Americans, ally the forced result of mere com mouseuse, shake bloody hands across the new VTm able General (whose ahiliry was afterward MINNESOTA JMKtVS. however much of it may have been, frontierwhat living witnesscan fail to so signally tested). True, then and since a it was the chief factor in the tight, as Chaska Herald: recall those enthusiastic jubila'ions? In Farmers all seem to be Are these the high exemplars of our race he was blamed for not "taking Washing- borrowing money Beauregard alone would have Tost it, -will not sell their wheat th North the command was: "Ki.l the These crawling upstarts who MO forth and ton," by the partisans of Jeft Davis, who. at present prices. possessing neither the capacity or numbers claim rebels!" "Hang-J. D. to a sour apple oe it remarked, arrived from Richmond The glory of the sweet republican name, to win. treee!" &ci In the South: "Bring us a Hon. D. L. Buell, of Caledonia," has been and rode upon the field about a haif-hour Like hruteo that bellow" at ihe stars of space: nominated for the State Senate by the Democrats i lock of old Abes hair!" "Come home Prior to the 31st he had besought after the termination of the battle, and Who find not any beauty in the grace of Houston county. soon with some Yankee scalps!'' &-. Jt hni-ton to adopt to very ris-ky offensive the last of his foes had left it but this And radiance of n honorable fame, Impatience over inactivity became intense movements, but they were declined at The house of A. M. Case, of Elmira, Wi Bui Haunt their bruinlu vanity and shame at'actv was inspi.ed by Mr. Davis himself, nona county, was entirely consumed by fire" Before i he Old World's worn aud hallowed every wher, and soon the cry of "On sight.' On the morning of the. 21st"hi who nanage "to entertain throughout the with nearly all its contents. Incendiary face! to Richmond" was rung out over all the plan of offensive: operations against war a special spite against the successful land frpm Washington. Nobody looked McDowell's right at Centerville,although Litchfield Independent: Otto Phillips, a Confederate commander. Are these the heroes of our later earth, German, of Danielson, Meeker county, had forward to anything save an a lusiug sanctioned by Johnston and On the point 'ihe rierv types of manhood that shall sway Tnis memorable quarrel between Jefferson hazardous, nine stacks of wheat burned by a prairie fire Nations and commonwealths of men uu military promenade, barrkga few wiseacres, ol execution, was extremely Davis and Jospeh E. Johnston recently. born! who have sinced confessed to the and it wa^, pernaps fortunately tor his dated from the time the first was Secretary Nay, ttiough one bounteous mother gavo us i Henry Hutchins, of Morris, Stevens county, corn, yet every body happmed to have side, estopped by the Federal preciptation under Pierce. Floyd succeeded birth, I claims to have found a genuine peat deposit entered upon a loig lanp, whose onlv in attacking. After operations had We hold them not as brothers for a day Davis in the War Department but neither upon his farm. It barns well, but turning was years afterward iound at begun *o wax warm, when both Johnston We who are loath to touch them with our he nor Johnston (connected by family gives out but little heat. scorn! Appomattox Court-house. and Beauregard found out they were five ties) then United States QuartermasterFeneral, A ruffian named Fitzgerald assaulted aud miles off he scent at Mitchell's Ford, In satisfaction of the popular demand were men to tolerate dictation, shamefully abused a German woman in the they did very cleverly hurry up with rein Yet, 0 mv country! thy true children know_ for a decisive scrinimaere. General Scott, while Davis desired to run the machine town of Kellogg, Wabashaw county. The Jorcements to the critical point, somewhat How s^reat, and pure, and proud a heart is against his own better judgment and even after he had quit office. Owing to sheriff is in search of the scoundrel. thine, redeeming themselves in the eyes Mexican experience, gave General McDowell their shoving him off, t.e from that moment Albert Lea Enterprise: Scarcely any How sacred and invii cibly divine of their army, wh ch knew that it had peremptory orders ou the 16th of fell afoul of both of them,and during The soul ihut makes theebeautilul in woe! tfheat is coming to market. Farmers don't actually been lighting four hours without July to leave Washington at the head of the Confedercy he had the incompletely in Night cannot quench the lite and light that like to sell their wheat at the ruinously low any General at ail, and only guided at the 55,Ki troops for the capture ot Richmond. flow his grip. After the fall of Fort Donelson prices offered, and are holding it for better i) o&t elementary notions of military expediency. From the clear springs which bubble at thy The Confederates, numbering he humiliated Floyd till death eased prices. shrine In his narrative General 30,000, stood their ground twenty i iles him, and endeavored hard to damage One of the sisters belonging to the Catholic Like mingled rivers rushing to the brine, Johnston, like a man, frankly admits.' as off, spread cut over an extent of eiyht Johnston by crippling him when in corn school in Chaska, while attending to Bearing the hopes of ages as they go. a very great fault on his own part, that miles along the banks of Bull Run, a very some duties about the building, fell from a mand, and in removing him often and one third of bis troops were not engaged Lo! these will serve thee with their loyal narrow, b.^ggy little stream, running platform, sustaining a fracture and dislocation eany about the somewhat scattered Dixiedom. might, in the battle, as they might easily have of an ankle joint. from the Blue Ridge Mruutains into the thereby largely depriving \iis own With hearts that do not falter in their trust l:een, apart from maintaining th'j reserves Potomac River and never was there a A few nights since the barn of Mr. Meyers, side of a military talent equal, if not sup Nor lose the noble splendor of their youth [He even admits that, in his opinion. better, prettier plain for a free fi^ht between of Litchfield, Meeker county, was set on erior, to that which Lee was freely enabled For they would have thee glorious in men's Miles' brigade should not have been left fire by an incendiary and entirely destroyed. eight, two encountering hosts. The timber to display only, instead of beicg by General McDowell at Centerville] And shield Ihee from the cankering blieht A span of mules escaped from the barn. A and undergrowth covering portions damaged, Johnston came cut stronger equal obstacles in of rust-*- double harness and other property were no*- the locality were The battle raged severely from 9 a. m. every time. Thee who are pledged to freedom and to consumed with the building. the way of handling troops as were, subsequently (skirmishing was opened *at 6:30 a. m.) truth! The battle at Manassas had tremendous M. B. Williams, of Donnelly., Stevens met in many battles. At that to 4:40 p. when, after the final George Edgar Montgommery. consequences. Itseeme to confirm county, had a narrow escape from fire. While time the roads, fields, tenet and vegetation etisrges, skillfully led in person by the the authority and tower claimed by the absent from home, fire leaped across a narrow presented to the view an aspect of two Southern commanders, the right of South, made credulous millions believe strip, and although Mrs. Williams innocence and comfort destined speedily the Federal army fled in confusion from BATTLES OF THE REBELLION. that the war was over. Many regiments fought it, she did not master it until assistance to be obliterated for weary years in that the fseld toward Dudley Ford, while the broke for their homes, and never returned. came. It was a close call, as the fire Bemiilcnc or FmoiiH Conflicts of peculiarly trampled corner of Virginia center and left unmolested marched off In the North it brought forth that was within a ff feet of his hay and barn. th Late WarThe Klaht at Manasnas while the blue chain of mountains in that hastily by the turnpike to Centerville. A Affair Which Endfd in l**iilc- obstinate determination which finally Brainerd Tribune: Some miscreant, for JlcUoweli'o Oeueralslilp Contrasted distance formed a beautiful background, Considering the length of time in which culminated in tripumph at Appomattox, cause unknown, displayed a wanton and Willi mat of Jolimton unci Bcaiiregsrd, which was even still more striking after the troops were engaged, the losses were and which otherwise might possiblv cowardly disposition on Monday evening Hew York Star. the roar of big and small guns had fairly small,about 6,000 in killed, wounded and last, petween the hours of 7 and 8 o'clock, have been substituted by soft compromise After such a short lapse of time it could opened. A wretched turnpike road led missing on both sides together. In spoils by breaking the glass in all the windows in of some sort or another. scarcely be that a history of the war from Alexandria through Fair ax Courthouse. the Confederates captured twenty-eight five of the Northern Pacific coaci.es standing ^m^ between the. North and South, giving impartial Centerville, Warrenton, &c, on cannon, half a million cartridges, a srarrison in the yard at this place. An Obtuse an. and comprehensive views, should to Richmond, Manassas being left a littie flag, ten regimental colors, sixtyfour Waseca Leader: The two men, giving the exist but that an event of such far-reaching a*ide after the passage of Bull Bun. The artillery horses, with their harness, names of Welch and Manning, who were arrested She was a stylish young lady about 18 importance will, in the course of time battle-field along the stream was about twenty-six wagons, and camp equipages, in this place last week by Marshal years old, and to accommodate a friend receive"all due elucidation, may not be six miles equi-distant from Centerville Koddle, charged with being the robbers of clothing and other military property. she took the baby out for an airing She a commercial traveler named Frank Niles, in doubted. So far its narration has been and Manassas 'Junction. General McDowell's The Confederates could not press the pursuit, was wheeling up and down the walk, Albert Lea, had their examination last Thursday confined within newspaper columns, for army arrived at Fairfax early because they had only two or three when an oldish man, very deaf, came at that place. Mr. Niles was present and never before was a war so thoroughly on the morning of the 17th, and as its cavalry companies, and thus their victory along and inquired for a certain person fully identified the parties. They were committed chronicled while in progress as our's was glistening bayonets and white-covered was only as complete as one gained by supposed to live on that street. She nearly for trial. tnroughout the leDgth and breadth of this wagons hove in extending and meandering infantry and artillery alone, and they yelled ber head off trying to answer Hastings Union: The residence of M. McHugh, land. This editorial writmg-up was certainly line the brigade of Confederates stationed raw, could be. The routed regiments and him, and he looked around, caught sight on Tyler street, was entered by burglars, adequate to the dav, perhaps a at Fairfax became suddenly impressed companies, though unpressed, feared interception of the baby and said: and property to the amount of about trifle surfeiting and when the curtain fell with the seriousness oi things and the belching forth of "Nice child, that I suppose you feel $100 carried off. The entrance was effected upon the bloody drama people were glad and hastily aware they were wanted masked batteries on all sides, and quickly proud of him?" through aback window, and the first knowledge to drop all things warlike. The consequence elsewhere, viz: about ten miles away at resolved th mselves into a pell-mell "It isn't mine!" she yelled at him. the family had of the occurrence was is that there has been a freshness Bull Run: mass of fugivives rushing headlong toward the missing of the articles in the morning. "Boy, eh! Well, he looks just like about the late struggle quite calculatad Centerville. Perhaps there never Two watches, some silverware and jewelry you." to deter the energetic pamphleteer, spite They were not to fight but to retreat, was before seen such a panic as there was constituted the captured swag. "It isn't mine!" she yelled again, but of reiterated attempts to turn a penny and this they proceeded to do with alacrity, visible on that Wairenton turnpike. nodded his head and continued: Preston Republican: A man working from his bellicose prist-stuff. Nobody many of them expecting on the Upon th heights of the northern side of "Twins, eh! Where's the other one!" about a threshing machine on the farm of chose much of the proffered article. march to be banged into by the pursuers Bull Run crowds of curious spec'ators Adam Marks had been in oiling the horse Despairing or making him understand Orders had been given that they were to had gathered since the dawn to enjoy the Hence it is not surprising that no original power and was struck down by one of the word of mouth, she pointed to the baby, move expeditiously in dignified silence novel sight of a real battle among them sweeps and carried between two whe:ls, history or even philosophical memoir at herself, and then shook her head. to the spot they were booked to tight, were members of Congress, politicians, passing through a space of about four inches, has appeared the subject matter fresh "Yesves. I see: t'other twin in the and during the ni^ht no pipes were to editors and reporters, photographers, sutlers, breaking his collar bone and pressing his in the memories, aye, lives of the people houfe. Their father is fond of them, ot be lit or loud talking allowed, for fear of heart over to the right side. The patient sports, men and women, a gay of both sections, alter being so enormous course!" lived until Friday Dight, whendeath relieved spies that might be lurking in ti forest party, in a word bettiDg, laughing,feasting ly spun out by the editors of the period, She turned the cab and hurried the him of his sufferings. growths lining the road. The march of and drinking from baskets of champagne, could not soon be rehandled in our midst, other way, but he followed and asked: There was a shooting affray in Eyota the this exposed detachment was safely made all collected to witness the defeat and Europe remained too indifferent and "Do they kick round much nights?" other night. Two men, Crooks and Luding, witl out the exchange of a shot but a few of the rebels. But, lo{ Twenty minutes ignorant on American affairs to touch it. "I tell you tain't mine!" she shouted had quarreled and fought. Crooks entered hours after they landed on the safe side to five. Each side possesses what is called "a history"the looking very red in the face. complaint, and Luding was, put under bonds of Bull Run the head of General McDowell's Northern by Swinton, the think you're wrong there," he answered. to keep the peace. Meeting afterwards in a Hark! What's that? Only the victorious column debouched on the hill a Southern by Pollardbut neither work store Crooks very foolishly commenced to "Children brought up on the cheer'ng ringing louder and louder mile and a half opposite their position at can lay claim to the title, being merely tease and tantalise Luding, butting him with bottle are apt to pine and die." down the Confederate side of the stream, Mitchell's Ford, when in a twinkling a compilations from the newspapers, both his head and cutting up other silly antics, Sue started on a run for the gate, but until it reverberates deafeningly upon battery of twenty-pounders opened a when Lading drew a revolver and shot writers having been active war editors, before she had opened it he came up, and the idlers, rushing them frantically this searching fire on their position. The Crooks twice through the body. The condition Grant and Lee issued no memoirs only asked: time ''On to Washington!" Alter that the Conledeiates reserved their masked batteries of the wounded man is critical. Sherman and Johnston have appeared in Have tf* spank 'em once in while, I road was not openas it was closed, but yet awhile hence in front of the Mantorville Express: Horace Russ alias print, but within narrow limits, or with puppose?*' furiously lively. The van ot the fugitive heavy guns a battery ot light artillery Buck Mercer was arrested at Wasioja on contributions of details rather after the She made about cwenty gestures a tro-ips immediately followed. Soon for was pushed out on the open declivity nnd Thursday evening of last week, at 9 o'clock, newspaper modeling. The Comte de halt a minute, and he helped the cab three miles things became.mixed up. On on a charge of larceny from the store of Mr. rapidly got the exact range of the Confederates,*wi Paris' French History is the work not on through the gate and said: the run weie teams, wagons and caissons, Yinton, of that place, committed last spring en these, too, in their turn ad ly of an amateur soldier, but of a mere "Our children were all twins, and I'll lumberin^ until broken down and deserted was brought before the court on the next vanced a battery across the Run into the explorer of the New World. Withal, the send my wife down to give you some advice. day, tried, found guilly, and sentenced to two horses cut loose, sutlers' teams, pri opening and compelled a withdrawal. time is fast approaching when there will years in the State's prison, and was on his You see" vate carriages telescoping upon each This was the first little tire of cannonade, not only be a demand for thorough histories way to that place before 9 o'clock on Friday "But she picked up a flower-pot and other amid clouds of dust and hubbub of the first shot heard (eagerly watched almost of the war, looking to the final judgement evening, all being done in less than twentyoar flung it at him. He jumped back, and, sickeniDg sights and pitiable, angry cries in breathless awe on both sides) that of posterity, but of good chronicles and hours after the arrest. as she entered the house, he called out: hacKs containing unlnckcy spectators precluded the skirmishing latter on the sketches yielding some living outlines of Herman von Hadeln, of Perham, Otter were smashed like egg-shells, and the occapan's "Hope insanity won't break out on the same day (the 18th) at Blackburn's Ford, the foremost personages who held the Tail county, was in the woods hunting and lost in the melee (this French twins!" where General Tyler vainly reconnoitered saw two cub bears and wereabont to fire at stage from April, 18G1, to April, 1865, word suits just here, and no other) horses, mm to find a suitable passageof thj stream. them, when he heard a fierce growl behind and preserving much of the "local color A Gentleman of the Old School. wounded and wildly flying from the Upon finding the Confederates too strong him. Turning about, he found himself face ing" over so conductive to an interest in field, galloped at random in their death to face with Mrs. Bear, and her ladyship on this end, General McDowell decided The late Dr. Sprague, of Albany, was and understanding of past times and occurrences. agony, increasing the horrors of the stampede seemed inclined to form a more intimate acquaintance to look around a few days before again a gentleman of the old school type, of remarkable The subject is really fresh, the wounded soldiers appealed, unheeded with him. Yon Hadeln was adverse moving. The effect of this check on courteousness of manner, and oi though the rubbish covering it may have to this, and shot her, killing her instantly, of course, to fleet riders to take their advance was rather astonishing to corresponding reverence of feeling. He faded and withered to nothingness. It though his gun was only loaded with them up behind the saved artillery and the Federal side, while inspiriting to the never trifled with the names of prominent cannot in itself fade, and already a new pigeon shot. cavalry thundered on and sma he all in Confederate at any rate, all were now men, and it is hardly probable that he generation demand to know "all about Long Prairie (Todd county) Argus: Clark ti.eir way buggies and light wagons seriously convinced that the pinch had could suppose any one would use his it"that is, to have the accurate sifted "Weeks informs us that recently, having tried to pierce the rear of the mass of finally come, aud that a grand trial of name with undue familiarity. One day. from the inaccurateas far as other pressing finished a day's threshing, he and his brother heavier vehicles, solidified and moving at the tea table, one of his sons, then in strength was imminent It was now that requirements will admit. were riding home after dark at a rapid imperceptibly, while the cry of "cavalry business in Albany, but living at his the best generalship on either side was pace. He inquired of his brother if there Among the famous battles of our stirring is coming' added terror each moment lather's house, spoke of "Charley Bridg- not only in order, but in urgent demand wasn't some danger in riding so fast, but his epoch the very first on the list may throughout the huge, confused throng. man." The name arrested his father's attention, and how stood the heads of the two opposing brother thought not, and they had proceeded surely be classed as the most famous, because Thus went on this rout until Centerville and he said but a short distance when the brother's forces? the most dramatic in form and was cached, and tie spectacle of wellformed horse stepped into a hole, throwing his rider "My son, ot whom are you speaking?" substantial in infl uence. Manassas, commonly reserves under General Miles gave General McDowell under-estimated at violently on the ground, breaking his collar "Of Mr. Bridgeman, father,'^ was the known as the "Battle of Bull Run*' bone and dislocating his shoulder. The hope of safey at la t. several points during the day the strength reply. so-called, as Englishmen might say, doctor was called, who considered the of the forces immediately opposed to his During the day couriers had been dispatched "Not of the Rev. Dr. Bridgman, surely, wounded man in a critical condition, but he from the prominent part taken by "Bull subordinates, and this through his inex "with reports to General Scott at William?" has so far recovered as to again be able to Bun" Russell of the London Times in perience of war, thus failing at capital moments Washington, and each one arriving was ot "Why yes, father why not?" mount the horse power. eagerlv hastening to Washington to send of the conflict to oppose the fitting course eagerly hailed in the streets and |Why not, my son? Because such familiarity Sauk Bapids (Benton county) -Press: off the news to "Lunnen Town." How tactics. He certainly showed himself questioned as to the tide of battle. "How in connection with a prominet Andy McDonm l's team and wagon were terribly vivid stilL must be the recollection of brave and obstinate," and reviewed his goes the fight?" asked a" gentleman just preacher is unbecoming. I am quite surand wrecked at Stanton's mill. While McDonnel thousands who took part in those remarkable lines for attack in the most creditable from Boston of a dust bespattered Governor shocked at your freedom and I was assisting a friend to unload some scenes 1 That spring emphatically manner, but always too late to withstand who, on his part, had just "got in," hope he has no knowledge of it." wheat his horses became unmanageable, and had been era of greenness, the entire the concentrated onsets of his opponents, and was leaning up against a lamp-post. backed the wagon off the platform into the "Why yes, he has, father. 1 have called country had been as one huge pumkin, who were frm the start first class marksmen, As far as I am concerned," he replied, water, some eighteen feet below, carrying him 'Charley' to his face I" and the national pie had to be baked. and had been hunting and shooting "the oattle is going on very well." Toe the poor dumb brutes with it. One' of the 'Charley' to his face! and does he call From the day of the call to arms until all their lives. His early advantages horses was frightfully maimed, and died a Confederate soldiers, who afterward you William?" the day of the battle there had been only few minutes after falling, while its mate was in" actually forcing the left flank of the marched over the route, found and helped "Well, no, father, I can't Bay that he two month and a half of the drilling and severely injured bat may recover. The Confederates, under General Evans, was themselves to many luxuries, clothing, does." wagon was a complete wreck, and a considerable organizing oc the two armies, with a due only to surprising it, and to the caps, boots, shoes, pistols, oranges, cakes, "Well, what does he call you, then?" amount of wheat was lost. McDonnel slight advantage of time on the Southern splendid fighting of the Regular regiments, barrels of sugar, coffee and crackers, "Generally he calls me 'Bill.' being a poor man a subscription side, so when the tug of the fight did whose men were mowed down in flasks of whisky, beer, soda and wines This was too much for the good doctor, aaper was circulated here Friday evening, come,on the famous 31st of July, 18Sl,all serried ranks, face to face to the foe, and. such a profusion of good thiogs as was and with ill suppressed sympathy with pnd over $100 raised in his behalf. the soldiers, except a few regulars, were affording as they lay a shining examplo spread out on either side of the road had the mirth that rang around' the tea table, Rochester (Olmsted county) Post: Some mere raw levies, without the least notion to their comrades of the art of not running not tempted them in their camps around he made good his retreat. seven or eight weeks since, Mr. James Stew of what war was. some already weaiied away to fight another day. On the Manas-as and Bull Run. art, a farmer residing about six miles south out with camp-life, bent on going home Confederate side, generalship was latent, Washington was in fear of an advance "Like a I Rome urchins, a Liberty street of the city, while engaged cutting bands at a in two weeks, or at the precise expiration but on the spur of the moment very little of the flushed victors while Richmond threshing machine, stuck the point of his youth, just ready for his first trousers, is of their enlistment. The Commander-in-Chief of it was displayed, fi both the pluck knife into the wrist, opening, as is supposed, confidently expected it. But it was entirely amiliar with bible history and careful ol and general officers were and pluck of the Souther shooters won the radial artery. The blood flowed rapidry ou' of the question, tl a raw band his playthings. The other day he asked West Pointers, fairly educated, but raw for them. Generals Johnston and Be mregard from the wound until Mr. Stewart, applying of sharp-shooters, almost as much demoralized his mother whether David, who killed to the field. Both Governments were his finger to th" incision, entirely stopped were in commandte first cJet" by victory as their opponents by Goliath, had taken good care of his playthings. pretty much at a, while the people in the flow of blood and the wound has never the second, subordinate. The only exhibition defeat, couid stand the slightest chance "Oh, certainly," responded the bled any since. Not long after the accident, their respective homes were boastful, enthusiastic approaching generalship was the of capturing .Washington, because it really encouraging parent. ""Well, said the the wrist and arm commenced swelling, be and exacting. What drumming recall of Johnston with 8,000 men 'rom was well defended, naturally and artificially. ambitious youth, -'the reason why I asked coming much inflamed and very painful, and and piping, flag-decking of cities, Winchester in the Valley of Virginia to In not even harboring the was, I would like to borrow David's now the injured man has a very bad *rm and waving of handkerchiefs when the boys Bull Run on the 20th in time to take part thought of such an attempt Johnston sling, if his folks are willing." Borne is under medical treatment. His physician in blue and gray moved from their homes in the fight of the 21stbut this was snowed the first clear sign of being an Scnteiiel. has hopes that the arm will be saved. ':*-7-V 1 mi iMBir-"'