New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-23


brave, good-humorsd fellow. II you will promise
me that neither you any of your men shall over
come into my lines again except as prisoners mi
let you 60. God bless you, General said the man
and without any moro adeu he Just leaped into thar
stream and came up on the other side, andstook 10
| the woods"
General Gordon said. referring to the reIatiya
bravery of Southern and Northern soldiers that he
had perfect instances OF cool and desperate
pluck among the soldiers in blue as among the sol
diers of his own
| MEMORIES OF sToNEwALL Jackson ~
Referring to Stonewall Jackson, whom he knew
very well, Gordon said: Gle was a singular man
| He was poor conversationaist. He was tact,ru
and rather shy; not very quick of mind. partieu-
larry to talk and he would not argue at ALL While
he great soldier. / hardly think he was
ambitious except TO do his duty better than anybody
else. The religious side OF his nature was strong
You would find it difficult except from his actions
to make Interesting picture OK him In his camp,
so much went on in dumb show and silence As an ]
instance of how little he would argue. remember
being with him at Malvern Hill. when General
Whiting, native OF New-EnglaDd. who served on 4
side and was killed at Fort Fisher rode up to
explain why he could not carry ont certain order.
He related the disposition of the enemy toward him.
how he had not the facilities and to carry out
the order, aud gave intelligent statement, as |
thought. 1 hardly knew who he was. jackson
heard him without any reply until the end, when lie
SAID: 'GenerpI, you have got my orders That is
all have got to say about it. siri' And he would
say more"
TOTAL DEPRAvITY or MULE.
II the course of the talk Gordous countenauce
frightened up with that very cheerful smile be has
and he said; did yOu ever drive mulef You will
neyerknOw what it is TO be run away with until
you have runaway with a mule. / remember
when was in about as much danger from
runaway mule as from. all the power of the United
States Government. got of at a railroad station
where l needed TO take conveyance and go thirty
forty miles back into the country. There was
not much prospect of good livery stable and
when entered the only one Of the place the
rose up warmly and shook hands with me and called
me General Gordon. He was one of my old soldiers.
who had at various times been stationed about my
headquarters as orderly something Of that
sort. Mike said I. have you got conyenences to
take me to such placer Oh. yes, General said
Nike, i can fix you off first ratel' What have
you got, Mixer well, General, Pve got good
mule
lie brought the mule out of the stable, and from
my knowledge of mules, which is not inconsidersble.
! rather feared that mule was going to run away.
He had way of putting one ear back and the other
ear forward, and then reversing the movement, and
didn't kick nor plunge. He just simply looked like
q depraved, unpublished dcepy-dyed mule. There
is no way to describe tho kind of vice that mule
had bnt to call it mule After we put him in the
shafts, he started out little too lively. The road
lay straight as arrow almost to the horizon
through the melancholy philippines, and the
roots underlying the surface produced the effect Of
a corduroy bridge, as the buggy would strike them
constantly and make Us hold op hard The mule
rather increased than slaekened his speed with dis
lance, and, said l.: Mike, as you live. this
mule is going 20 run away with u.s. Never mind,
General Phi bring him through. He won't. run
away. / can hold him.
I'VE had gone along in this unsatisfactory manner.
getting pretty well bruised up. for two three
miles when saw coming toward Us a turpentlne
OK cart Now that is a thing" said General Cor
DON that yOn never in your life, | suppose,
though they pretty common with us. It IS cara
with shafts and only two high wheels, hitched up
to one OK AID barrels OF crude turpentine they get
out of the woods going through were piled
mp on this little cart. They made quite a tall pyra
mid. saw the ears of that mule 60 back and forth
and the tail become little sitter, and / said
Look out MikeP Never mind, General said
Nike"
"The mules two ears both stood back now until
he came close up to that cart and then they both
went forward and with single jump he took to tue
side of the road, which about there Dranched Of
two ways to pass a big tree. In Que minute it was
a terrific runaway. Mike braced himself and the
mule pulled the buggy and both of us by bis mouth
alone. The traces had nothing to do with carrying
the wagon on. lie ran just like the wind. l tried
several times relieve Mike. but he would not let
me take hold, and those trees went by US as If we
were on an express train. There was nothing to do
but hold ON hard expecting every minute we should
go over.
THE mule had run this way perhaps three miles,
appearing rather to accelerate his speed every rod
bnt Mike held to him. We came to a bridge twenty
or thirty feet long with little rail on each side.
aud thought should surely go over that but he
kept to the middle of the bridge aud just made
jump. like deer. and don't believe that buggy
touched the boards of that bridge. The same speed
was kept up on the other side, and there seemed no
possibility of that mule giving out when all at
once discovered another tlrpentine cart before u.s.
1.-THE mules ears now going like windmill
and his tail was stif as poker. He was ust
j loving that run away with mule entbusasm--if
such there be. His mouth was as hard as iron.
As we came on that cart, the mule liking it bet
ter than the first and finding way to get around
it deliberately jumped the road and took to tho
woods. Right the pine tufts, with the trees 30
thick together that every moment we expected 10
be knocked to pieces that mule went, paving very
little attention TO the wagon he cleared tue trees
himself Said l: Mike, we shall be killed! Hold
on, General said Mike. Phi bring you through
I'VE had gone mile or two through tue woods.
miraculOusly escaping death, when all at once,
saw before us an unavoidable obstacle, great
fallen tree. standing fully three feet up from the
ground. We braced ourselves, and Nike did his
best to turn that mule, but the rein had no more
effect on his head than to make him
turn it sidewise, while be kept his body
straight on. And 50 without seeing tho
tree himself apparently, he went right over it like
a buzzard, and the buggy struck that log and away
went INTO the aiIl L. knocked me senselsss and