Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-24

Ladue box, which was at least six feel from the general delivery window, and that neither he nor any one-of the employees had subsequently, touched it.
 Naturally matters looked squally for .McKinnon He had been popular, but the better class of people felt that Paul Ladue had been harshly, even outrageously, dealt with, and that Nc Kinnon's insfdious, if not fiery, speeches were the direct cause.
 A revulsion of feeling had set in. Before leaving for Washington there had been ample time for Fred Benton to spread abroad Ladue's declaration that nothing would persuade him to cast his lot with the south.
 Such was the state of feeling that Gale, the would-be heroic leader of pub lie sentiment, awoke to the fact that 1t, might be wise for him to cross the lake and visit kith and kin among the Wolverines, for city officials had come and asked ugly questions, and there was talk of arrest and indictment foi melting riot.
 McKinnon called at the Bentons and asked to see Miss Elinor, and Miss Elinor asked to be excused. Benton senior approved her conduct, for there had been words between the partners unpleasant words. In the end, McKin- non withdrew from the firm and allied himself with his old partners bitterest rivals.
 Then came the general with aide-de- camp Fred, and the former responded +r ', l xS distant civility The latter asked him what he had done with Ladue's letter and refused his proffered hand. It was lucky the general had to take his young staff officer to the state capital, whence they were recalled to Wash ington just in time to meet the de- moralized wreck of McDowell's raw, untaught regiments, drifting in from the disaster of First Bull Run.
 And then the nation woke up in earnest to realization of the fact that the south had men as brave as the best in the land and leaders more skillful than those we had yet sent afield Then 1t became apparent that not until 1t was thoroughly organized, drilled and disciplined could northern army hope to subdue the army of the south.
 Lincoln's rugged features had al. ready begun to take on a shade of anxiety. The lines were digging far ther in about the sombre eyes and the broad humorous mouth by the time the tall, gaunt president, in the abnormally tall top hat-the fashion of the day took to driving out to Kalorama in the August evenings, MT. Secretary Seward dwarfing at his side--to take the air and look at the one western brigade of all the commands then being mold ed by Gen. Mcclellan into what was to become the grand army of the Po- tomac. While at first Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania had been represented in the huge command as- signed to Fred Benton's general, with one exception all eastern regiments were transferred to other divisions as more Badgers arrived, and finally, when the first frosts of October had B turned the Virginia shores to fire and, strongly entrenched, the union army covered the long front from A1exan- dria to beyond the Chain Bridge, it was brigade of four strong, stalwart regiments, three from Wisconsin and one from Indiana, nQd an eastern or middle state represented in their ar ray, that this compact command was designated, of all others, to encamp upon the beautiful Arlington estate, and the general and his staff were di- rected to occupy as headquarters the fine old mansion. long the seat of a famous family. The Badger brigadiel moved in and took possession of the homestead of his old-time friend and associate in the corps of engineers, when as junior officers they were build ing Fort Monroe, and 4000 men of the west pitched their white tents on the lands of Virginia's knightly soldier 1 Robert F. Lee.