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Jas. H. Berry, who served as an ensign and executive officer on the famous iron-clad, "Essex," during the late war, has made application for a pension. He has furnished the Commissioner in Washington with satisfactory evidence, that he was a well man when he entered the service and an injured one when honorably discharged, but the evidence is required of some witness cognizant of the wounding before Port Hudson in 1863. A difficulty is encountered by Mr. Berry, who does not know the address of any officer or seaman on board the Essex at that time. The crew was dismissed, and frequently recruited, and on its discharge from service scattered abroad. A large number of colored men served on the Essex, and if any one of them can aid Officer Berry in securing his deserved pension, it is hoped they will communicate with him at once, directing their letters to Box 341, Houston, Texas. It should be a pleasure to thus serve any of the crew of the Essex, which participated in every historic fight from the engagement at Fort Henry, down to the battle of Baton Rouge, and the surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Let Methodist preachers read this from their pulpits or make it known otherwise to their congregations.