North Carolina Newspapers

DAILY CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, EfARQEl T, 1897. SKETCHES OF LIFE 15 MEXICO. cpmmnv feoixjb - asj ? ccstohs. 7? w"f',Ado- Hl-e Hlf .CU4seated. We told him who we were and and Women, naked Children, Cae-I told us that we were in his family , una Ku ud AUaU Dh- I mat njs xatner and sister Iter or wwcn is muca esteemed by-rev-VoSnadaylaatnieo,AWeVadmtaadwer3 ta Mexico City, where they spend I erent, Catholics. .Nearly : ail ( visitors Snnday An Arriealtaral iratht flnm.T I most of their time, -and jiat be and his I take- a drink of this water. 1 and of Coek-nhtia- at mvadn-i riZ- I brother had come np from the capital course all visitors to Mexico visit Oua4 ---t . w . .: . - Jint7M Call tics Aa Kramala mt Maxteam B pltaUty fapirliiMt by AeeUraV-A Via it te the Cataeoatbs Where K.i are Uud E Agalast tha WaUa-Tka Ed - its-rial Party Witness a Kattva B.w.iJ! - " - . ieo eg - TtnwJrZtLZrZZ? xcfcM zi "7 . T'i son - h,mctiimi. Staff Correspondence of the Obeerrer. City of M-rlfn .irh m - - A I . . . . UUIC- live enaea at J9&n Antonio Texan Rat urdav Mth w tj .' X met, besides Mr. O. C Bvn,.m -ttnniMi in ik. 1.. u l.i.. North Carolinian, Mr. H. JR. Thrie. for- merly of Pittuhm .nri . T-yl'J Cape Thos, H. Haughton. of Charlotte. "e "wnai ; excursion, train of nine eieepers ana a bainnure car left ftuil"""1 i.ur ncepaoo wouia noi Antnia .f in 'Jk zf!f "S I Ukely be as cordial as ours had hut 20th hnnnri wCT T.:: ".'C1 "et":- A?e r-i. L VI" . " -Aucl Mexican Tnt,-o m'-i ioo. thence over the Mexican Central Vresive of appreciation of most gr&- of 1"JrItillen throughout the re to Mexico C!t Me wu courtesy received at his hands. public Considering that he was an reached at 4 am. s!7a? Afruas Caliente8 wa taken leave of uninvited guest, .ent here by the Euro- at 4 a. m.. Snndav and a - stop was made 1 before thp Rin nrrniH. rt., o - rrn1 T. ,1 A. ... r'i-.T""i"',.l"",,',.er luaaa n.. v.' V , -I , " 'uc "T"..r. wnere we Jean cu.ti.n.. ASrrCT-"Ki """lion, meals beinK taken here in the city for the profea purr.,l2 the baggage of the passengers, to mm Luejr were r rrvin tv ...iv.i avrwwf. rpi,A" 1 o uuuauie th u" . J. M. Page, of Illinois for the fact that tJiere was nothing aboard subject to du. ty. A speech of welcome was made by the mayor, the band played and the J. M. Page, of Iiiinoi- rJ Th. '.SV; n cuu kcui on. At Dias I met for a fw minni.. r. nowiana, formerly of Dur- tr"11- 13 m tne railroad servioe w knows and enquired for a V4vT "Lyuung ladies and gentlemen From the moment- the evidences c?Mexlco aTo? Mexi'cn life abounded. Th -T VZ -border to Aguas Callentes, a distance w. Lr mues, is an arid waste of 1 uuu,iiiiK:iaa men and women naed children, cactim es InHhe distance and alkali dust. By universal tesimony, the land Is of great fertilityXcapable of producing any. thing, bufMhere is no wtsr anH y. no agricultftre, no vegetation. How th. wretched natives live is a mysterv of I mummies, standing upright and grin- I of Chapultepec, on the southern out rnvRterlM & air n H . , . . I ni n fz horriblv at the nasaer. These are I nktrta nf th. Mtv wao vi.ii . ujDriic. ask. an American for in stance a railroader who travels the country the question and he answers O, they can live on ten cents' worth .of corn a day, grinding the corn them- bcivcb ana maxing tortillas out of it. But the question. How do they get the I many do- and these are taken out and I ing an immense stone bluff, which, by ten cents with which to buy the corn 1 8tood UP ln tne underground gallery a singular freak of nature, rises per or how do they raise th mm : I for the promotion of the gayety of those pendicularly hundreds of feet in the w hich they make the tortillas remaiM unanswered. Throughout this Snnflav - ur?l..UUL ride a few irrigated spots were seen un der cultivation. It must be remember ed that there Is no Sunday in Mexico, as we understand it, and here and there . . J this Lord's day. was' seen the rilnui.-mt.rf in inree instances, nerhana ilnrin. plodding along slowly behind hi wnorf en mow nH .f!of T..rrrrl along, as stops were made for various purposes, opportunity was had for ex- aminlng this layout. The plowshare is of wood, and the implement has but one handle. The plowman carries in one hand, or under an arm, a stick in the end of which is a piece of pointed iron. With Which h nrnaainnallv rwtrla the leaden-footed beasts. This prodding I process would seem to be indulged in I rrore from force of habit than with any I riiecinc purpose in view, ror your plow man is not a model of energy, and the oxen at their slowest seem to be going fast enough for him. But speaking of tortillas, the making of them was seen in progress at two points. The corn is soaked in a strong solution of lye and then ground in a wooden bowl Into which a stone roller is fitted. The pro cess iooks just like washing clothes on a washboard. It is kept dampened as tne grinning goes on, and when reduced to dough is made into cakes, which are cooked on the hearth or in rude oyefrs- The corn of this country of flinty jowuutrro ouu BaluT be particularly r-UtritiOUS. A Wtrhv1.1nnlHno- n,A. b?.ck S-SCcasionally seen, hustling . ?2 a living, and here and there some chickens, but meat is practically un known to the peones and tortillas (corn bread) is their subsistence. The peone men wear very tight pants; sandals, sombreros and each of them has a bas ket around his shoulders. The women wear shawls on their heads never a hat or bonnet. The female children al ways contrive to have on a dress of woven texture, mostly calico, but many a boy child was seen with nothing on but a shirt and that sometimes a very short one, and at other times with rents in it which were evidently not made at the dictates of modesty. More, how ever, about the people bye and bye. Sunday afternoon a good long stop was made at Monclova, a town of some slae and a cock-fight was witnessed in the railroad yard. These are a great peo ple for sports of all kinds. At this place there was pointed out a Chinaman ho, the Sunday before, had lo3t $150 on a cock fight, having made $300 tho Sun day before that. The Chinaman, by the way, is much in evidence along tlx line of the Mexican International. .Jhe railroad owns Its own eating houses aurt the Chinamen run them. At J aval this Sunday evening: a very good sup ped was had. During the night Torrcon. the junc tion with the Mexican Central, was reached and this line was taken Mon day. During a stop at Canilas, Wash ington's birthday was celebrated on tbe depot platform. Speeches were made and "America" and other patriotic airs were sung. We passed into the Tropic of Cancer during the afternoon, had supper at Calera, and before bed time passed Zacatecas, the great silver mining town, and looked down from the mountain bides, around which the rail road winds, upon the electric lights of the town. The elevation here is 8,000 feet, this being the highest point on this line. The next stopping place is Aguas Ca llentes pronounced Ours Callentes and interpreted "hot water.. This hi a typ ical Mexican city of 40,000 population, distinguished for its delightful hot baths and for the beautiful drawn work which men and women hawk about the station and over which the ladies rave. Perhaps no party of- tqurists ever stood -in greater need . .f a bath than did these pilgrims, and to them the bath house of Aguas Callentes will ever be a gracious memory. Tbe town was seen, the cathedral visited, and the latlies bought quantities of needle work. An excursion from Toledo, Ohio, re turning from Mexico City, met the edi torial party -here and the streets of the town were thrJonged with people from the States, attracting the interested at tention of the natives. "Much Ameri cana." remarked a barber who was shaving him to a member of our party. Yes, very much," was the reply. Here was the scene of what to two of tbe party was one ef the very pleasantest in cidents of the whole Mexican trip on an excursion of this kind. Men are drawn together into little groups by the law of affinity. The train had hardly left Galveston on the night of the 19th be fore a co-partnership was struck up between a CaUfornian.an IUinoisan and the one North Carolinian aboard. They represented the Atlantic slope, the Pa cific slope and the central section of the country. At Aguas Callentes tbe i m 1 Jt i -9 . ,,, wv -II t , the forenoon with another party and ; -flK IlllfwilAAii rA tfaralinian . were strolling atMMEt tne streets wnen iney ' were informed that the Governor was receiving the "editors. (Aguas Callentes Is the capital of the State of the same name.) We got directions to the pal ace and started out. Marching through a wide gateway .Irom tbe street, we were In the rmidst of an open court in r the centre of which a fountain played : and flowers bloomed-. A servant ush ered us up a pair of wide stone steps, into ' -front, reception, room, and re iirvd - He could speak no English and we no Spanish. In a moment a young1 gentleman in ; neat, morning attire en tered and to him, after salutations had "passed we made known that we had .iuwt tn mt our respects t the Gov4 ernor.SHe smiled and told ws In fair vnrHiik-5 thati-.we naa mistaken tne T lace and were to private residence. 3Ye rose, full ef apologies tor to mtro lo na ' making a precipitate do- r r-y "c ieo us, v ana begged us to be seated. To him the visit ne ilKL WO SOt Ul Intrmlntl tm vwMaic. . iiuLiuBK CDiua k Tff mm nutMithik mil. flji lmmnn nmrr iWMrinnMn0 iv4 u icyuuro vui7 me sty ooore I attend t some buslnesa Would have a glass of wine with him -or cigar. - Tne courtesy was declined. A little later he- eranaml himself: then re- 1 turne1 with a box of cigars, of which turned with a box of dears, of which I blm visitors each took one. As soon as 1 rast w. rim to so. declining the invlta- - IUon of our host to remain longer, ex oricnanged cards wnn mm ana bade aim I rant won ha arromnanlM Tin tn t h head of the stairs, stood there while I we descended, and as we reached the - . , 4 .1 1 .Jx -1 I t mw, imm m iuc uaniBiersiM"' ucjuw, uui iwuiuc i- I and said. "Good-bye. centlemen." I tracts ' more attention than the State . I When we got into the street my partner lnd i. fell to dlacuaRinsr thp trMtnwntirur in KUC to wnlcn ten noraea were I tna woula accorded a couple of for- I elgmera stumbling by mistake into the Lri !enC?-,f .T.J?- I . tT-j Iw!:. uuuwiiuubij 1 I been. In a little while, bv another amement thi. niar, hi,l.hini- Ifor such he win evidenuv will rpiv. I from two American editors letters pi. I -aunie wtuj laaen leave 01 w"H regret, and supper was taken and 1 the night spent at Silao aboard the I cars, of course, for all the !ivinr In 1 hn. n nnn h : fc,-u i am r,m ,,nn nrhloh wo lfr OsIvml. hotels, restaurants, on the train,, oi I !reve.r chosea. Wednesday I --x., voe wo mm.cU flt Riiof, hv th nortv In Ita Aum mni tral for Ouanaluato foronounced Wan- Inawater), 15 miles distant. This is the most unique and picturesque spot seen in old Mexico. It is the centre of a rich mineral district, between 000.000 and $600,000,000 having been taken from It. minon. lree reduction works are located here, its operation being - " " - - conducted upon the most primitive plan. Here is a magnificent theatre, the Teatro Juarez, one of the finest on tbe continent, which has Just been com. I pleted at a cost of SaOO.Ooa It is to be 'TT """l baU,' I the floor being laid upon the seats, and Jn-'en,t Dlaf wiU a"end tne1?"5fnT,f ' I ' v" ,r " ...v... lr T 1, T 1, , " vC is icatura wu ucu.m v,i uu. ivo, i to mapping, signt-seeitig and a gen cllmb from the point where the street eral taking-ln of the town. At night a cars are left being a long and steep band concert was given the editors in one. Down a dark, winding stairway, underground, one finds a gallery along either side of which are long rows of ning norriDiy at tne passer, inese are bodies which, after death, had been placed in crypts, where, owing to the altitude and the rarifled air they do not decay, but simply dry up. Not all the bodies so placed do mummify, but I who rejoice in the grewsome. This is a I topic which does not need to be dwealt I iim.n V . 1 1 an.atr n, rt iiT-i"'Ci nnv thlliff. seme' of the members of the editorial party witnessed here a native burial, it was of the body of a child about 18 months old. It was conveyed to the I cemetery, uncoffined, under the arm of its!ather, who was accompanied by two I erave dieeers. It was laid upon the I ground, its little face upward, while the srave-diggers dug a little trench, about a 1001. deep. in uie milium ui iuib grave, on the tops of other bodies, the child was laid, a few shovelfuls of earth were thrown upon it and the ceremony was ended. The cathedrals here are I very magnificent, and in the floor of one we "w an en srave, ready for the reception of the body of a priest who had JU8t died. The city as a whole is one which has the greatest fascination, on account of its quaintness and picturesqness. Some of its principal streets were step ped and were found to be IS feet wide. The pavements are so narrow in sucn streets that people cannot walk iwo abreast. The population is about w,- 000, and the city sits in a basin in a mountain toD. The habitations are nes tled in the valley and cling to the side of the basin, these latter looking as ready to tumJvi fle-tt'i? fSfS" tne town. yiTe-gSneral effect is of Jerusalem, Bab ylon, Cairo and Pompeii combined. The residencofportion of the city is palatial, with its handBome houses, its vines and flowers and birds and songs of music No words, spoken or written, no views, or illustration, singly or in series, can convey an idea of it. So far as the writer has seen this republic, Guana juato is the very pearl of Mexico. Talkers and writers frequently say of this country that its people are a na- irwn of bee-ears. The accusation is just. A traveler having recently visited Vjue- bec wrote afterwards tnat anyoouy there, from the scullion to the archbish op, would accept a tip. It would be too much to say that all Mexicans beg, but seven out of eight, perhaps would accept a gratuity, and four out of five are not above asking for it. "Centavo" should he emblazoned uoon the national arms. One cannot turn in any direction with out seeing a little band extenaea ana hearing a little voice saying "centavo!" A centavo is a cent, Mexican money. Some of the more ambitious of the beg gars call on you for clnco centavos five cents. In Guanajuato the beggars are more numerous and more persist ent than in any other place visited. Gamins swarmed in the street, chased the street cars upon which the visitors rode, and made the air ring with "cen tavo!" Running back, late in the evening, to Silao, supper was taken and the editor ial party woke up next morning in Que retaro, the population of which is 50- 000. This is the opal town, and the vis itors made large investments in Mexi can opals. Some of them were very beautiful and the prices low. The his torical interest in the place lies, how ever, in the fact tha there was Bigned in 1849, the treaty of Gaudalupo-Hidal-go, and that here Maximilian was cap tured and shot ln 1867. The scene of the execution is two or three miles from the city. The spot is owned now by a Californlan, and is marked by three simple wooden posts. Queretnro Is the capital of the State of the same name. and in the capltol building is seen the coffin, with blood on the bottom, in which Maximilian's body was brought from the place of exe jjtk.n to tbe city, where it was embalmed and shipped to his native Austria. A run of eight hours lands us ln the city of Mexico at 6 o'clock p. m., Thurs day, the Z5th of February, and well, here we are. J. P. C. IN TBE CI TV OF MKXICO. Gaadalnpe. the Beeme of the Apparftloa of the Vlrgia The JlagniAeeat Cathe dral and Ita Altar BaU of Silver-M-meatoes ot tMazlmlliaa Xeoeptiom af the Tourists by Presides Tiaa-A Visit t CkapaltepM Smatday la tZfc Ulty Tbe Alameda, tbe Parade Grennd of tbe Four Hundred A Baaday Afteraoea Ball Fight Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dana aad Other Korth Carolinians Noae Teerer tbe Fats ef the Kartb Tkaa tbe Peer Oate Sees en tbe Plaas) Major. City of Mexico, Feb. 28. The editorial party upon arrival here at o'clock on the evening of the 24th was met at the station by a committee of editors of the City of Mexico, who afterwards map ped out a programme for the visitors, accompanied them on the various expe ditions, and contributed very much to their pleasure. The first night was de voted to looking over the city and get ting the lay of the land. Saturday at noon the tourists took street cars for Gaudaloupe, "the holiest shrine of Mexico, two and a half miles distant, afterwards visited the national museum and gallery of fine arts, and at 4 p. m. were received at the national palace by President Diaz. Guadalupe is the scene of the tradi tion of the apparition of the Virgin to an Indian, Juan Diego, in 15S1. The story runs that flowers sprang up from the rock on which she stood at the time he saw her, and these he gathered and carried to the bishop- la his cloak. When he emptied them at The bishop's feet a beautiful picture of the Virgin was found imprinted on the cloak, a halo around the figure. This cloak or tilma hi reverently preserved, and many duplicates of It are to be seen here and in the cathedrals throughout i Mexico. On the spot of tho appearance of the heavenly vision Is buijt the richest ca thedral in the republic In Its altar rails are twenty-six tons of silver. land devout pUgrima Jonrner hither for i worship -iron every part of tbe coun I try. Tbe paintings, frescoes and dee alinHml mr mmnm ' rkn II.. I sett and another cathedral, sad at the I foot of the bluff the holy well, the wa- wiuuj " bus own a notaDie we Ispot. On it once stood the Temnle of a J the Sun, erected by the Aztecs for the aarecs, oe it remembered, ' vcre wu I worshiDoers, - . . - I In the national museum are to be seen all manner of Aztec antiquities rod I serving a record of their, mnthcwi ,r - 1 computing- Ume; but, above all. the sae- I nneiaj stone, upon wnich, it is esu- I mUM. BO.OU0 nvM wm awrMiwdMn I the museum are to be found complete I specimens of the mineral oev. the birds ..4 If carriage of Maximilian, a splendid af I drven- ' ' I. Th "ery of fine arts is one of the "K. - - ;- . y. w Of the modern paintings, the largest a nnesc is one -or .Maximilian on horseback, attired in. full Uniterm and I leading his army. One is astonished I by the way, at the numerous memorials I - .1 ,IC:,,i " i.r I r,T r 7 "-JV- " I""'"" flV.,vr" mK ie I 7 "." iut nuiiiu u I ter Napoleon, who was chiefly Jnstru 1 mental in his comlne. laid down on I menial in ma cum I UIluBual nonor. appear iooe paid ?ELSSJr "" ' carefully preserved. ija. tm.. I JLa- w a piewui mcmeni. AT- 1 . . .. .. ""f 'rvcn,uu room. beautifully furnished' in red (the tapes- u-y 01 Maximilian s time) and address es were delivered by President Holt man and ex-President Thomas, of the National Editorial Association. These we translated to ThA fSSSE.-"? t"-1!?"!160 -to. President, who 1 niiHiiiiiuii vmwnrwm nv 1 n w . i . . " -w iiiiou, uaiJB- y aoi inierpreier. in'a over, the visitors were presented by name and the President shook the hand of each. He la a man of 66. who do nnt look over 60 a handsome half-breed I rnBni.h o xi , 'J. teCZkT of " ve?y "grac too. I m.nrr t.o n.i.n. .,...J tne handsome paintings in the ambas- naaora- naii examined, and the remain- I uer 01 lne aay ana mgnt were devott-d the court of the Iturbida T-r.-toi I Saturday morning was go as you please, and In the afternoon the castle skirts of the city, was visited. Every schoolboy knows that this la the dp- fence which was stormed by Gen. Scott, and captured, its fall marking, particu- ly, the close of the Mexican war. It is a magnificent stone structure. crown- midst of a valley. The approach to Its I southern exposure is by a steep incline I stormed and took It. It is reached now I Ann It wo fmm That .da .Kot by a long, winding roadway, of modern construction, beginning on its west side and winding upward and around I to the east. Chapultepec is the na- tionai military academy, but it is also the summer home of the President of tbe republic. So much of the castle as is devoted to his uses Is richly furnish- ed, with every convenience of modern life. With its lofty elevation, overlook ing the city and Galley; its open court and flower gardens; its sun-lit galler ies; its stained glass front and its ex quisite decorations, Chapultepec is a dream, impossible of its reproduction on paper. It is easiest reached by the street cars, but best reached by cab , '"Tf.f unve. f i"c"u" njnunuy, snaue trees, laid out by the ill-starred Em press, from the Paseo de Reforms, the driveway of the city's aristocracy, two miles direct to the gates of the castle. Too much time or space could not be given to Chapultepec, did description not fall, but in this case it falls; and besides, the party hurries on to Tacu- baza, nearbywsjsjhe. M.ertA0 offexico, and another bower of beau ty. The garden, which one enters from the roadway, is dark with its dense fo liage of trees, shrubs and flowers and musical with the songs of birds and the play of fountains. Lanters of gaudy colors swing from limb to limb of the trees, ready to be lighted when night comes on, and within thousands of dollars are stacked upon the tibles. Roulette is the game this afternoon and the wheel goes- round and round. The betting here is very high at times, and the gambling, like everything else la Mexico, is wide open. Saturday night the circus, and then comes Sunday. The morning dawns gloriously and the day continues glorious until lt dies. The cathedrals are open early and their bells ring with the quick energy of fire alarms. They draw many curious sight-seers from th.? editorial party, but the majority prefer the Ala meda, the beautiful plaza of the upper classes, situate ln the centre of the city. This assembly place is wide ami long ln extent and lacks none of the beauty .and few of the accessorhis if the finest parks of the leading Ameri can cities. This is the parade ground of the Four Hundred of the City of Mexico from 12 to 3 on Sunday. The band plays and the aristocracy waltzes to and fro, crowding the ample avenues of the park. The day is warm, and ln the spring hats and dresses of the la dies there is a wealth of color, whi'e the children who play about are in straw hats and white summer -dress. The principal avenue of the Alamada is cov ered with tarpaulin to afford protec tion against the almost fierce heat of the sun, and this promenade and some of those converging into it are lined with chairs, in which one may sit and watch the parade for a real 12ft cents. The ladies and gentlemen seen here are attired in tbe height of Eu ropean and American fashion. To see the sandal, the Bombrero, the blanket and the rags you must walk straight up San Francisco street to. the Plaza Major, overlooked by the national pal ace, the grand cathedral and numerous other cathedrals surrounding 1 the square; for the Plaza Major is the re treat and resting place of the poor God help them! for perhaps nowhere on the face of His earth are they poor er than they are here in this city of pal aces and barbaric splendor. Sunday afternoon tho buil-nght. Tne story of this hereafter, if my stomach will stand by me in the recital of its details. To-night at 10 we start home, making but one stop of any length en route that at Zacatecas, where, by the way, 170 wretched silver miners ; lost their lives the day before yesterday in a burning shaft. It has been an unspeakable pleasure to meet here Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Dunn, of Charlotte, who arrived a week ago from 1 Paso, Texas. They are pleas antly Quartered in the Calle de San Juan, and will probably be here a week longer, when they will go to Guaoalav jara (Wardalabarra), the second sec ond city of Mexico, for a visit. I am glad to report both well, though the winds and dust of Mexico City are giv ing Mr. Dunn some trouble. The joy of seeing these friendly faces 2,500- miles from home is one which must be left to the imagination of the reader. ; Ma Nat. W. Taylor, the well-known pho tographer, formerly of AJheville, is also here, and contemplates locating tn bus iness. Tbe absence of Minister Ran som and his sons occasion of rwgre t but it was good to see Mr. William I Johnston Andrews, of" Raleigh, at th-s American legation, and I acknowledge with thanks his kindnesses. Young Mr. Bharrner, or saiem, is nere on business connected with the introduction -of- a cigarette machine. It ought to take right along In this country, for while none chew tobacco, and few smoke cigara everybody, it seems, men wo men and children, smokes dgaiettes. "-' i ' -'- J. Pii C i V." ' . ' , rrsopma. ,3V:r'i - fiend your address to H. E. Bucklen tt Co-, Chicago, and get a tree sample box of DrKing's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you -of their merits. These pills are easy, in action and are particularly effective in the cure of con stipation and sick: headache. Tor ma laria and liver troubles they have proved Invaluable. They are guaran teed to. be perfectly free from every de leterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do - not weaken by their action, hut by giving tone to the stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 25c ner box. Sold by BvrweU Dunn, druggists, -j BATTLE OF CHAKCJ1IX)PYILLE A MEKXTED VEMENVM OT BBATX KEH. CMomI RsnUi'i Jtoek bm Besmlt f .TUrty Yean TeUKademed by Om.Um as4 FrsausMt Omeen f Jaaksmt's, HUTS aadi StaatewalT gmd Stalnt The Oewalmg Beasts Btoedy Prama A Stecy Cleail vTsM : JTerttlted by she Testtsaeay ef Eye Wlt - 'weaves.- ' - - lv - i- Written for tbe Observer ! The Battle -of Chancellorsvllle " ; by Lt CoL A. C Hamlin; with the tam pliments of the author and of Gen. James H .Lane. has been received and mad. The steady rain of abuse . - show ered upon the. Eleventh Army Corps ry rtooaer, tucaies ana outers, for its I nnnnaai, unmanning - m anow alleged ' misconduct in, this action, and I what was in his front.:; A moment later the claims out forward bv man-r swi.lGen.- Knlpe emerged from the shade era! commanders forbdeeds of alleged neroiam nave ax last resulted In the publication of this patiently collated account or nearly two Hundred mure admlrably illustrated by well-executed maps, it Is the protest and defence of brave men against Indignity - l and wrong. The compiler has .toiled at it for more than 30 veara. Bt hu Keen endorsed and bis work approved by the Society of the Corps, of which he was the medical inspector,- and he has had the assistance not only of many com - rades, but of Gen. Lane, and promt - nent officers of Jackson's, Hill's and the Stonewall Brigade staffs. In the direct purpose of the volume, the quarrel of his corps with rivals, I rrom tne united states lord, (to the and with some its own commanding north) press them!" On Hill's an officers we are not E interested. . He I swer that none of his staff knew the seems, indeed, to have well made out his case .and we have to thank him for the only full and clear description of that dreadful battle of darkness and mystery we have ever seen. The main interest of the book to us is his graphic presentation of the crowning scene of that bloody drama, tne rail or tne conqueror as be was Just reaching out to pluck the last re ward of his genius, the fatal check to Jackson. Just ready to launch the at tack, which, so far as we can tell, would have been successful, and have been the most marvelous feat of arms in even his splendid roll of victories. This story is so clearly told, so for tified by the testimony of eye-witness- es to what went on before and after, and so distinctly illustrated by maps ana diagrams, tnat one can scarcely express anything but assent to the conclusions. i Hooker's march toward Fredericks- burg, stopped by rinding Lee had be - gun to entrench across his' front, had been commenced down two" principal roads, known, the upper as the pike, the lower as the plank road. These unite at the western limit of the Dow dal farm, and the one road then go ing eastward to Chancellor's is known as the plank road. About a mile and a half from the junction toward Chan-1 eellor's the Hazel Grove road comes lnto lt from the south.- and the Bullock road leaves it, going northeast; a nun- dred yards east of this point, and for that distance forming one with the Bullock road, the obscure and almost worn out mountain path runs about parallel with the plank road and but a score or two of yards north of it until within half a mile of Chancellor's, when it unites with lt again. This minute description is necessary to understand any, and to reconcile all of the accounts of the shooting of tbe great general. The plan of the battle was as follows: Three of Hooker's Corps lay enringed about Chancellor's facing outward. east and south ; a fourth was still far ther westward at Hazel Grove, and the Eleventh was somewhat out ln the air, on the plank road and pike, westward. yet within touch of the force at Hazel Grove. Lee determined, when he came to confront this army of at least double his own in number, to detach Jackson with three divisions, and hurl his command on the Eleventh Corps, double it up, press it back on the one behind it at Hazel Grove, and so on until the main force at Chancellor's was Involved, when he, with two divis ions, would attack from the South, and complete the rout,'- This was Stonewalls favorite game. and he started out on the night of May 1st with his usual speed. He had 28 regiments under Hill, 22 under Rhodes and 20 under Colston, beeides four reg iments of cavalry and; ssany batteries, He marched, with seeming reckless-1 ness, in straight roads square in fF9R wise generals at once decided that Lee was in full retreat, and so reported to headquarters. Some of the company and regimental officers, who had fought Jackson in the valley, did not so read the signs of the march, but they were promptly rebukedjyhen they spoke of their suspicions. Jackson was never; careless, never reckless, save in seeming, and woe to the enemy who was deceived by the pretence. "Mystery," f he used to say, "is the secret of success in war." A few shots from rifled cannon but caus ed the swift flankers to seek roads more sheltered and some farther withdrawn, but nothing threw them Into confusion or checked their steady march. Jackson's last dispatch' to Lee, now in the State Library at Richmond, reads: 'Near 3 p. tn.. May 2. 1863, Gen. R. E. Lee: The leading division Is up and the other two appear- to be well closed. T. J. J." At 6 p. m. he was ready for action. This wizard of the battle-field had in 24 hours marched an army of 30.000 men directly past the front of a much larger force, arranged it in three lines of battle and allowed a third of it to rest on their arms two hours within a mile of the right flank of the Army of the Potomac, and not a man escaped or deserted to give warn ing of the attack. So far as tactics could go, the battle was already won. J; It was not yet 5 -o'clock. Sickles, chafing at the thought that Lee was escaping, with Hooker's permission, took 20,000 of the best troops in the army and started south to cut him off. As late as 7 o'clock he was ignorant of disaster, and miles away from the scene of action, in the woods, where no sound bad reached him: Some strange condition of the air deadened the noise of battle on this fitful evening, for lt was not until, at 6:30, an hour after the rout, that even Hooker, waiting on the porch of the Chancellor bouse, to hear that Sickles had intercepted the fleeing columns of his foe, learned from the sudden rush of all that horrid mass that surges in front of a beaten army, anything of the ruin which had befal len him. At 5 Jackson asked Rhodes at the Luckett farm, "Are you ready? "Tea, said Rhodes, and nodded to" Major Blackford, commanding a part of the advanced lines. The bugle rang out, a mighty roar of -yelling troops shook the air, the fierce rattle of rifles broke forth, and the charge . was on. In 30 minutes Jackson had wrecked Deven's Division, in 30 more he had control of the Talley plateau. Just west of Dow dal's, and at 7:45 his skirmishers had possession of the forks of the plank road, pike, Hazel Grove and Bullock roads. In half an hour more, or by 8:15, Hill's fresh division had been brought up. and by his order Lane's.e brig ade had been deployed aqv nCcVimf the roads near the Junc'aiOYi e and the path. The Th. d .-iFuNorth Carolina was ln front, in open order, as a picket or skirmish line, covering the brigade. The Twenty-eighth and Eighteenth North Carolina were north, and tbe Thirty-seventh and Seventh North Carolina south of tha roads, the nearest Federal force Lane, or Hill knew of was 700 yards down the pike, to the east, under Berry; The sound of axes was clearly heard as they were en trenching, and the brigade had been re peatedly and earnestly warned against surprise from that direction, as they were far ahead, and alone. - . Here tha battle paused for a time. The .., k.i. nr. Rhodes and Colston, who had taken the brunt so far, his strongest division, under his best commander, A. P. HID, and Hill, mindful of- the deadly work yet to be done, had placed ln the van the unmatched - - brigade - of -Lane. Whether a success should become a vic tory hung upon the acts of the next hour. After tho hurly-burly struggle in dimness ot twilight, the real fight was to be made under the clear ra diance of the moon, partially obscured by trees, until the A open - ground in front was reached, when all would be plain.' -.. jh r- "IW:i!-;- t -i-.u It was as if. when this valiant com rades had fought their way forward, pressing their foemen back to the spot where all knew the crisis was to come, the master at arms should step to the front and nnshealth hia famous weapon to decide tho fray. y3d Lane, waving his blade, "the ice-brDOka temper, un til it flamed In the moonbeams like Ex calibur, advanced the sword of North Carolina. - - g - 1 - j i, , Having posted his' men. Lane rode ! back for final orde found Jackson from Hill, but he . Kne at the 1 J junction, of . the - Hazel .Grove and Bullock roads, and received directions to "push right ahead, i Lane. - rlzht ahead I None or the (Jonxederate com manders were then aware of the prea-t-nce of heavy bodies of Federal troops almost within musket-shot of their right,- two f uli divUdons and parts of a third, and it was not nmtll Zjane, re- turnins 1 f rota a last visit to his ex treme right. i as - about 1 to commence I ntem- ovement that IX Col. Hill, one 1 nto hrawst otlcers, begged bun to J wait until it was known what force I wa on their - flank - and - rear. The I sound or wagon trains sad voices of I men were audible, ' but bod could tell I whether lt was the army: of Hooker or - 1 - - then a cavalry colonel I r0"16 UP from the Federal lines, waving J ' the forest, asking tor i Williams, his I oitmoii wnuaunw, wnose una was I bot more than four or five hundred I yarns m xront or tne rural ox tne sev- I entn North Carolina. Then Sergeant I Cowan, In charge of that part of the I skirmish line, ordered his-men to fir-. I A rattling volley was seat toward the I wandering general, and was lnstantlv I returned oy tne Federal , pickets close I Dy. and rolled northward across the I Pe until answered by Berry, to tbe 1 east. This was from 9 to a quarter 1 past May a, 1863. I Before this Hill and his staff had I found Jackson, who turning to his of I Acer, said: "Press them, cut them off I country. Jackson ordered Capt. Bos wel1 to report to him as a guide, and the party rode easterly to where the Bullock road and the mountain path joined the plank road. ; Here they halted a moment to listen to a courier I rrom - Stuart, Dave Kyle, who waa native of the neighborhood and knew every path to it. He says that the group slowly rode out on the mountain path, and not on the plank road or pike, which Jackson knew was swept Dy ine guns at Fair-view, The little cavalcade, the chieftain in advance, passed on through the Eighteenth North Carolina, so silently tnat Major Barry, on the left wing. was not apprised of their presence, and I rode elowly toward the pickets of the I Thirty-third North Carolina, covering I me Dngaae rront. a moment before I reaching the line the oartv halted. I when Jackson listened a short while to I the sound of voices and axes not far to 1 his front, then turned his horse and led I the party back to the Junction of the path and the Bullock road, about 60 or 80 yards in. front of the Eighteenth North Carolina, and the same distance from where the Jackson monument stands. He stopped, turned his horse again. I and again sat intently Ustening to the hostile sounds in front, and for Lane's I signal to advance. Hill and his adju- I tant Joined him, with others, who clus- I tered in their rear. A moment or two I before this Col. Purdie and his adju I tant naa ridden out to near van Wert's cabin to consult with Col. Avery about the sounds on the plank roads. At that instant the shot fired at Knlpe rang out, answered as has been told; then the firing broke out tn front and Purdie, with his companion, started back on the plank road to take their positions at the head of their regi ment. "The sound of their footsteps," says the author, "started the Confed erate soldiers, already aroused by the roar of musketry ln front, and as Major Berry, on the left of the Eigh teenth North Carolina, some distance in the woods heard these sounds of rapid approach from the front, and a group of strange horsemen moving about among the shadows of the trees, 80 yards in front, he instantly gave the order to fire and repeat the firing. The fire of the rifles of the North Caro lina mountaineers was fearfully effec tive, and every one of that group of horsemen went down or disappeared before its fatal aim except Jackson, The chieftain, although grievously wounded, kept his seat in the saddle, even when 'Old Sorrel,' startled by the confusion around him, dashed across the path into an oak tree, whose branches nearly swept his rider to the ground. A moment after the horse continued on toward the plank road, but flsally stopped a few yards from it. w.heraaome of the .officers who had es- csfjetf 4he destructixe firQu found him." The party helping him down the road toward Dowdal's soon grew to quite a group, and attracted the notice of Capt. Caborne, who had two guns on picket 700 yards east. This firing was taken as a signal that Hill had ad vanced, and the 43 guns massed at Fairvlew sent a terrible Are down the road, where the 20,000 men were waiting to Join in the attack. Twice Jackson's bearers were struck down, and ln the very midst of the tempest he gave his last order to his men. To Pender, whose men were very grievously exposed, and who expressed a doubt - as to whether he could hold them under so murderous a fire, he turned and ex claimed emphatically: "Pender, you must hold your ground. Space forbids further notice of this interesting book, however much it would please one to discuss the effect of Jackson's check upon the army then marshaled, and upon the war. Bangor, Me., published by the author. TNSTAXiUKO A FBKsIDEHT. The Routine and Ceremonial of Inaugura tion Day. In the March- St. Nicholas Clifford Howard describes as follows the man ner of installing a new President: T heFifty-fourth Congress Is drawing to a close. The House of Representa tives is about to adjourn, and many of its members have alredy come over to the. Senate to witness the closing exer cises there. Extra chairs and seats have been brought ln for them and the many other prominent officials who have gathered there, including the of ficers of the Army and Navy, the Justices of the Supreme Court, the cabinet officers and the foreign ambas sadors and ministers, many of whom are dressed in their gorgeous state robes. According to law, Congress must come to an end at noon; but if the Presidential party has not made Its ap. pearance when the Senate clock Is about to point to twelve, the hands are moved back a few minutes so as to gain time. And before the hands are al lowed to get around to twelve, every body has arrived, everything is in read iness, and the president of the Senate has administered the oath of office to his successor, the new Vice President of the United State, who at once calls an extra session of the Senate, so that not a moment elapses between the death of one session and thebirth of another. Then, after a short prayer by the Vice President, the distinguished people gathered in the Senate form in line, and, headed by a company of newspaper reporters, they march in dignified procession to the rotunda, and -hence to the platform on the east front of the Capitol. The nine justices of the Supreme Court, clothed ln their black robes, walk out on the platform first, follow ed by the President-elect. As soon as the crowd catches sight of him a deaf ening shout breaks forth from 60,000 throats, and, amid the enthusiastic up roar . that lasts several minutes, hats and canes, umbrellas and handker chiefs, are waved aloft or thrown wildly into the air by joyous and patri otic Americans. Removing his hat, the President-elect comes forward, and, turning to the Chief Justice of the United States, takes the oath of office as required by the constitution. Then comes the inaugural address, which, of course, only those near the platform are able to hear. But the 30.000 or 40,. 000 who can't hear the speech are wil ling to agree with everything that is said, and every little while they shout and cheer and applaud. ; Marriage In Oklahoma Gnthrie. Ok-, Dispatch to the Kansas City Times. After a long conference, the Rose marriage bill was agreed upon, with amendments, and passed In both houses. It provides that a white man cannot marry a negro, his second cous in, or his mother in law. r - Why He? -: Washington Post. !' " If Hon. Pat Walah realty sees signs of business prosperity ln the South why doesn't he allow a few of them to creep Into bis newspaper T v . The nest salve In the world for eats, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt, rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped chilblains, corns, and all akin eruptions, and pois ttvely cures piles or no pay reolred. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion AT bibbw refunded t Prteo 9 mi a bar. far sua b Bumll A- TWnn Company. . f A SEW YORKER OH REFORMERS. - -1 SOn OBSXXVATIOXS BT A TISTTOll. Bonded Pelitieians Who Want to Get Into tbe PnbUe Crib in tbe msgmlne of Bofomtors Tho Bray of an Ass Mistaken for the.Boar of a Uoa A Tiaitoe. Sees Xvideneee of Thrift. Good Management, Good iGoverwaaont and Good Order, and Asks, What More Do People WaatT ! To the Editor of the Observerr . : ' ; T am a. looker on hero In Venlrte- that's all. but 1 have reason to be gla l that my good fortune brought me here. I have; been hospitably' received and kindly treated.- X have walked with your people, talked with them, ate with them, and have been with them in their homes. ; X have found the men courteous and generous, the women cultured, re filled and hospitable that they arc beautiful goes without saying. T am from New York- cil v Lnnw someihins of the Tammany Tiger, and have knowleoge of the measure of Re form (big R. please) that emptied It self on the body politic there something over two years ago. Let me tell the good people of Charlotte that .New York never Kad a government unr the away f Tammany Hall In its palnii3t days that was so Incompetent, so cor rupt, so extravagant, so tyrannical and despotic ; as that which now rules and for tbe last year has ruled tbe city under the guise of REFORM. Under the old Tammany regime, whan Thomas Byrnes Was at the head ofvShe :kUC' department, life and property were sale and New York was shunned by crim- IrsU as a good Christian will shun tlte realm of his Satanic majesty; it was too hot for them. Like Charlotte, New York had sotn-. and that i some waa a larare number- men who wanted to get their finsera ln the public pie and their arms into the city treasury. They were barred be cause better men knew their cunning and kept them out. We had .Parkhurst, Comstock, Gerry, and last, but not least, Teddy Roosevelt, and we have them yet more's the pity! The cry of Reform swept Tammany off its feet in 1894, and the reformers at last got up to the public trough, and like others of their kind, they jumped into it with both feet. The record of their administration was soon written in a demoralized police force, 4n which veterans were turned down to make room for political heelers and ward howlers; crime became rampant and criminals brazen; the treasury was looted and taxes increased, and there was neither safety nor freedom for the people the mighty force of the long arm of tbe Reform government being spent in a mad effort to prevent the people from getting Sunday beer. Sa goes reform in New York, and so lt will go always when sore-headed politicians with hungry bellies and empty pockets attempt to get into the public crib in the guise of reform. They will roar like lions until they have frightened the people and secured their election. Then the lion's skin is discarded and the public realizes that what was thcught to be the roar of the king of beasts was but the braying of an ass. But it is too late then; the ass has his inning. I have been much interested in the game being played by some of your citizens who don't have pie three times day, and your city government. I recognized ln the moves being made by the pie-hunters the same tactics that were employed to overthrow the useful ness of New York's police force; I heard the roar of the roarer, and it sounded ery much like that of the reformers in New York, and I am sure if you will tear off the covering you will discern the hoofs and ears of the greatest bray ing animal on exhibition. There are just three creatures in the world that are the same wherever you find them:: An ass, a monkey and a politician out of office; you may disguise them, but they are always the same. I have found this a model little city; everywhere I go there is evidence of thrift, good management, good govern ment and good order. What more do people want? I have found your police men always in his place ; courteous. gentlemanly and efficient that Is more than can be said of those in my home city. Why not let well enough , alone? Why do away with what is exce-'Jent 7 experiment nitn an unknown and untried quantity? Be not deceived, ye citizens of Char- lotte; it is not the lion that is making the noise within your gates; it is only the other "critter" I have desert ted. Iet him bray, but do not open the crib door to him, nor give him free entry to the pie-counter; and hark ye to this;: "Mark you this, tassanio. The devil can quote Scripture for his purpose. An evil producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" Pardon me for putting in my oar; My apology if one is needed Is that I like youT and being well acquainted with the long-eared gentry who mas querade as Reformers, and having re cognized them in the move against your city's peace and welfare, I could not forbear hitting one lick for the cause of right and good government. RETLAW. March 5, 1897. . THE LOJStJ AGO. The following beautiful poem is the production of Mr. Phllo Henderson, and is supposed to have been written by him while living in Charlotte. . For beauty of rhetorical figures, the al most perfect rhythm, and the pathos of the whole, it is truly a sparkling gem in literature. The poem has been published many times, once or twice before ln this paper, but its merit entitles it to still further repetition, especially because it has been appro priated by a certain Northern journal as the production of a member of its staff. Whether it has any especial ref erence, or whether it is but the inspired production of a true poet, we do not know. I A wonderful stream is the River Of Time, As lt flows through the realm of tears With a faultless rhythm and musical rhyme. And a broader sweep and a surge sub lime. Ere it blends with the Ocean of Years. How the winters are drifting, like flakes of snow. And the summers like buds between. And the years in their sheaves, as they come and go. On the river's breast, with its ebb and flow. Ere they glide in the shadow and sheen. There's a magical isle up the River of Time, Where the softest of .airs are playing; There's a cloudless sky and a tropical clime. And songs as sweet as a vesper's chime. And tbe Junes with the roses are straying. The name of that isle is The Long Ago; We bury our treasures there. There are brows of beauty and bosoms of snow ; There are heaps of dust; but we love them so; There are trinkets and tresses of hair. There's a fragment of song that nobody sings. And part of an Infant prayer; There's a lute unswept and a harp without strings There are broken vows and pieces of rings, . And the garment she used to wear. There are hands that we waved, as the fairy shore - ! By the mirage la lifted in air; I And sometimes wa hear, through the turbulent roar. Sweet vioces we beard, in the days gone before. When the wind down the rivet Is fair. - . i ! i Oh, remembered for aye, be that fairy lr - ' ' : I AH the day ef life Ull night; r When evening cornea on, with Its beau- tlfut smile,--'. . i And we are closing oar eyes to slumber awhile, " j May that Greenwood of souls be in Sight. :- . ' - - ' I - - Cant. HowoH's Washington Tost..- I Capt. Evan Protection Howell inform ed a New York reporter that confidence baa ta a measure returned to the South. If Capt. Howell is not careful he i will find himself engaged ln a lively control varsy wittt his own newspaper, . r .1? 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