Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1912 — Page 2

The CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

©ecember 31, 1861. The New York Times of date printed the following: “The Canadian press comments upon the release of Messrs. Mason and Slidell in the same spirit iwhich has prompted its various representations hitherto in their treatment of the rebellion. The Leader uses the most abusive language at its command. It pronounces the surrender one of the ‘greatest collapses since the beginning of time,’ and has much to say of the ‘humiliation’ of the national government The Globe talks much more moderately, and heartily congratulates its readers on the result: and the Montreal Gazette speaks of It as ‘a bitter, bitter pill for the fireeaters to cram down their noisy throats.’ ” The United States gunboats under Commander Melancthon Smith left Ships Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, with a heavy force of marines and proceeded to Biloxi, Miss. Although there was a battery at the place, it was not manned, and Commander Smith took possession of the town (Without meeting resistance. He cartied the guns from the batteries aboard the gunboats and returned to Ship Island, having meanwhile captured a schooner loaded with hard pine flooring that endeavored to slip behind the island on the way to New Orleans. 7 The term of enlistment in thd northern army was extended during the month from one to three years, and a bounty of SSO was offered. January 1, 1862. Messrs. Mason and Slidell were surrendered by the United States government to the British government. They wete Taken in the tug Starlight from Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, where they had been detained as prisoners of war, to Providencetown, an Cape Cod, where they were delivered on board the British gunboat Rinaldo. The Rinaldo immediately put to sea, bearing Mason and Slidell to the posts toward which they had been traveling when taken off the British mail steamer Trent by Captain Wilkes, U. S. N., two months ibefore. \

A joint expedition of United States gunboats under Commander C. R. P. .Rodgers and Infantry under General ‘Stevens, which had left Port Royal Harbor, S. C., the previous evening, crossed the Coosaw river and attacked the Confederate fort at Port Royal ferry. The Confederate garrison was driven from their works by the (heavy shell fire of the gunboats, but returned and made a deJtermined attack on the Union forces 'who had occupied their recently abandoned position. The gunboats again (decided the issue with their shell fire. The United State Fort Pickens, in Pensacola harbor, again opened fire on the Confederate steamship Time. The response was taken up by the Confederate Forts Fisher and Barrancas: Little damage was done on either side, beyond a fire that Woke ©U,t in Warrington as a result of the explosion of Unfon shells. The British bark Empress of Hull, which was captured by the United States sloop Vincennes at Pas a rOutre in an - attempt to run the blockade of New Orleans, arrived in New York with a. prize crew. She was from Rio Janeiro with 6,500 bags of coffee. The Federal prisoners removed by the Confederates from Charleston, S. C., arrived at Columbia, S. C. January 2, 1862. The Confederates resumed their attack on the fort at Port Royal Ferry, from which they had been driven and subsequently held by the Federal expedition under Commander Rodgers and General Stevens, and succeeded in dislodging the Union force. Under cover of a heavy fire from the gunboats, the Federate recrossed the Cootaw and withdrew to Port Royal HaMJOr; reaving the fort in the possession of -the Confederates. The Confederate battery at Cockpit Point, on the Potomac, was attacked by the Union gunboat Anacostia and the steamer Yankee. The Anacpstia took a position out of the range of fire from the battery, but the Yankee was hit by a Confederate shot that knocked away two of her knees forward and pierced the forecastle. The steamship Ella Warley, formerly the Isabel of Nassau, made a successful attempt to run the block. Bde of Charleston, and arrived there early in the morning. She carried a valuable miscellaneous cargo. One of her passengers was Mr. Bisbie, 'formerly a delegate to'the Virginia legislature, bearing important dispatches from Mr. Yancey. -- General Stone, U. 8. A./ Issued an , order at Poolesville, Md., warning troops of his command from, inciting the slaves to insubordination and insurrection ' - The Memphis Argus reported General Price, C. S. A., in full retreat southward through Missouri before the adtance of three Union armies that Wdre converging on him. Dispatches received at St Louis announced the capture of a Confederate band, under Jeff Owens and - Colonel Jones, that had. been burning 1862. A reconnoisance of Federal troops ; WO strong, consisting of six compan-

les of the Coast Guard, Hx companies of the Twentieth New York and three companies of Harlan’s cavalry,- left Camp Hamilton, Virginia, under command of Brigadier General Weber, accompanied by Majors Vegesack and Carling es General Wood’s staff. Leading the infantry two miles beyond Little Bethel, the cavalry proceeded toward Big Bethel, met an inferior force of Confederate cavalry acting as pickets, and drove them in upon the town. Upon arriving at Big Bethel the Federal cavalry discovered the place had been by the Confederates. A detachment of Federal troops 300 In number, under Colonel Glover, encountered a body of Confederates 280 strong in camp nine miles from” Hunnewell, Mo. The National troops attacked and drove the Confederates from their camp after a sharp fight. Eight Confederates fell into Union hands; among them John Kincade, who had helped to burn Salt river bridge and tank as a defensive measure against the Union adyance. Two hundred and forty Federal troops who had been held prisoners of war at Richmond, and who had been exchanged for an equal number of Confederate prisoners, arrived at Fortress Monroe. They were brought down the river from Richmond on the C. S. S. S. Northampton to a point, nine miles above Fortress Monroe, where they were transferred to the steamer George Washington, U. S. N. Most of the Union prisoners had been captured at the battle of Bull Run. January 4, 1862.

Huntersville, a depot of Confederate supplies between Huttonsville and Warm Springs, Virginia, was attacked by a force of Union troops consisting of detachments from the sth Ohio, the 2nd Virginia, and Hadsin’s cavalry, 740 in> strength. The Confederates had a slightly inferior force of infantry and cavalry. The Union force fell upon the Confederate "cavalry before it could concentrate, and drove it through the town, after severe skirmishes. Stores valued at $50,000 fell into the possession of the Union soldiers and were destroyed. All the banks situated in that part of Kentucky where sympathy for the Confederate cause prevailed Were consolidated and placed under the direction of Henry J. Lyons, who was given authority to conduct their affairs for the benefit of the Confederate States. ‘ General Jackson, with a force of Confederates, attacked five hundred national troops, detached from several regiments, at Bath, Virginia. Two attacks by the Confederates were withstood, but a third, accompanied by a flank movement, dislodged tfie Federate, who fell back on Hancock, Virginia. January 5, 1862.

A party of National troops engaged a Confederate force in a skirmish near Port Royal, South’ Carolina. Seven Confederates were captured and marched to Beaufort. They made a determined attempt to escape while under guard by seizing the weapons of their captors. The attempt was frustrated with difficulty. General Stone was completely exonerated, before a Congressionar~cbmmittee, of all blame for the Ball’s Bluff disaster.

January 6, 1862. The schooner William Northrop, formerly a pilot boat of Charlestown, South Carolina, was brought into New York under charge of Prize-Master Rhoades, of the U. S. S. S. Fernandina. She was captured by the Fernandina when attempting to run the blockade into Wilmington. She was laden with coffee and quinine and other medicine, from Nfcssau and Havana. The Richmond Despatch reported satisfactory progress in the erection of defensive works about the city and the organization of the inhabitants into a body to be trained and made ready for garrison duty. Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, commanding the Confederate forces in southeastern Kentucky, issued an order dated at Mill Spring urging all citizens of Kentucky who had not yet taken up arms to join the Confederate forces immediately, objurgating them by the obligations of interest, honor and duty to assist in repelling the invaders. He affirmed tfiat the object of the war on the part of the North was the "extinction of slavery and The subjugation of the South.” John Letcher, governor of Virginia, sent a message to the Virginia house of delegates urging them to. reaffirm that “the separation of the Confederate states from the United States is. and ought to be,, final and irrevoca ble.”

The second execution in the. National Army of the Republic took place at Washington, D. C. Michael Lanahan was hanged for the murder of Sergeant Brenner, both of Company A, Second regiment, U. S. A. Capt. Gwin, C. S. A., was arrested by Colonel Howell of the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania, while on a visit to his old home in Maryland, twenty miles below Washington. (Copyright, 1911, by W. G. Chapman.)

Richelieu.

Richelieu, a pretty little place about 13% miles from Chtaon, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, France, derives jta nsme from the family of Cardinal Richelieu, whose patrimonial lands extended to an area now occupied by part of the town. The people have not shown any undue haste in commemorating their townsman, who, fitter all, stands in little need of a monument. A committee has been formed and has, appropriately, the high and unanimous patronage of the Academie Fyancalse, which owes its existence to the cardinal. Other learned societies are represented. If h as not been decided whether the monument will be in bronze or stone. ,

PARIS HAS NEW FAD

"Radium Cure” Is Latest Craze j n French Capital. '

Affects Patieht Immediately—Oxygen Passed Through a Reservoir Containing Mineral and Dispersed by Means o( Electric Fan. ' Paris. The “Afternoon Radium Cure” is the latest craze of Paris society. The popularity of the treatment, new to Paris, has developed quite suddenly, and is due no doubt to the fact that it is exceedingly pleasant Americans who spent last summer at either Carlsbad. Wiesbaden or Homburg are probably already acquainted with the treatment by radium emanations Inhaled through the lungs. The new cure has been in operation only a short time, being a consequence of the discovery of the radio-activity of mineral waters. What has struck Paris society most is the novelty connected with it There is nothing suggestive of the physician’s consulting room in the' spacious drawing room where the patients take their cure. All one has to do is to remain in this room for a couple of hours every day for a month, and he will, according to Dr. Frumesan, the director of the establishment, be cured of all rheumatism or, in general, of all affections of the heart or bone joints.

During the two hours of voluntary imprisonment the patients play bridge, read, talk, and take of the room stands a tall, white cylinder looking like a radiator, which absorbs the superfluous carbonic acid and causes a supply of fresh oxygen to pass through a reservoir containing a few thousand dollars’ worth of radium

ODD SOCIETY DANCES

Philadelphia’s Elite Perform x Daring Numbers at Cotillion. Mrs. Jackson Fouraud Uses Snake— New York Entertainment Includes All Kinds of Terpsichoran Varieties. I 111 I ■ —I New York. —If elite and exclusive Philadelphia society people could have seen their two favorite cotillon leaders, Charles Gilpin and George Lee Thompson, the recently divorced husband of the beautiful Julie Phillips, escort Nance Gwyn, the actress, Titian haired an <8 from Australia, to an entertainmein given by Mrs. Jackson Gouraud a short time ago, they would have opened wide their eyes. But if they could have seen Miss Gwyn dance the dance of the seven veils a little later they might have gotten their eyelashes tangled up with their eyebrows. Miss Gwyn’s alluring figure and her startling Salome dance were both more orless revealed at a Soiree de la danse excentrique (quoted from the program) given by Mrs. Gouraud. Everybody was in masquerade costume. Mrs. Gouaud arrayed as “The Night Has a Thousand Ey?s,” and in pearls that would clothe a baby and rapsom a king, received her guests at the staircase landing. The program included La Mazurka Russe, danced by M. Agrioff and M. Maurice; the Hawaiian Kui, danced by natives; Le Whirl, by Kathleen Clifford and Harry Pilcer and La Harem slide, by the whole company. A native Igorrote In his native costume, mostly beads, electrified the company in La Danse des igorrotes. Mrs. Gouraud herself Appeared in. La Danse de Cobra, and with M. Agarloff

Pang Triplets Brought

Ohio Man Bemoaning Because Infant Has a Tooth—Means Another ( Mouth to Feed. : Sympathy of all the fond papas in this city went out to Arthur Vahderegll of Akron, Ohio, whose wife presented triplets to him, one of whom had a perfectly formed tooth. They were able to appreciate his great sorrow in being deprived’ later, of the chance to say “Baby’s got a tooth,’ an announcement Invariably followed by an individual celebration oh the part of the proud parent To be robbed of the opportunity of making the speech which every married man rehearses for weeks seemed too much for one man to bear, and many of the local dealers in coocbee-coochee-coo talk sent messages of condolence to him. “It’s a hard blow,” said one young man, who was around collecting liquid samples by way of celebrating the arrival of bis baby’s first tusk. “The fact that be has two more chances to make the speech will help alleviate his grief, but just think of the bun he could have organized If all three broke Into the ivory game at the same time. I’ve been expecting my baby’s tooth for weeks, and in order that I might be tn proper shape to do it justice I have been dieting on salt pork.* “Aside from the misfortune of being robbed of the greatest joy in a married man's life, just think of the hard luck-of having a baby bora with a tooth theje times; with all sorts of ’odd bringing prohibitive prices,” was

RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR AND WIFE

WASHINGTON.— Society in the national capital Is intensely interested in the new Russian ambassador, M. Bakhmetieff, and his family and entourage. Mme. Bakhmetieff is an American woman, a sister of Mrs. John R. McLean of Washington.

and to be dispersed afterward through the room by means of a small electric fan. ’ ‘ !- There are no smells and no discomforts whatever. On the contrary, the purity of the air and the invigorating effects of the radium give a pleasant senqp of well-being. This sense of wellbeing is, according to the doctor, due to the radio-activity absorbed by one’s

danced Le Marllena, and Nance Gwyn did the Le Tango Argentin. But this was too much like a hymn at Christmas to suit Miss Gwyn. The company cheered her as she started her greatest dance, and veil by veil, unwound the seven veils. The last veil was just whirling in the wind of Chopin’s music when Miss Gwyn espied a reporter. With a shriek she fled into the dining room. Garbed like another Helen in the classic robes of Greece, Mrs. Gouraud delighted the company when she danced Le Madrllena with M. Agarloff. A little later Mrs. Gouraud twined round her neck a twelve foot living cobra and danced and danced. Frankly the guests were afraid of the-cobra, even if Mrs. Gouraud was not They backed away from its emerald eyes and its darting flrelike tongue. But when the lady of the house patted the cobra on the head and told it to behave they drew near and asked questions. “It’s as gentle as a powder puff,” exclaimed Mrs. Gouraud.

Late for Dinner; He Jumps

Man on New York Building Leaps Three Stories and Escapes Unhurt. New York.—Policeman Schneider was ambling along in front of an unfinished building at Ninth avenue and Fortieth street when his eye happened to stray aloft in lookout for a dislodged brick. Just as he looked up he saw the body of a man leave the scaffolding on the third story and come hurtling down directly over him. With an agile spring the policeman dodged the body. Pivoting on his

the way another sympathizer put it “Yes, it’s a boy, the other members of the delegation being girls. While his sisters wiH be content with milk for a year at-least, he will have to have steak and chops from the start in order to exercise that tooth. That youngster will be demanding evening clothes before he is six months old.” “Beats all the way nature favors these Ohio babies,” complained a man who hasn’t any teeth. Here’s a youngster arrives all ready to tackle a beefsteak dinner,-while I have to, be content with gruel. I’ve been drinking my meals for years. Bet a dollar, if you investigate, you will find that the first thing"he sat'd was T accept the nomination.* AU Ohio babies do that”

Ten Years for Twenty-Cent Theft

New York. —Maurice McGrath.' of 92 Chambers street was sentenced this afternoon by Judge O'Sullivan in general sessions to serve ten years in Sing Sing for a robbery that netted the prisoner just twenty cents The prisoner has served several terms in prison and It was on account of bis criminal record that the severe penalty was imposed.

Unearth 200 Skeletons.

Cincinnati.—Two hundred human skeletons were discovered on the farm of Enos Hayes, between Cleves and Elizabethtown O It is believed the place was an Indian burying ground or the acene of a battle between the Indians and white men in pioneer days. Ji •• _

-X - ’ ■■ . •*> body, which is retained for several hours after the treatment The establishment, which has been open only a few days, is already the talk of Paris, and it is astonishing how many society women have suddenly discovered that they are suffering from rheumatism in order not to miss the x three to five o’clock "Radium Tea/* —~ -y- ' . ■ ■■

PLEADS FOR PRISON LODGING

Wife of Oklahoma Life Termer Would Share Husband’s Unhappy Lot * at McAlester. s Oklahoma City, Okla. —A pathetic appeal from the wife of'a life time convict reached the office of Governor Cruce from Dora, Ark. The writer, Mrs: Ada Greenlaw, stated that her husband had been away from her for a year and was doing a life sentence at McAlester. She asked the governor to make an order that would permit her to be with her husband, saying that she could possibly work the prison for her board. “I am woman and alone," the letter read in closing the appeal, which bore no suggestion of a pardon wanted. The governor is without authority to grant the peculiar residence requested. Records here do not disclose for what crime or from what county Greenlaw is doing penal servitude.

Wear Dark Blue Dress Suits.

London. —Two men noted in clubland for being always smartly tailored created a small sensation at a recent function by appearing in dark blue dress suits with gilt buttons.

heel, Schneider caught the falling man by the arms as his feet hit the sidewalk. Instead of dropping to the ground in a limp heap, the workman landed squarely bn his feet. “Are you hurt?” asked Schneider. ‘‘l should say not.”said the bricklayer, smiling. “I was late going home to dinner and jumped. I often do that.” An ambulance was summoned and the aurgeop looked the remarkable jumper over, but could find no injuries of any sort.

KILLS SELF ON GIRL'S GRAVE

Cedarville (Pa.) Youth, Unable to Live Without Sweetheart, Com. mite Suicide.. »“ —I . 1., _ Allentown, Pa. —Investigation that ensued when the body of a handsome young man was found in the grave yard of Cedarville church revealed a pathetic love suicide. It turned out that Joseph W. McCarthy, aged twenty years, had killed himself on the grave of his sweetheart, Queenie M. Nickum, who had been burled on Thanksgiving day, a victim of typhoid fever. 1 Shortly after dark he appeared, lonely and forlorn, in the neighborhood of the church. Ellsworth Reinhard who passed him. took him for one of the boys of the neighborhood, but on greeting him received no response. David Kehn saw him enter the front yard of the church and took him' for one of the choir members going to practice. Shortly after daylight Thomas Rebenold, sexton, yelled across the road to Mr. Kehn that he had found a corpse, and the crowd that gathered soon recognized it as that of the young man who had wept so bitterly at the Nickum girl’s funeral. He had drunk carbolic acid os her grave and stuck the bottle underneath the wreath that he had given as a flower tribute. A letter addressed to the girt’s grandfather requested that he be buried beside her. The letter wound up as follows: “If her relatives will not . allow me to be burlqg beside toy sweetheart then deposit my body in the river. In some lonely spot tn- a field or tn the woods, or cast it into the sea."

NERVOUS IN PUBLIC

I --‘1 V ■■ MANY WORLD-FAMED SPEAKERS NEVER OVERCOME THIS. With Some It Persists as Mannerisms •—Yawn and Handkerchief of Late Duke of Devonshire —Glad- ’ . stone’s Peculiar Actions. Persons who are unaccustomed to speak in believe that their nervousness is solely due to their inexperience, and that public men can make speeches as coolly as they make conversation. In some cases this may Jje so, but few speakers are ever able wiiolly able to cast off their nervousness. Sometimes it persists only in the form of a mannerism, attractive or otherwise, but some old parliamentarians never escape from the tremors and terrors which bhook them when their maiden speech was delivered. The late duke of Devonshire is usually spoken of as the perfect type of the impassive Englishman. When he entered the house of commons as Lord Cavendish, he distinguished himself by prefacing his maiden speech with a prodigious yawn. But he was by no means as languid in fact hs he was in appearance. When he rose to speak he would lean one arm on the nearest of the two iron-bound boxes on the table between the front benches. After a slight hesitation and a few quiet wdrds, the other hand would steal to the tail pocket of his coat and emerge holding a neatly-folded white cambric handkerchief. Without unfolding it he would gently rub the corners of his mouth, and this done, the hand, still holding the handkerchief, would rest on the hip or be thrown back. Sitting near him, one could observe that the grip on his handkerchief tightened, and that the muscles of the hand were in continuous action.,, At the close of his speech the hand opened, and one saw not the clean, folded cambric handkerchief, but only a solid, greasy ball, which was quickly returned to the pocket. Here was the safety valve for the Impassive nobleman’s nervousness, Gladstone was one in whom nervousness jiad become mannerism. When he rose to speak he began with a few gracious words on the speech which was about to follow, or some pointed * remark as to the character and importance of the subject In_ his earlier days this was, no doubt to “get his breath.” His next act was to raise his right hand over his head with the thumb bent down ajid gently scratch his skull. That is rather common among public speakers. The third action of Mr. Gladstone was his peculiar and individual sign. Throwing his arms downward by his side, he would with ’ his fingers seize the Cuffs of his coat and draw these down over his shirt cuffs so as to conceal them completely. The ordinary practice is just the reverse, the desire being to expose and not conceal the white linen of the shirt cuffs. These were the Invariable preludes to the great commoner’s speeches.—Pall Mall Magazine.

Not in the Library.

Mr. Claptrap arrived at the circulating' library the other day with his hands full of small packages and as cross as two sticks because his wife had asked him to fulfiUAcnne commissions for her while he was out. With a look which was just as disagreeable as he felt he handed to the little librarian a list which he had made to aid his memory. * “My wife wants these books,” he said gruffly. “Be quick ~about getting them, if you please. I’m in a great burry.” llle girl, who was a trifle shy and inexperienced, flushed, and, saying that he should have the books directly, went to look for them. She was some time and when she returned he glared at her ’ indignantly and asked if she expected him to “wait all day.” “I’m very sorry,” she apologized, “but ypu see I’ve been looking for the last book on the list. Here are the other three, but ’Hairpins and Castor Oil’ I can’t find and —and I’m afraid it isn’t in the library.” “Good heavens!’’ groaned Mr. Claptrap, quite crestfallen. “Did I put those things down in the book list!”

In Praise of Modesty.

Reginald Pe Koven told at a musi.cale in Chicago a pretty story In ’praise of modesty. “A group of tourists,” he said, "visited Beethoven’s house in Bonn. One of the tourists, a girl of twenty or so, sat down at Beethoven’s piano and played the “Moonlight Sonata* none too welt Beethoven’s own work, In his own room, on his own piano! "When the girl had finished, she rose and said to the old caretaker: ‘“I suppose lots of famous musicians have been here and played on this instrument?* ‘“Well, miss,’ the caretaker answered gravely, ’Paderewski was here Ifist year, and his friends urged him to play, but he shook his head and said: ** *No, I am not worthy.'” ~

A Good One.

‘ls little Mrs. Bings* worthless husgiving day?” “No; I understand he te going to stay away for a culinary reason.” "A culinary reason?" "Yes. He knows his goose 1» cooked.”