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u Capt. joins BRADLEY is the Wing candid.
,tc 70. Congress in Jefferson County. He was
Inr twelve years OF his life soldier in our Ma.
tional service, rcsigning his Cap;aincy in 1921
when he returned in broken health from the West
OF the Rocky Mountains where he had served
some years and been engaged in several desperate
Indian battles. lie settled with his family in
Brownvillc, Jefferson Co. and was fifteen years
an invalid bat IS now actively engaged IN Farm
ing aud Manufacturing. The Evening journal
says:


AT lhc commencement ot tic late War with
England JoHN BRADLEY was youth, not Vet SIN
teen wears ot age G Newiiayen County, Conn.,
Wih ardent Patriotism, inspired 10y the Impress
ncut ot American Seamcn, ana the Indian ha BARI
ties lnsusatcd by Great Britain, lie repaired 10
I recruiting rendezvous and offered himself
to hlS Country. His oxrcmc youthiuneSS Was
urged us au objection, but his patriotic imporiUni-
Iles oyercsmc every obstacle, and before nc was II
wears old inc Soldier iii the Y. ). ARMY, en-
listed lor the War and was soon marching with
Nusket and knapsack, iur the Canadian frontier
where, by his good conduct and superior in,elil-
Sence he ran through the different grades OF non.
commissioned oihCes Iii he found himself Sergeant
,slcr o the Regiment, aud b, his csilantry, alter
waEdg won a Commission and an Epsulcttc.


Soou alter the close OF lhe NaI with England,
Lieut.. BRApLtY who, enjoying the respect aud
friendship ot general BEOwN, SCoTT and BRADY.
retained 10 IL Army, WAS ordered beyond the
Rocky Mountain where, III The then widest state
OF that Territory shut OIL from civilization, he re-
NAMED many " agS, oncounieriGg al. kinds oi dan
ger, enduring cry hardship, suffering every species
vi puYation, al L alnost constantly engaged with
hostile Indians in that distant service nc dis,n-
suis.ed hi.n,el IN several battles and especially
~ the battle wil the AFckarce Indians, some lS0C
mics west OF 81. Louis, for which he WAS recon.
up,ndru ior SfeNei.