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THE TELEGRAPH AND .MESSENGER, FKIDAY, OCTOBER 31. 188*.
late war secrets,
, OF THEM LET OUT BY CENERAL
k BEAURECARD.
Washington Wna Not Taken Aftei
W tha Battle of Bull Run-A Rattling
Criticism of Jaff Davla.
The Century for November contains
a Ion* article from the pen ot General
Beauregard on the battle of Bull Run.
It is highly interesting throughout, and
i. illustrated in the highest style of art.
The closing chapter isentttled “Subse
quent Relations of Mr. Davis and the
Writer,” and is as follows:
The military resultof the victory was
fat short of what it should have been.
It established as an accomplished fact,
on the indispensable basis of military
success, the Government of the Confed
erate States, which before was but a po
litical assertion; but it should ha*
reached much further. The immediate
pursuit, but for the false alarm which
checked it, would have continued as
far as the Potomac, but must have
stopped there with no greater result
than the capture of. more prisoners and
material. The true immediate fruits
of the victory should have been the dis
persion of all the Federal forces south
of Baltimore and east of the Allegha-
nies,the liberation of the State of
Maryland, and the capture of Washing
ton, which could have been made only
by the upper Potomac. And from the
high source of this achievement other
decisive resoults would have continued
to flow. From my experience in the
Mexican war, X had great confidence in
intelligent volunteer troops, if rightly
handled; and with such an active and
victorious war-engine as the Confeder
ate Army of the Potomac could have
immediately been made—re-enforced
as time went, by numbers, and disci
pline—the Federal military power in
the East could never have reached the
head it tofik by McClellan being allow
ed to organize and discipline at leisure
the powerful army that, in the end,
wore out the South. In war one suc
cess makes another easier, and its right
use is as thp step to another, until final
achievement. This was the use besought
by me in the plan of campaign I have
mentioned as presented to Mr. Davis
on the 14th of July, a few days before
tlie battle, hut rejected by him as im
practicable, aud as rather offering op
portunity to the enemy to crush us. To
supply tha deficiency of transportation
(vehicles few in number, and many so
poor as to break down in ordinary camp
service), I myself had assigned to
special duty Col. (since 'Governor!
James I,. Kemper, of Vfrginia, who
quickly obtained for me some 300 good
wagons, to which number I had limited
him so as not to arouse again the
jealousy or the president's staff.
It my plan of operations for the cap
ture of Washington had been adopted,
I should havo considered myself there
by authorized and free to obtain, as I
readily could, the transportation neces
sary. As it was—although the really
difficult part of this “impracticable”
plan of ojieration had been proved fea
sible, that is, the concentration of the
Shenandoah foices with mine (wrung
later than the eleventh hour through
the alarm over the marcli upon Rich
mond, and discountenanced again
nervously at the twelfth hour by an
other alarm as to how “the enemy may
vary his plans" in consequence), fol
lowed by the decisive defeat of the
main Federal forces—nevertheless the
army remained rooted in the soot, al-
thoogh wo bail more than Hi,000 troops
who hail been not at all or hut littlo in
the battle and WEreperferI ly organized,
while the remaining commands, in the
high spirits of victory, could have been
reorganised at the tan of tlio drum, and
many with improved captured arms
•ad equipments. I had already urged
my views with unusual persistency,
and acted on them against all hut an
•xprese order to the contrary; and as
they hail been deliberately rejected in
their ultimate acope by .Mr. Davis ns
the Commsnder-in-Chief, 1 did not feel
authorised to urge them further than
their execution had boen allowed, un-
{sss the subject were broached anew
by himself. Bat there was no intima
tion o| any such change of purpose,
and the army, consistently with this
inertia, was left unprovided for maneu
ver with transportation for it* atnuni-
“on; its fortitude, moreover, as a new
•no volunteer army, while spending
ii,.** twenty-four hours without
rood, being only less wonderful than
the commissary administration at Rich
mond, from which sncli a state of af-
jairs could proceed even two weeks af-
W frit RattU S.I U. ll.L t
.... -...mv we siaMseuwiaa. asuiuu^u
, - - light againet
true military nolicr, if suee hail existed
nment. Apart
Tnnows across tub i-otomac
at a point which I had carefully sur
veyed for that purpose, and moved
upon the rear of Washington, thus
forcing McClellan to a decisive engage
ment before his organization (new en
listments) was completed, and while
our own army had the advantage of dis-
whose temq however, would expire in
the early part of the coming summer.
This plan, approved by Gen. Gustavus
IV. Smith (then immediately com
manding Gen. Johnsson's own forces,
as well as by Gen. Johnston) was sub
mitted to Sir. Davis in a conference at
my headquarters, but rejected because
he would not venture to strip those
points of the troops we required. Even
if those points liad been captured,
though none were then even threaten
ed, they must have reverted as a direct
consequence to so decisive a success.
I was willing, then, Bhould it have
come to that, to exchango oven Rich
mond temporarily for Washington.
Yet it was precisely from similar com
binations and elements that the army
was mado up, to enable it next spring,
under Gen. Lee, to encounter SlcCIcl-
lan's then perfectly organized army of
150,000 men at the very door of Rich
mond. If that which was accepted as
a last defensive resort against an over
whelming aggressive array had been
used in an enterprising offensive
against that same army while yet in the
raw, the same venture had been made
at less general risk, less cost of valua
ble lives, and with immeasurably great
er certain results. The Federal army
of the Potomac would have had no
chance meanwhile to become tempered
to that magnificent military machine
which, through all its defeats and
losses, remained sound, and was stron
ger, at the end of the war than ever be
fore ; the pressure would have been
lifted from Kentucky and Missouri,
and wo should have maintained what
is called an active defensive warfare,
that is, taken' and kept the offensive
against the enemy, enforcing peace.
No people ever warred for independ
ence with more relative advantages
than the Confederates; and if, as a
military question, they must have fail
ed, then no country must aim at free
dom by means of war. We were one
in sentiment as in territory, starting
out, not with a struggling administra
tion of doubtful authority, but with
our ancient State governments and a
fully organized central government.
AS A MILITARY QUESTION
it was in no sense a civil war, but a war
between two countries—for conquest
on one side, for self-preservation on
the oilier. Tho South, with its great
material resources, its defensive means
of mountains, waterways, railroads
and telegraph, with the immense ad
vantage of tho interior lines of war,
would bo open to discredit as a people
if its failure could not be explained
otherwise than by mere material con
trust. The great Frederick, at the
head of a little people, not only beat
back a combination of several i
military powers, hut conquereuand
kept territory; and Napoleon held
combined Europe at the feet of France
till his blind ambition overleaped it
solf. It may bo said that the South
hail no Fredericks or Napoleons; but
it hail at least as good commanders as
its adversary. Nor was it the fault of
our soldiers or people. Our soldiers
were as bravo and intelligent as ever
bore arms; and, if only for reasons al
ready mentioned, they had a determin
ation superior to the enemy’s. Our
people bore a devotion to the cause
never surpassed, and which no war
making monarch over had for Ids sup
port; they gave their all—even the last
striplings under the family roofs filling
tho ranks voided by the fall of their
fathers and brothers. But tho narrow
military view of the head of the eov-
eminent, which illustrated itself in the
outset by ordering from Europe, not
100,000 or 1,000,000, but 10,000 stands
of anns, as an increase upon 8,000, its
first estimate, was equally narrow and
consequently timid in its employment
of onr armies.
The moral and material forces acta-
ally engaged in the war made our sue
cess a moral certainty, bat for tho
timid policy which—ignoring strategy
as a science and boldness of enterprise
at its ally—could never bo brought to
view the whole theater of war as ons
subject, of which all points wore but
integral parts, or to hazard for tho time
points relatively unimportant for the
purpose of gathering for an overwhelm
ing and rapid stroke at some decisive
l>oint; and which, again, with charac
teristic mis-elation, would, push a vic
torious force directly forward into un
supported anil disastrous operations,
instead of using its victory to spare
from it strength sufficient to socure an
equally important success in another
quarter.
THE OREAT l-RISCIl'I.KS OF WAR
are truths, and tho saino to-day as in
tbo time of Ciesar or Napoleon, not
withstanding tlie ideas ot sumo thought
less persons—their application being
but intensified by the scientific discov
cries affecting transportation and com
munication of intelligence. These
principles are iew and simple, howe.er
various the deductions and application.
Skill in strategy consists in. seeing
through the intricacies of the whole
Sl'BE OF FINAL DEFEAT,
unless wo attempted decisive strokes
that might be followed up to tho end,
and that even if earlier defeat might
chance from the risk involved in the
execution of tho necessary combina-
nations, we onght to take timt risk and
thereby either win or end an otherwise
useless struggle. But in addition to
tho radical divergence of military Ideas
—tlie passivo defensive of an intellect
timid of risk and not at homo in war,
and tho activo defensive, reaching for
scccess througli enterprise and bold
ness, according to the leasens taught
uain the campaigns of the greatmasters—
there was a personal feeling that now gave
cold hcariug or none to any recommenda
tions of mine. Mr. Davit’s friendship,
warm at the early period of the war, was
changed, some lime after the battle of
Manassas, to a corresponding hostility
from several p-rzonal causes, direct and
indirect, of which 1 need only mention
that my report of tho campaign and battle
of Manassas having contained, as part of
its history, a atatement of the submission
ot my plan o( campaign already described
for concentrating our forces, crushlngbotb
McDowell and Patterson aud capturin
Washington. Mr. Dayis strangely tool
offense thereat, and bis self-accused
responsibility for rejecting tho plan
he sought, after the demonstration of
events, to get rid of by denting that such
a plan liad over been submitted—an Issue,
for that matter, easily settled by my pro
dnotionof the colemporaneous report of
Col, James Cbestnut, the bearer of the
mission, who, moreover, at the time of the
controversy was on Mr. Davis's own stall,
where lie remained. Mr. Davis made an
endavor to suppress the publication of my
report of the battle of Manassas. The
matter came up In a secret debate in the
Confederate Congress, where a host of
friends were ready to sustain me; but I
sent a telegram disclaiming any desire for
its publication, and advising that the safe
ty of the country should be onr solicitude,
and not personal ends.
Thenceforth his hostility was watchful
and adroit, neglecting no opportunity,
great or small; and though, from motives
all Its opposite, it was not exposed during
the war by
ACES OF WELL KNOWN ACTRESSE8.
Figures Which are Sometimes Omitted
from the Blogmphlos of
Stnge Favorites,
Nrtv York commercial Advertiser.
Society does not sanction inquiry as
to the ages of any lady in its circle, but
the ago of muchiadmired actress is of
ten the subject of friendly interest. It
is proper, therefore, to give the ages of
some of tho leading actresses who at
oho time or another havo been the re
cipients of applause in American thea
tres.
KARS. AO*. SAME. AO*.
Mrs. John Drew .60
Mrs. John Itoey 50
Mad .me Rlstort 57
Mary Gladstone. 51
Emm « Waller 51
I.ydla Thmpson... ..53
Mrs. D. P. Bowers 53
Mag,to Mitchell
tratewith tho remark, She has suffered
enough.’ Enough,indeed.
A STBAY WAIF.
“It is high time for the interference
of some person armed witli legal or so
cial authority. If, as Mrs. Trevelyan
asserts, Lord Marcus Beresford i; her
trustee—and it has not been denied—
why does he not force Col.Trovelyan to
keep his wifo from starvation? Or, if
ho feels that his own powers are not
sufficiently ample,why not provide Mrs.
Trevelyan witli such legal assistance as
will enablo her to demand and obtain
that maintenance which is her right?
Under no circumstances should Colonel
Trevelyan be permitted to leavo his
charlotteThompaoalti wife a stray waif, alternating between
Adelina Patti....— 4t the workhouse and the jail. A fow
Roao Wood 34 pounds can surely be scraped together
fig. 1 wSfSaSrZ* to P 1 ™? 8 8,1 f. lter an3 f °°!!
Lo tafChariotteCrab- for this poor lady, whoso repeated
tree) •• —g appearance at the Police Court reflects
?f. nn >* J ) ^ v , e ?P ort •• anything but credit upon every one
concerned.
“Surely thelastincidontin this pain
ful business is sufficient, without ap-
: >ea1ing to feelings of charity and honor,
o stir the two gentlemen concerned out
of an apathy any continuation of which
will be most cruel, not to say discredi*
table.”
exclaimed, "that was a fine ‘•hot, Clark."
“Yes,*’bald be, “she’s a fine ship; that’s
the Triomphante, iron-clad, second rate.”
Up the river the boom of cannon and
cracWingof machine guns never ceased,
never slackened. A heavy c’oud of smoke
hung over the combatants, not
too heavy, however, to keen us
from seeing another China
man blown up, and two retreating up the
river (Foo Poo and Yung Poo j The sec
ond victim of the torpedo-boats was the
gun-boat Fuh-sheng. The other gun-boat
(Chang-sheug) was either under way or
drifting, wo couldn’t tell. These gun boats
were each armed with an eignteen-ton
gun cn the forecastle. Admiral Courbet
took advantage of this and waited for the
ebb tide, so that at tlie opening of the en
gagement neither could use her pnn with
out first turning around and beading down
the river.
Fifteen Years to Arrest i
N. r. Tribune.
An old
deep
Dlckl* Llngard..
Celia Logan
BMW |MWfgW — Sara Jewett *~~ 81
Clara I/>uUeKeUo„.42lUau4 llarrliou —27
Kate Either ,42|Ada Itehan -.28
Bijou Ileron 2t|8leUa Boniface...—24
Mrs. Drew was known as Mrs. Mos-
sop thirty years ago. She is the moth
er of Miss Georgina Drew. Mrs. lloey
married John Ilocy, of the Adams Ex
press Company, and retired from the
stage twenty-one years ag°- Tl Maggie
$500,000. ■
Mitchell is worth
ary MCKueaa or HIRE,
__ bruited sometimes In certain circle, of
Its own force. Thua, when in January,
1802, the Western representatives ex-
presssed a desire that I should separate
myself for a time from my Virginia forces
and go to the defense of the Mississippi
Valley from the impending offensive
of Halleck and Grant, it was .far
tbered by the executive with induce
meats which I trusted, in disregard of
Senator Toombs's isgtcious warniug, that
under this furtherance lurked a purpose
to effect my downfall, urged in one of his
communications tbrouzn bis son-in-law,
Mr. Alexander, In words as impressive as
they proved prophetic. "Urge General
Beanregard to decline all propo lis and
svllcitationi. Tbe Blade of Joab. Vtrbun
lapitnti." After going through the cam
paign ot Shiloh and Corinth, not only
wltn those inducements unfulfilled, bu
with vital drawbacks from tbe govern
ment, including tbe refusal of neces-
,ry rank to competent subordinates to
liist in organising my hastily collected
and m rally raw troops, I was forced, tbe
folloaiDg Jun*. in deferred obedience to
the posifivo order of my physicians, to
withdraw from iny Immediate camp to
another point in my department for re
covery from illness, leaving under the
care of my lieutenant, Gen. Bragg, my
army, then unmenaced and under reor-
ganizition, with a view to an im
mediate offensive I had purposed. In an
ticipation and exclusion of the receipt
ot full dispatches following my
legram, the latter was tortuously mis-
ad, In a manner not credltible to a
schoolboy and repugnant to Mr. Davis'
exact knowledge of syntax, ao as to give
pretext to the shocking charge that I had
abandons 1 my army, and a telegram was
sent In nakedhaste directly to Gen. Bragg,
telling blm to retain the permanent com
mand of tbe army. Tbe "Blade ot Joab”
had given Ita thrust. The representatives
in Congress from the West and Southwest
applied to Mr. Davis in a body for
my restoration; aud when, disre
garding his sheer pretext that I
had abandoned ury armv, they
still insisted, Mr. Davis declared that 1
should not he reetored it tho whola world
should ask it I This machination went to
such length that It was given out in Rich
mond that I hadsoftenlneof the brain and
bad gone crazy. 8o carefully was this re
port fostered (one of Us talcs being that I
would alt all day stroking a pheasant*)
that a friend of mine, a member o'the
Confederate Congress, thought It his duty
to write "
devise, ■ . _
Richmond tocoufound It by my presence—
a proceeding which I disdained to take. I
had not only then, bat from later still more
offensive provocation, imperative cause to
resign, and would have done so but for a
sense of public obligation. Indeed, In my
after fields nf action the lame boatUlty was
more and more active In its various embar-
rasaments.reckless that tho itralne Inflicted
Rose Ky-
tinge’s first husband was a printer in
Albany; when she married the second
time, her husband was George D. But
ler, a nephew of General Benjamin F.
Butler. Effie Germon has been mar
ried six times. Lotta is worth $200,-
000. Mrs. D. P. Bowers has accumu
lated a large fortune. She is sick at
present at the Victoria Hotel. Her
two sons are to open the large hotel on
Broadway and Fortieth street, opposite
to the Metropolitan Opera House.
Charlotte Thompson married a man
named Henderson, who appropriated
the greater part of her earnings and left
her penniless. Eliza Weathersby is
tho wifeof thecomedian, Nat Goodwin,
and is as good an actress as he is an
actor. Stella Boniface is the daughter
of tlie genial George Boniface, whose
boast it was that he never had an ene
my. Fanny Davenport is the step
daughter of E. L. Davenport, by his
second marriage. Lizzie Price was the
so-called and once beautiful wife of
Charles Fcchtcr, altough the famous
actor never obtained a divorce from the
cultivated woman who still lives and
bears his name in Paris.
THE FIOHT AT FOO CHOW.
Soma Particulars from a N.ishvlllo Bo»
at Yokohama.'
Nashville American.
The following is taken from a private
letter from Midshipman Robert T.Fra-
zier, of this city, who is now with his 1
ship at Yokohama:
United States SiupTbenton,Shang
hai, China, September 17, 1884.—
Speaking of war, I suppose you would
like to havo a description of tlie great
engagement at Foo Chow. I have one
of the most authentic out, having col
lected it from eye witnesses and from
an officer of one of tho ships engaged
—the flagship of the Chinese. It is
too long and terrible to give, however,
THE BATTLE ON THE MIN.
lung uim tciuuit; nu«uvcr,
so I .won’t bother you with it. The
great feature of tho engagement was
tho use of the Hotchkiss revolvingcan-
non for the first time in naval fights.
Their execution was something terrible,
even appalling. Tlie Cbineso were
literally mowed down in front of tiiem,
and swept from tlit-ir guns like so many
sheep. All tho world—that is tiic
naval contingent especially—lias been
awaiting tho result of tho first use of
these guns, and they have been com
pletely astounded by the result. No, I
won't say astounded, on second
thought, fur they were expected to per
form deadly work, but tlie result in ac
tual practice was more than anticipated.
JF.uuu^.. u.» A more terrible engine of destruction
te me a special letter respecting the la hard to find. Yon can form some
i, advising _ me to .come directly to idea of tho natnre of the fight when yon
know that tho Chinese licet of eleven
vessels was obliterated in one hour:
with 2,000 to 3,000 Chinese killed. Tlie
French liad seven killed and about fortv
wounded. Compare the two losses anil
you will sco tho great difference, w hich
is largely dun to tlie use of tlie Hotch
kiss guns by tlie French. Wo havo
four of tlieso guns, with one Gatling,
ro I suppose we would have stood a
better chance with the French with our
one vessel than the Chinese.
There is no*, tho slightest doubt but
that the advantage was largely in favor
of tlie French. Another thing shown
by tlie result of tlie fight is the fact the
Chinese are generally ignorant of naval
warfare. They displajed the greatest
neglect of the most ordinary precau-
Total Destruction of tho Chinese Squad
ron by tho French.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
FooCnow, China, September 2, 1881.—
The French bad been making demonstra
tions for several weeks. Tbelr seven ves
•ell off the Pagoda had cleared ship for
action and remained so for more than a
month throwing their electric search lights
on the Chinese chips every night, while
carefully avoiding all other ships, running
their torpedo boats full tilt at a Chinaman
as It practicing their apparatus, forbid
ding Chinese vesae's to change their
berths, and in fact, doing every thing to
aggravate the Celestials.
Time and again the report would circu
late that at a fixed day and hoar the
French would open fire. It always was
contradicted, or there was a postpone
ment, or something was yet to be settled,
until on the 21st, when there seemed more
trpth in the report that operation! wonld
begin next day, but next day only anoth
er twenty-four honre was given, and Ad
miral Courbet sent word to tbe three En
glijh and one American ships that noon
of the 23d was tbe appointed hour. The
tbreo largest Frenchmen, Villars, Dnguay
Trouin and D'Estalng, were anchored
three-quarters of a mile above us aDd
abreast the Tet-yuen, Cheau and Cblng-
wal. Farther up the river lay the I-ynx,
Aspic and Vipere with the flag-ship Volta.
Beyond them the Shen-hlng, (lag-ship
Tung-woo, Yee-slng, Tuh-sing, the gun
boats Cbang-seng and Fuh-sheng, and th
aloops-of-war Foo-poo and Young-poo.
Abreast the four upper Frenchmen, and
near the east shore uf tbe Min River, were
moored tnlrteen war junks.
Tbe Chinese were scattered along a bro
ken line extending from tho Pagoda to the
ravy yard ami arsenal, a distance of over
a mile; the French were mnch nearer to-
K ther, and while the Chinamen could Ore
,t one broadtlde battery at a time, the
French shlpa were nearly all ao placed as
to be able to work both batteries, an Im
mense a ‘.vantage. In passing back and
forth between our ship and Foo-Cbow I
bad frequently passed both fleets, and had
ample opportunity to "sin them up.". It
was not hard to see that there was no hope
for the Chinese afloat, nor did their single
water battery on Pagoda Point, or their
small army on the hill behind the navy
yard, aeern to promise much assistance.
It was from the beginaing a question of
superior eliij-i and arm), betterdrilted and
disciplined men (gainst Interior. The con
fl fence Inspired by these advantages and
in mil i 11 ■ i•• to il i- not to I- m.-r-
locked; indeed, that is half a victory in
itself.
In the engagement were tho following
named vessels belonging to the French:
Triomphante, 13guns,GOO men; Duguay
Trouin, lOgnns. SOO men; Villars. IS guns.
450 men; D'Estalng. 15 guns, 450 men;
The Triomphante steamed slowly bj us
id quite near, her men standing fn to *Jie
ms stripped to the waist, with eager,
linoit happy look. Not u won! was
sitokcn beyond the droile and gauche of
the pilot She seemed a superior being,
moving v.-i tii alow, majestio paco. Only
now mid then tho ear-splitting report of
that fiendish bow-chaser broke forth. Thia
time it raked the littleCblngwoi from stem
to stern. Entering the poop it howled
througli her decks from eud to end.
Think of the moral iHVot of such a shot!
I believe that that one alone did more to
unnerve and frighten her men than
twenty others entering broads'de.
For aoon after we snw a bo*'
leave her gangway and P“* <*- I-
•hora. But they never reuXtuit. Before
the iugitives could, reach late he'r cwn
guns were turned upoL u«c o rmule
and sink them. It'puzz'ed me at ttret to
see them firing shoreward, apparently at
nothing, and I remarked it to Clark. Just
then tue smoke raised «little, allowing us
to see and remember the runaway boat.
That act made us sympathize with the lit
tle Chtoamsn. She was one of the small
est, and was facing tlie three larg
est Frenchmen, with their murderous
broadsides snd machlneguns sweeping her
decks. She was being struck every teoond:
•he was sinking, ana yet In tbe midst of
all this a few brave men found time to
turn to the port guns and fire upon their
cowardly comrades.
The twoChinese nearest ns, the Tol-yuen
stid Che an, were on firs by this time
(about 2:20), and drifting aimle,sly down
with the tide. The llttl* one, too, had left
her moorings in a final effort to place her
self alongside the French ship. But her
engines must have been disabled; ahe
stopped, and was linking fast “There
goes the ilttleone, Clark.” And as I spoke
•he heeled over, tired a parting broadside
gun and sank to tbe bottom with colors
flying.
She had acted bravely, and we pitied
her. In the face of an overwhelming
force, knowing her fate from the first, she
SKBSK&U
rom an active matoriar ally, such as
}_®, colonic* had afield and on sea
in the war of Independen t- with Ureat
Britain, a country in fatal war must de
pend on the vigor of iU warfare; the
more inferior the country the boldor
ana more enterprising tho use of Usre-
*®“ ree aA« , peciRtly it its frontiers are
convenient to the enemy. I was con-
'meed that pur success lay in a short,
QUICK WAT of decisive bl-v.vri. thi
. . * —-» via* auwvcns i»t lit a ru'jn, [■
bl0 '”’ bef,>re 1,10 prtncipl
renMi <11 t,leir VMt ”*<>“"**. bo rejet
S°MbnUd up a great military power;
t° which end a concerted use of onr
•orces, immediate and sustained, was
necessary, ao that, weaker though we
’’ er °al a)l separate points, we might
nevertheless strike with superior
at some chosen decisive point,
•nd after victory there tea :h for victo-
V now made easier elsewhere, and
““•awnupaucceav Insteadoi this,
* Rich in war we call concentration,
o°r actual policy was diffusion, an in-
' l--r.it.- fur.-.- a.
J*5* Point def.-nsivi-ly confronting aati-
PJrior Federal force; our power daily
•“inking, that of the enemy increa*’-
*“«; andth,. avowed Federal poli.-v of
/attrition" of the bigger
tree to grind the smaller,
to naught. Out of this at-
*n-" r ---l, when the direction of tli-
• ■■-rni.e-nt was, at almost alw.-v
Sr**??, fttnptmg when "Rich-
waa immediately in dang-
111 the fall of lv,l. about tl
; -'-'•ho after the t-attlu -of (Manana
throw ing my wh do fur,-,- furw
1 e Girt H miwit 1 , o’lttK,-,,-
■-.‘ ■'‘Mi.- our li.igo ,>n the lulls in nigh*
WWaalu'.gt-u, in order to chafe th,
Federate toot
i left
r one
state
■ battle, h it wit
these principles,' and witli boldness of
decision and execution appearing with
tho utmost force, and, if possible, su
perior odds, before the enemy at some
strategic, that is, decisive, point. Ami
although a sound military plan may
not tie always so read'lyconceived, yet
plan that oilers Licisive results,
agree with the principles of war,
ls plain ami intelligible as these
. -lea themselves, and no more to
.. rejected than they. There atill re
mains, of course, the hazard of accident
in execution and the apprehension of
the enemy’s movements upsetting your
own; Imt hazard may also favor as well
as disfavor, and will not nnbefriend
tho enterprising any more than the
timid. It was this: carof possible con
sequences that kept our forces scatter
ed In inferior relative strength at all
points of tbe compass, each holding its
bit of ground till by slow local process
our territory waa taken and our sepa
rate forces destroyed, or, ft captured,
rctainodby the enemy without ex
change la their process of attrition. To
slop the slow consumption of this pas-
-iv.- mode of warfare I tried my part,
and, at certain critical junctures, pro-
I'u'-'d to the government active plans
nf operation looking to inch results as
I have described—sometimes, it Utrue,
in rclatioa to the employment of forces
not under my control, as I was a sol-
di-T .,f tha ccm* and people, not-of a
monarchy nor even ot a government.
Tw-inc. o-i-ill- tli'-r.- w. r.- w !.. ll . -rtoiu
irwar-i ti, uuNtnoted Tadaral operationa,
Itpizsts from Ihoir l-dat.-l-.r .-rr-iii , h ir-
" "- ,lt actor, might w'.tii . a.-.gy and in:-
n tin* Confederate aide,
from my own g ivvrnmsnt behind me than
(rom the enemy in my front; and,when sue-
eaes came In epite ot thia, it waa acknowl
edged only by some censorious official "in
quiry” contrasting with the repeated
thanks of Congress. I was, however, not
Iheoolyoneof'he highAt military rank
with whom Mr. Davla'i relations were
habitually unwholesome. It is an extra
ordinaryfact that during the four years
of war Mr. Davis did not cell tbe five gen
erals together into conference with a view
to determining tin beet military policy or
•ettling npon a decisive plan of operations
Involving the whole theater of war, though
there.was often ample opportunity forlL
We needed for President cither a military
man ot high ordar or a politician of the
first-cUu (such as Howell Cobb) without
military pretentions. The Bouts did not
fell crashed by the mere weight ot tbe
North; but It wet rabbled away at all aides
and ends because He executive head never
gathered end wielded Us greet strength
under the reedy advantages that-greatly
reduced it neutralised lu adversary’s
naked physical superiority. It is but an
other of the many proofs that direction
- readily go with physical courage,
that the passive defensive policy may
make a long agony, but can never-win a
war. G. T. Bsaukxoasd.
This stllr tale was borrowed from en Inci
dent at Shiloh. Towards the end of lha first
day’s battle a soldier had found a pheasant
towerinx. apparently paralysed under the
ceaseless din, and brought U to my headquar
ters as a present tome. It was a beautiful
bird, and after receiving It gave directions to
place It In a cage, as 11 Dten-led sending It as a
pleasant token of thebstUeto the family of
Judge MUion Brown, of Jackson, Tenn., from
whom 1 had received aa tbelr guest, while oc-
cup- log that place, the kindest attentions; but
In the second day's conflict the poor wau was
lost.—G. T. B.
Ii gray hair sho
-.- widow's bonajt. was a prisoner at the
J :1 -r - 1.1 Market Court y. - r-la.-. Stie
hail il '-Ii nrrt I - To : r night as a
fugitive from ju-tice
'•Yourhonor,” eaid Detective Frink, of
tho-’■■ntral office, “this is Mcrgur. t Con
nelly, of Albany, who steeped from -:ng
1« I-ri-ia til’. : - - - air--. Fin- - iha:
• ini 1 mi evtt-it.l „. lr
search until Tuesday, when I ran l< r. ms
“Well,” replied Justice O'Reilly, “the
law providing for the ncarceratlon of fe
male prisoners in Sin - ing his been abro
gated. Mrs. Connelly i- consequently dis
charged.”
Cnt’a'Pawa to Pu'l Nuts From the Fire.
New Orleans Picayune.
It is not the men that carry tlie torches
who get I hr* i- c. fllces. it is the men who
buy the oil and ride on the horses.
Adzuna PATrr, the great songstress
says of Solon Palmer’s perfumes, toilet
aps and other toilet articles: “1 uuhes-
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Piles! Pile*!! PII«t!!I
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live aiiiuiU'i n»itig William's Indian
Pile Ointment. It absorbn tumors,
allays itching, acla as poultic**, eiv*»* in
stant relief. Prepared only for pil**s, itch
ing <>t the private part- nothing else. Hon.
J7U. Coflenberiy, of Ovefand, flay, : “I
have US -'l scorer of pila cur*-*, and it af
ford- ru»* plnanireto -ay that I h
found anyth! t
ms** an<l
ordinary prw
tions previous to going into action, and
when attacked they were partially pre
pared, while they should havo been
ready at all times and on the qnl vivo.
The terrible destruction of life on the
Chinese side, with tlie remarkable dis
parity between their loss and that of
the French, would incline to regard the
whole affair in the light of a massacre
rather than a naval engagement. Many
of the details of the engagement arc
very shocking, but you must excuse
me from attempting any description.
LORD MARCUS BERESFORD.
What Vanity Fair Said to Cause Hla Lord
• hip to Assault tha Editor.
The following is the article in I'antiy
Fair for which Lord Marcos Beresford
assaulted Mr. Thomas Gibaon Bowles
“The unfortunate Mrs. Trevelyan is
again before tbe public. Judging her
case simply by the newspaper reports,
thia lady is deserving of considerable
sympathy. Mrs. Trevelyan is the wife
of Colonel Trevelyan, who lately com
manded a crack cavalry corps, and
when that gentleman determined to
separate (rom her he did not adopt the
usual course of providing for her main
tenance through the medium of some
diacreet solicitor, but executed instead
some sort of document settling npon
her £300 a year, and appointing Lord
Marcos Beresford her trustee. Why lie
should have done this is not clear, un
less he intended to provide a moral
scourge for his own bock in the event
of hia (ailing to do that duty by hia
wife required of him by the law of hia
country. Yet this is exactly what Mrs.
Trevelyan states lias come to pass.
“Sin- u-vrt- that lu-r allowance lias
n : 1 paid to lu-r f -i some and
tii.lt appeal- t-i I."r.l Marcus Beresford
are in vain; in fact, she was on one oc
casion taken into custody forcrcatinga
i -listurbanceoutside theresid-
nen; D'Estalng, 15 guns,
Volta, (flag ship),G guns, 250 men; Lynx;
4 cans, 150 men; Aspic, 4 gun*, 150 men;
Vipsre.4 guns, 150 men. Following were
tbe Chlneae vessels: Tang Woo, 7 gum,
200 men; 8bew HIng. 3 gum, 100 men:
Yung PooJ3gum, 100 men; Tet-vouen, 0
guns, 100men; Che-an,5gum. 100 men;
Chlng Wai, 5 guns, 85 men; Yee Sing, 0
gam, 70men; Fuh-slng, 7gum. 70 men;
Chang sheng, 1 gun, 40 men; Fuh-sheng,
1 gun, 40 men; thirteen junks, 4 too guns
each, 50 men each.
The French ahlpa were all fully manned,
drawing from two transports down at the
month of the river, end the Chlasee were
all abort of men by reason of desertion.
For this the shore battery and h'UI lire
of tbe army should have etoned, but did
not.
Noon ceme, eight belle were struck,
but no gun yet. All bends were on deck
eagerly eying the two fleets anchored so
near above us. Half-past 12 came, bn!
with It no developments. Tbe flood-tide
had ceased to ran, end onr ships began to
•wing to the ebb, heed up the river.
''Now,” we thought, “at the tarn of the
tide they will commence." “Now or nev
er.” At 1 o’clock we gave it up for e
"■atflh irfit." Wit hail hse#n fiwlitai
We lied been fooled
often In the
tbe
witch pot'
like tills ■
preceding two weeka. daring
not, dry weather, that It told on the.
Hence. Now that reel, bona fide c-fficiel
notice bad failed to prove true, our faith
in French rtchtinn ■•seJ, Ysriene betr
were prci-oseil, bat not taken up, aud face
Horn remarks freely Indulged In. Abou
1 JO a French ship wea reported coming
np the river. Cluk end I went on deck to
lie her, but could not make out much, ao
we lay aloft, both to see her and to take
another good look at the two would-be bel
ligerents. Our glasses showed us that all
tbe French were at qusrters, the guns’
crews stripped to tbe waist. That began
to “look like business." The Chinamen,
too, teemed more lively then nsnel, bus-
tlinsr around tlie decks.
Boon after the Volta hoisted ■ single red
Hag. At t -5flsh# hauled It down, Gut be
fore it bed falny left tbe masthead two
thin blue pufla of emoke ceme from the
Lynx'* foretop; those were from Hotch
kiss mounted then. Tbe Lynx Is a smell
black ram, thre>masted, and on that dev
all her light yards and masts were sent
down. She looked like an ugly little an-
tagonlat. Before the top-fire could be
beard the whole French aqoadron had
commenced. The Villars, D'EsUing and
Trouin had opened simultaneously with
double broad tides, making a terrifl: crash,
the port batteries firing into the Tel-yuen.
Che-an and Ching-wof, and the starboard
leading destruction up the river.
In about six secoode the Chinamen re-
S led, end In a spirited manner,'loo, work-'
g their guns rapidly. Up the river tbe
Volta engaged the Yong-woo, end tbe
rc peppered away
The Ljo
States. So with the Ying-woo-her mid
shipmen fought bravely until a French
torpedo blew them up.
Of Hie two others adrift and burning
the Che-an hauled down her colors. The
crew left her like rats. Numerous little
explosions of cartridges, etc., 1 suc
ceeded each other. The flames crawled
up her moats and rigging, lickln
her sails aud spars like tongue)
flame. She grounded half a mile bel-
u», and her magazine blew her up at 4:50
The Tel-yuen kept her colon up. bat had
ceased firing; everyone seemed to have
perished. She, too, was sinking. She set
tled lower and lower, keeping on an even
keel until only the rail remained above
water. Then her bow went down, her
stern rose up, aud sho shot down and for
ward, settling down with just alitUeoI tbo
poop-rail sticking up out of the water.
When the current struck her smokestack
It leaned over and sauk down aa though It
wore very tired, reminding one of a sleepy
child with nodding bead.
By this lime erre ^ M 1 --iorptdo hosts
had come down abreait of her, and seeing
me Chinese pennant sUll flying, started
for It to take it aa a trophy; they failed,
though. A Chinaman climbed np on the
rail, cast off’the ensign halliard), hauled
down tbeooiors, waved them triumphantly
overhead once, then, wlndlDg tin. flag
about him, jumped overboard. We
watched for him but be never rose again.
Involuntarily the Frenchmen In llie launch
waved theirliata and cheered fn admira
tion. That was La Ofoirv, although not
pour la France,
That was near three o'clock. Half an
hour after another Chinaman came dnft-
fng down, and on fire flying the tricolor.
The French had made some prisoners fn
capturing her. She, too, blew up farther
down the river.
Below the I’lgrxla there was noth
ing left which could offer resistance. Tlie
water battery of six guns on l'Agoda Point
was completely demolished. Tlie river
was filled with broken and sunken boats
•wept by in great quantity. Once I -uw
a five dog, a pretty black fellow, trying to
awlm to us. Another time a rooster float
ed by on a piece of driftwood; tho moat
forlorn-looking spectacle Imaginable, all
wet, with tail-feather), and head hanging
down In complete dejection, perfectly ob
livious to all the ex.-Liing Incidents around
him.
Above the Pagoda the firing kept on
heavy and rapid. Tbe gunboat Chang-
shtng fired a shot now ana then from her
single eighteen-ton gun, but as we learned
afterward, never struck anvthing. Sue
kept on down the river until quite near
the Daguay Trouin, then, aliuou with one
accord, the four largest Frenchmen sent
such a shower of shot and shell into her
that I believe It actually stopped her head
way. Tbe mechlneguns swept her decks
free, and In a few minutes aha aank oat of
sight
4 p. k.—Let at take an Invoice of stock
on band. We have seen two Chinamen
sink near our ship; tiro others, farther
down, blown np by their own magaxinee;
the flagship and agon-boat blown up hy
tnrpedoes; the other gun-boat ennk; tbe
Slu-nblng burned and lank above the Pa
goda, 2nd ikw Van un iU ilm early iu
the fight Tbe thirteen war jnnks were
either sunk or on fire, tbe water battery
demolished and d«ert<d. tha encampment
on the hill shelled out, and tha email
stronghold scar and In the navy-yard
knocked to pieces, while on the French
side not a ship was Injured, and probably
onlyafsw killed and wounded. All In
two hours. I wish tbe Senate and House
coold have had reaervad eeaii. It would
have proved a highly irutracHre matinee.
At 8 o'clock ri -iitance waepractically at
an end. The -hips were am nr. and the
army bad withdrawn to a cooler place.
The farther bombardment and destruction
of the navr-yard, arsenal and docks coo
Louisiana Slat? Lottery Con-.pjjy.
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tlnusd briskly until aboat 8 p.m. The
net of the eyeninj* was devise*i to tbe sink-
ing of burning junks end destruction of
I Are raft*. Above tbe Pagoda the gUreof
en eztenelve lire among the Chinese war
junks end shipping lit np the iky until af
ter midnight. Tbe sinking of burning
Junk* by Aring heavy shell into them was
a novel Every time a shell struck
its exptaion threw np ft column of Are,
which would fall in a shower of iparks.
The next morning, rt jmUy, the 2ttb, all
wee quiet. Tbe junks and tampans of
fishermen, compradores, etc., hi*d not yet
returned. Not a Chinese vessel of any
Wind was insight. Over on the east shore
of the Min the spars of water black an*'
ghoitly. The displaced yards and man
.'t-eming like ekeleton nan.li stretched
forth to the iky in deprecation of the fact
that such thingt can be—that, rueu, en*
l - ■ ■ *n«l « v.. - I. )■-i ; it*.»*»l men - $n anil
shoo*, and burn and drown eachjother.
A little txdore noon th** Volta, A**|>.cand
I.vnx moved up th** riv. r to destroy the fu
gitive Foo poo and Ynng-poo, and finish
the destruction of the naval station. Th
kept up an irreg i!ar b mibardtnent
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fr>.-!<••• in Vii'tori.i >**pur«*, Pimlico. p*ned to be liking at her just bef<
ticed flint ahe was h:
Lynx. Aspic aLd Vlplre
into tbe rest of them. Tl
one continued explosion. When her deck
gun# weren’t Aring the ma< liinegunf aloft
hllcd the interval. Hroadaide after broad*
side left tne eplend.d br«-ech-load in grides
of the French, while Gatling* and Hotch
kiss continued to grind out their iron had
upon the decks of the unfortunate China* the destruction of the naval station. They
*n*n. kept up an irregular bombard-nent all af-
Two steel torpedo boats were attached to ternoon, returning at four o’clock,
the French squadron and engaged with The *J4th the squadron weighed anchor
aw 'ill effect, for l>**fore live ruinate# hid and stood down for the fojti between here
parsed, th# Chinese F. rt. Yongwoo wa-* and the mouth. They passed n# in column
n up "higher than a kite. I hap*| looking aa spry and unharmed as before
mated, if any, at
ot much overetti
i India
data and maU*t
91. F**r "ale by Lan
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most abject provertv her wretcl e»l aclion s >avmg mo-tof her spars nloft,
u h*!.'\ hiil haM foiinil her wa\ before much higher than ter mastheail, but when
tl.** 1-nch, and at length tin* poor the spray and smoke cleared away noth-
creature—the wife of a colonel in the ing was left.
Queen'# army, the ward of a member In the meantime the French venel rom-
..f the Kngfi.ih ari.it.a r.i« v-em* rg. ** up the river drew near. W e hadn't ' Yhe p.*,r thing*. *:*nd in more dread
from the workhouse, onlvulx* Haimd , lh,,u * l hl of , h f r until »he s**a#ly *, their own aoldieri than of the Frtnch.
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