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U. LxlMEllICK. TSditor and Publisher. For wont of space wo can glv only apurt of tho pension procured LINES WRITTEN ON TUB DEATH OF GEN. W.Tt SHERMAN.

Amid nil the long array Of our great men paawd away, Statesmen, goneruli, orator nil men of God, There'anotona who'a praUoi will ewell Wtao'i memory will with ua more fondly dwell Tban the memory of ulmjuat laldbeueatu the od. None, none could hare been more brave While be fought for ttale and xlave, Leading all hi mighty host to the ea, by this agency slnuo our last Issue. the new pension law of last June. The aot grants pensions to soldiers who served ninety days and are now disabled from earning a support, provided they wero honorably discharged. The officials of the Pension Office wero of tho opinion that the act of Juno 27, 1890, did not Include soldiers that had been in the Confederate service, as tho act is silent in regard to this class of pensioners; neither does it repeal section 4718 or wind up with the usual saving clause all acts aud parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

The question was TCHM3 Of SUBSCRIPTION. William Laraboo, Benton, Kas, eopy ona year .1 Original $17 per month, from July nt copy Klx month 16 cony three month. .10 one year with one to peraon ending club 1.C0 20, 1880. Jueob Nixon, Kellogg, Kas. In crease $24 pot month.

chronlo diarrhea, which is incurable. I am much pleased with your pa-por. I accidentally came In possession of a copy lately and Immediately sent subscription price, I think it should bo sustaluod by all soldiers of the rebellion. Wm. II.

Mayo, Co 1, 1st D. a Elk Creek, H. I). THE RAIDERS IN ANDER-SONVILLE. Editor Westkun served a little more than six months in southern prisons; nearly four mouths of suld tlmo in Ambrsou-vlile.

I saw some of the cloproda-tlons committed by the raiders of Audorsouvillo In fact, hud something of an unpleasant time with them myself one night aud part of next day, when they domundod the man who interfered with their business the night before. I saw them PENSION A TTOltNEYS' FEES. Congress In cutting down the fen of attorneys to $2 and 15 Is depriving the veterans of the benefit of counsel. No uttorney, at all competent to manage a pension caso or in foot any other case can possibly afford to work for such a fee, and he will refuse to do so. 1 ho takes the cose at all It will be as a matter of charity and humanity, juet as a competent physician gives advice and medicine free to soino poor sufferer.

Veterans who uro too honest and proud to have attorneys work for them for what is virtually nothing, will bo defrauded of their Just dues because, however good may bo tire intention of tho Pension Bureau, it will take It vastly longer to dispose of a case that is sent in imperfectly prepared than one which is properly presented, and at the age which all veterans have now reached, time la an eonlua one veitr. wlLti one to Dtrnau ending- club t.00 Henry Forbes, Winfleld, Kas, Termi for ailvertUlii made known on Original act of Juno 27, 1890, $12 per None, none hnvo been more kind PoBsentof nobler heart or mind Since tlioae dark and bloody dnya have oeaa- Al remittance ahnuli) be made by draft, mouth, from July 15, 1890. Issuo 11. Ituthburu, Sedan, Kan, oney oruor, or refimereu loiwr. Addrefi all oommunlcatlnD WKSTlfittN HEVEILLE.

"Wlunekl, Kama. Increase $17 per mouth, from May 21, 1891). Milford Rhodes. Kellogg, Kan Original $10 nor mouth, from No vember 12, 1H90. ed to bo.

Great In war and grand In peace Wbot li who, will take hla pluce Blnce ilia Groat Commander baa commanded hi in to come. Fallen the mighty brave; And a nation weeps benlde hi crave In uultou with those bo loft within bli home. None could more straight, forward boj Plain In deed and speech wan lie, No dishonoring thought ere held bli heart entbrall Noble, genorous. boned, brave. To each honorable Impulse a willing slave, The namoof Bliermau will aliluo out amid Easton Lestor, Overbrook, Kan, Original net of Juue 27, 1890.

stab a Sergoant I think he bnlonged referred to Assistant Secretury Bus-sey, who docided that claimants who served in the Confederate army prior to enlistment in the United States service are entitled under the act of June 27, 1800, and aro plaood on the same footing as all other Union soldiers. Some of the official minds of the Pension Bureau are bothered to know what to do with those that were wounded while in the Confederate service. The only restriction that the act of June 1890, makes is that the disabilities must not bo the result of the soldier's own vicious habits. John H. Sowell, Wssar, Kan.

In to an Illinois regimeut Ills com crease $21 per month, from June 18, 1890. rades carried him. outside the stock-ado, and he died in less than an hour. I think it was the stabbing all-Important They cannot afford to give years to rectifying errors that should not have been made, and to supplying proof that should have been furnished at the onset. They William Hummel, Cherry Vale, Kas.

lnroaso $21 per month, from and killing if the Sergeant that NOTICE. Horse claims should be illed prior to August IStb, 1891, as the me expires on said date for filing slid claims. Send your application tbo Western Pension and Claim Agency, of Winfleld, Kans, and get yonr money. Back numbers of the Reveille will be furnished on receipt of 5c In postage. Owing to numerous communications received for publication, we are compelled to abbreviate so as to ind room for ail.

October 15, 1S90. eausod Wirz to issue the following order: tUem all. -W. V. 13U0WN.

Caven, Pratt county. Kans, object strongly to being treated as paupers and uon-coinpetents, and as William C. Reynolds, Guilford Kan. Increase $17 per month, from "Now you Yanks, I don't issue you they see more of the workings of this bill they will object still more October, 22, 1890. PRISONERS OF WAR.

SALISBURY PRISON. William Caughey, Valley Center etronclv. Thev believe thev have Kan. Increasio $17 per month, from Confederate Testimony as to how the right to employ competent men to look after their iuterests, and to October 22, 1890. Experience of a District of oV umbia Cavalryman.

We Treated their Prisoners. Henry Traverse, Anthony, Kan another ration till you pent dem raidors out here. You know dem; I know you do. I will send you in a guard, aud you pick dem out." How many are there llviug to-day who heard Wirz issue the order? There were hundreds that heard it that day and hailed it with delight, and shouted out, "Send iu your Increase $17 per month, from EDITOR WESTERN REVEILLE! A Octobor, 22, 1S90. I was captured about the 1st of comrade calls attention to a case Burrel G.

Hart, Newton. Kan pay them fair wagos tor doing so, and they will oppose bitterly to being deprived of the inalienable right of representation by adequate counsel. As wo have said before, the veterans have not asked for any reduction in these fees; they have been If our subscribers will tell us the kind ot news they want. It will be furnished. Don't ask for political Hews as the Reveille don'tindulgo wiiero one reoei at least ac Original $1 per mouth from January knowledged he had been treatd well 12 per month from October while a prisoner in the north.

Let 1, 1890. in politics. Simeon Clark, Garden Plaine.Kan me give you two instances where similar testimony was given by Con- entirely satisfied with them, for they The subscription list of the Rev- Original $10 nor month, from rille lias grown so large that we knew by personal experience that the ability and labor involved in the October 21, 1889. jeuuiiiies. The writer partook of the much believe it will be necessary to in William E.

Steiueham, Kellogg, vaunted southern hospitality(?) for rease the subscription price in the Kan. Original $8 per month, from some months in Salisbury, N. I near future. July 9, 1890. mean rortii Carolina and not not Georgo W.

Pearson, Pittsburg, The Union Commanders of the Independent urmies still living are prosecution of their claims were but modestly paid for by the schedule of fees. They understood and they will understand still better, that the campaign against attorneys' fees was instigated and followed up by the enemies of nil pensions, who hope to enormously diminish pen civilized, although the terms are or were at that time synonymous, Kan. Original $14 per month, from October 29, 1S90. Gens. Rosecrans.

Buell, Sieel, But August, 18G4, near Sycamore Church, a few miles from Petersburg, whilst on detailed duty, taking oats from City Point to my regiment; nt the time guarding a herd of cattle intended for Gen. Grant's army, but unfortunately appropriated by tho rebels. The Quartermaster-Sergeant and one private were captured at the same time. The Sergeant died in Salisbury, but the private survived! and was my partner in a dugout in and visited me at my home in Hallowell, after the regiment was mustered out. I forget his name but would be very much pleased to hear from him.

I think his home was in Portland. I was about two weeks in Libby, several weeks on Belle Isle, and on the 10th of October, left Belle Isle for Salisbury. I was in my hotel when the attempt was made to break out. The first notice I had of such attempt was a charge of canister- One day about sundown, a Confed Hugh F. Griffin, Severy, Kan guard," in less than an hour the raiders were all out and our rations coming in as usual.

Now Mr. Editor, I suggest that when the Ex-Prisouers of War pension bill passes, everyone of those raiders be excluded from the benefits of said bill, if possible. I see in your valuable paper the name of one of the jurors who tried and sentenced the raiders to death. I will give the name of C. C.

McCain, Co. 2d Ohio as another. Is there any record of the name." of tho whole jury that sentenced the raiders in Andorson-villc. If not, there should be before it is too late. Wm.

H. Lute, Co.E, 2d Youugstown, O. PENSIONS. In 1889 the amount expended for pensions was in 1890 it was in 1891 it will be, according to the Secretary's estimate, erate officer a Captain or Lieuten Original $12 per month, from August ant, I have forgotten which and his 20, 1889. Orderly came into the prison inclos William II.

Trincehouse, Clear ure. After walking about the prison water, Kan. Original per month ground, they stopped near the dead from June 27, 18S9. sion disbursements by cutting on from the veterans the assistance of expert counsel. Some good men, an I true fricucls of the soldiers, have thoughtlessly allowed themselves to be carried away by this clamor and taken steps the consequences of nouse.

a. little knot of prisoners ler, Banks and Sehofield. The rebel commanders of the same grade still living are Gens. Johnston, Long-street, Beauregard and Early. They have responded to the Rev-Jhlle of the Great Redeemer.

We do not wish to enter into the details of the death and burial of the two great heroes (Sherman and Porter,) at this late date, but will say: "Be ye also ready, for ye know not the hour when the Son of man cometh." Malachi Donovan, Elgin Kan gathered around them out of curios ity; some of the prisoners being un Original act of June 27, 1890, $12 per month. able to walk, crawled on their hands William White, Halstead, Kan which they did not foresee. When they look at the matter in the clear, Increase $13 per month, from No vember 20, 1890. and knees to the spot, hoping to ge some news. How the conversation opened Ido not know, but as I joined George W.

Brlner, Melvern, Kan, and iu 1892 it will bo, ac shot carrying away the roof of our dugout, which was located directly trie group the Confederate officer said this: "I have just returned from prison cording to the same authority, sober light of common sense, they will see that a blow at the pension attorneys is really a deadly blow at tho sacred rights of the clients of those attorneys, and those are the ones who are most cruelly injured by it Then we shall have a prompt Original act of June 27, 1S90, $10. Ashbill Sperry, Latham Kan. Increase $24 per month, from May 21 1390. which is as already stated, at least $25,000,000 less than will be de in front of a gun, at a corner of the stockade. The firs year of the Avar I was a in the north, and while a prisoner tnere, beard many reports about manded.

This increase will undoubtedly continue for several Adolphus II. Green, Winfleld, Ka3 member of Co. 111., and did the way our folks wero treating" Original act of June 27, 1890, $12 per reversal of this injurious years, and the country win oe unex garrison duty at Camp Douglass over the Confederates captured at Forts Henry and Donelson, and went to Vicksburg with them when they T.cf no llliiarrntA thin hv a fflW month. John B. Shlndler, Devon, Kan Oiiginal act of June 27, 1890, $12.

Jabez I. Handley, Rosement, Kan. northern soldiers in southern prisons. I could not believe those reports wero true. I was treated well while a prisoner, and I decided as soon as I was released that I would visit some of our southern prisons and see for myself how the prisoners were being treated." cases taken almost at ranaoni irom a great mass: were exchanged, and comparing the Original act of June 27, 1890, $12 per treatment I received in Salisbury Henry D.

Wrighter, Co. N. with that extended to the rebels in month. John W. Hearon, 'Argentine, Kan applied for a pension for total blindness, and asserted that this was Camp Douglass did not help to alle Original aot of June 27, 1890, $12 per directly due to his service, and that As he said this, one poor fellow pectedly fortunate if the expenditures for this purpose stop short of $200,000,000 per annum.

In 1872, Gen. Garfield, in the speech just referred to, said: "We may reasonably expect that the expenditures for pensions will hereafter steadily decrease, unless our legislation should be unwarrantably extravagant." At tho time this declaration was made, the annual expenditure for pensions was only $28,533,402, or not much more than one-fifth the amount now required. Six years afterward the amount had been re month. before he was mustered out, the sight of his right eye was entirely gone. After it had been pending One of the best things Gen.

Sher-nai ever paid was when he reminded the ex-Confederates a few years ago that they were still paroled prisoners of war. As they have not been released from parole are still prisoners, although they are eonstantly- forgetting this important fact The question has been asked by uite a number of our correspondents how it is that we can publish sch a valuable paper for 25c. It is beeause our circulation is large and our subscriptions are increasing rapidly. This month our daily average subscriptions by mail are twenty. Comrades, beware of pension attorneys who try to mislead you.

They will tell you many things that are not true in order to get your business. They will tell you to waive your pending claim and file with them and your fee will ba only $2.00, as that is the law, which is not true. Keep posted. Comrades should be equipped for all emergencies. Have your Discharge Certificates ready.

In case of death there will be a record of Marion Cackler, Medicine Lodge, Kan. Re-issuo and increase $6 per month, from June 19, 1881, and $10 nothing but skin and bones crawled on his hands and knees a little nearer to him, and, turning up a face like a death's head, said to the officer: viate the sufferings I had to undergo in that southern hell. The rebels were sheltered in good barracks and furnished with cooked rations, much better than the army rations that were issued to the Union troops on guard duty; whilst in Salisbury it was a system of starvation amongst the 10,000 or 15,000 prisoners. There six years, it was rejected in 1885, on irom May 20, 1S90, and $11 per month the ground of iusuilicient evidence. from November 20, 1890.

His attorney appealed from this de "Well, what do you think of us?" For a moment the Confederate of Zebulon Chill, Sedan, Kan. Origi cision, and after five years more of nal $8 per month, from August 19, 1889. were tnousanas or mecuanics; tne camp was surrounded with timber; a detail of twenty of us in two days A. A. Mills, Cloverdale, Kan.

Original $8 per month, from August 12, 18S9. hard work, secured new evidence and the allowance of the claim, with a rating of $72 per month. The first payment was $14,700. In such a oase as this in any civil court, the fee would have been at least $1,000, yet his attorney only received $25. ficer could not answer.

I could see tears come into his eyes, and his voice was choked and husky as he answered in low tones, "I think you might be treated a great deal better than you are. Then turning to his Orderly, who carried at his sido a haversack stuffed full, he said to him: "Empty your haversack and let it go as far as it will." And the Ilenry HofT, L6on, Kan. Original could have furnished logs enough to have erected comfortable barracks for all; but no, their system in Samuel Newsoin, Co. 39th cluded exposure as well as starva Robinson Creek, secured an allowance of $8 per month, Sept 16, 18- tion. We would die off faster while burrowing like ground-hogs.

I am act of Juue 27, 1890, $12 per month. Eli J. March, Fort Scott, Kan. Increase $12 per month from June 11 1890. McHenry Chambers, Greenwich, Kan.

Original act of June 27, 1890, $12 per month. Robert Hayo, Neodesha, Kan. Original $2 per month, from July, 15, satisfied that it was only my cussed" Orderly emptied out the haversack ness that kept me alive during the four-and-a-half months I was in Salisbury. I was also satisfied at the time that a Government that 1882, and $0 per month from Septem- duced to $27,135,091 but then, on account of the passage of the arrearage act and the introduction of the subject into the party politics of the country, the expenditure began to increase, and it has continued to grow until we already have an annual charge upon the public Treasury greatly in excess of tho cost of manipulating the largest standing army in Europe. Whether this is the legitimate result of a just and beneficient policy, or of ill-advised and extravagant legislation, is a question upon which there may be wide difference of opinion; but whatever view may be taken of the merits of the system as it now exists, all must agree that it cannot be further extended without seriously embarrassing the operations of tho Government or unreasonably taxing the resources of the people.

Our present revenues will not justify additional expe, itures for this or any other purpose, and neither the financial condition of the country nor the existing state of public opinion will tolerate the imposition of new treated their prisoners of war with such hellish cruelty could never suc 65, for severe injuries to back, right shoulder, and hip, received while in line of duty. This was manifestly far below what he was really entitled to, since hp was utterly disabled and required the assistance of another person. His attorney worked at the case for eleven years, and at last secured him his proper allowance of $72, collecting over $9,000 on first payment. For the amount of labor involved in this, and the sums collected for the claimant, any court ceed. One day when we were ordered in yonr service left with your family for future reference, which will save time, expense and trouble.

If you have lost your original discharge write the Western Pension and Claim Agency to get you one. There have been four notable funerals in this country since the close of the war those of Lincoln, Garfield, Grant and Sherman respectively. Sheridan's obsequies did not attract such widespread attention as did those of the other great men named. It may be truly said that at the bier of each of the four mentioned the nation mourned. The London Times, in its article Gen.

Sherman, says His death removes one of the line for a rebel officer of high rank I do not know his name but think it was Gen. Winder told us that he would have us all in the rebel ranks or in hell inside of three months. 3, 1890. Monroe Pettigrew, Melvern, Kan. Increase $10 per month, from May 28, 1890.

John S. Pollock, Winfleld, Kan. Re-issue and increase $6 per month from June 12, 18S9, and $10 per month from December 31, 1889. Georgo Kinder, Charlottesville, Ind. Original $2 per month from September 11, 1884, and $4 per month from October 18, 1889.

William C. Dicus, Mound Valley, Kan. Original $4 per month from June 13, 1889. mnliM howa allnWAn 111 VUtS UUUXILIJT nuuiu his attorney a fee of at least $1,000, while he only received $25. No one, unless he was there, can Another case is that of Henry have any idea of the horrors of that stock'ade.

There are no words in the English language to express the anguish and hopeless despair of men Armstrong, 98th 111., who filed a claim for an increase of pension on account of deafness resulting from disease of the throat and lungs. This was rejected Dec. 19, 1889, on the ground that $6, which he was receiv burdens in the form of taxation or otherwise. Senator Carlisle, in dying of starvation, exposure, and vermin. If "comparisons are odious," how infinitely more so was the Forum.

to the poor, starving human beings around him. What did the haversack contain? Northern hardtack. The second instance to which I referred occurred while some of the prisoners were being transferred from Salisbury prison to Richmond, Virginia, not vampire, although Richmond sucked the life-blood out of many of the tenderest, and, noblest sons of the north. As the train stopped for wood and water at a point on the route, a Confederate soldier boarded the freight car which I was in. On his arm he carried a high pile of fine sandwiches, made of nice white biscuit and chicken, and stepping carefully around among the living wrecks of humanity that lay on the car floor, not one of whom could stand on their feet, he gave a sandwich and a pleasant smile and word to each.

As he gave me the sandwich I thanked him for it and said I was sorry I could not give him something in return for so delicious a treat, but I had nothing to give in return but thanks. His answer to this was: that's done been returned. I was a prisoner up north with you'ns, and you'ns treated me well and with that, he passed on to the next car, dealing out his sandwiches, thus giving practical proof of his gratitude for the good treatment he had received while a prisoner of war in the northern prisons. F. Co.

1st Conn. Chicago, I1L A TENSION PROBLEM. Washington, D. Dec. 28.

A pension problem ha3 arisen under ing, was commensurate with his dis this policy of the Confederacy. I The following, from tho Mempbis ability, the Bureau holding that his havo heard them sav repeatedly that deafness was not the result of bis Sunday Times, i9 supposed to reflect southern sentiment concerning Gen. Sherman The death of Gen. Sherman removes one of the chief obstacles in it was better to starve us than meet us in the field. In the history of all civilized warfare, there is no instance where prisoners were treated with such barbaricy.

disease the throat and lungs. His attorney secured expert medical evidence, showing the connection clearly. On this, the case was reop- the way of perfect reconciliation be I cannot but doubt the civilization ened. and July 16, 1890, the Bureau' allowed him $20 per month. For all Julius A.

Lee, Atlanta, Kan. Original $4 per month from April 5, 189a John L. Doughty. Pittsburg, Kau Original $4 per month from November 11, 1889. John J.

Plank, Winfleld, Kan. Original $4 per month from June 12, 1889. Andrew J. Gregory, Fairland, Ind Original $8 per month from September 28, 1887, and $12 per month from November 12, 1890. Stephen S.

Campbell, Elizabeth-town, Ky. Original $6 per month from July 20, 1889. Beachum Rhodes, Colony, Kan. Increase $12 per month, from October 22, 1890. Benjamin Boyce, Dexter, Kan.

Act of June 27, 1S90, $12 per month. VV. H. Gri flirt, Tisdale, Kan. Act of June 27, lb'M, $8 per month.

and question the humanity of a Government that confined men needless this labor in his behalf, his attorney greatest heroes of the late war and impoverishes the world's stock of military genius and renown. The writer of the above evidently had in his mind's eye a sentence from Dr. Samuel Johnson on the death of Garrick, the actor: His death eclipsed the gayety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. A good many old soldier in Kansas will say "amen" with a will to the followihg in the St Louis Globe-Democrat: "In much that has been said and written since the death of Ceneral Sherman mention has been made of "the great trio of the war Grant, Sherman and Sheridan." We would not detract an iota from the fame which rightly belongs to any of those great soldiers, but we do not consider any grouping of the heroes of the war complete which omits George H. Thomas.

Let us call it a quartet for the purpose of including "Old Pap." received but $10 ly in a place unfit for a dog or a hog We could cite thousands of simi to live, with the intention of killing them by starvation. lar cases. In many cases, It is true, the work and time required are but In my opinion the survivors of the tween the North and the South. As long as Sherman lived he was a continual reminder to this section of what they consider the mos unwarranted outrages of the late war, while his utterances served to keep alive the sentiment of prejudice in the Northern breast Now that he is gone, let us forget the part he played in our history. Let us even say peace to his ashes, and, unmindful of his personality, let us extend our sympathy to the brethren across Mason and Dixon's line who grieve for a man they esteemed a hero.

four-and-a-half months in Salisbury came out with health impaired. No constitution could stand such a test' moderate, but in many ttiey are enormous, and experience shows clearly that $10 in increase claims-taking the average, simple and intricate and $25 in original cases-taking the easy with the difficult is know that I suffered with scurvy but reasonable compensation. The and lost my teeth in consequence. I also know that I contracted typhoid fever, as did nearly all the survivors, and that the fever left me with, niployment of competent attorneys Peruse the columns of the Reveille and you will find something of importance to you. at fair compensation is clearly to the advantage of the veterans..