Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-07
"It will never be established was

thy?" asked the emperor.
There are no Confederates in such
case," was the answer. I'VE are all
Americans"
The talk drifted to the question of re-
foresting the south of France, and Ma
poleon asked General Toombs to visit
that region and make suggestions in
regard to the proposed work.
The request was complied with and
report was furnished of SO elaborate
and complete nature that the French
minister of the interior offered to pay
a handsome sum for it. This was re-
fused. as the general said that the work
was not in his line, but he was prevail
cd upon to accept souvenir OF consld-
cradle value from the emperor him
self
Shortly after this the exile yielded to
the manysurgent requests of his friends
ut home and returned to Georgia. Per
haDs no other Confederate who visited
Europe made a more brilliant reputa-
ton in so short time.-Wallace Put
nam Reed, in Chicago Times-Herald.
Cusliing's Bravery.
One Of the replies OF history, which
but for its anti-Scrlptural emphasis
would have long since found it's way
into the school readers, was that or
young Lieut. Gushing just as he was
pushing the deadly torpedo over the
log boom against the Confederate IRON
clad Albemarle.
'Who are your had been demanded
by the startled outlook rs the little Fed
eral boat shot into sight from the dark
| ness.
You'll id soon find out" was
Clkshing's CHEEKY answer as he showed
and exploded the torpedo against the
Albemarlc Then, crash came the cam
mons blast from the now hopelessly
disabled ironclad, and into the water
and the night went Gushing, happily
to be finally rescued and find his way
back to his ship again
"A more gallant deed the world never
saw" said the frank captain OF the Al
bemarle ever afterwards.
was recently told by a commander
in the navy little story Of Gushing.
which do not remember to have seen
in print, showing the doughty stuff he
was made Of even before that wonder
full attack upon the Albemarle, writes
W. S. Walker The ship with which
he had been connected was earlier in
the war; briefly detailed in Egyptian
waters. watching for wandering Con-
feterate cruiser. One evening young
Gushing was ashore at a table d'hote
dinner in hotel at Alexandria. Sew
eral officers of English Warshlps then
in the harbor were also at the table.
One of them, Il cockney young leuten-
ant, sat directly opposite Gushing and
was marked in his impudent treatment
of the latter.
A Yankee naval officer was to our
EnglishMan, who plainly hadn't read
up much on the war of 1912, something
uncommonly funny. After several nudg-
ings of his fellows, who were inclined
to at least be unobtrusive and decent,
and after number of grimaces and
other pantomimic evidences Of curios-
ity, cur gay Briton dropped his elbows
OH the table. his chin upon his hands,
and leaning his face, with a monocle In
one eye and the necessary squint in the
other, toward Gushing, proceeded to
give the latter a wantonly insulting
specimen Of the British stare.
Gushing quietly took out his card
case and, holding card by diagonal
corners between his thumb and finger
until it bent sufficiently to give it full
projectile force let it fly plump into
the astonished lordling's face.
Il presume you understand what that
means?" said Gushing.
But before the wrathy young Eng
! llshman could reply his senior, digni-
fed captain who had seen the whole
performance said to Gushing: Yes, sir,
he does understand, and the young
puppy asks your pardon for his imper-
thence
Then the whole English party, after
The matter was reported to the admiral
of their fleet, private but official repri-
mard given the gold-mounted snob s;ho
had caused the scene, and Il written
order was promulgated drawing the
fleets attention to the fact that United
States officers and sailors were to be
treated III all social and official inter-
course exactly like those of other ma
tions. This was something in those
days, when we hadn't much of a navy
and the biggest kind of a war develop
ing swiftly on our hands. When this
Young Englishman year or two later
read of Cushing's marvellous feat in
sinking the Albemarle he must have
realized more than ever that he had
been fooling with something which was
loaded clear to the muZZle.
Grants Narrow Escape from Capture.
A few days before, an occurrence had
happened which came very near depriv-
ing the armies Of the services of Gen.
Grant in the Virginia campaign. On
his return to headquarters after his
last visit to the President in Washing
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