Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-01

Several new farms have been opened, and
nearly every one has sown an increased
acreage over last season. The present indi-
cations point to an unprecedentedly large
crop of all kinds of small grain in this coun-
ty this year.
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
Tom anderson a Victin, of Grant and
Shernsan's Incapacity ~ at Shiloh.
Don Piatt's Washington Letter to Cincinnati
Enquirer.
SHAMEFUL NEGLECT AND ABUSE.
WASHINGTON, March II, 1878.-One Of
the saddest spectacles to which kind
hearts seem to be presented is that of help
less old age abandoned to the hard necessities
of life. This is intensified when the sufferer
looks not to the natural ties Of family, but
upon the cold, busy world for sympathy
and help.
There is an old man who appears here
from time to time, whose infrmities are ag-
gravated by keen sense of wrong; for while
a fire of wrath at the abuse he suffers burns
within until he is half crazed, his efforts to
right himself are pitiable in their feebleness.
Want and privation have added to his seven
ty years. Although clearly in his person, he
is ragged and forlorn. But he is burdened
with an old grievance an affair long since
forgotten by the public, and SO fierce in his
shrill denunciations, SO tedious in his recital,
that men avoid him, hurry away at his ap-
proach, and bolt their doors against his en-
trance.
And yet that man saved, in one of the
shameful disasters of the late war, our army
from utter humiliation. It was no accident,
but the result of his own soldierly instincts
and high courage. His grand ACHIEVEMENT
that ought to secure him at least aid in his
old age, and imperishable renown after death,
was the cause of his ruin.
met him upon the avenue last Thursday.
made no effort to escape him, although,
God knows, he holds one as the dreadful old
mariner held the wedding guest in Cole
ridges wild poem. He goes over the late
war again and again. He has all the facts
with fearful tenacity in his mind, and only
forgets that he has given them to you over
and over before. His pale, ashy face, once
SO strong in its setting of full forbead, Ro-
man nose and square, prominent and solid
chin, has nothing left but the CLEAN of an
eye in which there turks touch of insanity.
His slouched hat is pulled over his white
head, as if it were njght-cap. His clothes,
of past fashion, are ragged and thread
bare, while his feet are clad in heavy shoes,
good for ten years. wear, that he greases and
wears innocent of socks. Every part of him
indicates poverty, defes charitable aid or
sympathy.
While he rehearsed the old story of wrong,
he suddenly stopped, and as ugly CLEAN as
ever care to see shot from his gray eyes.
he was looking at a carriage and pair that
was rolling by. The housekeeping bays in
their glittering harness were driven by a
colored man, sleek, fat and insolent, and
they carried General Tecumseh Sherman, sit
ting back with arms folded, as if he felt that
the eyes of the world were on him in CRATE
full admiration. My old friend lifted his
arm and shook his clencAed hand at the car
riage and occupant as they swept by, and
cried out:
s"There goes the damned scoundrel-the
damned, cowardly, lying scoundrel; the
damned traitor! There he goes, damn
him!''
Fearing that I might be implicated in this
fierce Indictment of the General, I hurried
away. Barring the profanity, the old man
did not give this epauletted fraud an epithet
amiss.
THE SLAUGHTER At SHILOH.
The man who thus mathematical Sher.
man was old Tom Worthington, of Ohio. A
graduate of West Point, he left the service
for more active life and did not return un
til the late civil war broke upon the country
and he then raised regiment, the forty
| sixth Ohio Infantry, and took the field. HI
| made for the time an extraordinary officer
His keen soldierly instincts, stimulated By
an indomitable energy, and sustained by al
iron will, were marred by aquick temper ant
coarse, overbearing manner. But for tn,
trying occasion he was gem of man, ant
under military power, such as France O.
Germany, would have found recognition i,
high rank. But the influences that governed
promotion incur army during the war wer
of West Point, and those were, as they We
are, half social and half political-the socia
rather the stronger element of the two. It i
not that the army is refined, but it is exclu
sive, made up of cliques and controlled lik
. close corporation. There was too much 0
the volunteer about Colonel Tom to pleas
the West Point paupers in fact and aristo
Gratis through assumption.
Colonel Tom was martinez, and drille,
and disciplined his troops until life getting
to be burden they became gallant in tn
face OF danger that at worst might afford re
lief. His soldierly instincts taught him tina
as much could be got from the spade in tn
use of raw troops as the musket, and his en-
campments could be traced by the earth
works he left behind, and he fought with
readiness that indicated pleasure in the fight
ing. These high qualities proved his ruiz
on trying occasion when any other maj
would have secured fame and fortune.
Colonel TOMS forty sixth Ohio infantr
made part of Grant and Sherman advanc
when it when into camp at Pittsburg Land
ing, probably remembered in history q
Shiloh. The forty-sixth made the e1trem
right, and Colonel Worthington went int
the enemy's country with the leading hal
without the other in supporting distance
He saw with CONSERVATION that the arm
was encamped without reference to a de
Tense, wide gap being left between th
wings for force that was supposed to b
ten days at least in the rear. This anxiet
was not quieted by the criminal negligence
that left this force without even pickle
line.
Colonel Worthington repaired to head
quarters to find the Generals. They wer
insolent and overbearing, deaf to all sugges