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large number of friends, who wish
them pleasant journey through life.

The band belonging Ito Mahara's
Minstrels appeared upon the street at
noon today and played several selections
in charming manner. The band is an
uncommonly fine one and the pieces
played were difficult. The Grand
selection from the Opera "Erminie"
gave the band an opportunity to do
some coed work and they did it.
The whist club held its second meet
Mrs. Lord were the entertainers. Part
of the evening was devoted to business
and part to whist. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G.
Hostetler were elected members of the
club. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Peters will
entertain next Friday evening. The
whist club is one of the pleasantest
social organizations In the city and the
members are glad to meet together
again after summers vacation.
Sunday services at the Congregational
church as follows: At IL a. m. worship,
and sermon by the pastor, w. G. Cur
tbs. Topic, The missionary message
and motive, with some words as to the
progress of the kingdom. Evening SER
vice at 80. The special feature of this
service will be papers upon some early
missionaries to the northwest states.
The meeting Of the Young Peoples So
ciety of Christian Endeavor at 6 80 p.
m. Topic, Rejecting Christ; the con-
sequences; Matt. x:11-l5, 32-33. All
persons not worshipping elsewhere are
cordially invited.
Word has just come to town that lot
of hay on the Porter place, few miles
from Antelope, was burned day before
yesterday. Phil Brogan lost between
seventy and eighty tons, which he was
saving for the winter feeding. Tracks
were seen leading from the stacks, and
the despicable miscreants have been
tracked and parties are now in pursuit.
This is the first occurrence of this kind
near Antelope, though similar burnings
have been frequent near Mitchell. 1t is
hard to understand how a man can be
so mean as to set fire to neighbor's
haystack, but SO it seems. 1t is to be
hoped that some of the offenders may
be caught, and such an example made
of them that others will be prevented
from initiating them.
The lecture given by DR.. G. W. Cue a
at the Armory last night was very largly
attended, it being estimated that owe
400 people were in the hall. DIR. Gu,
was introduced by j. NJ. Patterson, Esq
and for over an hour entertained hi
hearers. The address was what nigh
be called an t'off-hand" one, being fre
f, from any attempt at oratory yet full o
3 power. At tiues the speaker rose t,
eloquence. DIR. Cue is an old soldie
+ and loves the American flag, and all tha
] it means, with an enthusiasm delightful
: to see. His address last evening wa
patriotic to the core and made dee
/ impression upon the audience. Durin
Y the course of his remarks he toll
8 some amusing anecdotes of army lif
r with which the old soldiers presen
i could sympathize. DIR. Cue returned t
# Portland this morning.
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BRIEF MENTION.

Leaves From the Notebook of Chronicle
Reporters.
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ing columns Of Capron and Adams, and were
called upon to protect their rear. The com.
mand was halted, and an agreement made tC
! go out on the same route as mentioned, but
for some cause the command changed Its
route towards Athens. We were now part
ofthe main command, and subsequently shared
! its sad fate. Perhaps no single command OF
equal numbers ever destroyed as much and
as valuable rebel railroad property. So Sher-
mans order was obeyed.
One daring feat has been omitted. A
party sent out TO destroy railroad property
was commanded by Lieut.. Albert Capron.
While engaged in tearing up the track and
destroying train, which they had Just capt
ured, another train with 500 Johnnies on
board came in sight, moving slowly up, with
heavy skirmish-line in front.
Upon discovering this, Lieut. Capron i'm
mediately put on all possible steam in the
captured engine, then reversed the machinery
and sent 1T spinning back TO its owners The
collision was terrible, crushing both engines,
killing many of the rebels and destroying
most of the cars.
In the destruction of railroad and other
rebel war material. as ordered by Sherman,
be surely had nothing to complain of Stone
mans command. But in the scheme which
failure.
Amongst the victims sent to Andersonville
were the noble Mai. Qugg and gallant Mai.
Davidson; Capt. Sanford, who had been
wounded while leading battalion in des-
perate charge at Sunshine Church; Lieut.. /.
H. Allen, in command of picket on the fatal
night of Aug. 3; Lieut. Albert Capron, Capt.
Henderson, and Capt. Mayo who was
wounded. Most of these officers returned to
us.
The amount Of rebel railroad and military
property destroyed by Stoneman's command
on this raid was estimated at millions of dol
lars. IL included five principal depots, hum
dreds Of passenger and freight cars, unlimited
amounts of wood, all kinds of military stores,
many miles Of railroad, and the most costly
bridge in the South.-W l.. SANFORD. Co.
], 14th Ill. Cav, Chicago, Ill.
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Ignorance was Bliss.

Joseph II. Pecott, Co. I, 47th Ohio, Boise
City, Idaho, writes: While the Second Bri-
gade, Second Division, Fifteenth Corps, was
in camp near the Big Reservoir at Louisville
in 1863 the good ladies of the town were
peddling pies of all kinds. One morning a
big, fat lady came to- the 47th Ohio and had
along with her herr big son. She got into
business selling hertspies just as fast as she
could, pocketing all Cthe dollars. The pies
were always 81 those days The boy seeing
his mother pocketing all the money COM
menced crying. al
60 What is the matter with your one OF
the boys asked. --->-
80 Well well, mamma said if would let
her kill my little p9ps to make the mince
pies she would give the money
Then you ought, to have seen the boys
trying, with their. fingers. to bring Mr.. Pie
ont. 1t was no 60. The dog pie had to
stay" N W
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Bossy Killed a Bear.

A peculiar incident occurred on the ranch
of William Bennington, some miles west of
this city, the other day. Mr. Bennington had
placed COW and her young calf in the barn
on his ranch in order to protect the latter
from the attack of wild animals, which are
numerous in that section.
The barn is on a hillside, and night or so
ago the raneher awakened from sound
sleep by an unusual uproar in the farmyard.
He seized his rifle and rushed out to the barn.
He no sooner opened the door of the clubhouse
than the cow sprang out, followed by the
calf The rancher entered the barn and dis
covered the body of n large bear lying in the
corner. The dead animal had been shock
ingly manged by the horns of the cow.
Upon examination the rancher discovered
that the bear had entered the barn through
the roof, having sprung upon it from the
hillside. The cow had evidently attacked
the bear Immediately as it fell through the
roof and before it recovered from the shock of
the fall
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HUNTING BUsHwHACKERs
A Kentucky Boy Tells of Lively Times in
Tennessee.

Tennessee.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The 18th
Ky. was mounted at Bowling Green, KY,
April IA, 1865. After scouting the country
south of that town for some weeks, we were
ordered TO rendezvous at Carthage, Tenn.
Gallatin was the nearest railroad town 10
our camp From that point all our mail.
ammunition, and rations had to be drawn
over a rough country filled with BUSH
whackers who knew every path. Heavy es-
corts had TO be sent with every supplv-train.
| The command at Carthage consisted of the LIST
Tenn. Cav. tCol. Stokes, 26th XIV. Mid Inf.
Sth KY. Cav, and 18th Ky. M't'd Inf. TO
which the writer belonged. Col. Stokes.
when present, was in command.
Things had gone on quietly for several
weeks, the train going and coming with per-
feet regularity. One day a train was return
ing from Gallstin, escorted by company of
the LIST Tenn Cav. About halfway to camp
the road ran through dense wood.
Here, in the gloom of the forest, close be-
side the road, lived an old, withered- looking
woman She came out TO the road with a
basket Of pies. OF course, the bows gathered
around the basket, intent on securing at least
one pie
DNNchig NUN bbC ioChs vi eIIHef size OF
The road came a yell, followed by death
dealing volley Of musketry. Every man en-
deayored to save himself, and for a few mo-
ments horror and confusion reigned.
About Is or 20 were killed and wounded
and number captured. The adyance-guard
came promptly TO the rescue, and saved the
train.
This Circumstance reused all the lion in the
old Colonel, and he resolved TO hunt down
those murderers.
Whole regiments were sent as escorts. and
every precaution taken to prevent SURPRISES
Col Stokes went himself with every escort
Let the reader remember that Col. Stokes
had represented this very country in Congress
before the war. One day we were returning
from Gallatin with a train, and reached the
town OF Dl1on's Springs at noon.
After throwing ont picl1ets in all directions.
Col. Stokes sent for the officers and informed
them that the command would get dinner in
the town, also that the people were his friends
Now" said the Colonel, divide your
commands into squads Of four, and send them
in command Of a Corporal TO get forage for
the horses, and then send them around town
10 get dinner
Col Stokes Lit cigar and sat down under
tree. In the town there lived a wealthy
old rebel by the name Of Ellis. To his barns
the boys went by hundreds In a few min
utes 800 horses were up 10 their knees in Con-
1ederate oats and corn. Out came the owner
Ia great wrath. Off he went TO hunt up the
Colonel.
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GEN. SLOVENIAN.

Here the column was halted an hour, and
engaged in destroying the depot and large
amount of army supplies. They found the
people all excitement, believing the :" Yanks y
had possession of the whole country. Next
they moved down the Central Railroad to-
wards Savannah to Toombsboro, destroying
the depot and supplies, and trains, and tearing
up the railroad. Soon after leaving Nc
Intire, Serg't Agnew, with six men, was sent
off TO the left TO burn some trestle-york
across large swamp.
From Toombsboro the party marched to
the Oconee River, burning large banks of
wood on the road: halted near the river and
erected barbados to protect our rear. Lieut.
J. w. Boren was ordered to take Cos. A and
g Of the l4th, move up the railroad TO the
river, and burn the bridge across the Oconee
River, the most expensive as well as the
most important structure Of its kind in the
South
The other three companies remained to pro-
tect the rear. Lieut.. Boren attacked the
rebel bridge guards, numbering $50, with two
pieces OF artillery, and drove them from the
bridge. 1t was an expensive structure, SPAN
ming not only the Ooonee River, but an ex-
tensive swamp on its margin. IT afterward
required the railroad company, which had a
duplicate of it, 30 days to replace it, II took
Sergt AgDew and small squad Of Lieut..
Boren's command not half Of 80 minutes TO
have the whole bridge in flames 1t burned
so fiercely that the incendiaries scarce had
time 10 escape, and in Is minutes the bridge
swayed, and soon tumbled into the river.
The company returned and reported TO the
Major.
The column moved forward and soon en-
countered rebel regiment on their way 70
guard the oconee bridge They had Captured
some Of our boys who were out pressing horses.
The Federals knew their only safety lay in a
sudden and determined attack The charge
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Go. i Claims IreaxIe.t Loss.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your
issue of Sept. 5, in " Brief Sketches of Some
N. Y. l.. A. Organizations" you say of Bat
terry G, 1st Y. l.. A.. Its total loss, in
Guiding those who died in the service, was
larger than that of any other battery in the
1st n. Y. l.. A. One officer and II men
were killed and two officers and Is men
died Of disease in prison, etc. a total Of go"
If this is correct Battery G cannot make
such claim; for Battery / Of the same
regiment can claim q larger loss, viz. One
officer and II men died of disease. and one
officer and Is men were killed in action, or
died of wounds received in action a total
of 35.
This is not from any official records, but
from personal knowledge. do not claim
this to be the largest loss of any battery of
the 1st N. Y. l.. A., for have not taken the
trouble to find out; but do claim that it
is larger than Battery G's by S.
The battery was recruited in Buffalo, NY,
and left for the front April 26, 1861. 1t
served under Fremont and Banks in West
Virginia, and under Sigel and Howard in
Virginia in the Eleventh Corps. After the
battle of Gettysburg it was sent West with
the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps to the
relief of Chattanooga, and participated in
Mountain, the Atlanta campaign, the march
to the sea, and the campaign of the Caro-
linas.
Michael Wiedrich, the first Captain, re-
signed. March q, 1864, and was commits
sioi ed Lieutenant Colonel of the 18th n. Y.
Ii. A.
Lieut.. Nicholas Sahm was promoted Cap
tain, April /, 1864, but died at Lookout Val
ley, May 1, 1864, when Lieut.. Charles E.
Vinegar, of Battery M. 1st N. Y. L. A., was
promoted to the Captaincy, and in the march
to the sea was Acting Chief of Artillery,
Twentieth Corps, when Lieut. Warren l..
Scott, formerly of Mink's Battery, had COM
mand Of the battery.
Lieut. Scott took the battery back to
Buffalo, N. Y, after the close of the war,
where it was mustered out at Fort Porter,
June %, 1865. The organization was known
in the army as Wiedrich's Battery.-FRED-
ERICK SMITH, Battery /, LIST N. Y. i. A., 583
North Division street, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston's Body.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / notice in
your issue of Sept. an article headed
Left on the Field" by Joseph A. Brady.
He claims that the remains of Albert Sid
ney Johnston were carried off the field of
Shiloh by Union soldiers, and proceeds to
give the names of those who took part in
the affair.
OF all the preposterous claims ever set up,
this is the worst / have seen or heard of
When did those men do this? Certainly
not on the 9th of April, when Johnston was
wounded and died on the field, for on that
evening Grants army was driven to the
| bank of the river, where they were protected
by their gunboats, and did not dare to move
until reinforced by Buell. and Lew Wallace.
The facts are, Gen. Johnston was accom-
panied to the field by the following menu
bers of his staff: Cap,s. Fl. z. Brewster and
N. Wickliffe of the Adiutant and Inspector
Generals Department; Capt. Theodore l.
Hara, Acting Inspector-General; Lieuts.
George Baylor and Thomas M. Jack, Aids
de-Camp; Volunteer Aids-de-C Camp Col. VIM.
Preston Johnston, Maj. d. M. Hayden E.
W. Mumford, and Calhoun Benham; Maj.
Albert j. Smith and Capt. Wickham, of the
Quartermasters Department. Gov. Isham
q. Harris, of Tennessee, also accompanied
pen- johnston on 1lpe neiu, was Dy MS slde
when wounded, aided him from his horse,
and received him in his arms when he died.
The members Of his staff above named, ex-
cept Capts. Brewster and Wickliffe, accom-
panied the remains of their chief from the
field. Gov Harris and Capts. Brewster and
Wicklffe remained on the field and served
as staff officers on April 7.-DUNCAN Nc
ARTHUR, Co. H, Terry's Texas Rangers, En-
terprise, Ind. Ter. 10,
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TEARING Up RAILROADS.

heard several trains pass. Serg't Agnew, of
Co A, with five men was sent by Mai David
son to cut the telegraph The command
then moved forward and captured the town,
securing the telegraph operator, burned the
depot filled with quartemaster and commits
sary stores and telegraph office, then des-
troyed il locomotives and $50 freight and
passenger cars, the freight trains filled with
army supplies. They burned another depot
filled with Confederate stores. All this was
accomplished in two hours. Then the COM
mand moved down the Central Georgia Rail-
road, destroying it as we went We reached
McIntire Station at daylight of July 80,
and captured party of Confederate soldiers,
to whom we administered the oath hence
forth to duly venerate Uncle Sam.
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the front? Public prejudice against such
service was at its highest Besides, the Con-
! federate Congress had enacted laws author
| ling the immediate execution of any Fed
eral officer who might be captured while in
command of ex-slaves. jeff Davis had is
sued the following proclamation, dated at
Richmond, Dec. %, 1862:
First That all commissioned officers in the COM
mand of the said Benjamin +. Butler be declared
not entitled TO be considered "a soldiers engaged
in honorable warfare but rs robbers and criminals
deserving death. and that they and each of them.
be. whenever captured. reserved for execution.
1rs
Fourth That the like orders be executed In all
cases with respect to all commissioned officers OF
the United States whep found serving in company
with said slaves in Instruction against the au-
thorities OF the different States of this Confed-
eracy.
In the face of all this these patriotic Off
GERS organized the colored regiments and led
them to the battlefield. They went in the
front and thickest of the conflict at Peters
burg, Wagner, Saltville, Nashville, Black
River, Port Hudson, and a hundred other
places where it tried mems souls. Only the
brayest and most unselfshly patriotic would
venture in such n service under the circum-
stances and none but the best discplinaran
could accomplish the good results they did.
The fate of these officers when captured
was plainly made known at Fort Pillow,
where all were murdered, and at other places.
Yet, undismayed, with the fire of patriotism
burning bright within them, they never
faltered or relaxed Their effort, but pressing
farther to the front had the proud satisfac-
ton of participating in The final struggle and
witnessing the surrender of the great Con-
federate chieftain at Appomattox.
| did not belong to this branch of the serv-
ice, but viewing the situation at this day
am constrained to say the officers of colored
troops displayed such unselish patriotism,
true courage and splendid devotion to the
Union as entities them to a position high
up on the roll Of honor in the history of our
country.-F w. SAYRE, Co Z, 18th KY.
Cav, Paducah, KY.
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horizon, the Lieutenant accomplished his
mission, and by l O'Clock a. M, July 81,
our little band had crossed safely over and
were again on the march.
At daylight we passed around in sight and
within half mile of the city of Milledge-
vile, driving in their pickets. Here was a
large rebel force We dashed on, crossed the
Oconee River on a small fatboat at Walkers
Ford, 81 miles above the capital, and marched
ont on the Sparta and Macon road near to
Eatonton, thence northwest on the Madison
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September and October.

The finest shooting grounds in the North
west are on and tributary to the lines of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul R'y. The crop
good this year; also Ducks and Geese. In
Northern Wisconsin and the Peninsula of
Michigan splendid deer shooting is to be had.
The Game Laws will be changed in several
of the Western States this yea.
Full information furnished free. Address
j. G. EVEREST, General Travelling Passenger
Agent, Chicago, Ill.
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Can Show His Scar.

Capt. s. Patrick, Co. II, 3sth ILL.,, ST..
Petersburg, Fla, writes: L. p. Klutts, of
this place, who was a member of the
LIST N. c. Cav. (Confederate) on the 21st day
of June, 1863, at Upperville, Va, received a
minie-ball in his right hip which fractured
the bone. For two years or more he was
compelled to use crutches. On the Sd of last
month the flesh festered and became run
ming sore. He, with his fingers, extracted
the ball from his thigh about six inches be-
low where it entered. And to say that he
was glad does not express it," :.
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Battery G first.

There were two Battery Cs. The first
was generally known as "MeCarthy's Bat
terry" having taken the name of it's Captain,
jeremiah Mccarthy. Capt. John G.. Simp-
son, who first commanded the battery, was
discharged Dec. 8, 1861; Capt. Mccarthy
was discharged Oct. 8, 1868, and when con-
solidated with Battery ID, Lieut.. Richard
N. Ball was in command. Lieut.. Ball was
transferred with his men, but later was
again transferred to Battery C when the
new command was organized. The battery
was in the Sixth Corps.
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SLOVENIAN RAID.
Narrative of a Participant in that Memoir
able Dash in Dixie.

continued from last soeekJ
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: We will
now follow the LIST battalion of the 14th III.
Cav. under Maj. Davidson. On July %,
u o'clock, noon, Col. Capron received orders
to send out a detachment, as already stated.
Mai. Davidson was ordered TO take his LIST
battalion aud Co II of the Sd battalion, 18th
ILL., Cav, and proceed as narrated. He started
immediately. marched to within three or four
miles of Milledgeville, Capital of Georgia,
then turned to the southwest and moved on
the Central Railroad toward Gordon, passing
along by-roads and moving cautiously.
AT dark he pressed guide, and at 10 p. m.
halted within hearing of Gordon Station and
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and Eaton road, calling at boot and shoe
mandatory and supplying the command.
We halted again about 2 p. m, Aug i.
At daylight we moved on toward Madison,
it being the design of the Major to cross the
railroad west ofthe "circle" and pass out west
of Monroe and Lawrencevillc into our lines.
But about 10 a. m. we came up with the fly
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