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Enquire at the Rams Orrrcs. estf W AT VIOKSBURG.‘ Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Great Campaign. CONFBDERATE GIBRALTAR. Farragut, Porter, Sherman-and Grunt Try Their Hand. First Federal Attempt to Capture Vicks- burg Made in May. 1862—Attempt Re- newed in J une, and Again in December. From January. 1863, till March. Grant's Soldiers Fight Mud, Malaria and Mia- sissippians at the Canal Below Vicksa burg—Yazoo Pass and Steele’s Bayou. With the surrender of Vicksburg and the battle of Gettysburg, Gen. Sherman says the civil war was practically ended in favor of the north. All that followed was simply 'carrying the war into “the last ditch.” The importance of the possession of Vicks- burg to the Union cause was early recog- nized. Immediame after the capture of New Orleans, Admiral Farragut proceeded up the river with a little fleet of mortar boats. But the necessity of keeping Vicksburg had been quite as well understood by the south. It was called the “Gibraltar of the Southern Confederacy.” In April, 1862, w Orleans had been captured by the north. Memphis, Island 10, and the chief points on the Missis- sippi above Vicksburg were already in the hands of the United States. With Vicks- burg, the Confederacy would lose its last hold on the great river. The southern authorities therefore held to their Gibraltar with a death 8711)- FARRAGUT’S ATTACK ON VICKSBURG Vicksburg, Miss, is built on a bluff rising abruptly 200 feet from the Mississippi river. Back of the town are similar hills. On these eminences the Confederates planted their guns, 150 feet apart. Below, at the river’s edge, the shore fairly bristled with “water batteries," so called. Farragut’s little fleet passed up the 3: \ river June 28, 1862. . He had three wood- en ships, seven gun- boats and sixteen mortar boats. The last named carried each a 13—inch mor- tar. ,. ‘ « In May a fruit- ' .9»? g; ,. less demonstration ‘ had been made' against Vicksburg with a small fleet .lltl 1,500 land DAVID G. FABRAGU‘I‘. troops under Gen. Williams. The Confeder- ates meantime ,were working with might and main finishing the earthworks, bomb proof casemates and batteries that had been begun about Vicksburg in April, 1862. In May Gen. Williams had deemed them too formidable for him to attack. 35‘ the last of June, therefore, they had castrated really stupendous proportions. Troops and supplies poured into the town by rail. Commodore C. H. Davis was at that time flag officer of the Mississippi squadron above Vicksburg. He had captured Mem- phis from the Confederates. In June, 1862, he was orderedtoproceed down the Missis- sippi with his fleetto Vicksburg, and there make a junction with Admiral Farragut, who was to come up the river from New Orleans. June 28, in the early morning, Farragut passed the Vicksburg batteries. Shots were exchanged for two hours, neither side doing much damage. Then Farragut passed on up out of range. July 1, Commodore Davis joined him with the Upper Mississippi fleet at Young’s Point, a few miles above Vicks- burg, but on the Louisiana shore opposite. FROM MEMPHIS '1'0 VICKSBUBG. For some time the two fleets lay there, having not much to do but gaze in wonder at the defenses of Vicksburg. They ex- tended a mile and a half back from the river. The Union fleet occasionally did some shelling at the town. J une 25, three days before Farragut passed Vicksburg with his mortar flotilla, the large vessels of his fleet had landed “on the Louisi- ana shore, opposite Vicksburg, Brig. Gen. Thomas Williams and 3,000 troops. They had with them two batteries. On the map it will be observed that at Vicksburg there is a very deep bend or curve in the Mississippi. The river makes a loop and almost doubles over upon itself. Between the ends of this loop the space is very nar- ' row. Here Gen. Williams began digging a canal, the line of which is shown on the ac- companying map, employing 1,200 negroes. This canal, when finished, would have made the space within the horseshoe an island, and would have enabled the Union troops to cross easily to the Mississippi side. Vicks- burg would thus have been cut off from the river, which would have been shortened by so much. So all three parties kep “pegging nway,”in President Lincoln’s homely phrase, for some weeks. At length the Confederate fortifica- tions reached Grand Gulf, fifteen miles below Vicksburg. THE CONFEDERATE RAM ARKANSAS. Admiral Farragut had heard rumor; that the Confederates were building an iron clad rain at Yazoo City, a little distance up the Yazoo river. He did not, however, believe that a very formidable naval vessel could be built in the swamps of Mississippi, so paid little attention to the rumor. Coal was scarce, and the Union gunboats, in order to save fuel, had even let: their fires go down, when on the morning of July 15. 1862, word was brought that the Confedemte ram Arkansas was coming down the Ynzoo. The Union gunboats Carondeiet and Tay- lor, with the steam ram, Queen of the West, were sent up the Yazoo to- reconnoiter. Six miles up the stream they met the Arkansas steaming dbwn to meet them. She was com- manded by an ex-United States naval of'fl- cer, Lieut. Brown, who thoroughly under- stood what he was about. The ram wasan iron clad, well equipped with rifled guns, and with a long, sword like iron nose that could pierce the side of any wooden ship sent against her. As she advanced the three Union vessels retreated. firing back at the Arkansasasthey went. The ram pursued them, sending shot into them from her heavy bow guns and do- ing some damage. The ram soon came upon the Carondelet, a slow vessel, with the evident intention of ramming her, but she kept clear of the ram’s long nose, and fired as fast as possible. Then passed on down stream, in turn fi‘r- ing at the Caron- “ delete. The wheel ' ropes of the Caron- delet were shot away, and she drifted in shore. The Carondelet was badly damaged, and thirty of her \ ., crew and men were \\ \ \ \ 1m ‘ ‘ - The Carondelot m ADMIRAL WAm. was commanded by Rear Admiral Walks, a brave and accom- plished officer, belonging to the generation that had fought the war with Mexico. In the fight between the'Arkansas and the Carondelet the Union gunboat Taylor, Lieut. Gwinn commander, assisted the Carondelet as best she could until that vessel drifted ashore. ’Then, with all steam on, she hastened toward Farragut’s fleet. There, only one vessel, theram Gen. Bragg, had steam up. The whale trues first 1'.“ 9111129990 ‘ Essex. the Arkansas. warm the Ar'a‘ma: SIIEDIISE$afG mo‘ouem down t‘ovrard‘VickEbur-g. The ram Bragg could indeed have pursued, but her com- mander waited for special orders before do- ing so, and thus the bold Confederate vessel emaped. The fleet poured a broadside fire into her as she passed and did considerable injury. But she reached Vicksburg in safety. The Union gunboat, Essex, Commander William D. Porter, followed her as soon as steam could be raised, but did no additional harm to her. July 16, next day after the Arkansas had run the fleet, Admiral Farragut went down the river with his fleet to protect the troops and transports below Vicksburg. The affair of the Arkansas occasioned him deep mortifi- catio'n. There was another interchange of shots be- tween the Vicksburg batteries and the ad- miral as he steamed down past them, but very little damage was done, Farragut having five men killed and sixteen wounded. The Arkansas lay safe under the Vicksburg bate teries as the Union fleet passed. Admiral Farragut had already given it an his opinion that Vicksburg could not be taken except by a large combined land and naval force, and a long and steady efi’ort July 20 he received orders from Washington to return to New Orleans. A few days later July 27, the two Union fleets parted company that of Commodore Davis going back up the river to Cairo, that of'Farragut down the river to the gulf. Gen. Williams likewise abandoned his canal, his troops were loaded upon the transports and conveyed down to Baton Rougefwhere they and their generaii were left for the time, under protection or. the waterside of a few gunboats. So ended the attack on Vicksburg of June, , 1862. Aug. 5 a Confederate force under Gen. Breckinridge attacked Gen. William’ bri- gade at Baton Rouge. After a hot battle that lasted six 0 .. hours the Confed- " * crates were driven off with heavy loss, among their killed and wounded being . Gena. Clark and Helm. The Union com- mander, Gen. Wil- liams, was killed while giving orders . at the head of his command. The dreaded ram Arkansas also end- edher short but adventurous career about this time. The plan had been for her to 8.8- sist in the Confederate attack on Baton Rouge and attack, the Union gunboats. She failed to come to time, however, being dis- abled up the river. Aug. 6, the morning after the battle, Commander W. D. Porter, with his vessel, the Essex, and some other boats, steamed up the river and opened fire on the Arkansas. Both her engines were disabled, one of them by the fire from the The commander of the Arkansas ran her ashore and landed his crew, who took to the woods. Then he set fire to the ram and turned her adrift. She floated down the river a short distance and blew up. ADMIRAL D. D. PORTER. SECOND ATTACK ON VICKSBURG. Nothing more was done against Vicksburg for many months. The Confederates had the Mississippi, between Baton Rouge and Vicks- burg, entirely in their own hands. They im- proved the interval by strengtheniug the bat- teries at Port Hudson, below Vicksburg, and elsewhere along the river. ‘ In October, 1862, RearAdmiral D. D. Porter was appointed to the command of the Missis- sippi squadron. He was to co-operate with the land forces along the Mississippi, but was directly responsible only to the secretary of the navy. , smxmo or m CAIRO. Gen. Grant was by this time in command of the Army of the Mississippi, which was known as the Thirteenth Army corps. Grant and Porter met at Cairo. In an in- terview, which the admiral in his naval his- tory tells us “lasted just half an hour,” these two soldiers and patriots planned the ‘cam- pnign which, after weary months. was to re- snlt in the downfall of the Gibraltar of the Confederacy. But ere that downfall was accomplished- many plans Were to be tried and were to fail. The scheme Grant and Porter formed in their brief interview was this: Grant would march from Holly Springs, Miss, to Grenada, Mia, in the rear of Vicksburg, with an may of 60.- 000. Gen. John C. Pemberton was the Confed- erate commander at Vicksburg. He would naturally ntarch out from his citadel to stop the march of Grantpat Grenada. He being thus away, from Vicksburg, Sherman and Porter, coming down the Mississippi by water, while Grant attacked Grenada, would be able to attack and gain possession of Vicksburg. Such was the plan. The first part of December, 1862, Sherman and Porter set out on their combinod’expedi- tion against Vicksburg. Memphis was , the starting point. ‘ Part of the squadron went first, under su- pervision of Commander Walke, of the Car rondelet. Their destination was the mouth of the Yazoo river, above Vicksburg. They ascended this river some twenty miles, cleaning it of tor- pedoes. In perform- ing this difiieult and dangerous task one of the gun- boats, the Cairo, Lieut. Commander T. O. Selfridge,was blown up. T h e shores and the bed of the Yazoo were , A, ,r‘ I, literally lined with .‘I .x‘ ”torpedoes. Many mum con. SELFBIDGE. of those .in the water were connected with galvanic batter- ies. One of these electrically connected en- gines was struck by the gunboat on her as- cent. Tho result was two explosions, which “almost seemed to lift the vessel out of the water." The Cairo sank immediately, but her crew were all saved. Dec. 26, 1862, Sherman conveyed his troops up the Yazoo river from the Mississippi, and landed them opposite the mouth of Steele’s Bayou. Facing toward Vicksburg, Sherman then had Chickasaw Bayou on his left. All around him were swamp and bayou. Two and a half miles from his front, and bettveeu him and Vicksburg were the bluffs known as Walnut Hill. ‘ » .255" “ carcrusaw savou near. The fighting at Chickasaw Bayou occurred Dec. 27, 28 and 29. On the 28th there was only slight skirmishing as Sherman’s men advanced in four columns. As the troops formed in line, Steele’s division went to the left, Morgan’s came next, on Steele's right, M. L. Smith on Morgan’s right. On the ex- treme right, and considerably nearer Vicka burg than the rest, was Brig. Gen. A. J. Smith's division. Between A. J. Smith and the others was abody of water called the ’ lake. It; was an old bed of the Yazoo river. The reader will see the situation from the map. “The Lake” was near the foot of the hills, which are here sometimes called Chicka- saw Bluffs. 'So the columns advanced on Dec. 28, in the teeth of Confederate batteries so numer- ously and skillfully planted that they some- times eufiladed with a deadly fire the ad- vancing Union lures. On this day Brig. Geri. :Iorgén‘ L. smith was severely wounded in the hip and was carried off the field. Steele's division had at that advanced on the left of Chickasaw Bayou. It was sub- jected to so deadly a fire that Steele was ordered to go back to the Yazoo and return with his division to the fight on the right of Chickasaw Bayou, somewhat in the roar of Morgan’s division. This movement be com- pleted late on the night of Dec. 28. Dec. 29 a general assault was ordered from the Union line. Sherman’s force was at the foot of the high. bluffs. These fairly swarmed with Confederate batteries thor-- oughiy manned. The Confederate defenses were in charge of Brig. Gen. Martin L. Smith. To take Vicksburg it was necessary to storm these heights and capture them. It seemed a forlorn undertaking, on the face of it. Sherman had hoped to surprise Vicks- burg. But spies all along the Mississippi, even in Memphis and St. Louis, kept the Confederate generals informed of every Union movement. When, therefore. Sherman, with 32,000 men left Memphis, Dec. 20, to attack Vicks- burg, the Confederates understood his move- ment almost as well as he did himself. They hurried re-enforcements in large numbers into the trenches ’ and upon’ the heights about Vicksburg. Sowell fortified were the bluffs that one man might easily keep ten at bay. Sherman’s gener- al assault began at noon, Dec. 29. Each division of the Union army had a , . . particular task as- I” signed to it, but, as always happens, some failed to execute their orders. Two brigades, De Courcey’s from Morgan’s di- vision, and Blair's from Steele’s division, on the left, crossed the lake in front of them and advanced gallantly tothe Confederate works under a deadly fire. » They had obeyed orders. Reaching the heights they looked back and saw no supporting columns. Cross fire and front fire were poured into them from the terrible heights, and they finally fell back. With these two gallant brigades was an Iowa regiment, and that regiment and the two brigades lost more than three-quarters of all the men who fell in this fight of Chickasaw Bayou, The Union troops lost in the fighting of Dec. 27, 28 and 29, 1,928; the Confederates only 187. Dec. 30 Sherman decided to send 10,000 men up the Yazoo river to Haines’ Bluff to try an attack there. He himself meanwhile wasto keep the position he had gainedbo- tween the Yazoo river and Walnut Hills. Admiral ‘Porter agreed to assist in the Haines’ Bluff movement. It was to be made the night of Dec; 31. The 10,000 troops wet! placed on the transports that night ready to go. Sherman, at the foot of the bluffs, was to wait until he heard firing from the direc 'tion of Haines’ Bluff, then he was to renew the attack against the heights with all possi- ble vigor. 0 But nature herself seemed to decide against Union success. The rain had been pouring in torrents till a general flood of the low- lands, where Sherman was eucamped, was threatened. On the river the fog was so dense that the boats could not move as ap- pointed. The movement to Haines’ Bluff had to be put off till the next night, Jan. 1, 1863. The night promised to be clear on that doleful New Year’s day of mud and swamp, but on that day Admiral Porter hap- pened to remember that the moon would shine brightly all night, and that the move- ment could only be made in darkness. To wait in the lowlands and run the risk of being drowned like rats in a hole was not a pleasant prospect for Sherman and his men. ‘ The whole movement was given up. Jan. 2, 1863, the Union troops were rue-embarked, and returned to the mouth of the Yazoo river. - So ended the second attempt on Vicksburg. Grant had been on able to carry out his part of the pro- gramme at Gran-- ada, because Con- federate raids, un- der Forrest and Van Dorn, had broken his com- munications and ' destroyed his sup- plies. Sherman did . not receive infor- mation of this in ‘ / time. . . During the Chic- LIEUT. cont. GWINN. kasaw Bayou fight the gunboats in the Yazoo sheltered the Vicksburg heights, and re- ceived in turn a hot fire. A fifty pound shot killed Lieut. Commander William Gwinn, of the-Benton, as he stood on the upper deck of his vessel giving orders. Before the attack on Vicksburg A. J. Smith’s division had performed an extra service on the Louisiana side, of the river. As Sherman’s expedition came down the Mississippi A. J. Smith’s division was dropped off on the Louisiana shore at Milli- ken’s Bend. They were landed in orderto ‘onx. SHERMAN. 7% \ , proceed into the interior of the state a. short distance and destroy the railroad that brought supplies to Vicksburg from the west and across the river. They rejoined the main force Dec. 27. “FLANKING precursors." In January the Union troops at the mouth of the Yazoo were sent on an expedition against Arkansas Post, up White river, to keep their spirits up. They captured the post, and returned to the siege of Vicksburg. Jan. 1 Gen. John A. McClernaud arrived from Memphis, at the mouth, of the Yazoo, and superseded Sherman in command of the troops. Jan. 7, 1863, Gen. Grant was ordered by Halleck, at Washington, to go in person to Vicksburg and take command. He did so, taking charge of the troops Jan. 30. Grant’s command was now organized into four corps, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seven- teenth. The corps commanders were re- spectively McClernand, Sherman, Hurlburt: and McPherson. All of the corps but Hurl- burt's were already either at Vicksburg or were immedihtely sent there. Hurlburt’s corps operated in the interior. Gert. John C. Pemberton. the Confederate commander at Vicksburg during the siege, ' - was a north on man, born in Penn- sylvania in 1817. ‘He was a graduate of West Point in 1837. He was in the Mexican and Semi- nolewars. In’1861 he resigned his com- mission in the United States army, entered the . Confederate service - and. was on Gen. GEN. munnnrox. Joe Johnston’s M until an independent command was given to him. He commanded at Vicksburg all through the siege. After the war Gen. Pem- berton became a farmer in Virginia, remain- ing there till his death in 1881. Great importance had been attached to the canal act-om the loop in the Mississippi river at Vicksburg. , Diggers were again set to work early in January. Instead, however, of following exactly the line of the Williams canal, which went directly across the bend, they began at a point above, so as to make the canal slant across, and thus take ad- vantage of the assistance of the current. It was heped thus that the Mississippi would choose the canal for its bed and leave Vicks- burg on dry land. The river did not do so in 1863, however, although it has done so since, cutting a. new channel across the bend, or peninsula, in 1876. So that now, twenty- five years after, Vicksburg is high and dry at low water. In the mud and malaria Grant’s soldiers wrought at the canal from January, 1863, till March 7. Grant lost faith in it himself soon after coming to Vicksburg, but kept his men digging still until he could project new plans. His idea now was not to attack in front or on the well fortified heights, but to take Vicksburg by a great flanking move, getting in its rear either above or below the town. Many plans were thought out. Several were tried and abandoned. One was the Lake Providence scheme. This was a point some miles above Vicksburg on the opposite side of the river. It was thought that a canal might be cut from the Missis- sippi into Lake Providence.» This would let Grant’s transports and gunboats into the Tenses river, thence through the Black and Red river they might get into the Mississippi, 150 miles below Vicksburg. The Lake Provi- dence canal, a mile long, was actually dug, then the plan was given up. The canal served' one purpose only, that was to flood and de stroy thousands of acres of cotton. The Yazoo Pass route was next tried. A few miles below Helena, Ark, but on the op- posite side of the Mississippi, and near that river, wrs Moon Lake. Yazoo Pass. so called, was a stream running from Moon Lake into the Goldwater river, thence into the Talia hatchie, thence into the Yazoo. ' The route was thus: Moon Lake, Cold water, Tallahatchie, Yazoo. It can be traced upon the map. Could not a way be found thusto strike Vicksburg above and behind . Shot and shell came thick and fast from the . Her officers fancied It was a huge and ter- Haines' Bluff, on the Yaoo? " According a cahaifrom the Mississippi to Moon Lake was dug. But it was a work of frightful difficulty to get Into the Goldwater river through Yazoo Pass. Trees and stumps obstructed the channel. and great branches locked arms overhead, as if to prevent the gunboats from passing. The vessels were only able to make a mile in four hours. The Confederates meantime had caught wind of the p1an,"a:id were fortifying with might and main of: Fort Pemberton, on the Yazoo. When Grant’s gunboats reached that point the Confederates were ready for him, ' ,. WORK OF THENGUNBOATS. Admiral Porter meantime had cooperated with the land forces constantly, and had also managed various expeditions on his own account. ' After Sherman had abandoned his attack _ . on Vicksburg in December the Con- federates had cou- veyed down the Yazoo and t h e Misissippi a steam. boat called the City of Vicksburg. The Federal ram Queen of the West was commanded by Col. Charles R. El- let, a’gallant young . officer, only 20- years old. Admi- 301. CHARLES a. nun. ral Porter sent him, Feb. 2, down the ,riverfode‘stroy the City of Vicksburg. Th3 Queen was a wooden steamboat with a lull iron bow. Cotton balm were piled aroun her amid'ships tapro- tect her machinery from shot. .It had been expected that the Queen of the West would steal down the river at night and attack the City of Vicksburg unawares, in the darkness; But she was delayed. At sunrise, in full view of the Confederate bat- teries, the Queen passed down the river and made straight at the City of Vicksburg. batteries. The wide guards of the Vicks- burg prevented the Queen from ramming her squarel’yg, Col. Ellet therefore began firing explosive shellsntlthe Vicksburg. But the shells franttbo batteries not fire to the protecting cotton bales, and Eliot could do no more. He therefore passed on down the river, leaving Vicksburg and the City of Vicksburg behind him. A barge of coal was floated down to him lathe night. , , . , , Eliot descended the Mississippi to the mouth of Red river. On the way be de- stroyed three steamboat: loaded with sup plies for the‘Confederates at Port Hudson. Thence the Queen of the West steamed up Bod river, spreading panic at her approach. By this time Ellet was out of coal again and returned to Warrenton, just below Vicks- burg, to get a supply. IRON GLAD INDIANOLA. Once more he went out to destroy, sworn- panied by the coal tender DeSoto. Down the river he captured two‘staameisloaded with Confederate provisions." Further on heidmtroyed a wagon train. Then he started up Red river. One of the steamei's he had captured was the New Era. ,Ellet took her pilot on board to steer the Queen. He ran her aground under the guns “the Confederi ate Fort Taylor, on ,Red dyer. The- fort opened on the plucky littlef steamer with four heavy cannon. A shot gout ‘her steam pipe, and the scalding vapor poured through the boat, fatally burning mau’y‘of the crew. Eliet and the rest of them jumped into the water upon cotton bales and ~~fioated 'down the river. They boarded the New Era, one of Ellet’s prizes, and made their escape in Some months later, after thy capture ._ Vicksburg, Col. Eilet applied “for and ' = ceived permission to go home ‘ou sick leave. He died at Bunker Hill, Ills..- in October“ Admiral Porter says: “Eliot was a gal young fellow, full of dash and enterprise.” a Once more Admiral Porter sent a gunboot down past the Vicksburg batteries! This was the Indianola, a fine new iron clad, with two 11-inch bow guns. She floated down past Vicksburg in the night, just in time to meet the New Era coming up the river with Col. Eliot on board. The Era was chased by a Confederate ram, the W. H. Webb, from Red river. The Indiaqu inturn gave chase, ‘ but the Webb escaped. ~ Meantime the Confederates had rapidly re- paired the lost Queen of the West and turned her against her own people. Feb. 24 the Indianola, in charge of Lieut. Commander Brown, who had run the bat- teries with her, was at the mouth of Big Black river, forty miles below Vicksburg. Suddenly the ram Webb and the now Cou- federate Queen of the West came up the river in pursuit of him. With them were two steamers “cotton clad” so called, that is to say they were piled with cotton around the bows and sides This was a perfect pro- tection against shot, though a very uncertain one against fire. All four vessels opened on_ tho Indianola, the “cotton clads” attacking with their small guns, the rams endeavoring to run‘the In- dianola down with their iron prows. “Both vessels came together, bows on," said Lieut. Brown, in his report. The Indianoia received seven crushing blows from the rams, and began to sink rapidly. Then Lieut. Brown threw his signal books and his 9-inch guns overboard, disabled his 11-inch bow guns and surrendered. The Indianola was blown up on the night of Feb. 25, “by a Yankee ruse,” as Admiral Porter calls it. What that rusewas, how- ever, he does not tell in his naval history, although it is well worth felling. '1'!!! “DUMMY.” The admiral, not hearing from the Indian- ola, felt anxious about her fate. He also de- sired to provoke all the useless fire from the Vicksburg batteries that he could. Accord- ' ingly he built a “dummy" gunboat and sent it floating down the river past the batteries An old coal barge was boarded up high with sloping sides, in imitation of an ironclad. Mud furnaces were built, and formidable looking smoke stacks were constructed by piling old pork barrels one upon another and nailing themrtogether. Then fires were built in the mud furnaces, and with black smoke belching from her pork barrel chimneys this sham ironclad was set afloat, just in time to make her appear 03 Vicksburg at; daylight. Round after round of shot from the batteries was poured into her, which naturally went in at one side and out the other. Not a soul was on board. The dummy passed on her way calmly down the river until she grounded a considerable distance below Vicksburg. This dummy was a. joke partially balancing the mortification occasioned by the loss of the Indianoia, especially when the conse- quences to the Confederates come to be noted. - After capturing the Indianoia the Queen of the West proceeded on her way up the Mississippi till she reached Warrcnton, seven miles below Vicksburg. But at Warrentou Ihe caught sight of the pork barrel monitor. ribie new kind of engine of war. Dispatches were sent east to Richmond about the ap- pearance in the southern waters of a “tur- reted monster.” The Queen of the West stayed not on the order of her going, but turned and fled to Red river. For fear of capture by the same “tut-retell monster,” the Indianola was blown up at once. A short time afterward the Queen of the West was herself blown up in Red river to avoid capture. swim WHEEL RAM. March 4 the Union rams Switzerland and Lanmster madea real attempt to pass the Vicksburg batteries to join Farragut below. The Switzerland got past, though badly injured by the shots, but the Lancaster was sunk. Gen. Pemberton, the Confederate com- mander, was eternally vigilant. In and about Vicksburg there were some 40,000 Confederab soldiers.~Penibgrton’s head- -Rolliug Fork, .were playing in unison. quarters were at Jackson, a few hours’ ride from Vicksburg on the one hand, and Gren- ada, also in danger of attack from Union troops, on the other. Gen. Joseph Johnston, at Chattanooga, exercised general supervision over Mississippi, but the details were neces- sarily left to Pemberton. THE LAND FORCE. Grant had attempted to move his land forces down to Vicksburg by the route before described as the Yazoo Pass way. The pas- sage was made, as narrated, by some of the gunboats that were stopped at Fort Pember- ion. This fort was so adroitly located as to command the three rivers, Tailabatchio, Yallabusha, and Yazoo. Gen. Loring had command of the Confederate troops here. March 11 Ross' division of McClernand’s corps appeared before Fort Pemberton, 4,000 men in all. McPherson‘s corps was ready and waiting to follow them, and Grant hoped from this side to be able at last to get into Vicksburg. But this navigation against nature, as it were. that he had attempted was‘ attended with extraordinary difficulties. No boatscould go through the -Yazoo Pam and Goldwater, except those of very light draught. Moreover, the country was overflowed and was one swung), so that there was no resting place or camping place for an army anywhere in the lowlands above Vicksburg. March 11 the Union gunboats began their bombardment of Fort Pembertou. March 14 the land force erected a battery and tired at- Fort Pemberton awhile. finding it could do no good, the expedition started back up the Tallahatchie. Half way 'up the river théy met Gen. Quimby coming to roonforce them with a brigade, all the men he could transport through the dificult passage in time. Being the senior oflmer, he ordered the troops back, to Fort‘Pemberton. They returned. Another fruitiem attempt was made on the fort March 23., Quimby was about to build a bridge to move around the east side of Fort Pemben- ton, when, April I, he received orders for the whole expedition to return to headquarters. STEELE’S BAYOU EXPEDITION. A new attempt was to be made to reach Vicksburg by land in" another direc tion, t h r o u g h Steele’s Bayou. Forty miles up the Yatdo river, and emptying into it, wasSteele’s Bayou." Into it emptied a‘ creek called Black Bay-- on. This was connected w it h Deer Creek, and that again With which opened into the Sunfiowe)‘ river. The Sun- flower was naviga- ble for large boats. Thus Grant hoped to sheer around Fort Pembertou and still get in the rear of Vicksburg. ' . . Grant’s headquarters at this time were at Young’s Point. The map will show the route taken at this new and last attempt at a “flanking movement.” Once more hundreds of faithful workmen began cutting trees and widening the chan- nels of Black Bayou and Rolling Fork. 'March 16, the .work began, and the next day, March 17, the Confederates heard of it, and commenced to make ready to receive them at the junction 'of Rolling Fork and the Sunflower. ’ ' - Admiral Porter went ahead, with a force of both land and, navy, to prepare the chau- srsans’s BLYOU. nel. Tholgunboati'wers soobstructed that ' they could only advance through Black Bayou at thortrat'e' of; ”four miles in twenty-four horns. Sherman also scat a land force for- wa'rd‘by- another router, from above Milliken’s Bend. She _ himself, after hurrying the rest of his f0 onward, followed after Por-_ ter on a tug, through the timbered channel. The history of the Steele‘s Bayou expedi- tion is that of the Yazoo Pam expedition over: again. After plowing through almost super- human difflculties and reaching within a few- hundred yards of the Sunflower and clear sailing, on the 19th of March the Workman saw ap'uflof smoke from the woods in the; direction of that river. The smoke was followed by stray shells— then more shells, and more. Then hidden sharpshooters began to pick of! man by man those on the gunboats, until every one who showed his head dared to. certain death. The Confederates were ready for them. What was worse, the defenders of Vicks- burg were already well nigh in the rear of Porter’s gunboats and just on the point of obstructing the narrow channel, thus cut- ting him off from Sherman and the land forces and rendering certain his capture and that of all his men. It was a desperate case. Porter sent a negro throughvabywayin the swamp to inform Sherman. Immedi: ately Sherman hurried forward the 800 men with him. He himself went back alone in a. . canoe to get the rest. . . Porter had started to retreat as soon as he saw his critical situation. The gunboats were obliged to return up through Deer Creek stern foremost, the channel being too narrow for them to turn. March 21 he met Sherman’s advance of 800. The same day, March 21, Sherman’s second column had a skirmish with the body.of Con- bderates who had come around in Porter’s rear to block the channel. The Confederates retreated. Not till they reached Steele’s Bayou did the gunbouts find room to turnaround. They had backed down Deer Creek for thirty miles. It required three days. March 27 the Union troops were back in their old quarters at Y oung’s Point. One more laborious attempt to flank Vicksburg had ended in failure. Polar Bear. on Ice, Cakes. As showing their maritime character and the great distance to which they will 'journey on fields and cakes of ice, let one pick up an atlas showing the geographical relations between Iceland and Greenland, the distance between which is about equal to that between New York city and Wash- ington; yet these polar pirates often stray in this manner from the eastern coast of Greenland to Iceland in such numbers as to seriously frighten the inhabitants, being famished and desperate with hunger after their long ride and fast en route, and at- tacking everything living they see, man not excepted. The natives, howeverhave an in- genious way of escaping their fury, if they can only spare some article of wearing ap« parel to amuse them or arouse their curi- osity. A glove, they say, is sufiicient for this purpose, for a bear will not stir further till he has turned every finger of it inside out, and as these animals are not very dexterous with their clumsy paws, this takes up enough time to allow the man to escape. —Frederick Schwatka in Outing. The Orchestra's lix Trombones. A Russian orchestra was once rehears- Ing under the direction of Arban, a cele- brated French musician. Among the in- struments were six trombones, which Arban noticed that something seemed to be wrong with the trombone part, and made the six trombones play it over again. Then he observed that, where the trombones should have played “do," every man of them played “sol." . “Here, here,” exclaimed Arbau, stop- ping them, “that note should be “do!” “We know it, sir," said the head man of the tromboues; “but we don't play “do" at rehearsals." “And why not, please?" “Because, in order to play “do,” we have to thrust our arms out as far‘ as we can reach. And as it is so very cold, ev- ery time we do that it gives us such a chill!’ ’—Y0ntli’s Companion. Wood Carving in Berlin. Berlin has gradually become the heati- quarters of the curved wood industry, supplanting Switzerland. Six hundred artists in wood carving, the same number of turners and 700 carpenters are engaged in the production of such articles as cigar cases, newspaper and picture frames, napkin rings, etc. The value of the annual export of these trifles is put at $1,250,000.-—Chicngo Times. When to Brand Cattle. At a recent lawsuit in Texas thirteen expert cattle branders swore that when cattle were branded in “the dark of the moon" the brand will never get larger than the first impression, no matter how much the animal may grow. But if the branding iron is applied in the “light of the moon" the scar will spread, and the lighter the moon the larger will be the spread—New York Sun. Chlorof'orm for Preserving Fruit. A simple method of preserving fresh fruit is to place it in a wide mouthed, glass stoppered bottle with a little chloro- form. The stopper of the bottle should be greased with a little petroiatum to make it air tight. A drachm of chloro- form suffices for a quart bottle. The chloroform soon evaporates on exposure to the air, or is dissipated in cooking.— 'Pharmacy Era. FOOD VS. MEDICINE. .MPORTANCE OF DIETETICS IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE. New Order of Things Among Medical Practitioners-flow Cures May Be E51 fectetl \Vithout lit-rigging. and Dosing. Ignorance or the People.‘ In the treatment of many diseases drugs are, of course, indispensable, but, as a rule, no less important, if not more im- portant, are the hygienic and supporting trteztsures. These relate to pure nir, tent- peruturc, dict, drinks, cleanliness, exer- cise, rest, sleep, etc. As their importance have been better understood, the depend- ence upon drugs has lessened, and today the intelligent physician may be known by the small amount of medicine which lie prescribes and by the large amount of instruction he gives relative to the nature of the disease and the personal conduct of the patient. The. people as a whole are slow to accept this new order of things, so different from that in the times of their fathers. Physicians are obstructed, and their efforts are, too, sometimes defeated by the ignorance of those in whose behalf they labor. Only the most intelligent classes of ,to- day are even beginning to realize that too much faith has been put in medicine. The . other classes still feel-that; the paramount duty of the physician is the s'election’and administration of drugs. Enlightenment among them must necessarily be slow. They must acquire a better knowledge of disease in general, and appreciate the fact that the intrinsic tendency of many dis— ' eases is to recovery, and that dragging is not always necessary even in those which were formerly supposed to tend to a fatal result unless very active measures were employed. Undoubtedly honorable phy- sicians assist all they can in the general education of people on this vital subject. Yet they are so "hampered by the general confidence in cffete theories aud the prevalence of popular fallacies, which threaten to exist until the end of time, they can do but- little compared" to what they might do were the conditions favor- able—if the people did not resisteulighten- Neill. patient suffering from an affection that is sure to end in recovery if left alone. -Hc gives proper instructions as to ventilation, temperature, diet, etc., and leaves the cure to nature. A very few people would be content with such advice; more would feel that the money paid for it had actually been thrown away, and no inconsiderable number would insist- upou sending for another physician, believing that in all cases of sickness medicine alone can in- sure recovery. ' Such notions do people entertain, and so ignorant are they generally, doctors really. cannot afford to be perfectly candid, for in many families honesty is at a discount, and there is a penalty fixed for the same. it is true that if a. physician, every time he made a call, were to remain with the patient an hour or more and deliver a medical lecture, occasionally one would be encountered who could appreciate such an effort and understand the subject dis- cussed. Cn the majority of patients,_ Again, there‘- ‘ however, it would fall flat. is the mental influence to consider. Pa- tients who have such. steadfast faith in medicine, (IS a rule really do better if some simple, although absolutely inert mixture is given them; ‘ Soil; willvbe seen that as r a public instructor,v‘the physician .who ought and willingly would do much, can can (10 but comparatively little, and his sphere is almost limited to the most intel- ' ligeut. clssses. As a consequence of this condition of things, he is, in certain fami- lies, obliged to give something in the way of medicine, even if he feels that the same is not absolutely needed: That people are so grossly ignorant on the most vital of subjects is no fault of the reputable physician. It is purely their own. .They not only do not; try to learn, but they actually resist enlightenment. But we have wandered from our subject. it was our purpose to point out some of the valuable remedial effects which result from modifications of diet, and the judi- cious increase or .diminution in..the quantity of food, in not a few affectibns special forms of diet, are all that is re- quired to effect- a cure. Take, for in— stance, a disorder. of the organs of diges- tion, such as dyspepsia. If a person suf- fering from that has fortitude, and can practice self-denial, he may, in nearly all instances, cure himself if be properly se- lects and restricts his diet. But few cars to make the effort, or at least to persist in it long enough. It is easier and far more agreeable for them to take .medi- clue. and so they go on eating and dosing until the disease becomes chronic, for rarely can it be cured by drugs alone. Diabetes is a disease which only can be curitrolled by restriction to a special form of diet. A cure is even possible, but the remedy lies with the patient. No medical agent has yet been discovered which can stay the disease. There are some which ‘nssist recovery when the diet is properly restricted, but they are comparatively valueless unless that is done. While in some diseases the treatment demands a modification in diet'and a diminution in quantity, there are many in which a judi- cious increase is necessary. In inflamma- tory conditions of all kinds in which the starvation treatment was formerly em- ployed, the general principle now recog- nized is to encourage and maintain a healthy condition of the blood by nourish- ment. If sufiicient food is given, the blood soon becomes unfit in its vital and physical properties for the healing process of nature. So, since all diseases tend to weaken and wear out the system, to feed the pa- tient is one of the first importance. While they exist, what is needed is to “restore the life that is being drained, build up the tissues that are being wasted." As a sign of medical progress, physicians at the present time largely substitute food for medicine in the treatment of disease, and without doubt upon the valuable therapeutic efiects of food they will. in the future more than ever depend. As has been said, twenty-five years ago our old fashioned drugs were counted by then- sands, our elegant pharmaceutical pro ducts by tens, dietetic preparations by units. If the change goes on' in the next two decades as rapidlyas it has in the last two, the coming century practice will see this order reversed. The calome], the julap, the Epsom suits, the tincture of iron — these classics and venerables, though still in use.doubt1ess-—-will find very little favor. Even now their regu- lar employment seems to be a kind of re- proach, excusable only on the ground of the great age of the physician or the pov- erty of the patient—Boston Herald. Deepest Drilled Well. The deepest well drilled in the United States is that of George \Vestinghouse, at Homewood. near Pittsburg, which reacheda depth of 4,618 feet, when the tools were lost and the drilling ceased Champion short “and Writer. Mr. A. S. IVhitc, the well~known nutho! of “White's Phonography," famous as ' the Champion Shorthand Writer of the ‘Vorld, received the first prizes in the in- ternational contests at London, Edinburgh, Paris and Berlin; he came near being per- manently disabled by rheumatism. His recovery by the use of a remedy infallible in curing rheumatism and all blood diseases is told in a letter from his office, ".02 Wash- in ion at., Chicago, dated J one 20, 1887. , e writes: “ Your remedy has done wonderful ser- vice for me. For the past five years I have been troubledwith rheumatic pains. “My right hand had become almost use- less and l was gradually losing speed as a shorthand writer. A friend of mine, Dr. Dcdcrich, advised me of your remedy. I used a dozen bottles of S. S. and am now entirely recovered. I shall never cease to commend your excellent medicines, and wish you much success. “Yours truly, A. 8. Warm." And here is another witness: “BENTON, Ark , August, 25th, 1887. “ Last spring I was dangerously afflicted with erysipclas, and my life was despaircd of by my physicians. As a last hope I tried S. S. S. and soon found relief, and in two it cake was able to attend to my business. I used Iivc bottles. , "S. H W1n-rronxu,Ed. Saline Courier." Treatise on Blond and Skin Diseases mailed frco. Tun S‘wrn‘ Sl’iiCilI'IC 00., Drawer 3, Atlanta, (in. Hay fever, Asthma. Relief guaranteed. Fontaine’s Cure. For sale by druggists., C. Lapham, 11 Main Street, Norwalk. Mary Anderson sets the hair-dressing fashion iii London. ' Lydia E. Piukham’s Vegetable Corn- pound will at all times and under all cir- cnmStanccs, act in harmony with the laws that govern tire female system. Lenten flavored ice cream appears to be the favorite. Hay fever, Asthma. 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