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NIAGARA COUNTY NEWS. VOL. 2. YOUNGSTOWN, NIAGARA CO., N. Y., MAY 19, 1882. NO. 12. HERE AND THESE. I j —M—m—m—What? —51r. George Wagner is catcling I herritrg in largo quantities with sell*. —The " City of 'Toronto" will be lie favorite steamer on the route this seas«u. —A tiue new oiied ail(3 varnished si iff has just been built for Wm.Kay by tfr. ' J. Redhead, of Niagjra. —The Free Methodists will holj a camp meeting in the neighborhood of Kansomville some time in August. —Four sheep and half a dozen lamis belonging to Wm.Hill, were the vietiini | of some murderous dogs last week, —The water In Niagara River last ! Friday was higher by a dozen inches ! than at any pravious time this season. —Negotiations are pending for the j purchase of property corner of First and j Falls Streets, Niagara Falls, by two citizens, for an opera-house site. I . —Daniel E. McGrath aud Maggie Clark, charged with burglary, have been held for the next grand jury at Lockport. They liave given bail in $600 each. —Ex-Sanitary Coin. Rufus K. Hireman, of Now Orleans, was cured of a severe attack of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil, so we see by an item in the Columbus [Oa.] Enquirer-Sun. —With sturgeon at Ave cents per pound and beefsteak eighteen cent* per pound, what will three cords of green wood como to. if coal costs $0 per ton ? Our '-devil" auswered that—Ashes. —Over 200 applications have been filed for appointment ou the Lockport police force. Only niue appointments cau be made. No one addicted to the use of Intoxicating liquors will have any chance. —Mr. Charles T. Kllboriie, until recently of Lockport, now a member of the banking firm of W.H. Goodby & Co. of New-York, vifs married 011 Tuesday of last week to Luella L. Andrews of Jersey City. Its Star Still Ascending:. In a recent call upon Mr. W. 11. Alllster, auo Front Street, general agent for the sale ef the Star Chewing Tobacco, he thus spoke to one of our reporters: " I was tortured from pain from acute rheumatism, and cared not whether I lived or died. I triod St. Jacobs Oil —just two applications of which entirely cured me."—Han Francisco [Cal.\ Call. COUNTY NEWS. —Olcott is talking up a celebration for the 4th of July. —Arnold & Littles' mill at Lockport, is nearly ready to begin custom grinding.—Edward James of Middleport Iras been arrested for selling liquor without a license. —Two ducks,of the Aylesbury breed, belotiglug to Frank VVatt of Cftiubiia, have laid 100 eggs In 55 days. —Sirs. Jesse Smith, of Wilson, wants a limited divorce from her husband. We havo not heard what limit sho wants. —A largo warehouse owned by Kobb & lless at Hess Road station, was burned recently. Loks, $2,500; insured for §1,200. —Bermuda and Suowflake potatoes, of this year's growth, are shown by a person in Lockport. Tho seed was planted March 15th. —Tho bam of John Campbell, near Wright's Corners, burned Saturday night. Los», $1,000; insurance, $700. It Is supposed to havo been caused by children. —Mr. T. liugby of Niagara Falls lias just returuod from an extended trip through Florida; and among other curiosities, has brought with him 125 live alligators, from Bto 20 luches long, lie intends to sell them. —The old excise board of Lockport continue to grant licenses. They havo paid $1,335 to tho City Treasurer, who receipted for the same; this amount having been paid in for licenses. The friends of temperance are very lndignnut, and much trouble will be mado for somebody. —The house of Col. J. D. Ames, on Prospect street, Lockport, was entered Sunday night while the family were at cliurcb.and $130 and some other articles of jewelry were taken. A young man named D. McGrath, a law student, was on tiie samo evening found iu the yard intoxicated, and as a girl was seen with him that evening, who had formerly ] beeu in the employ of the family, they! were both arrested on suspicion. None of the missing property lias yet beeu found. —Mrs. Lydia E. Plntcham, 233 Western Avenue. Lynn, Mas*., is raj idly ac•j iring an enviable reputation for the: surprising cures which daily result from tho use of her Vegetable Compound iu all female diseases. Send to j her for pamphlets. 1 SIXTEEN YEARS AFTER. THE BATTLE OF GAINES' MILL. Six Hours of the Hottest Figbtin; of the War. [SLQuad, in Detroit Free Press.] 1 spent the whole day ridiug over tho fields of New and Old Cold Harbors. McClellau's first great battle with Johnston brought on his sccoud with Lee. He fought Johnston at Fair Oaks in the last days of May—he confronted Lee at the Harbors in tho last days of June. It Is a country of farms and forests, of h?ls and plains. Autumn was dropping its ripe apples on the half-leveled breastwofts erected twenty years ago, and tho wild grapevines covered many a scar left on the trees by kail and Bullet. Here ok tho swamps In which the dead and wo»uded were sucked slowly down by the treacherous oozo, as shot and shell flew above them—here the slopes and lields across which Death rushed With bloody liaudu to. claim his victims by tho thousand. At the top of this hill, where Federal cannon thundered destruction, a flock of sheep crop at the short, dry herbage. Down there where the little creek steals softly under the green banVs, and noisily rushes over the pebbles, the dead lay in heaps and the wounded crept to the s.tream in such numbers that tho waters wero dammed back and eddies of blood went circling round. Here, behind Powhito Creek, where Porter was massed, a school-boy would tell you that infantry would have a terrible advantage. All along this side is a grand sweep for cannon, and in the ravines below a whole division can find safe cover. Hero are scars to. make you wonder. Great limbs lopped off—trees cut in two—rocks broken and shattered—scars of bullets 011 every trunk and limb which was growing here 011 that Juueday. It Is the only other spot in tlie world resembling the place at Port Republic where the Federal guns were massed, and over which men fought and died like demons. There wero. thickets and jungles in the path us battle Hues moved that day. They are hero yet. As 1 sit 011 tho old work along the Gaines' Mill road to smoke a cigar at noonday, down in those dark swamps tho owls scold each other and tho frogs call out as if evening had come. You would wonder that a farmer's horse could draw a cart over tUese lields, and yet It was here that batteries came Into position at a gallop—whole divisions charged—thousands of men marched, fought aud died. War may seek the green meadow or the dark jungle—the hill-top or tho dense forest. THE WARNINO IJELL. McClellau had been warned of tho approaching hurricanc. His cavalry pickets hud been driven 111 from tho left bank of the Chiekahominy; Meadow Bridge had been seized by the enemy; tho green grass at Beaver Dam had been wet with blood; Jackson was rvachlugout beyond the Federal flank. Tho bell had tolled its warning—a warning which rose ou the air above tho shrieks of tho wouuded and the roar of musketry aud cannon. Tho warning was: "Fail back—shorten your lines—mass your Artillery ou the ridges—hido your infantry in tho ravines." McClellau bad ebeyed. Jackson had struck him like h thunderbolt, bat he was not paralyzed. With a grim coolness 110 issued the orders which massed men and caimou whore they could not be flanked. THE FEDERAL PICKET. Down this wiudlng road leading past the Mill the Federal picket boiled their coffee and munched their liard-tack at noon ou tha>27th of June, with the birds siuging in the trees and tho air filled with the lazy hum of perfect peace. Jackson's caunon sounded in the distance, but here all was quietness and peace. The noonday meal is scarcely finished when stratigo figures appear in the road—ai the fields—in the" woods. It Is tho advanco of A. I*. Hill. In thirty seconds the peace is broken by the pop of musketry and tho chcers of men. The Federal picket gives way, fightiug at every step, and sounding the alarm— tho Confederates push oa. with a eonfideuco which proves that battle lines are following. From the McGhee bouse to Powbite swamp the alarm runs up and down the Federal lines—Lee is attackingtTUE FEDERAL POSITION. Here 011 this ridge was the artillery. The Federal line ran to the right to that farm house half-hidden among the cherry trees—to the left to that bluff covered with trees and unuer-growth, while cavalry were massed on either flank. Along tho base oftbo ridge is a ravine— the bed of a creek now dry. A division of infantry occupied the ravine. Half way up the ridge 1 can still trace an old breast work of logs. Behind this defense was a sccoud line of infantry. On the crest of the ridge I can flud the old riflepitsriflepits and the breastworks throw n up for artillery. On that June day the grotTtid in front of this ridge was mostly clear. Here and there was a thicket—here a glade—there a swamp—hero a few at res 4 of forest—there five acres of open ground. To reach the ridge every Confederate must make a fair target of himself. lie must meet the terrible lire of three lines of infantry rising one above the other, aud the cannon beyond will use nothing but grape and canuister. It is a stronger position than Lee had at Fredericksburg—than Meade had at Gettysburg— than McClellan had elsewhere in his campaigns. Civil engineers havo said it was the strongest position of the whole war. THE FIRST ONSLAUGHT. A. P. Hill had the dash of Jackson in striking a swift blow. Hardly waiting to form a line of battle, he pushed Ills troops to tho front in assault. There was no spirit of recklessness iu that move. Ho knew the Federal position aud its terrlblo strength, it could not be ilauked. Could it be carried by direct assault? The way to answer that query was to advance. There was no halting to parry and thrust aud look for a weak link in the chain. Gathering his division in hand Hill flung it squarely at the ridge. Twelve thousaud Confederates, 2,000 of whom had never seen a Federal soldier, moved as one man— moved as a tornado which levels forests and blots out landmarks. The moment the gray mass swings into viow 20,000 muskets open fire—fifty.pieces of cannon shake tho earth and send their echoes into Richmond and beyond, Cau flesh aud blood'stand such a fire? The air screams with its burdeus of death, and the awful roar sways the tree-tops as in nu autumn gale. There is a rush of fbet—a cheer—aud out from under the smoke-cloud that gray division dashes into the ravine—dashes up the ridge and over tho logs—springs to the very crest and is among the iruns. Neither storms of bullets nor wails of bayonets had checked it. It was only when the living wave had reached the crest aud actually captured some of the guns that the surprised Federals rallied. Tho recklessness—the cold-blooded abandon of that rugli had so amazed the defend that many men Btood without firing a shot. THE REPULSE. Cheers of victory aud shouts of defiance rose above the trees aud floated dowu to Longstreet's men iu reserve, but the sound died away in a wail. The Federal arn» was uplifted—it swept through the air, and almost in a moment that gray division was hurled back to its starting point -shattered—limping— blood-staiucd—and a fifth of its number lying dead bchfrid it. It was one of the most gallant dashes of any war—it was a repulse so bloody that men shuddered at the sight. It was. tho men under Gregg who led that assault—lt was the iueu under Morrell and Sykes who hurled them back. REVBNOE. The repulse was not enough. As the Confederates retired they were followed by the Federals with a rush which nothing could cheek for nearly half a mile. Back, hack, bijek, and for a time It looked as if Hill would be aunlhilated. It seemed beyond human power to reorganize those shattered regiments, hut it was accomplished, and Hill stood up and took his pounding like the brave man and stubborn fighter. AtGrovetou, Pope hurled Kearney at Jackson to pierce his armor. Kearney could fall back aud endanger nothing. Hill had hurled himself at tho eentor of the Federal postiou aud been repulsed. If driven too far Lougstreet would be taken in flank—Jackson's advance checked. Thus it was thatwbeu the great wave of blue had rolled over swamps and thickets, and woods aud fields until Its Impetus was weakened, it suddenly found Hill again iu battle-line with feet firmly planted. For au hour the firing was terrific aud murderous, but Hill would not budge a foot. By twos— by fives—by dozens his men went dowu w here they stood, but those unhurt lield their lines against every assault. longstreet's attack. The Confederate army was waitlug for the arrival of Jaokson, w ho had been recalled from a movo ou the Federal flank. He was comiug, but his advance found a foe at every-step. Hill be wiped out In auother hour unless relieved. Lougstreet was ready to relieve him, not with fresh troops, but by au attack 011 the Federal position higher uii—squarely against Morell's division. 11a swept forward like a mighty wind, fining so suddenly against the Federal posit on that the scene of Hill's assault was re-cnacted. At the lirtt rush Anderson's and Pickett * brigades were carried over the lines of Ulue and right among the smoking cannou. For ten minutes that rocky crest w a* a scene of dreadful carnage. Men used the bayonet—they clinched with bare hands— gunners wielded their rammers—caniiAn ivkrvfli&rliarired with the foe touchingtouching the muzzles. The mighty wind had struck a stone wall. The wall stooil firm. Tan minutes of that awful light-1 lug was enough fer the Confederates, j and n strong volley lifted thciu off their | feet and hurled them back. SOMB DIiEADFUL WOBK. Warren's troops faced to thu northwest j its left flank near the road running down , across Powliite Creek to Gaines' Mill, aud connecting with Griffin's A part of Longstreet's uicn advanced on this higlnvay as the tight opened, but. never a man lived to reach it. A Fed-j eral battery, with infantry supports lying in this dry roadsjde ditches, checked every dash. It might welf iiave been I said of the regiments pushed at this bat- I tery that every man had lost all consci- ■ ousness of fear. As they swung out ol j a belt of forest they dressea their lines j iu the face of grape, canister and bullets, which cumbered the ground with dead, j before a inau had advanced. hen tho order came they rushed forward with I heads downj as if the shower of death j was a snow Storm. Over the open j ground—-across the bit of marsh—but no : farther. Death met them there. Il tore j off legs aud arms—it left headless bodies j -It mingled human beings beyond recog- ! nition—it blotted bodies off the face of j the earth, leaving etily a horrible smirch ! of bloody atoms to tell that, they had j been there. Again and again these I charges were made, but they only added i to the awful sights In the open field over which tho Federal torrent of death j swept unchecked. For an hour Longstreet thuudred at Morell and llill at j Sykes, and then all of a sudden there camo A DREAD SILENCE, As if the voice of some man rising above the crash of CO,OOO muskets and the rour of fifty cannon had commanded. it, there was almost absolute silence. It was a time for the bravest to tremble. Nothing is so grim in war as a suddeu silence falliug upon a field of battle. Death Is gatheriug its bloody robes clean of the ground to strike a new blow. Men re-fill their cartridge-boxes—Hues are moved—tho artillery wheeled about —blood-shot oyes peer into the woods and over the fields. What meant that silence there ? "JACKSON 19 HERE!" A shout roso ou lliil's loft and ran aloug the lines to Longstreet's right. Jackson had come up from Old Cold Harbor D. if. Hill 011 his left, Kwell on his right. Each line was now almost a half-eircle, but Jackson had scarcely got Into position 011 the left before Slocuw camo up to strengthen tho Federal rigut. Midafternoon had passed. The thick spots of forest began to cast dark shadows. The whole Confederate army was up—McClellau could not give l'ortor another man. If he could not hold his ground with what ho had, good-by to the entire Federal position before Richmond which had been reached at such a cost of blood aud treasure. The cheers for Jackson subsided and then the woods were so still that men looked at each other In wonder. JACKSON'S ADVANCE. From the Gaines' Mill r*>ad clear around to old Cold Harbor a wave suddenly rises up and sweeps forward. The Federals hear it as it starts. It is a roar in which tho voices of men —the trauip of feet—the rumble of wheels and thif gallop of horses are combined. Jacksou's whole corps, with the exception of the Stonewall Urigade, is advancing. The roar increases—tho tramp comes nearer, and almost at the same lubtatit 30,000 streams of lire leap forward and 30,000 muskets crash into the same echo. Hood's Texans rush forward like a thunderbolt, but they are checked by fire, so rapid and destructive, that men fall llat to escape it. Hill seeks to overlap Buchanan's right flank, but a swamp blocks his path, aud in ten luiuutes he is not even able to hold his ground. Hood, too, is being pressed slowly back, when up thunders a score of Confederate gunto his relief, aud now it is a death grapple all along the line. The roar of a dozen Niagaras would have been drowned iu that crash of battle. Men do not hear; if they &ec tho line moving to the right or left, they movo with it. They advance—fall back—load and lire. The Confederate shot and shell tut off whole tree-tops—sever trunks of trees—send great rocks whirling through the air. ' Logs and limbs are tern on*, of the ! breastworks, and become agents of destruction. A shell bursts where a scorfe ! of men arc crowded together, ami when { the smoke lifts, the spot is bare of life. A UCSII OK DEVILS. ' ' Hill's rush when tlrst attacking was to ] be outdone. After the terrible cannonj ade had lasted half an hour, the Stoue, wall Brigade was advanced to reinforce j D. 11. illll on the left. In half an hour I more the sun would be down. If the could bold the line au hour nuorc they could hold it forever. 'I lie | rear of caunon d'el away all at oucc, ; and the whole Confederate army advanced. Hood's brigade of Texans formed ! behind a thicket, through which shot anil shell from the Federal guns were I mowing swaths four feet wide. As they , moved out they rushed, (<rupe aud canister wore exchanged for shot and shell, I but still the lines advanced, overground I into which men sank to ttie knees—over j a deep r.iviue—over rocks and through j thickets—death mowing them down at every step, and then they rushed. It ' was not a rush of uieu, but of devils, i fhelr scrennis rose above the crash of ' musketry, aud evou as they rushed they tlxod bayonets. Not a Federal moved i out of the path of that advance. It i struck the bluo lines and melted them |as liquid iron would melt snow. It cut j a swath into tlie Federal position just j its own width, reaching from ravine to ; (.he parrot guns on the crest. It waa just at sundown. Already the soinbro shadows of approaching night were sot|Lllugdowii upon hill aud valley. Tho ilash of every musket could now be seen —the red flames from the cannon mado tho whole field ifl.i .e. Sloouin hud been i put In across the highway which led to | (Values' Mill in one direction and toj wards Old Cold Harbor in the othei it was between Warren and Lovell ! that the Texans rushed. It seetued us if j uo body of men could live through Bu#h a hurricane of death. Tho lire of at least eight thousand muskets and twenty j pieces of artillery was coucoutrated oil that ono brigade, lcnd' ig tho rush, but | it camc on and on, and it wedged itself I in the Union lines and remained there. For ten minutes u unib of ten thousand men Avhirled round and round in that | eddy of death, and then tho Federals i gave way—slowly, foot by foot, and j lighting so desperately aud Uying so gallantly that every Confederate historian | had lifted his hat to the dead aud spoken In praise of the living?. DYING GAME. When tlio Union linos began to fall back tho Second Now Jersey and Eleventh Pennsylvania refused to move. Thoy wfcro fight ing desperately on flanks and front with Me- Law's Toxans, and though exposed to a nun cilcas Ore their linos could not bo broken. Unable to break thoir front, the Confederates flanked thorn, and yet they fought 011. Aye! and it is Confederates who tell it, too, those gallant men continued tho fight. After they were entirely surrounded, and their anus were only laid down when tho Confederates, awed at such bravery, ceased firing. TOO LATH. When it was seen that tho Federal linos wore breaking son 10 ono orderod a ohurgo of cavalry on J>; 11. Hill's flank. Five hundred of tho regular cavalry mussod and charged Into tho jaws of death. Thoy were swallowed up as a drop of water sinks into the dry earth—iv useless sacrlfleo, and yet a forlorn hope. NIGHT CAME DOWN To still the boom of cannon aud tho crash of musketry—to hide the blood-stained trees and stones and gross—to givo brief rest to men with blood shot oyos and hoarse voices aud exhausted bodies. Then, from hillside and ravine—from field and swamp—from thicket and open camo the wails and groans of tho wounded. Men crawled hero and there—men struggled up to fall and scream out with now agony-thoy dragged them selvos over tho bloody ground to lap the red waters of tho crook and gain strength for an • other shout for succor. And there wero thousands who neither cried out nor moved. As they fell and died so they lay, tho soft dew of a summer's night falling upon white facoß which wars glory would lighten no more. McClellan's right, was beaten, lie must* fall back—ho mutt have more tlian tlio sa gac.;ty of a Napoleon to bring that army to tho James as a body " UNDKH Till; OIUEICN TREKS." In thoso sketches tftonownll Jackson's brt ties liavo been taken in reverse. Wo found him first on the blood-stained field of Antietam - alp I' St at the «bw of his career, in sten lof at the beginning. The worl 1 know 1 bow ho fought there. Wo found him at Kernstown tigbting ono to four -fighting, falling back—grimly giving way to light again. We saw him striko the Fedural or mles right and loft in the vuUoy and fill Washington witfi white faces. Wo found him at Fredericksburg on Leo's right -at Chanoellorsvtlle in Hooker's rear-at Manas has behind Pops—on biJ dunk -h* his front. Wo have found him at Gaines' Mill. i"at waited for him before strikiug a last blow It waa tho hammer in bis grasp which rimttered tho Foileral position. Without liim liongstrAt and Hill would have been pr - od Uiek- -routed—annihilated A Christian in his faith, a child in hiss) ni pathies—aOeneral who cared not for the world's admiration fj much as for the com fort «f any single man who followed hi n in his wonderful inarcbe-. H<- hod thecoui"' of a li'-n and tie heart of a woman, i . poaapund flitter of war wero not for him. His banners grew old and fa«.' • and shot torn. Kit legion* grew raised and fwk i " end weary. No matter who faltered Jie!; son bad faith. No matter who hesitate !- Jackson advanc-1. Fn-rce in the bent of j battle, because it was bis duty to kill, win ,1 I the roar of cannon had die 1 away tlwgroiins j of the wounded reached a heart which had a ! throb for every grcuu. {'artisans may keep their bitforcesi of i heart, but tho world has spoken. ih» man | Whom they hate died forgiving all. btruok I down at t.hancellorsvill", amidst the y m »f ' battle, be was removed to die amidst the i softest pea<v. Ktrong men wept Ilk > rtii! • dren when thc^1 saw thai, tr,s bit hour had I coine, but if they had a feeling of rev...; I down'under their sorrow, ho had if n . ! With malice W-wanis none-with forgn • neos for all, liis life went out as bU pate hps i whispered: • i>»t us cross over and rest under the grectt trees!" And may he ever rttft. . DENTISTRY. Win. 8. MeCOLLUM, Surgical Mill Mechanical Dentist. J.KWISTON, N.Y. Nitrous Oxide Gas given for painless extraction of tooth. All operations warranted. fiaqlr. NEW BARBER SHOP. A now barber ehop has just been opened over Joaeph Thompson'* harness shop, Youngs tow 11, N. Y. Bakbeiumi iu All Its Branches With neatness and dispatch. O. W. GILHERT. "AGENTS GUIDE" IS A LARGE Twenty four Page! PAPEII, Full of spicy stories, poet ry, fun, etc. Devot «vl to the intcreHts of agents un<l udvcrtiserH Undoubtedly the bent agent's paper in tho world. Taken by all live agents. Only fiOc. a year. 3 months on trial 10c., (silver.) {samples tor 3c. stamp. Agents send for it; you will likeit, Advertising rates very low. Address San-, born A Jackson, publishers, Oakfiekl. X. V. NEW MILLINERY GOODS ! The undersigned has Just received one of the finest stocks of millinery aud FIKCY GOODSi Ever displayed in this vicinity. New Novelties Will lie Added Each Week. In connection with tho above basmeaa. I have opened a DRESS MAKBR2C Department, will be under thosuporvi tiion of a thoroitKh!y competent cutter, fitter and maker. UTTWI work will be turned out on short notice and in a perfectly satisfactory manner: while prices will be as low as good work will warrant. c. to. VOSBURCJ, Youngstown, N. Y. HO RAM, 10 HI. 13 A rfTIj,TVTrPQ Obtained for .J\ I Ji/IN I. O Mechanical Devices, Compounds, Designs and Labels. All preliminary examinations as to patentability of inventions, freo. Our " Guide for Obtaining Patents" is sent free everywhere. Address— LOUIS NAGGER & CO., Solicitors of patents, Washington, D. C. _. __ business now before the pubhe. Yoii can make money l-< H. S I faster by working for lis than X at unytnlug else. Capital not needed. We will start pvii. $12 a day made at homo by the industrious. Men, women, boya and girls wanted everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. You can work iu spare time only or give your whole time to the business. You can live at home and do the work. No other business will pay you nearly as well, No one can fail to mako enormous pay by untftiKinK at once. Coitly out. 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| Title | Niagara County News, 1882-05-19 |
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| Title | Niagara County News, 1882-05-19 |
| Description | Early newspapers of Youngstown, New York |
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Newspapers--New York (State) Niagara County (N.Y.)--Newspapers Youngstown (N.Y.)--Newspapers |
| NY Heritage Topic | Community & Events |
| Location |
New York (State), Western Niagara County (N.Y.) Youngstown (N.Y.) |
| Date of Original | 1882-05-19 |
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NIAGARA COUNTY NEWS. VOL. 2. YOUNGSTOWN, NIAGARA CO., N. Y., MAY 19, 1882. NO. 12. HERE AND THESE. I j —M—m—m—What? —51r. George Wagner is catcling I herritrg in largo quantities with sell*. —The " City of 'Toronto" will be lie favorite steamer on the route this seas«u. —A tiue new oiied ail(3 varnished si iff has just been built for Wm.Kay by tfr. ' J. Redhead, of Niagjra. —The Free Methodists will holj a camp meeting in the neighborhood of Kansomville some time in August. —Four sheep and half a dozen lamis belonging to Wm.Hill, were the vietiini of some murderous dogs last week, —The water In Niagara River last ! Friday was higher by a dozen inches ! than at any pravious time this season. —Negotiations are pending for the j purchase of property corner of First and j Falls Streets, Niagara Falls, by two citizens, for an opera-house site. I . —Daniel E. McGrath aud Maggie Clark, charged with burglary, have been held for the next grand jury at Lockport. They liave given bail in $600 each. —Ex-Sanitary Coin. Rufus K. Hireman, of Now Orleans, was cured of a severe attack of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil, so we see by an item in the Columbus [Oa.] Enquirer-Sun. —With sturgeon at Ave cents per pound and beefsteak eighteen cent* per pound, what will three cords of green wood como to. if coal costs $0 per ton ? Our '-devil" auswered that—Ashes. —Over 200 applications have been filed for appointment ou the Lockport police force. Only niue appointments cau be made. No one addicted to the use of Intoxicating liquors will have any chance. —Mr. Charles T. Kllboriie, until recently of Lockport, now a member of the banking firm of W.H. Goodby & Co. of New-York, vifs married 011 Tuesday of last week to Luella L. Andrews of Jersey City. Its Star Still Ascending:. In a recent call upon Mr. W. 11. Alllster, auo Front Street, general agent for the sale ef the Star Chewing Tobacco, he thus spoke to one of our reporters: " I was tortured from pain from acute rheumatism, and cared not whether I lived or died. I triod St. Jacobs Oil —just two applications of which entirely cured me."—Han Francisco [Cal.\ Call. COUNTY NEWS. —Olcott is talking up a celebration for the 4th of July. —Arnold & Littles' mill at Lockport, is nearly ready to begin custom grinding.—Edward James of Middleport Iras been arrested for selling liquor without a license. —Two ducks,of the Aylesbury breed, belotiglug to Frank VVatt of Cftiubiia, have laid 100 eggs In 55 days. —Sirs. Jesse Smith, of Wilson, wants a limited divorce from her husband. We havo not heard what limit sho wants. —A largo warehouse owned by Kobb & lless at Hess Road station, was burned recently. Loks, $2,500; insured for §1,200. —Bermuda and Suowflake potatoes, of this year's growth, are shown by a person in Lockport. Tho seed was planted March 15th. —Tho bam of John Campbell, near Wright's Corners, burned Saturday night. Los», $1,000; insurance, $700. It Is supposed to havo been caused by children. —Mr. T. liugby of Niagara Falls lias just returuod from an extended trip through Florida; and among other curiosities, has brought with him 125 live alligators, from Bto 20 luches long, lie intends to sell them. —The old excise board of Lockport continue to grant licenses. They havo paid $1,335 to tho City Treasurer, who receipted for the same; this amount having been paid in for licenses. The friends of temperance are very lndignnut, and much trouble will be mado for somebody. —The house of Col. J. D. Ames, on Prospect street, Lockport, was entered Sunday night while the family were at cliurcb.and $130 and some other articles of jewelry were taken. A young man named D. McGrath, a law student, was on tiie samo evening found iu the yard intoxicated, and as a girl was seen with him that evening, who had formerly ] beeu in the employ of the family, they! were both arrested on suspicion. None of the missing property lias yet beeu found. —Mrs. Lydia E. Plntcham, 233 Western Avenue. Lynn, Mas*., is raj idly ac•j iring an enviable reputation for the: surprising cures which daily result from tho use of her Vegetable Compound iu all female diseases. Send to j her for pamphlets. 1 SIXTEEN YEARS AFTER. THE BATTLE OF GAINES' MILL. Six Hours of the Hottest Figbtin; of the War. [SLQuad, in Detroit Free Press.] 1 spent the whole day ridiug over tho fields of New and Old Cold Harbors. McClellau's first great battle with Johnston brought on his sccoud with Lee. He fought Johnston at Fair Oaks in the last days of May—he confronted Lee at the Harbors in tho last days of June. It Is a country of farms and forests, of h?ls and plains. Autumn was dropping its ripe apples on the half-leveled breastwofts erected twenty years ago, and tho wild grapevines covered many a scar left on the trees by kail and Bullet. Here ok tho swamps In which the dead and wo»uded were sucked slowly down by the treacherous oozo, as shot and shell flew above them—here the slopes and lields across which Death rushed With bloody liaudu to. claim his victims by tho thousand. At the top of this hill, where Federal cannon thundered destruction, a flock of sheep crop at the short, dry herbage. Down there where the little creek steals softly under the green banVs, and noisily rushes over the pebbles, the dead lay in heaps and the wounded crept to the s.tream in such numbers that tho waters wero dammed back and eddies of blood went circling round. Here, behind Powhito Creek, where Porter was massed, a school-boy would tell you that infantry would have a terrible advantage. All along this side is a grand sweep for cannon, and in the ravines below a whole division can find safe cover. Hero are scars to. make you wonder. Great limbs lopped off—trees cut in two—rocks broken and shattered—scars of bullets 011 every trunk and limb which was growing here 011 that Juueday. It Is the only other spot in tlie world resembling the place at Port Republic where the Federal guns were massed, and over which men fought and died like demons. There wero. thickets and jungles in the path us battle Hues moved that day. They are hero yet. As 1 sit 011 tho old work along the Gaines' Mill road to smoke a cigar at noonday, down in those dark swamps tho owls scold each other and tho frogs call out as if evening had come. You would wonder that a farmer's horse could draw a cart over tUese lields, and yet It was here that batteries came Into position at a gallop—whole divisions charged—thousands of men marched, fought aud died. War may seek the green meadow or the dark jungle—the hill-top or tho dense forest. THE WARNINO IJELL. McClellau had been warned of tho approaching hurricanc. His cavalry pickets hud been driven 111 from tho left bank of the Chiekahominy; Meadow Bridge had been seized by the enemy; tho green grass at Beaver Dam had been wet with blood; Jackson was rvachlugout beyond the Federal flank. Tho bell had tolled its warning—a warning which rose ou the air above tho shrieks of tho wouuded and the roar of musketry aud cannon. Tho warning was: "Fail back—shorten your lines—mass your Artillery ou the ridges—hido your infantry in tho ravines." McClellau bad ebeyed. Jackson had struck him like h thunderbolt, bat he was not paralyzed. With a grim coolness 110 issued the orders which massed men and caimou whore they could not be flanked. THE FEDERAL PICKET. Down this wiudlng road leading past the Mill the Federal picket boiled their coffee and munched their liard-tack at noon ou tha>27th of June, with the birds siuging in the trees and tho air filled with the lazy hum of perfect peace. Jackson's caunon sounded in the distance, but here all was quietness and peace. The noonday meal is scarcely finished when stratigo figures appear in the road—ai the fields—in the" woods. It Is tho advanco of A. I*. Hill. In thirty seconds the peace is broken by the pop of musketry and tho chcers of men. The Federal picket gives way, fightiug at every step, and sounding the alarm— tho Confederates push oa. with a eonfideuco which proves that battle lines are following. From the McGhee bouse to Powbite swamp the alarm runs up and down the Federal lines—Lee is attackingtTUE FEDERAL POSITION. Here 011 this ridge was the artillery. The Federal line ran to the right to that farm house half-hidden among the cherry trees—to the left to that bluff covered with trees and unuer-growth, while cavalry were massed on either flank. Along tho base oftbo ridge is a ravine— the bed of a creek now dry. A division of infantry occupied the ravine. Half way up the ridge 1 can still trace an old breast work of logs. Behind this defense was a sccoud line of infantry. On the crest of the ridge I can flud the old riflepitsriflepits and the breastworks throw n up for artillery. On that June day the grotTtid in front of this ridge was mostly clear. Here and there was a thicket—here a glade—there a swamp—hero a few at res 4 of forest—there five acres of open ground. To reach the ridge every Confederate must make a fair target of himself. lie must meet the terrible lire of three lines of infantry rising one above the other, aud the cannon beyond will use nothing but grape and canuister. It is a stronger position than Lee had at Fredericksburg—than Meade had at Gettysburg— than McClellan had elsewhere in his campaigns. Civil engineers havo said it was the strongest position of the whole war. THE FIRST ONSLAUGHT. A. P. Hill had the dash of Jackson in striking a swift blow. Hardly waiting to form a line of battle, he pushed Ills troops to tho front in assault. There was no spirit of recklessness iu that move. Ho knew the Federal position aud its terrlblo strength, it could not be ilauked. Could it be carried by direct assault? The way to answer that query was to advance. There was no halting to parry and thrust aud look for a weak link in the chain. Gathering his division in hand Hill flung it squarely at the ridge. Twelve thousaud Confederates, 2,000 of whom had never seen a Federal soldier, moved as one man— moved as a tornado which levels forests and blots out landmarks. The moment the gray mass swings into viow 20,000 muskets open fire—fifty.pieces of cannon shake tho earth and send their echoes into Richmond and beyond, Cau flesh aud blood'stand such a fire? The air screams with its burdeus of death, and the awful roar sways the tree-tops as in nu autumn gale. There is a rush of fbet—a cheer—aud out from under the smoke-cloud that gray division dashes into the ravine—dashes up the ridge and over tho logs—springs to the very crest and is among the iruns. Neither storms of bullets nor wails of bayonets had checked it. It was only when the living wave had reached the crest aud actually captured some of the guns that the surprised Federals rallied. Tho recklessness—the cold-blooded abandon of that rugli had so amazed the defend that many men Btood without firing a shot. THE REPULSE. Cheers of victory aud shouts of defiance rose above the trees aud floated dowu to Longstreet's men iu reserve, but the sound died away in a wail. The Federal arn» was uplifted—it swept through the air, and almost in a moment that gray division was hurled back to its starting point -shattered—limping— blood-staiucd—and a fifth of its number lying dead bchfrid it. It was one of the most gallant dashes of any war—it was a repulse so bloody that men shuddered at the sight. It was. tho men under Gregg who led that assault—lt was the iueu under Morrell and Sykes who hurled them back. REVBNOE. The repulse was not enough. As the Confederates retired they were followed by the Federals with a rush which nothing could cheek for nearly half a mile. Back, hack, bijek, and for a time It looked as if Hill would be aunlhilated. It seemed beyond human power to reorganize those shattered regiments, hut it was accomplished, and Hill stood up and took his pounding like the brave man and stubborn fighter. AtGrovetou, Pope hurled Kearney at Jackson to pierce his armor. Kearney could fall back aud endanger nothing. Hill had hurled himself at tho eentor of the Federal postiou aud been repulsed. If driven too far Lougstreet would be taken in flank—Jackson's advance checked. Thus it was thatwbeu the great wave of blue had rolled over swamps and thickets, and woods aud fields until Its Impetus was weakened, it suddenly found Hill again iu battle-line with feet firmly planted. For au hour the firing was terrific aud murderous, but Hill would not budge a foot. By twos— by fives—by dozens his men went dowu w here they stood, but those unhurt lield their lines against every assault. longstreet's attack. The Confederate army was waitlug for the arrival of Jaokson, w ho had been recalled from a movo ou the Federal flank. He was comiug, but his advance found a foe at every-step. Hill be wiped out In auother hour unless relieved. Lougstreet was ready to relieve him, not with fresh troops, but by au attack 011 the Federal position higher uii—squarely against Morell's division. 11a swept forward like a mighty wind, fining so suddenly against the Federal posit on that the scene of Hill's assault was re-cnacted. At the lirtt rush Anderson's and Pickett * brigades were carried over the lines of Ulue and right among the smoking cannou. For ten minutes that rocky crest w a* a scene of dreadful carnage. Men used the bayonet—they clinched with bare hands— gunners wielded their rammers—caniiAn ivkrvfli&rliarired with the foe touchingtouching the muzzles. The mighty wind had struck a stone wall. The wall stooil firm. Tan minutes of that awful light-1 lug was enough fer the Confederates, j and n strong volley lifted thciu off their feet and hurled them back. SOMB DIiEADFUL WOBK. Warren's troops faced to thu northwest j its left flank near the road running down , across Powliite Creek to Gaines' Mill, aud connecting with Griffin's A part of Longstreet's uicn advanced on this higlnvay as the tight opened, but. never a man lived to reach it. A Fed-j eral battery, with infantry supports lying in this dry roadsjde ditches, checked every dash. It might welf iiave been I said of the regiments pushed at this bat- I tery that every man had lost all consci- ■ ousness of fear. As they swung out ol j a belt of forest they dressea their lines j iu the face of grape, canister and bullets, which cumbered the ground with dead, j before a inau had advanced. hen tho order came they rushed forward with I heads downj as if the shower of death j was a snow Storm. Over the open j ground—-across the bit of marsh—but no : farther. Death met them there. Il tore j off legs aud arms—it left headless bodies j -It mingled human beings beyond recog- ! nition—it blotted bodies off the face of j the earth, leaving etily a horrible smirch ! of bloody atoms to tell that, they had j been there. Again and again these I charges were made, but they only added i to the awful sights In the open field over which tho Federal torrent of death j swept unchecked. For an hour Longstreet thuudred at Morell and llill at j Sykes, and then all of a sudden there camo A DREAD SILENCE, As if the voice of some man rising above the crash of CO,OOO muskets and the rour of fifty cannon had commanded. it, there was almost absolute silence. It was a time for the bravest to tremble. Nothing is so grim in war as a suddeu silence falliug upon a field of battle. Death Is gatheriug its bloody robes clean of the ground to strike a new blow. Men re-fill their cartridge-boxes—Hues are moved—tho artillery wheeled about —blood-shot oyes peer into the woods and over the fields. What meant that silence there ? "JACKSON 19 HERE!" A shout roso ou lliil's loft and ran aloug the lines to Longstreet's right. Jackson had come up from Old Cold Harbor D. if. Hill 011 his left, Kwell on his right. Each line was now almost a half-eircle, but Jackson had scarcely got Into position 011 the left before Slocuw camo up to strengthen tho Federal rigut. Midafternoon had passed. The thick spots of forest began to cast dark shadows. The whole Confederate army was up—McClellau could not give l'ortor another man. If he could not hold his ground with what ho had, good-by to the entire Federal position before Richmond which had been reached at such a cost of blood aud treasure. The cheers for Jackson subsided and then the woods were so still that men looked at each other In wonder. JACKSON'S ADVANCE. From the Gaines' Mill r*>ad clear around to old Cold Harbor a wave suddenly rises up and sweeps forward. The Federals hear it as it starts. It is a roar in which tho voices of men —the trauip of feet—the rumble of wheels and thif gallop of horses are combined. Jacksou's whole corps, with the exception of the Stonewall Urigade, is advancing. The roar increases—tho tramp comes nearer, and almost at the same lubtatit 30,000 streams of lire leap forward and 30,000 muskets crash into the same echo. Hood's Texans rush forward like a thunderbolt, but they are checked by fire, so rapid and destructive, that men fall llat to escape it. Hill seeks to overlap Buchanan's right flank, but a swamp blocks his path, aud in ten luiuutes he is not even able to hold his ground. Hood, too, is being pressed slowly back, when up thunders a score of Confederate gunto his relief, aud now it is a death grapple all along the line. The roar of a dozen Niagaras would have been drowned iu that crash of battle. Men do not hear; if they &ec tho line moving to the right or left, they movo with it. They advance—fall back—load and lire. The Confederate shot and shell tut off whole tree-tops—sever trunks of trees—send great rocks whirling through the air. ' Logs and limbs are tern on*, of the ! breastworks, and become agents of destruction. A shell bursts where a scorfe ! of men arc crowded together, ami when { the smoke lifts, the spot is bare of life. A UCSII OK DEVILS. ' ' Hill's rush when tlrst attacking was to ] be outdone. After the terrible cannonj ade had lasted half an hour, the Stoue, wall Brigade was advanced to reinforce j D. 11. illll on the left. In half an hour I more the sun would be down. If the could bold the line au hour nuorc they could hold it forever. 'I lie rear of caunon d'el away all at oucc, ; and the whole Confederate army advanced. Hood's brigade of Texans formed ! behind a thicket, through which shot anil shell from the Federal guns were I mowing swaths four feet wide. As they , moved out they rushed, ( |
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