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THE NATIONAL TBIBOTE: D. 0., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 188S. iPWr ife In faiM mm utMoa (ESTABLISHED 1877.) Published weekly. One Dollar per Year, Snvnriirtily in Advance. lx months, 7C cants.

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TmSBATWLEQTNASEVI'LLEr-Aspirited sJmtdli by A. CSanvtlk, of McMillan's Jhfatilo, A. SmWPs Corps, Cedar Falls, Iowa, OIK Invariant Engagement dtnnkty the Seven Dans'1 lalllcs "before llich-maml By MaJ. H. D.

O'Brien 1st 3Hmu "SMtPLE short start of the war. By Ms. Brown, Londonderry, 0. TEESBMT BATS WORK OF MS LIFE An army offteos story of the Confederate Frimn Pan, continuation of Qrantis Jlrginia catipaign, ly Carlclon," tsill appear nad weak. SEN.

WALKER'S ARTICLES. B01IMR INSTEAD OF ONE1. "We ibave the pleasure of informing our reactors tihat Gen. Francis A- Walker baa upon ifnslhcr reflection derided to give The Katjqn-AjL Tiuiiukb four articles instead of one. These will be 1.

Sumner at Pair Oaks. 2. Gouali at Ghancolloreville. 3. Hancodk at GolfcyBlmrg.

4. Warren at Briloc. Thotm vMl all be of unsurpassed interest and tnierit, as anything coming from Gen. Ws9kexfc pen must be. GEN.

GRANT'S aiEMOIRS. TJeoconl! volume of the Poronal Memoirs ef Gon- TJ. S. Grant, published by Wubstor ulUttngtk imaoA and ready for delivery. JInKj- of eur readers have Lean supplied with eojiiur of volume oo by The National Tai-vmi, mid we ar prafwtroil to furnish tbem volume two upon the same terms.

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No soldier who roads tb1sHk chii fail to 1m dcoply interested, as tliQOHOitUtritHiig adventures and hair-breadth mmnw are tM in a way to bring hack vividly ievtho mind jjlic days of '01-5. WOUMI'S orCLOl'HUIJU Wohtefcwiunid a now supply of this most cxcKltt wrk, whieli is in Itsolf a small library. It contains a wealth of information whJcJhauunul be thoroughly realised until tho book It inspected It will le tost to any psr-bou fciiditig ub a oiub of ix new suhsorlbore, aud wW be tent in conjunction -with Tire A3Mtww. TmiKJKE for one year for THE (J.A.B. WATOH.

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lUllinn ti. paintwrof the faiMousjuoture ontitlod "Graut una iw idronomis," Tills picture Is a cauviuss 15 IS feat, fcbowing Gen. Grant and 2C olhur Gonojiils mounted, all made from life in 1SG4 iuid J606 by "Mr, Balbng, who had a eouiiaisfciou to perforin the work from the owner of tho painting. The pioturo has for 3'ears been utored in thoGrdnauac Museum in Washington, but ia now on oxhibhiou at a. Safe 11! Gomjmny'e building, where It is an object of 151 ea jimvnu i luoieaiu ju tne aruoic tne artist tiKWKitiM inoldents of bis association with ihn iGtKiurols when securing studies for his work.

THIS XAXIOXAX. 1'XSXSION" COJDHTTKE. The evident need of doing at once all tbat could be dono to aid in securing the passage of desired pension legislation induced Gen. Geo. S.

Merrill, Chairman of the National Ponsion Committee, G.A.E., to convene the Committee bore. For a week, now, be, Com-mander-in-Chiof Burdett, Past Commander-in-Chief Kountz, Corporal Tanner and Comrade Jobn C. Lineban bave been in "Wasb-iugton on this business. The other member of the Committee Gen. Louis "Wagner, of Philadelphia vras detained at borne by bis duties as Inspector of the Soldiers' Orphans' Schools of Pennsylvania.

Sinco the Committee arrived here the mombers bave labored zealously and wo believe eflectivoly to hasten the consummation of such legislation as is urgently needed by tbe disabled and suffering comrades of the country. They bave met the House Committee on Invalid Pensions and tbe Speaker and leading members of the House, and presented to them the needs of the veterans, tbe general wish for an affective measure of relief, and strong arguments in favor of the principal features of Senate Bill No. 18SG and the bUl introduced into the House by Mr. Ellsberry, of Ohio. They bave urged, with all tbe earnestness they could command, tbat Congress be not allowed to adjourn without the passage of some general bill of the kind.

Five better men for this purpose cannot be found in the United States. One and all they are men of prepossessing presence, and able to express their ideas in a way to arrest attention and carry conviction. In addition to their representative capacity as the authorized spokesmen for tbe 000,000 members of the G.iLlL, they are men whose records and social position give dignity to tbeir utterances. "With one exception the Committee was well received, and given all the respect and attention tbat could be desired. As a rule those whom they approached expressed themselves as heartily in sympathy with the objects of tbe Committee's visit, and willing to do all tbat could be done to aid the desired legislation.

Hon. Jobn. G. Carlisle, Speaker of tbe Honse, and Col. C.

C. Matson, Chairman of the Committee on In validPensionSjWereparticularly courteous, and gave the Committee much encouragement, as did other leadius men of tbat body, Tbe only exception was Mr. "Wm. Morrison, who represents a district in Illinois. This gentloman took the occasion of tbe Com mittee's visit to bim to be very boorish.

He did not permit any explanation of the Committee's office or errand, would listen to no argument in behalf of tbe soldier, and terminated tbe interview witb a most marked incivility. The veterans of the country bave reason to feel hopeful of the results of the Committee's visit. The arguments and representations bave done much to convince all Congressmen of tbe expediency and justice of legislating at once to remove tbe country's brokon-down defenders from tbe almshouses and place tbem in their own little homes. "SOJLTLEItS AT The leading article in a daily contemporary one day this week reads: Are tbe cx-MldIors of tbe volunteer army of the United Suites for sale Are they willing to put up Oieir voles to be bid for by demagogs? Is IbeGrand Array of the Itopublic eager to exchange iU honor-nblenitmefortliutoftbcGrandArrayofMendicanUiT It cannot be. Old soldiers would scorn the Idea of selling tboir votes for money If tbe proportion wore put to thorn in just that form, and we believe Hint a large majority of them will despise tbe sobume to win tboir favor by making tbem parasites on tbe National Treasury.

Nor can Blair and Logan and llawloy claim to be tbe 'etemn's special friends because they advocate tbobo wild subomes of spoliation. Gen. Grant was a soldier; the foromost soldier of the Union army, but 11 years ago he vetoed a far lees liarmful pension bill than, tbe one now bufore tho Houre. The bill for the oqunlization of bounties would have taken from the Treasury not more than in all, but President Grant vutoed it for two good reasons He thought the condition of tbe national finances did not warrant tbe tremendous outlay, and bo thought the ohiof benonuiat ie would be, not the soldiers thomsd vo. but the swarms of ravenous claim agonts who bad alroady bought up tcnof thousands of claims nnd held thorn to collect.

Are not both these objections good to-day? The enormous ponrfon-gralilbutcamebefore Congress four yeilra Inter wm inoro successful. Grsmt was no longer President. Hayes sal in the Executive obair, and bis faetle hand nignod the bill and gave validity to tbat huge Job of politicians bunirrv for vote known an the Arrears of 1'onsioiiH. It paused and wan signed on tho assertions of Logan, JIawley and tlhelr military ooufreros tbat it "could not" call for tbe expenditure of more than VoM, what were the facti? Jfcoyknow. Not merely Si ,000,098 have boon llsburscd under it, but nnd sUH new payments are accumulating.

And now Congress is dbcusbing a proiGal to pay the soldiers more. "What would Gen. Grant say to this? It would be assumed tbat tbe araonnt paid for pensions ought to diminish 20 years after a war ended, but now, altbougb four-fifths of all tbe sol-diorswbo fought in the war arc dead, and every child of evory uoldlor killed In war is of ago. tlus list of pensioners inereaMts in geometrical ratio. The year after the war twonly millions wore paid for jMiostons; noxt year tbe psnsion-roll will call fur Jusi about five times as much, and the next year twenty tlmm us lnuuli if Senator Blair had bis way.

If soldiers votes are to be so shamelessly bargained for. why should not the hucksters be corn-palled to foot the bills themselves? This is a specimen of tbe mean and ma lignant editorials now appearing in fcoldier-hating papers, which fear that the voterans maybe at laist granted tbat which tboy richly earned, which was jiartof the contract when they oulisted, and whicb humanity as woli as justice donmnds shall be given tbem now. The inspiration of such an editorial is not obscure nor romote. It is tbe gnashing of teeth by men who want the money in the Treasury expended for their own jobs, and not paid oat in way which gives no chance for loot or boodle to tbe bnngry crowd of intriguers and jobbers. It emanates from the same canters of reform and economy, one of whose characteristic operations was exposed tbe other day, where tbe washing of tbe Treasury towals bad been token "away from some two score of soldier widows who made btarvation wages at the work, and given to a big laundry firm at an aggregate Raving of $85 a montb.

On tbe very day tbat this wonderful piece of retrenchment was beralddd forth, a lot of unnecessary officials wore appointed to superintend some unnecessary "repairs" on an unnecessary building in West Virginia. There is scarcely a single sentence in tbe above which does not convey an untruth, either directly or indirectly. It is fatuous nonsense, as stupid as if is insulting, to talk about soldiers putting up their votes to bo bid for by demagogs." There is no class that can be singled out among our citizens who are so well informed in regard to our Government, who axe more earnest in upholding all that is good in it, and wbo are as little likely to be led astray by demagogs as the soldiers. The men in Congress wbo arc advocating doing justice to tbe soldier are only carrying out what nearly every member of tbe present Congress from north of Mason and Dixon's Line fervently promised to do when bo was a candidate for election. They are only doing what nearly every convention City, County, District, State, Republican, Democratic, Greenback, Labor and Temperance has repeatedly declared, witb all em-pliasia, that it was tbe duty of the country to do.

At least two-thirds of tbe present House of Representatives went before tbe people on platforms which called for a repeal of the limitation to the arrears of pensions and for a just extension and liberalization of tbe pension laws. Within the next few weeks these men will be again before the people asking for election on platforms containing identical planks. The men whom tbe Fosl denounces as demagogs are tbe ones who regard tho pre-election promises of themselves and their parties as assuming an obligation whicb calls for fulfillment The allusion to Gen. Grant was very unfortunate. There is no doubt tbat great man regarded bis veto of the equalization of bounty bill as one of the mistakes of bis civil administration, and bad the opportunity been given bimbe would bave expressed bis regret for it as frankly as be did bis sor-rowfor having ordered the disastrous charges at Ticksburg and Cold Harbor.

But what incredible stupidity can possess a man wbo talks about "ravenous claim agents who have already lought up tens of thousands of claims and held them to collect" Tho most ordinary information ia regard, to tbe laws of tbe land will make any one understand tbat this is simply impossible. No pension attorney can by any possibility bave any other pecuniary interest in a claim than that represented by a very small fee. No less absurd is it to say tbat four-fifths of those wbo fought tbe war through, are now dead. There were about 2,250,000 who enlisted for three years. Of these about 400,000 died or were killed during tbe war.

Probably an equal number baa died since. This would leave about 1,000,000 still surviving. It is in tbe very nature of things tbat the pension list should increase now, and for the next few years. As the average age of the men who fought the war through was about 25 years, most of those who survive are in the neighborhood of their 50lb year, a period of life when tbe shocks and strains of their youthful service are prone to manifest themselves in premature and total disability. It must be expected that tbe pension list will swell rapidly for the next few years, and then it will decrease with even greater rapidity, as the veterans hasten to join Grant, Thomas, Hancock, Meade, and their other gallant leaders on the farther shore.

SKXATJ2 1S1LL NO. 1880. It does not seem possiblo that there can.be any argument made against the Government taking its disabled defenders from the County poorhonses which is worthy of the attention of reasonable men. Tho decency, to say nothing of the justice of this, is so apparent tbat it hardly requires thinking to be apparent That there are broken-down veterans wbo are not in receipt of any allowance from tbe Government, and are compelled to depend upon local or private charity for the bread which maintains life in tbeir bodies, is a burning shame and a reproach to any Government which claims to be enlightened and just No civilized Nation in tho world permits sucb a tiling as this. Every Government makes an allowance to those who served it faithfully for a specified, length of time, and such services as the American sol diers rendered their Government during tho long period over which the war extended would bo recognized by any people aa a sufficient claim upon the bounty of the Government Senate bill No.

1S8G, and measures of similar nature proposed in the House, do nothing but what every right-thinking man and woman concedes should be done. It takes from tbe almshouses aud infirmaries the men who wore tbe blue and carried a musket in troublous days; relieves the overburdened taxpayers of the community of their charge; sends them back to their own little homes, and x'laccs the burden of the maintenance where it properly belongsupon the Government to whom they gavo all that young, brave, patriotic, and self-sacrificing mon could give. In spite of all tho lying to the contrary, these bills do not increase taxes 1, nor can they by any possibility do so. They will, on the other hand, rcduco taxation, for that which ia now drawn from the local treasuries will, by such enactments, be taken from the overllowing vaulta of the United States Treasury. Whether a man be friendly to a soldier or not, be should favor this legislation on selfish grounds, be- i cause it will relieve him and bis commu nity of burdens which, by right, uhould be borne by the General Government MANY complaints come to us from the Hampton Soldiers' Home of the gardener employed there, who is represented as being a very much unreconstructed rebel, and handi in bis treatment of tbe old.

veterans. On Sunday morning last the Bavarian monarch, Ludwig, ended by drowning a life as useless to himself as it was to bis country. This unfortunate monarch some time ago lost control of 6ven tbe meager intellectual faculties of whicb be was once tho possessor, and acted in a manner which would soon bave bankrupted bispoor little country. His extraordinary capers bave for months past been tbe subject of newspaper paragraphs, but still the Bavarians clung to this royal puppet witb the utmost devotion, and it was only when his insanity became so pro nounced that even their slavisb fidelity could not longer bide from tbem the fact tbat he was unfit to be King that be was deposed, and bis uncle Luitpold made regent. And now tbat poor Ludwig has died by disease transmitted by bis ancestors and aggravated by bis own profligacy, tho country has gone tbrougb the farce of crowning his brother Otto, knowing him to be nothing better than a drivelling idiot.

Luitpold will, however, be King in reality, and Otto be King for revenue only. A general desire has long been felt for a feasible plan of life insurance that can be applied to the old soldiers. A large per cent of the survivors of the war are barred from the benefits of life insurance on tbe ordinary plan, by reason of their varying degrees of disability, from disease or wounds. To meet this want, "The Grand Array of the Republic Beneficial Association of tbe United States" has been incorporated under thd laws of Indiana. The limit of benefits is $1,000, and thi3 is paid by an assessment, graded according to the ages of members, made for each death.

None but honorably-discharged soldiers and members of the Grand Army are admitted. We believe the Association to be worthy of confidence, and that it will meet the purposes for whicb it has been organized. The Secretary is Samuel E. Tilford, No. 5 Hubbard Block, Indianapolis, Ind.

The address delivered at Wichita, on Memorial Day by Gov. John A. Martin, was a brilliant effort, and one that went right to the hearts of tbe listeners. In tbe course of his oration flic Governor uttered tbe following eloquent passage: Country boys, some of them, they had grown up from Infancy, surrounded by calm and gracious scenes nnd sounds; town boys, others, they had dreamed only of business or professional pursuits aHd of thoc triumphs and successes which, in civil life, insure a quiet and prosperous old age. Suddenly the flash of a gun In Charleston Harbor startled the land like an electric shock, and In a moment all the currents of its life were changed.

Tho air throbbed with the roll of drums and tho blare of bugles; flags fluttered in, tho sky like shipwrecked rainbows, nnd for tbe first time In their lives millions of people realized what the old flag stood for. lien walked about with an unwonted flame in their eyes, and women, quick to comprehend tbe agony and bitter sacrifices of tbe years to come, nnd hiding in their hearts the never-lifting shadow of their fears, wept and prayed In tbe silence of their rooms tbat this cup might pass nway. The article by Mr. Balling, the artist, who painted "Grant and liia Generals," will be found on another page. It is a subject in which every old soldier will be interested.

It is understood, that the ownerof the painting is willing to sell it if it can go to a-suitable place. It would he a pity to have a painting of such great historic value leave "Washington. It embraces the portraits of 27 of the Nation's heroes, who can never again be grouped, on tho same canvas. Of the group, 10 are already deatL The Government should own it, and place it in the Capitol or reserve it for a place in one of the grand alcoves of the new National Library building, where present and. future generations may look, upon it with the reverence the great leaders deserve.

The Reunion of tho Third Corps at Gettysburg, July 2, will be one of the events of the year. The attendance will undoubtedly be immense from all parts of the country, and ample provision has been made for the accommodation of the guests. The National Tr.rnuNE will be on hand, having made special arrangements for a full and. complete report of the proceedings. Don't let the main argument be forgotten.

Broken-down and destitute veterans must be supported by eowie one, and that some one should, not be Township or County, but the United States, which had the bencQt of their youthful strength, vigor and courage, and which definitely promised to care for those who were stricken, down in. its service. Senator Edsiunds's bill to give the widow of Gen. Stannard a pension of $100 a month is a most meritorious measure. If there is a woman in the United husbnnd's services earned snch a pension for her, that woman is tho widow of the gallant Vcrmonter, who had all the courage of Ney, and tho patriotism of Tell.

ilia. Mahy Vf. "WpsTCOTT, of Swantou, desires to announce io the readers of The National TitiiiuNE that the publica-of her book, Footfalls of Loyalty," has been delayed, by the- labor troubles in tho "West, but she expects" to have it in the hands of the news companies during tho Encampment season. The new officials in the, New York Cus-iom-honso are making a clean sweep of the old soldiers employed' there. Almost every day comes tho report, of nome faithful veteran being made to walk tho plank that bis place may bo given some policical heeler.

Tire unmber of pension certificates issued during tho week ending June 5, 168G, was as follows: Original, 403; increase, T37; re-issue, 137 restoration, 116 duplicate, 25 accrued, 12; Act of March 3, 1883, Order April 3, 1384, 22; Act of Jalarch. 3, 1835, total, 1,510. i i SO AIEHY 3IU02. The Army Mule met witb another accident this week, but will appear next week alive and kicking. I SOLDIERS CAPT.

A. J. HOLMES. The Representative of tho 10th Iowa District, Cant. A.

J. Holmes, comes from that State so prolific in useful men Ohio. He was born in Wayne County, March 2, 1812. When ho wa3 11 years of ago hia parents removed to Palmyra, where his father, Dr. B.

F. Holmes, continued in the practice of medicino till his death. Young Holmes was at college when the war broke out. While yet under age ho enlisted, in 1S62, in Co. Sith Wis.

The regiment at once entered upon active service in tho Army of tho Cumberland. It bore a most honorable part in all tho great battles of that army, beginning with Perryville and ending with Nashville. Mr. Holmc3 was with his regiment in evory engagement until he was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Co. 37th in the Spring of 156-t, when ho was assigned, with his regiment, to tho Ninth Corps, Army of the Potomac.

He participated in the campaigns against Rich' mond and Petersburg of that Summer under Grant until July 30, when ho was captured at tbe blowing up of the Mine and remained a pn3oncr of war for seven months. He was first taken to Libby Prison, hut that stronghold being full to repletion he, with other prisoners, was taken to Danville, Va. After being confined there for a considerable poriod they were removed to Columbia, S. and placed in tho old Richland Prison, then under charge of Capt. Semmes, brother of Capt.

Raphael Semmes of tho pirate Alabama. Tho Union officers were taken out about the middle of December it wa3 ono of the most severe Wintera known in the South for years and removed to Asylnm Camp, within the open inclosurc of tho Insano Asylnm grounds, at Columbia, where they found that about 2,000 other Union oificcra from Camp Sorghum had just preceded them. The senior arrivals had pre-empted all the "soft places," so that this latest arrival of fresh fish were in a large part obliged to ran up and down during the nightou a little stretch of open ground to keep from freezing to death. Lieut. Holmes and Capt.

Dicey, of the 1st Mich. Sharpshooters, shared between them the half of a ragged blanket which they negotiated from a rebel. It 13 hardly necessary to add that the strongest constitutions went down under this exposure. At length Sherman's army approached-the city of Columbia. It was dctermed that the prisoners must beremoved.

Lieut. Holmesand three other officers determined, if possible, to escape. To that end the night before the removal they proceeded to excavate a hole just large enough to hold the four, carrying the dirt away in their hats, so as not to attract the attention of the guard A few barrack sheds had been torn down, and tho lumber was so piled over them a3 not to prevent thoir working, yet affording apparently good concealment. The rebel searching parties, after repeated explorations to fill the missing connt, lato in the day discovered their hiding place. The other prisoners, as welL as every one elaa who expected 'to leave Columbia, were well on their way.

Sherman's guns could bo distinctly beard knocking for admission. A consultation wa3 held, in which the question, of shooting the squad of prisoners was discussed, but it was at length decided in the negative, owing chiefly to the efforts in their hehalf of an officer of the 3iilitary Institute at Columbia. They had barely time to get out of thecity on a train, which was one of the last to leave, joining their comrades again at C. After several changes of base they were in March exchanged near Wiiiningtou, JT. C.

Lieut. Holmes's health during this time had become so wrecked that for some time it was doubtful whether he would recover, but a naturally strong constitution enabled him to overcome it. Shortly after reaching Annapolis he was given 30 days leave of absence, but returned to his command before half of the timchad expired. On his exchange he was promoted to First Lieutenant and assigned to the Provost Marshal's Odice, Georgetown, D. C.

After Lee's surrender, and late in the Summer of 1S65, ha wa3 mustered out of tho service with his regiment. Mr. Holmes had left his stndies at Milton College, to enter tho army. After he I came out ho studied law, nnd was admitted to tho bar Janesvillc, Wi3. Ho afterward graduated at the University of Michigan.

Hq commenced the practice of law at Boone, Iowa, in lcflcJ. He was elected amembtrof tho Iowa Legialatnro in the Fall of 1S31 for the two following years; was elected to tho '13th Congress, and re-elected to the 40th. His popularity i3 shown by the fact that ho received more than 8,000 majority. During all hi3 service In Con gress he has been a member of tho Committee on Invalid Pensions, nnd ha3 been untiring in his efforts to secure justice to tho soldiers. By word nnd vote in tho committee and in the nouse he has shown himself a trueand steadfast friend to his suffering comrades.

LIEUT. JAS. T. JOHNSTON. James T.

Johnston, Representative in tho 49th Congress from the Eighth Indiana District, was bom in Putnam County, Jan. 19, 1839. He received a common-school education was reared on a farm nnd followed that occupation until 18G1, at which time ho began tho study of law. In July, 1862, ho enlisted as a private in Co. Ind.

Cav. In September, 1S63, he was transferred to Co. 8th Tenn. Cav. and coinmisioned Sccoud Lieutenant.

Ho served in that capacity until January, 186-1, when ho resigued on account of disability. Ho after ward served as Commissary-Sergeant of the 133d and was commissioned Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 119th Ind. Ho was mustered out with this regiment iu September, 1SU3. Ho resumed tho study of the law. was ndniittcd to tho bar in March, settled at Bockville.

his present home. Ho was immediately elected Prosecuting Attorney of tbe County, serving two years. He was elected a Representative to the State Legislature in 18G3, from Parke County; was elected State Senator from the Counties of Parka and Vermillion in 1874, serving four years; and wna elected to the present Congress, as a Republican, in 1834. He is a true frieud of tho soldiers. He has earnestly nnd eloquently advocated all measures in their interest.

JmmmL nf 'Oil tf Try COL. DRAKE DE KAY. Death of Another Well-Known Soldier. Joseph Rodman Drako Do Kay, a son of Commodore George C. Da Kay, and grandson of Jos.

Rodman Drake, tho post, died last Thursday at Blooraingdalo, Long Island, aged 50. Ha was familiarly and generally known as Col. Drake De Kay. Whan the war broke out he at once oifcredhis services, and was first voluateer tr Tneoivft a immnivHinn in thn Ttnonln-r tttiv Gen. Winfieid Scott, then in command, wsts an intimato menu of the family, and granted young Do Kay a commission as Lientenant in the ltth Regular Infantry.

He served throughout the war, either with his regiment or on the staffs of Gens. Heintzolnmn, Mansfield, nnd Pope as an Aid-de-Camp. After the conclusion of his staff service he rejoined his regiment and served with it during the campaign beginning in the Wilderness and closing at Petersburg. Ho arrived at the latter place in command of his regiment, thougb badly wonnded. He was twice brevetted for bravery in the field, and when ha resigned at the end of the war held a full commission a3 Captain, with a brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, United States Army.

After the war ho made a fortune of $500,000 in mining enterprises. Owing to his faith in tho Chrysolite Mine he lost not only all tho money he had made, but much more, and from 1SS0 to the Fall of 1SS1 dovoted bis energies to the payment of his indebtedness of $250,000, all of which, except a few thousand dollars, had been paid, when under the severe mental strain he broke down. Ho was unmarried. Col. Do Kay was well known among officors of the army, for when serving as Provost ifarshal at Washington, in 1861, it was he who signed all the passes permitting people to go over Long Bridge.

He, too, it was, who as Aid conveyed the orders from Gen. Pope to Gen. Fitz-John Porter. Col. De Kay's peculiarity by which ho was best known to the Army of the Potomac was his signature.

It had a3 marked an individuality a3 that other marvelous autograph that appeared on the greenback3 E. Spinner." Col. De Kay used the cooreat pen he could find, with a great quantity of ink. He would, never allow the U30 of blotting-paper on his signatures, hut insisted on their boingallowed to dry so that tho linos might be a3 large and as black PaM. -Zvyo-ldsPcf gentled yCSvtJg, Ivsx ovznS3jf as possible.

It wa3 a common thing to seo passes and other documents lying all about the table and floor of his office, spread out to dry a. process which required considerable time on account of the amount of ink used. No matter how much of a-hurry a person was in ho always had to wait forthatwonderful signature to dry. A writer in the Washington Pmt says: "It wa3 a July day of IS61 that I called on Gen. Scott, who then had an office on Four-and-a-half street, for a pass to go over to Center-villeto report the coming; battle for a New York paper.

Go up and ask De Kay said the aged warrior. "I found the temporary headquarters in a building on Pennsylvania above Willard's, and inquired for the man I sought. -I'm DcKay 1 What is it said a boy, showing his bright face at the window. I exhibited my credentials, told my need, and was soon fitted out with a pass to Gen. McDowell's headquarters, signed 'Drake DeKay' in great sprawling letters two inches long, the name spanning the entire paue, I think he 3igned as 'Lieutenant and Aid-de-Camp The pass wa3 thoroughly serviceable, for it not only took me to Bull Run.

but it saved me from arrest when I came back three days later mounted on an artillery horse, and carrying a musket aud four swords of various sizes. 'Of late years I have known Col. DeKay well in New York. I asked him once how ho came to be invested with such responsibility by ScotL he said, 'here is how It was: The old man had just had his plans betrayed by those whom he had trusted. He felt suspicious of everybody.

I went down from here on a lark, expecting to return to my business at oace. Seo here, he said, write to your mother that I want yon. I want to put somebody in that office whom I can trust and who doesn't know anybody who wont show favors. You go in there, 'I was taken by the idea and I went. Yes, that signature that you speak of used to be considered evidence of bead," but it wasn't- I wrote it that way for two reasons: First, so that it couldn't be counterfeited, for it ia almost impossible to imitate a colossal hand and, second, so that a horseman could hold it to a picket and have it seen.

It was useful. Thoso were hot and lively days in Washinston, though, weren't they? DeKay was a handsome mau. He died, it is said, of general parest3 induced by overwork." PERSONAL. The approaching removal of Gen. Sherman from St.

Louis calls forth from the St. Xouis papers the warmest expressions of admiration for the old hero, and of regret that he is to separate from them. Certainly as graceful tribute to his character as has ever appeared In any paper is contained In an editorial in the St. Louis Republican, a paper which during the war favored secession, and la now the organ of the men who were the secessionists of years ago. Some expressions from, this editorat are as follows The stirring' events of his long lifetime have developed him.

into one of the strongest characters in American history, and the house ho id about to vacate ia St. Louw will be pointed out hereafter as an historical landmark. The children of this generation willahow itto their grandchildren, and if they have seen tho leader of the March to the Sea, will tell of it with pride. The rugged simplicity of Gen. Sherman's character and bis unbending will would have made him are-murkable man without fortuitous circumstances, and when such circumstances aided In his development he exerted a power over them ao great and so marked that his worst detractors have never been able to charge him with being the creature of his surroundings.

Such marked Individuality as hla gives its possessor power over events and fits him to be a leader of men where leadership involves command. His old-school Americanism lends itself to make him still more a striking figure in the eyes of this generation, based as It is on tho singular blending of the Democratic spirit of equality and the individual self-assertion which made Andrew-Jackson at once a thorough. Democrat and a thorough autocrat. Gen. Sherman, ia perhaps thoroughly neither ono or the other of these, though, he may fairly be suspected of tendencies towards both by thoso who, knowing him as a military commander, have seen him since his retirement trudging along in a civic procession in tbe ranks with his old soldiers, refusing to be anything more than their equal.

Gen. Sherman, has lived to see the weakening of antagonism tho strengthening of admiration towards him. However little he may have changed in 20 years, not a year has passed without giving him more friends nnd fewer enemies. As he has walked tbe streets of St. Louis erect and vigorous, with gray hair which makes him venerable without suggesting eyes haveturned upon him oa the embodiment of so much that is interesting historically.

Thecity was proud to claim him as in some sense a St. Louis institution, and ia his absence It will bo unwilling to concede that, it has wholly given bJm. up." The Herald, St. Joseph, speaks In very complimentary tcrmsof the flora! offering on Memorial lUy of Mrs. C.

P. Kingsbury, of Custer Kelief Corps. It was eight feet high, and rested on a basis two and a half feet square, and was composed of the rarest and most beautiful flowers. It bore the inscription: "To our unknown those who sleep on Southern battlefields." General und Mrs. Sheridan have gone to West Point.

Ilenr-AdmiratJouett has been detached from command of the North Atlantic Sqnadron nnd ordered to act as President of the Board of Inspection, with hendquartcrs at Washington. Ingersoll was elected President of the Toledo, Clucinnntl St. Louis Railroad, at the same moating nt wMeliithc name of the. rondiwoa changed to that of Hla Tofetlb.Su. Eonfe Col.

E. Z. Judaon, flunfMnrly known as 2fiad BuntHna," fcs slowly roMvorifyC from i long! nnd) painfel illness at hs beautiful StHHiferd, Conn. John H. EolHnfl, of Co.

P. Efetffc has petitioned Congress to wtfluvo Him tmm tffcw-hitU1t growing eut of hie Hhv1k mom aWenlhiWot to the Conftntesaay whttu a-prtenmar at war, Comrade Tewnsond Xwtmt known fc evary one in Toledo, and ueroaiHiin: (MHHUfcyns) Tommy JTswUmu has written a stfttttfotC I'oi some slrtettiww In Hie New Yek Aw tbe? pn sion system, which we regrefe lit to tontti euc columns, nnd Mh fcrw and point vwmH toimalredi by any eilbrt to omina it er mak xHHitttt irony it Comrmh) Newton bn 1 prtotod, ftewwvwfeHHd) we presume will bo glnd to send eoptos to whoever, will apply to him. Serg't Thn McCarthy, of Lwaed, te eRttdttfeto for Auditor ef the Stnte of Xaiwfw, on the Itoftub-Honn ticket. Sorg't McCarthy wait born In.fretRndt;, came to this country in 1951; enlfoted in tha lit V. S.

in ISH; was one of 260 sent to Sumter in 1861, and fought In the Regular DhHsIbn in the Army of the Petomas from thoMmt-Btitf Rlm until the surrondsr at Appomattox. He wa Ser-gonnt-Mojor of his regiment, and was dfcehargedtmv ItffiT. lie went to Larncd three year fetor, entered) into polities, nnd has held a nuRiboe eC hnportomfi offices to the entire satisfaction of the peepto of hh County. Cnpt. Jack Crawford, tho poet sconf, aa bcenfn Washington for a few dnya looking nfter Ma Interests.

Commissioner Sparks, ef tho Lund (DflWe, has appointed him eutttodfnn of the nbnudonwl Fort Gregory military reservation in New 3fecxio, Ghpt. Crawford, It is understood, will soon Jem (Ban. 311lea an chief of soouta to aid him in life eampafgn against the Apaehes. Ho wears his hair long, sporte a broad-brim sombrero, nnd is generally a striking figure. Some of the attention that he nttraoU is not pleasant, aud though a peaee-levfng man, it does not do to presume too Jhr upon, hia meekness of temper.

The other day hcrwwin tho Baltimore Ohio depot waiting for a-train. Ai local bully, who was somewhat the wew approached hinvwHh some sneering eotnmentton hh appearance. Capi. Jwefc mawwlt wv Ruft tho bully followed him, and rlnuHy tools hoTdt offtwi eat iSiixaxtcrs iUilitarii jDepcrtmsxit of toasMTMfow i 18611. Si mmandtna: JJ futBxfeaantjt.

4 hair with the remark any fool, onn wear long hair." In an Instant Capt- Jack's left fist shot out, caught the bully under the ear with a force that sent hfs heels blfeher than his head, nnd when he full Into the gutter aH the fight was taken out of him. Comrades all over the country havelenrned with a feeling of deep regret of the failure of the Republicans of the Pittsburg district to renominate that gallant old soldier, nnd indefatigable friend of soldiers. Gen. Jnmos S. Xegley.

This was not duo to any dissatisfaction of the people of his district, but was brought about by the intrigues of acnhal. The feeling in Pittsburg ia fnvor of Gen. Xegley I3 jrery intense, nnd he has been strongly pressed to run as an independent candidate, but 1ih he has refuactl to do. He says that ho has only Hie kindliest feeling for the party which has so frequently honored him nnd whioh still eontinues feuor him, and while he feelsa natural reentnieiitiSllBo clique which had purposes of its own to gafafro defeating his nomination, he ennnotnHow thkk feeling to draw him into doing anything which will! redound to the injury of the Prty. This does tho General honor.

His retirement from Congressnvrll be a great loss to the soldiers, for no one win replace him and do 03 effective work as he hits dbne and fe capable of doing. The term of Past CoraninmTer-In-Chief Merrill as Postmaster at Lawrence expired! last week, and his reappointment was urged withithe greatest earnestness by three-fourths of the people of Lawrence, without regard to party. AfttKvtt. every Important business interest in Lawrenee was a unit in asking for his reappointment, and the number of letters sent in his behalf by prominent, men has hardly been equaled in the history of tho Post-Ofllce Department. Gen.

Morrill ho deserved all this, for, besidos being a genuinely eour-teous and kindly man, he hns devoted' himtelf? to conducting the ofllce in tho most allleienU inttuner, and has sacrificed every other interest So that, of giving the people of Lawrence the me satfenic-tory kind of a post-office. There were snnguine hopes that the Prosidentnnd Postmaster-ocrn! Vilas would follow the precedent set by tn reappointment of Postmaster Pearson Xew erlc. and continue in office a man who bad given suoh great satisfaction to all doing business with- the Lawrence ofllce. Additional reason fbrthe hopes was found in the fact that Gen. Merrill was the only Past Commander-in-Chief who was lathe Governmentemploy.

Bub those expectations doomed to disappointment, and last wook en. Merrill was sent to join Uie daily swelling army of soIdfer-Postmn9ters whose heads are fhlllng beneath Col. Vltos's industriously wielded, ar. Mr. Patrick who was appointed to succeed! Merrill, was not in the army.

There ws a Utomo-cratic soldier of excellent war and oivil was a candidate for the plneo, but her dbest not seem to have bad a show for appointment'. MUSTERED OUT. EA5S031 On "Wednesday last Miss L. Eftnsom, the artist, of Washington, received atolegramfromi Texas statingfcthat her brother, Capt. Albert.

Ransom, had died that day. Capt. Ransom will be well remembered by tho Ohio soldier. ITe reoruitcd, in Ashtabula County, a part of Battery 12. fcEUgar-ton's) 1st Ohio L.

and went to the Setd as its First Lieutenant. At Stone Rivar Capt. Edgarton was captured with his guns and a large part of his men. Lieut. Rnnsonsgnt bored those who escaped capture.Jmd with them did gallant service till the close of the battle.

While leupingaditchhishorso fell nnd one of Lieut. Ransom's legs was severely injured. Ha did not leave tho field till after the battle was over. Then he went to the rear and Iny upon his bed for weeks. As soon as ho wna able for duty he returned to the field, bavin? in tho meantime been promoted to Captain.

He served witb maked callantry till the eiose of the war. His health was very much shattered, and for several years past he has lived in Texas, on account of tbe favorable cbmate. He was a brave and capable soldier and a pleasant gentleman. His many friends will be pained to hear of his death. His age was 5Z.

Ricrr. Nelsoa A. Rich, Co. 5th died ot Fort Dodge. Iowa, June 3.

Comrade Rich was born at March 11, 1st onlldted Aug. 22, 1361; veteraned and served until Feb. 7, 1866. He was severely wounded in tbe right shoulder at Rappahannock Station, Nov. 7, 1S62, by a miwio ball, and again in ono of the battles in the Wilderness by a fragment of shell in the left arm.

These wounds were the ultimate cause of his death. Ho was buried with- military honors by Fu Donel-son Post, No. 2S3, of which he was a member. BxrssiCMt. At Blaine, Pottawatomie May 23, P.

T. Dunnican. aged 16. IXo unlisted in tho 5th Ohio Cav.inlS6land wasdisohnrged in 1S65. He was a member of Gen.

Lyon Post. No. 2, of St. Louis. Mo.

Ho was a good soldier, a respected citizen, nnd a faithful comrade. SJMiTir. Hiram Asa Smith died at Stamford, May 25. aged 16. He was a member of Co.

N. Y. and served faithfully four years. He was wounded twice, nnd taken prisonor both, times. He belonged to Hobbie Post, No.

of Stamford, whioh attended his funornl In a body. He leaves a widow and four children. McLacguijn. Joha McLaughlin. Co.

8th Pa. Hied at Falls. If. May 15. Heen- listed Sept.

and was dicharget Aug. 17, 1363. He was a oharter member of Galpin Post, No. 19, G.A.Kr Department of New York. He died from disenscs resulting from Injuries and continued service of three years nnd months.

The Fire Department, of which ho was nn exempt member, with Galpin Post, nttendedhis funeral in a. body. Higgiss. Henry W. Higgms died near Keystone Furnace, May 23.

1SS6. aged 19. Ho enlisted in August, Co. 27th Ohio, ami was mustered out July 7, 18f5. He was promoted to dergeant, serving with conspicuous fidelity.

Hewns-oneof three brothers and ot seven brothers-in-law who performed faithful servico for the Union. He was a devoted member of tho M. E. Church, and bold the office of steward for some year. Kla remains wore laid ta rcstby his comrades of A.

Mavah Posh No. 231. G.A of which he was O. D. Couvuf.

At Allegan, May olvin. was discharged on account of disabiH tv. but recovered and re-anlisted in tho ISTth Pa. October, 1861, serving in that regiment until the okwa ofttbe war. The funeral took plnco under th auspices of C.

J. Eossett Post, C.A.R. Gillette. Hartson Gillette, of Rochester, Oakland Co. 22d aged 70 years.

wr8 hi. xiewas oom in uauacuigns County, N. and when 20 years of age. in April, 1862; enlisted in Co. 117th N.

Y. In Decomlinr. ISftSi ha maxfmflgUtit ArriVum i 1 'Wmmimtirftnmi,.