Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-04

sDOt was already designated us u c'h-
ter of mound building art and glory,
Just below Little Rock Is the loitiest
mound on the continent and Mem
phis, Natchez, Tuscumbia, Florence,
Chattanooga, Macon, ST Louis, Lou
isvillc aud Cincinnati NIL were central
seats of priestly power OF tnis I'M
known race. Can't you induce some
Texaif TO inquire into the origin oil
that Chinese wall which i'm
PEELED the people to name
q county Rockwell? There
Is another, longer and precisely like u,
intersecting two or three counties III
Southern Mississippi. Did nature
thrust up these long lines of stone or
were they built, MS alleged, by human
handse And why? Were these the
last defences of the remnant Of the
race against eucronching red men, the
great body of the more ancient people
having been destroyed in the cata-
clysm in which Atlantis was epgulied?
GEN. WIN. sTABKE RosECRANs,
representing the city fSan Francisco
in the United States house OF repre-
sentatives and chairman Of the ma
tional executive Democratic commit
tee, was born at Kingston, o., Sep
temhcr 6th, 1919. He was graduated
at West Point, July, 1872. Having
served manly as n civil engineer he
RESIGNED his position in the regular
army in 1853. June 10th, 1861, lac be
came colonel OF United States volun-
teer infantry, ard commanding u
brigade was second In rank TO Gen.
Mcclellan, winning In this capacity
The battle of Rich Mountain in West
Virpinin. He was assigned t. the
command of the department of the
Ohio IN lSGl-2. when West Virginia
was made IL separate state aud
freed from the presence Of
euerillas. For his services
he was thanked by the legislatures OF
Ohio and West Virginia. Supplanting
General Pope and at the head OF an
insignificant force, September 10, 1852,
he won the decisive battle of luka.
He was commissioned major-geBeral
August 10th, 1862, the commission
dated March 18th, 1862. On October
3rd and lti hc fought and won the
bnttle of Corinth, pur,uing the enemy
ill recalled by General Grant. who
was ut Jackson, Tennessee. October
9th, 1862, he was given command of
wv ltAil wi 70 hhh l'''''' 80
charge of the department OF the Cum
berland. He fortified Nashville, and
on December 3Dth, 1869, and January
LIST, 1862, fought the battle Of Stone
river. He rebuilt railways and bridges,
made the campaign OF 1'ullahoma,
drove the confedcrates out OF Tenncs-
see, crossed the mountains, took and
held Chattanooga and fought the but
l.. ~ ftl.sf.l~ N-AY.tnt.at.nr lflt Ia
and 10Th, 1868. January 1Sth, 1854
nc WAS assigned to the command of
the Department OF Missouri and re-
PEELED the invnaion OF General Price
He resigned his brigadicr general \
commission IN 1867 and went TO Cali
foruiA and became a member of the
18th congress, defeating Hon. Horace
Davis, the Republican candidate,
by 500 votes.
General Rosecrans, during Grants
administration WAS sent Ms minister
10 Mexico. The place was given him
without his solicitation aud
accepted solely upon condition that the
unity aud autonomy of Mexico were
10 be maintained. The administration
approved the purposes OF General
Rosescrans and there resulted the
between the governments uf the two
republics. There sprang up, rs un
incident OF the conduct aud express
slons of General Roseciuns, strong
pers onal friensllp and intimacy be-
tween him and President Diaz, es-
teemed to-day by the distinguished
Californian congressman, the greatest
soldier and purest patriot Mexico has
produced. Through the influence of
Rosccrans and the wise, liberal states.
manship of Diaz capitalists OF the
United states We're induced and en-
abled to inaugurate the system of rail.
ways which will soon enmesh Mexico
and beget free.tradc and closest and
most fortunate commercial and thus
personal and social relations between
The peoples of the two republics. A
reciprocity treaty, negotiated in con-
formity with the policy and purpose
of Diaz and Rosecrans, has been con.
sidered by the United States senate
and lis approval only postponed
by the mill-owners and hlgh.taiin'
theorists of the United States senate.
These special reciprocity treaties may
be multiplied until frce-tradc sup.
plants the tariff system the world over
aud the unity o. the human family
viii then be confessed. tnhaupily,
the average Republican only approves
this unity AS whites aud blacks may
be affected by 1t and would only have
II practical and real In the South.
am induced TO speak of Gen. Rose.
Grams because he is n Democrat and he
cause the Republican papers are now
waging war against him. He has beei
often mentioned of late rs II probabl,
nominee of the Democratic natiuna
convention, and therefore the uproa
which his recent criticisms upon Gar
field, Stanton and others excite.
A PROSPEROUS TEXAN.
Capt,C. G. Gibbs, recently promote,
from the freight agency of the Sunse
road to that of the continuous line.
from New Orleans TO Houston, san
Antonio and I'll Paso, deserves all
honors he has won. on the occasion
OF his promotion, Pierce, the Bostoniar
owner of the.Sunset route, presented
Gibbs with n magnificent LOT in Hous.
ton, with purse of $1,000 to be ex.
pended ON the property. by the way
Gibbs mother, eighty years of age
ives In Navasota, aud his grandmoth.
cr, ~ years OF age, at Stone Mountain,
III Georgia and Gibbs himself will live
WIN ordinary luck, fnr enough into
the twentieth century to control
freight rates for railway and steam
ship lines betting the globe. He Is d
tirelcss toilcr, and endowed with rar,
capacity for tasks assigned railwa,
managers.
R0SEcRANS.
When Gen. Rosecrans was inter
viewed some days ago. he is said /,
have denounced one OF his subordin
ates very harsbly. The next day II,
lett for Cincinnati, where the inter
View, had been reprodsced by tele