Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 315, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1902 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1U02.

DAMAGES FOR A DEATH

MRS. MRV MAM MI-: 0TKI CTIO (MVAH FOR glo.OtMI. Settlement of a Case In the Federal Conrt Divorce t oniplainta and 1 Other Conrt Matter. The accidental death of Jeremiah Grady from Injuries received in a work train wreck on the Indianapolis & Martinsville Electric Railway on July J5 was recalled in a suit filed yestrrday in the Circuit Court. Mrs. Mary Grady, wife of the decased and administratrix of his estate, filed a suit against the Ilogue-Graydon Construction Company for tiO.ooo damages for his death. She avers in the complaint that her husband met his death while a laborer employed by the construction company in a wreck of flat cars used in the construction of the new trolley road at a grade three miles from Indianapolis. She says the wreck was caused by the construction company's faMure to provide proper mechanical i vices and brake appliances on the cars, which might have averted the collision in which her husband was killed. ! THE FEDERAL COIRT. Verdict for American Iron nnd Steel Company llicronimua "Broke The American Iron and Steel Company, f Reading Pa., secured a verdict in the Federal Court yesterday for $11,500 against the Midland Steel Company, of Muncie. The case was tried some time ago and the American Company was awarded 19.000, but the Midland Company secured a reversal and a new trial. The suit was over a contract between the companies whereby the Midland was to furnish seven hundred tons of steel billets to the American Company. The American Company charged failure in this contract and consequential damages. The auit of Albert Blair, of Huntingburg. against the Southern Railway Company for 120,000 damages for personal injuries was put on trial hefore a jury in Judge Baker'a court yesterday. The federal grand Jury will convene today. There are no cases coming before It other than the routine matters from the United States Commissioners' Courts, mostly pension, postal and counterfeiting law violations of small character. The receivers for the Avery & Rouse and Minnesota Thresher Companies filed a bill In the Federal Court yesterday seeking to enjoin the Rumley Company from using an alleged patented device controlled by the f)laintiffs. The Rumley Company's factory at Laporte. Luther B. Hieronimous and G. K HieronImous, of Wabash, filed bankruptcy petitions. The first owes 13.04 and the other 12,376. The assets are trivial. Mrs. Dobson Aaka Support. Rosa B. Dobson names her husband, Thomas J. Dobson, and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as defendants in her auit for support filed yesterday. Dobson is employed by the insurance company and salary is due him from it monthly. He Is accused by his wife of deserting her and their three children in July and failing to support the family since then. Mrs. Dobson and her children have been objects of charity since Dobson left home and she la suing to compel her husband to allot $h) a week of his pay for the support of his children and for $200 to pay obligations they have Incurred since July. Clara Belle Poaton Snea. In October last a street car on the North Indianapolis line ran into a wagon on Northwestern avenue and knocked it off the track. The passengers of the car were all shaken up and among them was Clara Belle Poston. She waa scratched and bruised by being thrown forward in her scat and her arm was dislocated. The injuries cause! expenditures for medicine and surgical attention and will permanently disable her, she avers in a suit filed for SJ.'XJü damag' against the street-car company yesterday. Woman Fined 50 and Coata. Acting Judge Connoway fined Mrs. Ruby Kriettner. a well dressed woman. $.j0 and costs, yesterday, in Police Court. Charges were made against the woman by the parents of a fifteen-year-old girl. It was said that the girl had been enticed from her home in Louisville by Mrs. Kriettner and brought here for immoral purposes. The mother of the girl wrote a letter to Superintendent Taffe. The girl appeared in court, but was allowed to go to the home of her grandparents, in this city. Couldn't Stand the Indignity George J. Kirkpatrick went home drunk Saturday night and after abusing his wife and his two children threatened to kill airs. Kirkpatrick, and, to show that he meant to execute his threat, he went into the back yard and fired a shot from a revolver Into the air. Mrs. Kirkpatrick could not stand this indignity and filed a suit for divorce early yesterday morning, in which she asks the custody of the two children and $2,000 alimony. Probate Commissioner Reappointed. Probate Commissioner Merle A. Walker waa reappointed by Judge Allen, of the Circuit Court, yesterday to serve four years more in his office. Judge Allen's term as Circuit Judge will end in 1908, and when Commissioner Walker's second term of four years ends In 190, he will be reappointed again it is understood. If he is appointed in 1908 his four-year term will . carry him to 1910, or two years longer than Judge Allen's on the Circuit bench. After a Long; Time. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Davis have been married for thirty-two years, but their relations now are so uncongenial that yesterday Mrs. Davis filed suit for a divorce against her husband. In the complaint she alleges that he abandoned her In Indianapolis in lssl and since then has failed to provide for her and has ignored their marriage agreements. Girl Sent to Inatltntion. Daisy Lowe, a young woman who has given her family much trouble by her waywardness, was committed to the Industrial School for Girls by Judge Alford In the Criminal Court yesterday. IMTKD STATES SI PRE MF COURT. Lottery Caaea Reatnred to the Docket Derlalon Aaalnst Basker Dreyer. WASHINGTON. Nov. 10. Chief Justice Fuller, In the United States Supreme Court, to-day announced that the two cases of Charles F. Champion and John Francis. Involving the right to transmit lottery tickets by express, would be restored to the docket of this court for argument before a full bench and aet the hearing for Dec. 8. The cases are to be heard as one, as heretofore and the order Issued to-day gives the place at the head of the docket for the day named. The Champion case has already been twice heard and the Francla case has had one presentation In the Supreme Court. Champion reaides in Chicago and Francis in Cincinnati. The decisions In the lower court tu both cases were adverse to the defendants. The United States is prosecuting in both cases. The Using of Dec. I for the argument of the cases before a full bench is taken as Indicating the confidence of the court that Justice Holmes, the newly appointed member of the tribunal, who has not taken hla seat, will be confirmed by the Senate during the first week of the coming session of Congress. About twenty other cases involving constitutional questions which have heretofore been argued were also restored to the docket and the hearing are to follow the argument In the lottery cases. Some of these cases Involve the constitutionality Of the mercantile tax in Territory of Alaska; others, the validity of the Kentucky State law for the btxaUoo ot ftffy lines

doing business between that State and other States and still others reviving law cases. The case of the Territory of Hawaii vs. Osaki Man Ki Chi. a Japanese, also was set down for a rehearing, the date being fixed for March 2, next. The United States Supreme Court today granted a motion for an early hearing in the case of Jackson W. Jlles vs. the Board of Registration of Montgomery. Ala., involving the question whether the suffrage provisions of the new Constitution of the State of Alabama is repugnant to the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United Stat s Jlles, who is a negro and resides in Montgomery county, alleges that the board refused to register him and 5.000 others of his race on account of their color, while certificates were issued to all white men who made application. This, he says, was done to prevent the members of his race exercising the right of franchise in the recent election. The question of jurisdiction Is the principal point involved in the case and there will be no oral argument, the case being presented on printed briefs. The Supreme Court to-day affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court of the state of Illinois in the case of Edwin S. Dreyer. former a memb r of the West Chicago park commission, charged with having failed to turn over to his successor $316,013 of public funds. He was found guilty under this charge and sentenced to a term in the state prison. The case was then brought to the federal Supreme Court on a writ of error, ' fl the ground that the punishment was in violation of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States in that he was to be deprived of liberty without due process of law. Several points were involved In the case, the principal one being the constitutionality of the parole law of the United States. The court did not pass on this point beyond pronouncing the opinion that as no federal question Is involved in it. the court Is without jurisdiction. The opinion was delivered by Justice Harlan. The announcement was made by Chief Justice Fuller to-day that the United States Supreme Court would take a recess

from next Monday until Dec. 1. i THE COI RT RK( ORD. CIRCUIT COURT. Henry Clay Allen, Judge. On motion of Frank C. Groninger, Michael A. Ryan admitted to bar. State ex rel. June Elliott Wesby vs. Harry Mason; bastardy. Dismissed for want of prosecution. Judgment against relatrlx for costs. Dennis T. Murphy naturalized. State ex rel. Sarah J. Stewart vs. George C. Harness; bastardy. Appearing that parties are married, cause is dismissed. Catherine Hoyt vs. Maria Miller's Estate; claim. Submitted to court. Evidence heard. SUPERIOR COURT. Room 1 John L. McMaster, Judge. Grafton Johnson vs. Charles Carpenter; Defendant called and defaulted, sub re. Heard finding and judgment for plaintiff against defendant for $73 and cost?, and that plaintiff Is entitled to possession of premises, judgment accordingly. Susan Porter et al. vs. Eva Porter et al.; partition. Infancy of Eva C. Porter suggested and Aquilla Jones appointed guardIan at lit. Finding that Susan Porter is the owner of one-third in fee of the real estate described in the complaint and tint Nettie Thomas is the owner of one-third in fee, and that defendant, Eva Porter, is owner of one-third in fee. Charles Baxter vs. William Baxter; divorce. On trial by court. Room 2 James M. Leathers, Judge. Frank A. Blanchard vs. Sun Vapor Light Company et al. Trial called. Jury impaneled and sworn. Plaintiff's evidence heard. Defendants file motion to instruct the jury. Sustained. Jury returns verdict for defendants. Jury discharged. Judgment against plaintiff for costs. Room 3 Vinson Carter, Judge. John Castello vs. Jennie Castello; divorce. Dismissed by plaintiff. Judgment against plaintiff for costs. Alfred Burdsal vs. Ora Orton Coe; note. Finding and judgment against defendant for $437. IS and costs. New Suits. Blair A Baker vs. Frederick Waelburg; Judgment for $5.?.3. Superior Court, Room 3. Clara Belle Poston vs. the Indianapolis Street-railway Company; damages, $2,00). Superior Court. Room 2. Rosa B. Dobson vs. Thomas J. Dobson et al.; complaint for support. Superior I .urt. Room 2. .Miry Grady, adm'x. vs. The Hogue-Graydon Construction Company; damages, $10,600. Superior Court, Room 3. IOla M. Kirkpatrick vs. George J. Kirkpatrick; divorce. Circuit Court. Mary Mittay vs Edward C. Mittiy; divorce. Superior Court, Room 1. Elisabeth Davis vs. William C. Davis; divorce. Superior Court, Room 1. - HIGHER COCRTS' RECORD. SUPREME COURT. Minutes. 1980S. The Muncie Natural Gas Company vs. City of Muncie. Randolph C. C. Return to certiorari. 19918. Charles Voaa et al. vs. The Waterloo Water Company, et al. De Kalb C. C. Appellant's request as to time for oral argument. APPELLATE COURT. Minutes. 44. Delia Leonard vs. John Whltstone et al. Tipton C. C. Appellant's reply brief (8.) 4506. William H. Amos vs. Anna R. Thompson et al. Howard S. C. Appellant's dismissal. 4570. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company vs. George Santir. Laporte C. C. Appellant's dismissal. 4472. The Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad Company vs. George W. Tackett. Clarke C. C. Appellee's brief (S) on petition to amend assignment of errors. New Suits. 4. C, C, C. & St. L. Railway Company vs. Henry S. Osgood, adm'r. Marion S. C. Record. Assignment of errors. In term. Bond. 4640. Ellfn Emmons vs. Oscar A. Hard ing et al. Kosciusko C. C. Record. As signment of errors. Waiver of notice. Ap pellant's brief (ft.) 4641. The Edmunds Electric Construction Company vs. Horace Nomotte. Allen 8. C. Record. Assignment of errors. In term. Bond. HECEXT LEUAL OPINIONS. Railroads Protecting Passtrgers from Insult. In an action brought against a street-rail road company it appeared that while the plaintiff and a companion were passengers upon one of the defendant's cars, some of their fellow-passengers, without provocation, began to insult and revile them; to take hold of the plaintiff's hat and to hustle him; that after the plaintiff and his companion had asked their tormenters to desist, without success, his companion asked the conductor to interfere, and that the conductor answered. "I can't do nothing; if I told them to stop they wouldn't do It;" that th conductor at first did nothing, but afterward unit into the car, told the offenders to "stop that fooling" and then went back; that the offenders, who had only laughed at the conductor, then rWwid the4r indignities and finally threw the plaintiff to the tloor and walked over him. Held, that the company was liable in damages to the passenger, and that the company was bound to exercise the utmost vigilance to guard its passengers from vioNnce. (75 N. Y. Supreme Court (Appellate Division, 282. Carriers Protection of Passengers at Station. A Kentucky statute requiring all railroad companies to open their ticket offices and waiting rooms for passengers at least thirty minutes preceding the schedule time for the departure of all passenger trains, fixes what is a reasonable time for the carrier to be required to care for passengers before they have actually taken passage. Therefore, where plaintiff was assaulted in the waiting room of a station about three hours before the schedule time for the departure of her train the company was not liable, in the absence of any contract, express or implied, to accomodate her Cos a longer time than that fixed by the statute. W Southwestern Rep. (Kentucky, Judge O Reari. 795.1 Property Owners Liability for Injuries to Infants. The Suprome Court of llhoSJl Nland in the recent cse of Paollno vs. Kendall has repudiated the doctrine, still widely held, that the owners of land are responsible for injuries to children resulting from the presence upon their premises of unguarded agencies likely to attract the curiosity and presence of Infants. The court says: "We nd no satisfactory ground for the distinction sought to be made between infants and adults in the duty of the owner or occupier of lnd to a mere trespasser to , his premises safe. Law Notes for November J Extradition Fugitive from Justice. To be a fugitive from Justice, in the sense of the act of Congress regulating extrsdl tlon. it Is not necessary that the party charged should have left the Stat- m which the crime is alleged to have been committed, after an Indictment found, or for the purpose ot avoiding a prosecution anticipated or begun, but simply that, having within a State committed a crime, he has left Us Jurisdiction and Is found within

the territory of another when it Is sought to subject him to criminal process. I Southwestern Rep. (Indian Territory). 943. License Tax Voluntary Payment Recovery. The tax collector of a certain district had power, by virtue of a statute, to accept a sum of money in part payment of a license tax due the State by a liquor dealer, and money voluntarily paid by such a dealer on account of the license tax so due could not be recovered from the officer, even though no license was in fact ever issued, and the dealer ceased to engage in the sale of such liquors before the expiration of the license year. 32 Southern Rep. (Florida) b7:-. NEW BUSINESS CONCERNS.

Indlanapolia Men Interested In Mineral Springs Company. The Tellaha Mineral Springs Company has incorporated with a cap'tal stock of 180,000. The directors are Benjamin F. Cook. W H. Hawkins and John F. Messick, of Indianapolis. The George W. Davis Company, of Anderson. Incorporated. The capital stock is jlmofxi and the iirc trs are ;nrso W. Davis, Charles L. Henry. Benjamin F. Overman and Oscar Llndstmm. The Star-Union Oil Company, a corporation of South Dakota, complied with the Indiana law yesterday. The capital stock of the company is Sl.Oao.OOO and the amount of capital represented in Indluna is $10.000. The Winkler Bros. Manufacturing Company, of South Bend, incorporated yesterday. The capital stock is $5o,0U0 and the directors are Fred W. Winkler. Charles H. Winkler, William Knoblock and John Ü. Grim. The Green River Chemical Company, of Boonville. filed articles of incorporation. The capital stock Is liiO.iflrt and the directors are. Bedna Younjf. Charles Shelborn. Charles Hebner. George H Bohannon, John F. Stcinkamp, John Bricker and Clark P. White. The South Bend Advertising Agency, a corporation of South Dakota, complied with the Indiana law yesterday. The capital Stock is tStOOO, of which $500 is represented in Indiana. The Indiana I'rinting Company has changed its name to Baker & Thornton. The secretary of state was notified. THREE MEMORABLE DAYS PRESBVTERIAX CONFERENCES IK INDIANA CITIES. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman WJU Re In This City To-Morrovr When the Indianapolis Presbytery Meets. The Presbyterians of Indiana expect to have three memorable days this week. Today will be the first, when Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, formerly pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, New York, will attend a conference of the Indiana Presbytery on evangelistic work at Marion. Tomorrow he will attend the Indianapolis Pi bytery conference In this city, and Thursday will address a similar conference at Terre Haute. Dr. Chapman recently became the head of the Presbyterian national evangelistic campaign, for which $100,000 has been raised. Interest attaches to Dr. Chapmen's visit because he Is one of the promoters and endowcrs of the National Technical School, for which $150,000 has been raised here to purchase the arsenal site. It has been understood that he will be the chancellor of the Institution. He began his career as a preacher at Richmond, Ind., and has held important pastorates at Pittsburg, Philadelphia and New York. The programme for Indianapolis involves the most representative members of the church in Indiana and members of the church frem all over the country are expected to attend. Dr. Chapman will reach here to-morrow morning. The meeting will be opened at 9:30 o'clock by the Rev. L. P. Marshall, of Franklin. He will conduct a devotional hour. The Rev. D. A. Heron, of the Seventh Presbyterian Church, will speak on "The Origin of the Spiritual Life,' and the Rev. T. N. Todd, of Franklin, will discuss "Culture and the Spiritual Life." Dr. Chapman will reach the meeting at 11 o'clock and will be welcomed by the Rev. Owen Daviess Odell. He will conduct an hour of "confession and consecration." The afternoon session will relate to evan gelistic work. The addresses will be, "The Most Helpful Methods," the Rev. W. A. Bodell, Madison. Ind.; "Methods that Appeal to Bus.ness Men," the Rev. G. L. Mackintosh; "Methods with Young Peo ple, the Kev. J. dimming Smith." Dr. e'hapman will lead the open discussion of the suggestions' made by the three speakers. Other subjects to be discussed in the aft ernoon are: The Rev. H. M. Mount. Conntrsvllle, "How to Reach the Backslider;" the Rev. C. G. Richards, Columbus. "How to Reach the Worldling;" the Rev. Robert A. Bartlett. Greensburg, "Methods of Reaching the Moral Man Who Has Not Identified Himself with a Church Organi zation," and the Rev. W. H. McGaughev Terre Haute, "Methods of Convincing Doubters. I. A. K. Hackett. of Fort Wayne, will lead the discussion. Between 4 and 5 o'clock Dr. Chapman will lead a service inspirational in charac ter. In the evening the Rev. M. L. Haines will preside. Dr. Chapman will deliver a sermon, and a short address will be made by the Rev. George Knox, state superin tendent of hon. missions. 'Down to Sleep." November woods are tare and still; November days are clear and bright; Each noon burns up the morning's chill; The morning's snow it. gone by night; Each day my sts grow slow, grow light. As through the woods I reverent creep. Watching all things He "down to sleep." I never knew before what beds. Fragrant to smell and soft to touch. The forest sifts, and shapes, and spreads; I never knew before how much Of human sound there Is In su h Low tones as through the forest sweep When all wild things lie "down to sleep." Each day I find now coverlids Tucked in, snd more sweet eyes shut tight; Sometimes the viewless mother bids Her ferns kneel down, full in my sight; I hear their chorus of "good night;" And half I smile, and half 1 weep. Listening while they lie "down to sleep." November woods are bare and still; November days are bright and good; Life's noon burns up life's morning chill; Life's night rests feet which long have stood; Some warm, soft beds, in field or wood. The mother will not fail to keep. W here w can "lay us down to sleep." -H. H. I., i hi t; M ii I t-!leve money can be m?de if you will let me do Hamlet. Bumiii .--. Manager I don't care who you 4q just tt ou leave me aluus.

THE IRON BRIGADE

A STORY OF THE ARMY F THE CHAPTER IV. WHAT WAS FOl'ND AT MANWS3AS. Dark and dreary the winter of dM first year of the war closed in on the 'amps about the capital. Between the Long bridge and the heights of Arlington lay a sea of mud. Dull red. the Virginia roads were gullied deep by the wheels cf can non, ambulance and army wagon tha sank now to the very hubs in sticky mil and time and again stalled the needed supplies almost within sight of their destination. In vain the darky drivers doubled their teams and plied lash and blasphemy. Hour after hour the order would ring through the swarming streets of the nearest camp: "Turn out, boys! More wagons stuck in the mud!" and by whole companies regulars or volunteers, the men would wade knee deep to the scene, and with' fence rails as levers and drag ropes ovt the brawny shoulders, plying, pushing, hauling and shouting, they would "yank" the heavy rolling stock, one by one, from the slough of their despond and tide them overjto the next camp beyond, and so, from sleigh to slough, pass them on their final O-stina-tion. But, while the roads and flats werv quag mires, up along the wooded heigl ts the ground was fairly dry and well drained, and there the four regiments, tlvee of which had drilled through August ?n the broad, level plateau of Kaloram . and much of the early fall about Chain hridge, were now kept from morn till night busily at their soldier task. The generrtl held that the less time soldiers had to Mil the happier and heartier they were, and de termined was he that the splendid natcrial confided to his charge should be molded into equally splendid, soldierly shar,' that the one exclusively Western brigade of the now well-organized army should be second to none in point of instruction, discipline and efficiency. To this end drills by squad, company and battalion, all three, v.ere of daily occurrence, followed by dress parade at sundown, and all this supplemented by long, searching inspections every iiunday morning. Presently, too, he was able, by a mile march toward the woods, ti reach an open plain out toward Ball's cross roads, and there have brigade evolutions twice a week. Then the full unlf irm of the regulars had been drawn for th entire command, the Indiana boys shedding the semi-Zouave garb of gray in favor of the army blue, as had certain of their Wisconsin comrades at Chain bridge as e:rly as September. One Badger regiment, t le Second, whose men lorded It somewhat over their fellows because they had b en all through Bull Run. and, despite falrl ' heavy losses, retired in good order hn! even obtained the quaint, stiff, Kossuth hat, looped up on one side and garnished with cord and brasses and feathers th headgear of the regulars at the time arM were dubbed the "L'lack Hats" by envious comrades of other commands. Their .-rlginal field officers had disappeared sonr ?where about the time of that initial battle, and in their place had come a .tock little black-bearded West Pointer as colon l, with a most soldierly ex-captain of state militia as his second, and then the whole orlgade had to be fitted out with white glov-s. and some near-by regulars were detjuled to show them how best to polish thtr belts and boxes, and great was the competition among the four regiments to win thf honor of headquarters guard and orderlies. Then, as freezing weather set in with December, and it became possible for carriages to come bumping and swayiMg over the icy bowlders and ridges into wUich the almost liquid mud had been tranf-'tormed, many generals of rank, and state.-men by the score, and even the President nimself, began paying visits to Arlington and bringing curious and distinguished foreigners with them, and salutes and reviews innumerable became the vogue in fronr of the colonnaded porch of that stately o d mansion. Not very far away Phil. Kearney's fine brigade of Jersey Blues was if camp, and the rivalry between these and he men of the West was keen and continuous. But Arlington lay nearer the city, and so it happened that the "hoith" of the visitors, as their one "exclusively Irish" company put It, were ever to be found at the Badger camps, and Fred Benton was learning how much time it took and money to provide entertainment for the men of mark swarming in Washington and the lines ac- oss the Potomac that first winter of the Vir. But there was one visitor who cost them nothing, who brought them cheer .ind delight, and who could not come tc; often. He came, however, only twice or thrice. He never left his carriage, but s t there lounging comfortably on the bajk seat, usually with Secretary Seward by ,is side, just as he used to come to nearo'r Kalorama, and, after he had chatted ith the general a while, he would drive through the regimental camps to receive the tu multous greeting of "the boys," to wave his hat and smile at them, and soi letimes, when they crowded about him. to top and shake hands with the nearmost, and once or twice to tell some whimsical story that would set his hearers shouting with glee. The President seemed to lind himself thoroughly at hora: among those lads :.rom the far West. But if the rugged features bean od with kindliness and sympathy early in the December days and had ever a smile ia return for the greeting of the shouting boys in blue, senior officers w ho best knew him became aware of a growing anxiety and Impatience on his part ere the Joyou- Christmastide came In, and the crowded camps were jubilant with feasting and good cheer. The beloved little commanding general had been taken ill of a fever ;nd confined to his bed. The President, to whom he owed his appointment, had sj yet no information as to that general'-- plans, and. strange as it may seem, the two or three men in his (McClellan's) confidence were strangers at the White House and the departments. When, in his anxiety and sympathy, the President called in person at the invalid's house he was neith r asked to the bedside nor given Information as to when the general would be able u resume duty. As a consequence the President had to turn to other sources, and Fred's division commander. McDowell, was the first he sought. He was forever askir.g questions as to the condition of the r ids, the possibility of moving guns and trr ins, and showing not a little eagerness when told that through January, at least, th y ought to be hard and firm, but rough. Tien they who read the leading papers of the great North could not but note the clamor for an Immediate advance upon the nemy, a sweeping, overwhelming victory over "the insolent foe" that should wipe out the memory of Bull Run and restore confidence and hope throughout the loyal States, it was pointed out that under the vigilant eye of that famous organizer the army had for rive long months been drilling, drilling, drilling until. In point of preciskn in the evolutions of the battalion or brigade, regulars and volunteers could hardl be distinguished one from the other-that the men were presumably hardened and strengthened tbat they were amply nour

GENERAL Vi! ARLES UN.

c.pvneht. l'.rri, bv O. W. Dillingham ( 'otnpany POTOMAC ished, armed, uniformed and equipped, and that now. barring the possibility of soft weather, there was no earthly reason why the army should not advance and deal to the triumphant Confederates, boastfully awaiting them behind their formidable field works, a decisive and stunning blow at the very scene of our recent humiliation on the plains of Manassas and along the wooded banks of Bull run. Day after day throughout the autumn had "Little Mac." followed by a brilliant retinue, ridden from camp to camp, inspecting, reviewing, commanding, criticising, and, long ago as mid September, after the spirited skirmish near Lewinsville. he had thrilled the listening thousands. Fred and his Badger comrades among them, by the ringing words in which he had assured them the war should be short, sharp and decisive, and for hours the bands had pealed exultant music, "the boys" cheered themselves hoarse in glorification over his stirring declaration: "We have had our last defeat we have made our last retreat," and the mingled appeal and pledge that followed. "You stand by me, and I'll stahd by you." Stand by him? Stand by Little Mac? Such was the faith and love and devotion that burned for him throughout that magnificent command that, as the late autumn rolled by and the promise of speedy action fluttered from camp to camp, there was hardly an officer or man, from division commanders down to drummer boys, that would not willingly have died for him! Never, In the days of his most splendid achievement, surrounded by the marshals of his empire and supported by the Imperial Ouard, did Napoleon himself receive from the hearts of his soldiers a love more spontaneous, from their lips a greeting more thrilling, than did George McClellan as he rode the lines of the newborn Army of the Potomac, practically his own creation, for it was but raw material when confided to his hands. And yet, save for more drills, more grand reviews and ceremonies, and in spite of the clamor of the Nation, the press and the government, it moved aot, and the fine weather of December was gone and January came, and with it the fogs and soft skies and seas of mud again, and stories went from fire to fire to the effect that the President and the people had become irri tated at the long delay, and that Little Mac was being urged and importuned and even blamed. "Let Little Mac alone." said the boys. "He knows what he's about," for even in their Impatience nothing could shake their loyalty. At last, as is well remembered, the President, In th? exercise of his prerogative, took the law into his hands and issued his first order directing the advance of an army in the field. And at last, its corps organization completed now though with generals not of McClellan's choice to the glorious music of the Innumerable bands, in splendid weather and in splendid spirits, the long blue columns filed out from the shelter of the circling fortifications and took the road to Centervllle. Promotion had by this time carried Fred's division commander to the head of a corps and his brigade commander to the head of the fine division in which until now the wild Westerners had been numbered as the First Brigade. Now they became the Third, and were both astonished and disgusted to find that tholr numerical designation depended not, as they were inclined to say, on their soldierly superiority, but upon the relative rank of the brigade commander. It galled them, to tell the truth, to find that the promotion to division rank of the West Point soldier who had organized, drilled and taught them from the start involved a corresponding setback for themselves. Some Badgers took the matter so much to heart as to declare that the general should have declined promotion let somebody else step up to the command of the division rather than see his old comrades moved from the right to the left of the line, from front to rear of the column. In vain were they assured that it really made no earthly difference, that the brigade would take turns at the head of the column on the march, and, as for the line of battle, they would get just as much fighting on the left as on the right. It is strange to see what little things will start a big sensation among young soldiers. Badger and Hoosier, the brigade had a mild case of sulks when it found that its 'comrade commands, made up of New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians, each headed by a West Point general, were now its seniors in soldier rank, because the best they could boast for brigade headquarters was one of their own colonels. Senators and representatives, egged on by letters from "the boys," flocked to the White House and the War Department to "see about this" and have it rectified, and came away reconciled from the one and ruftted from the other. The new war secretary was as like Cameron as J cactus is like the cowslip. Even then, at the outset of hia career, he was all spines and bristles. The patient President, howeverwas ever man more patient? listened without interruption to the somewhat vehement words of the Badger statesmen who had assured the boys, "Black Hats " and all, that they would see them righted. With downcast eyes, his shaggy head on one side, his long, bony, muscular hands extended, finger tips touching over the right knee, his wide mouth twitching sometimes into a semblance of whimsical smile, Mr. Lincoln waited until his callers had finished, then passed a hand through his bristling hair, then clasped both hands behind his big black brown head and threw it upon their support and gazed aloft as though for inspiration, then straightened up, and with the sunshine breaking through the sombre lines about his deep-set eye.-, began: "As I understand it," said he, "the boys want to go back to head the procession, as they did when McDowell commanded the division. Now, to do that I've either got to pull their own general down a peg set him back from the head of the. thre?e brigades to that of one or else find some brigadier who ranks such fellows as Augur and Patrick, take him away from the brigade he has been licking Into shape and set him over our friends and neighbors from Wisconsin and Indiana that, too, gentlemen." and here he reached out and picked, up a bundle of papers from his desk, "when at least a dozen smart young W ft Point captains and all the four colonels are being pushed by their friends as the right man to succeed to the command of that particular brigade. You see, they apprei '.te the stuff our Western lads are made of. Now. I can't reduce your Western general, and the boys wouldn't thank me for sending them a total stranger. You jmt say to them for me that I'll send 1hc m a brigadier presently who'll see to it that they get everything in creation they are entitlfd to fighting, feasting or fun and I'll warrant they'll be satisfied." "You wouldn't care to give up his name, Mr. President," suggested the ambassadors. "I shouldn't care If I knew for certain but Stanton might. You see. we've got a new housekeeper In the War Department

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