The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-10
"ECHOeS OF THE WAR" WITH
COMMENT.

Our first column OF clippings from
the newspapers of war times, which
appeared last evening. was read with
interest By all. These Scraps" from
the past give a deep insight into the
feeling OF the people of the time.
The difficulties under which the
south labored Is brought out in this
excerpt from the Memphis Appeal, of
October 10, 1861.
NJ. Antonia Costa of New Orleans
has undertaken the establishment of
regular mail communication with Eu-
! rope each month The mails go by way
OF Mexico and are transported in reg
ular English steamers which carry the
Mexican and West Indies mall The
first post left New Orleans Tuesday
and contained one thousand three hun
dred and forty-four letters II is hop.
ed TO later send it every two weeks
Letters of half an ounce and under
will be charged as follows. To Mex
leo, 90 cents; TO Cuba, 10 cents to
Europe, Sl00. Letters for this mall
must be enclosed with the amount
of postage in an envelope directed,
Costa's foreign mail care of Postmas-
ter New Orleans and the postage paid
to New Orleans.
How bitterness was engendered by
false stories is related by the Balti-
more American, of Dec Z. 1861, as
follows
The Richmond Examiner tells with
solemn horror that '"Lincoln's sol
d!erS" at Harper's Ferry amuse them
selves by lying in walt and shooting
the little fair-haired girls of the vii
lage on their way TO school 1t men
tions two or three innocent victims
with an air of sincerity and no doubt
is fostering more hatred to the union
men by this means.
The New York Tribune of Aug. T.
1861, relates a story calculated to stir
Northern blood to feverIsh heat. The
Tribune reports:
Miss Gruinstein, a young woman
from Maine, who had been teaching
near Memphis, became an object of
suspicion and left for Cairo One of
the foremen overheard her say to
some Northern men. Thank God we
shall soon be in land where there
is freedom of speech and thought" ."
The fellow summoned vigilance COM
mittee and the three Northern men
were stripped and whipped till their
flesh hung In strips Miss G. was
stripped to her waist. and thirteen
lashes given her bare back She per
md o. tn ha, h,,t
her lips through and through. Then
they shaved her head and permitted
her to resume her journey
Here is story OF capture made by
printers. as recorded by the Boston
Transcript OF June 25, 1861:
The Iowa troops under Col. Bates
who were detailed to guard the Han
nibal & ST. Joseph railroad In Mis-
souri,, had some printers in their ranks
who seized rebel printing Office at
Macon City and now publish the REG
ister' under the name Our Whole
Union"
The women of Civil War times wore
heroes who sacrificed as much as did
'HN MN ii'iN hit AMp VI
brave hearts devoted to the cause of
the Union The first paragraph is
from the National Intelligencer and
the other from the Princeton Standard
during the height OF the war;
Mrs. Sarah Larrabee, an old lady
rsiding In Rockville. Mass, has four
sons. seventeen grandsons and one
great grandson now in the Unio army.
Jane Albright, aged seventy, of SUI
gar Creek township, Hancock county,
Indiana, has put in with her own hands
during the past season about ten acres
of wheat She has sent her sons to
the army and now does their work.
Here is an instance of American
initiation which proves that American
armies did do what the armies of no
other nation ever did and that Is win
battle without leadership. The Bos-
ton Transcript. of April IL, 1864, said:
The battle of Pea Ridge was the
best lighting during the war 1t was
not geDeralship but soldiershlp that
won it. At the close OF the second
day all the generals, except Sigel and
Dodge, were dishoartened and re-
garded surrender as a foregone con-