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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1596, EPITOME 0F SAN JOSE NEWS, Shooting of a Chinaman Who Was Raiding a Henroost. LITTLE TOTS ABUSED.| The Humane Society to Take| the Children of a Dissolute Couple. CAPITALIST PIERCY'S CASE,| New Trial Wanted by the Man Con- victed of Having Wronged Miss Pyle. SAN JOSE, Car., Jan. 24.—Hock Toon, a Chinese poultry thief, was shot in the | leg at an early hour this morning while | trying to gain an entrance to C. B. Tarle- | ton’s chicken-house at the corner of Four- | teenth street and Berryessa road. | Mr. Tarleton has been missing chickens | of late, and a few days ago he connected & | wire on the chicken-house door with a | burglaralarm in his room. About 4 o’clock | this morning he was awakened by the alarm, and, with his son, rushed out into | the yard. A Chinaman was seen flecing | over the back fence, and Mr. Tarleton fired at him with a shotgun, but missed. His | son then fired with a 22-caliber rifle, hitting the Mongoel in the left leg and bringing him to the ground. The thief | was taken to the County Jail and treated i by the county physician. The bullet had passed through the boneof the leg, and | the wound is painful, but not dangerous. Hock Toon this afternoon pleaded guilty | to a charge of petty larceny, before Justice | Dwyer, and was sentenced to 180 daysin | the County Jail. FOR RECREATION | | GROUNDS. | | Normal School Trustees Order an Im- provement Pleasing to Students. SAN JOSE, Car,. Jan. 24.—The Board of | State Normal School Trustees at its meet- | ing this morning granted the petitions of | the students for recreation grounds. A ‘ plat of about three acres on the north side | of the grounds was set apart for the young | ladies, where they can have lawn-tennis | and basket-ball courts, and on the south | side about the same space was allotted to the roung men for baseball grounds. It was decided to substitute shade trees in place of blue grass in some parts of the grounds, as the appropriations were not sufficient to meet the expense of caring for a lawn. The board adjourned until the annual meeting in June. - GIEL AND MONEY GONE. Miss Jtod’s Elopement Robbed Her Father of His Home. SAN JOSE, Car., Jan. 24.—Mary L. | Rod, the 17-year-old daughter of Frederic Rod, eloped with F. H. Coy, a man of 35, afewdaysago. An interesting story in connection with the affair came out to- day. It appears that Rod had deeded his resi- | dence to his daughter on condition that she would keep house for him. The girl secured employment at a hotel as a wait- ress about three wecks ago. Coy was a guest of the house, and as he was a man of pleasing address, soon won the affections of the new waitress. He inducead her to deed the family residence to him last Tues- day, and the same day Coy mortgaged the place for §200. The couple then left for parts unknown. An effort will be made to bring Coy back and have the transfer and | mortgage set as S = NEGLECT THEIR CHILDREN, Offspring of a Dissolute Couple to Be Taken From Them. | CaL., Jan. 23.—Frank R.| ident of the Humape Society, to-day applied for letters of guardiansbip of Samuel and George Henderson, aged 10 and 8 years respectively, children of Mrs. | Annie Berryman by a former husband, | and James Berryman, aged 5 vears, a child of her present husband, Thromas Berry- man. The petitioner recites that Thomas Ber- | ryman and his wife are unfit to care for | the children because of their dissolute | habits and their frequent intoxication. They are also said to almost wholly neg- | lect the children as to providing the com- mon necessaries of life. -— NATIVE SONS IN POLITICS. San Jose’s Society to Be FEwxtended to Include the Entire County. SAN_JOSE, CAL., Jan. 24.—At a meet- ing of the Native Sons’ Political Club last evening statisticswere presented showing that there are about 3000 natives in' the county. It is proposed to change the name | of the club to the **Native Sons’ Civic Club | of Bants Clara County,” thus extending | its scope and membership throughout -the | county. It is expected the membership of th orgenization will grow rapidly, and the | club will cut quite a figure )n county poli- tics. The crder is in no way connected | with the fraternal order of Native Sons. | | PN S L Ir WILL BE BUILT. The Projected Railroud to Saratoga fo | Become a Reality. SAN JOSE, CarL., Jan. 24.—Tt is pretty zenerally understood that the projected | railway between this city and Saratoga | will be built and that during the coming week L. M. Hale will apply to the Boa: of Bupervisors for a franchise. While some of the $50,000 bonus for the road still | Temains to be subscribed it is thought that property-owners in the vicinity of First and San Antonio streets, the proposed terminus of the road, will subscribe lib- erally to the fund. —_—— PIERCY NOT SATISFIED. Wants a New ZTrial of the Breach of Promisc Suit. SAN JOSE, CaL., Jan. 24.—A notice of intention to move for a new trial of the suit for $50,000 damages for breach of promise, instituted by Miss Jessie Pyle | against Edward M. Pierey, the capitafist, and which resalited in a verdict for $12,000 for plaintiff, has been filed by Piercy’s at- torneys. The grounds on which the new trial is asked are irregularities during the trial and others customary in such cases, Rt The Rose Yair Pavilion. SAN JOSE, CaL., Jan. 24.—Tke execu- tive committee of the Carnival of Roses has concluded that the bids submitted for the erection of the carnival pavilion are oo high and will erect the building itself. J. H. Henry, W. C. Andrews amf C. M. l Mi: | Wooster have been nppointed a committee to supervise the building of the pavilion, which will cost in the neighborhood of $10,000. YOU QAN ALMOST TASTE THEM. Vivid and Poeih‘-l Characterizations ofl Some Old Sherries. The man who is nota connoisseur of old wines may not understand the fine points of a particular vintage, or realize the im- portance of an accurate history of each bottle. But there is a former dealer who has the art of criticism down to a nicety which might almost amuse the man to whom burgundies are so nearly alike that | the difference is not worth bothering about. Indeed, some clubmen whose judgment of wines is respected by their fellows find in this old chap's character- ization of his wines an enthusiasm and a depth of feeling which go quite beyond them. Although retired from business he retains some liguid treasures which he is willing to part with to those who ap- preciate them. The purchaser is pretty sure to be a judee himself. One would hardly spend $60 or $70 for a dozen bottles of sherry who was not keenly alive to the delights which lie hidden behind the cork. The old merchant’s deseriptions of his sherries form an interesting climax. He begins with a new wine, relativel It is of the vintage of 1845, and really youthful in comparison with some of the gems of his cellar, 'Thisis of pale color. Ttis‘an extremely delicate-flavored and silky wine of choice and exquisite aroma,”” bottled in 1856 and rebottled in 1868. A mere trifle of $50 a case will secure possession of this. An amontillado of 1844 is “firm, silky and springy,” demijohned in 1850, bottled in 1855 and rebottled in 1870; another of 1830 is evidently the owner’s pride. He de- scribes it as *‘a firm, round-bodied, silky wine of exquisite softness and the most choice and delicate flavor; fragrant aroma, balmy to the palate.,” And all this for §70 a case. For $55 a case one may secure an oloroso of 1844. It is of ‘“‘generous flavor, rich perfume, refreshing aftertaste, combined with great firmness and softness.”” An- other oloroso, four years older and a little more expensive, has a ‘clean, delicate flayor, is light, but tirm-bodied, with an exquisite perfume.” It was demijohned in 1854, bottled in 1860 and rebottled in 1875. *‘its choice characteristics in harmonious equilibium.” Next comes a firm, silky and grainy” oloroso of 1830 at §30 a case, and one of 1830 at $85, about which the en- thusiast rhapsodizes as follows: ‘“A most delicate, subdued, pungent flavor, full of vinosity, exquisite softness and firmness; fragrant perfume, generous, without po- tency: demijohned in 1836, bottled 1844, rebottled 1874.”" . But an oloroso which has passed three score and ten years in _age, having been pressed from the grape in 1824, calls forth the final crash in the crescendo. Itis ‘‘of pale color, a perfectly matured, choice wine. The heat of its spirits is dissipated, melloweda down to a sott fullness, with a subdued pungent flavor; firm and s vet iresh and springy. Bottled bottled 1869.”” Could anything go beyond that? Yet $95 will buy an entire case of this liquid poet —————— A YOOUONG DESPERADQ'S NERVE. No Lack of Afflability Teward the Gen- tlemen Who Had Come to Hang Him. J. K. Chambers, Union Depot ticket | agent, when in a reminiscent mood can tell many interesting stories of the West in early days. He was in the service of the Government at Sydney when that town was the toughest place in Nebraska, if not in the West, and whence per- sons bound for the Black Hills started. A | few days ago Mr. Chambers was sitting in | the Milwaukee city office and the conver- sation turned to early days in the trans- uri country and bravi he man of iron nerve T in ’77,” saia Mr. Chambers, *‘was a beard- less man, scarcely more than a boy, and I should judge had not reached his majority. He was a tough man even in Sydney, and his reputation was sustained, for he always carried a revolver, and he would shoot at x}xo drop of the hat. His name was Doug Reed. ‘it was said around town tbat he would never die a natural death. Tnat turned out true, as he was lynched by a mob one | evening, and that is where he displayed his nerve. “The lynchers took the keys and un- locked the doors and went into the cell where Reed was, He was smoking a cigar when the men came in, and when he saw them he looked up s ccol as you please. ‘* ‘Good-evening? gentlemen; I suppose you are going to take me out and hang me,’ he said, as nonchalently as though he was asking them to takea drink. He was told that he was correct in his suppo- sition. “He got up as unconcernedly as you vlease, and, puiting on his coat, he re- mariked that he was all ready, if the rest were, He walked through the jail and out into the moonlight, still smoking his cigar, and even making little rings of smoke. He simply glanced up at the moon, and, turning to one of the -men, asked him where i e was going to be swung off, say- ing that it was of no use walkinga man a mile or so put into the country. ‘‘He was marched up the street to a tele- graph pole that stood in the very heart of the town. By this time half the towns- People were around. A rope had been hrought along, and it was slipped over his head and he was bound. “ ‘I can’t climb that pole and fall off. I ought to have a ladaer so I can get up,’ he said, and accordingly a ladder was brought and placed against the pole. He was asked if he had anything to say, and remarked that he hadn’t, and if he had he wouldn’t. When the ladder was placed egainst the pole one of the men started up to tie one end of the rope about the pole. ‘“*Yon needn’t do that,’ he said, for if you will unwind these cords about my wrist’s I'll do it,” “'lhe cords were unwound and he climbed up the pole as far as the ladder reached and fastened the rope around the pole. When he -had done this he looked around over the crowd, standing very uietly then, and called out: ** ‘Good-by, boys.’ “With that he jumped off the ladder, nd in a few minutes his lifeless body was swinging there. His nerve never forsook | him once. He acted throngh it all just as tbough he was used to it. He was the nerviest man I ever met.”’—Omaha World- Herald. ————— N0 DOOTOR'S BILLS. In Sweden the Men of the Profession Trust to One’s Honor. Sweden has doctors, but no doctor's bills. If you have occasion to call a physi- cian you will find bim not only skillful, but a highly educated and most honorable gentleman. You will also have another proof of the honesty of the Swedes and | their friendly confidence in each other. Swedish doctors send no bills to their patients. ‘When you shall pay your physician is left entirely to vour own choice. “The rich pay him liberally whether they have need of his services or not, if he has been once retained by them. The poor pay him a small sum, and the very poor pay him | nothing. Yet he visits the poor as faith- fully as he does the rich. On the last day of the year you put into an envelope, addressed {o your physician, a sum of money which you think not only sufficient “to compefsate him, but in -accordance with your position | in life, and, inclosing vour card with | the money, send the envelope by 8 ser- vant to your doctor. The servant returns with the card of the doctor in a sealed en- velope directed to you. This shows that be has rcceived your money, and no word about the matter ever passes be- tween you. Should you send him nothing he will come and prescribe for you all the next vear, and as long as you live, and he is too dignified to ever say-a word about it— Pittsburg Dispatch, Another lot of the same year has | LOS ANGELES FUNDS STOLEN, County Officials Are Scored in a Grand Jury - Report. |CASE OF CLERK WARD. Proceedings to Recover Public Moneys He Withholds Is Recommended. RETRENCHMENT THE ORDER. Whittier’s Reform School for Boys and Girls Declared to Be on the Pa- ternalistic Order. L0S ANGELES, CaL., Jan. 24.—The re- vort of the Grand Jury, filed in Depart- | ment 1 of the Superior Court, was ordered spread upon the minutes by Judge Smith this morning, The document bristles with statisticsa and gives evidence of much painstaking labar. Attention is drawn to the loose methods obtaining in certain of the county departments, and stress 1s laid upon the absolute necessity for retrench- ment in expenditures, while no specific means for arriving at su° a desirable end is advocated, As to the County School Superintendent the report says that the present system of | accounting is good, and the discrepancies | between this and the Auditor’s office, chiefly due to the payment of a forged warrant in 1882, have been ordered tlosed. In 1892 and 1893 thirty schools were not | ited. “The law compels the Supervisors to | | deduct $10 for each school not visited,” it | | declares, “‘but no such refund was made, | the overpay to the County Superintendent | being $300. The Superintendent, as secre- tary of the Board of Education, receives $5 per day. This makes two payments, or $15 for one day'swork., The law should be I the amended so as to confine him to his salary, | The annual cost of the board was $2269 30. | “The State has four normal schools, | which are graduating about 200 teachers annually, for a population showing an al- most imperceptible increase, and one in- | stead of two yearly examinations would | serve every useful end. Considering the enormous taxes retrenchment in every de- partment of public service is imperative, nor should the department of education be made an exception when retrenchment will nos impair its efficiency. “The Whittier State school has 460 boys and girls, and the management is calcn- lated to attain its object and even more. This implies eredit to the management, but it carries with ita growing evil to the | public; it is making for paternalism. The | cost of each scholar is not less than $320 a | eor, and it will be better that children below a certain age and those who have | committed trivial offenses be refused ad- | mission.” An examination of the office was made from July 1,1894, to July 1, 1895. It was found by the jurors that Mr. Ward appro- priated to hisown use the following county funds: On February 29, 1892, fee iunds,‘ $1752 86; April 10, 1893, by warrant on City Treasury, §20; received and not credited, | §14; January, 1891, to January, 1885, in- solvency fees, $67625; July, 1894, to Jan- | nary, 1895, errors, $1210; January 7, 1895, | trust funds, $2513; trust funds marked paid but no vouchers shown, $1776 | T. E. Lowry, Deputy Coufbty Clerk under | T. . Ward, appropriated to his own use | moneys of the county asfollows: October, | 1304, the sum of §550 85; November, 1895, | the sum of $310 10; November, 1894, the sum of $485 85. “The system of bookkeeping was loose,’ | says the report, “and trust funds, not | being paid into the county treasury, | opened & channel for dishonesty. We are | informed that the amounts taken by Mr. Lowry and Mr. Ward have been paid into the treasury by Mr. Ward. ‘‘He was careless in the oversight of his office, and he claims he was misled as to its condition and his liability. We recom- mend that legal proceedings be at once 1nstituted against Mr. Ward and his bonds- men for the recovery of the moneys be- longing to the county and now retained by Mr. Ward. We believe that all ac- counts of public business should be a pub- lic record, as they ara under the present management,” The examination of the Public Admin- isirator’s office extended from January 1, 1893, to October 28, 1895. ' The amount of fees paid into the treasury for the thirty- four months was $3000; salary for same veriod §$8500, a cost to the county of $5500 more for the time indicated than the fees collected. The jury believes the expenses | of this office are largely in excess of the | benefits derived, and the work could be better done by the Superior Conrt. The report gives the particulars of the contract made by the Attorney-General and State Controller with R. F. House, for the collection of taxes due on property sold to the State since 1870. Under this contract House got fees amounting to over $16,000, and the jury suggests that the Board of Supervisors test the constitution- ality of the act of 1895, which legalized the payment of this money. | COTP D'ETAT OF NAPOLEON IIL Recollections of & General Who Helped to Betray France. Some interesting passages from General Fleury’s reminiscences are published in advance to-day. They refer to the coup d'etat of December, 1851, the gencral be- ing, as republicans wonld call him, an accomplice of Louis' Napoleon in that event. | _ The distinguished soldier says that he, | Persigay and others knew full well what | was intended on the night of December 1, | 1851, Fleury was first equerry to the Prince, and had orders to get horses sad- dled and to keep an escort in waiting for | any emergency. When the lights in the Elysee Palace were put out ail the officers had to go to their rooms and {0 remain in uniform there until called upon. Toward 6 o'clock in the morning Fleury was sent for by the Prince, whom he found booted and spurred, but in his dressing gown, and sipping coffee with complete calmness. After a few words as to what was about to take place, the Emperor directed his equerry to see that Canrobert’s brigade took up its place on the ground between the Made- leine and the Elysee, that Cotte should occupy the Place de la Concorde, and that the nheavy cavalry from Vincennes, with the cuirassiers of ‘the city garrison, should form up in the Champs Elysees. Persigny was sent to the Chamber to communicate with Colonel Espinasse, who had already entered the Pnfnis Bourbon, and other officers were instructed to see that the occupation by troops of the Tuileries Gardens, the Quay d’Orsay and the In- valides was properly effected. ¥ Suddenly Fleury recollected that in 1843 the troops, not having been paid or fed during the outbreak of the revolution, joined the insurgents, who led them to taverns and gave them focd and drink. He accordingly turned back and asked the Prince-President it the soldiers were to be allowed extra money in_addition to their Ineager campaigning rations, so that they might be able to buy wine and food in the event of any barricade work being neces- sary. “A capital idea,” said Louis Na- poleon, and he at once sent for his private secretary and asked him how much money he had on hand. *“I'wo thousand pounds in gold pieces,’” was the regfly. This sum was given out to the generals and colonels. {‘The money,” remarks Fleury, “‘was lent by M. de Grimaldi to the President a few days previously, and as will be seen it is far from the immense sums which, accord- ing to the enemies of the empire, were arawn from the Bank of France for the ex- penses of the coup d'etat.’”’ “Iaeclare this upon my conscience,” writes the general. At 8 o’clock in the morning the President’s uncle, King Je- rome, joined the persons at the Elysee, and made a great impression owing to his striking resemblance to his brother. Prince Jerome Napoleon refused to follow his father, declining, as Fleury remarks, to recognize an event by which he was destined to profit so largely, and showing that spirit of opposition to which the tem- po;nry effacement of the Bonapartist party 1s due. Toward 10 ¢’clock the Prince and his uncle rode out, and were loudly acclaimed in the Champs Elysees by the troops from Vincennes. People also joined in the en- thusiastic demonstration. and a few hours afterward the recalcitrant Deputies, Ber- ryer, De Broglie, Odilon, Barrot, and their followers, who had gone to the Mayor's Hall of the Tenth Arrondissemeut, were sent to Mont Valerien, Mazas and Vin- cennes. Colonel Feray said to Berryer and others-who haa been plying him with'ques- tions, ““You must make up your minds at once, gentlemen; the whole army is en- gaged in this event, and will go to the end, cost what it may.”! Fleury also states that he personally dissuaded the President from riding along the main boulevards, where the republicans had a- strang and derermined crowd with them. The narra- tor started on this journey with General Tartas and a strong escort, and the soldiers replied to the shourt of ‘‘Vive la Repub- lique’’ by “Vive Napoleon,”” which Fleury himself cried ount first. While gallogin by the Porte St. Denisa shot was fires from the window, and Fleury was grazed in the back of the head by the bullet, which was prevented from doing damage by the leather of his shako, e was in brilliant uniform of a lieutenant- colonel of Hussars at the time. No serious events, however, occurred until December 3, when Deputy Baudin was shot in the Faubourg St. Antoine, but the extracts dealing with General Fleury’s souvenirs did not reach this period, so that his books must be awaited before further side lights can be thrown on the coup @’etat. The extracts are, however, suffi- cient to show that Fleury, who suggested the judicious distribution of money to the | army, played no unimportant part by the side_of St. Arnaud, Morny, Maupas and Louis Napoleon himself throughout the remarkable drama, which he recounts in a plain, straightforward and unvarnished manner.—London Telegraph. — e e THE BEECHER TRIAL. It Cost Parties to the Suit Not YLess Than $350,000. Plymouth Church, some time prior to the trial, took action resolving to support Mr. Beecher, and raising $100,000 for the expenses of his defense. They also author- ized a committee of thirty-five young men to place themselves at the command of the lawyers to do the routine work of process servers and detectives. These were organ- ized into a detective bureau, and through it the character and antecedents of every man on the jury list and of every person who was liable to figure in any capacity in the trial were thoroughly investigated. Everything in print bearing upon the trial was made a subject of special investigation and every rumor run down. Moreover, each member of the commit- tee was the head of a private committee of ten or more assistants, who labored with equal zeal in making lnquiries that would benefit the preacher and confuse his ene- mies. Oneresult of these inquiries was that Moulton’s character suffered so se- verely that he took a much less conspicu- | ous part in the trial than he had proposea for himself; another wasone of the most thoroughly prepared cases for the de- fense that was ever tried in a_court. When the trial opened Mr. Beech- er's lawyers had exact informa- tion of the character and antecedents of every attache of the court from Judge Neilson™ to the doorkeepers, and of every juror, not only upon the regular panel but also upon the special panel of 750. This information was written upon slips of paper, 1 inch by 5 in dimensions, and saved many peremptory challenges. In spite of this, both sides exhausted their challenges. After the jury had been se- lected those familiar witn the inside of the case offered odas that tlere would be disagreement in the proportion of 8-4, 9-3 or 10-2 in favor of acquittal. The accuracy of these estimates may be guessed from the final bullot, which stood 9to 3in Mr. Beecher's favor. The urial lasted six months and the jury 'was out one week. The oratory of the sum- ming up was probably the greatest in the hisxory of American law trials. General Tracy's address to the ¢jury lasted five days, and the public believed it was an im- promptu effort. As a matter of fact it repre- sented six months of intense application and midnight oil. It was replete with poetry, istorical similes, literary quutaclonn and flowery rhetoric. It was rewritten wholly or in part at least five times. "A distinguished man of letters edited it carefully, and when delivered it represented perhaps the most finished piece of oratorical workman- ship that the American bar has known. The best commenmrg on this masterly ef- fort isthat after it had appeared in’the newspapers, along with the otherspeeches, it was printed in book form, and over 100,~ 000 copies were sold. The cost of this famous trial figured up $70,000 for Tilton, which Moulton de- {frayed. Mr. Beecher first and last paid out the princely sum of $280,000, and the famous controversy ended almost where it began so far as popular esteem of the litl- gants is concerned.—New York Mail and Express. —————— An Octogenarian’s Record. John Speer entered his eifihtieth year yesterday, and celebrated the event by making a world’s record for a printer of that uge. setting 10,000 ems in eight hours. Mr. Speer is the pioneer editor of Kan- sas, but Quantrell burned his office in the Lawrence massacre and killed two of his sons, since which time he has been in com- paratively poor circumstances. _A few months ago he concluded to pub- lish the life of that Picturesque Kansas statesman, Senator “Jim” Lane. He is now at the work, and has 260 pages out of 400 stereotyped. Asan instance of his re- markable memory he is compiling the life of Lane as he sets_the tyre. He averages 8000 ems a day, Those who bave read the proofs say the history is very correct, and the literary style quite interesting. Mr. Speer will have no assistance in the work, and he insists on settingall the type (compesing as be goes nloni , and making up the forms for the book himself. He has two cases of type at the residence of his son, and he stands up before them eight hours every day. Mr. Speer was in the first bateh of immigrants that came irom New England to Lawrence to op; slavery in Kansas, and was conspicuous both personally and with Fis pen in the fight for a free State.—Wichita (Kans.) correspondence of the Chicago Tribune. —————— Alexandre Dumas bequeathed to the Louvre a fine portrait of humself, in 1876 by Meissonier. THE REBEL PRIVATEERS. Exploits of the Confederate Ves- sels During the War Recalled. THE HATTERAS AND ALABAMA. Admiral Wilkes’ Vexation at Not Re- ceiving Force Enough to Capture Southern Cruisers. The second volume of the “Official Rec- ords of the Union and Confederate Navies of the War of the Rebellion’” has appeared from the Nayy Department. It containsa history of the operationsof the cruisers from January 1,1863, to March 31, 1864, As in the first volume, says the Baltimore Sun, the book isdivided into a collection of reports, orders and letters of Union officers and such papers, official and personal, of the Oonfederate commanders as could be obtainec by the editors. While thereisa division of the Union from the Confeder- ate documents the papers coverabout the same pericd of timein each volume, an arrangement adopted in order to preserve continuity in the narrative, espeeially in the Confederate matter. The present volume from the corre- spondence introduced shows very clearly the inefficiency of the West Indian squad- Ton, then commanded by Admiral Charles ‘Wilkes, towhem fell the gigantic task of frustrating the blockade-runners and pur- suing such elusive Confederate vessels as the Alabama, the Chesapeake and the Florida. Wilkes' letters to the Secretary, and he wrote many of them, furnish a de- tailed account of his uncessful pur- suit of ‘the rebel Semmes,” and ‘‘the Southern pirate.”” Wilkes nat- urally encountered much difficulty with diplomatic questions, as did, in fact, Semmes, and the correspondence of both officers 1s an interesting summary of the effort to convince the Governors of foreign ports that there was no violation of the neutrality laws. Secretary Gideon Welles followed these controversies with great closeness, and a good li“" of Wilkes’ contributions to the Navy Department is divided between a reportof his movements and an explanation of his conduct in for- eign ports. Secretary Welles took cecasion to warn Wilkes not to trespass upon what were really British waters. This note of warning was sounded in response to the protest of the British Minister, and Wilkes very promptly denied a violation of or dis- regard for neutral obligations. In a letter to the Secretary he rays: It does seem to me very remarkable that when the British men-of-war are receiving every attention and ki 11ness in the ports of the Union they should show such a want of common couriesy as to endeavor to find fault Wwith or carp at what benefits and small things, indeed, that our vessels derive from the little | intercourse they have had with any of the in- habitants of thése islands, They have alwavs sought us, rather than we them, for-the pur- pose of profit. Much of the volume is devoted to an account of the pursuit of the Alabama, including some interesting papers on the | engagement between the United States | steamer Hatteras, under command of Lieutenant-Commander Blake, and the Confederate ship Alabama, under Semmes. According to the report of Blake, the .dis- aster which overtook his vessel mizht have been much more serious. He relates this last fight on his ship with a directness that loses none of the dramatic force which such accounts usualiy possess. He says he maintained an active fire with the double hope of disabling the Alabama and of attracting the attention of the Union fleet off Galveston, which was only twenty-eight milesaway. At thistime the Hatteras was on fire in two places and beyond human power, 2 hopeless wreck upon the waters. He realized there was no hope and that the ship was sinking. There was time for all the survivors to get from the Hatteras to the Alabama. ile adds, as the one consolation left him: “Ten minutes after leaving the Hatteras she went down, bow first, with her pennant at her mastbead, with all her muskets and stores of every character, the enemy not being able, owing to her rapid sinking, to obtain a single weapon.” Wilkes continued to seek re-enforcements and a strengthening of the West India squadron. Some of these ineffectual ap- peals were not couched in weak or indi- rect languaze. In one of the numerous letters he wrote to Secretary Welles on this subject he said: ‘It seems to me somewhat remarkabie that you should, under the circumstances, expect captures to be made, and I think on reflection you must do us the justice to believe we have done our duty, uld:ou h we have not filled our pockets. Nor should it surprise you or any one that a few vessels should have escaped our vigilance when you are aware how many have run the blockade with a large number of efficient vessels guarding the entrances to Mobile and Charleston harbors. * * * It is needless for me to add that I have nothine further to say upon the subject. You were fully and timely advised of the condition of the, squadron and the motive I have for desiring an increase of force. You have not thought proper to send it to me, and, although mi' views have not been carried out, I shail not fail to use the force I bave to the best advantage.” One of the great difficulties encountered by Union commanders, -according to ilkes, was the alleged friendliness of Britich officials for Confederate ships, and his suspicions led to contracted corre- spondence with local officers. In a letter on this subject to the St. Thomas authori- ties he states: ‘A contraband trade is carried on at this place under the eyes ana with the approval and sanction of the anthorities.” One of the interesting incidents -of the war was the discovery by the commandant of the Mare Island (California) Navy-yard, Thomas O. Selfridge, of a plot to destroy that station, He was on the point of send- ing the Saginaw, the sole means of protec- tion, down the coast, when he found that an organization had been formed to de- stroy the yard. The Navy Department was in constant receipt of similar infor- mation and suggestions from private citi- zens. ‘There was a diversion to the troubles at home afforded by an engagement which the Wyoming, under command of Com- mander McDougall, had with some Japan- ese vessels of Shimonseki. An American steamer, the Pembroke, had been attacked in Japanese waters by a force of ships sent out by a native Prince who had a preju- dice against foreigne.'s and who was wag- ing war on his own account. ‘The engage- ment was a fierce and relentless one and the Wyoming exploded the boilers of a Japanese steamer and sank one of the other vessels, The American ship was compelled to withdraw on account of the pilot’s ignorance of those waters. Mc- Dougall, in a letter to Welles, said: “The yumnhmem inflicted and in store for this ‘apanese Prince will, I trust, teach him a lesson that will not soon be forgotten.” A full account is given by the official re- ports of the chase of the Chesapeake and the capture of that vassel in Halifax. There is also ?nbh‘shed a_voluminous correspondence interchanged between the American officers, the Confederate officers and the British local authorities regarding the disposition of the ship and the in- ufilention mhe prisoners. e war gone on during 1863 and Wilkes had done his utmost with the West Indian squadron to conguer thie vessels preyine on Union commerce. The efforis of Wilkes were subjected to much criti- cism by the public and Welles took oc- casion in an official report to the President to_review the conduct of Wilkes as an tion of the Vanderbilt in the West Indies. | Wilkes promptly replied in a very candid letter, in the course of which he said : “Justice to myself and family demand that I should not keep silent under the im- putaiion so undeservedly cast upon me. shall therefore repel the charge in a few words, though I regret that it is impossi- ble for me, in a letter lire tuis, to enter into details and show why the piracical | rovers were not captured in the West In- dies. But my correspondence, with my urgent entreaties, often repeated, to the department to send me the necessary force in fast and effective yessels contain my full justification. The failure to capture | these yessels in the West Indies is to be attributed solely to the want of that force. | The blame therefore does not rest with me, but elsewhere,” One feature of the Confederate portion o‘f the book are the extracts from the journai of Commander Semmes, who was in charge of the Alabama. Among the entries in | Semmes’ diary isone of June 30, 1863, where hesays: It is two years to-day since we ran the black- ade of the Mississippi in the Sumter. Two years of almost constant excitement and anx- ety, the usual excitement of battling with the sea and the weather, and avoiding dangerous shoals and coests, added to the excitement of the chase, the capture, the escape from the en- emy and the battle. And then there has been | the government of my ofhicers and crew, not always a pleasant task, for I have had some senseless and unruly spirits to deal with; and last, though not least, the bother and vexation of being hurred out 6f port when I have gone into one by timid and unscrupulous officials, to say nothing of offensive espionage. All these things have produced a constant tension of the nervous system, and the wear and tear of body in these two years would, no doubt, be quite obvious to my friends at home could they see me on tbis S0th day of June, 1863. Sic transit vita hominis, usque ad finem. Semmes had much to contend with in the way of cyclones, narrow escapes, foreign diplomats, an unruly crew, and sometimes discouraging news irom home. Of the latter feature hesays, under date of September 16: Greatly discouraged by the news from home. Vicksburg and Port Hudson fallen. Rose- crans’ army merching southward, and Lee bay- | ing recrossed the Potomac. Our poor people seem 1o be terribly pressed by the Northern Bordes of gothsnnd vandal but we shall Aeht it out to the end, and the end will be what an all-wise Providence shall decree. The volume 1s illustrated with pictures of the yacht Americaand the vessels which are prominently mentioned in the text, The matter is rendered more accessible by a copious index, RETREAT OF A HORSE. Gunpowder and Bullets Not in the Lik- ing of General Kellogg’s Roan. ““Let me tell about one of the trials of a | good soldier with a bad horse during the | war,” said a veteran a few days ago upon hearing a tale of a different nature. The late General John A. Kellogz, who fought his way from a lieutenant of a company to commander of a brigade, bought a mag- nificent roan a few days before General Grant began the closing campaign. Itwas a high-gpirited creature, tall, powerfuland speedy. Kellogg was greatly pleased with his new possession. His staff had to do a good deal of fast riding for a week before the closing scenes of the great contest be- gan. The general seemed to want every one in the Fifth Corps to see his handsome | Toan, so he rode from camp to camp mak- ing social calls, his staff, made up largely of new riders, bobbing and jolting after him. There was not a man of Kellogg's military family but regretted the birth of that roan. He was joltine their young lives away. The day of reckoning came at the battle of Gravelly Run, o, as some call it, White Oak Road, March 31, 1865. Kellogg massed his brigade in & picce of Woods, | About 10 o'clock it became necessary to move quickly to a better position and get into line of battle for immediate business, for adivision of the other 5lks was coming that way, practicing on their famous “Yell” song. Just as the brigade was in line, and almost before it had got its beat- ing heart well under foot, the enemy poured a vast sheet of lead at us. *Stand fast, men; hold your ground!” com- manded Kellogg from ~his prancing roan. Then - came another volley. That, with the roar and battle of the Union guns, was too much for the roan.: He bounded into the air and seemed to turn around, facing the rear, before he struck the ground. E\ spite of Kellogg’s weight on the bits and his frantic whoas, the roan *‘limbered’ to the rear at greater speed than he had ever traveled, while churning the staff into a sideache, Away they dashed, horze and rider, and at a most critical time. It was a hot fight, and no time for the general to limber to the rear. Just as the chief of staff directed an orderli to ga to the gen- eral’s rescue, and gave him a safe horse, I saw Kellogg'slide down the tail of the fly- ing roan and start on a dead run for the line of battle. 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