Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

April 22, 1862. The first boatload of cotton and tobacco from the Tennessee river since (the beginning of the war arrived at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, having left Nashville the week before. Picket killing and skirmishing was 'reported from the front of Lees Mills, Virginia. iC The Confederate congress formally * 'adjourned, to meet again in August. The Richmond Whig was sarcastic about their departure from the city in the presence of the threatened advance by McClellan, alluding to them as stampeders, and asserting they had taken canal boats as a means of flight as being safer than railroads. The National Steamer Yankee passed the obstructions in the Rappahannock below Fredericksburg and ascended that place.

The Federal steamer Anacoetia, on 'her way down stream, was fired into .. ihy infantry near Lowry’s Point. The enemy was driven off bjt the vessel’s guns. Colonel Donelly, of General Banks’ force, made a reconnaissance in ■the direction of Harrisonburg, Virginia. Being fired upon by Confederate skirmishers, he deployed his force, six companies of cavalry supported by a regiment of infantry and e battery, and advanced. The Confederates retreated to the town after the first fire, being heavily outnumbered. Joining their command, they were withdrawing in the direction of Gordonsvllle, when they fell in with the Ohio cavalry forming the right wing, and lost seven men captured. Colonel Donelly thereupon occupied the town. The larger , part of General Pope’s army joined General Halleck at Pittsburg Landing. April 23, 1862. A party of National infantry dispatched from Romney, Va., In search of guerrillas, was attacked by a squad of Confederates at Grass Lick, near i Wash River. The National troops lost three killed, but finally drove back the enemy, who took refuge in a bouse. The infantry waited for a cavalry reinforcement before attacking the house. Union cavalry coming up under the command of Lieut. CoL Downey, the Confederates withdrew before' the superior force, taking with them their wounded. Col. Downey burned the houpe and pursued, taking five prisoners. A sensation was created in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the reading of a resolution passed by the Maryland legislature, and signed by Gov. Bradford, appropriating $7,000 for the relief of the families of the men killed and disabled in the at- ' tack on thq Sixth Massachusetts by a mob of southern sympathizers in Baltimore, on April 19, 1861. The reading of the resolution met with hearty applause. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. April 24, 1862. A United States gunboat shelled the Confederate works in front of Yorktown. Driven from her first position at the mouth of Wormsley creek by the reply of the enemy, she withdrew : to a point three mileß from Yorktown and continued 'to drop shells within the works. No response was made to her later fire, It doing no damage. Desultory firing was kept up by the National batteries all along the line to Interfere with Confederate attempts to strengthen their works. The U. S. S. S. Eunice was sunk In * collision with the Commodore Perry at Ashland, ky. No lives were lost. A reconnoitering party under Gen. A. J. Smith, operating out of Pittsburg, attacked and drove a small detach- ■ ment of Confederate pickets and surprised a force Of Confederates at Pea Ridge, who retreated, leaving tents, equipage, and private baggage in the ■' hands of the enemy. \ Colonel Crocker and Major Cassidy pf the Ninety-third New York were; taken prisoners by the Confederates near Yorktown, Va.

. General Banks’ advance guard, under Colonel Donnelly, penetrated nine miles beyond Harrisonburgh, Va., where three prisoners were taken, one of whom claimed to be from the Tenth Virginia, which regiment was thought to be on the Rappahannock. - A body of National cavalry from Forsyth, Mo., destroyed the Confederate saltpetre works near Yellvllle, Ark., after a sharp fight with the ..guarding force. -V*. The National fleet, under Flag Officer Foote, having bombarded for fire days Forts Jackson and St. Phillips, guarding the month of the Mississippi, passed them and proceeded to the reduction of New Orleans. April 25, 1862. Fort Macon, N- C., was reduced by a bombardment by the Joint forces of General Burnside and Commodore Goldborough, and the garrison taken prisoners. The forts on Lake Ponchartrain were evacuated by the Confederates, and tall the gunboats burned. The action was determined by the advance of the Federal fleet up the Mississippi toward New Orleans. New Orleans was surrendered to the naval forces of the United States under Flag Officer Fhrragut Maj. Gen. C. F. Smith of the Union army died at Savannah, Tenn., of illwees due to hardship and exposure. * Three Conl6d6rtto sympathl*6Ts in

of them were condemned to be hanged and the third sentenced to wear a ball and chain and he puit at bard labor during the war. Commodore Paulding published a letter giving an account of the destruction of the Norfolk navy yard. Gen. Mansfield Lowell withdrew the Confederate force from New Orleans before the surrender of the city. He destroyed property of great use and value-before retiring. Planters proceeded to bum millions of dollars worth of cotton by order of the Confederacy, - April 26, 1862. One of the advanced lunettes of the Confederate defenses at Yorktown was carried by a charge of Company H, First Massachusetts infantry. The lunette was defended by two companies of Confederate infantry, without artillery. The work had a ditch six feet deep In front, and a strpng parapet. The advance was made over open, soft ground through a distance of 600 yards. The Confederates held their fire until the enemy was within 50 yards. After receiving the first volley the Massachusetts men charged at a run, and carried the works, which were levelled and rendered useless. The loss was three killed and 18 wounded, one of them mortally. The U. S. S. S. Flambeau captured the British schooner Arctic seven miles below Stono, S. C., as she was attempting to run the blockade. Pickets of Colonel Donnelly’s brigade, lit advance of General Banks, were attacked by a large force of Ashby’s rear guard seven miles beyond Harrisonbnrgh, Va. The Union force waß crumpled up until a regiment and battery came to their suport, when the Confederates withdrew and continued their retrograde movement

The Confederate general, Albert Pike, leaned a proclamation complimenting the Indian allies for their bravery at the battle of Pea Ridge. President Lincoln was received on board the French frigate Qassendl, with the honors paid to crowned heads of Europe. He was the first president of the United States to go aboard a foreign war vessel. The French minister was on board to receive the party, which contained the secretary of state. The schooner Belle was captured 30 miles off Charlestown by the United States steamer Uncas. / A Federal force under Major Hubbard defeated a body of Indians at Neosho, Mo. April 27, 1862. The people of Franklin county, Missouri, met and passed resolutions in support of the emancipation message of President Lincoln, and sustaining the measures of the United States government adopted for the prosecution of the war. Mansfield Lovell, late in command of the Confederate forces at New Orleans, telegraphed to Richmond as follows: "Forts Jackson and St. Phillips are Btill in good condition, and in our hands. The steamers Louisiana and Mcßae are' safe. The enemy’s fleet are at the city (New Orleans), but they have not forces enough to occupy it. The inhabitants are stanchly loyal." Fort Livingston, La., was evacuated by the Confederates, General Beauregard, at Memphis, Tenn., issued the following address to the planters of the south: "The casualties of the War have opened the Mississippi to our SHemiear The time has therefore dome to test the earnestness of all classes, and I call upon all patriotic planters owning cotton in the possible reach of our enemies to apply the torch to it without delay or hesitation." Purdy, Tenn., was evacuated by the Confederates. Federals raised a flag over the United States mint at New Orleans. Four men, lead by William B. Mumford, cut the halliards and made oq with It April 28, 1862. A portion of General Hancock’s Union brigade drove a force of Confederates from a woods where - they were interfering with the operations of the National army in its preparations for the taking of Yorktown. The National soldiers advanced on their hands and knees across Often ground. The Confederates broke cover behind stumps and trees to charge, but were met with a fire that dislodged them from their position. A new battery which they had erected the previous Sunday night, and which had been a serious annoyance to the Union forces, was dismantled and silenced. Five companies of National cavalry had a lively skirmish with cavalry of the enemy two miles in front of Monterey, Tenn. Five of the Confederates, including a major, were killed, and a number taken prisoners. The prisoners reported that the strength of the Confederate force in Corinth was eighty thousand, and that they intended to contest the point in a pitched battle, if brought to it by the Union advance. „ T : . Mails from Santa Fe, New Mex., reported that the Union forces under Can by and Duncan had formed a junction, and had driven the Texans out of the territory. Forts Jackson and St. Phillips, at the mouth of the Mississippi, surrendered, to the National fleet under Flag Officer Farragut. ; The Confederate steamer Ella Warley, captured one hundred miles north of Abaco by the Santiago de Cuba, was brought into Port Royal, S. C., by a prise crew. The United States war steamer Sadramento, the largest and finest warship ever built In Portsmouth, N. £L, was launched at that port. Forts Jackson StPMlHps^were (Copyright, no. by W. Q. ChapmanJ

BLIND WRITER OF HYMNS AND HER HOME

MRS. FANNY CROSBY, the blind hymn writer, celebrated her 92nd birthday the other day at her home In IYI Bridgeport, Conn. Up to the present time she has written more than seven thousand hymns. Among the most famous of them are “Safe in the Arms of Jesus,’’ “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross” and “Jesus the Water oi Life Will Give.” Mrs. Crosby was bom at Southeast, N. Y., on March 24,1820, and has been blind since she was six weeks old. She Is still enjoying good health, and spends most of her time knitting when not dictating hymns.

BIG POTASH DEPOSIT

From Six to Ten Million Tons Found in Mojave Desert. Located in Old Lake Bed—Many Have Lost Lives in Traversing Waste Which Will Now Yield Product of Much Value. Washington.—Following the announcement by the geological survey that a survey party in connection with * party from the department of agriculture had located a potash deposit 4u the Mojave desert, the agricultural department tells more about the deposit and the circumstances under which it exists. The department states that a pocket has been found down in the Mojave desert in southern California containing from 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 tons, so far as can be ascertained now. The prospect is that it will last twenty or thirty years and tide the country over tjll a more thorough search can be made.

The deposit was struck simultaneously by the two searching parties in the Borax lake region of the Mojave. This section, like most of this southwestern country, Is an old lake bed. The borings for potash were made 16 a section of plya or hard desert sand. The region that has been investigated is underlaid by a big body of natural brine that comes to the surface in the form of wells'when borings are made,. / Borax lake, or Searle lake, is one of the many playas or intermittently wet and dry lakes common throughout the arid regions of the west. It lies between the Argus and Slate ranges, in the Mojave desert. Borax lake was the original scene of famous borax mines. The lake or flat is about ten miles long and five miles wide and has received the drainage from the surrounding mills for many thousands of years, vast quantities of dissolved

Has Pensions For Mothers

French Government’s Scheme to Bolve Birth Rate Problem —Priest on Marriage. Paris.—Although its enemies designate it as "an attempt to blackmail nature,” much support, both journalistic and legislative, is being given the petition now before the senate to pension the French mother for every child to the extent of 20 francs (|4) a year during the childjs minority. More than this, under the same measure, the mother of eight children would receive a medal corresponding to the wedallle militaire granted in recognition of valor. The measure will probably become a law, as the senate committee appointed to report on the matter has signified its approval of the scheme to the ministry of the interior. Another interesting occurrence on a ■trailer gfiSject was the first of ' a series of lectures by the well-known priest. Mgr. 8010, on "The Marriages of the Future,” in which the ecclesiastical speaker took a view quite advanced for bis profession. “Not only are there more bachelors, but they are becoming systematic,” be said. "No longer do they render homage to matrimony by regretting that they are bachelors because they cannot do better. Theirs is the philosophy of the good man to whom some one said, Tour son is not old enough to marry; you ought to wait till he knows what he is doing.’ to which this good to so replied: Tou are mistaken, for if-my son grows wiser he

minerals being thus concentrated in It. The water has been evaporated under the intense heat of the long, hot seasons, but the salts have remained, so that for most of the year, In fact often throughout the year, the bed is a glistening plain of white salts, in attempting to cross which under a brazen sun men have lost their lives. The mirage plays its strange tricks here, and at the driest places the traveler can generally see what appears to be a broad expanse of water covering the bed a little way ahead—always a little distance off, until he approaches the shore of Borax lake. Then when he looks behind him he sees the water apparently covering the ground over which he has Just come. The lake occupies a valley made by faults —breaks and slips In

Seek Medals For Women.

One Rescued Father From Vicious Bte«r and the Other Saved * Her Husband. Topeka, Kan. —Because of heroism displayed by Mary Boughton, aged fourteen, of Hamilt6n county, and Mrs. Nora Munday of Gray county, in saving lives in western Kansas during recent snowstorms, friends of the two have started a movement to obtain for them Carnegie hero medals. While rounding up cattle before a blizzard, Mary Bdughton’s father was attacked' by a vicious steer. He was thrown from his horse and the animal was about to gore him when the girl, mounted upon a cow pony, drove the steer away. A few days later a rural mail carrier became lost iu a storm. found him, dug him out !, of na drift and saved him from freezing: „ ' Mrs. Nora Munday, wife of 8. P, Munday, who lives near Cimarron,

the men of today for their . hesitancy in the matter of marriage. "If you wish me to use the proper word, allow me to utter it in an attenuated and Inoffensive sense: I will say that you have .become cowards'. You are afraid. Being rich, yon fear that if you marry you will have to work. Being a workman, yen are afraid that you will have to do without tobacco and absinthe. With a modest pay you prefer to give no thought to healthy happiness and to the pride of taking your revenge on a hard life by the success of your children, and you do not care to risk years of difficulty or criticism of the landlords* who have no liking for children,”

Hungry Pair Desert Isle

London Phosphate Company’s Caretaker Gives Up the Job After Six Years’ Bervice. San Francisco. —Gustav Schultz and Daria Pinson, caretakers for a Loudon phosphate company on rite Ciipperton islands, a small group 600 miles southwest of Acapulco, who arrived .here cat the steamer Newport, told of having lived three months on fish and sea fowl when the steamer Russia, sent by the government, failed to arrive with supplies. - * called themselves king and queen, have lived on one of the islands six years, and In that time have seen no

the earth’s crust —where a great area has been dropped down. . The salts are not evenly distributed over the surface of the lake. Borax was found plentifully over about three square miles, common salt is everywhere, and sodium carbonate and sodium sulphate are widely distributed. One boring is said to have passed through 28 feet of solid trona (hydrous carbonate of soda) of great purity. At other plaoes there Is 25 feet of solid mixed sulphate and carbonate of soda, with smaller quantities of other salts. Several years ago an English company attempted to work the soda deposits on an extensive scale, but for some reasons the project has not been pushed, .... ——

Child Takes Long Trip.

Chicago.—Sadie Nelson, six, came all the way from Norway alone, to join her parents here. The parents left here a year ago and little Sadie has organized a search for them.

Kan., when her husband failed to reach home after a heavy snowstorm March 14, started in search of him. For miles over the prairie she followed an almost obliterated trail and found her husband in a deserted hut almost frozen. Both Mrs. Munday’s hands and both her feet were frozen.

PRIMARY ELECTION IS COSTLY

$1.50 to $10.50 a Vote Is Expense New York Taxpayers Have to Pay. Buffalo, N. Y. payers from $1.50 to $10.50 a vote for each vote at the recent primaries in western New York, according to figures compiled by the local election commissioners. The minimum cost was $1.50 and most of the figures shown were considerably above that figure. The cost in New York city is said to average about $3 per vote.

BOY OF 11 IS LIFE SAVER

Trenton (N. J.) Lad Jumps Into Creek and Rescues Drowning Playmate. Trenton, N. J.—Raymond Morton, eleven years old, son of Clarence Morton of Clay street, proved himself A hero when he jumped into the Assanpink creek here and rescued his playmate, Norwood Skinner, ten years old, from drowning. Skinner fell in but could not swim, and immediately sank. Morton, realizing the danger of his playmate, jumped In After him, and after a few minutes’ struggle succeeded in rescuing his friend. Two other boys who witnessed the straggle carried the young hero home on their shoulders.

one until their departure a month ago except the Mexican garrison of ten soldiers and the crew of the supply steamer. t j Schultz and "Benora”'Plnzen are awaiting the settlement of the ownership of the islands in April, when Vlotor Emmanuel of Italy will arbitrate a dispute between France and Mexico concerning them.

Joan of Are Not Militant.

New York.—Speaking of Joan of Arc, Father Vaughan said here: broken have broken our windows.”

THE QUIET HOUR

In Justice Is the Foundation of the Moral Structure By THE CHURCHMAN THE truly good man is anxious to be just to bis neighbor first and to be kind to himself afterward. This is getting the moralities in their proper order. Twant no one to send me hothouse grapes or lace valentines till he has settled up my just bill against him. I prefer a living salary throughout the year to a sumptuous donation party at Christmas. In other words, Justice takes precedence of charity in my desires and in those, I believe, of most right-minded men. In the eighth century B. C. there lived a” prophet who put forth a definition of religion that appears as wonderful a definition of genius as the art of Phidlaa or the science of Aristotle. The prophet’s name was Micah, and here is his definition: “He hath showed thee, 0 man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of thee but to do Justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” ' The Lord demands first of-all that men be just In their dealings with their fellows. Withal justice is a primal demand that men make of each other. The rich sometimes wonder that the objects of their bounty rise in revolt against various welfare schemes designed to help the working" class. They cannot see why thplr kindhearted plans fall to arouse enthusiasm In the'beneficiaries. The reason In many cases Is main. Workingmen, like everybody else, want justice before they want kindness. One In particular I remember wen. His thought was always along this line, and as he would come into the saving institution where he was paying for his little home, each Saturday evening, he never failed to impress those about him with this particular idea. .Basie Demand for Justice. With the spirit of the Kentuckian he always pointed out that workingmen would rather have a decent wage than all the model tenements and pleasure parks'had hand concerts that the boss could devise. Presiding on one occasion at a mass meeting designed to aid some charity, Jacob Riis looked at a placard on the wall which read, "Charity covereth a multitude of sins,” and exclaimed: "It's time to take that cover off.” There is n widespread disposition to agre with this sentiment. Millionaires who bequeath magnificent sums to education or philanthropy must expect to have the gift horse looked In the mouth. If what is given to the public represents sharp practice on the part of the giver, if it is the fruit of extortion, legal or Illegal, the applause is faint today, and it is going to get fainter all the time. We are becoming ethically sensitive to the i way in which money is got, no less than to the way it Is given. It is more flattering to one's selfesteem to play the role of Lord or Lady Bountiful than It is to stand for even-handed justice to all. There are philanthropists who could not pose as almoners to the poor, as they have done. If they had been willing to give the poor a square deal in the first place. Illustrations of this general principle are numerous. The case of Capt. Dreyfus of the French army has pot wholly faded from the public mind. After the victim had been pardoned and released from his cruel and unjust Imprisonment the novelist Zola wrote to Mae. Dreyfus: "It is revolting to obtain pity when one aides for justice, and all seems preconcerted to bring about this last iniquity. The judges, wishing to strike the Innocent in order to save the guilty, seek refuge in an act of borrihle hypocrisy which they call mercy "h. * __ Foundation of Moral structure. Have you over known parents who would crush out a child’s initiative, Ignore his tastes, browbeat him generally, and then give him a party or outing devised wholly after the aforesaid parents’ own ideas and at which the youngster was expected to be delighted, or appear as an ingrate? It would or Edith n Siy tr^Sld lt lw or aSo?Sd some alight expression of opinion in regard to the matters vital to their Justice is not the whole of the morii structure that a good man wiQ try to build, but it is a mighty important foundation stone. Until one. is pretty firmly grounded upon it be cannot decently add the upper stories of mercy and of benevolenoe. -r- Washington

God's Wisdom.

And takas unto Himself the flowers. And leads us on to happy unions, an night to day and tears are Wiped „ away,- ■ * > v** —Burdette L. Mats. ' ' ' ““ AH U&MAJKT* th« tnhtrltano* oft