The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 5, 1884, Page 2

i i BUTLER NATIONAL BANK, In— Opera House Block, | BUTLER, MO. Cash Capital and Surplus, $57,850. JOHN H. SULL *g. W. CHILS,- Wa. E. WALT c. C. DUKE, DON KINNEY DIRECTORS President e President. Cashier. Ase’t Cashier Clerk and Collector. Booker Powell, Green W. Walton, Dr. N, L, Whipple, T, W, Childs, Wa, E, Walton, J. Rue Jenkins. Dr. T. C. Boulware, R, D. Williams. udge J. H. Sullens, ME steBride, Frank Vouis, C, H, Dutches OTHER STOCK HOLDERS: G, B, Hickman, C, C. Duke, John Deerwester, O. Spencer, John B. Ellis, J, R, Estill, S, Q. Dutcher, J, J, McKee, Henry Donovan, A, H, Humpf rey, Large Fire and Burglar Proof Safe with time lock, Receives deposits subject to check at sight, Loans money buys and sells ex- change and does a venezal Bankine bus- iness. - Your business is respectfully solicited. BATES COUNTY National Bank, BUTLER, MO ORGANIZED UN 1871, Capital paid in, - - $75,000. Surplus - - - - $20.000 Large Vault, B urglar-Proof Safe with Time Lock St We are prepared to doa general bank- ing business. Good paper always in demand. Buy and sell exchange, receive deposits &c., &c. DIRECTORS. Lewis Cheney, !.C. Clark, Dr. Elliot Pyle Hon. J B. Newberry E. P. Henry, I. N. Mains, Dr. J. Everingham, J. P. Edwards, ‘ J. Ryan, W. J. Bard, Ir. D. D. Wood, J: M. Patty, Geo. W. Miers, *, Coleman Smith. F. J. Tygard. OFFICERS. LEWIS CHENEY - - President’ }.C.CLARK - - - - Vice President. F.1. TYGARD - - - Cashier. THE HORNS Grocery House OF C. DENNEY at she well Known and popular stand on the East side of tne square, are leading the GROCERY TRADE IN er BUTLER. .ct Their stock 1g composed of Feed Flour and the best qualiy of Staple and fancy Groceries, Glass, Queensware and Crtiery. THEY ARE AT LESS EXPENSE Than anv house In therefore doe not tear competition They pay liberal prices for Produce They solicit » continuance of the por of their many customers. ans! Will gladly attend to their wishes a: any and all times. Goods delivered in the city limits promptiy. : Chas. Dennev. | Gen. Price’s the erty, and | WAR TIM Missouri in 1564. | Gen. Pleasanton Chats Interest- ingly About His Side of the Campaign. from the Post-Dispatch. Washing **Would you Ike to he the inside history ot the campaign in ruary 20.-— alittle of gton, that he wasin tull pursuit. 1 March Through ‘him go ahead and I broug’ | numbered about i | overtake him till be ght, an let ht up the wards Lexington about ¢ remainder of the forces. 7,000 followed Price hotly, men. almost to Kansas City, where [ overtook him and fought the battle ot Big Blue.”” Here the General stopped to take got e delicious snuff. another pinch ot “Do you ever us **No, [thank you.”’ **But betore Igo any said he. jurther 1 | Missours in the fall of 1864, when I! y411 say that 1 discovered before I | from Jefferson City up through Kan- | sas and down to the line of the In- said Gen. Altred 3 | dian Territorv? | sat in the cosy reading-room at Wil- lard’s, enjoying the delights ofapinch silver box that he shut with a sort of military exactitude. { was only too glad, for had | not both armies passed my mother’s door, and had not we fed the soldiers from both sides? wished with all the fervor of a young rebel that Price might turn around and whip Pleasanton and his bands? ‘Well, I will tell you some things that you have probably never heard ?”” said the veteran of a hundred battles, as he gave another sniff that indicat- | stairs room ot the city hotel when ed the titillatmg pleasures of the | she was announced. snuff, and that told me he was in a] derly to show her in. talking humor. *“‘But to begin at the begining, General,”’ said I, **tell me why you went out to Missouri at all. How did you happen to leave the Army ot the Potomac after having been so highly commended to President Lin- coln by the Congressional Commit- tee on the conduct of the War as an officer suitable to assume supreme command of the operations of the Federal torces in Virginia ?’’ *‘Oh, that was a piece of political intrigue that I do not now care to discuss. The committee from Con- gress on the conduct of the war had indeed accepted my plan of a cam- paign against Lee, and they strong- ly urged Mr. Lincoln to put me in command of the army of the Poto- mac, but there wasa movement on foot to bring Grant from the West, and Mr. Lincoln fell in with that But anvhow, I went out to Missour! and reported to Gen. Rose- Price had come into the State and was carrying everything j betorehim. I lett Sr. for Jefferson City by the way ot the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad. Our torces were all lock- | ed up at Jefferson City, andI knew pretty or there would be trouble. I graphed Gen. Brown, the officer in | command, that I would be there at a certain time, and I lett with body except my staff. After getting | off the cars we rode across the coun- | try to the little village opposite Jef- | ferson City ana there got a boat that | took us. over the river. It was S | o'clock in the morning. Headquar- i ters had been fixed ata hotel up on the hill, and I found tour Generals— Sanborn, McNeil. Brown and Clin- ton B, Fiske—in a.room up. stairs sitting at a table witha green cover HOLDING A COUNSEL OF WAR, idea. crans. Louis that I had to get there soon tele- no- ty about the meeting. I simply | said: ‘Gentlemen, Iam Gen. Pleas- anton. I take command here.’ I asked them what they had done, | Brown, who was senior officer and | therefore in command, said he had | cut down some trees about town and | dug some ditches through the streets. !T looked at them all carefully and [ thought Sanborn had more fight in him than any of them and I ordered him to take his command and _pro- move against the | ceed at once to + enemy. j Louis, and I had McNeil court- ; martialed tor retusing to obey or- | ders. Sanborn went out and got | his men into marching order. At a fire / was to be opened on the enemy, and there was t } signal to be given, an artillery ment all aic the line. But after | Pleasanton the othe: evening, as he | | of snuff, just taken from a dainty | Kansas and possibly Iowa, go for! And had I not! g jittle romance connected with the roundabout | |allvery solemn, all looking verv all over that country and I knew it | wise and millitary-like with their | well. v | coats butroned all the way upto ther | Boonvil'e a tew days afterwards I chins. There wasn’t much formali-| fourd she had left « paper in the old | i followed Gen. Price and his army |] jeft Jetterson City that Price had | side and saidin a very confidential | not come into the State to fight. but | for political purposes. Certain doc- | j uments Were put into my hand that convinced me that his aim was to in-| vade the State just betore the Presi— dential election and make Missour: | | | McClellan, who was running against ; | | He wanted to avoid a bat- deter- | Lincoin. tle, and never really made a | mined stand from the begining to | the end of the campaign. There is discovery of the papers 1 spoke of. | While I was getting ready to move | my army out of Jefferson City, a la- dy in a mysterious black veil called to see me. I happened at the time to be at my_ headquarters, an up- Itold the or- She was dressed in deep black. and I could not see her face forthe tnick black | veil she had over it. She said she wanted tosee me alone on very iim- portant business. I ordered every— body else out ot the room and then told her to proceed, but I insisted | that she should remove her, veil; ‘I must see the face of anybody I talk to,’ complied witn my request. She was quite young, not more than | twenty, and very pretty. Iwas re- ally astonished to find such a refined- looking lady in that place just at that time. She said she had come from Lexington, a distance cf seventy or eighty miles, 1 suppose, on herse- | back; that her home was in Spring- field, and that she had been very hadly treated by the contederate soldiers, What it was they done to her I could not find out—she } | pointedly refused to tell me. She wanted to be of service to me if she i had | could, and gave me the papers bear- | | | { : ing on political subjects that [ men-— | | | tioned above. and that convinced me Price’s meant. I hadthought first that we would have to fight him at Jefferson | | City, and then | supposed that af- | ter he had left me he would go to | | Boonville or Lexington, and there move north, but frem these papers, and from others at once what campaign make a stand or ‘this same lady gave me, I learned that he intended to move into Kan- | sas. He found he could not stay in Missouri till atter the election. I ked my lady in black what she was | going todo. *Go back to Lexing- H ton,’ she said. Igave her a_ fresh | horse, but first asked her to deposit | any further intormation she might obtain, IN A-CERTAIN LARGE HOLLOW TREE | j a little off from the Jefferson City | road, near Boonville. I bad, been | When I was approaching ever that State we met the Kansas troops We | and, therefore, ranked me. | word to turn | rights. day. But when w under the command of Gen. Curtis, My army | who commanded that department, He was ° ke g lei bulance but did not, broken up, and rode in an ambulance Jim Lane was with him, and the two drank a good deal of whisky togeth- er. [, ot ccurse, allowed Gen. Cur- tis to take the lead, which he did ull . Osage, | m say- we were approaching the F 8 when I gota message from ! ing he would hke tosee me at the front. Itound inm and old Lane} together. Curtis took me to one way that the enemy was reported to be preparing to make a stand, and) that the Kansas troops were raw men, | and that he was afraid to trust them | na fight. He wanted me to go tor- | ward and take command of all the orces during the engagement. I did so willingly, but you know there is no such thing as co-operation ton the battle field: one man always has to be in supreme authority, and I, of course, considered that Curtis had resigned the seniority to me. I took my men and went forward, and be- tore we got through with them we captured 2.500 men. all cavalry, a lot of cannon, seven or eight thous— and sheep and about 3,000 cattle. Among the prisoners were GENERALS MARMADUKE AND CABELL Both up and offered their swords, but I told them to keep them, that I had no use for them. I myself did not carry a sword at all nothing but a little rawhide rding- whip. Marmaduke 1s a fine fellow —a brave man—and | have met him several times since the war. When Cabell surrendered he said. ‘Here General, take this sword, I never ex- rode pect tohave any more use for it.’ He had hadtwo horses shot under him, and had just mounted the third. The girth of his saddle broke as he started to run, and he tumbled off on the ground. Before he could recover himselt a young man from lowa was standing over him with a drawn revolver. There was noth— ing to do but give up. Cabell w: brave officer. I beiieve he now lives in a Texas town, and they tell me he has soured on the world general- ly, and has never got over the fail- ure of the Confederacy. But | must d old and tell you about Curtis « Lane. After the fight was ov: compietely rented, Curtis the Price sent prisoners, stock, Kansas troops. I me etc., over to the BUTLER WEERLY TIMES) The Largest and Bost Lin FOR 75 Cents. From Mch. Ist, ’84, to Jan. Ist, ’85 of Implements ever brought into Bates county. The Ca Sulky Plow, Farmers F¥riend, Brown & Keystone Planters, the Haworth check Rower tor all planters. WEIR CULTIVATORS The new Weir all Iron and steel combined cul- tivators, the new Pekin, all 1ron and steel com- bined cultivators, Butord Rock Island, Weir, Furst & Bradly, Canton, Clipder & Morrison Plows. Headquters tor BARBED WIR The Bain Farm wagon, the Racine Spring Wagon, the Baker Grain Drill, Harrows of all kinds and a tull line of TOP BUGGIES, Iron, Steel Nails, and wagon wood work, and the only exclusive line of Shelf Hardware 1m the city. R. R. DEACON NEW HLEV A'TOR WE ARE IN THE GRAIN MARKET, Alive and kicking. Best facilities for handling Corn in Bates County. DUMPS determined to do nothing ot the kind. He kad resigned the command to: me, and I resolved to stand by my H The prisoners told me they were atraid to back | through Kansas, and I knew Curtis | would take them to Fort Leaven- | worth. I | be marched telegraphed Rosecrans | what had been done and asked for instructions. him i Fortunately he or- i dered me to drive the stock to War- rensburg, where it was used by the | army, and bring the prisoners to St. | Louis. St. Louis and marched them through | the streets to Gratiot Street Prison. | One or two ct the papers there had | said my victory was exagerated, and | that my telegrams announcing the | destruction of Price’s army were | lies. When they saw the I took those bovs down to | prisoners | they took it allback. The election | came on ina few days, and Missou- | Tl gave 20,000 majority for Lincoln. | That is the way I beat Gen. Price at | hollow tree, and from it I received | some yaluabie information as to the | movements of the enemy. I never | saw that woman after she left me at | fefferson City, but after the cam—| | paign was over, and while I was_ in! | St. Louis I received a letter from) her, saying that she had been badly | treated by the other side, and that. she would be thankful for any assis— an address to which I cou'd write. I| ordered $1,000 to be sent ber, and I, Fiske [sent back to St. | received a beautiful letter expressing a Democrat. day till word ot her gratitude. From that this I have not heard one Her Here the General brought torth the snuff-box, and straightened again himselt up after a true milttary tash- 1to be a general move- | ion, and pruceeded to tell me about the winding up of the campaign near Sanborn went away I neard nothing } Fort Scott, Kansas. from him tor two or three hours. | Fimally, I got word from **We did not give Price a moments curing patients that they have g j = | in thier practice. him that} rest after he got over the Kansasline | F- M. Crumly & Co's. City Drug h } ; i 5 ee ie | the Contederates had moved eff to- | but pressed him harder and harder | Regular size $1.00. uis own game in politics.’ It was time to again produce the snutt-box, and before the General | and time tocommence ¢ 2, a friend came along to talk about a matter of business. “1 will see you again,’” said he, | with that charmingly polite wave of the hand for which he is_ ce! tebrated. ; Imay add that it in conclusin i | tance that I could render her, giving | Gen. Price were still living he and Gen. Pleasanton would probably | vote the same ticket, as the latter is | Guteert Guise. A Startling Discovery ! Physicians are o tenstartled by remark- | able discoveries. The fact that Dr. | King’s New Disdovery tor Consumptson | cheap for cash. and ail Throat and Lung diseasec is daily en upto! die, is startling them to -ealize thier sense | of duty, and examine into the merits ot | this wondertul discovery; resulting in hundreds ot our best Physicians using it Trial bottles tree at Store | oi Bennett, Wheeler&Co We carry our corn up by machinery, empty aload of corn in two minutes. No danger to team or wago Highest market price cash up no grumbling, Honest weights. Try once. Wehave regenerated the Grain Market of Butler, and have beet worth thousands of dollars to the farmersof Bates county. In addition } corn we handle all other kinds of Grain LEFKER & CHILDS. easy and safe, only 5 feet high. SA TERS ARE RRR, ER, SERRE EEE PE CREE ESTABLISHED 1870. HEADQUARTERS FOR THE Celebrate John Deer Plows, Cultivators and Stalk Cutters MITCHELL FARM WAGO And Cortland Spring Wagons, Holliday Wind Engines and Deep Wel! Pumps. 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