Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-16

he turned in and reformed The press. cor
lected its understanding ard its manners
and left it better that he had lived. His
naval enlistment was like the explanation
of Joseph Andrews virtue, by Fielding:
He lived so virtuous life on purpose to
write it
Ths battle of Lake Erie the defense of
Baltimore the defeat of Sir George Provost
en- Lake cha mplan and the battle of New
Orleans We're the chief events of this war
by land The abandonment OF W ash1nston
shows to what decay public Spit. nad
come under the politics and p'tsillanimiiy
of Washineton's presidential successors
The military quality returned with Presi-
Gent Jackson, who had around him pant,
ers. like Earl, and writers OF piysi-di
vig5or. like Edward Livingston and Henry
Lee the former his chief of staff at New
Orleans the latter our consular agent at Al
oirs of Greene and the Revolution, and his
brother was Robert e, Lee, whose military
quality ard silence made him one of the
most irnpersonal generals in story In MS
head or necessities We're mapped the three
annual campaigns north OF me fotoihac'
Ante tam, Gettysburg and Ao1ocacy.
The reports of Stonewall Jackson were
written by Charles James Faulkner, MS
staff officer. 49,
But one subject of the war of ISL re-
csiyed the establishment of a painting,
that of Perry's Victory. by Powell.
The Mexican war produced battle PANT
or Walker. who sketched also in the late
war and painted both the storm1ng OF
Chepultepec and of Lockout mountain
Napier.
Modern battle description in English re-
ceived a strong impetus from the style OF
Napier whose Peninsular War was not all
published till 1910. and who lived twenty
years longer. His work was probably the
model OF Dr. RusselTs descriptions of the
CriInean engagements
h. (Nri,
Mccarthy the war was well on before
the submarine telegraph between arna
and the Crimea allowed of daily reports,
but the feats of the war correspondent
then filled mems minds with wonder. When
the expedition was leaving England 1t was
accompanied by a special correspondent
from cich of the great daily papers OF Lon
don. \ civilian who had never before seen
one puff OF war smoke was able to dist1n-
guish between the confusion inseparable
from all actual levying of war and the con-
fusion that comes of distinctly bad admin
istTation Our journals did for the military
system Of England what Goethe did for the
political and social systems OF Europe
stuck lis finger upon the weak places
Russell was born in 1871, educated at
Trinity College, Dublin. reported the Irish
repeal meetings for the Times, and was
upon its staff and married before he en-
tered the bar in 1870 From this pursuit
he probably was called by the Crimean
war, when he was thirty-three. His stay
of two years in the Black sea countries
was a cause OF Inc DOWNFALL OF the ADtr-
deem ministry. which was driven from
power by the appropriately he gave their
war. He saw the next car crowned, re-
visited tie Crimea- and in 1877 went to
port the Indian revolt, and the next year
established the Army and Navy Gazette,
of which he has been proprietor and the
editor almost forty years.
He lost the special correspondent charac-
ter in America by substituting preconceived
prejudices for the news and has never since
had the same moral weight. The battle of
Bull Run renamed him. He also was a the
Italian war briefly, failed to reach the DAN
ish war. and saw the Prusso-Austrian war
from the unsuccessful side. After a full
experience in the French war he again re-
tired but the Prince of Wales made him
honorary private secretary when going out
TO India. He also was in the Zulu and the
Egyptian wars Stanley reached parlia-
ment while Russell has been beaten. but
Russell is well decorated with medals at
the age of seventy-iye.
Raymond.
Henry J. Raymond. whose name is on
our memorial. the correspondent of
his own paper in the Italian war, the New
York Times. which was started September.
1851, and made up on the form exactly
eleven years before the battle of Antietam.
The Italian war was In 1889. and June "A
of that year Mr.. Raymond obtained the ac-
count OF the battle of Solferino, which he
wrote out in a tavern In the village ci
Castiglione by candlelight assisted by the
accounts of DIR. w. E. Johnston or "MaIa-
koH- aid another American 1t took six
hours 10 write, or till am. when Mala-
kon went twenty miles in the carriage and
with the horses which had taken them
about the battle, to the city of Brescia,
whence the French emperors express trajo
LETT that second day for Paris
Raymond had met the London Times
correspondent several times ON the field
and desired TO beat him. and Raymond's ac-
count. placed on the imperial express by Dr.
Johnston. carried from arjS NV
Raymond to the Liverpool steamer for New
York. so that it arrived here ten days be-
fore Russells account, published the day
after IN the London Times Both accounts
went on the same express train
My daughter, whom i now present to
you, was brought into this world by DR..
johnson, who little knew that his activity
would be commemorated in this memorial
thirty-seven years after the event.
w nile raymond was gone in Europe, W.
IL Huri5urt wrote In Raymond's Times
me lnchoate article popularity called THE
Elbows of the Mircio" respectable in
stance of now stay-at-homes relate wars
In the spring of 1862 l slept with Mr.
Raymond at Michie's house near Rich
mord. Va, for some period, and heard of
nights mis- impartial hostility to Bennett.
Greeley. Webb, etc, who conducted the
other New York papers.
In 1Ssb the arrival Of the first Jananase
embassy and the visit of the Prince of
Wales stimulated both sketching and spe-
cal correspondence The Prince of Wales
visit was the beginning of special CORE
siondence. and four of the higher-priced
New York daily papers sent each a man TO
travel with the prince through Canada and
the United States. Three of those CORE
spondents are still living
American Artist Papers.
The rise of the illustrated press was much
later than that of the descriptive press.
In the newspaper Illustration of the war
Frank Leslie, once Carter an English en-
graver. led the way and commenced a for
tune. He had worked on Gleason's illus
trated papers in Boston, and felt the Ameri-