Rebel Claims

Puring the last presidential campaign tlie repnblicans charged that if the demócrata carne into power the olri Southern war claims would 'e pushed forward and paid. That was laughed at by uur opponentsi But let us look at the results. The treasury department has compüed these claims agiiinst the government and find the total to be $174,821,500.82, for cotton supplies, stores and forage. These are rapidly beingrushed through and paid, although they are mostly outrageous frauds, - claims put in by fonner members of the confedérate armies. A case of tliis kind came up yesterday in a conversation with Col. H. S. Dean, who during the war built a bridge across the Tenuessee river at Chattanooga for Sherman's army to cross. He built it all from timber near the landing. Recently he received a letter from the war department stating that a claim had been put in for rails burned, timber cut, forage taken and damages to property. Tlie modest owners only asked for $S0,000. His reply was that no rails had been burned, that they did cut timber, and if there had been any hay or fodder for horses it might have heen taken, bu as there was none on the place none was taken. The whole rancli iucluding buildings, timber, land ;ml all was not worth to exceed .$(5,000. The place was owned by i man then in the Rebel army, as he was informeel at the time by the (roman living on ti ie place who claimed to be his wife. This is a sample of the rank im'püQènce of those ensses who flrst tried to shoot the life out of the republic, and now are trying to steal it. It is time to enter a protest against this. The New York Tribune properly puts it in saying : " Xothing can Vje more reekless than the marmer in which tliis democratie congresa is allowing these false and absurd claims. They are unblushing steals, and the men who are promoting and passing them, so far as the morality of their proceedings is concerned, might just as well be making midnight raids on a bank or lifting purses in a crowded shop." AVhat n sbame it is to see our northern dough-faces of the majority party in Congress truckle and criuge to the rebel brigadiers who again are in the saddle ! As siags the bird sings Emma! all heart- A voice in which you listen to a heart.