Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1882, Page 3

THE DAILY BEE: OMAHA FRIDAY MAY 12, 1882 THE ONLY BIG SHOW COMING. SELLS BROS’ ENORMOUS RAILROAD SHOWS WILL MOST POSITIVELY EXHIBIT AT NOW UNITED. OMAHA, MONDAY, MAY Council Bluffs, Tuesday, May 16th, I5th. Requiring in their Monstrous Union Many Thoussnd Vards tho Largest Sproad of Canvas Ever Erected. No Less than Six Big Tents and Three Rings Will suffice to present their Manifold First-time Features within the houts devoted to Fxhibition Purposes, presenting o Myriad Origl introducing to the Public a WEALTH OF STERLING NOVE! y unprecedented in- the amusement worlo; pecessilating rpecially constructed Palace, Btock and Plitiorm Cars and the Longest Railway Trains ever used for the Transportation of Amusement Organizations, A PARADE WITHOUT A PREGEDENT Tn Grand Epectacular Effect and Scenlo Kplendcr, introducing among ite mang episades, tho ‘the beaut:ful »ational 1 ablea, entitled COLUMBIA AND ¥ ER COURT OF B! in which, appropriately ‘grouped, will appear the FOUR HANDSOMEST IN' AMERICA, The' Consolidated Marvels of Six Breat Menageries, constituting the Largest Zoological Collection Travelling. Among the many special features in this department are a palr of FULL GROWN HIPPOPOTAM'ISES, a monster WHITE KHINOCEROS, a brace of Sibe.ian Albino Bears, a Molacca Babirouses, a RERD OF MAMMOTH ELEPHANTS. WOME! The Equestrian department will be graced with the absolutely inimitable riding of OHARLES FISH, the Phenomenal Four-Horse Rider, SIGNORITA ADELAIDE CORDONA. The Renowned Caron and Washington Troupe The Illustrious FRENCH FAMILY DAVENE. TWENTEY FUNNY CLOWNS, Led by the Prince of Laugh-makers, MR. CHARLES SEELY. Ably Becorded by his Ald-de-Cawp in Motley, Mr. ED. NEARY, ONE TICKET ADMITS TO ALL. THE ADVERTISED SEOWS. Children under 9 Years Half Price. 1,000 Reserved Seat Opera Chairs, 25 Cents Extra. TWO EXHIBITIONS A DAY, AFTERNOON AND EVENIN LEBE FRIED&CO., The Only Exclusive Wholesale Hardware House IN TEE WEaSYT. 1108 AND 1110 HARNEY STREET. OMAHA NEB. J.0.BROW N & CO, WHOLESALE DRY (COODS, NOT XTON =, Boots and Shoes. OMAHA NEB. PILLSBURY'S BEST!I Buy the PATENT PROCESS MINNESOTA FLOUB. always gives satisfaction, because it mokes superior article of B: and is the Chear- est Flour in the market. Every sack warranted to run alike or money refunded.; W. M. VYVATE‘: Cash Grocer‘ S.W. WYAIT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN .U INVILIERIEE TR, Lath, Shingles, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND MOULDINGS. 16th and Cuming Sts: OMAHA, NEB Opera House Clothing Store Daily Arrivals of New Svring Goods in Clothing and Gent's Furnishing Goods GOODS MARKED IN PLIAN FIGURES, And Sold At ¢ STRICTLY ONE PRICE " k the Celebrated Wilson Bro.'s Fiine 8Bhirts, known a8 tho BEBT tting and Most Durable Shirts Made. 217 §0UTH FIFTEENTH BTREET. ... OMEATLA Busmess _Directory. Abflrflfl n»d R.ql Estate. JOHN L, MOCAGUE, opposite Post Offis, W. R. BARTLETT 817 South 15th Streed. Architects. JUFRENE A MENDELSSOTY, ARCHITRCTS Room 14, Creighton Block. A. T. LARGRE Jr., Room 8, Creighton Blook, Boots and 8hoes. JAMES DaVINE & 00., floe Boots and Shoes. A good assorément 2ome work on hand, corner 13th and Harney. THOS. nmu('ao , 8. E. eor. mn and Douglsa. FORTUN. 908 10th ptroot man achuges so ordot good work o0 e prices. Rovalring dove. W fole prioss, Revel® Bed Bprings. LARRIMER Manufacturer. 1617 Dourles st. Books, Nows and Statlonery. J.1. FRUEHAUF 1016 Farnham Stroed. Butter and Eggs. MOSHANE & SCITROEDER, the oldest B. and E. house In Nebraska establishiod 1876 Omaha. CENT) nmmmr A. RYAN, southwest cornor |mhu\d Best Board for 33 Money. Batisfaction Guaranieed. [ lll Hours, Board by the Day, Week or Mook, Terms for Oash. Furnisbed Rooms Suppiied: Uarriages and Roaa Wagons. WM SNYDER, 14th and Harney Streets. Olothing Bought. 13 EARI\II vfll highestCash hand clof mnnrlslhm and Jewe ers. JOHN BAUMER 1814 Farnham Street. Junk. H. BERTHOLD, Rage and Metal. Lumber- Lime and Oement. TOBTER & GRAY corner 6th and Dougles Ste. oo for second ‘arnham, Lampa and Qlassware. J. BONNER 1800 Donglas 8t. Good Varlety. Merchant Tallors. G A meum, One of our most pepular Merchant Tailors 1s ro- selving the Intest dud’nl tor Spriog and Bummer Doodl for gentlemen's wear, Styliah, d\lnbll. and prices low as ever 216 18th bet. Doug.&: Millinery. MRS, C, A. RINGER, Wholosalo and Rotall, Fan- god 't':'l'n w' o ."-p‘ House In , Glovi Wost. . Purdiasers tave 80 por cond. Order hv Mk 118 Firtoenth Biroct Founary. JOHN WEARNE & SONB cor. 14h & Jackson ste Plour and Feed. OMAHA CITY M m and Faroham Ste., 'elshans Bros., E) Qrocers. E. BTEVENS, 21t betwoen Cuming and Isay T. A. McSHANE, Corn. 284 and Cuming Strecta. Hardwate, Iron ana Steel. OLAN & LANGWORTHY, Wholesalo, 110 and 412 16th street A. HOLMES corne 16th and Californis. Harness, S8aadles, &o. B, WEIST 20 18th S8. bet Farn- & Harney, Hotels , ANFIELD HOUSE, Geo. Canfleld,oth & Farnbam DORAN HOUSE, P. H. Cary, 918 Farnham 88, SLAVEN'S HOTEL, F. Slaven, 10th 8%, Southern Hotel Gus, Hamel 9th & Leavenworth rugs, Paints ana Olis. KUHN & C0. fharmacists, Fine Vano Goods, Cor. 16th and Dougise strecte. W.J. WEITEHOUPE, Wholesale & Retall, 16th s ©, FIELD, %022 North Side Cuming Street. PARR, Drugyiat. 10th and Howard Streets. Dentists. DR, PAUL Williams Block Oor., 15th & Dodge. T Ury Gooas Notions, Eto. JOHN H. F. LEUMANN & CO., Wew York Dry Goods Storo, 1810 snd 1813 Farn. ham etreet. & Pacific. ( . 0. Enowold also boots and shoss Puruiture, 4 F. GROBS, New aod Se.ond Hand Furniture od ity Highoet cach Perce Works. OMAEA FENCE 00, QUET, FRIES §CO 1219 Harey 86, Imy +d_Ice Boxos, Irce acd Wood Fences, \llngw, Counters Pina and Walnut. 83 Pawnbrokers. B, Rerrigorators, Canfield’ GOODMAN _1th §t. bet. Olgars and Tolum WEST & FRITSCB ER, man t Clgars, aod Whlesalo Deatora’s Roescon 1506 Dorcia: . F. RENZEN manufacturer 1416 Farnham o, & Florlst. A. Donaghue, , cut flowars, seeds, 00quets ote.” N. W cor. 1ot aad Dousias stroeta’ Olvil Engineers and Surveyors. 7 ANDREW ROSEWATE wn Burveys, o and Sowerage Systems & Bpoclalty. ' Gommission Merchants. JOMN G. WIL LIS,1414 Dodge Streeh, D B. BEEMER. For detalls soe large advertise- ment {n Dally and Woekly, Oornice Works, i Westorn Cornice Works, Manufacturers Iron Cornice, Tin, Iron and Slate Roofling, Orders from aay locilty promptly exscuted In' the best manger, Factory and 1218 Harney 8¢, C. BPECHT, Proprietor. Galranized Iron | mu-, Window Caps, ete., manufact) in any parc of the eyt SIRHOLD Sin Phirras i strest Orockery. J. BONNER 1309 Dougias street. Good line. Olothing and Furnishing Goos Q@FO, H, PETERSON, Alw Hats, O\p., Boots, AlLoes Notious and Cutlory, 804 £, 10th streot. 8how Osse Manufactory. 0.J, WILDE, Magufeoturer and D i ell kluds of Bhow Onsan, Upright Osser, 1817 Coa B0, FKANK L. GERHARD, propristor Owmahs Show Unee manufactory, %18 South 18th sirwet, between Leavonworth and Mercy. Al soods warranted first-clas. ! Ytoves sna inware. A, BUSMESTER, Duln ¢ In toves and Tiavare, and Msoufscturer toofs wnd al! kindv of Bullding Work, lows' Blocis, NKR. 1809 Dongles Kt ond wi Drenp, Boeds, J. KVANS, Wholesale and Retafl Becd Drilla sud Cultivatora Odd Fellows Fail Physicians and Gurguons. W. 5. QIBBS, M. D,, Room No 4, Crelghton Block, 15th Street. P. 8. LEISENRING, o, D. Masoulc Block, & Far | the time. Creighiton Block, | in 1| feat if marchin 0. L. HART, M. D., Eyo and Ear, opp. postofice DR. L. B. GRADDY, Oonlist and Aurist, 16th and Farnbam Sts Photograpners. GEO, HEYN, PROP, Grand Central Gallery, 212 Bixteenth Street, noar Magoulo Hall, First-class Work and Prompt- Doss gUArantoen Plumbing, Gas and Bteam Fitting. P. W. TARPY &00., 21612 Kt bet. Faraham sad Douglas, Work promp yatéended to. D. FITZPATRICK, 140 Louglas Btreet. ainting an aper anging. FENRY A. KOATKRS, 141 Dodge Btreot. 8hoe yiores. Philllp Lan 1820 Farnham st._bet. 13th & 14th. Becond Hand Btore. PEREING & LEAR. 1416 Dougias it New snd nd Hand Furniture, Bomnh:l:u &e.. honeht and sold on narrow marel i Undertasers. CHAS. RIEWE, 1018 Farnbam bet. 10th & 116d. 99 Oent Btores. Farnham 8t Fanoy Goods P. 0. BACKUS Baloons. HENRY I'Amm, L me“u “M'J,ru.ooun muunm\. '-PHOH THE OHIO TO THE SEA, g Bragg’s Slege of Chattanooga, Detroit Free Preas, If there is ever another war be- tween the north and the South, Chat- tanooga, Nashville and Knoxville will again be strategic positions worth fighting for. The confederates early discovered their value and clung to them with grim tenacity. Nature had done so much for Chattancoga that man had only to plant a tew guns to make the position seemingly im- pregnable. ‘When General Bragg held it in the fall of 1863, he reported to the war de- partment that the federals could not march enough men into Tennesses to capture Chattanooga. When Rose- crans held it, two weeks later, he re- ported to Grant that he could hold the slace against the whole confederacy. }!ut both commanders had to learn that an army without already defeated. BUAGG'S RETREAT, When Rosecrans rsached Chatta- nooga and surveyed the position, ho saw that a direct assault would end in disaster., Then he began hunting for the weak paint, and he moved by the flank. When he had cut Bragg's lines to the west and south not an- other pound of rations could enter Chattanooga, and starvation was only a question of days, Bragg, cure that Rosecrans meant to assault and con- fident that he could mpe] hun. was de- ceived into remaining quiet until the flank movement had been accom- lished. Then,in a day, the blow Fell and he saw that he must either evacuate or march out and attack the Federal army. That he did not chovse the latter course was at first attributed to cowardice, but subsequent ovents proved that he meant to meetstrategy with strategy. Before any Confeder- ate had come down to half rations Fam. | Bragg was marching out of Chatta- noogs, bands playing, flags flying, and the men in good spirits. None of his earthworks were disturbed, and the bridges were all left in perfect order. THE STRATEGY. Awake at last to what Rosecrans was doing, Bragg had bestirred him- selt with such energy that before leav- ing Chattanooga he knew the pusition of every Federal division. The near- est corps was ecight miles away, and the farthest about forty. By rapid marching he could strike them in detail. The fact that Bragg was retreating proved to Rosecrans that he was demoralized, and he started Orit- tenden’s corps in pursuit., This com- mand, by making a short cut to head rations is are not nhsfied with the treatment he received at the hands of Grant, Take all that has come to light in these long twenty years and there is much for him and something against him. He SPRING AND SUMMER STOCK —OF= Men's, Boys’ and Children’s was o fighter. Where other generals would have realized their defeat he had only vommenced to fight, He had the confidence of officers and men, Another might have moved out and attacked Bragg, gonded on by news- papers and political clamor, but he refused certain defeat. Itis a good ral who knows when not to at- On_the other hand, it is claimed that Rosecrans lacked strate; gy; that his pursuit of Bragg was a woeful mistake, and that in 8o doing he was doing exactly what Bragg planned for him. Bragg had plenty of time to evacuate l"mflqu(mml yet he did not touch a bridge nor destroy such stores as ho could not carry off. Oritics have said that these incidents should have shown Rosecrans that his enemy was in no way demoralized. Had he hurried up his scattered corps and slipped into Bragg's warm nest his army would have secured all the key positions and been in trim for a fight at any point. The battle of Chicka- mauga not only reduced the army in a fearful manner, but demoralized it for weeks, and thousands of the in- fantry were left without arms, And, too, Rosecrans could have at any time accomplished what Thomas sot about before he had beon in Chat- tanooga twenty-tour hours—opening a Ready for Intpection '\, POLACK'S GLOTHING HOUSE. The Lowest Prices (uaranteed. 1316 Farnam Street, Near 14th, o MarlGeod, shorter line of communication, It seems not to have been his failure as o fighter so much as the claim that he was a failure as a strategist, which caused his removal. But, whatever the causes and whatever the criticisms, “Old Rosy's” name will ever bring a cheer to the lips of the men who fought under his standard. STARVATION, In the last days of tho siege there was not enough forago in Chattanooga to supply the horses of one full bat- tery. Had Rosecrans attempted to retreat he could not have drawn a dozen field picces away. Shade and fruit trees were cut down for the ani- mals to browse on, and in some in- stances citizens were routed off their straw beds thal the contents might go to the horses, By and by every horse was & gaunt skoleton, weakly wander- ing over the black fields in search of patch or shrub, and one after another they fell down and died of sheer starvation, The soldiers had to make the most of their slim fare, and even to divide with the women and children of Chat- tanoega, After the lapse of a month not a house in the place had flour, |¥ GUNS OSPORTING GOODS Slmzls Breoch Loading Shot [}Ims, from §5 to 18, Double Breo ch Luamnfi Shot lhmn $18 from to § 7. Muzzle Loading Shot Guns, from 8 to 9§25, Fishing Tackle, Base Balls and all Kinds of Fancy Goods. Full Siock of §huw Uases Alwavs an Hand, XMEYER & e TUBAccomSTS Bragg off, escaped annihilation. He had the trap set for his game, but the game had taken another road. 1t was these movements which brought on the battle of Chickamauga. Bragg had faced about, ready to fight, and in ten days more it was Rosecrans who was shut up in Chattenooga, and 1t was Bragg who was playing the role of besieger. A BAD SITUATION, Bragg's army had been supplied by railroads running into the confederacy, but when Rosecrans found himself penned up, he realized that every pound of rations for his large army must not only come by wagou, but be hauled more than fifty miles over roads which to-day a’ farmer’s team can hardly pull along with ten bushels ot oats. If the confederates did not meddle with the Nashville railroad supplies could be wagoned over the mountains limitedin quantities. Rose- crans had to trust to luck and arrange his trains, OVER THE MOUNTANS, A brigade of soldiers lying within half a mile of a depot of supplies will keep twenty wagons on the move all Think, then, how many wagons it would take to supply hay, corn, clothing, rations, equipment, ete., to a large army sixty miles from a depot! Warhas never furnished a similar case, and probably never will. 1 was over twelve miles of the route the other day, and I found a hundred places where it seemed unsafe for one to venture in the saddle. Forall that lopg sixty miles there was not a epot at fall of 1863 where a team could strike a trot. It took two days and a half or three days to go with empty wagons, and four and five to return, ‘Where the road crossed a valley the mud was hub-deep. Where it as- cended a hill six spans of mules were necessary to handle the load, In many places there are stretches of two miles where the road is too nar- row for vehicles like army wagons to pass. This fact sometimes delayed the wagons for hours, A BTILL GLOOMIER PROSPECT. Bragg was determined that Rose- crans should leave Chattanooga be- fore help could come from the west. He would not make an aesault, and Rosecrans ;,would have met with de- out to attack him, Therefore his plan was to starve the foderals out, and he came so0 near suc- cess that none who were shut up there will ever forget the short rations dealt out. The Nashville road was several times torn up at different points, and systematic attacks made on the wagon trains. Ovyer a thousand wagen loads of subsistence were destroyed in two montbs, and after a few weeks the whole route was lined with wrecked vehicles and dead mules. Rosecrans might keep men in bread and meat a little lenger, but there came a day when nothing further could bethought of. The horses must starve, and the men who were without shoes and overcoats must make the best of it. COLD AND HUNGER, Fall came on, cold and rainy, and hundreds of the men were suffering for the want of clothing aud tents. Bragg threw his lines across from Mis- siorary Ridge to Lookout mountain, and one of his most advanced forts now stands within the city limits and close beside a summer resort. He was not idle an hour day or night. There was a constant firing all along the picket lines, and the Confederate cavalry was particularly aggressive. The country was entirely stripped of forage, and the question of “how to beat Bragg” was finally lost in the search forfood, Bome regiments were without coffee for days at a time. Others got coffee but no pork. Others yet considered themselves lucky tuget coffee and hard-tack. Rosecranscould not march out and attack, and had he evacuated Ohattanooga Bragg was ready to pursue and overwhelm him. He had only one course—to stick. ROSECBANS RELIEVED, Men who fought under Rosecrans meat, butter, milk or potatoes. When families had eaten what they Imported and Key West Cigars, a large line of Meer- had in stock they appealed to the sot.| schaum and Wood Pipes and everything required in a vl bl ey First-Class Cigar, Tobacco and Notion Store When Bragg ovacuated the city one | C1g8T8 from $16.00 per 1,000 upwards. Send for Price list and Samples. INVITATION TO ALL WHO HAVE WATCHES AND GLOCKS, TO BE REPAIRED, ENGRAVING —T0 BE DONE OR— JEWELRY 2. MANUFAGTURED. ‘While our Work is better, our Prices are Lowor than all othars AT THE LAST STATH FFATIR | received all of the SIX FIRST PREMIUMS offered for Competition in our line Over All Competitors For the Best Watch Work, For the Best Jewol.ry, (own make.,) For the Best Engraving, For the Best onds (own importation) FOR THE BEST ‘.‘UA'ID'I:S[F:'LII'\ D, goons of his colonels left a young wife be- hind. She was from South Carolina, and a thoroagh Yankee hater. She was at first comfortably provided with provisions, but as the days went by and she divided with this neighbor and that, her stock ran low. She finally had nothing left but corn meal and tfl-led peas, and one night a ser- vant girl stole all the meal. Other women were appealing to the federals, but this one determined to die first. She had pes soup, pea pudding and peas cooked in various other shapes, and when the peas gave out she gave & negro a dolY:r to cut her a steak from a mule which had fallen dead in a field across the way. She had made up her mind to brave it through, but the mule meat was worse than the blue-coats and she locked up her pride and applied for federal rations. BRAGG'S BOMBARDMENT, Lookout Mountain seems to hang right over Chattanooga; but one must ride for two long hours from the cen- ter of the city to reach the spot where Bragg had four guns planted to bom- bard the place. There was more talk than shoot, only one of his pieces could be nuflioinntl depressed to strike the town, his occasional blazing away nmountad to nothing when summed up, Two shells stfuck a hotel without damage to anybody, and a piece of another wounded a col- ored boy on the street. Had he been offored a reward for killing ten Federalsin a month’s bombardment he could not have earned it. One has but to ride to the crest of the moun- tain to see how greatly his position was overestimated. e had three guns behind a breastwork which still stands in good repair, and a fourth down between the rocks on the knob, Thirty rods in the rear of | Having lately enlarged m; worhhopl and putting In new und improvet. = theuuy glfi’nl was & breast- lo‘ifinary,’l hope to m{l more improve the quality and finish of our work thrown up to cover two ork and fill orders with more promptness than ls usual regiments of infantry, It is there to- CAUTION ! My Mctio as always been and always : “‘First to gain superior ,tlu #nd then l(zlartus the fmt—ynMre-—no wxldg:dvmp.dmm Scme unprincipled dealers being in the habit of oagymg my arnouncements, I would beg you, the reader of t! draw a line between such copied advertisements and those of Yours very truly, BN A. B. HUBERMAN The Reliable Jeweler, Omaha, Neb., w21kl TOVY Block, ANGELL & BOWEN, JEWELERS AND MUSIC 'DEALERS ! CARRY A COMPLETEH STOOK OF Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry. of the very latest designs. Silverwdre, genuine oger Bros, @Goods,. GOLD AND SILVER HEAD ES, the Largest stock in the City. PIANOS AND ORGANS, We bandle the best manufactured, and will not ba undersold, SHEET MUSIO AND 'MUSIO BOOKS, Musical Goods of all kinds, Remember our Prices are Lower than the Lowest, Manufacturing and Repairing a Specialty. ANGELL '& BOWEN, opern HOUSE BLOCK. STATIONERY AND BLANK BOOKS ! We k band a full and complete line of FLNOY AND e keep on band & ¥ AND day, looking just as 1t did on that eventful day "when Hooker's troops struck it in flank and sent the confed- erates rushing through the pines. Had Grant ignored the position en- tirely it must have been evacuated as soon as Missionary Ridge was cap- tured, “'GIVE ME TEN DAYS MORE," So said Braggs when things were at their worst in .Chattanoogs, and if Thomas hadn’t bestirred himself, star- vation would have compelled a sur- render, In the efforts to supply the army from Bridgeport by wagon. Rosecrans lost 11,600 mules and horses on the road, One could have walked the entire distance on their bodies, and in journeying over a part of the route the other day, I saw many of the skeletons still bleaching on the hill s and in the ravines. There was also a 018 of over 3,000 srmy wagons, and at least a million dollars’ worth of stores. That the Federal forces held the key to East Tenuessee, with a vic- torious army in front and starvatign rear, is a mattor deserving of more praise than history has given it. Had Bragg retaken tge place, the conse- quences would have been felt from the Army of the Potomac to Vicks- burg. M. Quab, Ohuunuougn, Tenn, writes: o hA\uthn greatest contidence in your Burpock Broob Brrress, In one 2ase with which I am personally acquaings ed their success was almost incredible, One lady told me that half & bottle did her more good than hundreds of dollars’ worth of medicine she had previously fakant Prica 8L e [BTAPLE sm'rfigz}g:vuor e‘verynnmrl{‘pumv = amm n mas |GOIE P Penci 8, Mucilage, Hnve! flng BOUHSELOR AT - LAW R«ogret?nl).'mner and Birthday Cards, &o., Give us a GILMAN R. DAVIS, &. CO0. J, H, McOULLOCH, loo 8. 16th Btreet: Opp. Postoffice. Boom 4, Crelghton Block, Fitteenth Btreed