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| he did not take the slightest pains t.
conceal, and which brought him into
bad odor with the Charlestonians. He
was accused of being the correspondent
of the New York Tribune, but without
fact. The real correspondent, and the
man who wrote the letters from tn.
place which lashed the Charleston peO-
pie into fury, was one of the editors
of Barnwell Rhett's fire-eating Charles
ton Mercury, and a particularly loud
mouthed Secessionist Co. H of the
regiment was also there, commanded
by Capt. Truman Seymour, and formed
part of the garrison. Brevet Capt. John
G. Foster, of the Engineers, was or
dered to Fort Mouhrie to put the forts
in the harbor in the proper condition
of repair, ostensibly with reference to
complications with England and France
with regard to Mexico, but as events
proved really in pursuance of the de-
sign to make the Notifications service
able for the Southern Confederacy when
turned over to 1t. Seymour, Foster and
Doubleday had served with credit in
Mexico, receiving brevets for gallantry
in battle. Next to them came First
Lieut. Jefferson c. Davis, who had been
a Sergeant at Buena Vista, and received
commission for gallantry. First Lieut..
Theodore Talbot was young Ken
tuckian, a fine, high-spirited man who
had been with Fremont in his 1athfind-
ing across the continent. DIR. S. Wiley
Crawford was the Surgeon of the post,
and very popular with his brother OFF,
GERS. Besides these were Second Lieuts.
Hall, G. w. Snyder and r. K. Meade,
who were recent graduates from the
Military Academy at West Point, see
ing their first service. There was one
civilian among them, Edward Moale,
who was clerk and brother-in-law to
Capt. Foster, and who subsequently
proved very valuable.
The Wretched Condition of the Fort.
Fort Moultrie had never been intend
ed for anything more than sea bat
terry. Fort Sumter was relied upon rs
the main defense Of the harbor. with
Fort Moultrie mile away aiding in
the defense, with a low-angled fire,
striking near the plane of the water on
the more vulnera BILE part of the ships.
Fort Moultries wall had not been well
built in the first place, and time and
neglect had made it so cracked that 1t
would have been of little defense
against a fire. The drifting sands had
not only filled up the ditch in front, but
had raised ridges on the front and flank
Of the fort.
ROuslng the Mob.
Col. John l.. Gardner was then an old
and broken man. In spite of his Mas
sachusetts birth he was pro-slayery in
sentiment, but had the soldierly instinct
strong enough in him to wish to defend
his position against any attack. This
was the sentiment of a great many of
the officers of the Army, who recoiled
from any thought Of attacking the
South, but would fight if they were at
tackled Gardner's whole force was
really too small to be called a garrison,
and WIS more properly a police force.
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above high tide. The plans for the fort
contemplated a work embodying the
best engineering principles of the day
Walls eight feet thick were to rise 40
feet and inclOse five-sided space about
800 by $50 feet. Two of the sides made
an obtuse angle and faced to the open
sea, and there was a face each con-
fronting Forts Moultrie and Johnson to
control the entrance to the harbor. The
fifth face, technically known as the
gorge, was much weaker wall 'front.'
ing Charleston. Fort Sumter was to
have two tiers Of classmates and mount
altogether 140 guns, with a war garri-
son of $50 men. Work in the carrying
out of this plan had been going on fit
fully for years, as was the oldtime
custom in making public improvements,
and in 1860 the fort still lacked much
of completion. At one time it had been
used for housing a cargo of negros
taken from an African SLAYER. This
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It consisted of 81 enlisted men with the
seven officers and 13 musicians. ANY
real defense of the fort would have re-
quired 800 men. This was not a pleas
ant situation, as with the beginning of
the Summer of 1860 the officers began
to hear Of threats by the South Carolina
people of taking possession of the forts.
While the ADLER and shrewder leaders
of the plot, the men who were associat-
ed with Davis, were carrying on their
schemes with dignity, deliberation and
well-kept secrecy, masking them with
an abundance of fair words and spe-
cious declarations, demagogs of the
Barnwell Rhett order were infiaming
the common people with the most in
cendiary speeches. They did not hesi-
tate to assert that Hannibal Hamlin,
the candidate for Vice President, was
mulatto, and his nomination the
crowning fndignity the Republicans
We're trying to put upon their long-suf-
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BY JOHN McELROY.

cording to the moderate ideas of wealth
of those days, and their scholarship
cultivation and morals, judged by any
standard, We're quite mediocre. For all
that Charleston was constantly in the
limelight as a most extraordinary city,
inhabited by men and women of the
most unusual qualities of mind and
soul. Most of this, as the war proved,
was the noisy swagger of the swash-
buckler, but at that time it passed for
true metal and was the political gold
brick of the day
Charleston and Its Defenses.
The city of Charleston lies on a little
peninsula at a point where the Cooper
and Ashley Rivers come together in
Charleston Harbor. The harbor has Il
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HE REGISTERS HIS GRAND KICK.
Veteran Who Violently Dissents From
Our Temperance Articles.

Editor National Tribune: I want to
call your attention to little slang that
| you wrote in your valuable paper Gas
most comrades call i) about liquor
| sellers, dated Sept. 90, 1906. In the
| first place, 1 think you have "bitten off
more than you can chew" In part
| you say as a matter of fact that there
| is comp -atively little of the real old
| fashion whisky to be had, and those
| who claim to make 1t are guilty of just
| as much mixing and blending, ETC., as
the men who make whisky out of the
straight Peoria alcohol From the
| very nature of the business it is diff
cult to get an honest, truth-telling man
| to engage in it."
Now, think 1t Is just as hard to get
an honest, truth-telling editor, or, in
| other words, you should not judge a
distiller by an editor. I have been in
the business since 1877, and have never
gotten into any trouble with the Gov
ernment Or State or County officers,
| which we would soon do If we were to
mix and blend, and everybody that
knows anything knows that. We give
| our bond to the Government for $1,1OO
month for revenue That is about as
much as the Government gets out of
1000 editors, because they have some
way of getting their slang dead-headed.
1 have heard people talk just like you,
and they have made some of my best
customers. They don't dictate price or
quality. All have to do is to put the
| jug in sack and slip 1t in the back way
or barn
Now, this has nothing to do with you
but if the Government would give me
$12 month instead of So I would not
| still. I can still, but 1 cannot plow.
| Or if the Government had given me
| 160 acres of land as soon as the civil
| war was over, as it did the Cuban and
| Spanish soldiers (instead of giving the
| land to the railroad company, I would
| have been a retired farmer long ago.
I know a Spanish soldier here who gets
$14 a month. and gets $40 a month to
do hard. manual labor and he was
never closer to a battle than Florida
I know men here about my age who
stayed at home during the war and
| got three farms in the good war days.
while I vas getting $13 a month, and
| now I am not able to make living by
| hard work and am called a pauper
| They paid no bounty in August, 1862
when I enlisted. Now, this is what
they call free armies and equality.
expect to come to Washington, but
won't come to see you as l did intend
to do. l give you notice now to stop
my paper just as soon as you publish
| this, altho it does not expire until Jan
| II. I am paying for three more old
| soldiers who were not able to take it
and wanted it. I guess you won't send
to them after this gets OUT. p.
| Shoemaker, Co. F, saith and 57th Pa,
Muncy, r. F. d. 4, LycOming Co., Pa.
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CHAPTER FROM THE HISTORY OF
THE 65TH N. Y.
Stormy June Days on the Banks Of the
Chickah0miny.

Chickah0miny.
Editor National Tribune: On Satur-
day morning about II o'clock the reb-
els opened the ball by throwing four
shots into our intrenchments and soon
after driving in our pickets. We got
out on the double-quick, leaving our
canteens. haversacks, knapsacks and, in
fact, everything. We moved around all
day until about 4 o'clock, when we
were ordered down to the extreme left,
where the enemy was trying to outflank
us. When We got down there we could
only muster three regiments of our
whole division. We had been standing
in line of battle for about a half hour,
when an Aid came riding up as fast as
his poor horse could carry him, and
told Gen. Couch that Gen. Sumner
was coming to our assistance Gen,
Couch told him to go back and tell
Gen. Sumner that he had only three
regiments drawn up in line Of battle,
and was very nearly surrounded by the
enemy and cut off. and he added, But
they shall not drive me-" We were
deployed on to the left, but had not
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ances or the pretense of new guaran-
tees. In our judgment the Republicans
are resolute in the purpose to grant
nothing that will or ought to satisfy
the South. We are satisfied the honor.
safety and independence of the South
ern people require the organization of
Southern Confederacy-a result to be
obtained only by separate State seces-
sion-that the primary object of each
slaveholding State ought to be its
speedy and absolute separation from a
Union with hostile States"
(To be continued)
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The Mason and Dixon Line.

Editor National Tribune: Please tell
me the exact location of Mason and
Dixon's line to settle dispute.-David
Rizor, La Rue, o.
Mason and Dixon's line is the boun-
dary between Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania, and was the old separation be-
tween the free States and the slave
holding ones. 1t runs along a latitude
of 80 degrees, 43 minutes and 26 Sec
onds, and was run from 1853 to 1851
by Charles Mason and jeremiah Dixon,
two distinguished English mathemati-
clans and astronomers.-Editor Ma
tiOna1 Tribune
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and light the harbor light upon its
walls. Fort Sumter was four miles from
Charleston. standing directly in the
throat of the harbor between Forts
Moultrie and Johnson. 1t was begun
in 1927 by the Government in pur-
suance of its policy of protecting the
large seaports. Charleston being at that
time one of the most important in the
country. Midway between Moultrie and
Johnson was a shoal almost bare at
low tide. Upon this were piled ship
loads of granite spawls, until a firm
foundation vas made rising several feet
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MAP OF CHARLESTON HARBoR.

aration. One, Charles, was a resident
of Texas, but was bounded out of the
State by the Secessionists for his Union
sentiments. He came North, COM
manded an Ohio regiment with credit
was elected Lieutenant-Governor of
Ohio, and upon the death of the Gov
ernor succeeded to the Governorsilip
Lars, another brother, married a
daughter of Nicholas Longworth, the
greatest millionaire of the West before
the war, and his sons rendered splendid
service for the Union in Ohio regi-
ments. In this way all of Maj. Ander-
sons affiliations drew him toward the
Union. There is one influence, however,
more potent than kinsbip of blood.
Maj. Anderson was married TO a Geor-
gia woman who was the owner of a
number of slaves, and it is one of the
most striking phenomena oe tie war
that when the parting of the ways came
more officers seemed to be governed
by wifely influence than by that of sec
uonal nativity. Southern officers mar
r1ed to Northern women were almost
invariably loyal. while Northern officers
married to Southern women generally
went with the South. This is a topic
which will be of interest to some future
Herbert Spencer. 1t was believed in
the South that Maj Anderson was far
more identified with his Georgia kins-
er, and this idea probably led to his
assignment to the important command
of the forts in Charleston Harbor, upon
which he entered Nov. 81, 1860.
The members of Maj. Anderson
family, who were officers of the Regu-
lar and Volunteer forces during the
war of the rebellion, were: Brig
Gen. Robert Anderson, Col. Charles
Anderson, s3d Ohio, subsequently Gov
ernor of Ohio; Col. N. L. Anderson,
9Th Ohio; Col. A. L. Anderson, 1st Cal;
Capt. w. P. Anderson, 9Th Ohio, A. A.
g. Department of Ohio; Capt. E. L. An
derson, A. d. c.; Maj. Gen. ID. S. STAN
ley, Capt. F. P. Anderson, A. d c.;
Maj. Gen. John NJ. Schofield, Capt II.
r. Anderson, Sd U. S. VOL; Mai. John
Simpson, 154th Ind; Lieut.. Col Thos.
n Anderson, U. S. A; Surgeon Rich
ard Logan, Kentucky Volunteers.
Anderson's New Command.
At that time, while Charleston was
not by any means the principal COM
mercial city of the South, yet in many
ways it claimed pre-eminence as the
center of culture, of chivairic spirit and
Of lofty ideals. 1t is impossible for those
Of the present generation to compre-
hend the ridiculous assumptions Of the
gentlemen of South Carolina" of su-
and stiil more to understand the tacit
ecQuiescence Of other men in this as
founding claim. There were at that
ea1ee 4O.522 people in Charleston, and
none OF them very wealthy. even &C.
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Jnke Ray Not Dead.

Editor National Tribune: I was very
much surprised to notice in issue OF
The National Tribune Of Dec. 6 that I
am dead. This must be an error, or ft
am dead I am not aware of it. It
may interest the surviving comrades
of Co. C, 11th Ohio, to know that Jake
has not acquired the dying habit yet,
and is still on earth and in apparent
good order and condition.. C. Ray,
Co. C, 11th Ohio, Tampico, Mex.
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The 18th wis,

I. B. Parkhurst, Sergeant, Co. G.,
18th Wis, Huron, S. D., wants it UNDER
stood that the 18th Wis. served in the
Army of the Tennessee all the time.
1t was in the Seventeenth Corps until
after the fall of Vicksburg, when it
went with the Fifteenth Corps to the
relief of Rosecrans, and served with
that body until the end of the war.
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Sample Bottle Of swamp Root Free by Nail.

Send to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bingham
ton, N. Y, for sample bottle, free by
mail-it Will convince anyone. You will
also receive booklet Of valuable infor-
nation. telling all about the kidneys.
When writing be sure and mention Tha
Washington National Tribune.
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Mississippi Marine Brigade.

Editor National Tribune: L am q
constant reader of The National Trib-
une. I would like to hear from some Of
Gen. Ellets marines. / belonged to q
squad of marines that shot a hole thru
the clock on the Court House at Vicks-
burg, Miss, July 2, 1S63-Charles Lee
Berry, U. s. Steamer Ballick, NJ. NJ. B.,
Nickerson, Kan.
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The Steamer Empres..

Editor National Tribune: Will you
ask some survivor to give a full and
accurate account of the firing on the
steamer Empress at or near Gaines'a
Landing, Ark, in August, 1S64?-J. w.
Vest, r. F. D. 20, Bridgeport, Marion
Co., Ind.
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'"To Our Constituents.

"The argument Is exhausted. All
hope of relief in the Union, thru the
agency of committees, Congressional
legislation or constitutional amend
ments is extinguished, and we trust the
South will not be deceived by appear
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A Sorely Beset Soldier.

A SOrely Beset Soldier.
We naturally turn to Hamlet as the
best illustration of a Conscientious,
high-minded mans tormenting strug-
giles as to whittier the path of duty
leads Hamlet's perplexities, much as
The National tribune., 1907-01-17
CHAPTER II.
THE STORM CENTERS AROUND
CHARLESTON.

The United States Forts in the Bay the
Focus of AEitatiOn-The Garrison Be-
comes the Football of the COntestants
Infinite Perplexity for the COM
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Nov. 21, 1860. Maj. Robert Anderson
arrived and assumed command. There
seemed to be peculiar fitness for this.
as his father had distinguished himself
in the defense of old Fort Moultrie dur
ing the Revolution, had been taken
prisoner by the British and confined for
long time in Charleston. He approved
of what had been done. and announced
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UMPIRE HURST ON SUCCESS
Fan Goes Against Tim for Informa'
ton and Gets IT.
Refuses to say what Team viii Win
Pennant, as 1t Might Hurt the
Journalistic Game.

What is the secret OF success in base
ball2'' was the manner in which a liter
ary-looking man sought information from
Umpire Tim Hurst after the Hilltops had
peeled the hide from Pitcher Patten in
the opening battle on the Heights.
'The secret Of success in baseball did
you say" repeated the amazed Tim, as
his ears began to back and his toe I'M
earthed q rather stubborn tuft Of grass.
My good friend, and Tim was eau
tious until he made sure he wasn't being
stung. there amt no secret ir baseball.
Any time a ball player makes a success
it won't be q secret any longer than it
takes for the telephone and telegraph
wires 10 carry IL down town. They never
get sore about anything Ike that getting
In print" says Bozeman Bulger, in the
New York Mail.
IF you ever had an idea that any Of
this game was run on the quiet outside
OF the can-tying In the spring. you should
get the nut crackers You're of. The
more noise the better they like Il,
TITS the noise in the newspapers that
starts the bug that starts the talk that
starts the fans that starts the magnet
that starts the players pay"
Pardon me. I don't quite gather that -
TREMENDOUSLY spoke the man who wanted
II for his book.
you don't have TO-" suggested Tim.
IT'S ali there IN a bunch now"
But what I am trying to get at is"
said the studious-looking stranger, do
the athletic achievements Of ball player
fully compensate for the lack Of orpor-
tunity to establish genealogically a men
tai equipoise for daily routine and the
grasping Of material psychologically?"
quite right; no question about that
And he was a good fellow. too" promptly
answered Mr.. Hurst, though he never
played In the American League. If my
memory serves me right, he started some
where down in jersey
But to drop for a minute. Mr. Hurst
what team, in your opinion, should win
the pennant? You are in a position to
know, I believe"
That's the time he got Tins goat.
Me know who's going to win the rag?
(Why. you poor kindergarten-rigged bug,
thought TIM do you see all those fell
lows sitting behind that screen?" pointing
to the press box.
Those newspaper gents make living
telling who is going to win the pennant in
the spring, and then take the rest Of the
summer to explain why the dope went
wrong.
Then, you expect me to crab them fell
lows game and tip it of now? Not much.
You know, I'm in on this noise bust
ness myself. The more noise In the pa
pers. the more alfalfa for everybody. and
Timothy as well.
The literary man retired perplexed.
Tim thought It too good to keep. so he
came over
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAGUE.
Schedule for ThI. week.

Schedule for This Week.
MOnday-Bsthany vs. Ninth
TuesiRy-First VS. r. !. ~
Wodnesday-Bsthau vs. Waugh
Thursdsy-Not scheduled
FTiday-First IS Bethany.
saturiay-Not scheduled
Three tie games last week.
Bethany plays Ninth tomorrow.
That was a real baseball game Friday.
The Waugh team presents a patched
up appearance nowadays.
II Moreland is not careful Stuckert will
wrest the batting honors from him.
The team that beats First out for the
pennaut viii deserve the honor.
Slugger Moreland was ineligible last
week, and fretted on the bench the dsys
that Ninth played.
lie Mat suffered a slump In his fielding
last week He usually gobbles everything
that comes his way.
Joe Turner, the local wrestler, was seen
in Firsts lineup Friday when he replaced
Duny in center field.
Harry ZaneHl got In a hun and walked
OF the field IN Fridays game because he
got a call for not covering second on a
throw 70 the bag.
IL looks 20 be a race between First and
Bethany, although Ninth still has a
chance, provided the postponed games
break In its favor.
The last regularly scheduled game IS on
the 10th Of July, but the large number
of postponed games and tie games which
viii have 20 be played of will keep the
teams playing nearly all July.
Capt. Clements. OF First, has made only
enc error this year. Quautrelle, who
guards the initial corner for Ninth. IS
also guilty Of but one. but he has not
played in as many games as has elem
euts
Capt. CHAMPION. Of Rhode Island Meth
odst. has registered a kick against the
action Of the league directors In awarding
20 Ninth and Bethany a game each. In
which Joe Symouoskie, who is not eIgi-
BILE, participated.
Dutch" Stuckert smashed the ball So
hard in Mondays game that II went
through the door Of the car barn.
Dutch walking around the circuit In
addition 20 the home run smash he lined
out n triple and a double. and drew q
base on balls.
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MARQUETTE LEAGUE.

The new st. Martins team has a fast
infeld. Three double plays was the record
on Friday.
Trinity established a record on the 81.
Theresa outfit Monday. when they beat
the new corners, q TO . in FIVE innings.
Heinrich, who plays shortstop for Trim
ity. is improving daily. and his work
stamps him az one OF the best bail tossers
In the local leagues.
Owing TO the fact that many Of the
players I'm the Marquette are going 10
camp with the National Guard. the SEIZED
ule is to be changed.
Shorty" Malloy drove one Of Green's
shoots over the left field bank in the ST.
Martn's-St. Peters game recently. and
the left fielder couldn't find the sphere.
That Trinity has a winning team ap-
pears to be more Of certainty each dav
and the best thing about the Georgetown
ers Is that they clout the bail. and clout
It hard
The Howard Printing Company team
has taken the place left vacant by the
withdrawal Of the St Martins Church
team. and Will be known as the ST. Mar
tins Athletic Association.
Grant Goodman has obtained a position
which prevents him from playing ball,
and Dampier viii now stand almost in a
class by himself as a first sacker. His
work IS brilliant and snappy.
Ernie Collihower OF St Peters, he's
been fielding well in center field this year
and his batting has improved a great
deal He couldn't fathom Green's shoots
Friday. however.
Lmberger and Mess, who played with
the st. JOseph's and st. Martins, respec-
lively. when those two teams were in the
league, have signed up with other clubs
Manager Turner. Of st. Vincent, is after
"Dukey"