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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-09

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-09
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-09
LOYAL TO VATICAN.

Pope and Del Val Receive Many Ts'e'
grams from Sympathizers.
Rome. Aug. S.--The Pope and car
dinal Merry del Val. the Papal secre-
4.p( Continued on Page TWelve.)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25
"REMINISCENCES OF THE
PRIVATEER TALLAHASSEE
Running the Observation-Disclosures Vessels of
Commerce Halifax-Twenty- Nine
Prizes Taken
Prizes Taken.

Next morning at daylight made the
bark Glenayon, loaded with piglead
knocked the ballast port and sunk her.
We then proceeded up the eastern
coast continued TO destroy commerce,
and went into Halifax, Nova Scotia,
for coal and repairs. where we arrived
on August 18TH Our nainmast was
carried away and our machinery need
ed some repairs,
The English admiral, lying at Hal
flax, gave our commander permission
to do such repairs as were necessary
We proceeded TO coal ship. and, about
o'clock on the 18th, we were ordered
to proceed to sea- In other words,
they drove us ont of Halifax. our
commander. fearing that there were
f'ederals off the mouth of Hnlifax
harbor, secured the services OF one OF
the most experienced pilots, and went
through the channel. steering to the
eastward, which threw us about fifteen
miles to the eastward OF the harbor.
Having very limited supply OF coal
on board. VIC had to make quick time
to Wilmington. We arrived off the
bar on the night Of the 10th of Au-
gust and crossed, after passing
through the bloclSading fleet safely,
under heavy fire, and anchored under
Fort Fisher; the next day proceeded
to Wilmington, n c.. where the COM
mander left for Richmond. The next
day ! was ordered to report to Rich
mond, aud I never saw the shin again
On the voyage we destroyed twenty
nine ships briggs, harks and schooners
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1870, and justice, 1860, 500 acres on
| both sides OF creek, and on tho
( Gloucester side next to John Green. He
| died 1872. His nephew. Major Thomas
/ Pate, lis administrator, church war
| den Petsworth Parish. 1877. and IN
| 1873 Colonel Thomas Pate, zoo acres
| cast Side Poropotank Joining his Other
! land, This was tho friend of Nathaniel
| Bacon. whose army was often sta
| toned at mis- hour6 while In tilouces
| ter mud where 1t is believed that
| Bacon died He was neishbor to Dr..
| Thomas Green. at whose housc," old
| Nixon says. Bacon died In 1875"
| ''Bacon's Fort is yet known on the
| Poropotapk. Colonel Thomas Pate was
| Burgess 1854. Probate of his will too,
| MIR. Pata's swamp was Joining to
Francis campfeld's 400 acres mud by
I John Green's corner tree. John Pate
| added to ycstry. 1887.
| 1853. Francis Canpfieid. 400 acres
I hy Mr.. Pages swamp. and next to John
| Green, and at branch of Poropotan.1
| at the head.
| 1853. DR.. William Crimes, 100 acres
! OF William Cainhoo's (the Indian)
| escheat land. He was of the vestry
of Potsworth, 1852; and In 1878. 45o
acres next Captain Richard Dudley
| and George Haines, and the land f-r-
I
| 1874. DIR. Crimes, lot Is, Gloucester
| town, 17e7
1864 Charles Roane tthe emigrant
| ancestorl. zoo acres on Poropotans.
next to Colonel Lee: and 1855. 15o
| acres. and in 1863, T6f acres on the
| Pianketank. and In 1873. 100 acres on
| Dragon Swamp, By an old limo of
| marked trees, supposed to belong to
| Colonel Richard Lees children. Vcstry
| of Petsworth, 1911.
I 1854. Edward Rowe. 3I5 acres, join
| ing land he lives on, and Colonel Rich
ard Lee. Benjamin Rowe married IT'S
Mary Jarvis. Hansford, Zach and Ed
ward Rowe In Abingd N Parish, 1856;
Clack Rowe in Ware Parish. 1896.
1866. John okcham, coo acres oast
side Poropotank. He was clerk OF
Surry county 1854.
1865. Richard Dudley, 94 acres at
John Green's corner, by Mr.. Pate's
swamp; and, in 1867. 500 acres on
Gwyn's Ridge, and in 1874, $50 acres
on branch of Poropotank. joining
Mr.. Pate and John Green. deceased.
also land in Kingston Parish, 1863, OF
which he was vestryman. 1917. He was
father OF Major Robert, will 1Tot; Col
onel Ambrose, vestry of Kingston,
| 1892, and James. OF Turks Ferry
| Gloucester county; will 1910; vestry
OF Petsworth Parish, 1852; mario ed
1879. Mary WEIGH, OF Gloucester. and
had James, to whom his land In Mid
! dlesex: Robert, to whom his mothers
land in Gloucester, and Judith. His
| widow married second, ---- Berry.
| 1865. Henry Hubbard. ESQ acres. first
| fork of Poropotanls, joining Mrs. Blunt
| His land in 1723 was near Pate's Mill.
and in the Fifth Precinct of Petsworth
Parish. Richard HUBBARD lived in same
locality, It's; also Mrs. Joanna Hub
| ard.
1858. Michael Grafton. zoo acres on
Poropotanls, east side.
1867. William Grafton. 72o acres on
Poropotank Joining oliver Green.
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warer
To one who, on entering the army
Q young and delicate wifo With two
babies In her care; who after service
In the mountains of Northwest Nir-
sinla Under General Edward johnson
and In the Valley campaign and around
Eichnond Under General 7. J. Jackson,
was then released from duty oil &C :.
count Of broken health, and who spent
tho rest Of tho war In arduous labor
as Christian minister among the
homes home. ot men IN the field or Who 81,
who knew the women OF that dag in
Q. wide area who saw their industry
and thrift their self denial and help
FUNNIEST their patience, piety endurance
fortftude patriotic feryor and trust In
God. II has been an enigma that no
efficient step hss been taken hereto
fore to keep alive tho memory OF these
herolncs for tho instruction, tnspira
tons 1t Is simply just that THIS shall
he done: Its further neglect will be q
blot on the fair escutcheon of the old
mother state.
the capital of tho confederacy to the
Confederate soldier. TO Robert T. Lee,
stonewall Jackson, i. Il. x. Stuart,
Jefferson Davis and other noble and
sainted men. are an honor not only
tn the city and Commonwealth, but to
our whole Southern country. Now, let
a shaft Of Virginia granite. broad at
Its base and reaching far UP towards
the sky. be reared to THE Confederate
Woman in memory of her purity. in
donitable courage and appreciated SER
vice. on some appropriate site in our
historic city! Justice will thus be done
To the mothers and grandmothers Of
the present generation and an ilIustra-
tion afforded to those who now 1.-Two
and shall 1.-Two in the future. of what,
under troubious and trying conditions,
they ought to be and to do for God.
their loved ones and their country.
RICHARD McILWAINF.
Richmond
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

THE South Carolina Legislature an
propriated at Its last meeting large
amount, supplemental by smaller pri.
vate subscriptions. 10 erect q rnonti-
ment to the women Of the c,onfed-
eraey, who, though not called upon
to face the cannon yet through peril,
privation and sorrow made tt posi-
BILE for the men to remain at the front.
and SO had an equal share in tho bitter
conflict"
The foregoing sentence lis taken
from an article IN the Home Mission
Herald (Presbyterian Church, SOUTH,
under the heading, Our Captains Or.
ders." by Mrs, T. p. Burgess, of Edge.
field. S. c., which was no sooner read
than the inquiry arose why shall
not the Legislature of virginia at It's
next meeting follow the example of
our heroic sister State and !nausurate
similar movement TO the credit of
one OF the most important factors in
winning honors and glory 10 the Con-
federato States In tho conduct Of the
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ny CAPTAIN JOHN a. CURTIS.

- Wax Ahh'N ooh-N "a. sLShAiS'
Confederate privateer Tallahassee
wfas built in England. then called the
Atlanta twin screws, built for the
Confederate government in 1864, under
the supervision of Captain William Ct.
CrenShaw she was then said 10 he
the fastest steamer ahoat. She was
engaged in running The blockade into
Wilmington ~ c., bringing in proris-
ions and stores for the Confederate
government About the middle OF July
1854. she WAS turned over to the Navy
Department of tho Confederate govern
rucn,. and fitted as a prlyateer at VIII
mington, n, c., to destroy commerce off
the northern coast Three guns, ono
placed on board. Her commander.
John Taylor Wood, of Mr.. Davis's staff.
picked his crew OF ITO men.
Her officers were John TAYLOR Wood,
commanders; William II, Ward. lieu
tenant, executive officer; NJ. NJ. Ben
ton and j, NJ. Gardner, lieutenants;
John A. Curtis. acting master; ]. w.
lyman. chief engineer; Z. II. Leroy
j. II Green, z. G. Hall, John j. Lyle,
II Roberts and Il. NJ. Ross, assistants;
Mr.. Crcnshaw. lieutenant of marines;
Paymaster, {. l. Jones; Surgeon. VIM.
l.. Sheppardsor; Boatswain, j. Cassidy
Gunner. and Steward Q. Russell mas
ter,s mate.
On the 9Th of August, 1864, she was
ready for sen. About 10 o'clock +. NJ
we weighed anchor off Smithvillc, at
the mouth Of Cape Fear River, all
hands TO quarters, There We're six
blockadins gunboats off the bar. We
came up to the first with full speed.
The one OH the port boy sent UP
rocket we not answering, she gave
Gus a gun. The ship on the starhoard
side opened broadside. AS we tapped
the ship on the port side, tho COM
mauder gave orders hard .starboard
and we crossed her bow, which threw
the SIX gunboats astern of us. All
continued their fro until ? a. NJ, when
the last ship could not roach us with
her guns.
We stood to the eastward and went
In the Gulf Stream. We went up the
Gulf stream to tho latitude OF Cape
west and made Rarnegat Light, then
stood up tor Sandy Hook; there We
arrived about daylight OH the morn
ing Of tho 10th Of August and conf
menced destroying commerce. was
ordered on pilot hoat that we cap
tured called James Funk. Number az,
of New York. Our ship continued
all day In destroying vessels. ordered
several to our steaner--brigs, barks
and ,schooners--apd about sunset made
a New York pilot boat, the william
Boil, She tackled off shore and set all
sails. and the Tallahassee had to so
ahead to catch her. ,tlc crew was take-s
off and abe was burned, We stood
to the eastward all night; part of the
night / sailed the pilot boat, the ball
anre she waa toWed hy the TallahaS-
sec.
Next morning, the 18th, we were off
Nantucket Shoals, and met the ship
Adriatic, With German emisraats on
board, cargo of piglead In the lower
hold. we took the emigrants off and
put them on a bark, to be carried to
the nearest port, and set the Adriatio
gatire and destroyed her was then
ordered to burn the pilot boat, and
went on hoard the ship, steering to
the mort eastward. an a dsstrcyed her,
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Confederates at that point.
II was againet General Hookers
best Judgment tina, an attempt was
made 10 capture Mares Heights, but
his protests were unheedcd. After each
charge and failure, new order came
TO charge again. At last General
Rockers Judgment prevailed and the
attempt was abandoned, and that meant
the end Of that battle OF Frcdericks-
burg, Both the right and left grand
divisions had failed to dislodge the
enemy IN their portions OF the long
line. General Franklin had succeeded
in pushing Jaekson's line back for
some distance. but that genius of war
fcgained the ground and held It.
Union Army Moves Back.
Two nights later. when the wind was
blowing a gale in the direction of the
ing. defeated Union army. undet
cover OF darkness and by the aid OF
that most fortunate windstorm. hur-
ried back across the Rappahannoek
and took It's position on aud back of
Stafford Heights, the movement being
made with scarcely any loss.
It was a most encouraging victory
for General Lee, his army and the
South and 9 most crushing, d'scourag-
ing. dishcartening defeat for Burn
side, his army and the North
tie that was disastrous from every
point OF view TO the North, and the
one that resulted in the most dis
couragins, dtsheartening period in that
Thirteen thousand Union soldiers
had been killed and wounded in bat
portion OF the army of the North. a
battle which it is very generally CON
coded ought not TO have been fought
and one which would not have been
fought IL the judgment OF General
Burnside and his generals had counted
against that OF General halleck ana
others in Washington.
Rest of Winter Quiet
The balance af that winter. aside
from the Burnside mud march in jan
uar.. vas passed In comparative quiet.
NE confederatc pickets on ono side OF
the marrow Rappahannocs and the
Union pickets on the other side with
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them. They arc hopleae nov. poor
and needy. and cannot change their
condition for the better unless thoif.
viii not others who arn Interested in
these noble men bring this before tho
public and Legislature that a change
for the better may be made. Just take
II to yourself: Can any place be homo
where you are separa'nd from friends
and those that arc dear 10 YOU your
old home and its memory. and forced
by want to make this change?
Ono old veteran In Speaking OF thto
told mo he would gladly live oil the
plainest food that would sustain life
III he could only. return TO his own
county and spend hIs few remaining
days, aud then cross over tho river
and Join again those loved ones Who
wore the gray, for he considered those
who fell In battle more fortunate than
himself now, for they arc With their
Augusta Springs. " w r
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maternal side with the statement thai
"slle was not tho daughter OF Hon
Charles johnston, OF Richmond
IT, perhaps, will he Of Interest to
some 10 know that side OF his family
history.
Robert Johnston, Of Richmond. was
the son of James Johnston. and his
Wife, Mary Dryson, of Ryselaw, Scot.
land
Robert Johnston married Elizabeth
McCaw December II, 1895. They had
children: Elizabeth III, diod In in.
fancy jones Mccaw eal. who married
Martha Maria Friend, OF Chesterfield
county; Peter t3). Robert ~, Mary
90, who married Robert Pickett;
Elizabeth Mccaw CO.. married Lieu-
afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel of ord
nance, u. S. A.; Olivia 90. Andrew tS),
Sophia 90, and Ann BLACKBURN G0l.
General George T.. Pickett's mother
was, therefore, tho above Mary john
ston, daughter OF Robert and Elizabeth
McCaw Johnston.
His grandmother, Elizabeth McCaw.
was the daughter OF DIR. Janiea Nc
Cav and his wife. Elizabeth Brough,
of Hampton. Va
Two children of Or. James McCaw
and Elizabeth Broush were James
Drew McCaw, who married fis cousin,
Sally Harris, OF Norfolk, Va. and
Elizabeth, who married Robert John
ston, of Richmond,
DR.. James McCnw was the son of Or
William McCaw, Cent, OF leighton,
near Newton Stuart. Galloway, Scot
land. He was a physician In Norfolk
at the outbreak of tho Revolution: re-
turned to England with Lord Dunmorc,
and. leaving his wifo and two children
In Scotland. entered the British army
as surgeon, returned to America. and
was killed, or died, near Philadelphia
or New York, and Is buried. believe.
in st. Paui's Churchyard, New York.
DR.. James 3. McCaw. OF Richmond,
not long passed unto his pcaco, told me
he thought tho widow. Elizabeth
Brough McCaw, was probably the only
American woman who ever received an
English pension.
Very truly yours,
w. nT-OT,Fv POWERS
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LET THEM GO HOME.
Veteran Urges Change In Method OF
Caring for Old Soldicra


Caring for Old Soldiers.
J nave Just read n most interesting
article In your Sunday paper Of the
18th, signed ". 3. r., and 1t meets my
3aaeWs exactly en regard to the present
system Of caring for Confederate vet
Grams.
! have been to the Soldiers Home
quite often, always so when I am in
Il u nd. ! have friends and COM
n andea NJ ,A epe men Who were the gray
bye, their last words arc, "Glyo my
love to. the dear friends and com
Iaaes a. homs, At home! What does
81 eaal ~ .dea ~, lt y true they are cloth
and some may say they should be sat
isHed and happy; II Is the best this
State "and the Southern States" can
&c Tor lts veterans, at least up to the
be so b ale Il i, VIII H. perhaps It may
opinion now that their cond!tlon can
DO greatly improved at q very l!ttla
more, cost tlf any, to the STATE; ana
90 they not owe It to those war
r enaIa se.srana n 70 make their sew
happy Wen, It can be done. and that
MONIES az part Of the, State that they
would Ike best to live In. Let the
have home comforts, and a county or
Town officer paid to, look after their
wants, How few they are. and each
year the number grows less Under
those conditions they would DO happy,
for y Would be home to them
earth that deserved more than the
sons Of the South who wore the gray ?
They fought for q principle cause
they knew 70 be Just and right. and
history does nst record since crrsa :
and bravery.,' They we're native born.
and can this state. or the Southern
states, do too much for, su,hN heroes?
rins thsra Is y no thlnr Too n EnnA Ear
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Very truly yours,
w. DUDLEY POWERS.

Editor Genealogical Column:
Mr.. Harrison Southworth. clerk OF
Essex County Court. through whom l
am making some invest cations about
the Coleman family. has kindly sent
me clipping from your paper (date
not appearing, but apparently sun
day issue) signed by Coleman De-
scendant," giving information, most of
which ! have. I should like to be in
communication with the writer.
McHENRY HOWARD.
afs Cathedral Street. Baltimore, Nd.
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1861. John Green. $50 acres at head
of Poropotank. by the Eastern Branch.
and 1874. 600 acres on the branches
OF Poropotank. DR.. Thomas Green
vestry of Petsworth. 1888.
1862, Ralph Embry, 1873 acres on
branches of Poropotank Swamp.
1862. James Bradbury. ESQ acres at
corner of oliver GREEN'S land.
1862. John Pate, the councillor in
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

Editor Genealogical Column:
Sir,--Your correspondent in the Con-
iealoglcal Column issue OF December
an. over the signature Stella Pickett
sHsrdy tracing tho ancestry Of Cen
srral George e. Pickett. dlsmisaas tina
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

Richard Booker sailed from Eng
land 250 years ago for conquest and
home and his great-sreat- grsat.grand-
child to-day is telling the Old World
from which he sailed that he con-
uuered--that homo and happiness and
divine melody exist in Virginia.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

Like all other problems in sociali
psychology, this problem has Mt vari-
pus times been answered In different
ways. The opinions OF Fenelon or
Rousseau have. always found a num-
Der of indorsers. Let us therefore try
TO look at the question Itself. without
endeavoring TO solve 1t In a way that
agrees with our preference or per-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

John ts) Booker Orchard (2,, Rich.
ard % }. Used in Amelia He mar
ried Phoebe Worsham. and had Rich
ard Cd, who served In the Continal
lines, and left no issue; Judith "a.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-09
CALLS TwAIN's WORKS HUMAN
Albert PANE Thinks Humorist Pre-,
eminent Writer of Century.

Hartford had its own literary group.
Mrs. Harriet Beccher Stove lived near
the Clemens home; also Charles Dud-
ley Warner The Clemens and War
ner families were constantly assn-
ciatcd. and THE Gilded Age" pub
lished in 1913. resulted from the friend
ship Oi warner and Mark Twain. The
character Of Colonel Sellers i'll that
book has become immortal, and il is
a character that only Mark Twain
could create. for il embodies-and in
no very exaggerated degree-char-
acteriSticS that were his own. The
tendency to make millions was always
immncnt; temptation was always
hard to resist. Money making
schemes arc continually being placed
betcrc men OF means and prominence.
and Mark Twain to the day OF his
death found such schemes fatally at
tractive
Any attempt to designate Mark
Twa!n's place in The worlds literary
history would be presumptious now.
Yet cannot help thinking that he will
maintain his supremacy in the century
that produced him | think SC because
Of all the writer's Of that hundred years
his work was the most human-his Ut
terances went most surely to the mark.
What finally remains with the reader
after all the joking and laughing, is
not merely the feeling of having had
a mighty good time, but the conviction
that he has got the worth of his money
He has not gone through the six hun
dred pages OF The InnOcents Abroad
or ''FOllowing the Equator" without
having learned more OF the world as
the writer saw it than any but the rar-
est traveller is able to show Tor his
travel; aud possibly with his average
practical American public. which was
his first tribunal and must always be
his court of final appeal, Mark Twain
justified himself for being so delightful
by being so instructive.-Alb"rt Bige-
low Paine in fiarpcr's Weekly.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-09
CALENDAR AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Calendar.

May 9 to 14-Editors' Week.
May 13-School of Education stunt
in the auditorium.
May 14-May Day festival, golf
links. auditorium in case of rain.)
May 16-Lecture by DR.. ]. w. iiud-
son on "The Passion Play" university
auditorium, for benefit of Charity Or
ganization society.
May II, Is, 19-Convention of Odd
Fellows.
May 2l-Missouri-Kansas track meet
on Rollins Field.
May 26 and 27-University high
school commencement, auditorium.
May 80 and 31-Convention of
State Association of City Letter Car
riers.
May 80 to June 4-Final examina.
tions.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-05-09
WALKING FOR PUNISHMENT
West Point Cadets Do Extra Duty as
Penalty for Hazing.

WASHINGTON. May S.-Throo
young West Point cadets will have &
fair chance to break Weston'S walk
ing record, as the penalty for haZing
fourth class men. under the terms OF
an order issued by the superintendent
of the military academy. Had it nor
been for the special act of Congress.
authorizing the Secretary Of War to
dispose OF their cases in accordance
with the new regulations. they would
have been expelled from the academy.
Cadet Robert y. Bodine drew sen
tence Of confinement to the barra cks
area and gymnasium and walking the
length of the parade grounds every
Tuesday and Saturday until the cadets
go into summer camp. Thereafter he
IS to be confined to one part OF the
camp and to walk five hours daily Tex
cept!ng Sundays and holidays until
July ).
Cadet Edward C. Boyllin and Cadet
Harold H. Rayner of the third class
are to have the same punishment ex-
cept that their tours will expire June
81 next