Emmett County Gerald (Newspaper) - August 8, 1884, Estherville, Iowa 1 Jk tho Civil If Ton Beaton in Tint Ao A Historic Conference in of contributions to the July number of the of American History is that by General in which he with circum stances and General Scotts pro of the battle of Bull He The On to Richmond party had its powerful supporters in the capital of the in the Senate and oven in the Presidents While it was understood there that the Presi dent and Seward were disposed to act coolly and in conformity with tho ideas of the responsible military chiefs in reference to military it was also understood that Chase a strong advocate for immediate the Gen of the while desiring prompt and vigorous action as soon as the proper menus of procuring success be was earnestly op posed to a forward movement until such time as the National forces should be so reasonably organized as to make success at the least Notwithstanding my appointment to the Colonelcy of a new regiment the United States I was still retained by General Scott as his for the District and commander of the District of Columbia and was acting directly under his At about eight oclock at evening on one Of the last days of May I think it was of May I entered as usual the quarters of the aged Chief to make my report for the day and to receive my orders for tho As I entered the General was seated nt the head of his dinner table which had been while the Secretary of the occupied a seat opposite him at the foot of the ta Habitually the on my entrance in the cour me to be seated but now he seemed to have been engaged in earnest and as I advanced he quickly Colonel how many men do you want to march on Richmond by the of Manassas I perceived that the general an instant and said promptly Forty general and then quickly added With in re suppose I give you that how soon could you move would upon quartermasters and subsistence de I could move as soon as they could give me rations and trans suppose you had How fast would you advance Having all the advance guard of niy force might bo on the in three and 1 whatis that The general Oh there is a river is there eh I wish that everybody knew that what then Should the bridge be burned there is a bridge over that and that bridge might be burned I wish everybody know if the bridges are burned I would proba lose two or three days in forcing the passage of the Then And so I continued to describe the The general interrupted me with Colonel you are taking or fifty days to get to Richmond I think that I would be for to arrive there in that time irn the place of an active fully ac quainted with the The old general as if thinking aloud yi wish I could see General I wish I could see the chief of I immediately left headquarters to find General the chief of en of the It was a rainy and to spare the aged general a damp walk I took a carriage and drove to his I found the and his gr wife seated before in which a small fire had been kindled to keep away the Both welcomed me kindly and invited me to a seat between them but I ex apologizing for dis them on so damp an said the to see you at his and have a carriage in order that you may respond to his desire with as little inconvenience as In one minute the careful wife of his youth had thrown a cloak over the old Generals and a few minutes after I ushered him into the presence the There had been arrivals since my re Secreta ry of State Secretary of and General Adjutant General of the were All roae as General Totten and a chair was placed for him at the between General Scott and Secre tary Cameron seated him between General Scott and Gener al while Seward stretched length upon a lounge near After a few words of compliment had General Scott said General Totten j I regret to have dis turbed you on so disagreeable an even but I greatly desired your on a military matter is How many troops would yon consider it necessary to have to make a movement hence on Richmond by the way of Manassas General as he sat there with his hands clasped on the table before him and his white head bending his in looker the type of the scientific He carefully and deliberately I do not think it would be wise to undertake such an without a farce of at least fifty thous and General such a force placed at your how could you make the advance General suppose that the Ordnance Department would probably have supplies sufficient for such a and the Engineer Department would be ready quickly tho great question of time would depend upon the procure ment of transportation and of substance Then came a series of questions and answers concerning the details of ad almost identical with the ques which had been propounded to and to my great relief General Tottens answers were singularly like those I had already given to similar The w greatly He turned to the Cabinet Ministers pres ent and here is a most extraordinary unanimity of I address a certain set of questions to a young the young est in the in whom one might expect to find a youth ful enthusiasm and a too sanguine view of and I receive a certain set of I address the same set of ques tions to the oldest and most distin of our scientific general officers rich in the experience of two and from him I receive almost cally tho same set of How can we explain such unanimity of opinion the only way I can explain it to myself is that it must be of their trade that they have been and they speak from its prin growing more the aged chief impres sively this matter has gone beyond pol and has become a military ques Most unfortunately it is most unfortunately and now soldiers must settle Such being the unfortunately soldiers must settle you must allow tho soldiers to do what they know they ought to and you must be careful not to force them to do what they ought not to There have n arrived and are in service thousand three There are rapidly com ing in three hundred thousand two What the soldiers know ought to be done is this The men should be used to guard the District of whole District of The two years and men as they ar rive and as they shall arrive should be placed in large camps of instruction at strategic points along the say sixteen thousand men at Fort Washing ton Potomac an equal force at another here in tho Capital another say at another at perhaps another at certainly one at and one at Mari Ohio also at Ohio and other points on the There they should drill and drill and drill and dis guarding always the Meantime our gallant little navy should do all that it can to keep up a block ade of the entire southern By the last days of or the first days of we can have khe gunboats ready on the Ohio By said turning quickly to have you or dered for me that naval constructor I asked you to go under my orders to the West not said Cameron I can furnish you with as many steamboats as you wiant on the Ohio river within seven days by General Scott a little impatient Mr I do not want there even one old rotten contract I want to draw just as many feet of water as I to carry many I of such caliber as I there is plenty of material for such gunboats on those Western waters there is plen ty of mechanical skill there is plenty of time Cameron hastened to say to the Chief you shall have every thing you General Secre Every thing I want is all that I want Thanks I want the best practical naval constructor in the United States sent immediately to to design and see con These boats can easily be finished before the first Our southern seeing the govern ment apparently content with guarding the may not believe they are to be and may relax in their In any case our prepara tions being made on sound I would by the 1st day of assembled at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers an army of armed I would send that western accompanied by the gun down to the GuM of Mexico 1 At the same time I would send this army of men hence to Richmond by the right road If you act if allow the soldiers to do what they they ought to I will answer for that the Government of the United States shall have its its authority rec throughout the every inch of its by the 4th of next or at latest by the 4th day of July If you do not thus act if yon make the soldiers do what they kno they ought to do if you pmh these bat tle just as they aro all thinking of going home if you push the two and three years men into battle just before they shall be you will be beaten in the first general action of thin war You will consolidate what is now an in and make a rebellious gov rebellious government you may be able to put down in two or throe years but I doubt it Such were the words of Americas greatest soldier in We all know the For the moment he succeeded in delaying rash But latar on the aged worn out by the pressure brought to bear upon yielded to those in authority and those assumed to direct the authori and he in an evil hour consented to sound military principles set aside and replaced by ignorant The men were pushed into battle just as they were thinking of going home the two and three years men wore pushed into some of them before they were fairly We were beaten in the first general action of the The insurrection did not become a strongly organized rebellious which the government of the United States did not succeed in putting down in two or three Russian Those familiar with the Russian es and remorseless despotism of the Russian police find therein one cause for the growth of The wife of a former English Petersburg was told by the head of the police that he know everyone who went in and out of her and that each day he received a report of what there was sail and You are welcome to know as far as I am replied the with a for you cant send me to Si The chief at her with a smile and then made a remark which she never Do you he ie it would be necessary for me o speak to take away a persons char acter Not at If there was a ques as to that person in and I shrugged my thus intimating hat he or she was that per son would be The English lady knew of a lady who was living in a One day she re vived a friendly hint that she had bet er be on her guard as to what she said or did in her as she was The walls of her apartment looked all but on tapping them she found one place which was She on further that the winter supply of wood was piled up in the hotel yard against he wall of her In that wall there was a space where a man could stand and see everything that went on in the and the occupant would not be aware of lis The also relates the fol owing incident as illustrating how far he hands of the secret police when they choose to their In the summer of when we were iving at the we were just starting one lovely evening for a row on ihe when a carriage drove up with wo ladies in who turned out to bo Princess and her The a charming had but arrived at having jeen ordered to come there for political She was living at Paris when one day the Russian Charge dAffaires walked into her and to her great surprise and consternation informed her hat she was to go to Petersburg in She happened to be in delicate and quite unfit to travel in the middle of so with difficulty she was allowed to postpone her departure ill the navigation and then she having never been in Bussia be The first visit she paid was to a woman of her who ex what are you doing here are going to send you to Siberia This was not and she with her or to be told what she had She was merely told she must remain at or run the risk of having all her property con One day we were all invited to a party at the islands to visit a gypsy camp and tiear their The Princess cousin looking pale as so I went up to her and inquired whether she was She said only worried and could she speak a few words to me So we drove together to the gypsy and then she informed me she had heard that her only a boy of seven or eight years was dangerously ill at She had applied that morning for leave to go to see but had been and she was so unhappy she knew not what to my best to comfort and from time we became very and a great deal of She was kept about six months at whilst her papers were be ing At the end of that time the head of the police told her that as there was no proof against she was at liberty to depart to to her intense delight she was able to return to her BY A Torino ments on From the Kansas City Blow thia I say remarked a young Englishman in the of a Fifth street hotel yesterday after yawning spasmodically and away a Whats the matter inquired a sympathizing Times Im going back again to Lon The way people here live and work is far to much for The idea of working at the office all day and late at night and frequently on a Sunday Its too you by George Much difference in office hours be tween your country and ours I should just say there I should like to see the average English clerk commence work before 6 oclock in the and every one leaves at 6 Then we have a half holiday on Saturday and bank and that sort of thing you The English clerks get well no in comparison with the American our clerks nre not so welt I A man who gets 40 shillings a Week considers himself pretty well You see everybody in England learns to be a and it is supposed to be infra to learn a you are looked down and are in very They make more money and obtain higher and I think its a beastly shame but the employment sought for by most young fellows is and of course the market can be overstocked and salaries are re in Been long over hero about six months and that is six months too I think the Americans are awfully rude and plain When I was in Chicago I asked one of the railway office officials f he could obtain a position for He said Are you out of work The of asking a gentleman if he is out of I told him I was temporarily out of and he then said What can you do I said I am a very fair book do you hink he said Did you ever hear such a brutal expression in all your life Did you catch on to usean Ameri Catch what t see what you he offered me an engage ment and I accepted it but I found I lad leisure so I and ried one or two other J thought t would be awfully jolly to go on a arm for a little and I did but the woik was too and I back again to By the do you know that when I arrived rom England I came straight through x and it was cold of I was wearing an English ur cap and corduroy and when got off the train at the station some oys called What is it I I eg your pardon and they What is it and laughed as though they had made some amazingly witty I gradually became con scious that they were making game of and that they meant What was Wasnt it a terrible position to be placed in So you You seem to have come west but the further away I get the less I like the I went to one place to seek employment the head of the firm asked me if I was hust I sir lam and then he laughed in a callous sort of way and said he guessed I was too gray for the I did not like to ask him what he by gray for fear he would think that I was not fa miliar with the language of the BO I walked You do not seem to have too great a liking for the country You are my I have giv en the place a fair trial and am going straight There is nothing con genial to me What would you suggest as a means of improving our unfortunate country my dear I would suggest that in the first place you have pockets in your billiard tables that you employ barmaids in your Then a fellow eau pass his evenings and manage the hard How can a fellow enjoy himself at the hotels when there are no barmaids to chaff The bar maids are so deucedly you and they are a source of great attraction to the and I am sure would take very wel here in You news paper men should agitate the and then there would be some induce ment for a fellow to stay Aver I think Ill go and take a nap Have you a cigarette A Catskill Mountain Bear Do you often get hold of a theres plenty of Nice fat weighing from 200 to 300 A bear and two cubs were caught only last week at Big They will come down after the corn bless theres no danger in meeting one of trot off as hard as he directly he sees and never turns ugly unless very hard I only heard of one story in this neighborhood of a man being at tacked by a It happened in 65 to a man named a who was the hilly after some On a ledge path on Slide Mountain he met a great big brown and there was not room for bear and man to pass without exchanging Wey began the sip he by hitting bruin on the The bear made a rush for his seized him in his and proceeded to roll down hill with Bear and man went over and over down the bluff until they suddenly came to a halt on a block of rock which stood in their downward The crash was principally by the but Wey lost consciousness for a from the result of the close squeezing of the powerful animal as well as anything When he came to he found the bears claws had re from his and after a cau movement or he self to a standing The bear did not Wey stopped and ex the animal it was At a loss to account for so sudden a deliver Wdy hastened down the moun tain to and soon in a couple of return with him for bruins It was brought home in and when weighed tipped the beam at 345 The cause of its death was fracture of the Such was the force with which the animals cranium had come into con tact with the rock that death ensued almost Weys deliv looked like a Philadelphia In the Jaws of a a Spanish who had been at work on the wreck of a thus speaks of an extraordinary adven ure which he once had At that ime I was at the bottom of the and was just about to signal to be drawn up for a moments when I noticed a hadowy body moving at some distance above mo and toward In a mo ment every fish had the very crustaceans lay still upon the sand and the cuttle fish scurried away as fast as they I was not thinking of and my first thought was it was the shadow of a passing suddenly a feeling of terror seized I felt impelled to flee from sorne I knew not A vague hor or seemed grasping after such as a fancies when leaving a darkened By this time the shadow had ome nearer and taken It scarce y needed ac glance to show me that it was a man eater and of the largest Had I to be drawn up then it All I ould do wasto remain still until it It lay off twenty or twenty five just outside of the rigging of the its body its fins barely stirring the water about its It was a monster as it to add to ho the pressure of the water upon my head made it appear as if flames from its tail and and every movement of its fins and tail seemed accompanied by a display of fire I was sure the fish was thirty feet and so near that I could see ts double row of white I shrunk closer to the side of he But my first movement my I saw ng eyes upon me its tail quiver ed as it darted at me like streak of I shrank closer to the side of the I aaw it turn on one its mouth and hoard the teeth snap as it darted by It had missed ant only for a The sweep of ts mighty tail had thrown me saw it balance and its ail quivered as it darted at me There waa no It on ita jack as it swooped down on me like a on a The jaws opened and he shining teeth on my metal It had I could fgel its teeth grinding ou my upper breastplate as it tried bite me in it had aught me just across the where I was best Having seized me it went tearing through the I could feel it bound forward at of its Had it not been or my copper helmet my head would lave been torn oft bVb the rush through he I was Mill perfectly con but I felt no terror at There a feeling of numb I wondered how long before those teeth would crunch aad back or ray Then I thought of Maggie and the and wondered who would take care of them and if she ever know what had become of All these thoughts passed through my brain in an but in that time the connecting air tube had been snapped and my head seemed ready to burst with while the monsters teeth kept crunching and grinding my har Then I tbp cold water begin to pour in and heard the bub as the air escaped into the creatures I began to hear great guns and to see fireworks and rainbows and sunshine and all kinds of pretty then I thought I was floating away on a rosy dreaming to the sound of sweet Then all became The shark might have eaten me at his leisure aad I would never been the Imagine my when J opened my eyes on this boat and Haw you fel lows around Yes I thought I was dead and ate up waa found by his comrades a few utes after the snapping of the He was picked up insensible and with eral holes punched in the metallic of his diving
