The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-26
INSTRUCTIONS LAST DAYS.
The Sergeant Tells of the Sudden
Change Of Frons on the Fart Of
the Natives.
A NATIVE BANDS WELCOME
10 the seventeenth was "farching
Through eeorgia-The In
surrsctloa is Ended.

This morning Inc lnteillBeueS4 PtNNS
the last letter OF correspondence from
the Philippines that the paper viii be
favored with from Sergeant Ernest g.
Smith, Of the seventeenth Regulars. X
being announced few days ago that
young Smith would soon return 70 this
country. InteInseDeer readers have
formed the habit OF looking forward
Win much interest TO the appearance
Of the smith letters. and their enforced
diseontinuance viii be- the cause OF gen
uine regret. The present letter tells Of
the dying gasps Of the tnsurrection in
1.uzon. and Is perhaps the most inter
esting Of the entire series.
From ous Soldier Correspondent.
BAYAMPAN. p. L. Dec, 6, 1Sss.-The
present aggressive campaign. now
thought 10 be nearing an end. has
wrought startling changes in the Phil
ipplne situation. More territory has
been trversed by American troops and
more miles Of railroad reduced TO Amer
lean control within the month just past
than the fortunes Of war had allotted
to US in the eigh; months OF previous
rsmpaignIng. In fact the entire rail-
way system OF the island is now patrol
al by Americans and the leaders Of the
insurrection with what force they still
command. are fugitives somewhere IN
the mountains Of the interior.
The story OF the lighting which the
general advance entaiIed. is now an old
ono to the newspaper reading public OF
the states. sufice It TO say that the
raost severe engagement Of MeArthur's
advancing column occurred at Maya
lang. wher. it was. perhaps least ex-
pected. Here determined body Of the
enemy fought suPerbly for three hours
and gave Colonel Smith, with the Sew
enteenth infantry one Of the Warmest
arguments OF the season. The other
regiments OF the division advanced eau
tiously on Bamban. 4 town possessing
almost impreguabie natural defenses.
bu, met With Unexpectedly slight re-
sistance.
The fall Of MaSalang and Bamban
marked the beginning Of the end Mud.
high rivers and Indictment weather I'M
peded the subsequent advance on Tar
lac far more than did the insurgents.
When the tired troopers marched into
The latter rebel stronghold without iis-
Ing A shot. /. became apparent 10 all
that the end was near.
Instead OF ding the city. as had in
yariably been a rebel custom hereto
fore. Tarlac was evacuated without the
loss By Incendlarism Of more than what
railroad property happened to be With
in the city limits. Three hundred
coaches aud freight cars. with The rail-
road buildings. were in flames when the
city was captured But the substantial
barracks which had quartered nearly
s.cOo rebel soldiers during tn rainy
months when Tariac had been the rebel
capital. were left unharmei and ready
for occupancy by the advancing Ameri-
cans. So. too. had private residences
and the business centre OF the city been
spared. An the inhabitants had fed
with Aguiualdo but their influence had
been sufficiently strong to prevail upon
the mestlzo chleft4tn TO spare a retreat
FOR them when the hopeless war had run
It's cOurse.
From TarIac northward the aspect OF
AFFAIRS chlnged completely. Practical
~ surrounded by the piucky forces Of
Generals Macarthur Lawton, Wheeler
and Wheaton. the insurrectO army dis
handed with apparently every command