Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1913 — Page 3

the CIVIL WAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

May 18, 1863. v The marquis of Clanricarde in the British house of lords accused President Lincoln of having acted unfairly and illegally toward British shipping, and said that it was absolutely necessary for her majesty’s government to take more action than it had hitherto done in defense of the rights of the English shipowners. Earl Russell in reply, stated that every complaint that had been made by the owners of vessels seized by Federal cruisers had been duly considered, and that the law officers of the crown had decided that no objection could so far be fairly established against the proceedings of the United States prize courts. The earl took advantage of the opportunity to deny the statement that the British government had connived at the construction and escape of the Confederate cruiser Alabama, and to repeat the assurance that England had no desire to interfere unfairly in the dispute between the north and the south. Lord Derby expressed approval of Lord Russell’s speech, and the marquis of Clanricarde, being satisfied, withdrew a motion asking fcr copies of reports concerning the proceedings of Federal prize courts. Twenty-two whites of the Second Kansas artillery, and thirty-two negro soldiers, on a foraging expedition near Sherwood, Mo., were attacked by a large force' of Confederate Irregulars under Colonel Livingston, and driven six miles into their camp with severe loss. Only twelve of the whites escaped, and all but one of the negroes was killed, taken prisoner, or wounded. Haines Bluff, on the Yazoo river, having been evacuated by the Confederates, was occupied by a National force under Admiral Porter. Two bodies of National troops fired into each other near Carrsville, Va. Three men were killed and four wounded.

May 19, 1863. The Confederate schooner Mississippi, from Mobile for Havana, with cotton and turpentine, was captured by the gunboat De Soto. The National cavalry under General Milroy had a brisk skirmish with Confederates six miles from Winchester, Va., killing six and capturing seven. A force of Confederate partisans captured Richmond, Clay county, Missouri, and the National fort defending it, after a severe fight, in which two officers of the Twenty-fifth Missouri were killed. A lieutenant belonging to the captured party was shot after the surrender. The Spanish steamer Union was captured by the National gunboat Nashville. General Grant’s forces made an assault on the works at Vicksburg, and were repulsed with terrible loss, gaining only a few unimportant positions.

May 20, 1863. National pickets on the road from Fayetteville to Raleigh, Va., were attacked and roughly handled for the third time in the week by Confederates. The first attack was on Sunday, the seventeenth, when the pickets were entirely surrounded, and escaped capture only by the most desperate fighting. Skirmishing continued until noon, when the National pickets abandoned their advanced positions. The attack was resumed on the 19th, and kept up until this day, when the Confederates were satisfied with the mischief they had done, and withdrew.

Cdl. William A. Phillips, commanding the Indian brigade, had a hard fight with Confederates belonging to the army of General Price near Fort Gibson, Ark. The Confederates crossed the Arkansas river, near the fort, and were attacked by Colonel Phillips. They were driven back with the loss of one major and several men killed.

The steamer Margaret and Jessie, the Annie, and the Kate, arrived at Charleston, S. C., with valuable cargos, having run the blockade. The schooner Sea Bird, recently captured by the National gunboats, was retaken by the Confederates when aground at the mouth of the Neuse river, North Carolina, and burned. The steamer Eagle was captured outside the harbor of Nassau, which port she had just left with a cargo Intended for the Confederates. The Octorora made the capture. May 21, 1863.

Vicksburg, Miss., was completely invested by the National army under General Grant An offer made under flag of truce to surrender the town, with all arms and ammunitions, if the soldiers should be permitted to march out, was refused by General Grant The company of Confederate partisans that had visited Richmond, Mo., two days before, called at Plattsburg and took >II,OOO belonging to the state. A large steamer, loaded with cotton, was sunk in the North Inlet channel of Charleston harbor, South Carolina, by fire from the gunboat Powhattan, - and other blockadera, when she attempted to run the blockade. She had turned ’•ack under t,he

punishment received, but sank beton regaining safety. A An expedition of National troops composed of levies from Maine, New York and Massachusetts, left Bemis Landing, La., on an expedition. A Confederate camp near Middleton. Tenn., was broken up by a force of Union troops. William Robe, a citizen of Morgan county, Indiana, who had been active in gathering information concerning the Knights of the Golden Circle, was shot while at work in his field by a man named Bailey. The citizens of Richmond, Va., organized for thedefense of their city, ahd officers were appointed by Gen. George W. Randolph, assisted by a select committee of the city council. The people of Manchester, across the river, were invited to join the movement. z

British subjects residing in Mobile formed a company known as the British Consular Guards, and offered their services to the mayor to aid in the preservation of good order in the city “in case of insurrection, invasion, Inundation, devastation by fire, or any duty not inconsistent with their retaining their original nationality.” May 22, 1863. Eleven Confederates were captured from a reconnoitering party near Middleton, Tenn. A force of Nationals under Colonel Kilpatrick returned to Gloucester Point, Va., from a raid in Gloucester county, in co-operation with a gunboat and a transport Five mills filled with were burned, and a large quantity of corn and wheat in storehouses destroyed. A bureau for colored troops was established in the department of the adjutant general of the army of the United States.

In a reconnolssance from Newbern, N. C., to Gum Swamp, Col. J. R. Jones of the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania was killed.

The English schooner Handy was captured by the gunboat Octorora. The Confederate steamer Beauregard, Capt. Louis M. Coxetter, ran the blockade into Charleston. Lord Brougham refused to preside at the anniversary meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery society in London, "as such a course seemed to him to be inconsistent with British neutrality.” A lettef from Mr. Adams, the American minister, was read, expressing the thanks of President Lincoln for their moral support, and resolutions were passed expressing sympathy with the success of the emancipation policy. Mr. Vallandigham, under arrest by order of the war department of the United States, Issued an address from the military prison to the Democrats of Ohio. An order was Issued by the secretary of war regulating the business between Washington and Georgetown, Va,. across the river, abusive advantage having been taken of trade relations. -

May 23, 1863. The following petition was circulated in Columbus and other portions of Ohio: “The undersigned, citizens of Franklin county, respects fully represent that the most sacred rights of citizens are guaranteed by the Constitution of our fathers. It has been violated in the arbitrary arrest, illegal trial, and inhuman imprisonment, of the Hon. C. L. Vallandigham. We therefore demand of the president of the United States his immediate and unconditional release.” The Confederate sloop Fashion, having on board fifty bales of cotton, was captured by a boat expedition from the National steamer Port Royal, at a point forty-five miles above Apalachicola, Fla. The entire Union force under General Grant, in front of Vicksburg, made a second assault on the whole line of Confederate fortifications about the town. After a desperate and most obstinate conflict of eight hours, the Nationals were repulsed at all points, with terrible loss. May 24, 1863. Austin, Miss., was visited and burned by the force under General Ellet, commanding the National ram fleet in the Department of the Mississippi. A wagon train laden with commissary supplies, with an escort of thirty colored soldiers, under the command of a white officer, were captured near Shawnee Creek, Kan., by a party of Confederate partisan fighters. * The schooner Joe Flanner was captured by the National gunboat Pembina while attempting to run the blockade at Mobile, Ala. Maj. Gens. A. P. Hilf and R. S. Ewell were appointed lieutenant generals'in the Confederate army. General Curtis relinquished command of the Department of the West in the army of the United States, and General Schofield assumed it, issuing order to that effect

Considerable excitement existed in England regarding the Confederate privateer Alabama, three of the cargoes she had destroyed on the South American coast having proven to belong to British subjects. (Copyright. Utt, by W. G. Chapman.)

Something Just as Good.

The merchant had died and his spirit appeared before the golden gate. "What do you want here?” asked St Peter. "I’d like to come in,” answered the spirit Tm sorry that we can’t let you into heaven, bul we have something just as good I can cheerfully recoa> mend.” —Exchange.

AGED EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA AND HIS HEIR

Francis Joseph, who for slxty-five years has guided the destinies of Austro-Hungary, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria, and his, wife, the Countess Sophia Chotek.

PRINCES TO PAY TAX

Germany Has Overturned Precedents to Maintain Army.

Rulers of the Different States Hesitate Between Patriotism and Thrift, but Will Have to Make a Show of Generous Giving.

Berlin.—Two and twenty sovereign German princes are hesitating; between the rival virtues of patriotism and thrift They cannot decide whether it is sweeter to pay the new war tax, or to put their savings into some brewery stocks. The trouble is that this is the first time the twentytwo kings, grand dukes, dukes and princes have ever been asked to pay a pretty stiff tax on their accumulations.

Now, in a fit of patriotism begotten of the 1813 centennary, Wilhelm 11. has forsworn his resistance; he is ready to be taxed and the other one

DUKE of SAXE CO BURG AND GOTHA

PRINCE of SHAUMBURG LIPPE

and twenty sovereigns have had to follow him. All that is known now is that there will be a “non-recurring contribution” from the capital of real and personal property; and that it will probably amount to one per cent. This the sovereigns must pay. There may also be a new imperial income tax, and this the sovereigns may have to pay also. - A Dresden official newspaper criticises the scheme, and this means that King Friedrich August does not like It Of all German princes, except the young Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Friedrich August is the thriftiest Even sovereigns who are willing to pay are said to feel uneasy. For It is the initial step that counts. For the first time in history the sacred principle that royalties are tax-free is broken. , • “If we may be taxed for any army Increase,” reason the sovereigns, “why may we not for a navy Increase,

for an education increase, or even for old age pensions?” The sovereigns feel all the more doubtful because each complains of suffering from chronic poverty. Kaiser Wilhelm, it seems, feels this most. He has the biggest income, but he is only the fifth richest person In Prussia. Richer than him are Frau Bertha Krupp, who possesses 171,000,000; Prince Henvkel von Donnersmarck, whoi has $63,000,000; Baron von Gold-schmidt-Rothschild of Frankfurt with $40,000,000, and the Duke of Ujest with $37,000,000. After these comes Kaiser Wilhelm with a miserable $35,000,000. Kaiser Wilhelm’s forests and fields are valued at $17,500,000; his forty palaces, country houses, castles and shooting boxes at $10,000,000, and his land sites in Berlin at $4,500,000. That accounts for $32,000,000 out of the $35,000,000. Wilhelm 11. also has land in Westphalia and the Rhine province of unknown value. No other sovereign or prince will pay anything like Kaiser Wilhelm. The crown prince is worth $3,700,000. Kaiser Wilhelm’s brother, Henry? has estates which are worth $2,000,000. Altogether, the kaiser and these relatives are worth $51,500,000. The utmost they will pay in tax is $530,000. “Is it worth while,” ask the hard-up sovereigns, “for the sake of these beggarly sums, to rob us of our privileges and treat us as if we were ordinary men?” They ask themselves that in decent secrecy.

SHOW LEADS TO REVELATION

Boy Who Had Kept Playmate’s Death • Secret Suddenly Makes Declaration Which Clears Mystery.

Harrison, N. J. —A moving picture show indirectly revealed to Mrs. Harry Siegel recently the death by drowning of her six-year-old son, Harry. The boy had .been playing during the afternoon with William Rossel, a seven-year-old schoolmate. William was afraid to say anything about the drowning. While he was with his mother at a moving picture show a film showing boys trying to rescue a drowning mate was thrown on the screen. William suddenly exclaimed: “That’s Just the way Harry Siegel died this afternoon.” Mrs. Rossel grasped William by the arm, bolted out of the theater and hurried to Mrs. Siegel’s home, where William tearfully recited the story of how Harry iiad fallen Into the Passaic river while playing with him on a sand pile, and how he had failed to come up. Mrs. Siegel became hysterical.

DUKE of SAXE WEIMAR

HERE’S NEW GOLF HIGHBALL

Caddie at Country Club Drinks Contents of Sphere—Stomach Pump Saves Him.

Wilmington, Del. —Rodney Warren, a caddie, who heard players at the Wilmington Country club discussing “highballs,” gained the idea that the drink was connected in some the golf ball. Be cut open one of the balls and found it filled with a liquid, which he drank. A stomach pump saved his life. The physician found the liquid in the ball was highly impregnated with arsenic. ,

Rising Sun, Md.—lnfected by his pet dog licking a slight one hand, Raymond Good, of’,this place, is a patient in the Pasteur institute. When Good’s arm began to swell the animal van killed and an examination of its head revealed the presence 'of hydrophobia.

Infected by Dog’s Tongue.

RATIONS FOR 7 $1.01 A DAY

Chicago Charities Start a Campaign to Show Wives How to Buy.

Chicago.—Menus have been prepared by the visiting housekeepers of the United Charities showing how families of seven can obtain a day’s rations for 11.01. , Commenting on the situation, the finance committee of the organization has issued the following statement:

“Here is a situation of which every man and woman in Chicago should take cognizance. One in every seven of the population has come in some way to the attention of social service agencies in one year. Only one in every 300 give support to the United Charties, yet that organization be* friended one in every seven persons in the city in 1912. “The United Charities can continue work on its present basis only two weeks longer, unless funds are forthcoming Immediately. Contributions of any size are welcomed. If one in every seven persons of the entire population is in need, then no organization needs adequate support in order to "Teach them more than the United Charities. Its facilities in the way of trained visitors to serve the distressed need to be augmented at this acute time, not reduced.”

The visiting housekeepers of the socity have been initiating housewives in straitened circumstances into the science of judicious buying. Accounts kept by tenement housewives —even those with reputations for economy—often show bad buying. Three mistakes common to the injudicious housewife have been found to be: First, the loss through buying in small quantities; second, the extravagant price paid for package goods, and third, the loss through buying from custom rather than for food values.

BLIND INDIAN LIVES ALONE

Eschnumkein Paul, Aged Brave of Calispel Tribe, Leads Life of Seclusion.

Spokane, Wash.—Totally blind and living entirely alone, two miles from his nearest neighbor, building fires and cooking his own meals, even to making bread, is Eschnumkein Paul, an aged Indian of the Calispel tribe, according to the story brought here by Father Louis Taelman, president of Gonzaga university. Father Taelman, who a few years ago was a missionary to the Calispel Indians, still is their spiritual adviser, and makes frequent trips to their tented village on the Pend Oreme river, some 60 miles northeast of Spokane. ’But the old, blind tribesman lives apart from his people, a life of the utmost seclusion. "I was amazed at the case of old blind Eschnumkein Paul,” states Father Taelman. "I investigated his condition. He is stone blind and yet he lives entirely alone, two miles from

Eschnumkein Paul.

the nearest neighbor. The wonderful part of his story is that he travels at will, always going directly to the place at which he desires to visit. He never gets confused in roads by taking the wrong one, in a small cabin throughout the year without assistance. He builds all his own fires and prepares his meals. He can cut his meat or make bread as good as most persons who have the use of their eyes. “The only way in which 1 can account for his strange case is that the wonderful Instinct, which every Indian has. has become so acute in him during the 40 years of his blindness that it has taken the place of his eyes. "Among the Calispels there is a great deal of blindness and bad eyes, due to the smoke from their tepee fires. It has proved a great detriment to their more rapid advance in civilization. The old head chief. Masalah, is blind.”

Man With Too Many Wives.

Philadelphia.—Albert R. Helnkle, thirty years old, is charged with bigamy, it being alleged that he has three wives. A woman who says she is wife No. 3 and who before her marriage, less than a month ago, was Mary G. McKernan, made the charges. Wife No. 2 produced her certificate and a search is being made for Josephine Helnkle, said to be wife No. L

The Main Issue

By REV. J. H. RALSTON

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TEXT—Rev. s*—For thou wast slain and bast redeemed us to God by thy blood.

from sin through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ”

The goal of salvation with very many, and Indeed, with almost all, is getting to heaven —if a man gets to heaven he is saved. Presuming that the answer is correct, and barring the advent of Jesus Christ which will pre-, elude the necessity of the Christian dying and his soul going to heaven as they now do, we may endorse that position. Let us note here some of the conceptions of salvation that men now hold, and of which we hear them speak, but are a part of personal conviction; in some cases, however, nothing more than feeling. In speaking of this we would not impugn the sincerity of those who bold them, but we are convinced that many of them are fatally m lßtaken - We have only space to note three of these exceptions. I. One man says: "Man is saved through the inevitable operation of evolution. Man has been placed upon earth for the purpose of development, and if he exists beyond this life that development will continue until he reaches perfection.” That is a widely received view, and the recent revival of the evolutionary theory as developed in scientific investigations, has largely strengthened it. Such writers as Alfred Tennyson, who speaks of that period "Far off, at last, to all,” etc., have largely strengthened the idea, and it is known that evolutionary preachers, if they do not generally deny the salvation taught by Paul, as some do, so emphasize evolution that the salvation of man is involved in the principle, and consequently nothing else is needed. 11. Many, indulge the conception that man is saved by right living, but just at this point of right living there is difference of opinion as to what we mean. Many promptly say it means doing what is right, but do not define the word right We must have some criterion of judgment, and we inquire for that Many, if pressed, will say, It is acting in accordance with the teachings of the Bible, but here again there is difficulty, for many only consider the teachings of the Bible with reference to their relationship to their fellow men, and they claim that if. they act honestly in their dealings with their fellow men, or as has been recently said, give every man a square deal, they are acting in accordance with the teachings of the Scripture. But, if a man is honest, must he not {consider more tifim his fellow men? Does he not have God. who is the author of the Bible, to deal with? Is there nothing owing to him, aside from honesty in our dealings with our fellow men? What about high morals that are really personal, and what about the demands that are made upon men as to the worship of God, the dissemination of religious truth, the individual religious life, involving the study of God’s word, etc.?

111. In these days there Is a widespread conception that a church connection, or church life, is the essence of salvation, consequently multitudes are easily persuaded to connect with the church, and to adopt a more or less faithful church life. We have no time to call attention to the master’s well-known denunciations of the churchism of his day, of the tithing of mint, anise and cummin, or Paul’s teachings touching mere churchism in his day. The religion of Christ and the apostles was the religion that must have not only the shell of profession, but it must have the kernel of reality before God. Here is the main issue, and a recent writer has in true and beautiful lines presented the thought In connection with holy communion: “Savior divine! O evermore abide In my cold heart! Redeemer, blessed Lord! 1 - ~ By all the powers in heaven and earth adored; JlVhen flowed the dear blood from Thy wounded side By God forsaken and by man denied— Why was the crimson stream thus free ly poured. It man by love was not to be restored? O! mighty theme! that doth debase my pride: And cast contempt en all the things of earth; If angels are not faultless in His sight. Of what account are we, who. from OUF birth. Wander afar from heaven, and heaven’s dear light? Yet it was not for them. b*t us H» died. And with Him all our sins are erocb> fled!” w *JWvJLWOUs I

For decades after Luther’s refor* mation, in England after the Wesley revival, and in this land and Great Britain just after the Moody evangelistic campaigns, it would not have been difficult to answer the question: "What is it to be saved?” for the answer would have been uniformly: "To be redeemed