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Tenth Regiment. — Colonel R. A. Smith, mortally wounded, died afterward; Lieutenant-Colonel Bullard ; Company H, R. A. Pasko ; Company C, Thomas J. Brown, H. E Barten, Joseph Pruden, James Buchanan; Company D, John Murphy; Company E, Sergeant Lem. Supples; Company I, W. T. Holloway; Company K, Ira Cole, A. T. Johnson, F. L. Kelly, W. R. Turner, William M. Drury, J. J. Keith.

Twenty -ninth Regiment. — Company B, A. J. Burnett, E. S. Sad- ley, A. W. Squires ; Company G, Corporal H. Russiale, John Wil- liams, John Yeager ; Company K, C. R. Dowsing, R. T. Court.

Some Great Constitutional Questions. By B. J. Sage.

CORRECTION OF ERRORS.

The South fought for the enjoym.ent of independeyice in a separate Unio7i, and lost. But God's truths cannot go down in a human fight. Facts are indestructible. The States, the citizens thereof, the Constitution, its words and meanings, the public records, the ratifica- tions of the States that gave to the Constitution all its life and va- lidity — all these are facts that lived through the fighting unchanged. No thoughtful person of eminence ever considered them involved in the "Lost Cause," or affected by the result of the war. "After fighting," said Lincoln, "you must meet and setde; our Federal amendments measure the change that was made. They did not change the polity."

Common sense, then, shows that a separate Union was the cause the South lost, and that bringing the States back to the written Con- stitution, was the cause the North won.

I, therefore, in correcting some errors, deal with the Constitution, its establishment, its history, and its meaning, as facts. The task is to state and describe, not to interpret or construe.

I.__PROFESSOR BLEDSOE AND " P. C. CENTZ," ON D.WIS'S .\LLEGED

TREASON.

The first edition of the "Republic of Republics, by " P. C. Centz Barrister," was published in London in the summer of 1S65, under the title of " Davis and Lee," &c. ; and a second edition was issued