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ATT'P.NEY Al 1 AW Will t.rnriir in S..mpr-t and :il'.!:. :n- All hniii-i euu-iisli-! i' f" C FFK TU A RITt'EE. J AlT'KNEVAT 1.AW. ?.iiitrM. ra. Ali hii:n.i pntni.-t.-i V thi lr i re will cvnlilv eiM imm tiialir eivnded t". ' " iiiiu Cruw rw. ii i!U.- Mmr.in.4h Li H. K"NT.. ATTl'KStY-AT LAW. imTM. la.. Will eivt j.roniiH.iU't.ti.ir. tof.u-i:.r :tr.itvd hSii iu Priuui:g ilvulu.. oj.jh; tlitiu-n li.i.iMr. KNNIS MEYERS. AlT(-K.KY-AT I AW. . .!..rrt-t. l a. A!: butir.vw entTOtrd to hi rrv ' e:trtitil ! uh .t....iu. and t i-:-ty aiw on I niuo Strwt. wit the urt h'J. TOHNU.KIMMEU j w;ll .'.tptid to el! bul;i en:n!t-l u ht cure in -,.m.rv,-t Bl1 .lj.'::i:. coun'M-. "! I"")4 n.w end tid. iur. tiflir ou M..ii frw mrwrt. liv Kuh-r U-' iore. J" ames l. rr ;n. ATT.'l;.Y-ATLAW. S .uu-nrt. l a. ir- in M.ratniith Kork. njitir. KatrBin nil Vm iwt. "..i'."-.'.t l.md-. fc-ui.-i. t.tii- fxeniilK"!. an.l all !.. btlMUw t trmlMl to wiiii "-J ndeUtjr. A J. Cv LBui:x a n mor. ATT'JKNLYS-AT-I.AW. !.avt. Pa. 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Letier..f a.ln.:iiitr;i..n on afa.vtt etate bar. it.e u. n ir-auml o t'.e tit..!. rs::nc.l l-y ll.e prop er a:.tli..r.ty. t".t' lt l:er-ny rtven to all per .n D-ii.t.-.! t.. -K!i ett.-to nia'.e intr.eiiate puvmctit. atj.l tl..- itavit: riairt irai!.t the wore aiil .ri!: Ih-tii duly .tithe: u-ated for arttlemettt on M m-Uy. the Tth day of Auctiat, at the late rev.il--n--e tn A-- d.. in I t;f t Ta t.. JoilN Hi ).-. Pl'I.h. IIKNKY IltI.-AI TI.E. F. W. B:iFciiElt. Att'y. AdnoiiiMratora. OTICE TO TRESPASSERS. Al! t-.r.r: air hi-re!v n.-.t'r.M not to treraa on tke l'ld f the Htldrn-urtted in B ark and Mil ford Toiih:i f..r the nrpoK of L-intin. ti-hin .a- l.-m itiL'. or on Miiiday f.ir the jmriawe of vv iiiini'.iie "a:iv I-Mia or .er-cHi! hi tound tr. -r-Mviti alter l date will'tar dv-lt with ac rordliiK to lttw. ir.V P.ARKR, PhTKKP. VKI.K. IliKAM M. AW.F. . K. ANNKR .k HK). I i VI HMKId-lNE. H. J. WK1MEK. Ju't i-.4.-ra. I"I)ITtl:s NOTICE- ! h ii'. r-tste ofs.l.TOon I'ak.fr. late of Ji flVrvm T.ovi."Mp. .ini'T't I a. nee t. The un.i.T-.i'tieil hav ina Utn iluiy .(.pointed t.v the irpha: i .-urt ol ..iuerM't v otiuty. la.. Au.!:t..r t upon exr. t..im. a.rt tint ..f rre.1 Mor. an.l nt.ke a ilii.tnhutH.li of lite fund ill the hui:iN oi"t!:e A.lmiiii.traiiir to a'id a'uons tiio-e l. ca'lv e'i:t'.ie.i tt:rT-lo. hee..:.y eive n4..e that he w:il .n at Ul..oilU-eoti UetitHiay. AiiKiit -M M-lnrlKv-l" of 'It-ha-!!! ttie .ii.tleof a.d at.tx.iilinirist. at 1 o r1., k p. IU.. w hen and ' when- all la-.'sona interei.te.1 mav attend. 1 . tO. R. y l ll. anjcl. And.tiar Gurry University, PITTSBURGH, PA. Over 1,400 Student Last Yetr. Ontirft! . rfit'r.t:Sr , La''i Stnfnarr : Normal: iVtiEuauhip ; Mut ainl Khirutuni ivannivuta. Vnrry Jinnine College and Curry School of Short hntul j arf p;cftrAi m-bHrK oa-h taring It n com t ! Km-i:iTy . ntviilitur ihr m(W thorough pnt-.nii arui u iir.r :wit,TijiiH. Sa oi ix iLtAataur of thr Iet jaamnfnt y.m de tirv tuffitrr. : :viw. JAS. CUKK WILLIAMS. K Prw. PENSION AGENCY. SOU UHL, Pnly amh-Triird rr the tWivemment. Otfire 1st Bar . Raa-a. ( 4am. auaMrart, Pa. marltl Drugs and Medicines SHERIDAN. Blow bagles of aorrow! blow tips of the night. Blow gwfetly, blow eoftly aj wavelets of light. Beside the tomb's portal lies fplintered priJe' lance. Rust cankers the sword of the meteor glance. The eagle whose wing could deftat to earth da.-h. As he soared 'mid the battleloti.ls' thunder anj flx-h. Over rarnae thai Seethed. To pare w ith full eye nKm rictory's sun; An arrow doth smite from his glory-lit heighl; The lord ol the fi.;!it By Death is undone. Blow clarions of triumph .' blow music's delight. Blow gladly, blow nuj'.y, as when in the tight' At Five Forks to corn bat hctiger-likeiiran. "raa when by redeemed tiietian.l-juli ye rang. For the pale stee.l" dark rider, grim Ikvatu, is unhorsed. And onrbe.-u's brave soul from his grasp is uuct.rscl, A; a sabre unsheathed: The phouls of the grave to their dat lie doth run, Ke rises in niiv;ht from mortality plight, IK- laces Oial s 1 ' 1 1, Life's battle is won. t HAULES II. A. LnLIMI. CEN. PHILIP H. SHER1UANI A Brilliant and Dashing; Career. The birthplace of the great commander, Lieutenant-General Philip Henry Sheri dan, lia taren a matter of dispute. Mas achusttbt, where his parent"" lived for a time before his birth; Albany, X. Y., and even County Cavan, iu the north of Ireland, whence his parents migrate..! tt this country, have been crediteJ with the honor of his nativity. But the best authorities agree with the statements made ia Whitelaw Reid's "Ohio in the War- from w hich this sketch is drawn, that be w as born March 0, 'SI, at the vil lage of Somerset, I erryy, Co. (., a dozen miles from the birthplace of bis great comrade, tien. Win. T. Sherman. His family were of pure Irish blood, and not descendants of Cromwell" Scotch colo-nii-ls ; and they were devoted adherents to the Roman Catholic church. The boy grew up with the keen and ready wit and pugnacious spirit of a typical young CeiL It is told that at the i,'e of five years lie learned to ride a half-broken colt, without saddle or bridle. At the village school his ready learning was the pride, as bis mischievous tricks were the burden, of the teacher's life. Aftergetting filch instruction as the common school uiforded he became an assistant in the village hardware store, and being active, intcilizeut and faithful, won the favor and enlisted in bis behalf the interest of bis employer. That gentleman, a Mr. Talbot, gave him private instruction in niathe tuatics and history, and such other Eng lish studies as had not been included in the meagre curriculum of the schoolf. After a time the lad left Mr. Talbot, and entered the store of Henry Detton, at the same village. There he continued his studies, and made np his mind to rise to a more elevated and extended stage of usefulness than that of a village store keea?r. l'resenlly his chance came. There was a vacancy at West Point, to be tilled from that district, den. Thos. Ritchey w as the representative in Congress, and he re ceived many influential applications from his constituents whose eons were ambi tious of military fame. "At last," said Gen. Ritchey, there came a letter ac companied by no testimonials, no influ ential recommendations or apjieals from wealthy iwrents. It simply asked that the place might be given to the writer, and was signed, Phil Sheridan. The boy needed no recommendation, fur I knew him and his father before him, and I appointed him at once." Young Sheri dan was sevect;-en years old w hen in '48 lie entered the West Point Military Acad emy, and be had for LU clx-vmatcs many w ho became known to the worid for their achievements in the war of the rebellion, among them beingr tienerais McPherson, Schofield, Terrill, Sill and Tyler, and the rebel general Hood. At West Point he was not a notably brilliant scholar. But he ranked aWe the average, and wonld have stood much higher on the roll had it not been for his overflow ing animal spirits. His love of ! fun and dislike of conventionalities eon- j s'antly led him into petfy breaches of j discipline, which the faculty were sorry to record against him, for he was a uni versal favorite w itU them. But one day his offense was more than petty. It con sisted in the administration of a royal good thrashing to another cadet w ho had j insulted him. This could not be over looked nor rardoned. and the jna!ty was an extra year at West Point. So lie was put back a year, and while HcPher son.Schorield and the rest of his old class mates were graduated in 1S-"J, he did not get his diploma until lSoo. FKillTINti INDIANS. At the age of 23, then, Phil Sheridan bade adieu to West Point and was as signed to serve his country in the 1st In fantry Regiment as brevet Seconal lieu tenant. He went to Texas in that capac ity to fight the Apaches. A single-handed encounter w ith a savage chief, whom be killed, and the consequent destruction of a hostile band, was bis first serious en gagement. But because some Jiart of his conduct was technically irregular he ouly offended the martinet w ho was his commanding officer he got no credit for his valor. For two years he did good service, but failed to gain the good will of bis commander. But in 1SV) he was trans ferred to the 4th Infantry and promoted to a full second lieutenancy. This regi ment was serving in Oregon, and Sheri dan commanded the company that es corted Lieutenant Williamson's explor ing expedition through that country sur veying for a branch of the Pacific rail road. In l"i:l he received mention for his gallantry in a battle with the Voki mas near Fort Vancouver. The next year he had command in the Yokima Reservation, and acquitted himself so well as to receive special mention by Lieutenant-General Scott Next lie had charge of a military post at Yamhill, and made an advantageus treaty with theCo quillos. So he spent the years op until trouble began to brew in lSil. In March of that year be was made a first lieuten ant. THS OCTBRRAK OF THE KEBELLtttt. Sheridan was still at Yanhill when be omef SOMERSET, PA., learned that civil war was breaking upon the Republic. He was com missioned in May, 1!1, to be a captain ami was trans ferred to the 13th Infantry. He remained among the Oregon Indians for some little time, inpatient, however, to be on the greater stage of action. Ar length that other Indian fighter, " remont, was re moved from command in Missonri, and Sheridan was summoned from JeiTerson bin-acts late in l.Sot and made president of a board to audit claim. The unfamil iar work he performed well, and be was made Quartermaster and Commissary for General Curtis when the Pea Kidgecam raigu began. A nio lest, quiet fellow he as in those days, with the boisterousness of boyhood gone and tiie confidence of manhood not altogether developed. But one day be spoke too plainly about some matter of discipline, and immediately after the battle of Pea Ridge, in March, lSoi, was sent by Gen. Curtis to St. Lou is under arrest This trouble was settled soon, however, and Sheridan was sent up to Wisconsin to buv horses for the Government lie was there when Shiloh was fought. And then Halleck, on taking the field in per son, sent for him to join bis army at Cor inth. There he served on the General's stair for a time as qtiartertiiast-jr, and then got into his projier place, at the head ofacavalrv command. THE CAVALltr LEADKiC This was ou May 'S, ISoJ, when be was made colonel of the 21 Michigan Cavalry. Three days later he wiai otf on a raid to Boouc-vilie, an.l on May 30th he was in pursuit of the enemy recreating from Corinth. Iu these rui.ls Sheridan did his work so well that be was formal ly m.ide commander of a brigade of cav alry and again sent to E.xmevi!Ie, twenty miles in front of the amir. Here, on July 1, 112, General Chalmers, with a force namliering between 4.000 and 5.000 men, attacked Siieridan's little band of two regimen's. The lat'.er retreated slow ly toward his ca;n; where, witii his back to a swamp, he kept up the unequal fight Seeing that the day must go against him, Sheridan prepared for a brilliant move against the enemy. Selecting a body of picked men, scarcely a hundred in all, he sent them by a circuitjus route to the rear of Chalmers' forces. Aieanwhile he sturdily held his- ground on the front. Suddenly the enemy was startled by the crack of carbines in the rear. Volley af ter volley joured in from the revolving weapons of the little party till the roar seemed to betoken the attack of at least a b-igaile. Then charging recklessly into the rear, the little band penetrated al most to the heart of Chalmers' command and for a little time had possession of the Confederate commander himself. This was the signal for Sheridan. At the head of two regiments he led an impetuous on set upon the confused enemy, who, think ing himself surrounded, hastily fled, leav ing tlead and wounded on the field. For twenty miles Sheridan kept np with his 2,0(10 men this pursuit of 5,0t)0. In hon or of this brilliant little battle he was om missioned as a brigadier-general of volunteers. UAklNO HIS MARK AS AN INFANTRY COM MANDKO. After he had shown his fjk-ial fitness for dashing cavalry exploits, Sherid.in was sent to Kentucky to take command of a division of infantry. Bragg W as then moving rapidly upon Louisville, and Bu ell was hastening back with his army to confront hiui. Sheridan was energetic iu his efforts to place the city in a posi tion for defense. Then joining Bueli's army, he moved out w ith his divisioti in that pursuit of Bragg w hich, pressed by some subordinates too incautiously, sud denly brought theConfederate leader sav- agely to bay at Perryville, Ky, October I S, lsiij. Whatever was thought of the conduct of the battle zl this point, there w as no doubt of the praise due to Sheri dan. He kept his josition the left of Gilbert's corps w itii obstinate vigor, re pelled a fierce attack and directed the tire of his batteries so as to do what he could against the assault that was cutting McCook's command to pieces. He held the key to the F'ederal position with te nacity and used the point to the utmost advantage. Thenceforward the position of the new general was secure iu the army. His soldiers believed in bim and bis suiieriors trusted hiui. But tie coun try knew little of him and much hard fighting was stiil awaiting him before he could aspire to popular fame. With tiie exception of skirmishes with F'orest and Van Dorn, not much was done by Rosecraiis, w ho succeeded Buell, until late in June, 1SH3, but in all the work that was done rdieri lan kept up his rep utation a a skillful fighter and soldier, always prepared for uulooked for onier geniies. At M urfreesboro' he was the hero of the day, and it was his splendid fighting tbat saved the army. Early in lS'io Sheri Jan received a com mission as major-general, to date from Stone River, Decembcr31, 1(12. Through out the long delays that consumed the spring and summer of that year Sheridan was grow ing in the confidence of his su periors; the soldiers had long trusted him implicitly. In the TulUthoma ad vance be handled his division energetic ally. When the Confederates crossed the Tennessee he was sent forward in sup port of Stanley's cavalry to try and save the great bridge at Bridgeport. He dashed on w ith such vigor that his infantry out stripped the horsemen they were to sup port. On the evening liefore Cliicka mauga be w as of essential service in sup port of Wood's and Davis's division against the attacks of Longstreet. Shei i dan's action at Chickamauga, September I') and 20, Is;!, was not so distinguished as at Stone River, and after the disaster he was able to bring no great aid to the portion of the army that still kept up the struggle. But he fought his command with gallantry, rescued it from perilous Isolation and inarched it, not like the rest, toward the rear, but in the direction of the enemy's guns. For the disasters that lefell the right he was in no sense responsible ; for the only exception to sweeping rout of the right he deserves all praise. THE INCARNATION OF SOLDIERLY VALOR AND VII HlO. Grant succeeded Rosecrans in October, IS03, and soon after Sheridan's command was considerably enlarged. At Chica niauga (November 24 and 25,) when offensive operations were resumed, he gained additional merit and renown. He held bis part of the lines throughout the siege ,and when Lookout was carried he advanced his forces in front of Mission set ESTABLISHED 1827. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1888. ' Ridge. There, all the forenoon of the 25th, and till the sun was nearly half down the western sky, be lay watching the battle flags cf regiment after regi ment marching np to reinforce the Con federate line on his front, and awaiting the "six guns from Orchard Knob," that were to be his signal fir attack. " At last they came. What followed has been told by a thousand pens, and has gone into history as the most brilliant specta cle of the great war. Never before had Sheridan been so bril'i intly conspicuous. In other battles he had proved him self a good officer in the eyes of his su periors; on the deathly front cf Mission Ridge he flamed out the inca nation of soldierlv valor and vigor in the eves of the whole American people. After Chirkamauga followed the rapid march for the relief of Knoxville, under Sherman, and then the long rest of the winter, not to be broken ti'.l the advance for the Atlanta campaign was sounded. THE FBI 1T1.1N OF BIS SOLDIERLY C AlIELIt. In March, 1S'4, Grant, who bad just become Lieutenant -General of the Army, secured Sheridau'a transfer to the East, and made him Chief of Cavalry to the renowned Army of the Potomac. In three weeks be was covering the rl.ink of the Annv as it moved npon the Wilder ness. The next eleven months were to Sheridan the seed-time and fruition of all his soldierly career, and at their close he was able to say : We sent to the War Department from 3th May, 104, to tUh April, Istj i;he day on which the Annv of Northern Virginia surrendered,) two hundred and five battle-flags, captured in open field fighting nearly as many as aii the ar mies of the United States combined sent there during the rebellion. The number of field-pieces raptared in the same peri od was between one hundred and sixty and one hundred and seventy all in ojien field-fighting. Of the operations of his immediate arm, the cavalry, he was able, with prop er pride in its performance, that still never overstepped the bounds of scrupu lous narration, to say : We led the advance of the army to the Wilderness ; on the Richmond raid we marked out its march to North Anna, where we found it on cur return; we ag.iin led its advance to Ilanovertown, and thence to Cold Harbor; we removed the enemy's cavalry from the south side of Chiekahoaiiny by tiie Trevillain raid, and thereby materially assisted the army in its successful luarckto the James Riv er nnd Petersburg, where it remained until we made the campaign in the val lev ; we marched back to Petersburg, again took the advance an I led the army i to victory. In all these operations the percentage of cavalry casualties was as great as that of the infantry, and the question which had existed "Whoever saw a dead cavalryman ?" was set at rest How brilliantly v be led the cavalry these ringing sentences of his own may suggest. But the weight of the ponder ous strokes which he dealt in those clos ing campaigns, with cavalry and infantry as well, must be told by other pens. Summoned in an hour of peril to a great department, he drove the last rebel or ganization from its borders. His presence gave aiided strength to hL forces ; in bus absence Jiis army was driven. Planting himself across the enemy's jiath, he tore gnait rents in its ranks ami forced it to yield. From first to last, throughout these brilliant campaigns, bo never issued a congratulatory order to the troops that wrought such deeds, never assumed that they or he had done aught but what duty required, and at last turned his back litKin the dazzlint? ria(;in' in which -en- iln. .:Ml.s u.-re to . bow ti.eir co-ihtry admired them, to hurry to fresh fields of dutv and danger. SEVENTY-SIX BATTLES IN ELEVEN MONTHS. In these busy eleven months he fonght 7fi batt.es from Parker's Store, May 5, 1H14, to Appomattox Court House, April 0, 1SI14 all fought by the troops of his command, and all but thirteen under his own orders. The historv of these battles is the history of bv far the larger part of 1 the cavalry operations of the war; it is j Fully coinciding in the views and in iikewise the history of the greatest of j struct ion of the Lie itenant-Gencral, that nvxlern cavalry c nerals. Minie muskets I the Valley should be made A barren and rifled cannon had abolished the old functions of cavalry. The day for grand cavalry ch trges w hich might decide the fate of pitched battles was past, and so high an authority as lien. Sherman had declared that iie had lost faith in cavalry- raids. In effect the cavalrv was reduced to the drudgery of furnishing pickets for i the army. It was without r ;ir.'( ffe cr; and the men were the target for alternate abuse and rsilery from the fighting in fantry. Siieridan's first move was to have his cavalry released from a larg ; share of the picket duty. His broken down horses were then nursed into some degree of fitness for active service, and he sought to impress upon (.rant his own idea of the work before the cavalry of the army of the Potomac. In that coun try of dense wean's and numsrousst reams beheld, "our cavalry ought to tight the enemy's cavalry, and onr infantry the enemy's infantry." lie found itdillieult to overcome the custom of wasting caval ry for the protection of trains and the es tablishment of cordons around sleeping infantry. He did not " believe war to le simply tbat lines should engage each oth er in battle, as that is but the dueilo jart a part which would lie kept up so long as those who live at home in peace an.l plenty could find the best youth of the country to enlist in tlieir cause. Believing war to lie something more than a duel, he "did not regret the system ol living on the enemy's country." " These men and women," he said, " did not care how many were killed or maime 1, so long as war did not come to their doors ; but as soon as it did, iu the shape of loss of property, they earnestly prayed for its termination." Warlieinga punishment, and death the maximum punishment, he declared, " if we can, by reducing its ad vocates to poverty, end it quicker, we are on the side of humanity." Holding these views, he showed what could be done by fighting the enemy's cavalry, and w hat by living otf the country, but his cam paign never saw such liivnse as brought stains upon the bright honor of others. PCTTING NEW LIFE INTO TIIE CAVALRY. For a few days after Grant's overland movement began, Sheridan was kept busy guarding the left of the army, pro tecting its trains, and feeling its way for it out of the wilderness to S pot tsy Ivan ia. Then (May 9, 1S64) cutting loose from the Army of the Patomac with but a half day's rations of forage, he started to " fight the enemy's cavalry " and jrot supplies on the James ! Making a wide detour to avoid Lee, he next turned straight for Lee's rear and for Richmond. At last he passed the North Anna ; then, launching out a single division in all hnste to Beaver Dam Station, he captur ed a rich store of supplies, and was thenceforth in co fear of what might be fall before he could reach his rations on the James. His horses were now turned toward Richmond. The rebel cavalry followed in bewilderment, and when bis purpose dawned upon them they N'tit every energy to intercept him. In this they diil not succeed until !as guidons were within six miles of Richmond. In this raid against the enemy's lines ot communication with Richmond, Sheri dan destroyed the depots, trains and track at Beaver Dam and Ashland Sta tions, liberated 4!A) Federal soldiers, de- feated the enemy at Yellow Tavern, w here their best cavalry leader, J. E. B. Stuart, was mortally wounded, and on May 25th wa? again with the main army. This raid drew off nearly all the enemy's cavalry and made theguanlingof Grant's trains an easy matter. Thenceforth the j breastworks of stone and titnier. But cavalry of the Army of the Potomac had j Sh-ridan ordered a char,-.' of Mr iil confidcniv in themselves and in tlieir I ium'.s brigade a.tirnt tin- angle in the I leader, and were, no longer loubtf.i! of their power to compete with equal or u- ptrior forces of the enemy. Ou June Tth Sheridan started with two div'm'.oi.i around the left of Lee's army to !-str..y the Virginia Central Railroad. II.; ac complished his object and then went to Trtvi'iiian's.on the Virginia Centra!, here he routed Wade Ilimpton on June Uth i n the following day be tore np the rail road nearly to Louisa Court House when, advancing toward Gordonsville, an inde cisive engagement took p!:is. Not hear ing from Hunter, who was to meet hi in there, Sheridan withdrew and rejoined the army on June I'.lt'u. THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY DEVASTATES. On August 7, ISiU, tiie Middle, West Virginia, Washington and Susquehanna Ivpartmenu were constituted the Middle Military Division and Sheridan was placed in command. Many severe cav alry skirmishes occurred daring Augtist i and early iu September, but there was no general engagement, although the position of the two armies were such Early bein c-a the west bank ofOpeqiun Creek, covering Winchester, and Sheri dan in front of Berryville that either side could bring on a battle at will. De- feat to Sheridan would have exposed i .Marv land and Pennsylvania to invasion, i Grant, however, saw the need of having the unobstructed use of the Baltimore ana umo rat.roaa ana me Lnasapeaise ana tn.io (.anal, ana he determined to attack the enemy. But before doing so he visited Sheridan (September Bit. The latter expressed such confidence of suc cess that Grant gave him only two wordj of instructions: "Go in!" Three days later Sheridan attacked Fairly at the cros sing of the Opequan, and after a severe battle he routed the enemy and captured 3,000 men and five guns. Early rallied his forces at the strong jiosition of Fish er's Hill, where be was again defeated, September 22, w ith heavy loss and pur sued to the mountains. Sheridan de vastated the vallev on his return, making it untenable for the enemv's array. For I his service at this time he was made, at the age of thirty-three years, a briga- dier-general in the regular army, his com mission bein dated September 10, ls'4. When Mieridan started ou his raid up the valley his first orders were: In pushing up the valley, it is ilesir- abletiiat nothing should lie left to invite the enemy to return. Take all provis- ions, forage an.l stock wanted for the use; i of your company. Such as cannot le ; ! consumed destroy. It is not desirable I that buildings should be destroyed they I i lionlil rrirher h r.r. iteere.l - bit ttie Iteo- - T j pie should lie informed that so long as an arm v can subsist among them, recurrences uf these rai.U must be expected, and we j are determined to stop them at all hag- j af'is. I in his official report after the raidher- 'dan said: waste. I stretched the calvary aenss, from the Blue Ridge to the eastern slope of the Alieghanies, with directions to burn ail forage and drive off all stock, etc., as they moved to the rear. From the Blue Ridge to North Moun tain over 2,0a) barns, filled with wheat ' ''ay and farming implement, and i over seventy mills filled w ith flour and w heat were drestoryed, and over 4.0D0 nead of stock were driven in front of the j army. B it positive order were given 1 against the burning of dw ellings. WINCHESTER Orders were now iss iel from Washing ton for Sheri.lau to "taken aisition far enough South to serve as a lw.se for fur ther iqieratioiis upon Gord nville and Charlottesville," which p.iti .n was to lie "strongly fortified and provi-Joued." To this plan he objected, and he was sum moned to Washington for consultation. He put his army in order an 1 hastened to the capital, where he spent only six I hours. But that brief absence meant i mischief. On the night of OctoWr IS i Early and Longstreet moved their j forces stealthily and noiselessly from i Fisher's Hill to the left flank of the Union Army. General Wright, whom Sheridan ! planning not only the defeat but the cap had left in command, was apprehensive of j 'ure of the foe, and throughout the en an attack only on the right. In the dark- j gi'-'-ment that followed hi pugnacity ness the rebels crept around the sleeping Union army, within 000 yards of the main line. Then, through a dim and foggy dawn, the best troops cf the army of Northern Virginia charged without warning, and were in the trenches liefore the Union soldiers could load their mus- kets. Fifteen minutes settled the bri nes" for the time. The Union army was routed. Twenty-four pieces of ar tillery were lost, and the fugitive troops j were scattered all the way to Winchester, ; twenty miles. It was more than five miles from the scene uf disaster that tien eral Wright endeavored to stop the fight and form a line of defence. Then follow- ed the occurrences which Buchanan Read's spirited poem, " Sheridan's Ride," has made familiar to every one. Sheridan had sltqit that night at Win- chester, on his way back from Washing- J ton. After an early breakfast he mount- ed his horse and resumed his journey. But a mile out of Winchester he met the fonuoet of the stragglers, and learned the news of disaster. A few brief orders were given to the retreating trains as they came eraia np, and then, with only twenty comrades at his heels, he sparred at a gallop for the front Every rod the panic-stricken troops grew thicker. But he did not re proach them. He greeted each group with a smile and a shout of confidence that turned them back again, after him, to the battlefield. Wright was forming his !iae of defence when Sheriden da.di eJ up, and at sight of trusted commander the men fell more sajIi.v ana more terminedly into their plait-s. Sheridan rode no and down the lin cheerinir his men and animating them wiih bis own indomitable spirit. "We're jriing back to camp!" was the bur len of his sra-ech ! to ai! ; " we're going to have onr camps ! and cannon back i and we'll get the j tighest twist on those fellows that ever yousaw:" And he mudj the men be lieve it. At 3 o'clock the storm b;:r.-t. Tiie first onsetof theeuemv was repu'sed. "Thank j God for that," said Sheridan. " Now j if they attack again, go after them." At j 4 o'clock this order was obeyed. Wright's ! line of de-perate defence became Sheri- 1 dan's line ' of confident advance. The j rebels held their ground firmly, behind j hostile lines formed by a.i at Id to ' i fl ink hint ; Custer's calvalry followed in its tra.-k like a thunderbolt, and in soiree- Iv the time required to tell it the entire r ls 1 nrtnv was demoralized, routed and Seeing in utter confusion. Through the ilepenin twilight of the evening the Union calvalry charged again and again tijsin the fugitives, wherever enough rebels w ore found together to deal rve a chargM; the camjs and cannon were re- taken and nearly all the rebei transpor- tttion with them: i.risoners came in in droves: an! Early's nr:nv was a tiling of the past. This splc-i did Una!" to the I Shenandoah rammign set the loval North wild with delight. "It stamp j Sheridan," s..id Genera! Grant, " what I : always thought him, one of the noblest i of our generals"; a judgement which j Secretarv Stanton indorsed and publish led to Cue world. An.l w lien General Mi"e!!an st on after resigned his com mission. Sheridan w as appointed, Novem ber s. to fill the vacancyan I the soldier who bad in 151 said neidestly, "Perhaps I iimy get to lie a major," was now a major general of the Regular Army. t:ie t ntt i.e or Tits m st. Slieridan was now master of all the countrv north of i;;ciiniond, and deter- 1ii,.,;., ., KUon res-nsi!,;!. ity to mar -h p.ast the reln-l capital and j join the Union army before Petersburg. This was a perilous proceeding, and fail- j ure would have meant n t only defeat, ; but disgrace, for he w venturing to act j contrary to the plan of hi superior of- j fic-.T. But he displayed a strategic power j surpassing even the d ishing audacity of , his earlier exploits. Straight toward j Richmond be marched, until within less ; than a dozen miles of that city. There j he held Longstreet at bay with a single j brigade, w hile the rest of his army mov- j ed on to the Whit.; II jtne. and tiie great j man-eavre was accomplished without a j hitch. Richmond was cut off fro.n the rich countries of the southwest, the roads to the north were blisked, and all was, readv for the final c!.sing in of the Na- ! j lU,naj aril,; npon the city and its dew- ; j defenders. u this march Sheri- j ; ,ian a:, inflicted incalculable Lnses upon j j the Confederacy by the seizure and de- atmction of sup;.!!.-.. Half a million j rourids of rifle ammuniti m. tlioiisauds , of tents, harnesses and small arms, in;:)- I ; dreds of loaded wagons, droves of horses, ; i mules and beeves, provisions, clothing j in fact, everything that could be of ser- j vice to tiie enemy, in en irmoti quanti- 1 ties, fell into bis hands; and he destroy- ed many miles of telegraph an I railrvid line, end fit in several places tiie im portant James River and Kanawha Ca nal. He: had left on his line of man h no enemy, and nothing that could give the enemy comfort or support. The end began on March 20, Ivm. At ' nightfall of that day Sheri. Lin camped at i Dinwid lie Court House, "i'.ish round i the enemy, if you can, and get on his ! right rear. I feel like ending the matter i before going back." were the orders he I had received from Grant, fm:n whom alone he now took orders. Tlirengh mu ! ! and rain next day he moved on towar I ' Five Forks, where he found himself con j fronted by an overw helming force Pick ett, Wise, Fitzhngh I. -o. R i-t. and W. j II. F. fo'e. His army was cut i.i t-vo an 1 : a portion of it put in' danger of destrtic I tion. But w hile the rebels w ere in hot 1 pursuit of one portion of his f iree, with the other portion lie leli l ir.o.isiy upon tlieir flank and rear, and after a Ies,ier- i ate fight the unequal combatants rested on their arras, during anight of suspense. ! But Sheridan rested little. He aent to i irant : "This fores is too strong for me. , I w ill hold out until! I am compelled to I leave." Grant at midnight promised re ' inforcementa. But morning came w itri j out them. The re!els, however, fell Im- k ! through fear of a rear aault, and Sheri j dan remained master of the field of Din I widdie. ' That dav. with increased f .rces. be fol.owe 1 the enemy to t ive forks, mere ; the greattt of the closing battles of the war to be fought He n.yw ha 1 ab..ut 2),J men to the enemy's .'.). lie ar- i ranged hi. force with consuuiate skill, ! and Ins strategy were eq'iaity Oispiayeo. At four o'clock on April 1 the struggle began. Several Union regiments wavered and broke. Sheridan rallied them in person, galloping to the front with hi j headquarters liag in in liana. urren line swept around tiie rear of the enemy and stormed the breastwork there, the cavalrv charged in from the south, and the fight was cone, f ive thousand of the : rebels surrendered on the spot, and the ' others were captured farand wide, where ; they never could rejoin Lee's army. A more perfgetly planned and executed bat- j tie, perhaps, was not fought iu ail the J Virginia campaigns, j os to appomattot. The day after Five Forks April 2, Grant broke through Lee's thin lim- at j Petersburg and drove him wests ard t- ward Danville. Sheridan instantly took j np a parallel line of march, hoping to pass : him and head off the retreat At Jet- ! tersvilie, on April 4, he threw himself in ' Lee's path, and sent worl back to Meade ' to hurry np and overtake him while he j held him at bay. Had Lee pushed for- 1 WHOLE XO. 1935. ward be might have broken Sheridan's cavalry line with ea and moved on to Danville to join Johnston. But he did not, and so his last chance cf ewcape wa gone. On April 5. the .Union infantry came up and Ie's path was blocked. Sheriibin's cavalry busied itself with cut ting off stray regiment and capturing wa'jtin trains. On April 6 Shendan, wttu Wright Croik and Caster. engag-d a por- tion of the relel annv at Sailor's Creek i and quickly captured lienera! Ewell an.l 1 ten thousand of bis best troops. Next j morning heri.lan w:isout again with his) cavalry, early, searching for the enemy, Next day he wrote to Grant: "I shall I move on Appomattox." Scouts told hint j that f ur tra.ns leaded witn provisions were at Appomattox depot awaiting Lee's arrival. He headed for them, and Custer, in advance, swept down and captured them before the engineers couid fire up and get away. In the woods, j'lst beyond, were Some of Ie's tniop. hungry for those very provision. Sheridan charged on them, took twentv-five guns, drove I t.iem toward Appomattox C.irt House, and write to ir.int to hurry on with his i army, and will perhap finish the job in the morning." At daybreali the next morning the rest of the tinny cam - up. moving on toward the fated Court II The cavalry pushed on in advance. Lee turned upon ; it fur;-iasiy. Sheridan ordered it to fall '. back and lo '. behind it Lee saw the long i lin.-s of b! tie-clad infantry, an.l knew i that be was caught at last. Sheridan j prepared for a final charge. But a hasty rider irawoped out of the reU-l ranks hit flag in hand. t.a-k a tmev.an.l the ! th'ndrb.lt w-. stayed, and the war was ended. It was ';.-ri Ian who. with j and ot'i-rs, r-l- through the rebel lin- ! to meet I.ong-'reet at the Court Home j and receive from him Lee's note to j Grant. This n-te Sheridan sent to Grant, j 1 and trie latter s ion ca::ic up. "How are I you, heridan .'" he crie 1. as he dis- j j mount"!. "K.r ra'e. thank you," was j j the rp!y ; "how are you ?" ' Is General J : Lee up there'.'" aked Grant, pointing to- j ; ward too head juarters of the vanquish- ' ed army. "Vcs." "We!!, then, we'll go I up." So tiiev went tip together, and J....M .. " . '. . . ii.ii . ... ...tii-s oi me w cue ill t'ne MiCieati House when the surrender of the rebel ciiiofh n Lecame an aem tn plished fact. aiti::; T;ir. wax irief movement in J. E. Johnston's A direction ended the services o Sheri dan's army, an.', it marched back to Washington and took its last review on Pennsylvania avenue. But Sheridan was not at its had. In obedience to bis chiefs command lit) hurried off to the Southwest to testore and maintain order in Louisiana, Texas, and along the Mex ican frotitiei. At his coming the reckbesH bands of rebels w ho still kept up the light threw down their arms. He had no figh'.ir.g to do, save to suppress riots at New I'rleatis w hich had been brought on by the Major. I'-.th there and in Texas he w:ls ha'n;-n'd by the miserable ool icy of the . I .lins.n A iuiiiiistratuin, but in spite of all diili -uiii s he did his work effectually an 1 w.ll. I n the Mexican In.rder. an I even ueros on one occasion he was active in itppreingdisorder and M-fraldie-l. and he !: I nit hesitate to show his sympathy with the patriots who were rid ling themselves of the j pinchlieck ' Imperial" yoke, j The freeiitntn found in him a friend, i More than once he called sternly to ac I count the ex-rebels who delighted to in- liict outrage upon their former slaves. ! The. R-econstptetion law of Congresw was i enforced by him in good faith, and when i tiie Attorney-General of the United !, . , , ,, , I I lv to nuii.fv it, he franalv denounced I i ; . , ,i ltli.it interpretation as the opening of a 1 i. , ' , , , . . . , : broad road for fraud and perjurv. This 1 ! ,. j : ..'iiMi.i.i i. .".. nun me xiesuieiiiw uit j pleasure, which he faced without llinch : iiig. .Cud when tiie President, in his stubborn determination to defeat the will of Congress, removed him from his command an I sent him to the West, he j was applauded by loyal ciiizens every i w here as the moral victor in the strug- Sheridan was transferred to the De- oart merit of the Missouri in September, i '.-el" and remained there nnti! bis com- was driving ten or twelve geese from a 1 rade an 1 chief. Ulysses S. Irani, succeed- I branch toward a cotton patch. 'For : ed Andrew Johnon at the White House, j Heaven's sake,' sai l I. 'what is it you ; 'n t'.e very day of t mint's inauguration, ' have on the neck of those geese T Sheri. an was ron.oted to be Lieulenant j "'Those are gourds, fo!l of water. I j Iretie-a!, and w.t assigned to the com-j drive the gees' into that cuttou patch ; mau l of the Division of the Missouri. I and keep them there all day weedinotit : His h. tid.parter were at Chimgo, and the cotton. There is no water in the ; he lnviimv xTs.,nrt!ly very popular in i cotton patch an.l I have to give them I that city, iie rendered great services ! water in this way to keep them there. there at the two irreat fires which deva.- j " 'Those g- tse will wed out more cot ' tit e.1 Chicago. Daring the political ton in a day than two people Would, troubles in Louisiana in 1S75 he was sent j They will eat the weed and grass, b it to Ne w Orleans. On the retirement of t :eneral Sheitnan. on Novemlier 1, lsx!, he lai aine. under the President, Commander-in-Chief of tiie whole Army. Dur.ng his visit to Europe in 1S70-T1, General Sherid.in was a witness of many of the m ist thrilling scene of the great war between France and Germany. He was most of the time with the Crown Prince's ur n and was welcomed at head- .tlarters as an honored guest. He wa :,n interested and ap; reciative SM-ctator j at Grav. loiie; and the running fire of j j c., ,,. .'s made by him to the T.-'-l-iu. $ j ; orr-spyn.leu:, as tber stood side bv side i at Sdan, watching the battle by turns through the same field glass, formed to American reader one-id the most inter- eting features ot tn:s journal s inmmiair- able re-onl of that tr-i -g'e. After the j aorn-r. !.-r of Nars.leon and the remnant ' of bis army. General Sheridan was first out-;. ie tiie Royal circle to shake hants with Prince Bisman-k nml congratulate hi:n ou the great event; and thereupon the German Chancellor called for two bottles of good Biv.irian lieer. and touch- tsl g'.i-- with the hero of Winchester H.S they Uciti-I !r::r.k t ogether to the health of te.-rmanv and of the United tate. (ieneral Sheridan persistently held himself aloof from jmlitir, although he made no secret of his earnest devotion to the great principle of the Republican party. He was more than once proini nrr.t'y mentioned a a Republican can didate for the Presidency, but strongly discountenanced all such movement on the part uf Lis friends. A few months ago he was so often and so widely spokon of as a candidate that he deemed it best to put a stop to it all by declaring, in an authorized interview, iu the most definite and emphatic manner that he would not accept a nomination to the Presidency nnder any circumstances, or anr civil of fice. In June. H75, the hero of Cedar Creek married Irene, t wneral I. IL Rucker's eldest daughter by his second wile. The bii's parent's were Catholics occupying a high social position in Chicago ; but, owing to the recent death of General Sheridan's father, the ceremony, which was conducted by Bishop Foley, was wit nessed by only a few guests, including General Grant and other Army ofioers, and was a quiet aSair. Four children hare been the fruit of this union a girl of about eight years, boy of six, and twin sisters, four year old. The General was a short, muscular, deep chested man, with a head disproportionately large. He had a sanguine temperatnnr, wrote in an explicit but conversational style, was averse to addressing large assemblage, and shrank from scrutiny in public plac es. Though an impetuous warrior, and used to rough scenes, his manners in so ciety were quiet am cultivated. A Horse Who Can Talk. Everybody lias heard of a "horse laugh," but who has ever seen an equine j gifted with the power of speech? Sjch j an auimal would be pronounced a mira- j cle; but so would the telegraph and the teieDuone have been a hundred years. ago. Why, even very recently a cure for consumption would have been looked upon as niineuloa, but now pecpla are beginning to reaiiie that the disease ta m incurable. I'r. Piere'. Golden Medi- cal Discovery will cure it, if taken in time. This world-reno-vned remeiiy wi.i not make new lungs, but it will restore diseased one to a healthy state when all other means have failed. Thousands c?n gratefully testify to this. All druggists. Applied Arithmetic. It will not do to lie careless in you statements in addressing a crowd of boys as I found to my chagrin some years ag , says a man who was often invited to talk to the young. "I was visiting a villaire school, and at the ! of the study hour all the children were marched into the assembly room. I was invited to say a few jronls. ami in the course of my re marks threw out the old chestnut about 'any one of you can be President if you are determined enough.' At this point I was interrupted by a little fellow on the front row. w bo jumped up and said ' "Say. Mister, how longdia-s the Presi dent hold ?" "F ntr years," I answered, wondering what was coming. "Then some of ua leilows would have to be almighty old liefore we got there," he retorted. I gave one glance at the hundred or more laughing boys in front of me, and sat down in disgrace. Hay Fever. I have suffered greatly from penod cal returns of Lav fever. Covert it Cheever. ! , Druggists, suggested Ely's Cream Balm i Used it during a severe attack. I can cheerfully testify as to the immediate and Continued relief obtained by its use. I heartily recommend it to those suffer ing from this or kindred complaints. i Rev.) H. A.Smith, Clinton. Wis, A Pecular Election Bet. A very original bet was made at the West End between two well known busi ness men of New York, one a wealthy contractor who did considerable work on the aqueduct w hen it wa begun. The other is a prominent banker an I a mem ber of the New York Stuck Exchange. In case of Cleveland's election the banker is to wear a straw hat w ith a red bandana band during the entire months of Ieceniber and January. He is to have the privilege of purchasing a new hat as often as he sees tit, but be is to wear the hat during tiie transaction of his usual business. In the event of Harrison's election the contractor, who is a IV-mo-crat ami a member of Tammany Hal!, is to occupy one of the bathing houses ou the beach in front of Leland Hotel, during the month of February and March. lie may furnish it with a fold ing cot, one chair, two kerosene lamp, a cooking stuve, and ia to cook liisowu meals. . He can spend two hours each day at any place he choose ; in Long Branch, but be is not to go to New York, except ! incase of his own sickness or that of some member of his family, which sick- nes-t must be certKied to b a plivsician. ., . .. . .. . He can have the dadv paper ana one , , , , ".. , , ,, novel each week, t Mie thousun. I dollar . . , . , .. , ., . , , ia to be forfeited if either person refuses to live up to the condition of his l-t, and the money lias already lieen deposit ed. Li t.'tr ta J.'ucbuy TtituM. A Flock of Ceese in Harness. A gentleman living in Atlanta tells a wonderful story. "When I wa in Alaliania, lietween Porter's Gap and MiHersvilie." said he, 'I came to a countr place where a man j they won't touch the cotton.' ""But how do they get the water out of those goiirl under their necks ." "'They drink out of each other gourds. E c i gourd has an opening in the side, so that another gse can pat hi biii into the gourd and drink. If you will stay here long enough you w ill see it yourself. "! waited there half a day to ee that performance, an I finally I saar it. The geese did just a the nun said they would. When a goi.se got thirsty he walked up to hi neigh'.ior and coolly drank out of the gourd on his neck." "That story L good enough to print T "Yes, bill don't yoti put my name to it. It is strictly trie, and I don't mind teil- but I 1 I l " J jo - want -" 'eputat.on on it wit!l a stranger." The story was repeated to another gen tleman, w ho said : "Tbat is the trouble with a g'! many people in this country. They leave the g'srse to weed out their tsitton, so to -ak. while they do something else." .l'l-J- JnHriVlt. Hot Water for Ivy Poisoning. A correspondent in Srieia'ov .l.v.-oi writes a follows : Let me add my testimony a to the ef ficacy of hot water in curing the positon by ivy. The best way of applying it is to keep a spirit lamp nnder the tin con taining the water and apply the water as hot as the skin will bear. The sensation of relief from the intolerable itching Ls so immediate and so complete that it U almost worth while to be poisoned by ivy to experience it Don't diipat everybody by hawing, blowing and spitting, bat m Ir. Sage's gtarrh Remedy and be cured.
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