Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1913 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

May 11, 1863. Gen. John H. Morgan, with his force of Confederate cavalry, defated a body of National troopß under Col. R. T. Jacob in a stubborn fight of seven hours in the vicinity of Greasy Creek. Ky. The loss as reported in the north was: Confederates 100 killed and wounded; Federals, 25 killed and ,wounded. Crystal Springs, Miss., on the New Orleans and Jackson railroad, was entered and burned by a party of NatlonaT cavalry. C. L. Vallandigham’s application for a writ of habeas corpus was brought before a United States circuit court at Cincinnati, and was denied. t Way 12, 1863. Confederate forces under General •Gregg, were attacked by the Union army under General McPherson at iMcßaymond, Miss., and driven from their position in a stubborn unent which achieved the importance •f a battle. The Confederates fell •lowly, leaving the National's in possession of the field, but too shaken to follow their advantage. ▲ force of National troops under Colonel Davis, First Texas cavalry, left Sevleck’s Ferry, on the Amite irlver, Louisiana, on an- expedition along the Jackson railroad. They struck the railroad at Hammond station, where they cut , the telegraph and burned the bridge. A party of sixty Confederate cavalry was encountered by a heavy force of Nationals between Woodburn and Franklin, Ky., and put to flight. S. L. Phelps, commanding the Tennessee division of the National fleet; Mississippi Bquadron, took on board his gunboats fifty-five men and horses of the First Western Tennessee cavalry, under the command of Colonel Breckinridge, and landed them on the -east side of the Tennessee river, sending the gunboats to cover all the landings above and below. Colonel Breckinridge dashed across the country to Xiinden, surprised a Confederate force, ■captured several officers and thirty mpn, horses, army wagons, arms, etc., burned the courthouse, *containing a •quantity of Confederate supplies, and returned to the boats without casualty. May 13, 1863. The expeditionary force under Colonel Dafis, which had deft Sevieck’s Ferry, La., the day before, In an expedition along the Jackson railroad, encountered a force of Confed•erates and Choctaw Indians at Pont--chatoula, La., which he dispersed, after a sharp skirmish, in which seven Indians were taken prisoners. Colonel Davis destroyed, the Confederate camp at that place. The English schooner Sea Bird was captured by the gunboat De Soto. A party of Confederate partisans attacked a Union train at South Union, Ky., and did considerable mischief before they were driven off. The schooners A, T. Hoge and Wonder were captured by the gunboat De Soto, the former at Mobile bay and the latter at Port Royal, S. C. Yazoo City, Ark., was captured by the fleet of Union gunboats under Admiral Walker. The Confederate troops evacuated the place, first, dethree rams that were being constructed there. Everything of value in the navy yard, and a saw mill, were destroyed by Lieutenant Walker, property to the extent of 12,000,000 being demolished.

May 14, 1863. Jackson, Miss., was oaptured by the Union forces belonging to General Grant’s command, after a fight of over three hours. Gen. Joseph E. H. Johnson was in command of the Confederates, who retreated toward the north. A detachment of the National expeditionary force under Colonel Davis, operating from Sevieck’s Ferry, on the Amite river, in Louisiana, destroyed the tannery, grist and saw mill, together with a steam engine at Hammond Station, on the Jackson railroad, Louisiana. A reconnoitering party of National troops, sent out from Fairfax Courthouse, Va., encountered a Bmall force of the Black Horse Confederate cavalry five miles beyond Warren ton Junction, and dispersed them, after a brief skirmish. A. Manilla, a noncombatant, near whose house the encounter took place, was killed. May 15, 1863. Colonel Davis, moving from Sevieck’s Ferry along the Jackson and New Orleans railroad, in Louisiana, encountered r force of .Confederates at Camp Moore, and defeated them, with considerable reported loss. After the fight he burned the camp, the railroad station, bridge, and a large quantity of Confederate property. William Corbin and T. P. Graw. found guilty of enlisting In the Confederate service within the Union lines, were executed at Johnson’s Island, near Sandusky, Ohio. The Confederate schooner Royal Yacht was captured by the National hark W. G. Anderson. . Confederates captured two small steamboats in the Dismal Swamp «ynal, North Carolina. The ship Crown Point was burned

«■ the high mss south of the equates by the Confederate privateer Florida. The National force under General Peck was roughly handled in several savage infantry fights in the vicinity of Carrsville and Suffolk, Va. May 16,1863. 'A detachment of Pennsylvania and Virginia National cavalry, sent out by General Milroy in pursuit of a company of Confederates that had captured a company of Union cavalry the previous night, came up with the enemy at Piedmont Station, in Fauquier county, Virginia, and effected a recapture of the entire body, together with a number of their Confederate captors. Captain Vitt, commanding the National troops, and one sergeant, were killed. The United States steamer Monticello captured the Confederate schooner Odd Fellow off Little River inlet, NCrth Carolina. General Palmer, accompanied by an escort of Twenty-five ~men, and fifty men of the Middle Tennessee Union cavalry, made a sabre charge at Bradyville Pike, near Cripple Creek, Tenn., on eight-five men of the Third Georgia regiment. The Confederates, carrying no sabres at the time, were at a heavy disadvantage, and lost in killed, wounded and captured, after a desperate struggle against the odds. General Grant continued his spectacular movement in the interior behind Vicksburg with a purpose of severing the city from the support of the Confederate armies in .the vicinity. On this day he attacked and defeated the army under General Pemberton, driving it behind the Big Black river, in the battle of Champion Hills, or Baker’s Creek, Miss, A force of Confederate cavalry attack and badly whipped a reconnoitering party of the First New York mounted rifles, Major Patton, hear Suffolk, Va, May 17, 1863.

The Confederates under Pemberton were defeated again at the Big Black river by General Grant, who drove them definitely into their defenses of Vicksburg, with great loss. By this action Grant had won the seventh engagement in as many days and accomplished his purpose of cooping the enemy up in the town that he had been operating against since the previous year. Jackson, Miss., was evacuated by the National forces under General Grant, left there to watch the movements of General Johnson and prevent his coming up with help for Pemberton. The First New York cavalry, that had suffered severely at the hands of Confederates under Moaby the previous day, went out in force to punish him. Coming up with the enemy at Berry’s Ford, on the Rappahannock, .the Nationals administered a sharp beating to them, and recaptured the prisoners taken the day before. The Confederate government steamer Cuba was destroyed by the National gunhoat De Soto in the Gulf of Mexico, off Mobile bay. ' The schooner Isabel, attempting to run the blockade at Mobile, was run close ashore under the walls of Fort Morgan, and Master’s Mate Dyer was sent with boats to bring her off or burn her. They were just in time to capture sixteen passengers and crew. Finding it impossible to bring the schooner off, he set fire to her and pulled for his ship. Finding, that the schooner was not burning properly, Dyer put back, although the forts were atermed and alert, and did his work more effectively. The Confederate schooner Ripple was captured by the Federal gunboat Kanawha, blockading at Pensacola, Fla. Confederate partisans visited Burning Va., and destroyed the ollworks there. (Copyright, 1918, by W. G. Chapman.)

MISTAKES MADE BY AUTHORS

Bome of the Amusing and Astonishing Stupidities of Well Known Writers. Not all the . literary stupidities are in Flaubert’s portfolio qf human stupidity, as described and sampled by Guy de Maupassant. One French writer used the startling phrase, “He was seventy years old, and looked twice his age;’’ another, “The two adversaries were placed at equal distance from each other.’’ This sounds like a passage from an American best seller, bat who was It that said:.“With one hand he fondled her hair, and with the other he said to her . . .?*■ It was Corneille the greater who wrote: “This shall cost Pompey his life and his head.” The dramatist Scribe, in his Inaugural speech before the JFrench academy, reproached Moliere with having failed to mention In any of his works the Revocation ol the Edict of Nantea. (This occurred in 1686—when Moliere had been dead 12 yews.) Hugo, apostle of antithesis and local color, makes Charlemagne say in the “Legende dee Siecles:” "You dream, like a clerk in the Borbonne,” an institution founded in 1263. Of the critic Janln it has been written: “He had a horror of ine» actitnde.” All the same Janln makes Bmyrna out to be an Island; Cannes on the Mediterranean to be the central Italian Cannae; the River Rhone to pass through Marseilles —50 miles away.—Paris Revue. * \

Definition.

. ’Taw,” Inquired the humorist's small son, looking up from his pioture book, “what la a toreador?” The humorist rubbed his momu» sary gland for a minute. “Well, my son,” he replied, with do liberation, “a toreador la a bully boj of 8 pain.”—Judge.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Mrs. Mary Winthrop Turner of New York, whose exhibit at the French 'Bull Dog Club of America won high praise, is shown here with “Beautiful Doll,” a large white French bull that was considered the finest specimen in the dog show.

VAIN WAIT FOR ‘WEED’

Snowslide Peril Is Met in Quest of Tobacco. Mining Camp’s Supply Destroyed Through Accidental Explosion of Dynamite Close to Camp—--Buven-Up Game Is Played. Washington.—“Up in the mining regions of the San Juan mountains of Colorado,” said Charles Cavender, an attorney of the mining camps of that state, now on a visit to the capital, “the snow is so deep and treacherous that from the first of October until the first of tie following June a man takes his life ir his hands when he attempts to travel up or down the declivities ot the peak, i or the Bteep slopes of the divides. “Especially is this true in the late spring, wlen the warmth of midday has .somewhat softened the great snow masses. “In the summer of 1911 a force of several hundred men went up to the Sunnysidt mine, perched high above timber liiie amid the eternal solitude of Sultan mountain. They carried with them everything necessary for their maintenai ice and comfort until the following Ji !y—including dynamite for the mine and tobacco, ample tobacco, for the den. “Now, it happened in May that a box of dynamite which, through inadvertence, had been set out against the cache where they kept their package goods, blew up one night, and scattered condensed milk and canned beef and such pickled stuff all over the Uncompahgre range. “They didn’t mind losing these necessities; they could do without them. But when the boys found that every crumb of tobacco in the camp had been blown over into New Mexico they began to look serious. “The first day was bad enough, but when the second sun set upon that tobaccoless crowd they were in a nervous state that made them ready for anything. About ten o’clock that night the superintendent, who found himself too shaky to work or sleep, wandered over to the miners’ bunkhouse and found Big Costigan, a County Carlow man, putting on his snowshoea. “ ‘I bate him at siven-up to say who should go below and get the ’baccy explained Madigan, day foreman, by way of explanation, as Costigan, having obtained a generous contribution fro n all hands, set out on his perilous Josrney, relying somewhat, on the chtll of the night to lessen the danger from snowslldes. “It was a gloomy lot that went down on the o’clock shift that morning. “The day wore on, painfully, slowly, tobaccoless; but at sunset, as the superintendent stepped out of his office to soothe a system of badly jangled nerves with a whiff of fresh air, he spied Costigan stumbling over the crest of the divide a furlong away; staggering, evidently overcome by the climb through the thin air of that high altitude. \ “As they drtnr near, Costigan halted and stood, wavering, swinging his arms aimlessly In the air. A glance showed them two things; one that he didn’t have an ounce of tobacco on him, the other that it was something stronger than rarefied air that made

him reel in his tracks in that aimless manner. In short, Costlgan was gloriously drunk! “ ‘Look here,' rasped the superintendent, ‘where’s that tobacco we’ve been dying for up here for three days?’ “Over the drunken face of Costigan there came a look of soggy, puzzled thought, which, a moment later, gave place to an expression of muchwronged virtue. ‘“'Baccy?’ he exclaimed. “Baccy? You —hie —you ’shpec’ a man t' re—hie —remember eve’y 11*1 thing?’ ”

FEAR VILLAGE IS DOOMED

Swiss Town Is In Danger of Being Covered by Millions of Tons of Rock From Mountain. Geneva, Switzerland.—The downward sliding movement of the top of Mount Cariline, which threatened to overwhelm the village of Fleurler a couple of weeks ago, has stopped, but the people In the valley live In hourly anxiety that the millions of tons of rock and earth above them will fall upon the town. The authorities have ordered the inhabitants of the danger zone to more temporarily. Watchers have been posted on neighboring peaks, connected by Improvised telephone lines, with sentinels below, to signal at any moment, day or night, the recurrence of the movement Deep trenches are being dug at the base of the mountain In the hope of arresting the landslide, if It comes, or at least check It for a few moments. - —— ~

IS A CONFIRMED BACHELOR

Col. E. H. R. Green, Bon of the Richest Woman, Received Too Many Proposals. , Bt. Louis, Mo. —Col. E. H. R. Green, son of Mrs. Hetty Green, richest woman, recently declared he was no longer In the matrimonial market Colonel Green Is still a bachelor. More than

Col. E. H. R. Green.

two years ago he said he would wed an old-fashioned, modest stay-at-home, fireside woman. He said be received so many proposals he became pessimistic.

ERRING SPOUSE BACK

Runaway Husband Is Pursued by New Jersey Minister. Jiloped With Pastor's Daughter and la Captured at Newark—Wife Forgives Hlii) but Boss Doesn’t Bee It That Way.' Pedericktowß, N. J. —William 8. Murphy, the young bank cashier who left his wife and disappeared at the same time that Miss Polly Archer, a nineteen-year-old school-teacher and minister’s daughter, departed from town, has returned. His wife, who had located him in the northern part-of New York state after a long search, met hlmrat Newark asd took him to their home, where they told their friends that he had been forgiven and was going to start life over again. Miss Archer didn’t come back. After she vanished, two months ago, hex father, Rev. George D. Archer of the Methodist Episcopal church, requested & transfer, and was sent to Crozlerville, Pa. It is Bald that Miss Polly has joined him there. Neither Murphy nor his wife would give any of the details- of how he was found or how the reconciliation was brought about, but it was learned that the minister had a good deal to do with the finding of his daughter and the young cashier. They both dropped out of sight on the same afternoon. Mrs. Murphy had an appointment to go to a theater in Philadelphia with her husband and was to meet him at the ferry house in Philadelphia. After waiting a couple of hours she returned home to find that Miss Archer was missing, too. The cashier and the school-teacher had been seen together about Pedericktown and the neighboring villages. Mrs. Murphy, with an uncle, broke open a trunk of her husband’s and found in it a lot of love letters which the minister's daughter had written The subject of divorce was mentioned in each. - There was no trace of the whereabouts of either and it wasn’t known positively whether or not they were together. Mr. Archer enlisted the aid of hjs friend, Rev. Dr. George P. Dougherty of "Newark, and in some way the latter learned that Murphy had been seen in Rochester.

Then, about ten days ago, Mr. Ar cher received a long, pathetic letter from Polly begging forgiveness and asking his permission to come home. He .consented to take her baek and Murphy and the girl were met in New York by Doctor Dougherty and her father. He presumably escorted Polly to his new home in Crozierville, while his fellow-clergyman took charge of Murphy and conducted him over to Newark, where the runaway husband was quartered in the Y. M. O. A, building. Murphy, it is said, made a clean breast of the whole affair and asked Doctor Dougherty to try to arrange matters so that his wife would forgive him and take him back to their home. The Newark minister did this and Mrs. Murphy said she would give her husband another chance. The young man is out of a.job. The bank officials filled his place soon after he dropped out of sight, and they say they do not want him back.

Her Titles Are Tangled.

Ogden, Utah. —Mrs. Maria C. Van Brennerson Vallinga married James Vallinga, a son of her divorced husband here, and thereby became the daughter-in-law of her former husband. The rearrangement of relationships was further complicated in the discovery that Mrs. Vallinga instead of being stepmother, becomes a sister-in-law to her stepchildren, and Vallinga becomes stepfather to bis stepbrothers and sisters. Mrs. Vallinga is her step-mother-in-law. Vallinga is twenty-one years old and his wife la thirtyeight

WEIRD ARE IDEAS REVEALED

Joseph M. Wade Is Dead, Ones Believed He Was Spiritual Husband of Mms. Blavatsky. Boston.—Joseph M. Wade, a wealthy resident of Dorchester, who had been decorated by the mikado in recognition of his charities to widows and orphans of Japan, died in the belief that he was the spiritual husband of Madame Blavatsky, the theosophical leader, according to the story revealed In a master’s report filed In the superior court. The report was upon the suit of Herbert W. Burke, executor of Wade’s estate, against Taman aha A Co., dealers In Japanese curios, to compel them to restore to the estate a hill of sale of a collection of Japanese and oriental articles valued at between 915,000 and 520,000. Burke alleged that Wade was induced to affix his “mark” to the bill when be was too feeble to understand hla acts. His contention was sustained by the court Wade, according to the master's report, had an "occult room” filled with Japanese art objects, where he went to commune with spirits. From the "other world” be gained tbe belief that he would begin to get better or grow rapidly worse by December 16. 1904. When that day passed without noticeable Improvement In health, tbe report states, Wade shut himself up in bis room and died seven weeks later. It was when Wade was shat ap In this room, the report alleged, that the bill was signed.

The Ascension of Christ

By REV. JAMES M. CRAY. D. D. Dws rs *• Mm* !■**»

TEXT—When he had spoken thee* things, he was taken up and a clond received him out at their sight. Acts l->.

out the ascension, lust as that event awaits the fruition of Its purpose in his return again to the earth; for it is not till then that the divine plan concerning his manifested kingdom will begin to approach fulfillment. *■ But that which gives peculiar Interest to Christ’s ascension is its bearing on our spiritual life today, for if we are being established in the faith, enlightened in the knowledge of God, sanctified in our souls and anointed by the Holy Spirit for service, all blessings are the result of our Saviour’s presence in heaven as our interceding high priest at the righthand of God. At the ascension the body of Jesus did not vanish into nothing, for not only did the desciples see him as be went up, but Stephen beheld him afterwards, standing at the right-hand of God (Acts VII. 65-56). Moreover, the angels on Mount Olivet said to the desciples that he would so come In like manner as he was seen to go Acts, 1-11). In other words, heaven Is a locality and Jesus Christ, the glorified God-man, is there. We cannot understand how the original body of Jesus was transmuted into his resurrection and glorified body, any more than we can understand how heavy wated is changed into light vapor, or dark flint Into transparent glass, by heat; but we know that he Is In the same body, although now In another form of existence and standing under ' other laws. How the thought dignifies our conception of human nature and broadens our idea of the scope of the atonement! The presence of his glorified body In heaven takes away any vagueness as to our own glorified bodies being there, if we have been united to him by a living faith—because he lives, we shall live also. Was it not the reward of his obedience to the father in his sufferings and death on behalf of guilty men? Was it not the Joy set before Mm for which he was willing to endure the cross, despising the shame? And yet there is more to follow, when, in the regeneration of the heavens and the earth, he shall sit upon the throne of his power in the sight of the whole universe, and every knee shall bow to him and every tongue confess that he Is lord, to the glory of God the father (Philippians 11. 9-11). Of course we speak now, only of hie human nature, of the God-man considered as the mediatorial prince. Such - terms do not pertain to his deity, in which sense his glory .could not be enhanced and the thought of reward . Is entirely excluded. But the ascension of Jesus Christ means great things for us who believe on him as well as great things for himself. It means the reinstatement of our nature in all its lost honors, in reconciliation with God. It means our reception into Paradise and participation in endless felicity. If Christ had risen from the dead and still remained on earth, we might have been assured of deliverance from the grave, and possibly a protracted residence here; but what we desire before all things is reunion with God, the habitation of glory and the communion of his presence. The ascension secures this. Oh, you to whom these truths have no meaning, In whose esteem they are as foolishnesses, think what you are losing now, and shall forever lose, If they be trues I would have you follow the example of John Keble, who, conscious of his groveling thought* which lay half buried, roamed lawlessly around this earthly waste, exclaimed, i “Chains of nay heart, avaunt, I say— I will arise, and In the strength of love Pursue the bright track ’era It fade away. My Savior’s pathway to His Home above." But it is useless to urge a man to do this without telling him how to do it When, or how, can one obtain this “strength of lore” of which the poet speaks? How can he pursue The right track” whose eyes are blinded by sin other things of the present world.” Who will seek the “home above” unless he shall be awakened to its glories? It is God only who can accomplish these things in human experience, and he begins the work by weakening the ties of earth, and revealing the loathsomeness of sin an{ the peril of unbelief.

This period of the Christian year is especially appropriate to consider that transcendent event in, the elfethly history of our Saviour referred to in these words viz: His ascension into heaven. The incarnation, death and resurrection of JesusChrist are each and all of them incomplete witL-