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had succeeded in getting in the rear of
our army, burning our supplies at Holly
Springs. The brigade, in connection with
some Illinois troops, succeeded in bring
ing Gen. Forrest to bay at Parker's
Crossroads, and gave him a complete
drubbing. The Winter of 81 and '63 was
passed near COrinth. going to Memphis in
the Spring of '63. remaining there until
the return of Gen. Sherman's army from
Vicksburg. Joining Gen. Sherman's COM
mand We marched for Chattanooga,
Tenn. wintering at Prospect, Tenn, at
which place the regiment re-enlisted for
three years more. Spent 80 days of
the Winter of '63 and ga at home among
friends. Returning. we joined Gen. Sher
mans army at Chattanooga, and took
part in all of the movements resulting in
the capture of Atlanta. We were under
Gen. Mcpherson July %. and lost one
third of the regiment in killed and wound
ed. my company % losing % out of A,
your correspondent being among the
wOundcd-shot in foot and knee. Re
joined the regiment just as it was ready
to start to the sea. In my judgment.
Gen. Sherman's army was the greatest
fighting machine ever gotten together. My
service extended over n period of four
years. serving as private, Corporal. Duty
Sergeant, First Sergeant and First Lieu
tenant. Mustered out of service as com
handing officer of Co. +, 9th Ohio, July
%. 1865. Married Sept. IA, 1865: moved
in the woods and cleared up the farm on
which l now reside. Am farmer by oc-
cupation. l have held number of places
of trust. and hope l have discharged
of the State Board of Agriculture of
Ohio"
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u. S. TREASURY RECEIPTS.
THE SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE.
Scarcity of Supplies-Living on Parched
Corn

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: During
Longstreet's investment of Knoxville,
and for some time after the siege was
raised, provisions and medical supplies
were extremely scarce in the beleaguered
city. My limited medicinal stores, books
and papers, including hospital records,
had been destroyed at LcnOir Station by
order of Gen. Burnside, who put his
army in light marching order that he
might effect a safe retreat to Knoxville.
This destruction of stores accounts for the
fact that there is on file no hospital record
of the 10th ILL.,. making it impossible for
many applicants for pensions to show that
they were under treatment in the hospital.
When our foragers were cut off from
going to the country, / looked around for
Il boarding house, but my quest was fruit
less-the citizens having no surplus of
provisions. On the first day of my quest
found neither dinner nor supper. On
the following morning. weary and hun
CRY, applied to Barzilla Campbell, the
Quartermaster, for temporary relief.
Knowing he was a generous man, l had
some hope. When ] had stated my case,
he said: Certainly, | will give you some
thing to eat" Having disappeared for a
few moments. he came from his tent and
handed me two large ears of corn. saying:
Take this corn and parch it. 1t ought
to last you two days. At the end of that
time, if you have not found boarding
house, come back and l will give you
some more corn
l doubted that the cereal prepared as
directed, would relieve my hunger. To
my surprise, however, when / had eaten
one third of one ear my hunger was APP
peased. / succeeded in finding a board
ing place but told mine host that | would
not return for day or two, as l was
supplied with rations that would last me
a short while. l did not tell him, how
ever, that my supply consisted of nothing
more than limited quantity of parched
corn. l had learned that man could
live on parched corn, n mans internal ma
chinery being similar to that of horse or
a mule-JoHN WRIGHT, Surgeon, 10th
ILL., Clinton ILL.,
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Spots, lvana by a sharpshooter, whe put
q ball in my right hip and spine. Was
then transferred to the Invalid Corps.
Discharged July q, 1865, after having
served four years, three months and ID
days"
Comrade Geo. Matthews, Homer, O.,
reports as follows: Enlisted in Co. II,
76th Ohio, October, 1862; discharged on
the 4th day of July, 1868. at Vicksburg
Miss; re-enlisted Feb. %. 1864; mustered
out July Is, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. l was
Assessor once and was appointed in
1900 to take the census of our District
am drawing pension Of So per month.
Was drawing So until Cleveland was
elected President, and they didn't know
how to retrench on finances and had to
adopt plan that worked well to put them
out of office, by taking the old soldiers
pensions from them, or at least one-half
Of what he was drawing. l have failed,
n all my inquiry, to find where they re-
leved Democrat soldier from any of his
pension. am in favor Of service pen
sion. $12 straight, and If we ever get one
through 1t must be on that plal."
Comrade ]. Y. Rose, winner, Milton,
ILL.,, reports as follows: Born, 1881, neal
Columbus, Ohio, where l got q very CON-
mon school education. Learned carriage
making, which trade I have followed
nearly all my life. Enlisted September,
1862, and served to the close Of the war,
In Co. D, 10th Ill. Was In all the bat
hss and skirmishes with the Twentieth
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part in most of the engagements of this
noted regiment Five brothers Of us
were in the service Mt once. Two died in
the service / have taken The National
Tribune almost since it was first publish
ed, and expect to take it as long as l
live"
Comrade G. G. Keener, winner. Thay-
er, Kan, reports as follows: Enlisted
April II, 1861. for three months service,
but our company was not accepted but
we held orr organiza ton, and were ac-
cepted as Co C, of the 10th Pa. Reserves
for three years from June l, 81. Our
first battle was at Drainesville, Va,
where Ord's Brigade, consisting of
"Bucktails,' the 9th, 9Th, 10th and 18th
Pa. Reserves, met brigade of rebels of
about the same strength, and whipped
them. We thought We could whip the
whole rebel army, but We found out diff
ferent later on. Our next fight was at
Gaines's Mill, where / was wounded
through the right thigh and taken pris-
oner. Was held in Pemberton Tobacco
warehouse and Belle Isle and was lucky
enough 10 be exchanged Aug. 9. Returned
to the regiment after Antietam. In bat
ties of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Mine
Run and Brstoe Station; then to the Will
derness, where l was knocked out at
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News From Winners.

Corps in the Atlanta Campaign. The
hardest fights were Resaca and Peach
Tree Creek. At Resaca. the brigade to
which we belonged QFirst Brigade, Third
Division. Twentieth Corps. made bay
onet charge and captured that 4-gun bat
terry which there was so much controversy
about some time ago in The National
Tribune. Now. | am certain that we cap
tured the battery, because the guns We're
delivered over to the 10th Ill. Was de-
tailed and placed i'll command of those
guns until they were turned over to other
parties ut the town of Resaca three days
afterward. The lamented eX-President,
Benz. Harrison. was the first officer that
| saw inside of the rebel works at Re
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FROM PETERSBURG TO APPOMATTOx.
Arduous Service Performed by the Enter
prising Cavalry.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In his ar
ticle, Rounding Up Lee" Capt. Pulsifer
pays high tribute 10 the 18th Ohio Cav.
He says: "The regiment, numbering 313
men and - officers, left its Winter quar-
tiers near Petersburg. March 30 1t
skirmished with, charged and fought the
rebels and engaged in pursuing their re-
treating forces, making long and very
rapid marches through woods and
swamps. often obliged to stop and co.,
duroy the latter to save our horses from
miring in the black mud. This was the
daily program necessarily from the time
of leaving Petersburg to the morning of
Lees surrender" He states further in
substance, that the 18th Ohio Cav en-
gagged Lees advanced troops, holding
them in check for a considerable time,
and that his regiment was the only one
that fought mounted. / have many rea-
sons for believing that the warriors of
the 18th Ohio Cav. were not the only
mounted men engaged in the rounding
up of Lee" The I'd y. Y. Mounted Rifles,
made up of hardy country boys and me-
chanics, also marched from Petersburg
to AppomattOX.
When our soldiers were charging up
Lookout Mountain, Gen. Grant said: 1.-THE
New York boys are slow to start, but
when they get started they keep going"
The I'd n. Y. did not stop to corduroy any
manholes. They went through or around
them. over or under them. If we had
halted to corduroy the roads and swamps,
Lees whole army could have marched to
Florida before we got out of Virginia.
During the day and night preceding
the memorable April 8, the New York
boys were constantly in the saddle, march,
ing and fighting, and on the morning of
the surrender they charged Lees ad-
vanced lines of infantry, checked them
and held them until the Colored Brigade
charged through their ranks and relieved
them. Within 10 minutes from that time
flag Of truce appeared and the army
was ordered to cease firing.
Now, let us go back few days to
March 80, when We charged the JOhnnies
across Stony Creek, sometimes called
Gravelly Run. There we fought from
a. m. until nearly 5 p. m, the Johnnies'
bands playing Dixie on their side of the
Doodle on our side.
Capt. Pulsifer mentions the driving of
the LIST n. C.. Cav. across the creek, and
says that Notwithstanding their ammuni-
ton was mostly exhausted, the OhiOans
held theiraposition for 20 minutes, facing
sharp fire. That exhibition of heroism
was creditable to the 18th Ohio Cav. and
reminds me that on that very day, near
| 2 p. M, ammunition was scarce in my
| company, and l was ordered to take a
detail and hurry to the rear for an addi-
tional supply. The ammunition was pro-
cured, and the I'd N. Y. M'td Rifles held
its position, also. 1 must not fail, how
ever, to mention that before my return
with the ammunition my comrades had
charged with empty guns and once more
| driven the enemy across the creek. About
5 p. m. we hastily abandoned our posi-
ton, being fanked out of it by an IRE
sistible force of the enemy.-PETER r.
WILLIAMS. Corporal. Co. l., I'd N. Y.
MID Rifles, Soldiers Home, Quincy, Ill.
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Comrade J. T. Bloomfield, Sinclairville,
n. Y, winner of $50, reports as follows:
''Born in Vermont, 1910. Nov. 3, 1861,
enlisted in Co. d, 9th n. Y. Cav. In
camp at Washington, d. c., during the
Winter of 81 and 80. The Government
being short of horses, we did not get ours
till the following July. In the meantime
we were drilled in all the manuvers OF
war as dismounted men. \ few days af-
ter being mounted we were ordered to the
front, and during the last days of July
were part of the rear guard to the de-
feated army under Gen. Pope; were at
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TOWARD THE RISING
MUSTERED OUT.

HAMSIIIRE.-At Churubusco. Ind, Aug. 81, Albert
Hamshire, 5th Ind. Battery, aged 60.
KING.-At Kansas City Mo-, Aug. l. VIM. Rufus
King, Co. G, I'D Mo. Comrade Kings home was at
Jamesport, Mo-, where he held membership in the
GAR.
NETHERTON.-At GalIatin, Mo-. Aug Z, NJ. G.
Netherton. Co. l., 18th Mo. Cav. Comrade Netherton
was born In Daviess County, No. Feb. %, 1915. He
member of the IA r.. IF. & A. M and 10. O. +.
lie had attended every National Encampment of the
g. H. for the past p years except two, and pre-
pairing TO go to San Francisco. when he injured his
hand resulting In blood poison which caused his DEATH
PIERCE.-At Vale. Ore. July s. Geo. w. Pierce, 9th
Iowa. aged az Comrade Pierce was born in Ioudoun
County. Va He enlisted in 1861 and mustered in
1865. He member of A. p. Hovey Post. a. and
of Acacia Lodge, u.s. A. F. & A. NJ, of Ontario Ore.
which latter organization conducted the funeral
vices.
SANBoRN-At Tunbr!dge VT, Aug 5, Royal San
born, Co Il, I'd VT aged 60. Comrade Sanborn enlist
ed In 1861, and served until the close of the
STOUr.-At NintOn, Iowa, George w. stout, Co. A,
18th Iowa Burial in Evergreen Cemetery by GAR
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RECENT LITERATURE.
Magazines anc Notes.

THE MONARCH BILLIONAIRE.' y
by Morrison l. Swift. Published by
J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Co., New
York City.
This is one of the socialistic romances
in which everybody who has money is q
criminal and everybody who has not is
virtuous and self-sacrifcing.
TOWARD THE RISING SUN" by
Sigmund Krause. Published by
Laird 4 Lee, Chicago.
The author takes the reader on a
highly interesting tour through the elias
sic Orient. with which he has become very
familiar, not only through study, but my
much actual travel in the country made
famous in literature.
The complete novel in Lppincott's
Magazine for September is 1.-THE Blade
That Won," by Burton Egbert Steven
son.
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Charlottesville. and took part in the
march from the Rap'dan to Gcttvsburs
During those three days Of terrible fighting
! served as Orderly for Gen. Geary. who
commanded the Second Division of the
Twelfth Corps. In this battle the 9th \.
Y. Cav. have the credit of firing the trst
shot | was with the regiment when
Gen. Sheridan swept the Shenandoah
Valley so clean that nothing was left to
sustain the life of man or beast. l took
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SAGA He was in command of the brigade
at that time. Brighten. Ward having
been wounded early in the fight. Col.
Harrison was Colonel of the 10th Ind.
received Il slight wound from piece of
shell near Kcnesaw Mountain. which
wound has never healed and has disabled
me- Now, you can print this or any part
of it, or none at all, just as you like"
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LUCKY KANSANS
AND NERRASKANS.

During the past four years The Ma
tional Tribune has shared profits with its
patrons, and those who become such, in
the form of guessing contests. Many
thousands of dollars lave been distribut-
ed, fair proportion going to winners in
every State and Territory, but Kansas
and Nebraska contestants seem to have
been specially lucky. Kansans have been
steady winners of good sums from the
first. A Nebraskan won the largest prize
ten thousand dollars. The prizes in
these contests are substantial, and yet
reasonable. such as the paper can easily
afford These contests are conducted
with absolute fairness. A partial list of
winners in the two States named are
printed below. The readers of these lines
may be acquainted with some of them.
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HOW CABLES ARE MENDED.

OF course, when submarine cables
break. the results are far more serious
than in the case of land wires. France
has declared" once came flashing from
London to Sydney. followed by silence.
Gable communication was interrupted;
strained relations We're known to exist at
the time between England and her neigh
bors across the Channel, and the colonies
jumped to the conclusion that the miss
ing word in the mutilated message was
war" OF course, the real Interpretation
when the damage to the cable was re-
paired, and the completed dispatch came
to hand, proved to be of far less sinister
significance.
1t is the possibility of some such mis-
understanding as this that makes the COM
panies so anxious to promptly repair their
cables when damaged. Telegraph repair
ing ships for this purpose are kept sta
toned in all parts of the globe. and on Il
break being reported, are ready to start
for the scene of the accident at a mo-
ment's notice.
Arrived there. the vessel steams slowly
backward and forward across the line of
route, having her grapnel ont, until the
cable is hooked. 1t is then hauled up.
examined. repaired, and thoroughly tested
by the chief telegraphist on board. who
sends messages to both shore-ends. After
ward, it is carefully lowered again to the
bed of the ocean. This is when the cable
is not actually broken. Where it is, the
two severed ends are hauled up. buOyed,
md spIiced. Finally. if the depth be very
great, and the cable intact, although dam
aged, grapnel has to be used which grips
and cuts the cable at the same time, so
that only half the weight of it has to be
raised. BY adopting this method of pro-
cedure. the cables can be, and not nfre-
quently are raised from n depth of 1000
fathoms, or over two miles.
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A Big Di erence. Usually.
New York Weekly

Studious Boy-What is the meaning of
market value" and intrinsic value?'
Father-The market value" is the
price you pay for q thing. Intrinsic
value" is what you get when you sell it
to 4 second hand dealer.
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CIDER WITHOUT APPLES.

Do you use good cider or vinegar? We have new
formula for making cider without apples good and
and tastes like cider just from the press
Easy made; only requires kitchen utensils for making
it, cts gallon to make and the longer II is kept
the stronger and better 1t gets. 1t is reliable and a
money maker, and just what you want. We will send
formula for only 20 cts with full particulars.
BETHESDA PUB. Co., Bethesda, Ohio.
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PRELIMINARY AND OPERATE CoMMUNIcA-
TONS.
TIE TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES.

The mirror system has almost been sup
planted by the modern siphon recorder,
and this is now practically in general use
on all long cables of to-day.
This is an instrument which has deli
cately suspended between the poles of n
powerful magnet a coil of very fine wire.
to the upper end of which are attached
very fine silk threads, extending to small
piece of metal, on which is hung a very
delicate glass siphon. The upper end of
the siphon dips in an inkwel1. and the
lower end almost but not quite, touches
a strip of paper which is drawn along be-
meath it. The ink flows through the 81
phon, which is kept constantly vibrating
in plane at right angles to the paper.
When no signals are being sent the ink
line is along the center of the strip and
the sending of signals causes the suspend
ed coil to move, and this in turn, pulling
on the silk threads. causes the glass 81
phOn, which is making the ink mark, to
move. In this way wavy line is traced
on the paper, and it is this line which the
operator deciphers in reading the cable
message. 1t requires long and careful
training to read these messages, and there
are few telegraph operators who can de-
cipher this cable slip" from long ca
BILE accurately, particularly when it is con-
sidered that very nearly all cable mes
sages, except press ones. are sent in code,
which requires every letter or word to
be Enthusiastically read and recorded.
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into the water, buoy-ropes and graphing
ropes are coiled where they can be paid
out at n moments notice. and bell pushes.
in connection with bell in the engine
room, are placed in convenient positions
ut the top of each tank.
Should the cable break cupboard and
be lost, in spite of these precautions. a
markbuoy is Immediately lowered to
guide the ship in graphing operations.
Dragging is then begun at right angles
TO the line in which the cable lies. Should
the dynameter, under which the graphing
rope runs, show steady rise in the
strain, the cable is evidently hooked and
heaviDg-up commences. As soon as the
grapnel reaches the bows with the blight
of the cable on one of its prongs, the two
sides are firmly secured by lines from the
ship and the blight is cut After the two
ends have been tested from the testing
room, the short len;Sh is abandoned or
buoyed and the other is spliced to the ca
BILE in the tanks, when paying-out Is once
more resumed.
PRELIMINARY AND OPERATE CoMMUNICA-
TIONs.
In the course of these complicated
operations means are provided for send
ing operate messages, and while the snip
is in mid-ocean and speeding her way, re-
ports of the progress from day 30 day and
of any occurrence of importance on board
of ship are sent ashore, and in return the
men who are at the shore end send to
those at sea news of what is going on in
the world and messages relating TO the
work. The expedition of cable-laying is
such that when n proper start has been
made the work goes on uninterruptedly-
usually without any serious difficulty, and
the cable is laid at the rate of approx
mately 200 miles in "a hours.
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THE RISKS OF CABLE LAYING.

Under the most favorable conditions,
cable laying is anxious work for those
in charge of the operation. At any time
during the paying-out, which may last,
with long section, some 10 or IA days,
a storm may arise, or some mishap may
occur on board, which results in losing
the cable in depth Of over 1000 fathoms.
In such case the date of its recovery
can not be predicted 1t may be in three
or four days; it may be in as many weeks
or months. Every .precaution is there
fore taken against such accidents. Buoys
are slung in the rigging ready for slipping
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tire length of cable; on board and lay it
SOUNDING OPERATIONS.
Before cable can be laid, careful
soundings over the,prOposed route have to
be taken. This, is generally done by a
smaller ship, before Ithe arrival of the one
with the cable 6nobOard. 1t is very i'm
portant to know the contour of the ocean
bed on which the cable has to lie. If no
survey has been nude, sufficient slack a..
e., loose cable) may not be paid out on
nearing submarine hill, the cable will
therefore hang ~ q. festOon from the top
of it and eventually break with its own
weight. Hemp. lines We're formerly EN-
ployed for lowering the sounder, but as
these were found to. be clumsy and unre-
liable in great depths, pianoforte steel
wire system invented by Lord Kelvin has
been adopted, which is % times less di-
ameter than hemp, while its breaking
strain, bulk to bulk, is IS times as great.
A sounder lowered, with wire, to a depth
of 1000 fathoms, or two and a quarter
statute miles, can he recovered in % min
utes; q hemp line occupying two and n
half hours under similar conditions. The
sounder consists of a central tube fitted
with valves at top and bottom, and three
smaller tubes fixed beneath the central
one. As the sOunder descends, the valves
of the central tubes open upward, the wa
ter rushes through. On reaching the bot
tom, both valves close and a sample of the
bottom water is brought up The three
smaller tubes sink into the oOze, and bring
specimens of it to the surface for chemi-
cal analysis. In order to increase the
speed with which the sounder sinks, shot
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24
POPULAR CONTEST CLOSES
One Week More for to Get in the Votes for Your
Favorte Couple
WHO WILL THEY BE?

Only eight more days remain in which
to get in the votes for the Most Popular
Couple, as on Friday Jan. l, the handsome
Kimball piano now at Knight Campbelrs
store in this city will be given to some
couple. At present there are three lead
ers, John Chapple and wife of Nevadaville,
John Wills and wife of Black Hawk and
Martin Noonan and wife of Central, with
several others close enough behind to make
grand finish. The second prize will be
an SS5 diamond and the third and fourth
prizes, furniture or something else, to be
selected by the winners. In the general
good times of the next week don't forget
the contest, as the winners will be more than
happy.
Gilpin observer., 1903-12-24
Forged Checks.

John Bruce, who has lately been en-
ployed at the Central Shoe and Clothing
Cc.'s store in this city, last Saturday af-
ternOon forged two checks for $50, sign
ed by Mr.. Trenoweth OF that firm, and
cashed them with A. c. Reckling and
John Lehmkuhl. Bruce has been en-
ployed at that store, and probably ex-
tracted some checks from the check
book and then signed and passed them.
He LETT town Tuesday morning. and the
forgeries were discovered Tuesday after.
noon, Sheriff Cody being Immediately
notified, but no trace of him has been
found as yet.