Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1885, Page 4

{ PRISON REFOR! EH E D AI LY B E E. 1In & recent artlcle on I“”’!"l“ abuses, Ouans J 0 the bar- Owrien No, 914 Axp 018 FanwAM 82, | particularly with reference to ¢ Maw Yoax Orron, Roox 65 Tasuss BULD- | baroos treatment of Tennessee convicts, e, the Bee Incldentally mentloned that the Padlished every mornl Sunday, The | panitentiary prisoners generally through- Sty Hoaday morsisg Ty paiahed n ne out the routh were cruelly treated, A aR KT AT $10.00 | Three Months. One Month. W18 |New York lawyer, who huagiven the matter of priscn reform considerable at- tentlon, writes to the Ber sayiog that: 1% | “Our prison system Is a loathsome sore HE the surface of our civillzatlon, Men are not cured of crime nor led into right News and Ratterial | ways of thinking and acting, nor brought matlars should be Aho ESITOR OF TU8 | 10y harmony with acciety by bratal s WUSDIRSS LETTRRS. treatment, nor belng put under the AN Bustnoes Totbers and Remittanose should b | q;igtion and control of others more plrosd to T, Bes o n e made - | degradod and brutal than themaelvos, 1 able 4o e ord doubt, however, It you are right in say- ,E E “fi]fimu CU., an' Ing that convicts are treated inhumanly A Whe Weekly Bes, Publihsed every Wednesday WERNS, FOSTPAID. CORRRSPONDENCE | cations relating to All Commun| i 1 R ROSEWATER, Enron ‘partlcularly In the south.’ Mr, Burn- oA B Wich, Munager, Dally OUeoulatioh |1, Wardwall, who has dovoted the bost B e e | joars of hls lifo to ‘prison reform’ has Ir the Buropean war clouds keep gath- unearthed some revoltlng inhumanities oring the American hog will be fn big de- |in the New England atates. mand across tho water. Ho has just boen released from —— {mprisonreent in Dedham jail, Maesachu- Tue first month of spring s almost [sotts, where he was incarcerated for too over, and about the only thing that has |free but perhaps none the less proper blossomed is spring politics. oriticiam of a eheriff, and where he says ————— he suffered more from hunger than he Jomy Bury has put a chip on hisshoul- |did In contederate pritons during the dor and wants R to knock 1t off.|war.” There Is no doubt that there are The probability is that Ramsla will ac- abuses In nearly every penitentlary in oommodate him, this country which ought to be abollehed, ——eeee— but they will continue until some person Axorier letter from Gemeral Thayer |or assoclation causes an exposurs and appears in this issue of the Bee. Ho is|calls tho attention of the state ofticlals to a polished and entertaining writer, and the conditjon of affalrs. In some states his lotters are read with a great deal of | there are prison reform assoclations, and interest by the patcons of the Bre. some of them are doing good work, but a — national assoclation with some life jin it Mr, Jasox R, Lewis remarked tho|is what ls needed. Suchan asmociation other day that it was a cold electlon day [ wlll find plenty of work before it. In in Omaha when he couldn’t make a hun. | cvery state and territory it ehould have dred dollars out of it. We are afraid |agents who are known to bo philanthrople that he will find Aprll 7th a very chilly [and fearless persons who will do thelr day. duty in Investigatiog the con- duct of prlson management, point- ing out abuses ard doing everything possible to remedy them, and suggesting improvements from time to time regard- ing the treatmeat of convicts, If thero {s anything In this country that needs reform it Is prison management, but it will be a difficult matter to accomplish reform go long as there is no concerted movemont in that directlon. The pub- lic, of course, is kept In ignorance of what is golng on within the prison walls, and it is only through released convicts that we occasionally learn of the cruel practices of the wardens, keepers and guards, OnE of the very firat things to be done this spriog Is to replace the rotten snd worn-out sldowalks on the main thorough- faros with stone walks. While the atreots are paved and in excellent shape, our sldewalks are a disgrace to tho clty. OmanA is now without doubt one of the cloanest and healthiest cities in Americs. Although wo have an excel- lent medical college we have no use for any fresh dontors. They can get thelr diplomas hera, but they will haye to seek practice elsewhere. Sering lamb is all well enough, and when it is garnlshed with green peas is a dlsh sufficiently dainty to set before a king. But spring veal is entiraly another matter, and the Omaha Republican is giving its readers too much of 1t In its editorial columns. Its attachment for Boyd is a good deal like the worship of the goldan calf. JUDGE STENBERG. The republicans of Omaha could not have found a better candidate for police judge than Judge Stenberg. He has lived in Omaha for nesrly fifteen yoars, and is widely and favorably known. He is a natlve of Sweden, and is of German descent, his ancestors having emigrated from Germany to Sweden for the purpose of ostablishing a glass factory, the firat in that country, and in which business many of his relations are still extensively en- goged. M. Stenberg by trade is a ma- ohinist and mechanical draughtsman, having served his aporenticeshlp in the Swedish navy yard, When twenty yeara of age he came to Amerlca, and in the fall of 1871 located in Omaha, where he found employment for some conslderable time in the Union Pacific shops. He afterwards became business manager of e the Scandinavian paper, Folkets Tidning. Tuk Californis assombly has passed 8| When Judge Anderton was elected blll authoriz'ng the sale of the state police judge Mr. Stenberg became achool lands in sections of G40 acres|his clork, snd was soon afterward without actusl ssitlement. This is pav- | olacted justlce of the peace in the Third ing the way for another land grabbing|gard, and has been re-elected threo scheme on a big scale. About 20,000,000 | times, this beirg his fourth term. This acres of land on the Paclfic coast and in |gtrong endorsement of a republizan in a the territories are owned In large areas|ward that is largely democratic s con- maioly by titled forelgners, and theyincing proof of the popularity of Mr. achool-land bill leads the Sen Francisco | Stenberg as a cltizen, and ths falth of Bulletin to ssy: *‘Landlordism in this|the people in his ability and impartiality country is agsuming glgantic proportlons|{n the administration of justice. His on the part of foreignera who have not | decisions have always been regarded as the lesst Intention of ever becoming citl- | correst, and have given general satisfac. zane." tlon to the lawyera and their cllents. Tax Herald ol e the Pantd The bar of Omaha have the greatest con- o1 e Repub- | o q 3 Homm b g f-macasiof lls stand oo the | LicEce i Duigo Bienborg,| Durivglhis mayoralty question. The Republican leisure time he hay devoted bimeelf to compliments the Herald on its fair and | the study of the law, which together with honorable courss In seeking to remove | his experience as justico of the peace, tho mayoralty contest from all suspiclon i . = of partiasushlo, | The Herald (s support. | 10Mifies him in an ‘““"‘e"j‘“‘;;:'“" ‘l;: ing Mr. Boya, not e a democrat, butas|the position of pollco a citizen —Republican. is & man forty years of age, Indeed! What stand would the Her-|of correct habils, and sound ald take if Mr. Boyd were a republican?|judgment. The republicans are to be Why don’t the Rerald and Republican | congratalated upon having selected him consolidato {f there s such political har- | as & candidate, for he will add strength mony bstween them? Two democratic|to the ticket. He wlll poll the fall papera in Omaha s one too many. Scandinavlan vote, which ls very large In — Omaha, and among all classes of people Tag bill for provlding for the Niagara | he will be heartily supported, as ho is one Falls resorvation has psssed the New |of our most rospected citizsns, We have York assembly and will probably bscome | reason to believe he will be elected by s olaw. As we understand it, Instead of | handsome majority. making the whole appropriation this e— year, 1t Is proposed to immedlately sp-| Ar the grand distribution of sheep- propriate $433,000, and extend the $1,- [skins, which took place at Boyd's opera 000,000 over ten years, by the fesuance | house Thursday evening, the public was of bonds payeble in ten aonual equal in- | treated by the dignified professors to stalments, or sooner, at the option of the [ scrious, solemn and melancholy disserta- state, and bearing slx per cent interest. |tions about medical sclence in general This compromise measure was elfected in [ and the mysteries and mummerles of the defesance to the wishes of the farmers|M, D, in partlcular, To the uninitiated who did not want the whole appropria- | patrons of the plll-box and snlpel these tlon made at once, profound panegyrics of physlclans and physics were .o much hog-Latin. They Tue registration books are now open, | came away knowing no more than they aud it is hoped that » careful and thor |did before the ccmmencement com- ough revision of the lists will bo made. |menced. It the learned professora had There are over 10,000 voters In Omaha,- |addressed the graduating M. D.’s after and perhaps not more than one-third will |the style of the great Majendie, be carried forward on tho new lists by |when he sssumed the professor's ho reglatrars, The voters who reside In | chair of mediclne at the College wards tbat havo been subdlvided into|of France, their remarks would bave been soveral olection distriots will bave to be | much more sensible and much more ap- re-registored, It is of the wtmost {m-|preclated, Profestor Majendie sald to portance that every voter should make | his class of students. *‘Gentlemen, med- porsonal frqulry as to hls registration, |icie s & humbug. Who knows any- While the failure to register does not ab- | thing about medicine? 1 tell you frank- solutely alsfranchise a voter, it causes|ly, Idon't, Nature does a good deal; much delay and lnconvenience on elec- | doctors do very little-—when they don't tion day If he desires to vote, do harm,” Majendle then went on to Tar proposed new morning paper which Is to be started In New York is simply the resurrection of 7'ruth under the name of T%e Morning Telcgraph. Thus 7T7uth crushed to earth will rise sgain, It will be an administration pa- per. The capital of $100,000, which s very emall for a newspaper in New York, will be furnished by Carl Schurz, Hu- bert O. Thompson, George Gould, and others, and Mr, Schurz will probably be the editor. THE DAILY BEE---SATURDAY MARCH 28, 1885 tell the pungent little professional tale [border becomes the scene of war, the out of school: *“When I was head physl. | struggle In the Soudan will assume the clan at the Hotel Dieu, I divided the pa- | Proportions of & considersble war. The ) . vast region will probably be conquered tients in three sections. Toone I gave|and made tribntary to the Interests of the regular dispenssry medlcine In the Engllnd.)\l these shall be developed regular way; to another I gave bread, |through Egypt. ) { —— milk and eolored water; and to the thitd| myy Roujan intelgatog with Tarkey ls section I gave nothing at all. Well, gen- | hecoming moro audacious every day. M, tlemen, every one In the third section got | Nelldoff, the Russian embassador at Con well. Naturs Invaviably came to the |stantlnople, has the ear of the sultan, and rosons.” seems to enjoy his fullest confidence, ) England has no diplomate on the ground g3 & Uifal « o I Tue number of buiness failures for the '[l: il,, gcn:l:»:ill;hnfl:nci?and'l:&? EI;{];]]I.(:‘D;}_ first quarter of 1885 (partly estimated) Is | power over Turkey has been waning ever stated by Bradstreets to be 3849, |since Lord Dufferin left Constantinople agalost 3,320 for the corrosponding poriod | Behind the long and tedlons correspon- dence 88 to the delimitation of the lnst yoar. The number Is said to be|agghan frontler, the warlikeaspect of the “‘much larger than the total durivg a like | Afghan and Russian outposts, the threat. portlon cf any preceding year since such |ened selzure of Herat, and the renewod statistios have been collected,” The |menace to Indis, the eastern question amount of tho labilltien and asseta 15 1ot | Fataoc s tore np avee iho prospect that yet known, but the number of heavy | Ruasia and Tarkey will form failores Is comparatively small, The evl- [an alliance. There Is noth- dence which the weekly records have [!bg ~ improbable ~ in the report presented sinco the beginning of the year :l‘x,:t“:l:; ::ks :::1:'.: :1'17.“:::.“ 'If\:rlz; points to a rather larger proportton of |is In the mood for it, In her Egyptian potty fallures than heretofore, from 85 to | policy England bas ridden over Turkey 90 per cont. of all being among traders with a rough hand and thrust aside all whore capital ls under 85,000, some of her protests and pretensions with con- them being as low as $200. The Clear- ing-house exchanges again show an im- portant decline in the aggregate of {rans. actions, and the demand for money, which is the surest test of business pros- perity, remaios as sluggish as ever. Ix the event of the removal of B, Platt Carpenter, of Montana, President Cleve- land will in all probability appoint » reei- dent of the territory as his successor, and very likely Delogate Maginnis will be the lucky man. Carpenter is a carpet-bagger from New York, and will have to go. Herenfier the territorlal resldents are to be glven a show, which is a very sensible policy to pursue in the distribution of federal patronage In the territories. Tue republicans have nominated a gocd councllmanic tlcket. Now let the democrats do likewise, and the city will be mafe during the next two years, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The etrained relations bet ween England and Russla are about to culminatein a declaration of war, If the British Lion's ultimatum to the Russlan Bearls rejected war will be declared within the next forty- eight hours. The unbounded enthusiasm with which the queen's proclamation, ordering out the reserves, was received by the British populaze affords ample proof of the eagerness of the English sub- jects of her majesty for a rupture of friendly relations with Rusiia The ex- tensive preparationa which are now under way on land and sea on the partof the Britleh military and nayal authorities would indicate a determination on the part of Eogland to resist the further ad- vance of Russia toward Indla at all hazards. Rassia is by no means unpre- pired for such a contingency. She has all the advantage of position and prostige, and will bo more than a match for all the forces that ¥nglsnd can mus- ter in Asia. While Eagland at best can only forward troops and munitions of war to Afghanis‘an by a clrcultous water route, Russia has direct railwsy connec- tions into the heart of Central Asia, and dlrect teiegraph communications between St. Petersburg and Merv. If it i3 aleo true that Russla has formed a secret alliance with Tarkey, whereby the latter will extend ald and comfort to her former enemy, on the Black sea and through the Dardanelles, England will find herself at great disadvantage in the coming contest. With the flower of herarmy, kept busy in the Soudan, with Ireland in a semi-revolutionary condition, and her Australian colonies ¢n the polnt of or- gavizing an independent confederation, England is sadly handicapped for a strug- gle thal will tax all her resources on land aad s3a The vistt of tho Prince of Wales to Germeny has loubtless been t:ken with a view ecither of securing neutrality oa the part of that great natlon, or ii may even have rosulted in an underatand- ing that way ultimately ripen iato a de- fensive and offensive alllance. Russia is uo match for Germany and England combised, bat in the event of sach & combination, Russla weuld doubtless Becure other allies whose intercsts are more or lesyin an- tagonism with those of England acd Germany, There is no telling what a day may bring forth, With England and Russia a general European war would be almost certain to follow, There is & poa- sibility, however, that the Inevitable con- sequences of a conflict between Russia snd Eogland will enllst armed interven- tlon on the part of other powers, and bring about a peaceable settloment of the difficulties between the two countries, The English troops have had a rough time of it in thelr advance toward Bor- ber. The broken country at the end of thelr first day’s march appears to have been filled with fanatical Arabs, who made a determined attack and loflicted casuslties to the number of 200 or more. They were beaten off with severe los, but durlog the fight they injured or killed some 500 cawels, and did much other damage. Osman Digna is reported to be nesrat hand with 25,000 men,and a pitched battle is liable to be fought within a day or two, Ths English are really fighting over ground they have been twice ov:r already, and the result of the previous disaster and absndonment by the seoond force is that the Arabs are emboldened to offer a desperate realst- ance. If this should continue all the way across the desert the loss by mere attritlon must be severe. The worst fea- ture of the recent affair is the fact that the Engli<h were surprised. Thsy were not at all conscious of the presence of a large force within attacking diitauce. But once they were aesailed they fought with desperate energy and inflicted se- vere losses, But evidently they will be compelled to make a permanency of the oscupatlon of the Boudan, To fight thelr way across the desert, laylng water plpes as they go, especlally at this season, when the beat {s intense, will necessitate the holding of what thall thus beso expensively secured, Baut this whole war hss sssumed larger proportions and grester importsnce than ever before. This is the real difficulty. Geperal Wolseley has absndoned Korti acd gone to Dongola, The suxmer over temptuous Indiflerence. From the day when Mr. Gladstone denounved *‘the un- speakable Turk” until now there has been no love wasted between them, and if Turkey can secure Germany’s consent there is little doubt that she will make the alliance at onca. Such an alliance would be of great advantage to Ruseia. It would compel England to abandon Egypt and would glve Russis great ad- vantage in Asia, besldes banishing the British fleot from the Black Sea. The Wpper Nile rsilway, although lately thrown into the shade by the pro- jected line from Suakin to Berber, will undoubtedly acquire considerable im- portance whenever the Britfsh advance eouthward Is resumed. Ita originator, the ex-khedive, Ismail Pasha, carrled i up the river from Wady-Halfay as far as Sarras, Here tho Britlsh took it up last summer, and had lald down fifteen of the s'xty-two mllos on the Sarras-Ferket section (which avoids the formid- able Dal Raplds) when tho want of materisl and of mative labor stopped tho work on the 28th of Octo- ber last. Gen. Wolteley now reporis that the completion of the remaining forty-zeven mlles to Ferket, and the lay- ing down of light tramways at Fatmeh and Khalbar in order to avoid the cutaracts, would establish uninterrupted communication by rail and water between Wady-Haifay, Dongola, and Korti at any seascn of the year. He adds. how- ever, that any project of a permanent and continuous rallway would inyclve the neceeeity of various heavy cuttings, one if not more bridges acroes the Nile, and possibly several tunnels as well. 1f France is behind President Barrios, of Guatamala, in his attempt to pocket the other Central Amerlcan states, and maks a union of which he shail be virtnal dictator, the undertsking is likely to come out at nearly tho asme hole where that of Maximilian emerged just twenty years ago. President Ferry and M. de Lesseps would do well to turn back to thelr bistory of thatday, and ece with what celerity the Kuropeans bua- dled out of Mexico, when, at the end of onr civil war, the government of the United States joined its potentlal voice to that cf the native Mexicans, and bade the intraders depart. In the pre:- ent cate, our Interes: is clearly to pro- tect the autonomy of those states—San Sslyador, Costa Rica snd Nicaragua— which do not consent to be abrorbed under the Barrlos control, and if Eu- ropsan nations learn by experience that when they attempt to meddle in the poli- tical affalrs of the western continent, they are sure to have their fingers burned. it will be to them a very wholesome snd usefal lesson, There is great excltement in Ottawa over the announcement that an outbreak, headed by Louls Riel, who led the re- belllen at Red River in 1870, has taken place among the half-breeds near Prince Albert, Northwest territory. They have cut the telegraph wires and stopped com- munication. The immediate cause of the trouble is not known. One of the tele- grams eays It is believed that the ceuse was & letter metting forth that Riel was not a British subject, An additional force of mounted police has been provided by precuring ald from the Hudson Bay Company, Fort Carlton, where sbout 100 men are statloned, At Duck Lake there are about ninety men, and they will joln the others at Cariton. Members of the government are endeas- oring to make as light as possible of the trouble, but 1t is well known lhey sre cerfously alarmed, When Chile had got her foot upon the neok of Peru, she dictated the terms of poace, whioh were humlliating and also deemed oppressive 1o the latter power. Chile, however, was inexorsble. As the conquerer, she deemed it alfogethir proper that her demands should be com- plied with without a demaur. An inter- natlonal court of arbltration was held, which did not view the condition of af- fairs through Chilean glas:es, and it de- cided that Peru, from the concssslons mude to Chile, should receive $29,000,- 000, Wars are always cxpensive, and thelr outcome can never be foretold with certainty. The “Blsmarck memorial fund,” it ls announced, now amounts to $575,000, Counsidering that the fand is collected by general subecription from a poor and extremely frugal people, thls sum is enormous, It is & trlbuts not so much to Blsmarck’s popularity as to the politl- cal stupldity of his opponents, who thought it fit to mark thelr resect ment for his domestic policy by depriv- iog him of o clerk In the forelgn offico The German pecple, as the fund shows, koow well enough how to make the dis- tinotlon that seoms to be beyond the power of their liberal representatives, Very many subscribera to 1he fund must dlsapprove Blemarck's policy, but they do not find in theic disapproval a resson for crippliog, in bis execulion of a for- eign polioy upon which all Germans are virtually agreed, an old msn who has 1endered great and memorable ervicesto his country. The {mpzrial anthorities at St, Petera- burg are determined to convince the vat- fcan that the czar is the spiritusl as well as the politicsl ruler of his people, Cath- olic clergymen throughout the emplre have been required to foreswear supreme alleglance to the pope. If they refuse, Count Tolstei, the Russlan minlster of the Interior, s ssid to have threatened to establish an indepencent patrisrch at St, Potersburg, e—— Smoke Seal of North Carolina To and, anless {n the meantime the Afghan bacco. e ————————————— WAR RECOLLECTIONS. Campaiges ¢f the” Seoond Towa In- fantry. The Closing Batile at Corinth—Des- perate Assault on Kobinette—A Rebel Oficer’s Account, ‘Written for Tar B Ve The night of October 3rd found oor lines enciroling Corinth, and but a few hundred yards distant, Whisky was braught out in barrels, the heads knooked in and the men told to help 'themsolves. It was the general supposition that the place would be captured and arrange- ments wero made to burn the immense commissary and quartermaster, stores col- lected there. Oar forces were command- ed by General Rosscrans who had been defoated by Van Dorn at Inks, Mise., two weeks previously and the Union army had little confidence in his military skill, Notwithstanding the abundence of whisky during the night few of the men drank to excess. We knew thata big battle would be fought on the morrow and the men had no disposition to add to their desperate situation by getting drank. In town all was uproar and con- fuslon, stores and dwellings wera broken open and oar colorsd cooks re- turned to our bivousc load- ed with crackers, cheess, gioger snaps, eardines, canned frults, etc., as thelr share of the plunder so easily obtalned. At midnight we fell in line aud the regi- ment marched trom the south to the west eide of town and took position on a ridge from which the ground gradually sloped to the westward with a considerable open space in front, a portion of which was covered with fallen trees, an abattis formed by the confederates when they held Corinth, and Halleck was approach- it by slow degrees. At daylight our company is sent out In advance as skirmiehers ard takes position behind scattering trecs about three hundred yords in front of the reglment. 1t was a beautiful day and as the sun rose clear and bright, it was difficult to believe that two armics of about forty thousand men each lay within a short distance of each other oven then arranging for battle. To the left, on a commanding point were batterics Robicette and Phillips, heavy earthworks surrounded by deop ditches and manned by heavy slege gunsso trained as to completely aweep the space in front for a great distance, and thought it to be impregnable., AN OCCASTONAL SHOT is fired in our front by the rebel ekir- mishers, in a lazy kind of way, to which we respond in like manner. The sun rises higher and higher and we seek shady places, keeping a lookout for developments. At half patt ten there s a otir among the cnemy’s skirmishers, and the bu'lets fall around us In a lively fashion. Weare eheltered behind scat- tering trees so that po one {s hit. Five wminutes later the cry is heard, “Here they come!” and a line of battle com- posed of six regiments marches out of the woods directly in front of us, followed by others of equal strength, and moves swiftly towards ue. The commands of their officers are plainly beard, and as it was not the intention {hat one company of the Second Iowa should repel an at- tack by the eniire rebel army, we ‘“‘about fece” and fall back on our main line, still deployed as ekir- mishers, “Spit!” “zip!” “‘bang!” “‘spatl’ the mueket ball fly past us, and our “common” time develops into *‘qulck” and that into double quick. We pass rapidly up the hill, which seems entirely unoccupled, save by a battery of twelve pound bras pieces ready for work the in- stant we have paesed behind {t. Just over the crest of the hill we find the ground covered wlth blue coats, the main part of our army belng concentrated at this point awaiting the attack, the men lying flat on the earth. We rash to our proper place in the regiment and drop down, the rebel musket balls cutting the ground oll around ua. A bullet passes scross my hip, teating a grest hole in my coat, and plunges through the body of Private Downe, Jying bebind me in the rear rank, killiog him iostant- ly. Meauwhlle the enemy has swept up the hill, captured tho battery rofered to and turned It on us, There is 5o much confusion and excitement when we rise to our feet that befors we ean advance the enemy is upon us and we fill back and form a new line five hundred yarde in the rear. Here we reorgavize and move forward with a cheer, recover the crest of the hill, recspiure our battery and drive the enemy back dosn the slope with terrible slaughtcr. Our ammunition is s0on exbanated, but an abundant eup- ply is furnished by the carir dge boxes of the dead and wounded lying sll about us, Hero Cearley ——, who was ono of the few who drank too much of the whisky 50 plontifully dealt ont, made his appear- ance in the company for the first time eiuce the night before, unarmed and de- moralized to the last degrce. Bursting into tears he rushed from one comrade to another exclaiming, *“Give me & bayonet, while I shoot eomebody.’ A bullet pased through the high hat of Sergeant Harry McNell, and in speaking of it afterwards he sald: *‘You boys have made fun of my high hat, but you see it has saved my life, fcr If 1 had had a low crowned bat on that ba'l would have gone through my head.” In the meantime, BATTERY ROBINETTE has been stormed by a heavy force wh'ch moves acroes the open epace In full view of the posftion we occupy. No braver or mere desperate sssault was ever made, and as the shot and shells of the geige guns accurately tralned by months of skillful practiee, tore dreadful gaps in the ranks of the enemy with the only effect of osusing them to close up thete gaps and press resistlessly forward, apparently as devold of fear as wooden men, I thonght, “Thess are not human beings; they aro devlls ” On they go, the ground shaking under oar feet with the firing of arcilery, pausing not an iostant—on- ward, still onward; they have reached a point so near the earthworks that the big] gans canoot be depr:ssed encugh to do them harm; they rush pell mell into the diteh, twelve feet deep and fifteen feot across, with slopiog bands; they elamber up the furcher side, capture the position, drlye our gunners from their places and turn the big guns agsiset us. Magnificent darlog; coursge unsurpassed in the annals of warfare, but all in valn, Bat- tery Poilllps commands Battery Rob- {nette and hurls into 1he small #pace a shower of shot and shell which cannot be withstood, sided by the fire of many field guos which bave, in the meantime, been tralned upon that band of berces, and the few remaining alive are forced to surrender. The entlre attack has proven a fallure, and soon the last rebel flag has disap- peared from one front, and we go down among the fallon trees to aseist the wounded, At ono point 1 mot a tall con- federate coming up the road with one leg hanging helpless and using two old mus kets for crutchos. The thigh of his left leg had been shattered by an exploded shell, snd after receiving directions as to where he could find & surgeon he moved off, the nolse of the broken ends of the bones distinctly heard as they were thrown past each other by the swinglng limb, refusing all offers of ald from stretchor-bearers. “'oH, THE WILD CHARGE!" Among those captared at Battery Rob- fnette was Lieut. Labruzan, of the Forty second Alabama, who in his jour- nal, which was copled by some of our boys, thus describes the assault: %At 10 o'clock, suddenly the fight falrly opened, with heavy volleys of cannon, splendid style. At 10:15 o'elock Col. Rogers came up by ue, only eay- ing “‘Alabama forces.” Our reglment, the smell of shot, and moved forward, first puts on a garment made usually of some coarse material, not very long, and reaching only to the walst, bat with long sleeves, On the neck of this garment is sewed a deep fold of searlet orsome bright colored crape or silk. A long stralght skirt of blue or red eraps, sllk, or wool in tled around the waist and over all threo of these garmenta is worn the kimono, or droes, This Is of tome dark color, and made of coarse spun silk or thick orape. For festivals and holldays the dresses aro oi very fine matorial and very handsome. The outer dross is simply a wrapper reach- Ing to the feet, with vory long and wide sleeves hanging neatly to the ground, and used as pockets. On each shoulder, & doep tuck is made which extends to the walst, thus makiog a littlo fullness for the skirt. But the dress has no gathers, and is atralght all the way down. The nesk is adorned with a wide piece of black velvet or ratln, which reaches nearly to tho walst, and the dress Is crossed over the borom and confined by a girdle. Over this s worn a very wide rash, & musketry and the double thundering |Plece of brocaded silk or satin, stiff with This was on tho right. In a|embroidery in gold orsilver, lined with fow minates the left wont into action in | *oft silk and fastened behind fn a very largo bow. When these sre all on, bat barcfooted, o, If In the cold weather, In whito mitten socks, mado to roach only to with tho brigado rose, unmindfal of |theankle, and with a place In which to put the great toe (just asmittens have & marching about 250 yards and rising_on place for the thumb), she goos out to say the crest of the hill.” The whole of Cor- | ‘Ohalo, ' or good morning, to her father inth, with its enormous fortifications, [snd mother. 7 burat upon our view. The United States | «igho triod her prentice hand on man, flags were floating over the forts and In| And then she formed the lasstos, 01" }2&'3»‘!.‘,‘1;. :}7‘; ;:;l;e n;‘:nmterbyc:nlf; ““What is woman’s worth? ' aeked a fair , ) balls aud Minnjo balls' - Ob, God! T havo | wer s ‘meaiyy¢1dypucholor. - He did L }l“alol“w(-; h?“]hfn'::“‘ r‘_flg‘}fi‘_\ you O man). But a woman feols worth grass, 3 g s little if direnec haw invaded her system ous cheer, we dathed to the bottom of |4y q is dafly sapping hor strength. For the hill on which the fortifications are |y} famale woaknesser, De. R, V. Pierce's situated. Hero we found every foot of [ «gyvorite Prucripl!:n".ut;nd; Anpive fimnnd covered with large trecs andfqa)1oq, It oures the complaiut and bullds rush, cut down to impede progress. |yp the aystem, Send two letter s'amps Looking to the right and left, I saw e~ | for jumphlot to World's Dispensary Med- cral brigades charging at the same time. | {oa1 qssoiciation, Fuffalo, N, Y. What a slght was there. 1 saw men ru 3 a2 Sy ning nthfi‘x lfll\ued, ;t;p ;u;idal;flyl and fall Which Sho Can Easily Do, upon thelr faces, with their bralns scat- [ There’s ma v % i tered all around. Others, with logs and Laee :v:;:“y i o ey arms cut oft, shrieking with agony. They | That sours our hearts and turns our facos foll behind, beside, aud within a few feet |, yellow— Fothg b y TepAveEy RIE D Y GO TRad ot | 108 d:.;::gy‘.x, when I've hired a horso and ahead of my ccmpany. The ground was v cild.gone vt literally iiFewediwiti n,a..glfd corpses. L ORI One ball passed through my pants, and they cut twigs richt by me. It seemed, by holding ont my hand 1 could have caught a dozen. They buzzsd and hlssed by o In all dlroctiony, budl shikpashed | A /B forward. I seemed to be moving rightin & THE MOUTH OF CANNON, b ] for the alr was filled with grape and cannister, Ahcad was one continuous |4l ; i Daze. T 'rashed to tho ditoh of tho fort, |L01antile Blood Purifiers and Skin right between some large cannonm, I Beautifiers. grappled info it ond half way up the slop- ing wall. The coemy was only three or four fect from mo on’ the other side, but | Abeolutely Pure and Safe from could not ehoot us for fear ot having {heie heads blown ofl, Our men wore ia ithe Moment of Birth. NFANTILE and Birth Humors, Milk Crust, Scalled the eame predicament. Only five or six wereon the wall, and thirty or for'y in | Litead, kezemas, end cvery form of Itching, Sealy, and around the ditch. A man within | Pimply, Scrofulons and Inherited Diseascs of the il 3 Blood, Skin and Sealp, with I of Hair, from In- two feet of ) P"t hia head calxlluu!ly fancy to Age,cured by the Cuticura Resolvent, the up, to shoot into the furt. But he sud- |new blood puriticr, internuliy, and Cuticura and Cu- denly dropped his musket, and his bealus | ticura Soap, the great skin cures cxternally, = Abso- :;e:to i‘;:ll:::ll :E‘dnl;tn"fyfln:;:er TY fine ::I]::.‘lli\o';lg‘tl)‘l‘llxld safe, and may be used from the mo- : : arms, and on my o e Bl shirt sloeves, Several wora killed hero, W) iRl O cno top on another, and rolled down tho Our lctioboy wan. embankment in ghastly heaps. This was J —[Boston Journal, ing, Belchertown, Masa bly afflicted with Scrot Salt Kheum, and Erysipelas over sinco he done by a reglnent cf Yankces coming | ¥ai born, and nothing we couldgive him holped him 2 5 until we tried Cuticura Remedies, which graduall ifllhm:: f“':{ryl”d! on oue Laz‘t._nftgrthndf Cured him, until ho 18 now as fair any ohilde ng us ontirely cut cfl, and firing into us. CWORKS ) " Several of our men cried, “*Put down the LS SO DRI " J. 8. Wecks, Esq , Town Treasurer, St. Albans, V& flag,” and it was lowered, or shot Intothe | says in & letter datod March 55 *1s work e hi ditch. Oh, we were butchered like dogs, o8 m)‘l\zln'v)'u l:c:u ':-7:;;!";‘:1 l'm-d 'z;n'm:?;cné;r v, and hag near)y cleancd the face of sores. 1 hav as wo were not snpported. Some one |, iinended it o soveral, aud Dr. Llant haa order- placed a whl:tu handkerchief on Sergeant | edit forthem,” Buck's musket, and ha took it to a port “A TE o » holo, ~But tho Yaokeos amatched| o, bmj,:ujxfi,fill.},lfl:fi SILAVSI?E.Iuhu, N.J. it off and took him p:isoner. The | write:: “Myson, aladof twelvo yoars, was com- ditch being full, and finding we had no |letely cured of a torriblo case of Eczoma by the chancs, the survivors tried to save them. | Cutleurs Remedies, From tho top oibis pend 1o the selves as best they could. I was 80 far |romedy and physicians had been tried in vain, up, I could not get off guickly. I and FOR PALE, LANGUID, Capt. Forter storted together, and thealr [ gyaciated children, with pimply, eallow skiz, the was literally filled with hissing balls I Ontieurs oo oy peovo fa meetich blessiog, got about twenty steps, as quick as I|clearing bloodsnd ukin of inheritod impurltis could, about a dozon bolng killed In that | St “ari sciors sk dsensorr o distance. I fell down and scrambled be-| 8old every ahere. Price Coticura, 50 ceate, Re- hind a lurge stump. Just then, I saw |10t 0 Soap.16 conte. ; poor Foster throw up his hands, and say- | Potter Jrug & Chemical Co. Bosten. ing “‘Oh, my God!” jumped about two A for “How to Cure Bkin Discasos:" feet from the ground, fallivg cn his £xca. The top cf his head seemed to cive in, and the BLOOD SPOUTED STRAIGHT UP several feot. 1 could ace men fall as they attompted to rum, some with their A R oL e SALARY AKD with blood streaming from their backe. It was horrible. One it poor fellow being slmost on me, told ) E‘ MM|SSIH mo his name, and ackzd mo to tako his [ (o competent brwnen pocket-book If T escaped and givo it to | rian aurcr co trol his mother, and tell her that he died a | L, 3oL oo brave man. I asked bim if he was a|hyhighes mercnti Chrietian, and told him to pray, which ho [t genrle > Use Cuticars Soan an_exquisitly yerfumed Skin - Beautificr, and Tolle, 5ath and Nursery Sanative. £gor £or (this) STATE aBN- umber f local agencles) Mechines. Rauk servico. Todorsed i export authorie- Jaying f1om 60to 100 ) dags, Sales in New did, with the cannon thundering a deadly o TR sy S accompaniment. Poor fellow, his legs 870000 for January, 1585 Avpicants Tust furnieh fist-clas oredents s, and deposit from were literally cut to pieces. “Ag our men returned, tho enemy poured” in thelr fira and I was hardly thirty feet from the mouth of the cannon. Minnie balls filled the stump I was be- hind, aund the shells barsted within three feet of me. One was 8o near it stunned me, and b.irned my face with powder. The grape-thot hewed large peces off my stump, graduslly wearing it awsy. I en- dured the horrora of death here for half an hour, and eadeavored to reslgn myself and prayed. Our troops formed in line in the woode, and advanced a second time to the charee with cheers, They began firing when about Lalf way, and I had to endare ftall. T was felguing doath, I was right between our own and the enewy's fire. In the first ctarge our men did not fire a guo, but charged across the dlich, and to the very I " mouth of the cannon, with the bayonet. Bo also the seoond charge, but they THE BEST THIXG OUT fired. Our boys were shot down like FOR hogs, and could not atand "'l"l::lr:] {zlal Wus]ling & B]Cflching back cach mwan for himeelf. same scene was enacted as before. This In Hard or Soft, 1ot or Cold Water, timoe the Yankees charged after them, |saves Lanow, Tiveand Soar Awaz xouy, snd gives andes I had no chanco at all, und all | univena sstitaction. No tuaily rich or poor shioald around me were surrenderlog, I wan [ "G5\ Prwan of tmitations well do compelled 10 Co 80, a8 a raecal threstened | signo | t) misioad. FMARLINK 14 the 05LY KAVE labor t» shoot me. I had to glve up my :Z\llllr:"nx::;:;:x:‘v'vlnmlhl»\nu:un the ALOYO Bymi- sword to him, I had no means of de- JAMES PYLE NEW YORK. fending mjsclf for the first thme In many / years, I cried to sec cur brave men slaughtered so.” - ot bonds for goode in THI NATIONAL (. S. CO., 21 East Fourteenth Street, e Girl's Toiler, A Japan From 8t, Nicholas. When a Japanese girl gets up I the morning she washes her face, but does not huve to dress her haie. That [s at- A FPINE LINE OP tonded to but once & weck, The balr. her jet black locks In the fasbioa for N T littls girls of ber age. So she har no trouble about her hiir, and after her bath the servant &esists her to powder her neck I e puts & with & small whits brush., She puts lit'le red paiat on ho lower lip, and & lit: THE ONLY EXOLUEAVE tle glding in the wmiddle. When she ,‘ removes ber slesping drassshe has on only a short skirt, whichis simply s square plece of cloth, crape or k, tied a _nd the waist, Noother other under clothing 13 worn, To making her toilet for the day, she IN OMAHA NEB,