Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1912 — Page 2

The CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

January 7, 1862* A detachment of Gen. Kelly’s forces under Col. Dunning of the sth Ohio, Which left Romney the night before, attacked the Confederates at Blue’s Gap, Virginia, at daylight on January 7. The attack was successful, the Confederates withdrawing with ; a loss of fifteen killed and twenty prisoners. Wagons, tents and stores fell Into the hands of the National troops. Petitions for the emancipation of the slaves continued to be presented in the United States senate. The contest over the seating of the senators from Kansas involved the senate for a time in heated debate. Representative Vallandigham of Ohio criticised the government for giving up Messrs. Mason and Slidell at the demand of Great Britain. Mr. Hutchins, his colleague, insinuated in reply that Mr. Vallandigham’s position was not sincere; that he had opposed the war previously, and that he now seemed to desire to precipitate the United States into a conflict with England for the benefit of the south. - " The Union gunboats under Com* mander Foote made a reconnoisance down the Mississippi as far as the Confederate batteries .two miles above Columbus, Kentucky. They were fired upon, but escaped without damage. A part of the Second Virginia Federal cavalry, under Col. Bowles, and a portion of Marshall’s Confederate forces, were involved in a serious •skirmish three miles westiof Paintsville, on Jennie Creek, Kentucky. The •Confederates withdrew before the superior strength of the enemy. Col. James A. Garfield with his Union brigade of Ohio, Kentucky and 'Virginia troops, oecupied Paintsville without opposition. The Confederates abandoned their works-in front of the town and retreated. They were pursued, and three of them were killed. Colonel H. Aninsel defeated a force of Confederates thirty miles east of Sutton. ‘ General A. E. Burnside was assignbed to the command of the Department of North Carolina. . January 8, 1862. A force of Confederates under Col. Poindexter were driven from their camp at Roan’s Tanyard, eight miles -south of Huntsville, by a Union force 'under Majors Torrence and Hubbard. The attack was made late in the afternoon, a short time before dusk. The Confederates were taken by surprise, and their leader was not able to rally - them in time to make, a successful resistence. The fight lasted an hour. The Confederates lost tents, baggage, -and equipment. ' _ ■ _A fierce skirmish was fought between a squad of Company 8., Second Virginia, Union, and a band of guerillas on the Dry Fork of Cheat River, In Randolph county, Virginia. The Union soldiers came upon the enemy unexpectedly. For an hour the field was bitterly contested. The Southerners were finally obliged to abandon their quarters, owing to a lack of ammunition. The two parties were frequently within thirty paces of each other during the fight. The loss was six or seven killed on each side. In a scrimmage between the same forces on the night of the Sth of January, the Confederates had the final advantage. The rear guard of the First Kansas, on its march from Sedalia to Lexington, Missouri, was attacked from ambush when within a few miles of its destination. A German sergeant was mortally wounded. January 9, 1862. Affairs in Missouri continued highly turbulent. The St. Louis Chamber of Commerce broke up over an issue introduced by the war. The southern members of the body refused to admit to membership a number <g candidates whose federal sympathies

were well known, and the northern members of the chamber withdrew to form another Chamber of Commerce; a parpose which they effected. The Provost Marshal General issued a general order directing every newspaper printed in the state, with the exception of the St. Louis papers only, to submit to him a copy of each issue for his inspection and censorship. Any paper failing to comply was threatened with suppression. Col. H. Aninsel, commanding the union forces at Clarksburg, Va., returned to that place with two companies of the Second Virginia cavalry and three companies of infantry, after an expedition in search of a party of Confederates that had recently seized some military stores. He brought with him the greater part of the stores, having come up with the Confederates near Sutton. He reported a heavy loss among the enemy. ~ The vessels containing the third and fourth brigades of General Burnside’s expedition left Annapolis for the rendezvous at Fortress Monroe. Senator Sumner of Massachusetts delivered a speech in the United States senate on the Trent affair. January 10, 1862. Colonel Garfield, In pursuit of the ■Confederate force under Marshall, that had withdrawn before his adwance on Paintsville, came up wish forks of Middle Creek, Ky. Ip a fight that lasted all day the ttnal advantage rested with the Fed-

eral ’forces.* The Issue of the fight opened the road to Prestonburg. An expedition under General Grant and General McClernand, about five thousand strohg, left Cairo In boats and sailed down the Mississippi to a point eight miles below Cairo, where they were landed on the Kentucky shore. The expedition carried five days’ cooked rations, ninety wagons and four hundred mules, together with ambulances, tents, etc. The gunboats Essex and St. Louis accompanied them. The call of the state of Tennessee for militia to serve in the Confederate armies resulted in serious trouble in some of the western counties, where Northern sympathies ran high. It was necessary to send troops into McNalry county to enforce the call. Some of the local authorities were arrested. A party of Kansas Indians, under their chief, Y-O-To-Wah, visited Leavenworth for the purpose of ascertaining the terms of enlistment in the .United States army. The chief expressed a desire to assist in maintaining the union. Senators Trusten Polk and Waldo P. Johnson, from Missouri, were expelled from the United States Senate on report of the judiciary committee. January 11, 1862.

The shooting of pickets in the vicinity of Cairo continuing unabated, General Grant issued orders that all inhabitants of the country for a distance of six miles in front of the Union position should be brought behind the breastworks and guarded, and that anyone appearing within the slx-mile zone should be liable to be shot. The order was based on a belief that the persons guilty of the practice of shooting pickets were not members of the Confederate army, but citizens of the neighborhood. Women and children were not exempted from the order, excepting that they were permitted to find protection outside the slx-mile limit other than the Federal camp, if they chose. Four pickets had been shot the night before the order was issued. Confederate troops burned two bridges on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, between Munfordville and Bowling Green. Three Confederate gunboats from Columbus, Ky., made a vigorous attack on the Federal gunboats Essex and St. John off Fort Jefferson, in the Mississippi river. The Confederate vessels finally withdrew to the protection of their batteries. The Florida legislature elected A. E Maxwell and I. M. Baker to the Confederate senate. Sixty Confederate soldiers of Colonel Alexander’s regiment were captured Sedalia, Mo. Colonel Alexander was* a prisoner in St. Louis at the time. Colonel Garfield occupied Prestonburg, Ky.,-the Confederate troops under Humphrey Marshall having withdrawn.

January 12, 1862.

A party of Confederates belonging to the command of Colonel Hammond devastated the country near Munfordville, Ky., in the probable line of the Federal advance. They burned the depot and blacksmith shop at Horse Cave, the depot, stables, and hotel at Cave City, destroyed all the hay, oats and fodder along the road, and drove off or killed all cattle, horses and mules. They stated their intention to burn all the houses along the road that might be of use to the Federal army in their march. They met with no opposition, the inhabitants of the country having taken refuge in Munfordville. A nephew of Gen. Polk of the Confederate army was arrested near Blandville, by a National reconnoitering party. Dispatches that were believed to be Intended for Confederate spies in Columbus, Ky., were found on him. The United States sloop of war Pensacola ran the Confederate batteries at Shipping and Cockpit points, on the Potomac, and got to sea without receiving a single shot. A reconnoitering party under command of Lieut. W. T. Truxton', U. S. N., returned to St. Helena sound, S. C., from an expedition to Bailey’s island, which they found deserted, although stocked With sheep and cattle. They crossed the island to Bailey’s landing, on the North Edisto river, but found no one about the plantar tions. The advance of, Gen. Burnside’s Union expedition to the coast of North Carolina sailed from Fortress Monroe, Va. - Brig. Gen. Sigel of the Union army issued an address to the officers of his command at Rolla, Mo., instructing them to give strict attention to the health of their commands, and to occupy their companies with regular drill and instruction in military affairs, practical and theoretical. January 13, 1862. / The New YoxkState SenaM'passed a resolution asking the president to make arangements for the immediate exchange of prisoners. Bills were Introduced in the house appropriating 125,000 to furnish with the prisoners from the state held up by the Confederates and to support the families of the prisoners by state tax. A resolution was passed asking congress to appropriate money for harbor and border defences in New York. Edwin M. Stanton, of Pennsylvania, was appointed Secretary of War to succeed Simon Cameron, resigned. The Federal expedition against Hatteras and Roanoke Island, consisting of an army of 12,829 men under General Burnside and a fleet of twenty Wftr vessels under Flag Officer Goldsborough, arrived at Hatteras Inlet (Copyright, 1912, by W. G. Chapman.)

MAY DEPORI BOY

Youth'Arrested as Stowaway Involves Four Nations. Immigrant Officials at New York Find Perplexing Problems In the Case of an American High School Lad. New York—Higher education and ffßVel in the case of Samuel Goulden, a stowaway on the Prinz Sigismund, have given the immigration authorities some perplexing problems to solve in which four big nations are interested. They don’t quite know whether Goulden, an 18-year-old high school graduate, must be sent back to Jamalca, a British colony, or to Russia, or whether he has a right to remain here. The boy lnsistr»that his father and mother came to this country from Russia when he was six years old and that his father became a naturalized citizen. The boy was graduated from the high school of Thomas, W. Va., wher* he says a search of the records will show that his father became a citizen, thus making him also a citizen of the United States. Goul*den’s troubles came about through the fact that his parents disagreed and parted, whereupon he went to Oklahoma to seek his fortune. He failed to find it and after beating his way back home decided to go to Panama. He thought his education equipped him to work on the big canal and on November 30, with $1.60 In his pocket, acquired by pawning two of his rings, went aboard the steamship Prinz August Wilhelm. For three days he mingled with the first class passengers and appeared regularly at his meals. Then it was discovered that he had not paid for his passage. At Kingston, Jamaica, Goulden was turned over to the British arthorities and thrown into jail. When the Prinz Sigismund stopped there on its trip to New York, the boy was put aboard.

GAVE AWAY STAGE MONEY

Property Man, of Burlesque Company Startles Bowery by Generosity and Suffers Broken Nose. New York. —William Klosterman, property man for the Cherry Hili Burlesque company, now playing in Jersey City, decided when the ghost walked for him he would come over to New York and blow off all the boys. As one preparation he wrapped a real 120 bill around a big bundle of stage -money and then ambled from saloon to saloon in New York buying for every one in the house. At two o’clock in the morning Policeman Kirk of the Mulberry street station, was told that a Rockefeller was giving aw’ay money at Houston street and the Bowery. The cop Investigated and found that Klostefman, who had been giving away the stage money, had fallen down an areaway and In spite of a broken nose had gone peacefully to sleep. The cop locked him up and arraigned him In the Tombs police court. "Suppose that had been good money * you were giving away,” said Magistrate Herbert, “think of what it would have meant to you. You were so drunk you would just as likely have given away good money.” “Believe me, judge,” said Klosterman, “isl had that much In real money I would be staying at home minding it If you ever catch me drunk again you can send me up for life.” ‘ “I guess the broken nose is punishment enough for you,” said the magistrate. “Discharged with reprimand."

HOG RESENTED BEING ROPED

Exemplar of Western Methods Happens to Speed With Porker, and He Is Reluctant. t . New York. —Herman Oechli, a farmer of Sandy Ground, a hamlet on the west end of Staten Island, called in three of his neighbors, John Foster, William Farley and Robert Brlnley, to help him kill his prize porker. “This is some hog.” commented Oechli. as he pointed proudly to a pen where grunted a 400-pound Berkshire. “We’ll get him outof the pen,” said Foster, who formerly was a cowboy in Wyoming. The hog was driven from the pen and Foster hurled a lasso about his neck. ; “That’s the way we did the trick in /Wyoming,” he laughed. The pig objected to the lariat and started off. Foster held back, winding the rope about his arms and body. Then the pig decided he was good for a distance. “Stop me!” yelled Foster. His three companions started in pursuit The porker broke through a gate, reached the road and made off in the direction of St. George “Can’t you stop me?” Foster continued to yell. - . So fast didnhe hog run that soon OeChli, Farley and Brlnley were distanced. Foster wanted to be distanced. but the rope would not permit A mile down the road Foster was still yelling, “Stop me!” and seemed really put out when persons be met stepped aside to give hlm &pd thg h< * B rldAr tT&CIL. ' . ■ When the bog at last stopped to get breath Foster was no winded he could r ~ TXT’ ~~ ~~ A. r-1? f .

AMERICA GETS A $300,000 RUBENS

NEW YORK. —“The Coronation of St Catherine,” by Rubens, recently arrived in New York, having been purchased from the duke of Rutland. It is one of the most important canvases of the great master, and was painted In 1633 for the altar of St. Barnabas in the Church of St. Augustin In Malines. The picture is 8% feet in height and 7 feet wf3e, and its figures are life-slid. It has been bought by a well-known American collector.

1912 IS BLACK YEAR

Prophetess of Paris Makes a Dark Forecast. Mme. de Thebep, the Famous French Seeress Predicts Many Kinds of Catastrophies In Europe During Next Twelve Months. Paris. —One long horrid vista of catastrophes is all that Mme. de Thebes, the famous Paris “prophetess.” can see in the history of the approaching year. She states that 1912 is “The Black Year,” and predicts for humanity practically every misfortune except housemaid’s knee. War will come at the end of the year, when the French armies will go forth. There is just a sporting chance that the cataclysm may be- postponed till 1913, but it Is absolutely certain I to come then. It will be so great that “it will not only turn Europe upside down, but other continents as well, and particularly Asia. We shall reach the paroxysm of the peril when the earth quakes at home. We shall be at the end of our ordeals when the essential substances', particularly milk, are lacking. “There is a hard winter in prospect, a muggy spring, a heavy summer and a bitter autumn.’’ There will be most frlghtfv’ storms and the wine will be second rate. “Blood and fire everywhere,” is the next item in 1912, at Brest, Toulon and Paris.” Conspiracies, treacheries against the state, foreign gold, assassinations, fierce riots, epidemics, floods and possibly total ruin will come to Paris, besides the usual number of passionate dramas.

not disentangle himself After his three friends released him he sputtered: “It’s my pleasure to kill that hog,” and he did.

TOO PRETTY FOR POOR MAN

Husband Gets Divorce From Wife on Odd Plea—Couldn’t Purchase Autos and Other "Necessities.’’ San Francisco, Cal. —A wife with a comely countenance is too great a luxury for a, workingman, William J. Gallagher told Judge J. J. Van Nostrand In the superior court, while testifying in support of his complaint for divorce from Mrs. Blanche Gallagher. "I could not afford to pay for the automobiles with which she thought her good looks entitled her to be supplied,” said Gallagher. “She also thought she should wear clothes entirely too expensive for a man earning only 85 or 86 a day. I did the best I could, but she was too pretty for a poor man and became discontented.” After listening to the.husband's detailed recital of the wife’s necessities the court granted Gallagher’s petition..

Sermon Bares a Theft.

Cincinnati. —Steve Callahan, a negro, was so influenced by a sermon delivered by a colored evangelist, that he confessed to burglary and returned to the home of Frank Holmes, 206 Syramore street, a fuf coat he bad stolen, Today he told the police be 'bad committed more than a score of other thefts

An actress will play a vital part in affairs of state. The calamities will be by no means confined to France. Spain will have conspiracies and fusillades, but the royal family is saved. “After 1912 there will be no Hohenzollern and no dominant Prussia. The kaiser’s days as emperor are numbered.” England also is menaced by an evil destiny. Mme. de Thebes recalls the tale of the French editor, anxious for ‘Sensations,” who came into his office and asked his deputy what bad happened. “Nothing," he was told, “except that a man’s nose has been bleeding in ths Place de la Concorde and a chimney la on fire in Montmartre." “Enough,’* said the other, and wrote the placard: “Blood and Fire in Parts!”

NO CARS IN YOSEMITE PARK

Interior Department Believes Automobiles Would Interfere With Stages. Washington.—There is one place in the United States where the motor car is seeking tn vain for admission. That is the Yosemite National Park. The interior department has been receiving numerous requests tor permission to operate motors in tbe park. All of these were refused and it was decided that “It is impracticable to permit cars in the park because their presence would practically eliminate travel by stage, the roads being in such condition that it would be dangerous for teams and motor cars to meet.” Th« department also has made -a rule that no visitors be allowed to carry firearms into the park.

DOG GUARDED A LOST BOY

Even a Chicago Policeman Couldn’t ...Rout “Fox” From His Little Master’s Side. Chicago.—Every child who has read with tears in his eyes the third reader story of “Faithful Fido,” the dog. shot by bis master because he had tried to remind him of forgotten saddle bags of gold, will have respect for this pet fox terrier. Irvin Spitza. 4 years old, wandered far from his home. “Fox” knew that the child was doing wrong, but decided to keep good trace of him. The dog remained at the child’s heels until the latter fell asleep tn a. doorway. The dog was the aggressor iater in an argument with a policeman, who found the pet cuddled on his little master’s lap. The policeman was unable to rout the dog with safety to himself, so he called for a patrol wagon. At the same moment his telephone message reached the station the father of the boy was there asking that a search be made for his boy. When the wagon reached the place the lad was awakened and father, boy and dog were overjoyed.

Girl Lassoes a Coyote.

Gillette. Wyo.—Miss Alta Scott, a school teacher, while riding in -the country, lassoed a coyote which her dog >had scared up. The noose caught one foot of the animal and Miss Scott held it until the dog attacked the coyote. Then she dismounted and seizing -ft big stone, threw it, killing the coyoto • ft ' ■

Jacob Riis on Neighborliness RAM’S HORN

■ \ u J;,-.:: -KJ BEAUTIFUL story was told by Jacob A.' Riis tn his address at the commencement exercises at Ashley hall, a school for young Women In Charles-

ton, whose principal Miss Mary V. Mcßee, was once a director with him In his east side settlement work in. New York. The world were poor indeed, he said, but for the noble enthusiasm of youth. As an illustration of what he meant he told them this touching and beautiful story of "Heartsease,” a wonfan who did her little part faithfully as she found it: "I came upon her one night,” he said, “in ■ a mean street over on the west side. A brass plate on the door arrested my attention as I passed. 'Heartsease,’ it said, and I went in. Where they are easing weary hearts, there I want to be. The house was more of a box than a house. The elevated railroad ran in front, right under .the windows. It was flanked on one side by a factory, on the other by a jail. In the rear a building was going up, plumb up against its wall, that would soon, entirely close the back windows. Those in front you could not open for the dust and noise of the elevated. “There I found my little woman. She was a school teacher—taught by day in a public school over at Cypress Hills, L. 1., and when her work was done there she came all the many miles, and across the river, to this place, to be near the neighbor. For she had been brought up at Northfield under the Inspiration of Mr. Moody's life, and she knew that for. her task — to find the neighbor. "Who ' were these neighbors?— drunken and dissolute women, vile dens and dives. , It seemed the last place a woman of refinement and modesty would have chosen, but she did. At all hours of the night her bell rang, and they came, sometimes attended by policemen. _ One said: ‘We have this case. She is not wanted in this home or that Institution. She don’t come under their rules. I took her here in hope that you might stretch /ours and take her in. Else we don’t know, what to do with her.’ “ ‘Bless you! We have no rules. Let her come in/ And she takes her and puts her to he<L- • • » -h*-

"In the midnight, hour she hears of a young woman, evidently a newcomer, whom the dive has in its clutch, and she gets out of bed and, going there, demands her sister, and gets her from out the very jaws of hell. Again, a drunken woman finds her way to her door —a woman with a husband and children —and she gets out of her warm bed again and takes her home, never leaving her till she Is safe. “I found her papering the walls and painting the floor of her house. I said to her that I did not think you couid do much with those women—and neither can you, if they are ‘Just those women’ to you. The Saviour! could. One came and sat at his feet and wept, and dried them with her hair. * “‘OhJ’ she said, ‘it isn’t so. They come, and they are glad to stay. I don’t know that they are finally saved, that they never stumble again; but here, anyhow, we have given them a resting spell and time to think.’ "An<’ she told me of some of them, f* *1 don’t consider,’ she finished, ’that I am doing it right, but I will yet’ • > . "I looked at her, this frail young girl, with unshaken, unshakable faith in right, and asked her how she managed it —financially She laughed. “‘The rent is pledged by half a dozen friends. The rest —about 8150 a month —comes.’ “ ‘But how’’ “She pointed to a lot of circulars, painfully written out in the night watches. "T’m selling soap Just now,' she said, ‘but it isn’t always soap.' "‘Here,’ patting a chair, ‘this is Larkin’s soap; that chafing dish is green stamps. This set of dishes is Mother’s Oats. We could not get the oh; you know, you have to find the letters; but I wrote and told them and we got the dishes. I write to people and they buy the things and we get the prizes. We’ve furnished the house so. And some give us money. We have.even got a building fund. We shall have to move some day.'” It may not be your .life work to fob low in her steps. It is given to few. But neighbor you can always be, and you can be nothing better in this great wtldsome world. ’ It would be easy, let us say it with thanksgiving, to marshal a host of youne women who have helped to the world’s work, have helped shape its course toward that better;, brighter day that beckons ever to the young. Think only of Florence Nightingale, of Dorothy Dfx, of my own beloved friend, on whose grave the grass is greed today. Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell. You maye never do any of the things they did, but you can always be ‘ft neighbor.”—Church- - - - .A,,.-.. ■ • Many a boy falls bocauie he has » father who runs his shoes down ah the heel