Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 5, 1891, Page 15

'S ¢ v 1E OMAHA DAII BEE THE MEXICAN FOURTH OF JULY. | cw Our Rister Republio Oeclebrates Its @reatest Holiday. BTUMP SPEECHES AND PATRIOTISM. A Graphic Description of the Mex Fifth of May- President Diaz's in the Ceremonies. (Copyrighted hy_Frank @. Carpenter.] Mexico, June 28.—(Spocial Correspond- @nco of Tir Ber,)—The Mexican Fourth of July is colebrated on May 5. It was on this day, twenty-nine years ago, that the French troops of Napoleon 111, who weto marching o Mexico City, were met at Puebla, abou two hundred miles feom the capital, by the Mexican army, under General Zaragoss, and effectuaily routed. The French wantea to establish a monarchy and jto keep Maximil- lian on the throne of Mexico. Througn the victory the Mexicans regained their republic, and thoy regard the anniversary of this vie- tory their greatost national holiday, For a week before the day comes overy town and hamlet from tho Pacitic oconn to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Rio Grande o Guatemala is preparing for it. Thestreots are decorated with flags and bunting, the small boy lays iu his fivecrackors and fizzers and tho stump-speakers, yoang snd old, pre paro their spread-eagle orations. Mexico has a great national bird as we have. This bird is tho Mexican eagle. It forms a part of the coat of arms. It roosts on one side of every one of tho twenty odd millions of silver dollars which the M mints turn out every year, and with its feet Testing on a thorny cactus aLd a serpent firmly held in its mouth und talons it flaps its wings and screams over the whole of the ropublic us loudly as ever does the great American bird on our glorious Fourth, The Mexican §s naturally a patriot. His blood moves quick in his volatile veins an he is as fond of & stump speech us his brother across tho northorn border. This patriotism is growing. For more than twelve years the country has been at peace, and the ibsen revolutions has given the Mexicans a ct tolovk at themselves and their wond: country. Tho result1s their self-esteom is growing, their love for Mexico is growing, and every yoar sees May 5 more and moro enthusinstically celebrated ndependence Day in Mexico. The groatest fifth 1n tho country talkes lace at the capital. Moxico City is then out n all its glory. The presidont, his cabinet, and all the employes of the govornment, par ticipato in it; from fifteen to twenty thou- saud of the picked troops of the army form a partof the procession, and flags and firo- works, stump speeches and cannonading sdded 'to tho blazerof clad and unclad buman’ ity, makes Moxico on this day oue of tho great sights of tho world, This yoar by the night of May 3 the capital was gay with flags and bunting; the hou and shops, their fronts in their usual bright olors of white, pinic, blus and yellow sticco, wero trimmea with colored_cloth and paper tho figecrackers had bogun their din, and this decortition and firing went on up to the mora- & 0of the Hth, when the wholo city smolt of owdor and tho streets shown out under the clear, bright sky of Moxiro, their walls ono blaze of streamers and flags and their sido- walks filled with oo of the queerest and most picturcsaue masses of mixed humanity you will find in the world. There were davi faced Indinns by the tens of thousands, dressed in white cotton and wearing blankots of red, biue, yellow, and all the other colors of the rainbow, solid and mixed. Tho men ameng these had on hats of all shudes of splendor, color and dilapidation, and these hats had brims a foot wide, and around many of them wero gold and sil- ver cords, .some of which wero fully an inch thicki Many of tho hats wero of straw, others were of plush like velvot, and they were worn in all shapes somo witi brims turned up at the sides and others pull- ed down over the eyes and turned up av the forehead. Their only similarity was that all had wido brims and tall cornucopia crowns and theso, looking down at them from tho Dalocnies on San Francisco streot - appeared like a groat army of suzgar loaves walkiug off with the red blanketed humanity below them. Not only the Indiaus but tho Mexicans from the country wore these hats and costumes of some of thom blazed with silver and gold buttor he women were less picturesque than the mmen but with their dark faces shining out of brown white and bright colored shawls threw the dress of the other sex into the gayer contrast and mado the whole a quoer combination which seomed a part of another world than the American, The center of the streets was quite as interosting as the sido walks. Mouuted policomen in gy clothe: dashed to und fro on spirited horses, tho Mexican steeds of rich young haciendados from the country bore their owners more gorgeously attired than the star of any circus procossion from ono part to another and tho young swells of tho city were out in_their kay riding costumes on imported horses which are hore more gorgeously clad than the horses of any other part of the world. Scenes Along the Route, Long boforo the time for the procession the roofs und the balcouies aloug the line of march wero filled with_the upper tendom of Moxico City. Dark eyed senoritas looked out of dark mantillas down upon the surging masses below; fat old ducunas sat by their sides und watobed that the gay Mexican dudes who were in the same or adjoining balconies whispered only sweot nothiugs in theic littlo cars, and gray old seniors formed & part of tho crowd, There wore children by the hundrods and the prattle of Spanish was mixed with tho din of the masses below; tio fira crackers aud the cannon, the sight ‘all told was the gayest you will seo in u lifo time, and tho peovle were as merry and good natured a orowd from the peon ou the streets to the millionaire iu the balconies as you will find in Bny ity w Christendom. ‘Honoring a Dead Hero. President Diaz was one of tho leading gon- erals in tho battlo of Pucbla and before the parado began, ho, in company with some of tho most brominent men of the republic, went 10 the cemotery of Fornando aad placod wreath on the tomb of General Zaragosa. This scene was very improssive. The great en of Mexico stood about the tomb with uncovered hoads and they bowed a8 the flowers were lad on the grave. I'io crowd about them was also silent and the sceno was full of the solomnity of sorrow. After it was over Prosident Dinz roturned 10 the paluce whero he changed his citizons' dress for his uniform and came out in the fuil militacy costumo of a general of tho aruy, his breast coverod with the silver medals ho hus won in his many campaigns. As he camo out ot the national palace on tho Bamo spot where Cortes stood with Monte- Zuwa moro thaw threo bundred _years ago ho met his favorite troops of the Mexican srmy tothe numoer of at least 15,000, aud with theso as bis escort marched to tho beautiful park in tho centor of the city kuown as tho Alumeda. This procession was a grand sight. The senators and repro- sontatives who constitute the Mexican con- gress proceded tho president, and he walked on foot with his cabinot at the head of these 15,000 troops. Tho crowd cheered as ho weut by, sud there was o waving of haud- kerchiofs, a throwing up of hats and a din of shouts in'welcome to Mexico's greatest man sud greatest, presidont. Atthe Alameda thero wero excreises like those at one ot our blg Fourth of July celebrations; the greatest poot of Mexico read & poem; one of tho reatest orators spouted out his spread oagle: sma in Spanish, and the crowd roared out their appliuse just as our peoplo do in the United States, ~ Then Prosident Diaz gave 10 the invalid veterans of the war a present and the procession formed to march back 10 tho palace whore the grand review of the arado was to b made. This time bo rode. [ho state carriages came to the side of the Alameda, und their gorgeous footmen in their livory of tae aational colors, opened the doors tho president and his cabinet, / Review of the Troops. The review of the troops in front of the palace was ouo pf the most picturesquo will. ry sigts you can see outside of a great war. The 15,000 troops were massed in a a grand column st whoso head was the geu srabin-chief aud nis staff. This column co balued tho cavalry and the infantry 0 the namber of 10,000, and all the armament and machinery of warfaro was reprosented in it. Thero were the hospital ambulances, the can- non and ammunition wagons, the mules carry- ing their, kegs of water and the music to which the whole marched was by mounted bauds, I do not kzow of such bands anywhere elso in the world. The Moexican is a born musician and if he were not a born horsomaa a4 woll, he conld never handlo a big bass trombone and a half tamed mustong at the same timo, The President’s Rural Guards, The most wonderful part of tho parade, however, was that division of the army known as the Rurales,or the Rural Guards of Mexico, These are the president's favorite troops and they are among the finest soldiers of the world. I have soun the best troops of the sultan of Turkey as thoy accompanied him in a great army on his way across Constantinople to kiss the mantle of Mahomot on their Arabian horses, aud | have witnessed some of the groat reviews of Europe but [ have nowhere sea such wonderful horsemen and such pie- turesque troops o th ales of Moxico, The gay costumes of the liors, with their gold braid and their turbans do not compare with those of these Mexican centaurs. The ride 1n talions on the finest of fiery norses and ench battalion has horses of tho same color, They ride so well that horse and man are as one and it is hard to tell where the horse ends and tho man begins. Both hovse and man_are gorgeous in their silver and leather decorations. The men wear suits of terra cotta leather consisting of pan- taloons laced down the legs, with silver cords ding about big silver buttons. sir coats are something like a loose roundabout with a vest in frontand both coat and vest aro profusely embroidered with gold and silver which shines out under the sun against this dark red loather bavk- ground. The boots of tho rurales aro of the finest leather and great silver spurs stick out from under the gorgeous saddles which adorn every ono of their horses. Their hats ars the most gorgeous of sombreros. They aro of a fuzzy natural feltof a_pearly gray color and the brims of each stand out about eight i 35 on each side of tho dark faces of the soldiers, while the crowns 1ise in the shape of a sugarloaf at leasta fout above their heads, Around each hat is a silver cord an inch thick and silver tassels hang from the end of this out to the edge of the great rim. hey wear bright red sashes about their wiists and their saddlos are s gorgeous as themselves, Thoy aro of white leather em- broidered with silver, with great stirrups and with oridles to which aro fastened sitver bits. Behind each saddlo therois a coiled 1as30, and these mou are adepts in the use of the rope. Experts in Rop» Throwinz. They begin to learn its use as babics whilo lassooing chickens, and it is said that the ropo in their hands is more dangerous than tho rifie builet or tho sabro blow. ch raralo carcios a small armament along with him, There is a Remington riflo across nis back. His belt 1s full of great pistols, and a subre hangs by his side. Take his combination of arme, horses and mon, dress them in your mind’s eye in this gorgeous costume, make the bands play, tho sun shine, wall a'square park with a great palace, o vast cathedral and with long lines of arcaded bazars, let the walls of those bo gay with flags, and their windows and roofs ben mass of gaily dressed humamty. Let thero be tons of thousands of tho Mexican peasants on the plaza among the trees, aud i the wide streets surrounding this let thero bo thousands upon thousands of the gorgeously dressed Mexioan troops and you have somo idea of the grand review on the Mexican Fourth of July. Liberty Through Brigands. Afterlooking it all over, however, you will find your oyes coming back again aud again to the rurales and you do not wonder that President Diaz is” proud of them. It was through them that ho turned Mexico from a land of brigands into a land of poace and orde These men wore thomselves in many cases tho brigands of Mexico. They wore the bandi.s of the mountains, who robbed stazes and_made themselves famous as the Paul Cliffords of Mexico. General Diaz sent for the laders and asked them bow much brigandage puid the avorago. Tho leadors said it was worth to each _brigand something loss than $40 a month, and_Diaz, so tho story goes, there- upon offered thom steady wagos at that rate to form a purt of bis army. They accepted and tho result 1s that thoy make tho bost troops in the world. Diaz i3 both loved and respectod by them, and they gave him a ban- quet the night before the last May 5. Thoso men form the workiug force of tho Mexican army. They have cloared the mouu- tains of robbers aud it is now as safo to travel in most parts of tho interior of Moxico as in the back districts of New Yorlk or Pennsylvania. These soldicrs form tho guards av the stations all over Mexico, and when any of the trains require an escort it is a company of the rurales who are detailed to g0 with it, In Mexico the army means much moro than in tho United States. It is through the army that a party or a president romalns in gowar, and rovolutions uro 100 frequent in Mexico to allow the army to grow discon- tented. The First Duty of Governn. nt. - “T'he result is that the soldiors are very well treated. President Diaz, it is suid, made not long ago the romark that of thoe expenses of the government the army must be paid first, after that the other expenses, such as tho salaries of the civil oficers, tho foreign loans and the subsidies might come in, but not be. fore. Prior to this the payment of the army has not been the first consideration, and one of the strong points in tho strength of the present government is_the absolute faithful- ness which it preserves in tho payment of its troons. ‘The army of Mexico now numbers about thirty-five thousana men. Tenty-two hun- dred of these are rurales,and thers is a caval- vy forco of more than six thousaud. Kvery Moxican capable of bearing avms is liable for military service from his twenticth to his fif- tieth year and the country has very fair mili- tary schools, The Army the Police of Mexico. The army constitutes to a large extent the police of Mexico, and they keep order that would be cousidered wonderful in an Ameri- can city. The night of May 5, when there were 23,000 peons in the plaza watching the firoworks as thoy wero shot out from tho great cathod ral, there was almost perfect order. “Tho pulquo shops had been open alt day and there wero hundreds of the Indfans who had their skins full. I saw several who were - clived to bo noisy, but a tap from one oi tho soldier police catised them to become auiot nce and they walked off to jail. An Ameri- can crowd i3 ten times as hard to manage as a Mexicau one and, oit tho wholo, ordor is bot- ter kept in the City of Mexico today than it is in the city of Boston. “The polica force is very large. 1t is known that its membors will shoot on vary slight provodation and the crimo of this great city is comparatively small, Tho night of the fifth there was a mam- mouth open air concert in the zocalo or plaza, and tho band plaged whilo the fireworks were sot off. Theso firewarks lasted for bours. The great cathedral of Mexivo formed their center and their background and Lines of light streamed in the national colors of the country about tho vast towers. I'rom tho roof, sky rockets by the hundreds whizzea into the biack heavens aud great wheels of powder cast a wierd glory of light and shado as their sparks low upwards about the massive carved front of the pile. The Cathedral’s splendid Past. The old cathedral becamo almost ghostlike in its shadow as light after light blazed up and 2ut out and it seemed to me to be ahve and niug of its splondid past. Ko years it was the grand center of tho grcatestand richest church on tnis contiuent. Moxico poured its wealth {nto its coffors, Its walls alone swallowed up 2,000,000 and its interior «d with treasures of gold and silver, From 1t shaven headed priosts sent forth tho orders that governed the eountry and it wus the center of the power bebind the throne. Today it s tho background of the fireworks that celebrate its fall. It belongs to the gov ernment und its priests and worshippers hold it ouly upon the permit of the republic. It stands only as an emblem of the Mexico of tho past, on the sito of the heathen altars which it took years ago from the Monte- zumas. As [look there seems to bo remorse mixed with its sorrow and now out of its towers and above its massive front, springs a great snower of fire of many colors in the shape of a bow and in it I read the rainbow of Mex- ico's future; the coutipuanco and the im- provement of he republic when purity of goverument allied to the oducator, both moral wud intelleotual of the people, shall make the great Mexico, the Mexico of the future, which already to some extent is, and which 'will more and morm be the Mexico of tho people, FRaNK G. CAnPaxTSM GRAND ARMY DEPARTMENT. Preparat ions for the National Encampment at Detroit. GREELEY'S visiIT 10 LINCOLN. The Pattles of Gettysburg and Water- 100 Compared—Sherman’s Modesty Veteran Tales and Relics— Notes and Incidents. \J Proparations for the national encampmen of the Grand Army of the Ropublic, which opens in Detroit in August, are going for- ward actively. The camp is located on the exposition grounds, and an army of mech anics and laborers are engaged proparing the grounds and buildings for tho reception and entertainment of the veterans, Bunks for 12,000 men have been have boen secured. Everything {s new, clean and tasty, and the beds look certainly as inviting asthose of any #ood hotel. They are a sight to behold—beds for 12,000 or moro men all under one roof, practicaily in one hugo room and all seen at one view. When all these beds are made up and occupied by tho vetorans, under the electeic lights at night, it will bo a spectaclo such as has nover been seen bofore in Michi- ®au, or on this coutinent, or avywhero in tho world; and such as will probably never be seen again anywhere in tho world for cont- uries to come, [n fact, & view in the main building even now is one of the most intor- esting sights in the city, and will become aally more so as the proparations for tho grand encampment go on until the day of the meeting. The following dispatch from Commander- in-chiof W. (. Veazey has been received by the executive committee at Detroit: “Hearty congratulations for the noble stand taken by the citizens of Detroit for the entertainment of the Grand Army. This, with railroad half rates, will stir the hearts of comrados throughout the country. I believe they will raily in unparallelednumbers, Dotroit will rival, if not eclipse Boston." Washington City dosires the next National encampment in i802. Already #1000 has beon pledged. Railroads, steamboat. lines, nd hotels will make special rates. The nd Army will, without o doubt, take leading place and win the prizo. The stationery, letier-heads, otc., used by the committees naving the National Encamp- ment in charge aro in silver bronzo, this be- ing the silver anmversary year of the Grand Army. Reports received show that over 3,000 In- aiana comrades will attend the encampment, Seven hundred and fifty comrades from Florida will be at Detroit, Waterloo and Gettysburz. In an article in the Century Magazino The- odore Roosevelt say At Gottysburg thero wore present in action 50,000 to 85,000 union troops, and of the con- federates somo 65,000 At' Waterloo there were 120,000 soldiers of the allies under Wel- lington and Blucher, and 72,000 French under Napoleon; or, there were about 150,000 com- batants at Gettysburg and about 190,000 at Waterloo. In each case the weaker army mado the attack aud was defeated. Leo did not have to face such heavy odds as Nupoleon; but, whereas Napoleon's defeat was a rout in which he lost all his guns aod saw his sol- diers become a disorganizod rabble, Lee drew off his army in good ocder, his cannon uncap- tured, and the morale of ‘his formdable sol- diers unshaken. The defeated confed lost in killed and wounded 15,530, and in cap- tured 7,407, some of whom were likewis wounded, or 23,000 in all; the defeated French iost from 25,000 to 30,000—probably nearer the latter number, The confederates thus lost in_killod and wounded at loast per cont of their force, and yet they preseryed their artillery and theic organization; while the French suftered an even heavier propor- tional loss and wero turned into a floving mob. Comparing the victors, wo find that _the forces of tho allies at Waterloo consis several different kinds of troops, and to- gether with the losses can host be presented in tabulated form. Wellington had under him (8,000 English, Germans and Dutch-Bel- giuns, while Bluchler had 52,000 Prussiaus, and wounded to forces engaged. il Welltngton's B 3 G g Dute in Blucher's Prissluns 5o 3 The figures for the Duteh-Bolgians, who behaved very badly, aro merc esttmates; probably the ‘missing’ numbered more than 3,000, and_ it is vory unlikely that tho total Kiiled and wounded went as high as 1,000, At Gettysburg the northerners lost 17, killed and wounded and 5,435 missing’ in other words, they suffered an actually sredter loss than the much larger army of Welling- ton and Blucher; relatively, it was half us grent again, being something like 22 per cent in kilied and_wounded alone. This gives some idea of to comparative obstinacy of tho fighting. In making any comvarison betwoen the two battles, 1t must, of coursa be remem- bered that one occupied but a singlo day and tno other very nearly three; and it is hard to comparo the severity of the strain of a long and very bloody with that caused by a short and only less bioody battlo, Gettysbure consisted of a series of moro or loss completely isolated conflicts ; bat, owing 10 the loose wiy in which the armies marchod into action many of the tropps that did the heaviest fighting wero ensaged for but a portion of the time. The Second aufl Third corps were probably not heavily engaged for a very much longar period than the British regiments at Waterloo, Both wero soldiers’ vather than, genorals! battles. Both woro waged with extraordi- nary courage and obstinacy aud at a fea cost, of life. Watorloo was settled by singlo desperato and exhausting struggl Gettysburg took longer, was loss decisive and relatively much moro 'bloody. Accord- ing to Wellington the chief " foature of Waterloo was the “*hard pounding;?. wud at Geottysburg tho pounding—or, 08 - Grant called it, “the hammering’-~was - even harder, aternal Reunions. Two famous Grand Army, posts-the E W. Kiusloy of Boston and tho Goorge G. Meade of Philadelphia,— made a pilgrimage w their brethren in New York, June The visitors were entertained by Lafayette post and given an excursion on the Hudson to Wost Point. Hera Colonel Wilson bade them welcomo in o few hearty and sincere words: he showed them the trophies, cons sisting of English flags captured in the Revo- lutionary war and Moxican flags. General O. O. Howard responded, and then brought General Veasey to tho froat, who mado a bright and brief speech. Tho Visit ors were greatly interested in the chapel. and many wandered back 1o it again. balord departing. They particularly examined the tablets on tho wall, with the numes of the generals of the Revolutionary war, and the ono sad blank space, tue black tablet over the organ, from which the name of Benedict Arnold has been erased, was the cenwre of observation. After visiting the little city of tonts where tho cadots wero learning to do what the vis- itors did so gloriously twenty years ago, the batteries were examined with tha old sol- diers' enthusiasm. They then returned to the library, where Colonel Wilsou showed tho portraits and read an autograph let from General Sherman, Then A. G. Mills, the president cf the New York Athletie club, thanked tho colonel in the name of the threa posts for his kind welcome and hospitality. They were photographed 1n ono group on the grounds below the bluff, after which the return trip was begun. On returning to New York the veterans und a large number of prominent citizens sat down to @ feastin the Manhattan athletic club rooms and were entertained with an aftor-dinner address by the prince of orators, Chauncey M. Depew. ~ His speech was fullof telling points, sweeping from humor to ten- derucss, as bo spoke of the missing form of Genoral Shorman, wbo, he said, “is the grandest figure in the trinity of American history for all time tn,come--Girant, Sheri- dan, Sherman, of thom he was the best, with his wonderful genit¥ ' marvelons oreative bower, and warm hoakt, who died as ho wold Rave died, and who passed to his post with the final salute of 400,000 Grand Army mon ns his soul was mustered in above.'" Mr. Depew was followed by L. P. Sanger, Conwell, Genorfit’ Howard, Genoral R Rear Admieal Braine, and many Swayne, P~ - Greeley's Visit to Lincoln, In a most characteristic adaress by Horaco Greoloy on Lincoln, which was written about 1808, and is now published for the first time in the July Century, the great editor says “Isaw him for a short hour about a fort. night after his inauguration; and though the tidings of Goneral Twiggs's troacherous sur- rendor of the larger portion of our little ar- my, hitherto employed in guarding our Mex- fcan frontier, hud been some days at hand, I saw and heard nothing that indicated or threatened belligerency on our part. On the contrary, the president sat listoning to the endless whino of the office-seckers, and dol- e out village postoflices to importunate or lucky partizans just as though we wero sail- ing before land breezes on a smiling, summer sea; and to my inquiry, ‘Mr Prosidont! do you know that you will ave to fight for the the placo 1n_which you sit? he answered pleasantly, I will not say lightly—but in words which intimated his disbelief that any fighting would transpire or be neaded and I firmly believe that this dogged resolu- tion not to beliove that our country was about to bo drenched 1 fraternal blood is tho solu- tion of his obstinate calmness throughout the earllor stages of the war; and especially, b patient listening to the domand of a deputa- tion from the young Christians of Baltimoro as swell as of the mayor and other city digni- taries, that he should stipulate while block- aded in Washington, and in imminent danger of expulsion. that no more northern volun- teers should cross the sacred soil of Mary- land in hastening to his relief. Wo could not comprehend this at the north—many of us havo not yet seon through it: most certainly if he ad required a committee of 10,000 to kick tho bearers of this preposterous, npu- deat demand back to Baltimore, the ranks of that committee would have veon filled in an hour from any northern city or county co; taining 50,000 inhavitants." Yarns of Old Soldiers It was in one of tho soldiors' homes scatter- ed over the country, says the Philadelph Times, and_those familiar with the spic thero prevailing know that of all spots where questions of military merit aro tenaciously aiscussed these aro the most remarkable. Leaving out the earnestly fought urguments relative to the abilitiesof particular generals, tho doings of special corps or regiments, tho interest with which many individuals insist upon their persoually having been mors or loss of a pivot upon which the fate of battlo if not tho whole war turned must be seen to be appreciated. In this instance, that it was just after deco- ration day. when campaign memories are es- pecially active and access to the outer world, with its metowing influences, is easier, may have had something to do with it. But it goes upen record that never wore three vet- crane—all belonging to different regiments— more strenuously self-assertive regarding tho rts they bad played in} the whole unpleas- antnes It had gone from simple facts to the far- thest kind of long-bow,shooting all the way homo. Do you know,!t finally cried the one with the crutch, breaking down all vocal op- vosition, “at the first Bull Run I remember shooting thirteen of *em at a stretch And what's that to before Richmond,” ho was answered by his bitterest antagonist. “I and another of the tompauy took a vat- tery of six picces unassisted. And still they Wwon't give mo a pension.”’ “Boy's play, boy’s play,” was the balf cou- temptious comment of the last of the trio. ““Think of what happened to mo at Gettys- burg. [ was killed.” “T'his airect reflection upon the veracity of the previous staries naturally led to recrimi nations that only had @ slumber smothered ending toward the smjall, hours of the morn- Sherman's Modesty. atest volume of ithe ‘‘Record of the contains the following letter from Gieneral Sherman to Ganeral Halleck, dated April 2, 1364 “1 had the pleasure somo days ago to ro- ceive your lotter sending me commission as brigadier general, and to say 1 have the com- mission myself. I wish tosay to the prosi- dent that T prefer he should not nominate me or any one to the vacant major generalship in the rogular army. Inow have all of the ranls necessary to command, and I believe all here concede to me the avility, yot accidents may happen, and I don’t care ' about increas- ing the distance of my fall. The moment an- other appears on the arcaa _better than I, [ will chearfully suoside. Indced, now my preference would be to have my 15th cors, which was ns large o family as I feel willing to provide for, yet I know General Grant has a mammoth load to carry. Ho wants hero who wilt_fulfill” his plans, wholo a re, and at the time appointed, and be betieves I will do I hope he is not mistaken. 1 krow my weak points, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for past favors and advice, and will in"the future heed all you may offer with the deepest con- fidence in your ability and sincerity. 1 will try and hold my tongue and pet and give my undivided thoughts and_attention to the mil- itary duties devolving on me, which in all conscience are enough to _occupy usefuily all of my time and thoughts.” ant Re bered It. “When General Grant roturned to St. Louis after his famous tour around tho world,” said a Missourian, “I heard him make a remark which removed from my mind all the prejudices I over had against him as tio commander of the federal army of the United States, *Ho stopped at the Southern notel and had a steady stroam of callers—old friends who had known him in his adversity acd his_pov- crty. I was sitting in tho parlor ond duy whon an elderly lady called and wanted to see General Grant. She was promptly ad- mitted. **‘Goneral,’ she said, ‘I don’t suppose you will remember mo, as'you have met so many people since I saw you last.” “*Madam,” said tho genoral, ‘T never yot forgot a friend. Don't you rémember tho day when some of your beople took e out of the gutter, took me to your house and gave me aclean shirt? And don't you romember how you nursed me back to health and strength Insido of two dayst I hope you have forgotten all that, but I haven't. I never shall forget it, either.' " Eloven Brothers in the War. K. Charles, a resident of the First ward, Is aged seventy‘two years, and @ strong, ablo man, who earns a livelihood at the hardest kind of day's work. says the De Bois, (P’a.) Courier. - No one would take Mr. Charles to bea minuto over fifty-five s of ago, while he has quite a remarkablo family his- tory. Mr. Charles’ faghpr is still liviug, near Kittanning, Armstrongsounty, and was 103 years old last Christmus day.” 'Ho was halo and bearty and expects'to visit his son in Du Bois on the Fourtyyf July. Mr. Roscoo says ho told the son to have his father hero for the celebration in July, and he will not 'x"“ if the old man is 1i¥14 and well on that day. ) The assistant burgess has promised tho old gentloman the finestiéarriage that can be had n Du Bois and_lead the grand pro- cession on that ‘Thore were twelve sons in the Charles family;eleven of whom did their share in fighting the battles of the late rebellion, and 1t soema they were bullot proof, as the eleven boys camé back to the parental roof sound anfi'ivell. Mr. Charles’ grandfather lived to thgage of 103 years. His mother died only about a year ago at tho age of ninety-oight y ey Muster-Rolls for the State of Wash- gron. Adjutant-General O'Brien of the stato of Washiugton, recently made application to the war department for coples of the muster- rolls of the men who served in tho war of tho rebellion from that territory, the being made in a rdsnce with ment of the last legislature O'Hrien received a letter from Dr. Aius- worth, chief of the record and pension bureau of the war department, denying the request, the doctor stating that the rolls per- taining to the volunteor army have, through constant haudling, become so badly worn that It has been found necessary to rostrict tho use of them to the current work of the war department; this, in order thut these valuable records may be presorved until th can be reproduced and their safety MH.-J Dr. Ainsworth regrets that ho cannot come ply with the request for the above reasons, Important Paper Recovered During the recent meeting of the Wiscon sin veleraus at Madison, an iwportant valua- blo war dooument was recovered. It wae the report of General Henry Harnden's chase and capture of the confoderate prosident, Jofforson Davis. General Harnden lives in Milwaukee, and has never boen able to ex- plain why his report should not have beon filed in tho war department. A man named Weaver of St. Paul oame to this city to at- tend the reunion. After conversing with some of the veterans he said he had those re- ports 1n his possession,and while still talking rrl\d\ll'\'(l them, The surprise of General iarnden and the oid soldiers of the First Wisconsin cavalry, was great. Some of the voterans have been unable to obtain a pension because of the absence of the document. It contained the names of all those concerned in the capture, A War ite) The Rawlins (Wyo.) Journal observes that Judge Homer Morrell has n novel and_hand some scarf pin which ne prizes very highly on account of its associations. It is a gold horseshoo set with precious stones, in the center of which {s sot & piece of common iron which Mr. Merrell took from the turret of tho Monitor after it had been struck by a bullet from the rebel ram Merrimac, Mr. Merrell says ho bolieves his is the only relic of the kind in existence, as tho Monitor sank shortly after tho engagoment, The High-Water Mark of the War, At a meoting of tho Gottysburg momoria, commission, held on the battlefield on Frida June 19, the Gettysburg Battlefield associn. tion was notified of the action of the commis. sion in placing the monument of the Seventy Second Pennsylvania twenty feet in the rear of the monuments of the Sixty-Ninth Penn- sylvania and Soventy-First Pennsylvania, The commission also approved Colonel Batch- eldor’s design for tho high-water mark of tho war, which will be placed near the -*Bloody Angle,” Sites for the monuments of the Twenty-Sixth Ponnsylvania and tho Twen- ticth Pennsylvania cavalry wero also so- lected. Short Note: Five brothers from Capo Elizabeth, Me., who went into the war and came out un scratched, araall dead, and not one of them died a natural death nor any two in the same state, Tho survivors of the Forty-sccond New York volunteers, commonly known as tho Tammany ment, " hold a reunion in this city for tho purpose of arranging for tho dedication of the regimental mouument to take place on the Gettysburg battle ficld on the anniversary of Antietam, September 17, The ninth annual convention of the Na- tional Woman's Relief Corps will be held in Detroit, Mich., the first week in August. Wedsworth post, Grand Army of the Re- public, Holean, Mont., was prosented with an elegant oil portrait of General J. 5, Wads- worth, after whom it was named. The gift came from J. W. Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y., son of the valiant soldier honored by 'the Helona post. Tne presentation speech was made by Major Maginuis. Judgo Glenni W. Schofield of Washington who during the war was a_member of con- gress from northwostern Pennsylvania, tolls a chavacteristic story of Prosident Lincoln which is worthy a place in history. A pri- vate soldier from tho judge’s own county, Warren, having knocked down bis captain, was triad, convicted and sentenced to the Dry Torthgas. His friends urged Schoficld to have bim released, so he went to sco the oresident and told his story. Listening at- tontively, Lincoln replied: “T tell vou, judge, you co right down to the capitol and et congress to pass an_act authorizing a pri- vate soldier to knock down a_captain. Then como back here and I will pardon your man.’ The judge says that there was such an air of quizzieal earnestuess and desire to serve him about the president’s manuer that thoy both broke out in an_outburst of laughter. The judge did not press the case further. Thepolice authoritics of Seattle are wag- ng a vigorous warfare against Whitechapel, ihe portion of that city where feminine dis- tepute holds sw: The New Stocking; Knit to Fit the Foot. 8avos Discomfort; no wrinkles, no cramped toes. (Notice the shape.) Saves Darning; the big toe, having room enough, stays inside this stocking. A sure “relief for those aflicted with ngrowing nails, corns, bunions, or un- natural heatand perspiration of the fect. Man'f'd by WAUKENHOSE CO., Boston, Mass. FOR SALE BY Jones of Omaba, 115 South 1 Helin, Thomp: PER--CENT INTEREST PAID ONDEPOSITS A7 OMAHALOANSTRUSTCO. SAVINGS - BANK SECOR, 16" &O0UGLASSTS, CAPITAL:S 100.000.00 DIRECTORS |AUWYMAN-EW.NASH, JHMILARD:GUY-CBARTON: G.B. L AKE. JJ.BROWN-THOS L. KIMBALL. ~WOODS’. pENETRATlNG PLASTER. + Others In parison are slow or ~ DEAD. If suffering try WOo0D'S PLASTER. All Drug Mrs. M. D. RILEA'S BUNION PROTECTOR. re' standing. 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At the New York Dontal Parlors wo Wil take speclul cire of “the “children and Wil Te putientand gentle with them. ation gold plate . A full st of teeth rold $35. A full set of tecth on continuous gum $50, on Lowest Rates. fit for #1.00. Wo We still make a full set of t rupber, nnl GUARAN \ ade, aud WILL NOT also mike the Morris thin flexible plite. the lightest: rusber pla BREAK in the mouth. PAINLESS EXTRACTION. Wo can extract teeth without the least pain by the use of our new local anesthetie, the patient remaining conscious. We also use s nud vitalized Examination and estimuies without charge. Call and see us. Kemember the locations NEW YORK DENTAL PARLORS, OMAHA SOUTH OMAHA N. E. Cor. 14th and Farnam. 2513 N Stre DR. E. L. BROWNE Op:n evenings until 8:3); Sundays 1) a. m. 104 p. . N Towa, Kansas and THE BER BUREAU OF (LA Associated with The San Francisco Examiner For the States of Nebraska, South Dakota, for the collection of all legiti- mate claims before the various Depart- ments of the Government. EDWARD P. ROGGEN, Manager, Room 600, Bea Building, OMAHA B . HE Will practice in the SUPREME COURT OF 711 UNITED STATES, the Court of Claims, the several Courts of the District of Columbia, before Committees of Congress, and the ZXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. Indian Depredation Claims. We Obtain Pensionsand Patents. All Classes of Land Claims. Mining, Pre-emption and Homestead Cases before whe General Land Office, Department of the Intovior, and the Supreme Court Prosecuted PENSIONS— Thousands yet entitled. HEIRS— Widows, M Dopendent Mothors, Minor Dependents Brothers and Sisters entitled, INCREASE— Pension laws are now more liboral than formerly, aad many aro entitled to better rates. Apply at once for list of to determine right to higher rates, Write for information. »r Chitdren, athers, and questions All letters will be promptly answered and all information concerning form of applications for claims, terms, ete,, will be given with as little delay as practicable. No letter will be an- swered unless the sender encloses requisite stamps for reply. No information concerning any particular claim will be imparted until the applicant has become a member of The Bee Claims Bureau association. Address all letters relating to claims to Manager Omaha Bee Burean of Claims Omaha, Nebraska.