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.*•' 1 11 11 ; .1.,. "Aw , >ijri jWrniT; inr-fTi' Vjr'y-MliV pjfj'--, ...^-nrnrr » .n.M. " Pledged but to Truth, iy;r:' 1 y iit. --< 2 to Liberty and Law; No Favors Win us and no Fear Shall Awe." '1 J; ^ "v" ' " BVQL. 12. M'HENRY. ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1887. NO. 34. PRIIMSK»D BTMtr; WUD!»ESDAT *T T A N S L Y K E , - RDITOa A.SD PROPRIETOR. Office in Bishop's Block,) '7. -»Or*OSITK PEKBT * TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. in* Year (In A<tvan«e) tlJO iTNot Paid within Three Months...... .. 3.00 4uMcriptinn« received for three or lix Months in the same proportion. ^ Kates of Advertising. we anneunce liberal rate, fi>r advertising m the PLAiNDRALiK, and endeavor to state them so plainly that they will be readily un­ derstood. 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The PLAINDRALBR will be liberal in giving •d'.torial notices, but, as a business rule, it will require a suitable fee from everybody seeking the use of its columns for pecuniary gain. BUSINESS CARDS. H. T. BBOWS.M.D. ITSIOIAN Atf» SURGEON. OdW at Residence, McHenry, III. P O. H. FEGEKS, M, D- JHTSIOIAN AND SURUEON, McHenry, mils. Offlee at Residence. O. J. HOWARD, M. D. fiHTSlOIAN AND SURGEON, MeHerry, I 111. Office at Residence, one door West Of M. E. Church. BARBIAN BROS. CICAR Manufacturers, McHenry, 111. Or-tiers solicited. Shop, la Old Mcllenrv, inKeitor Block, third door west of Riverside •ouse. Livery Stable. HE. WIGHTMAN, Proprietor. First . class rigs, with or without drivers tarnished at reasonable rates. Teaming ot all kinds done on short notice. ROBT SCHIESSLE Having purchased the old sta>ud of Joseph Wiedemann, NEAR THE DEPOT. HoHENBY, LLINOI8, Keeps open for the accommodation - of the Public a First-Class Saloon and Restaurant, Where he will r*. all t imes keep the{best brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars (to be found in the market. Also Agent For FRANZ FALK'S ILfAUKEE LAGER BEER. Beer in Large or Small Kegs or Bottles al. ways on hand, cheaper than any other, quail, ty considered. Orders by mail promptly attended to. GOOD STAB LI N& FOR HORSES. WOall and see us. Robert Schiessle. MeHenry, I1L, May 15th, 1885. BUSINESS CARDS. PAUL BROWN, TTORNBT AT LAW. 8S LaSaPe Street L( - CHICAGO, ILL. M. F. ELLSWORTH,| A 'PTOTfSRY at Law,.:and Solicltorjln 0h« Xl eery, Nunda, III. ASA W. SMITH, TTORNET AT LAW and Solicitor] in L Chancery.--Woodstock, III. ALBERT E. BOURNE. ATTORNEY, SOLICITOR AND COUN­SELOR. (WOODSTOCK, ML, Ttnnii.ets attendod to promptly, mtb care, skill and integrity. J, F: CASET, ATTORNEY and Counselor at Law, Office over Zimpleman's store. All business entrusted to my care will receive prompt at­ tention. Woodstock, 111. S„F. BENNETT, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SUltG EON. Also United States Examining Surgeon. .Richmond, Illinois. . • ' ' , MART G. BARBIAN. HATR WORK K it. .HI kinds of Hair Work done in llrst class style and at reasonable prices. Rooms at residence, north­ east corner of Public Square, McHenry, 111. DR. C. E. WILLIAMS. DENTIST. Residence Dundee. Willbeat McHenry, at Parker House, the 10th lltb 25th and 20th of each month. When dates occur Saturday or Sunday I make my visits on the following Monday, and the first day of such visit occurs on Friday, I will stay but one day. E. R. BEiSNETT, M. !>., Lite House Surgeon Cook County Hospital RICHMOND, ILLINOIS, Special attention (riven to diiflcnit Surgical cases; DEUT&CH.OESPROCHEN. Office at Residence of Dr. S. F. Bennett. United States ffar Claim Apcy OF WM. II. COWLIN, Woodstock, • • Illinois. Prosecutes all classjs and,, kinds of claims against the United States for ex Soldiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialtv is made in prosecuting old and rejected claims. All communications promptlv answered If Postage Stamps are enclosed for reply. WM, II. COWLIN, Office at Residence, Madison St., Woodstocc, Illinois. AT THE OLD STAND, JACOB BON9LETT, SALOON AND RESTAURANT, at the Old J stand, opposite Bishop's mill, McHenry, 111. The choicest Wines, Liquors and Cigars to be found in the county. Warm or cold meals on short notice on application. PHIL BEST'S MILWAUKEE BEER by the Bottle or Case, always on hand. GOOD STABLING FOR HORSES. PUMP REPAIRING*, CEMENTING, ETC The undersigne<J is prepared to do all jobs in " " * " ii the line *»t' Digging Wells, Repairing ~ Cementini " will put: Pumps, Cementing Wells, or "" "in ENGLEN'S 9AL00N and RESTAURANT Buck's Old Stand, McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Fine Kentucky Liquors, French Bitters, McHenry Lager Beer, Talks' Mtlwaaku Bwr, -AND- J. Scltz Mwaiiee Bottle Beer. By the Bottle or Cas«. We buy none but the best And •ell at Reasonable Prices. Call and see me and I will use you well. ANTONY ENGELN, McHenry, III., 1886,- ro* THB GREAT N1W BOOK, •The w rld's Wndor*. By J. W. Baal. The most snceesssnl subscription book ever published. Over half a million copies were sold On past eight months, and it is selling three times as fast now as ever before. Regular Canvassers clear from tl5 to f-25, $40 and fM aer dav. Nothing like it was ever known in (he history of book publishing. Proofs sent Cee on application, No experience needed to sure success. We help persons without •eans to do a lar^e business; no capital need- Mi. Write for {particulars. Salaries yuaran- tted to persons who do not wish to canvasn on com­ mission. We mean business, and want live •cents in every township. It will cost you •Bthing to write for^ terms and full descrip- " or * ' -s Mens or our plans of doing business. We also mtot tuoay standard books to persous who send •us name» of book agents. Write for our.list mtn HISTORICAL PUBLISHING CO. m apil N. Third Street, St. Louis,Me > New Pumps On short notice and warrant satisfaction. In short will do all work in this line. Can furnish you a new Pump, either wood or iron, warranted, as cheap as any other man. Good references furnished if desired^ If you want a Well Dug, a Pump Repaired or a new Pump, give me a call. e^Ordcrs by mail promptly attended to. Post office, Johnsburgli, 111. L. BANTES. Johnsburgh, III., May 25th, IdtfS. C. G. ANDREWS. CENERAL SPRING GROVE ILL. ' Sales ot Stock, Farming Tools and Goods of all kinds attended to on the most TEEUS, -AND- atisfa ction Guaranteed. Call on or Address C. C. Anredws, Spring Grove, 111. 3|>rlng 3rove, SepUidOtli, iotn, U-iMm A. M. CHURCH, Watehmaker and Jeweler NO. 55 FIFTn A VE., (Briggs House), Chi­cago, 111. Special attention given to re­ pairing Fine watches and Chronometers. 39TA Full Assortment of Goods in his line St for 13 Weeks. The POMCE GAZETTE will be mailed, securely wrapped, to any address In the United SU cs for three months on receipt of ONE DOLLAR. • Liberal discount allowed to postmasters, agents and clubs. Sample copies mailed free* Address all orders to RICHARD K. FOX, FRAWKLIIT SQCAKB, New Tork. JOHN J. WINKLES. Carpenter and Joiner, Is prepared to do all work in his line on short notice and guar- entee satisfaction. ( Will work by the job or day as desired, and do as good work as any man ill the business. Orders left at his residence, Southeast corner opposite the Public School House, will receive prompt attention Best of References given if de­ sire JOHN J. WINKLES. McHESRY, ILL., Mareh SOth, 1886. Attention Horsemen! I would call the attention of the public to my Stable of Stock Horses, four in number; two Morgans, one 3-4Percheron, and one Imported Horse. They are all good representatives of their breed. Also a few Merino Sheep t r sale. The public are cordially invited to call and examine stock, get prices, etc. No business done on Sunday. N. S. COLBY. 10-7-tf MOHKNKY, ILL I For Coal and Wood CALL OW--- E. M. HOWE, Opposite BiMhop'a Mill, <7ho has a complete line of the best stOTesJin the market, as well as a large stock of Hardware, Mectaic's Tools, TIN, COPPER & SHEET IRON WARE, And, in tact, everything in the hardware 4tove and tin line. UK WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD. Call at his store before buying elsewhere. Jobbing and repamnar promptly attended to . a45TRemember, extra good bargains can al- we ys be obtained at Hope's. -- -- 1^4^ Obtnincd. 11ml till lA'll'.ST / > / AAXS at­ tended to for MODI'. It A 'II' l'i:i:S Our office is opposite the I' S. 1'nUMit (tfliee. and we etui ob­ tain 1'utents in less lime than those remote from H l.s7//.vr,"/r).v. Send MODEL. J>11A H IMi or J'llOTO of invention. We advise 11s to i>iitent-_ nltilitv free of elinrKe and we nuike AO CllAltOE v.\i.i:ss DA is si:ct n 1:1 >. For circular, advice, terms and references to actual clients In your own State. Comity, City or Town, write i<> C . A . S N 0 W & C 0 Opvofitc Patent Office. Washington, D G •AND Luxieh. Room. JOS. PEKOVSKY. Having opened a Restaurant and Lunch Room, in his block, two doors South of the Post Office, is now prepared to serve a good Lunch, with ot Coffee or ^Tea »t all hours ot the day or evening, and on short notice. FRESH OYSTERS, By the Can, Quart or Dish, always on hand. Give Us a Call. «T. PEKOVSKY. McHenry, Oct. 13. 1886, J. P. SMITH, WATCHMAKER § JEWELER, McHenry, - Illinois. As Fine a Stock of Walches, Clocks and Jewelry As can be found in the County, which I «Csr at prices that can not be beat. J. P. SMITH. McHenry, 111., March 1st. 1MB. STANDARD STALLION o. Record 3:39. I No. S730. "George O." Is a Ooldep Chesnut with star white spots on left sliouMer, also little black spots on body, denoting a back strain of Arabian Blooit. Koaled Jitne 5th 1830. 1'KtMUKEK:--"OcorM O" w*s sired by Lakeland .Abdatiah (351) Jfrn brother to Har­ old, tne aire of Maud 8, tBueeu of the tnrf) '» N«M>nti<te, IBttie Graham, 2:213c McCurdv.'s llamtnetonUj#, Oecinna, 2:.'731,; llorines 2:'273jf; <MKl Moinir.g, 2:283s'; Temple 2:3o; and others hakel:ibd Aixlatlab bjNBjrsdvken Hatnble toman (with 37 in the ):llf^l#tor better) lie by Alxtallati, by Mambrino, Iff Imp Messenger; Dam the Cbs.". Kent Mure, by Imp. Ileilteund- kr. etc. r Lakeland ANiallah's Da*B.wa» Enchantress, by Abdallah, bv MambritiO, etc, as above. "George OS" Dam was the fast Pacing Mare "frannie R" (wno paced the Chicago Track at Seventeen years »f *ge in 2;27, with, out any prepar itlon), sire«i by Autocrat by Geo, M. P&tcben, (record 2:23.Vj, by Cassius M. Clay, by Andrew JaMkscn, by' Bashaw, •tc. i>am «f Fannie B. by afoung Rowlin, by Ben. Gilford, her Dam i yf son of Imported Messenger. "** 9 "George O." is a' very promising younj horse and the record he tow attained 'Is no measure of his speed as te lia* trotted pri­ vate trials very much bww that, and can do the tame in a race afsmy opportunity. His'eolts are very fast * ' never bred a Standard Bi his Celts are bringing years old. He can't ha he combines the bloc# bletonian, the f )uud(flr of to-day, Mambrino, Ml Gee. M. Patched, the Cla ASidenng he has d Mare yet, and up, at two it be a fast one, as Hd Uysciyke Hani. |r Troitiiig Family pnger, ltelltounde'r , Bashaws, etc. IIPPISCOTTS • • LI PPISC01TS • • UPPISCfflTS Leads nil oihcr Magazines " Ju I ales of Fiction A New Departure -- poems <>f Interest •" pleasing Short Stories •• Interesting Miscellany 26 ots. ™ Jfotes of Progress . NEARLY "Choice Selections tiOO ' "™ Or'8inai Contributions PACKS IN BACH ISSUE -- X°Pics ol the TlOICS • X«rse Gems A Complete New Novel " 1 gupoltliTe Merit Ij tome farorita author in each Ho. ™ Giving a library of 12 new and valuable works, Worth from fij.oo to #18.00 annually,at the nominal turn of 25 cents per month Subscripuon, $3.00 yearly. Stories by John Habberton, France* Hodgson Bur­ nett , Julian H.iu thorne, Lucy C. Lillie, ctc.,«tC.( will appear in early issues Circulars, giving details, etc., jnailed on applicatioa J. B. LIPP1NCOTT COMPANY Terms, $25 Cash, AT TIME OF MR VICE. Mares not proving in return season Free, Accidents and Escapes Mares cared for, liicludi etc., at (2.00 per month, itt^j For further particulars I are entitled to a frwnors risk, pasture, trying, Geo. Owen IRXRY, ILL. McHenry Co. Soldiers' Department, CONTRIBUTED BT WM, H. COWLIK. County C. A- R. Directory. BTCHXOND POST JFO 286. Meets the seooni Fridt) evening of each month. ' DB. S. P, BBKHBTT,' Com. WOODSTOCK rOST, NO 108. •Meets first and third Monday evenings of each month. Ww. AVBBT, Com. NUNDA POST, MO----, Meets the second and fourth Wednesday stejUacs of each month. '-."'i' • . V V WM. BVTLBK, Oom. HAKTAKD POST, NO 265. Meets the second ana rourtn Monday even ng* ot each month. I I. W. SGATBKNS, Com. MARKNGO POST, SA 169, %* Meets every Second and Fourth Friday evenings of each month. > A. J. BOTINQTON, Com, Tb« number of pension certificates issued during the week ending Feb. 1!>, 18^7, was as follows: Original, 954; increase,GOO; re-issue.263; restoration, 91; duplieate. 25; accrued, 40; Act of March 3. 1883, 3; Ordor of April 3. 1SS4,15; Act of Aiignst 4,1886, 4; sup­ plemental Act 01 August 4, 1886, a89; llexican War Act, Jan. 29, 1887, 2; to­ tal, 2,065. Ts prepared to attend to ill Snlos of Stock, Tanning Tools, Houseliojp Kuruiture, or Real Kstate. Terms us IOWISK the lowest and Satisfaction guaranteed. Post oiiiee address WEST McHKNItY, and rqsideiu-e one mile west of the McHenry depot H. C. MEAD* fleMsi BUnnntCo^ft free, fall inform they can do, and Hi them from tSHf thoM wlin write to ad, Maine,will receive •bout work which bat home,thnt will pay (per day. Some hare Mro»d over |5ll in a day. Either isa»yonnp or old. Capital not r«|«lred. Too are staHsd firs*. Those who atart at ones MS sfcsolutaly can ol tnof UtUa np(«uie«. All Is d«w. SMITHS BEANS NoSmion. tTad the Dependent Pension bill been signed It is very probabale that some undeserving meu would bare been benefited by it. It is absurd to say that this was any reason for refusing to sign the bill. If the President is determined to sign nn bills that will by any chance fnvor undeserving men, he had bet­ ter empty his Inkstand and threw away his,pen lor he frHl never sign another bill. , There was n^for a general benefi­ ciary bill passed that did not give un­ worthy men an advantage which they should not have had, and there never will be. It is Inevitable, in the very nature of things that in general legis­ lation men will be benefited who should net receive anything. Shall 99 werihy and deserving men be denied their rights because one un- wbrthy one may get that to which he has no claim? This Is absurd. According to Mr. Cleveland's reason- li g, a paymaster In the army would be justified in refusing to pay a regiment iiwjj ^ fighting men because he would have to pay also a half-dozen skulkers ithd cowaids. /^URE Biliousness; Sick Headache In Four hours. \6) One dose relieves Neuralgia. They cure and present Chills «* Fever, Sour Stomach Bad Breath. Clear the Skin, Tone the Nerves, and give Lite / Vlyor to the system. Dose 1 ONE DKAN. Try them once and you will never be without them. Price, 25 cents per bottle. Sold by Druggists and Medicine Dealers generally. Senf on receipt ef price la stamps, postpaid, to any address, J. F. SMITH A CO., Maaefaetarers and Sole Props.. ST. LOUIS. NO. John Helm, Algonquin, 111., DBAk.ES IK Bardmis, StovM, Tiawar* - In short, we keep everything in the above mentioned lines, ivhich we are offe ing to the buy­ ing public as cheap as any other house in this section. JOBBNG & REPAIRING, PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. JOHN HELM. Algonquin. -Feb. 18.1886, DONT YOU FORGET T! ASA H. SMITH, --OF-- Woodistook. - Illinois*. Backed by Millions ot money oflej you INDEMNITY against damage by Fire, Lightning, Wind Storms, CYCLONES AND TORNADOES, Drop me a postal card and I will visit you: call on me and I will write you a policy, anil wnen either or any of these destructive ele ments devastates your property, happy will fou be if you hold one of my policies, for I Hill surety visit you, >vnd minister unto,you. vOl not forsake you. W. SMITH, Urn'I lnmanee Aff $100 A WEEK. Ladies or Gentlemen desiring pleasant, profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that reoonmends itself to everyone at sight. Staple 9S Flour- Sells l ike h«t cakes. FroflTs SSO per cent. Families wishing to metiee economy should for their own bene- at write for panic it lars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within nseh of all. Circulars free. Agents receive Free Address Domestic M»n- Read at a Gamp Fin given by Mem­ bers Post Q. A R.y and W. t£. C„ by M, F, Ellsworth. Commander, Comrades, Ladies of the IF. R. C, 'Hid Friends: A few short years ago (as it seams to us who participated in those varied scenes), but a lapse of titte during which, to most of us, have come sons and daughters who have grown to iiiunhood and womanhood, and innum­ erable camp fires gleamed on countless canvass walls where dwelt hundreds ol thousands of the bravest and best of the sons of America, as well as shel­ tered here occasionally the venla) sneak and coward, For we liad a few of them down there lu those days, albeit the va9t herd of them remained at home to take care of the old folks and court the girls who could not wait for the brave soldier boy. After many a weary day's march, ®r a bloody battle, if you let your mem­ ory carry you back to those scenes, anj of you'ean call to mind the little knots of soldiers gathered about the bright­ ly blazing pile of logs, or at times the scatter fire and smudges when hard> presse j for fuel, and you can no doubt recall how one after another the beys related some incident of the day's march, funny perhaps. Some ludicrous attempt to ride a mule; some foraging escapade; how some comrade came near being caught by his Colonel or H3eneral So.mebedy, or by the John­ nies. Or perhaps some heroic act of a comrade in battle; or how some one was frightened nearly to death. Some one, perhaps, bad a letter fro,m home with soma bit of neighborhood news for the boys. Some ne's best girl had tired of waiting for "cruel war to cease" and had taken up with youne slender-tegs, who was'nt able bodied aird therefore was exempt. Then agaia how the camp rung with vocal music; and as the song liaa it, ' Now tiie camp fire gleams on the c*n- •ass walls and the camp with melody rings; 'Tis the good old sofig of the stripes and stars that the fireside circle sings; Of the stripes and stars, of the stripes and stars, for love of which w« roam; but the finest song and the sweetest one. is the son; of the girls at home." So friends, you who never enjoyed those scenes in tho6e times, are invited here to night to a counter- felt presentation thereof. This is a camp-fire under peculiarly auspicious circumstances. When we are march­ ing and fichting only "in our minds." When we 00me together most of us on "full rations?' And the "girls at bo.me" are with us. A few faggots for the fire, and I take a back seat and listen at the fun for the old boys goes en. Everybody has heard of the famous "Red River Cotton Expedition." It was the fortunes of the old 95th Illi­ nois to take a somewhat prominent part in that lively picnic. Two or three Incldeuta thereof will full j re­ lieve me ot my duty on thi6 occasion, and serve as kindling for thla camp fire. One day while on our march down the river the troops In front of us had found at a plantation bouse near the road a very large bee house, containing perhaps a hundred bee hives. Disregarding the mere formal­ ities of a contract for them, the boys proceeded to confiscate. A fellow would throw bis blanket over a bive, seize it aud light out. Runnftg a short distance he would throw it upon the ground with a bang, smashing the hi ve, would gather up what honey he could and nhp out for his place in the ranks. This performance was repeat­ ed by one after another, until the last hi ve was demolished, and the air was black with bees. In this situation of aflairs our regiment arrived upon the scene. If you could imagine the nat­ ural antipathy that the entire bee family harbors towards "yours truly," then add to this the faot that ,In their ejes we were all a pack of Yankee thieves, all tired out, the sweat sat­ urating our clothing, and our faces be­ smeared with dust, the bees no doubt taking U9 for "nigger Yan,ks" at that, you can guess faintly at the battle scenes that ensued. We couldn't fight with guns, but imagine a thousand men attacked by a million bees to a man. See the boys dance, hear the howls of rage and pain--O, Lord, de­ liver us from such another scene. Soon I was making for the surgeon and the ambulance at the rear. With every part of me on fire, my two eyes fast closing from the effects of the deadly poison, and still they pursue me. and 1 fight with my hat whileymy hair is lit­ erally filled with bees. 1 arrived at the ambulance almost deaf, quite ex­ hausted, and the only way I can 6ee is with my fingers to lift up my eyelids «o. I am pronounced dangerously wounded, dosed with salts and commis­ sary whisky, and for the only time during the expedition, placed in an ambulance. Of all the hard-fought battles during this campaign this was the most serious one to me and to many others. As I would much prefer boln^ killed decently and In or.der,-- In butle with the enemy--than fright ened and stung to desperation by such a contemptible foe. I dou't eat honey to this day, it makes me dizzy^o think of it. A few daye later and I had net yet recovered from the last battle w'th the bees. Late In the afternoon ani>} I almost sici*, and entirely tplayed cut; tho command had outwalked me and I found myself lu the rear among the cooks, darkies, mules, etc. I know that the rebs are close behind ready te take me in and tenderiyjeare for me as was their wont with their prisoners 1 suddenly spy the darky who be­ longs to our oftioers mess and who is leadinganold rickety mule on'which is strapped a huge pile of blankets. 1 suddenly determine to ride, and seiz­ ing the old rope, at the other end of which was the old mule. I led him to a tall stump, and by the aid of the darkey am soon mounted at a dizzy height on the pile of blankets. The mule patiently plods along and I am in paradise. But we soon come to a little creek running across the road, The old mule's water-tank is empty and he proceeds to fill it up. After a prolonged drink he suddenly pricks up his long ears, and with an unearthly " Wee-baw", with his tail in the air he teard ofl up the road, pissas ambulanc­ es and rushes madly through the strug gling crowd, bucking and kicking head down, heels up, away he goes, disie garding my frantic "whoa, MULE,'* he scatters his burden along the road, till with one superhuman effort he lands me amidst a pile of blankets in the brush by the roadside. The boys shout. "Here's your mule," "Fall in there, soldier," and other comforting remark*. I sneak oat of the brush and scramble on after the command, deter mined never to trust myself again on the Oack of a mule;--and I never have, Mexican War Versos (Jnl*n Soldiers. The President is greatly exercised about the number of Union sbldiers who never did any field service or saw a battle, yet who would receive pen­ sions under the dependent bill. Yet he signs a bill to pension sol­ diers of the Mexican war--three out of five of whom were never in battle, and one-half of whom never aaw an armod Mexican. There were 101,282 ^men raised for the Mexican war. of whom 27,oOG were Regulars.' Gen. Scott, and most of the prominent Generals under him had a great affection for Regular soldiers, and a profound distrust of volunteers, consequently the Regulars were preferred wherever it was possi ble, and the Volunteers were rarelr called upon, except in Gen. Taylor's column, which fought the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma. Buena Vista, and Monterey. This is shown by the fact that the 27,506 Regulars--who were but a little over a quarter of the entire number of troops raised--lost more than half of the entire loss of the war. For ex­ ample, Alabama raised 3.026 volunteers of whom not a singlo man is reported as lost from any cause. Florida sent 370, of whom not a man was killed or wounded. North CareJina raised 935 of whom * not a man was killed or wounded. ^ Georgia raUed 1,132. of whom bat six were killed and eight wounded. Louisiana raised 7.947, of whom but thirteen were killed, two dl«d of wounds and eight were wonndei. Missouri raised 7,013, of whom but twenty were killed, three died of wounds and 46 were wounded. Ten- neseee raised 5,865, of whom forty* three were killed, six died of wound* and 129 were wounded. Even the Texas volunteers. 8 018 in Bomber, ef whose sanguinary record in that war we heard so much, last but forty-twu killed, four died of wounds and twen­ ty* nine were wounded. [Thl» le about the average loss of one of our lit­ tle regiments of 300 or 400 men la such battles as Gettysburg, Chickamauga or the Wilderuess.] Virginia raised 1,329, of whom none were killed and but four wounded. California raited 571 volunteers, Massachusetts, 1,057, Michigan, 1.103, New Jersey, 425, Wis­ consin, 146, and the Mormons 585, et all of whom not one was killed or wound­ ed. The entire loss of the 101,282 raited for the war was 1,049 killed, 508 died from wounds and S,420 were wounded. The army which Sherman led from Chattanooga to Atlanta was less in numbers than that raised for the Mex­ ican war, and yet it lost in that oam- palgn about 5,284 killed, 26,129 wound­ ed and about 5,787 mtssing, most ef whom died of wounds, or were starved to death in Andersonville. Yet the President eigns the bill to pension every disabled and dependent man who served sixty days during the Mexicili war, but refuses to sign a bill which puts on the roll every disabled aud dependent man who served ninety lays during the Rebellion, ^ i? The pretense that maay w.iuld be/ pensioned who were shirks and cow­ ards is the holloweat sham. There never was a war in the world ie which «o large a proportion of those enrolled actually fought as In our war.--iVaf. Tribune. The following from tho Inter-Oemm should be read by all comrades aed not so >n forgotten. WAtHiNGTON, Feb. 24--Special Tele­ gram.--"All of the gentlemen who spoke on the Democratic side against the passage of the bill save one voted for it. A large number of them termi­ nate tlieh public life on March 4th, and a large number of ttieve are now about the White House bending the pregnant hinges ol the kuee that thrift may follow fawning." That is the way IM which Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, introduced his etirriug spaech against the veto of the Dependent Pernios bill to-day, and that is the reaton^rhy the veto was sustained. The whole in­ fluence of the White House was ex­ erted to secure a vote ie favor of tin veto, yet the bill failed of passage by only twenty-tire votes, The speeches for the veto were i<i the main a sycophantic re-statement of the sophistries of the veto by tboiie who are at lea3t almost daily men* tioned as candidates for presidential favor after March 4. The speeches of the day were by McKinley, of Ohio, and by ilepburu, of Iowa. Gen. Bragg was very bitter in bis denuaeiation of soldiers who enlisted in the latter part of the war. Words which he frequent, ly used to characterize them, were' "vagabonds," "the scum of the earth," "natives of the poor bouse." "the pur­ chases ef the bounty jumpers," and be claimed to speak for the Grand Army in a manner whicu was vigorously die* avowed so far as disavowals were to order by other member* of that order on the lloor. Mr. Hepburn, in a pas- sige ef remarkable severity, compared Geueral Bragg in the Grand Army to Benedict Arnold, and said that the old soldiers would «ay to him as one did once to Benedict Arnold in Canada, who inquired what his old army com­ rades would say or de if he should re­ turn to the States. "Say and do," was the answer, "they would >)ury the leg which was honorably wounded in bat­ tle wi Ji martial honors, and the reet of the carcass they would bang to the neatest gibbet." The Dependent Pension bill is de­ feated, thanks to Mr. Cleveland, to the solid vote of the ex-Coo federates In the iloute of'Representatives, and to a few "decoy ducks" among the ex* Union soldiers of the House, all on the Democratic side, with ether doagb- faces. all of whom, save one, are men­ tioned dally in the public press and bj their friends as ciudidates for iatpor^ tant positions under this administra­ tion. This means of course an sud to further general beneficial pension leg­ islation so long as Mr, Clevelind it Tn tho White House, ar.d so long as ex* Confederates dominate the Democrat­ ic party as absolutely as they do to­ day. Not one of them said a word. The Republicans said the Southern members dared uot for fear of the po­ litical effect, but they pulled their puppets, induced some Deraocratio Union soldiers who had veted for the bill, te change their votes and used deugh-faces for their allies and spokes­ men, as they used to do. The depend­ ent pension bill in the next House ot Representatives may fare better. The Democrats at the best have oaly fif­ teen majority there, instead ef forty- three as'at present, and the leaden ta that small majority and probable lead­ ers iu that house will be two men who to-day voted with the Republicans to pass the bill over the ve'o--Randall and Holmac. 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