The Corvallis gazette., August 24, 1894, Image 4

A SONG OF LOVE.
I do believe her heart
Is something still to me;
She is the one that had no art
Save love that is to be.
She is tha one who was so dear
And caught me with her golden hair.
My sweet remembrance makes
A melody of her!
No thrush that sings in all the brakes
Would I could I prefer!
For when the spoke in love's sweet way
All the dear birds sang night and day.
For Rent Free.
T was an aristocratic -looking
mansitui in the -most aristo-
cratic neghborhood of the
aristocratic city of Wash
ington, and inasmuch as it
was offered rent free for one
year to anyone who would
agree to ocoupy it for that
time, I did not hesitate long in matt
ing up my mind to take it. Upon in
quiring the reasan why the place was .
offered for rent on such easy terms,
the agent Inform jd me that it had the
name of being haunted, and that the
owner had been so unfortunate as to
procure in uccs33ion a number of
tenants ail of whom were supersti
tious, and all of whom straightway
moved out.
It had thus come to pas3 that the
house had won for itself a reputation
which had driven its owner to despair.
He determined to have it occupied long
enough to live down the belief that it
was haunted, and he had, therefore,
concluded to offer it as before stated.
I was pleased with the frankness of
the agent, until I afterward learned
that the owner had come to the same
conclusion a doznn years before, and
that the only tenint he had secured
since then, a young batchelor like my
self, had been found dead on the draw
ing room floor the morning after the
first night's occupancy. The police
had been told to go there and look for
him by the servant, who had fled
from the house when the ghost first
put in its appsarjMice. Tha c.roner's
verdict was, ".Died by heart failure."
I am not superstitious, nor am I even
nervous, and so it was but a few days
before I had movel into the haunted
house; but In that time I had nearly
lost Mose, my colored servant and
standby, who had been the one thing
left me after tha settling up of my
father's estate. My father had bought
him years before up at Fairfax Court
house, and he tried to buy his sister,
Calla Lilly, who was equally black,
but she was soli to a higher bidder
from Alexandria. After the war she
went to live in Washington with Mrs.
Lee Nelson, whom she called one of
her "chillun." Mrs. Lee Nelson Hved
at No. 1705, directly across the street
from my free mansion, and thus Mose
learned all about the "ha'nts over to
yondah house whar you'se gwine to
live at."
Poor Mose; after all he had heard of
the ghosts that had been seen there,
I can scarcely blame him for his un
willingness to live with me in my free
quarters, and I do not wonder that I
found him hard .to persuade1 and -finally
reaureaf-eveTituaily did.
"The day after the furniture had been
put in Mose and I were hanging pic
tures, unpacking the library, and at
the same time investigating things,
looking to see where this door went to,
and that noise came from. Most of
all we were curious about the great
red stain on the floor In front of the
mantel in the front drawing room. It
was during this time that Mose was
telling me what "Lilly dun tole" him.
"Mahsa, Lilly he say dat we-una
gwine 1e scared so bad dat our teef
gwine shaken ou.en our haid Lilly
she say dat she reckuns she knows
all 'bout dls yer house, cuz he know'd
de young gen'man what . commit de
sooside yer, cuz he war engaged to
her young Missus Charlitt, what mar
ried her cousin Ricna'd Momcure. Miss
Charlitt's mammy she Insists she doan
marry no northe'n man, but must
marry qual'ty people, and dat's how
de trouble hit all come about.
"Prince Cholly. dat's what dey all
list to call him, cuz he war so snrl'tly
in his -manraahs, he ust to lib yer be
fo' de wah, an he ust to. come
down to Alexandry to coat Miss
Charlitt all de time. An4 Lilly he say
she caln't hope but thjnk dat he was
qual ty, even ef he war a northeah.
Lilly say he war a powerful pretty
man, and dat Miss Charlitt cert'mly
sot a heap of sto' by him De pres'
dant what war de ores'dant befo' Mis
tah Lincoln war de pres'dant, he dun
sent Prince ChcOly's pappy away to
England to be a mindstah, and he take
.Prince Oholly's mammy along with
him. Prince Cholly he tell nls pappy
he come dn de spring. Lilly she say
dat all dat wintah he coma pow'ful
clost to libbin down to Alexandry,
and Miss Charlitt she jest as smilin'
as a basket of chips on a frosty mo'n
lng. "When all de chairry trees and
everything was bloss'min', Prince
Cholly he tells Miss Charlitt he got to
go to England an join his pappy and
mammy fo' de summah, an he ex Miss
Charlitt ef she won't get married to
him then, 'sted of waifn nuthah yeah.
He want her to go long with him on a
hoMymoon and s'prise his folks. Miss
Charlitt she mighty glad to cio this,
cuz her mammy dun tryin' all de time
to get her to marry Mistah Moncure.
Lilly say her mammy Just put her
reet down p'intidly, an' 'fused to let
Miss Charlitt get married den, cuz
she aln' ole nuff, and findly Prince
Cholly he have to go 'way by hisself,
and Lilly say she dun have de mizry
in her side fo a week, cuz he look so
moanful when he say good-bye to
Miss Charlitt in de garden. Lilly say
dat she an' all de house ndggabs was
peepin. an' dey could see Prince
and Miss Charlitt in de moonlight by
de lilac hedge, and den by'miby Prince
Cholly he let go his holt of her, and
mahch off down de street. Miss Char
litt she standin' lookin aftah him tell
be out of sight. Den she turn, and go
into de house.
"Lilly she say she caln't remenibah
ever seein' Miss Charlitt smile 'gain
aftah dat day. All de trouble came
den, fo de next mo'nlng yar come
Mistah Moncure, an' he try right
way to make Miss Charlitt marry
him, and Miss Charlitt's mammy she
- hope hlra all she know'd how. Miss
Charlitt she wouldn't 'low him to coat
her at all, so, an' she tell him, ef he
don't go 'way she 'spise him. Mistah
Moncure he stay right thar do' all de
time; and de L&wd only know how
dey do hit, but in August he an' Miss
Charlitt's mammy done make her
marry him. Miss Charlitt she declare
all de time she jest' hate him; an' Lilly
she say she did too, cuz she seed it
in Miss Charlitt's face, she look so
ccntemptus like. Den dey move 'way,
down to Fredricksbu'g, an ain't mo'
dan harlay gone, when yar come j
Prince Cholly home 'gain, an' he find
de lettah wat Miss Charlitt done write
to him de mo'nlng she git married.
Lilly say de ebidence show dat, aftah
he read de lettah, he drap hit on de
VSffS-
flo' in front of de mantel in de front
pa'la', an' go up stayahs an fling his
self on de bade, an' he must been
pretty near 'straoted, . too; cuz de
sheets was tored all to pieces. Den he
must gone into de sittin' room up
stayahs an shot hisself, cuz dat's
whar de blood commenced, an' hit war
splash'd all 'long de hall, an' down
de stayahs, an' 'into de front pa'la'
whar de big red stain Is. Lilly say
dat she ben tole dat, aftah he shoot
hisself, he tink 'bout de lettah he
drap on de flo', an' he drag hisself all
de way down dare an' burn it up all
'ceptin' a little piece 'thout no wrifcin'
on it, an' nobody ain't ever know what
Miss Cbarlitt dun write to him. An'
Lilly she say dat Prince Cholly's ha'nt
crawls down dem steps, an' ober to
de pa'la' fireplace, an' burns dat lettah
ev'ry night."
"Yes," said I, "I presume it does,
but what of Miss Charlitt?"
"Jest gwine to tell you ' dat. Lilly
she say dat when Miss Charlitt she
heah what Prince Cholly dun gone an'
do, she up an' comes home to her
rna;mmy in Alexanidry, an' doan eat
nuthin', but jest lay on her bade an'
cry an' cry jest so her heart would
break. An' den de fevah come an'
she git 'stracted, an' doan. know any
body, not even her own mammy. She
grow'd worse every day, tell she
ain't lookin' no mo' like Miss Charlitt
dan anything. De doctor tell her
mammy she ain't gwine live long, an'
say she toettah sen' fo' her husban'
but her mammy say no, not fo' him.
Miss Charlitt she sleep right peacful
dat night, an' she smile right natch'l
like, an' look most jest like she did
befo' Prince Cholly had to go 'way.
Long towa'ds mo'nin' MissCharlitt she
dun raise up in bade, an' reach up
her arms jest so, an' cry out real joy
ful 'Prince Cholly' -but she aint neber
say no mo'. She drap back on her
pillar, an, de doctor say it was all
over, an' he say hit too bad her hus
band aint thar, but Miss Charlitt's
mammy she see the happy spreshun
on Miss Charlitt's face, an' she say,
'No; hit am bettah he aint heah.' An'
Lilly she heerd dat Miss Charlitt's
ha'nt is yer in dis house too."
The afternoon faded into 'the dark
ness of evening. After my dinner I
had to remain with Mose while he fin
ished washing the dishes, as he was
afraid to be left alone even for a mo
ment. His work over, we adjourned
to the front parlor, and I permitted
Mose to smoke a cigar with me. As
no ghosts seemed to coma forth, I
thought they might object to lights,
and much to the disgust of Mose, I
put them out in the hall and in the
room where we sat. A soft radiance
came in from the street, and we sat
and smoked, and Mose, wishing to
appear courageous, was saying that
he guessed that half the houses that
were supposed to be haunted were not,
and I was thinking of the beautiful
Miss Charlotte, when suddenly a fig
ure passed swiftly and noisel2ssly
from the hall door to the fireplace and
there vanished completely.
"For God, mahsa, lew see dat?"
cried Mose, clinging around my.naok,
beaetching me in or.e howl "to protect
himjafld Tn another calling on the
Lord to make him a "better nigger."
I have said that I am not super
stitious, nor even nervous, but I had
just seen what Mose had, and after
his unearthly howling in my ear, r
was nearly as much worked up as he
was. We at once lighted the gas, and
started an investigation, but discov
ered nothing unusual.
The next came- after a long night,
in which Mosa and I made most un
successful .efforts to sleep. Mose lay
on the floor beside my bed, a compro
mise on my flat refusal to allow him
to hide his .head under my sheet. The
next morning he said to me, "Ef
you'se gwine to stay yar in dis yar
house eny longer, dis niggah and you
is got to pant; I aint gwine stay yar
fo" any man and get conjured."
I tried all my persuasion, but Mose
was determined to go. We, howeve,
settled that he should sleep at Lilly's
and come to me early, in the morn
ings. I told him there were no such
things as ghosts, and that I should
no doubt soon find out all about the ap
parition .of the Mght before. That
leveming after hie toad finished his
work and gone to sleep across the
way, I again planted myself in such a
position that I could easily watch the
door leading into the hall. I was in
the dark, smoking, and I had not been
seated long when a tall figure, seem
ingly that of a young' man. passed
hurriedly from the firsplace across the
room and out into the hall.
I cried to it to stop. My voice
echoed through the house and fright
ened me, it sounded so little like my
own. I was about to start in search
of the retreiting figure, when thero
entered from the door two others
tfcose of a man and a woman. They
passed slowly enough for me to see
then plainly, shadowy as they were,
and 1 ran from the room and out the
front door to the sidewalk. No; I was
not mistaken, there were the man and
woman, two legroes in flesh and blood
and down the hill at the corner of
Second street was an electric light.
I saw it all at once; anyone passing
in rront or the house would cast a
deep shadow in my drawing room. I
called out to the couple who had just
passed, "Hello, there! Wait" At my
first invitation to wait they stopped.
but as they located my voice and my
figure there came a howl from the
woman: "Fo, God, Ephr'am! Fo, de
Lawd sake, look yondah, honey!"
Approaching them, I asked if they
would not please walk back past the
house agaan, as I wished again to see
the phantoms float across my parlor.
I was compelled to wait for other passers-by,
however, for the gentleman
addressed as Ephr'am and the lady
under his protection had put two
blocks between us before I knew It.
Upon re-entering the house and wait
ing for more ghosts, I was rewarded,
for when anyone passed while the
room was dark, a corresponding fig
ure or flguras would be seen, passing
either to or from the fireplace.
The next morning I told Mose that
the ghost racket was exploded, and ex
plained to him what I had discovered
the night before. I had expected to
straightway pursuade him to remain
with me nights from that on. Imag
ine my feelings when he said, "You
keep on stayin' yar, and you git fool
In de haid. You ?pec' I'm gwine to
lissen to any sujh tork as dat? You
cyant disqualify dem ha'nts by tellin
dis yer niggah no sech trash as: dat."
A rew days later Lilly told Mose
that "a ha'nt what look for all de
wort' like Prince Cholly dun come out
from dat house last Chewsday night,
an' hit dun chase Bruddah Ephr'am
Joslyn an' his wife clean from dare
to de P street bridge, where, bein' as
how hit war a ha'nt, hit couldn't go
no faddah."
This flattered my vanity, but it was
humiliated immediately, for Mose ut
terly refused to believe that the ele
gant figure of the ghost was no other
than my own. I occupied the house
a year, rent free, and have had It for.
! six years at a minimum figure, but
I
the way to
MINISTER OP NAVY.
The Man Who Is Winning Battles for
Japan. ,
Owing to the fact that the most im
portant events thus far of the strug
gle between China
and Japan have
been naval engage
ments. T. Saigo,
minister of Japan
ese navy, is a per
son in whom thert
is manifested a
great d;al of inter
est. He is a man
in the prime of life,
Is very intelligent,
and his experlenct
in navnl affair
lenders him well fit
T. SAIGO.
ted to fill his responsible position nl
this critical time. In nearly ull tin
naval engagements Japan has been
victorious. It is stated that a Chlnest
s hip cp.rryinK 1,100 soldiers was sunk by
Japanese butteries a few days ago. If
Japan comes out victorious In thin
struggle, the result will be the triumph
of Japanese policy of commerce and
progress, but should It be China, the
victory would probably be followed by
the policy of exclusion and stagnation.
GOVEUNOU RICH.
The Michigan Republicans Want Him
to Run Again.
John T. Rich, recently renominated
by the republicans as their candidate
ror governor, is a
farmer. His par
ents were Vermont-
ers, who removed to
Crawford county.
Pa., where the gov
ernor was born in
1841. Seven years
later the family
removed to Michi
gan. Gov. Rich
was elected to the
state legislature in
1872, where he
JOBS T. RICH.
served six years
being twice elected speaker. In 1880
he was a prominent candidate for
governor. In the same year he was
elected to the state senate, resigning
his position upon his election to con
gress, where he served but one term.
Returning to private life he has been
active in agricultural circles. In 1886
and again in 1888 he was appointed
state railroad commissioner.
NOT AT HIS POST.
Our Minister to China Is Off on
Vacation.
The war between Japan and China
makes rv'onel Charles Denby, United
States minister to
China, a personage
of more than ordi
nary interest, al
though he is absent
from China on a va
cation. Colonel Den
by was born in Vir
ginia about sixty
eight years ago, and
educated at George
town college and at
the Virginia military
institute. In 1853 he
chables dehby. began -studying law,
was admitted to the bar and in 1856
was sent to the legislature. Although
a Virginian he espoused the cause of
the Union when the war broke out, ana
heenme colonel of the 18th Indiana reg
iment. In 1863 he resigned and for
twenty-two years devoted himself to
the practice of law. In 1885 he was
appointed minister to China and has
held the office ever since.
JUDGE COOLEY.
The American Bar association, of
which Judge Thos. M. Cooiey, of Ann
Arbor, Mich., is
president, will hold
its seventeenth an
nual convention at
Saratoga, beginning
August 22d. Presi
dent Cooiey, the
subject of this
sketch, was born in
Attica, N. Y., in
1824, studied law,
and was admitted
to the bar in 1845.
V In 1857 he was elect-
TH0MA3 M. COOLEY. ed compiler oi tne
state laws and the following year be
came reporter of the supreme court of
the state and three years later was
made chief justice. For some time he
was chairman of the inter-state com
merce commission, but in 1891 ill health
compelled him to resign and since then
he has. practiced his profession.
A SPEEDY SPEEDER.
The
World's Record Again
- Lowered
. by Tyler.
Harry C. Tyler Is the young bicyclist
of Springfield, Mass., who . recently
lowered the world's
one mile record at
Waltham by a full
second. . vHe low
ered the 'record ; of
1:54 3-5, 'held by J.
P. Bliss of Chicago,
to 1:53 3-5. Tyler's
brilliant work 'two
years ago, winding
up with breaking
an tne , Bnorc a
tance records from
a standing start.
HARRY C TYXEB.
has made him fa
mous from one end of the country to
the other. Last year at Springfield,
Tyler rode a mile from a standing
start in 2:013-5, breaking the world's
record of 2:05 2-5 held by Willie Windle.
Tyler is quite ycung, fine looking and
intelligent and has long been the
bosom friend of W. C. Sanger, the
noted cyclist.
A POEM ON CHARITY.
The Statesman is in receipt of a
spring poem (evidently delayed by "the
floods an-i Debs) on the subject of
"Charity." A great quantity of the
subject is indifged the patient reader
hence only the first stanza is utilized,
Charity covers a multitude of sins
but its mantle is perhaps not capa
cious enough to embrace more than the
opening stanza. Here goes: s?4
One day as I wandered in the woods
. , sad aixd lonely, fi
I sat me to rest on the ground, rough
and stony;
A tall old fir o'er my 'head hung i
limb, .-
And I mourned and protested ancl
talked long to him. " f
I told him my troubles, my sorrows
and ceres, ' s
Told him of this world, its tempta
tions and snares; t
I told him of the people, that need to
be fed,
Whose need is of shelter and raiment
and bread; - ;5 5 : ; -
But that about which my soul most
did grieve.
Was, that I could afford the?n so Jittlgf
Mose still goes across
sleep every night.
I X I
The Hero of Chancel-
lorsvilleaKecluse.
.Jen. Pleasonton's Varied
Career.
The Famous Cavalry Leader Now Set s
Few and Lives Only in His
Books and Tapers.
Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, the famous
mvulry commander of the Army of
the Potomac, whose fame at" one time
was as wide spread as that of almost
any leader of the civil war, stll lives
In Washlrgton, the el'y of his birth.
His existence has been almost forgot
ten, writes Allan P.. Slauson in the
Washington Post, for he has not left
his room for the last five years, owing
to painful bodily ailments, the result
of the many years during which the
great majority of his waking hours
were spent in the saddle. He admits
only a few congenial friends to the sa
credness of his chosen privacy, which
those who serve him are careful to
preserve inviolate. . To strangers and
to casual acquaintances of former days
who call more out of curiosity to ob
serve his present surroundings and
mode of life, he invariably returns a
polite refusal when their cards are
sent up.
Although the world has lost sight of
him he has not lost sight of the world
In which he once lived and moved,
so brilliant a figure. Just half a block
from the office of the Post he lives, in
a low cellinged but most tastefully fur
nished room, from the little old-fashioned
windows of which he can look
out upon the busy thoroughfare that
runs between the White . House and
the Capitol, at any hour of the day
or night. In this same building he
has lived for sixteen years. It is a
quiet little hostelry known as the Grea-
son house, the former proprietor of
which was an old time friend of Gen.
Pleasonton. Since his death it has
been kept by a daughter, Martha W.
Greason. The unpretentiousness of the
place, and the undisturbed privacy
which he Is able to obtain there are
very pleasing to the general. "It is
because they obey orders," he said in
speaking on the subject, "that I have
remained here so long.
His wants are few and well sup
plied, for his pay and pension from
the government amounts -to ffofess-
than" $24F per-jmolithT and besides he
has am income "from about $50,000 worth
of property left him some time ago by
a sister at her death. Walking causes
him great pain, and he moves about
little more than from the bed to his
chair and back again. He is surround
ed by books and pictures, and is an
omniverous reader. He takes half a
dozen daily papers as well as some of
the magazines. His books and papers
are his principal companions. They
always entertain him, and he does
not have to talk to them about mat
ters that do not interest him, an irk'
some task at any time, but more es
pecially at the present' for a throat
trouble has seized him, and at times
makes even articulation difficult.
Though In constant pain he will
have ncie of the doctors, preferring
to use old-fashioned simples that give
him temporary relief, to undergoing a
series of surgical operations, the re
sult of which might be doubtful and
might serve to shorten his term of
life rather than prolong it. Surgeon
General Bliss was his doctor for many
years, and after his death he would
have no other. Prior to that time he
underwent several surgical operations
for relief from his trouble, fistula, re-.
fusing to accept the administration of
anaesthetics, his army observations
having given him the Impression that
anaesthetics killed main'y men who
would .have been saved If they had
withstood the shock of surgery. His
nurse an(d almost constant attend
ant is a faithful colored woman of
middle age, who occupies an adjoining
room, and anticipates the most of the
general's desires,
The death of Gen. A. J. Pleasonton,
at Philadelphia, July 6th, caused some
confusion in the minds of newspaper
biographers throughout the country,
a number of whom spoke of the dead
man as being the famous cavalry
leader of the war, when it was in
reality his elder brother.
"So I am dead, am I?" remarked the
sorrowing brother to. his attendant.
as he read some of the obituaries of
himself, that 'being his only comment.
Although both brothers bore the
title of "general" before the world,
there was a vast difference In their
careers. Both were graduates of the
United States military academy, but
A. J. resigned roon after graduation
and never again saw service in the
regular army. He was made brig
adier general of the Pennsylvania mi
litia soon after the outbreak of the
civil war and given command of the
"home guard of 10,000 men, raised for
(,he defense of Philadelphia. Such
was the extent of the elder brother's
service as a soldier. His advocacy of
blue grass as a means of increasing
health ad longevity beexme famous
in mgny parts of the world and has
frequently been written about.
The younger brother, Alfred, won his
spurs in the Mexican war, and be
came cnc of the most famous cavalry
leaderain the war of the rebellion,
receiving before its close the brevet
rank brigadier general. He now
standsV with the . rank of colonel, on
the; retired list of the noble defend
ewof the nation.
-i-Atfrsd Pleasonton was bcrn in the
citory-' Washington in 1S24, and at the
jjfeof twenty had completed four
year course at tne government mu-
Uarf academy. He did not have long
7. : t r. . . . . . . .
t ("I'1"- ueiure his military training
caia4 into (active use. For gallantry ;
C3i4 meritorious conduct in the battles
of Jlo Alto and Resaca de la Palma
he was brevetted first lieutenant. Af-
tet-wttrds he was sent upon frontier
duty. commissioned -first lieutenant in
183, nd captain In 1855. He was act-
iwe assistant adjutant general to Gen.
William S. Harney durine the Sioux
expedition, bis adjutant general during
the campaign agairst the Seminoles
la Florida, and during subsequent op-
erfttona of General Harney's command
tnf Kansas, Oregon and Washington, i
t r :s . ).
3 In tie autumn of 1S61, when the na-
ttn needed all its defenders, he com-
mfcactod bis regiment in its march
I from trtah to Washington. He was
conimlasloned major of the Second
through the Virginia peninsular cam
paign, becoming brigadier general of
volunteers in July of that year. He
also followed that famous cavalry di
vision that followed Lee's invading
army into Maryland. His name and
fame are intimately connected with
the .battled of Bconestoorough, South
Mountain, Antietam, and the subse
quent pursuit. In the bloody battles
about Fraderickburg in the spring of
1863, he frequently engaged the enemy,
and at Chdanicellorsville, May 2nd,
stayed the further advance of the Con
federate forces.
To General Plearonton is due the
credit of having saved the Army of the
Potomac from absolute rout at Chan
cellorsville, when "Stonewall" Jackson,
with his entire corps of 22,000 men
came down upon Hooker's right flank
and had already put to flight How
ard's corps. "Pleasonton with ' two
regiments of cavalry and his battery,"
says a contemporary nistonan, "ar
rived at Hazel Grove where Sickles
had been compelled to leave a portion
of his artillery just as Howard's corps.
was hurrying past in fufli retreat.
Comprehleniding the situation ait a
glance, he hurled the Eighth Penn
sylvania, on the pursutag columns.
The regiment wss overwhelmed, and
Its commander instantly killed. Dis
astrous as was the charge to the reg
iment, it nevertheless accomplished its
object. The Ccr-federates were tempo-
irarily Checked'. In a few minutes.
what with bis own battery of horse
artilley, seme guns belonging to the
routed corps, and those which Sickles
had left behind him, he had thirty
pieces in position. A heavy cannon
ade was opened by Colonel Crutch-
field, from the Confederate batteries
on the plank road, his object beUig to
prevent the national troops from re
forming. Pleasonton replied with tre
mend us energy. And as often as tha
Confederates came up to the charge
their renks were decimated by his
double-shotted guns." No troops could
pass through such a storm of iron
hail.
It wis now night, but not dark, for
the moon was bright and full. Ward's
brigade was ordered to attack the
enemy's lines at 11 o'clock. Ward's
men rurbed to the charge with ter
rific fury. Eye witnesses have des
cribed this midnight battle as one of
the grandest an 1 most soul-stirring
scenes of the war. The Confederats
were driven back half a mile, and
lien, sstcinewau" Jackson, in many
respect the greatest . soldier of the
Confederacy, fell mortally wounded.
The great battle next day gave still
further advantage to the Confederates
but the destruction of Hooker's army,
which Jackson had planned 'and al
most executed, had been avoided' by
the prcmpt action of General Pleas
onton. "The victory of Chancellorsville,"
says McCu'be, a ConfederatehistorlSfi,
"was bought dearly by--the Confeder-
ateSr- Otttof an army of about 50,000
men, 10,281 were killed, wounded, and
captured. The death of "Stonewall'
Jaokson was a cost of fully 50,000
men to their cause. At the moment of
his success against the Federal right
he was shot down toy his own men
who mistook his escort for a party of
Federal cavalry."
General Pleasonton received the brev
et of lieutenant colonel for Anteitam
in 1862, was promoted major general
of volunteers in June, 1863, participated
in the numerous actions that preceded
the battle of Gettysburg, was com
miander in chief of cavalry in thai
action, and was brevetted colonel on
July 2, 1863-. The next year he was
(transferred toi Missouri, drove th
forces under Gen. Sterling Price from
that state, and in March, 1863, was
brevetted brigadier general in the
United State army for gallant and
meritorious conduct in that campaign,
and major general for services
throughout the civil war.
He resigned from the army in 1868,
was United States commissioner of
internal revenue for several years, and
subsequently president of the Terre
Haute & Cincinnati railroad. In May
1888, he was leappointed and placed
or- the retired list with the rank of
major, U. S. A.
To those of 'his friends who enjoy
the honor of being permitted to his
society he is a moat agreeable gentle-man,
and when not prevented by
his throat trouble, a brilliant and en
tertaining conversationalist. It seems
a great pity that, through his physical
ills, the world should be deprived of
the presence and mental capacities of
one whose memory encompasses so
remarkable a life of personal adven
ture and varied experience.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Determine to sow a good-siucd tuc-
nlp patch this fall.
Utilize all the home-made manur
before spending any money for com
mercial fertilizers.
A farmer suggests that navy beans
might be found a good crop to partly
take the place of wheat.
A farmer suggests that it is a good
plan to fumigate all grain bins, and
corn cribs, by burning therein behind
closed doors and windows a good pot of
brimstone. This will kill all insects
and destroy spores of disease that
might otherwise be perpetuated.
T. B. Terry cuts his clover early He
doesn't call It hay, he calls It dried
grass. No matter what he calls it, as
a writer says, his horses are fat, his
farm is fertile, he is prosperous, and
no doubt his family is happy. All
these do not follow the cutting of
clover early, necessarily, but they do
follow doing things at the right time
and in the proper manner. Ex.
A good farmer of our acquaintance
says that he will never pasture a field
of fodder again. He tried this on
seven acres the past season, to save
the expense of cutting up the corn
ana round tnat he received only a
small proportion of the usual benefit
from the fodder. After this he will cut
and feed properly every stalk of corn
he grows. Western Plowman.
STORY OF "THE BELLS."
Henry Sartain, son of the famous
engraver tells this story, says the
Philadelphia Record, of how Foe's
P06"1 of "Th Bells," was first pub-
liAhor! ' lint Si) rf ill 'a lVTam Ttf no ,TrM
' -
came into the office one day, and,
IU"mula lner a ouiiiza. .in manusci-ipi,
aked him what he thought of it. Fath-
er looked it over and said he thought
41 Pretty good. 'Is it worth $5? asked
poe- Father said he thought it was,
and Daid nim the mney. The poem
was the first stanza of 'The Bells. A
week or so later Poe again sauntered
in,to lthe office, with the remark, 'Well,
John, I see you haven't printed my
Poem yet." n-anner repuea tnat ne nan
not because of lack of space. 'Well,
I've got another stanza here. Will you
let me nave a live on. a uc mau
looked so utterly wretched that father
paid him the money and took the
stanza. Still another Installment of
two additional stanzas followed with-
in a month, and then It was that the
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The First Prisoner in
Andersonville.
The Experience of Ralph
0. Bates.
His Escape Through a Tunnel That
It Took Seven Long HJoiiths
to Dig.
A reporter met a man of national
reputation, Ralph O. Bates. He lives
at San Diego, Cat., where he went in
1879, but has been traveling over the
entire United States during all that
time. He has the distinction of being
one of the first Union soldiers ever
confined in Andersonville prison, and
the first who escaped from that hell
hole. In a long talk with him a story de
veloped that reads like a romance, and
yet the scars and facts and dates he
gives make a real story of suffering
and privation in the great civil war,
that few men could undergo and live.
Mr. Bates was born June 29, 1840, and
enlisted in the Ninth Ohio cavalry,
Company H, June 7, 1862, at Defiance,
Ohio. He was captured November 14,
1862, while on a scouting expedition
at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., by Kirby
Smith's command. He was taken to
Libby prison, Richmond, for a short
time, after which he was in Danville,
Va., Savannah, Ga., Macon, Ga., and
was finally taken to Andersonville,
where he arrived February 11, 1863.
It was then a military camp, known
as Camp Sumter, and it was not until
February 10, 1864, that it was called
Andersonville prison.
When Mr. Bates, who was a private
soldier, first went there, only fifty
union soldiers were thelre, together
with 1,500 rebel conscripts and desert
ers. These and the negroes, built the
stockade enclosing seven acres of
ground, which will go down to history
as the great Andersonville prison,
where hundreds, yes, thousands of men
lost their lives through .hunger, sick
ness and the brutality of the officers
in charge.
Biu'es, who by his intense loyalty,
hal incurred the displeasure of Capt.
Wirtz, the commander of the prison,
was subjected to all sorts of brutal
punishment. He shows three wounds
received 'at - the-hands of Wlrtz him
self. One is through the left thigh;
another through the left leg below the
knee. This wound was received while
Bates was strung up by the thumbs
because a comrade had given him a
drink of water. The poor fellow who
did the Christian act was killed by
Wlrtz.
While Bates was lying on the ground
and being nursed back to health by
his comrales, Wirtz saw him and
said:
"You damned Yankee, I thought I
killed you."
"No, Captain Wirtz," replied Bates,
"I shall live to see you hung yet."
With that Wirtz drew his revolver
and shot him in the breast, the ball
going entirely through his body.
Still he got well and with one or two
trusted comrades began digging a tun
nel. For seven months and nineteen
days they worked, covering the open
Ing with a piece of sheet iron on
which they did their cooking, and at
last, when they had dug fifty-nine feet.
and reached the outside of the stock
ade ha induced eighty men to make
the attempt with him to escape.
This was on March 2, 1864. They
were immediately pursued and so far
as ho could ever learn only himself,
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Richard King of the Tenth Pennsyl
vania cavalry and Andrew Gibblns of!
the Fourth Micbagan infantry, eveC
reached the Union lines, which they
did at Bridgeport, Ala., after being
out twenty-six days, during eight of
which they were concealed by an old
free colored woman called Aunt Eliza,
on the fc&nks of the Chataohooohe
river, fcrty-two miles south of Atlanta.
Five horsemen with twenty-five
blood hounds were in pursuit, and
when they were so close pressed that
the men were firing upon them, .they
plunged into the bayou, exposing only
their ne-ees for breath, and finally
crossed the river and reached the lines'.
He was sent to General Sherman's
headquarters and finally went to
Washington, where he appeared before
President Xiinfcodn; and othe- high)
officials, April 21, 1864.
The result was a general exchange
of prisoners, and In September of that
year there were released from Ander
sonville 1,600 men; from Thomasville,
Ga., 1,200; from Belle Isle,, 2,200, and
from Florence, S. C, 900, all of whom.
it has been said, owe their lives to
Bates' appearance in Washington, and
his vivid picturing to the president of
the horrors of southern prison pens.
He was known as "Billy" in prison.
and King, his chum, was known as
"Dick." They became inseparable.
and after Bates had served?: to the
close of the war in the 129thrlndiana
regiment, acting as orderly on Gen
eral McPherson's staff, they together
went to Ann Arbor university for an
educationU Hre the scurvy, which
they had contracted in prison, broke
out upon them. King lost his right
arm, and finally his left leg, while
Bates was a mass of scales and sores
from head to foot. He wrote a lec
ture entitled "Billy and Dick," and to
gether they traveled over the United
States, telling the story of their im
prisonment.
Bates attended the trial of Captain
Wlrtz and saw him dally. He wit
nessed his execution in Washington on
November 10, 1865, thus making good
his words when Wirtz shot him in
Andersonville. King has since died.
Bates wears a badge, pinned on him,
by President Garfield, which bears the
names of the various prisons in which
he was confined. To tell his whole
story would require a volume.
Mr. Bates is one of the few remain
ing men who can tell from personal
experience of that awful prison pen.
St. Joe Herald
WOOL AND MUTTON.
Professor Hickman, of the Ohio State
university, gives It as his opinion that
it Is impossible to produce the best
quality of wool and the highest grade
of wool from the same carcass. The
American Farmer and Farm News
joins issue with Prof. Hickman on this
question. It says: We believe that there
are now bred in this country" sheep
that, while growing a very high quality
of wool, are, when slaughtered, excel
lent mutton. We refer to what are com
monly ca'.led "mutton Merinos." They
are of the Blacktop type in shape, hav
ing smooth, round bodies and plump
quarters, but the wool Is not so black
at the tips as the blacktop fleeces gen
erally are. These sheep have never
been boomed to any extent, but in
central Ohio there are several flocks
of them which, even with present low
prices, are very profitable. They are
not claimed to be a pure breed, but are
the result from selections from Merino
grades, and have been bred in one di
rection long enough that they breed
quite true to type. They bear a heavy
fleece, and the wool ! brings the very
highest price always, and when the
sheep are taken to market they sell as
well as any other breed. As price is
the only criterion by which the value
of anything can be judged, it seems to
us that these mutton Merinos pretty
nearly fill the bill as mutton and wool
producers. A cross between the Shrop
shires and Merinos, using a Shropshire
I ram and high grade Merino ewes make
J a cross that is profitable for either
' wool or mutton, and this cross Is large
ly used in the central states.
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