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More About Go. Is Flag.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In looking
over The NATIoNAL TRIBUNE for Sept. 3. tho
paragraph - What about the hag2" attracted
my attention. aud. rs you request. will say for
the information of Comrade John ID. Adams. Of
Wclleet, NCb, that the statement going the
rounds that Mr.. John i. Chavilecr, Of Valley
Precinct, Neh., is the posscssor Of the old battle
flag Of Co. G, 10th n. ", j. an error. Co. had
a guidon but no flag. Every regiment had
color company, aud 10 il alone was intrusted
the flags Of the regiment. When the time Of
the 10Th n. Y. expired, in front Of Petersburg.
was in command of the color company I F.,
and the hattle-ilag was brought on to New York
by me, where We were mustered out. and ID Is
now in possession of Gen Thomas Holt who
commanded the 10Th on so many battlclelds of
the Army Of the Potomac, aud who resides in
Waterbury, Conn. / cannot understand how
so palpablc a misstatcmcut could 30 the rounds
Of the press without the originator coming 20
grief M a very carly date; but as my regiment
was from New ork, aud probably very few, if
any, of my old comrades driftcd out West, the
story might still be travelling, were il not for
your paper which reaches the comrades in all
sections, and thus came 10 mc with this fairy
ialc.-JuHN y. CoYNE Lieutenant Colonel, L.
= Vols, Secretary Excelsior Brigade Associa-
ton, Hampton Court, Jersey City, n. J.
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me as a military man from so friendly critic
as Gen. Kearny."
Gen. Johnston appeared 10 be in a rcmiuis-
cent mood aud related several anecdotes Of
Phil" only one Of which / now recall with
sufficient distnCtncss 10 relate.
" At one time" he said, when Phil and
were both LieutenantS on STAFF duty here in
Washington, he said 10 me one day, Joe,
want you 10 carry a challenge for me 10 Col.
Harvey. What for Philip i am told that
Harvey never speaks Of the lst Dragons ex-
ccpt as the lying lst and as am the only Off
Ger Of the LIST ia Washington, il is my duty 10
call him out Phil, where did you get your
information From Lieut.. - Did he
put IL in writing?' No Well, you &c; Il
IN writing and will carry your Challenge
The Generals eyes fairly twinkled as he
said. do You know that was the end OF it2"-
JUDsON KNIGHT, Washington d. Z.
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FLAG OF CO. c, 10th N. Y.
Comrades who Ought 10 Know Say there was No
SucE Flag.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: see Comrade
John ID. Adams Wcllfleet, Neb., wants TO know
about the 10th \. Y hattie flag. don't know
anything about Go. Cs Gag, and never knew
they had one But tho flag presented 20 the
10Th n. Y. at New Nork City is mine by vote
OF tho officers of the regiment. aud is in q frame
aud hangs in my paror. and prize it more
than any other article in the room.
Comrade Ransom Gaylord. Co. +, 10Th \. Y,
who lost an arm at Gettysburg. says he don't
remember amy company flag that was carried
through many battles; but that Co. L hal one
put on a pole in camp, which soon whipped
out.
j received my commission as Lieutenant
Colonel Dec. ], 1862. and was promoted TO
Colonel OF 74th ~ Y. 18th EXCELSIOR, and COM
manded that regiment at the battle of Gettys-
burg. Would like TO hear from some of the
boys from Pawpaw, Mich.-THoMAs Holt,
Brcpct Brigadier General, Waterbury, Conn.
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Maine Ink.
IJetriEE VsKgsIlgFr-

Send me up a cocktail" said the guest at
Maine hotel.
Can't do it, sir; but I'll get you some ink, ("
said the boy.
don't want any ink"
Say, l guess you never tried our ink, did
your"
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Weak, Nervous Men.

Send NJ once for full directions (scaled) FREE Of
Iummph Sense Home Treatment, will yely cue an
tie effects Of impotence, etc lie only eur. knoan
i0r Nnrtcoceie, Aew AID certain method no electric
nonsense, nO stomach druEginR Addrrss A.
hl0A fhAGzAGf 70, Albion. Michigan.
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Short Breath, pAlpitation, pain In chest
weak or faint spells, smotheTing cured by Dr.
Miles New Heart Care. Sold at druggists Free
Treatise by mail. MILEs MED. Co.. ELKnART. IsD.
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Agents Wanted, Comrades Preferred,
to give exhibitions with
A Powerful Magic Lantern or Stereopticons
or with a Museum Exhibition Case.

Any coaae exhibit with these outfits because consist
OF photographed by the L. s. Government
the great Civil War therefore the exhibition these
that all comrades viii understand We furnish lecture printed
scrlrtton OF each We do not furnish capital
required with For information our office and see
the outfits or send address for catalogue prices TERMS
The War Photograph Exhibition Company,
PLACE. IItarroRD CONN.,
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pply for 4 Duplicate.
Left Out the 10th Ind.

George C. Allen, Co. G, I29th H.. Burt, Iowa,
says that Comrade David Hanna, Of Canyon City,
Colo, is correct as % the brigade which led the
advance around 10 the rebels lisht 1t Averys-
boro, ". C., but he left out the 10Th Ind, Presi-
dent Iiarrison's old regiment, which was a part
of the First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth
Corps, az that time.
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Scattering.


Geo. w. Lodge, Stanton. Ala. having noticed
the name Of Henry Fisher published in the col
umns Os our paper as a fraud says that he is well
acquainted with Fisher, as he has lived in
Alabama since the war. He claims 70 have
been member of tho 10Th Pa. and he got a
certificate of discharge through a pension
agent in Washington by the name Of BicllmOre.
Fisher applied for pension for q rupture. lie
received blank which was TO be signed by
two comrades, aud not knowing where to find
the comrades he got two unknown white men
10 sign tho papers. Fisher afterwards swOre
that two negroes signed the papers, and he tried
10 place the blame upon his comrades. aud then
skipped for parts unknown. lie was glad to
hear from him, and he wishes whenever any
cOmTade hears of his whereabouts that they in
form him at once, which may possibly save innO-
cent people from suffering for his attempted
fraud. Fisher left Stanton about the 10Th of
May, and his family left the same place be-
tween two days about the Goth of August.
About Gen. Farn>Worth.
+. f. Adams, Go. G, 2d VT, New Orleans, La.
says there is much better evidence than hear
say testimony of an ex-rebel soldier to the con-
tTaTy, 70 establish the fact that Gen. Farms
worth did not kill himself. The LIST VT Cav.
was in FarnswOTth's Brigade, and Dr. Edison, of
that regiment who assisted in recovering his
body July >, from the spot where he fell. says:
when found the body was stripped TO flannel
drawers and shirt and stockings. There were
five bullet wounds upon the body-four in the
chest and abdomen and one high up in the
thigh; he had no wound or injury Of any soEt
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hLNINt
None at all" he answered.
"And you would have no objection 10 your
name being mentioned as the one who yuuches
Tor the truth Of the staicmgnt2"
" None al all My name is g. Boyd Barrett.
j live at Aberdeen, $. ID. when / Gr,t went
there ] WAS The only Confederate soldier i'm
that district Your boys abiding 10 tie
GAR, always invite me % their meetings.
sometimes i make "a speech, and wc get along
lrt-rato bought the Aberdeen Republican,,
aud while j did not change the name of tic
paper, did its politics. There arc quite a
number q eH-tonicdcrate soldiers there now,
and we all live ia harmony"
Two years ago ] wanted the address Of a
relative of Gen. Joseph h. Johnston aud called
az his office 10 pet il. lie very cheerfully gave
b., and seeing the GA II. button on my coat
said, I" see you have been soldier" aud asked
what service ] saw. Upon telling him was
with Phil koauy in the earlier days OF the
war Ie became much interested and asked me
20 90 down. DE told mc that many years ago
he knew kcaruy intimately. After quite a
long conversation, / said:
General, ] heard kcauy make a remark
about two mon in the Fall Of 1861 which
I never forgot. hUu were one 81 the men hc
mentioned and The other was on our side.
watched bis career and yours. ms far as I could
I from newspaper accounts, aud have made ut
my mind that KoarDy knew what he was talk.
] iug about"
All what was thatY"
iald new Army Register before him in
4 1851 aud as hD looked down tile list u Bripa.
4 diers, he came 20 one aud said Humph, put
me under him. lie Will not fight unless be ],
] Obliged to- lie was saying that moro 10 him.
! self than me. j don't believe he thought
heard him. On another occasion heard him
cay Joe Johnston is the best military man IN
/ America"
could sec Gen. Johnston felt gratiGed, as d,
turned with smile saying as he did 30;
am glad You received your impressions O
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-04-29
Beyond the Barrier. :

If the soul of man exists at all after
death, its future companions may wen
be recognized at once, even as il de-
parts from tic body. Perchancc our
very first dawning sense of That en-
| franchised existence may bc the rap
ture of reunion with the beloved ones
whom we have mourned as lost. but
who have been standing about our dy-
ing bed, waiting longingly for our re-
cognition.
There are some, alas ITO whom It
must be very dreadful to think of thus
meeting on the threshold of eternity
tho wronged, the deceived, the torsnk-
en-. But tor most of us, God be thank
ell, no drcam of celestial glory has half
tho ecstacy OF the thought that i'm dy-
ing we may meet mt once, before we
have had moment to feel the awful
Loneliness of death, The parent, wife,
husband, child, friend, whom we con-
signed long ago with breaking hearts
to the ! rave. Their beautiful forms
entering our chamber, standing beside
our bed of death, aud come to rcjoin
us forcycr-whal words can tell Tho
happiness of such vision2 1T may
bc awaiting Us all. There Is even a
probability that 1t is the natural des-
tiny OF the human soul, and that she
affections. which alone of earthly
things can survive dissolution, win,
like magnets, draw the beloved aud
loving spirits of the dead around tho
dying. ! soc no reason why we should
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-04-29

/ One of the matters about which 1t
is very, hard to get at the truth, ID the
effect of prohibitory laws on the con-
sumption intoxicating drinks. On
both sides, as a rule, the discussion is
carried on by violent partisans who
distort or conceal facts to suit their
own views. On the one hand we are
told that in Maine and Iowa and
Kansas, prohibition is virtually in
Operative; that drinking is almost
is common there as elsewhere, the
chief difference being that it is now
done secretlym On the other hand
temperance leaders are equally en-
phatic in proclaiming the success Of
this repressiye legislation, and they
point 1tof these identical states as
proving the wisdom of the prohib-
ltory system. ',se ie
However this may be, one natur-
ally expects to find that the efforts Of
the prohibitionists have had some
appreciabIe influence on the habits
Of the people at large. For years
I,past not only has the liquor traffic
been entirely forbidden in several
sfatesyi but it has been much ham,
pered in many other states, in
which various counties have adopted
the prohibitory policy. Moreover,
throughout the whole Union very
jealous warfare has been urged in
behalf Of total abstinence. Temper
ance lecturers aud temperance jour
nails have warned the public against
the evils Of drink, and countless or
ganizations have been formed TO aid
in the work. In short, the whole
subject has been zealously and per-
sistently kept before the public.
II is surprising therefore to learn
that the consumption Of liquor in
the United States is not only not di-
minishing, brt that it is increasing at
a rapid rate, far outstripping the
growth of the population. This ap-
pears from the following table, pub
lished in the American Grocer, which
shows the average consumption per
canifa in the yca 4 nar1qd .1ff 5FsH
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Inthc following, ,theGrcnada Sentinel
takes Bro. Burkit TO task in away that
is gratifying to all the rest ofthe news
paper meu in the state. Tn Burkitt's
TRADE he has said many silly things
ancnt the subsidized press" as he is
pleased 10 refer TO all ofns who do not
adopt every ridiculous measure
that comes up in the Alliance lilo
should now either "show up" or get
ashamed of himself and "let upv:
@IIon. Frank Durkitt, the expert
cnccd farmer with hands as tough as
COW horus,' IN his paper, the Chicka-
saw Messenger, takes occasion to fire in
to every paper which does not agree
with him on the sub-trcasnry,-
that sthe littlo weekly (wcakly) news
papers,, which are owned by the local
politicians arc almost without exccp-
ton fighting tho Alliance. In the
name OF all the gods ut once, who Is
this hard-fistcd, numbering Joge of the
plow handles, who burls bis bolts of
wrath indiscrimiuately upon men in
the same business, editing papers every
one of which is at least equal to his So
cially, morally, and perhaps intelectu-
ally? While mounted upon his Olympic
an heights he disposes of them as 'thc
friends OF the money power tools of
the ring, etc. Upon what money
power arc these little 'weaklys' depcn-
dent for support, that is not in har-
inony with the interests Of the people
Whore is the ring of which they arc
the plant tools, upon which this mighty
leader of hnsbandry frowns SO fierce
ly? How deep has he delved in tho
abstract principles Of vegetable chem-
istry which lays open to the mind Of
the intelligent farmer, tho principles
upon which his business rcsts2-Co-
gifith Herald.
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When the grass shall cover me, s-f
Head 10 foot where am lying;
When not any wind that blows,
Summer blooms nor winter SHOWS,
Shall awake me to your signing;
Close above me as you pass,
You will say 1sHow kind she was"
You win say ssHow true she was"
When the grass grows over me-
When The grass rllali cover me,
Holden close to eartll's warm bosom;
While laugh or weep or sing
Nevermore, for anything;
You viii find in blade and blossom,
Sweet, small voices, odorous,
Tender pleaders In my cause,
That via speak me as VAS
When the grassigrows over me.
When the grass shall cover me-
All, beloved IL my sorrow
Very patient can wait
Knowing that, or soon or late,
There will dawn a clearer morrow;
When your heart viii lmoan. "Alasl
Now know how true she was; asa
Nov know how dear she was"
When the grass grows over me.
-Boston Transcript
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The rapid exhaustion Of the for
ests of the United States under the
present reckless and wanton destruc-
tion of timber will soon create a
large demand for timbered lands.
There is already enough cleared
land in this state to support hand
somely population FIVE times as
great as the present, and there Is no
necessity for clearing off more
when the timber alone is worth
more than all the crops Chat can be
grown upon the land before tits ex-
hausted. The southern people are
just beginning to realize the value
of their remaining timber, and
should make every effort TO preserve.
the same for the benefit oil their
children.-AlabdDsa Lirror.
Here in Claiborne county the rem
nant OF our forests is rapidly disap-
pearing before the woodman's axe.
There are thousands upon thous-
ands ofacres that have been cleared,
worn out and abandoned and il is
sad to see the process steadily going
ON. Most of the land in this coun-
ty that remains in timber is very
broken but under our system these
hills are being cleared off in order
to get a little 'new ground" the
tenant calculating upon gathering
from six to twelve crops before the
rich surface-mould is washed off
and the land given over to gulIies.
A more reckless and ruinous system
exists in noscountry under the sun.
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In all the long catalogue Of crimes.
one of the .most fiendish is train
wrecking, showing asit does a miir-
derousnoss that istrulyinfern An
ordinary assassin is satisfied with kill
ing one or two men against whom he
has grievance, but the train-wreck-
er does his work careless whether he
destroys one life or a hundred. Re
cent dispatches report a deed Of this
kind at Springyille, Alabama, where
by a passenger train was thrown from
the track at midnight and two en-
ployees killed, the passengers for
t1nately escaping unburt. The lw
ought to provide special penalties for
this most devihsh Of crimes. af trr
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-04-29

o stream descending TO the sea,
Thy mossy banks between,
The aow'rets blow, the grasses grow,
Thy leafy trees are green.
In garden plats the children play.
The fields the labourers till.
And'houses stand on either hand,
And thou descendest still
o life descending into death,
Our waking eyes behold,
Parent and friond thy lapse attend,
Companions young and old.
Strong purposes our minds possess,
Our hearts affections flli
We toll and earn, we seek and learn,
And thon descendest still.
o end TO which our currents tend, 3.
o Inevitable sea, W i Hf
To which we eow, what do we know,
What shall we guess Of thee
A roar we hear upon shy Shore
AS we our course fnlfll;
Scarce we divine a sun viii shine,
And be above us still.
--ArthHg II. clot,gh.
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~
Nobody ever accused senatorGeo
of being handsome. but he has very
superior quality OF brains packed in
his skull, as was made evident last
"Wednesday by his great speech at
Durant. He showed how foolishit
is to attribute the present financial
distress chiefly to an alleged insult
cheney in the volume Of our currency.
This is q favorite theory Of the advo-
Gates OF unlimited coinage Of silver.
Accordinglto Mr.. George, in 1850,
when the whole country was highly
prosperous, the circulation was only
sl4 per capita while now, with $24
per CAPITA, widespread financial de-
preston prevails. i0veftaxation, said
ihesenaiof, is the trouble, and not
a contracted currency; and relief
must be sought, not in imitation, but
in reducing taxes. He also paid his
respects to thelsub-treasury bin, at
ticking it as foolish, monst1odsly I'M
coast,tlsiionalj and Taught with des-
olation aud i1in. at the close Of
his speech ihe meeting, which in
cluded many fesmers and alliance
men, unanimously endorsed his posi-,
.fion and Recommended his reelection
to the senate. And Mississippi is
going 10 send him, b&ckdhcfe. 1ie
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-04-29
Concerning the BRIDGE.

Editors OF the Revcille.:
II is subject of great rejoicing in
DIST. No. 2, especially in the south hall
of il, that we are to have another King
Iron bridge between the Mississippi
river and Port Gibson. We have only
two in the district now, but three 81
even four would be no Inconvenience
whatever. The present. King Iron
bridge is as near the center of the dis
trici MS 1t could be located, but one be-
tween That aud tho Grind Stcne ford
one below the r. n. bridge and another
between that and the mouth of Bayou
Pierre, would give easy access to the
county seat for every plantation in the
district.
The plan of locating one Of the
bridges just below the r. II. bridge is
capital idea, for the R. r.. Go. in pro-
tecting its own property would ncces-
sarily protect the county's property.
1T is true, there is a deep swamp just
below the r.. r. bridge, but that diff
Guilty could easily be overcome by a
tlcstle bridge fifteen or twenty feet
high, and II need not be more than a
mile long.
Another good suggestion would be
to utilize the grade of the old z. G. a.
G. G. r. R. between The Mississippi
aud Bayou Pierre as a dirt road. This
could be done by building three bridg-
es in place Of The trestlcs used by the
r. r. which have rottcd down. The
grade itself could be easily repaired in
TO a good dirt road. The advantages
would be a great lcssening of the dis
tance between the Mississippi river
and Bayou Pierre, the avoidance of
those terrible hills, and would make
ono of the best roads III the county, TO
which We could point with the great
est pride as evidence of our public
spirit and rapid strides in internal inn
proyements. The expense would be a
nero bagatellc; in view of the early
establishment the sub-treasury ware
houses, when money viii become as
plentiful as blackberries, and The bur-
den would not be felt by The tax
payers.
Thore is an objection to tho removal
of the King Iron bridge already built,
to say nothing of its impracticability.
This looks too much Ike stop back
ward. Itis always better to build up,
than to pull down. This is one Of the
public improvements we can point to
with pride and 1t would be piece Of
yandalism'to tear 1t down. Besides
all this, tho people In the middle and
upper parts Of the district aro entitled
to some considerations. There certain
Iy would be somo kicking If ii was
torn down.
The caissons arc the most expensive
part of tho bridge, and are 40 firmly
fixed that King George and all his OK
en- could not pull them up. Tho build
ers SAID they had gone down TO solid
rock and tho caissons filed with con-
crete wcfe there 10 stay. IT II to he
l<<x..nI tha hnus4T nj ut4pnwvseoro viii
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-04-29

Recentlyat Sunbury, Pa, general
GgWs Stroh was convicted Of swear
ing twepty-seyen times, the curses
having been counted by one Barthol-
omew, aPersonal enemy Of the gem
eral. Mr. Stroth was sentenced to
pay fine at the rate Of 60 cents per
oath. This is a remarkably low tax
on such'a privilege, butif even that
rate were enforced here, Port Gibson
could, in the course Of few months,
fill her treasury to bursting. Then
we could have water-w6rks and elect
ric lights and other luxnries for
which a few Of our citizens so wildly
thirst. gtimit asf
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Bro. Chas. A. Dana, Of the New
York Sun, who has been travelling
in the south, has given to the world
some Of bis valuable opinions abont
this section. He says that on scare
fully turning his attention TO the
negroes" he discovered s;most i'm
plessiFe fact,7 to-wit, "tho gehe.ai
Disappearance of The mulaitoes. +"
Now, The question il, why did the
lnulaitoes thus disappear al toe APP
proach of Mr. Dana? Surely they
could not have been frjgh.enel ~
such chefubic-loukipg old gem le-
man.. There is an unso we'd mystery
about this conduct Of The mulalioes.
The Sam philosopher continues:
"They are sill 10 be found, Of
course, but in numbers greatly di-
minisbed The mass Of The black
population. are no longer a mixed
race. They are now 10 all appear
ance pare nezgoes.' i stt
Reading this, one is constrained to
ask, does Bro. Dapa know o s'pnre
negro" when he sees ,one? Or, pos
sibly,lthe venerable PHILOSOPHER irav-
eled through the south without his
spectacIes. a
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-04-29

John Stephenson, who built The FIRST
American horse car, il more that eighty
years old, but still vigorous and ener-
eetic. His mind Is yet busy with in
ventions, and he can accomplish as
much work in day as man many
years his junior
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-04-29

A singular and unexpected result
has attended religious revival in an
Indiana town. 1t appears that the
converts are paying off their debts,
whether recent or out of date. That
sort Of a revival is worth something,
and the pity is that it is Of such
rare occurrence. !. q .l-L.-
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Abiding to thepictures of"Soutl.
ern Beauties" in the Times Demo
cyat, the Brandon Repablican says !:
eff the portraits published are
correct likepesses of southern beau
ties, then beauty is a rare commo-
dity in the SOUTH. But the exceed
ingly bad taste in which many OF
the sketches arc gotten up is even
worse than the pictures.