Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1883, Page 7

\ ‘/’, ™ \ / J } { ¥ THE BEE--, Py ’ Am AN AN A e . - Palace Music Hall! Wholesale and Retail. J. MUELLER, COUNCIL BLUFFS, . . - . - IOWA. Proprietor of Musio Hall and General Manager for the Celebrated Western Cottage Orzan o, Of Mendota, Ill., for Western Iowa, Northern Kansas_and Missonri, Nebraska, Southern Minnesota, and WEBER, LINDEMAN, AND HARDMAN —ALSO— BUORDETT ~—AND— HASTHFRIN COTTAGE ORGANS! “—ALL KINDS OF— MUSICAL MERCHANDISE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, —SUCH AS— VIOLINS, GUITARS, ACCORDEONS! —A FULL LINE QF— Music Boxes, Best Italian Strings, Music Books and Binders, Sheet Music, Ete., Ete, Also a Fine Stock of Fancy Goods. All Kinds of Games and Toys. As s specialty in the Piano line, I would recommend most heartily the Eardman Piano! A fine tone, finely finished, first=class instrument in every respect; they are not the cheapest wnos, bub within the reach of all who really desire something that will last a lifetime. TRY THEM. They are fully warranted for SEVEN YEARS. SHODDY PIANOS AND ORGANS, so largely advertised like patent medicine, and like it, good for everything and nothing in particular, 1 DO NOT KEEP IN STOCK. Icannot afford to sell them, as I live too near home. But if desired, I am pre- pared to furnish any of these cheap Pianos and Organs at eastern prices, save freight, provided I am not held responsible. In connection with this I will state that my Organs contain b full octaves of Reeds, to one set, and do not call a single octave of reeds, afull set, as advertised by shoddy mukers and dealers, 1 sell Pianos and Organs on Monthly and Quarterly Payments; also for cash, with small extra discount. Send for circulars, Address J. MUELLER, 103 South Main Street, Council Bluffs, Iowa. No. THE OLD DOMINION. The Blne Ridge Negro Stationary. The Story of Ball Run. Mat assas (Va.) Correspondence of Chicago Times, here in this new land! grave faults in our mental makeup that wo can see but little beyond our own sur- roundings. Thoe sky shuts in round about us like a boek that is read. We do not seo boyond its purplo rim, We remom. ber the outside world, only as we saw it last, forgetting that the rest of the world is rushing apace, too; that the roar of progress 18 heard quite beyond the reach of our own ears; that tho forge and the furnace, almost around the girdle of the earth, are turning shares into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. And do not forget that the world is booming down here, after its fashion, just as it is in New York, Boston and London. Many miles remote from any railroad, where I have been spending the past two weeks away up on the Blue Ridge, 1 found things driving along abeut as live i on or California. The order of things is broken a bit, and the farm of 4,000 acres, on which Ifound hospitality, has swallowed up many a small heme; but it is in the line of pro gress, and all soem happy, all are cer- tainly quite industrious, content, honest, prosperous. The railroad cars that hug the Piedmont are all the time groaning under the loads of fat, sleek, cattle, hogs, turkeys, chickens, and fruits. Omy last week 1 saw two car-loads of Concord grapes on their way to Washington The brandy we drank at this old Virginia home was distilled not more than ten miles away. And with all this material progress lot us put it upon record that the Virginian is still the old Virginian, And lot us be thankful for that. He, with his solid no tions of honor, truth, piety, purity, he itality, is a good anchor to the nation, This old Virginian, under whose solid mahogany 1 have had my legs, is building abarn. Lvery timber in this barn L have had to approve and praise for its solidity and perniane His head is blossoming near the seventies, but he stumps about and thumps everything with his big oak suck to seo that it is **solid! solid! solid! sah!” He is building a stone wall about his thousands of mountain acres, and, al thovgh he well knows he will never live to see it completed, he lays the founda- tion deep in the earth; solid! solid! solid! Aud his character, as well as thoso of his neighbors scems to bo quite as substan- tial. At breakfast one morning, a bottle of honey, so-called, was brought upon the table to be spread upon the crisp and smoking corn cakes. Well, this*honey” proved to be glucose, This glucose has 1 poured in upon a ‘honeycomb” which some Yankes has made by wachin- The good and gray old man had just finished saying grace. But he got up. He struck his fist in the air, and 1 tell you he fairly turned the atmosphere blue. “In_ Wrance, sah, that grocer’s store would be shut up and confiscated in ten minutes, sah! He would be tried for adultery, sah! Yes, sah; the laws of Moses mean _just that, sah. It means that you shall not adulterate sugar, or coffee, or tea, or honey, or any of God's aifts to man, sah! Honey? honey? That's the work of honest bees, sah! It's glllw(mu,glucusufnticky, stinking glucose, sah!” Whatever advance the Virginia negro, made of darker if not coarse clay than ourselves, may bo making in other parts of thiscontinent, in the heart of the Blue Ridge he is stationary as a post. Not one, with a single exception, owns the land on which his neat little whitewashed but stands in its little patch of corn and potatoes; nor does he aspire to own it. He generally has a cow and a few pigs, many hens, a few turkeys, lots of dogs, and a perfect cloud of merry little chil- dren hover about his home; and all are very happy—healthy, too. Of course they are ignorant, and must remain so, even as those of a better class or more favored color, ina sparsely-settled region. On Sunday no one, black or white, seemed to think of going to church. But down ina little dimple of the earth, under the oaks, a dozen or two of young negroes gathered and passed the greater part of the sweet September day swing- g each other, laughing, chatting, sing- ing and making merry in the most in- vcent and Arcadian way. The old Vir- ginia gentleman assured me that they are good at heart, fairly honest, reason- ably industrious, very happy, and very helpless. He constantly seemed to be making presents to some one of the hun- dred or so on his lands of shoes, hats and clothing of one kind and another, and I am sure they all love the old gen- tleman and regard” him almost with rev- erence, One_afternoon, along with a small party, T went hunting for wild turkeys over the vast track of four thonsand acres af hill and valley, wood and meadow land. And I am sure we galloped through about fifty orchards, and saw quite as many deserted homes with the once cultivated fields of blue grass, and stones falling back into a state of nature, Now I know it is stated and believed that the owners of these fields fell in the war. Not 80, These men pushed over the Blue range long ago. ~ Even as early as the day when the present state of *1lli- nois County, State of Virginia,” these lit- tle mountain homes were being massed together, and resolving themselves into great cattlo ranches like this one on which I have jut been spending the most delightful days of wy life. How many strange, old-new stories one finds down here among these ancient people. And how many curious relics of days *‘be- fore the war, sah,” In the last month of President Jack- son’s administration ho called in a young artist, whom I am not permitted to name now, to do a miniature of his deceased wife on ivory, This young man was bui nineteen, and the old soldier seems to have taken him quite to his heart, from the lettersand other things he had preserved, The last few days of Jackson's adminis- cration he kept the artist constantly with him, and at work on the miniature, Livery hour the heroof New Orleans would como and look over his shoulder in his deep concern about his progress of the work, The room occupied, which was the General's private office at that time, was the oneon the risht, immediately at the head of the main stairway, The artist—now a gray, old Virginian and eminent in quite another walk of life says that in these last fow days the Presi- dent was left quite alone. The flies that bazz about to suck the sw: of oftice had flown to his successor. The king is dead ; long live the king. dent Jackson had nothing more to bestow, and so was left in amost entire solititude, The gen- eral would not let the artist go away, but kept him at his side in the private office even to the last hour, while he looked over and destroyed his papers. As he came to the last one he glanced at it, let A Noble Type of the OId Virginian-- What a new world I have found down Itis one of the it up, tore it in two and floor, where bits of many inches deep. Then, springing up, the old man threw his two hands out, banged them down, and said: “‘There, thank God! that is tho last of it, the very last of it; and now T am going spend the romainder of my days at my dear Hermitage.” Saying this he walked across the room, took o cob pipe, filled it, and sat down, smoking a long time in silenc The artist also made at the time a min- inture on ivory of Jackson, which he still in his possession. Tho face is heav ior, fuller, than wo are accustomed to see it in steel cuts and paintings. The chin is prominent, massive, almost double; the hair_very thick, bristling, and like snow “Manassas! Manassas!” The words rang out strangely tome from the swarthy conductor's lips yesterday as the cars slowed up at a littlo village in an open and half barren land, There was a mem ory, a senso of history, a sound of war, a scent of Waterloo eolor about this name, a roar of eannon, which can noverbequite disassociated from ‘‘Manassas!” 1 wonder if the biblical old Mannassah, who kept the little wayside inn at Ma. nassa gap a hundred years ago and his name of peace, to the place, a man of war or a man of peace, or felt the weight of cannon on his shoulders as he bere about this great battle name This railway station is about thirty miles from Washington City, through the city of Jackson, which was laid out and buried, too—during Jackson's ad- ministration; also through Alexandria, a storied town, where Washington went to church aftor he had buried the hatchot and that cherry tree episode. We got a good dinner at Manassas, and hiring a team and driver wo sot out for the battle field of Bull Run, four miles distant, overthe samo road which Beauregard travelled to meet McDowel on July 21, 1861, The trouble now is not what to say but what not to say in a single lotter, Briefly, then, the South was massing for battle at this point. You can to this day see miles of earthworks here. Fort Beauregard is still an imposing pieco of fortification, earthwork, with peach- tre pear trees, willows, and in fact all kinds of wild as well as tame woods climbing over. It is too heavy to level down and restore again to the dominion of the plough. But nearly all the other lines and earth forts have quietly sur rendered to the husbandman, and, mounting there to-day, the tall corn stands in regiments, flashing its green, bent sabres in the sun, This first battle of Bull Run stands first in the alphabet of great American battles. Greater battles have been fought hereabouts; a greater battle, indeed, on this same ground. But the first has fas- tened itself upon us. There is o savage scination about it which we who lived on that day cannot escape. And yet it was not yesterday. I saw lounging against a lamp-post here at Manassas, not an hour ago, a handsome young South- ernor pulling at his moustache. 1 ap- preached and asked him of thebattle. He had been born since it was fought. So you see it was not fought yesterday, this battle of Bull Run, when the non shook the earth even to the shores of Oregon. And do you know the North d the air of ‘‘Dixie” in this first battle? Itisso. The South had not yet learned it, but played “The Girl I Left Behind Me.” Let us look in upon this battlefield as we look upen the face of one whom we knew well nearly a quarter of a century ago. By a wide, well-kept country road, through corn fields and clumps of onk, chestnut, walnut, hickory, and half a dozen other kinds of scrub troes, some of them badly shot to picces, we were driven toward the muddy, slug- gish, crooked and ugly little stream of Bull Run, In thisdrive of four miles we met one man on horseback; we passed ono man on & horse, and a barefoot negro boy on foot, driving a little flock of sheep. Overhead I saw a single raven, not a bird, not a squirrel,on either hand. but tho crickets and grasshoppers in the corn fields and clumps of woed on either side of us chirped and sang incessantly. At the end of four miles we turned through a gate to the right into a field; cows were scattered here and their around the crescent of the hill; on the crest of the hill stood a long, frame farm house; back of this house a little brown stone of it, in the door-yard, a gravestone. The house, which formerly stood here, had been torn to splinters during the battle, The lady buried in the grave in the door- ard was killed here. She was the mother of the kind old gentleman who now in- herits this placo. This battle-field was his mother's farm. 1t is now his and_he shows you over it. He was teaching school down at Alexandrin at the time his mother was killed hero—a school teacher for forty years. Ho and his sister livo in his old gray houso together; no one but about, The peach trces are breaking down under loads of fruit in the heart of the battle-field, a little way down the slope of the hill below the grave in the door-yard. Long_ strings of fat turkeys tread the tangled grass through the orchard, chasing the grasshoppers. Be- low this orchard, half a mile away and curving around in a muddy crescent, but hidden by & young growth of trees, creeps Bull Run. On the morning of the battle the broad corn-fields on the other side and away out yonder, miles away over the foot-hills, the federal bayonets gleamed by tens of thousands, They were marching T Beauregad's rear, or rather for the Midland line, by which he had come up from theSouth, He had come out from Managsas, four miles away, to stop this movement, as all the world knows. The North was not tobe stopped. Hence the battle here. But this is trenching on history, and we must draw the line, You can sce where the South retreated to where stood Jackson “‘like a stone wall,” Back of this house, where the old school- master lives with his oldest sister, about a hundred yards, and almost at the top of the gently sloping hill, on the outer edge of the tall, rank corn, and against a young growth of pines, is the place where Jackson got down to pray. And hero it was he sat on his horse, was wounded, held his men in stubborn line that day, while the storm of battle beat against them, and so won his singular name, On the front of this sloping hill that lies here, between this house and the place where Juckson sat on his horse during the battle, the dead "lay thickest when the fizht was done. The corn is rank and and tall. But I de not seo as some pro- to, when looking over the field of Water- 1oo, that the blood of brave men has pu any particular mark or vitality upon it The truth is, if some onoe did not point out to you all this you would know noth ing whatever of the battle of Bull-Run Nature covers up all such scars; time heals the wounds on the breast of eur common mother, as well asour own done, and, save for the one little brown- at Manasas and some scared old trees, any battle here, it fall hoavily for a moment, then raised throw it on the paper already lay home to monument to the dead soldiers; in front (@4 these two old deaf people for many a milo | ¢/ Wander about here for a week, as I have you would not know there had ever been I bave picked one bul- © ¢ 7 S <, STLOUIS,MO. >+ e Cor, Oth Stroet and Capitol Avenue, Y ORDERS FROM Anheuser-Busch BREWING ASSOCIATION CELEBRATED = Keg and Bottled Beer This Excellent Beer speaks for itselt, ANY PART OF THR STATE OR THE TIRE WEST, Promptly Shipped. ALL OUR G00DS ARE MADE TO THE STANDARD OfOurG-uarantee. F. SCHLIEF, Solo Agent for Omaha andjthe West. Wholesale OMATA, . lot and one button from a soldier's coats that is all. But on the earthworks near Manassas, under a peach tree, while pick- ing up peaches, T found an Indian arrow- head. Think of it, and follow these two facts: What other battles, what other races had fought for the ficlds of Virginia ages and ages bofore! st many poople come to visit this bat- field. I have seon aterloo for a single visitor h re. The great trench where the dead wore burried on this slooping hill immediately under where Stonewall Jackson sat his horse during the battle, is still a trench, This is asore that refuses to heal, 1t has become a little drain or rivalet. The bones of the dead woro mostly taken away at the close of the war, and this opened _the trench anew. This portion of the battlo-field is a pasture now. A littlo lino of trees has grown along the banks of this trench. Under these rank young trees a good many sleck-spotted cattlo stood yesterday chewing tfm eud and lazily switching flies. You never hear a sound of any kind around here at all, no coming and going of carringos, as at Waterloo and other great battle-fields of Europe. The trees are turning a lit- tlored in the blush of early autumn, Thero is a hazy gray atmosphere over all here which makes the stillness scom more still; weary ghost of the smoke of war, n the corners of the cld Virginia worm fences the wild borry grows rank and red, as if dripping with blood. The very earth is red, as if the bosom of earth per- l:utuully for her brave dead who fell in the attle heroe. W JOAQUIN MILLER, COMM. OIAL, CIL BLUFFS NARKKT, spiing, 76; No, jocted, H0c; good demand. Corn —Dealers aro paying 81@ cor ,(‘hh‘u‘(fl, 40@45¢; new mixed, 49¢; white corn, Bc; tho re ‘of corn aro light. Oats—In good demand at 20c, Hay—4 00@6 00 por ton; 50¢ per bale, Ryo—40c; light supply. 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The passing of my url d with severo palos in th small s, followad by & burning sensation, and after having stood awhile in the vessel, the urine showed a vory heavy deposit of & sediment similar o ground brickd , in short, 1 found that 1 wan in such a discased condition s 0 require lmmediate nied was anxious 10 olitain tho bost an edy, I looked and inquired carefully, and ¥ infied that Hunt's Kemedy was an articlo ef excellont merit, and thereforo I concluded to givo it o trial, and commenced taking it, and before | had taken one bottle I found suce a great improvement that 1 do cided to continuo its use. and by taking only two itles the rosult has boen most gratifying in giving rostored hoalt rdered & supuly of Hunt's Remedy form; 1 shall hereafter have it for salo, as 1 con xcollent articlo for discasos of the liver store sider it and kidney M. R. RISDON. 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