WEEKLY.
Successor -to 1:1x3 IirxcLeix:.
MREE.VILLEv X- r. .LLYlUiY J.j. i$ur
ao r iim;s.
It is ai 1 that :i iiMrn losi
r:'- l)tiiir rolled in the Repub
lican caucus at Raleigh one
nLhtlast week. Next!
Knwi.s (). y f'oi-H I
1 )iids on Hie city of Now York
'i tli- amount of $1((,ooo. and
ha- confess' I. He lias noiigdi
' o u-et clear on.
A LI. file iH'eounts. of the war
between Japan and China say
that Japan is licking Jhina ter
lihly. Neither side seerns to
know when it lias enough.
Col Breckenrirto-e js deeply
chagr.ned at the signal failure
of his lecture tour ami has no
hope of lein i" elected Senator
And he, not the woman, did it.
Tn K pa p4rs are full of some
thing; about a ramus secret
whirh is supposed to have es
caped the t-aiicus rooms. It
wotil 1 he better if more was
kinnvn. '
In. i he. Kansas Legislative Ke
publican caucus when Baker
s-cured the Senatorial nomina
tion, -Mr. 'Ingalls secured 'one
vote. Ala!
lame !
TEE BATTLE OF SHABPSBURG-
Kobart E- Lss's Estimate cf the
Troops Was Correct-
"The cava! i v and artillery linv
been generally estimated at s.oihi.
I'bey certainly did not eXee'-d this.
The retui h of tin Army of North
ern Virginia for October 10, I
.shows an ehVctiye lorec o these two
arinie of ih,- service of -7,870 men.
The X.ttion and several other
Xoithcrn journals haw cnHcied
and contradicted i he statement
mule in den Fitz lV hook that
; the hlojdy but He of Sharpsbi.rg vas
' fought -by 3A.0OO Contcieratos.
Th y say that the otlicial reports in
i t h.i it' f i . ..Ail ... It i
I LIJ U (LI It-l-lllliw I 1 I I i I III 11 nn.i ...
; rn n... .1... ... ... r" "N nlederate States and also ,n
I between 57,000 and Qi.OOO men.
r Fitz Lee wriite to the Nation that die
1 had his information from the hps ol
! Lee himself, ai.d was also sustained
I by documentary evidence. .but the
Nation would not he. convinced : u
"The figures given above can be
verified by reference to the official
ivpoiUs 61 ttie operations of Hie Ar
ny of Northern Virginia, published ;
by authority of the Ongicss of the
how iieetinr is
II AVE customs, precedents,
laws and the Constitution any
rights. or prerogatives that the
iusionists propose to consider,
respect or acknowledge Echo
answers "have thev '.'
A mkmhkk of Ihe Canadian
Parliament has been, lined il
and cost for publishing a paper
ni Sund iy just one time, giving
an ac -omit of the Globe lire.
And thus enterprise !aus.
.When" the-French assembly
voted against the French Pres
ident. That President resigned.
Now bur President Cleveland
would have thought. the Assem
bly should have resigned.
The new French President is
a Piotestant, the first Protest
ant ruler. the country' ever had.
With the Socialists, Royalists
and other disturbers of" the
lHNice his lot. will not be a hap
py one.
H awaii has had another revo
lution but not a successful one
far, as the Royalists seem to
have gotten the worst of it and
many of them are in prison.
Hawaii is about as unsettled as
Kansas.
YiKoiNiA has- at last gotten
Morgantielu from Ohio after lots
of trouble. , Morgantield is sup
posed to be one of the Aquia
Creek train robbers, and Vir
ginia rejoices. How about the
Express Company?
(iovEuxou Evans promises
to be a worthy successor ol ex
Governor Tillman, in the dis
pensary business. He is tindin"
fault with the Italian Consul
about the sale of wine to ne
moes Perhaps it was a better
arHcJe than the dispensary's.
rested its case upon the t'onfedei aU
epoi t's inade some time after ihej
hutHe and published among the
Confederate archives.
Now comes ol Walter II Tavlor. )
who was Ij-Vs adjutant general, and
who, in a two-column letter io Hi-'
Norfolk Landmark, clearly estab- i
lishes the'laet that Fiiz Lec :is
right and rite Nndon witnig. All who
know ('ol Tavlor know that he is an !
exact, plain spoken, conscientious
man; a man v. ho would not mistep
resent fr any purpose. The
Colonel underrates to "a.-certuin th.
number of Confederate troops actu
pltv eiiiged in the battle ol Slnin.s.
burg," and to do so he reviews the
i r0jeiut ions ol Lee's army forseveial
j Weeks preceding the bUlle in iies
tion. He shows Hih'. great numbers
! of stragglers from our . anuv were
! bivoucked on the south. tHd d' th.
j I'Jomac, and that those are in- luded
! u, the reporis of tht general otlh-ers
I hoe reports the Nation lehes on
j to contradict Fitz Lee. Hea
j mar.diing and. severe ehiraireme.i ts
j preceding the battle of Siiar;3hin-g
I tad reduced the lighting stiei gth
o all of Lee's lorces aiid inanv ol
tuose troops which could be spared
from Harpci's Ferry did not reach
the field until the "afternoon (Sep
temher 17, 1SL.) Having examin
el and commented on the ivnorts of
all our division commanders. Col.
Taylor says :
"Gen A P Hill's command consist
ed of the brigades of ttraneh, (ireiz
tdined in the rtord of the Union
and Confederate armies. Series 1.
NoLune ILL Fart 1.
"With the cflicial imports of Ins
suoord unites before him, d'en Lee in
his report ol this baltle to the war
department, says: J h -s great but
tle vus loijw,t hv ljj tiiau forty
thousand men on our side, all of
whom lent undergone; '..t grarest
lbops ami hardships in the field and
on the march." The ligures given I
in tnis aialemeJit will allow ample '
margin lor piobablt discrepancies
and )et be fouad within the unm
oor? as rerl"d by (ieu Lee.
"Hen McClellan cid not renew ids
attack on the isrh of September.)
the day us . he of comparative qui- i
et ; both armies had 5u tiered teri i- I
bly, ami ilui ing the night of the INth I
(Jen Ie vmi hdiesv Ui army lo ihe 1
sout'hMde f the Potomac liver. I
Kveiy day after the battle wit
nessed dieivtui n of a large numher I
ol men to their reguiienis. and these!
together wiih the loice collected j
about Winchester, made a very ma-
loiial increase in the strength oi the ,
arfny lefore the next leguiar return
was inaue.'"
Col Taylor quotes McClellan as j
s lYingd hat be had in action 7,104
men of all arms, and remarks that,
"if we undertake to construct a ta j
ble of strength of his army after the :
'battle according to the method j
adopted by Fitz Lee's :riucs Mc j
Clellan's strength would appear to
be 1 l!.4.i.
"We might thus contend that j
(ren L'e bad lL'0.000 men opposed;
to him. which would bear to 57.000. 1
the number of bis army as made up j
by (ien Fitz Iee's critic, about the '
Archer, Fender and Hrocken bor
ough. He states the strength ot the
first three at L',00u. The other two
were smaller, but allowing the avei
sam proporti(ii as the 'less than!
lnnOM -uiu.i t.l I... tK .. . .
xw)VV,w, .rpjocu uy vieu L,vr OCUIS IO J
: the S7,lo4 carried into action by j
Gen McChllan." j
So, taking into consideration H.e i
age, say 700 tor each, and - we have ' ,act .ll,!lt lrW ot onr l'aVidry were ac
tor the division a total effective of t,,H,l' .Wd, Lee was no doubt
1 r.nfk i riLdit wticn hf told Fir thur l.p
jU VV. O ------ - .... tats .'
"Gen I G Walker, who command lol,-llt rhe b-tlI Sharishurg
ed his own and Hansom's brigades I w,th ;i50W) j
does not report his stivuth. (ien' It apjears trom Col Taylor's letter
Uanso.o puts his effective strength t,lat il was. tl,c l)UrP8e f President!
at i.bOO and liave his authority foi 1 1 ,a 1 JU1" UUI arin.v 1,1 r)
his brigade was larger than Walkers t l;,lml lnit t,Klt Ijte 8ent Tt'lor fro
making the strength of this division rredt',ick to Virginia to ineet
less than 3,200. Fresiilent Davis and dissuade him
"With the exception of the brigade .i lro,n the P111"!."
last mentioneu and the two brigades i
?1mVlIIri!1'V1,!viskM,, whicl' a.e.es A Eevolwionaxy Hero On Pensions-
timated, the following recapitulation i
is established upon indisputable! AT,, w, .
and contemparaneotis authority, be ! 1 rof Edward Graham Daves writes
ing nothing less than the testimony J to the Baltimore Sun s follows :
of the commanding officers, as shown 'Some' years after the close of the
by their official reports made imme Kevolufion.irv flnr Fdu-urd
d&tAiy after the battle : Cos rev. of Oueen Anne's count v.
Jackson's command
Longstif-ets command,
1) H Hill's division,
U II Anderson's division
A P Hill's division.
McLaw's division,
L G Walker's d .vision
o.OOO
3,812
3.000
4,000
3,400
L',893
3,200
one of tne Maryland heroes of the
battle of Long Island, destroyed his
commission in a fit of indignation at
the claims for pensions by men who
were not entitled to them or ,vho
he thought could afford to dispense
with such compensation for their
, services.
otic monve 8aId il!s noideMddirr
who h.,d lost his health it, Hnfti
prison Mi.ps, ,10JMJ nol;e
d , dcM.,M:anf. a,' ,.Vt.r cilUll
pecuniary reward.'
"A little t, or-.f this j our
own geiier ition woidd -ub . OIJt. f(f
nr financial problems. It is -.veiv
'il:ke Tba: of a recent patriot wlu.
ni a moment of despondence al non.
apprHCMtion ot his Sacrifices exclaim
ed : J J rver loe another country
... .1 1 II lilt- .
LAST D AYS0F TiE as. A.
Experience cf the Last Ccninana
Sost cf the Miisissippi.
'ON'I.rrKI FKOM LAST WKKK.
"Ihagg Jrew his last months puv,
TOOO; 1 remember his old staff offi
cer, Ol Cledrowskf: a Pole, who al
ways i tlked of money as tlie root of
evil, ami claimed that the Confeder
ates fought better because H e mon
ey was p,or, that thev had to fight
the enemy for all they wanted, vet
when he came to be paid his amount
iwis waa 15. Jle talked so inces
santly that the office, by aII error
counted out -.5. "Cledowskl
paused to siiy . "Put lo more
there, and all laughed.
"Duke's command having gone to
Wstock, bm-Kiniidge did not
know what to dr. A Federal force
apjHraiva. Breckinridge said "Go
detain t hen, while I get away.' OL
d " C lay. aj ; Mud I were sent to
parley w.tn the Federals We did
hold them a long time. The.r ma- '
jor was a gentleman and was feeling
good. He was half drunk. He did
not want to fight, and neither did
we. He begged us to surrender.
We pleaded and joked for three,
quaners ot an hour, then said plain
ly as neither side wanted to fight we
would go on one side of the road and
let him pass, or he could go on one
sine and let us pa??. He agreed and
moved to one side, and we matched
by. 1 hey cheered us and we cheer
ed them.
"Gen Breckinridge, with his eon,
Canell, and Ol Theodore O'Hara
and Major Wilson, made their way
to the Florida coast. Then came our
parting. I never realized that the
Coufederacyiwas gone till we began
saying to each other good-hve. A
number of Kentucky soldiere 'insist
ed on having a certificate of dis
charge. 1 wrote them each one,
and without knowing what I was go
ing to talk alwuL Opt Joseph
Fettus showed me one here to-night
Our command was the last organiz
ed force .of the Confederacy this side
oi the Mississippi Kiyer. We broke
up May 6. I was commissioned by
Governor Fickeus January 10, 1861,
and served till May 6, 1865. I al
ways contended that I served 'ouger
than any other soldier in the Con
federacy. WhenJ reached home,
Greenville. S. C, theie was a Federal
oincer sent for me. I had Oidf a
horse and pistol, and had no parole,
but as I had w ritten a good many
paroles 1 wrote one for myself, select
ing a distant command, of whom the
Federal offfeei knew nothing about,
and it was satisfactory'
Total effective infantry. 2S,3'J5 "I served my country from patri
It is said that the Gret book print
ed in America came from the press
oftheCiUof Mexico in 1535. It
was a Catholic bool of devotion.