The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1895, Page 15

THE SAN FRANCISCO CATL, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1895 ; Rcoflecfions of il)coh) The Tawyer, Doliticiary, and Stalesmar), as Joseph & 111 After Mr. Lincoln became President his t Medill continued to be of the most friendly character. The two men met occasionally in the White House and they maintained a steady correspon- ce, yet ve; eldom did either write to other a The manner of this i interes In the turmoils of the war time and less inclina- the er. ox ar is e t incoln had litt n to write p nal letters. an, not even the first Napoleon him- . had a stronger appetite for intelli- nce or more various methods of acquiring n last October’s number of McClure’s zine Mr. Mitchell described how ad- ably Mr. Dana served the President as eyes at the front” and with what relish the humorist of the e House absorbed the pungent dis- atches of the humorist of the War De- ss of Mr. Lincoln had other means g and i and po- ws of w rhaps not eyen his Secretary of War was cognizant. Communication was kept up between Medill through the the President and Mr. T s of Sch vler Colfax and E. Mr. Medill's acquaintance in which Me- was exploring ch of a place in young man, at up the matter The tow-headed iyler Colfax and the red lasted, with in- 1 -his. untimely Medill's acquaintance irne was almost as close lescribes Colfax as “a man refined, and smile and he would k all & “two- as more uld not locutor’s outspoken, ottom of in the Pr 1 approach hin Yet no pub- | i « | you exactly where Sherman is, but I know edill kiyew biny A A A e e s much as I or any other. Why not sit right down here and write a dis- patch to Lincoln to the effect that unless Meade fights to a finish here' and now, | while the Potomac is high, the war will be prolonged for years? There are not above 50,000 men on the rebel side, and they are short of ammunition. We bave 75,000. The rebels are discouraged; our men feel the inspiration of certain victory. Now. tell the President this and urge him, be, him to order Meade peremptorily to pite right in and fight it out.”” : 3 Mr. Medill says that Vice-President Hamlin at once replied: “I agree with you and I'll do it right off, but Idon’t | know whether Lincoln will pay any atten- tion to me.” And the Vice-President sent | the dispatch that evening from the Fred- tricks Hospital, That very night he re- ceived this reply from the President: “] have received your interesting dis- patch and am considering it.”” | * Mr. Medill’s account of what followed | cannot fail to be interesting, in view of the perennial debate over the batele of Gettys- | burg, its leaders and their tactics. | _ **I heard no more of it at the time,” Mr. | Medill , “and knew nothing of Lin- { coln’s decision except what all the world | knows, until a few years ago when I met the Hon. Robert Lincoln in London, while he was Minister to the Court of St. James. | In the course of a Gettysburg conversation I told him the story just as I have told it to you, and was very much interested to hear his reply: ‘Why,’ said Mr. Lincoln, ‘T remember the circum- | stance very well. I recall that a few days after G u)‘sbur% father got a letter from g hi » Arr g at South | Hamlin urging him to order Meade to re- ¥ to the newspaper | new the fight and push the battle to a final \d the-editor, a very | finish. Father sent just such an order to .t | Meade by the Government wire, and the receipt of it was acknowledged. When we {left the White House I made diligent search for that letter, but failed to find it. But I remember the contents, because father read it to me before he sentit. Itwas just what Hamlin nrged him to write, and it wound up something like this: “If you make the attack vigorously and fail I will assume all the responsibility of the defeat. 1f you win you shall have all the glory ot aving initiated the attack and I will | never claim it.”? Mr. Medill’s last interview with Lincoln took place in the midst of Grant’s final campaign against Lee. The editor had been for a fortnight down at Grant’s head- quarters (on a pass from the President), and returning to Washington was sum- { moned from his hotel by one of Lincoln’s secretaries to the White House. The President wanted a circumstantial account of Medill’s observations at the front. The t told him what hesaw and concluded, d in turn pressed the President for news of General Sherman down in North Caro- lina. Mr. Lincoln replied: ‘I can’t tell and upon ground where other men feared | Where he ought to be and what he ought i Mr. Medill turned these ol¢ nd especially that with C od account. President, to impart t information, he v to Colfax, critic ag. And straightway assertions been framed return would f Medill, These in s would be admirable s time, but unfortunately t in the great fire of 1871.) letters to Colfax Mr. M wrote that ‘‘the Union was exs the President should straight- emancipate the slaves and y the implied promises co ined in” his remarkable speech of 18 iy referred to. To this Mr. Col which indeed the elicit. And n which the President daily declined k, as the time had not come. s'was in the early autumn of 1862, hen the fortunes and spirits of McClel- lan’s army were at the lowest ebb. Mr. ill went to Washington with intent to have a private and solemn talk with the President. But first he visited some mem- bers of the Cabinet with Balmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury. He spent a dismal evening. The disgruntled Ohioan declared that he could get no more money with which to carry on the war and what had on hand was not worth forty eents on the dollar. The Becretary of War was no less donbt- ful. “This thing is pretty near petered out,” smd Mr. Stanton. “Your man, Lin coln, is not displaying the ability that is needed to save the Union. The bottom is falling out.” n and then answered with great sol- 1 dare not issue this thunder-| bolt until the Union armies shail have | won some decisive victory. The effect of | a proclamation now would be to alienate | the Union Democrats in the North and in | the army without whose aid we must fail; for the zeal of the abolit s _has been well night exhausted by the sacrifice of its eldest born these two years past.’ “I confess that Lincoln nearly won me over to his way ‘of thinking, though what he said to me was a terrible sho who had just come out of the N hwest, where :\lf was confident of eventual suc- cess and where everybody was talking of liberating the slav ‘When I returned to Chicago I found a number of preachers of several sects, under the leadership of Dr. Patton, since dead, organizing to go on to Washington upon the same errand as my own. Itold the Rev. Dr. Patton in confi- dence what the President had said to me, ‘No Union victory, no proclamation’; but heand his_friends went to Washington, where, as I learped, they had a pretty warm time. The President flatly declined to issue the proclamation for ubout the same reason he gave me. Shortly after his the Union army won the hard fought battle of Antietam. And in a few da thereafter the thunderbolt of emancipation was hurled. Mr. Medill’s brother, a major in the e Eighth Illinois _Cavalry, serving on th Potomac, wasshot near Gettysburg and carried off the field to the hospital. Mr. Medill hurried to his bedside and met there Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, who was there on a similar errand, one of his sons having been shot in the leg. Through the Vice-President’s influence Mr. Medill procured a letteradmitting him to see General Meade, and that officer entered upon an errand which, at this day, appears extraordinary. _“I wanted,” Mr. f\?cdill says, “to urge General Meade to press upon the rebels while the Potomac was still high, before their pontoons were constructed, and finish them before the river receded to its banks and permitted them to retreat in Virginia. Ithought, and still think, he could thus have annihilated or captured the whole rebel army, had he . taken ad- vantage of his opportunity.” Of course, the civilian editor was snubbed for his pains. It was only in the high nervous tension induced by the picture cf his brother’s impending death and the bright chance of a crushing victory that he ventured on his bootless errand, ~More- over, Mr. Medill had not, nor has to this day, that reverence for the forms of zr:lelhorny which rules the conduct of some 0. But that which followed was ‘even more characteristic. Returning from Meade’s headquarters, snubbed and rejected, Mr. Medill sought out Vice-President Hamlin. “Mr. Hamlin,” he.eaid, “yon occupy a most fortunate position in this crisis. You are the second officer in the United States; you rank next to Lincoln, and you want this war brought to a close the earliest possible day as . .at When he wanted to reach r to the White House in the evening, T b Lincoln heard me out,” said Mr. Medill, “in a long talk at night in favor of emanci- | | to be doing. When he gets to—" | But just then E. B. Washburne came into the room and Mr. Medill started to leave. The President stopped him. “Wait a_minute, Medill,” said he, and the two visitors remained standing while the story was resumed as to the chance of Lee fali- ing back on Johnston and catching Sher- man and crushing him between them. “The last time I heard from Sherman,” said Mr. Lincoln, holding up one of his huge hands to a wall map, and pointing to it with the forefinger of the other, “the last time I heard from Sherman he had one army corps here and another one here and a third one here, and was ekpecting to bring them all together here, and then march to join Grant here, Now when he | does that he’ll—but that reminds me of the horse-jockey in Kentucky who got baptized in the river. He asked to be immersed the | second time. The preacher demurred, but the horse-jockey, insisting, prevailed. When he came up from the second duck- ing he gaspes “There! Now the devil may go to hell As I went out of the room Mr. Medill, “Washburne was hanging over g | chair red with laughter. I never saw the | President agai NEwTON MACMILLAN, Copy cClure, limited. SHE 00ULD TALF, | And She Did Quite a Big Spell of It in { Three Breaths. | The following is an illustration of the conversational gifts of a stout lady, over- | heard by a reporter on an elevated car in | this cit, She had a large mouth, he says, |and in talking her lips “moved flutter- ingly,” like poplar leaves in wind. She | found an acquaintance in the car,and at | once began: “T’'ve just been up calling on Lucy Pow- ers she used to live over near us you know ;and I promised that as soon as she got | back from her tower I’d run across and see her and this morning Mrs. Ebler told me she’d seen her on Broadway over here and so I just ragged out and came over right | away.” The sentence, not unnaturally put her | out of breath, but she recovered herself and | continued : | 2§*“I was surprised to find how cozily Lucy fixed she has a real sweet little flat with real nice furniture and lots of dainty | things scattered about you know and though it wasn’t her calling day there | were quite a number of people very nmce | people too looking at the things she had | picked up on their tower_curiosities and such things you know and I got a real nice | eup of chocolate though I can’t say I like | chocolate in the afternoon I prefer tea { don’t you I do.” | Once more she paused, and after what | the reporter calls a “long, deep dnu;ht of | breath through the open mouth,” she | started again: - 7 | - told William I'd call in for him when | Ileft Lucy as he wants me to look at some | lmderclot{;ing with him and he neyer so { much as buys a pair of socks now without | first consulting me which is very compli- | mentary you know though somewhat try- ing when you have so many other things ‘to look after I deciare these cars make | such a row you can scarce hear what any | one is saying this is Franklin street isn’t | it well good-by dear I'm so glad to have | seen you come over right soon now won’t | you T've had such a lovely time good- | by.”—New York Sun. i Sl SO SO A Monument to Forgotten Heroes. Marseilles has just erected a statue to the dead who yet do live, and to the fallen who never fell. It came about thus: The Town Council resolved some time ago to set up a statue to the gardes-mobiles and the francs-tireurs of the Department Bouches du Rhone, who fell in 1870, and a fine aliegorical group soon rose in the | Allee du Meilhau, represemin% France | teading her sons to the battle. The Mar- seillais were delighted with the noble monu- ment, but one detail failed, namely, the names of the fallen heroes to be engraved !in gold on the pediment. Many, too many, ha§ doubtless fallen, but their names were forgotten, and not a single son of Mar- | seilles befonging distinctly to these regi- | ments could be recorded.” The event sav- | ored of Tarascon rather than Marseilles, | but the Municipal Council showed itself equal to the emergency and offered itself | as deiex machina. *“Yon want names,” | they said, ““we give you our own.” And | 0 it has been done, for, under the noble | group of France and her sons going to the slaughter, come the names of the victims, who are just the municipal councilors of | Marseilles to-day. The famous reredos of All Souls,” where the saints and apostles were copied from the fellows and tutors as they sat in the common room at dessert, was nothing to this.—Pall Mall Gazette. . . Young ladies act now as ushersin Wes ley Church, Amberstburg, Ont. BOTANISTS ~ INTERESTED, Peculiar Species of Plant Life Grown at the State University. MICROSCOPY IS PRACTICED. J. Burtt Davy Takes Part in the Work of the Department in Berkeley. The department of botany of the Cali- fornia State University possesses about five acres of the spacious groundsat Berke- ley, which are devoted to the formation of its botanic garden. In this garden is grown material for use in :h_e various botanical classes, including particular species peculiarly adapted to illustrate various points in plant anatomy, sqch as the spider-wort (Trades-cantia Virginica), the stamens of which are cov- ered with long hairs, each cell appearing— when examined under a microscope—as though it were alive and had a regular circulation of blue bloed, for as one watchgs it he may see the minute grains of protoplasm moving about in streams from end to end and then back again, never still for a moment. This is known as the circulation of protoplasm, and is perhaps better illustrated in this plant than n any other. Leaves of the shrub Lepar- gyrea Canadensis are used extensively in botanical classes to illustrate the peculiar modification of hairs which in this plant are flattened out at the top into broad star- shaped scales; and the stinging nettle is grown to show the remarkable structure of its hollow hairs with little sacs of poison at the bottom of each. Plantsof barley grown in flower-pots will afford admirable iliustrations of the exact “growing point” of the rootlets, with the *‘root caps” which protect them from injury as they push their way through the soil. J. Burtt Davy, who is connected with the botanical garden of the University, is much interested in the work that it is doing. Speaking of this matter yesterday, he said: “In addition to the things grown to illus- trate special points, an attempt is being made to cultivate representatives of all the orders of plants which will bear our climate, for dissection and comparison in the classes in systematic botany; a great deal of material is needed for this work, as these classes have grown from sixty to seventy students, and meet three times a week. “We are also trying our best to get together a representative collection of all the flowering plants of the State. With a flora so diversified as is that of California and having so many species peculiarly restricted in their distribution, it is abso- lutely essential for the thorough working out of our systematic botany that we should have—as far as possible—the whole of the flora represented in one area where members of the same genus from all parts of the State—the moist climate of the northwestern ortion, the high Sierras and the hot arid desert regions of the south—can be studied side by side. Itis very important also that we grow side by side for several years those peculiar forms cties of one species sometimes eographical variations, because \liarities appear to be due to dif- ferences in soil and climate, in order to determine accurately whether they will maintain_their peculiarities when grown under uniform conditions. “From careful and protracted studies in this direction it may be that much light will be thrown on thé various unanswered questions of evolution and plant variation, and it is in this particular branch of study that I am especially interested. ““This collection and cultivation of Cali- fornia native pla. .s should prove of con- siderable importance to the commerce of the State, There is no reason why Cali- fornia, with its beautiful climate and rich soil, should not become the source of the world’s seed supply. Already we ship onion and sweet pea seed by the ton to the Eastern and European markets, and in spite of long distances and high freight rates it yields a profit, because a larger percentage of the seed in each pod will reach maturit?’ here than under cloudier skies, and California seed produces stronger and healthier plants than that grown else- where. Now, why should we not supply the world with the seed of some of our beauntiful wild flowers? That there is a large market for them any one can see who knows the Enilishmsn’s pride in his flower-garden and his keen desire to ob- tain new kinds of plants which other peo- ple have not yet got. “The well-known firm of nurserymen, James Veitch & Son of London, recently sent a member of the firm on a six months’ tour in Burmah, Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand to collect seeds of novel- ties which they will raise and propagate in their nurseries and sell at fgg prices. Other English firms regularly employ salaried collectors to travel in the tropics and send home seeds and plants of things worth cultivating. If they find it pays to do so, surely thereis room for usto ste into the market and send out the ric] products furnished to hand free of cost by nature, “Not_only ought we to grow and ship seeds of our own native products, but our climatic advantages will enable us to pro- pagate with profit many of the handsome and rare plants of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, JaB:m and China, and for these a good market would be found in the Eastern States and England. ‘“The university botanic garden is already able, and will be better able ina year or two, to provide samples of seeds of several handsome native plants not now known in the outside horticultural world. Many plants are being raised also from seed re- ceived from Natal and Cape Colony in South Africa, and from Japan, Victoria and Queensland. “Not only have we a foreign market awaiting our entry, but at home we shall find that as our State grows older the taste for flower-gardens wiil increase, and we shall get tired of growing nothing but tea roses and chrysanthemums, as and geraniums, beantiful though chey be; we shall wish to grow something that our next-door neighbor has not got, in order that our garden may look different from his, and_so a demand for new garden- plants will arise, and indeed the need for them is felt already. “The botanic garden at Berkeley has another use. It will become ere long—if the present plan and policy are permitted to be carried out unhindered, one of the most attractive features of the beantiful rounds of the university. The garden En many visitors, especially on Sundays, ‘who manifest great interest in the curious and beautiful plants always to be found in blossom. “The garden was started by Professor Greene about three years ago with a few seeds and roots collected on his botanical trips. From asmall beginning it has grown steadily until about 4000 species are repre- sented at the present time.” The recent report of the Liverpool Vie- toria Legal Friendly Society is very satis- factory. Noless a sum than £16,936 was transferred during last year from the man- agement fund to the benefit funds. Still more satisfactory and striking was the amount of added capital for the year. More than £108,000 was thus put by, be- ing £37,000 in excess of the savings of 1893. 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