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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1880.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1*S6.

The inquest which put the responsibility of the murder in East St. Louis just where it . belonged—on the deputy sheriffs in the pay ot the railroads—should be followed by the prompt action of the law in arraigning, trying and punishing them if so be the conclusion, and that it can beany otherwise does not appear from anything that occurred at the time of the murder or since. What is the matter with Hanna? lias the Argentine republic gone back to his bold bucanearing letter, inviting his triends down there to take advantage of the glorious chances for a big “spec,’' as a cause sufficient to ask for his recall, which thing, it is rumored, it has done? The administration seems to be in "hard luck,” in the diplomatic way, while Hanna’s great mistake was in not going to Persia. Gcnekal Sbkiudak consoled the Indianapolis people yesterday bv sayiiiK the ar* ual at that point ought not to!>o abandoned. Without the *unri*e anuFiinset guns at the suite capital the people over there would never know when to get up er when to go to bed.—[Terre Haute Express. People in rural communities, like the chickens, go to bed and get up with the sun, but they should not, therelore, think that the people of a city do likewise. If they did, there wouldn’t be any violations of the eleven-o’cloek law. Frank Hurd was perhaps properly squelched, at the conclusion of his plea for a seat in congress, by the vote which declared he wasn’t elected. We say perhaps, because the method of deciding who is right in these contested coses long ago became such a mere question ot partisanship that the decision is worth nothing. The presumption j- this case arises from the fact that the deuiaion is adverse to the party majority. It is past the time long enough wheu this sort of procedure should be ended and the decision of a contested seat taken out oi the hands of congress and put in the courts. The competition for telephone city franchises is growing broad aud warm. It is the duty pf the council to see that no "Jake Sharpe” operation gets away with a privilege that will make tens of thousands of dollars for somebody, while the citizens have to bear as well as they may with the obstructions and inconveniences that are made by the apparatus that makes the money for that somebody, who is always somebody else. We have had more than enough of the loss and wrong that come of inordinate and ill* used power carelessly granted to corporations, and we have had to put up with it unresistingly and pay some heavy hill* out •ur own pockets in consequence, and have got nothing in return hut a new version of Tweed’s question, "What are you going to do about it?” It is time that money-making franchises to corporations and syndicates made a little money for the public and the city treasury. The popular demonstration azainst Gladstone’s Irish scheme in the large and exciied meeting at the London opera house last night, and the storm of hisses aud groans that mixed with the cheers which went with the premier’s carriage down Parliament alreet the day before, leave little if any room for doubt that the relief of Ireland by the pending measures is a hope too distant to comfort the most sanguine Celt. If the apparent strength of resistance lay mainly in a combination of dissatisfied party leaders—"a union of Blifil and Black George” made by Chamberlain and Salisbury, liartington and Churchill—there might be peril of defeat in its strenjrtif, but no such strong probability, little short of certainty, as now appears. The popular feeling is clearly strong against it. "The preservation of the union” is the "cry” and the sentiment that are rallying so imposing a force of English support to Gladstone’s opponents. It is acting there, as it did here, though under very different conditions. The union of England and Ireland was one of the foulest ol political corruptions in it* last stage,, and one of the most oppressive of oonquests in its first. But the sentiment of union is strong among the English, who are not galled by its action as the Irish tenants of English landlords are; and the Presbyterian Scotch are no more likely now than in the past to give sympathy to the Catholic Irish against the protests and fiery resentment of their Ulster brethren. The appearance of the situation just now is that Gladstone will have to fight a combination of tbo strongest politicians in parliament, and a very large aud ear neat force of popular feeling. The fbanoes are that he will he beaten. But as John Hum said of his burning at the stake, he "is lighting a fire that will never go out” till it consumes the last vestige of injustice in the relations of Ireland and England. A Notable Event. A moat remarkable correspondence is that between Powderly and Jay Gould. The one represents tbo greatest organization of labor the world ever saw; the other represents the most powerful spirit of monopoly, and in his methods is the incarnation of those forms of swindling known as stock-watering, rail-road-wrecking, margin-gambling, and, indeed, the various ways of "cornering” necessities of various kinds to wring from them illicit gain. This correspondence will become notable we think. It runs tar deeper thou the surface points at issue, as any stand for prineiplo always dots. Bat of the Questions at direct issue Gould hna the ad-

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vantage as to the strike. He shows that in the beginning the Missouri Pacific roed communicated with Powderiy nad declared iteeit blameless for any wrong done by the Texas A Pacific. To this Powderly did not reply, and not until this strike a!»ain*t the Missouri Paaifie had passed from an auxiliary phase as part of the demonstration against the Texas A Pacific and become the main issue itself, did Powderiy, to Car as the public knows, attempt a settlement. Th is taken in connection with the strikers’declaration in the beginning that they had no grievance airainst the Missouri Pacific, leaves the cause of that road, as we have said from the beginning, moraiiy unassailable; and we repeat with clearer convielion than ever, that this strike ought to be ended at once, no matter at what sacrifice, actual or ostensible, by the Knight* of Labor. Jay Gould’s subsequent lying and his subsequent bad faith in denying an arbitration of this strike after he had consented to it, do not constitute au absolution. This strike ought to he ended. If after that there remain causes justifying another strike immediately, so be it. This strike oagnt to stop, aud Mr. Powderly’s letter to Jay j Gould affords multiplied reasons why it should. That epistle lifts the antagonism entirely out ot the sphere of a mere difference over wages or a mere question of bad treatment of its employes by a railroad. This is wbv it is notable. This is why it danks Jay Gould wiih a determination in the prosecution ot a principle that rattles that cool heQd of his as it probably ha* not been rattled since he quit the business of peddling mouse-traps and went into that of

Monterey.

We were not many—we who stood Before the iron sieet mat day, Y- t many a gwUnt -pint woti:d Live hail his year* it he but could Have been with as « Mornefey. Now here, now there, the shot it hailed

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lag shout at

Col

r an t them wsiied

Monterey.

on, oar column swept

alts of flame Its withering wi

NV .ere fell the dead the living stept. Still chargia? on the guns which swept

The slippery streets of Monterey. loe himself recoiled aghast,

jen striking a acre the strongest lay;

•cooped hn flanking batteries past,

, brevinv foil their murderous blast.

lisle* play.

• e their ^rave

• the brave

The loe himself recoiled aghast, Wh*- " *’ —

We sv

And, braving fud their murderous blast, .StonasJ horns the tottcre of Monterey. Our banners on those turrets wave. And there our SYe:115g blieb-s play

Where orange t>o

K-.-ep green the memory of I Who fought aud fell at Monferey. We were not many, we who prest

Beside the brave who fell that day;

B it urnoof us has not confessed

He'd roih-.-r share their warri )r»’ rest

Thau not have been at Monterey?

—[Mayae Reid.

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“SCRAPS.”

The daily edition of the London Standard

32J,0b0.

The Baptist home mission society is $150,-

000 in debt.

Plush goods sprayed with chloroform will

he a.i bright as ever.

“Torn out at the heel,” is a slang phrase

for a man who is rattled.

In China the fee for medical attendance is

from 5 to 10 cents a visit.

lie that saveth his dinner will have more

for supper.—[Wise old saw.

What you trample ou in Ireland will

sting you in America.—[Grattan.

Cari Sehurz puts in his spare time these

making and springing traps for men and ^ days lecturing on mederu education,

corailing the earnings of the earth into his coders. The tegis of American citizenship, to which he so lustily appeals all through his letter, thinly veils a fright to which he

w as a stranger.

Powderly’s letter is a challenge on the part of organized labor, iu the name of the legitimate business of the country, against monopoly. This is what gives it its significance. For years this uronopolyritlden land kicked and bleated like a sheep at a shearing only to have the other side turned while the shearing process goes on. No one has bagged more wool with keener shears than this man Jay Gould. He is perhaps beyond question the greatest expert in the business tho world ever saw. Here by a

master stroke he

GALLANT SHERIDAN.

THE IDEAL SOLDIER OF THE WAR

The Rattle of Stone River, Where He Won His First Renown- His Marveilout Change of Front.

Lesson in physiology: Professor—Which teeth come last? Pupil—The false ones, sir. Two cabbage palm* which cost are soon to ornament P. T. Barnum’s grounds at

Bridgeport. •

The rivers of the country are having a high time. They are indulging in hankwettiugs.

—[Pittsburg Chronicle.

Typhoid fever is alarmingly epidemic at Niagara Falls because the authorities refuse

b* adopt proper sanitary measures.

E. S. Carmen, oi River Edge, N. Y., has succeeded iu crossing wheat aud rye, a feat iu hybridization that was not thought possi-

ble. t

[Written for The XadtanapoUs News.]

During the war many generals won lasting lame. Some for grand and brilliant strategy; some for bt-jug able to grasp aud control mighty combinations; some for stubborn and glorious fighting, and some for gallantry and dash. The fome of such men a* Grant and Sherman, and Thomas and Meade rest on an enduring basis. Grant stood deservedly at the head as the one above all others who was able to grasp and control the movements of a million men, stretching across half a continent, and to direct them to a common end j and common purpose, with a persistence aud energy that nothing could withstand. The grand strategy of Sherman,that enabled him to drive bis able opponent from one stronghold and another, places him iu the highest rank of commanders. Wherever hard, stubborn fighting, even in the midst of a broken army, finds admirers, the name of Thomas will ever lie loved. But of all the brilliant galaxy of soldiers produced by the war of the rebellion, embracing such names as Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Meade, Burnside, Ilo >ker, Kearney, Hancock, Schofield, Logan. Bfoir, Wilson, Kilpatrick and ascore of others on the union, side, aud Lee, Johuson, Jackson, Bragg, Longstreet, Hiil on tiie confederate, the beau ideal after all is the gallant Phil ijheridan. lie possessed the dash and brilliancy of Kearney, the nervous and resistless energy of Jackson and the dogged stubbornness and tactical skill of Tnoiiias. When charging at the head of his squadrons he was the embodiment of energy aud torce, aud when re-isting the attacks of the enemy and holding au endangered point he had the tenacity ot the bull dog. Before the close ol the war it came to be understood that wherever Sheridan commanded there was to be close, terrible, persistent fighting, and upon whomsoever he should fall would be ground to powder; that from him there was

no escape, except by dispersion.

Nearly all the generals who won endur-

Rubinsteio.the pianist, is reported to have j ‘ nf I 11:3 great soldiers began their career fused an ofil-r of $100,put) for due hundred [ iu the west. It is true that in the east were

account of his j Kearney, Reno, Stevens, Reynolds, Sickles,

| Sumner, Ilemtzelmin, Hancock aud Meade,

refused au oiler of $100,ptK) concerts in this country on

dread of seasickness.

To kill common moth* sprinkle water on j b u t they were overtopped by Grant, Sherthe carpet where they are at work, lay a damp ; man, Sheridan, Thomas, McPherson, Scho-

is "called” in a way that j slieet over the place, and iron with a hot iron. , field, Lo g an) Blair.Slocum,-Davis aud Rose"We will face you before j ll ‘ c kills them. ° ecrans. Sheridan first wo:

makes him start. . _ U

the law,” savs this challenge, “and we will . An ° f Ge . or S ia - de ; „ , ’ • dares that, siuce the proUuntiou law went fight you with no other weapon, aud theuit ! j t ,( 0 effect, hi S criminal practice has bceurecontinues: dueed more than 50 per cent. There are people who say this strug-le is the I That eighteeu-thousand-dollar vase was not

consider cost this

country.—[Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Queen Margaret, of Italy, is a wise woman, who never follows fashion at the expense of beauty, she utterly refuses to wear the extravagantly high and towering headgear

now in vogue.

beginning of the war between capital and labor. ’ so expensive after all, wheu you X nat statement U false. This certainly means how much the little brown jug has war, but it is war between legitimate capital, t,i

honest enterprise ami honest laoor on the one hand, and illegitimate wealth on the other hand; This is a war hi which we couri the folicst investigation ol our pets. Do you dare to do the same? This war means no lurther strike, no sheading of blood; it is a war iu which every business man, every commercial man, every professional man, every workingman, will be invited to enlist. * * * * This battle of the people against

ecrans. Sneridan urst won his spurs iu the western army, pad it was in one of the most bloody and desperate conflicts of the war, when more than twenty thousand men fell in one day. No one who fought wri th Sheridan that day or who saw him emerge from that terrible cedar thicket, leading the broken skeleton of his division, can ever forget it. Roseerans fought two great battles while he was in command of the western army, and in each of them his army was saved from total overthrow and destruction

In Massachusetts women are now admitted ! t * ie dogged and persistent lighting, even

proper in which to tight it out as before the 1 prisons, reformatories, insane asylums and saved the army from destruction at Chica-

courts? lad us know whether lews were made to j children's hospitals,

be obeyed or not, and If they were not -o framed

then the people must make laws that will be

obeyed.

Verily, here is an issue that concerns more than Jay Gould. Our Washington dispatches yesterday said that the agent of the land office in Minnesota reported that SO per cent, of the homestead and pre-emption entries in that state are made as pretexts for obtaining the timber on the land, with no intention of permanent settlement, the operation of the pre-emption and homestead laws being simply a farce of immense proportions. It is a call to the land thieves. The editor of the Philadelphia Times telegraphed from Washington yesterday that, with the determined opposition of the Ohio wool men, the Louisiana sugar meu and the Michigan members all led by Congressman Randall, the defeat of the tariff reform bill was assured. It is a call to monopolies of that sort. This battle once on will not stop with the stock jobbers and railroad wreckers aud coal barons and cattle kings; it will crowd down upon privilege that is intrenched iu class-legislation, it will do this by the mighty rally of the people to the support of their institutions which shall make them in fact of the people and for the people. Don.t Rite Your Thread. Women who are in the habit of biting off the ends of their thread when they sew will do well to take a lesson from the melancholy experience of Mrs. John T. Green, of Troy, N. Y., who died the other day, as it was thought, of a tumor of the stomach. She had complained of an excruciating pain in her side, where there was considerable swelling, and the symptoms in her case appeared to be so unusual that the physicians insisted upon making a post mortem examination. Upon investigation it was found that the supposed tumor was nothing but a large roll of silk and mohair fibers, which had gathered in the stomach in such a way as to form an obstruction. It was subsequently ascertained that Mrs. Green had been employed when she was a young girl iu a silk factory, where she acquired the nabit of biting oil' threads and chewing them. She finally became so fond of eating threads that stie continued the habit up to the day of her death, which was undoubtedly caused by the practice of this curious vice. Theatricals in Texas. Ibiftlngs.] Some Austin amateurs gave a performance of “Hamlet” one day last week. Ous de 'Smith was “Hamlet.” The day after the performance Kosciusko Murphy metGusaud

asked;

"How did the performance come off last

night?”

“Everybody did well except old Judge Pennybuuker. I’ll be dog-goued if he goes on the stage with me any more. I’ll take him and tie him on the railroad track and let the cars run over him before he shall play “Ghost’' to my “Hamlel,” any more.’' "Was he the ‘Ghost?’ ” "Yes, and the blooming old idiot stalked across the stage with his spectacles on. You bet he made a circus of the whole show. If ever there was a melancholy Dane I was one. I haven’t got over it. And the old graven image says he put on his specs to add to the solemnity ot the scene.” How He is Hedged In. Lawrence Barrett, the actor, gives the following statement of a recent interview with President Cleveland. The president said: "I have made mistakes. I see many of them, and could kick myself when I think about them. I am only human, and as liable to err as other men. But I get no generous sympathy and honest counsel. All I hear is bickering and strife and fault-finding among scheming politicians, who hare no aim but to get themselves and friends in office. Bnt for the occasional waro ot popular indorsement that breaks over the reef of office-seekers aud politicians that hedge me about, and comes to me like a season of refreshing, and a cry of Godspeed fresh from the people, I should break down, heartsick and discouraged.” A Commendable Effort. 1 Philadelphia Star.) There is to be an effort to revive the small, neat handwriting for ladies instead of the great sprawling English style, whose illegibility is its chief characteristic. The most painful ailments are overcome by the healing efficacy of St. Jacobs 00. It conquers pain, whether from rheumativn, neuralgia or soy other cause.

Au illiuois editor defines a philanthropist as a zealous person bent on doing tbe greatest possible good to tbe greatest possible number with the greatest possible amount ot other people’s money. Dr. Davy, of Ohio, reports a curious case of advanced consumption wherein the patient was attacked with smallpox. On recovering from his acute attack all lung trouble was gone aud he continued wclk Aimee, as seen off the stage, is tawnyhaired, and abhors the use of cosmetics. She wears a jaunty black silk that will not retain the dust, and knots a rose piak China crepe scarf about her neck. Charles Jones, ninety-six years old, went to Washington the other day for the first time in seveuty-tive years. When he was there before, Madison was president and Clay and Randolph were leaders iu the house. The Santa Cruz (Cal.) Sentinel says: There is au old man residing on the Soquel road who is at present cutting his third set of teeth. The process is attended with all the pain and annoyance with which a child suffers from when it cuts its first set. April 7, Deacon E. Roberts, in his seventyeighth year, resumed bis daily boat rowing to and from his place of business in Hartford. To “Young America” he sets an excellent example ot early rising and faithfulness to business.—[East Hartford Gazette. Hugh Conway has been so prolific as a novelist since his death that George Sand has been stimulated to emerge from the shades with a heretofore unpublished manuscript; aud posthumous plays, poems and novels of Victor Hugo are confidently looked

for.

A well-known actress, who has frequently played with Miss Anderson, was asked if it was true the young lady tried to make her suxiport laugh. "How it is now, I do not know,” she answered, “but it was true once, so true that on one occasion a leading actor declined to play unless she behaved herself.” lie said it was impossible for him to do justice to his part with her going* ou. With ladies her favorite trick was to tickle them along the back, speaking tire while the most serious lines.—[Fhiiadelphia Star. The Fuegians are the lowest human beings in the scale of existence. Their language contains no word for any number above three; they are unable to distinguish one color from another; they have no religion and no funeral rites, aud they possess neither chiefs nor slaves. Their only weapons are bone-pointed spears, aud, as they grow neither fruits nor vegetables, and their country is naturally barren, they are obliged to live entirely on animal food. Even these savages i*o$sess, however, some social virtues. They are not cannibals; they ill-treat neither the women nor the old, and they are not monogamous. The illustrious German composer and musician Liszt, whose visit to London is one of the presept sensations of that metropolis, is indeed an abhe; but why did he enter holy orders? Because, Gaiignani explains, he once paid court to two married women and promised each that he would marry her when she became a widow. Curious fate soon after removed both husbands simultaneously, and Liszt found himself in a most embarrassing situation, to act out of which be ran away to Rome, and through his friend Cardinal Hoheulohe got admitted to holy orders. Then, of course, it was impossible for eitherof the promises to be fulfilled. One of the widows, a princess, forgave him, but the other wrote a scandalous book about him in revenge. Another story that my Boston friend told me of a fond father who went to the late Isaac O. Barnes for advice, saying; “Barnes, 1 have a son as you know, who is a little inclined to lie wild. You know the world pretty well and I want your advice as to what I shall do with the youag man.” Barnes started off in his high-keyed and shrill voice, which reached a piercing pitch at the conclusion: “If 1 had such a boy,” said he, "and was in your place 1 would make more of a companion of him. I would take him out to the theater with me. I would have him go into the library with me after dinner and would offer him a good cigar aud sit down and smoke with him. If it was good weather 1 would take him up on the root and smoke up there. I would walk him around and point out the houses of Blank and Blank and Blank, aud 1 would tell him how they rose in life bv their unaided efforts, and I would try and interest him in their histories, as examples of what he ought to do, and all the time 1 would get him closer and closer to the edge ot the roof aud when I got him near enough I’d throw the confounded little scoundrel off. I would, so help me Muses.”—[New York Tribune. “Speaking of coughing,'' says Mrs. Partington, “sonic will cough till their face gets black and blue and never think of buying a bottle of Dr. Boll’s Gough Sarrup." -

saved the army

mauga, although he could not save it from difeai. At Stone River it was Sheridan who saved the army. Ho not only saved the army from destruction, bat even from actual

defeat.

It was at Stone River that Sheridan wou a name lor himself and attracted the attention of the authoriti es and the people. When the war broke out he was a lieutenant, stationed on the Pacific coast. Promoted to a captaincy he was made quartermaster of the troops stationed at St. Louis. While there he was appointed colonel of the Second Michigan cavalry. At Booneville, Mo., he out-gener-aled »iie rebels aud attracted the attention of Grant, who recommended his promotion, which was granted. After the battje ot Shiloh he joined the army of the Cumberland, but had no opportunity to distinguish himself until the last day oi the year 1862, when he gave a specimen of his qualities as a soldier and added another >tar to his shoulder straps. -u Ido not propose to attempt a uescription of thi$ battle, except us to the part taken in it by Sheridan’s division. In describing this, however, it will be necessary to incidentally refer to other movements and, iu fact, to generally outline the positions occupied by ttie two armies prior to the battle, and to speak somewhat of the plans of the two commanders. This much will be necessary that the reader may understand the great results flowing from the desperate resistance of Sheridan to the onsets of the enemy on that memorable 31st day ol December. Bragg had Jed Buell a regular dance from Nashville to the Ohio river and hack again. Tlte people of the north were full of murmuriugs that Bragg had been permitted to escape with impunity. This feeling was aggravated by the tact that Lee had also been permitted to retire unmolested from his invasion of Maryland, after the check given him at Antietaui. It was this feeling that occasioned the change of the command from Buell to Roseerans. When Brag? retired from Kentuckyjhe took up his quarters at Chattanooga. But he was a reckless, venturesome commander,and could not be content to remain idle; so it was not long before he again started northward. He passed up to witiiin forty miles of Nashville and assumed au intrenched position at Murfreesboro, from whence he sent out several expeditions to operate against Rosecrans’s line of communication. The circumstances under which Roseerans was given his command forced him to assume the offensive, even if it had not been necessary to save his endangered communications. Ou the 2oTh of December he began his movement toward the enemy, and by the 30tn was facing him in front of Murfreesboro. At that time Bragg held a line reaching from sftone river on tiie right to the Franklin turnpike on the left. This line w’as protected by a line of works extending his whole front. To protect his right fiank, and at the same time cover Murfreesboro, he had placed Breckinridge’s division on the east side of Stone river. The union forces spent the entire day of the 30lh in getting into position, and at night they occupied an irregular line in front of that of the rebels, with McCook ou the right and Palmer on the left. McCook’s line faced nearly east. At the council that night Roseerans suggested that he correct his alignment so as to front more to the south, but it was not done, aud this neglect was, in great part, the cause of the terrible disaster of the next day. • Rosecrans’s plan of battle was a daring and brilliant one, but unfortunately lor him his opponent also had a plan, and was the first to take the initiative the next morning. Forrest, the great cavalry leader of the confederacy, was in the habit of saying that the secret of successful generalship was "to get tiiere first with the most men.” At Stone River Brag? acted upon that rule of action. Kosecraus’s plan of battle was to throw iris left wing across Stone river, crush the confederate right under Breckinridge, seize Murfreesboro and then take the confederate line in flank and rear, cutting them off from their only line ot retreat. This plan was a daring one and gave great promise ot success, as the 'confederate right was weak. The success of this plan depended, however, upon the anion right holding its own against the assaults of the confederate left, and so keeping it employed as to prevent it from sending any reinforcements to Breckinridge. To accomplish his movement and be ready to take the rebels m flank and rear Rosecrans thought it would require three hours, and McCook assured him he could easily hold the oonfederate lett for that length of time. But all this time Bragg was preparing to deal a blow on his own plan of battle. He, too, determined to operate with his left against the union right. He had four divisions on the west side of tbe river. His left was under the command of Hardee, while the two divisions of the center were commanded hr Polk, his right resting upon the river. Hardee was to begin the attack by his ex« Irene left, and it was to bo continued by

the whole line in suocesaion to the right, with the expectation of doubling up the union right and center npon the left, enahlin g the comederates to seize the line of communication with Nashville. The whole movement was to be made with’ a constant wheel to the right on Polk’s ri^ht as a pivot. To make success more certain on the night of

A BRILLIANT EXPLOIT.

the 30th Bragg extended and strengthened his left, thus overlapping McCook. The plan ot Brag? was a daring »ae, and only failed of complete success because of the stubborn and perHateui fighting ot the

division of Sheridan.

On the morning of the Jltt the movement in each army began almost simultiineoasly. Van Cieve crossed the river, and Wood was 1 following when the terrible sound of battle on the right caused him to pause, and it was well that he did so. The extreme right of the union line was held by Johnson’s division; next on his left was that of Jefi C. Davis, and toe next one w as Sheridan’s, with Negley to hi* left. Between the two armies the ground was open. The divisions of Johnson and Davis and part of that of Sheridan were covered by a heavy cedar thicket. Hardee at au early hour hurled his troops on Johnson's division and crashed it like an egg shell, thus exposing the flank of Davis, wiio was at once assailed by Hardee on the flank and by Cleburne in front, the whole wheeling to the right, as had been contemplated. Davis made a stubborn resistance, but he, too, was soon driven irom his position. McCook had agreed to hold the rebel left in check for three hours, but in half an hour he was completely overthrown, and his troops hurled back upon the center. The retirement of Davis left Sheridan's right flank exposed and he was now to feel the shock of battle. ; According to tiie program, the rebel center I under PhTk now opened by an attack on Sheridan's front, while the confederate left was pouring down upon his right flank. If he gave way or was crushed, the faie of the union priny was sealed. The hope of the entire army now rested upon the fighting that was to be done in that cedar thicket. Roseerans had been informed ol the disaster to his right and the ruin of his own plan, and saw that it would lake superhuman exertions to save his army, lie must have time to form a new line, and he determined to support Sheridan, and Rousseau's division was seat to protect his right flank. It entered the cedar thicket and disappeared from view. Iu ten minutes it came out broken to

pieces.

When the con federate left had fully engaged the divisions oi Johnson and Davis, tire next division ot the couieJtrates assailed Sheridan iu front. The enemy advanced jn columns several regiments deep. Tuey had to cross an open cotton field, and as they approached the Jine of Sheridan they were terribly punished by his three batteries, which were admirably served, but it looked as it nothing could stay their onset. Ou they came. It was a magnificent sight. There was not a waver in their lines, notwithstanding the great gaps made by the artillery. The mass moved forward like a great machine, until it approached within about fifty yards of the union lines. Then the word was given and the infantry sprang to their post and poured into the very faces of the confederates a fire so fierce aud destructive that ihev paused, wavered, aud then broke. General Sill then charged upon tbe broken mass with his brigade and drove it across the open field and behind its intrenehinents. In this charge the gallant Sill lost his life, but the overthrow of this part of the rebel line was complete. But now Sheridan’s right was uncovered, and almost any other commander would have fallen back. No so with Sheridan. He was there to fight, and he knew that the fate of the army was now depend-

ing on him.

To meet the new enemy who was coming down upon him he changed front to the right. To enable him to make this^change of front he ordered his reserve brigade lo charge upon the advancing rebels and drive them hack or hold them iu check. This was gallantly done. His new line fronted south, at a right angle with his former position. By this time Hardee’s corps was rapidly moving down to crush Sheridan and strike the center, under Thomas, in the flank. Roseerans was hastening his efforts to form a new line for the whole army. Could Sheridan hold out? was the anxious inquiry. Hardee far overlapped Sheridan ou the right, hut he did not dare go on, leaving Sheridan intact, so he bent himself to the destruction of his obstinate opponent. Sheridan gathered his troops around him and tor another precious hour he resisted all the assaults of the enemy. This hour was of the greatest moment to tue couimander-iu-chief. Finally the enemy* grew too strong ou Sheridan’s flank and he was compelled to make another change of front. Tuat cedar thicket had not seeh all the fighting it was destined to witness. T he most desperate was yet to come. Leaving liis left brigade still facing soutii he drew back the other two until they faced to tiie west, thus covering the rear of Negley, who was now desperately engaged in front. These two divisions now had to sustain the assaults ot four divisions of the enemy. Three times the confederates moved forward with impetuous valor, but was repulsed each time with terrible slaughter. Thus another hour was gained for Roseerans. For three hours ijheridan had been fighting. Twice he had been compelled to change front, aud now his ammunition was exhausted, and he could get no new supply. Two of his brigade commandeVs were dead and the enemy were all around him. His reserve brigade was ordered * to charge with the bayonet to gain time for the retirement ot the rest of the division. At II o’clock Sheridan, with the remains of his division, without a single brigade commander (for the third had been killed in that last desperate charge), emerged from that terrible thicket. He came out slowly, with his lines well closed up, but without a single cartridge in their boxes. He and his men were powderburned and covered with the smoke and grime of the battle. He reported to Rosecrans wiih the remark: "Here is all there is left.” He went into the fight with twelve regiments and three batteries. He left behind him, dead or wounded, eighteen hundred men, hut he had gained three hours tor the army in which to form a new line. By this time the new line was formed, and Sheridan’s division, having supplied itself with ammunition, took its place. Against this new line Bragg hurled his forces again and again, only to be beaten back, as the surf rolls back from the rocks it assails, in vain. At 5 o'clock the battle ended. Rosecrans was saved from defeat, and as Bragg retreated retreated two day* afterward, the victory technically remained with the union forces. It was a bloody battle, nearly 25,000 men having been pfaeed hors-de-combat. Until he struck Sheridan’s division Bragg had it all his own war, and had Sheridan failed, he would have struck Thomas such a blow on the flank and rear that even that splendid fighter could not have saved the day. There was magnificent fighting by the whole army, with the exception of Johnson’s division; bm it was the stubborn resistance of Sheridan that gave Roseerans the time toform his new line and mass his artillery at a point where it rendered final success for Bragg impossible. It was here that Sheridan got his name as a fighting general, which he fully sustained at Cbieamuuga and at Mission Ridge under the eye of Grant. Notw ithstanding its terrible losses, such was the faith of his division in him that when they had supplied themselves with ammunition, it they nau been ordered to do so they would have gone back into the cedar thicket to have again contested it with the enemy. The men were ever ready to follow "Glorious Phil bheridau.” AV. H. Smith. Looking Oat For the Little Fellow.

[Tid-Bits.]

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