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117.-fight at Mingo swamp, Mo.
Missouri Democrat account.
St. Louis, February 16, 1863.
on the morning of the second of February, detachments from seven companies of the Twelfth were ordered to form a junction at Dallas, Missouri, on the night of the second instant, which was done by nine P. M. During the night small parties scoured the country south and west, as low down as Castor, which it was found impossible to ford just then.
In the course of the morning our parties came in with a number of prisoners, and twenty saddles that had been concealed in the woods by the rebels.
Being somewhat decayed, they were burned.
At eight A. M. on the morning of the third instant, Major Reeder having learned that the enemy were in the neighborhood of Big Mingo, gave the order to fall in, determined by a forced march to surprise the rebels.
When six miles from the ford, at Bolling's Mill, Adjutant Macklind was ordered forward, with twelve men, to try the ford and to secure any
ne who seem'd so great.-- Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him.
I wished to find some great monolith, to mark Stanley's grave; a block of granite, fashioned by the ages, and coloured by time.
Dartmoor was searched for me, by Mr. Edwards of the Art Memorial Company; he visited Moreton, Chagford Gidleigh, Wallabrook, Teigncombe, Castor, Hemstone, Thornworthy, etc., etc.; and, amid thousands of stones, none fulfilled all my requirements.
The river stones were too round, those on the moor were too irregular, or too massive.
Owners of moorland farms, and tenants, took the keenest interest in the search; and, at last, a great granite monolith was discovered on Frenchbeer farm; its length was twelve feet, the width four feet.
The owner and tenant gave their consent to its removal, only stipulating that a brass-plate shou
his followers' sight, rest upon Elisha, and Stuart bore the mantle of Stonewall Jackson!
Among the legends of ancient Rome was one that at the battle of the Lake Regillus, the victory was due to the twin sons of thundering Jove, who were seen to ride in the fight.
There be twain still with us, bearers of a name — we utter with reverence because of the illustrious dead — a name that thrilled with electric power devoted followers, drew the plaudits of the civilized world, and wrung from foes even the tribute of admiring respect — a name that we shall repeat to the latest posterity as borne by one, the model of all that was godlike in man — I name the name of Lee — there be these twain, not brothers indeed, according to the flesh, but sons of brethren, our orator of the capitol and our absent President, who rode in the fight like Castor and Pollox: To your sentiment, Mr. Chairman, the cavalry responds with these I These--
Be the great twin brethren, That fought so well
delight, when we saw the Confederate States flag thrown to the breeze in reply, by the newcomer.
It was the Georgia, Commander Lewis F. Maury, on a cruise, like ourselves, against the enemy's commerce.
She had come in to meet her coal-ship, the Castor, which had been ordered to rendezvous here.
We had now other troubles with the authorities.
The President, seeing another Confederate steamer arrive, became nervous, lest he should be compromised in some way, and be called to account by the Emporced to admit that the transport had the right to land it, and that, when landed, the Georgia might receive it on board, like any other coal.
Still it must be landed.
The gad-fly had buzzed in his ear, that there was a cat in the meal tub; the Castor having, as he alleged, some guns and ammunition covered up in her coal!
His Excellency then wanted to see my commission— the gad-fly having buzzed pirate!
pirate!
To add to the. complication, news now came in that the Florida also had arrived
accompanying cut are shown some of the forms which the ancient felt hat assumed.
The pileus (Latin) was the common felt cap, the fess of the modern Greeks, the fez of the Turks.
The petasus (Greek) was a hat; it had a brim; its name, in fact, comes from a word whose root meaning is extension, dilation.
a is from a sepulchral bas-relief in Boeotia.
b is a fisherman's cap, from a statue in the Townley collection, British Museum.
c is a coin of Bruttium, South Italy; the figures are Castor and Pollux.
With us, castor means a hat, from the beaver (castor, from a Sanscrit word meaning musk), which supplies the best material.
d is a head of Daedalus, from a bas-relief in the Villa Borghese collection.
This form is still worn by the shepherd boys in Asia Minor.
e is a head of Ulysses, from an ancient lamp.
It represents him as tied to the mast while he listens to the songs of the sirens.
f is the modern Greek peasant's cap, introduced for comparison.
g is from a par
rostatic press, securing all the oil at a single or once-repeated pressure.
Castor-oil is valued more highly, and is cold drawn, or should be.
A list of the more important expressed oils is given, with some particulars as to each.
Variety.Quality.Specific Gravity.Oil per cent.
Ure et al.
FlaxDrying0.934711 – 22
PoppyD0.924356 – 63
HempD0.927620
SesamumGreasy50
OliveG0.9176
AlmondG0.918050
CucumberD0.923125
BeechG0.922516
MustardG0.916030
SunflowerD0.926215
RapeG0.913633
CastorD0.961162
TobaccoD0.9232
Plum-kernelG0.912733
Grape-seedD0.920220
Cocoa-nutG
PalmG0.968
CamelinaD0.925228
Cotton-seedD12
ColzaG0.913640
Radish-seedG0.918750
Apple-seedG
Horse-chestnutG0.92710
Pine-topD0.9285
WalnutD0.926060
Common Name.Botanical Name.Native Place, or where chiefly grown.Qualities, Uses, etc.
FuselTriticum, etcEurope, etcSeeds produce a peculiar oil. It gives the flavor to raw whiskey and is used for making flavoring extracts.
Formerly used for burning.
Gin
ve existed from time immemorial, among even the most uncivilized nations.
The ancient quoit was a heavy circular mass of iron, sometimes perforated in the middle; and the effort was not one of skill, to throw it as nearly as possible to the mark, now called the hob, but to throw it to the greatest possible distance, as in the modern Scotch games of putting the stone or hurling the hammer. Homer mentions the throwing of the du/skos among the sports at the funeral games of Patroclus (Iliad, II., XXIII.
See also Odyssey, VIII., XVII.). Sometimes a thong was passed around it to form a handle; in the Cabinet des Antiquites of Paris is preserved a discus with hole for the thumb and fingers.
Pindar celebrates the skill of Castor and Iolaus in this exercise.
In the British Museum is the famous statue of the discobolus in the act of throwing the discus. Quoit-pitching was a favorite pastime in England.
Notices of it are found in 1453.
The horseshoe is a common substitute in America.
trict of Southeast Missouri to July, 1863.
Reserve Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of Southeast Missouri, to August, 1863.
Reserve Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Arkansas Expedition, to December, 1863.
1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Dept. of Arkansas, to January, 1864.
Service.
Garrison duty at Cape Girardeau, Mo., till March 14, 1863.
Moved to Bloomfield March 14 and return to Cape Girardeau April 21.
Action at Cape Girardeau April 28.
Pursuit of Marmaduke to Castor April 28-May 5.
At Cape Girardeau till July.
Moved to Bloomington July 10, thence march to Clarendon, Ark., July 19-August 8.
Steele's Expedition to Little Rock August 8-September 10.
Expedition up White and Little Red Rivers August 13-16.
West Point, White River, August 14.
Harrison's Landing August 16.
Reed's Bridge, Bayou Metoe, August 27.
Shallow Ford, Bayou Metoe, August 30.
Bayou LaFourche and capture of Little Rock September 10.
Duty at Little Rock till J
pon which the seas do mount and fall; or else the cause proceedeth of diversity of winds, shifting often in sundry points: all which having power together to move the great ocean, which again is not presently settled, so many seas do encounter together as there had been diversity of winds.
Howsoever it cometh to pass, men which all their lifetime had occupied the sea never saw more outrageous seas.
We had also upon our mainyard an apparition of a little fire by night, which seamen do call Castor and Pollux;
This electric light is often called St. Elmo's fire. but we had only one, which they take an evil sign of more tempest: the same is usual in storms.
Monday, the 9th of September, in the afternoon, the frigate was near cast away, oppressed by waves; yet at that time recovered, and giving forth signs of joy, the general, sitting abaft, with a book in his hand, cried out to us in the Hind,—so oft as we did approach within hearing,—We are as near to heaven by sea as by land, re
