The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-17
SOME NEWSPAPER HEROES.
The War Correspondent in America and
in Europe-His Heroic Work.
Henry J. Raymond. W. H. Hurlburt, Henry M.
Stanley, Ete-NcGahan and 0kelIy in Re-
cent European Military Movements.
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The illiuck which has befallen the little corps
of London newspaper correspondents in the
Souasn has attracted the attention and evoked
the sympathy OF the civilized world. The
slaughter of the gallant Burnaby SIr. Cameron,
of the London Standard. and Mr. Herbert, the
representative of the ultra-fashionable Morning
Post, and former private secretary of Lord Duff
ferin, when Governor-general of Canada, the
iwounding of Col. Bennett G. Burleigh. of the
Telegraph, and of Mr.. Williams, of the Central
News and the mysterious loss of Mr.. Price, of
1.-The Daily News, show that the journalists with
fhe British army in in the East saw good deal
lmore of The real fighting in the Arab country
land knew a good deal more about the
sactual campaign in the Soudau than General
rWolseley did in his comparatively secure head
iQuarters at Kort, where one of his principal oc-
equations seems to have been the mutilation OF
fthe correspondents dispatches from the front
lit is my purpose in these papers to sketch some
hOf the remarkable achievements of New York
Journalists since the close of the war Of the Re
bellion; and / think / can best introduce my
jsubject by calling the readers attention to the
lfact that this campaign of the English in the
esoOu0aus with ali ITO SuliuEutis oldAihsiO AhN
=eragie deiai;s, ana It's almost ,Inexampied record
yof individual heroism, is the first war of modern
Himes in which American journals have not been
Represented by staff correspondents.
Most of us are familiar with the brilliant and
daring work done by American newspaper men
during war, and England sent such
distinguished correspondents as "Bull Run"
Russell and George Augustus Sala; but the
worldwide fame of American journalistic enter
prise has really been won within the last twenty
years. The first work of any account done by
IAN American newspaper representative abroad
was that of Mr. Henry j. Raymond of the New
York Times. if / may except the chirpy letters
of the Chevalier Wykoff from Paris during the
last days of Louis Philippe and the early days
of the Second Empire. Mr.. Raymond was at
magenta and Solferino in 1859 when France
lagreed to parcel out the Austrian duehies
60 Sardinia and make Victor Emanuel king of
united Italy in return for the cession
of the provinces of Nice and Savoy,
aud his picturesque descriptions of the
rout of Franz Josefs troops are well re-
nembered by old New Workers, including that
famous picture of the qua6rateral in northern
Italy, which, under the head of ''The Elbows of
the mineio,' and badly pied by the compositor
made the American continent with
laughter Mr. Henry M. Stanley was in the war
which En- land mad with the King of Abyssinia
and by cutting the wires to the Red sea had the
news of the fall of Magdala in New York before
1t was known to the War Office in London. Mr.
John a MeGahan accompanied the Russian ex-
petition to Khokand under General Kaufman,
and New Workers knew of the fall of Khiva as
soon as it was known at the English
Foreign Office. and almost soon
the good tidings were heard at ST.
Petersburg. Going back again little in
tthe chronological order Mr.. William Rose, of the
New York Herald, was with Garibaldi In the
800
letto Ancona, Castel, Fidardo, and the historic
entry into Naples after the fight of King Bomba
in 1864. Mr. George w. Smalley, of the New
York Tribune, and Mr.. George Alfred Townsend,
Fthe we'll known correspondent, wrote magnificent
descriptions of the entry of the newly crowned
King of Italy into Milan after Louis Napoleon
had withdrawn his support of the temporal pow
or of Pope Plus TX. There is a capital story
told of how Mr. Townsend produces his word
painting ct that memorable event and managed
to get it TO New York ten days ahead of the let
tiers of those who were On the ground, of which
more anon.
There we're American correspondents within
the walls OF beleaguered Paris fourteen years
ago, aud American journalists with the Prussian
armies that shelled the volatile Parisians into
submission. In the Turco Russian war Mr.. John
A McGahan and Mr.. Frank Millet, of Boston,
were with the gallant Skobeleff in his historic
passage of the Balkans, and poor McCahan fell
q victim to the filth of Constantinople before the
ink was dry on the treaty OF St Stefano. Mr..
N. H. Thieblin. the gentleman who is now writ
ing the sprightly letters from Wall street in the
New York Sun, over the nom de plume of Rigo-
To- and Mr. George 81. Butler of Washington
the nephew of the redoubtable Ben of
that ilk, were with Don Carlos Spain
when that worthy raised an instruction for
''Dios,> Fatria Re" (God, country and
King some dozen years or ago Mr. Thieb-
lin was taken to the headquarters of the Pre-
tender IN the Basque provinces late at night a
closed carriage and blindfolded, an expedition
NJ M ordinary Deril He was frrol
next morning TO find George Butler installed as
a sort of historian in ordinary, in the train of
Don Carlos, who had also a lyric poet attached
to his august person to sing the victories which
however, never came. Butler was then en- route
to the United States from Cairo. where he had
been American consul general in Egypt, and
whence he was recalled because of a disgraceful
hrawl with French officer in front Of a cafe
Butler found there diversion in Spain
and with characteristic enterprise he stopped to
take 1T in. DIR. DANES j. Okelly, now q mem.
Der of the British Parliament from the county
of Roscommon, in Ireland, represented the New
York Herald in Cuba during the instruction on
that island some ten years ago. Mr OKellv
was adroitly digerting the attention of the
Spaniards at Havana and elsewhere while GEN
aral Millen, also Of the Herald staff, was getting
inside the insurgeat lines on the eastern end Of
tho island from Kingston, Jamaica. / shall
have more TO say of this, one of the most brill
liant feats OF modern journalism. in the course
of these papers For the present simply de-
sire to advert to the fact that so small an affair
as an insurrection in the Gem of the Antilles
was not deemed unworthy some years ago of the
pene of couple of special correspondents from
New York.
Thoa, again. when the Spaniards seized the
Cuban filibustering expedition under the late
General Ryan and shot him and his companions,
and when the American government demanded
the surrender OF their ship the Virginius, there
was raft of New York newspaper men at Key
West and ct Havana to witness and deserise the
surrepder, an event in connection rstf which
there are sufficiently dramatic Incidents that
have never seen the light Of day to warrant me
in deyoting special paper to it. Feeling in
both countries rap .iigh at that time, ana few
who were not occasionally connected with the
affair kneg. now strained were the friendly rela-
tioSs 81 the two governments for brief season,
2Skd hnu, 1-aftld have rep11ired kindo