Soldiers, Read This!

Ed. Rbpubmcan: - The following clipped froui Tuesday's telegmpliic dis patclie?, concerns an old soldier wel known to unany LansiDg men of tl) Twentieth Intaiitry: The President yesterday vetoed an act ap proprlatlng l,240 to relmburse C. A. Louns bury for clerk hlre, foei and llgtits wiille post master at Blsmarck, Dak. Tuis is the same man mentionod on pafte 135 of "Michigan In the War, from which we quote os follows: C. A. Loonsbury, Marengo, entered servlc May lst, 18K1, a private Co.t, Ftrst(3months Infantry. Wounded and taken prlsoner Jul 21st, 1861. Exchanged. Mustered out July In lS6i Eulisted as sergeant. Co. I, 20th Mlcli gan Infantry, Aug. 9th, 1M2. ndLIeo Jamiary 26th, 1862. Wounded an laken prlsoner in actlon, May th, 1802. Ilescued May lOth. lst Lleut. Nov. 19th 162 Captain, May 12th. 18H3. Wounded in actlon at Hpottsyl vanla, Va May 12. h, 1884. Brevet Major U. 8 Voluuteers, l)ec. 2nd, 1864, for gallant an merliorloua services durlQR the campulgn be lore Ulclimond, Va. Lleut. Col. DM ÜUtli, 1864. Col. March llth, 1865. Mustered out May 3üth, 1865, as Col. This 9 one of the many records o whlch the "Old Twentieth boys" are ver proud. Just think of it ! Thema beard less, stripling boy from the little farmin town of Marengo, in Caluoun county he went forti) to tiglit for the Unioi Twice enllated m a private soldier i 1861 and 1863. Twice a pri-soner in th hands of the rebels. Three time wounded hy rebel bullets and twice cap tured when shot. Slx tiines promoted fo good cause by his superior offlcers. Mus te red out at the close of the war in 184! Now n broken down old soldier, whos wounds and hard fought Cmph(ru liav prematurely ajted hiin. an.l taken out th power, by pain, to enjoy hls life's declin ing yeart, liolils lp liis tremblInfC hant that Once his musket grasped so firm - veto. Tliia was not a pension veto, ant soinc li'giil reason muy have Induced i not vet stated. What caused his "weiglit iness" toset up his Judjrment against bot Houset f Gongreia in this particula case of SI, 240, when the $'22,000,000 har bor bil) became a law without bis notice It was not certainly "Innocuottfl lisue tude" of bis veto pen, as that has no been idle where soKliers have been con Lnnslng, August 2i). isss.