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The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
National Headquarters
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

In harmony with the wish OF
General Fisk, and for other weighty
reasons, the Executive Committee
has decided to locate the National
Campaign Headquarters in the City
of New York.
Our street and number will be
announced in all the Prohibition
pa pers of next week, and may poss-
IDLY be sent by wire to appear IN
the same issue as this notice.
Let our correspondents observe
the following for one week, and no
incon venience will be felt in the
matter of prompt communication
Send all communications, either
mail or kilograms to the Chairman,
directed to National Prohibition
Headquarters, Neao York City, and
they will be promptly received.
In contemplation of this action
we have delayed, by few days, the
issue of important campaign
documents and the announcement
of general campaign supplies.
In all Prohibition papers next
week we will make full statement
concerning literature, campaign
supplies, and prices for the same.
In the meantime, if you want lit
erature or Autographs on paper or
cloth, or oil paintings of the candi-
dates, or flags or torches, OF street
banners with portraits and notices,
or streamers, or white rose buttons,
or silk Fisk and Brooks buttons, or
badges, or anything of the sort, send
on your order, and for this week we
will do for you the best we can,
making full announcement con-
corning prices Of such supplies
next week.
We propose to establish depart
ment headquarters for the distribu-
ton of literature, one in the South,
one in the Northwest, another in
the extreme West, 80 that there
shall be economy of time in filling
orders from various parts of the
country. Full announcement on
this point may be expected through
the Prohibition papers OF next
week.
Will all Prohibition editors who
do not receive this notice, but OBJ
serve it elsewhere, be kind enough
to send us name and address of pa
per, directed to New York, as indi-
Gated above. SAMUEL DICKIE.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
MINNESOTA BAPTJSTN.
Not Afraid of Politics,

At the Minnesota State Con.
ference of the Swedish Baptist
Church just over, thousand poo.
pie being present, the following
resolution was adopted: Where.
as, no effective temperance work
can take place as long as the liq.
uor business is legali7ed, and where.
as q political party is necessary to
enact and enforce laws prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of in.
toxlcating beverages, be it Resolv.
ed-That we recommend to all Of
our brethern in the churches TO
heartily support the National
Prohibition Party"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
Joseph Cook on the Situation.

Joseph Cook is ready to strike
some hard blows for the Prohibl'
tionists in the coming campaign,
In his magazine, entitled Our Day.
he says, GAS the Wing party once
refused to take ground against slav'
cry, SO the Republican party now
refuses to take ground against a
greater evil" "The saloon is TO-
day a greater evil than the South
i'm the saddle" GAS Independents
in politics we are induced by the
omissions in the Republican plat.
form to support the Prohibitionlsts'
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
Hector in the Field.
The California Censor says:

The California Censor says:
"Rev. J. II. Hector, colored, goes
east to fill a years engagement with
the national committee. He is a
born orator and his subject stirs
the depths of his soul. Come and
hear this colored soldier plead for
liberty"
We hope this irresistible Hector
will come this way and stir the
people of West Virginia before the
campaign is over. He is very
cyclone in the political woods.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

A prominent citizen of Parkers-
burg said the other day, 81 belong
to the Republican party, and will
vote against the Amendment, be-
cause the Third party put a ticket
in the field"
A man is certainly to be pitied,
who belongs to any party. We are
glad to know that a political
Emancipation Proclamation is
being sounded abroad through the
land.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

All parties that so will it, will
have their candidates before the
people, and every voter will be
free to vote "straight" or Scratch"
as he may choose; but when it
comes to the Amendment, here he
is doubly free to vote as his con-
science may direct without in any
way affecting his party relations.
Vote for the Amendment and SAGE
the boys.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Bro. Ferguson, of the Mountain
Herald, is in bad shape. His edi-
torial contortions about the "Third
Party" are simply pitiable. An ed
itor racked with those sort of hal.
fluctuations must feel awfully. If
our good brother would try Catnip
tea we think he might find relief.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Hon. James G. Blaine, on his
return from Europe was accorded
a grand reception in New York
last week.
Mr.. Robert Garrett, of the B. a.
O. R. R. Company, has become in
sane and will be sent to private
insane asylum.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

We arc sure every FREEMAN
reader will richly enjoy Miss Will
Iard's Decoration Day Speech, de-
Iivered at indianapolis. 1t is full
of poetry and patriotism from first
to last. After reading it, pass it to
your neighbor See heading "The
Greatest Party" inside page.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
MURPHYTOWN AMENDxRr
CLUB.
Rev. G. II. Devol addresses The M,
pile and increases the memhs..l:

The good work done by Mrs. NJ
Clurkin in organizing the foroa.
some weeks ago at Murphy's MiHs
Wood County, is bearing pooS
fruit for the Amendment. own
Rev. G. II, Devol OF the o. r
Church addressed a crowded hons.
there on Wednesday evening last
and made many sure votes e.,
the Amendment, At the close NJ
the meeting fourteen new namss
were added to the club.
The friends of the Amendmsn,
of ali parties are working heartily
together for the Homes of WOOD
county, and Murphy's Mills win
give good account at the elect
ion.
Rev. Devol also addressed the
people, recently, at a Picnic at
Hanes's Grove, on Worthingtou
and stirred up the people fOf
for the Amendment.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Keep Cool, friends, and save
your strength. There'll be lots of
good fighting after this campaigns
over, and it won't do to wear your
selves out with worry in this single
battle.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Hugh M Brooks, the murderer of
A. C. Preller, at the Southern
Hotel, st. Louis, paid the penalty
OF his crime on the gallows, last
Friday.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Our first page is rich in stirring
letters from the field.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Amendment Rallies are the order
of the day all over the State.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
Our Campaign Platform.

The amendment on its merits. re-
qardIess of all parties.
All Parties on their merits, regard
less of the Amendment.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Mrs. Loves many friends will
richly enjoy her inspiring letter
from Australia, on W. G. T. U.
page
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

The Parkersburg Baptist Asso-
citation meets at Bethel, 4 miles
from Parkersburg, to-day.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

To-day is Temperance Day at
Coolville Camp Meeting, with Rev.
Geo. E. Hite, as one Of the leading
speakers.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15
OUR MOTTO:
No Ticker, No Dicker, No Flicker,
DIR WATCHWORD:
The Saloon Must Go!

Our platform declares for Home
urotection and Saloon destruction.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

The Free Press says the Prohibi-
ton ticket is made up of "obscure
men," Never mind, Brother
they'll be heard from in the CLASH
and clamor of the next three
months.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Prohibition Headquarters 60 to
New York, where the "cranks"
can "hitch on" to the very hub of
politics.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

If either of the old parties in
West Virginia are opposed to the
Saloon, surely now's the time tor
it to be known.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Mrs. Hoffman, by her tour through
the State, pushed the Prohibition
columns a league forward.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Letters Of acceptance in full,
next FREEMAN-Sorry for the de-
lay, but they'll keep.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

The Inteltiqsmcer and Register both
gave fair and full reports of Mrs.
Hoffman's Wheeling address. Yer.
lily there's yet hope for the country.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Send I'm the Clubs for Cam
paign Freeman; % Cents 3
Months.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

1t doesn't pay to get excited
over politics. It's wearing on the
nerves, and don't prove anything.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Stand for your party for party's
sake, if you will; but stand for
the Amendment for the sake of
Home and children.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

An open field, free discussion
and fair vote-This is the way
to carry on politics in free count
nv
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE.-Let every friend
INTO whose hands a Sample Copy Of the FREE-
NAN comes, take its coming as an urgent re-
oxest to subscribe.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

The Democratic State Convention
meets in Huntington, tomorrow.
We shall watch with anxiety for
some recognition of the great inter
ests involved in this campaign.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Gen. Phil. Sheridan was laid
to rest with the other heroes in Ar
lington Cemetery, with civic and
military honors, on Saturday last.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

There's q water-spout coming
can you swim?
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15

Get off the fence! If you are
for the Home in this conflict. say
so, and have done with your, if-it-
so and so, I'll vote for the Amend
ment.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-08-15


Our first page is rich in stirring
letters from the field.
Amendment Rallies are the order
of the day all over the State.
Send In the Clubs for Cam
paign Freeman; % Cents 3
Months.
Letters of acceptance in full,
next FREEMAN-Sorry for the de.
lay, but they'll keep.
Mrs. Hoffman, by her tour through
the State, pushed the Prohibition
columns a league forward.
1t doesn't pay to get excited
over politics. It's wearing on the
nerves, and don't prove anything.
The Parkersburg Baptist Asso-
citation meets at Bethel, 4 miles
from Parkersburg, to-day.
An open field, free discussion
and fair vote-This is the way
to carry on politics in free count
ry.
Prohibition Headquarters 60 to
New York, where the "cranks"
can "hitch on" to the very hub of
politics.
To-day is Temperance Day at
Coolville Camp Meeting, with Rev.
Geo. E. Hite, as one of the leading
speakers.
If either of the old parties in
West Virginia are opposed to the
Saloon, surely now's the time tor
it to be known.
Stand for your party for party's
sake, if you will; but stand for
the Amendment for the sake of
Home and children.
The Inteltiqsmcer and Register both
gave fair and full reports of Mrs.
Hoffman's Wheeling address. Yer.
lily there's yet hope for the country.
Gen. Phil. Sheridan was laid
to rest with the other heroes in Ar
lington Cemetery, with civic and
military honors, on Saturday last.
Get off the fencel If you are
for the Home in this conflict. say
80, and have done with your, if-it-
so and so, Pll vote for the Amend.
ment.
The Democratic State Convention
meets in Huntington, tomorrow.
We shall watch with anxiety for
some recognition of the great inter
ests involved in this campaign.
The Free Press says the Prohibi-
ton ticket is made up of "obscure
men," Never mind, Brother
they'll be heard from in the CLASH
and clamor of the next three
months.
Keep Cool, friends, and save
your strength. There'll be lots Of
good fighting after this campaigns
over, and it won't do to wear your
selves out with worry in this single
battle.
A prominent citizen of Parkers
burg said the other day, 81 belong
to the Republican party, and will
vote against the Amendment, be-
cause the Third party put a ticket
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An old Brown
hllgo r,sy.f.,,,s. TQay.vffv,
May trouble you more than ever,
When your We nailed his coffin down,

y ~
Truly John Brown was q Nemesis in song,
that spoke in tones of thunder, whose echoes
were hanging in tremulous accents around the
affairs Of justice, until Steadman's prophecy
was fulfilled.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic " is one
Of the most elevated songs of the Nation. Mrs.
Howe, in the August Century, 1887, gives an ac-
count OF the circumstances attending the origin
Of the song. 1t was during visit to Washing
ton in 1861, while returning from witnessing a
review Of some Of the troops at the front, that
some friends with Mrs Howe, in passing the
soldiers sang some of the war songs to please
them; among others was " John Browns body
lies moldcring in the ground" She says while
singing this she was inspired to write the
Battle Hymn" The next morning she arose
before it was light and completed the lines
Soon after it was published in the atlantic
Monthly. Mrs. Howe says we were all too much
absorbed in watching the progress of the war
to give much heed to the song.
. / think it may have. been year later that
my lines, in some shape, found their way into q
Southern prison in which number Of our sol
diers were confined. An Army Chaplain who
had been confined with those soldiers came to
Washington soon after his release, and in q
speech or lecture described the singing of the
song by his comrades"
The incident to which Mrs Howe refers rs
giving notoriety to the song is worthy of notice
here, for the person who led the singing in that
prison was none other than our own Chaplain
Z. &. McCabe, whom most of you have heard
sing IN this very room and church. The place
was the old Libby Prison at Richmond, Va.
the time, the 9th day of July 1863. During
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4 Renaissance of the salkahatchie.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: l have heard
a great deal Of talk about the fight at Salka-
hatchie, but have something to tell that most
of the brigade or division did not know. Our
company was detailed as wagon guards of the
ordnance train at Beauford-the First Di-
vision, Seventeenth Corps. A night or two be-
fore the fight Gen. Joseph Mower, our division
commander came to our Captain and asked
him to have his company take the mules Of the
ordnance wagons and report at his headquar-
ters at dark. In half an hour after VIC report
ed our General, his staff body guard and our
company about 40 men stroug), mounted On
the mules, started out in the dark for Salka-
hatchie. After riding for some two hours and
q half we came to the swamp. The Generals
orders were not to speak a word as We waded
through the water, and pretty soon we got to
an island where we found ourselves only about
go yards from the rebel camp on the
opposite side Of the river. We dismOunt-
ed and waited there about half an
hour, while Gen. Mower was scouting around
and taking observations Then we mounted
our mules and followed him ont the same way
that we went in, and got back to camp little
before daybreak the next morning. GA
BILE, Co. X, 35th n J. (ZouavesJ, Middletown,
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Special Notice.

A comrade Of John Wood Post, No. 96 of Hi
nois, asks the assistance of all comrades in his
efforts to flnd his son, VIM. Cochran Graham,
who left his home in Quincy, III. Sept. 20 last
was advertised in this paper; is still missing.
As a second advertisement, 1 will give a more
full description. He was II on Dec. 2; light
brown hair, blueish- gray eyes, fair complexion;
has two moles above his ear, only showing
when hair is cut short; one mole below the
small of his back can answer many questions
in childs catechism of Presbyterian Church
writes fairly; can use small printing-press is
fond of walking; a good bicycle rider
cuts and gilds ornaments from wood, such as
keys, hatchets and fans; is accustomed to
horses and cows; was opposed to going to
school. lie sacked flour in mill clerked in
grocery store sold papers for news-stauds, al
ways giving satisfaction anxious to make
money; was born and lived at Shelbina, No.
on Hannibal & st. Joe Railroad has lived in
Quincy three years. Address. r. GRAHAM
179 N. Eighth St., Quincy, I'll.
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He Knows Who Recsgtured De Gress's Battery.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: As 4 reader Of
your valuable paper, allow me TO state that
was q member Of De Grcss's battery froIl the
9TH of July 1863, 10 the Goth of September,
1864, when / was discharged near Atlanta.
went into the battery from Co. A, 47th Ohio
the day that Vicksburg surrendered
/ am amused when reading the different ac-
counts by comrades claiming that it was their
brigades that bad the honor OF recartariug our
battery at Atlanta on the 22d of July, 1864.
The comrades are right. The three Dsig4des,
no doubt, did it but the brigade that was on
the right Of the line that drove the rebels back
and retook our line Of works was a brigade
from the Sixteenth Corps and the regiment on
the right Of the brigade was the G6th III. They
were armed with Henry rites, if my memory
is right. The position that our battery held
on that day was on the right Of the Second Bril-
gade, Second Division, Fifteenth CoIGs to the
right of the railroad near tle end OF the breast
works, and on our right was q marsh, and q
creek Ia our rear and away to our right and
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dent begins his SD year in excellent health
and spirits There was g report current that
an insurance company had refused to accept a
policy on his life; but this is untrue. lie is
already pretty well insured, aud if his physical
condition were really not what it is claimed to
be, still most insurance companies would strain
point TO accept him for the sake of the adyer-
tlsement it would give them.
PROSPECTS OF THE TARIFF BILL.
Representative W l. Scott, of Pennsylvania,
who Is one Of the Mills wing Of the Ways and
Means committee, says that the intention IS 10
pass the bill as early IN May as possible, but
that the Republicans will try to postpone de-
cislye action upon it until after the meeting OF
the Democratic Convention, June ..
MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HONOR OF WILHELM I.
Services in honor of the late Emperor of
Germany weTeSheid at the Lutheran Church
IN this city Friday evening. The interior OF
the cdItice was heavily dTaped with black, and
around the pulpit were great banks of white
flowers. The President attended, accompanied
by Secretaries BayaTd, Fairchild, Whitney and
Villas and Postmaster General Dickinson. The
Diplomatic Corps was also present.
PENSION OFFICE NOTES.
The Commissioner OF Pensions has been ad-
vised that James Cooley, Of York, O., was ar
rested on the I3gh inst. on a charge Of falsely
peTsonating a Government officer and has been
taken to Columbus, O. Hearing before U. 5.
Commissioner was set for the I4th inst.
ACCIDENT TO A VETERAN.
The many friends of Comrade Marcus J.
Foote, who served on the staff of Gen. Daniel
Z. Sickles during the war, viii regret to learn
Of his accident by a fall whereby ne broke
some Of the lesser bones of both arms, on Sun
day evening. Comrade Foote lost q leg during
the war, and this rendered him unable to pro-
tect himself
VETERANS IN THE CITY.
Gov. z. G. Ross, of New Mexico. The Gov
ernor was a member of Col. Tom Moonlight's
regiment, the 11th Kan. Cav. Col Moonlight
Is now Governor Of Wyoming.
G. NJ. HOitou, 9TH Mich Cav, Yakima, Wash.
Ter Comrade Holton is the proprietor Of the
Republic Of Yakima.
George Z. Ginty, Chippewa Falls, Wis Com
Tade Giuty served in the 39th and 47th Wis,
and is now a member of the GAR. Council of
Administration. He is the publisher Of an in
teres-ing paper in his town called the Herald.
NJ. p. Douglas. CanuOnsburg, Pa. Comrade
Douglas served through the war in the 9th
Pa; was taken prisoner under Milroy at Win
chester in 1863 and held captive several months.
He Is now a prosperous farmer.
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rear was hill with two or three batteries in
position.
Now, when our men drove the rebels back it
brought the Goth up to our battery. One of
my comrades, Frank Whistler, and myself were
the first two men belonging to the battery that
got to the guns after they were taken back, and
we got some of the boys Of the Goth to give us
hand to work No gun, and | think it was the
second round that we fired when she burst. !
was watching the effects of our shot in the
woods in our front, where the rebels were try
ing to reform their lines, and was standing
close TO the gun when it exploded. I thought
my head was blown of, and l have been deaf
ever since to q great extent.-JAAEs CLARK,
Chatham Cut, Canada.