Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

August 5, 1862. 'Recruiting for the old and new regiments under the call of President Lincoln for 300,000 "men was carried on •with great vigor throughout the north, citizens of every state making extreme efforts to bring their state’s enlistment up to the full quota. The war department of the United States issued an order exempting from the recent order for a draft all men wrho had actually been employed in constructing or operating telegraph lines at the time the draft order was issued. The exemption was made on the basis that the telegraph lines, being used for military purposes, were in a way,a part of the military serv- . ice,-- • ' ' - ■ ! \- v: : . The battle of Baton Rouge, La., was fought between a force of Confederates under General Breckenridge and Nationals under Gen. Thomas Williams. The Confederates, attacking at daylight, precipitated a savage conflict in whieh the National troops were driven from their position in considerable confusion. Later they rallied and returned to the attack, finally succeeding in dislodging the Confederates from the camp they had lately captured. ....... . , A reconnoiterlng force of Union troops under General Hooker encountered a body of Confederates stationed on Malvern Hill, Virginia. After a fight lasting two hours, the Confederates withdrew in good order, leaving Hooker on the hilL \ August 6, 1862. Citizens of Point Pleasant, Mo., came Into conflict with the state militia through resisting the draft. Major Montgomery, at the head of a ■mall force of Union troops, fell in with a band of Confederate partisans near Montevallo, Mo., and succeeded in driving them off, after a sharp skirmish. W. D. Porter, commanding a division of the Mississippi gunboat fleet, attacked and destroyed the Confederate ram Arkansas a few miles above Baton Itouge. . The editors and publishers of the Patriot and Union of Harrisburg, Pa., were arrested charged with issuing treasonable posters calculated to retard recruiting. Brig. Gen. Robert L McCook died as the result of wounds received from a band of Confederate guerrillas that attacked the ambulance in which he was riding from Athens to Dechard, Tenn. Skirmishes lasting two days near Tazewell, Tenn., were terminated on the 6th by the withdrawal of the Confederates. Col. Thomas C. Johnson, aid to the Confederate General Price, issued the following call to the citizens of Mississippi: “I am in your midst for the purpose of procuring shoes and yarnsock : for General Price’s army. Some of his veterans —men who have been in six or eight pitched battles and twenty skirmishes—are today destitute of these articles.” August 7, 1862. At Blackburn, England, a large public meeting was held to consider the advisability of recognizing Ihe Southern States of America, With a view to bringing about an early termination of hostilities. A resolution was presented before the meeting asking the Queen to join with other European powers in intervention. A substitute . resolution wsb finally adopted urging the British government to Join with other European powers in urging the contending sections of the United States to submit their differences to arbitration. The Confederate expedition to New Mexico, under Col. Sibley, was met near Fort Filmore by a body of California troops commanded by Colonel Canby. The Confederates were defeated. Colonel Sibley was assassinated by his own men, who accused him of drunkenness and inefficiency. Captain Faulkner’s command of Confederate cavatey, encamped in a swamp near Trenton, Tenn., was'surprised by a detachment of the Second Illinois cavalry and lost 30 killed and 20 wounded. Colonel McNeill, with a force of t,OOO National troops, defeated the Confederate partisan Porter at Kirksville, Mo. Major Montgomery, with a body of Union troops, defeated the Confederate partisan Coffin in Dodd county, Missouri. . \ Malvern Hill was abandoned by the Union troops under General Hooker, information having been received that an overwhelming force of Confederates under Gen. A. P. Hill was advancing toward that pltfce. August-8, 1862. General Roußseau of the Union army issued the following order at Huntsville, Alabama: “Almost every day murders'are committed by lawless bands of robbers and marauders firing into railroad trains. To present this or to let the guilty suffer ;with the innocent, it is ordered that .the preachers and leading men of the churches (not exceeding "twelve In umber) in and about Huntsville, who ave been active secessionists, be arrested and kept in custody, and that one of them be detailed each day and placed on board the train on the road running by way of Athens and taken to Elk river and back, and that a de-

tail be made and taken to Stevenses and back. Each detail shall be in the charge of a trusty soldier, who shall be armed, and not allowed to communicate with any person.” “Certain non-descripts’’ of Richmond, Va, through their counsel, respectfully presented to the Confederate congress a remonstrance against the conscription law of the Confederate government. Lord Palmerston, referring to the war in America In a speech at a banquet given by the mayor of Sheffield, said that the government had thought it their duty to advise their sovereign to preserve a strict and rigid neutrality. . . .. He was convinced that the course which the British government had pursued was the only course which became that country, and that it had received, and would cohtlnue to receive, the approval and sanction of the British people. August 9, 1862. An order issued from the war department of the United States to prevent the evasion of military duty and suppress disloyal practices, and authorizing the arrest of persons discouraging enlistments. At Macon City, Mo., twenty-six Confederate prisoners were shot for violating their paroles. Hundreds of citizens of the west and other portions of the loyal states were reported to have fled into Canada to escape the draft Several persons were arrested At Baltimore while attempting to escape. Colonel McNeill with a Union force overtook Porter's irregulars at Stockton, in the western part of Macdn county, Missouri, and defeated them, capturing a number of prisoners, among whom were many who had taken the bath of allegiance and given bonds. The National forces under General Banks engaged the Confederates under General Jaokson at Cedar mountain, eight miles from Culpepper Court House, Virginia. The battle lasted two hours. The Confederates withdrew from the field at the end dt that time. The Nationals lost 1,600 men in killed, wounded and missing. The secretary of war issued an order directing the governors of the loyal states to proceed forthwith to furnish their quota of the 300,000 men asked by President Lincoln. He also ordered an of all ablebodied citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five. At New Fairfield, Conn., five persons mutilated themselves to escape the draft, some by having their right fore-finger cut off, and others by having all their teeth extracted. August 10, 1862.

Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war of the United States, issued the following order: “The temporary restrictions upon travel, deemed necessary to prevent evasions of liability to be drafted into the militia, were not intended to apply' to couriers with dispatches to and from the legations of friendly powers, in the United States. All authorities, civil and milltary, are consequently required .to allow such couriers to pass freely, without let or investigation.” The national steamer Freeborn arrived at Washington, D. C., bringing twenty-five prisoners, five sailboats, a number of canoes, and a lot of merchandise which was captured on Friday and Saturday nights previous near Blackinston Islands. The prisoners had been engaged in regular commerce between Maryland.and Virginia, taking over salt, etc., and bringing back wheat. Commander Richard Wainwright, U. S. N., died at New Orleans. A Confederate steamer was captured at the mouth of the Savannah river, Georgia, by a Union tugboat, and towed under the guns of Fort Pulaski. The town of Donaldsville, Louisiana, was partially destroyed by a party of men from the United States sloop of war Brooklyn. August 11, 1862. A number of citizens of Baton Rouge who had been permitted to retain their arms, having been found dead on the battlefield near that place, General Butler, commanding the Union occupation of Locisiana, issued an order depriving all oitizens of their arms. Bayou Sara was occupied by the national forces, who seized all the sugar and molasses in the place. A body of irregulars Colonel Hughes defeated the Seventh Missouri Union'cavalry and captured the town of Independence, Mo. A party of Jeff. Thompson’s irregular Confederate cavalry surprised a body of Union troops near Helena, Arkansas, but were driven off. A detachment of the 11th Illinois cavalry attacked and dispersed a body of Confederate partisans at Salisbury, Tennessee, near Grand Junction. A series of skirmishes occurred near Williamsport, Tennessee, between a body of Union troops under Major Kennedy and Confederate Irregulars. . . Union cavalry under Colonel Guitar defeated a force of Confederate partisans under Colonel Poindexter near Compton’s Ferry, on Grand River, Missouri. There was a skirmish between Union troops under Colonel Smart and Captain Cobb’s Confederate irregulars near ReelßvHle, Calloway county, Missouri. General Butler confiscated all the property in New Orleans of John 811dell, an officer in the Confederate government. Colonel McGowan, with a Union force, defeated guerrillas near Kinderbook, Tenn. (Copyright, 1912, by W. G Chapman.)

CHAMPION ATHLETE OF THE WORLD

Jim Thorpe, the American Indian, here snapped in midair while making a broad Jump at the Olympic games, won the *Decathlon and the Pentathlon, thereby gaining the title of the world’s champion all-round athlete.

JOHN D.'S SQUIRRELS

Animals Play Golf on Oil King’s Links. * . Hiram Revere Avers He Baw Them Gambling for Nuts on the Putting Greens at Pocantlco HHIs, Using Tells for Clubs. Tarrytown, N. Y. —Gray squirrels on John D. Rockefeller’s Pocantlco Hills estate have taken up golfing, according to Hiram Revere, who lives up that way. And what’s more, he says they are gambling for nuts. Mr. Rockefeller last year bought hundreds of gray squirrels and turned them loose on his estate. He likes to see them scamper over the golf links, and often Is amused when a lost ball is captured by a squirrel and carried off to a hole in a tree. Revere says he was going down through the Rockefeller estate, near the county house road, when he noticed a number of squirrels on the green. .He was curious to see what they were'doing and hid behind a tree. “It was the prettiest exhibition of puttin’ I ever see,” said Revere. “Two big squirrels were playing the game and there were a dozen others standing around rootin’. ’Pon my word, when one squirrel would make a good putt, the gallery would set up the wildest chatter. They had a golf ball and were usin’ their tails to putt with. They would carry tbe ball to the end of the green, and then one squirrel would hop on his hind legs, give his tail a twist and send the ball straight

FATHER SAME AGE AS HIS SON

That Is If Number of Birthdays Are Counted in Minneapolis Family. Minneapolis, Minn. Counted in birthdays, Alex Reynlcfc, an empldye of the weather bureau office, was the same age as his son. The drawn race Is to be run off in tbe next four years, at the end of which time tbe son Mil be three years older than his father, counting by natal anniversaries. Reynlck was born in lonia, Neb., February 29, 1872, and his son, Gerwas nine years old the other day. Reynick declares that, in addition to the misfortune of losing out on birth-, days, he also has lost his birthplace, the Missouri river having swiped It,

USE CHAIN TO HOLD MANIAC

Handcuffs Useless In Effort to Re> strain Lunatic While on Board Ship. Pensacola, Fla. —When the British steamer August Belmont entered port here, a maniac, chained to the deck, was the first. sight that greeted the customs officers. The man—a sailor—was stricken during the voyage and when he became violent he was handcuffed. He broke one pair of cuffs and picked the lock u-f another, freeing himself. A Tale lock had no better effect, for be picked that lock, and then it became necessary to chain him to the deck by both hands and feet. The ship’s papers show the man signed as an American citizen.

for the hole. I saw one of them hole out in two. The loser would always take a nut from his pile and give It to his opponent “They played that way for fifteen minutes, when one of the squirrels bad»> captured all of his opponent’s nuts. The winner’s crowd set up a great chatter and then hopped over to the pile of nuts and had a feast. The losers took their medicine well, and after watching the feast for a few minutes, scampered up the trees. I’m going to tell Mr. Rockefeller about It when he comes back in tbe fall.”

TOOK HIS WIFE’S TEETH

Loss of the Masticators Causes the Woman to Wreak Ravenge on Her Husband. Phlllipsburg, N. J.—Convinced that If he could rob his wife of her beauty she would not leave him, John Vanner watched bis opportunity and stole her false teeth. He went to his work at the silk factory believing that she would remain in seclusion. He was mistaken, however, for Bhe proceeded to the factory door, called out her husband and, when he appeared, gave him a. sound beating. Mrs. Banner got the teeth and went to the office of Mayor Firth, where she got a warrant for tbe arrest of her husband for the theft. The mayor did not punish him further than to express satisfaction that Mrs. Banner had already administered a fair share of chastisement and to add a little rebuke.

Boy Was Burglar’s Pupil

New Orleans Police Bpoil His Dream of Easy Wealth by Putting Him in Cell. New Orleans;—Milford Lindsay, 18 years old, of Galveston, was a “frenzied financier" with a big get-rlch-quick bee in his bonnet, but tonight he is an inmate of a cell in the police station. Lindsay said he became the regular pupil of a burglar, with whom be was working on a commission basis, although it was understood he was to get all the iifoflts of his labors as soon as, his tutor graduated him. He and his alleged preceptor, who was put down in police records as "Casey Jones," were arrested as they were boarding a steamship for New York. “I was making sl2 a week," Milford told the police, "And I didn’t think that was enough. I had to have more, and when I fell in with 'Jones’ he showed me what looked like a very easy way of getting a big roll and having a good time." Together they robbed two houses in Galveston, according to the warrants, and young Lindsay’s companion, stealing $1,045 worth of Jewelry in one place and about SSOO in another. They pawned and. sold most of the stuff and bought steamship tickets for New York. Robert Wayne Mon tel, thirty-six years old, is the man arrested with young Lindsay, who met him in a furnished room house In Houston. According to the boy, Montel, who is known as "Casey Jones" because of his disposition to whistle that melody, told Lindsay he was a contractor la

POLE CHEW IS LOYAL

Amundsen’s Men Are Now Ready for Arctic Trip. - / ■■ ■ ■ V Many Are on Way to Norway, Where Thoy Will Await Arrival of Notod Explorer—ls Highly Praisod as a Leader. London.—Fourteen of the officers and crew of Captain Amundsen's ship Fram passed through London recently on their way to Norway, where moat of them intend to remain until they sign on to accompany the discoverer of the south pole on his projected expedition to the north pole, where Peary first flew the Stars and Btripes. Amundsen’s men are modest fellow*. Some difficulty was found in getting any of them to talk for publication, but eventually It was arranged that one should speak for the rest, and to a reporter this one said: “The 14 of us who have come Into the Thames Include all the south pole shore party exoept Captain Amundsen, who is now busy In Buenos Aires writing tbe book of bis experiences, and will not come to Europe until later. Toward tbe close of the year he proposes to rejoin the Fram at Buenos Aires and make an attempt via Cape Horn and ’Frisco to reach the north pole. Seven or eight of us intend to rejoin him on that expedition. There will only be 14 In the new trip, Instead of the 21 who sailed south, but In attempting the north pole there Is no need to furnish a landing party. “Even apart from the achievement of reaching the south pole, our voyage has been a great success, and In the conditions under which we made it there was no risk. None of us have at any time had any feeling of having been In trouble. “There have been toll and dangers, hut the surmounting of these has been a question of organization, and that vas the work of Captain Amundsen. He is. a splendid leader, supreme In organization, and the essential In arctic or antarctic travel is to think out the difficulties before they arise. When that Is thoroughly done everything goes smoothly and tbe difficulties resolve themselves Into a test of endurance.”

IS GORED BY MAD ELEPHANT

Keeper Rescued Through Heroism of Another Trainer In New York Zoo. New York. —Keeper George Thuman, gored through the thigh and with consciousness fast slipping away from him, crouched in a corner of tbe steelwalled elephant house at the Bronx zoo the otlfer morning and tried with his fleeting wits to match the wits jß| Gunda, the 1 6-year-old bull elephant, gone mad with the beat, and cunningly trying with tasks and trunk to murder the man. Thuman won out over a terrible death, but only through the heroism of another elephant keeper, who risked hia own life under the flailing trunk and longing feet of the enraged animal to drag Thuman away from his peril and thrust him to safety through the bars of the enclosure. Thuman la in a precarious condition.

Mangled to Death By Machine.

Newark, N. J.—A laborer known only as Kuehrie, and whose home address is unknown, and who was employed in the S. Stacy Smith bark works, fell or jumped Into a grinding machine into which he was shoveling bark, and was mangled to death. A suspicion of suicide is based on the assertion of Charles Swan, a fellow workman, that Kuehne told him this was his last day on the job.

the east and would take him there and put him to work in a “good, soft job” after they had "turned a few little tricks” in Galveston to get monq for the trip.

MISSING BOY HELD PRISONER

One Foot Was Trapped In s Fanes and He Could Not Free Himself, so He Went to Sleep. New York.—The mystery of the disappearance of three-year-old Americus Trodoro of 1018 Dekalb avenue, Brooklyn, who was thought to be In the hands of Black Hand kidnapers, has been cleared up. Americas, whose father is a barber, was mlfsed from his home at 8 o’clock in the evening. Early the next morning Sergeant Reynolds of the Gates avenue station was passing the lawn of a house In Stuyvesant avenue, near Kosciusko street, about a block from the Trodoro home, when he saw a child’s foot between the pickets of the iron fance. He looked in and saw a small boy fast asleep on the grass. It was Americas. The sergeant found that the boy's foot was tightly wedged in between the pickets and that the lad was a prison the grass. Americas said that he was searching for his pet eat and had gone Into the yfed to look around. While ellmbtag the fence to got out he caught his foot between tbe pickets and could not release himself. No one passed and bis .cries were unheard. Finally, tired, out, he went to sleep o nthe grass.

The Denial of Christ’s Resurrection and Its Results

By Rev. William Evans,D.D.,

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TEXT—I Cor. 16:14-18, 28-82—“ And If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also rain. Tea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then Is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith Is vain; ye are yet in your sins.”

In the last address on this subject we saw that the denial of Christ’s rea-

covered in the prepetratlon of m fraud. It Is a word used for judgments regarding moral character and conduct; -and conveys the idea of discovering and detecting forgery and falsity. In using this word, the apostle would say that in proclaiming to the Corinthians the doctrine of the resurrection of Christ, he and the other apostles had been guilty of perpetrating fraud upon them. If Christ be not risen, then the apostles are false witnesses; not witnesses deluded, mistaken, deceived, the victims of an hallucination, which was the result of an over-wrought brain and imagination, but false witnesses. Deluded! say tbe apostle, we cannot be; victims of an over-wrought imagination, innocent but deceived enthusiasts —all this im impossible, we are down-right deceivers; we have willingly, knowingly perpetrated e fraud upon the church in claiming that Christ rose from the dead; we are down-right deceivers. The strange thing about the apostle’s statement la that the idea of delusion or hallucination is wholly absent from his argument. It does not seem to have occurred to him to mention it. Even the possibility of it is too remote to be spoken of. To tbe apostle, the resurrection of Christ is a truth or a falsehood, a reality of a fraud, a thing of sincerity or of deceit, a fact or a mistake. There is no loophole of escape—the resurrection is either a fact or a falsehood, a reality or a sham, and such persons as the apostles were guilty of perpetrating it. Paul feels that the stigma of falsehood has been put upon him. He feels that he has been stung by an insult. Somebody has not believed him—has made him out to be a liar. His testimony in effect is this: I have sees the risen Christ; I have talked witlfc him;' I have received my commission from him. To challenge my statement is to challenge my character, my veracity, my understanding, my resson. * V. If Christ be not risen from ths dead then we have no God who is worthy of our trust To attribute to a person a good pr glorious act, which it is well knows that he never performed, Is to cause that person to be suspected of having prompted tbe false assertion. So the testimony of the apostle would lead men to think that God had inspired men to tell Res about him. Many think that they can still havs faith in God, that they still have left a God whom they can trust and In whom they can repose their faith, even though they do not accept ths resurrection of Jesus Christ. The apostle says plainly, This is not so; if we have no risen Christ, neither have we a God in whom we can trust. Note the serious point here. “Paul preached God, he commended God, and the justice of God as shown in raising his holy son from the dead. But if Jesus Christ is not risen from the dead, then we have no such God. If one like Jesus Christ is still left dead, if one be so good as Jesus was and still be deprived of life, what kind of a God have we? 'We have no God In whom we can trust; it is no use trying to be good. Tbe end is a skull and a few ashes. ‘We have testified of God,” says Paul, ‘we have justified God, but we are found false witnesses of him If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead. Have yon considered what that point means? The modern man often assumes that he is already In possession of a God with a reliable character, whatever yon make of .Jesus Christ But there is something in the career and in the issue of the career of Jesus Christ that makes a good God In this tragic world incredible unless Christ be risen from the dead. Jesus went through the worst sufferings that any man ever suffered. He sounded the depths of the world’s tragedy. Now If he has been raised

urrection made our prea<Alng vain, our faith vain, and left us still In our sins. We now proceed to set forth some further results of such denial. IV. If Christ be not risen from the dead then we are found falee wltneaeee. " v;. ■■' The word “found” means to be detected or dfs-