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M0* HANTS HIS RELEASE .V BRYAN DEMANDS FREEDOM OF AMERICAN CONSUL. ^ HE IS HELD PRISONER A* Mexicans Loot Consulate and Hold Many Americans Prisoners,?Later They Release Every One Except 4 Consul Sillimau?Government Is V Active. "While poace negotiations marked > time pending formal sittings of the ?outh American mediators, to begin Monday on Canadian soil, the mediators and officials of the state department at Washington Monday were occupied with several serious phases of the Mexican situation demanding immediate attention. ^ Secretary Bryan called at the Argentine legation late in the day and spent two hours in conference with tho South American envoys, discussing the continued detention of John It. Silliman, American vice consul at Saltillo, by Mexican federals, tho Bobos incident and tho case of the five South Americans under arrest at 4 Vora Cruz for firing upon tho United States sailors and marines. Mr. Bryan insisted that tho release of Stilliman must bo brought about at once. When asked about the matter, lie would not say what would happen if tho vice consul were kept in prison, but he was gravely ein^ phatic in announcing the government's determination to have him freed. First official news of landing of American sailors on Lobos island reached tho navy department late Tuesday bight in a cablegram from Hear Admiral Mayo, stating that the v Mexican keepers deserted the great ** light house on the island and that the destroyer tender Dixie was "maintaining it for the .benefit of navigation". Admiral Mayo's report responded to a request of the navy department for iinmcdinate information concerning the incident complained of by the liuerta government to the mediators. It said: "Lobos island has not been occupied. The keepers of Lobos island light house deserted it and the Dixie is maintaining it for the benefit of navigation. I understand that tho destroyers have had occasional landing parties ashore." HHL* The report was sent at once to Secretary Hryan. The department ofilcials were confident that the explanation would make it plain that there had been no violation of the armistice. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt said tho Dixie anchored off Lobos island only because it was a convenient j plalfe to coal and that the light house v keepers evidently quit their posts in a panic at the appearance of the American warships. At that time Secretary Daniels and his advisers will take up the problem it of tho closed light houses on the west coast of Mexico. Some naval officers ^ favor the occupation and operation " of all the abandoned lights along the coast because navigation has been hindered seriously. It is probable that tho stato department will request that tho light houses bo kept open at the request of the American government under the armistice rules. It was said that foreigners on board warships off Tampico wanted refuge and not removal. Disturbing elements continued to 1 arouse interest throughout the clay. Gen. Funston at Vera Cruz was appealed to by the Brazilian minister at Mexico City to release some South Americans, including three Brazilians, who had been arrested and are awaiting trial for "sniping" American r / soldiers from the refuge of a tramp if stecmer in Vera Cruz harbor. Authorities were informed that American Vice Consul Silliman was j^orisonod by Iluerta's soldiers at illo. From Tampico, where Mexican federals and Constitutionalists lftivo been preparing for .a sanguinary ^ struggle, came rumblings of battle while reports that Iluerta's strength was waning in Mexico City and that the bandit leader Zapata was about to attack tho capital from the south served to arouse diplomatic agents of foreign nations lest their people in Mexico City might be in immediate | ^ -danger of persecution or death, i State department officials were In- J dignant when it became known that I Vice Consul Silliman and his clerk, Joseph A. Marchani, as well as ssv er*l other Americans, had been prisoners of the federal commander at ^Saltillo and that the consul still is i lield despito urgent representations ** for his release made by tho Brazilian minister in Mexico City. Lato dispatches were accepted as indicating tnat tno Mexican war minister's assurances to the French charge last week that neither Consul Sllliman , nor members of the consulate's staff an(l Americans in Salt^i'.o "had been* In danger" was intended only to de-ceive state department officials as to * tho real state of affairs *t ?a 11111 o. I>ate in tho day Consul Canada reported the arrival of Consular Clerk Marchani in Vera Cruz. Tho clerk informed Mr. Canada that before he B *wn8 released from custody of the I; # ^Texicans he was marched under f' guard from the Jail to tho consulate K * REPORTS ON FIGHTING TERSE DISPATCHES TELL OP BATTLE AT VERA CRUZ. Events Following: Landing of American Marines Told by Ensign Martin. With Spartan terseness are written the army, navy and marine reports which ofllcially tell the story of oyr advance in Mexico. There is little attempt at literary style and none at bringing into prominence spectacular events and heroic deeds. Yet through these dignified, straightforward pages runs an undercurrent for the caroful reader that thrills with a tain r?f romance and gallantry. Here Is how Ensign Ralph Martin, adjutant of tho Marine Battalion of San Francisco, writing from the custom house at Vera Cruz, tells his brigade adjutant of tho capture of the town. Ho heads his letter "data concerning landing engagements". "The San Francisco's battalion landed at midnight, April 21. This force consisted of nine officers and 11G men comprising two four-squad infantry companies, two Benot-Mercier automatics and special details with gun-cotton party. April 22. "Upon landing reported to Regimental headquarters at Hotel Terminal and then proceeded to custom house in rear of which our battalion was directed to erect a barricade between No. 1 warehouse and tho waterfront in prolongation of Calle Miguel Luerdo. This work was completed and barricade manned before daylight. "One of our automatic guns and one from Utah mounted on tho roof of south wing of custom house began firing on Hotel Oriente at daylight. Hotel was captured and several prisoners were taken. Desultory firing all along our front during morning and forenoon, which wo sue ceeded in silencing by volley firing. About 9 a. m. tho second naval regiment passed in rear of custom bouse and proceeded to southward of our line. When they came abreast naval academy and tho incompleted uarket they were subjected to a heavy fusillade principally from these buildings. Tho regiment deployed a the plaza between these buildings and Estaoion Sanidad. After a sharp engagement in which ships in haVbor assisted by shelling,' the naval academy and market were taken. The San Francisco's guns were firing on the naval academy. Fire again became desultory after this engagement and at 10:30 our regiment was deployed along Callo Zaragoza from C. Benito to C. Estaban Morales. "Tho San Francisco's battalion acted as a support all along this line. At noon we were quartered in custom house and have since held custom house and surrounding territory assigned to our precinct. This district comprised the section of the city from Calle Zaragoza to waterfront between V. Yicario and C. Montesinos. Our position was fired on by snipers from time to time during night. April 23. "Snipers continued firing along our front principally from incompleted market building. This fire was silenced as often as it broke out. "Having suspected firing from the "Sonora, a Mexican steamer moored to tho sea wall just to northward of muello Fiscal, we arrested the crew of this steamer and they were incarcerated in tho municipal jail. April 24. ^ ^ ,1 J * J Jl ' otvinu uuiiuniuuo us preceding uay except arrested Chief Engineer of "Sonora" and a secretary of the Navigation Company of Mexico who were on that vessel. These men were placed in municipal jail. German steamer "Ypiranga" and Spanish steamed "Libertad" were docked at Muelle Fiscal. Both alowed to land passengers and baggage. "Patrolled district under our charge day and night. "During the period covered in above report the San Francisco's battalion has suffered no casualties. The battalion were quartered in No. 1 warehouse in the custom house compound during thi3 time. "The list of dead and wounded cared for by tho San Francisco's hospital corps after the engagement on April 22, 1014, is attached hereto." and compelled at the point of a revolver to open the safe and surrender to tho Federal commander all the consular records and all valuables, including money and quantities of jewelry left thero for safekeeping. It is not known how many Americans were imprisoned, but word was received that all had been released except Consul Silliman. A telegram sent by Mexican Foreign Minister Ruiz Tuesday said that I Consul Rilliman, under arrest at Saltillo, charged with aiding the rebels, had been ordered sent to Mexico City under guard to bo delivered to the Brazilian minister for return to the United tSates. ? ? Adopts Commission Manager. By a vote of about one-half the voters Rock Hill Monday adopted the commission form of government, with a city manager. SPEAKS OF DYING DEATH IN WAR OP SERVICE IS A GLORIOUS OFFERING. WILSON MAKES ORATION Standing at lliers of Youths Who llavo Given Their Lives at Their Country's Call President Utters a Nation's Gratitude?Tinge of Envy Rroods Over Heroic Dead. Q 1 O ?\ /! i ?> f* tir i 4 1 i 1\ ri ?</> .1 1 i rv n /I I 4- 1% *-? ukwiunig nun uaiuu iicuu 111 iiui inclosure at the Brooklyn navy yard President Wilson Monday, before 10,000 people who had massed their way in to pay tribute to the bluejackets and marines who gave up their lives | at their country's call, delivered this j address: "Mr. Secretary: I know that the feelings which characterize all who stand about me, and the whole nation at this hour, are not feelings which can be expressed suitably in terms of attempted oratory or eloquence. They are things too deep for ordinary speech. For my own part I have a singular mixture of feelings. The feeling that is uppermost is one of profound grief that these lads should have had to go to their death. And yet there is mixed with that grief a profound pride that they should have gone as they did and, if I may say it out of my heart, a touch of envy of those who were permitted so quietly, so nobly, to do their duty. "Have you thought of it, men. Here is the roster of the navy, the list of men, olllcers and enlisted men and marines, and suddenly there swim 19 stars out of the list, men wiiu iiu,vt> kuhw suuueiny into uie firmament of memory, where we shall always see their names shine; not because they called upon us to admire them, but because they served us without asking any questions and in the performance of duty, which is laid upon us as well as upon them. "Duty is not an uncommon thing, gentlemen. Men are performing it in ordinary walks of life all around us all the time and make great sacrifices to perform it. What gives men liko these peculiar attention? Not because they did their duty, but because their duty had nothing to do with them or their own personal and particular interests. They did not give their lives for themselves; they gave their lives for us because we called upon them, as a nation, to perform an unexpected duty. That is the way in which men grow distinctive and that is the only way?by serving some one else than themselves. And what greater thing could you serve than a nation such as this we love and are proud of? "Are you sorry for theso lads? Are you sorry for the way they will be remembered? Does it not quicken your pulse to think of them? I hope to God none of you may join the list, but if you do you will join an immortal company. "So while you are profoundly sorrowful and while there goes out of our hearts a very deep and affect ionate sympathy to friends and relatives of these who for the rest of their lives shall mourn them, though with a touch of pride?we know why we do not go away from this occasion cast down, but with our heads lifted and our eyes on the future of this country with absolute confidence of how it will bo worked out, not only the more vague future of thi3 country, but the immediate future. "We have gone down to Mexico to serve mankind, if we can find out the way. We do not want to fight tho Mexicans; we want to servo the Mex leans, if we can, because wo know how we would like to be freed and how we would like to bo served if there were friends standing by ready to servo us. "A war of aggression is not a war in which it is a proud thing to die; but a war of service is a thing in which it is a proud thing to die. "Notice that tlieso men were of our blood, men of our American blood, which is not drawn from any one country; which is not drawn from any one language of the modern world, but from everywhere people have sent their brothers and their daughters to this country in order to make that great compounded nation, which consists of all the sturdy elements and all the best elements of the whole globe. "Listen to this list with a profound interest at the mixture of the names, for the names bear the marks of several national stocks from which these men came: but thov nro r?r?t THal? | men nor Germans nor Frenchmen nor Hebrews any more. They were not. when they went to Vera Cruz. They were Americans, every one of them, and were no different in thier Americanism because of the stock from which they came. Therefore they were in a peculiar senso of our blood and they proved it by showing that they were of our spirit, that no matter what their derivation; no matter where their fathers came from they sought and wished and did the things that were American, and the ilng under which they served was a tiag in which all the blood of mankind is united to make a free nation. ( "War, gentlemen, is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic simile of a thousand forms of duty. I never went into battle, I never was under fire, but I fancy that there are some things just as hard to do as to go under fire. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at your as when they are shooting at you. When they shoot at you they can only take your natural life. When they sneer at you they can wound your heart. ; And men who are brave enough, steadfast enough, steady in their principles enough to go about their duty with regard to their fellow men, no matter whether there are hisses or cheers?men who can do what Itudyard Kipling in one of his poems, wrote: I | " 'Meet with triumph and disaster, and treat these two impostors just the same' . J "The?e aro men of which a nation may be proud. "Morally speaking, disaster and triumph are impostors. The cheers of the moment are not what a man ought to think about, but the verdict of his conscience and of the consciences of mankind. So when I look at you I feel as if I also and we all were enlisted men?not enlisted in your particular branch of the service but enlisted to servo the country, no matter what may come. What though wo may waste our lives in the arduour endeavor! Wo are expected to put the utmost energy of every power that wo have into tho service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to tho utter length of complete sacrifice. As I stand and look at you to-day I think of the spirits that have gone from us, and I know the road is clearer for the future. These boys have shown us tho way and it is easier to walk on it because they have gone before and shown us tho way. "May Clod grant to all of us that vision of patriotic service which awaits us." ? LESS WHISKEY SALES. + Counties in the State Spent Less in April Than February. The report of the State Dispensary auditor for the month of April shows that there has been a decrease in the sale of liquor during tho month of April all over the State, that is, in the counties that have tho dispen sary. The total sales all over the wet territory has been steadily dropping since January, and is probably due to lsss money being handy, rather than to aversion to the liquor. Following shows the sales by the months sinco January 1: January $ 330,123 February .;.... 305,087 March 2 95,359 April 2 S 1,716 Total $1,212,274 Following shows the sales by counties for April: Aiken $ 20,320.44 Beaufort 12,264.35 Barnwell 17,126.68 Bamberg 7,627.72 Calhoun 4,506.50 Charleston 4G,G7G.G4 Dorchester G,732.35 Florence 3 8,729.02 Georgetown 12,756.95 Jasper 1,626.55 Orangeburg 23,1*2.45 Richland 71,806.73 Union 12,997.55 Lexington 5,4 32.90 Total $281,716.63 I ? ? ALL NEWS CEXTUREI). Mexico City Correspondents Have Hazardous Job. For some time the lifo of the foreign newspaper correspondent in Mexico City has been a hazardous ono. Several have been reported* deported and the minister of foreign relations, Scnor Porlillo y Rojas, has repeatedly informed them in more or less pointed fashion that they must send out no news favorabld to the rebels. Of course he did not put it that way exactly. ITo simply accused them of sending out false reports which were injurious to Mexican peace. Hero is ono of his warnings: This department has proofs that the correspondents of foreign newspapers in this capital are sending reports which are falso and which are favorable to the rebels and injure the government of the republic, wherefore this department reminds them for the last time of tho resolution of December 27 of last year, which savs: "The government has noted with profound displeasuro that certain foreign newspaper correspondents are devoting their attention to the transmission abroad of false reports which rebound to the injury of both Mexicans and of foreigners resident in this country, and for this reason, said correspondents are warned to change their conduct, since, otherwise they will be considered as pernicious foreigners and expelled from the national territory according to Article .13 of the federal constitution." ? ? Schooner Blown Ashore. An unidentified schooner was i blown ashore Tuesday near Lowes, I Del. Lifeboats and tugs have hastened to the rescue* fllflMMMHIIWH II l l Tllf ill > ???????<* 1 SIDELIGHTS < I BY A VI Our sailors and marines on the sunbaked decks of United States warships off Vera Cruz should never grumble at the climate, their food, and the general surroundings. They are in a thousand ways better off than 'he p( or fellows who lay off the 1 ei.i tO An ...1. II- ^ ruvuic. jjui v ill JiO*t< WI111U uen. BCOll was lighting his way to Mexico City. I went through tho cold storage ' compartments of a battlsehip recently. There were tons of frsoh beef hanging on the walls A little further on wero fresh vegetables in abundance. None of this in 184 7. It'was salt horse, or scouse or some other equally horrible food?at least horrible in tho tropics. | Instead of tho old fashioned triple plato hard tack, your 1014 Jackie revels in hot loaves and toothsome biscuits. Thero are yellow omeletes and in place of that questionable lump of dough which now and then a stray currant, which was called "plumdufC" there are cakes and pies and puddings. Sailors nowadays have all tho purest of chilled water to drink they want. In 1 S4 7 they got a scant allowance from the scuttle butt. There was nothing frigid about that cup. j It often had lain for months in tho ship's tanks and was frequently both foul and sour. A marine stood guard over tho precious liquid. To relieve tho awful tasto tho old seadog got his tot of grog regularly. j In stormy weather, despito tho heat, tho hatches were battened down. Thero wero no electric fans and blowers. I i Yet, all in all, our boys of to-day are a brave lot and had they to endure tho hardships of sixty years ago, I am sure they would comport them-, selves gallantly. * Tho news that Tammany will send a regiment to the front in case of trouble with Mexico assumes a more serious aspect, recalls to my mind tho bravo part borne by men of the Four- | teentli Street organization in our previous international conflicts. i ne society or Tammany is entirely separate and distinct from the political organization. But tlio same men are members of both and it was the political opinion of the Manhattan regular Democratic leaders which hastened tho call for the meeting. It is the wish of Tammany political leaders to express their loyal support of tho president In this crisis, the moro especially becauso the organization had differed with both the president. and Secretary Bryan 011 most principles of government. When tho sachems offered a fully equipped regiment of 0110 thousand volunteers to Governor Glynn of Now York state they did 110 moro than had been done by the heads of the organization in 1S 12, 1 S I G, 1801, and 1 SOS. ? In his "History of the American People," President Woodrow Wilson by inference criticises President Polk for sending Gen. Zachary Taylor to tlie Kio Grando without first having consulted congress and also asserts our claim to tho territory ceded at the end of tho war was that of conquest. "The Texas boundaries," I10 says, "wore another matter. Hero the government dealt with a rival and neighbor with whom no compromise was necessary. Texas claimed not only everything north and west of her that had been Spain's or Mexico's all tho way to latitude 4 2 degrees, but also so much of tho territory of her onotimo partner state, Coahuila, as lay between tho Nueces and the Itio Grande del Narto and Mr. Polk espoused and acted upon her claims at the south even before her formal admission into the union was complete. "Ho ordered Gen. Zachnry Taylor to occupy the western bank of the Nueces with a small forco of United States tir>ops and during the Summer of 1 845 sent him reinforcements which raised his strength to nearly 1,00 0 men. In December, 18 15, Texas became in full form a State of the Union; and early in tho following year tho President ordered Gen. Taylor to advance to the Kio Grande. His presenco there threatened tho Mexican town of Matamoros, just beyond the river and tho Mexican commander at Matamoros demanded his withdrawal to tho Nueces. "General Taylor refused to withdraw. Tho Mexicans crossed tho liver on April 28, ambushed a small body of American dragoons. Two weeks later they attacked General Taylor in forco and ho repulsed them. (Palo Alto, May 9, 1 8 40.) Tho next u;\v i ayior in ins turn attacked, and! drove the Mexicans across the river; In disastrous rout. On the 1 Sth Con. Taylor himself passed tho Rio Grande ; and occupied Matamoros. "Mexico", the President told Conpress on (ho 11th of May, while yet he had no news except, that of the ambush of the 23rd of April, "Mexico ( has passed tho boundaries of the > United States * * and shed American blood upon American soil/ War jexists and exists by tho act of Mexico herself.* He had not consulted Con-1 ON MEXICO f | STERAN . J > ? ? ?? * press before he ordered Gen. Taylor forward to the Rio Grande and thus <# brought this momentous matter to a head, though it had been in session when the order was issued. He had taken full responsibility for that ua011 himself. War, indeed, existed? but by whose act Congress was no longer at liberty to inquire. There was nothing for it but to vote supplies and an army; and a formal dec laration of war was resolved upon May 13, 1S16, before news of the real fighing on the Rio Grande had reached the Capital. "Until Autumn all things stood as they wore between the belligerents while an army was made ready; but late In August Gen. Taylor moved again and within a month, by severe and dogged fighting took the strongly fortified town of Monterey, a full 170 miles to the west of Matamoros, on the highway to the Mexican capital. In November Gen. Win field Scott, the ranking officer of the Federal Service was given chief command, and in January, 1 847, Gen. Taylor's force was reduced to a scant 5,000 to recruit tho immediate command of his superior, sent by sea to attack Vera Cruz. "On tho 2 2iul and 2 3rd of February Santa Anna attacked him, with four time his numbers, where he lay at defense on the broken plain of Ruena Vista, thinking to crush him while ho was weak, and was repulsed. The Americans were no longer raw militia men and officers alike, as they had been in the extemporized armies of 1813 Though they were for the most part volunteers their officers were professionals and they wero drilled and handled with a. skill and thoroughness that made veterans of them with a single battle. "Their steadiness and prowess was put to full test with Gen. Scott in flirt QaII rPllrt*r U rt /I 1 1 " ~ HIV uuuui, I HUJ lltiVl IIVJL UH1.Y IU VclKtJ Vera Cruz by set. seigo in order to make pood their landing, but had also to scalo tho huge escarpments of the west tableland upon which the Mexican capital lay, 2 00 miles away, more than 7,000 feet above the sea, and to make their way across the broken, hilly plains beyond, fighting everywhere as they went against an enemy who outnumbered them and was secure against surprise within inner lines of communication. And yet from tho carrying of the pass at Cerro Gordo (April 18, 1S17) to the storming of the high fortress to Chapultepec (Sept. 13) there was no pauso or miscarriage in the steady process of their victories. "Tho City of Mexico lay admidst guarding fortresses and was set about by morasses crossed only by narrow causeways. But tho Americans moved everywhere with tho business like certainty and precision of men wellliandle.d, and their volunteer ranks seemed less in need of officers than other armies did. Individual pluck and dash and resourceful daring, irresistible In all that they did. They fought men as brave as themselves, a subtle, spirited foe, tenacious to tho last of all that it could hold; they fought also against odds and moved everywhere against fortified places; but. on they won, undaunted, at every onset. By September 15tli they were in completo and formal possession of tho enemy's capital and Mexico was in their hands, within but a littlo moro than six months of their landing. "Meanwhile tho Government at Washington had broadened the scope and meaning of the war beyond all expectation. During the summer of IK.11*. 5i ti 11 tlin U'ltdnv nC 1 O.lfl IT II , ? ? ? VWX< M til VV> Wl J U IU' T I 1|< had seized not merely the disputed territory which Texas claimed, but also tlio whole country of tho Pacific slopo beyond, from Oregon to tho Cilia River, to which tho United States could havo no conceivable right except that of conquest. The thing was oaril} accomplished. A Meet under Commodore Sloat, and Stockton and a few troops acting here and there until Col. Kearney and Capt. Prominent moved almost ns they pleased; and a territory of 000.000 square miles was added to the United States. "The war with all its inexeusablo aggression and fine fighting, was brought to its formal elose by a treaty signed at CJuadeloupe Hildalgo on February 2, 184(1, by which Mexico recognized the Rio Grande as tho south-western boundary line of Texas and ceded New Moxieo and California, of which tho United Stats had taken possession by force of arms. For tWs territory, seizor and ceded, the United States agreed to pay Mexico $1 5,000,000." ? River Reaches High Mark. Tho Arkansas river at Wichita, Xan., readier the highest mark known in 20 years. Flood waters ilue to recent heavy rains in western Kansas and eastern Colorado have sent tho stream tern feet abovo low water mark, causing the railroads to fear for tho safety of bridges. Tho river is believed to liavo readied ltss maximum height ? ? Newspapers fight, ea^h other too much. They should work together for tho advancement of their common interests.