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Democrat ata
Bellefonte, Pa., December 11, 1908.
my Recollections of a Talk With Gen-
eral McClellan,
Editor Watchman:
In the year 1884, while traveling farm
inspector in Texas, for the Watkins Mort-
gage company, I went to Vernon, a small
town on the Ft. Worth and Denver rail-
way. I arrived there in the evening and
found a large number of people gathered
about the village hotel.
I was curious to know the cause of the
gathering, and was told that General Me:
Clellan was a guest for over night, and thas
he would take the back the next morning
to visit the works at the Hardeman Copper
mines, of which he was the general man-
ager, as well as one of the largest etook-
holders.
As my journey was in the same direction
the thought occurred to me that probably
we woald be fellow passengers. Somehow
—1I can’t tell why, I felt a timidity about
riding in compauy with such a distinguish.
ed man.
I decided when we olambered into the
hack she next morning, that I would not
venture to speak unless be spoke first.
We bad scarcely gotten outside the vil-
lage when the General began some small
talk. That broke the ice, and in less than
fifteen minutes we were chatting with each
other as familiarly as if we were school-boy
acquaintances.
He asked me where I came from original-
ly, and when I said Bellefonte, the home
of War Governor Curtin and of General
Beaver, he seemed quite delighted, and
asked .me a great many questions.
Of coarse our conversation soon drifted
to the rebellion, and my ingenuity was
taxed to the utmost to vot hart his feel-
ings, for I never have been an admirer of
the General—except perbaps for a short
time in the earlier days of the war.
I asked him if the ®o called “Quaker”
guns that history says he had moanted at
Manassas duriog the first winter of the |
war, were the only ones at bis command. |
His reply was that the government did not |
think be needed anything better, and re- |
fused to give him any more real gus.
I then asked him ahout the events!
when he was encamped on the banks of the |
Chickahowiny, and ordered General Hook-
er to cross over aad feel the strength of she
enemy. Hooker crossed over as ordered, |
and advanced to within about four miles of
Richmond, encountering only some pick-
ets.
McClellan ordered Hooker back, and
went to work to fortify himsell, and pext
the battle at Fair Oaks was on. Hooker
complained to McClellan, and said that he |
believed he could have captured Richmond
if he bad been given support. MeClellan
told me that he did pot think as Hooker
did—that Ge believed that Lee withdrew
his men on purpose to get McClellan to
cross over the Chickahominy, when he
(Lee) would pounce upon McClellan and |
crush or capture his army. |
We then talked about the battle of Aun-
teitam. I told bi: that I read that he,
(McClellan) assigned as a reason for not
following up Lee after that battle and oap-
turing or destroying his army, was that
the Union army were without shoes. He
said that such was the fact. I then asked
him if he did pot believe that Lee's army
was guite as bad off for shoes as his own
army. Hesaid that he thought not.
From that I drifted to what I bad read
at the time, but did not pretend to know
whether or not there was any foundation
tor it, pamely : The newspaper report
that when he was nominated for the pres-
idenoy that a shout went up along the con.
federate lines.
The General said that he knew that
there was such a newspaper report, and
that it had done him a great deal of harm,
bat that a resolution of the National Dem.
ocratic convention that nominated him
blasted his hopes entirely. He said that
after Grant had captured Vicksburg and
opened the Mississippi to the sea—alter
Sherman hal cus the Confederacy in two
and Lee bad been beaten back from Get-
tysburg, and Grant and Sheridan were
driviog everything before them in Virginia,
it was suicidal for the convention to re-
solve that the war was a failure, and that
it ought to cease. He said that Grant's
slogan, “I propose to fight it out on this
line il it takes all summer,’ carried the
country by storm.
That ended onr conversation about the
war, but we talked about many other
things, which it is not worth while to re-
late here. I considered him a very pleas.
ant companion indeed, and felt quite elas.
ed because of the consideration such a
noted man showed such an humble individ.
ual as myself.
Respectfully,
DANIEL MCBRIDE.
Des Moines, Iowa, Deo. 1, 1908,
A young mother living in New York, re-
cently drowned herself in agony at the dia-
covery that she was a consumptive and had
transmitted to her idolized the seeds
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her the child was diseased she caught him
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has cared, a fact which has been prov-
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the healed scars of tuberculosis. Hope
should never be taken from the
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at the Ww ess and emaociation,
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Discovery.
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Church Council to Ald Workmen.
A clear conception of what the Fed:
eral Council of the Churches of Christ
in America hope to accomplish through
church unity was conveyed by the ac
tions of the body in session in Phila
delphia in adopting resolutions placing
itself on record as favoring active
work in the interest of the laboring
man and orzanized labor and also urg-
ing a better distribution of churches
and the home missionary workers.
The resolution recommends the abo
lition of child labor; the regulation of
the work of women so as to protect
the physical and moral health of com
munities; the suppression of the
“sweating system;” the protection of
the worker from dangerous machin-
ery; a reasonable reduction of the
hours of labor to the iocwest practic
able point; a living wage as a mini.
mum in every industry and for the
highest wage that each industry can
afford and many other matters of re
form as affecting the working men.
The committee also recommends the
forming of classes in the church for
the study of sociology and the estab
lishment in theological seminaries of
courses in economics.
Postmasters In Classified Service.
All the fourth class postmasters in
the states east of the Mississippi rive:
and north of the Ohio river have been
placed in the classified service by an
executive order of the president.
Hereafter all the appointees to the
fourth class postmasterships in these
states must undergo civil service ex
amination. Postmasters mow holding
office will not need to take the exami-
nation.
The rule applies to Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In-
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan.
Will Try to Revive Electrocuted Man.
County Physician Frank G. Seam-
mell, has announced that he would
make an effort to resuscitate the next
man electrocuted in the New Jersey
state prison at Trenton ia order
to disprove the claim of a New York
physician, recently put forth, that
electricity does not kill, but that eiee-
trocuted criminals die under the sur-
geon’s knife in the autopsy or in the
quick lime in which they are buried.
The next man to be electrocuted is
John Mantasanna, who is to die during
the week of Dec. 21.
Rebeis Win in Haiti.
President Nord Alexis, of the Hay-
| tien republic, has been deposed and is
now safe on board the French training
ship Duguay Trouin, and Port an
| Prince is In the hands of the revolu-
tlonists. General Antoine Simon, the
leader of the insurgents. is marching
up the peninsula with an army of 5900
men, and a new president, General
Legitime, has been proclaimed.
At the last moment President Alexis
yielded to the urging of those about
him and decided to take refuge aboard
the French warship. A salute of
twenty-one guns announced his depar-
ture from the palace. Thousands had
gathered there, threatening to tear
down the walls to drive oat the presi-
dent and his loyal followers. The mob
was armed, and men and women, be-
side themselves with rage, heaped
curses on the head of the aged man,
who had been deposed from the presi-
dency, but who had fiercely expressed
his determination to fight to the last.
All along the route the people who
lined the streets jeered and cursed at
the fallen president.
Steamer Goes Down In Storm.
Wreckage which has come ashore at
Cape Bay, N. F., leaves little room for
doubt that the sturdy little steamer
Soo City, which for twenty years plied
as an excursion steamer on the Great
Lakes, went down with her crew in the
midst of a gale that lashed the New
Foundland coast for two days. The
exact number of the members of the
crew is in doubt. It is known, however,
that no less than eighteen men were
on board, and it has been reported
that the crew was recently increased
to twenty-eight men.
Child Turning to Stone.
Slowly turning to stone, each of his
limbs already having become hard and
still, Benjamin Gordan, whose parents
live at 310 East One Hundredth streat,
New York, is in Mount Sinai hos
pital and is hardly expected to recov
er. Dr. Karl Goldstone said that the
child, a few days after birth, had com:
menced to turn cold in the limbs, and
he thought ossification was about to
follow through the entire body.
Baby Fmperor Is Enthroned.
With all the ancient ceremonial that
has grown around the throne of China
in the course of centuries, the little
three-year-c'd ruler of the Middle
Kingdom, Pu Yi, was enthroned. The
mandarins and the other officials, re
splendent in the particolored jackets
that mark their dignities, assembled
here from all parts of the empire to
give personal testimony to their loy-
alty to the new regime.
Miners Can't Smoke at Work.
As a result of the explosion in the
mines at Marianna, Pa., near Pittsburg,
Steve Kaczort, Joe Warnickz and
Julian Budny, miners employed by the
Bessemer Coal & Coke company, near
Tarentum, have been locked up at the
Allegheny county jail without hail to
await trial on a charge of violating the
mining laws.
Two Drewned Shooting Rapids.
Joseph H. Painter, thirty years old,
& botanist in the National museum,
and sis companion, Robert Wallace,
sixteen years old, were drowned while
trying to shoot the rapids in the Po-
tomac river about ten miles north of
Washington.
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