Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1913 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

April 6, 1863. > ' Gen. R. B. Mitchell, with three hundred and fifty Union cavalry, went out from Nashville on the Lebanon turnpike to Green HIU, Tenn., where tie led a dashing charge into a Confederate camp containing a large number of conscripts. Five men were killed and fifteen captured in the sabre charge. All their horses, arms and equipments were taken. The Confederates were composed of parts of Morgan’s and McCoun’s men. A stillhouse, containing forty casks of liquor, was destroyed. General Mitchell's command made the march of fifty-five miles in twelve hours. The United States gunboats Hartford, Switzerland and Albatross, which had been blockading the mouth of the Red river since the first of the month, got under way early in the morning and proceeded down the Bayou Sara, where they stopped, seized upon and threw into the river, ten thousand sacks of corn, after which they proceeded to Port Hudson, coming to anchor five miles below the Confederate batteries. Gold sold in Richmond, Va., at four hundred per cent, premium. The National steamer Fox, (Whittemore) was captured by a party of Confederates at Pass a L’Outre, Mississippi river. The New England Methodist conference, in session at Charleston, Mass., adopted a report supporting President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, expressing entire confidence in his administration, and pledging moral and material aid to him in his every eifort to crush the rebellion. April 7, 1863. Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, was attacked by a fleet of Iren clads and monitors, under the command of Admiral DuPont. After a terrific bombardment of two hours’ duration, the Union vessels withdrew, badly shaken and damaged. The Confederates disabled five of seven monitors, and sank the Keokuk. 'The United States gunboat Baratarla was lost while making reconcoissance in Amite river; Louslania. A successful expedition into Gloucester county, Virginia, to capture and destroy cattle and grain belonging to the Confederates, was made by Col. A. H. Grlmshaw of the Fourth Delaware infantry. He succeeded in de-’ stroylng over ten thousand dollars worth of property that had been collected by the Confederates, and in capturing three hundred cattle, sheep, and so forth. April 8, 1863.

The Richmond Despatch of date said: '"We have published the gist of the •correspondence between Mr. Mason ■and Lord Russell, on the question of the legality of the blockade of our ports by the Yankee government, and the recognition of the Confederacy. Ho southern man can read it without feelings of indignation and contempt —lndignation for the cold and stony haughtiness, not to say rudeness of manner, of the,British minister toward Mr. Mason, afterward only partially atoned for by a disavowal of any intention of personal disrespect, and contempt for the subterfuges resorted to, to cover a selfish policy. . . . We must not forget, whatever the ministry may do or propose, that our country had received the most valuable assistance from the people of England, and at this time there are schemes on foot there of great importance to us/’ Tfye English schooner tyfeggie Fulton was oaptured by the Gem. of the Sea when attempting to run the blockade at Indian River inlet, Florida. The Union gunboat George Washington, going aground while on a reconnolterlng expedition on the Broad river, South Carolina, was), blown up by a shell which a party of Confederates ashore succeeded in throwing into her magazine. The steamers Saxonla and Lovell were captured and burned on the Cumberland river by a party of Confederate partisans under Woodward. The Tallahatohia fleet, consisting of the divisions under Generals Ross and Quimby, and numerous gunboats and mortar boats, arrived at Helena, Ark. The expedition, which had been absent forty-three days, left Fort Greenwood on the fifth. As soon as the bustle was observed by the Confederates they bpaned a brisk fire upon the woods where batteries had been planted, which continued until the last boat steamed up the river. On the passage, the boats were frequently fired on by irregulars. Twen-ty-five or thirty men s)ere killed and a number wounded. April I, 1863.

Col. N. U. Daniels of the Second Regiment of the Louisiana National ▼olnnteers, with one hundred and eighty men, left Ship Island on an expedition to Pascagoula, Miss. He reached that plaoe and landed his force at nine o’clock In the morning, took possession of the hotel, and raised the National flag. Immediately after this he was attacked by a body of Confederate cavalry supported by one company of infantry. After a severe light, he succeeded In repulsing them. Colonel Daniels held the place until two in the afternoon, when, hearing that a large force of

Confederates was 4m tbs march toward him. he withdrew and returned to Ship island. , A large war meeting was held in Chicago, at which speeches were made by William A, Howard of Michigan, Senator Trumbull, and others. A sharp fight took place at Blount's Mills, N. C. April 10, 1863. Jefferson Dayis, In compliance with the request of the Confederate congress, issued an address to the people of the Confederate states, invoking their attention to “the present position and future prospects of our country, and to the duties which patriotism imposes on us kU during this great struggle for our homes and our liberties." Another expedition from Newbera to the succor of General Foster, surrounded at Washington, N. C., by heavy forces of Confederates, was unsuccessful, being compelled to return. Franklin, Tenn., waß attacked by the Confederate forces under General Van Dorn, 'who was defeated by the National force of occupation under Gen. Gordon Granger. The Confederates in the vicinity of Fort Donelspn, Tenn., having been gathering together all the horses in the neighborhood fit for cavalry service, 9eneral Rosecrans ordered his eavairy to seize the horses. Inafight which resulted from the attempt near Waverly the Confederates lost several men, but no horses. Lieutenant Rickerton at the Eighteenth Ohio, stationed at Demosville, Ky., searching for Jim Caldwell’s party of Confederate partisans, encamped for the night within thirty' yards of them without either party being aware of their mutual proximity. The Confederates, marching in the morning, were discovered and surprised by the enemy, and badly shaken up. Caldwell was compelled to escape. April 11, 1863. ' The Confederate steamer Stonewall Jackson, formerly the Leopard, while attempting to run the blockade at Charleston, S. C., was hotly chased by half a dozen blockaders, which fired at her, and she received several shots in the hull. Captain Black, finding escape impossible, beached and then burned his vessel. The crew and passengers got in the boats and proceeded to Charleston, while the Federate watched the craft-bum to the water’s edge. Her cargo consisted of several pieces of field artillery, two hundred barrels of saltpetre, forty thousand army shoes, and a large assortment of merchandise. A strong Union force under the command of A D. Straight left Nashville, Tenn., on a raid into Alabama and Georgia. The National cavalry at Whittaker’s Mills was destroyed by a sudden descent in the early morning of the Fifty-ninth Virginia Confederate regiment, which had moved out the night before. Commissary and hospital stores and an immense amount of ammunition were destroyed, a number of horses killed, and a number of Federate killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. The Confederates withdrew without the loss of a man. A brief skirmish ocurred in the vicinity of Blackwater, Va., between Union picket* and a party of Confederates, in which the Union men were forced back with the loss of several of their men, taken prisoners. At Sheffield, England, an engraver waß arrested and committed, charged with forging the treasury notes of the Confederate States. April 12, 1863.

Information having been received by General King, commanding the Union forces at Yorktown, of the presence of a large body' of cavalry in Gloucester county, Col. A. H. Grimshaw, Fourth Delaware volunteers, in command of the post at Gloucester Point, was ordered to send out a detachment of Infantry for the purpose of reconnoiterlng the enemy's position, and, if possible, driving him from some hills which he was reported to occupy, about ten miles beyond the Union lines. Lieutenant Colonel Tevis, Fourth Delaware, started out at two p. m. with one hundred and fifty volunteers from his own regiment, and having ascertained the force of the enemy to be about two hundred cavalry, pushed forward to attack them. The enemy fell back, leaving two of their pickets in the hands of the Union troops. The detachment returned to camp about nine o’clock in the evening, having burned a saw mill and two large grist mills filled with grain and flour for the Confederates in Richmond. The prisoners belonged to Fltz-Hugh Lee’s regiment, the Fifth Virginia cavalry. They were well armed, and carried printed orders, signed by J. B. B. Stuart, to seize a number of horses for the use of their regiment, "to replace those killed of disabled during the last campaign.” Lieut. Col. Edgar A. Kimball of Hawkin’s zouaves, Ninth regiment. New York volunteers, was killed by Gen. Michael Corcoran, at a point near Suffolk, Va. (Copyright, Mil, by W. a. Chapman.)

More Plainly Put.

"It behoves every man to exert himself to the best of his abilities," observed the Impressive person, "in order that he may not be overwhelmed by unforseen contingencies and be swept away to oblivion." "I see what you mean.” said the homely philosopher. “In other words, it’s a case of ’Root hog, or die.'"

Aggrieved.

“Do you think your husband would lay down his life for you?” “I doubt It There are times when I want to' talk to him and he won’t even lay down his newspaper for me."

FUGITIVES FROM HUERTA’S REVENGE

These children are, from left to right, Antino, Marie and Mercedes Madera, who have been brought to New York by Mps. Madero, widow of the Blain president of Mexico, to join the rest of the Madero family.

MAN IS BORN AGAIN

RemWal of Brain Tumor Leaves Patient an Infant. Gradually He Is Beginning the Use of His Faculties, and the Surgeons Bay He Will Fully Recover. Denver. —Every morning a number of itbe leading surgeons of Denver gather at the county hospital to watch the remarkable, spectacle of a man six-ty-three years old literally being born' into the world. Each day the patient acquires the use of one or two more of his faculties, until he can now move, •< eat, recognize persons and speak a few v(prds. v —- The man Is Luther Dionne, who for five years has been practically dying from a tumor in bis brain. He was paralyzed, speechless, sightless and outwardly dead on December 30 last when two surgeons operated upon his t brain. They removed a tumor larger than a walnut from the cortex of the brain. The tumor had destroyed all the nerve fibers except those running to the heart and lungs. For two weeks after the operation Luther Dionne lay as if dead. He was fed, through the nostrils. Then he began to undergo a complete second birth into life. His fingers began to move. The next day his toes moved. On the third day he could lift his arm slightly, anfi so on, day after day, the rejuvenation continued. At the end of ten days he regained his sight, but was like a baby, and knew no one. When two weeks had passed he spoke a word or so, repeating after ‘the nurse "food” or doctor or nurße. A few days ago the aged man was so far recovered that be~ could sit up in bed, feed himself, distinguish one nurse from another and speak quite tl few of the Bimpler words that he had heard used by the people in his ward. One of the surgeons says that Di-. onne is well on the road to complete recovery, and that he is regaining his normal faculties as fast as new nerve fibers grow through his brain. Memory has not yet returned, but in time he will be able to take up his life where if left off when he lost consciousness five years ago. Other Den-' ver surgeons say that the operation is one of the remarkable ever per. formed in the United States. Little is known of Luther Dionne except that he was once a prosperous real estate man. His life virtually ended with the growth of the tumor.

WORRIED OVER HIS ABSENCE

Dennis Redmond, Aged 99, Thinks He’s Old Enough To, Even If His 1 Daughter Does Worry. New York.—When Dennis Redmond, who is a spry young man of ninety-nine, strolled into the house at 867 Morris avenue, the Bronx, where he lives with his daughter, Mrs. William H. Nash, the latter asked mildly where he had been since Friday morning. Redmond replied that he thought he was old enough to stay away from home overnight once in awhile. Didn't Mrs. Nabh think so? Mrs. Nash admitted be was, but added that she and her husband, wbo is a battalion chief in the fire department, had been worried over his absence; So that reckless youth explained. He went out for a walk, he said, and then decided he would go down to a store on Astor place where he used to work and see some of his friends. Then, being near -the old Fourth ward, he took a notion to visit some of his former cronies, some of whom are mere infants of eighty or so. This be did. and the time passed

i •> pleasantly and rapidly that when one of his friends suggested that he spend the night he accepted and did not send word home. He had no idea any one would wdrry about a young man past twentyone. But Mr. and Mrs. Nash did worry—so much so that they told the police of the Morrisania station, who sent out a confidential alarm. Mr. Redmond seemed to think that was a highly foolish proceeding.

BANSHEE PERIL OF OIL SHIP

Bteamer Schuylkill Lands at New York From Yokohama With a Weird Yarn. . _Ne w York. —The Standard Oil company’s tank ship Schuylkill, which arrived from Yokohama recently, not only narrowly escaped foundering in a typhoon in the China sea, in which one of the Chinese crew was lost overboard, but also was threatened with a mutiny because the? remainder of the men persisted in thinking they were pusued by the dreaded "banshee" of that religion. A weird whistle, that seemed to pursue the ship, added to their fears. Joss sticks were burned and prayer papers thrown overbbard in vain. ’ Finally, In the hope of propitiating the spirit, they seized upon a crow dog belonging to the first mate and threw it over the side. The whistling ceased, but when First Mate Fitzgibbons heard the fate of his dog there was more trouble. He found the Chinamen praying before an idol in the forecastle. Throwing the idol through a porthole, he pummeled the superstition out of his crew and there was no further talk of Chinese banshees. The strange whistling was made by the famous whistling fish of the China sea, according to Fitzgibbons, and the feast on dog propitiated them.

CAROLINE AGAIN SLIDES

Inhabitants of Fleurler Watch Descent After Moving Belongings to Other Near-by Hills. Neuchatel, Switzerland. —For the last three days the inhabitants of the Village of Fleurler, lying near Lake Neuchatel, in the shadow of Mount Caroline, have been in a state of panic. The top of the mountain is Blinding slowly downward and threatens to overwhelm the place; the mass is moving at the rate of eight or nine inches an hour, and there is Imminent danger of acceleration in t|ie speed of its descent ' The people near by have moved their belongings to neighboring hills, where they remain in the open, watching the mountain peak in terror. A similar movement of Mount Caroline began in 1888, but ceased after a few hours.

GIRL RECOVERS AFTER SHOCK

Recovers Powers of Speech and Hearing When Brother Kills SelfYoung Man's Prayer Answered. London. —The suicide of a young man named Percy Curl, of Ashford, Kent, has been followed by his deaf-and-dumb sister regaining Ar powers of speech and hearing. The recovery is supposed to be due to the effect of the shock caused by the death of the girl’s brother. It Is a curious fact that she became deaf and dumb on the day that her brother was born. In his farewell letter the brother wrote: "Dear Mother: I should like to live to see Lily’s hearing restored; I believe it will be some day. 1 have prayed about it for the past five years."

EARL AS GOVERNOR

Believed that Duke of Connaught i s Will Not Return. t r —♦- Peer Suggested as Successor as Governor General Haa Had Noteworthy Career and la Well Qualified . —Climate Affects Duchess. London. —The duke of Connaught, accompanied by his wife and daughter, left Canada recently for England, and it is generally understood here that he will not return to Ottawa, though as yet there has been no official announcement to that effect The duke is known to have a strong and sincere liking for Canada, and doubtless wonld be pleased to remain there another two years. But the climate apparently has never agreed with the duchess of Connaught and, in view of this fact it is believed certain that the duke has now practically ended his tenure of office as governor general of the dominion. The question as to who will be named to succeed the duke of Connaught at Ottawa has become 'a subject of lively speculation here. The nameß of half a dozen prominent persons have been mentioned, among them at least two close connections of the royal, family. But the best authorities seem to agree that the young earl of Beauchamp has the inside track and is most likely to win the race. He has the backing of the cabinet, which should count 99 points in his favor. Lord Beauchamp is at present first commissioner sis works, a position involving mainly the care of all national buildings and royal palaces, and the holder of which is also a cabinet minister. For a man of his years—he has just passed forty—his career has been one of rather unusual dlstlilctlon. At the age of twenty-four he was mayor of the city of Worcester, and before he had reached his twenty-eighth birthday he was governor of New South Wales, one of the most desirable offices of its kind in the gift of the crown. As governor of New South Wales he is said to have displayed executive ability of a high order. In conclusion, it may be said that Lord Beauchamp is of a very pious turn of mind. He has always taken

Duke of Connaught.

an active interest in school and Sunday school work, and in his youth he carried his enthusiasm so far as to appear in the role of a street preacher. The Canadian post, there is little doubt, would be highly acceptable to the Countess Beauchamp, who is a sister of thfe immensely wealthy duke of Westminster, and before her marriage, some ten years ago, was Lary Lettice Grosvenor. She has always taken a keen interest in her husband’s political work. It is rather an interesting conlnctdence that one of her warmest friends is Princess Patricia of Connaught, who has been a frequent visitor to Madreefleld court, near Malvern, the beautiful home of Lord and Lady Beauchamp. Their eldest son, Viscoant Elmley, is nine years old, and they have four other children.

HOBOES FEAST FROM GRAVE

Roast Ducks, Pigs, Wines and Delicacies on Chlneso Mound Provide Splendid Banquet. Philadelphia.—Before the funeral cortege of Yung Chong, a wealthy Chinaman of this city, had paaaed out of the cemetery gates where Chong had been burled, there was a wild scramble of hobos of all descriptions. They made a rush for the grave of the Chinaman, where a great feast awaited them. On the casket and on the grave were left roast docks and plga, Chinese wines and nuts and other delicacies "to help Chong across the Styx." Wbep the crowd of twenty-five hungry hoboes finished there was little left for Chong. From many carriages oo the way to the cemetery fluttered scraps of colored paper bearing prayera. The Chinese devils wbo pursue the spirit of the dead have to stop and read all the prayers, and the mourners of Chong believe that they have scattered enough to keep the devils engaged until he was safely buried. For ten years Chong has either been president or treasurer of the On Leong Tong, and his word was law In that society. He was one of the rlcheet Chinamen In this city.

The Bible: What It Is

By REV. WILLIAM EVANS,

£W*.< Kbit Com. Moody BiU faa&ata, daco«o

TEXT—II Tim. 1:1*-

do not for a moment deny. Nature is vocal with theology. Nor would we think of contradicting the statement that God manifests himself through history and providence. Victor Hngo said: “Waterloo was God.” By that he meant that God showed his. hand in that great war and turned the stream of civilization into another channel. The history of all nation* is replete with marked interference* of God. Promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west. It is God who setteth up one nation, and putteth down another. The knowledge of God that comes to us from these sources, however, 1* not sufficient fully to satisfy the human heart Nature tells us of God. bnt does not adequately describe him to us. We might infer from the divine manifestations in history and providence that God 1* a great force or 'power, but such a definition of God by no means satisfies humanity. We need some other and deeper vision of God. We need to know something about his person, nature and attributes; his relations with hi* creatures, what thing* are pleasing and what displeasing to him; what are his ethical, moral and spiritual standards. To these questions not nature, nor history, nor yet providence affords an answer. Nature may show the head and wisdom of God, and providence and history the hand and power of God, bnt we need a revelation such as we have in the Bible to reveal to us the heart and the grace of onr God. Sometimes the Bible is compared with other sacred books —Bibles of other religions: the Koran, the Vedas, etc. There can be no real comparison. The Bible Is not to be put on the same plane as these books. None of them claims for itself what the Bible claims for itself; nor did any one of their authors claim for himself what Jesus Christ, and the inspired writers of the Bible claim for themselves. The Christian must be very careful in the matter of comparing his Bible with other sacred books. Such comparison is attended with grave danger. There is prafctlcally no difference, so far as the disastrous effects "of such comparisons are concerned, whether yon drag the Bible down to the level of these other books, or lift these other books up to the level of the Bible. The effect is the same; yop rob the Bible of its unique character and authority. Let us be careful In this matter.

The Bible is not only the book of God, it is also the book from God. At least this is the way in which it gives its own account of its origin: "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God" —that is to say, is "Godbreathed" (11. Timothy 3:16). Again, in 11. Peter 1:20, 21, we read: "Knowing this first, that no phophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation (or origin, for It seems clear, that it is to the source rather than to the exposition of the scripture that reference is here made). For the prophecy -came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." Here are some very clear and definite statements concerning the source of the scripture. It is this "God-breathed" element that differentiates this book from all other writings. The Bible is quite often referred to nowadays as splendid "literature." Well, the Bible is that, but it is more than that —it is scripture. Literature is the letter; scripture is the letter Inbreathed by the holy spirit. Just as in the creation of man we learn that man became a living soul when that frame of dust, as it lay on the ground, became inbreathed by the spirit of life from God. Man is dust Inbreathed by Deity; and if you take away the spirit of life from man, he returns to dust So is it with the Bible; It is the letter, but it is the letter inbreathed by God's spirit that makes that letter scripture. And when you rob the Bible of its inspiration you have nothing but mere literature left —you have no scripture. The message of the Bible is a religious message. Its aim and purpose is to bring man, who has been estranged from God by reason of sin back to the God from whom he has been estranged. The scriptures, which are given by inspiration of God, are for the man of God, that he may be Instructed in righteousness; mark you. In righteousness, not in science, or art, or poetry, or history, important aa these things are in themselves. We come to the Bible to find God.

The Bible is the Book of God and religion. There are other books besides the Bible, we are told, that reveal God to us; e. g., the book of nature, and the book of providence. We admit that nature reveals God to us. That the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork, we