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16 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1896—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. D. A. R. CONGRESS Fifth Session of the Daughters of the American Revolution 0 BE HELD IN THIS CEFY NEXT WEEK —————a Officers of the Organization and Program of the Meetings. WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY — The Daughters of the American Revolu- tion will open the fifth session of their con- tinental congress Tuesday, and will con- tinue in session four days. The sessions will be held in the Church of Our Father, corner of 15th and L streets northwest. The strides that th!s patriotic order has made in the five years since it was orgun- ized are phenomenal. The order had its birth here in Washington, and the “Daugh- ters” like to twit the “Sons” of the fact that though both the “Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution” and the “Sons of the Revolution” were organized for some time before the Daughters were, and that though they refused to give their sanction to the Daughters organizing as an @uxiliary to them, or either of them, the Daughters now number as many as the combined Membership of the two “men” They have regents in fort, territo! 3, and 300 chapter regents, and a membersaip on Thursday of this wee! when the bocks wi udited, That fs a growth of 4,021 since the last day of the Z0, when the mem- ess @ year p stood 8,197. s ht of an crganization of this r had not suggested itself to any- til in the early, part of 1S, when Mrs. Adlai Sicvenson, n few patr that the the dark ¢ fancy, it took all the strength and vigor of both men and wo to keep the banner from a the dust, and it was said both could and obligation of the that hi: he of that and an app! bership in that order was made by a few petriotic women. The prayer was un- heeded. A ver: dc a thing is to tell her that she it. When the word came back to W ton that the Sons ren Eugenia W of “h shington, a Washir writh of whom net favor of the fat 1, Desha and Mrs. Wz Fanizat.cn. gton, Miss ‘ed an or- An Organization Effected. ‘They ermined to e the organiza- tion national, and, dest give it as much prestige as p Jed to re- quest Mrs. Caroline Sestt Harrison to be the president Mrs. Levi P. Morton accepted the h three So appoin and In June 8, Incorp er member- mained the until her Stevenson, ear. Mrs. Jolin W. Foster, the bent, was ed last year. of times r the ques- ed, “What i good for, James B. State re- he perpetuity of our government, ty of our institutions, depend w entiment with which they are regar jority of our cit! zens and the fidelity w ciples are cher ties are based. h which the pri d upon which our liber- And here is our m To cultivate this sentiment, to illustrat this fidel If we, Daughters of the Amer- fean Revolution, are true to the prectous trust bequeathed us ers; if we hoid our coun das our tains and 3, Its P ; if we regard make our coun’ on which counts and 2a an w li crifice a preas- . ai les- to the children growing up around us, may we look to the past with pride, and to the future with confidence. Leaven of Patriotism. “So must we work with the leaven of pa- triotism. We want, we need, the whole mass of our population to be leavened; our own sons and daughters, who, perhaps, are dazzled by foreign splendors, or unduly im- pressed by the imposing antiquities of the old world; our Mterary men, who find our land so new, our social conditions so crude, that there fs no background here for their work as artists, and they must expatriate themselves or die of this rudis que indl- gesta_moles. “Oar great institutions of learning, which devote more time and thought to the his- tory and literature of every other nation { than to our o-yn, that they may take pride in holding up our own heroes and states- men for the reverence and imitation of the youth of our native land. “Last, and by no means least, we need to concentrate all these forces, these influences and leay- ening powers upon the foreign element in our midst. Bred under _oligarchias, crouching under des- potisms, _rebe!lious against’ righteous law, conspiring against rightfal au- thority, mistaking li- eense for liberty, as- sassination for jv Uce,and Its own hate Mrs. C. S. Johnson. for th: anathema of the Almighty, anarchy ‘rears its horried front,’ unabashed by myriad frowns, and threatens the ruin in a moment of all that we have builded in two centuries and a half. “How can we teach its advocates rev ence for law, respect for others’ rights? How indoctrinate them with the political truth which makes us free indeed? Of some, already grown old in old world thought and old world ways, we must de- spair. But these men who would solve so- elal problems by exploding dynamite leave us their children for a legacy, and it is in the schools that we must influence them. We need teachers whose lips have been touched by the live coal from the very al- tar fires of liberty.” Not an Aristoeracy. i along these lines, in common iduals and organizations, the Daughters of the American Revolution have been active in having the flag raised above the school houses of the land, and leati 1s of patriotism through Workt with f books, portraits and pictures, which they have ‘induced school boards to r>-mit to be int ueed. “This is one of our grand- says Mrs. Hatcher, the chapter of Indiana, in y hat generous and noble en- ho gnimaied each member clan, which made ot the sneer, well as of th proudest, nd an ardent patriot. To promo s inspiring sort of patriot- ism thi rv has as one of the clauses of its constitution and b; s the following: perpetuate the and the spir- it of the men and wo- men who achieved American inde- pendence, by the qui tion o Spots and the erecti of monument the encourageme historical re memo! tion and the pu tion of its results the preservation documents and relics, and of all records of the dual onary sold! and patriots, by promotion of celebrations of all p: anuiversart The: e adopted h of July as their “national” hol- of A Continental Hall. One of the grand aims and hopes of the Daughters now is the erection of a conti- nental hall here in Washington, in which, to quote that ardent promoter of the orde Mrs. Randolph Keim, “there may be served inst destruction by fire, neglect er indifference the treasured relics of the times which tried men’s s nd women's, too—a depository of r sanctified by the heroic and self-sacrificing devotion of the men and women of the American revolution. ial hall we can safely pre- the now unwritten hters are rescuing from oblivion, and in other ways carry out the purposes of our society as set forth in our constitution.” The order has been fortunate in the selec- tion of persons to fill the position of pre- siding officer, the president general. Mrs. Harrison was a wo- man of singularly sweet und winning . and took active interest in order, of which she was one of the members. mis not charming on: mc imbued with patriot- ism and love of coun- try, with the blood of more t olutionary running in he Mrs. Gannett. gave much of her and attention to the Office of president general, to ich she succeeded on the death of Mrs. Harrison, the duties of which office she was actively engaged in discharging until death entered her own home. The third president general, Mrs. John W. is also a lady of wide renown, and member of the or is one of the most approachable of women, gracious and cultured, and possessed of a arm of m s friends. She needs of the e of the vice president eral before being elected to the hivher office, she was thoroughly in- formed of the duties that would devolve up- as discharged them with a has endeared her to all orp of officers. The Officers. joral of cers of the order are: John W. Foster; in charge of organization, Sweet Johns@m; recording sec- al, Mrs. Roberdean Buchanan; corres} tary general, Mrs. Wm. E. Earle; registrars general, Mrs. Agnes M. Dennison and Mrs. Philip Hichborn; treasu general, Mrs. Amos G. Draper; historian general, Mrs. Henry Gannett; surgeon general, ta Neweomb Mc- ain general, wars. Harry Heth; torian general, Mrs. F.W. Dick- President general, Mi pr vice sident Mr: rete les e7 ass! E. Vice pre: doiph Kei Washington, mes McMilian, D. C.; Mrs. A. Howard Hin- kle, Ohio; Mrs. S' phen J. Field, Wa: ington, D. C.; Mra. Gertrude Van Cort- land Hamilton, N. Mrs. Henry M. Shep- ard, TL; Mrs. John Q. » Adams, Minn. Mrs. Frances C.Gri Pa.; Mrs.Eliza- Andrew Hill, ; Miss Virginie Miller, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Joseph Washington, Wash- ington, Mrs. a8, > Mrs. W. W. Shippen, N.. ‘ia S. Knight, R. 1; Mrs. Mary ngton, D.’C.; Mrs. L. f D. C.; Miss Alice Key Blunt, Md. rs. Miranda Tul- loch, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. J. J. Bullock, ington, D. C., Mrs. Francis 8. Nash, Washington, D. C. Honorary vice prealdents general, Mrs. Margaret Hetzel, Mrs. Leland Stanford, Mrs Roger A. Pryor, Mrs. John R. Put- nam, Mrs. A. Leo Knott, Mrs. Ellen Har- din Walworth, Mrs. M. C. Butler, Miss Eugenia Washington, Mrs. Joshua Wil- bour, Mrs. A Howard Clark, Mrs. R. Ogden Doremus,-Mrs. Lucy Preston Beala, Mrs. Mary Desha. Advisory board, Mrs. Daniel Lothrop, Mrs. A. C. Geer, Mrs. John L. Mitchell, Mrs. A. G. Brackett, Mrs. Alexander James Dr. A. N. McGee. Miss Program for the Congress. The program of ex- ercises will be as fol- lows: Tuesday, ‘a.m.—Congress to order by the presi- dent general, prayer by the chaplain,gen- eral, music,“The Star Spangled Banner,” led by the young ladies’ chorus of the D. A. R., director, Miss Anna B. Yeat- man; address of wel- come by the presi- dent general; re- sponse by Mrs. Wil- bour of Rhode Is- Mrs. F. W. Dickims land, report of cre- der tal coramittee and roll call of delegates, report of program conimittee. 2 p.a.—Reports of national officers: Vice | INTERESTING president general in charge of organization, recording secretary general, corresponding secretary gcreral, registrars general, treas- urer general, historian geveral, assistant historian general, surgeon general. Report of auditing commitice,Miss Virginia Miller; report of the editor of the American Monthly Magazine, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood; report of the business manager of the American Monthly Magazine, Miss Lilian Lockwood; report of magazine committee, Dr., Anita Newcomb McGee; report of con- tinental hall committee, Mrs. Henry M. Shepard; report of National University com- mittee, Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth; re- port of president of the Children of the American Revolution, Mrs. Daniel Lothrop. 7:30 p.m.—Special ‘program of national , hymn committee. | Wednesday, 10 a.m.—Executive session; | consideration of reports of officers and com- mittees. 2 p.m.—Consideration of reports eortinued. 0 p.m.—Musie, soprano solo, Miss Edna reports of state regents, Alabama, as, California, Colorado, Connecticut, ware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Tinos, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentuel jana; music, ‘Boat Son; the young ladies’ regents limited to ten m — each by act of congress, Feb- 85. 10 a.m., executive session— y by the chaplain g ‘al; -music, “Hail Columbia,” led by the Young Ladies’ Chorus, D. R. nominations tions of na’ cers, : dp. m— Music, " selec- uon, Roberta Allen. orts of state ress Maine, setts, Mieh: ouri, — Mor ebrask solo, Miss Yeatman, reports of state regents. Mr: Burnett. the chaplain ied Ban- D. general; mu: ner,” led by A. R.; announcement of regents; reports of special er vonal char! Ss De: Burrows; pi! gz Declarat ence and C in post offi Clark; objects of t Anita N mb Chorus, Na- Mrs. . A. slaneous business. ) pam he composer, Miss 3 sa de Hesper reports of state re : Ohio, Ok Pennaylvania, Rhode Is th Dakota, Ten- mont, Virgin Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wy- i Evening Bells, y, “La Pre , by Mis reports of Washington's Birthday Exercises. Exercises appropriate to Washington's birthday will be held at the Church of Our Father, Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, under the sus: of the D. A. R. and C. A. R. Committee—Mrs. John W. Foster, Mrs. Daniel Lothrop, Mrs. Miranda Tulloch and Mrs. Kate Kearney: Henry. ate regents. The chairmen of committees for con- tinental congress of 1806 are as follow: Arrangen ents, Mrs. ate Kearney Henr credentiais, Mrs Roberdeau Bu- n; program, A. G. Bracket sic and de .» Dr. Anita comb McG hotels and ratlr Mr: R. K Mrs. A. ushers, Mi Nannie R. Ball. Page to president general, Miss Hich- born. The young la¢ DeB. (ei ushers, who are all charming young ers,” are as | Miss Alde: Miss Browne, M Dennison, Wilson, Misses Yeatman and evening there will be a re- rd’s, for all members of | and “Sons” and thei sions of the congress will be open | of the order during the day, but | only Daughters will be admitted to the floor. rved' for the d \ he evening sessions 5 body, and all parts of the church will be free. ter- | Growth. vour rage but shakes the tree in its place? © clonds, and free t your frowning gracet 2, O river, to the sea den in sour onward race! Blow, Peace throu His garde Whilst others s Aud tend his fle ‘The lowers ¢ ‘The strife of | Ab, joy It Is to win the goal By tireless work and dayntless will, Yet may the life rise orded and whole From clouded hopes, and loss, and ily Our baffled tolls upbulld the soul, = And fzilure so is victory still. . ST. JOHN ADCOCK. so The Consumption of Champagne. Paris Letter to the London Telegraph. Some statistics have been published re- lating to the annual consumptiop of cham- pagne in the world. At a rough estimate it is calculated that an average of 21,000,000 bottles of the sparkling wine are drunk every year. England heads the list of | countries with the greatest consumption, followed by America, though whether this last is intended to represent the United States alone or the whole of the two divis- ions ot the continent {s not stated. Australia, at one time, was well to the fore, but it is stuted that the recent finan- cial troubles there have had an ill effect on the consumption of the effervescing bev- erage. The Russians have always had a partiality for champagne, but France, on th» contrary, hardly wets her lips with it. Some one has, however, questioned the ge-uineness of the champagne that is quaffed in such quantities by the English and Americans. All ts not gold that glit- ters, and it may also be that all champagne bottles do not contain the real article. é a Canine Intclligence Demonstrated. From the Westminster Gazette. An English traveler in Switzerland hav- ing recently criticised somewhat unfavor- ably the race of St. Bernard dogs because a certain member of that famous breed took the liberty of devouring the contents of his luncheon basket on a recent occa- sion, a German admirer of the maligned animal has been moved to take up his pen in its defense. The St. Bernard’s action, he maintains, does not exhibit any lack of intelligence. On the contrary, it shows a ha sunny sp me qi for him r and fen; nd sleep; 3 us men. ing mi 10| Last Scenes in ; hour after | the President very keen appreciation of the interests of the tmn keepers In mountainous regions. On. the summit where the offense was com- mitted, he points out, there is ‘an inn where an excellent luncheon may be ob- tained at a very moderate price. When the English tourist makes a practice of carrying all his refreshments up from be- low, he shows a disregard for the prosper- ity ef such establishments, which the St. Bernard dog—to his honor be it said—has no disposition to encourage. S°adinece” a * Meme =) LINCOLN AND GRANT _ the War Described . by Stanton’s Confidential Clerk. REJOICINGS AND ILLUMINATIONS And Then the ‘Gloom Caused by the President's Death. DETAILS ee Whitten for The Evening Star. N THE FINAL struggle of the army of the Potomac Secretary Stanton had not a doubt that {t would be the final triumph of that army. To him there was no uncertainty of that event. He had placed the whole power and resources of the government in the hands of its com- ‘ mander and nothing cou. urb the faith with which he waited the order for that great army to move upon the defenses of Peters- burg. He had but one fear, and that was the possible escape of Lee's army. It was this fear that caused him to make a flying visit to Gen. Grant at City Point about the middle of March, 1865, and to urge him to make a finish—to capture Lee. It was Gen. Lee that the Secretary often sald was the power of the rebellion. On the return of the Secretary, in speaking of the coming movement of Gen. Grant, he said that Lee-would be captured in the cap- ture of Petersburg. While the Secretary was at Gen. Grant's headquarters, Gen. Meade, at the front, Proposed to the Secretary to witness a re- view of the fifth corps, and invited the other distant commanders and their staff officers to be present. The eviemy in the defenses at Petersburg, expecting from this movement of troops a battle, formed In line and massed in front of the review. A few days after this review Gen. Grant, be- coming apprehensive that Le uid try to Join Gen. Johuston in North Carolina, sent {8 Gen. Sheridan, then at the White House ow the James, with his great cavairy force, to come to the front as soon as possible. Lincoln at the Final Struggle. The President, sharing the confidence of Secretary Stanton, started with Mrs. Lin- coln for Gen. Grant's headquarters on the 28d in the fost man-of-war “Bat,” at 1 p. m., and the carriage with the Secretary and Mrs. Stanton rolled up to the arsenal wharf to see the President and M-s. Lincoln off just as the “E was moving out. One the President left a hurricane sw over the, city, unroofing houses, wrecked a vessebat the wharf and killed hackman and his team by a flying roof; vhile down the river the ig craft were dashed about with great violence. That night I heard the 'y express much concern for the safety of the President. Gen. Grant, at the front, kept the President at Ci the battles, and the P retary infermed, ard he through @en. Dix of N the morning of the nt reported a little rumpus up the e with the enemy. For. the capture of Fetersburg the array, on the ‘lst, at day- ih. commenced the movement. Gen. Gr with the finest equipped and b fed and best cared-for army that ever was marshaled for battle, $5.00) effective men, was to capture a city defended by an army estimated by Gen. Grant at 70,000 men and defensive works, greater than ever were captured with such a defending army. On that day and for the succeeding nine days Secretary Stanton was happy, and each day anf night kept the people of the nerth wild with th» excitement of joy by the news from the front Lee the Drend of the War Department. The tension with which Gen. Lee had for four years held the War Department in dread and in donbt had now for the first time been relaxed. For the first time in the War Department there was no danger felt for the nation’s capital. For the first time it was felt that Lincoln had come to save, while all else aimed at destruction. On the 29th, at night, the Secretary told that all e were eagerly bent to the James river and to Petersburg, and asked him to stay and see it out, that sence would have great influence in inducing exertions that would bring Lee and Rishmond; compared to that no other a could weigh a feather. Against for- able barriers and defended I the Army of the Potom oon to sacrifice 10,000 men in the decistve battles. On the ist the President reported much hard fighting that morning, the ene i ing our le and that G about to move aga the enemy. At 3 o'clock that day the President reported that the enemy had been driven back, and that Grant occupied the ground from which Lee had advanced In the morning; that four flags had heen captured, and that Grant had moved his headquarters forward one mile. On Sunday, the 24 of April, the President reported that Sheridan, with his cavalry and the fifth corps, on another field, had captured three brigades of infantry, sev- eral batteries and a train of wagons, the prisoners amounting to several thousand. The President also reported that on that morning Grant had ordered an attack along the whole line. Later in the day the Presi- dent reported that the troops of Generals Wright and Parke had got through the enemy's intrenched lines; that the battle was then‘raging furli-sly; that General Sheridan with his cavalry, ‘the fifth corps and Miles’ division of the second corps was then sweeping down.from the west; that General Ord was fighting at another part of the front, and that all then logked highly favorable for the capture. of Pétersburg. Reported by the President. Another dispatch from the President re- ported that our lines were gaining at every point, that Generals Parke, Wright and Ord’s lines had all broken through the enemy's intrenched lines and works, tak- ing ferts, guns and prisoners; that Sheri- dan with his cavalry, the fifth and part of the second corps was coming in from the west on the enemy's flank, and that Wright ‘as tearing up the Southside railroad. At 2 p.m. the President reported that every- thing had been carried from the left of the ninth corps; that the sixth corps alone cap- tured more than 3,000 prisoners; that the second and twenty-fourth corps had cap- tured forts, guys and prisoners; that the army was then closing around the works of the line immediately enveloping Petersburg: that Grant had) moved his headquarters three miles southwest of Petersburg, and that all looked remarkably well. At 8 p.m. the Py Grant as saying: ve a continuous line of troops, and in a y hours will be intrenched from the Ap- pomattox below. Petersburg to the river above. The whole captures since the army started out will be not less than 12,000 men and probably fifty pieces of artiller ard that a portion of Foster's division of the twenty-fourth corps made a most gal- lant charge this afternoon and captured a very important fort from the enemy, with its entire garrison. All now seems" well with us, and everything is quiet just now.” The Secretary did not go home to dinner that day, and when this last telegram came he said to those who were with him: bas been a blessed day for the country. On the $d at 8:30 a.m., the President tele- graphs: “Gen. Grant reports Petersburg evacuated and that he is confident that Richmond also is. He is pushing forward to cut off, if possible, the retreating rebel army.”” On the 4th the President went to Rich- mond, but not as a conqueror. On the 5th the President returned to City Point and frcm there on the 6th sent Gen. Weltzel, at Richmond. a permit for the assembling of the Virginia legislature to take steps for the restoraticn of that state to the Union and then returned to Washington. On the next Sunday night, the 9th, at 9 o'clock, the Secretary received Gen. Grant's telegram of the surrender of Lee that day, and after sending the news to Gen. Dix, at New York, and all over the north, steamboats and | ®sic from bands he went at once to the White House to tell the President, and I heard that the Presi- dent hugged him with joy. Nothing to Eat. Gen. Lee surrendered 20,000 men, with guns, 10,000 muskets and about 12,000 half- ) Starved horses. That Sunday he had noth- ing to eat for his men or for his horses, and Gen. Grant placed his own supply trains at Gen. Lee’s disposal. The last telegram the Secretary received from City Point was on the morning of the 12th, and reported that Gen. Lee had been summoned to the-death bed of his wife at Richmond, On that Sunday before Petersburg Gen. Grant had fough: a great battle, won a de- cisive victory and pursued the retreating enemy. and referring to the Army of the Potomac, he said: “This is all that it ever wanted to make it as good an army as ever fought a battle.” On Monday morning at the break of day that pursul commenced, and in its vigor can be scen the determination to capture Lee, which Mr. Stanton had especially urged upon Gen. Grant, and when Lee surrendered the Secretary yent a dispatch to Gen. Grant that “the reverence and the honor of the people of the United States would be rendered to him and the brave and gallant officers and soldiers of his army for all time.” Seeretary Stanton’s Speech. On Monday, at noon of the-3d, Mr. Stan- ton received and announced the glad tid- ings of the capture of Richmond. The city became a-blaze of excitement and enthu- siasm, amid the thunder of cannon, the ringing of bells, and fhe people shouting in the streets, “Richmond is ours.” All the clerks left the office in a stampede, end in a few minutes the park on the avenue front of the building was filled with people and extending way out into the avenue. To the people the Secretary made an €lo- quent speech in praise of every person who had taken any part in saving the country from ruin. As he stood upon the steps of the portico in the park, he trembled like a leaf, gnd his voice showed his emotion. In his epeech he said: “Our thanks are aue to the President, the army, to the navy, to the great commanders by sea and by 5 to the gallant officers and men who have periled theirs lives upon the battlefields and drenched the soil with their blood. Henceforth our commiseration and our aid should be given to the wounded, the maim- ed and the suffering, who bear the marks of their great sacrifices in this mighty struggle; and the care of the nation should be given to the dependents of those who died in defense of the Union.” The first person to receive the news of the capture of Richmond was Willie Ket- tels, a boy fourteen years old, a telegraph operator; and the Little fellow, on being presented to the people, was loudly cheered. The First Mlumination. On Wednesday night following the War Department and ali its bureaus were 1l- luminated, and all the other executive de- partments, and the city were ablaze. Es- pecially resplendent was the War Depart- ment, for whatever the Secretary did he did with completeness. From the base- ment to the Lull's-eye of the attic all four sides of the build.ng were brilliant with lights, while in the court colored lights of great volume served to bring the build- ing and its gorgeous drapery of flags into superb relief. Displayed in rare taste and in flowing wealth of drapery the national ensign curtained the baiconies and the por- tuco columns; while from each side to a point at the central fiagstaff over the top of the building the various corps ensigns were suspended so as to form elliptic curves. In the center of this rich scene was a transparency with the patriotic motto— “The Union; it must and shall be preserv- Beneath this was an eagle bearing a scribed with the momentous word Ruchmond." In the court were stationed at different poinis three bands, giving mu- On the the sic for the immense mass of peopie. avenue front the steam whistles o fire engines were screeching out at in’ | vals, steam being kept up during the whole | time for use in case of nre to the building. The Second Mlumination. On the night the President made his lest spcech at the White House, April 11, the front of the building was brilliantly illu- minated, so that the great crowd could be seen from the port-cechere around the circle and out to the avenue, It was an inclement night, but the people were full of cheering and in it they remembered by special cheer- ing “Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War.” War Department in darkness on this occa- sion when his chief was to speak, and that night the War Department presented a | grand sight and was the center of attrac- | tion. Every window was ablaze, and the | balcony on the avenue front was decorated to the top of the building with flags, corps badges and evergreens. At the top of the balcony was a great semi-circle formed of wreaths surmounted with beautifully light- ed sbip lanterns. A transparency beneath this circle displayed the word “Grant.” Mu- at several points thrilled | the air with patriotic strains and there was | a grand display of fireworks. The Third Ilumination, After the surrender of Lee there was the grandest illumination of all and the city was wild with glory on the night of the 13th. The stars seemed afraid to shine, and the earth to have taken the place of the great luminary. The War Department again was the center of attraction. Beneath a gor- geous grouping of national and corps flags | and an arch spangléd with flames was d played the name of Grant above the portico, while the front of the building to the flag- staff was covered with a profusion of ever- greens, wreaths and flag: rmounting the flagstaff, and appearing as hanging in the air, was the gracious word “Peace” shining out aloft. All around the place tiat night the music from the bands was more fervid than ever, and, oh! how glad were the people that night, glad at the north and glad at the scuth. In Richmond, where the dread want of bread was present at every home, the people were glad. The two heroes and their armies were glad, and the very air seemed glad that the war was over. In his address to the soldiers of the armies of the United States Gen. Grant said: “Your marches, sieges and battles in distance, duration, resolution and brilliancy dim the luster of the world’s past mili achieve- ments, and will be the patriot’s precedent in defense of liberty and right in all time to come. “Victory has crowned your valor and se- cured the purpose of your patriot hearts, and with the gratitude of your countrymen and the highest honors a great and free na- tion can accord, you will soon be permitted to return to your homes and families, con- scious of having discharged the highest duty of American citizens. “To achieve these glorious triumphs, and secure to yourselves, your countrym@n and posterity the blessings of free institutions, tens of thousands of your gallant comrades have fallen and sealed the priceless legacy with their lives. The graves of these a evateful nation bedews with tears, honors their memories and will ever cherish and support their stricken families.”” On re-entering the Urion, Virginia, by her constitutional convention, declared that it should be forever. When Lincoln Was Assassinated. ‘The next night at 10:30 President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater, and Secretary Seward and his son Frederick were fearfully butchered in an attempted assassination at about the same time at the Secretary’s home, now the site of the Lafayette Square Opera House. On three nights almost in succession the city was ablaze with gladness, swiftly followed by a night black with sorrow. The President’s historians say of his going to the theater: “It was only about noon of the 14th that Booth learned the President was to go to Ford's Theater that night. Mrs. Lincoln had asked Gen. and Mrs. Grant to accompany her; they had accepted, and the announcement that they would be present was made as an adver- tisement in The Evening Star, but they changed their minds and went north by an afternoon train.’ At midnight Mr. Stanton sent a dispatch to Gen. Grant, who was then on the train to Burlington, of the assassination and summoned him to return to the city at once. On the morning of the 15th the Presi- dent died, and Mr. Stanton took charge of everything, and he did the work of cars, of thought, of brain and of the pen of a dozen men. He attended to all matters necessary for swearing in President John- son. He sent for Gen. Halleck to see to the safety of the city; and he called Gen. Grant's attention to the necessity of such action In the following note: “I beg to call your attention to the security of the city, and especially to the large number of rebel officers and privates, prison- ers of war and rebel refugees and de- serters that are coming among us, and ame Tan th ees Gate S ernie force and Mr. Stanton was not going to leave the} COL. JOSEPH L. FOLLETT One of Sheridan's Commanders Saved by Paine’s Celery Compound, Col. Jceeph L. Follett of New Yock has a na- tional reputation. At the age of 21, Col. Follett enlisted in bat- tery G, first Missouri Light Infantry, and soon rose to Its command. At Lookout Mountain his was the only battery that the sum- mit. Since the war he has devoted himself to me- ckunical engineering, and has invented several im- portant Improvements on the sewing machine, and a Dicscle that promises to be one of the surprises of next season. ‘The tension on the nervous sy ventor, kept up for months and mouths, seriously weukened the health of a busy brain worker like Col. Follett, and his constiiution, which even the M reached succumb t> nervous exhaustion. What Col. Follett has to say in regard to his restoration to health, cannot fail to carry great weight. In a ietter to Wells & Richardson Co. of Burlington, Vt., he writes: When suffering from mental exhsustion and a gencrally disorganized system, and overwork, 1 used Paine’s celery compound. “The compound acted like a charm on my bowels and kept them in fine corditi ns erie great relief from my brain “J have not used Paine’s celery compound for m of an in- | dshipa of war dil net weaken, threatened to | FG Z YE ey LLY EY, ppp eee, six months, but T shall when in neod of a tonle and geveral regulator of the system. I have rec ommended it to a great many, and every one who tried It got relief “It 1s the best general remedy I ever used or knew ansthing 1 tout. When the nervous system bas become weakened from any cause compound builds 1% It makes people well. have reason to be to Prof. Phelps of Dartmouth, the eml- lentist who discovered "8 celery com 2. He understood the peculiar needs of the he knew that the backache, bead- loss © tite, and di ered Vicod all mesn that the nerves are weakened nnd ivadequate to the deiconds upon them. The ex- perience of thousands bas proven all over this broad country that only Paine’s celery compound will give health to she rerves, and through them to the entire bod: Cotteges. con honors for his Invaluable but all this sec ins' with the chorus of gratitude (hat bas gone up all over the world from men, womex nd childs who have outgrown weakness and ibe lnck of health by the vse of Paine's celery compound, the most wo Ive. 4 upon Dr. Phelps thetr highest inves! tions in med- ant in comparison vigilance are employed. Directions were given Major Gen. Augur on this subject last night, and also instructions to look to the condition of the forts and defenses. “Adequate provision may have been made, but at the present deplorable juncture I feel It my duty to ask you to consider yourself specially charged with all mat- ters pertaining to the security and de- fenses of this national capital.” If Stanton Had Known. In the Secretary’s conference with Gen. Halleck that morning. Mr. Stanton told him that had he known that Gen. and Mrs. Grant were not going with the President he would have prevented the latter from going, or would have sent an officer with him. When the President went_to Hampton Roads, to Gettysburg and to City Point, the Secretary sent with him an officer who was highly ftted for that special duty, and would have risked his life to have protected the President. At City Point the Secretary protested that the President should not go to the front; and at the Soldiers’ Home Mr. Sganton cared for his safety. No servant was ever more faithful to his master. It seems that fate had decreed that the man who was a model of “charity to all and malice to none” was destined that night to be murdered. At the death bed, all that night, stood the members of the cabinet and others. Not a word was spoken, except by Stanton, who gave directions in undertones through messengers to offi to guard the exits from the city to prevent, if possible, the escape of the assassins. This impr. ive silence was only once broken, wher Mrs. Lincoln came in from an adjoining room, and kneeling by the bed and ciasping the hand of her unecnscious husband, wept in tones that pierced every heart and brought tears to every eye, for there was not a soul present that did not love the President. From the Death Bed. On that night a number of messengers were placed at different points along F street and up 15th street and the avenue past the White House, to take the disnatch- es written by the Secretary by the death bed of the President, In a house on 10th street, opposite the theater, quickly to the War Departme! The messenger running from the house would give the dispatch to the next one at his post a few squares dis- tant, and he would run and hand it to the next one, and so on to the War Depart- ment. The operators, who loved Lincoln, all night in silence and in tears, spelled out chese dispatches in the characters of the Morse telegraph, over the wires to Gen. Dix at New York. Each messenger, afier handing a dispatch to the next, would run back to his post to wait for the next dis- patch. In this way orders and dispatches, written in the room in which the President was dying, were sent out all night, the last one, after the sun had risen, when Mr. Stanton went home to get something to eat. Before 9 o'clock he was at the office, and after writing the note to Gen. Grant about the safety of the city, wrote a cable dis- patch of 872 words to our minister at Lon- don, minutely describing every detail of the acts of the assassins, and telling that the President at the cabinet meeting at the day before had manifested in a marked degree his tender and forgiving spirit that so eminently distinguished him. A. E. H. JOHNSON. ————— “Dat Jew’ Depen’s.” From the New York Sun. Scme very good stories, not recently in print, if ever, were brought out at several of the celebrations on the 8th of January. Among them is one, showing the indom- itable will of Andrew Jackson: Just after his death a whig friend of his met an old family servant, and began ask- ing him a few questions about his late mas- ter. “Do you think,” he said, “that the gen- eral has gone to heaven?” “"Deed, I dunno, sah; dat jis’ depen's.” “Depends on what?” “Jis’ depen’s, sah, on ef de gin'al wanted to 50, sah, er not,” said the old darkey, with supreme confidence in the general. “Ef h: wanted to go, sah, he am dah, sho’; an’ ef he didn’t, he ain't, sah.” A Real Secret Society. From the Philadelphia Record. Hoax—“My wife and some of her friends are going to organize a secret society.” Joax—‘Nonsense! The idea of women in Hoax—‘‘You misunderstand. They are to meet to tell secrets.” GEN. SCHOFI D ON WAR. He Says That American Const Cities Should Be Defended. From the Florida Times-Union. Gen, Schofield, ex-commander-in-chief of the United States army, accompanied by Mrs. Schofield, is in the city. ‘he best way to prevent war,” sald the general te a reporter, “is to be prepared for it. Thie country is not prepared for war now. It is defenseless. Its cities on the Atlantic, gulf and could not wi and the assaults of a powerful flee I notice that a bill has been introduced in Congress making appropriations for the fortification of seaport cities. It ought to pass; I hope it will. The recent little war furry, I think, will open the eves of our lawmakers to the y of defense: These will cost $109, ”, but once built, we can re to 6 e to be insulted; r demands, and, if n in a dignified manner, without fear of consequences. If our re de- fended no co on the earth would want engage us have fast cruisers and n stand can go to We little or no commerce, and the ‘commer of otaer nation be at our mi “It ts a com; sy ma tify a city, at least to fortify it assaults of baitle ships. 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