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THERE SAT Dun MAN.

early and late, and often, with pressing and
warm tenders of our serious and sincere in
tention to bring their armed and hostile at
titude 10 q grateful anc Successful end.
While the gallant Sherman stole off to-
ward Savannah, leaving behind him lurid
torch of the burning buildings of the be-
sieged city, ours was the task to take up 4
position along the railroad between Nash
vile ard Chattanooga, near Anderson Sta
ton, to guard the bridges and trestles OF
that moun:aieous road.
To be transferred from the burning heat
of the Georgia highlands TO the rural in
terror of Tennessee, ana be scattered and
confned ia log stockades, was n most dis
agree able, aud, as it proved, disastrous ex-
change We were saved from participating
in the battles Of Franklin and Nashville
only 10 be soaked with malaria in that con-
fined and unhealthy bottomland.
Call 10 your mind square building OF
large trees set in the ground on end, with
holes cut for por;-holes about breast high.
Over this were placed other logs for n roof,
and covered with earth. On this was stu
ated small square and covered lookout for
the I'D on watch 10y day or night.
Outside, and before the entry, was another
row OF logs, also set in the ground. Within,
in the center Of the stockade, was the well.
Around the two sides, away from the rail-
road, we had erected our beds, about three
feet from the ground, and made of such old
boards as we could find. Softness and ease
were not aimed at in their construction, and
this made it necessary 10 turn about very
often during the night.
While this was u lonely and dispiriting
life after an exciting and persistent march
toward and around Atlanta, we found much
TO give relief and interest in the midst of
our inactivity 1t was necessary 10 be vigil
liant, for guerrillas were numerous and
active, and the line was important, and must
be held for service.
But one by one our men fell victims to
that misery of lOwlands, undrained swamps,
and the confined air and bad water of our
camp. 1t was sight 10 make angels weep.
to see one poor fellow after another, as his
period of fever and ague came on, shake as
If every joint OF his body was anxioss TO be
parted from its neghbor.
This was bad enough when the creek, on
whose banks the stOckade was built, was low
and the country around dry and passable.
But one day there came a reshet; rain had
fallen far up in the mountains, and its
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of shelter-tent. This erection was against
the hill, some 30 yards behind the breast
works. Ii was fair target, but not intended
for such when built
On this morning, while still hedged, there
came rolling, swishing noise right over the
sleeper and The report of the impact of the
missile into the hill lehind his tent. How
he got out of such low aud narrow quarters
he is flot now even able to tell. But the
laughter that greeted him Dy the men who
stood in line under arms will never be for
gotten. On locating the bali where it had
struck the hill we found il had glanced of,
continued over the hill and knocked off the
legs of one of the men, who was cleaning a
horse at that hour.
1t was a narrow escape, one of many, but
not SO soon forgotten. Such forclble and
effective morning calls were not received
with that kindly spirit of gratitude, nor was
the humane impulse that would hasten the
sluggish sleeper to arouse always apprecl-
ated with that generous promptness that
would have gladdened the heart of those
early and vigilant cannoneers Of that distant
fort.
The many and longing looks we cast in
the direction of the fair and doomed city,
whose suit we pressed with all the unre-
uniting and sleepless ardor of fervent desire,
were not destined to be gratified. We never
entered the city, whose defenders we salu;ed
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KERN STOW N.
Others There Besides Gen. Foster and the
18th Ind.

Others There Besides Gen. Foster and the
18th Ind.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: I have
before me your issue of Dec. 30, with sketch
of the army life of Gen. Foster. / do not
wish to cast any reflections upon him or any
other cOmrade. The writer, whoever he may
be, should hereafter consider that others
have fought equally well and deserve some
honor. There are many men and able writer's
who well remember the 23d of March, 1852,
and not the Odd, as the writer has it; by
reading this graphic account of that memoir
able battle one would think that Gen. Foster
and the 18th Ind. did about all that was
done in that battle fKernstown).
| think | can truthlully say and will be
substantiated by others, that the writer was
not in the battle of Kernsl0wn March %.
1862, or else he is badly mistaken. He says
it was at the critical point in the battle, when
StOnewall Jackson's forces were driving our
men. Jackson's men never crossed the
stone wall. Our men were never driven
back.
The truth was, part of Shields Division,
the 4,h and 9Th Ohio, 10th Pa, and 7th
Ind, first met Jackson's forces, who were
behind the stone wall.
When first attacked, the 10th Pa, being
on the right in an open field, suffered in
killed more than the other regiments pro-
tected as they were by being in the woods.
The 18th and 14th Ind after the four regi-
ments had been under fire for sometime, came
up on the left and charged Jackson on the
flank Jour left.) Had they crossed the stone
wall they would have had TO charge through
the line occupied by the fonr regiments.
After the rebels began,%to give way, the
line of the four regiments was advanced
and crossed over the wall. The chars.
made by the 18th and 14th Ind. was on the
rebel right, with the right of the 18th and
18th striking the rebels about the stone
wall.
Now, these are about the facts as remem.
bered by writer. who was there. 1 wish
the 18th to have all the honor that it de-
serves, for it was fighting regiment; but
the writer of the article mentioned did not
give to or name any other organization,
except to state that Sullivan's Brigade was
supporting the left, when the fact is it was
Oh the right, the 10th Pa. being the ex-
trenie right.
The comrade also says Gen. Sullivan,
years ago, said to him that the 18th had
good deal 10 do in routing the enemy. /
admit the 18th had something to do. Had
it not been that the charge was made,
Shields's Division would have suffered worse
than it did. So you can see that Others
besides the 18th and Gen. Foster had a con-
siderable job on their hands.-T. NJ. MozIN-
GO, Co. L, 7th Ind, Corinth, Ky.
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last day of service, and to- morrow he would
be on his way home. He had been faith
full, clean, and brave soldier, and all re-
GREETED to part with him.
Hark What was that? The report of a
cannon. and Immediately after, the sound
OF exploded shell in our own lines, right
among the meni
We hurried over, and saw sad and horri-
bic thing. There sat our man with gun
still In hand, but the shell had struck his
head, and left only the headless trunk sit
ting upright.
Poor fellow, he went 10 his long home,
and never saw his earthly home again.
This created profound impression, and
many were the expressions of SORROW at the
seemingly -undeserved cruel fate of our
comrade. Someone had blundered, aud
someone had died for it.
One morning early the writer, tired and
exhausted from the heat of the previous day
and night, slept later than usual. not hear
Ing the morning call. His was a small
shelter, consisting Of a narrow foundation
for log house inst wide enough for one man
~ lie in, over which was stretched the half
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UNWRITTEN HISTORY.
PEN Pictures of Service i'm the South I'm
1864.

Fen Pictures oil service In the SCUM IN
1864
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The siege
of Atlanta, Ga, in the Summer of 1864,
produced many incidents of tragic or
1aughable nature, not recorded IN books OF
history or personal memoir Aud 1t is just
such scenes, faithfully recorded, which give
the general reader of later years an insight
into the life and spirit that prevailed dur
ing such trying times.
Atlanta, as the writer remembers 1T, was
truly city with hills surrounded" which
bristled with cannon of various callDer,
from the small-bore rif1ed Parrott gun TO
the 64-pounder siege. And what din they
could produce on the least provocation!
The Confederates had much the advantage
in point of knowing the territory occupied
by us, hence their often unwelcome accu-
rate craftsmanship made many poor fell
low bite the dust even when not IL line-of
battle.
One such incident occurs to me here.
Gen. Sherman, to conceal some movement
about to be made, ordered some regiments
to march in circle around hill, 10 give
the impression that he was massing troops
on our left. This continued for several
hours. The rebels soon practiced their
craftsmanship on these helpless and hap
less troops, and, ere long, we heard the zip
of the bullet and next the horrible sound
as when man is struck whom we soon see
fall over, either dead or wounded. But
this did not check the column.
IL was a standing order to be in line at
8 O'Clock in the morning, to be counted and
assigned TO picket or other duty. My regi-
ment the 9th KY, lay at the edge of hill,
behind stone fence, before which sharp
pointed stakes had been set at certain
angle, and these tied together in long rows
by green withes. Behind us at some dis
tance rose another much higher hill, on
which were situated Gen. o. o. Towards
Headquarters and the Signal Corps Station.
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EVEN THIS It'd Nor CHECK OUR COLUMN.
There were no woods right in our front,
hence we hid an unobstructed view of the
rebel intr.nchmenis, and we could get a
view for niles to our right, and often dis
cover the smoke puff from a heavy siege
gun that was in the habit of paying It's un-
welcome respects to us early and late, be-
cause we were on high ground. But for
good sfooting and foolish recklessness this
ins;anse viii be in point.
Abcnt-S O'Clock in the morning, one day,
while we were lying behind our breast
works, TO avoid both stray and aimed bull
lets. \ hich flew pretty thick at this time,
we sasy, on the hill OF the Generals Head
qusrtfrs, a man coming part The way down,
stop. 10 plain sight Of ali, and black the
Generals, or some officers, boots. We
waited with great interest what would hap
pen next, when to our establishment we
heard the swish Of cannon-ball, and fol-
lowing it's direction we saw il bury itself
directly under the seat of The man, who sat
with his feet down hill.
We Held our breath, expecting to see man
and ho,Dts fly in pieces from an exploding
.heJ but it did not explode, and soon we
60, ~ q man emerge from the dust, running
=, - seed for the hilltop, amid the cheers
80 ali sho saw the shot and its lucky termi-
Not Vail the men killed on our side were
laid Cow by the enemyis bullets, as the fol-
lov;, sg viii show .Toward The close of the
siacrt few days before the battle of Jones'
hoo, there came orders 10 certain battery
ocI Parrot rifles TO fire a number Of rounds
IN no the city. Now this battery was posted
.about so yards in the rear of a regiment of
smen, and on our left. who also had breast
fworks consisting of logs piled one on top of
>the other. man high, in front of which was
bank of dirt, and in front of this a deep
lditch.
About this time, while the shells were
flying over the heads Of the men lying be-
hind this shelter, there was one man who
was polishing up his gun for this was his
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wants The constitution rsurht.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: am.
neither scholar nor a writer, but am capa-
bic of thinking sometimes, and will tell
you what think now. While there is great.
deal being said and done toward teaching
patriotism in our public schools, I think il
would be good plan 10 have our Constitu-
ton formulated into q textbook for oar
public schools and thereby teach both
patriotism and Americanism.
don't think there is one in 500 at the.
present day outside the legal fraternity thss
has ever read or heard read the Constitution,
of the United States. think if it was bet
ter understood il would be lived up to bet
ter.-A. THINKER, MohOmish, Wash.
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DIR. Peter Fahrney, 11a S. Hoy

DIR. Peter Fahrney, liz b Hoyne
Ave-, Chicago, of whose wonderful blOod-puri-
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have from time to time made brief mention,
desires us to state that the Vitslzer is not a
patent medicine, nor is it sold by druggists !;
but gentlemen and ladies who have been
cured by its use, prompted by gratitude
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enabling him to supply sufferers from such
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ralgia, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, ScrOfula,
and other disorders caused by impurities in
the blood, as well as all disorders peculiar to
females, with this expensive remedy at the
lowest possible price. For further informa-
ton address DIR. Peter Fahrney, liz S. Hoyne
avenue, Chicago.
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Who Knows9

B. Reichcrt, Battery c, 1st Ohio L. A.,
Elyria, Kan, has in his possession solid
S2-pound round shot. 1t was found on the
old Santa Fe Trail. in Mcpherson County.
Who can tell where that shot came from
We did not use that size gun in the last war.
Our field-pieces, smooth-bores, were and
l2-pounders.
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THEIR RECORDS
Brief Sketches Of the Services Of
Various Regiments.
Mention The National Tribune.

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has In hand several
hundred requests for regimentai histories. All such
request. will be scceded to in due time. although
those received cannot he published for at
least ak months owing TO lack OF space. Numerous
sketches have already been published and OF these
none can be found room for q second time.I
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Abraham LincoIn,s stor,e.

Send your address and 10 cents-silver or
stamps-to the Lincoln Tea Co., Fort Wayne.
Ind, and get by return mail a finely illustrated
book of Lincoln stories and anecdotes, aud
package Of the famous LINCOLN TEA.
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The 4Sth iowa.

This organization was 100 days regi-
ment raised in Iowa in June. 1864. Oliver
III. 2. Scott commanded it. 1t was engaged
in guarding prisoners at Rock Island during
its entire term of service. 1t was engaged
in no battle A few men died from disease.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-10-26
LOANS OF CREDIT.

Mathew Marshal in very clear ar.
ticle concerning the uses of money and
checks, in the New York Sun, in speak
ing of the amount of business done by
checks says:
The result of this mode of doing
business is that the banks themselves
rarely furnish actual money when they
make loans or discount notes. They
give their customers credits on their
books to the stipulated amount, and
agree to honor their ~cheekyupto to that
limit; and when the checks come in
for payment they are Offset by other
checks drawn upon other banks
and deposited for collection by those
who have received them. The banks
incorporated under the National Bank
act are required by that act to keep on
hand one-fourth of their nominal de-
posits in lawful money, and the other
banks follow the same rule, but even
this restriction allows the making of
loans to four times the. amount of the
banks deposits, in addition to that of
its own capital and surplus. As a
matter of fact, the banks of this city
are lenders Of some $500, ,OOO, 600 and the
banks of the whole country of s4,OOO,-
O00, 900, while the actual money in cir
culation is only about s., 600, 900, 900.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-10-26
OUR SLOW GRO WITH.

The Oregonian printed Monday a
copy of the census of 1851 taken by A. S
Marshal, Joe Meeks and assistant Dan
O'Neil. According to that the total
population was 1928. AS the present
census will show less than 100000 it
will be seen that Oregon's growth has
been remarkably slow. Oklahoma
thrown open to settlement only two
years ago, has population of 100000,
and it got larger population the first
day it was thrown open to settlement
than Oregon accumulated in all the
years up to 1852. With Oregon's great
natural resources, it is hard to explain
why her growth has been so slow. OF
course the long distance from civiliza-
tion in early days was the principal
cause of her tardy growth, but now,
it is explainable only on the theory
that the cuontry is not understood in
the east
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-10-26
A TAX DECISION.

The supreme court yesterday handed
down a decision in the case of the Hi
bernian Benevolent Society, against
the sheriff of Multnomah county. The
action was brought to enjoin the sher-
iff from collecting taxes from the So
ciety on the grounds that it was be-
nevolent society, and as such, its prop
erty was exempt from taxation. The
court decided that ''only such property
shall be exempt as actually accepted
for the purposes for which the corpo-
ration claiming the exemption was Or
ganized. and cannot be held to include
real property devoted to other pur-
poses, although the revenue received
therefrom may be used for the corpo-
ration -
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-10-26
CONCERNING VOLCANOES.

We sincerely hope the reported dis
covery of q volcano in our neighboring
state of Washington is not true. We
hope so for many reasons. It is not
fairs that Washington should have q
real live volcano while Oregon has
none, and the confounded thing is too
large and too hot for us enterprising
newspaper fiends on this side of the
Columbia, to steal. And then, too,
what will be thought of the famed
western progress. and get-up-and-get-
thereness, when we allow an eastern
professor to come along with double
barreled telescope and discover an in
digenous volcano smoking right under
our very noses. The simple thought
of it is soul narrowing. OF course
there is.no volcano! 1t is simply an
optical.delusion caused by the four
eyedness of the professors visual, ar
mament. Let the professor avauntl
Let him, ''go to-" Let him scat! Let
him remove himself on the wings of
hastiness to hisssnow-begirt home in
Massachusetts and try his vision on
Bunker Hill, or Katahdin or Mt.
Washington or some other wart on
the earths epidermis, but let him not
monkey with the good name Of our
western mountains. When we want
q local volcano we will go out and dis
cover it without any assistance from
the crystal-eyed vagaries from the
effete east. It won't be any mole hill
either when we start into the volcano
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-10-26
CHANGE OF METHODS.

The Salem Evening Post criticises
our statement concerning Rev. DIR.
Parkhurst of New York City, and
thinks that "many more Parkhurst's
would be welcomed by the people
throughout the country if they will
arise and engage the beast of corrup-
ton, villainy and lawlessness in bat
tie" DR.. Parkhurst's theory Is all
right, Just as the theory of the Post is
right concerning the battle against
corruption. The trouble is with the
theories that they are not put in prac-
tice. Our observation Of political af-
fairs in this country forces us to dis
believe in goody goody politics. We
know Of: no reformer, who accom-
plished more than to change the per-
sons, NOT the practices OF political Of
fees. What Psrkhurst started out to
do was all right Nhat be did was all
right .ar = litsl while, but he has
handled pitch u he Is getting pretty
well daubed with = has been well
said that any man will f2gotect women
from any man except himself and the
same, principle operates IN managing
political affairs. Each party and every
reformer, will heroically defend the
people and protect their properly from
the inroads and attacks of thieves, in
order to get swipe at it themselves.
DR.. Parkhurst simply has changed the
method of raising political revenues
from the saloon business, from speci-
&c, to ad valorem duties.
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WHAT WILL THE VERDICT BEs

The end of the Durrant case is in
sight, the defense closing it's testimony,
Tuesday morning and the prosecution
putting in the day in rebuttal. 1t was
suggested yesterday morning that the
evidence would all be in by last night,
and that the argument would begin
this morning. There is not much diff
ference of opinion among those who
have followed the testimony as to
Durrant's guilt, but there is wide
variance in the opinion expressed as
to there being evidence to convict him.
The chain of circumstantial evidence
against him is In some respects a strong
one, and yet it has the element of
weakness, that it may leave reason
able doubt in the minds of the jury or
some of its members, as to his guilt.
We would not be surprised if the jury
disagrees, although as we have said
our own opinion is that he is guilty.
Beliefs, however, by an individual who
is not called upon to act, are more
potent than with those who, If they
act upon them deprive human being
of life. The juror in a criminal case
locked in the room with his fellows, to
decide upon his oath and his cons
cience, as to whether the commission
OF crime has been proved, beyond a
reasonable doubt, does not reach
conclusion so readily or so hastily, as
the citizen whose opinions and decis-
ions do not affect the prisoner. No
doubt the jurors, who have listened to
the testimony believe Durrant guilty,
but whether they are willing to say on
their oaths that the prosecution has
made out case that shuts out every
reasonable doubt is an entirely differ.
snt question.