Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1911 — Page 2

The CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

December 17, 1861. A spirited encounter between Colonel Willich’e German regiment of Indiana troops and Col. Terry's Texas Rangers, supported by two regiments of Confederate infantry, resulted in no final advantage to either side. CoL Willlch was attacked by the Texas Rangers on the sooth side of Green River, opposite Mumfordsville, Ky. His soldiers withstood three fierce assaults of cavalry.' In the third advance Col. Terry was killed. The Confederate infantry coming up in support, Col. WiUlch would have been in serious trouble if reinforcements had not arrived. Each combatant ultimately withdrew. A union expedition under Gen. Pope In Missouri scattered a Confederate camp near Shawnee Mound, Mo. The Confederates were reported 2,200 strong. One hundred and fifty prisoners were taken. A squadron of the First New Jersey cavalry, belonging to Gen. Helntsleman’s division, under command of Capt. Shellmire, made a reconnoisance Into Virginia. A portion of the squadron, commanded by Lieut. Janville, got into trouble with a band of Confederates whom they encountered near the Bone Mills, on the Orange and Alexandria railroad. Twenty-eight Union soldiers, who attended si corn husking when they wdfe on a reconnoisance, were surprised and captured by Capt Wilcox and 14 Confederates. The belligerent tone of the British press in the Trent affair created tremendous excitement throughout the United States and the Confederacy. The Confederate States saw hope of obtaining an ally in England.

December 1$ 1861. . A general belief prevailed In England that the seizure of Mason and Slidell by Capt. Wilkes would result in war between England and the United States. The English press generally could see Q 0 other outcome. The Observer, the ministerial organ, Baid that England wished peace, but would gain much by war—the rectification of her Canadian boundaries, the opening of Southern ports and the advantage of having taught the United States a lesson. The absence of any reference to the Trent affair •in President Lincoln’s message to congress was construed as indicating an Intention to make Immediate war with England. The pressure on the government at Washington to resort to arms in settlement of the dispute with England was great Napoleon 111. of France notified the powers of that he believed the United States had exceeded the rights of international law in the seizure of the emissaries, and would so inform the American government. A detachment of Gen. Pope’s forces under Col. J. D. C. Davis, and Maj. Marshall surprised a Confederate camp at Milford, north of Warrensburg, Mo., and forced the southerners to surrender. Thirteen hundred prisoners were taken; and a thousand stands of arms, a thousand horses, stores, equipment, ammumnltion and general supplies were seized. A reconnoitering expedition of Federal.’vessels under Commander Drayton, U.- S.' N., returned to the North Edisto from an expedition in search of Confederate defenses. Some deserted fortifications were discovered on Edisto island. December 18, 1861.

In an artillery duel near Point of Rocks, Maryland, on the Potomac river, a Confederate battery on the Virginia shore was silenced and its supporting infantry driven from their position. The Confederate battery of three guns opened on the encampment of Col. Geary's Pennsylvania regiment. firing accurately. The fire was returned with two guns. One of the Confederate pieces was disabled early in the exchange. After the Confederates had retired the National guns opened on an old furnace where n number of them had taken refuge, killing and wounding several. The British ship Cheslre, of Liverpool, Capt Craig, was brought into New York harbor a prise with a crew from the U. S. S. S. Augusta, Capt. Parrot. The Cheslre was discovered in, six fathoms of water off Tybee Island. Upon being boarded Capt. Craig showed clearance papers for Nassau, but could not satisfactorily explain what he was doing so far from Iris course. The cargo of the Cheslre consisted of blankets, coffee, •ad4»lt. The Memphis Appeal reported the confiscation of $2,600,000 worth of property belonging to Union sympathisers. ‘The 11th lowa and four companies of the 3d lowa returned to Jefferson City, Missouri, from an expedition up the Missouri river, with property valued at $6,000 and a number of prisoners. A party of the 6th Connecticut crossed the Potomac at Dam No. 6 and burned a mill which had been occupied by Confederate troops. December 20,1861.

A vigorous engagement was fought between a National foraging party, finder Geo. E. O. C. Ord, and'a Confederate force under Gen. Stuart. The Union force, consisting of Gen. Ord'e brigade, a regiment of Infantry, a battery of light artillery and two squadr

ro«s of cavalry, encountered four regiments of Confederate infantry and a six-gun battery. The lighting was severe. The Confederates were defeated, hut withdrew in fair order, and were reformed in the rear of their former position. The loss was: Confederates, 43 killed, 148 wounded, 44 missing; Federals, 7 killed, 60 wounded. A party of Confederates from Gen. Price’s army destroyed the Missouri railroad for a distance of 160 miles, beginning nine miles south of Hudson, Missouri, and extending to the town of Warrenton. Major McKee, with 103 men of CoL Bishop’s command, recaptured a National stock train that had been seized by Confederates near Hudson, Missouri The stone fleet, consisting of sixteen old whaling vessels that had been purchased by the United States in New England and loaded with stone and bricks, arrived off Charleston and were sunk in the shin channel for the purpose of more effectively closing the port of Charleston. A resolution offered in the United States senate directing the Committee on the Judiciary to report a bill confiscating all property of supporters of the Confederacy, the liberation of slaves, and their protection from recapture by their masters, failed .to pass by two votes. Two regiments of British infantry sailed for Canada from England, to the tune of “I Wish I were in Dixie,” and "Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot" December 21, 1861. The Southern papers of this date were filled with expressions of delight at the prospect of war between the United States and England over the seizure of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, emissaries from the Confederate states to Great Britain and France, when under the protection of the British flag on board the British steamer Trent. . - I —| —-—— The Kentucky House of Representatives, by a vote of 69 to 11, concurred in the state senate’s amendment to the bill reported by the House Committee on Federal Relations, thanking President Lincoln for his modification of Gen. Fremont’s order and Secretary Cameron’s report, and requesting the president to dismiss Secretary Cameron from the cabinet. Union pickets at Stump Neck, on the Potomac, intercepted mail carriers of the secret mail route from the South to the North, obtaining a quantity of mail of a private character, much of which was significant? The Gunboat Resolute, U. S. N., discovering a detachment of Confederate cavalry at Holland Point, near White House on the Virginia shore of the Potomac, dispersed them with shell fire. r The Cabinet of the United States decided that troops should not pass through Baltimore thereafter unless obliged to do so by interruption of other routes of travel. Maryland north of Washington was in arms against the federal government. December 22, 1861. General Halleck, commanding the Department of the Missouri of the Union army, issued an order from St Louis declaring that anyone caught in the act of burning bridges or destroying railroads would be shot, and that anyone charged with the crime would be tried for his life by a military commission. He further ordered that slaves of southern sympathizers were to be impressed by officers of the Union army to repair damages done; that anyone claiming to have Union sympathies and who knew of projected destruction, who did not Inform, would be treated as particeps criminis, and that towns in the vicinity of destroyed property would be held for the expense of repair, unless it could be proven that there had not been sufficient force among their citizens to prevent the destruction. Four companies of Union soldiers sent out from Newport News under Major Schoepf with orders to bring in fuel, encountered the Confederates in force near New Market Bridge, and withdrew. Being reinforced by Col. Max Weber’s New York infantry, they returned and closed with the Confederates. The result was a slight skirmish, from which both sides voluntarily retired. The purpose of the Union expedition was frustrated. Citizen volunteers of Richmond, Virginia, under Capt. T. M. Ladd, who had offered to escort 176 Federal prisoners south, formed on Capitol square and received muskets and ammunition for the journey. The Confederacy commissary and ordnance stores at Nashville, Tennessee, were destroyed by lire. The loss was estimated at nearly 31,000,000.

December 23, 1861. General Rosecrans, in command of the Federal army in Western Virginia, issued an address to his troops in which, after referring to their record in the service, he urged them to perfect themselves in drill, instruction and discipline. He promised that he would organise a board of examiners for the army that would rid it of all officers unworthy the responsibility In which their command placed them. The prize schoner Charity, captured off Halteras Inlet on December 17 by the U. 8. S. 8. Stars and Stripes, was wrecked off Hempstead, Long Island, on her way to New York.

She was under charge of Capt George Ashbury. In a fight near Joseph Coerson’i house, in Perry coqpty, Kentucky, 11$ Confederates wens driven from the field by a body of Union troops. Th# loss on each side w# slight (Copyright MU. by W. a ChepsMuO

PERSIAN GIANT IS STRONGEST MAN

The illustration shown above is that of Kilich Bey, the strongest man in the world, twisting a bar of steel over two inches in diameter around his elbow. / This is n rt t the greatest feat of this Persian giant, however. In Curmish, Persia, recently, shortly after this picture was taken, two powerful wild Arabian horses were harnessed to his arms. The horses made frantic efforts to get away from the crowd, but Kilich Bey stood fijm as a rock, and they could not drag him an inch from his position. Aiterwardp this modern Samson concluded by punching* piece of stone to pieces with his bare first.

OVERALL’S ARM GETS BETTER

Former Cub Pitcher Recently Struck Out Seventeen Players on the ' Pacific Coast. Orval Overall’s arm seems to get better every time he pitches a game. Recently the former Pub whom Manages Chance is trying to persuade to return to the Chicago team struck out seventeen men twirling against the

Orval Overall.

All Sacramento team for Cy Morning’s Stockton outlaws. Overall allowed eight hits and won, 4to 1. He would have scored a shutout had not Eddie Carrigan found him for a home run.

All-American Team.

The first of the year's selection for an all-American group of athletes at one of the college clubs in New York the other night It is as follows: Tjvtl •D<J. «••••••••*e•••• ••• White, Princeton Left tackle -...Hart. Princeton Left guard..... Arnold, Army Center ..... ....■••• Wee owe* •- * • Ketcham, Tala i Right guard ....Fleher. Harvard Right Tack la Littlejohn, Army Right end R<nn«(«ler. Yale Quarter-back SpiackMn, Brown Right half-back ...Thorpe, Carlisle Left half-back.. Datum. Navy Full-back Wendell. Harvard

GOSSIP AMONG SPORTS

Football fatalities are fewer this season. Clarke Griffith is a, real comedian. He states without smiling: that Washington has a good team. Hans Wagner is a “slogger,” but it would be safe to meet him in the middle of the road on a dark night Harvard and Tale are already clamoring for revision of the football rules. Princeton seems to be satisfied. Baseball was played by the Hittites 4,000 years ago, and today Frank Baker best hittite in our midst. China may become a republic, but she can never become an American republic. Without a Honus Wagner or Ty Cobb. Football' netted Tale about 980,000 this year. We should like to know about how much it costq to run a football team. Every team in the National league, except St. Louis, has a man ahead of the first Cub player in the list of batting averages. > China has organized an eight club baseball league, but- it will be a long time before it. is able to get a major league franchise. ■*

“Women are subject to hysteria," says a Russian dootor. Evidently he has never seen a crowd of male beings at a football game. Since so many "appointed managers" of the Cincinnati club have proven “jokes,” when the real leader is chosen he may be overlooked. Frank Schulte won’t worry over the loss of a single home run. He could run it down in quick order with that smoke wagon if he wished to do so. Officials of the minor leagues have voted to reduce the salaries of baseball players. Is there no patriotism left In the officials of the minor leagues? ... , ; r v,* What, Indeed, is in a name? The dispatch to the sporting department states that “One Round” Hogan knocked out "Knockout” Brown in the seventh round! Picking all-star football teams is delectable pastimlng. but in the absence of a real gridiron battle'this is about the only thing left for the dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast. A New York paper has discovered that the game of baseball is 4,000 years old; “having descended from the Hittites to the Giants.” Correct There can be no doobt that "the Giants have descended dfrom the Hlttites.

TRAIN KAISER’S SONS

Not an Easy Task, Says an American Boxer. _ —’'•“Vr-fn-*-• u^" *^*^;*T^ =S»! f ‘'g* **+*-*ei ■■i. ■ M ■ ■!——— ~ Jack 811 m Relate* Some of Hl* Experience* at Potsdam—Prince Osair Is Sturdy Fellow, Weigh- / ing 165 Pounds. Jack Slim, the Anglo-American boxer who la training the kaiser’s younger sons in the noble art of self-de-fense, has no easy job of it “They are very good to me at Potsdam, and the young princes are pretty good natured. ’Still, it is not all beer and skittles,” said Slim. “For example, the kaiserin Is too good & mother not to have a few qualms about her soak indulging in a sport, 'which, though useful enough, is not very popular 40: Germany and meets with a good deal of prejudice among army officers. “The kaiserin watched with interest the exercises I was putting Prince' Oscar through the other day, but I think she is always a little nervous about it. “Are yoti sure Oscar is strong enough for boxing?’ she asked me when I first went to Potsdam as trainer, and I had some trouble to reassure her. I was asked to tea with the royal family. A special room was reserved for me at the palace, but what rather amused me was that most of the time I had to go about in evening dress. “As for Prince Oscar, I. can only tell you that he is a pretty sturdy fellow and the kaiserin need have no anxiety about him. He weighs about 165 pounds, and he is so quick on his feet that sometimes he beats me. The kaiserin really anxious. I think as to whether boxing was not injurious to the heart.” Jack Slim has a busy time trying to carry out Prince Oscar’s impetuous demands for his presence. “One day after Christmas,” said Jack, “I got a telegram telling me to be at Wildpark, Potsdam, at four o’clock. There was no train that would get me there in time, so I just took a motor, and, my, but that josser hummed when I gave him the address. All the way the German bobbies were putting down the number of the car as we tore past them. It made me laugh. I told Prince Oscar about it, and he laughed quite as much as I did. lie speaks English better-than any of his brothers; in fact, he Is more like an Englishman than a German, any way.”

SAM HILDRETH DENIES TALE

Was Not Refused License to Race Horses In England Because He Had Not Applied for One. 1 -/ i Sam C. Hildreth, the veteran American trainer who went- to England recently, returned on the Lusitania, accdmpanied by Mrs. Hildeth and Carroll T. Shilling, the jockey who went away with him to look over the English tracks and select training quarters. Hildreth denied the report that he had been refused a license to train in England. . “Was such a report published here?” he asked. “I wasn’t refused a license,” said he. “I could not be refused a license be-

Sam Hildreth.

cense I did not apply for one. All I *went over for was to look around. There would be no use in taking out a license now, for it would expire at the end of the year. Training licenses in England begin with the first of the calendar year. “I am going back in midwinter some time. I have not decided Just when I shall ship my horses. There is no prospect of jmy going to France until after another season or two. It would be no use to do so exoept with jumpers. By the rules of the French tracks neither American nor British horses can take part except in special races. They have to be heed In France.”

Good Year for Basketball.

, JBpfltetbali promises to enjoy a boom this winter that, it has no known heretofore. Leagues are being formed on every hand and the interest in the game has grown to large proportions. Lovers of the sport look to see It become the most popular of indoor pas times daring the cold weather. m

Murphy Is After Rucker.

Charles Murphy, president of the Chicago National League Baseball dab, is said to be anxious to get Nsp Rucker, the star left band twirier fid the Brooklyn team, and would, it is reported, he willing to give several Chicago players in return.

Religion as Satisfaction

By Rev. Hugh T. Ken,

Pastor of Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian Cbuich, Chicago

TEXT—One thing thou lackest.—Mark 10:21. This, la a character study in black and white. Ihe picture is drawn by a determined hand and there is no hint of hesitation. Stroke follows stroke until the complete portrait is before us. The story is as complete as it is concise. It begins in comedy and ends in tragedy. The young man, impulsive, optimistic and temperamentally enthusiastic, hurries breathlessly into the presence jit Jesus with the long hushed question of his heart upon his liim, and then when our hopes for him are highest we behold him making what Dante calls “The Great Refusal” and returns to his old life as ill at ease and with his heart as hungry as ever. • ( Let us not misunderstand this young man. He was no comedian trifling with sacred things and then casting them thoughtlessly away from Mm. He was intense, enthusiastic, a nobleman at heart, and* when Jesus looked upon him he fell in love with him. He bad climbed the ladder of lawful ambition, and while still a young matt was In the council of the elders. Honor did not spoil the humility of his heart, and in the presence of the Master he bowed in graceful reverence. Richly endowed with worj&ly wealth, he was still more richly endowed with a nature rich in the virtues that make for righteousness.. Jesus was intensely interested in this young man. We read that “He loved him.” I think he was interested In him on account of his youth. Christ and young manhood, as ha* been said, are as magnet and steel. This young man had all his life to Jive. The .years with all their possible achievements were still before him. Christ was Interested In this young man because he was rich. Riches and wealth meant power, and power Is another name for responsibility. Jesus spoke hard words about rich men and about rich men who loved money, who trusted In money, who because' of their money fSrgot about God. Jesus, however, did not despise a man because be was rich. He loved the rich young ruler. It was a rich man who begged his lifeless body as It hung unclaimed upon the cross. Two rich men took his dead body and wrapped it tenderly in the choicest of linen and laid it away in a costly sepulcher. ' Jesus knows and recognizes no class. Riches and poverty to him are but the toAls with which character circumstances. “The man’s the gowd for a’ that.” It Is written of him that “he made his grave with the .rich in hie death.” There Is pathos and tragedy In that sentence. “Must the Master wait till death to dwell In the habitations of the rich?” May he not make his abode with the rich in his life? Let the rich man open the ,door and Christ will enter in to share his lonely isolation, and will satisfy the hunger of his heart. Jesus was interested in this young man because he was moral. His life was pure and his bands clean. For him a good name was better than great riches. He followed tbe quest of the best He was one of the Knlgbta of the Round Table, who bad pledged his honor to “live sweet life of purest chastity.” To gain the love and admiration of Jesus It Is hot necessary to wander oir into forbidden paths of sin, and to ran the gauntlet of a dissipated life. For all young men who are fighting sin and" the devil and carrying a clean conscience in the midst of contaminating circumstances Jesus has a warm welcome. Jesus was Interested in this young man, who, with hiß youth, his position, his influence, his purity of life, was still dissatisfied and came with the cry of unrest “What lack I yet?” This Is a wonderful thing that he should have so much and yet pot have enough. • . *-,v Jesus answered the young man’s question by a command. ‘‘Come, follow me.” In a great book recently published there is this striking sentence, “If the gbds went their way and were satisfied, and the beasts went their way and were satisfied, the unrest of man can only mean that hetis not rightly related to his present We.” Now. Is not that just the truth? How can a man be rightly related to this present life in which he is set if be leaves out God and refuses to become related to the eternal realities that Jl* all around him, in the world of truth and beauty and goodness? v Are youth, and worldly httSor, and riches the only things that Rfe needs to he related to? Out of all these human relationships the cry is heard. “What lack I yet?” And Jesus responds promptly, “Ton lack the love and the light of the presence of the God of truth.” The human heart Is homeless until It finds the Heavenly Father.” Find God. and you find rest and peace and satisfaction. Religion is satisfaction. Religion completes life and perfects love, sad only in the presence of God le the soul satisfied. No sacrifice Is too great to gain this great treasure. “Sell all that you have and to the poor If necessary.” Let nothing hold yon back from following after Christ 111 fhe’’ life of •elf-surrender and loving service .v