The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-06
BI-CENTENARY OF NEGRO
 AND CENTENNIAL OF BADAJOZ

Today is the bi-centenary anniver- sary of New York's first important riot, which resulted frOnI an uprising of the negro slaves. In TIP the popu- New World was less than 1000, a quarter of whom were Indians and slaves. The latter, complaining of their alleged i'll treatment, matched a plot to massacre all the whites, and assembled under arms shortly before midnight on April 6, 1712. The first act of the conspirators was to set fire to a small house. Forming an ambush about the burning building, they waited until a large number of whites had appeared on the scene to attempt, to put out the flames, and then opened fire on their masters. A number of whites were killed and wuonded before a detachment of troops under Gov. Hunter came to the rescue The negroes fled to the woods but nearly all were captured. Sew eral of the leaders of the slaves cOm- mitted suicide.
 One of the b1oodiest battles in his tory, the stormlng and capture of Badajoz, Spain, by the English and Spanish forces under Wellington, was fought 100 years ago tonight. Yelling tons victory bought at so terrible a price that he was accused of indiffer- ence to human life, was the forerun- ner of his greater victory at Water loo. The great British general be- lieved in night attacks, and on the evening of April 6, 1912, he ordered a general assault from seven sides. Seal ing ladders had to be used, and the first brave soldiers to ascend them were moved down by the deadly can- non fire of the invested French. They fell by hundreds, torn and mangled by shot and shell, but those behind them pressed on, refusing to obey the bugle call of retreat. At last the stubborn British soldiers discovered a ladders swept into the bastion. Pic toms division, descending from the cit adel, came to their aid, and the French, caught between two fires, poured from the ramparts and out through the rear gates. In that brief sides were killed. Ciudad Rodrigo had previously been captured by Yelling ton, and with the fall of Badajoz and San Sebastian the way was cleared for Wellington's immortal march through Spain. Already the fates were deserting the man of destiny.
 Union and Confederate veterans will to-day celebrate the semi of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, a battle which ultimately resulted in victory for the Federals under Grant The scene Of the terrible conflict ex- tended from Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee River, ten miles north of the Mississippi State line, to log church called Shiloh, and from these two places the battle takes its names The Union forces numbered about 58, 900, while Gen. Albert Sidney John ston, the Confederate commander, had 40,0O0 men under him. The Confed- crate attack was a surprise, and a large number of Union soldiers were taken prisoners. After ten hours of fighting the day was fairly won by the Confederates, and Beauregard tel egraphed to Richmond a shout of victory. The Union army was push ed back to the river, which was swol- len by Spring flood, and perforce had to make a stand. Two Union gunboats on the river, however, came to their assistance, and in the even- ing the van of Buell's army appeared on the opposite side of the river, and Gen. Lew Wallace came up in the night. The next day the battle was resumed, and, although the Confeder- ates retreated to the heights of Mon- terey, thousands of men dying on the way The Confederate loss in the battle and retreat was about 10000 and the Union loss in killed, wounded and prisoners about 15,000.