Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-03
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Dispatches telling OF the activities
of the German troops in force nrty
miles from Paris can be we'll appre-
ciated by Harrisburgers when they
realize that such a distance would
mean invading troops at Chambers
burg, Reading. Miffiin, Sunbury or
Parkesburg. Just what the erect
would be anyone can imagine, but
older residents can recall when the
city was turned upside down and the
state government removed from here,
as the French are getting ready to do
from Paris, on the occasion of Lees
invasion of Pennsylvania. Numerous
instances are told of the presence of
scouts on the other side of the river
and the outpost action at oysters
Point, the real high water mark of
the Rebellion, occurred within three
miles of Harrisburg on June IS, 1868.
1t can be imagined what Harrisburg
was like when it was known that Con-
federates had burned some buildings
in Carlisle. only eighteen miles away,
and that barns as close as Mechanics
burg had been looted of their contents
and that a picket had come down to
the Susquehanna about where Enola
yards are located. In this country we
are so accustomed to long distances
that we do not realize the northern
position of Paris and how IL is less
than the distance between this city
and Princeton from 4 portion of the
Belgian border to the French capital.
In fact, from Paris to Metz, the Ger
man stronghold is about as far as
from Harrisburg to Greensburg. and
from Paris to Havre is the distance
between Harrisburg and Altoona. OF
course. Paris is we'll prepared for re-
sistance of an army, even one so mag
nificently prepared as that of the
kaiser, but the conception of distance
of the Parisians must be much the
same as we have of points in the Key
stone State.
That levy of a s40,0OO,00O tribute
upon Brussels by the German army
must awaken in the breasts of old
objections, says Girard in the Public
Ledger.
Pennsylvania was twice invaded by
a Confederate army during the Civil
War. The first time was in the sum-
mer of 1868 when some of Robert L.
Lees forces swept as far north as the
Susquehanna. 1t was on that occasion
that the famous Philadelphia battery,
in which e. Stuart Patterson was an
officer and John G. Johnson a private
soldier, hurried away to Harrisburg to
help in the defense of their State and
their country.
That campaign ended with the
shock at Gettysburg, and it was not
until July so. 1864. that the event oc-
Cured at Chambersburg to which l
refer.
General Jubal Early sent that sum-
mer a portion of his Confederate cav
airy, under McCausland, northward
into PENNSYLVANIA to make a quick
raid. The gray-coated horsemen from
the South galloped into the quiet seat
of Franklin county and McCausland
issued a proclamation. He said that
in view of the destruction of property
committed recently in the South by
the Union general, Hunter, he would
levy a tribute upon Chambersburg of
100000 in gold or 100000 in green
backs or national currency.
AS the people on such short notice
could produce neither the gold nor the
money. McCausland set fire to the
town, destroying the major portion of
ii. This burning of a helpless town
created the bitterest resentment all
over the North.
That the project failed also as
military expedient is shown by an Off
cial report of General Early, in which
he said: The affair had very dam
aging effect upon my cavalry for the
rest of the campaign"
People of Germanic origin living
here and good many others who take
an interest in publicity have been re-
ceiving considerable literature lately
from New York in which pleas are
made for square deal for Germany.
One of the publications admits that it
is put out for the purpose of securing
fair consideration of the empires
side in the war and deplores the fact
that American public opinion appears
to be very strongly against the Father
land. Another publication does not
avow its purpose so openly. but its
articles are announced as comments
upon world politics The Fatherland
is the name of another PERIODICAL and
1t says 1T will help you so much in
getting the right perspective of things"
81 think I have had a dozen watches
with main springs broken over and
above what l usually have in August"
said a jeweler yesterday. When he
was asked to account for it he said
that he thought 1t must have been the
series of thunderstorms which we
have had lately. These storms have
been marked by a great deal of loose
electricity and 1t has upset a good
many watches.
This is the season of the year when
checks of all sizes and colors are being
received at the State Treasury. The
stock taxes are coming in and some of
the small or inactive companies are
paying on a nominal value. Some
taxes are for less than a dollar and
vet they are made out with as much
care as a 100000 check from the
Pennsylvania or the Reading.
WElL KNOWN PEOPLF