Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-18


history. This question will demand place
among the open questions of Europe until
1t Is solved according to right and 9ustice
Liberated by the powers finally. Kossuth
sailed for America December, 1851 In the
United States frigate Mississippi. His re-
ception in America was a continuous ova-
ton. He returned to Europe in 1852 and re-
NAMED in Turin whilst organizing Hun.
garian legion which fought under Garibaidi
In 1S59-1S6G. When Austria and Hungary
were reconciled. Kossuth refused to recog-
niZe'the pact, and continued his hostility 10
the end. He died in Turin, March 20, 1884.
Gems. sGorgay and Bern and Capt. Schoepf
were skilled soldiers, graduates of the mill
tary academy at Vienna. The sultan mace
Gorgay and Bern generals In his army and
assigned them to duty at Aleppo in Asia
Minor. Capt. Albin P Schoepf. then not
more than twenty-five years of age, was
given the rank of bimbachi, or major, ana
served as aid to Gen. Bern in Aleppo.
X X
Special mention should be made just here
OF Mai. Albin p. Schoepf. not only because
of his distinguished services
0en' a. to Hungary and Turkey. but
Schoepf. because Of his gallant con-
duct in the war with the
states After the death OF Bern at Aieppo
In 1852 Maj Schoepf came to Washington
and obtained employment in the coast sur
vey and the patent office. Subsequently.
after the breaking out of the war QS61) his
military experience and talents were made
known to the general-in-chief of the United
states army through Judge Advocate Cen
erai Holt. Gen. Scott recommended him to
the Secretary of War in the following let
ter
AT the instance of the Hon. J. Holt 1
have had an interview with Mr.. Schoepf 1
have become SO pleased with him that am
anxious he should be brought into the mill
tary service Of the United States. Mr.. S.
is very intelligent, a scientific soldier and
evidently most worthy man. l have no
doubt he would make able and efficient
brigadier general. Respectfully submitted
to the Secretary of War, September "a 1861.
Winfield Scott
Cen Schoepf participated in the battles of
Wild Cat and Mill Springs, 1861: member
of the military commission at CINCINNATI
commanded the post at Fort Delaware. 1862
1865; mustered out of service, appointed
chief examiner of the patent office, 1866
1SS6; died May 10, 1885,
Mrs. Julie Schoepf. nee Kesler, survives
the general and resides in Washington. Mrs.
Schoepf Is remembered for the grace and
dignity with which she presided over the
commandments residence at Fort Delaware.
At the hospitable board one met the dis
dnguished officers of both arrnies-federals,
on visits of services confederates, who were
prisoners. Among the former, Gems. Sher-
man, Hancock, .Schofield, etc. Among the
latter. Gems. Joe Wheeler, Basil Duke; Co.'s.
john Morgan and Burton Harrison, Secre-
tary to President Davis, etc.
The writer, then captain of the 18th Mary
land Yet. Volunteer Infantry, was on duty
with his regiment at the fort. in 1S64-1St5,
and Shortly after arrival was detached
and assigned to duty as aid to the general
commanding. His service led to constant
contact with his superior officer. and hence
the intimacy, which grew into cordial
and affectionate friendship. The stories re-
counted by the general of his service in
lappo infI1csI the writer with such desire
for eastern adventure that he refused
commission in the regular army.
A few years later the. writer was APP
pointed a lieutenant colonel in the Egyp-
erals FitZ John Porter, Blair Lockwood and
Schoepf. The service would probably be
severe. Egypt would rebel against the sui
tan's authority: the order to sail was ur-
sent-"take the first ship AS the writer
and his comrades went over the ships side
at New York they learned for the first
time its name, Aleppo!
*F*
In book recently published entitled
Diplomatic Mysteries" there is a curious
story of a Great Austrian
european Conspiracy" in which the au-
Intrigue. thor recounts with dramatic
effect the details of the MUIR
der Of Rudolph. Crown Prince of Austria
and then the assassination of the Empress
Elizabeth. According to the author it was
not Luceheni. the anarchist, who commit
ted the foul deed, but Luccheni the hireling
inspired by certain prime minister intent
upon the ruin of the house of Hapsburg
The mighty house of the Hapsburgs has
been brought down in death and dishonor.
He who began this work is in his grave"
The author of an article in a literary and
political review for the May issue of LIE
Correspondent on the subject OF the pres
ent Hungarian crisis, declares that
"a coalition of the emperor king of Aus
tria, federalists and the non-Magyar party
in Hungary is In the air since 1S4S, the
greater part of the Germans of Austria
being in league with the formation" The
author recalls also that in September, 1897
Emperor William delivered speech in
Budapest, dithyrambic paean of the Hun
garian people. The second son of EN-
peror William speaks Magyar fiuently, and
is named Eitel, that is to say Attila, the
precursor of Arpad, the hero of the Niebe-
lungen For these reasons the author would
have us believe that the Emperor William
not only has designs upon Morocco, but
also upon the country of the Magyars
CHARLES CHAILLE-LONG.