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GETTING THERE IN TIME.
A Dismounted Cavalrymap Tells About the
Fort Stevens Fighting.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Within
the last few years l have seen several ar
ticles in regard to the battle at Fort Stew
ems. / kept a full and complete history
of all the good things" I participated in
from 80 to '65. think my dates are alb
solutely correct, but may be one day off.
On July 9, 1864, two boat-loads Of dis
mounted men from the Cavalry Corps ar,
rived at Camp Stoneman from the front.
There were now there about 5000 dis
mounted men. Now, from my diary:
July 10.-To-day we are in camp, skir.
mishing with the .graybacks.' We killed
millions.
11th.-To-day some 1,5O0 from the
corps were mounted and sent out into
Maryland on duty.
12th.-Soon after midnight the reveille
was sounded, and the balance of us dis
mounted men fell into line, then broke
ranks and spent the rest Of the night
drawing rations, clothes, arms and ammu
milton. At daylight we (some l,5oo) were
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on WILSON'S RAID.
A 4th U. s. Cav Man Tells of the Fight
Before Selma.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / have
been looking carefully through every issue
for the past two years thinking | would
see something from one Of the boys of the
4th U. S. Cav. during the civil war.
joined it with Co. II at McNfinnsville,
Tenn, in 1868, and from that time on to
the expiration of my term l was contin-
uously in active service.
l united with it a raw recruit, and rose
to the position Of First Sergeant / could
relate many thrilling incidents, but will
only note the one that took place before
Selma, Ala, on Wilson's raid.
As l remember it, the two divisions of
| Long and Upton arrived before the first
| line of works about two hours before sun
down, Longs on the right and Uptons on
| the left. We came on the field with Gen.
Wilson on the left, while Upton's Division
was preparing to attack. We heard the
| noise of battle on the right. Wilson nt
once started with our regiment to the
scene.
When We arrived, after ride of about
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This VIII Interest Many.

F. W. Parkhurst, the Boston publisher, says
that If any one who Is afflicted with rheumatism
in any form. neuralgia. will send their ad-
dress to him ut box 1901, Boston. Mass lie will
direct them to peri ct curg. He has nothing
to sell or.ivc, only tells you how he was cured.
Hundreds nave tested il with success.
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RECENT LITERATURE.

THE STRENGTH OF GIDEON, AND
OTHER STORIES by Paul Lawrence
Dunbar. Dodd,i Mead & Co., of New
York.
The latest thing from the pen of Mr..
Dunbar, the leading negro author of the
country. appears in ii beautifully printed
IL mo. of 362 pages under the above title.
The book consists of Il series of character
sketches, painting wildly the lights and
shadows of the authors race in their daily
life both in slavery and freedom. The work
is well worth reading.
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to stand the racket better than the older
prisoners, but the fact is that these new
arrivals. as a rule, sickencd and died much
faster than the old hands.
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THE BUTTON CRAZE.


l frequently drew water for buttons,
pins, needles and any kind of pay my Gus
toners We're willing to give, and in jus
tice to myself will say that / never refused
to supply those who had nothing to give.
Brass buttons came to be legal tender with
our guards, and the visitors who looked
in on us occasionally always made inquiry
for them. The prisoner fortunate enough
to have a supply of buttons, pins, needles
or other trinkets could have the best grub
the country afforded by dickeriqg with the
guards. AT first the common button worn
at the side of the army forage cap or upon
the vest or overcoat cape rated at about
81 dozen, the blouse and coat button at
about 81 and the different State buttons
much higher. They We're current all the
time, and finally came to be worth all the
holder would ask. Payments were of
| course made in Confederate money. which
had so far deprecated when l first went
to Salisbury that a 81 greenback would
bring five in Confederate scrip. This rate
did not last long, and before l left there
| could have readily exchanged our money
| at one for 500, and by sharp bargaining
perhaps more.
The desire to possess Il quantity of Yam
kee buttons amounted to Il perfect fever
with almost every rebel soldier | saw mt
| Salisbury. They would procure passes to
| visit the stockade and buttons would he
the burden of their conversation all the
| time they were inside. One day a fine
| looking young fellow came into the pen
and at once offered $40 for four Excel
sior" or York State buttons. He had n
| brand new coat of fine gray cloth cut in
the Shanghai pattern, with black collar
| and cuffs, and lacked four buttons of
enough to properly set it off -Four but
| tons were already affixed to the tail of his
coat at the pockets. While crowd of
prisoners engaged him i'll conversation one
of their number slipped behind him. cut
off the four buttons, brought them around
and had them inspected. The prospective
| buyer held one of them beside one on the
| front of the coat to be sure they were the
right kind. paid the Yankee the $40 and
at once started for the gate, stepping as
high as a bantam rooster and with the
general air of man who imagines he has
the world by the tall l saw the whole
transaction, and could not help feeling
sorry for the fellow then, but often
laughed at this Yankee trick afterward.
My own buttons had been disposed of
early, as had those of most of the old
prisoners, and | remember feeling envious
of the new arrivals, who. in addition to
good, warm clothing, had full supply
| of buttons.
ITO be continued)
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Magazines and Notes.

The special features of The american
Monthly Review of Reviews are Il review
of recent Chinese ihistory. by Stephen
Bonsai n study of the work and person
mel of the Kansas Cit,- Convention. by
Walter Wellman: illustrated articles on
MIR. Bryan mt Home" 'l,li .odorr RoHse-
velt." 10y .iacGi, \. 4 IL, :;..i 'i.oasrveii' ;
Wu:k Us Cove. uof.
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TIE "MCGGERS.'

THE "MCGGERS."
The new prisoners were victims of much
brutality at the hands of a gang Of men
who belonged principally to the Missis-
sppi Marine Brigade, who behaved much
like the Raiders of Andersonville. We
called these men 'Muggers" here, and
they were a terror to all the honest pris-
oners; but the newcomers were the worst
sufferers Mt their hands, as the Richmond
robbers had stripped the older prisoners
so bare that now they furnished mighty
poor picking" "a letter from my friend
and comrade, Halsey Lathrop, since writ
ing the original copy of this manuscript
informs me that after / left the prison,
Feb II, 1865, the MugGers were subdued,
but gives no further particulars.) do not
know how many their gang numbered, but
do not think it was more than 40 or 30,
and perhaps not so many. Their quarters
were not far from our mansion, and on
one occasion Dubois had a difficulty with
one of them at the well. This fellow fol-
| lowed Dubois, together with several of his
mates, determined to give him a thrashing.
| A number of the stronger members of our
squad rallied, and it was agreed that the
| two should have a fair fight, and at it
they went. They fought savagely for some
| time, when the "MuGger," thinking per-
haps that he had ''bitten off more than he
could chew" gave it up and his crowd left
us. saying they would have it out some
! blHtt Dut tuc W ao iC-
newed.
| These fellows murdered a negro prison
er, and threw him into our well, and we
used the water for some time after. We
found the water tasted badly, and finally
discovered the dead body, and, as we had
no means of removing it, abandoned the
well.
Our cup and string served us all Win
ter and brought us quite an income, as
one of our mess stayed about the well
most of the time drawing water for all
who came. If fellow had tobacco, which
many of the new prisoners had in abund-
ance. we charged a chew for drawing a
cup of water.
This may seem to have been small busi-
ness, but by it we managed to keep Il
supply of the weed for the whole mess
most of the time. True, we had to econo-
mize in its use. always making one chew
do a day and frequently longer, and until
most of its tobacco taste was extracted;
then these quids were carefully dried and
made a fair article of smoking tobacco.
Our economy in this respect was only
exceeded by q Connecticut man / once
heard of who pursued it to the extent OF
using his pipe ashes for snuff. This to,
bacco supply was capital hit for Fritz,
as weIalways called Rensselaer,, as he was
an inveterate smoker, and declared that
he could do without bread almost as cas-
lily as his pipe.
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TRUTH HARD TO BELIEVE.

After the close of the war l chanced to
be present a O lecture on life in rebel pris-
ons by man who had preserved loaf
of the cOrncob bread given us here, which
he exhibited to his audience. This loaf
was one which had been issued to two
prisoners as a days ration, and l re-
member these people disputed the state
ment of the lecturer, and i heard several
say that it was impossible that the rebels
had fed their prisoners on such stuff, and
they doubted the whole story. When !
arose and vouched for the truth of the
matter. telling them that l had been fed
on such bread, and no other, for several
months, they gazed pityingly at me, and
IntImated that L must have recently es-
capped from some lunatic asylum.
Yankee ingenuity failed to supply the
deficiency in the quantity of food fur
| nished, but by sharp practice and the aid
of the Squad Sergeants a few were able
| to get double ration at times. Each day
| we had to get into line and be counted
| to the number counted each day, and some
of the more active boys would manage
| to be counted in two different squads.
| This We called thanking" and was in.
| dulged in successfully by several men
| knew. Dubois was a lucky Tanker ~
| Many OF the men We're not able to stand
| in line to be counted. and sometimes the
| counter would number such ones in their
quarters, and sometimes would take the
| word of the squad commander for the
| number sick and issue rations accordingly,
| but the rule was that every man must be
| seen by the counting officer. | will eX-
plain that the lower numbered divisions
were kept full by distributing the men
| from the higher numbers to supply va
| cancies made~by death, and each squad
| was filled to its maximum number after
| each count.
| Our supply of wood was very small. 1t
was issued daily, and each squad was
| allowed as much as two of its members
| could carry from the railroad into the
stockade for the "A hours. 1t was mostly
| of green sap-pine timber, which would
| hardly burn Mt all, and emitted sticky
black smoke that would not wash off, and
| our hands and faces soon became coated
| with it and our long, uncOmbed hair was
matted and stuck together with it till
| clad in our ragged garments, we resem-
| bled anything rather than intelligent hui
| man beings. We frequently begged the
| privilege of Maj. Gee of being allowed to
| go out under guard to gather pine bOughs
| with which to make shelters for the COM
| ing Winter, but although there were acres
| of thick pine brush near the prison, none
4 were allowed to go to get them. We per-
! suaded our squad and division commanders
to petition him on the subject, but this did
no good.
! | have before spoken of squads of pris,
| 0nerS hcing brought to the stockade direct
/ from the front. These men had not been
robbed. as we were, but allowed TO retain
| their money clothing and blankets, and
lit Would seem that they were prepared
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Prof. G. THEEL, Sixth St.

e47a In genuine Confederate money for only n
v6iO cents. Address Ehss. ID. Barker, Atlanta, Ga
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La.iirS-My Regulators Nerrr Fita. Trial Box 100
1;r.. a. Price, ,6s station p. Phiia lei .].a IA
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'hoofing it toward the Capital without our
breakfast, but in the city, as we were on
the move, we were well supplied with
bread and butter and other catables by
citizens who thronged the way with bas-
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there was desutory firing Ii is marVel-
Gus that nobody on the British side was
injured.
General Hutton started early to find the
drift on the west When this was dis
covered il proved 10 be strongly held and
protected by two guns. The British speed
lily engaged the Beers. who enfiladed the
dlsmounted firing line with a Maxim, but
General Hutton pushed forward his own
pOmpom and a gallOpinS Maxim ana
forced the Beers TO leave the river bed
The encounter was terribly hot. Later
the whole British force crossed the river,
threatening the Beers right.
The Beers must have received about the
same time news Of General Hamilton
occupation Of Winburg.
About sunset a detachment of twenty
six Australians. who had crept unseen
toward the river bed. found themselves
near a kopje occupied by the Beers. At
ter firing trey fixed bayOnets and charged.
capturing the kOpje. All was done on
their own initiative. Thus night fell
Early this morning il was discovered that
the whole Boer force had fed.
General Hutton. during the night, got
two sduadrons To blow up the line near
Swaldsel.
The British discovered yesterday al
every leo yards along the railway con-
cealed. small packages of high explosives
The. Beers had destroyed three bridges
over SpruitS between here and BrandfOrd.
but in very case il was possible To make
Il detOur.
Inc Beers appear TO be fighting with
much less spirit. 1t is reported that they
are commanded by General Lucas Meyer.
The bridge over the Vet river is COM
pletely detroycd.
Gen a-al hutton captured a Maxim and
TOOK twelve prisoners.
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Sundry Civil Bill Passed.

washington, May 5.-The house To-Day
passed the sundrv civil bill. IL carries
slightly more than $ci.Joooo. about Wv
OOoO0D more than any previous suiiuiS
civil blll The general deficiency ana mn
itarv academy appropriation bills are now
the only general supply bills Enacted up
ON bv the house. There was protr1cted
contest over several propositions to buy
140 acres additional for the st. Elizabeth
insane asylum at 81, 800 an acre. but every
pToposition was defeated The senate
amendments to the army appropriation
hin were disagreed to by the mouse. ana
the bill was gent to conference. Notice
was given that the Peterson Crawford
contested election case would be called
up on Wednesday next. AT 4:Zo y. M the
house adjourned.
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England Is Watching the Work

London. MAY :. 4:10 a. m.-Lord Roberts
is making better progress than any one
had dared to hope and is meeting with
success at all points. The only news OF
the actual occupation of Winburg is the
Incidental reference to it in the dispatch
fem Vet river describing General Pore
Carew's opera tons. but as the latest news
of General HamiltonS operations dated
Saturday morning, was that he was then
repairing to force the difficult passage
over Little Vet river. on the Bloemfon-
tein-Winburg road. there can be no doubt
that the news of the occupation is ac-
curate.
"Ee Beers. following their customary
on the Vet river during Saturday night.
As Lord Roberts advancing along the
railway, and General Hamilton. twenty
miles to the east. threatened the two
wings of the Boer forces, il would not
be surprising to hear that they had also
evacuated Winburg
General Hamiltons advance Will pre-
vent the Boer forces in the direction of
Thabanchu joining their main army near
Winburg.
General Rumble on Saturday had ar
rived in pursuit of the Beers seven miles
north of Thabanchu. compelling the Beers
To retire in an easterly direction. A Boer
says:
The federal forces. although weak in
nrn- bers. offered strong resistance, but
they were forced by the overwhelming
force opposed to them to eyacuate the
town.
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Hamilton Defeated the Beers.

London. May 3-The war office has re-
ceived the following report from Lord
Roberts under date of Bloemfontein. May
ID:
General Hamilton met with consider
able success and drove the enemy out of
the strong position they had taken up at
Houtnek with a comparatively small loss
to u.s. The Beers dispersed in several
directions. mainly to the east and north.
leaving twenty-six prisoners in our hands.
including one commandant, and sixteen
other wounded men. General Hamilton
Is now in camp at Jacobsdal. AS the
men needed rest after fighting seven out
of the last ten days, | ordered them to
halt for the day. General Broadwood'S
brigade of cavalry arrived on the scene
in time to afford valuable assistance by
threa tening the enemyS position. Dur
ing the afternoon General Hamilton was
Joined by General Bruce Hamilton's bril-
gade of infantry.
THE enemy admit having twelve killed
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Adv,ces from Pretoria Give Details

Pretoria, May 2.-An official far buile-
tin issued here. reports that on April
2Sth the federals captured nine prisoners
and ten horses eastward of IhaDdnchu
and that on April 50th British mount
aa corns appeared near BrandfOrt. The
federaIs attacked them on two sides and
tho British retired. Two federals We're
wounded and eleven prisoners were tax
en-. Another account. semi-ofiicial. of this
affair says that the Wakkerstroem and
Ermelo commands had a skirmsh wlta
the British near Brandfort. After a sharp
tigbt eleven prisoners We're taken ana
nsnoteen british We're left dead on the
tinid Including Captain Leary. Few OF
the federals were injured. The heavy
bomba rdment by the Brush mas pesA
'.os,,mad AZ Fourteen Streams. An Amer
ian has Deen arrested in connection Win
the Begbie explosion.
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MAY ADJOURN EARLY IN JUNE.
Republican Caucus Committee De-
cides ON Order of Business.

Washington. April 2e.--rhe republican
caucus committee on order of business of
the senate decided today to recommend
that The army REORGANIZATION blu be
taken up after the Alaskan code bill is
cisposed Of Disposition was manifest to
have the Alaskan bill pressed as speedily
as possible in order to get it out of the
way of the appropriation bills. The com
mittee was unanimously of the opinion
lime as the supply bills could be acted
upon. and there was no dissent from the
opinion that this result would be accom-
plishe.i during the iirst half of the month.
irbe Philiopine bin will lie kept on the
calendar with the intention of passing it.
but no decision was reached 70 take up
either the shipping bill or the Nicaraguan
canal hill The latter measure wds dis
cussed nj some length. but SOME unwil-
ingness was expressed to its passage UNI
iii the l,layton-Bulwer treaty could be
disposed OF and right of way acquired for
the canal
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JURY HAD BEER AND WHISKY.
Charge Made in Motion for New
Trial.

Columbia. :. G.. May i.-(SpcciaD-The
was a sensation hecc today when William
II. Lylcs. counsel for the Columbia. New
berry and Laurens railroad. moved for u
new trial I'm the case where a jury had
lust found against the railroad 5000 dam
ages for Injury to a woman's leg, on the
ground that the jury had been tempered
with. MIR. Lyles. who is one Of the lead
ing lawyers in the state. submitted an
affidavit that during the night the jury
was I'm the courthouse. others besides the
Jury were in the juTyroom. and that the
Jurors were supplied with whisky ind
beer. The Judge appointed n special mas
ter To AXE testimony in the case. y
prominent Columbia business man was
foreman of the jury.
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WANTS TO IMPORT LACEMAKERS
Faith Healer Will Introduce a New
Industry.

Washington. April 3o.-John Alexander
Dowie. the well-known faith healer. of Chicago,
and the general oyerseer Of the Christian Cath
Ollie church," was at the treasury department
today and had a conference with Secretary
Gage. lie stated that he had recently pur-
chased at Nottingham, England. five machines
Tor making Nottingham lace. as well as other
necessary machinery. which he would set up
near Waukegan. Wis. He also had engaged
under contract twenty experts In lace making
and his purpose in seeing the treasury officials
was to learn whether there would be any legal
objections to their coming into the country. lie
was Informed by the secretary that the con-
tract labor laws of the United States made
specific exception In the cases of worknen 10
be employed in an industry new to this country.
and as lace making undoubtedly was new
industry here. there could he no objection to
hts bringing over the men he had engaged Or.
bowie stated that he had 20 600 acres of land
near Waukegan where his lace plant would be
established for the benefit of the members or
his church community. and he expected 10 make
the enterprise very profitable.
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serve reply. but from him. they need no
answer.
AS Mr.. Mann turned his back. Mr..
Gaines raised his right hand mcnaclngly
and exclaimed, amid the confusion ana
laughter:
II want TO say that am responsible for
every word l say
After further discussion & vote was tax
en- on the pending amendment. ard 1t was
defeated &c to ia.
another amendment by Mr.. Burton. of
Ohio. striking out the word 'Greytowh,
was defeated IA to IS
The bill was then reported to tire mousse
Mr. Adamson, of Georgia, demanded u
separate vote upon the committee amend
for defense i'm place of 'fortific4tions Tor
defense" The vote was taken by ayes
and noes The committee amendment
was adopted 154 to loi.
The Bill Is Passed.
Mr.. Burton then moved to recommit the
hin IN the Interstate commerce commit
tee. with Instructions to report back
forthwith a substitute authorizing the
president to secure control OF the strip
of territory, connecting the two oceans
for the construction of "A canal and au-
thorizing the construction or such ca
nal at a cost not to exceed slAo.o"V'VoV' ihe
motion was defeated 50 to III.
Mr.. Burton demanded the ayes and noes
hu, could not get a second for his de-
mani The vote then came upon the
final passage of the bill
The bill was passed-225 to 80 Inc an
nouncement was received with whiri-
wind of applause. The names Oh tho'9
members VINO voted nay folloW' go,
Aches1n Adams burton, Cannon, cap
ron. Clark. of Missouri: Cooneyi aow-
herd. Cox. Dalzel, Dearmond, DenlS'
Dougherty, Fleming. Fletcher, Saa 1I IN
Gillett. of Massachusetts; Graham. itil.i
King Lawrence. Lester. Levy, Littauer,
Idttiefield. Mccall, Neville, Rhea, of Ken
lucky: Rucker, Shafroth, SpraSue. Sew
art. of Wisconsin; Talbot. Thayer, an h
inIrnel
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George A. ArmeS, u. S. A."

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head, sympathetic heart palpitation, pain.
Indigestion. and looSeness of the bowels.
Peruna is a specific for catarrh of the
stomach.
Many people think that catarrh is con-
fined To the head. and perhaps occasional
cases of catarrh of the stomach This IS
very far from being the case Every or
gan. duct and opening of the body is lined
with mucous membrane and Is liable 10
catarrh or Inflammation One man has
catarrh of the eyes: another catarrh or
the bronchial tubes: another catarrh or
the kidneys: another catarrh of the blad-
der.
4 remedy to cure catarrh OF these all
ferent organs must be a remedy that acts
directly on the mucous membranes lin
ing these organs. Ii must be an Internal
systemic remedy. 1t is claimed for Pc
runa that ii cures catarrh wherever To-
Gated.
A book on catarrhal diseases, written
by Dr. Hartman. the compOunder OF Re
rIIna will be sent free to any address Dy
The Peruna Medicine Co, Columbus,
Ohio.