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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--. 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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. "Wo do hereby certify that we lupcrvlae the of nil thy Monthly nml Hoiul* n;iii i li rf me LoillMiiHft r'.Htu jaiC* t-ry * <t, nn-l ia f-.u iiMim.: - hi.<1 eon- tr . t!i<- iin n ::ikc«* th.-niM-lv. v rh-I tlml th« munr an- coii'lio t« <l willt hoiirsty.fairueM *ud tit K'**»d faith toward all i>arUea, and we aa* thorite the company touhe thtoccrtlflc*tO|W 1th fin biintlefl of our iltfUAlurei Advertise ineuU.” i<-criiiicaie.wiui fUUchod, lu ltl y Commlaslonen. ponur—with a ... reflenre fund of c Added, By an overwhelming popular vote ltl fran- ■hi».> wu made « part of U>«present8UU ron* dilution adopted December il, A. D., lhT'j. The only lrnt.-ry ever voted on ami endorsed by the people of any «ute. It never tcaleii or postpone*. Its Cr.imi Smulo NumDar D .ivwlritt '•**'" I'."' •• monthly. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TQ WIN A FORTUNE. 11 1 11 ' -1. \ N I» i > li.\ N\ i V i t o, IN THK ACADKMY OP MUfli'. NEW TI KSDA/. November II, 1884 OhLKAKS | I — 174th Monthly drawing.' CAPITAL PRI7E. 875.000. 100.000 Tickets nt Five Dolinro EnoK Fractions In Fifths In Prooortlon* 1 CAPITAL PBIZK... do do .4 1*000 .. 2V«J0 .. IP,000 14009 10,000 M 10.000 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 1,967 Prize*, amounting to... WMMOT ... M .^.f76&.vto Application for rateii to clubs ihould be made only to the office of the company In New Or* leant. K.*r f'.rUit r rir.at! r'.v’.nf ' POS IAL NOTES, - -, • *< Money Order*. orwewTeifc ne5ng( bw nary Letter. Currency by Express <*!•> ms I and up warn* at our ex psiv . addreated M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans. Ln„ Or M. A DAUPHIN,' 607 Seventh 8t.. Washington. D. C. M»«k- r O M •. V <>r h-'w ; I*. 1- drees Recletered f etters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK. New Orleans. La. f 1 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 I Ma lt relief aa as Will* n*-nt." Hold by nil i *f pr.* »*, , Kankiu A Lamar, Little by little who ha* nunk into the notI <*d »hat she wai hardly cleared for 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. 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