TTTE BEE: OMATTA, RATT7RPAY, AriJTTi 1, 1011.
SHERIDAN'S ARMY ON BORDER
Hiitorlci Precedent for Present
' Mobilii&tion of Troops,
emznia times on mo grajtoe
TleklUk llraatloa mt Claa of Civil
War a flaw It Waa Ilanl"
Withdrawal of Fremck
Troop. ,
Th mobilisation of thousands of mited
Ft ate troops In Texas In not a novelty In
the history of tbo War department. While
It I said that the troops are In Texas
merely for maneuvers, uch waa not the
cane when General "Phil" Sheridan u
sent Into that state ' with 60,000 veteran
troops.
Thla mora followed tha occupation of
Mexico br tha French and the placing of
Maximilian on the throne by Napoleon.
When tha American civil war waa at Ita
height, tha emperor of the French sent
troopa to Mexico to antabllah a throne
there, believing tha government of tha
United Btatea too much occupied with war
to attempt to enforce tha Monroe doctrine.
Tha occupation of Mexico by tha French
array wh tha most radical Infraction of
that doctrine ever attempted.
Not until after tha battle of Gettysburg
and tha fall of Vlcksburg did Secretary Se
ward deem It wise to notify the French that
tha proceeding In Mexico were distasteful
to the United States government, and not
until after the war did Mr. Seward find tha
time Hp to demand of Napoleon that the
French armies bt withdrawn from Mexico.
Fven befor tha grand review In Wash
ington, prior to the dlsbandment of the
armies of the union, in which ha longed to
Match, General Sheridan was ordered to
tha Texas frontier to put down the rebel
lion In that quarter and alio to reinforce
the demand of the United States govern
ment that Maximilian and his European
allies evacuate Mexico.
herldaw Sent to Texas.
The day after Sheridan arrived In Wanh
lngton from Petersburg, ha received orders
transferring him to a new oommand. The
order directed him to restore Texas and
that part of Louisiana held by the enemy
to the union. He was told that he could
have all the troops that could be spared
by Major General Canby In Louisiana
sbout 25,000 men of all arms the troops
that were with Major General T. J. Rey
nolds In Arkansas 12.000 the Fourth Army
corps at Nashville and the Twenty-fifth
Army corps In Virginia.
Sheridan promptly called on General
Grant to see if his orders were to be con
sidered so pressing as ta preclude his re
maining in Washington until after the
grand review. General Grant told him that
It was absolutely necessary to go at otjfc
to force the surrender of tha confederates
under KIrby Smith. At that Interview Gen
eral Grant also told Sheridan that there
was an additional Motive In sending him
to the new command, a motive not ex
plained In the written Instructions.
Orant said that ha looked upon the In
vasion of Mexico by Maximilian as a part
of tha rebellion Itself, because of the en
couragement that Invasion had received
from the confederacy. Sheridan was told
that It would ba necessary for him to act
wtth great care, as Seward was opposed
' to tha us of United States troops along
the border In any active way that would
ba likely to involve the country In a war
with European powers.
Sheridan's written orders, signed by U.
S. Grant, Heutsnant-gereral, concluded as
i follows:
"In eaa of an active campaign (a hostile
one), I thick a heavy forca should ba put
on tha Rio Grande as a first preliminary.
Troops for this might ba started at once.
The Twenty-fifth corps Is now available,
and to it should be added a force of white
troops, say those now under Major-Gen-eral
Steels,
"To be clear on this last point, I think
the Rio Grande should ba strongly held,
whether the fore In Texas -tun-wider or
not, and that no time should be lost In
getting troops there. If war Is to be made,
, they should be In the right place; if Kirby
Smith surrenders, they will be on the line
which Is to be strongly garrisoned.
"Should any force be necessary other
than those designated, they can be had by
calling for them on army headquarters."
Cavalry Seat Across State,
Sheridan left Washington without partici
pating In the grand review. When he ar
rived at his station, he decided to cross the
state with two columns of cavalry, sending
one to San Antonio under Major General
Wesley Merritt. and the other to Houston
under Major General George A. Custer.
Several regiments of cavalry from the east
bank of the Mississippi were added to the
mounted forces.
By the time the two columns were .ready
to start for San Antonio anil Houston,
General Frank Herron, with one division
of tha Thirteenth corps, had occupied Gal
veston, and another dlvlMun under General
Fred Steele had gone to Brazos to hold
Brownsville and the line of the Rio
Grand.
Th object was to keep the escaping
confederate from Joining Maximilian.
Sheridan soon asked for au Increase of
his force, so that he could send troops
elsewhere In Texas. He wanted to concen
trate at available points In the state an
army strong enough to move against the
Invaders of Mexico, If conditions demanded.
Tha Fourth and Twenty-fifth corps were
then ordered to report ta him and he sent
the former to Victoria and San Antonio,
and tha bulk of the lutter to Brownsville.
KYoru. Braxoa. Santiago. .Sheridan had to
build a railroad to Ciarksvllle. about eight
een miles. All this work was done by
the soldiers. The railroad was needed to
transport supplies for the forces at
Brownsville and alone the ltl Grande.
Id the latter part of June, lfi. General
Sheridan went to BrownsvilW himself to
impress the imperialists with the idea that
tha United States meant businexs. He also
sent General Steele to make demonstra
tions all along the lower Bio Grande, and
at the same time il.inanj.'il the return of
certain munitions of war that hud ben
turned over by ex-confedei atea to the Im
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sively lo the uca of t lie iiillcul profes
sion, but ran t imn luiwl hy tne general
public from any good druaglHt. jf I, a d.B
not have It In Hi ik he will oulckly get it
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perial general commanding at Matamnras.
These demands, barked as they ere by
such a show of force a force startling not
only numerically, but because of Its com
position of veterans of one of th stub
bornest wars In hictory wer ths cause of
demoralization among th Imperial troops,
and measures looking to the abandonment
of northern Mexico wer quickly adopted
by thosn In authority.
This policy would probably have reunited
In the peedy evacuation of th entire
country by Mexlmillan, had not th United
States government weakened.
His aggressive policy. General Sheridan
always thought, s he later set forth in
his meniolrs. would have brought about
and the speedy evacuation of th entire
the collapse of tha Maximilian government,
country by the French, had Sheridan re
ceived permission to cross th Rio Grand
Into Mexico.
For such a move. In hi opinion, there
waa ample exouse, large bodies of Confed
erates having orossed over with munitions
of war, including cannon.
croud Hostile Iemont ration.
But Seward was not anxious to under
take any such Invasion of a neighboring
country In time of peace, and ho waa con
tent when a few pieces of the contraband
artillery were returned with the apologies
of the Imperial novernivunt.
In th latter part of September, 1KSS,
Sheridan became Impatient of the slow
work at Washington and decided to make
another hostile demonstration. This time
he selected the upper Rio Grande for the
scene of action. Merrlt's cavalry and the
Fourth corps were still at San Antonio,
Sheridan went to that place and reviewed
the troops. Because of his presence at
San Antonio, the parade of the troops.
and their open preparation for a campnlcn.
the natives thought that the Americans
were going to Invade Mexico.
Escorted by u cavnlry regiment, Sheri
dan went to Fort Duncan on the Rio
Grande, opposite Pledraa Negras. He
then deliberately opened communication
with President Juarex. This gave rise to
th belief that Sheridan was only awaiting
tha arrival of United Stares troops, then
under marching orders at San Antonio, to
cross the Rio Grande and attack Maximil
ian's troopa
The Imperialists were so much alarmed
by these reports and the open military
demonstrations, that they withdrew tha
French Jid Austrian soldiers from Mata-
moraa, abandoning the whola of Mexico as
far down as Monterery.
Jusf when the American general thought
that these demonstrations would caAise the
rinal withdrawal of the foreigners from
Mexico, ha was again called off by the
United States government, as a result of
the representations of the French minister
at Washington. The latter wrote to Sec
retary Seward that the United States gov
ernment was not preserving the strictest
neutrality. Sheridan waa then officially
notified to preserve absolute neutrality.
It waa often extremely difficult for Sher
idan so he wrote in his memoirs to re
strain officers and men from crossing th
Rio Grand with hostile purposes.
Raid of Filibusters.
A filibustering band, In January, 186674
crossed Into Mexico from Texas and sacked
Bagdag, carrying off the garrison. Thla
band, wholly without connection with the
United States troops, formed th nucleus
of the fore which took Bagdag, and were
retnforoed by a few negro soldiers.
In th course of the sacking of the town
French vessels wer fired upon by th In
vaders, and the United States regular
went across the line to stop them.
The fact that an act like the aelxure of
Bagdad could be perpetrated, that a forca
from the American side of the river, could
commit so flagrant a violation of neutrality,
showed an extraordinary state of discipline.
Sheridan rebuked the disorderly movement
on the Mexican town, and the United 8tates
government hastened to make amends by
removing tha commandant at the American
army post In Texas, and also punishing
the participant In the attack.
It waa that part of Texas that led Sheri
dan to say that If be owned both place
he would rent Texas and live In hell.
At that time Texas was overrun with
desperadoes and outlaws, land It was lmpos.
stole to prevent soldiers and union men
along the border from showing open sym
pathy with the liberal cause In Mexico.
Sheridan admitted that In the course of
the winter and spring of 1846 the American
armv rnvertlv aunnllAd arms anil nmmnnt. !
tlon to the liberals In Mexico, sending as
many 'as 30,010 muskets from the armory
at Baton Rogue alone.
Fate of the ISmperor.
By midsummer President Juares, having
organized a fair-sized army, was In pos
session of the whole line of the Rio Grande,
and, in fact, of neiirly the whole of Mexico
down to San Luis Potosl. Within two years
Imperialism had received Its deathblow
In Mexico. Sheridan said that he doubted
whether such 'results could have been
achieved without the presence of our
American army on the Rio Grande.
From the autumn of lSf.6 until February,
lHii7, ,the French troops by degrees evacu
ated Mexico. The significant movement of
United States troops to the Mexican fron
tier led Napoleon to withdraw his support
of Maximilian. x
After the withdrawal of the French from
Mexico, Maximilian, though deserted, de
termined to hold out until the last, and,
with the aid of disloyal Mexicans, stuck
to his cause until the spring. He was taken
prisoner at Queretaro, tried, and executed
on May 14. 1M7. Secretary Seward tried
hard to save him.
Sheridan took the secretary's plea for
mercy to General Kscobedo at Queretaro,
but the representations of the United
States were without avail. They were re
fused probably because little mercy had
been shown to, certain liberal leaders who
had fallen Into Maximilian's hands. New
York Post.
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Times, Printing.
Tot Wage Earners, tha monthly pay
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Asa n. offers the Ideal plan for savings.
Hoard of Trade Building.
Make Late Complaint John Cavan
' augh of 2-t' X street. South Omaha, com
plained to the police Thursday that two
messenger boys robbed him of a gold watch
and chain March 1!.
Play at Turner Hall "The New Mag
delene," an ethical play, will be the pro
gram of the Dramatic club of the Bo
hemian Turners Sunday nUl.t, ul Turner
hull. The Dramatic cluh has been under
the tutelage of Joe Mik all winter and
some good talent has been developed.
Wo Verdict In Damage Buit The case
f Jacob DreheragainHt the street railway
I company, w herein the plaintiff sued for
damages to the amount of H.S.OCU for the
Ioks of the lower 'art of a leg and a por
tion of one loot cume to an end Friday
morning with a hung jury. The members of
the Jury were disviiarHed by Judge W. U.
Sears. '
First Lieutenant Fred V. 8. Chamber
.in. Second Infantry will report to Col-
onel Aaron H. Ariel, medical corps, presl
dent of the examining board at Fort. D.
A. Russell, V)o., to determine his fit
ness for promotion.
LOOK, WHAT HAVE WE HERE!
A Banch of the Kind of Funny
Stories Englishmen Tell.
LOCAL "COLOR" GETS THE LAUGH
Standard Specimens of the Points
Which Reach th Risibili
ties) of J. Ball and
III Family.
For several years I did a column of hu
morous matter for tha Brooklyn Time to
offset Bob Burdette's efforts In the same
line for the Eagle, and after years of de
liberation It Is a question who worked
off tha most chestnuts. Bob or myself. It
was obvious to the cub reporter. One day
ha pasted on my desk whtt I then con
sidered an Insult, but later confessed tha
truth of. It waa:
"Chestnuts revamped."
There Is nothing new under th sun.
Fun, satire, wit and humor has livened
up tha people of the earth so far In th
past that history wots not Its beginning.
Over 4.000 ysars ago a Chinaman came to
a neighbor and requested th loan of a
hempen rope.
"I can not lend It to you, as I have some
rice to tie up In It," was tha reply to th
request.
"But you cannot tie up rice In a rope,"
Insisted th borrower.
"I can tie anything up In a rope, that I
do not wish to lend." '
This story has been accredited to the
Arabs also.
It was an ancient Greek who cautioned
his son not to go near the water until ha
had learned to swim.
According to George Ebers, the cele
brated Egyptologist, the mother-in-law
Joke antedates, the pyramids by a few
hundred year.
Of course, th hjmor of the ancients
was somewhat Intermittent. They had no
Doesticks. Dickens, Nasby, Billings or
Twain. Nowadays there is not a country
that does not have one or more humorous
publications.
Foreigners, as a rule, do not understand
our wit and humor. Sir Alfred Harmsworth
once remarked to me that American humor
was coarse and sometimes brutal. Mark
Twain and Peter Flniey Dunne are the
only American humorists who are accepted
by Englishmen. On the other hand, e
do not appreciate the humor of Punch, the
Englishman's delight. i
What They Laagh At.
I have seen an Englishman laugh heartily
over a Joke In Punch that I couldn't, see
any point to, until It was explained to me,
and no doubt that gentleman considered
me as dense as we consider them when
we tell them a funny story and get a sort
of pained look, rather mystifying to be
sure. Instead of the laugh which was ex
pected. It Is the local application of the Joke
that counts the world over. The funniest
thing I ever saw was the charge a year
ling Hereford bull made at a barbed-wire
fence in tha Texas panhandle. He struck
tha fence full tilt and the rebound caused
him to turn a complete back somersault.
Ha landed on his hoofs all right, and
ther he stood all straddled out with a
look of astonishment on his face that
was almost human. It was so ludicrous
that I laid down In th meaqulte grass
and rolled over In spasms of mirth. Then
ha began to bawl Ilk a whipped child,
turned tall and ran as from a banshee.
I was at dinner In a Bradford club and
told about It, expecting to get a laugh, but
all I got was this from Hon. Smith Feather,
mayor of that Yorkshire city.
"By Jove! I didn't know those wire
fences were so strong. It' a jolly good
thing tha poor brute wasn't Injured."
However much wa may deplore the fact
that Englishmen can not see the point to
our stories, I will say that I heard many
a good story while In England. I was
put up at tha Savaga olub, and there met
many of the prominent men of London.
One day I was Invited to Join a party at
the round table and there I heard the fol
lowing stories, which go to prove that an
Englishman can tell a good story that we
can appreciate.
Good-Bye to the Sergeant.
By Dr. Leander Jameson, who was re
sponsible for tha Boer war:
"A drill aergeant had an awkward squad
out putting them through their paces. One
in particular was aggravatlngly dense and
the sergeant began to rag him.
" "Ere, you red-'ead, 'old your 'ead
hup 'Igher. There, you bally hum of a
Tommy Atkins, 'old It there.'
" 'Must I halways 'old It this way, ser
sergeant?' asked the recruit
" 'Yes, 'old It there, blyme you!'
" 'Then good-by, sergeant; I'll never see
you again.' "
A Disgrace to the German Army.
"That puts me In mind of a story I heard
In Berlin, said Bram Stoker, celebrated
as Henry Irving' man Friday.
"This German drill sergeant had his
awkward squad out. His eye lit on one
tow-headed chap who bad just been torn
frcm home and mother to serve his time.
" 'Hey, you; your shoes are dirty!"
" 'Yes, my lord."
"'And your clothes are not brushed!'
" 'No, my lord."
" 'And your gun Is dirty!'
" 'Yes, my lord.'
" 'And your buckles are rusty!'
" "Yes, my ord.'
" 'And you are not shaved!'
' 'No, my lord.'
" 'Well, thunder and lightning, what Is
your name, anyway?'
" 'My name is Si hmitt, my lord.'
"'So your name is Schmltt is It? Gott
In hlmmel, what won't you do next to
disgrace the German army?" "
Why the Hialiland Train Stopped.
By YV. W. Jacoos, who looks Ilk the
impresario of a comic opera compauy, but
who writes charming longshore stories
that have made blm famous:
"Thnt doesn't remind me of anything,
but I'll tell you a yarn that struck me as
funny. I,ast month I was on my way to
Inverness. About ten miles out tha train
stopped, then went on a few feet, then
vtopped again. This happened several
times and finally we came to a dead stop.
Thirty minutes paaed by. Finally I aaw
one of the guards sitting on the embank
ment and shouted to him:
" 1 say, Sandy, what' the matter. Is
there a wreck ahead?'
" 'Na, na. sor; the water Iks jus' gone
off the boll.' "
The Neutchmaa Kaw the Joke.
By Ixrd Mashein, who when a poor mm
Invented appliance.' which now makes him
one of the greatest pluali manufacturers
in the world:
"That reminds me of a Scotch story.
and this time, aa usual, the laugh is on
Sandy. It seems that an American and
Scotchman were making a pedestrian tour
of the land of mlt and oat cakes. They
came to a little, town that prided itself on
its local museum. It really was sn Inter
esting place, as 1 believe they viud Bob
ttruce's original spider web there After
going the rounds they came to tha exit,
upon which waa a card reading:
" Thus who ran not read the Inscrip
tion please apply to tha blacksmith across
th road.'
"Of course. It struck the Yankee that
those who couldn't read the Inscription
couldn't read tha card, and he La 4 a gol
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Music and
Flowers
laugh over It. Brown explained It to Mac-Urc-Kyor,
but the Scot never cracked a
smile.
"That night they put up at a pub. Brown
was tired and went to bed early, sleeping
the sleep of exhaustion. In the night
fc'andy woke him up, gleefully shouting:
" 'Wake up, mun! I sew It noo! I see It
noo!'
' 'Well for heaven's sake, what Is it
ou see? Hurry up and let me sleep.'
" 'I see the Joke. Broon. "Ha a gran''
one. Ha! ha! TUe smithy might be oot.' '
What He t.ot fur Mlpeuce.
By Bichard Kavanaugh. managing di
rector of the Theater Koyal In Dublin:
"That reminds ,ne. speaking of Scotch
men, of the Bcots tireys. who were quar
tered near Waterford. Ireland. Major Ab
ernethy and several of hla Junior officers
were riding through the country on pleas
ure bent The day was hot and the roai
dusty, ttoiue one apoke up and said a
glavs of brandy and soda .cold wouldn t
go bad. He got a chorus of assent, but
mile after mile waa covered and no public
house fell in sight.
"At last they aw a chap coming who
evidently, from his attempt lo walk on
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both sides of the road at once, knew where
they could strike a pub. When they met
him the major accosted him.
" 'I say, Tat, la there a pub near here
where we can get something to drink?'
" 'Sure, yer anner; two turns to the
right,' answered 1'at, touching his cap.
" Do you keep good spirits there?"
anain questioned Abernethy.
" Ucod spirits, is ut? hhure, yer anner;
the bust her. Jus' look at me for six
pence.' "
Pallia- 1 relit In Scotland.
By Theodore Bchomburg, the great en
gineer who settled the boundary line dis
pute between Columbia and Veneiuela:
"Speaking of Scotland puts me In mind
of the old Scotch woman who came up to
l-ondon lo visit her son. She was taken
with a Jumping toothache and upon the
advice ef her son viaited a dentist, wlio
soon had the offend. ng molar f ylng In the
air. With a sigh of relief the old lady
climbed out of the chair and asked:
" 'How mooch f
" 'Ten shillings, mam,' replied the den
tist. v " Ten shillings Is It. ye robber." -ream-il
the wuuian. U by, I'll ba' know, Sanly
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