The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 16, 1902, Page 3

87 YEARS AGO. On January 8, 1815, Jackson Won His Brilliant Victorv. The British Used Tactics Which Later Proved Just as Disastrous in South Africa---What Mr. Roosevelt Says of Jackson's Generalship. K. C, Star, 9th. Just eighty-seven years ago to day the backwoods general, Andrew Jack- son, whipped oné of Wellington’s abl- est lieutenants, Sir~Edward Paken- ham. The victory—perhaps the most brilliant between Yorktown and the rebellion—was won two weeks after the signing of the peace treaty. The vessel bearing the tidings was still in mid-ocean. An Atlantic cable would ~haye prevented the toss of hundreds of lives. \ The British were overwhelmingly defeated because they adopted tac- ¢ — tics singularly like those that proved se disastrous nearly a century later against the Boers at Colenso and the Modder river. They threw their bat- talionsin closed order against a posi- tion held by expert marksmen. Asa result the red-coated soldiers were slaughtered in droves and the sur- vivors fled from the field. “T never had,” said Jackson, later, “so grand and awful an idea of the resurrection as so on that day. Af- ter the smoke of battle had cleared off somewhat, I saw in the distance more than 500 Britons emerging from the heaps ef their dead com- rades, all over the plain, rising up, coming forward and surrendering as prisoners of war to our soldiers.” The record of the land fighting of the war of 1812 is a dismal one for the United States. It was left forthe obscure Tennessee general to redeem it. The British had looked longingly toward the wealthy French city at pe TH Ca SIpPpT- un 1814 they sent against it a great fleet of war vessels under Admiral Cochrane, conveying a detachment of troop ships with 10,000 veterans aboard, fresh from the Peninsula wars. Theircommander, Pakenham, had delivered the decisive blow at Salamanca and had taken part in the rout of thes ablest generals of Napoleon, The inefficient Washing- ton administration had done nothing for the defense of Louisiana and when Jackson arrived at New Orle- ans three weeks before the landing of the British the situation was desper- ate. He found about 800 regulars and 1,000 militiamen on the ground. But a few days later the real saviors of the city marched in-~Tennes- seeans, gaunt ofform and grim of face, carrying long rifles over their shoul- —___ders and long hunting knives in their belts, with coonskin caps and fringed ———leggius—Theysnumbered about 1.-| 600,There were, besides, some poor- ly armed Kentuckians, so that when the day of battle came Jackson mus- tered 5,500 men against the 10,000 British veterans. Mr. Roosevelt remarks in his ac- count of the engagement that the half savage backwoodsmen under an ordinary commander would have been as dangerous to themselves as to their foes. ‘But Andrew Jack- son,” he continues, “was of all men the one best fitted to manage such troops. Even their fierce natures quailed before the ungovernable fury ofa spirit greater than their own, and their sullen, stubborn wills were bent at last before his unyielding temper and iron hand.” As soon as Jackson arrived in the | city he proclaimed martial law and , took energetic measures for its de- fense. A delegation of timid legisla- tors called to ask what his plans were. 0 j “By the Eternal,” swore the fiery general, “if I thought the hairs of my head knew I would tear them out and burn them.” The battle of January 8 was pre- ceded by a fierce night encounter. Pakenham sent a force of 2,300 men up the river toward the city. Jack- son, with about the same number, marched to meet it. The engage- ment took place near midnight—a hand-to-hand encounter in which the hunting knives of the Tennessee vol- unteers slashed down the bayonets of the British regulars. With a loss of 200 to the British loss of 300, Jack- son drew back up the river and threw up breastworks from the banks of the morass. Pakenham brought up his men and erected fortifications just out of cannon shot. All night on January 7 the Ameri- cans heard a continuous humming ‘murmur from the ~ English~camp. This prepared them for the attack. ae |At1 o’clock Jackson looked at his | watch. H | “Gentlemen,” he said to his dozen | | aides, “we have slept enough. The} jenemy will be upon us in a few min-} } utes.”” | Pakenham had sent a detachment | across the river to march up the west | bank, attack a force of 800 milita | there and flank Jackson’s main army, which was on the east side of the riv- er. He lost track of this force, but went on without paying attention to its apparent absence. It is said he had been irritated by a taunt of Admiral Cochrane, who had said that ifthe army could not take those mud banks, defended by ragged militia, would do it with 2,000 sailors, arm- ed only with cutlasses and pistols. When the sun arose it glinted on the scarlet ranks of the main force of English drawn up only 400 yards from Jackson’s lines Some of the older men under Pakenham: feared the army behind-the~mud- brenst- works. Colonel Mullens, in-the ad- vance, openly expressed his dissatis- faction. “My regiment,’ said he, “has been ordered to execution. Their dead bodies are to be used as a bridge for the rest of the army to march over.” A mist settled over the field. When it lifted the plain in front of the American redoubts seemed covered with scarlet figures. They advanced without wavering, although the can- non shot, a witness said, “cut green lanes in the column from front to rear.” Asthey came within rifle shot they broke into a run. From the breastworksin front the whitesmoke curled in the air. Rank after rank of Tennessee sharpshooters rose, fired, fell back, loaded and again rose to pour volley after volley into the red column. Jackson walked along the left-of the lines, speaking a few words of cheer to the men as he passéd, “Stand to yourguns,” hesaid. “Don't waste your ammunition, See that boys. Let's finish the business to- day.” Uuder that murderous fire the col- umn reeled, as an observer put it, “like a red ship on a tempestuous sea.’’ Then the men broké and fled. Pakenham galloped up and strove to rally them. “For shame, men,” he cried. “You are British soldiers! Forward!" General Gibbs, in command of the assault, rode up. “The troops won't follow me,”’ he shouted. Waving his hat, Pakenham spur- red forward. A ball shattered his right arm. His horse fell dead. He mounted another, apparently uncon- scious of his dangling arm, and rode after the retreating men, calling to them to halt and reform. 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F, Wannock, Notary { American loss as seventy, of whom only thirteen fell in the main attack. “The American soldiers deserve great credit for doing so well,” he continues, “but greater credit still | belongs to Andrew Jackson, who, with his cool head and quick eye, his, stout heart and strong hand, stands out in history as the ablest general the United States produced, from the outbreak of the Revolution. down to the beginning of the Great Rebellion.” | Value of our Minerals. Washington, Jan. 9.—The report of the geological survey published to- day shows that the value of the min- Gibbsled another charge. As hesaw the reserve Highlanders advancing to his Support he waved nis hat his left hand and eried: “Hurrah! Brave Highlanders!” A moment later he fell, mortally wounded. Gibbs was soon shot. Then General Keane was borne to the rear. The Highlanders plunged forward until within 100 yards of the redoubt. Then, forsome inexplicable reason, they halted, a huge and glit- tering target, and the Tennesseeans shot them to pieces. When 544 had fallen the survivors fled. Two of- ficers and afew men reached the ditch. One of them climbed the parapet un- harmed. Thinking the army at his back he demanded the swords of two American officers. He could hardly believe them when they told him he was alone. “Conceive my indignation,” he said, in telling of it later, “on look- ing around to find that the two lead- ing regiments had vanished as if the earth had opened and swallowed them up.” The battle lasted just twenty-five minutes: When the smoke lifted the American army was appalled and silenced at the scene before it. “The field,” says a witness, “was so thickly strewn with the dead that, from the American ditch you could have walked a quarter of a mile to the front on the bodies of the killed and disabled. In seme places whole platoons lay together as if killed by the same discharge. Dressed in their gay uniforms these stalwart men lay on the field. Strangely indeed did they contrast with those ragged, un- shorn, begrimed and untidy, long haired men who crowded the Ameri- can parapet. There was not a pri- vate among the slain whose aspect did not present more of the pomp eral products in the United States in | 1900 exceed $1,000,000,000, a gain Iron and coal alone yielded more | than half the grand total, the com- bined: value being $556,000,000, The most important gains in gold production were in the Steward pen- insula of Alaska, Cripple Creek dis- trietand in Arizona, the yield for the year being valued at $79,171,000, a gain of $8,117,600 over 1899, The coining value of silver was $74,533,- 495, against $70,806,626 in 1899, The copper outfit was 606,116,166 pounds, a gain of 6.59 per cent. Crude petroleum, $75,752,691, | against $64,403,900 in 1899. David B. Hill's Platform. Philadelphia, Jan. 9.—At a dinner last night given by the younger Democratic lawyers of this city to celebrate Jackson day, letters were read from ex-President Cleveland and David B. Hill and a telegram from Bourke Cockran. Mr. Cleveland’s letter advised an observance of “true Jacksonian Democracy.” Mr. Hill’s letter advised as basic principles of Democracy a strict con- struction of the constitution; no en- tangling alliances with foreign na- tions; public taxation for public pur- poses only; preservation of the reser- ved rights of the state; opposition to monopolies; opposition tocentraliza- tion and home rule for states and municipalities. Juror Came to Grief. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 9.—This af- ternoon I. G, Shepard, for yearsa prominent figure in local polities, was arrested as he was leaving the courthouse where he served a8 a ju- and circumstance of war than any of|ror in a case against the city. He the commanders of the victors.” ‘The than 2,000. Mr. Roosevelt givesthe confessed to breaking into a grocery ‘otal British_loss_was_more| store and stealing $20. Shepard has a family. Very Dey In Oklahoma. K, C. World, Andrew Last, hardware dealer of Arapahoe, Ok., was at the Blossom House this morning. Tle was on his way home from a short visit in lowa but his partner has been keaping him posted. “It's dry down there,” he said, “hut we've plenty of time for rain or snow yet. Our part of Oklahoma has a large wheat acreage this year larger than usual. Of have a little dampness often, but we haven't had what we'd call aright good rain since last May. In spite of that, though, we sed better corn than Kansas, Towitor course we Our bottom corm went as 1s + titre tnshnts to-theere The Relationship. From the Record-Herald, A little miss of 5, livingin Washing- ton, conspired with her brother, aged ft, relates Victor Smith, to save enough pennies to buy papa and mama presents. A friend of the family noticed that mamma's pres- ents were much finer than papa’s, and was impelled by curiosity to Ti quire why the bulk of the savings had been expended for the mother. The little miss replied: ‘Well, you see, pupa is only related to we chil- dren by marriage, while mamma is our relative by bornation.” Trusts Destroying Homes. New York, Jan. 9.—Rev. Albert Bruchlas, pastor of the Hope Chapel, in an interview to-day said the trusts are responsible for the decrease in the number of marriages, that they make it impossible for young men who work for salaries to keep up the march and support wives. Young women are forced to give up the idea of marrying and turn their attention to typewriting, professions or the trade. God made the family and the finan- cial combinations are destroying it.” He Said That He Could Fly. Kingston, Ontario, Jan. 8.—At a meeting of Free Methodists at Ver- ona, one of the brethren declared he could fly, and proceeded to demon- strate his power. He launched into space and his head came into con- tact with a‘large coal oil lamp. The lamp fell to the floor and the oil ig- nited. At one time five men and three women were on fire. Five out of the eight were burned. oo * ‘|the train for Arlington, LL. T., ONE OYSTER FED 75 MEN. It Weighed 212 Pounds and Was Found Buffalo. From the Philadelphia North American. Near A most remarkable oyster has re- cently been taken from Niagara river | by two Buffalo tishermen, The shell alone, without the meat, weighs 212 pounds, and is two feet eight inches broad. uine pearls. That it might be proven that this| wonderful tale was no “fish story” | the oyster was placed on exhibition for a week at a Bufialosaloon, where the public was bidden to come and see it, The meat was cooked and made into a stew, which filled to the brim two-eight quart pails. Seventy-five men partook of the repast it furnish- ad, inches across and nineteen | It contained tifty gen-| | The fishermen made the find when their net caught ona snag of some kind and was held fast, As the water was shallow, not: more than waist deep, one of them jumped from the boat to investigate and found’ the net attached to what seemed to bea big rock. It was covered with a white sub- stance resembling lime, and its pecu- liar appearance induced the fisher- men totake it) ashore with them, There, when it was washed off, they discovered, to theiramazement, that they had a mammoth oyster. Artist Left Girl a Fortune. Richmond, Va., Jan. 9,—Miss Pred- erica Briel has fallen heir to a for- tune, the amount of which is named at $500,000, There is a pretty little romance jread of M Missouri's Queen. An exchange discourses on the lay of the Missouri henthusly: “We have ad Muller on a summer day, who raked barefooted the new mown hay; we have read of the maid in the early morn, who milked the cow with the crumpled horn; and we have read the lays that the poets sing of the rustling cori and the lowers of spring, for all the lays of tongue or pen, there is naught like If Maud is needing a hat oragown, shedoesn’t the lay of the Missouri hen take her hay to town, she goes to the store and obtains her suit with a basket full of fresh hen fruit: if the | milkmnaid’s beau makes a Sunday call, she doesn’t feed him milk at all, but works up eggs pie and stuffs him full fry; and when the old manwantsa horn, does he take the druggist « load of corn? Not much! He simply robs a nest and to town he woes—vou know the Tedingors thet aid ietalks, perchance, of true re! rect while his poor wite stays at home and seowls, but saved from want by those self-same fowls: for while her husband lingers there, she watches the in custard W chicken Pent rmoand cor- “fecnance,”” with care, and gathers and the eggs she'll hide till she saves enough to stem the tide. Then hail, all hail, te the Missouri hen, the greatest bless. ing to all men! Throw up your hats and make Rome how! for the perses verent barn-yard fowl Cornmay be king but it’s plain to be seen the Mis- souri hen is really queen.” A SKELETON CLEARS A MYSTERY. cackling hens In Utah Man Had Started te Cross a Desert and Died by the Way. connected with the legacy. The property is left Miss Briel by TE. W Bruner, a Germanartist, who recent: ly died in Athens, Greece, Bruner came lieve a poor man. He found a home with Briels and met 9 Salt Lake City, Jun, S.—A skeleton Wes fonted to-dia several miles outin the crater-like desert near Filmore, in the southern part ofthe state. In the rags which once formed thecloth- ing of the man, werediseovered $175 and paper which identified the skele- his worldly goods, Bruner was an invalid and after remaining here for a short time went back to Germany to die. J. Proctor Moore, of Liberal, Mo., foreman of the Enterprise, gave Tur Times a pleasant call Monday. He was here as a defendant in the Hes- ter A. Moore case, tried before Judge Graves Monday on change of venue from Vernon county. The Women Fough to Kiss Him. New York, Jan. 8.—As he was leav- ing the Brooklyn academy of musie dan Kubelik, the young violinist, was mobbed yesterday by women who wanted to kiss him and get locks of his hair, His clothes were torn in the scuffle. As his carriage drove away the violinist Waved a farewell from the window. His hand seized and covered with kisses was un Coray, a that of Nicholas) Paul, an aged recluse who lived formerly at Filmore Ton as At the time it) was supposed that the old man had murdered, robbed and It is supposed that Paul started across the desert, became de- lirious from thirst away from the trail. been and wandered People Believe In It. It has been cynically said that any- thing can be sold by advertising now-aed This is not so. Many linimeuts have been advertised but only one—Perry Davis’ Painkiller— has stood the test ofsixty years’ use, To-day its popularity is greater than ever and is based not upon what any- body says but what the remedy does, There is only one painkiller, Perry Davis’. ‘ A proposition to build a $50,000 4eoHet headin Grids conte cape ried by-atreihmost-unaunitions votes } z Py ‘ cs a \ nese denis 1th “Worth—and Denver shops at Fort Worth, Tex., became suddenly insane and took and when found by the officers there she Was sitting in a chair sewing fora ried herself sick trying tos buy thirty presents with two dollars. The carpenters are busy putting up the frame work and supports for the roof of the court house. hegress. She was taken back to Fort Worth. Whitecaps are again terrorizing A des- perate crowd of about twenty-tive men went to the dwellings of fourteen negro families in the neighborhood of Dyer, Gibson county, Monday negroes in West Tennessee. night, and gave orders for the occu-|_ pants to leave at once at the peril of} ; their lives. Thomas Redmond, who _ killed Thomas Seruggs by stabbing him while a general fight was in progress at Troost park, in Kansas City, on June 23, has been eonvicted of mur- | ° der in the second degree and sentene- ed to twenty-five years in the peni- tentiary. Scruggs was the son of a]? prominent stockman. The controversy between Ben Grubbs and Sol Mackey over the sheriff's office at South MeAlister, 1. T., was settled Thursday by Judge}! Holson in Grubb’s favor. William Stack, the young man, who was accidentally shot by a fel- lowstaudent at Greer college last Sun- day, died from the effects of the wounds Thursday at Danville, Ill. 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