Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — Page 3

THE NEW BOOK.

Presentation to Christendom of the Revised Version of the Old Testament. Eminent Biblical Scholars and the Best Hebraists Finish a Noble Work. Great Care Taken to Preserve the Language of King James’ Translators. The first copy of the complete new version of the Holy Bible was presented to Queen Victoria on Friday, the 15th of May, •and at midnight of that day copies were delivered to the London press for comment The Committee of Revision was appointed by the Established Church Convocation the 6th of May, 187 J. Of the sixteen members then appointed only six survive. The revisers sat altogether 792 days of six hours. The whole work was gone over in session three times. The first time a bare majority carried an alteration. The alterations were then printed and circulated among the revisers, who had the advantage befcre the second revision began of suggestions by the American revisers. On the second revision a two-thirds majority was necessary to confirm the alterations. The third revision was devoted to objections and points reserved. As for the general result —says a cable dispatch— When the whole work Is examined it will be found that the revisers have on the whole been very conservative. The alterations in the Old Testament are much fewer in proportion than those made in the New Testament. There have been very few—merely verbal altera ions. The revised Old Testament is almost exactly the same length as the old one. There are important alterations in the arrangement of chapters, which are printed in paragraphs, so as to keep the consecutive sense, but are not divided into verses. Poetical passages are printed like blank verse. The first axiom of the revised translation was: “Cling to the pure native significance of the words.” This is a specimen of the blank verse: Create in me a clean heart, O, God, And renew a right spirit within me; Cast me not away from Thy presence, And take not Thy holy spirit from me; Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, And uphold me with a free spirit. Adam and Eve only take their names after 'the fall. Before, they are man or wife. No changes in diction are made in the first chapter of Genesis to aid or puzzle debaters on faith and science. The old account of the deluge is left as it was. The Mosaic books are but little touched. The Joshua miracle of the sun and the moon are left intact. Job is mainly printed in blank verse. “I know that my Redeemer liveth” stands, but the marginal note destroys all its significance in relation to the Messiah. “O, that mine adversary had written a book” becomes: “That I had the indictment mine adversary had written.” “Hast thou clothed his neck, with thunder?” changes to "with a quivering mane.” “Hell,” comments the Daily Telegraph, “is injudiciously dismissed,” and the Hebrew “shed” is substituted throughout. The Globe says: “Go to sheol” will now become a more pleasant phrase of the angry irreverent man. The italics of former editions yield to common type in the text. The psalms are divided. There are few important changes made in them, and those with piteously scrupulous care. The beautiful Psalm xxiih, “The Lord is my Shepherd,” remans untouched, as does the passage in Psalm xxiv. beginning: “Litt up' your heads, O ye gates;” but in Psalm xxxvii.: “The wicked man no longer spreadeth himself like a green bay tree,” but as “a green tree in its native «oil;” nor in Psalm xiv. is the king’s daughter said to be “all glorious within,” but “The King's daughter within the palace is all glorious.”

A well-known verse In Psalm xoii. now reads: ‘‘The days of our years are three score and ten, or even by reason of strength four-score years, yet is their pride but labor and sorrow, for it is gone and we tly away.” The Proverbs and Song of Solomon are arranged as poetry and tritlingly interfered with. A celebrated passage in Isaiah now reads: “As one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.” The London Times, in a lengthy review of the new revision, says: The work of the New Testament Committee continued until the autumn of 1880; that of the Old Testament Committee until the close of 1884. The whole Bible after these twelve years’ labor appears in its revised English version at this time before the people of Great Britain and America. This revision is now a fact of history. Those who have labored in the preparation of it have carefully and conscientiously re-examined •every verse, sentence, and word; they now commend it to the English-speaking world. That it will meet unfavorable criticism—sometimes severe, sometimes thoughtless, sometimes from the conservative and sometimes from the progressive side—as a part of it has already met such criticism, they do not doubt. But they intrust it to the future, knowing that the book will live while the critics will die, and wishing only that their labors may contr bute in this generation or the coming ones to make the Scriptures clearer in their true meaning to all men of the English race. The Bible appears bound with the New Testament. The preface opens with a statement of general principles on which the revision has been conducted. The revisers have borne in mind their duty not to’make a new translation, but revise that already existing, and have departed from it only where it disagreed with the translators of Kill upon the meaning of a word or sentence. The terms of natural history are only changed where it is certain that the authorized version is incorrect. Where it is doubtful or there is an alternative, the rendering is given in the margin. In some words of frequent occurrence, the authorized version being either inadequate or inconsistent, changes have been introduced with as much uniformity as practicable; for instance, "Tabernacle of the congregation" has everywhere been changed to “Tent of meeting." In regard to the word “Jehovah” the usage of the authorized version is followed, the revisers not thinking it advisable to insert it uniformly in place of "Bord” or “God," which, when print--ed in small capitals, represent the words substituted. by Jewish custom for the ineffable name. Of technical terms from the Hebrew, one in three seems to have been generally introduced. The word ’’grove” (Judues vi., 28) has been replaced by “ashera,” with its plurals, "asherini” and “asherot i.” In the poetical books “sheol” replaces “hell,” which has been changed in the prose passages to “the grave” and “the pit,” with "sheor in the margin. “Of these readings, hell,” says the preface, “if it could be taken in its original sen«e, as used in the creeds, would be a fairly adequate equiv. lent for the Hebrew word, but it) a so commonly understood as the place of torment that to employ it frequently would lead to inevitable misunderstanding. In Isaiah, xiv., where “hell" is used in more of its original sense, the revisers have left “hell” in the text, putt ng “sheol’’ in the margin. “Abaddon,” which has hitherto been known /■ to English readers of the Bible only from the New Testament (Revelation ix., 2), has been introduced in three passages—once in Job and twice in 1 roverbs. The term “meat offering" has been changed into “meal offering," the form r term having ceased to be the generic name for ail food. A new plural—peoples—has been Introduced, although sometimes this becomes Gentiles when t>e contrast to the chosen people is marked. All headings of chapters have been dropped, as in the revised New Testament, and the text has been divided into paragraphs, but the chapter and verse divisions have been retained In the margin for convenience of reference. By this means the revisers have been enabled to rejoin Psalm x. to Psalm ix., and Psalm xiiL to Psalm xii., and to begin Isaiah lilt at chapter

lit, verse 13. The several days of the creation are made more prominent by breaks of a line between the verses. This expedient has enabled the revisers to make use of the dialogue form and to show the dramatic character of the song of sones, the first chapter of which, for example, is divided into seven speeches. Tne Psalms are definitely divided into five books, the last four beginning respectively at I'salms xlii., Ixiit, xc.. and cvit A sinking improvement is the printing of all poetical passages in poetical form. This has been done in the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, and the Canticles. But the Prophets have been left in prose, however passionate their oratory. The songs of Lamech, Jacob, Minam, Moses, Deborah, and Hannah; the Psalms of Jonah and Habaxkuk, and David's lament (in fi'econd Samuel, i.) appear in versified ballad. The origin of Joshua’s miracle: “Sun. stand thou still upon Gibeon,” is indicated by its verse character. So, also, is the triumphal cry of Samson (Judges xv., 16). Examination of the more familiar passages and phrases discloses the fact that care was taken in preserving intact household words of the Old Testament. The old literary form has been held Bicred, .and the revisers cannot be charged with any pedantic straining after the original text; but not all the familiar objects of the Scriptures have escaped untouched. The high priest no longer casts lots for the scapegoat. He does so for Azazel. The summary for each day at the creation now runs according to the formula: "And there was evening and there was morning, one day.” “There was evening and morning, a second day,” a third day, and so on, giving a suggestion of successive stages with long intervals. The "apples of gold,” of Proverbs xxv., 11, are now encased in "figured work” of silver, not in "pictures." “Vanity and vexation of spirit” (Ecclesiastes it, 17) has become “Vanity and a striving after mind.” “Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them” (tsalms cxxviii, 5) has teen changed into “Happy is the man that hath tilled his quiver with them.” Reuben’s curse (Genesis xlix., 4), “Unstable as water thou shalt not excel,” now reads, "Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency.” The following changes also grate against associations. The authorized Genesis (chap, vi, verse 4): “There were giants in the earth in those days,” is revised: "The nepheline were in the earth in those days.” In the authorized version of Job xxxi., verse 35, "OI that one would hear me I Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would rnswer me and that mine adversary had written a book,” is revised, “Oh. that one would hear me. Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that I had the indictment which my adversary hath written." The authorized Psalm viiL, verse 9: “For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels” is revised: “For Thou hast made him a little lower than God.” The authorized Psalm cxvl., verse 11: "I said in my haste, all men are liars." is revised; “I said when I made haste to escape, all men are a lie. ” Ecclesiastes xii., 13: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; fear God,” etc , has been revised to read: “This is the end of the matter; all hath been heard; fear God,” etc. Proverbs xiv., 9: "Fools make a mock at sin, but among the righteous there is favor,” revised, reads: “The foolish scorn the guilt offering, but among the upright there is good-will.” The above are nearly all of the passages in which a shock is given to old associations. In other passages there are found variations which cannot be called rash alterations. For instance, Isaiah, chap, lit, verse 13, in the authorized version reads: "Behold, my servant shall deal prudently; he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.” The revised verse reads: "Behold, my servant shall deal wisely; he shall be lifted up and shall be very high,” Isaiah Hit, 8, in the authorized version is: "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." In the revised this reads: "He is despised and rejected of men: a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hid their faces; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” The same chapter, verse 7, is changed to read: “He was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; as a iamb that he led to the slaughter,” etc. Same chapter, verse 8; “He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation?” is revised to read: "By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and who considereth his generation?" The Christology of the Old Testament is almost entirely unaffected by the revisers. The crucial passage, Isaiah vii., 14: “ Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son,” remains unchanged, except that the margin suggests “the virgin is with child and beareth.” In the fifth commandment, “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” is rendered: “Honor thy f. ther and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the laid which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” The following are examples in which the actual work of revision is distinctly seen: Authorized vers on,. Genesis xxit, 14: "In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.” Revised version: “In the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” Authorized version. Exodus xiv., 20: “And it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave ight by night to these.” Revised: "And there was the cloud and the darkness, and gave it light by night.” Authorized version, Job xxviii, 4: "The flood that breaketh out from the inhabitant, even the waters forgotten of the foot, they are dried up; they are gone away from men.” Revised: “He breaketh open a shaft, away from where men sojourn; they are forgotten of the foot that passeth by; they hang afar from men; they swing to and from.” Authorized version. Job xxxi., 35: “Behold my desire is that the Almighty would answer me.” Reviseds “Lo, here is my sign above; let the Almighty answer me.” Authorized version, Job xxvL, 18: “Beware lest He take thee away with His stroke.” Revised : “Beware lest thou be led away with thy sufficiency.” Authorized version. Psalm xii., 5: “I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.” Revised: “I will set him in safety at whom they mock.” Authorized version, Psalm Ixviii,, 4: “Extol him that rideth upon the heavens.” Revised: “Cast up a highway for him that rideth through the deserts.” Authorized version, Psalm Ixviii., 19: “Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits.” Revised: “Blessed be the Lord who daily beareth our burdens.” Authorized version, Psalm lirvlii., 30: “Rebuke the company of spearmen." Revised: "Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds.” Authorized version. Psalm Ixxxvii., 7: “As well the Bingers as the players on instruments shall be there; all my springs are in thee.” Revised: “As well the singers as they that dance; all my fountains are in thee.” Authorized version, Psalm exit, 5: “And let Him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head.” Revised: “And let Him reprove me; it shall be oil upon the head; let not my head refuse it.” Authorized version, Isaiah x1.,3: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” Revised: “The voice of one crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of the Lo>d.” Psalms ii., 12: “Kiss the Bon,” remains, and references to entirely different versions are given in the margin. Similarly in Genesis xlix., 10: “Until Shiloh came,” is kept, but “Till he came to Shiloh” is noted as an alternative. In all these cases, as in many oihers, there seems to have l>een a strong minority among the revisers, which held out lor the alternative readings, and succeeded in putting them in the margin, whi< h contains most of the scholarship of the revision. The first verse in both the authorized versions is (he same. The first alteration occurt in the second verse, where, Inst' ad of “The earth was without form and void,” we read, “And’the earth was waste and void.” The text of the story of the creation is without other striking variations. The same may be said of the description of the fall and the flood. In the ten commandments are some verbal alterations, the most striking being that of the sixth: “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus xx., 13) becomes “Thou shalt do no murder." Deuteronomy, chap, xxxil. verse 5: "They have corrupted themselves; their spot is not the spot of his children.” Revised: “They have corrupted themselves; they are not his children ; it is their blemish.”

Victor Hugo, with hia family, has retired to his seat on the Island of Guernsey for the summer. The wife of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild is a niece of Horatio Seymour.

AT THE BAYONET'S POINT.

Riel and His Followers Drtren Ost st Batoche by Gen. Middleton’s Forces*. Six Volunteers Killed and Fifteen Wounded in the Charge—The Jlebel Loss Heavy. The Canadian forces under Gen. Middleton, after four diys’ fighting, defeated Louis Riel’s half-breeds and. captured Batoche. The rebels were driven from their rifle-pits and ambush at the' point of the bayonet. The charge was made on the afternoon of Monday, May 11. Gen. Middleton sent the following official report of the engagement to the Government at Ottawa:: Have just made a general attack and carried the whole s- ttlement. The men behaved splendidly, and the rebels are in full flight. Am sorry to say I have not got Riel. While I was reconnoitering this morning Willi m Astley, one of the pri-oners, galloped up with a flag of truce, and banned me a let er from Riel saying: “It you massacre our families, I shall massacre mv prisoners." I sent answer that if he would put his women and children in one place and let me know where it was. not a shot should be fired on them. I then returned to camp and pushed on my advance parties, which were heavily tired on. I so pressed on. until I saw my chance, and ordered a general advance. The men tesponded nobly, splendidly led by their officers and Col. Straubenzie, and drove the enemy out of their rifle-pits. After the rifle-pits were taken they forced their way across the plain and seized the houses, and we are now masters of the place, and most of my force will bivouac there Right in the heat of the action, Mr Astley came back with another missive from Riel, as follows: “ General: Your prompt answer to my note shows that I was right in mentioning to you the cause of humanity. We will gather our families in one place, and as > oon as it is done we will let you know.” On the envelope he had written as follows: “I do not like war, and if you do not retreat, and refuse an interview, the question remains the same concerning the prisoners.” Our loss I am afraid is heavy, but not so heavy as might be expected. As yet I find it is six killed and fifteen wounded. Killed: Capt. John French, scout; Lieut. Fitch, of the Royal Grenadiers; Capt. Brown, of Boulton's troops; W. H. Kippen, or the surveyors’ corps; Private Frazer, of the Ninetieth; Private Hardesty, of the Ninetieth. Wounded; Lieut. Garden, surveyors' scouts; Lieut. Laidlow, Tenth Battdion; Maj. Dawson, Tenth Battalion, slightly: Sergt. Maj. Watson, Ninetieth Battalion, sightly in the ankle; Sergio Jakes, Ninetieth Battalion, in the hand; Private Young. Ninetieth Battalion, flesh wound in thigh; Private W. Cook, Tenth Battalion, shot inarm; Bugler M. Gaughan, Tenth Bat.alion. wounded in finger; Private C. Barber, slight wound in head: Private J. W. Quigley, flesh wound in arm; Private J. Marshall, Tenth Battalion, flesh wound in leg; I rivate W. Wilson, Tenth Battalipn, slight wound across back; Private Barton, Midland Battalion, thigh and groin, serious; Corporal Helliwell, Midland Battalion, slight hurts in face and arm; Lieut Helliwell, Midland Battalion, in shoulder. The prisoners were all released and are safe in my camp. Among them is Jackson, a white man who was Riel’s Secretary, but who is mad and

rather dangerous.

Major General. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Reveille was sounded at 5 o’clock am. The troops had received some rest, but were nol fresh. Middleton seemed bent on doing something decisive before the day was over, and so expressed himself to the troops. The day was clear and warm. Fighting was begun before 7 o'c ock, and the troops advanced nearer the rebel strongholds than on the previous day, and continued to pour volley after volley on the enemy’s position. The distance was considerable, and the,bullets did not have great etlect. Battery A and the Winnipeg field battery did effective work in shelling the enemy. A considerable detachment of the rebels was on on« occasion comp etely driven from their intrenched position in the bluff by the explosion of a shell in their midst. Several charges were made toward the rifle pits in the hope of capturing them, but the half-breeds held stubbornly to them. For a time the rebels seemed inclined to hold to the rifle pits, and then they fired several volleys into the troops, doing considerable damage, but it was their parting kick, for the next moment they wavered, broke, fled, and within a quarter of an hour Batoche was in the hands of the troops, and the rebels were flying over the plains. The prisoners were found locked up in a house supposed to be Riel’s headquarters. They were terribly frightened during the progress of the battle, as they expected every minute to be murdered, but when the troops broke open the house and released them they wept tor joy. '1 he following are those released: McDonald, the Thomas brothers. H. Ross, Astley, MacKeand, the Jackson brothers, Albert Monkman, and Agent Lash. The rebel loss was very heavy. While riding about the field the bodies of nine half-breeds and Indians were seen.

JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON.

Auditor of Railroad Accounts.

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who was lately appointed Auditor of Railroad Accounts, was born in Virginia in 1807, graduated at West Point in 1829, served in the Seminole war as aid to Gen. Scott, resigned in 1837, re-entered the army in 1838 as First Lieutenant, and was brevetted Captain for gallantry during the war with the Florida Ini dians. He served in the Topographical I Bureau, and in 1843 on the survey of the i boundaries between the United States and the British provinces. From 1844 to 1846 he was engaged on the coast survey, He served with gallantry in the Mexican war, ■ was twice wounded, and successively breI vetted as Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and Colonel. From 1853 to 1855 he was in charge of Western river improvements. He was subsequently employed in various duties in Kansas and elsewhere, and in 1858 was acting Inspector General in the Utah expedition. In 1860 he became Quartermaster General, with the rank of Brigadier General. He resigned his commission in April, 1861, entered the Confederate service, and commanded at Bull Run, Yorktown, and Richmond. He was severely wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, and for several months was disabled for service, i He was subsequently intrusted with im--1 portant commands in the Southwest. Since the war he has led a quiet life. He once represented the Richmond (Va.) district in | Congress.

FRED MIDDLETON,

THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN.

The Story of How McClellan? Was Prevented from Capturing Riefainond and Ending the WarThe Machinations of the: Washington Directory—Stanton's Infamous Treachery. [From the Chicago Times.] It is nearly a quarter of a century since the period when General George B. McClellan was in command of the Army ot the Potomac; and when he was the target ot the missiles hurled by "loya lets” of every grade, from btanton down to the cheapest ot politicians who edited newspapers at some cross-roads or peddled whisky in some backwoods shanty. Hu original er.me was ti.e heinous one of being a Democrat, and although he entertained his political opinions without ostentation, without ever thrusting them forth tor inspection, it made him the object of suspicion on the part of some, and of envy ami hatred on the part of others. He was of the same class as Generals McDowell, Porter, Thomas, Sturgis, and Steele; and the result was that, no matter what these men did, however well and gallantly they fought, they were incessantly the objects of detraction, suspicion, and denunciation. For the urst time, Gen. McClellan has broken silence, and has given to the public some of the facts connected with his famous campaign between Washington and Richmond. It is one of the most humiliating and infamous phases of the civil war, and snould doubly damn in the estimate of decent posterity the men who at Washington used their places to maneuver in the interests ot party, and who, to gain mean partisan advantages, did not hesitate to sacrince the blood and treasure of the country, and to blast the reputation of competent, patriotic men, whose only offense was that they, differed from the capital directory in their party affiliations. Having obtained some brilliant successes in Western Virginia, the very first of the war, McClellan was, the next day after the defeat of Bull Run, appointed to take charge of Washington and the troops of the vicinity. It was a period of terror; the victorious Confederates were expected to appear momentarily, and take a city filled with demoralize ! fugitives from the battlefield ot Manassas. McClellan took command; he brought order out of chaos;, reduced a drunken inob to a disciplined army: erected ample fortifications for the defense of the capital; and when this had been accomplished, and the shivering officials had been, assured of safety, he began the work of organizing an army ot offensive operations against the enemy. Uhls work had to be done from the very, bottom. Gen. McClellan says: “Everything had tq be created from the very beginning. Raw men and officers were to be disciplined and instructed. Artillery, small-arms, and ammunition were to bo fabricated or purchased from abroad; wagons, ambulances, bridge trains, camp equipages, hospital stores, and all the vast impedimenta and material indispensable for an army were to be manufactured.” It was not till the spring of the next year, 1862, that sufficient small-arms were secured and enough field batteries accumulated. When Scott retired McClellan was made com-mander-in-chief of all the armies. He had charge of Washington, the organization of the Army of the Botomac, and the direction of the movements ot the armies of the West Stanton at this time was appointed Secretary of War, and prior to this he had always expressed the most ardent regard for McClellan, "the expression of which,” says Gen. McClellan, “was exceeded only by the bitterness of his denunciation of the Government.” The moment Stanton was in office "it became very difficult to approach him, even for the transaction of ordinary bus ness, and our personal relations at once ceased. The impatience of the Executive immediately became extreme, and I can only attribute it to the influence of the new Secretary, who did many things to break up the free and confidential intercourse that had heretofore existed between the President and myself.” McClellan devised the plan of a campaign against Richmond in which Urbanna, on the Rappahannock River, was to be the base of operations. This was interfered with by a positive order from the President to open the Baltimore and Ohio Railway and relieve the Upper Potomac of Confederate batteries. The leader was positive that the Urbanna movement would ac complied this by forcing all the Confederates at Manassas to fall back to protect Richmond; but the order was positive. He went to Harper’s Ferry and commenced operations, and soon after learned that the President was dissatisfied, whereupon he went to Washington, explained what he had done to Stanton, who said it was perfectly satisfactory, and who also said it was in accord with the views of the 1 resident, and that it was unnecessary for McClellan to communicate with Mr. Lincoln. A little later the President sent for him, and then McClellan learned that no explanation had been made, as Stanton had asserted, and that the President knew nothing ot the Harper s Ferry matter. Here is direct evidence of a most contemptible piece of treachery on the part of the Secretary ot \\ ar, who is spoken of by his admirers as a Carnot, but who, in this light, seems to have been simply an envious Judas. It was at this interview that President Lincoln gave a singular exhibition of timidity. In discussing the Urbanna campaign, he said to McClellan that it had been suggested to him that McClell n had decided on this movement for the "traitorous” purpose of leaving Washington uncovered and exposed to attack. This was at a time when the capital was fortified and defended beyond all possibility of capture. On the sqme day, without any consultation with McClellan, orders were issued forming army corps of the Army of the Potomac, and assigning the corps and division commanders. The Urbanna plan was agreed to by the President, who, soon after, without any consultation with McClellan, issued his famous order directing the Army of the l otomac to advance to the attack ot Manassas. McClellan succeeded in getting this order revoked, but its issuance had interfered with his Urbanna movement. He had intended to get to Urbanna, leaving the Confederate army at Manassas, by which he would be able to place hims If between it and Richmond. The order ot Lincoln sent the Confederates to Richmond, and tne Urbanna plan was ruined. The movements of McClellan from the time he adopted the York River as the base of operations till the transfer of his army to the James River, and the victory at Malvern Hills, were impeded willfully at every step by the Washington authorities. Before starting, it was agreed by the President that he should have 155,000 men tor the campaign. Before he left Washington, Blenker’s division of 10,000 was taken from him; the day he reached Fortress Monroe another 10,000 were withdrawn; at Yorktown, just as he was about to move up the peninsula to seize a critical position, a telegram came from Washington withdrawing the First Corps from his command. This reduced his force 43,000 more, and left him with 92.0G0 men, instead of the 155,0v0 which had been agreed on. Deducting train-guards, the sick, non-combatants, and the like, he was left with an actual effective force ot 6 1,000 men. It is needless to rehearse the events of the Chickahominy campaign. McDowell’s corps was to advance from Fredericksburg and join the Federal right. It never came; the march was begun, and was stopped by orders from, Washington. McClellan, by one ot the most! brilliant movements in the history of war, extricated himself from the Chickahominy swamps, and, in face of a superior force moving on interior lines, transferred his entire army to the James, where he occupied a commanding position against Richmond, and where, at Malvern Hills, he inflicted a crushing defeat on the Confederate forces. From this position the fall of Richm nd and the close of the war were assured within a short time; it was the position that was obtained two years later by Grant at an expense of life toe horrible to contemplat ■. But the administration then was not so much warring aizainst the Con.ederates as against McClellan; he was removed, and the Army of the Potomac was taken from the James River. These facts and many others of importance are presented in McClellan’s paper in the Century, "The Peninsular Campaign." They prove, in the light of subsequent events, that the campaign was one ot the best-conceived during the war, but was defeated solely by the machinations of th# Washington directory. After a perusal ot the article, no fair man can doubt for an instant that if McClellan had been supported to one-twentieth the extent Grant was, two years later, Richmond would have been captured in July, 1862, and the war would i have ended. His entire army was onlv about I equal to the number lost by Grant in the four | battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Seymour shipped’ over 42,060 doze* eggs to Eastern market*last month.. —There is an old lafly named Carrell living near Indianapolis; who i* 109 year* old. —lt is reported that a poultry house io Evansville scalds and plucks chickeni while yet alive, and that the tortured fowl squawks even after it is passed into th 4 ice-box. —While Davis Wheat'*- children were playing in their yard at’ Kent, Jefferson County, a large gray eagle swooped down upon them and tried to carry off the smallest. Minnie, the largest child, was slightly hurt in fighting the bird off from her little sister, and the latter’s clothes were form —Ex-Senator McDonald sand on Grant's birthday: “six years before this present Congress I Toted in the Senate of the United States to place Gem Grant once more upon the rolls of the army, and there never was a time since the question was first mooted, down to the present time, that I did not stand ready to vote that way.” —A woman went into a Laftyctte grocery store and secreted about'two dozen eggs in a large pocket made for such purpose beneath her panier. The clerk detected her,, and without saying anything about it slipped up, as she passed, out the door, and administered a smart, spank with a barrel: stave. She painted the town yellow on hei homeward way. —A skeleton, bellevedito. be that of a Swede named Charles Shetler, who disappeared from Buena Vista nearly thirty years ago ( has been feund in a swamp twentythree miles south of Tipton, near the Wabash Railroad, by a man named Goody Koontz, while digging in a ditch. Ths murdered man had accumulated considerable money getting out ties for the railroad. Although, the daed has been committed so many years, it is believed the guilty eulprits yet live; and. that they may yet be brought to'justice.

A Night of Torror.

[lndianapolls dispatch.] Mirs. W. D.. Bynum, wife of Congressman Bynum, had a thrilling experience with a burglar at her residence between 1 and 2 o’clock this morning. Mr. Bynum is absent at Washington, and the family at home includes Mrs. B. and two children and a domestic. Mrs. Bynum was awakened by the glare of a dork-lantern in her face, and as she half arose in her fright a gruff voice demanded, “Have you any money in the house? ’ She answered that she had a small amount, whereupon she was ordered to produce it. Mrs. Bynum had no other alternative but to obey, and she searched for some time for her pocketbook, but was unable to find it, and said so. The scoundrel then told her that he had previously taken the pocketbook to the cellar and examined it, but could find no money. Mrs. Bynum told him $5 was concealed in an inner fold, and with the glare of the lantern still in her face he compelled her to go down-stairs and search it out. The amount disappointed him, and after their return to the lipper floor he insisted upon more. Mrs. Bynum contended that this was all she had, wheretnion the burglar attempted to violence. His victim screamed for aid, and fell down the stairway into the street. From there she ran to a neighboring house, but was refused admittance, there being none but women present, who failed to recognize her voice, and it was not until she reached the second house, some distance away, that she was given shelter and protection. As soon as the nature of her danger was known a posse proceeded to Mr. Bynum’s house, but the scoundrel had disappeared, taking along with him a few trinkets in addition to the money given him by Mrs. Bynum.

An Historic Tramp.

If any traveling show company has lost a Richard 111. it would be well to look for him in # this city. He is here. He is at present playing the great role of tramp. Walking into the Bee Line Ticket Office, this morning, with manly stride, appropriately hunched as to his back, he “trod the boards” of the office, saying: “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by—the prospect of a free ride over your road. By the way, ♦ mister, I was just now passing a criticism upon the hand-painted interior of your temple of justice—l was particularly interested in the Mayor’s Court—when ’ hizzoner introduced himself to me and spoke at length upon the excellence of the railroad facilities of this town. He told me that by taking the first train over your road I could distance the police force. I came in such a hurry, for fear of missing the express, that he forgot to hand me a pass. But you can just make out a free ticket. I only want to go as far as Utah. The only three wives I ever had live there, and in the pursuit of histrionic fame I have been separated from them for years.” He was a greasy, grizzly, fat young tramp, with enough red hair on his face to stuff a mattress, and enough brains and information in his head to have cracked that organ open, had it not been unusually capacious. “The best road for walking is Jay Gould’s line—there is no gravel ballast, and not much iron to interfere with the feet, and the ties are soft and about a pace apart. I recommend that all delicate young men like yourself walk, but my physicians have cautioned me against overexertion. If the road-bed is smooth as yours is, I frequently take the box-car sleeper, and, rather than associate with conductors and common train-men, I take to the bumper or truck.” (Striking an attitude). "I come no more to make you laugh: things now That bear a weighty and a serious brow, Bad, high, and working, full of state and woe, Buch noble scenes as draw the eye to flow, We now present. “In other words, my friend, give me a lease for 999 years on a quarter, and I will withdraw my request for a pass, and forego the pleasure of meeting my wives.” The loan was negotiated.— Indianapolis News.