Saint Mary's beacon., 1904-09-01

extinguished thecommercial life Of George
town and, two generations later, when
it bore the tramp Of million men march
ing 90 meet the hosts OF the South.
The passing of the old bridge and the
dedication Of the new may be said TO be
accomplished during these weeks By the
transit OF the tens Of thousands Of sol
diers and thousands of commissary wa
gons moving 20 the mock battle Of Bull
Run around and beyond Manassas.
Three headquarters have already been
established on the contested" ground,
the warlike appearance Of the vast area
Of hundred square miles being broken
only by q solitary Quaker who obstina-
tely sits in the middle Of IL upon his 800
acres and refuses TO permit the hostile
legions 10 trespass ON his lands. The
scream Of bngies and the throb Of drums
are already heard across the river, and
Friend Pearley sits triumphant in his
doorway and laughs derisively to be-
hold the expenditure of a million and
half Of dollars to enable vast .brigades
and divisions Of parading men to fire
blank cartridges at each other, make
Aanking manOeuvers, and delight,the i'm
perialistie spirit Of the American Presi-
dent.
Another great naval scandal has brok-
i an ont fhia xvaak Eo-&w oo.~x,-rs "a 1,,@:
able merchandise have been made i'm San
Francisco, revealing a wholesale smug-
gle Of oriental goods. There are more
than one hundred cases Of goods in all,
worth tens Of thousands ofdollars, many
Of them consigned to Commander Bull
and Rear-Admiral Stirling. Probably
Secretary Shaw win siEnply reprimand
the offenders, as he did the naval officer
who smuggled into Porto Rico, for the
cases seem exactly similar Secretary
Shaw told your correspondent that he
should let those offenders OF with a re-
primand, while native Porto Ricans
were still in jail and had been there for a
year. Tor doing precisely the same thing.
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The high water mark for pensions was
reached September 80, 1904, when the
rolls carried LOCO, 1872 names. There is
one revolutionary widow on the pension
rolls, to-day, Esther s., widow of Noah
DaimOn Of Vermont. She must have
married at II when her husband was 20.
He served as follows: six days from
April 10, ITS, in Captain fuckers
company; twenty five days in Captain
Summers company; sixty-five days in
Captain Freneh's company; three months
in Captain Thomas Whites company:
three months in Captain Lapham's COM
pany; thirty y-seven days i'm Captain Capp's
company; nine days in Captain Abner
Cranes company; thirty-one days in
Captain Richards company and eight
months in Captain Champney scompany.
These companies were generally in differ
ent regiments, and the record shows the
curious instability ofmilitary service dur
ing the Revolution. The last survivor
of that war died in 1869, aged 100
years.
The citizens OF Washington and visi-
tors are being entertained now by an
unusual exhibition of war vessels in the
Potomac. There are the battleships
Texas and Massachusetts,, the monitors
Arkansas, Florida, and Neveda, eight
tOrpedO-bOat destroyers and the train
ing-ship Hartford, the old flagship in
which Admiral Farragut led the feet up
Mobile Bay. The squadron is in com
mand Of Rear-Admiral Sand, aud the
big guns frowning over the water and
the decks crowded with sailor lads in
white duck present a picturesque specta-
clerarely seen here.
MacMonnies' statue of General MeClel-
Ian proves acceptable and viii stand on
the triangle at 18th and N. streets.
Fifty thousand dollars was appropria-
ted for it by Congress. Vice Presidential
candidate Davis is in this city and will
start next week on a stumping tour, to
set the pace for the other youngsters.
Col. Biddle, Engineer Commissioner OF
the District, has returned from an in
spection of the Panama Canal zone, He
things it a wonderfully salubrious spot,
and a nice place to live. But his friends
notice that he didn't tstay there Pension
Office clerks went down the river yester-
day to hear their Chief Commissioner
We're read a new poem. Was the invita-
tion equivalent to a command?