Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-23
OUg wAsHIEGEON LETTER
AhoRf the Ohio Election.
WAsBIncIo:7, D. c. Oct. 90, 10.


NE. -D-roR: That was an awful
.1attle IN Ohio. The Democratic losses
were unusnaily heavy. Gen. Ewing
was lost Oh the first charge. Gen. |
Rice, " liie gallant Y mnstec.ng his |
) 3.avcs, YVES morally wounded, and |
.eft on t,ie field. seeing the day was |
one OF oise9ter for the party, the
-Gpow fnrrman, bearing her infant
aH3y aioft 10 encourage The Green
* braves, rushed form into the con-
est antl was knocked in{o a geminy
.'tuy 3 s,nslel rom gold-mounted
aplon i1 5hefm3n's battery. Tilden,
seeing the stampede OF his defeated
host, rusned out and mounted an
<4t, UfTrcs in front Of the DEM
/ a.5c meade ua,t ,tefs aad shouted words
uiC9..' put the panic stricken crow d
z Oh peli-sden, and ran over the
no . od refolner and trampled him
! in,T Ii ,e, for tte'e wasn't substance
e. !. q about him t, make a ruin OF
any greater 'mensioDs than that.
| Gan. Voorhees, climed q tall syca-
more TO watch the hight, but the
victorious army, under the calico
! flag CIied aloud, saying, "Dan come
/ down aud be our prisoner" aud
! straightway he came down. The am
munitiOn train of the Greenback brig
. ade, pulled by q team of oxen, driven
ny the venerable Scion Chase, was
captured. The ammunition was
! Worthless, being only blank cartridges
and squibs, but "them steers" were
nne ones and they were at once
shipped direct from Chicago to the
E ropean market. A great many
stands OF arms were captured. They
were principally double barrel shot
guns, which had been shipped from
the south, having gone out of use
there for want of business. Among
tue trophies was an immense sponge,
said 10 be the one with which Joe
Biat "a burn was going to use in
"W4ping out all of the war Legislation"
l:+9G Writer. After the battle 8 day
va Iaken up in buying the dead. A
s. 10 pie barrel stAve marked the last
~C5 Ing place of the noble refOrmer of
{, me .cv Park. 1t bore this insc- ip~
t,Hp.
Id Tllden's dead, let's mark MS grave
u itA n ripneT-alley barre! stave."
:. Chisholm was eerly on the field
Q. image doing her sua-e toward
tts .rinS ihe battle field. Comiug TO
' lus li1eie I, remains of Gen. Ewing
! j.. neaved IL iDto deep, dark gulley
"caF by, anI marked the place by
llan,3hg asnOt.@un b2Irtl at his heart.
I Of 4ll@' ee, of FLORIDA, was there and
: glAG.np sam. Eandall batIy wounded,
,raHcU Wl,h !m aud tried 10 comfort
II ~ ~ a~t1.rg Goa 10 forgive him for
HiS .ui3}fCIs connection with the un.
s"2-Iug of Denlocra in the last hours
the - n CUnggC.2.
2 The SauQest spectacle presented or
t ne entiIe battle @rouud was that m ade
~ tDe tleal remains of Widow Thur
map. as it lay with disheveled locks
1 and iifelees hmbs, The usual fire gone
E ouJ Of he once bold eyes and the lids
, OF the same weighed down by q pail
: Of gold doilals placed on them by the
l &c ruu8 hand of Char ey Foster
l At her side lay her dead ag)baby
the two were kindly buried IN tht
; same grave, with the following in
scription: Rag Baby" and "Alleu
3 g.. Thurman"
: s de by side plant parent and child,
J. this theiI common tomb,
They failed TO establish Il theory wild
o. a count o Radical boom.
t The battle next 10 be fought occurs
, in New York. Cod knows what viii
beC1 3e Of TIC Democrats if that brings
[ them defeat also. Il now costs an
| a.craGe 'ell crat one dollar to get 8
, shave : this ity on account of the
ieu@tl; Of is face. The only consola-
tinn these ;tDfOri anate citizens have is
3 the ne they find in abusing each
! otiiel fot the series of disasters now
U "a them. Roy.