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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-15

GEN. M'CLERNAND. McClernand ar
rived from Cairo to take command in Gen.
Sherman's place of the land forces.
There was a prejudice against Gen. McCler-
nand among the regular army officers be-
cause he was not military graduate. 1t
cropped out in various ways that interfered
with his usefulness. He had been father
less boy who had divided the years Of his
youth between farm labor and study, taking
in time the profession Of the law. He was
born in 1872 Like Lincoln, he was a native
of Kentucky and migrated in early child
hood to Illinois. In that state McClernAnd
had great influence, raising a brigade Of
Union soldiers by his personal popularity.
He distinguished himself calamity in vari-
Gus battles, among them Belmont, Fort
Donelson and Shiloh. His corps also fought
desperately on the Big Black river in May,
1863 In November, 1884, McClernand, then
major general Of the 18th army corps, re-
signed and left the army. West Point officers
were accustomed to call him political
general"
The men before Vicksburg in January,
1868, numbered 10000. McClernand took
command of them. Thereupon Admiral
Porter declined to cooperate in the expedi-
ton against Arkansas Post unless Gen. Sher-
man commanded the land troops. To this
McClernand agreed. He, however, accom-
panied the army.
In good order the Federal transports and
gunboats steamed away from Vicksburg
and up the Mississippi, the Confederatec
| firing parting salute after them The fleet
| did not enter the Arkansas river directly
however. They moved up past it to Mont
| gomery point, opposite the mouth OF Whit+
river. Entering that, they assembled it IF
teen miles and came to the before named
''cut or" Through that they entered thu
Arkansas river, steamed up its waters will
all haste, and in the morning of Jan. 10
1868, suddenly appeared below Arkansas
1 Post.
| Fort Hindman, at the Post, was admirably
constructed 1t had been built by some o
the most accomplished engineers of Yves
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speedily becoming a major general. After
the war, he engaged in the peaceful pursuits
OF trade in st. Louis. He for time was
editor of n Journal of agriculture. In 1884
he was elected governor OF Missouri.
The most desperate OF the fighting in
Missouri was done in the southwestern part
of the state. In the heart Of the contested
district was the town of Springfield. on Will
sons creek, 100 miles southwest OF st. Louis.
1t is fourishing town now, Of some 10000
inhabitants. The Atlantic and Pacific rail-
road passes through it.
But during the war IL was never at peace
Its hhpleSs inhabitants did not know one
week whether men in blue or gray would be
quartered on it the next week. Occupied
now by Confederate, now by Union forces, it
had experience OF war lasting and bitter.
At the beginning of 1868, Brig. Gen. E B.
Brown, of the Missouri militia, was stationed
at Springfield. The town was full of Federal
supplies and therefore constituted a rich
prize for him who could capture it. At the
beginning Of the war Gen. Brown was lieu
tenant colonel of the 9TH Missouri.
Gen. Egbert b. Brown was one of Mis-
souri's bravest and most useful defenders.
His fighting history was made chiefly in his
own state, but there was enough Of IL To
make n long story. He wa5 occupied all of
the year 1868 in defending the state from
moved with great rapidity, and seemed al
most able to be in two places at the same
time. Jan. 8, 1868, he drove Marmaduke
back from Springfield, Mo.
In the autumn OF that year the Confederate
general Cabell made . raid into Missouri by
way Of the Indian Territory. Part Of his
troops indeed consisted Of Indians He sent
Gems. Shelby and COffey as far into the state
a. Bonneville, On the Missouri river. Al
Arrow Rock, near this point, Gen. E B.
Brown with his Missouri militia, met them
and gave battle, Oct. IL. He fought till dark
and again attacked on the morning Of the
18th. Then the Confederates broke and fed
and Gen. Brown pursued them to the Arkan
sas line
After that he was constantly engaged II
directing the movements OF the Missouri
home guards and watching Missouris long
drawn out border Sopetimes the Con
federates entered the unhappy state from
Arkansas, sometimes from Indian Territory
The latter part of September, 1854, Gen
Sterling Prise rode into Missouri from Ar
kansas at the head of over Is, 900 mounteS
men Where would he strikel Missouri wa
full Of food and depots Of government sup
plies 1t became evident that one Of Gen
Prices objective points was Jefferson City
the capital.
OnCe more Geu ESUcTI D. DTOWn SUI
moned his tried Missouri militia, conceI
trated it at the capital and held It'll FeC
eral reenforcements could reach him an
save the state archives and buildings. ]
one Of the many fights in which he was Ell
gagged Gen. Brown was wounded and 10
the use OF his arm.
There was Federal hospital at Spring
field, Mo, and the fact that the place wa
besides, plentifully provided with both Il
well known to the COnfederates.
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Inearcerated i'm a Mexican Prison.

Tucson, Ari., March 10.-Word has
Just been received here that posse
pursuing the Stems Pass passenger
train robbers, are in a Mexican dun
geon at Janos, state of Chihuahua,
Mexico. The party are w. K. Meade,
United States marshal; G. A. ShibeI,
under sheriff of Pima county; Will
Smith, deputy L. S. marshal; and two
the robbers some four hum
bred miles into Mexico, and
while in hot pursuit on the 9Th
inst, were arrested. Their property
was taken from them and they were
incarcerated at Janos. The Superin-
tendent of the Corlitos mines recogniZ-
ed them, and offered bail to any
amount, but the authorities refused
bail. The news was brought to Lords
burg by Mr.. Templeton. who saw the
men and recognized them. Communi-
cation with friends is prohibited.
TempIeton is a well known ranch
man. Janos is the same place where
plot was put up which
massacred Superintendent Crawford,
while in pursuit of the Apaches, and
whose lieutenant, Mcdonald, was ar
rested with a squad of United States
troops the same year. 1t was always
marked place for Cochise, Victoria and
Geronimo, the bloody Apache chiefs
and their cutthroats, and is now the
resting place of typical Mexican BAN
dts. Only Englishmen or Germans
stand any show there. The people OF
the border are in blaze of excitement
over the nrpSent arrest.
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do not always run in the same direction.
When the Arkansas river overhows, water
from it passes through the cut of into White
river, and thence into the Mississippi. When,
on the other hand, White river is full, water
passes from it through the cut OF into the
Arkansas
The siege of Vicksburg began in Decem-
Der, 1862, by joint army and navy move
ment. Little thought the Union forces Of
the long and painful work before them be-
fore Vicksburg should actually be taken.
A joint attack was made by land and
water by Gen. Sherman and Admiral Porter,
Dec. 90, 1862. 1t failed.
The weather was like that which had
greeted Mcclellan on the Peninsula in the
east. Incessant rains flooded the low swamps
around Vicksburg Fogs obscured the air
sometimes till one could not see fifty feet
away Soldiers were sick, dying and dis
couraged at the beginning of 1868, around
Vicksburg. Something must be done.
Gen. Sherman proposed to Admiral Porter
that they abandon Vicksburg for the time
and go up the Arkansas river and take Ar
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ron that engaged GEN CHURCHILL
in tl.. reduction of Arkansas Posl were the
fingships Black Hawk, the Rather, the Louis
vile and the Cincinnati. The ram Monerch,
renowned in western waters, took active part
IN the fight
The Confederate officer in command at Ar
kansas Post was Gen. 7. J. Churchill He
had at the Post 5000 troops.
Gen T. j. Churchill, who commanded the
Post, was engaged throughout the war In the
southwest He was an active Confederate
general in the forces that afterward fought
against the Federal Red river expedition
Churchills superior officer was Lieut. Gen.
Theophilns 81. Holmes, commanding the Con-
federate department OF Arkansas. Gen
Holmes had given orders to Churchill, in
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N0"A ~ then run his finger
up the line of the Mississippi river for about
100 miles, he will come to the mouth of the
Arkansas river, on the right bank of the Mis-
sissippi. If now he follows the Arkansas
river up some-fifty miles from its mouth,
then stop, he will pause where the Union
army under Gems. Sherman and McClernand,
and the feet of gunboats under Admiral
Porter stopped on Jan. 10, 1868, at Arkansas
Post. 1t is on the left bank and north side
Of the Arkansas river.
But the gunboats and the transports, load
ed with the infantry regiments, did not take
the direct route to Arkansas Post II the
reader will look again upon the map he will
perceive a river emptying into the Mississippi
about fifteen miles north Of the mouth of the
Arkansas. This is White river. A branch
of it, called ''cut off," leaves the main
stream a little before it reaches the Mississip-
ri, and flows into the Arkansas. Thus there is
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to the purity, self abnegation, generosity,
fidelity and gallantry which characterized
him as a man and SOLDIER
Gen. Alvin P. Hovey was a brigade COM
mander in Gen. Steele's Federal division.
He was wounded while leading in the advance
of the land forces at Arkansas Post Gen.
Hovey was a native of Indiana, born in
1921. He was a lawyer by profession and a
skilled one, but during the war proved
himself as good fighter with his sword as he
had been with his tongue. He had been sent
from Helena, in November, 1862, to CO.
operate with Grants movements in Missis-
Sippi. He was afterward engaged at Port
Gibson and at Edwards Station, and took
his part in the final assault ON Vicksburg.
In the plan for taking Arkansas Post the
army landed four miles below the Post and
made a march of some fifteen miles around.
Then it was to assault the fort In the rear,
while Admiral Porter's feet bombarded in
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SEN ". d. EO1A4AEoI. and the character
of their military movements was similar.
But here the resemblance ended jackson
was q man Of devout piety, while Forrest
was altogether the reverse of sanity. He
had q temper like q tornado, used terrific
0aths and woe betide the soldier who dis
pleased him
Forrest was born In Bedford county, Ten
nessee, in 1921. He earned his own living
when a mere boy, and never obtained much
education He was q man of wonderful
energy and shrewdness, and accumulated a
large fortune early. He lived in Memphis at
the beginning of the war, and Immediately
enlisted az private in g company Of mounted
rifiemen Shortly efterward he was COM
inissioned o colonel, and empowered to re-
cruit o regiment of cavalry, which he did
rapidly. Soon Forests cavalry became
known wherever the Union armies of the west
were to be faced Forrest was made brig
adler general in 1862, major general in
1853, and q lieutenant general in 1855. He
died in 1877 On February, 1868, Forests
headquarters were established at Columbia,
Tennessee There, toward the latter part of
the same month, his troops were REINFORCED
by those of Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorm,
4, 500 strong, three hrigades of cavalry. Van
Dorm took chief command
The romantic career and tragic death OF
Gen. Earl Van Dorm are known somewhat 70
his countrymen north and south. A native
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An Rxpenslve Drunk.

WELLINGTON, Kan, March TO-
James Wright, an aged and wealthy
farmer of Sumner county, got drunk
while here to-day, and about u O'Clock
went to McCOy's grocery store and laid
down in a rear room to sleep off the
effects Of the rum. When he awoke
he found his pocketbook had been stol-
en-. 1t contained 81 500 in cash. a
check for S12, 900 and notes to the
amount of several Thousand dollars
more.
About a year ago at Oxford he was
robbed of 81 200 in a similar manner.
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At Chicago.

CHICAGO, March IA, 1883
HOGs-Receipts, 1000 head; market fairly
active and prices steady; light, S5-156b5.40;
rough packing, s5.10H525; mixed. 6.2065.4S;
heavy packing and shipping, es.350560.
CArTLE-Receipts. 5000 head: market slow
but firm; beeves, e3-50154G; COWS and mixed,
$200I3.2d; stOckers and feeders, = $5OaAo.
SHKEP-Receipts, 1000 head; market strong:
natives, A.00g6.09; westerns, e5.2Jf15o0; Tex
ans, S3.Z5fI5.00; lambs. e5e0fl6.50.
WHEAr-Rasier; No. 9, cash, T5lze; April.
T5=se; May, Tg5Sc.
CoKS-Easy; cash. 47alc; May, 81 9-I6c.
OATs-Steady; May, 81 3 Ice.
PoRK-Easys cash, 400; May, Sab.
laARD-Steady; cash. S765; May, $40.
SHORT HIBS-Sf. sE2Ik MAY
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Fire as AtchIson.

.ATCHIsoS, Kan, March 10.-The
job printing establishment of the Has
kell Printing Company, the largest in
Atchison, was totally destroyed by fire
tonight. The stock and machinery
was valued at $Is.O 600, and insured in
various companies for $1,000. The
bHilding owned by Senator In
gals was damaged to the extent of
about 1900. II is believed TO have
been fully insured,
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CONTEMPT OF COURT.
The Rush County Seat War Breaks
Out Afresh.
The Records and Fixtures Taken by
Main Force to La Crosse.
Mandate of the Supreme Court Dis
regarded by the Mob.
Threats of Laying Walnut City in
Ashes If Resistance is Offered,

TOPEKA, Kas., March I3.-It has
Just been learned that the Rush county
seat war broke out again Saturday last
and has assumed most serious aspect.
In defiance of the positive mandate of
the supreme court the people of La
Crosse have again taken forcible pos
session of the county records and re-
moved them from Walnut City. About
five o'clock in the afternoon of Satur-
day last fifty-five teams and about two
hundred men, among them being all
the county officers except the superin-
tendent of schools and the board of
county commissioners, entered the
town of Walnut City unheralded, aud
driving up to the building occupied by
load the records, safes and
all the Office fixtures and
parapheTnalia into the wagons. The
crowd was boiSterous and demonstra-
tive. a number of guns and count
less number of revolvers were dis
played, and the mob declared its inten-
ton of laying the town of Walnut City
in ashes if any resistance was offered.
No resistance was offered, however,
and after two hours the records were
loaded into wagons and carried away.
When the mob reached the city limits,
on their way back to Lacrosse with the
records, they fired volley and awak-
ened the echoes with their wells.
The ground on which the removal OF
| the records Is made is an alternative
writ of mandamus, issued by Judge S.
j. Osborne of the district court
of Rush county, obtained on
the representation that an cleo
ton had been held, the returns
of which have not been canvassed, re-
sulting in the choice of La Crosse as
the county seat of Rush county. The
result of the alleged election, however,
| is disputed by Walnut City people.
Chief Justice Horton expressly stated
in his decision in the recent case that
the county seat should be located at
Walnut City, and there remain until
the county seat fight be definitely set
tied, and that any further delays, sub
terfuges or interference, even the inter.
vention of the courts, would be deemed
contempt and the offenders summarily
dealt with. Representatives of the city
| of Walnut are now here for the pur
pose of invoking the aid of the govern
| or and supreme court.
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Iad,ctea for Criaalnal Carelessness.

KANSAS CITY, March 10.-The grand
jury in session at independence this
afternoon returned indictments against
the following named persons, charging
them with criminal carelessness for
their part in the Midland hotel dis
aster: Supervising Architect W. C..
Root, Superintendent of Construction
A. b. Mckay. Frank SmallwOod, fore
man for the iron work contractors, and
Charles Burch, foreman of the brick
contractors One man was killed and
several injured by the collapse of the
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LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE.
AZ Kansas City.

Kansas CITY, Mo-, March II, 1883.
The Kansas City Live Stock Market Is
reported especially for the EhGPoRIA DAILY
NEWS by FISH, KECK & co, Exchange build
ing, Kansas City Stock Yards.
CATLLE-Receipts, z,200 head: weak;
puIk sales S5250535; heavy packing and ship
ping, S5.35G5.45; mixed packing, e5.260636:
skips and pigs, s3.O0a4.70; tops, e545.
The Daily Indicator reports:
WHEAT-Steady; No. soft, cash, 7SK asked;
May, 601zc asked.
CoRN-Steady: No. 2 cash, zsc bid, zaXc
asked; April, 44c asked; May, 4456c bid, 451{c
asked
OATs-No. 2 cash, 2sc bid, &c asked.
RYE-No. 2 cash, Coo bid
EGGs-Freeh. 10c per dozen.
BUTTER-Fancy rolls DC; good to choice, Is
Gl27c.
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Brutal treatment OF COnvicts.

ST. LOUIS, March IA report says
that startling developments have just
been brought to light at Coal
Hill, one of the mining towns
where the mines are worked
with convict labor, near Fort Scott,
Ark. a negro convict, by the name of
Williams, was nogged to death. Fur
cher inquiry into the matter shows
that Nose Harvey, white man, aged
80 years, had been kicked to death by
a fellow convict who had been egged
on to the desperate deed by Warden
Garford, and it was learned that he
was in the habit of making the prison
ers fight. The body of Mark Elder
was exhumed and the bruises and
the gashes on the body indicated
a violent death. It was also developed
that a prisoner by the name of Hum
mel was tied up to post in the mines
last summer, and beaten to death.
AS the investigation continues the
more horrible details are revealed, and
the citizens of Coal Hill are much ex-
cited and threaten to hang Garford and
tear down the prison barracks.
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strung up by a Mob

S,r. LOUIS, March 14,-At half past
one o'clock this morning mob appeared
before jail at Hopkinsville Kentucky
and demanded that John Skinner a
noted desparado be delivered to them.
On being refused they took forcibIe
possession and soon had the wretch
swinging to the limb of a tree on the
Princeton pike, four miles from the
Jail. The cause Of the public wrath
was that Skinner attacked peaceable
farmer, ID. r. BolIrgeYean, and tried Il
murder him about four months ago.
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ARKANSAS POST.
TWenty-ilfth Anniversary OF It's
Capture, Jan. II.
Army AND NAVY VICTORY.
The Hon Who Took the Fort and
the Hen Who Defended It.

'..,..n-.s Post, 9th rwise Called Fort
.Eia,.:.,an-5oint ! r,ny and Navy Expe-
% Planned oy Gen. Sherman Gnd
= sisai Por,er-They Had Had Hard
/. G.. at vicI<sburg. and Gen sherman
Y. sl.ed TO Revive His Soldiers Droop-
il.:s fpirits-The ''Cut on"
T. H.i lifted 10y the American Press Association.
IN - account of the capture of Arkansas
POI. -At.r:Iiral David d. Porter, in the 'fNaval
Eis-'rY Of the Civil War" says:
"T'e Llttle gave general satisfaction to the
pablic. II was unexpected, and few knew
where Tort HindInan was situated"
The public of today is quite as ignorant Of
the locality of Fort Hindman as Admiral
Porter's public of 1863 was. Arkansas Post
was otherwise called Fort Hindman. 1t is g
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Va Va ~ eN1
many fields wisely
and well. /, who
knew him from our
schoolboy days,
who served with
him in garrison
and in the field,
and with pride
watched him as he
led a st forming
party up a rocky
height at Monte
rey, and was init
mately acquainted
with his whole ca
reer during our sec
tional war, bear
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- 49, -~ - $3.50
berland was Brig.
Gen. Nathan Bed
ford Forrest, after
ward of Fort Pill
low notoriety. For
rest was in many
respects to tn e
western Confeder-
ate army what
StonewaH jackson
was to the eastern.
Both were silent
men and little used
TO joking. Both
were pillars Of
strength to the
Confederate cause,
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=
a triangular island
between the three
rivers. Biologists
say the whole coun-
try hereaboutS was
settled 800 years
too soon; that it is
not yet sufficient
ly redeemed from
the waters. 1t is
low, fat, and al
most on a level
with the rivers that
flow through it. In
consequence Of this
the currents OF
streams and bayous
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ST. LOUIS, No., March II, l6o6.
CATTLE-Recefpts, 800 head steady.
HoGS-Receipte, 1000 head; market easy;
choice heavy and butchers, s5.3505.45: pack
ing. 45.I0a5.fG; light grades, 81. 9065.15.
SHEEP-Receipts, 600 head. market firm.
WHEAT-Better: No red, cash, S36S51<c:
April. Se5Ec; May, SIC: July, T8ssc; August.
f6szc
Coas, Firm; cash, &c; April. 451kc: Msy,
01Is-Essy; cash. sOxc; May. ss1lc.
PoRK-JobbinR, Sl4.3IE.
LARD-e7.40.
WHISEY-SIs09.
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tack the Federal force, which should adj
vance by land.
Confederate Gen. Theophilus d. Holmes.
who had given Churchill orders to hold On
till all were dead, was graduate OF West
Point, of the class OF 1929. He was man
brave to rashness, and served in the Mexican
war side by side with Jefferson Davis.
Holmes was a native OF North Carolina At
the outbreak of the war he resigned from the
United States army, in which he held the
rank Of major, and entered the Con-
federate service. He was appointed leu
tenant general, and held a place at first
under Lee in the east. At the battle OF
Malvern Hill he was blamed for neglecting
what was thought to be great opportunity,
and after that was sent to the far west. In
the latter part of 1868 he evacuated Little
Rock, Ark, with his army, and abandoned
it to Federal possession. He still commanded
the Confederate army OF Arkansas.
Jefferson Davis, in his "Rise and FAN OF
the Confederacy,n says of Gen. Holmes:
tiHe has passed beyond the reach of censure
or of praise, after serving his country on
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Coantr aechanrell.

LA CROSSE, Kas., March IO.-The
county records, papers, safes, ETC., were
all removed here from Walnut City
to-day. and la Crosse is now the
county seat by virtue of 400 majority
in the election of August %, 1887,
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rest Of the gum
boats continued to
pour shot and shell
red hot into the
fort. In less than
three hours the
guns of the garri-
son were silenced.
During this time
several brigades Of
Shernan's men had
forced their way
up close to the fort
in the rear. It was
in this advance that
Gen. Thayer's horse
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kansas Post. He
hoped thereby to
inspire his men
with courage
again.
Porter agreed.
The Federal troops
had Withdrawn to
the mouth of the
Yazoo on New
Years Day, 1858.
Jan. 8 the expedi-
ton was ready to
start to Arkansas
Post. But on that
day Gen. John A.
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sourian, born In
Saline county. He
had been educated
at the north, at
Yale and Harvard
colleges, and finally
at the United States
Military academy
at West Point,
where he was grad
uated in 1857. At
the outbreak of the
war he was a lieu
tenant in the
United s { t g $
army. He resigned
his commission and
entered the Con-
falarofa eat.vica