Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-05-15

BARBARA fElICHlE dfAlN. . take tHe
f,l,,wiup from The Southern Home, pub
i,sb,d at Charlotte, North Carolina, by Gen.
D Ii. Hill:
"rhs proSy and matter of fact people are
tearing to pieces WhittlerS beautiful poem of
Barbara Felcie The poem tells how, when
,t,,. r .beI troops entered Frederick, Maryland,
10 1862, Stuncwsl Jackson at their head, Bar
hara united Union flag in his face. He or
d.r,d il down. Barbara berated him and made
him blush for the wicked cause he had eu-
g,ged ip. Some citzeus of Frederick have
pubshcd statements showing the utter uu-
truthluiuess Of the incident upon which the
poem is founded. 10 vlndicatlon OF the truth
of history, We would contribute an item. The
senior of this paper was, AT the time, the SEQ
opd 10 commaud i'll Jacksous corps The Gen
cral was severely Injured on the morning OF
the Confederate entrapce into Frederick, Mary
land, by his horse rearing up and falling back
upon him. He was unable to ride and turDed
over the charge of his troops to he second 10
command, who had no conversation with Bar
bara Fcjtchie or any other lady iu Frederick.
The whole story is an unredecmed and uure-
deemable ialsehood.
General Early has published very
amusing letter showing the utter absurd
ty aud folly of the inciden, upon which Whit.
tiers celebrated poem is founded. General
Early shows that General Jackson did not
euter Frederick until the 10th of September,
whereas the heroism, so,called. OF Barbara
Frirchic, was displayed on the 9Th, the day on
which the Confederate troops took possession
OF Frederick. the Senior of this paper can
vouch for the entire accuracy of Gen. Early s
statement. He saw Gen. jackson when his
horse reared back aud tell upon hun, and knows
certainly that he did not eoter Frederick with
the Confederate troops"
FORTY DAYS FROM LONDON TO JAPAN.--lt
has been announced that California corporation
called the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Co., was some time ago organized 10 run steam
ers between SauFraocisco and Chioa and japan,
competing for that trade with the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company. Late English papers give
accounts of the sailing of the White Star
steamer Oceanic" from Liverpool via the
Suez canal, for Hoog Kong, whence she will
leave early in June, with a full cargo of the
new teas, and be ready to start back from San
Francisco by July 5. She is TO be followed 10
few days by the Gaelic, formerly belonging
to the same liue, and at an interval of twenty
days or SO by the "Belgic,' all Of them vessels
of large carrying capacity, and with very great
fuel. The two latter are quite new, and the
former has been thoroughly nverhauled and re-
fitted for the new service. 1t is expected they
will de able to make the passage from Yoko.
hama to San Francisco 10 about twenty days
aud passengers will be able to make the trip
from London to japan, or vice versa, inside OF
forty days, beside avoiding the dangers OF the
Red Sea passage The Oceanic" aud her
consors will be able te carry 500 to 5, 900 tons
Of freight besides passengers, or sufficient to
employ a daily train Of fifty cars for ten or twelve
days to move overland The whole of the
through frcights, and of course the passengers,
OF the steamships will be sent over the Pacific
railroads. The facility aud speed of such com
munications between China aud Japan and the
United States are difficult to to realize, and must
have au important bearing upon the trade and
commerce OF this country and the world.
PY SHlMINY IsH DOT So?-There is
doubtless such thing as excessive promptness
in euelgeucies. Presence OF mind and deter
Mutation are admirable qualities in themselves
but 1t sometimes happens that decision made
upon the spur of the moment is regretted upon
more deliberate survey oftbe field. This re
morse seems to have Overtaken lately worthy
Duchmau of Anaka county, Minnesota. The
bulCnludU WAS SechluE W IedCll tU"u az oouuS
distance from Sank Ceutre and to accomplish
this, must drive over the prairie from the latter
towO. H. was unaccustomed to the road aud
night overlook him with his vehicle fast iD a
slough aud 20 town in sight. He sought the
solitary farm house visible and asked pcrmls-
sion to stay till moruipg, the farmer telling
the traveller however. that it would De neces-
sary for him to sleep with the children or with
the farmer himself as their accOmmOdat tlOnS
were limited Quick as lightning, the Dutch
maD expressed his resolution not to sleep with
'bodderatiou shltren,' SO be slept with the
farmer. The rest of the story may be given in
his owo language: "Vell, in der morDio, ven we
COMES nit der stairs down, | see two girls apou;
seventeen und nineteen years old, and | ask der
old man: 'Pees dem girls die shitren you told
the about?' uud be say 'yaw; dem is mine
only shiltreu ! und | say to myself, Py shimioy
lsh dot SOP