Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 December 1890 — Page 4

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The importance of purifying the blood cantot be overestimated, for without pure blood you cannot enjoy good health.

At this season nearly every one needs a good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich the blood, and Hood's Sarsaparilla is worthy your conlidence. It is peculiar in that it strengthens and builds up the system, creates an appetite, and tones the digestion, while it eradicates disease. Give it a trial.

Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists. Prepared by C. I. Ilood & Co., Lowell, Mass IOO Doses One Dollar

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SATURDAY, NOV, 20, 1890.

This Date in History—Dec. 20.

1745—Charles Edward retreated to Scotland. 1780— Declaration of war between England and Holland. 171)1—Horn in Nantucket, Mass., Willium Mitchell, astronomer died April 19, 1808. 1SJ3—Benjamin K. Emerson, naturalist, lorn iu

Nnshuii, N. II.

lfrltt— Louis iJapoleon proclaimed president of tho Freucl) republic by vote of tho people on Dec. 11. 1861—Louis Napoleon elected president of the

French republic for ten years. 18C0—South Carolina seceded from the Union. 1803—Gen. Van Dorn cut Grant's line of supplies at Holly Springs, Miss., and obliged him to retreat., {§62—Sherman embarked from Memphis with 80,000 men to begin operations against Vicksburg. 1806— Died, Samuel Ames, jurist, iu Frovidence,

R. I. born there Sept. 0, 1800. 1867—The Fenians of Robert's an.1 Stephens' factions in America unite under & ojminon leadership. 1808—Lord Mayo appointed governor general of

India.

1880—Died iu London, England. Francis Trevelyan Buckland, naturalist, aged 54 years. 1888—Iu Buffalo, N. Y., James N. Matthews, proprietor of The Buffalo Express, died, aged 60 years. 1889—Jlwanga, king of Uganda, Africa, replaced on his throne by the aid of missionaries.

CHRISTMAS shopping has begun in good earnest. The stores are filled with beautiful things and there are orowds of eager buyers.

NEW YORK PRESS: The average weekly wages of 102 occupations in England are g6 22.

The average weekly wages of the same 102 occupations in this country are $11.90

GOVERNOR HOVEY lias appointed Hon. E. M. McBride, of Elkhart, Judge of the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Mitchell. Judge McBride was tho Republican candidate for the position. The appointment will give universal satisfaction.

A CHANGE is to take place in the Wardenship of the Northern Prison. James Murdock, who has filled the position for so many years, is to retire the first of March and will be succeeded by J. W. French, editor of the Lafayette Journal. The appointment will of course necessitate the removal of Mr. French to Michigan City and his retirement from the editorial management of the Journal. Who will succeed to the ed itorship has not been made known.

THE indignation over Commissioner Price's action in selecting the Superintendent of the Poor Farm :s not confined to Republicans. Many Democrats are equally wrothy, and Commissioner Byers comes in fcr a share of the execrations. If these two gentlemen had seleoted a competent Democrat, such as Alien Robinson, Lant Long, or some other gentlemau equal in respectability and fitness, the Republicans alone would have been compelled to have taken Piice's lymph, however, nausia.ing as it mav have been. As it is, Democrats and Republicans alike must join in the ghost dance.

THE Cincinnati Times-Star makes the following statement, but gives no facts or figures to support it: "On the face of the returns the women of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, in the fight for representation on the floor of the Gen er 1 Conference, have won. Dr. Buckley, who has fought them from the beginning, if appai ently badly beaten. Of course there will be no jugglery. No 'back deestricts' can come in now and change the result. The clergy in an nual conferences have yet to vote on the question, and the Goneral Confer ence is yet to pass final judgment. It will be a great surprise if those two tribunals fail to ratify the voice of the church. To oppose the plan of woman representation now is only to delay what is inevitable. Dr. Buckley and his coworkers are not likely much longer to escape a measurement of mental

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strength with able women in the spirited debates of the church."

HOW IT OJfEBATES.

Tho Cleveland Leader mokes the following comment on tariff laws and trusts: The McKinley law makes heavy reduction in the duty on binder twine. This was insisted upon by the Senate, ostensibly as a rebuke to the alleged binder twme trust. This throws the America" market open to foreign binder twine. What is the result? A London dispatch to the New York Herald says that thirty-three out of the thirty-five cordage manufactures in Great Britain were represented uL a meeting the other day and formed a com biuation to control production andprices not only in Europe but iu the United States also. That is just what the Leader predicted the result would be. The question of trusts is entirely aside from that of the tariff. Tho home production of binder twine has virtually been destroyed by that provision of the McKiuley law, consented to in order to save the tariff bill but the binder twine trust is as strong as over. It lias sim piy shifted its ground. The lesson this is that while a tariff law may easily be so framed as to kill an industry, no tariff law enn kill trusts.

TUE last legislature adopted nine resolutions proposing amendments to the constitution. The first amendment proposed lengthens the term of all county oflicers to four years and makes the gfiiosrs iutligible to a second term. The second delines the residence and qualifications of voters and provides for registration. The third provides for the election of a clerk of the Supreme Court and limits the office to a term of four years. The fourth provides for the election of State officers end limits them to four years. The fifth provides for the eleotiou of a State superintendent of public instruction for four years, and no longer. The sixth provides for the increase of Supreme Judges and extends their terms to eight years, and providing for their election at different times, so there will at no time be a complete change in the bench. The seventh provides for the organization of the State militia. The eighth provides for an indefinite session of the legislature, instead of the limit to sixty days by the present constitution, and provides for an increase of legislative salaries. The ninth defines who may praotice law. These resolutions, if approved by the next legislature, will have to be submitted to a vote of the people of the State. If endorsed by the people at the polls a proclamation is issued by the Governor and t'-ey become a part of the organic law.

—The materials for the Christmas dinner that the Relief Corps is to send out must n.ll be left at Travis & Brown's office before noon on Wednesday, the 24th.

OFFIK-IJ.

The siok are improving. Davie Jennison is quite sick with the lung fever.

George Conard is suffering from a severe pain in the head. The timber men are busy cutting wood for Galey & Canine.

MiBS Phebe Earl and her pupils are preparing a Christmas tree. John Steele is running his saw mill and corn crushcr on full time.

A drunken danoe at the new hall is the order for every Saturday night. Ira and Hannah Miller will return om Knightstown to spend holidays.

Rebecca McMuken, of your city, visited the sick

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this vicinity lu-t week.

Rev. T. M. Hamilton came

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Mt.' Zion last Sunday to preach ecal. Quite a number from this plaoi tended quarterly meeting at Mt. Zion list Saturday.

Mrs. Anna Miller, of near Delphi, wcites to a friend here to sena her THE JOURNAL as she cannot live without it.

The three-year-old son of Jos, Sering from injuries received by a fall nearly iree months ago, with no hopes of ri oovery.

Mis. Oliver Jameson died Saturday morning at 3 o'clock of lung fever, aged 36 years and 5 months. She came with her husband to this county about 11 years ago, and during her stay her had gained a host of friends. She was a true and noble wife, mother, friend and neighbor. She was first and never tiring in the Sunday school work, and taught a class of eight or ten little children all summer. The family has the sympathy of the entire community in their affliction. Tho funeral services were conducted by Rev. T. SJ. Hamilton of the United Brethren church.

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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,

When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gare them Castoria,

Sore Throat.

Is particularly favorably to the contraction of diphtheria. Heed the warning, and use Darby's Prophylactic Flud. It at once allays the inflammation^of the throat, subdues the pain and gives permanent relief. It promptly and effectually destroys all contagion and diphtheria germs. It is a safeguard against

Diphtheria,and should be used on the to of so re at a a a gle. .fvrfra -.

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STUAM'S SECOND RAID.

HIS PENNSYLVANIA EXPEDITION 1862.

How Ho Sel/.cvl Cliambersburg, Captured Horses and Startled tho 'Whole t.'ouiitry Until North and South—Sharp Tu-.tics on tlie Ketrrat—A Thrilling Talu.

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••.j ___ KB STUART'S ride around McClellan's army on tie in I a in June, 1802, accomplished very little of importance in a military sense, but it unou ted 1 suggested to the dashing cavalryman arid to liis chiefs that long fides

it in

my's lines, resulting in the destrucon of valuable

stores, the severing of communications, and the gain of valuable information about the opposing force. The Peninsula raid was made by two regiments of about 1,200 men, and ended in a scare for the Union camps, the temporary obstruction of the railroad supplying the Union army, and the wanton wounding of some soldiers and passengers by a volley fired into a moving train. However, it made Stuart famous, and no doubt, suggested to Gen. Lee the use that might bo made of such expeditions in cMnpaigns favorable for incursions across tlio lilies.

A tempting situation was noted some months later, after the battleof Antietam. The armies of MeCIellan and Lee lay on opposite sides of the Potomac river, above Harper's Ferry. MeCIellan was refitting and recruiting tho Army of the Potomac, and, with a depot of supplies at I lugerstown, was dependent for rapid communication with the north on the railroad running thmice from Ilarrisburg, Pa., by way of Chambersburg. The latter was from thirty to forty miles inside of MeClellan's lines. On the 8th of October Gen. Lee instructed Stuifi$ to take 1,200 or 1,500 mounted men and proceed to that point, destroy the railway bridge over the Conooochengue and otherwise dnniage the Union transportation, making any legal captures within his power. Stuart selected 1,800 men and a battery of flying artillery. His subordinates were Wade Hampton, W. H. F. Leo and W. E. Jones. When the troops were in line, ready to move off in a dense darkness, the following order was read to them:

SOLDIERS—You are about to engage in an enter prise which, to insure success, imperatively tie munds at your hands coolness, decision and bravery, Implicit obedience to orders without question or cavil, and tho strictest order and sobriety on the march and In bivouac. The destination and extent of this expedition had better bo kept to myself than known to you. Suffice it to say thai with the hearty co-operation of oflicers and men I have not a doubt of its success—a success which will reflect credit iu the highest degree upon your arms. The orders which are herewith published for your government are absolutely necessary and must bo rigidly enforced.

STUART.

The cavalcade moved silently to McCoy's Ford, on the Potomac, between Williamsport and Hancock, seized the picket post without alarm, and after pressing on some distance a Union signal station with all its detail was surprised and captured. At this point Stuart learned of the presence of Gen. J. D. Gox's Kanawha division, which was marching toward West Virginia, and had gone but an hour's march from the road he was pursuing. The raiders then made a detour and pushed on to Mercersburg, Pa., ten miles from the point of crossing and half way to Chambersburg. The latter was reached after dark, and Stuart immediately took possession of the place, appointing Wade Hampton military governor. No officials could be found who would treat with the invaders, and Stuart sent his men to perform the work assigned.

It was raining steadily, a cold, dreary, autumn storm, and as far as possible consistent with orders the troops sought to get some comfort out of the situation. Strict orders had been given against private plundering, but the men threw themselves upon the mercy of the people for creature comforts. Before entering the town an inspection of canteens had been made, and all liquors found therein had been emptied. Citizens were warned against treating the men with liquor, as a spark of anger among intoxicated men might lead to terrible results. The people were a long time finding out who the strangers were. Their hands were open, they said, to supply the wants of soldiers, but while they were passing out tneir good

Mugs they often inquired who was in mainland. Tho men iu bravsido would

SUKPKIS1KO THE SIGNAL STATION,

answer, "Stonewall" Jackson, "Bobby" Lee or "Jeb" Stuart, when hands would go up in horror, and often loaded dishes of food would be dashed to the floor. Good feeling prevailed generally, however. Stuart's oflicers entered the homes of the wealthy and cultured and bore themselves like gentlemen, putting everybody at ease.

Among the homes where the raiders were entertained was that of Col. A. K. McClure, the Philadelphia editor, then a lawyer of that town. McClure had been on McClollan's staff at Antietam. and was an officer of the Home Guard. Stuart had put him on a list of officials to be captured and retained as hostages, but by accident a party of Confederates stumbled upon his residence early in the evening and were hospitably entertained. Of course no straggling patrol or search would trouble a house where Confederate officers were enjoying themselves, and the recipients of hospitality would not betray their entertainers, and the night passed in feasting and in discussion of the situation. The raiders had cut the telegraph, and there was no opportunity to send word abroad for military relief. Col. McClure accepted

the inevitable calmly, talked frankly about public .sentiment and finally asked a favor of the raiders in the return to his stable of a favorite pony belonging to a young lady of his household which had been seized as legal capture. It was of course returned.

The next morning, Oct. 11, large quantities of military stores, machine shops, railroad buildings and loaded trains were destroyed. The railway bridge and trestle was of iron and could not be burned. After accomplishing this Stuart set out on the return—the most difficult part of the raid: for while lie had diushed boldly a day's ride into Union territory with but little opposition, it was not to be supposed that with military lines all around his course his passage would escape notice or fail to arouse an army to cut off his retreat.

The first alarm sent out from the Union cautionary lines was given by the signal corps near the point of Stuart's crossing on the morning of the 10th. The news was sent at once to the district commanders, to army headquarters, and to the cavalry. Great uncertainty prevailed as to the direction taken by Stuart, his strength, etc. The day was passed in scouting and conjecture. MeClellan's cavalry was commanded by Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, and was posted on the flanks and rear of his army. It had not been recruited since the Peninsula campaign, and for th.it reason was in very inferior condition, suitable for scouting and picked duty only. Besides, it had hundreds of miles of communication to guard, as well as the Potomac crossings. ."

Tho return of the Confederate cavalry was the most difficult, part of the daring expedition. That short cut of twenty odd tniles from Williamsport to Chambersburg could not be made again. Cox's Kanawha division was known to be in that vicinity, and there were thousands of Union troops within easy call. Leo's instructions had been that, the crossing back be made near Leesburg, some distance below the territory occupied by MeClellan's army, and between fifty and sixty miles in a direct line from Chamb.'rsburg. The stait was made early on the morning of the 11th. Nearly every cavalryman had an extra horse led from his saddle, and being for the most part- newly shod and fed, the whole cavalcade was in fine spirits. Along the streets and on the farm roads wagon loads of goods and produce were left standing without teams, the horses having been "impressed" for the Confederacy. One Virginian, who was expostulated with by Borne weeping women because he took their horses, auswered: "Crying won't do any good. ,Your folks took nine blooded horses from my father's stable."

IMPRESSING HORSES.

For a feint Stuart moved rapidly toward Gettysburg, then turned south. At Kmmettsljurg the southern flag was greeted v. itii cheers, and the men had an ovation. A Union courier was captured here with dispatches showing that the Union furces were in strength at Frederick, and thus warned, Stuart made another detour, avoiding that town. As he drew near the river and the line of MeClellan's communications with Washington, the situation became critical. Before daylight this same day, Oct. 11, Gen. Pleasanton gathered his scattered command, and set it in motion on Stuart's route north, keeping scouts, however, well to the northeast. He soon learned of the retrograde movement, and f.'tced his men about, aiming to reach the Monocacy ahead of Stuart, whom he sus pected would go toward Poolesville.

Iu avoiding Frederick by the east Stuart crossed the Monocacy above that town, while Pleasanton, concentrating at Frederick, crossed that stream just below, and pushed on toward the Poolesville road by way of Barnesville. Stuart was at this moment dodging still, and having heard that a Union force under Gen. Stonetnan was guarding Poolesville he decided to cross over to tho Monocacy again. His advance was preceded by 150 men in Union uniform. Pleasanton's advance squadron met them on the Barnesville road, exchanged friendly signals and allowed them to draw near. Then the Confederate leader, Irving, of Lee's brigade, ordered his squadron to charge. It was done boldly, and a cloud of sharpshooters sprang from their horses and advanced on the supports which stood behind the Union cavalry. In a twinkling Stuart's horse battery came to the spot and opened, driving Pleasanton's men back to the Monocacy.

Rapidly now Stuart again changed his course to White's Ford, between Poolesville and the Monocacy. Here he ran upon 200 infantry posted on a ridge, facing, the otfcrr way and covering the ford. A'gun was placed iu position, seventy riflemen werfe dismounted, and a Ewift (lash across a ravine nd up the slope surjifised and scattered tho picket, and the cavalcade rode on. Cannon were planted at the Ford to cover the crossing in case of attack, and in single file the party moved across, preceded by another cannon, which was posted on the height beyond the river. Meanwhile the troops at Poolesville under Stoneman had been aroused, and were on the march up the river. They united with Pleasanton's cavalry only to see the Confederates across the river, and to be greeted with a saucy good-by salute from the gallant Pelham, who commanded Stuart's flying battery.

Tho raid was over. Stuart had not lost a man, but brought back some wounded. He brought in 1,200 led horses, the pick of the ricli farming country through which he had ridden. The consternation in the north was very great, and the authorities blamed one another for the humiliating result. President Lincoln is reported to have got off another grim joke to the effect that the affair reminded him of It game the boys played which turned on the saying, "Three times around.then out." Said he, "Stuart has been around MeCIellan twice, and if he does it again MeCIellan will be out."

The truth was MeCIellan had no cavalry. The government had not woke up to the fleed for that arm. Stoneman, with a few regiments, had thirty miles of river to guard from the Virginia side, and Stuart had more cavalry on this raid than his opponents could concentrate at any'ona point in forty-eight hours. There was not much to oppose Stuart, but yet it was a daring

rid©.

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