Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1892, Page 9

PART TWO. P T\\'liN'l’Y-—FlRN YEAR. OMAHA, SUNDAY MOI NG, FEBRU ARY 14, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES Special Sales. YDEN BROTHERS ive and Let Live Prices. Patronize M L THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. | PAGES 9-16. | NUMBER 210. ome Industry. Be Loyal to Omaha Wash Dress VG;)O(’]s. Bedford cords ure very popular. Bedford cord effects in prints, Te ard. 7" Rdtord condi, light or dark, 10c yard. Bedford cords, light or dark,30 inches wide, 124c. Bedford cords in fine gingham, 15¢ Ard. Bedford cords, 82 inches wide. plain colors, dark s es, beautiful goods, 19¢ yard, 82-inch wide delhi eloth, 15¢ yard. 36-inch wide wool effect suiting, 15¢ yard. Amoskeng teasle cloth, 10¢ yard. Flannelette suiting. 5¢ vard. Plain fast black satine, 10e, 12ie, 15¢, 17¢, 19¢, 20c, 25¢, 80c, 35¢, 87ic and 40c yard. We are headquarters on wash dress goods. We carry the largest stock and display the latest styles. Look at our stock of fine ginghams, £4e, 10¢, 124c, 15¢, 17¢, 18c, 19¢, 20¢ and 26¢. D omestic ginghams, 5c and Tic yard. 2,0 00 pieces of new styles of armure £, rze, pincupple issue, shantong por coo, can ton cloth, Arabian serge, ratonia gsuiting, Brandenburg cloth, aveyron cloth, brocaded satines, ote., at 7c . Tie, 10c, 124¢, 15¢, , 25¢. 80c¢, 85c and 45¢ yard. We ean suit you on wash goods. Remnants of white India linon at 5¢ aund 1Cc¢, worth from 10¢ 10 25¢. We have the best line of o ting flan- nels in Omaha at ¢, 10¢, 124 and 15¢ yard. Special Notice. We have just received direet from Manchester, England, our spring stock ot flannel; beautiful styles, Best goods shown x* 50c, &5e, Hc and GHe Mcstly 11 light colors. See them on our flannel counters. einen Department. Our sales on linens tho past week have been the largest since we opened in Omaha. There his been a great de- mand for those half bl hed damasks at 43¢, yard. Our_towel counters have been very busy. Our 10c towel has been a surprise to most peo- le. Where can you buy o linen huck emmed towel at 10c except at Hay- den’s? Monday wiil clean them all. Special burgains Monday on fringed table cloths in red and white, cardinal, red and green, plain white and white, with fancy colored borders, In all sizes. Black Dress Goods SPECIAL PRICES FOR MONDAY. All wool flannels 54 inches wide, 43c. rth G5c. Scotch cheviots, 88 inches wide, 45¢; worth 70¢. Very elogant Bedford cords, with silk bars giving them the most beautiful aid effects, $1.15; regular price $1.50. 1ese are among the very latest novel- tiesin fine dress goods; do not overlook them, Finost armuro weavesina large va- riety of styles in stripes and figures, for Monday’s sale the price will be $1; reg- ular #1 Henrietta cloths, 38¢, worth Serges, H5¢, worth S0e Cashinere, 25¢, worth 35¢ Fine Bedford cords, 29¢, worth 45¢. The very fincst and best satin finish henriotta, SSc, worth 81124 A very elegant silk finish henrietta, 65¢, worth 85¢, Consumers can always save money by buying ali of their black dress goods from us, as our stock is much larger than any in the west and our prices always lower, Colored Dress Goods. SPECIAL SALE FOR MONDAY. Monday we will place on sale a full as- sortment of spring and summeor dress goods in all the latest styles. 3-inch stripe and plain che 36-inch gray mixed do beige 40-1nch all wool stripe cheviots 86-inch all wool mixed serges, in colors, 49¢. 40-1nch all wool serge, spring shades, 50c. 40-inch Jamestown plaids 39c. 40-inch all wool spring suitings, 55¢. ch all woo! herring-bone stri we rons 25¢, 250 all 65c. 48-inch all wool suitings, 98c. 40-inch diagonal stripe camel’s hair 81 51-inch swan’s down plaid, $1. Veilings. SPECIAL FOR MONDAY. 2,000 yards sewing silk veiling, in all colors, to close at 10c per yard; regular price 25¢ per yard. pecial values in veils of all sorts. ystal spotted ve Jet spangled ve Chenille dot veils, Brussels net veils Honey Ha r net veils, ple tuxedo veils, in single or double widths, at 10c, 15¢, 20c and 25¢ per veil. Dress Patterns. Monday we will place on dur bargain counter in front room of main floor 800 dress patterns at very low prices. 25 dress putlerns, 10 yards in pattern, for 98c. 25 dress patterns, 8 yards in pattern, 10. | 85 dress patterns, 73 yards in pattern, for $1.75, 80 dress patterns, for $1.98. 28 dress patterns, dress patterns, for £3.50. 35 dress patterns, 50. 35 dress patterns, 74 yards in pattern, for 81.82 74 yards in pattorn, 7 yards in pattern, 7 yards in pattern, 7 yards in pattern, Bargains in Our iSilk Dep't for Monday. 3 pieces gros grain black silks, worth and sell for $1, Monday 8 pieces faille black silks, worth and sell for $1.25and $1.50, Monday $1. 5 pieces fancy stripe dress silk, usually at $1.35, Monday $1. 6 pieces stripe and plaid dress silk, worth $1, for Monday 65c. 4 pieces black polka dot chinas, new; worth $1, for Monday 85¢. 3 picces cream brocadd chinas, for Monday 90c. repe, in desivable shades, 5, for Monday $1.10. Remnants in silks at half price. sold Art Department. 200 dozen stumped linen doylies at 2¢, worth 5. 50 dozen fancy linen doylies at S, worth 10c. 25 dozen stamped and hemstitched linen doylies at 10c.worth 20c, 50 dozen stamped linen splashers with drawn thread. only 12¢ to clgse, actu- ally worth 25c. 95 dozen stamped pillow shams at 12jc per pair. 10 dozen 72-inch linen dresser scarfs at 39¢, worth G5c. The very best embroidery silk in the country at 5¢ per dozen spools, The Boston knitting silk at 15¢ per 1 ounce spool to close ’em out. > ’{‘hu best English tinsel at 2ic per all. Chenille and tinsel cord in all colors at 6c per yard. new; [ Laces and Embroideries. Our new linesot spring laces and em- broideries have arrived, and for beauty of design, variety of st(lc, und cheap- ness of prices they excel anything ever shown in this market. New effects in real torchon and medicl laces with insertions to match. New and exquisite patterns in valenciennes with insertions to match The new Point Lu Paris, a very beau- tiful and servicoable wash lace, &e. SPECIAL FOR MONDAY, 25 pieces Chiffon, in all the new shades, regular price 85¢ per yurd, for Monday only 25¢ per yard. Embroideries will cut a very import- ant figure in the dry goods business this soason, as the novelty and daintiness of their patterns aro so attractive that they will command the attention of all ladies of taste,and to look over our stock moans to buy. Iine cambric embroideries, Fine nainsook embroideries. Fine Hamburg embroideries. Swise, demi flouncing, &e., &e. SPECIAL FOR MONDAY. 50 pieces 45-inch flouncing, very nice- ly embroidered, actually worth 7se, for Monday only 57c. Books. Sir Walter Scott’s complete works, in 12 volumes, nicely bound in cloth, only 5.75; publisher’s price $15.00. John Ruskin’s complete works in 12 volumes, cloth bound, only & publisher’s price $15. Miss Mulocks’ works, nicely bound, at $1 per volume. Coopers’ complete works in 16 vol- umes, cloth bound, $18; publishers price $25. Life of Christ bound, only $1.25, Mrs. Holmes’ works, cloth bound, only 98¢ ver volume. George Iliot’s, 6 volumes, nicely bound in cloth, only $1.95; worth $4. Thackery's complete works, i 10 vol- umes, nicely bound in cloth, $2.95; worth $5. Dickens’ complete works, in 15 vol- umes, only $4.50; worth $10. Muslins and Sheetings. Our sale on muslin and sheetings will continue on Monday. Yard wide bleached or brown muslin, ¢, 6e, Bic, Te, Tic, 8c, Btcand 10c yurd. We carry all the leading ‘brands and make the lowest prices o matter what the cost. Compare our pri¢eés. by Fleotwopd, cloth House Furnishing S Goods. Special reduced pricos on toilet sets: 84.00 set reduced to #1.80 $5.00 set reduced to S, e ; #7.00 sot reduced to $3,95 [ WV arranted. $8.00 set reduced to $4.95 | These are all imported goods under glazed decorations, Extraordinary cut in dinner sets: $18 set of 100 pieces $7.45 $25 set of 100 ploces 830 set of 100 pieces Over 300 sets to sel the largest assortmen The biggest and finest looking 6o counters you ever saw. Thousands of articles tor 5¢ each, commencing to- morrow. Woodenware. Wooden bewls, 8¢ each, Wash bowlg, 9c each. Mouse traps, ¢ each. Potato mashers, 3¢ each. Wooden spoons, 3¢ each. Clothes pins, per dozen, 1c. Baskots, 3¢ each, Clothes forks Clothes bars 49¢ each, Folding ironing table Washing machines, $ Wash tubs, 29¢ each. Wooden frame clothes wringer $2.15. ‘Wooden frame flour sieve He. Buttons, Buttons. If you are looking for something new in buttons, come to us. We have made a very extensive purchase, which en- ableg us to offer very special prices in shapes and sizes in white and natural pearls, Square buttons will be the fashion this senson. ~ Our price. 85¢ up. Our spring novelties in dress are trim- mings are beginning to arrive. which it very attractive and at remarkable low prices. Harness Dept. We are receiving new goods for the spring trade. ‘We have just received a fine line of cowboy saddles, some of the best makes, and will sell them at prices that will surprise you, for wo are tie leaders in low vrices. Alsoa full line of single and double harness, bridles, whips, blankets, curry combs, brushes, halters, tie straps, pole straps, hame 5 singles and straps of all kinds, buggy cushions, neckyokes and harness oil. SPECIAL, A light double harness, $20.50. Single harness, $4.75, this weeks Warranted, 14,08 ) west of Chicago. Carpets, Curtains, Shades. Ou full spring line of carpots are now in. The styles. the variety, the quality and the vrices are positively beyond competition. Standard ingrain carpet at 80c. 87¢, 43¢ and 50¢, actual value 50¢ to Highest grade extra super at do¢, 63c, 69c and 75 Remember, we are the only house west of Chicago carrying a full line of the celebrated Lowell extra super car- pets. The profits are next to nothing, but they are the best carpets made Ameri- Full lires lace curtains, chenille cur- tains, rugs, fringes and shades. Drug Dept. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, 75c. Wright's Sarsaparilla Harter’s Iron Tonic, 75c. Scott’s BEmulsion, 7ac. Garfield Tea, 20¢. Lane’s Family Medicine, 40c. Fig Syrup, 20¢, Lirge size. Fig Syrup, 15¢, small size, Syruap of Tar and Wild Cherry with Tulu, 29¢. Perfume, all odors, 250 per oz. Beef Extract, Red Cross Cough Syrup, 17e. Shandon Bells Sonp, 49¢’ hox Blderflower soap, 2 cakos for 15c. Liebig’s Beef, Ivon and Wine, 43c. Hostetter’s Bitters, 75¢. Stove Department. Do, Highest quality goods at half hard- ware store prices. The renowned P. P. Stewart, Dia- mond and Fuller-Warren Co. cooks and ranges; Aurora vapor stoves, the world’s best at lowest prices. Be sure and get our prices on gasoline stoves of all kinds. Handkerchiefs. MORE HANDKERCHIEFS THROWN AWAY. 15000 handkerchiols slightly soiled, drumme mples and odds and ends, in fact all sorts for women and chil- dren, regular price 20c to 50c each, for Monday only at 15¢ each. Brass Beds Are becoming more popular every day. Wo have a few bargains in this line and would be glad to make a very low price to any one wishing a brass bed. - Great Meat Sale. Dried salt pork Gie pound. Sugar cured breakfast bacon, Tie per pound. Boneless pound. Sugar cured No. 1 hams, 9ic,10ic and 24 per pound. Sugar cared Californin hams Hic per pound. Dried boef e, 10¢, 124 per pound. Boneless ham 8¢ por pound. Bologna sausage 5e per pound. Liver sausage 5¢ por pound. Frankforts Tic per pound. Head cheeso 50 per pound, Brick cheese 15¢ per pound, Cream cheese 15¢ por pound. Swiss cheeso 15¢. Best Holland herring in kegs 980, Domestic herring in kogs, 7oc. Best cape cod fish 124c, 2-pound brick cod fish 15¢ each, Salmon 10¢ per pound. White fish 10¢ per pound. Mackerol 124c per_pound, Ten-pound pail Norwegian sardines 750 per pail. Bed Room Suits. We are now showing a splendid line of bed room suits, Over 30 different i and 16th century 50, $i8560, $19 . All our suits are good and the price is low. rump corn beof Sle per Mattresses. We are headquarters on mattresses, either cotton top, wool or hair, and get your old wool or hair mattress made over at a very low flgure: Fine line of chairs, rock extension tables, sideboards, hall trees, cte. Baby Carriages. 100 styles now on_display of the c cle- brated = “‘Heywood” carriage. Our price on these carringes is less than the regular wholesalo price; and this en- ables us to sell ©os now; what will it be when warm weather sets in? Trunks and Valises. Without exception we c estlino of trunks and valises, and our sulos provo thut our prices are righ t. The sule we started Inst week goes right on. Bofore you travel give us a call. We can save you monoy. ry the larg- HAYDEN BROTHRRS. STORIES OF PRISON LIFE| "Thrilling Experiences of Congressmen Who Were Captured During the War, H‘(‘){MI\NTIC STORY OF SPEAKER CRISP Capture of General Joo Wheeler—Represen- tative Tarsney Took the Doad Prison from His C Wasmixaroy, D. C., Feb, 10.—|Special Correspondenco of Tite Bek, | —Congressmen in prison! Yes, and the best members of congress, too. A baker's dozen of them have spent weary months n prisons watched by guards ready to shoot them at theirslightest attempt 0 escape. Some of such avtempts have gone about their prison pens with loads of iron tied to their ankies and others have been fol- lowed by bloodhounds and recaptured. These statesmen who how feed on the fat of Wash- fugton, then grew thin on prison fare, and eir bones stuck out as they grabbed for heir rations in all the different muitary prisons of tho north and south during the Iast war, They were all brave soldiers and they are all today patriotic American citi- zons. Notoneof them bears any ill will towards the section of the United States where he spent those gloomy prison days, and both union and confederates among them find excuses for the poor food and bad treat- ment which they then received. Forty Days Under Shot and Shell, The stories of these experiences read like a omance, Take that of the speaker. Hon. Sharles Frederick Crisp was plain Charile visp in 1561, He was a beardless boy of 16 when bo entered the confederate army, but they made him a lieutenant and he led Com pany K of the Tenth Virginia infantry, He bad served three years when he was wounded and captured and carvied to Fort Delaware, and for three nionths he lay there with thousands of other confederate prison- ers, haviog no comforts, but no groat privations. Then an order was issued that n retalintion or the acts of the confederates, 600 officers Jong the prisoners of this fort should be went south and placed under the fire of the oonfederate guns at Morris Island neur Charleston. This order was not known to the prisoners, and when the futuro spoaker was selected with the others and told to get ready 1o go southward, he supposed he was gong to be exchanged mud his heart was glad. The 600 were packed away between the decks of the litlie steamer Crescent. Bunks bad been knocked up for them and these ran in tiers the whole length of the vessel. Each bunk held from three to four persous and down thevo under the decks it ‘was terribly hot, he lrlll was taken during the worst part of the dog days. It lastod for more jthan two weeks and during the latter rt of the voyage water became scarce and ho salt water was condeused and given to the prisoners bolling hot. They would often put It into bottles and haug these by strings out in the ocean o cool. At last the ship ar- rived at Morris Island and the sveaker and 6 fellow ofticers found themselves put in a lockade on tho sand. This stockade was square and it enclosed about an acre. It as 1aidway between the confederate bat- ®ries Grege and Waguer, and io froat of the federal butteries, and so located as to be in he direct range of the coufederate guus. 'hese guus were mortars and they threw E-l, soells which went shrieking over @ prison pen and now aud then exploded in the air and fragments fell into the stockade to the horror of the prisoners. Strange to say, however, no one was hurt. Mr., Cobb's Short Rations. Representative Cobb of Alabamu was in this prison at the same time with Speaker Crisp. He had been taken prisouer at the DELLRJ of Gettysburg, haa spent six months in the prison on Johnson's island, had becn carried from thereto IFort Delaware, and now with these other officers he was in the stockade under the confederate fire. He and the speaker had practically the aame exper- iences and they remained together until they wore carried back to Fort Delaware. Their guards on Morris Island were negroes, “‘and these,” says Mr. Cobb, ‘‘were the blackest negroes you ever saw. ‘Theso were exposed as much’ to the five as we were and one of them had his leg knocked off by a shell.” **What sort of accommodation had you{” I aske “Not very good,” was thereply. ‘‘The camp was laid_ off in streets and we had lit- ue A-tents and theve were four men I1n a tent. A negro sergeant had charge of each row of tents and it was his duty to call the roll three times a day and to issue rations. Around the tents and inside the stockade there wasa ropotied toposts which we knew was the dead line, and the man who passed this rope or even touched it knew he would bo shot.”” *4V hat were your rations? “They were not very fattening,” was the reply. ““They consisted of hard tack and mush or jrice. In the morning we got from three to five pieces of hard tack and & piece of meat about an inch wide and two inches long. At noon each of us got about halt a pint of pea soup which was brought around 1n a barrel and iadled out und for supper we had a little mush or rice which was also served from a barrel, At firsttbe feeding was not so bad but later on when the princi- ple of retaliation was carried out, they cut us down to a pint of weal and a half pint of pickle per aay. This was terrble and it was done in retaliation so they claum, for the treatment of the prisoners at Andersonville, Many of the prisoners then got the scuryy and we all became emaciated. We were under five at Morris Island for more than forty days and were then carried to Fort Pulaski and at the close of the war taken back to Fort Del- aware and released.” Capture of Gen Joe Wheeler. Porbaps the most distinguished prisoner among the mewmbers of the house was Gen- cral Joe Wheeler, the famous cavalry officer, Goneral Whecler was & graduato'of West Polut and he entered the confederate army as a lieutenant at the age of 25. He was pro- moted again and again and upon the death of General J. I3, B. Stuart, he becime the sen- ior cavalry oficer of thle confederate army. He was in fact the Phil Sheridan of the south and at the close of the war when Jef- ferson Davis ard bis_cabinet fled from Rich- mond to Charlotte, N. C., Davis looked upon General Wheeler as bis_cnief support in bis projected flight through the south. He wanted General Wheeler to take his entire command along with him, but General Wheeler told him this was impossible and that the best means was for bim to divide his best men into a number of small bands and that these could follow him and b; the easo with which they could be managed, could be moved from place to place to protect and aid him. This was agreed o and Gen- oral Wheeler was dashing along in the rear of Jefferson Davis when he was captured. He had not yet reacted Davis wheo he re- celved an order to disband his troops, He had done this aund bad only a few of his sol-" diers about him when he ‘was captured, He told me the other night the circumstances of his capture. Said he: “1 was lying in the woods in company with several of my soldiers and acouple of nogroes when a party of upiou soldiers came up. These soldiers were in confederate clothes and they found us by the aid of a negro, who bad brought us sométhing to eat. They were headed by a Lieutenant Reynolds and as soon as | saw him come up and talk to my negroes Tknew it was all up with me and that they haa found out who I was. I had torn the stars which donated my rauk off of my coat, but tue coat was faded and the spots shone out s0 that they could tell that I was an officer, Upou being accosted aud asked who I was I told them that I was Gereral Wheeler and that under the cartel then in force I surrendered, and asked that we be parolied. Lioutenant Reyaolds told me he would not accept my parol at that time, and said: *You wantea to be with Davis and we will take you to him.” With that he took mo with him to Atlanta and I was there put in company with Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, Clement C, Clay and ex-Senator Reagan upon a little boat and taken in this down to Savannah, where we got another boat, which carried us north. The boat that took v aorth was guarded by the gun- boat Matamoras. The families of Davis and Ulay were taken mnorth with us and Mrs. Davis had little Winnie Davis with her. She was then a baby and I bad her on my knee during a great part of the voyage, and belned to take care of her as the nurse had been taken away from Mrs. Davis.” Alexander Stevens Was Scared, ““I roomed with Alexander Stephens on the steamboat,”” continued Goneral Wheeler, ‘ana [ found him very gloomy over the prospects. As for me I felt very happy and thought 1t was a grand thing that I had not been taken prisoner before und felt relieved that the war was over. One day I said to Mr. Stenbens in a joking way that I had been accustomed to going north every sum- mer for my health and that the federal gov- ernment was very kind in the present in- stance when I had no money to take me there and pay my expenses for me. He rebuked said that 1 ought oot to trifle with such a scrious matter, and he tola me that for himself he expected a loug, if not a per- petual imprisonment, I told him there was no danger of hie being ill-troated, thal he had numerous friends among the public men of the north and that they would not harm him whatever they did with the rest of us, on the account of the speech he nad made for the union before the war began. He would not believe me, however, and said that he expected nothing but punishment. I then asked: *Well Mr. Stephens, 1f this is to be your fate, what will be the fate of President Dayis? A look of horror came over his face and he raised his hands. Don't speak of it, he said. ‘'His fate is wo terribie to think of.’ Mr. Reagan took the situation more calmly and he evidently did not greatly fear tne re- sults, We went together on this boat north until we reached Fortress Mouroe, whorethe party was divided, Jefferson Davis was taken off under a guard, Reagan and Ste- phens was sent to Fort Warren and I was put on another boat and carried to Fort Delaware. 1 was kept there for s month in one of the large rooms of the fort, and dur- ing this time I had a guard of an oflicer, three corporals and twenty-six soldiors. Soldiers with guns cockea stood at the door during the whole time and kept their eyes on me. They even watched me when | took my bath, and their espionage was by no means Eleuluul. 1did not grow fat oo my diet. My reakfast was a piece of meat and a plece of bread served on a tin l)llw, which was none too clean sometime. For dinner I got a tin cup of soup with a little piece of meat float- ing 1w it, and for supper I had a plece of bread. I had nothing in the shape of tea and coffee to drink. I slept on the floor and was not allowed to read, write or speak to any oue. Sull, on the whole I was happy, and when one day [ was led out to General Shoeph and dismissed without much cere- mony, the thing seemed to come as & matter of course, and I was happy in the war being over and mysel! still alive.” A Story of Tarsney. A number of the northern congressmen who served in the union urm{ during the war underwent all the horrors ol the prison life of the south and their stories of Libby and Audersonville and the otber southern prisons are thrilling in tho extreme. Two of the strangest experiences are those of Repre- sentative John C. Tarsney of Missour: and Ropresentatve Irvine Dungan of Obio, Both were imprisoned for months and the capture of and escape of each has the variety aud ad- venture of & detective novel. Kepresentative Tarsney went into the army at 17. He en- listed 1 the Fourth Michigan 1afautry and then served in the Fifth army corps. He was severely woundad at the battle of Gettys- burg, was carried off the field by the confod- erates and tuken south to Richmond. Here he was kept for a time at Belle island, theuce | uot issue more ratious until moved to Andersonville and finally in 1804 was taken to Milan, from whence he escaped. Whilo ho was in Andorsonville his prison was located within eight milos of tho home of Speaker Crisp and during the past summer M. Crisp told an audienco at Kansas City that Tarsney was @ constituent of his and that bo had spent one summer ata famous resort within eignt miles of his home, Tars. noy opposed the bill which was introduced into the Fifty-first congress to give 2 a day toall surviving soldiers who, had been in southern prisons for the lengih of time they were in such prisons. Speaker Crisp re- Terrod to this bl and to Tarsney’s action and said that Tarsney nad told him that though there was §1,100 in the bill for” him he could not support it for the United States govern- ment biad already paid him 333 cents a day for the grub which he had received in that prison in way of commutation of rations and he really thought this was more than the food was worth, The Horrors of Anderkonville, 1 talked with Representative Tarsney last night about his prison experiences, Said he: “‘Prison life is bad in any shape and the southern prisons were terrible. The south was poor 1tself and its soldiers on the field were almost starving. The rations we re- coved were misarably small and of the poo est quality, and at Belle [sland, Anderson- ville and Milan we had mizhty poor tare. It was terribly cold at Belle Island during the winter of 1864 and I was one of the rirst meun sent from there to Audersonviile and was in Andersonville when the stockade was first oponed. The stockade was built in the midst of a forest and at first we had plenty of fuel to cook our corn meal, and - after this had gone we had a bakery which served out our mush and molasses. = Throughout my prison life I managed to get enough money to keep me alive, and during the latter partof it I succoeded in gotting & number of extra ra- tions. In the first place let me tell you how our prison organization originated. ‘While I was in Andersonville there was a large gang of robbors among the prisonors who made a practice of falling upon aud robbing the new men as they came in. They wers a set of thugs, made of bounty jumpers and stragglers and had been captured along with our sol- diers, They had an organized band in the prison and they committed marder as well as robbery. At last a vigilance,committee was formed, and with the conseng of Wirz, the commander of the prison, thiS committeo ar- rosted theleaders of this gang, beld a court and tried them. The resuly was that They Hung Six of Them, in tho prison with the consedt of the rebel authorities, ana after this police org: ition inside the) afterward was extended to forth for roll call, and being, 10 & ceriain ex- tent, respousible for them. Every now and then we would have uew hes of men come Into the prison, and mew hundreds would be formed. During the latter part ot my prison career I got in the'habit of getting near the gate when thess companies came in, and as they marchiedup I would fall nto live and give a fictitious e and thus become registered with tham. “hen when that hundred was up for roltieall and for dis- tribution of rations I would @ppear and swer to this name an@ get. my ration. In an- olber hundred 1 answered John Tarsney sud got a ration there, and § coutiaued this until at last [ was drawing five different ra- tions, which, in addition to fy own, was six, and I not only kept myselt.but a poor follow soldier who'was 100 sick to pley the same game, I was one of the first nien i Aunder- sonville and Milan, and I saw that these compavies in which I registered were far enough apart so that I could skip from one to the other and answer my name inall, I began to fatten u}) and was dolog splendidly when a number of the other priseners got to playing the same game- and the suthorities di rulng after I bad been no order came to dis- scovered us, One led in Number band aoa I could not get to my other com- pauies. That day it was discovered that 600 uen were absent aud that (00 wmore rations were issued than there were men. ‘The offi- cers of the prison then said th‘u,he,v would these 600 wen were accounted for, Thero were 35,000 men in the prison, and 1 was not going to let these thousands of men starve for me 80 I told the ofticers how I had been cheating them. The result was that they took me to a blacksmith’s shop and fastened thirty-two pounds of iron to my leg by way of punish- ment. I lugged this around for awhilo and then one of the officials, secing that I was but a boy, asked me what was the matter. I 101d him and asked Lim to have it taken off, saying that I would not cheat_them again if they would remove the iron. This was done, but I couldn’t keep my proraise. My stomach was_ stronger than my conscience and I was soon drawing three or four rations under different names. Woll, they caught me again and they now put thirty-two pounds of iron on each log. I dragged this around for sorme time, but at last a Massachusetts men who had a filo cut the chain so that I could take the balls off and fixed them in such a way that I could fasten them on with & string when I tiad to go to roli call. The result was that I got around very nicely and the autno ities nover suspected that 1 was not dra giug the load of iron all the time.” A Thrilling Story of Escape. “What is the story of your escape, Tarsney " 1 asked, “It was & curious one,” replied the con- gressman, ‘‘According to the records of that prison I am numbered with the dead and the United States government, which has erected headstones over the graves of the prisoners who died during the war, Las probubly put one with my name on it in the cewetery outside the prison of Milan, The way it came was this: A large number of prisoners were 10 be_exchanged, and accord- ing to the principie followe. by the southern- ers, the poorest, the discased, the lame, the halt and the blind were picked out for ex- change. I was too fat too get among that numoer, and I had o idea that I would be taken. The night before the exchange was to be made, in walking down the hill which was on one side of the prison, I heard a voice, It was about dusk. [looked and on the ground an emaciated soldier who hed attempted to drag himself ucross the stock- ade put had fallen helpless. I hfted him up, @ave bim something to drink and made him as comfortable as I could. I talked with him and he told me the companf that he be- longed to and all about bimself, H told me he was to be exchanged on the morrow, but with his consumptive cough 1 could see that he would never get to the north, He gave me the num- ber of the company he was in in the prison and the name of his sergeant, and after doing what I could for him, I'left him. Early the next morning, 1n crossing the camp, 1 saw what remained of him. He had died during the night, and he was little more than a deaa skeleton, “As I walked away from him the thought came to me that I might get out of prison in his placo, and I at once went to one of my friends and told him my scheme. I Wrote out my own name, my regiment and my eompany on a piece of paper and pinned it on his coat, then my friend, Johnny UumElnn. and myself lifted him up and car- ried him and Placed Him Among the Dead Bodies at the side of the gate of the prison. This was the custom, and the bodies were regu- larly carried out and buried and the names upon them were recorded among the dead of the prison. I then went to the rgeant = of my own prison colapany and arranged to have him report me dead. Ho agreed to do soand I went to the sergeant of the 90mpaLY 12 which the dead man belonged and tried to get him 10 let me pass out 1n this nun’s place. He at first refused and wanted to put in oue of his own friends, but I told him "that the scheme was mine and that 1 would expose anyone else who tried to be exchauged under it. He was ugly and would not consent to it and I was in dispair until at last I thought of an old silver watch which I kad with me. It was the only thing of vaiue I had saved and it was wort] Pu\l $10. I pulled this out and offered him the wal aylog: “1 will give vou this watch on this coudition, If 1 @et out of the prison you may keep it, but if Idon't you must give it back to me,’ He grumbled & little, but took the wateh, and I was now ready for the exchauge. I made Mr, 1 myself look if anything more ragged than over. I drew in my shoulders, affected an extravagant limp ana Succeeded in Passing the Officers and gotting out where we were put to wait for the train. The train did not come in on time and I had to pass a second examination and this time I came necar beivg caugnt. I had gotten past the oficers and was in the gate just ready to go out when the inspector called *Halt.! "I halted, for a move 1 knew would result in_ my death., The sergeant, however, who had my watch in his pocket spoke a word to the man, telliug him it was all right and 1 was permitted to goon. My name was now John Frantz instead of John Tarsney, and 1 kept that namo until I got througk. my exchauge and was at the north, The man I'represented was John Frantz of pany K of the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania regiment, ana I had to answer to this aud to where I was captured before they would lst me through. At the Detroit rennion last summer & wman rushed upto meand pre- tended that he was going to fight me, saying that he had.a little matter to settle with me. Twas just gotting ready to defend myself, and Inoted the twinkle in his eyeand 1 found it was my old friend, Johnnie Cam- Ellm, who bad helped me to carry the dead ody to the gate, and who aftor the war had gone to Iowa to live.” Dungan Was Pursued by Bloodhounds, Representative Dungan of Ohio had sev- eral most remarkable escapes during his career in the military prisons of the south west. He weni intothe war in the Nine. teenth lowa infantry, was captured at the battle of Morgzanza near Baton Rouge, and he was confined at first in the prison near Tyler, Tex. The stockade about this prison was made of huge squarc posts set about six foot deop in the earth, one close to another, forming a wall or fence around the enclos- ure. mome of these posts wera very large, and at first there was no guard inside of the enclosure and no guards on top,as there were later on, Mr. Dungan and two of hls com panions concocted @ plan to escape. They dug the ewrthout from oneof the larger Dposts, so that they could pull its bottom In- wara without disturbing the wall and could move it back and forth, They then watched the guard and when he had turned on his way past this spot tho three of them slipped out and rushed for the woods, They got into the underbrush and safely away with- out discovery that night. When it was dis- covered that they had gone the country was scoured for them, and some days later. hey heard the baying of the hounds who were on their track, They were at this time near a river and they jumped into this and swam several miles down it to an island, which was covered with bushes. They crawied panting in among these and lay there, while the bhounds beat up and dowa banks, but failed to locate their trail. After their pursuers had gone away they crawled out and made their way north, following the north star and at last getting {uto the ludiau territory. They were thinly clad and 1t was very cold. One nighta northwester or a cold blizzard came up and they thought they would perish. The cold rain beat dowu upon them, but they saw iu the distance a spark aud they thought this might be a eamp of In- dains, 'They burried forward to it and found it was a burning stump from a clearing which had been burned over by the Indians, gan whipped off bis coat and shielded the blaze from the rain, and the other two eathered logs of wood ana they soou haa a big fire, which warmed them and about which they lay all that nignt, “The néxt day,” said Mr. Dungan, “we pushed our way on northward and we were almost famished when we saw an Indian hut, Ufion coming into it we found it empty, T'he other two men rashed for the cupboard while I picked up a copy of Virgil which was lyiag on a table, and looking in the front of it I found the name of & man with the words ‘Marietta, Ohio. under it. It seoms we were in the hutof a eivilized Indian who had gone to school at Marietta. The Indian came in soon, Itold bim who we were and whore we bad been. He suid that he was an Iudian and that he was a confederate, but he was more thau thar—ho was & Christiau, and that as we were in need and had called npon Limw, ke would belp us, Ho then got us up & good dinper and took us to a trail leading over the mountail Captured Bushwhackers, **We followed this ana were soon in Ar- kansas, Heve we wero captured by bush- whackers and we were kept with a troop of these for several weeks, They at last handed us over to the jail at Washington, Arkansas and we were crowded with a lot of confed- erates und union sympathizers in the socond story of the jail. We made a plan to escape from here. 1 had a knife whicn I carried in my boot leg. Wo made a file of this and filed one of the bars of the jail window so that we could slip it down and crawl out. Now the thing of it was to get u rope and we bought one for five dollars pretending that we want- ed it for a game. We inaugurated the game of Copenbiagen in the prison with this and one night when the confederates in the prison were ail asleep wo tied this to the iron bars and slipped out. Wo intonded to walt for a dark night, but none coming we tried to escapo when it was bright moonlight, The lust man who got out scraped tho wall with his foot, and the guard neard him and made for us, ‘I'ho result was that we were capturea after & lively run and were carried back to Tyler. My prison hfe altogother lasted about ten months and as I look ovor the hardships of it and those of my attempted escapes, I wonder that I was able to endure them.” And T Woere Others. Ropresentatiue Geady of North Carolina served three months in Camp Butler about soven miles from Springtield, Illinois, He was capturcd at Arkansas Post by Geneval Shermun und carried on a_boat north to Mempais and thence to Camp Butler. After he was through witn his prison life he was taken south and an attempt was mado to escape by cutting a hole through the box of the car, but this was discovered and frustratod, Representative Kilgore of Texas entered the army as a lieutenant and was an ad jutany gencral of the confederato army of Ténnos- sco when he was wounded at Chickamauga, He was cuptured_auring this battle and was carried to Camp Morton at Indianapolis an thenco taken to Camp Chase and to Fort Delaware. At Fort Delawure he had planned to escapo. Ho wus in the barracks outside the fort and several of his fellow prisoners and bimself plannea to jump into the water and swim for it to Delaware City, Oneor two mea did get away in this way, but Gen- eral Kiigore \as not among thom and he re- wained in the fort until he was oxchanged. Representative Buchanan of Virgiuia was taken prisoner at Gettysburg on the 3d of July, 1863, avd he remained in Fort Delaware until 1565, whon he was discharged. Representative Rice A. Pierce of Tennes see was wounded and captured in a cavalr: fight near Jacksonviile, Tenn., in 1864, an was in the northern prisous duriug the war. Representative Andrew Stewart of Penn- sylvauia entered the army as a private and came out of it as an assistant n\l!.ulxml gen~ eral. Ho was confined i Libby, Mucon, Charleston, Columbia and other southern prisons for over a yoar and can sing the whole gamut of prison woes. Representative Elijah Adams Morse, the Rising Sun Stove Polish congressman from Massachusotts, entered the army in the Fourth Massachusetis regiment at 10 years of age and Lie was in in charge of 500 contra- bauds at Brashear, La., when he was cap: tured. He wa in the hands of the confed- erates for only @ very short time and was 800u paroled, Jobn K. Fellows of New York was in the southern army, and he was a staff ufficer under Geueral Van Doren’s department whon he was captured at the surrender of Port Hudson, He was imprisonea at John- son's Island for some time and then sent south and released at Forl Delaware. He describes the life at Johnson's Island as not at all bad as a prison experience and says the prisoners wore made up of officers and that they bed lectures aud schools and different kinds of games. Colonel Fellows is said to Lave been one of the most active amusement- akers of this prison and at one Lime he was w part of an amateur Lroupe ibere Rave abe old-time farce of “Box and Uox," twhich Colonel Fellows took 1he of He says that the bill of fure was by b . what of Delinonico, st1l) for prison fare it was uot terribly bad, LNk G, CARPENTES, .