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LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.
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Calendars repadded or caledar en-
velopes, any size. at Adams Printing
company.
Fresh home made bread and rolls,
every evening at Skidmore's.
--Ruy Lopez. ten cent cigar, good
smoke at kaufman's confectionery.
For cut flowers, palms and funer,
al work, call Mrs. C. A. Starr Both
phones.
Dolls, toys and games of all kinds
to be closed out at Kaufman's confec-
tionery.
Get home made candies from Skid
more at 1922 West Second avenue. 1t
is pure.
For stove wood phone Pine City
Bedding Co. New phone SO; old
phone 1922.
w
ic for one year would be good Christ
mas present.
-Lost-A roll Of surgical instru-
ments. Return to DR.. A. w. Troupe
and receive reward.
Remington typewriter. for sale
cheap, good as new, by E. F. Kim
brough, Cotton Belt depot.
Engraved cards would be a good
Christmas present. Let us take your
order now Adams Printing company.
Call on Hicks fee and Coal COM
pany for al kinds of coal. Prompt SER
vice. Old phone 90; new phone 1913.
The Wagner concert company ar
rived early this morning. They will
be at the Merrill institute this even
ing.
The ladies' always appreciate
beautiful box of superior candies
when the are bought at Kaufman's con-
fectionery.
-Taylcr Patillos trial occurred yes
terday before Esquire Stewart and
he was fined $z5 for card playing. but
he took and appeal.
Be sure to call at 1922 West Sec
ond avenue fora nice Christmas cake.
Will have variety of nicer cakes than
ever Skidmore bakery
"A burning ash barrel caused an
alarm of fire TO be turned in this morn
ing. The blaze was extinguished with
couple buckets of water.
Services :. will be held at the
Temple tonight at 7:30. The subject
of DR.. Kornfeld's lecture will The
Uses and Abusef of knowledge"
For Sale-The brick building
Nos. POI and 203 West Barraque st.
at a low prlce and on long time pay
ments. Address, c. T. Dondore, San
Diego, Cal.
Mr.. d. G.. Greaves, special agent
for the Pennsylvania Mutual Insur-
ance company, of Philadelphia, will
open up Offices for his company in
Pine Bluff
DIR. S. C. Alexander has been order.
ed by the Presbytery to go to Fordyce
next Sunday to preach in the Presby-
terrain church at that place on that
day and to declare the church vacant
the pastor having resigned.
There are two families w. O.
Vowel, is trying to help through their
hardships They are two deserving
families, and any contribution Of cloth
ing or food will be gratefully received
Telephone Mr., Vowel at Strauss anc
Miller'S
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Many Returns Of Merry Christmas

1t is easy enough to wish our child
rem merry Christmas, or SO provide
the few simple things necessary tc
make one merry day. but how about
the future? How can we make provis-
ions that will insure them a merry
Christmas for all future years? BY
making their services so valuable to
the world that they can always get
profitable employment A business ed
ucation will accomplish this and will
make our best wishes materialize into
substantial results.
James Practical Business College,
Pine Bluff, Ark.
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DR.. Woods Norway Pine Syrup
seems especially adapted to the needs
of children. Pleasant to take; sooth-
ing in it's influence; it is the remedy
of all remedies for every form Of
throat and lung disease
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1902-12-19

Ordinary household accidents have
no terrors when there's bottle of DR..
Thomas Electric Oil in the medi-
cine chest. Heals burns, cuts,
bruises, sprains. Instant relief.
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Pine Bluff Ark, Dec. 16, 1902.
Santa: am not going to ask for toys.
candies. nuts or bicycle, but do please
remember ne with a scholarship in
James Practical Business college
only $50. Very truly,
\. LEGION
te4G Homes. "a
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parnattts Vanilla Extract has outIl9
ed criticism. 1t is the finest and puf
est vanilla extract that can be bought
Once Il led, always used. Oh
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REMOVAL! REMOVAL!

On and after December l., invite
my friends and patrons to call at my
new office, 219 West Second avenue,
first floor. CHAS. HANCOCK.
If Real Estate Agent.
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STRAUSS {. MILLER s
BULLETIN.

Have you any children away at
school. or a friend you want to re-
member Christmas? If SO, let us fix
up NICE BOX of GooG THINGS
to send them for you. We make a
speciality Of this feature and have in
stock a large variety Of eatables to
make the heart glad. Give us your or
der and shipping address and we will
do the rest.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-10-07

secession sympathizers against the Fed
eral volunteers en- route for Washington.
Hostilities in the field had not COM
menced, but both the Unionists and
Confederates were preparing for strife,
and We're tensely braced for the APP
preaching conflict. Virginia initiated
her withdrawal from the Union by the
confiscation of such property-Federal or
private-as she required for defense In
the struggle which must inevitably en-
sue. Arms and munitions of war, avail
able water craft, Notifications, public
Notwithstanding of possible utility
was seized.
Prior to this steamboat lines plying
between Baltimore and Washington
transacted the necessary business of
carrying passengers and freight, and
made scheduled stops at various wharfs
between the two terminals. Owing. in
some instances, to the seizure of the
steamers engaged in this traffic, and In
other cases to an anticipation of such a
result. this business was suspended.
The George Post was one of the last
steamers to make this trip. On Satur-
day, April 20. 1861. she started from her
wharf at Washington loaded as usual
with freight and passengers. The
George Post never reached her destina-
ton. Rumors were published in the
local papers on the following Monday
that cbo had hoap caizad hy tho W.
ginia authorities at Alexandria, and
later it was circulated that she had been
struck or sunk by cannon shot, In at
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commander of the ship found himself
confronted by a man who undoubtedly
proposed that the suggestion offered by
the school teacher should be followed,
and he seconded his persistence with
revolver. The movement of the captain
to summon assistance was quietly pre-
vented. The persuasion in the way 1t
fective. The wheel ana the vessel
changed hands without further disturb
ance or resistance. The four compan-
ions in this piratical adventure having
dispensed with their dlsguises as school
teachers, had with similar persuasion
suppressed any hostility from the en-
gineer. The complement Of the ship $
manifest were likewise convinced that
resistance was useless:
These i've men formed part OF the
crew of the sailboat which had been
quietly. by tacks, following after the
George Post This rs the sloop used
for the capture OF runaway blacks. and
disguised as an innocent pleasure craft.
ne ehsiHe oi the ueois vs. '
stopped and the sloop. when signaled.
came alongside. The cannon was raised
TO the deck of the steamboat, and then
mounted forward The George Pest was
now a vessel of war in the service Of
the State of Virginia. This seizure was.
CT course. denounced by the Federal
Government as an act of piracy.
The course of the steamer was now
directed toward Alexandria. Here she
was unloaded and her freight con-
iscated. She was hurriedly prepared for
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the needs OF the Confederate authorities.
This done size was directed TO proceed
at once TO Acquia Creek. whence cars had
been sent to Richmond to obtain men
and ammunition. The steamer started
for this destination and in passing Fort
Washington she was fired upon. AL
though struck she was not disabled, and
succeeded in making Acquia Creek. In
the meanwhile = Federal revenue cutter
had been sent after her, and soon after
she left Acquia Creek on her return
journey fell in with her.
With all steam on. the George Post
endeayored to evade the Union boat and
escape The cutter gave pursuit, firing
at frequent intervals a she'll from a
small gun which she carried. Although
feeter boat. the George Post was I'M
able 10 dodge the fire of the enemy.
II was stern chase. and the flying
boat was unable to use her cannon
which was forward. Her case was alb
solutely hopeless, escape was impossible.
She had been struck in vital places and
was fast sinking. 1t was determined to
beach the boat. and having been set on
fire the Inflated vessel was turned to-
ward the shore. At the moment OF
Bleaching she exploded. but her crew,
taking TO water. escaped 10 land. and
found their way to their command
The hulk of the vessel was permitted
to remain at the scene of her final mis-
hap through the period OF the war and
until she fell to pieces. The cannon was
recently recovered by persons in the
locality. and eventually found its way
into the possession OF Mr.. Hume.
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A SMALL iron cannon, recently
~ added to the extensive collec-
4 \ tion of war relics in the possess
sion OF Mr.. Frank Hume, a we'll
known resident of Washington, d. c., is
associated with an interesting incident
Of the civil war. the piratical seizure of
the steamer George Post, in the Potomac
River by adventurous sscessionists.
In ante -bellum days this cannon form
ed the armament of a sloop in the SER
vice of the State of Virginia, which was
employed principally with the recapture
of escaped slaves. The northern boun-
dairy of Virginia was the first objective
point of the runaway black on his way
to the free States. Once beyond he was
certain of such assistance as he requir-
ed. Sympathizers would furnish food
and clothing and would direct him on
his journey along the chain of the "un-
derground railway" which led TO Canada
and liberty. To prevent this was the
mission of the sloop's service, and she
patrolled the waters forming the boun-
dairy between Maryland and Virginia, as
far up the Potomac as was navigable for
q vessel of her draft. Constantly on the
alert, she was often called upon to use
the cannon with which she was armed
for hating such vessels as were suspect
ed of harboring black fugitives.
When Virginia seeded from the I'm
ion in April. 1861, was a time of general
unrest. Sumter had fallen, and at Bal
.imore demonstrations had been made by
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they knew the crisis of their desperate
undertaking had arrived. All eyes
turned toward the part of the vessel
where the signal was to be displayed.
1t was not there.
Startled and disguised by the turn
affairs had taken. the Southerners
steamed a little father away from the
war vessel and began to cruise slowly
about. awaiting the moment for the
signal to appear.
An hour passed. and then another.
Still the light did not appear to tell
them that their opportunity had come.
Slowly but surely the night wore away,
until the faint gray streaks in the
eastern sky told Of the approach of day.
1t was then the Confederates realized
that their plot had failed. and that their
dreams of vast and powerful South
ern navy on the Great Lakes had been
rudely awakened.
The Steamer Scuttled.
Sorely disappointed, they turned the
utlle Steamer lONdIU thc NuAoVAah
shore, and near the mouth of the De-
troit river scuttled her and allowed her
to sink. They enc and all reached their
homes in safety. Even the Confederate
spy, Major Cole. was afterward allowed
to escape, through the strong influence
brought to bear in his case by officers
high in authority
Long afterward John Y. Beall was
captured, tried, and hung on Governors
Island, in New York Harbor. Some of
those who witnessed his execution have
many times spoken of the sturdy and
ma1ly bearing of the unfortunate man
during his Imprisonment and the SUI
preme moment on the scaffold. Major
Clarence A. Dix, the officer in charge,
asked Beall what he had to say as he
stood on the gallows. The reply was:
Gentlemen, this is judicial murder.
die in the service and defense of my
country"
Col. Bennett G. Burleigh, who was
Beall's right hand man in the capture
Of the Philo Parsons, and who was one
Of the prime factors in the entire move
ment, is still living and sits as a men,
Der Of the Parliament of Great Britain.
His career has been full of all sorts Of
experiences and adventures.
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and then as soon as they were outside
crew and then run the steamer to the
island. The details were arranged with
much more thoroughness than were
those for the abortive effort actually
made year later. Lieutenant William
son sent reliable man to Sandusky and
learned that the Michigan was at an
Choir 200 yards from the island, with
six guns bearing on the prison; that
there were only 400 soldiers on the ISL
and, and that the only guns were two
howitzers, one on the ferryboat plying
between Sandusky city and the island.
Lieutenant Minor, who appears to
have been the executive officer of this
expedition. managed to secure con-
siderable quantity of warlike stores. al
though the work had to be done with
great caution. His subsequent report
to the Confederate Navy Department
shows that they secured two 9-pcund
cannon. 100 navy revolvers, pistol am
munition, powder and bullets in large
quantities They did not dare to in
vest in cannon balls and cutlasses, for
fear of arousing British suspicion, but
they showed their grim determination
by buying large quantity of dumbbells
for cannon balls and butcher knives for
cutlasses.
The original party of twenty-one was
ioined at Toronto by thirty-two ex-
rebels. officers and privates. who had es-
caped to Canada from Northern prisons.
Arrangements were made to board
screw steamer plying between Ogdens-
burg and Chicago. as laborers bound to
the latter city to be employed on the.
city waterworks. man named Con-
nelly was sent to Ogdensburg and paid
for twenty-five passages for party at
St GATHERINGS on TIE Welland Canal.
He secured the privilege Of adding as
many additional ''laborers' as he could
secure by the time the vessel reached
st. GATHERINGS.
Assembled at St. GATHERINGS.
No suspicion had been aroused, and the
party assembled safely at st. GATHERINGS.
with the Confederate guns, powder, pis-
tolls, dumbbells, and butcher knives safe
ly boxed as machinery.
The plan of this expedition was when
clear of British jurisdiction to rise and
overpower the officers and crew, seize
the steamer. secure the prisoners. mount
the guns, arm the men, and proceed to
Sandusky." 1t was hoped to reach the
Michigan by daylight, collide with her
as If by accident, and board and carry
her with cutlass and pistol There her
guns, loaded with grape and canister.
were to be turned on the headquarters
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upon plans of the Southern officials,
never known by the Federals.
| The first plan for Confederate cruise
on the Great Lakes originated in the
fertile brain of Lieut.. William H. MUIR
daugh, an able Confederate naval officer.
who had served on the Merrimac. His
original plan was more daring than any
OF those subsequently adopted, and ap-
peared to give more promise of success.
He formulated his plan late in 1862 and
submitted it to Secretary Mallory of the
Confederate Navy Department in Feb
ruary, 1853. 1t is preserved in the Con-
federate naval records and reads as fol-
lows:
1.-THE party to leave the Confederacy
at the earliest possible day. to be ready
for commencing operations with the
opening of navigation, which VIII be
probably about the middle of April.
1.-The commanding officer to be fr--
nished with letter Of credit for $780,
600. although it is not presumed that
more than half this amount will be OK
pended.
On Lake Superior.
AFTER reaching Canada to purchase,
through the agency of some reliable
merchant, small steamer, say one of
200 tons. that can pass through ths Vel
land Canal. If practicable. to let the
agent equip and victual the vessel and
collect a crew of fifty men, ostensibly
with a view to mining operations on
Lake Superior. If this is not practic-
able the officers will separate and col
lect each party and join the vessel at
some point on Lake Erie. The object OF
the expedition not to be made known to
the men until the vessel is clear of the
Canadian coast, when strong induce
ments in the way Of pay, etc. must be
held out to them for making the IT.
tempt and still stronger ones for its
successful accomplishment Those net
willing to make the attempt to be re-
turned to the Canadian shore; those VINO
are willing to be shipped into the Con-
federate service. In collecting men. much
Judgment must be exercised in the Sc
lections. The crew will be armed with
cutlasses and revolvers. The vessel will
be provided with a number of small iron
buoys to be used as torpedoes, and also
the powder, fuses, ETC., 20 charge and
fire them. These are to be used in the
destruction of canal locks She must
also have on board plenty of spirits of
and incendiary composition
for rapid work in starting fires.
''The first point to be aimed at Is Erie.
Pa, the arrival there to be so timed as
to make it about l a. m. The steamer
to be laid alongside the United State,
steamer Michigan, and that vessel to be
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The following is told bv New York.
er. who wears a Grand Army badge:
THE boys of the One Hundred and
Seventh supported Cotheren's Battery at
Antietam At about the hottest of the
fight the enemy massed themselves OPP
posite our front for an assault on Co.
theren's position. The battery was short
of ammunition, and so reserved their
fire, while throughout the whole field
there was lull in the tumult The
rebels advanced in solid mass, with n
precision of movement perfectly beauti-
full. 1t was a moment which tried the
nerves of the bravest. In the meantime,
one of our lads, becoming quite inter-
ested in the affair, climbed high rock
where he could view the whole scene
He occupied his place unmindful of the
bullets which were buzzing like bees
around U.S. The rebels came on until we
could see their faces. and then Cotheren
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manly quality of decision demanded in
the execution of design
One of these individuals found the way
to the pilot house, and opened conversa-
ton with the captain who was there
guiding the vessel through the narrow
river channel. To his surprise his Wis
1tor suggested an ability to act as pilot,
and insisted upon taking the wheel for
that purpose. Thoroughly astonished
at such demand from such source
the captain turned around in order to
observe the person who ventured 1t. A
transformation had taken place. The
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poured the canister into them. The ad-
vancing column was literally torn to
pieces by them. Our friend on the rock
became frantic in his demonstrations Cf
delight. and as one of the battery sec
ton sent shrapnel, which moved down
a long row OF Johnnies, he swung his
cap. and. shouting so that the flying reb-
els could hear him. sung out:
'Bull-e-e-e! Set EN- up on the other
alley!'"
i
A member of one of the Missouri posts
tells the following good story
visitor at convalescent camp
asked. the reason for so many. deaths.
"Well. you see" said ore OF the sur
geons, 1.-The Government laid out num-
Der of big graveyards. and soldiers al
ways avail themselves of all Government
allowances. That's why they die so
fast"
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tempting to pass Fort Washington. while
on her way to Acquia Creek in the Con-
federate service. Nothing definite. how
ever. was known for some time of the
particulars.
She carried on this trip leaving Wash
ington, among others, five passengers
costumed in female attire, who in en-
gaging passage had represented them
selves as school teachers. These women
were Of large stalwart type with mien
more suggestive of the sterner sex than
of that to which they were supposed to
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A. ]. L. W.-Your solicitude
is fully appreciated. and few
nights after November 4 a car
riage will be at your door. All
seeming obstacles will be re-
moved. BE ready.

The above innocent notice appeared
in the personal column of the New
York Herald" in October. 1869. 1t was
the prearranged notice to the Confed-
crate prisoners that the date of the eff
fort to liberate them was at hand.
But while the little band of deter
mined Confederates was confidently.
awaiting the coming of the Ogdensburg
packe, up the canal something hap-
pened. Secretary Welles telegraphed
all lake mayors to be on the lookout,
and the awakened British authorities
ordered the arrest of any vessel passing
the upper terminus OF the canal with
any suspicious number of passengers
on board. The Confederate officers al
ways believed themselves to have been
Canadian named McCaig, whom they
trusted, but the actual source of Wel1es'
information is not known to this day.
The betrayal of the plan necessitated
the prompt scattering of the members
of the expedition. The principal officers
proceeded to Montreal and from there
made their way in open wagons and
buggies in bitterly cold weather through
the wilds of lower Canada and New
Brunswick I'VE often looked" says
Lieutenan. Minor, Into the houses on
the Maine side OF the river with a de-
sire to do to them as their people do
to ours They shipped again at Hall
fax and succeeded in again running the
Wilmington blockade. BY February 4.
1864, the leaders were back at Rich
mond and Minor completed his report
of the fiasco with the statement: But
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The Second Raiding Project.

belong. In the hurry Of departure they
escaped more than casual comment. and
made themselves invisible, as soon as
possible up to the moment of departure.
From that time they became very much
in evidence. At the instant when the
boat left the wharf they made their ap-
pearance. Separately they were OBJ
served to make their way to various
parts of the boat Their masculine
stride and resolute manner might have
been attributed to habitual self-reliance.
but had more the appearance of that
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navy, which are preserved at the Navy
Department here. show with what per-
sistence and determination the Rich
mond government kept at work on this
line. They also give much information
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tempt that was made to establish a
Confederate navy On the Great Lakes.
There was number of attempts even
before the episode of the Philo Par
sons, but none of them came SO near
to attaining success as did thai single
bold stroke of Beall. Burleigh and their
followers.
The official records of the Confederate
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The good old gunboat Michigan is still
in the service, flying the Stars and
Stripes. and is now, as then, the only
warship on the inland seas
But this was by no means the only at
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been if the plan had succeeded thus fai.
for but Intellectual resistance could have
been offered. The next move was to be
the capture of six steamers known 10 be
at the Sandusky wharf. These would
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have been used to transfer the Onion
prisoners later to Canada. forty miles
distant. Then. the six captured ships
were all to be manned with the most
daring of the liberated Confederate pris-
cners. Then" reported Lieutenant
Minor. I'VE would have the lake shore
at our mercy. and all the vast CONF
merce of Lake Erie as our just and Laws
full prey"