Evening star., 1914-02-08

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IN THE STAR
Following the Federal victory at Chat
tanooga when Longstreet was compelled
to retreat toward western
Military Georgia, no large opera
c.4 tions were undertaken,
owing chiefly to the ad
vance of winter. Longstreet checked his
eastward movement and settled down in
eastern Tennessee. The Star of Febru-
AIRY 5. 1864. says of the situation:
No apprehensons. SO far We have
been able to discover. exist here that
Longstreet's operations in east Tennes-
see will possibly result in any serious
damage to US In that quarter. As it may
not be proper for US to explain why it is
judged that his efforts are destined to
continue to be abortive, as vitally impor-
tant to the rebel cause as success on his
part certainly is just now, we merely
state the fact thus: Reliable informa-
ton received here confirms the truth of
recent debates in the rebel congress that
Lees army is in every way in worse con-
dition than ever before since Lee as
su1ned its command He needs men and
material of almost every description to
SO great an extent as that it is being
urged in their current secret congress
sional debates that unless it can be
greatly strengthened in every way all
hope for the rebel cause will be lost so
soon as the opening of spring permits
our armies to resume offensive opera
tions. We may add that the story that
the rebels are operating against US with
lo.NO men in eastern North Carolina,
which some of our 'stampeded in the
vicinity of Newbern have sent to Fort
Monroe. is secuted here. Though their
force there may outnumber ours at pre-
cIsely that point. more or less. the 1900
| story is evidently but the result of a
great scare
More street railway incorporation pro-
posais We're developed in the winter Of
1864 than any other form
Columbia of local legislative enter
St. Ry Co. Plhr %ahrn,rv IN ins 1ss. sis' "a ,ss oe
lOllOWlHS outline Ol n house Dill 10 IN
| corporate the Columbia Railway Com
panE:
THE route proposed commences at
the aqueduct over the river in George
| town and runs along Water street to *
street north in Washngt on: thence along
X to 18th: thence to New Jersey avenue
and to the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road depot. Another route is from the
foot .,f lfl, 1, 1sD<l
street to Pennsylvania avenue: thence
up 1lth street to Rhode Island avenue:
also along F. street north from 9Th street
west to nth street west; also from the
arsenal up II. street to Louisiana avenue:
thence by 18th street west to street
north and along Z street to 1lth street:
also from the south end of 9th street
west along \ street to the navy yard: !:
thence along 4th street east to NJ street
south; thence to Georgia avenue, to 9Th
street east: thence to Virginia avenue;
thence to New Jersey avenue: thence to
| the Capitol grounds: thence to b street
north: thence to New Jersey avenue:
thence to Massachusetts avenue and to
the intersection with New York avenue:
thence to 18th street west. to street.
TO 18th street. to q street: thence to the
Potomac river. Also along Green street.
Georgetown. from the intersection with
Water street to Gay and Dumharton
streets: thence along Gay and 1st and
I'd streets to Georgetown College: and
also such other avenues and streets as
may be approved by the Secretary Of the
Interior.
This bill is not only notable in the very
comprehensive route laid down, but in
the fact that it provided for the mulcting
persons into the cars who cannot get a
seat.
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AT about IL o'clock the morning of Feb
ruary g. 1861, freight. train crossing the
Long bridge ran into the
Long Bridge oren draw and the engi-
A:JA neer was killed The news
AeeAoe'' is to d in The Star of that
date. A boat about to pass through.
and the draw was opening when the
train OF five cars. loaded with lumber and
also carrying twenty soldiers of the 61st
Pennsylvania Volunteers on their way to
join their regiment. was seen approach
ing far up Maryland avenue One OF
the soldiers on guard at the bridge ran
up the line waving a red flag. The en-
gineer. VIM. H. Sadler, reversed his engine,
but the train ran down the heavy grade
and went into the open space. the engine.
tender and one car leaving the bridge.
The fireman saved himself by jumping.
Several of the soldiers We're badly hurt.
dent would block the use of the bridge
for day at least.
In The Star of February 6. 1864, is
half-column account of visit to a num-
ber of the free colored
COlOred schools of the city. which. it
c, was stated, had been inang-
Se1'. urated without attracting
public attention. at that time so sharply
centered upon the events of the war. one
of these schools was held in the l. Street
Chapel in Southwest Washington. or
The Island where about thirty pupils
Were. in attendance. The Star says:
The ages of the pupils were from ten
to sixty years. A gray-headed old man
was coming his A-B-abs through his
spectacles. spelling half aloud with pain
stalking effort. An elderly woman Who
we believe has married son in the same
school was assiduously engaged contend
ing, like Napoleon in Russia, with the
elements and making a good fight of it.
The pupils seemed attentive and quite
orderly, and we notice that many of them
showed a commenda Bile GtSpOSitiOn to pra-