Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1913 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

May 4» 1863. _ ' !, ■ / ' The Confederates continued to increase, their advantage in the battle between the two main armies in the vicinity of Fredericksburg and .Chancellorsville, Va„ • pressing back the Union army under Hooker, and retaking most of the defenses of Fredericksburg. The affair was already a Confederate victory; the question only remained of the extent to which it could be brought. Capt. Howard Dwight, of General Andrew’s staff, near Washington, La., having been killed after he had surrendered to a Confederate reconnoitering party, General Banks at once qrdered the arrest of one hundred white men nearest the mace of the alleged assassination, to brnheld until further orders. Y The sloop Empress; from Nassau for Wilmington, N. C., was captured by the United States steamer Chicora. The schooner Jupiter,- bound for Mobile, Ala., was captured by the gunboat Colorado. Captain Smith of the Second California volunteers attacked a body of hostile Indians fifty miles south of Shell Creek, Cal., killing five and routing the rest May 5, 1863.

Clement C. Vallandigham, former member of congress, was arrested at his home In Dayton, Ohio, by a detachment of soldiers sent from Cincinnati at the order of General Burnside. Mr. Vallandigham had views concerning the war not popular in military circles. The Third New York cavalry, on an expedition to Pettie’s Mills, twentyseven miles from Newbern, N. C.» captured an entire Confederate company, together with their horses, arms, and equipments. Fort De Russey, on the Red river, Arkansas, fifty-eight miles from its mouth, was occupied by a National force under Admiral Porter. John J. Pettus, Confederate governor of Mississippi, issued a proclamation calling on every man of the state capable of bearing arms to “take the field for united effort in driving or expelling the enemy from the soil of Mississippi.” Great indignation was expressed by anti-war Democrats by the arrest of Vallandigham. They cried out against the overthrow of free institutions by President Lincoln. May 6, 1863.

The National Army of the Potomac, outgeneraled if not outfought, and thoroughly whipped in the three 'disastrous days at Chancellorsville and about Fredericksburg, was withdrawn from that town to the northern bank of the Rappahannock. General Hooker Issued an address to the army, congratulating them on their achievements of the last seven days, which was read with derision by the public. Alexandria, Miss., was occupied without resistance by the Nationals under Admiral Porter. A body of Confederate cavalry under General Ruggles was defeated in a fight near Tupelo, Miss., by National cavalry under Colonel Cornyn. Ninety Confederates were reported in the north as having been taken prisoners. • The steamer Eugenia was captured off Mobile by the National gunboat R. R. Cuyler. , i Southern sympathizers were sent south from Nashville, Tenn., by order of General Mitchell. Among them was Neill S. Brown, formerly governor of that state.

May 7, 1863. * The English steamer Cherokee, while endeavoring to rnn the blockade out of Charleston, 8. C., was captured by the National gunboat Canandaigua. A portion of the Fourth corps, National Army of the Potomac, General Keyes commanding, reconnoitered from West Point, Va, toward White House. They were fired on by a party of ambushed Confederates, but evened the score when they rescued Lieutenant Estes and fifteen men who had been taken prisoners at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Lieutenant Estes was aide to General Kilpatrick. Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Confederate commander at Fredericksburg, issued an order to his victorious army, “expressing his sense of gratitude of the heroic conduct displayed by officers and men during the arduous operations in which they had been engaged.” Colonel Kilpatrick, with his regiment, the Harris Light cavalry, and a portion of the Tenth Illinois cavalry, belonging to the expedition of General Stoneman, arrived at Gloucester Point, Va. General Sherman's force joined General Grant's in the rear of Vicksburg. May 8, 1863. 1 President Lincoln issued a pro mlamation preliminary to the enforce(ment of the “act for the enrollment of land calling out of the National forces, end for other purposes,” defining the (position and obligations qf inchoate {citizens under that law. : The ship,Cras Jane was captured jin Tampa bay, Florida, by the gunboat iTohoma. ( Bari Van Dora, the Confederate

general, was shot and instantly killed by Doctor Peters, Maury county, Tennessee. National gunboats and mortar schooners commenced a determined attack on Port Hudson, Miss., at night The Nevada Union issued a warning to against the activities of Confederate sympathizers in their states, asserting that Los Angeles was little better than a southern colony, where expressions of loyalty to the Union were dangerous, and that an attempt had been made to organize a party to seize Fort Crook, in the northern part of the state, as a rendezvous for guerillas. May 9, 1863.

The Charleston Mercury published an article advocating the following plan, suggested by the Jackson Appeal: “How to meet the enemy—The Northern vandals’ have invaded our state, not to confront our enemies and decide the chances of war in a pitched battle, but they have come to rob and steal, to plunder, to burn, and to starve to death our women and chil’dren. Under such circumstances we should meet them as we would,meet the savage, the highwayman, or the wild beast of the forest. —Partisan bands should He in wait for them on the railroadside, in fence corners, and behind trees; and, in tfhort, they should be hunted down in any and every way that can be made efficient and effectual until the state is relieved of their presence. Not observing the rules of civilized warfare themselves they cannot expect its observance from us. We need more Colonel Blythes in the woods throughout the state. A dozen well directed shots from the bush will at any time put a brigade to flight, and this is the most sure and certain method of putting a stop to the marauding expeditions that are from time to time sent out through the country. In Colonel Blythe's district or field of operations it has proved most efficacious in holding the enemy at bay, and we hope to see the plan put more extensively in practice. A big scare, occasioned by a brisk fire from a chapparel; is often more potent than would be a half dozen regiments of organized troops in the field.” The Federal bombardment of the Confederate works at Port Hudson was resumed at night, and continued for an hour, without response. The Second Indiana cavalry, Col. E. M. McCook, made a reconnoissance near Stone River, Tenn., capturing several partisan fighters and scattering other bands. The sdhooner Sea Lion, from Mobile to Havana, with a cargo of cotton, was captured by the National frigate Colorado.

May 10,1863. * Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson, commonly known as Stonewall Jackson, of the Confederate army, General Lee’s most dependable lieutenant, died at Guinness Station, Va., from the effects of the amputation of his arm and an attack of pneumonia. General Jackson was shot by a party of Confederate soldiers by mistake at dusk in the battle of Chancellorsville. His loss was a tremendous blow to the Confederacy. Brigadier General Davidson of the Union army prohibited in Missouri the sale or distribution of the Freeman’s Journal and the Caucasian, of New York, the Columbus (Ohio) Crisis, the Democratic Journal of Jerseyville, the Chicago Times and the Dubuque Herald. The National gunboats Owasco, Lieutenant Commanding John Madigan, and Katahdin, Lieutenant Commanding P. C. Johnson, after a chase of twenty miles, succeeded in driving the blockade runner West Florida on the shoals at Galveston Island, Tex. The anniversary of the capture of Camp Jackson, Mo., was celebrated. The attack on the Confederate batteries at Port Hudson was resumed early in the morning by the entire fleet of National gunboats and mortar schooners. The batteries replied for three hours, when they were obliged to suspend fire by a shortage of powder. (Copyright. ISIS, by W. G. Chapman.)

Once a Year for Her.

A party of tourists in an automobile were traveling through a mountainous section of country. A halt was made at a log cabin to obtain information in regard to the route. The only visible occupant of the cabin was an untidy, unkempt old white woman, A young woman of the party whose hair had become loosened, went into the cabin and deftly and with dispatch combed and put up her hair. The old woman watched the proceedings with interest. Finally she asked: “Does you comb yo’ hair every day?” “Oh, yes,” was the smiling response. “I never did see," said the old woman with a dubious shake of the head, “how folks could comb their hair every day. I don’t comb mine but onct a year, an’ then it mighty nigh kills mel"

Mask or Civic.

Mask and Civic is a familiar term at this season of East side balls and dances, but its meaning has long been a mystery to some. This incident may serve to dear it up. In an East side hall where balls are a-nightly occurrence, a young woman with her “gentleman friend,” both in street clothes, appeared at the door, and the escort advanced cautiously to the box office. “What is it, mask?” he inquired. •<No.“ “Civic r “Yes." “Come on in, Madge, it’s civic."— New York Post

ELK GIVEN SUITES

Thousands Needed by Government Agents on Preserves. Herds Will Be Kept From Starving to Death and the Overcrowded Ranges Will Soon Be Replenished.

Denver.—The long-promised distribution of elk from Jackson’s Hole and Yellowstone National Park has begun. Thousands of the animals are now being rounded up by cowboys on the overstocked range in Wyoming and Montana, and are being shipped by the carload to states that have sent in requests for them. A carload of eighty elk, rounded up on the Yellowstone Park region and shipped from Gardiner, Mont., the northern gateway to the Yellowstone, arrived in Denver the other day on their way to Arizona. These elk will be turned out upon their new range in Arizona. They will be protected from hunters, under state laws, and will be given every opportunity to increase.

In the last few weeks herds of elks have been sent in this way to Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Dakota, Washington, Oregon and California. Only one of the Arizona consignment died en route. It is necessary to give the elk a rest every day. They are unloaded from all the cars and put into convenient corrals, and, after a few hours’ rest, proceed on their Journey. In this way the loss is comparatively small. The government was forced to adopt this plan to prevent the elk in the west from going the way of the buffalo to extinction. Most of the elk in the Rocky mountains had ranged north until they reached the Jackson’s Hole region south of Yellowstone Park. Here they congregated in vast herds. The number of elk in this region has been estimated at from 25,000 to 100,000 head, but C. D. Nowlin, former game commissioner of Wyoming, whj is now at the head of the work of transportation carried out by the government biological survey, estimates that the smaller number is nearer correct.

Last year congress appropriated a considerable sum for the care and feeding of the Jackson’s Hole elk. which were starving in the deep snows. Government employes, aided by ranchmen, carried, hay to the elk ranges, especially in the early spring. Hundreds of calves, as well as older elk, were dying of starvation. The lives of thousands of elk were saved by feeding, but it was soon demonstrated that this measure of relief was only tremendous expense to keep up the work of feeding so it was determined to distribute the elk among the states that put in applications for herds and that were willing to pay the expenses of transportation and guarantee protection to the animain after arrival.

Many states,have taken advantage of this offer. Probably 1,500 elk have been shipped, and this number will be trebled before the shipping season has ended.

The elk are rounded up in the deep snows and driven to Gardiner. Ranch-

COUNTY’S WOLF HUNT

Montana’s Pest Run Down by Dogs and Men. Colts and Two-Year-Old Cattle Attacked and Mangled While Still Alive In Corral by the Hungry Animals.

Philipsburg, Mont—A big gray wolf that had been the terror of the stockmen of the Rock Creek country, Granite county, since early fall was finally run down by a pack of dogs and a force of mounted hunters. The wolf was laid low by six shots fired on the run by "Jack” Guinnane, a rancher of Rock creek, and Fred Elkins, a professional hunter from Colorado. Mr. Elkins’ dogs continued the ehase for gray wolfs mate after darkness compelled the men to discontinue. Wolves were never seen in the Rock Creek country before last fall. This pair Is supposed to have come across from the Big Hole country. Many depredations among the stock on Willow and Rock creeks were committed by the wolves before stockmen were aware of their presence in this section. A few stockmen who knew of the characteristic manner in which the wolf attacks his prey started the belief that wolves were actually in the country, and the stockmen of Granite county offered a reward of $75 to any one killing a wolf in the besieged section and afterward raised it to 1100, when the effort to sight a wolf proved unavailing by individuals on the hunt About three weeks ago the whole Rock Creek country rose up to the pursuit, but found the wolf a wily animal to deal with. All day the crowd would tracg the animal and just before nightfall be obliged to give up the chase without a result The wolves committed their depredations in the dark of the early morning, visiting pens or fields where stock might be corraled for safety and devouring from the living animal what meat they needed. Colts and two-year-old beeves were their special prey. Sometimes the victims would escape with the toes of their tafia or portions

TITANIC MEMORIAL LIGHTHOUSE TOWER

At the first annual services in memory of those who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster, Bishop Greer in his speech said in part “that the lighthouse tower which tops the new home of the Seaman’s Institute had a fitting significance as it throws its rays across the waters as far as Sandy Hook.” The tablet reads: “This lighthouse tower is a memorial to the passengers, officers and crew of the steamship Titanic, who died as heroes when the vessel sank after a collision with an Iceberg, Latitude 41:46 north, longitude 80.14 west, April 15. Erected by pubUc subscription."

men, state game wardens, forest rangers and YeHowstone Park employes are assisting in the work. It is easy to round up the elk, which become “stalled” in the deep snows. Under old conditions State Game Warden Hudson of Wyoming reported that nine out of ten elk calves born it. the Jackson’s Hole region died before they were four weeks old. In all the government has appropriated close to SIOO,OOO for elk protection. The appropriation is generally approved, as it will result in replenishing the depleted elk ranges of many

of their hand quarters, but would die from the effects of the attack. An attack would be telephoned from one ranch at daybreak, and at the same time fresh tracks of the wolves would be found at another ranch miles away. This made it confusing and discouraging for the stockmen tn pursuit The services of Mr. Elkins, a professional hunter, and his pack of trained hounds were obtained, and since then the wolves have been sighted repeatedly and shot at, but never overtaken until crowded back into the Meadow Creek range. Great relief is felt, and general rejoicing prevails among rachmen throughout the country over the fact that the larger and more vicious one of the pair of wolves has been killed. He measures 5 feet 7 inches from tip to Tsp,“ height 2 TiSmncfiS and weighs 150 pounds. The chase for the female is being continued by the hunters, and it is believed that she will be easily run down, since her “meat getter,” as one of the hunters called the big wolf, is dead.

ADMITS GOOD OF DUNGEON

Warden of San Quentin Penitentiary Credits James B. McNamara With Above Statement.

Sacramento, Cal. —'‘This hau been the best thing that ever happened to me. If it had happened sooner I

WOULD BAR PRETTY TEACHER

"Hoosier Schoolmaster" Believed Ugly Ones Also Should Be Ousted and Happy Medium Sought. Richmond, Ind. —"Don't hire teachers who are extremely pretty or who are extremely homely,” Superintendent of Public Instruction C. O. Williams urged the township trustees at a meeting here recently. Mr. Williams asserted that since compulsory medical examination was required for

states, and will give the fast disappearing elk of this country a new lease of fife. In a few years states which have not had elk hunting for generations will be enabled to issue elk-hunting licenses for brief periods each year.

Woman Cook Gets $10,000 Legacy.

Paterson, N. J. —Mrs. Anna Nugent, employed as a cook in a hotel, was putting the finishing touches on a kitchen range she had been polishing when a cablegram was thrust into her hand telling her of a legacy of SIO,OOO left by an uncle in London.

should have been a whole tot better off.” These were the words credited to James B. McNamara recently by Warden John F. Hoyle of San Quentin penitentiary, telling a legislative committee investigating charges of cruelty

James B. McNamara.

in the prison of the confessed dynamiter’s release from a thirty-oneday punishment term in the dungeon. "He was sent to the dungeon.” said Hoyle, "because he positively refused to agree to quit his minor infractions of rules. When he promised to be good he was released.”

school children, all teachers also should be forced to undergo medical examination, to determine their fitness fsr their work"ReaLoretty girls attract too mnch attention/' the superintendent continued. “and so do the ngly teacher*. A teacher's appearance should be such as not to draw attention to her, therefore the beautiful womdn should ba avoided." The trustees listened attentively, but took no action.

The Christian Amusements

By REV. WILLIAM EVANS, D. D.

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man the necessity* of work, and has distributed “to every? man his work.” Is it not just in thisK connection that we may be justified ini finding fault with the professional' sport, the man who gives up his whole? life to pleasure? When the main thing) In college and university life is atte-4 letlcs are we not justified in protest-? ing that life’s main purpose is being' lost sight of? Play, and amusement is? but a side issue in life; when it be-' comes the whole thing, then it la harmful and sinful, ho matter whether the amusement in question be in the forbidden category or not; then event an innocent amusement becomes mor-' ally bad. Amusement is to work what whetting the scythe is to harvesting;' he who never stops to create an edge toils hard and cuts but little, while' he who whets the scythe all day cute none. If the mother enjoys amusements more than she does her children, the wife more than her domestic duties, the husband more than his home, the man more than his labor, aqd the student more than his books, then amusements are harmful and wrong. 11. The true Christian will see to it that his amusements are really recreative, and not dissipative. A man may Me so long in a bath that he comes out of it exhausted, or he can take a plunge or shower and come out better prepared for the duties of life. So is it with amusements: they may dissipate rather than recreate. Having a good time is not always recreation; it may be just the opposite. The amusements of the Christian should build up the whole man—physically, mentally, morally and spiritually. * 1. The Christian’s pleasures will recreate physically. The body of the Christian is a temple of the holy ghost. Therefore he must keep his body in as good, clean, pure and healthy a condition as possible. The body needs relaxation; it needs rest from the strain and tension of life; it needs new blood, new nerve tissues; it needs to be better fitted for the real tasks that lie within its sphere of labor. Bad thinking often comes from lack of exercise. Some people do not have enough body “to cover the mind with decently.” There may be a time when it Is my duty to play rather than pray, to romp rather than read, to take a good brisk walk rather than prepare a good talk. * The test the Christian must apply to his pleasures is: do they recreate and restore the waste tissues of the body? Excess in athletics is not recreation. Young men have died from overstrain in running; girls have been ruined for life by excessive ropejumping. Many pleasures dissipate the powers of the body instead of recreating them. 2. The pleasure of the Christian ihould recreate mentally. The physical must not be developed at the expense of the mental. Giantism must not supplant intellectualism. Mind is greater than body, as Gladstone and Bismarck are greater than John L. Sullivan or James Jeffries. The Christian must ask himself, therefore, "What effect do my pleasures and amusements have u pon my mind, mythought, my thinking? Do they build up, ennoble, purify, sanctify, or do they debase, defoul, besmirch, debauch? Is my thinking higher, nobler, more God-like because of the pleasures in which I engage?” AU thing* are not to be judged by the eye; the mind discerns also. Shakespeare speaks of the man “who hath a body filled with a vacant mind, gets him to rest crammed with distressful bread-" The Christian is to judge his amusements by this standard. Apply this principle to literature? What books do we read? If the Christian’s master should Inquire: "What readest thou?” what would be our reply? Boware lest our minds become diseased by the reading of light and trashy MV erature. Judge the theater by thia standard. Someone has said: “The laugh of the theater is the laugh that speaks of the racant mind.” Are we purer in thought, more virtuous tn our dreams, sweeter in our imaginations; have wo more earnest views of life; |s the mipd sensualized or spiritualized by attendance upon the theater? Apply this test to the card table. Does this popular amusement furnish recreation to the mind? With its pasits tenseness, its excitement, its late hours, does the game of chance rest and quicken the faculties for the labors of the next day?

I. The trnoj Christian will reaP ize the true reUn tion that should, exist between work) and pleasure. If life is not to* be one round of! work, certainly it is not to be all onet, round of pleasure.) Work, not amuse-* ment, is the business of life. Let us not miss this point. God has, laid upon every!