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Mobile fAIa.l Again.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / see in your
valuable paper Of Dec. Is statements from
James g. Warren, Co. c; Joseph H. Bell, Co.
+; w. G. Burney, Co. X, all of the 9th Iowa,
regarding the siege of Spanish Fort and Fort
Blakely, on the east side of Mobile Bay. in
the Spring of 1865 and as was there too, will
relate something of what know and saw dur
ing that siege, TO rather verify their state
ments, and other things connected with the
two forts. My memory is as fresh as though it
happened a month ago. ] was in the Third
Brigade, Third Division, Sixteenth Corps.
Our division commander was Gen. E. A. Carr,
an Illinois man, and our corps commander was
Gen. 4. J. Smith. In order to make il plain,
Spanish Fort was nearly opposite the city,
east side Of the bay, aud but slightly in a
northeast direction. Fort Blakely was north
of same side, but / never ascertained the dis
lance; IL must have been two or three miles
1t was my understanding that the Thirteenth
Corps, commanded by Gen. Steele, had the
honor of charging and taking Fort Blakely
and the Sixteenth Corps that of Spanish Fort
The comrades are correct, for ! saw it all done
myself-that is, l know that the old Sixteenth
Corps took Spanish Fort. Anyhow, to settle all
differences, we" all together captured the
whole Johnny" outfit, and that was enough
JAMES ii. ORR, Co. i, S1st H., Fort Worth
Tex
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Ezra Chanel.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE; In your paper
Of Dec. s / read with much interest the article
entitled a. Ezra Chapel July %, 1864" by Com
rade Ridenour of the 55th H. He gives a
good description of that battle, but is incorrect
as to the Both Ohio being on the extreme right
1t was the 57th Ohio instead of the BOTH 1 re-
member very we'll when our division Second
Fifteenth Corps had scarcely got into line
our regiment-the 57th Ohio-being on the ex
treme right, when the rebels were upon us. Our
company Al was deployed in single rank to keep
the enemy from turning our lines. After an
almost hand o-hand fight we drove them back,
but only to come again and again until they
were rcpulsed five different times This was
an open field fight with no protection with the
exception Of small underground of pine,
which was all cut down by our bullets. The
conflict was kept up until night, when the enc
my finally gave up and withdrew, leaving the
field heaped with their dead.
do not want it understood that | find fault
with the Both Ohio, 9Th Mo, 55th 1llth, 10th
and 127th Ill.,, for / know that they are all
worthy of good record but / do contend that
our regiment did well to keep the enemy from
turning our lines, considering their superiority
in numbers.-WILLIs DENNIS, Corporal, Co. A,
| 57th Ohio, Kalida, o.
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Hanged at Frederick CITY.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: X. W. Locke,
of Chelsea, Mass wishes some cOmrade would
write the circumstances of the hanging of
the rebel spy at Frederick City, Md. / can,
as | was acquainted with him before he was
hung, and / saw his execution at that city, on
the roadside, on the limb of locust tree / cut
a piece of the rope off while he was yet hang
ing and sent it home. This spy made the ac-
quantanee, as an old friend, with one of the
members of my regiment 9th Ind after we
went into Winter quarters after the first Fred
ericksburg fight, and he made it his headauar-
tiers that Winter, and peddled stationery,
jewellery, and such like through the army but
we never suspected him of being a spy The
boys used to have lot Of fun with him when
he was in camp.
At the time of the Gettysburg campaign !
happened TO be mule whacker After the
Gettysburg fight was over the army followed
Lee, and my train being in the lead that day
caused me to be in front, and when we got our
trains well out on the pike leading from West
minister to Gettysburg, we saw something like
brass battery on hill in the road at some
distance. We fearing there was trap set for us,
sent our cavalry guard to recOnHoiter and see
what it meant but they limbered up and
skipped, and the cavalry pursued, capturing
some, and among them this same spy, who
proved TO be the leader. / knew him as soon
as ] saw him, and he was hung right there
without Judge or jury. He would not tell what
he had done or was doing; he said he would
die first, and he did-WM l.. HART, Co G,
9TH Ind, Brandon, Iowa.
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Gen. Cusfer's Courage.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your issue
Of Dec. 10 / saw an article rejecting upon Gen.
Custer. Just send his traducer to Michigan
and we will fix him. Did he see Gen. Custer
in the rear at Gettysburg Monterey Pass,
Hagerstown, Wiliamsport, Boonesboro Falling
Water, Newbys Crossroads, Gainesville, Buck
land Mills, Kelly's Ford, Culpeper Courthouse
and Racoon Ford? Was he in the rear when
Fitz-Hugh Lee fought him May 6, 1864? Was
he behind at Beaver Dam Station; or at Yellow
Tavern at Baltimore Crossroads at Salem
Church, Cold Harbor and Treyilian Station
The whole brigade of which had the honor
to belong will answer for the gallantry of
of Gen. Custer on every field; and many of US
recollect the affair at Brandy Station and l
think the Michigan cavalry can vouch for him
at Gettysburg and at Brandy Station. He was
our beloved leader, and his memory is engraved
in letters of gold upon every heart of the old
brigade, and the man who would cast any such
imputation upon his gallantry would, in Mehi-
gan, be buried face downwaFd.-J. X, LoWDEN,
late member of Gov. Ayers Kid Glove Regi-
ment.
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FIGHTING THEM OVER.
What Our Veterans Have TO Say About
Their Old Campaigns
JONESBORO.
Capt. RidenOur's Story of How Chat Desperate
Battle was Fought.

Capt. Ridenour's Story Of How chat Desperate
Battle was Fought.
FpTT0R NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Over year
ago vou published map and an account OF
what tho Fourteenth Corps did at Jonesboro
on the LIST day of September, 1864, aud we have
waited 10 see the writer corrected; as Reclaimed
aud showed by his map. that the First, Second
and Third Brigades of the Second Division,
Fourteenth Corps, held almost the identical
position that we know was held by the First
Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Corps. both
on the Slst Of August IS well rs the LIST day OF
September, aud from where Sn officer OF our
regiment and his pckets discovered on the
morning Of the ID day Of September that the
enemy had evacuated. We are willing the
Fourteenth Corps should have all the credit
due it, but it has 40 right TO claim honors
and positions gained by other troops and other
worthy commanders; and 20 this end we have
prepared a map and gathered facts that corrob-
orale our diaries, written on the ground at the
time and place mentioned.
Gen. Logan, In his report TO Gen. Sherman,
saws: On the 3Ist went into fortified posi-
fion. and was attacked by Lees and Hardee's
Corps After two hours hard fighting we re-
pulsed the enemy, who withdrew, leaving
400 dead Oh the field, his total loss being over
$500 as admitted al the time" And his order
al East Point Ga, Sept. il, 1864, to the officers
and soldiers of the Fifteenth Corps, says: You
marched TO JOnesborO, driving the enemy be-
fore you from Pond Creek, distance of 10
miles At this point you again met the enemy,
composed Of Lees and Hardee's Corps, on the
31st OF August, and punished them severely,
driving them In confusion from the field, with
their dead and many wounded and prisoners
left in your hands"
Losing in his Civil War in America,
says: Howard fought calamity at the pass
age Of the Flint. and on the following
morning found himself in the presence OF
q very formidable antagonist Placing his
army in battle order, with the Fifteenth
lBlair's1 Corps in the center and the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth on its flank" Here this great
historian makes quite an error in substituting
Blair for Logan while the men, as usual
cast up rude breastworks in the front, Ia
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EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE; In looking
over your column of Random Shots" l see a
paragraph from the pen of Comrade William
Leler Co d, Sd Mo, stating that the 10Th Ohio,
Sd Iowa, 18th ILL.,, and Sd, 18th, 18th and 9th
Mo. constituted the First Brigade, First Divis-
ion, Fifteenth Corps Now, the above regi-
ments composed the Second Brigade, l think.
The First Brigade comprised the 9th, 4th, 25th,
Both, and 3lst Iowa, and those are the regi-
ments that recaptured De Gress's battery the
22d day Of July, 1864, at Atlanta. The First
Brigade was commanded by the Colonel of the
Both Iowa; the division by Gen. Woods, com
monty called "Susan. "-rHos. McCUNNIFF,
Co C. 9th Iowa La lara Colo
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EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: AS Medical
Director of the Second Division, Twenty fifth
Corps, commanded by Gen. r. II. Jackson,
accompanied my command to Texas after the
island of Brazos de Santiago early in june and
while there | heard of the battle at Boco Chico,
which Eas undoubtedly the last of the war
A. P, HEIcHHoLD, Reynoldsville, Pa.
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Consumption Surely Cured.

To the Editor
Please inform your readers that I have a
positive remedy for the above-named disease
BY its timely use thousands of hopeless cases
have been permanently cured. shall be glad
to send two bottles Of my remedy FREE TO any
Of your readers who have consumption if they
will send me their Express and p O. address.
Respectfully.
T. A. SLOCUAI, n. c., ISL Pearl St., New York
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The Cutcst Little Things.

"Cute " ! he echoed. "Well, don't know ms
the adjective would have occurred to me in Just
that connection. But if you mean that they dc
their work thoroughly, yet make no fuss about
it cause no pain or weakness and in short
arc everything that pill ought to be, and
nothing that it ought not, then ! agree that
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets are about
the cutest little things going!
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session the discharge certificate of Charles T.
Biekford, of Capt. Ellery d. Perkins's company
*, 18th Me-, given at Richmond, Va, June
10, 1865.
Alfred Berkey, 315 Locust street, st. Louis.
sends to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE the dis
charge of Private James NJ. Stewart, Co X,
35th H., with some other private papers of the
dead comrade. He says that some years ago
the widow of Stewart asked him for these
papers, but he could not fiud them, and only
recently ran across them when moving. He
does not now know the address of Mrs. Stewart,
and so sends the papers to this Office, hoping
she will get them. She formerly lived at Van
dalia, III.
Give Them Their Due.
Chas Barber Co A, 104th n Y, Java Village,
n. Y, thinks that every pensiOner over so
years of age now rated below $ month should
be raised to 50 or S12 per month.
VIM Miner, Swan Iowa, thinks that the rea-
son that Lewis Filler is opposed to the repeal OF
the limitation of arrears act Is because he has
got his pension. There can be no other reason,
for anybody who thinks on the subject, that
the arrears are the just dues of the soldier.
G. A. Simon, New York city, says that VIM.
Keenon, Co. G., Goth n Y, and any other COM
Tades who think that disability which is equal
to the loss of a hand or foot should be pensiOned
at the same rate, should write to the different
Senators about this injustice. He wrote to
Senators ingalls,, Plumb and Sherman on this
subject, and received favorable replies from
each.
]. J. Welshaus, Omaha, Neb., believes that
the soldiers Of this country should have the
support of Congress in obtaining their just dues
from the Government.
Edward Rife, Co. A, LIST battalion, 18th q. s.,
Lancaster, o., has a word to say on the ques-
ton of crippled soldiers disability, and gives
his own experience. He was shot so badly at
Gettysburg that he lost his left leg and when
lying disabled on the field got three other
wounds. One of the last shots was sawed off
with his leg, but the other two still bother him
terribly He argues that it is no sign that if a
man has lost a leg or arm he has no other disa-
bility. The worst Of the whole matter is, that
soldiers thus antagonizing each other injuTe
each others interests.
The Atlanta Campaign.
| J. F. Harry, Co. F, oath KY, Crum, KY, says
there has been some mistake made as to who
! crossed Noses Creek, in Georgia; for the oath
| KY. relaid the boards across the stream before
any one could cross, and then the Second Bri-
! gade, Third Division, Twenty-third Corps
charged across by the flank, with the 24th KY
1 in the lead
George H. Wheeler Co. K, 18th Wis, Yer
million, OAK, says that Capt. j. b. Ridenour j;
mistaken in saying that at the battle of Ezra
| Chapel the 10th Ill. and Goth Ohio didn't fall
back; for they did, but in good order.
In Prison Cell.
| Lucius Jones, jr., Nashville, n. Y, desires t
say to the many who have written to him thai
in answering their letters he probably failed t
tell them that there were a great many whC
| died in AndersOnville whose names were un
| known.
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Lost and Found.

B. f. Clayton, Gardner, Kan, has in his pos
session the discharge and other papers of Jona-
than NJ Clendena, of Co. A, I'd Kan, dated
June Is, 1864, and would be pleased to place
them in the hands of the owner or his repre-
sentatives.
Geo. w. Barden, Fayette, o., has in his pos
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MEXICAN PENSION BILL

y EASY WAY To MAKE 800. send for 10 or
IA Veterans Calendars" Retail price . cents
EACH Wholesale Is cents Calendars Beautifully cOlOred,
showing corps badges and badges Of Veteran OranZa
tiOns. Good employment for disabled veterans
Address, f. BRACKET, Washington, ID. Q.
Mention The National Tribune.
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The Atlanta Campaign.
In Prison Cell

Lucius Jones, jr., Nashville, n. Y, desires to
say to the many who have written to him that
in answering their letters he probably failed to
tell them that there were a great many who
died in Andersonville whose names were un-
known.
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slentlon The Nal!onal TrtbunA
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-18
LOWER PAYETTE LITTER.
EMMETT, Idaho, May 1G. 1888

EMMETT, Idaho, May 16, 1888
Ed. WORLD: Thinking perhaps you
would like to know something of the
climate of he-hades, (excuse mel II
thought to invite you down. We
have all the climate we want. It's
100 IN the shade, and | don't believe
the thermometer stretches 1t one bit.
1t is dry, oh! how dry. Everything
is burned up. The stock men look
like they wanted divorce. They
are gathering everything in the stock
line, and driving to Long valley. I
was told that three thousand head of
cattle were going from this valley
alone. Gram is generally failure,
and hay will be hard to get.
We have just returned from trip
up Boise valley, and everywhere saw
the ranchers were pasturlng down
their rye fields.
The river is pronounced the lowest
ever known at this season, and many
predict that it has been at its highest
for this year.
There is talk Of some giving up the
dry ranch business and going away.
The Payette canal company have
succeeded in interesting some New
York capitalists in their ditch
scheme, and they promise to com
mence work Immediately. They are
now doing some preliminary work,
and we really expect ditch.
There is to be an event, an item as
it were, at the Methodist Church next
Sunday, at o'clock. Mr.. Frank Da-
Wis and Miss Villa Connolly will be
married. God bless 'em. Miss Connel-
ly is now teaching at Emmett. Long
and happy may their lives be. There
was a wedding at the same place
April the fools day. Miss Bette
Wittle was married to Mr.. Ola Blair
of Boise City. They did not le
their friends know anything of The
event until some time after. Bette
has gone to her new home, and W.
hope it is in the fitness of things 70
her to be eternally happy.
Many of our buds of promise il
the form of young men are going t'
Silver District to work this summer
Very near all, it seems.
CATCHALL.
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Sunday afternoon at : o'clock
destructive fire broke out in Golden
dale, Washington Territory, in Dix
on's livery stable, on Main street: 1t
happened that nearly all the young
men in town were absent at basket
meeting and baptismal service at
Golden's mill, and there were not
fifty men left in town to fight the fire.
Farmers in the neighborhood, seeing
the flames. hurried to render assist
ance, aud did good service with
teams.
Several men and women tainted
from overwork. The fire ragged four
hours. All the stores and grocery
buildings were destroyed, both print
inc offices, the Presbyterian church
the Methodist church and parsonage
the court house and county jail, an'
a great number of private dwellings
The people are literally burnt ou
of sshouse and home,' many having
rone to bed Sunday night withou
supper. Thirty-fve families are in
state of utter destitution.
The school house, which escape
destruction, Is crowded with the home
less. The Portland Board of trad
anpointed committee to solicit func
| for the sufferers by the fire. The los
| will aggregate 100000, InsuranC
very light.
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Bo1sE STATESMAN: Our fellow
townsmau, VIM. Jauman, is not al
ways asleep when his eyes appear
shut. Some fourteen years ago.
while he was perambulating around
the hills near Boise City, he dlscov-
cred some rock that led him to be-
Eeva that there was a rich vein OF sll-
yer and gold bearing quartz near oy
If it could only be found. Ever since
then Mr.. Jauman has been quietly
searching for it, and furnishes pros
nectors' outfits for the same purpose
His labors have at last been crowned
with at least partial success, lie
has ON exhibition specimens OF rock
that are very rich. The Statesman
vas shown several pieces OF fioa
rock speckled all over with free gold
These, of course, are Of not much ae
count. but he has struck seam o
born silver about eighteen inches II
width that will make an eNeelIen
WELD; in fact the specimen shown u
i very near pure silver. He has a
CO struck vein of gold-bearln
3. quartz about two and half feet ct wld "
that makes good showing. tie h'
run down on the former about Seve
i feet. Both of these lodges are witt
Il in seven miles of Boise CITY, 'o'
1t T,vlor is interested with Mr.. ia
man in these mines.
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His Reason for skipping.

When Sheriff Davis of Custer coun-
ty disappeared last winter there was
some suspicion Of foul play, but the
following letter from him to District
Attorney Sharp, and published in the
Challs Messenger, makes the matter
plain. The section he refers to re-
lates to turning over the money col
lected on licenses. The letter is dat
ed Son Board Italian Bark, Pensaco-
la Bay, Florida, April 20, 1888" and
reads as follows:
Ny DEAR SRI am sailing to-day
for Buenos Ayres, in the Argentine
Republic. You, and others of my
friends, may think that | have pur-
sued strange course. On my re-
turn from Bayhorse, on the 10th day
of March, | discovered that | had VIC
lated Sec. 1,40, Revised Statutes
therefore | knew of no reason why
should not be held accountable TO
nv misdeeds, as well as any othe
person, and if the matter had beer
investigated by the grand jury,
would have been indicted, and th'
result would have been term a
Boise. Rather than be so Inundated
instead of going to Canada l go t
/ South America. l will write to yo
at various times. | wish you woul
send me the Messenger from Mare
10th to the date of the receipt OF TIN
letter. Send them c. B. Adams,
care Of American Consul, Buenc
Avres, Argentine Republic l WI
tell YOU more, when | get ashore
| Send papers of all kind as above dc
, scribed. The pilot boat is ready
leave us, so | must close.
! am most truly your friend,
\ + X Davis
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MOUNTAIN HONE RANGE AND Va
LEY; The mines of Pine Grove, pur-
chased by St Louis capitalists, are
the Ramrod, Gold Hill, Mammoth.
and an undivided one fourth of the
Darling.
The locality is Pine Grove on the
south fork OF the Boise river, Alturas
county, Idaho. This property was
purchased direct from the original 10.
cator-Ohver Sloan-hence the title
is clean and perfect. The veins car
ry free milling gold ore that will
average $50 per ton under the stamps
at the lowest estimate. Mr.. Leech,
reporting on the property, says:
''The veins are the richest in free
gold OF any | have any knowledge of.
The river will furnish power to run
any number of stamps that may be
desired, and can be used winter and
summer. The camp is one Of the
most beautiful, as regards situation
for cheap mining and milling, inclu-
ding as fine a climate as | have ever
seen, and this with the wonderful rich
ore, will make it in few wears the
greatest mining camp in Idaho, if not
in all the Western country" Nea1
Cliff, about 40 miles west of Noun.
tain Home on the O. S. L. railway, is
cave which has never been explored
to greater depth than 40 feet
The entrance is small but it widens
as far as it has been examined. Oui
young friend Donovan proposes thi.
summer to get torches and try tC
''hnd the bottom of that hole in the
lava" and it is advisable to do so. i
may prove greater curiosity thar
any one now dreams of.