Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1912 — Page 3

CIVIL WAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

June 3,1862. Maj. Gen. Robert E. L«e was''assigned to the command of the Confederate army before Richmond, General Johnson having been compelled by a wound to withdraw, from the field. General Lee, In a brief address to his soldiers, informed them that the army had made its last retreat, and that henceforth every man’s watchword must be “Victory or death!” General Hooker of the Union army made a reconnoissance in force on Williamsburg, Va., reaching a point within four miles' of Richmond. The Confederates in the way were not numerous. The pickets fled at the approach of the large Union force; A letter was published in the Richmond Despatch, said to have been found in General Casey’s tent at the battle of Fair Oaks. It detailed a plan for the occupation of the southern states after the war. ; The sentence of death pronounced by General Butler on six persons at New Orleans, La., for having violated their parole, was commuted by him. He sentenced them to be confined at hard labor on Ship Island during the pleasure of the United States of America. June 4, 1862. Major General Halleck of the Union force at Corinth reported that General Pope, with forty thousand men, was thirty miles south of Florence, Ala., and pushing the enemy hard; that he, had ten thousand prisoners and deserters from the enemy and fifteen thousand stands of small arms captured. Also that he had captured nine locomotives. ’ Fort Pillow, otherwise called Fort Wright, on the Mississippi, near Memphis, was evacuated by the Confederates. After the occupation of the fort by the Federal troops, the Union gunboats steamed directly to Memphis. President Jeff Davis threatened retaliation in the case of Maj. W. Van Benthuysen, who had been arrested at New Orleans for “aiding the escape of a scoundrel and a spy.” Brigr Gen. J. T. Boyle assumed command of the Union forces in Kentucky, with headquarters in Louisville. A fight occurred near Jasper, Tenn., between a body of Union troops under the command of General Negley, and a large force of Confederate cavalry under General Adams, which resulted in a defeat of the Confederates. Sixteen hundred of General Prentiss’ Union troops, captured by the Confederates in the first day’s fight at Shiloh, arrived at Nashville, Tenn., under parole from the Confederate government. June 5, 1862. - The Twenty-fourth Massachusetts, while on a reconnoissance on the Paetollus road, near Washington, N. C., was attacked from ambush by a Confederate regiment and roughly handled, losing seven men killed and several wounded. The volunteer recruiting service in the United States, discontinued by general orders of April 3, Was restored. The Confederate artillery opened on the Federal forces at New Bridge, on the Chickahominy, in Virginia, in an attempt to prevent them from rebuilding the bridge for the passage of General McClellan’s army. Their flre was returned by the Union artillery, and they were compelled to withdraw, after an artillery duel lasting two hours. A heavy storm, which had lasted for two days, raised the Chickahominy river to an unprecedented height. First Lieut. D. C. Constable,, U. 8. N., was complimented by President Lincoln and promoted to the grade of captain for conspicuous service in command of the gunboat E. A. Stevens, which led the Union attack op Fort Darling, in the James’ river. Judge Birch, who was arrested at Rolla, Mo., for expressing disloyal sentiments, was released from arrest and paroled with the junderstanding that be was to report whenever required. James Trabue, one of the prominent merchants of Louisville, Ky., was arrested by the United States military authorities for refusing to take the oath of allegiance. Two regiments of the Pennsylvania “Roundhead” regiment, on James island, S. C-, were cut off by the Confederates, but after a sharp fight were rescued by the Eighth Michigan. The United States gunboat and mortar fleet arrived before Memphis, Tenn. June 6, 1862. At five o’clock in the morning the fleet before Memphis engaged the Confederate fleet of eight rams and gunboats, and, after a two hours’ fight, seven of the Confederate craft, were either captured or destroyed. At the conclusion of the battle, the mayor of Memphis surrendered the city. „ General Fremont’s army reached Harrlsonburgh, Va., at two o'clock in the afternoon and drove out the rear guard of General Jackson’s army. At four o’clock the First New Jersey cavalry, after driving the enemy through the village, fell into an ambuscade, and Colonel Windham, its commander, was captured. The regiment sustained a heavy loss. General Bayard subsequently engaged the enemy with his brigade and drove them from their

position, capturing their camp. The Confederates continued their- retreat. June 7, 1862. On the Chickahominy river the Confederates opened fire on the pickets of General Sumner’s Union force, but without effect. ; The Paris Constitutional published an article to show the impossibility of the south being conquered, and maintaining that mediation \ alone would succeed in putting an end to a war disastrous to the interests of humanity. William Mumford, a citizen of New Orleans, was hanged in that city by order of General Butler for an overt act of treason in pulling down the United States flag from the mint. ? In the Missouri convention a bill for the gradual emancipation of the slaves was submitted and defeated by a vote of fifty-two to nineteen. Memphis, Tenn., was formally taken possession of by the Union forces in the name of the government of the United States by Col. G. N. Fitch, commanding the Indiana brigade. The schooner Rowena, formerly the Garibaldi, ran into Stone Inlet, S. C., not knowing it to be in possession of the National forces, and was captured by the gunboat Pawnee. The Confederate batteries at Chattanooga, Tenn., were silenced by the artillery of General Negley’s command /after a bombardment of three hours. June 8, 1862. A reconnoitering party under Lieutenant BOnse of the Tenth Virginia Union regiment, captured three “bushwhackers” that had been doing mischief against the Union army in western Virginia. General Fremont attacked Stonewall Jackson seven miles beyond Harrisonburgh, Va., near Union Church or Cross Keys, at 8:30 in the morning. Jackson withdrew from his' position after several hours of fighting. General Turner Ashby of the Confederate cavalry was burled at Charlottesville, Va. Judge Swayne of Memphis, Tenn., refused to open the criminal court in that city after receiving an order from CoL G. N. Fitch, commanding United States Sorces, instructing him to confine himself to the hearing and adjudication of such cases only as were not based on the recognltiogpof the right of a state to secede from the Union, or on the presumption of the establishment of the so-called southern Confederacy, or recognizing the same. A small force of Union troops, while on a reconnoissance in the vicinity lof New Market, Va., captured a Confederate spy named Hance, who had been engaged in carrying information from the Union army to the Confederate headquarters in Richmond. A reconnoissance was made, under cover of the Union gunboats, by a body of National troops under Colonel Morrow, on James Island, 3. C. The Union forces drove the Confederates for two miles, and were at one time within three miles of the city of Charlestown, and in full view of Fort Sumter. The object of the reconnoissance accomplished, the troops fell back to their former position, losing two killed and seven wounded. June 9, 1862. General Jackson, too close pressed in his retreat from the Shenandoah, turned on the advance body of General Fremont’s Union army under General Shields, near Fort Republic, Va., and drove them back upon the main force. Having checked the Union army, he continued his retreat. The senate of the United States resolved Itself into a High Court of Impeachment for the trial of Judge Humphreys of Tennessee, for treason, but proceedings were postponed until the 26th. The house bill prohibiting slavery in the territories was passed. Secretary Wells addressed a long communication to the senate on the construction of armored ships. General Halleck at Corinth sent the following dispatch to the war department: “The enemy has fallen back fifty miles from here by railroad, and nearly seventy by wagon road. General Pope estimates the rebel loss from casualties, prisoners and desertion at over twenty thousand, and General Buell at between twenty and thirty thousand. “A person who was employed in the Confederate commissary department says they had one hundred and twenty thousand men in Corinth, and that now they cannot muster over eighty thousand. Some of the fresh graves on the road have been opened and found full of arms. Many of the prisoners beg not to be exchanged, saying they purposely allowed themselves to be taken. Beauregard himself retreated from Baldwin on Saturday afternoon to Okolona, Miss.” Brig. Gen. D. B. Birney, having been tried by court-martial and honorably acquitted of the charges against him, re-assumed command of his brigade by order of General Kearny, commanding division. - The house of representatives of the United States called for information concerning the formation" by General Hunter of a regiment of negro soldiers. (Copyright, 1912, by W. G. Chapman.)

A Reason.

Jonah entered the whale. "This is the original water-wagon!" he evrie l med Herewith nose wondered that he remained aboard only three days.

A Quiet One.

“Pop, do you bear the sounds of na, ture in the woods’” “Yes, son.” “Well, can yea hear the bark of the dogwood?”

HOW TO SERVE TIMBALES

Bechamel Sauce Adda Delicious Flavor to Thia Most Appetizing Dish. Two tablespoons butter, one-quarter cup stale bread crumbs, two-thirds cup milk, one cup chopped cooked ham, one-half tablespoon chopped parsley, two eggs, salt and pepper. Melt butter, add bread crumbs and milk and cook five minutes, stirring constantly. Add ham, parsley and eggs slightly beaten. Season, with salt and pepper. Turn into buttered individual molds-, having molds twothirds full, set In pan of hot water. Cover with buttered paper and bake twenty minutes. Serve with; Bechamel Sauce—One and one-half cups white stock, one slice onion, one slice carrot, bit of bay leaf, sprig parsley, six peppercorns, one-quarter cup butter, one-quarter cup flour, one cup scalded milk, one-half teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper. Cook stock 20 minutes with onion, carrot, bay leaf, parsley and peppercorns, then strain. There should be one cupful. Melt butter, add flour, and gradually hot stock and milk. Season with salt and pepper.

BAKING SODA’S MANY USES

Bicarbonate Is Valuable tn Great Variety of Waya in the Kitchen. One teaspoonful of soda to a quart of tomatoes will prevent milk turning in making tomato soup. Sprinkled on clothes wet that have been stained with blood before putting them to boil will remove stain. Wash fruit jars in strong soda- water to remove any odor. If meat is tainted wash in strong warm soda water and rinse. After frying fish partly fill pan with soda water to remove odor. Soda will clean silver. 801 l soda water In your coffee and teapots to remove stains. It will also relieve burns if applied wet. It makes a good tooth powder. Soda will relieve sour stomach. Add soda to the water to bathe fever patients. If your cream for coffee is jrst turning stir In a little soda and ft will be as good as fresh cream. Soda will relieve corns and bunions If bound on them wet over night.

HOW SAUSAGE MAY BE KEPT

Pukod In Lard It will Stay Fresh for an Almost Indefinite Period. Sausage may be kept indefinitely by packing It. in lard. Make it into cakes by pressing It Into small bread pans, making each cake contain about the amount you would need at a meat Alter frying each cake slightly on all sides set two of them on end in a small jar, which has previously been well heated, and pour melted lard around them until the jar is filled one Inch above the tops of the cakes. When needed for use set the crock In a warm place until the lard is melted, and take out what you want. By laying the other cake down on its side very little more lard has to be added. Of course, lard so used can be utilized a great many times.

Creamed Salt Mackerei.

Soak the fish over night and wipe dry before using. Broil on a buttered gridiron over a dear flre. Lay on a hot dish and pour over it a cream sauce made as follows: Into one cup of boiling water stir two teaspoonfuls of corn starch, rubbed smooth with one tablespoonful of butter; cook until well thickened. Add a well beaten egg, mixing carefully to prevent curdling. Cook a moment longer, season with a teaspoonful of chopped parsley and a saltspoonful of pepper.

Corn Muffins.

One-half cupful of cornmeal, onehalf cupful of white flour, one tablespoonful baking powder, one saltspoonful salt, one tablespoonful brown sugar, one tablespoonful maple syrup, two tablespoonfuls melted butter, one cupful sweet milk, one egg. Mix flour, salt, cornmeal, sugar and baking powder together. To the milk add the beaten egg, syrup and melted butter. Stir this liquid Into the dry mixture and beat until smooth. Bake In hot greased muffin tins 15 to 20 minutes.

Almond Cake.

Take two ounces of butter and beat It well with one ounce of sugar. Then add to it two well-beaten eggs, beating the mixture well together. Sift Into It two ounces of flour, add two tablespoons of ground almonds and half a taspoonful of almond extract. The cake should be baked in a tin lined with greased paper, la a moderate oven, andsufar be sifted over the top. > i

English Monkey.

Soak one cup brein crumbs tn one cup ot milk for fifteen minutes. Add one tablespoonful melted butter to omEj half cup cheese, broken into small pieces and stir them in the chafing dish till the cheese is melted. To this add the bread crumbs and milk, one egg well beaten, salt and pepper. Cook until creamed and serve on crackers. .

White Grape Pie.

Line A pie plate with an under crust and bake. Make an orange or lemon jelly from gelatin. When the erust Is cool fill with white winter grapes from which the stones have been removed. When the jelly begins to stiffen pour itamong and over the grapes, stand aside until perfectly

WAYS WITH ’SPARAGUS

MANY DIBHEB. Faw Spoonfuls of Tips Make Delicious Addition to Lettuce Salad or Other Dish of Greene—Chilled Tips as Garnish. Much of the asparagus that is sold Is hard and wooden up to within two or three inches of the top. Often the grocer will send such a bunch when supplies are ordered over the telephone—a very careless method ot marketing, but sometimes necessary. The bulk of such a bunch can be used in soup, and the tips, which are usually tender, can be utilized in various ways after reserving a few for a garnish in the soup. They should first be boiled until tender, but not until they break. Twelve minutes is the time usually allotted to them. Asparagus tips are familiar enough in asparagus salads and omelets. A few spoonfuls of these tips make a delicious addition to a lettuce salad or other dish of spring ’ greens. Some cooks add a tiny spoonful of chopped chives. Chilled boiled tips also make an attractive garnish to a salmon salad. —7 Creamed asparagus tips or asparagus tips tossed in butter are sometimes served as an entree in little patty crusts, or' as a filling, with appropriate seasonings, in small dainty sandwich, rolls for luncheon. An asparagus consomme makes an attractive soup at this .season. To make it, add a few tips to a plain consomme. Tossed in a little hot butter or dressed with brown butter, these tips make a nice garnish for cutlets and broiled fish. Curries, too, with rice, are Improved by the addition of asparagus tips. They may also be added to the gravy accompanying a meat or fish, or used in an asparagus sauce. A delicate cream sauce, such as Is used with fried chicken or fish, is improved in flavor and appearance by the addition of some of the green tips, carefully boiled. A famous cook gives the following recipe for an asparagus sauce, in which a variety of seasonings are used: Put two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan, stir In two tablespoonfuls of flour and gradually add a pint of white stock. Stir the sauce thoroughly while adding the stock to prevent lumps from forming. Then add a seasoning of salt and pepper, a slice of onion, a little slice of carrot, a bay leaf, a.tiny bit of mace and a sprig of parsley. Let the sauce simmer for 20 minutes, then strain it and add enough tips to give a nice color and flavor to the sauce. Sometimes the tlbs are mashed and strainer, but the bits of green are attractive, and the mashing and straining makes extra work.

Heavenly Hash Candy.

Two and one-half cups of sugar, onehalf cup of water, one-half cup of corn syrup. Cook until it begins to string a little and becomes a little thick. Then pour half of it in with beaten white of two eggs. Cook the other u£til it becomes thicker and will string like icing does when It is done, then pour in with the part that is cooked half done and beat until real stiff. Pour in buttered plates to cool. Chocolate, nuts or cocoanut may. be used if liked.

When Washing Graters.

Graters are exceedingly difficult to clean with an ordinary dish-cloth. If a small stiff brush is used, passing it diagonally up and down, pressing the bristles through the holes, it will be found most successful. When necessary brush the under side. Rinse with hot water and place in a position to drain. It will be clean, with no lint adhering to its rough surface from ruined dish-towels.

Mend China With Paint

The best medium for mending china or porcelain or pottery of any description, is white oil paint. Buy a tube of a good make, and use it like tube paste. If yon have a box of oil colors, you may add enough of any tint to the white to match the broken article; but the white does not show, and is astonishingly efficacious. Cut glass that I have mended with It Is now in constant use.—Good Housekeeping Magazine.

Mutton and Rice Broth.

Cut the meat from a neck of mutton and have the bones well cracked; put them over the flre with a qttart of cold water, heat slowly, and simmer until the bones are bare and the meat to shreds. Set aside to cool, skim off the fat, pnt in a cupful of boiled rloe, cook 15 minutes, add half a cupful of milk aad a beaten egg. Season to taste with 1 salt ; : -v

Broiled Haddie.

Cut the haddie into small squares, skin and parboil. Dry them and boil over a good flre to a light brown. Lay on a hot platter, and on each square put a little lump of butter, Into which a few drops of lemon juice have been worked. Serve very hot.

Curtains for the Bedroom.

A dainty and acceptable gift la a pair of bedroom curtains of fine white lawn, or dimity, with a scattered conventional design tn shadow embroidery. These are easily and quickly made afld the wearing quality la good.

AFTERNOON TEA TABLE

ACCESSORIES THAT ACCOMPANY THE CHEERING CUP. Pretty Surroundings, Easily Acquired, Add Greatly to the Pleasure of the Gatherings irf Closing Hours of the Afternoon. If you have not a regular tea table, an easy way of serving the cheering cup that never is more cheering than in the late afternoon, is to have a Japanese tea basket and keep it in an inconspicuous part of the living room, where It will be always In readiness. These baskets, according to their size, hold a service for from two to a dozen persons, and, in addition to the alcohol stove, accommodate a teapot, creamer, sugar bowl, cups, saucers and plates of Old Canton, royal'medallion, Satsuma, Delft, willow or Semedl and the various familiar wares made in Japan. Best of all, the thickly wadded basket makes an ideal tea cozy and one which is easily handled. — 77 —— When only two persons are to be served with tea, the simplest way of making the beverage is to use a pair of tea balls. These come in solid or German silver attached to handles of celluloid, carved deerhorn or silver, and none of them are too expensive for the woman of moderate Income to get along without. For the tea table, which is kept set,

always In readiness to be wheeled or carried into the living room, there are Innumerable little conveniences. One of these conveniences is the airtight tea caddy of Japanese, pewter, chased brass, carved bamboo, plain burnished copper or tln-llned lacquer, and another Is the Lazy Susie. Lazy Susie Is a tidbit tray with a nlckel-plated frame and three glass shelves for holding sandwiches and cakes. Every tea table now has ltd tiny jardiniere, either of hand-stamped Egyptian brass, of Japanese split bamboo or of sliver deposit; its fruit dish of white lacquered perforated zinc and. its bread basket of pierced silver with square, upright center handle. The lighting of the tea table is of vast importance, for, of course, the Illumination must come from above the bead of the hostess, lest it cast deep shadows upon her face and make it look old and worn. From the wall near which the tea equipage usually is placed there should extend a two or three arm brass sconce with shaded candles, or a sconce with inverted incandescent lights with inner globes covered with square glass shades of an effective color. Lacking the stationary lights, it is nice to have a tall lamp of Damascus brass with matching shade or a . pair of Japanese brass and copper candlesticks with copper shades done in wickerwork design.

Veiled Gowns.

In spite of the wide choice given in at-home dresses for more or less Informal wear, there is a strong bias in favor of the veiled gown, whose veilings allow the grace of the wearer to be appreciated at its full. The trimmings of these frocks are very much a matter for the individual. There seems an almost equal preference for rose garlands and lace. Bugling is the most effective for great occasions, while the dainty flower garlands are more suitable to gowns for Intimate' occasions.

WHITE MOTOR COAT

Whits and pale tan are immensely fashionable this season and this motor coat of soft white wool sponge (toweling a shawi eollar,

The Home Department

IDEA FOR WALKING COSTUME

fit Dark Grey Face Cloth Trimmest With Russia Braid—Worn With ' Magjtar Coat. Dark grey face cloth is selected here. The skirt is trimmed down the left side of front by a panel of black and white striped silk; the edge of cloth Is finished with a single row of Russia braid arranged in a simple de* sign at the corners, then continued round the foot of skirt The Maygar coat is cut with a basque, which is attached to it by 8

satin band; braiding trims the edge, also the upper part of coat; striped! silk is used for the collar and cuffs; a little braided waistcoat adds finish. Hat of chip to match, trimmed with an ostrich feather. Materials required: 4% yards doth 42 Inches wide, 1 dozen yards braid. 1 yard striped silk 18 Inches wide, 4 yards silk or satin for lining coat. .

New Ideas in Napery.

Daisies embroidered ip various colors upon heavy Irish linen make a charming decoration for a luncheon set, Including a center piece and a dozen doilies. The petals of the flowers are done In a single long stitch and therefore the work goes very rapidly although when the pieces are completed they look as though an immense amount of time had been spent in the decoration of them. Other attractive luncheon sets are of Madeira embroidered linen with plain, edges and embroidered corners, of batiste bordered with French Cluny and Inset with Italian filet medallions, and of fine canvas with a border of Cluny, a circle of embroidered daisies centered with French knots and aik Inner ring of punch work.

deep cuffs and pocket flaps of the same material in the new tan shade called burnt bread. The coat is short enough to reveal new “magpie” boots of black leather, with white kid buttoned tops.

Fashion's Fancies

Checked vests are seen tn tailored suits and fold back at the top in small revers. Embossed flowers of wool and velvet are shown on taffeta scarfs and sashes. The distinctive feature of the new* lingerie gowns is the prodigal use off filet lace. Turkish and Egyptian scarfs off' weird design and wondrous coloring* are popular. Petticoats are very short now, varying from a length just below the knee to a length just escaping the top off the high buttoned street boot. The panniers and shawls of 1830 appear With the scallops and draperiea of 1860. Yet, despite the wildness th dress, so far the "silhouette” has al* tered but little, at least, as worn is the street.

Neckwear Must Have Fringe.

Fringe is featured to a marked «•- gree In some of the neckwear just imported from Paris. Moot of it is te black and white, the preferred style being black fringe on a white coilar* or frill, although the all-black or aU> white style has many advocates.