich.