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Aft . 4N 4~ A l h, hi V I E I I A TUES>A Y, A UGUST 9, 1818 TW1CE - -- -Ell I % -l a, , ...... ,-- . L)V rEVIKt, liu 1 'IO, e. ,R MANY 0 4) Al O I Mt (I Aa A. cons. v It Rmyt ..A Vw W-ek* Rpout Not.hU Mw ow 4 ma. W, u14 Make he- Artsy re4 I.kte FhI nat1 C.U,ekN- I het1 si a e si '' 'I,,sIssy T163141. 1wis ropyright, 1898, by Associated Santiao, Ang. 3.-Stnimoned by Gen. Shafter, a meeting was bek, this morning in the presence of every commtdinig and medicul ofil cor the Firth aIrIy corl)4. Gn. Sharter read a eable inessage from '-evrn-tury Alger ordering him at the recommendation of Surgieon General Sternberg, to uovo the army into the interior, to San Lnis, where it is healthier. Ai a result of the conference, Gen. Shaftir will insist upon ain iimuediate withdrawal of the army north within two weeks. As an explanation of the Rituation, he following letter from Col. Theo. ore Rloomevelt, commndtniting the irst vonuteer caval y, to Gen. Shaf er, whieh wti handed by the latter o the correspondent here of the As ociated Press for publication: 'Major General Shafter: "Sir-In meeting the general and edical oficers called by you at the alace this morning we were all, as on know, unanimous in our view of hat should bo done with the army. "To keep us here, in the opinion of ery officer commanding a division brigade, will simply involve the struction of thousands. "There is no possible reason in not pping practically the entire com nd north at once. Yellow fever eH are very few in the cavalry di ,nion. I command one of the two gados and not one true case of ow fever has occurred in this di ion except among tmen sent to the ital at Sibony %%here they have tracted it. tt in this division there have a 1,500 cases of malarial- tever, not one man has died from it, tho whole command is so weak d and shattered as to be ripe for g like sheep when the real yel ever epidemic instead of fake emics like the present, strikes us, t is bound to do if wo stay here he height of the sickly season, f we are kept here it will, in all tin probability, mean an appall disaster, for the surgeons esti e over one-half of the army if we kept here during the sickly sea will die. 'Thin is not only terrible from a tdpomtt of inidividuail lives, but it ans um fom eerystandpoint of military etliciency of the flower ~he American army, for the great 1k oef regulars are with you. 'rThe sick list, large though it is, *is but a faint index of t.he do .atIbn of the army and not 10 per t. are fit fornetnml work. M$ix weeks on the oarth Maine 86, for inst ance, or oliewbere, ore the yellow fever germs canidot ~ibly propagate, would make us ss fit as fighting cocks. Able as re and eager to take a leading in the great campaigni against ana in the fall even if we are not ed to try Porto Rico. o will be moved north, and if at once with absolute safety coutntry, although it would een itnfinitely hotter if we had oveed north or to. Porto lico g eks-ugo. If Mhero is any ob ' keeping us here wve would ilow fever with as much in. cas we faced bullets, but no object in it. Four im giments have been ordered d at e sufficient to garrison and the surrounding towns e is absolutely nothing for and there has not been since 1surrenidered. mpossible to move into the Every shifting of camp he siek rate in the present condition and the interior ~~ worse than the coast as ao' d by actual reconnoissance. nt cataps are healthy and at this end of the island i writo onty beause. I ca -uravely aod iduriled such extreuke hardships awd dager so IIe. J9 plait ingly, go to t-s Iut.ionl II 1.ont st iv ing so far ab lies in me to ,tv. t such it loom. "Fearful a.it is, it is um.wecessary Ilndl nudselved. "Yoius respect 'ully, "THEooirE Ito( myvExwr" After R)osvelt ha,d takel the ini tiative, all the generals unlited ill an address to Sbiifter. It. roads: "We are uinanimons inl the opinion that this army shoul-I he taken ont of Cuba at once and sent to some1 northern point inl the United Status. It can h done without danigt-r o the people of the United State-s. Yellow fever is not an epidenic at prosent, but the army is disabled by nalarial fever and is in a condition to be de stroyed by an epidemic of yellow fever, which is suro to come. The army is unable to move into the. in terior. No facilities for such a move. This army must be moved or perish. The army can be moved now, and the perous responsiboe for prevent. ing such a move will be responsible for the unnecessary loss of many thousand livep. Our opinion's are the result of a careful personal ob servation, and they are also based on the unanimous opinion of the medi cal officers with the army who under stand th. situation absolutely." Gen. Ames sent the following ca ble to Washington: Allen, Assistant Secretary Navy: This army is incapable because of sickness from marching any where ex cept to the transports, if it is ever to return to the United States, it must do so at once. H1OH80N'S 8TORY OF IT. GivOR Atlanta People an Aconuot of the Mokins of the htiratmete umod else Conduna,of FI it-s.. In a speech after his reception at Atlanta on Tuesday night, Lieuten ant Hobson gave this account of the sinking of t he Merrimac: " "I have the good fortune of hav ing juit arrived from the front, where the American troops have been both on land and on sea. Some stirring scenes have been enacted there. Those experiences are only the culmination of our fir t acquaint ance with Jackey, or the sailors. I remember at Annapolis we had mn old practice ship out three quarters of a mile from shore. One day two men by the nanies of Fitzgerald and Franklin tried to swim from shore to the ship. It was nearly dark, and as the men approached the ship we heard a faint cry for help. Rlealiz ing that something was wrong, we lowered the digy, but could not reach thenm. In an instant dozens of cadets began jumpinig overboard to the assistance of the men, until an ohlicer of the deck gave positive or ders prohibliting any more seamen fr-om jumping overboard. "It was this sort of metal that was exhibuited by the men who sank the Merrimatc. So esger were the men to make that expedition, that only a abort while after the call for volunteers had been made a prohibi tive order was issued that no mote men would be wan)ted. One hun dred brave sailor-s had volunteered on the New York alone; and the Iowva signaled across the water that 150 men had volunteered there. "Just before the vessel started in to the mouth of the harbor a con versation was overheard among two of the men which betrayed the be lief on their part that the vessel was to be run three miles up the harbor. When the men took their stations on the Merrimac, for their final start, every man lay flat on his face on the deck with a special torpedo to manage. Directions had been given them, and it was expressly agreed that no man should heed the oe ray's fire, no matter how hot it got, not even to raise his head. More over, it was agreed that in case the projectiles from the Spanish guns flQw thick and fast and an)- man was wounded he wvas still to remain at his pb)st, attending, if possible, to tho special duty assigned to him. Those8 men lay there, and those men attended to those dut.ies. It wan nn Oeccfsiotiml shot that. vaimv% from thoso enem1y's g1un-. It wits at prfeci grint of mot i--a rain st-orm of sLol and t-ho I Tahen enit Iho I ron,ii. dous explosi.un1s, but th lie hull did niol sink all at, onie... It wmit down by degrees, aid those were nionivit. that t hose men will never forgot, When a big IS ificl slell (-xploilem direct ly in front of t he lilt lo group, 1. ing huddled on t ho d, ck, iwhii one .4hell went into the boilsrs atid l the stean loose by the side of the men, the strict command, 'No mian move till orders,' was obeyed to thc letter. If thpro was iver a tinic when uironet,natcem utild iive forced an observann of the old p)rin cipie of self-preservation, it. wis then, but not it man budged. Wheni those mon wor in ithe water, being hunted by Spanish boats looking for any that night have escaped, the order that no man nhould movo wa obeyed porfoctly. On the arrival at Morro, when the men were placed in colls, and Spanish soldiers made threatening signs at. thom our sailors merely laughed at thim. 'WQ would do it again tonight, if it wfere necessary,' repliod one of the mon, in abswor to a Spanish question. "A Spanish major asked one of the prisoners what the vessel waH sont into the habor for. 'In the United States navy it is not the cus torn for seamen to know or ask the object,' was the reply. "When I relate this occurrence you do wrong if you apply any great amount of credit for this little piece of work to an individnal. It was merely an evidenco of the fact that the olicers and mien of the American navy are always anxious tc perform any duty that they are or dered to do, irrespectivo.of the con sequences or the dangers. "Nevor shall I forget. how I sat iii that dreary prison and gazed out o the battle fields around Santiago. I could see the American lines and th( Spanish lines. When I hoard th< first crack of a musket I know thal there was in advance along om lines. I saw the Spaniards lying ir their deep trenches with their mod ern rifles ready to pour volley aftoi volley into the American army. I saw the thin lines of brave lads un der the stars and stripes slowly as cending those hills, and I saw the Spaniards turn loose their lead and their firo, and I saw many an Anieri. can boy drop out, of the line and into the dark river of deth. On July 2 the Spaniards wero rein forced, and the Americans charged again, and the enemy's artillery turned upon the American lines, The moral effect of that galling fire seemed to paralyze our forces for ai wvhile. Those mon hadl never been under fire before, but it did not take them long to regaini with in creased ardor thair patriotism, and with one mighty rush they drove t.he Spaniards out of their trenches and gained a mighty victory. You can1 imangine my great anxiety at seeing this. It wans terrible that I could not communicate my valuablle knowl edge of the enemy's fortitientions to the commanding ofilcer of or troops. "After my roleaso, greatly was I imp)ressed, whlen in passmng through the American lines I saw moen whc had given upi hiome, dlear onies and1 almocst everythmng life holds for their country. The commanding gene'ral slept in a tent not one whit bottor than that of the p)rivate. It wats a gigantic sociological forc,, the mnag nitudo of which could not be mecas ured by any human methoeds-egnal to the life blood of the last citizon. "What a grand privilege it is t( be a soldier of the United States!" The report of the subcommnittee on catmpaign schedu tlt, was adopted nta follows. Greenville, Thursday, August II. -Pickens, Friidaiy, August 1 2. Walhalla, Monday, August 15. Anderson, Tuesday, August 10. Abbeville, Thursday, August 18. Greenwood, F"ridaty August 10. Aiken, Monday, August 22. Edgelield, Tuesday, August 23. Saluda, Thursday. August 25. Lexington, Friday August 20. Columbia, Saturday, Aungmst. 27. 'l':MANA NIr P'ORt )ItlUl'. a'.4" .a l)e-laght tsi i i' --IInw I lee 5*ee.10s Mh w '1 Isal- I stv - -'r t -) li uail ness,aal se ?.ia ii e n .a.ae. el@ i F''lgI1 P'roial. The eity of Pone. now inl pos-es. sion of the Anoritimn force, and in who.4e sirreider the Dixie. m1ann11ed by Marylimil silor boys, took a prominent part, is otn of tie riliest and most intere.stiig cities on t!e islitind of Porto Rico. Augusto Ortiz, a native Porto Rican and now a sttidet of the Bal tilore college of dntal slgry, Fraiklin aid Ent iw stret:., says of tlie lown thlt it was tle ao.I likely pieo it aloiurto eiio ror it iadiig of Amerimiu (roops. "From Poncii,"l said 21r. Ortiz, "O'eieril Miles, with his arm-illy, cau swoeep the islund of all opposit.ion nild prock-ed right. along the military roa-1 to the finest. towns there. Ponce itself has abont.28,000 inhabitants and the very finest har bor on the coast. It is alwavs filled vith ships and a largo business is carried oin. The custom hoi,% and big w holesiale stores frown down a. m.>st ipon t.ho water, placed con vonmitly for tho shipping interests. "The city of Ponce is as different from San Juan as you can imsgine and very nuoh more beautiful. It is really the richest, prett-ost and most delight fil town in Porto Rico to live in. All the country about the city is taken up with line sugar and coffee laiintations, and those two pr, (ucts form thlre pinVipl buliPFRness of the town. The people are m1iuch better off tha thos ini San Juan anud live a jollier ind(] more wholo some life. Thero is no waill about the city, no gatos and no hills when you get inside. Instead, the whole town is flat., with a gentle roll and wave to relieve tiho monotony, and is filled with trees and plazas and grass. The streets are a litt li brond or than San Jian and the housefs are made of minglod wood and brick that, give a quaint appearanco. "In Ponce is the only Protestant church in Porto Rico, and it has a staunch and loyal congregation, a1l thongh, of course, almost the entire town is Catholic. The finest fire de partment in the whole island is in Poneo. The men are well (qipped, well traiied and have up-to-date en gitles, anid di) somit vyr good work. Once in a while a big fire will break out along the wharves. Whon thft firemen are called upon for help t ho% have always dono so well that the Ponce firemen have a big r$wputahtion. "The p)ret.tiest thing in ** Ponce is the Plaza Da.licias, acknonlebdged to be the0 most b)eaut iful p)laza inl Porto) Rlico, and1( whlere the gayest of sceneas take plac'e. Thme people in Ponce are mainly native Porto R icins, and whtilo uinder Spanish rule are niot Spaniards. They have diffeII -ont clnbs, and t he natives are very hitIoer againist the Sp.anish yoke. I have lived with them and talked wvith them and knowv their feelings. F'ro q uent broils are happeninig let weeon niat.ives and Sp)anialrds there and gen. eralIly the nattive gets the worst of it, which only makes nmt ters wo so. The peopule or Ponce are very 'althy and their city is one of the best for invalids in thli i'lnmd. In the first place, they heavo the very best driinkmg water and t hei r r<ser voirs are kept in thle finest kind of c'ondition. '"The ami lit ary road, wvhich I see General Miles will take wvith his army, starts at the hiarbor of P'once, runs straight thIirough the heart of he town and ont on the other side. ft then takes zigzag route clear through the island to San Ju tan, sov. enty-fivo miles to thle north. ft is a fine road, as wide as izny, ini Druid Hill Park, and nothing butt carriages cn travel on it. It is graded so tinehy that it is neover muddy and( driving there is always easy. Along each side thle senery is as beautiful as yotu could wanit, trees andi( plants anid flowers, with high mountai[ns fart her b)ack, behind long stretchies of green." Soon after Commander D)avis, of the Dixie, landed lie received1 a note from the Spanish colonel on Friday offer ing to surrendel(r upon1 condtition that thn garrison shnnl be memit ted to retire, that the civil govern. imteit remain it, force, that the police aid lir briga.lo hm pormittd to pa. Itrol witholit. ar i, nd talit, th1e cap. liti of the port. should not bo made a prisoner. He also asked that, he A merican A rmy shoull not advnt.. hsbmond Police withint fir)*y eight. hmoiurs. C(Iumndor Day's. who wim roully not aixious to receive the surrender hi-f0ro th itt leship Slasichusottm arrived With Captain Higgitisol, a ranking ollicer on board, aceepted theso Coiditiol- lind the Spalish sol diers 1ien fled it) tie hills. Th y lft behim them 158 riflos aid 14,. 000 rolilin s i( filmn1m11itionl. Lieult-mnant Hainlem, 00ommand.1iing thi mariies of the Dixie, went ashore and boisto the American flag over tlie cumstom house at the Port of Pionce amid the cheers of the poo. pIe. After this Lieutenant Murdoch and surgton Heiskoll emitortd a car ringo and drove to the city, three miles distant, whoro they received a tremendous ovation. The stroots wore lined with men, women and children, white id black. Some of the women dandled naked babies, and other children in the neighborhood of five yoars of ago we-re running about without a stitch of clothing oi them. Everybody wits dacing iltp and down i d yoll. ing: "Viva los Anoricanos." "Viva Porto Rico libro." Thle windows 1of the houses were ill filled with people, and groat crowds wore gathered oi the roofs. The stores were all ope0n, and when over the ofl3ers topped people gatliered aroutid them. Upon these occasions red-shirted firemen, who wvre numerous, cleared the way to the stores, so that oflicers could go in if they chose. The storekeepers offerod their whole .tcck to the otli cers, and declared that they would tilko [to pay for anlythinig. In the Plaza of Justico the people tore down the woddon gilded crown and woul I have trampled upon it if the officors had not interfered and saved it as a souvenir. General Wilson was the first army officer to land. The firemen lined up to receive him as the local band played "The Star Spangled Banner," and ove-rybotly took off hats and cheered. The custom houso was taken ft r the headquartors. The troops landud during the day were the Second and Third Wisconsin and the Sixth Penusylvaiia rogiments. Dcspite thle arrival of the troops the celebration ini the town we'nt on. Th'le Porto Iticanes iand the foreigners kept opmn houses. WVomen and men a. ike were all diressedi in t heir finest at tire. Theli owners of the niewsp)apers of Ponco called upon General Wilson anid asked himt if their paper-s were to be stopped. General Wilson told them to go ahead and print the nmews. Shortly afterward General Wilson received ia telep)honio call from the prison. The call was from the mayor of the city, who wanted to get out. He hadl sung "Yanrkio D)oodle" the afternoon beforo, and1( haid boon1 slapped inito jail aiid left there. (Gon eriah Wilson ordered is instant re lease. He also learned that there were matny other pol1itionl prisoniers ini jail and( ordered them relensed, too. The onldy prisoners who wvero kept in jail wvere those imiprisonied on crim inal charges. As the (liy wore on the fun grew faster. Every American who aip. poarod on the street wais cheered. No Spaniards couIld be found. The p)eop)le in thie shops and hotels, as well its the proprietors of those pliices. stoutly deniied that they were Spaniards. A number of woimen were atsked by rolporters why they sp)oko Spanish if they were ntot Spanciards. Tb' sy rep)lied that they wouldn't speak the Spanish if they know anything else, but they would learn American and never speak Spanish again, invariably winding upi with "Viva los Americanos." The landing of the American troop)s has naturally throwd~ the plub hic at Sanu J utn inito a great stato( of excit.ement For dsonllowing the latuding there was a steady immigra. gration into the interior, but with all tho exciti-ment there has been no rioting or disorder. Sai Jun lam now settled down into a state of at raindd calmntess for the atncah whicl is expected. Every. thivg indic.t-s that the city will not be taken without much bloodshed. Thre is talk of surrender, but the Spanikh havie sworn to fight to the Ond. 111%1 k1WK 8 11.1oxU .IE. nia % m.a ruen,- (I-aim,, nous a. t., A usturhty. Once awiy from Berlin, t he princo th1row off lhe itern rigidity, the cyni cal 4armhnoss, the relvitless sverit.y that made him iso feared and hated by those who sought to wrestle with him, and he became an amiable c >un try gentleman, a genial, and, one might almost think, a light-hearted companion. That fanious phrase in which the chancellor expressed the satijsfction 1e wold feel in retiring from public life to plant. his cabbages as by no muans a mere empty fig ure of speech. At Friedrichsrub, in his retire. ment, he was universally loved and revered. Throughout the whole of Lauenburg, inded, I he dukedom of which Bisinarck had been forced re lCtintly to accept at the hands of tie emperor, there was but one voice to be hoard regarding him. HW was i generous landlord, a liberal employer, a sympathetic friend. Clad in a long, gray coat and the well greased boots be loved, his hond covered with a broad leaved slouich hat and with a thick stick in his hand, the prince was wont to tramp fur hours; about his woods, ac companied by two or more of the hugo Reichbhound& that were his % A%"tant companions. His gracious ness, freedom and amiability in his forest home of Friedrichruh were as proverbial as was his inaccessi bility in his palaco of the Wilhelm strasse. In "Our Chancellor" Dr. Busch says: "His wife was born in 1824, and is nine years younger than himself. They were married in 1847. The marriago did not take place without somo hesitation on the part of the bride's parents, particularly of her mother, for the reputation of the lover did not promiso well for the future of the daughter of a pious household. The result showed that they were mistaktn. 'All right,' was5 what the wvo&er wrote to his sister, Math ilde vonI Arniuto, when he4 ob tained the consenat of tihe Puttkam moers, iand 'All right' he and his wvife wvere able to say to each other when they celebrated their silver wedding at Varzin, July 28, 1872, and looked back over the years of their mar riage. Tfhe death of the Prinicess Bis mnarck, which occurred at Varzin on November 27, 189)4, was the most severe blo0w ever admini.t,erod to t.ho iron c:hanicellor. Hie had been through life a devoted husband. The princess died ini tihe armfs of her aged hiusbamnd. A few weeks before her denit b, she beinig at that time very ill from dropsy, Prince Bis marck said to his old butler, whose own wife was at the point of dea1th: "My friend, I share your grief heartily. I am in the samne terriblo position as yourself. Everybody is passing away before ourselves."' There are three children. Tile only daiughter, a great favorite with her father, who often acted as his secretary, is the wife of Count Rant zen, lately Orman iiinister at T[he Hague. The eldolr sonl, Count Her bert Bismrarck, is called the alter ego of tihe prinlcO in opinions and pol1i tics. The younger son, Williumn, is landrat,h at Hanover, an ofilce whlich somewhlat renmbles that (of thle French prefects. Hie is much like his fathe-r ini appearance, while his b)rot her resembules hlis mother. Tihe day after the battle of Sedan a French general arrived at day break at the Prussian headquarters and1 informedl Bismarek that Nann. poleon 111 wished to converse with him. The chancellor immediately itid he would nIecompnlity Gen. Iteille tothe emperor, and th,e wo l,-ft in each otlier's company. After their departnro an offoor of his stuff tn tered the room and noticed a reli giois book and a Bible lying open o01 it little tablo at the side of the bed. This incident would inliento that the chacollor wits sincere wifii, at the end of a dinner tit Ferri r.s, in 1870, the coiversation having turned on religion, he said: "If I were not a Christian I would not consent, to sorvo the kiuig, iy master; if I dil niot obey God, if I did not pit iy tru1st in Him I Would not coicern myself about the tiffairs of this world." Dr. Busch relites that Ie, one evening im 1877, heard Bismarck comphl,in very I. t orly of his lot in life. His cureer, he said, had given very little satisfaiction to himself personally, and won him very few friends; he had niot added to the happiness of limnself, of his family, or of anyone. Ono of those who heard him say this suggested that he had mado a great ntion very happy. "Yes," he replied, "but how many other nations h; ve I rondered i happy ? But for m throo great. wars would ntver havo iaken place, 80,000 men would not have been killed in but.tle; fathers, mothers, brothors, sistors and wives would not. have been plunged into misery. I have settled with my Creator, but I havo reaped very little, if any, lhtp pintmi from all that I have done; tb unly thing it has yielded mo are V11onus anxieties and griefl." IIis May laws, which wore after ward repealed, led to a long, bitter struggle with the Catholic Church, and mado all its adherents his bitter eneiies. At the time when Bismarck was sternly enforcing the laws against the Catholics a French lady visiting Rome with her humband went into It church to pray. The husband, It celebrated artist, waited outside and put in the time making a sketch. As the lady approached the altar she noticed a monk in a dark corner, heated on t ho floor, with his hand raised above his head and holding in the other a long knife. At the sound of her selps he looked aroini), rose to his feet. and caino toward, her; the churcli was empty, and the lady, terribly frightoned, turned to run, but a word from the monik reas sured her. "This kniife is not intenided for you, madam,'' saidl li, "blut for t he enomy of us all, the persecuitor of pries5t and bishop, the accursed Ger muan, thle suippiorter of satan, Bis mnarck." T1hie cr*azy monk sooede to fancy that he had his 8(lOmy withIin reach, and, with (lie gestutre (of a mani who is giving a mortal blow, he thirust. his knife into an imaginary bre'st, anid, then falling onl his knees, 5001omed as though he were offerinig t he vie. tim to the Glod wvho had inspired thle act. During (lie whole of the Kutltur kamnpf, the chancellor whiile violenit ly persecuting the Catholics, did1 not (10 so to please (lie Protestanits, nor beCause lie Was himsel f a member of (lie latter comnmunion,- but simtply be cause ho believed thatt what he was dloing was for thle best inltorosts of the St.ate, but afterwards he on more than one PCcaii5on admiittedl that ho was mnistakoni. Heo took (lie holy commrunion twice a year anid was not exempt from certaiiin suplerstit(ions. He con sidoered Friday an unluckcy day, and did niot like to sit down to tatble wvith 12 other persons. "D)eprive mne of may faith," lie once said, "and1( yot deprive ime of my contmy. If I were not at firm Christian, if my faith did not rest on lie miraculous balsis of a revealed religion, you would not have in me a federal chancellor. Whlenm you find me a man for a successor who is im pregnated wvith the same p)rinceiples [ will at once resign and (10 so gladly, rejoiced to be once more free to fol. low eonnry life,"