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GEN. McDOWELL'S HAT.
It's Appearance on the Field was u Signal
for Disaster.

Tor Disaster.
IT is amusing to read the articles that
have appeared from time to time in The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE, in reference to
Gen. McDowells hat That Gen. Nc
DowelI wore hat, and that the hat he wore
differed in every essential from the head gear
worn by all other officers of the First Corps,
no one who served in that organization will
gainsay. As the existence OF that peculiar
hat is not denied, it remains for US to deal
only with what was considered by many an
insignia of disloyalty.
Every comrade engaged in that series of
battles which eliminated in disaster TO our
arms on the plains of Manassas in August,
1862, remembers Gen. McDoweii's hat. 1t
fitted here and there along the Rappahannock,
from Keliy's Ford TO Waterloo Bridge, while
the hostile armies were wrestling in mortal
combat for the fords of that river. Whenever
it appeared on our front, it was signal to the
enemy TO cease firing and reserve their ammu-
milton until more opportune moment, when
our troops could be hurled against masked
batteries and rebel infantry in impregnable
positions; when, if victory hung in the bal
ance, the old Hat" was sure TO be thrown in
against us.
But it sometimes happened that the Hat"
in providing around to the rear in search of
the Commanding General, became too far re-
moved from the scene of action to be of sery-
ice TO the enemy. Such an instance occurred
near Groveton. Aug 90, 1862, when Stonewal
Jackson attacked Gibbons Brigade Gibbons
four regiments aud two regiments OF Double
days Brigade made it SO hot for old Stonewall
that, in the aon-appearance of the HAT" he
was compelled to declare the battle off until
next morning. In his official report Jackson
vindicates his conduct on this occasion and
aliays all suspicion regarding the absence of
the Hat" by reporting himself as greatly
outrumbered; although he had % regiments
in line
OF course it ia not to be supposed that the
Hat" remained inactive within sound of the
conflict. On the contrary, it attempted to
reach the scene of battle, but owing chiefly
TO the darkness of the night and the uneer.
tainty of the roads, it awOke next morning
near the Stone House. to find Gen. Mcdowell
at hand. Whether the Hat" got lost the
night before in its efforts to reach the field of
battle, or whether Gen. Mcdowell misled the
Hat" and both became lost, will always re-.
main a mystery for the reports of the military
tribunal that investigated his conduct in this
campaign sheds no light on the subject.
When Gen. Mcdowell awoke, he found him.
self alone-saye the Hat" or the IS regi-
ments composing his corps, not one was in
sight. His first reflection on awakening was ::
eff / am Gen. Mcdowell, ] have lost nv
corps; if ! am not Gen. Mcdowell, l have
found his :" Hat" But a second thought revealed
the facts He was lost. Selling his Hat" he
started 10 pursuit Of his troops and arrived at
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-01
GEN. MANSFIELD'S DEATH.
Another Comrade SAYS lie WAS Shot in Front
OF the 10Th Ne.

Another Comrade Saws lie was Shot ia Front
OF the 10th Ne.
HAVE been a subscriber to your paper for
nearly ID years, and never have seen
l. anything that go completely took away
my breath, aud nearly paralyzed me- like
the article in your issue Of Nov. 8, by Lieut..
Duncgan of the 125th Pa, in regard to the
death of Gen. Mansfield; and If Mai. Gould
isn't more than paralyzed by that statement,
then lie must be man of nerve. What is the
matter with Comrade DUNCAN, anyway? Or,
rather, what was the matter with him on the
18th OF September. 1862? Could he by any
possible means have got in front of tie 10th
Me. that morning at hntietam? If not he
didn't see Gen. Mansfield when he was shot
On this question of where Gen. Mansfield
was shot ST Antietam i have never seen any
thing written by the comrades in trying to
straightcn out some Of the questions Of the war
that was so far from the mark and at the same
time SO positive as to what he says as Comrade
Dunegan's, and therefore ask the privilege of
having a little space In the columns of your
paper 10 air my knowledge Of the circumstance
Of Gen. Mansfeld's death.
II has always been a mystery TO me how any
comrade III battle could see any other part OF
the field than that right i'm his front | was i'm
quite q number Of hard fights during the war,
and don't claim 10 know anything about what
any other comrade saw. or what place or posi-
tlou, OF what part any other regiment took in
any engagement, bat my own. Now, the l2Jth
Pa. may have been part of our fCrawford's 81
brigade al Antietam; but il it was, did not
know IT. The makeup of Crswford's Brigade
consisted, all through the Summer Of 1862. of
the 10th Pa, 5th Conn, 2Sth n. Y, and 10th
Me, and the brigade was so reduced by that
campaign AS not to number more than a full
regiment all told at Antietam. The 25th n. Y.
only had, If l remember right, so men in line
1T that time. So our line was not so long in
front Of our brigade but what We could see
what was right in our front.
was private in Co. ID, 10th Me, and at the
battle OF Antietam was present in the ranks.
and had taken no commissary that morning,
and therefore could see straight: and when we
advanced from the field fwhere we bad been
under CALLING FIRE without much show to re.
taliate) into the woods Gen. Mansfield was right
in front Of Co. d of my regiment and was NOR
tally wounded just after entering the woods,
and while on horseback. He was not over q
rod from me when he wheeled his horse, which
think was also wounded and tried to get him
back over the wall then he reeied in his sad
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Vegetable Diet.
IGIobe- Democrat

Vegetarian dishes have been introduced into
the dietary of English troops at Aldershot,
with satisfactory results. DR.. Forbes, of Edin-
burg, who has instituted some experiments
with view of testing the relative hight
weight and strength of 800 students, aged
about % years, has found the more carniyorous
Engishman to be surpassed in hight, weight
and strength by the frugal, and so far as eat
ables are concerned abstemious Scotehman, who
again was surpassed by the smply-fed Irish
man. 1t has also been proved that both
laboring population and soldiers in hospital
thrive in proportion to the cheapness of their
foO6
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The Laughing Plant OF Arabia.

PaIgraye in his great work on Central and
Eastern Arabia, mentions curious plant of
that country, the seeds of which produce effects
analogous to those of laughing gas. The seeds
grow in pods, three in each pod, are perfectly
black in color. and about the size of a common
soup bean. If pulverized and taken in small
doses, these seeds havea most remarkable effect.
The person to whom the dose has been admin
istered soon begins to laugh very boisterously,
and to sing and dance in q truly idotic fashion
He soon falls asleep. and when he awakens
remembers nothing of the demonstration made
while under the influence of the singular
drup r.. ~
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THE SECOND CORPS.
Another Comrade Wishes TO Know where
They were Knocked Out.


NOTICE in your issue Of Nov. Comrade
Barr. Of the 14Sth Pa, replies to J. w.
= hul of Alexandria County, Va. Barr is
correct in standing up for the old Second
Corrs. No one regretted more than / Gen.
Hancock leaving the corps in front of Peters
burg; bat the statement Of Hull that the Sec
ond Corps WAS knocked out after Gen. Ham
cocks departure 10 the Hancock Corps is q mis-.
take. lie cannot show Oh the pages of history
one single instance where the Second Corps
ever lost one foot Of ground after Mai. Sen.
Humphreys took command at the Jones
House on The Jerusalem plank road.
in recent visit to the old lines found those
IN front Of Fort Hell established by the Second
Corps 10 be nearest the Confederate lines be.
tween the Appopattox and the Jerusalem
plank road, when Gen. Humphreys was or
dered 10 the left at Hatcher's Run.
] would like 10 ask Mr.. Hull, Did not the
Confederate forces have TO withdraw their
picket-line on the morning of the attack on
Fort Steadman? We were gaining territory so
fast that the Signal Corps reported that the
Confederate forces were hurrying up reinforce
ments TO hold their lines in front of the Sec.
end Corps
When the Second again advanced TO the left
athe Boydton plank road, did not the Second
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A Worthy Charity.
If
lHdfPerS.I

eyes" said Mrs. Timberwheel to her son in
law, you are always maligning mothers in
law; but everybody does not think SO hardly
of them" g.4fe
You do me an Injustice" replied Mr.. Tad
dies, with an earnest disclaimer. 81 never
malign mothers-in law in general, and espe-
cial!y do never malign one particular mother
in aw with whom l am happy to be closely
connected. But to what do you allude?"
Il allude TO the fact that phianthropic
Austrian has built and endowed home for
mothers-in-la Now, what do you think of
that?n
81 think that is very worthy object-very
worthy inleed.-and / shall Immediately take
steps toward getting you admitted"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-01
Surrender of yicksburg, Miss.

William Simmons, of Philadelphia, Pa,
writes: II notice in the Chronological Records
of the Rebellion, published in last weeks pa
per, that on May 18, 1862. the surrender of
Vicksburg was demanded by Flag Officer Far
ragut and Gen. B. F. Butler This is a mis-
take, and the author of these alleged chronicle
gies out to retire from the business. Mr.. Sim
mons is referred to page 4, Volume 10, Series l.,
Official Records of the War Of the Rebellion.
and he will find, under Summary of pal
Events, the following: "May Is, 1862.-sur-
render of Vicksburg demanded by Maj Gen.
Butler and Flag Officer Farragut and refused
by Brig Gen. NJ. L. Smith" The demand and
the refusal will be found on pages and Z, same
volume; and if Mr.. Simmons will read the
same, inteligently, he viii find that the
event" as recorded, is correct, both in the
Official Records and in the Chronological Record
of the Operations during the Great Rebellion.
Would also say to Comrade Simmons that, as
usual no matter whore the commanders of an
expedition of the magnitude of that which
Admiral Farragut and Gen. Butler commanded
in May, 1862, might have been, they always
got the credit of any such little fact as the
winning of battle or the demand for sur
render.-EDIToR NATIONAL TRIBUNEl
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Don't Tobacco Spit Your Life Ava,

Is the Startling truthful title of little book just
received telling all about Eotobac, the aeogder5ut
harmless economical guaranteed cure for The tobacco
habit in every form. Tobacco-users who want to
quit and can't, by mentioning The NATIONAL. TRI-
BUNE can get the book mailed free. Address THE
STERLING REMEDY CO., Box 49, Indiana
Mineral Springs, Ind.
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Important to Fleshy People.

We have noticed page article in the Boston
Globe on reducing weight at n very small ex-
pense. 1t will pay our readers to send two-cent
stamp for a copy to Potter Circulating Library,
10 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-01

Marks PATENT ARTTFICIHL LIMBS
uith Rubber Hands and Feet are
Natural in Aetion, Hoiseless in Mo-
ton, and the Most Durable in Con-
Strueti0n.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-01

to the relief of the brigade, for they certainly
deserve it. He owes this much to the brave
fellows who were the ones and the only infan-
try who saved the batteries, saved the HILL and
in all probability the battle of Gettysburg, and
gave US chance for that glorious third days
victory. Our Bugler, Warwick, who was sent
by Capt. Ricketts, to the rear for ammunition
says that while Ricketts, men were fighting
hand to hand the Baltimore pike was full Of
Eleventh Corps men, all pell- rushing for
Baltimore The batteries had done their
bloody work; they were powerless. The rebels
were on top Of my gun. We were hors du
combat Ten minutes more and | believe all
would have been lost had not CsrrOlIS Brigade
come up"
About Gen. Garnett.
NJ. NJ. Bell, Co. 3, 18th Ohio, CHARTERS, Pa,
says Gen. Garnett was brought back to Grafton
by detail from the 10Th Ind. and 18th Ohio
Garnett was shot by Sergeant of Co. A, 10Th
Ind.
They All Take 1t.
y. l.. Gebhart of Co. d, 14th Iowa. Norwalk,
o., sent US a Picket Shot a couple Of months
ago while passing through Washington. He
has again written to one of the editors with
whom he served, inclosiug a largo number of
answers received TO his Picket Shot, and states
that it is quite evident that the old boys take
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE, as his answers cover
every section of country in the United States
To show how the memory of these old boys
is getting impaired the Captain of the
10th Ohio battery, J. r. Grain, writes Geb-
hart that although his battery was at one
time brigaded with Gebhart's regiment, it
was not on Shermans march to sea with
them, which is hard for Gebhart to be-
lieve, he thinking the 10th was with the
Iowa Brigade until mustered out 1.-THE 10th
Ohio battery did not accompany Sherman's
army to Savannah. nor through the Carolinas,
but was left at Bridgeport Ala, much to their
disgust, when Sherman left Atlanta. They
were succeeded in the Iowa Brigade by the 1st
MINI. battery.-EDITOR NATIoSAL TRIBUNE.
War Relic.
c. NJ Townsend, Iowa Falls, Iowa, while
prisoner of war in Tyler, Tex, made comb
of the horn of Texas steer. As he is in need
of money. he would gladly sell this relic of the
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-01
It's not unusual

It's not unusual
to see q farmer
working in the
fields with an
artificial leg,
or an engineer
with hand on the
throttle. or a con-
diict0r.braksuan.
fireman, carpeu-
ter. mason. miner,
i'm fact men OF
every vocation,
wearing one or
two artificial legs,
with rubber feet,
of Marks Pat
citS, performing
rs much labor as
men in possession
0f alitheir natural
members, earning
.-..-.-- L...-n - -
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the same wages; in fact, experiencing little or no
Inconvenience
over 1900 use scattered in all parts Of the world.
Eminent surgeons and COmepteHt Judges commend
the Rubber Foot and Hand for their many advantages
A every industrial exhibition where exhibited they
have received the highest awards They endorsed
and purchased by ths United States and foreign Gov
eTnmeutS Treatise containing 80 pages, with go
illustrations. sent FEEE; also a formula for taking
measurements by which limbs car nc made and saut
to ali parts OF the world with fit guaranteed.
Address a. A HARkS.
7OI Broadway. New York city.
EstGJiistsd fDtty JsegS
Mention The NatDnaL Iribnue
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A War Rel

C. NJ. Townsend, Iowa Falls, Iowa, while a
prisoner of war in Tyler, Tex, made comb
of the horn of Texas steer. As he is in need
Of money, he would gladly sell this relic of the
war Of the rebellion to some collector
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-12-01

What Oar Veterans Have 10 Say Ab0at
Their Old Campaigns
FORT WAGN Err.

A Connecticut Man Who Got Inside the
Rebel Works.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-05
BIEN VENIDO
Puerto Rico.

FL senor don Jes6s Calvo Romeral Sc
sirve participarnos que ell dia l? de este
mes tom6 possession de la fscaIfa de la
AudiencIa de 10 criminal de Ponce.
FL nuevo fiscal es un letrado de illus
TRACTION extensa y de caracter bondadoso,
que sahra sin duda conquistar aquf mu-
chas simpatias y demostrar-como 10
demostraron siempre sus companeros de
la Audiencia-que las severidades y los
prestigios de Ia toga SOD compatibles
con la afabiidad y la culUura que dis
tinguen q los funcionarios del orden ju-
dicial
Saludamosle cordialmente y lie desea-
mos alegrfas grandes en- Ia ciudad
del Sur, que estimara de SECURE sus
condlci6nes de cumplido cabaIlero y de
recto magistrate.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-05
COMUNICADO

La gratitud ese beIl0 nObilisimo sentimiento
del cOraz6n humane hacia Bquel de quien 50 recbe
un benefriO, mueve hoy mi puma trazar estas
lfneas, para dar ublicO tes lmnnlO de agTadec'-
mentO los dienOs i ustrados facuitativos de CO.
merfo este pueblo, nores don Jose Gomez BriOsO
don AntO1io Colon r
No tengo frases que clog ar ell noble des-
ntero. ado pro eeder de estos &c 7Ores hace como
tres amos que mi esposa vea sufriendO una gravis
mn enfermedad, O. ouyas circunst"ncias dobleneute
criticas para IN mbre de escasOs rec rsos como
y0, lame primero ri senOr Br0sO, guien, con la
mayor soil itud entero del estadO de mi esposa
IL prescribe, prObandOle desde uegO los medica
mentOs de pr scFipci6n; perO como la dlstancla
on separ4 al citadO facultativO de este pueblo
d6cultaba taBto la sucesiva asis enca que habia
de presta le ell cOntnusT la situacon de mi sonora
e. avis el no haber p aquel ent0nces medicc
tit Jar en- este pueblo, fu6 este un nueva agmI0
que solo prOpOreiOn0 la ntranqullIdad en- et seu
de la familia sinO que tamb6n vino quebrantar mi
delicada sa I'D.
Sufrfa moral espirituaImente hasta que Ieg6
ell medieo titular Dr. Colon Rios, en- hnra feiz ara
mi dicho, de manera que encontrandOme deses
perado pOT la frfa lspida que hubieee de cubriT
el cuerpo de mi nte esposa, lame al citado fa-
cultativ0 que icito acudi6 Prestar los dificies
auxiiios de Ia ciencia Ia que veis "a difunta.
Despues de un largo como detend0 examen del
estado de mi esposa. en- una paabra despu6s, de un
minuciosO reconocimentO, dJ0me ell DIR. Colon kios:
estamOs frente de c0its ulcerOss (disenteria
graVe) que reviste ma or cuidadO en- atenclon del
eatadO en- que eEcuentra mi espOsa
Empez6 e DR.. Colon Rios saba medication,
la que cada Vez apEovechaDa mas mas q la enIer-
ma pero sin que per desc la mas ligera espe
RAJ "a en- stenci6n Gel erecido n6mero de las depo-
sciones, consolabamey sin embargo al Or decir 81
nueyO gslenO g mientras tengamOs ent rmos hay
esperanzap y efectivamente despues do mes de
una cOntinuada medication, eneuentrase hoy 'ueTa
de- peligrO estado do conYalecencia, gracias al
cello cuidado del DR. Colon.
70 mismo despnes enferm6 fui Objeto del ma
yor cud do atencones por parte del e1Presado
facultatvo.
Ha hecho eI Dr. C,l6n Rios otras curaoionea
mas, no SOLO en- Ia 1nfez clase p8bre de cate pue-.
bio, sino que tambien 10 mas selecto de esta
ciedad cuyos nombres no pubIicO porque lss perso-
mas aaistidas per 81 NIB ado facuIaatlvO, sab an
dar me ito sus hechos ponero en- 81 lugaT que le
corresponds.
Hechos de esta indoIe, maxine cuando
desintereaados SO recOmiendaR por ri mi. mo.
Por ESQ 20, que coy radecidO, levantO hoy mi
voz enc0miandOos, presentandO Ia cOnsideFa-
ci6n pahlicA los nombres de dos benefsctOres
de 10 humanidad, especial establishments del
que suscribe.
Jose M? Castro.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-05

ALI debfamos separarnos los tres, tavi-
mos que vOiver A apelar & los servicios de
aquelios bOmbres, que 10 mismo que en- el
muello para cada bultO SO present6 unO.
COrto era al trayecto que tenfamOe que re-
correr para llegar la casa de unOs amigOs
y paissnos en- dOode bsmos & hospedarnOs.
Saltsndo zanias ilenas de aqua cen agOss.
y atFavegaBdO pOr encima de mOntones de
baTrO, teniendO muchas veces que tapaFnOs
la nRriz para 10 aspirar los mslOs OlOres que
despedian agueliaa calles, atestadas de bu-
rrOs cerdos, de inmundicias de tOda clase
de animales, llegamOs pOr fin al t6~mino Dc
nuestrO yisje. Alf tuvimOs que pagar otTOs
seis pesos por Ia conducci6n de- los seis bui
toe, y pesar de la algeria que produce
siempTe el eDcuentrO de amigos en- sneio ex
tfaDierO, eaimOs como anOnadsdos, sin pOder
siquieTa nj sJn manifestaT uestras impresio-
nes duTante largo tempo,
fDe tai mOdO habfa heFidO nuestTa alma
aQuella elltrada en- IN estercOeTO que desde
lejos bablsmos crefdO M iaTdin, en an pals
salvaje que habfsmOs iuggado cviIizadO!
Diez y seis pesOs habiamOs pagadO pOT iT
desde el vapoT hasta Ia casa en- que ibamOs
residir, huberamOs pagado el dOble pOr
que nos aubiesen puesJO de nnevO en- el
puntO de paTtida. Desgraciadamente ell bu-
que, mae feliz que DOsOtrOs, hendfa va lac
ODdas aeiandOse tOda prisa de aquel suelO
iDfeetO y de aquelOs desgraoiadOs seres que.
como muestra de sus habitantes, encOntra-
mos nRestra entrada, sdoiOs, casi desnudOs
y embTiagadOs.
J. Rodriguez Castro.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-05
sUIOIDIO S

FL dia 90 de Febrero faIleci6 repenti-
namente en- Mayaguez el presbftero don
Tomas Lopez, teniente cura de aquella
ParroquIa.
Sc dice que el desgraciado sacerdote
habfa tornado una fuerte dosis de extric-
nina.
Nosotros deploramos ell suceso, que
40 puede ser mas triste y lameDtable,
va que Sc trata de un ministro de Dios
sobre la terra.
Pero uos sorprende que Ell P. Lopez
Aguas diera sepultura cat6lica al cada-
yer, cuandO dfas antes la neg6 no
miembro de la frauc-masonerfa.
No es possible exigir al vicsrio del
oeste que sea transigente, que sea tole
rante; pero debe exigfrsele, por 10 me-
nos, que sea justo imparclal.
Resignese Ell P. Lopez Aguas q DIR
muchas censuTas.
La sociedad ofrece cada cual eu me-
recido.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-05

PARA REHABILITAR 7 F0RTALECER
81 cnerpo y cOmbatlr dlversos astados de
debilidad organica, dsese la Emulsion de
Scutt.
Es el mejor reconstituyente eonOcido hoy
en- la terap6ntica.
ATeciho, Abril % de 1887
SeGorrs Scott Bowne.-Muy seGores
mfos Hace va algdn tempo que en- mi prac-
tica n9d,ca vengo hacienda usO de Ia Emu :
sion de Scott que ustedes preparau con acei
to dc bacalao hipnfueftos de cal sosA, y
no tengO Inconvenience en- decIarar que
0icho preparado de furma nmejorable, es el
mejor conetituyente, de utily segura ap!i-
cscr6n en- e linfatsmo, rsquit.smo, escrofu :
lismo, en- las afeecIones toT8xicas, en- todas
las eaqueKias en- general
no pusGO Benos que aeeveFaT Ia cure
ci6n radical de IN eas0 de gastra gia en una
nina de diez afios, precisamente hiia mia,
con el uso de tan heTmOsa prepare ci6o. TodO
10 cuAl me cOmpazeo en- maDifessarles para
satisfacci6n de nstedee pIoyecho de la
humanidad. De uatedes ateuto S S.-Doc-
tor Limo ZeH0,