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they fortunately made some serious
mistakes, and Longstreet recalled his
men to fill up the works and hold back
the Yankees.
The night of May was a gloomy one
for the young soldiers, who, after their
day of excitement and fatigue, had to
settle down, fireless, rationless, to face
the night, with no other shelter from
the beating storm than the foliage of
the trees. At daybrcak they were called
from their swampy bivouac into line,
and by o'clock Hooker marched out
on the Lees Mills road directly upon
Fort Magruder. The terrific crossfire
which the advance encountered from
that and the supporting redoubts ad-
monshed them of the force in which
the enemy held the works, and they
halted at the abatis of the clearing and
opened fire upon the COnfederateS.
Hooker ran up his three batteries TO
help his infantry out, and these showed
more gallantry than judgment by TAX
ing position in the road, where they
received the concentrated fire of the
enemys guns, and were overwhelmed
before they could fire a shot. Hooker's
infantry ran to the assistance of the
batteries. and actually succeeded in si-
lencing the fire of the enemy's guns.
The Confederates were perceptibly wa
vering under the severe cannOnade, and
were only kept in place by Longstreet
rushing up reinforcements to steady his
line. Hooker in turn was compelled to
put every man into line, and he sent
back earnest requests for reinforce
ments, which were not responded to.
Longstreet came out of the works to
attack, and a savage struggle took
place, with the lines pressing in turn
back ard forth. This lasted until /
O'Clock without man coming to Hook
er's assistance He had sent Emory to
the left with the cavalry and three reg
iments of infantry. hoping he would
make diversion by crossing the dam
at that point, but Emory moved with
entirely too much caution, and wasted
the day in feebleness. All this time
Gen. "Baldy' Smith, whose division was
on the right some three-fourths of a
mile from Hooker's and out of sight of
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OLDEST NATIONAL SORE.
Continued from first pase.)

Mountains, which leave but little good
land on the island. The whole popu-
lation in 1904 was only 222,6i3 Of
these 62,674 were engaged In the fish
cries. only 2,475 were farmers, 3,1t1
mechanics and 1876 miners. Reiig
iously the people are divided into 73, 900
Episcopalians. 1899 Roman Catholics
and 61,3Ss Methodists. No matter what
their religion, they seem to be a very
stiff-necked. obstinate people. and have
so far made good fight against Eng
land, Canada and the United States.
negotiations and lost by reason of the
thing on the island many times over.
Beside Newfoundland proper, the Gov
ernment has some control of Labrador,
with a territory estimated at 1906
miles and population of about 1000
people. In 1892 Newfoundland was
granted a representative Government,
which now consists of a Governor and
an Executive Council. not exceeding
nine members, with a House of SO Rep
resentatives. The Governor gets a sal
airy of $4,000 a year, the members of
the Council receive S120 per session and
the members of the Assembly get from
5000 to $500 session. In 1901 there
were only S5,533 acres of cultivated
land. which produced mainly potatoes,
turnips hay, barley and oats. When
the Dominion Government was formed
in 1869 strong efforts were made to in
duce Newfoundland to come in, and
these were continued for many years
until found to be hopeless.
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until night unaided in the presence of
more than 10000 of their comrades
with arms in their hands. Nevertheless
it is true
He also puts sting in his report by
saying that his appeal for reinforce
ments had been indorscd by the COM
manding officer and returned to him in
side of 30 minutes, showing how quickly
help might have reached him. Hooker,
Kearny and Peck became intensely an
CRY. and with great justice. at the re-
port which Mcclellan sent to WASH
ington. which gave deserved praise to
Hancock, but hardly alluded to them.
OF Hancock Mcclellan said:
Hancock has taken two redoubts
and repulsed Early's Brigade by real
charge with the bayonet, taking one
Colonel and $50 prisoners. killing at
least two Colonels and as many Lieu
tenant Colonies and many privates. His
conduct brilliant in the extreme"
OF Hooker he merely said:
Il do not know our exact loss. but
fear Hooker has lost considerably on
the left"
As to Kearny and Peck he said not
word. They were the last men to
stand that sort of treatment after the
splendid fighting they had done. Hook
er, out of 5000 men, had lost 1906
of which 253 were in Growers Brigade,
526 in Patterson's and 772 in Taylor's.
Kearny had lost 416. of which 299 were
from Berrys Brigade and III from
Birneys Little wonder they grew
wroth. contrasting these with Han
cocks report of 95 lost, of which 80
was from the 5th Wis. alone
Sumner was sent back to Yorktown
to look after matters there. He angri-
ly declared that this was due to the
unjust Misrepresentation of Gen.
Heintzelman."
Fortunately the general public knew
nothing of these chickering's among the
higher officers. nor little of the general
msmanaGement. They only knew that
the grand Army of the Potomac was
at last in motion. and was steadily
fighting its way toward Richmond,
drenched by torrential rains, hamper
ed by fathomless mud, and resisted by
hosts of valiant and well-directed enc
mics.
The National heart was made glad
to forgetfulneSS of all minor ills by
the news of Gen. Woors splendid
achievement in capturing Norfolk and
causing the destruction of that night
mare to the whole country-the Mer-
rimac.
ITO be continued)
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STATES RIGHTS AND THE RAIL-
ROADS.
The Question BrinGs Some Southern Gov
ernOrs to the Foreground.

Still another law question has been
coming to the fore, or, rather, an old
question has been renewed in the rail-
road agitation in Georgia. For Gov.
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, militant
Southern figure, is undertaking to en-
force a two-and-a-half-cent passenger
rate on the railroads in that State, in
spite of the injunctions that Circuit
Judge Pritchard issued in North Caro-
lima and of like obstacles in Virginia
and Alabama. The enforcement of the
rate law in Georgia is imposed upon
the Governor, which constitutes legal
difficulty from the standpoint of the
Federal courts, as it may not be FEAST
BILE to enjoin a Governor of a State.
Hoke Smith is himself a very astute
lawyer, and the Governments lawyers
have a foeman worthy of their steel
when they try TO overthrow him.
The other Southern States compro-
missed their difficulties with the rail-
roads, much to the chagrin Of President
Roosevelt, who wanted a fight to the
finish. Some compromise may also be
accepted in Georgia, but apparently not
till there has been a skirmish or two.
The case is already before a Federal
Judge for consideration, and it Will be
interesting to know how far he agrees
with Circuit Judge Pritehard. who was
aggressive in enjoining State officials
from executing the law on the ground
that the lower passenger rate would be
confiscatory of a railroads property.
Incidentally this old question of States
Rights is bringing group of Southern
Governors into National prominence,
and stranger things have happened than
that their resistance to what is claimed
to be Federal encroachment should
eventually bring some Of them National
preferment. 1t is not too late yet to
make Gov. Glenn, of North Carolina,
or Gov. Hoke Smith. of Georgia, a DEM
ocratic nominee for Vice President.
The Southern cases, affecting the right
of State to fix lower rates for pas
senger traffic within State lines, will be
before the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States this Winter, and if the States
should win in their contentious some
of those Governors will become popular
heroes. The question as to whether the
States shall have control over the rail-
roads within their borders, doing a
purely intrastate business, is very big
one Were the Presidents popularity
most pronounced he would probably
find his championship of sweeping Fed
eral control rather dangerous.
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CAUSES OF DISSATISFACTION.
Some Reasons Why the Soldiers in the
Philippines Do Not Want to Re-enlist.
(From the Philippil

Some time ago we commented upon
the reported need of recruits for the
Army and the causes which go to pre-
vent many good men from re-enlistins.
Our attention has recently been call
ed to restriction which is now in force
at Fort William Mckinley, which has
caused considerable dissatisfaction
among the enlisted men at that post
and has no doubt been one of the
causes which has prevented some good
men from re-enlisting.
This is the lack of amusement in the
evenings. Owing to the distance from
Manila and the cost of a trip back and
paying a visit very frequently to Manila
for the purpose of attending the thea
ters and other places of amusement.
Before the establishment of the Fort
Mckinley branch of the Y. NJ. c. A.
it was the custom for local vaudeville
troupes to visit the post once or twice
month and give performances which
the enlisted men could attend. These
performances proved very popular, and
went long way towards supplying the
longing of many men to visit Manila
and enjoy an evenings entertainment
of that sort.
For the past few months. however,
the visits of local vaudeville 1roupes
have been discouraged at that post, and
the result Is tflat the men are deprived
of entertainments of that sort. The
theory advanced, we have been in
formed, is that the sight of the vaude-
vile artists performing in abbreviated
skirts, singing and dancing. is demor-
alizing to the men and should be dis
couraged.
The result is that many men chafe
at such petty restrictions, and natural
ly, as soon as their terms of enlistment
expire, take advantage of the oppor-
tunity of entire liberty of personal ac-
ton and seek pursuits in which they can
exercise their personal liberty. Such
silly notions as these should be abol-
ished and the enlisted men treated as
men, not as children.
The re-establishment of the canteen,
where a man may take a glass of beer
if he so desires, and the encouragement
of visiting vaudeville troupes Or any
other amusement companies would go
a long way towards breaking in on the
monotony of garrison life and keep in
the Army much valuable material
which now seeks other sources of en-
ployment.
If the men of the United States Army
cannot be trusted sufficiently to witness
the performance of dancing girls in
short skirts, they certainly should not
be trusted out alone at night walking
a post with gun.
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and that the forces all along the Allan
tic seaboard should be hurried up to
meet Mcclellan when he should arrive
before that stream, and overwhelm him
in a great decisive battle. The ruin of
his army would be assured. since the
fragments could not make a successful
retreat thru the labyrinth of streams
for 100 miles to Fortress Monroe. Lee
and Randolph were opposed to this con-
centration on account of the activity OF
our troops in the South Atlantic, which
made it likely that advantage would be
taken of the absence of the troops to-
capture Savannah, Charleston and Will
mington. Lee thought that better
plan was succession of defensive bat
ties fought by small army behind nat
ural obstacles, the swamps and streams
in which the Peninsula abounded. Da-
Wis sided with Lee against Johnston,
and ordered him TO carry out the for
mer plan.
To facilitate his evacuation of York
town, Johnston had sent very large
proportion of his heavier stores and
ordnance up the river by steamer to
West Point, where the railroad con-
nected with Richmond. Magruders
troops moved off with the greatest de-
liberation thru the night of May 3, with
all their artillery and wagons well in
front of them. The retreat was COW
cred, and the rear brought up by Long
ElTcel, NilO Iidu dlA1eihy
abilities as a commander Of troops in
| the field, and he made his rear guard,
the Hampton Legion, brigade of cav
airy with few pieces Of artillery.
Twelve miles from Yorktown, in the
narrowest part of the Peninsula, was
the ancient town of Williamsburg, for
a long time the Capital of Virginia and
! the location of the William and Mary
University. intended, when founded, to
be the greatest seat of learning in the
New World. Williamsburg, which is
only three miles from the James and
five and one-quarter from the York
River, is situated on the only high
ground In that neighborhood strip of
little over one-hah mile separating Col
lege Creek, which flows into the James
River, and Queens Creek, emptying in
to the York River. Both these slug
gish streams were wide, rather deep,
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thruout the war. Next to Franklin he
was the man TO whom was given the
largest number of great opportunities,
yet failed to adequately grasp any one
of them. The young Due de Chartres,
the ambitious F'renchman on McClel-
lan's staff. rushed forward ahead of
Stoneman with small body of cavalry,
and picked up few prisoners. Later
in the afternoon three divisions of in
fantry were put on the march, and then
came mishaps. Smiths Division, which
had been moved to. the left, made a
mistake, and crossed the road on which
Hooker was moving, throwing every
thing into confusion, piling up the ar
tillery and baggage wagons in the most
disheartening way. Mcclellan had put
the pursuit under the command of Gen.
Sumner, while he himself remained at
Yorktown to superintend the passage
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frequently extending into small lakes,
and winding thru dense forests, consist
ang principally of the hard, tough,
swamp white oak so abundant in that
section. In the decayed "city' OF Will
iiamsburg there still fingered some
d, 300 Inhabitants. These had cleared
all the higher ground between the two
creeks, and the clearing had been ex-
tended by Magruder. who foresaw the
possibility of using this position for his
second line of defense. Two main roads
met near Williamsburg, one running
directly from Yorktown and one COM
ing UP the Peninsula by the way of
Lees Mills. This was the only pas
sage by land from Fortress Monroe to
Richmond, and it made an easily de-
Tended gateway. Magruder had caused
to be erected some 800 or 400 yards
from the intersection of these two roads
a heavy fertilization called Fort Ma
gruder, which commanded both roads,
and, In fact, the entire isthmus. Fort
Magruder was flanked on College and
Queens Creeks, with small redoubts
covering all likely passages of those
streams, and, as at Yorktown, dams had
been constructed to increase the depth
of water and make them more impas-
sable for infantry.
The Pursuit.
Much was said in the Northern pa
pers at the time of the hot pursuit"
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By JOHN MeHLRoY.

which the Union troops made of the
retreating Confederates. This was in
tended to cover the modification over
the manner in which for the second
time the enemy had
"Folded their tents like the Arab,
And silently stolen away"
There was no 'hot pursuit" The
evacuation had been the most complete
surprise, and found no one, not even
the cavalry. ready for any movement
across the line of the Warwick. No ra-
tions had been issued, no troops We're
in line, no wagons We're loaded. 1t was
10 o'clock in the morning before Stone
man, who commanded the cavalry, set
his first squadrons in motion. w. +.
"Raldy" Smith was almost as prompt
with the infantry, and got off his first
brigade at 1890, while the usually Wig
orous Hooker was not on the road until
past noon. Stoneman was to give an
other illustration of that fcebleness OF
purpose which characterized his course
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sonally examine the lines of the enemy,
and, losing his way, ran up against their
pickets, who fired at him at close range.
He finally passed the night between the
two lines. seated in the rain at the roots
of a tree. Hooker. who was eager TO
get into q fight, abandoned the road
which Smith had obstructed, found an
other to the left, and moved up on it,
hoping to turn the enemys right that
night, but the darkness and rain were
too binding. and he was obliged to put
his men into biyouac. The rain came
down in torrents, but Hooker and Smith
got their men in the best shape they
could for the morning, with Hooker
holding the left and Smith the right,
while Kearny's, Couch's and Casey's Di-
visions were from six to nine miles in
their rear. The roads between the front
and these supporting divisions had been
beaten into a bottomless -quagmire by
the passage of the troops and the artil-
lery during the day. The Confederates,
in the meanwhile, were not idle, tho
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fell back to wait for the assistance of
the oncoming infantry. Sumner had no
idea of running onto the enemy and
was back some four or five miles trying
to untangle Hooker and Smith, when
the firing stirred his soldier blood, and
he Immediately sent orders to every one
to push forward as fast as possible to
the support of Stoneman. 1t was dark
before the troops began to arrive at
the edge of the clearing, and further
movement became impracticable. sum-
ner himself, full of the memories of the
days of his young soldiership and In
dian fighting, was determined to per-
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The 1S3d Ohio.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
q history of the 1880 Ohio. L was a
member of Co. G of that regiment.
C. Reeder, Harvey, Ill.
The 1880 Ohio was organized at Gin
cinnati and Sandusky IN September and
October, 1864, for one year, and mus
tered out July II, 1865. 1t was COM
manded during it's entire service by Col.
George W. Hoge, who was breyetted a
Brigadier- General March 13, 1855 It
belonged to Couch's Division, Twenty
third Corps, and lost "a killed and 50
from disease. etc.-Editor National
Tribune.
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Oldest Comrade.

E. NJ. Brice, Adjutant, Robert Hale
Post, Blue Rapids, Kan, desires to save
comrades under 100 years of age from
the trouble of competition by present.
ing the name of Comrade William II.
Boyakin, of his Post who was 100 years
old, May 80 last, when he delivered the
Memorial Day address at Blue Rapids.
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Stoneman's deliberation, made 1t late in
the afternoon when he at last came in
sight of the Notifications at Williams
burg, and was startled at their extent
and formidable character. Emory and
Cooke, commanding portion Of his
cavalry. had a sharp bout with Stuart's
horsemen, and altogether Stoneman lost
g ssms ssyss R s9s sye@g. before he
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up York River of Franklin's Division
and other troops to West Point. which
ne proposed to make his base. McClel-
Ian has been strongly criticized for not
going on the pursuit himself, but prob
ably with less reason than at other
times. He had not anticipated that
Johnston would attempt to make a
stand between the York and the Chick
ahominy, because a movement to West
Point would throw the Union army on
his flank. Gen. Sumner was to begin
at once to demonstrate his signal in
capacity for the command of corps
A better soldier there was not in the
whole Army of the Potomac or any
other army than e. v. Sumner, but
possibly there were few poorer Cen
erals. Again, there was much jealousy
between him and Heintzelman, who
commanded the Third Corps, which did
not contribute to the harmony of the
situation.
The Battle Of Williamsburg.
The roads, drenched by the Spring
deluges, were heavy. and this. added to