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The National tribune., 1890-02-13
MALVERN HILL.
Vas the Army 10 be Surrendered After ihe sa


EDITOR NATIONAL tribune: While some
Oh the boys are fighting them over" aud
especially while they are arguing over the
matter as 10 whether a wing Of the Army OF
the Potomac was surprised and turned Ia a
certain battle or not, will surrender the army
and give the Potomac rats something else
10 gnaw" at for a while.
This is little incident" that the Army of
the Potomac was on the point of being surreu-
dered TO the enemy after the battle Of Malvern
Hill not down In history. However this is a
matterof fact, that at least portion of the army
was TO be 50 surrendered.
There was a meeting Of officers and a council
Of war at Gen. SlOcum's Headquarters after the
battle where the subject was discussed, and
that conclusion arrived at on the night follow
lug, and when the time comes will put nv
witnesses on the stand; aud they are officers in
high standing.
The Army Of the Potomac was no doubt more
disorganized and dcmoralized on July . 1860
while on It's retreat TO Harrison's landing
Than 1t ever was before or after in all its history
The army had sort of feeling, not then very
well defined, that there was no head TO that
great body. There were officers high In au-
thorily who did not hesitate to say openly that
the retreat from Malvern Hill could be ex.
planned on no other hypothesis than treason or
c0Wardlee on the part of tho General In com
mand. This is now matter Of history. If The
rebels had been able 10 pursue aud could have
opened upon 1t with artillery on the morning
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Comradc VIM. Glenning, Co +, 9th n. Y II.
A., writes from Nalhalla postoflice ". Y. to say
that he has never before troubled the Editor of
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE with n communica-
ton, though subscriber to it for many years.
He says he has taken great interest in the
Story of Cannoneor.' He thinks that the
Cannoneer did Kitching's Brigade 10Th and
10Th N. Y. III. A. an injustice when he called
them the soft bread Brigade" but forgives
him in view of the tribute which he pays to
them after he had seen them fight and learned
how they had suffered. Comrade Glennng
says that his attention was particularly at
tracted by the incident which the Cannoneer
mentions in his account of the second day May
o. of the Wilderness, when the 9Th and 18th n.
y. II, 4. fled past Stewards battery to attack
the enemy in tho brush south Of the Wilderness
Run, to support Wadsworth's Division This
was where the Cannoneer recognized in the
ranks Of the 9th boy named Peck, who had
been n schoomate Of his at a seminary in New
York, and called out, Hello, Al what arc
you doing here" And Peck replied, Hello
b, is that you? We are looking for forti-
ficatioms etc. And then the Canuopeer says
I'VE found them aud got into them, and most
of us stayed there and are there yet, or under
the shade of the trees at Arlington And he
also says that no troops fought better. Jared
harder or died gamer than the heavy artillery
serving rs infantry
Now, this boy that no speaks of was Alphouso
ID. Peck, and he belonged TO our company r
OF the 9th n. Y. II. A., and am sure that tho
Cannoneer, who was "A friend and schoolmate of
his would not have accused him of belonging
to a soft-bread brigade if he had known the
actual history OF our regiment. We were raised
to be the 135th n. Y. Inf. Then, when we
arrived ut Washington, we were made heavy
artillery. But we joined the army in the field
in July 1868, and never left it until the e" jig
was nj" at Appomatox. We led the attack ut
ThorOughfare Gap, when the rebels were retreat
ing from Gettysburg Some regiments of heavy
artillery may have remained in the fortiGca-
tions about Washington, but ours was not one of
them. All the earthworks we ever manned
were those that we routed the rebels from, as
the CaunGneer says; and we manned n
good many of that sort OF . carthworksp as
yon will see by consulting the records of killed
and wounded. The CiuH0neer was little
rough on the heavy artillery Mt the start, but
lie came out all right ut the end and therefore
we forgive him. Wo gave some detached men
TO Stewards battery IN 1864. They were good
ones. II anyone has reason to speak well Of
the 9Th y. \. II. A. IL Is one OF Stewards men
The National tribune., 1890-02-13

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CANNoNEER COMMENTS.


EDITOR NATIONAL Tribune: l have been
very much Interested In the "Story of Can
noneer," which | find to be truthful and Of
great historical yalue Stewart aud his battery
were like household words in the old First
Corps. He ought to have worn the star long
ago. That grand charge of the old battery at
Bethesda Church is without a parallel in mill
tary annals. 1t is rs strange and wonderful as
the feat attributed 10 Gen. Paez, in South
America, when serving under Gen. Bolivar,
of whom it is recorded in his biography that he
captured a Spanish sunboat in river with n
squadron of cavalry.--ABNER DOUBLEDAY,
Brevot Maior-Gcnera and Colonel (retired),
Mendham. Y. j.
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Testimony from a 7tIl Mass. Nan.

EDITOR NATIoSAL TRIBUNE In your issue
OF Jan. =, IN the article on Coffee. coolers .
you repeat the assertion that the 9Th Me were
first IN the works at Marycs flights. NV word.
although i was but private can be relied
upon when make statement az was a par-
llcipat0r with my regiment in that charge
our regiment was detailed on the left To lead
this attack. We broke the center Of the rebel
line, which made IL possible for the 9th Me
(which was one OF our supp0rtsj TO gain the
nights some three or four minutes after ,ve
had reached there. Unlike this person who
wrote so much about the 9th Ne Il hardly
thlnk no was born at the time) was thar
do not wish to disparage that brave regiment
but we were ahead Of them on the Sd of Nav
1868, aud can produce records 10 substantiafe
what say. The achievement at Rappahan
mock Station by the 9th Me. was gallant one.
Our regiment (the 7th Mass aud the 10th
Mass. were in line of battle, under the orders
OF David ii. Russell, our former Colonel. The
oth Die. were sent forward as skirmishers and
The TWO regiments named were to be the sun
porting column; but before we received orders
TO al vance, the boys of the 9th Me-, as a skir-
mlsh-lihe, advanced and took the fort which
was strong earthwork. They Jumped into
aud over wide ditch in face of the enemy's
belching cannon, scrambled oyer the rebel
works, and engaged them hand TO hand with
dubbed musket and bayonet 1t was a glorious
piece OF work, and something to be proud of.
That time they were assuredly ahead of us
JAMES HoLEHousE, So East Grinnell street
Fall River, Mass.
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that broken army as it lay there on the James
River flats all hudded together, with its trains
and artillery in the most disorganized state,
like they did that morning at White Oak
swamp, the chances were niue to one that its
fate would have been sealed and that it would
have been compelled TO surrender. It was not
so much the genius of its commander rs it was
the indomtable pluck of the army that saved
it from the humiliation of surrender or from
destruction Sol. r. SMITH, Box 4l0, Lincoln,
III
The National tribune., 1890-02-13
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Yes, answered Jones, as the clock began
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The National tribune., 1890-02-13

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The Opelousas courier., 1890-12-20
Items of ~IntE9est.

Rev. r. S. Isbell, of Opelousas, has been
transferred to Lake Providence.
The veterans of Company C. 9Th Louisiana
Regiment will have a reunion in st. Martins
vile on January 10.
A new convent will soon be erected in Ar
naudville. The ladies are interested in the
movement, and that stamps il with success.
Miss Mary E.. Faulkner and DIR. T. G. Lyons,
of Bayou Current, were married In Baton
Rouge Oh December IL.
THIBoDAUx, La, December 2ad, 1889.
cannot but cheerfulIy recommend the use
of Gouaux's Asthmatic Remedies, having had
many opportunities of witnessing their salu-
tary effects. I'll. DANsEREAU, nj. ID.
Rev. I. X. Faunt lie Roy, the able and pop
nlar Methodist minister of Ruston, has been
transferred to Alexandria. Rev. j. ID. Harper
succeeds him IN Ruston.
The cost Of the construction of the X. c.,
Lake Charles is estimated at $7l4, 900. The
line is one of the s~traightest in the State.
A%RNAUDvILLE, La, June 18th, 1890.
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The Alexandria Times reports the compile
ton OF sixty miles of the road bed of the
Kansas City, Watkins and Gulf railroad. Ten
miles of track have been laid this side of
Lake Charles.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-12-20
The man Nichols Couldn't
Gust.

Hon. G. G. Goldman, the prominent
cotton planter of Tensas parish, Win
has represented the Fifth District oil
Louisiana in the last four National
Democratic Conventions, is in the CITY.
Mr.. Goldman is the gentleman whom
Gov. Nichols attempted, in vain, to re-
move from the Fifth LeVee District
Board and to substitute for him Mr.. J..
NJ. Gillespie, who remained four weeks
in the Confederate army, in 1861. when
he returned home to traffic il cotton
with the armies which occupied that
part Of Louisiana from 1862 to 1865.
Mr.. Gillespie was the first Repab-
licaD sheriff of Tensas parish. and was
in 1879, q candidate for Lieutenant
Governor on the ticket with Judge
Beattie, which ticket was de-
BY Louis A. Wiltz and Sam. D.
McEnery.-N. @. States, Dec. 10.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-12-20

BY virtue of an order of the Honorable n,
Probate Court in and for the parish of Sa;ne
Landry, there will be sold at public auct;onV
to the last and highest bidder, by the undar'
signed administrator or a duly qualified w.
%tioneer, on the premises hereinafter descriheS
at Mallet, in the parish of st. Landry, on
TUESDAY, December 23d, 1890. the fi VI
lowing described property, belonging to tSe
estate of Felix GuilIory, deceased, late of the
parish OF st. Landry, tO-wit:
/. One hundred arpents of prairie land attn
ated at Mallet, i'll the parish of st. lands
bounded on the north by Olivier Armand ~
the south by Allen Mccoy, on the east bv In ~
Glen Miller, and on the west by Alexandre D.
pilion, with all the buildings and imnrora
ments situated thereon.
.. One old tour-horse wagon, one lot If
household and Kitchen furniture, one LOT If
farming implements, two pairs of work oran
five head of gentle horned cattle, two pentIa,
creole horses, five head of wild horses tba
crop of cotton for 1890, the crop of corn for
1890, one branding iron.
Terms and Conditions.-The land to be sold
in tifty-arpent lots, one-tifth of purchase nr;ce
payable on the day of sale, the balance napa.
bic i'll one, two, three and four years from fbe
day OF sale. The western portion of the land
to tie sold with the buildings and j,upraya.
inents. Purchasers to execute their prom;O-
sorry notes for the credit portions, with twn
good and solvent securities to the satisfaction
of the administrator said notes TO bear eisLt
per cent per amman interest from day of sale
until paid.
The movable property to lie sold as follows.
All adj publications. under ten dollars payable
cash ON day OF sale ali adjudications over ten
dollars payable o%nc,tifth cash and the balance
IN one, two, three and four years from day Of
sale purchasers 10 execute their promissorv
notes with two solvent sureties to the salts
faction OF the administrator said notes TO
bear eight per cent per annum interest from
day OF sale until paid. All the crops to be
sold for cash (if not disposed of by the admin.
~istrator previous to the day of salel.
DONAT GUILLORY,
Nov. Is, 1890. Administrators
The Opelousas courier., 1890-12-20
Personal.

Mr.. Gilbert Durand, of St. Martins
vile, spent several days in town daring
the week.
Mr.. G.. w. Vanhorn, contractor of
the q. S. Public Building and Post
Office, left on Thursday for a brief visit
to his homo in Washington, D. C.
DR.. E. S. Barry and Jno. Oge, Esq =,
of Grand Coteau, were in town on
Wednesday,.
Judge Thomas Overton, Of Marks.
vile, was in town on Tuesday.
Mr.. w. j. Ewes, late section boss at
this station, has taken a situation at the
Caffery Sugar Refinery at Franklin.
Senator Duson was in town several
days ago and dropped in to see us.
Mr.. Raymond Breaux, late publisher
of the Abbeville Meridional, spent sew
eral days in town this week and gave
us a pleasant call.
Mr.. John Moon, a promising young
lawyer of Athens, Ga, spent several
days with his relatives, the Messrs. But
Ter, at the Camp Hamilton plantation,
leaving for home last Tuesday.
Miss Lizzie Butler, one of our most
charming and ~vivacious young ladies,
left on Tuesday for New Orleans where
she will spend several weeks.
Mr.. Barnett, of Lake Charles, father
of our excellent photographer, is here
on a visit to his son, A. l.. Barnett, ESQ.
Mr.. P. Albert Moore, only sou of
Judge JOS. NJ. Moore, now a professor in
a Kentucky college, attended his
fathers funeral last Tuesday. His
sister, Mrs. DR.. Geo. X. Pratt, of New
Orleans, also attended her lamented
fathers obsequies.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-12-20
correspondence

NASHVILLE, La, Dec. IA, 1890.
EDITORS COURIER
The cold snap and heavy frost of last
week was a reminder that Christmas is
near at hand. Permit us to hope that
all may enjoy the festive season.
For nee the cotton is not all picked
and I doubt if the crop lis all harvested
by New Years day. The sugar plant
ers are forwarding work with all energy
The cane crop on most places is a large
one, and it will take several weeks more
grinding to work/it all off.
/ hear it said that there was not corn
enough made to meet the demands OF
the country. No doubt much Western
corn will have to be brought into this
market and that at a good, high price.
Above all else the farmers should, il
they possibly can, grow enough corn
and hay for home use. Cotton is sell
ing SO low, with little or no prospect for
a rise in the price-while in their hands,
at least-that every edge should be
made to cut that can. / see it estimat-
ed that there will be over eight million
bales of cotton made this year. Quite
a crop, isn't itq-and a pretty fair indi-
cation for low prices. But with all this
| note that the country along the bayou
continues. to improve and build up. The
PAINTERS are improving their tillable
lands, which insures an increased yield.
Most places have good plank and wire
fences, new and improved tenement
houses, better barns and stables. and
some have graded stock. They have
plots of fine turnips and stores of sweet
potatoes housed for winter, fat hogs and
beef cattle, nice, plump poultry and rich
milk and butter.
Occasionally n gets a shot at q gang
of wild ducks, while our sportsmen man
age to take a good many quail on the
wing now and then aiming their atten-
ton to the nimble squirrel, with which
they have royal sport.
Wishing the editors and readers of
the COURIER a pleasant Christmas, I am
Yours, ILLINOIS.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-12-20
Education and TIliteracy.
Baton Rouge Advocate.

Baton Rouge Advocate.
Our friend Mr.. Henry l.. Garland, Jr.,
replies in the Capital Item to the com
ments of the Advocate on his views OF
the cause which have led to lack of in
terest in public school education in
Louisiana, but as our esteemed cotem-
porary has divided the article into two
chapters, one of which is to be pub
lished next week, we have not the
whole of Mr.. Garland's argument. 1t
seems, however, to be summed up in
the statement that there are several
causes for existing defects in our pub
lie school system, which may all be re-
duced to oDe-lack of funds-because
they all necessarily lead to that result.
Thus, lack of interest, which he assign
ed as a chief cause of our bad school
system, operates against the levy of
school taxes, and the inclination of the
Catholic church to educate Catholic
children IN parochial schools. We are
not disposed to contend as to details.
We know that there is an alarming in
crease of illiteracy in the State, among
the white as we'll as colored popu ~lation,
and something should be done to check
it. If the people, through lack of in
%terest, will not tax themselves to main
tain schools, an outside revenue ought
to be provided, if possible. We reject
ed the fund offered by the Blair bill,
for satisfactory reasons, and it is now
no longer available. We have another
source of prospective income, which
will soon be submitted to a popular
vote. If that is also rejected, it will
deyolve on the intelligent and pro-
gressive people of the State to devise
ether means, and it looks as if there
will be 10 way except by increase of
tive will be a still further growth Of il
literacy, or at least little improvement
in education among our people, already
more illiterate than those of any other
commonwealth in the Union. It makes
little difference what the cause may be;
the result is the main interest. As Mr..
Cleveland said of the tariff, it is a con
dition and not a theory that c%oDfronts
us, and we must deal with it accord
ingly. We must meet the crisis with
craftsmanship and not sentiment I; with
practical plans for betterment and not
with wind and words. In conclusion
it may be said that the Catholic church
is doing at least its full share for the
general diffusion of education, and tits
not in any degree responsible for the
increase OF i~lliteraey. Its opposition to
public schools is perhaps to be regret
ted, but it certainly substitutes advan-
tages for acquiring education equal to
those from which it conscientiously
its favor.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-12-20
EDUBLIC SALE.
ESTATE OF MATHILDE SITrIG.

By virtue of mutual agreement by and be.
tween the undersigned heirs and legal repre-.
sentatives (all of age) of Mistress Mathilde
Sittig, deceased, which is duly filed and of re-
cord III the Recorders office of st. Landry mar
ish, there will be sold at public auction by the
undersigned auctioneer, at the front door of
the Court House in the town of Opelousas,
La, on s. TURDAY, the 18th day of Janu,
AIRY, 1891, on the terms and conditions herein.
below stated, the following described property
situated in the parish of St. Landry, inherited
by them from the said Mistress Mathilde Sit.
tig, to-wii:
/. Four arpents of land, being one arpent
front hy lonr arpents deep, fronting on the
public road leading from Opelousas to Belle
vue, and near the southern corporation line
of said town, bounded north by A. Going,
south by Madame Baptiste Richard, widow,
east by said public road, and west by Jules L.
ChacIer6, with dwelling house, carriage houss
and all either improvements thereon, saving
and excepting Que barn built by and belong
ing to Oscar Fux.
9. One lot of ground situated just south of
the corporation line OF the town of Opelousas,
containing an area of 50 (ffty-two) feet front
by 81 eighty feet deep, fronting On the pub,
lie road leading from said town to Bellevue,
bounded north by said corporation line, south
by j. l.. Chachere, east by said public road
and west by j. l.. Chachere, with one store
house thereon, formerly occupied by Etienne
Veltin as a store.
Terms and Conditions. - One-half cash on
day of sale, and for balance of said purchase
price purchasers to subscribe and execute
their five several promissory notes, in equal
amounts, payable to the order of the five ma
jor heirs of said deceased, to-wit Edgar Fux,
Oscar Fux, Madonna Fux, Corinne Fux and
VeItin, and payable respectively in
one and two years from date of sale, with eight
per cent yearly interest from date until paid,
and with stipulation for payment of ten per
cent attorneys fees in case of suit to enforce
payment, to be secured by special mortgage
and vendors privilege on property sold, and
to be Identified by paraph of undersigned auc-
tioneer with the proces-verbal of sale.
LUCIUS GARLAND DUPRE,
Dec. IL, 1890. Auctioneer.