Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1895, Page 18

18 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY,. MAY 25, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. A CENTURY OLD Old Christ’s Church’s Hundredth Year Finished Today. CELEBRATED WiTH DUE CEREMONY Episcopalians Honor the Mother Parish of the City. AN INTERESTING HISTORY Services in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of Washington parish were held today in Christ Church, G street between 6th and 7th streets south- east. In response to an invitation issued by the rector of the parish, Rev. G. F. Williams, and the vestry. a large number of the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church of this city, as well as representa- tives of other parishes, were present at the services this morning. The occasion was naturally one of great interest to the members of the venerable parish. Holy com- munion was celebrated at 7:30 this morn- ing, and at 10:30 morning prayer was held. The music at the latter service, which was of an excellent character, was rendered by @ quartet and a chorus choir, under the he First Building. direction of the precentor, James S. Smith. J. Fulton Richards presided at the organ. The quartet was as follows: Mrs. Lillian White, soprano; Miss Laura Kahlert, alto; Jas. S. Smith, tenor; R. J. Lowry, basso. The chorus choir was composed of the following: Miss Bertha Kahlert, soprano; Miss Jennie Goss, soprano; Miss Nettie Denham, soprano; Miss Fannie Beasley alto; Miss Irene Gibbons, alto; W. E. Mil- s; Paul C. Hutton, bass; J. Green, bess. The following selections were ren- dered: Processional, Hymn 176; Venite, by Nelson; Gloria Patri, by Danks; Te Deum, Dudley Buck; Offertory, I Know That y Redeemer Liveth (from cratorio of he Messiah"). A sermon was delivered Archdeacon T. S. Childs. After the an autograph letter was read, December 6, 1796, and written by the Rt. Rev. Thomas John Claggett, the corsecrator of the present Christ Church, the first bishop of Maryland and the frst bishop consecrated in the United State: Among the clergymen pr ere Revs. ddison, D. D.; I. L. Townsend, by by sermon dated M. Gibson, Ph. D.; A. J. Graham, rding, P. Jervais Jenkins, J. M. E. McKee, Wm. Tunnell, G. H. JoHnston, 2b {cBride Sterrett, D. D.; Wm. Tayloe Snyder, Chas. E. Buck, Albert R. st D. D.; Edward M. Mott, W. G. Davenport, Robert S. W. Wood, Alexander Mackay-Smith, D. D.; Clarence F. Ball, George F. Dudley, J. W. Ciark, Albert M. Hilliker, John H. Elliott, S. T. D.; Thos O. Tongue, Randolph W. Lowrie, Clarence Bispham, O. R. Bourne of Atlanta, G: Neilson Falls, John A. Aspinwall, John A. Graves. Letters of regret were received from a number of others. Bishop Faret, not being able to be preseht, sent a letter, which was read. The bishop said: “L regret very much that an unusual pressure of important duty will forbid my being present at the centennial celebration I would make many sac- s to be there, but others have claimed my duty for that day. I cannot consent, however, to let the occasion pass withou expressilig my own gratitude for the noble hundred years me parishes in Yours has re- work done during thi by Washington pari growing old grov h. feeble. d the rule, and it has now a vigor of ength, a power for usefulness, and a r power which seem rather to belong to the er stages of life. Your parish in its parochial action has lovingly sustained and helped the bishop, and you yourself, as prie comfort to him, and a help to his confi- dence. May God’s blessing expand your parish life more and more, and be with you personally, and give you peace and comfort in your labo This evening at 8 o'clock evening prayer will be said. A special program of music will be rendered and the sermon will be delivered by Rev. Alexander Mackay- Smith, D.D. The registrar of the parish, Mr. O. B. Hallam, will read a paper giving a sketch of the history of the parish. At the time of the formation of what was then known as Washington parish the ter- ritory now known the District of Co- Iumbia had not been brought under the exclusive jurisdiction of Cong: and the auth y of the Maryland legislature was recognized in all matters affecting the peo- ple of Washington and Georgetown. Ac- cordingly at-t ion of the Maryland assembly of 1 an aet was passed “to form a new hby the name of Wash- ington parish, to include the city of Wash- ington and Georgetown on the Potomac.” of this ac‘ recited that there ented to the assémbly “the tant Episcopal in- Rey. Gilbert FP. Willinms. fa of Washington, in Prin and of Georgetown, in dwelling in separ- ate . c bation of the ministers of John's parish, in Prince and St. Paul's, in Montgomery county. ‘Phe act was passed establishing the new parish with its name and bound- ary, as stated in the title above quoted. One hundred years ago, May there was held in the new parish, ing to the first entry in its re ng of the Protestant Episcopal in- in consequence of a public ad- isement,"” and the following vestry- men were elected: William Deakins, yal Templeman, Charles Worthington, M. .. James Simmons, Joseph Clarke,Thomas ants, t and rector, have been a | Johnson, jr., and Gustavus Scott. Clot- worthy Stephenson and William Prentiss were chosen as churchwardens, Henry Ed- wards as registrar, and Rev. George Rolph, as rector. Dr. Worthington was not present at this meeting, and later declined to serve, and his place was filled at the next meeting, July 14 of the same year, by the election of George Walker. At the same meeting Rev. Edward Gantt was appointed minister to the Georgetown end of the parish. There is a break in the parish records from this time until April 7, 1906, none ap- pearing to have been kept. On the latter day, being Easter Monday, the parishioners assembled and chose a full néw vestry— Thomas Tingey, Buller Cocke, Thomas H. Gillis, Peter Miller, John Dempsie, Andrew Way, Thomas Washington and Robert Alexander, the number of vestrymen re- quired having been increased from seven to eight by the Maryland act of assembly of 1798, which is still in force here. Henry Ingle was chosen register and Rev. A. T. McCormick rector. Although this seems to have been in a sense a new birth or a second lease of life, the worship of the parish had doubtless been kept up through the intervening years in the old original church, though the tem- poral affairs had become disordered and the records had to be classified under the head of “lost, strayed or stolen.” When the parish was organized there was on New Jersey avenue near D street north- east a building, originally a tobacco barn, but which had been used since 1780 as a church, perhaps as a mission of St. John’s parish, Prince George's county, and service in it continued to be held as the only church outside of Georgetown until 1807. In the meantime, propositions were made from time to time looking to the erec- tion of one or more new edifices, but without _ result. At the vestry meeting of July 14, , James Greenleaf presented as a building site lot 17, in square 456, the square bounded by 6th, 7th, E and F streets northwest, and Samuel Blodgett gave the vestry an order for tim- ber to build a church. That body looked favorably on the plan and passed a res- olution requesting the rector to also pur- chase lot 16, in the same square. The pro- ject was, however, abandoned and ~ no church was ever built there. = After the reorganization at_a meeting, held April 19, 1806, the old New Jersey avenue church was still recognized as the parish church, and a resolution was passed directing it to be known as Christ's Church. It seems, however, to have been named only to be put on the retired list, for on May 11, 1806, the vestry considered two offers of lots, one by William Prout, the site of the present church, one by Messrs. Law and Carroll, about four squares dis- tant. Mr. Prout’s offer being regarded as the most advantageous, was accepted, and the others declined with thanks, and subscrip- tions were directed to be taken for the erection of two church edifices, one east and the other west of Tiber creek, a little Commodore Tingey. stream then flowing by_the foot of Capitol Hill. As Mr. Prout's offer was conditional cn the building of a church within a year, all efforts were bent in that direction. Just when the church building was con- sidered completed» does not_appear. On Easter Monday, March 30, 1807, there being doubts as to the legality of the vestry, an entire new vestry was chosen, of which Mr. Prout was one. Commodore Tingey and Messrs. Cocke and Dempsie were re- elected, the four new members being Grif- fith Coombs, David Slater, Peter Miller and Henry Ingle, and on August 9, 1807, the first service was held, as the record expresses it, “in the new church near the Navy Yard.” On August 20 it was named by the vestry Christ Church, and by that name it has gone ever since. The pews were directed to be sold or rented, with the exception of three, one of which was assigned to the President of the United States, one to Mr. Prout, and one to the rector of the church. Not being free from debt, the church was not ready for consecration until 1809, when it was dedicated and consecrated to Al- migthy God by Right Reverend Thomas John Claggétt, who designated himself in his certificate as bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church for the state of Mary- land ond that part of the District of Co- lumbia north of the Potomac. It is reported that James Madison used to oceupy the pew assigned to the Presi- dent, but, if so, it was not made a matter of record. The only record of recognition frem the White House is the noting, April 7, 1817, of a letter from President James Monroe accepting its use. re is a tradition also that President mn used to attend the old church on New Jersey avenue. There have been also frequent statements that President Wash- ington was a w iper at this church. It is possible that while a private citizen he attended may ave occasionally service while visiting here. But the fame or the credit of Christ Church Goes not depend on any connec- tions with the Presidents or other high Rey. Mr. McCormick. officials; it rather grows from its antiquity as the mother church of the capital, and from its spiritual work and ministration. The long list of those consecrated to Al- mignty God by baptism and confirmation during the century of its existence is a suf- ficient proof of its devotion to the Savior, from whom it takes its name, and whose work it is its mission to perform. The church building in use today is sub- stantially the same as when it was con- secrated, eighty-five years ago. Improve- ments and changes have been made from time to time, but the walls are the same and the general plan the same. ‘The parish retained within its boundaries the whole of the two cities of Washington and Georgetown until 1824, when, on June 12 of that year, the Washington parish vestry gave consent to the establishment of the new parish of St. John's, to consist of all that part of the city of Washington lying west of West 9th street and north of North A street. The latter street has since been swallowed up in the Botanical rdens and the mall. This subdivision left Washington parish, consisting of the rest of V hington, with Georgetown cut off as an outlying colony. This produced ssatisfaction in Georgetown, and on June 7, 1827, was given to the erection of two new rgetown. At the a new parish in Wash- ington created, to consist of that part of the city between North and South Capi- ets and north of South I street. eft Washington parish to consist of ‘ast. Washington, or what is now known $3 the northeast and southeast sections, tozether with that part of the southwest section south of I street. While by far the gest parish in territory, it was com- paratively so sparsely settled that no change seems to have been necessary for years, or until April 5, 186! ‘a view to the creation of St. h, an order was passed by the vestry defining the parish boundary to be along East tth street to North Caro- lina avenue and thence to South Capitol street. This boundary has only bee changed since by the creation of St. Jame: parish in June, 1873, including the territory over forty with pari: Mark between East Capitol and Boundary and 6th and 15th streets. Long terms have been the rule with the rectors of Washington parish. As stated above, Rev. George Rolph was the first rector, serving until 1806, when, on April 19, Rev. A. T. McCormick was elected to succeed him. Mr. McCormick served for seventeen years, and on July 11, 1823, re- signed. Mr. McCormick was succeeded on July 29, 1823, by Rev. Ethan Alles, who speedily proceeded to build a rectory. Mr. Allen only remained seven years, resign- ing August 3, 1830. Rev. T. W. Hatch was the rector chosen to succeed Mr. Allen, and he served until October 12, 1835, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Rev. Herry H. Bean, who continued in service until June 21, 1848, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Rev. William Hodges. Rev, Jomn M. E. McKee. Mr. Hodges was in turn succeeded by Rev. Joshua Morsell October 1, 1855, who held the tectorship during the greater part of the civil war, and resigned October 7, 1864. His successor was the Rev. M. L.’ Olds, who was the only one of the parish rectors who died in office. During Mr. Old’s rectorate Rev. W. A. Harris was chosen as assistant minister April 27, 1888. This was the first assistant minister chosen in the parish since the early appointment of Mr. Gantt to minister at Georgetown. He was probably chosen on account of the failing health of the rector, who died in September following, when Mr. Harris at once resigned all claim to the succession, and Rev. Charles H. Shield was elected rector on September 25, 1868. During Mr. Shield’s term Rev. A. F. Steele was chosen assistant minister, but evidently with a view of setting him apart for the contemplated new parish of St. Mark’s, which was authorized a short time after. Mr. Shield held office not quite two years, and on August 6, 1 , resigned and was succeeded by Rev. William McGuire, who resigned June 1, 1873, and ten days later was succeeded by Rev. Charles D. Andrews. Mr. Andrews served fourteen years, until Easter, 1887, when he resigned to take charge of a church in St. Paul, Minn., where he still remains. His successor, Rev. Gilbert F. Williams, assumed charge in June of that year, and his excellent work is fresh and continuing. During his term St. Matthew's Chapel, a mission at Half and M streets southeast, has been built, and is now in charge of its cwn minister, Rev. J. M. E. McKee. The corner stone of this building was laid Sep- tember 21, 1892, and the structure com- pleted during the following summer. It furnishes a convenient and | commodious ace worship for a hi slect pines aw oraniit hitherto neglected A history of the parish would be incom- plete ithout some notice of. its burial ground. It seems that in the early part of the century certain residents of the east- ern section of y had purchased square 1115, which lies between 18th and 19th and E and G street: southeast, for a private burial ground. Square 1026, in the extreme northeastern section, had been bought for a similar purpose, but proved too low and too wet. By a remarkable co- incidence, it happened that the purchasers of square 1115 found their proposed enter- prise impracticable, and they tendered the Square to the parish. It was accepted, and @ deed to the vestry was delivered March 30, 1812, by Henry Ingle, the title holder, and the name was given it of Washington Parish Burial Ground. By this fame it was known until May 3, 1849, when the vestry changed it to Washington cemetery; yet in popular nomenclature it is known as Congressional cemetery. This title can be traced connection with the national 1 e. April 15, 1816, the vestry assigned one fone dred sites for the interment of deceased members of Congress. December 15, 1823, three hundred more sites were donated for the same purpose. Many Congressmen and government officials were burial there. Congress afterward bought more sites erected cenotaphs, and made sundry ap. Propriations for improvements, and, not wishing to emain a silent partner, began 5 ame to a1 y's it Warioue neta ie cemetery’s ‘title in fe cemetery was gradually enlarged the purchase of other squares, until it ae has an area of some thirty aeres, and ‘s a city of the dead of some 30,000 inhab- itants. As early as 1854 the vestry foresaw the necessity of making some permanent pro- vision for the care of the cemetery after its sites should all have been sold and its rev- enues ceased, and April 19 of that year took =ppropriate action toward securing a trust fund for the purpose, whick was limited to $50,000, This on March 31, 1895, amounted to $46,500, and will, it is fully expected, reach $50,000 in another year, when the cemetery will have a revenue of from $2,500 to $3,000 annuaily for all time to come. The present vestry of the parish is com- posed of Messrs. O. B. Hallam, E. N. Wat- ers, S. J. McCathran, L. B. Taylor, A. D. Cobey, W. H. Spetser, J. T. Earnshaw and C. W. Bland. The Wardens are Messrs. Shearman James and Edward Varela. A Church Home for Women. Almost the crowning work of the waning century of Christ Church parish was be- gun St. Barnabas day, June 11, 1894. This day, whose meaning is “consolation,” was at that time adopted as the “chapter day” of St. Agnes Chapter, Daughters of the King. After the service the rector, Rev. Gilbert ¥. Williams, unfolded to the congregation present the desire of many hearts that the offering cf that day, to which would be added the offerings of all future anni- versaries, should be the beginning of a fund for the establishment of “a church heme for women,” ever to be under the sheltering care of this mother church. “At the beginning of the life of this parish,” one of the founders of the home said to a Star reporter today, “so protected was the life of woman that the mention of a home other than that provided by the father or husband would have had but little meaning. But in the rapid rush of our modern civilization more and more are women and young girls, too, compelled to leave the protection of the family and become wage earners. For the establish- ment of ‘a home’ for such, to be complete in all its appointments and attractive in its holy allurements, is the fund only just begun sacredly consecrated. When once established and the eye of faith, woman’s faith, sees it towering in beauty, with a capacity not only for the daughters of the ckurch, but for any girl who may be home- less or away from home, alone, as she may think, in a vast city, to all such this ‘church home for women’ of this mother church will extend loving sympathy and careful protection.” —_~»—__ Wanted Him to Blow Away. From the Montreal Star. A young lady organist in a church was captivated with the young pastor of a church in the next street, and was de- lighted to hear one week that by exchange he was to preach the next Sunday in her own church. The organ was pumped by an ol.streperous old sexton, who would often stop when he thought the organ vol- untary had lasted long enough. This day the organist was anxious that all should go well, and as the service was about to begin she wrote a note intended solely for the seston’s eye. He took it, and, in spite of her agonized beckonings, carried it straight to the preacher. What was that gentleman’s astonishment when he read: “Oblige me this morning by blowing away till I give you the signal to stop. Miss Al- len.” : back to its’early see Cautious. From Life. Doctor—“Take a stated amount of exer- else daily.”” Patient—“Will it be enough ff I walk twice around my wife’s theater hat every day?” -Doctor—“¥6u'd better not risk overexert- ing yourself at first. Begin with once and increase the laps as you feel able.” STANTON IN THE WAR aE Incidents Showing the Great Secre- tary’s Will Power. TOLD BY HIS CORPIDENTIAL CLERK How His Was the-Master Spirit in Critical Moments. RELATIONS_TO LINCOLN * Written for The Evening Star. General Grant once said of .Secretary Stanton that he never questioned his own authority to command, and that he felt no hesitation in assuming the functfn of the executive, or in acting without advising with him. In his campaign for the capture of Norfolk, the Secretary of War, although accompanied by the President, was, in fact, the controlling spirit, the master will. He went to Fortress Monroe to make things move, and they did move. He commanded the army and the navy in the capture of Norfolk and caused the Merrimac to commit suicide. It was the battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor in Hampton Roads, in Marck, 1862, that revolutionized battles on the seas throughout the world. The Merrimac became suddenly the ter- ror of Washington and New York, and the Monitor became the terror of Richmond. Lookirg back at this revolution, in com- parison with the resources and power of the navy at Richmond and the resources and power of the navy at Washington, I think the navy at Richmond was far in ad- vance of the federal navy. The Merrimac as an iron-clad gunboat was the first to give battle to warships and to sink them. The broadsides of thunderbolts from the blockading fleet were hurled against her ke hailstones upon a tin roof. She sank two men-of-war and paralyzed the rest. So great was the consternation after this battle, at Washington and New York, that a fleet of eleven warships, ironclads, rams and gunboats was collected in Hampton Roads and kept with steam up for nearly iwo months, watching this rebel terror day and night, and then only with the hope of running her down should she come out a second time to give battle. ‘The navies of the world stood in amaze- ment at the monster, and wondered where she came from. After this battle every sea had floating steel monsters of war. Planning the Capture of Norfolk. While this formidable war fleet was watching for the coming of the Merrimac, Gen. Wool with his army at Fortress Mon- roe seems only to have been watching this war fleet in Hampton Roads. The army, the navy and the two cities mentioned, had been paralyzed. The Secretary of the Navy had advised Mr. Stanton that there was only one way to capture Norfolk, and that was by sending Gen. Burnside, then: at Roanoke Island, 40,000 men, to attack Nor- folk from that side; and that the capture of that place would equal in importance the capture of New Orleans. During most of this time Gen. McClellan, with an army great in numbers, equipment and in com- manders, was reporting to Mr. Stanton daily the progress of his siege-gun paral- lels at Yorktown. df Gen. McClellan had only known how myich;these reports grie’ ed Mr. Stanton and,the,President he never would have sent them. They kept Mr. Stanton in one endless; round of despair. During this waiting. and,watching and con- structing siege-parallels, Yorktown was evacuated and thej’great siege-works were rendered useless. It was the story of Man- assas repeated. T It is a singular goineidence that on the very day Yorktown was evacuated, and before he knew it,-Mr. Stanton teiegraph- ‘ed Gen. Wool to put his force in condi- tion for a sudden movement. Before this Mr. Stanton had determined to go dewn to Hampton Roads to see if something could got be done to capture Norfolk, and he induced Mr. Chase to go with himiy the revenue cutter Miami. In military movements indecision is aways fatal, and it was Mr. Stanton’s decisive character that gave him Norfolk and Portsmouth on the fifth day after he left Washington. Mr. Stanton had also ask- ed the President to go with him, and on Monday,, May 5, 1862, Secretary Chase’s revenue cutter Miami, at the close of the day, took on board the distinguished party and started for the capture of Norfolk. The night was dark and it was raining, and before reaching Acquia, down the Potomac, the pilot lost his way and had to cast anchor. The thickness of the night havirg cleared on the Chesapeake at the break of day, the sieamer rolled and tossed. At luncheon that day the Presi dent could not eat, and the dishes and es tumbled and rolled about the table. ching Fortress Monroe at night, Mr. Stanton at once s n. Wool, and, although the flagship Minnesota was miles ay, and it was 10 o'clock it s determined to go out and see Commo- dore Goldsborough that mght. On near- ing the great ship a voice from the little tug rang out the familiar hail, “ship- ahoy,’ ‘flagship-ahoy! ‘What do you want?” came over the waters. n. Wool wishes to go aboard,’ was the answer. Reaching the side of the ship and feeling the guide ropes and the steps on the wall, the Presi- dent first ascended to the deck, then fol- lowed Secretary Chase, Mr. Stanton, Gen. Wool and Gen. Viele. Mr. Stanton was short and Heavy and the President and Mr. Chase were tall, both over six feet, and each weighing ‘over two hundred pounds. They were very unfit for climbing vertical walls, and the ascent and descent were dangerous. On Tuesday the distin- guished party visited the Vanderbilt, the Monitor and the Stevens. At dinner with Gen. Wool and Commodore Goldshorough ft was determined to open the battle with the navy the next morning. Promptly when morning came the Galena and two gunboats ascended the James toward Rich- mord and were soon engaged with bat- teries. From the Rip Raps the President and his party watched the fleet of ships, the Monitor and the Stevens, get into po- sition, and moving round, commence the cannonade against the works on Sewell’s Point. In this the great guns on the Rip Raps joined. ‘The Last of the Merrimac. It was during this cannonade that the errimac came out, as was believed, to give battle. All eyes, all hopes, all fears were upon her. The cannonade ceased, the Monitor and the Stevens waited her com- ing, and the Minnesota and the Vanderbilt moved away to positions from which they cculd get great speed to rush onward and run down the Merrimac. Seeing this she retreated to her position behind the Point. This was the last seen of the great terror. She would not fight with the certainty of being run down. , ‘As Sewell’s Poirit was the only place where it was said*troops could be landed for a.march upon Norfdlk, and as the Mer- rimac stood grim amd defiant guarding that landing, it was determined to hunt another landing, which, haying been found by Mr. Chase, the order was given for the march by Mr. Stanton. From this new landing the troops started. for Norfolk, and that day Norfolk was captured. That night the commander of the Merrimac set her on fire and blew her up in one burst of flame. Of the fleet the Vanderbilt was constructed especially to run down:the Merrimac. She had side wheels, each weighing over 100 tens, and forty feet in diameter, for great force and speed. Her prow and half-way rcund her sides were reinforced by timbers projecting six feet in thickness and iron- clad, and she was highout of the water. She was given to.the War Department by Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York, armed, equipped and manned, and sent to Hampion Roads. In this campaign strong will and energetic action were displayed by Mr. Stanton, in sharp contrast to the character of the President, who was always great in the might of his gentleness, yet Ivled his advisers as men were never be- fore ruled in the midst of civil war. Afcer the order had been given for the attack by the fleet, Mr. Stanton, in a telegram to As- sistant Secretary Watson, said: “Things are moving now.” In every matter in which Mr. Stanton did not question his cwn authority to command he was in the right, and in the very matter which in- spired Gen. Grant's criticism, the President himself said Mr. Stanton was right. Referring to the reconstruction problem of the southern states, the President said he thought he had made a mistake at | April, 1865, “Your Liver to Blame’ The Prescription: Is For Rhubarb Ipecac Peppermint - A oes “NuxVomica — Soda | —for those bilions attacks yon have so frequently. The liver becomes engorged, congested and inflamed, and the bile, instead of~ being properly excreted by the Intestines, is taken up by the blood. There are griping pains in the abdomen, headache and dizziness, and you suffer from what is known as a bilious at- tack. Let us be your physician and prescribe. Our prescription 1s Ripans Tabules, 50c. box at all druggists. The dose is one tabule after each meal until the ee billous attacks cease to occur. “One gives relief.”” Ripans, 50c. Box, All Druggists. Richmond in sanctioning the assemblage of the Virginia legislature. The call for the assembling of that legislature was author- ized by the President while he was at Rich- mond after the surrender, and as soon as Mr. Stanton heard of it and saw the call in the papers, he at once ordered Gen. Weitzel, who was in command at Rich- mond, to revoke the President’s permit, to disperse the legislature if it had assembied and to permit no hody to assemble and as- sume the powers of state government. A Midnight Summons. But the most pronounced exhibition of Mr, Stanton’s authority to command was when he summoned from their beds Presi- dent Lincoln, who was at the Soldiers’ Home, three miles in the country; the cabinet, and the general-in-chief of the army, to the War Department, at midnight on the 23d of September, 1863, to consider the grave question of saying the defeated army of Rosecrans at Chattanooga. ‘That night the ordgrlies and messengers, dash- ing away from the War Department, illustrated Mr, Stanton’s will power and energy to send 20,000 men from the army of the Potomac, then on the Rapidan, to Chattanooga. At this cabinet meeting I heard at my desk the President and Gen. Halleck oppose the taking of so great an army from Gen. Meade, because it would weaken him too much in the presence of Lee, and because so great a number of men equipped for war could not be gotten to Chattanooga in time to do any good. Gen. Meigs, who went west with the troops, sent Mr. Stanton a telegram saying that if he was the author of the movement of the troops, it was not only the greatest rail- rcad feat ever accomplished in the trans- portation of troops, but it was a master stroke of will and energy. i In the closing act of the great rebellion, Mr. Stanton, watching closely the events all along the lines, and filled with fiery im- petuosity, at a night cabinet meeting in under President Johnson, set aside the terms of the Sherman-Johnston surrender at Raleigh, wrote in the name of the President the orders sending Gen. Grant to set the terms aside and to assume command, and that night told the people in his famous “nine reasons” why the terms vere set aside. WOf these nine reasons President Johnson told Gen. Sherman that he knew nothing, and had no part in their promulgation; that it was Mr. Stanton’s work. That night Gen. Grant did not want to go to Raleigh, apd when he got there he would not asstime command, but the terms were set aside, and in thier place new terms of surrender were made. The Peace Conference. Referring to the President's conference in January, 1885, with peace commissioners from Richmond, Mr. Stanton did not want the President to grant that conference. The Secretary, who had watched the mat- ter from the beginning, believed the com- ing of these commissioners to be a trap laid for the President, whose goodness and gentleness were known. The history of that conference shows that both Gen. Grant and the President were deceived in the declarations of these commissioners, which enabled them to get that conference. Mr. Stanton did not want to go with the President, and to test the sincerity of their mission he advised the President to send Gen. Eckert, then assistant secretary of war, and now president of the Westexn Union Telegraph Company, to go as an ad- vance representative of the President, with certain instructions to govern him in his conference with these commissioners. In that conference Gen. Eckert learned that the mission of these commissioners was to obtain peace on the basis of the wreck of the Union. He thereupon refused to permit them to come further than Gen. Grant's headquarters. At the suggestion of Gen. Grant the conference did, however, take place, and ended in rcthing. When Gen. Eckert returned to the War Department, on entering Mr. Stanton's room, he raised both hands above his head and said: “Mr. Secretary, you were head and shoulders above them all.” He then told the Secretary all that was said and done. He made no written report of that conference with the President, but I know that Mr. Stanton enjoined him to closely watch the proceedings. Mr. Stanton had great confidence in him and was his friend. So far as I know, every person who was at that conference, except Gen. Eckert, has left his record and views of what was said and done for the historian. As he has never published a word about this extraordinary conference, which was, ostensibly, to close the greatest war of modern times, I now implore him to break his silence, to tell Mr. Stenton’s part in the matter, that the great War Secretary may be seen in this, as in everything else he did, as the watch = the nation in the long years of its peril. All honor to the soldiers, the sailors, their commanders and the civilians who saved the Union. Surmount the tholus of the great double dome of the Capitol and crown the Wash- ington monument with symbols to tell of the blessirgs they have given us. Upon Bunker Hill monument put a flaming sword pointing to Washington city to tell that from there came the first troops for the protection of the capital, and upon the survivors of those who saved the Union bestow care and gratitude. May 22, 1895. A. E. H. JOHNSON. a RUINED BY PIE. It Barred Him Frem the Pulpit and Drove Him to Forgery. From the Buffalo Courier. A most singular case is now in the courts at Kingston in this state. A young man living there was lately found to be a forger, and when he confessed he said he was driven to the crime by an ungovernable gluttony for mince pie. To satisfy his craving he had forged the signature of a wealthy man to a note for $1,000, and had got the paper discounted. With the pro- ceeds he went on a mince-pie spree, and had devoured $60 worth of this pastry be- fore he was arrested. According to his story his extraordinary king for mince pie began to show itself when he was a boy. He seemed even then to feel that there was something abnormal in his appetite, for he went voluntarily. to Bloomingdale Asylum in the hope of being cured of his gluttony. After he came out he believed he was cured and began to study for the ministry. But in a fatal hour about two years later the mania for pie came upon him with irresistible power. He broke into the housekeeper’s closet in the Auburn Theological Seminary, where he was a student, and gorged himself with mince pie. His relapse so preyed upon him that he went to the faculty, and they ad- vised him, he says, to drop ‘his studies, as it would be detrimental to the ministerial calling for him to enter it with such a fatal appetite for mince pie. He would be likely to suffer a seizure of his mania at a supper in the church parlors or at th3 table of one of his flock, and create ar w.to-get- able scandal. He took the advice of the faculty and.went to peddling clothes -v:ing- ers and bed springs, but his malad; now so deep seated that he subord everything to his craving. He dev an unusual cunning in stealing mince or in getting the money with which to par- chase it. “I would be tempted,” said he, “and fall; go to a restaurant and eat a pie and a half or two pies. I became as help- less a victim of the mince-pie habit as the drunkard is of the drink habit. Sometimes I have pawned my overcoat or my watch when I have seen an uncommonly luscious pie in a window and have not had enough ready money-to buy i ‘Then camé the forging of the note and the pie orgy which ended in his arrest. After hearing his story a commission was ap- pointed to inquire into his sanity, and it is likely that instead of being sent to the penitentiary he will be placed in a lunatic asylum. He is described as a thin, nervous- looking man with a wild expression, which is disappointing, for many a man of New England ancestry would be glad to culti- vate this lunacy if it would not spoil his complexion and keep him awake nights, A Question of Wood Sheds. From the Minneapolis Journal. Bashful bachelor, nervous and fidgety, trying to remember a speech he had been rehearsing for an hour previously. Helpful maid, anxious and expectant. B. B.—‘My dearest, I—I have long wished to tell you that Iam full—I meant my heart is full— my palpitating heart—1—I—mean your—your smiles—dearest, would she¢t—would shed— H. H.—“Perhaps, dear, we could live in a flat, at first, then we should not need a woodshed.” ‘(The all important date was fixed within five minutes). Ses In 1915. From Life. Maude—“I really believe Cholly is going to get marricd.” Ester—‘‘What makes you think s0?” Maude—“I hear he has joined a cooking school.” ——————s DOES THE GRIP THINK? What a Bloomingdale Professor Told a New York Cable Car Man. From the New York World. “When I drove a street car,” said the Broadway gripman to a reporter, “the horses always knew by the conductor's bell when to stop, and I didn’t have to pull ‘em up much or start them when the bell rang twice. You see, they learned exactly what the rings meant. “Of course, you wouldn’t expect a grip, which is made of steel, to have any intel- ligence, but I'll swear that some of them have. My grip has got so that when the bell sounds he works, and it isn’t so hard for me. It must occur to you that I'm a liar, but I’m not. “I was speaking about it the other day to a professor of ethics at the Blooming- dale Institute, and he said that it was un- doubtedly so, He attributed it to the influ- ence of mind over matter. A sort of sym- pathetic current is struck up between me and the grip, and when my brain—yes, I said my brain—hears the bell it has a de- sire to pull the grip; that desire runs along the sympathetic current and acts on the grip before my hand does. That's the offi- cial explanation of it. “I haven’t seen the professor of ethics lately,” he concluded, “but I’ve heard that he’s a great deal worse and that they won't let him cut. se Not All Tee. From the New York Weekly. ‘ Rural Adorer (bashfully)--“You didn’t go to Millie Meadow’s party. Don’t you like kissin’ games?” Pretty Ma No, IT don’t.” Rural Adorer (weakly)—“Why don’t you?” Pretty Maid (encouragingly)—* 'Cause there's so many lookin’ on.” +o+—____ His Lot ix Not a Happy One, From the New York World. He resents the criticism of a blond young man wearing glasses. Then the blond young man mentions thag bis name is Theodore Roosevelt.