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i "TO CARE FOR HIM WHO HAS BORNE THE BATTLE, AND F6R HIS WIDOW AND ORPHANS." ESTABLISHED 1877. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBEB 3, 1881. NEW SERIES VOL-1., N-16. ? 7 SKETCHES OF HOSPITAL LIFE HOW OUR BOYS WERE CARED FOR. Don't lie a Fool, John ! About Homesickness Don't Cut Off My Mustache Yisitini? Angels and Noble-Hearted Snnrcons. For The National TitinuN'E.- Mingled with the sufferings and sorrows which are necessary incidents of hospital life we find now and then gleams of humor and hits of ro mance which, breaking through the gloom that hangs like a dark cloud above the cots of the sick and wounded men, help them to the better bear the burden of their woes. And such occurrences, slight though they may be in the estimation of others who have no per sonal knowledge of what hospital life really is, and, more especially, of what it was during the war, possess an unusual interest to all who, from sad experience, understand what it is to be strand ed like a wreck upon the fearful reefs where the battle-tide has left them. Man knows, and so does woman, that the sick-bed is no downy couch even when surrounded by those who are nearest and dearest to the one lying thereon; but only a soldier can fully comprehend how very hard it is. Only a soldier, sorely stricken by disease or wounds and deprived of the ministrations of lov ing hands, can realize how very, very difficult it is to suffer and be strong. But yet thousands did it during the war of the rebellion suffered every agony short of the dy ing pang and murmured not. Some were cheered by unexjjected happenings in their dreary lives, and others, by beholding the dark clouds lifting above the cot of a comrade reveal ing to him and them THE SILVER LIXIXG UNDERNEATH. "We remember one poor fellow who was brought to "Washington after the first Fredericksburg. He was minus an arm and shortly after he entered the hospital one of his legs, which had been shat tered by a piece of shell, was amputated. For a day or two he succeeded in maintaining some de gree of cheerfulness ; but when four, five, and six days, one after the other wearily passed, without his receiving a response to a letter he had written AcssfetiBtseJ.?, , a ., ;. UnjAgJMgato inamc a u:- sjia ioc , scarcely a groan escaped him when his wounds were dressed, or, for that matter, at any other time ; he simply drifted on and on in an appar ent apathy of mind and body until he had reached a point from whence to dissolution was but a step a question of time only. One morning, about the eleventh or twelfth after his arrival in "Washington, and when his attendants had relin quished nearly if not quite all hopes of his recov ery, a lady, the first caller he had had, visited him. There was nothing remarkable in her appear ance. She was merely a young, rosy-cheeked, fair-featured country girl; but yet she had a frank, honest expression in her eyes, a musical, hearty ring in her voice, betokening the true womanly heart beating underneath the plain calico frock. The wounded man recognized her the moment she reached his bedside. " Molly ! " he exclaimed, in a feeble voice. " Yes, John," she replied; "it's me: I've come to take you home with me." "Haven't the doctors told you?" he queried. "Yes, they've told me that you can't live, John, but I don't believe it. You've got to live for me, John." She bent over and kissed him tenderly. Then he spoke: "But, Molly, suppose I do get up again : you don't want such an old cripple as I'll be " "DOXT BE A FOOL, JOHN," she interrupted. " If I hadn't have wanted you I should have stayed at home." DonH le a fool ! Those four short words settled him. The other sufferers in the ward could but smile at her blunt address, they had many of them been interested listeners of the brief colloquy, and not a man of them but fell in love with her, although some of them had wives and sweet hearts of their own at home, and before the day was over she was enthroned in every heart as a good angel come for John. She got him, too, after a long struggle. Day by day she drew him slowly back to health ; hour after hour she sat beside him and watched his returning strength, not forgetting, however, to comfort with womanly tenderness the hearts of others when opportunity offered. In about two months John was convalescent, and shortly afterwards left the hospital; but before he did so Molly became his wife. Every one of the boys who witnessed the wedding voted that the bride had well earned her husband. It turned out subsequently that John's letter had contained, in addition to other matters, his relinquishment of her hand, promised him before he enlisted ; and he, not having heard from her ; . aptly, supposed all was over between them; it was not so, as the sequel proved. Inune- ely upon her receiving his communication ich through some means had been delayed) started, never stopping to write, with the ution, as she quaintly put it, of "holding ' , to his bargain." When this story was told m old gray-headed German veteran of the -Fall) (N. Y.) regiment, and whose cot had . i) next to John's, observed, "Dot's peeshnish; "i LOFES DOT GAL 3I1NESELF." e remember another incident which struck ur .:; the time as being exceedingly ludicrous. A tall, stalwart fellow was brought into hos pital after the secondbattle of Bull Run,his wound having been caused by a minie ball entering just below the left ear and passing forward, finding an exit a little below the right nostril. His jaw was badly fractured in front while several teeth had been forcibly extracted by the leaden mes senger. He had a magnificent mustache, long, heavy, silken and black as a coal. It was with the utmost difficulty that he could make him self understood, owing to the nature of his injury, and yet, when the surgeon came to attend to his case, he begged him "for God's sake, doctor, don't cut off my mustache. I've been five years grow ing it." Not a word about his broken jaw not a groan of pain he only thought of the luxuri ant growth of hair adorning his upper lip. He failed to save it, however. For a week or two he remained under our observation, and during that time prospered finely, but never ceased to lament the loss of his mustache. "What subsequently became of him we cannot say ; but if he is liv ing it is to be hoped that the semblance of his old love rests, lovingly beneath his nose to com fort him and conceal the ugly scar that must mark the track of a rebel bullet. As a general thing, however, despite the occa sional gleams of sunny light breaking through the clouds, hospital life was enshrouded in gloom. In many instances, to the keenest physical pain was added the mental suffering of homesickness. 0, how some of our poor boj's longed for ONE SLIGHT TOUCH OF HOME! A kiss, the pressure of a hand, the tones of a mothers voice, the presence of a father or a sister even, would have helped many up from couches whereon, worn out with waiting and watching for the absent, they eventually died because the loved ones came not. It is true that there were sweet ministering spirits who went from cot to cot, comforting the hearts, soothing with the cooling pressure of their hands the fevered brows of the invalids, but yet, they were only strangers after all. The love which binds all human hearts to home was want ing. Those daily visitors, nevertheless, were powerful helps to the surgeon's art in many cases. Their coming was looked forward to with e. . 'T, the few moments p-y-nt. "by ilie 3, ifiKtniaijned soldi vr were mo- l -un- siring to the weary one who had t:- ir hy " 7, v PATIENT, SO TENDER and kind in all their ways! The world at least our world never knew how much of goodness it contained until the war brought it to the surface; until the noble women of the land were given an opportunity to show their true selves by voluntarily taking upon their hearts the burdens of other people's sufier ings and sorrows. The surgeons, too, as a rule, were men of warm hearts and wonderful sympathies. Unremitting in their attentions, to their medical and surgical skill they added words of cheer and comfort, which, in many instances, accomplished more ' than could have been ever hoped for from the healing art alone. One of those good Samaritans was Dr. William R. DeWitt, formerly of Harrisburg, Pa. In 1SG2 and the early part of 1SG3, he was surgeon in charge of "Ward C, College Hospital, Georgetown. He had under his care over one hundred soldiers, nine-tenths, at least, of whom had been wounded during the latter part of August in some one of the battles under Pope, and among the number we doubt if a single man could be found who failed to receive some personal evidence of his kindness and nobleness of heart. If the hospital stores failed to supply delicacies which the palates of his patients craved, his purse was opened and from it the longings were at once satisfied. Scarcely a day passed, during which some one or more of those who looked to him for healing and strength were not made the recipient of his bountjr, which he freely distributed wherever needed. His good deeds, when it was possible, were done secretly, and not because of any return expected. To use his own words, "THESE MEN HAVE SUFFERED, are suffering for the whole country, for every man, woman, and child in it; and I could not honestly do less would that I could do more to ease their pain and make them comfortable." Dr. DeWitt seemed to be personally and deeply interested in the welfare of every one of his patients. Night after night, while we were lying in a critical state from threatening hemorrhage, he sat by the side of our cot, tender, patient, and faithful as a mother watching over her child; and yet, when it became necessary, in dressing our wounds, to use the knife, there was no shrinking, no uncertainty; but with a hand steady and strong he sent the keen blade home to the very seat of the difficulty as coolly as if he were simply puncturing an apple, instead of lit erally cuttinc a man's throat, as in our case was the fact. (To be continued.) An aged Polish tramp named Lowacki, who applied for lodgings in a Baltimore station-house recently, was a soldier under Napoleon in the Moscow campaign, in 1812, and was a captain at Austerlitz and Leipzig. He served under Kos suth in the Hungarian struggle and was banished, and afterward served during the late rebellion under General Sigel. STILL IN JEOPABDY. CONTINUATION OF THE GREAT TRIAL. Senator Logan on the Stand Onitcau's Shtfcr Testifies. Other Witnesses for the Defense Te Assas sin's Checkered Career,ff Wednesday, at the close of Mr. Scope's opening to the jury District Attorney CorkJjJl askpA the Court to instruct the witnesses for ISdptfendant to leave the court-room, as was the custom in such cases as this. , Mr. Scoville asked that exceptions be made in the case of Mrs. Scoville and Mr. John Guiteau. It was agreed that Mrs. Scoville ilhould be per mitted to remain, but her brother had to retire. The testimony for the defendant was then com menced. The first; witness called to the stand was Rev. H. M. Burton, of Sycamore, Ills., a Congregation alist clergyman. Witness formerly resided in Kalamazoo, Mich., a number of years ago; saw Guiteau there in the spring of 1877; the prisoner lectured there in the lecture-room of the Baptist Church, on the second coming of Christ; the pris oner's delivery was peculiar, and his discourses were not made in a very connected manner; con versed with him briefly after the lecture; the audience was very small. Mr. Scoville asked the witness if he did not consider the prisoner insane at that time. " I thought," was the answer, "that he was a man not to be trusted." Guiteau "You thought I was cracked, and differed with my views on the second coming of Christ." H. H. Davis, of Erie, Pa. Formerly lived in Ann Arbor, Mich. ; himself and mother boarded at the house of Mrs. Julia Maynard, the prison er's aiint; that lady and her daughter Abbey were insane. On cross-examination he said that he had not seen either for twenty-five years. Mr. Thompson Wilcoxsor c! Stephen son county, 111.; knew Lu; . H' .w;au; our acquaintance began in 184C : ' : I m pecu liar in his expressions conce ; :i; he al ways said he never expected i ' ' jnipared j wijj.t!e best oijirii-s$ ,y. , , -..isi-y; he was outspoken in his religic -" tor "" ns ; was rather equivocating as to r w' ' . ' relapsed from a Presbyterian to a Methodist, and then showed an inclination to the Oneida belief, but of that the Avitness would not say positively ; Mr. Guiteau was a bank cashier at one time, and at one time in the dry goods business; also held several local offices, including the clerkship of the court ; had seen the defendant on the streets of Freeport, 111., but did not know him. DR. JOHN A. RICE, OF 3'ERTOX, WIS., a practicing physician, testified that he knew the prisoner ; saw him in Merton, in 1876 ; attention was called to him by the sister of the prisoner, Mrs. Scoville, for the purpose of inquiring into his mental condition ; it was some time in the summer; had been into that practice quite fre quently previously; result of his inquiring into Guiteau's case Avas, that he was insane ; based his opinion on the fact of hereditary influence and the exaltation of his emotional nature, which was followed by explosive feelings of a centric and not excentric character; also an abnormal egotism, his religious instructions and generally disturbed mind; there was more or less moral imbecility and emotions of pride and vanity; informed his friends that he believed Guiteau dangerous and incurable, and ought to be secluded ; was arranging to consult with a brother physician about the case, when Guiteau left that section of the country, having heard of his intentions, and the witness did not see him again. The witness related instances of Guiteau's freaks, onebeingan occasion at a party, where he rose up suddenly and incoherently appealed to those around him to come to the Lord ; there were no other pecu liarities except that when Guiteau disappeared he borrowed some clothing and forgot to pay his board. The witness attended Guiteau's father in his final illness; could not say that he was insane, but noticed a great obliquity of thought; he was troubled with disease of the liver, but it was not of that character to actually cause aberration of the mind, though it might have hadthattendency ; he was exceedingly PETULANT AND FAULT-FINDING. At the time witness examined Guiteau he was stopping at the summer residence of Mrs. Scoville near Merton; was the family physician for Mr. Scoville ; Luther W. Guiteau, theprisoner's father, left Mrs. Scoville's and died at Freeport; had observed eccentricities of thought in Luther Scoville's case, but did not regard them as indi cations of insanity. Frank L. Union, of Boston, testified: Met Guiteau in Boston, in September, 1879 ; he wanted to hire a hall to deliver a lecture on " Why two thirds of the race are going down to perdition;" he preferred to hire a hall to seeking a church, as his lecture touched a religion of which there was no other sect in the city ; Guiteau had no money, but agreed to give a free lecture, take up a collection and give witness the first $15 taken in; as this was the first lecture of the kind witness had ever seen from " a direct disciple of Christ," he consented to allow Guiteau the use of the hall; Guiteau got out posters, which said, "Don't Fail to Hear the Hon. Charles J. Guiteau, the Little Giant of the West. He will show why Two-thirds of the Race are Going Down to Per dition." Guiteau (interrupting the witness) "A very liberal estimate." The witness continued : Guiteau acted strange and queerly ; he said that he intended to chal lenge Ingersoll, but that he thought that the lat ter was afraid to meet him ; about fifty people attended the lecture that night ; the lecture was a rambling, disconnected affair, and after strug gling on for a time, Guiteau seized his manu script, left the stage, and started to run for the door as if disgusted. Guiteau " I was ; disgusted with the audience." Continuing, the witness said that Mr. Stever, editor of the Investigator, stopped Guiteau as he ran through the hall and questioned him, but Guiteau would not remain, declaring that he did not care to hear God blasphemed ; the audience that night was composed mostly of a society of infidels, who owned the hall, which had been dedicated to THE MEMORY OF THOMAS PAINE; the Investigator was their organ ; Guiteau applied again to secure the hall, but it was refused him, witness not caring to hear any more crazy lec tures ; saw Guiteau again in the following April ; he told witness that he had just received a new work from the publishers and wanted witness to put it through, but witness declined to have any thing to do with it; Guiteau had previously left his "Truth" with witness; he told witness in all seriousness that he represented THE FIRM OF JESUS CHRIST & CO., j and that witness was doomed to go to hell ; he could show witness how to get to Heaven ; he usually appeared excited. On cross-examination witness said he was an actor ; but when pressed closely, he was forced to admit, to the amusement of the spectators, that he had not displayed his histrionic abilities reg ularly for about five years; he played on the stage last on the 4th day of May last passed at a benefit. Re-direct Guiteau tried to impress them with one idea, which they disbelieved, and that was they were all going to hell; he wrote to Mr. Sco ville in response to a publication that if any one knew of Guiteau and his peculiarities that he would like to hear from them ; he knew the man and believed him insane. Mrs. May A. Lockwood, 810 Twelfth street northwest, testified that Guiteau applied to her for board in March last; took his meals a month and left suddenly; of her own knowledge she could not give his reasons for leaving the house, but supposed he could not pay his board; he had been recommended to the house by Gen. Logan. Guiteau here objected to the testimony as ir relevant. He admitted that he did not pay his bpard, but paid all that he could, 5 on the ac count of $25. "The lady," he said, "was too kind-hearted to annoy me with her board bill. It was a first-class house and "A GOOD PLACE TO BOARD." Guiteau's actions at the table, said the witness, were abrupt, and caused complaint. Guiteau "It was because I expressed a too free opinion." Guiteau's counsel endeavored to quiet him, but he continually interrupted the witness. The latter, resuming, said she tried to collect Guiteau's bill through her head-waiter, and notes passed between them on the subject; her per sonal attention was attracted to Guiteau's table manners by his constantly staring at her ; this became so annoying, in fact, that she was forced to change her seat. Guiteau "My eyes were too sharp, perhaps." George W. Olds, of Michigan, testified that in 1876 he was at Mr. Scoville's farm and that Gui teau for some fancied offense wanted to kill his sister, Mrs. Scoville, with an axe, and she wanted witness to put him off the place; defendant seemed greatly excited; but he said Mrs. Sco ville accused him of being crazy, but that she was crazy and not he ; and that if she was put in an insane asylum all would go well on the jriace. The witness was going on to tell of Guiteau's mistakes in farm work, when the prisoner, who had become restless, spoke, saying : " We have had enough of this kind of talk. That's all there is about it. The fact is I spent several months during the fall of '75 in trying to get hold of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, and failing in that was out of business and out of money. Mr. Scoville had a very fine country seat in Wisconsin. I went out there in the summer of '76, and not having any money I did try to do some farming to pay for my board. I went back to Chicago and opened a law office and did well. I always did well when I stuck to the law. I won't have any more of this kind of talk." Mr. Scoville pursuing his questions, Guiteau, turning to the prosecuting officers, said : "I hope you gentlemen will insist in having order in this matter. It has no bearing on this case at all, and I won't have it." The witness proceeded to describe a scene in a boat where Guiteau became very much excited, apparently with little cause. The prisoner here became excited again and objected to this sort of testimony and said it wasn't true. Continued on Fifth $age. FOREIGN GLEANINGS. SOME EVENTS TRANSPIRING ABROAD. Xcit Arctic Expedition Attempt to Blow Up the Czar. A Russian Crank Unhappy Ireland The Frenchmen and American Pork. The Emperor of Germany is improving in health. The French government have received intima tion that England and Spain will not view with indifference the invasion of Morocco by French troops. It is believed that a vessel will be sent by Eng land to the Arctic regions for the relief of Mr. Leigh Smith. Outrages of all kinds continue in Ireland. Several persons who have paid their rents have been fired at. A number of trials of Nihilists, peasants, and princes, are shortly to take place in St. Peters burg. Mr. Wallace, the American Minister to Turkey has presented to the Sultan a message from Presi dent Arthur, thanking him for his expression of condolence for President Garfield's death and for his congratulations on his own accession to the Presidency. The Greek Post-Office in Constantinople was forcibly closed recently. The Greeks quitted without resistance, declaring that they yielded to force. The Russian General Ignatieffhas tendered his resignation to the Emperor. It turns out that the person who has been de nouncing Nihilists to the Russian government is now in New York. During the week terrific gales have visited the coast of Great Britain, doing great damage both at sea and on land. Another Nihilist attempt against the Czar has been frustrated. It was proposed to fill a balloon with explosives and let it down over the palace at Gatschina. While the palace was burning down the Czar was to have been carried off. Sev eral arrests have been made. The death of Wilhelin Busch, Surgeon-General of the Prussian army, 1866-70, is announced. France will allow the importation of American pork. Roumania has renewed the prohibition for one year. It is said to be the intention of the British government to release all the imprisoned mem bers of the House of Commons before the open ing of the session of Parliament. The Sultan of Turkey has commanded the Bey of Tunis to pay an indemnity to all persons who suffered from the bombardment of Sfax by the French. In Russia, a youth, under the pretence of State business, obtained an audience at the Ministry of the Interior with General Tchervine, who was presiding over a commission for mitigating sen tences of exiles. As soon as he was admitted he fired a revolver at the General, but the ball passed harmlessly between his side and arm. The Gen eral secured and disarmed the youth, who said he was merely the instrument of another person. Russia is reported as negotiating with Turkey for the acquisition of Turkish Armenia. The British Parliament will meet February 7. A BLANK CARTRIDGE. George Q. Cannon, Mormon Delegate in Con gress, in a recent interview, said : " Notwithstand ing the decision of Judge Hunter, who dismissed the complaint preferred against me, on the nat uralization question, which really defeats Camp bell, the attorneys of Campbell are befogging the whole case with falsehoods and misrepresenta tions. Governor Murray has no right to decide upon the eligibility of a candidate for Congress, or to give a certificate to a minority candidate. The question now goes to the House of Represen tatives for decision. The simple issue is whether to give me the seat on the majority of votes. I have no 'doubt I will get it. To give the seat to Campbell would overturn every American prece dent. CRUSHED BY ICEBERGS. The fate of the Jeannette is by this time, in all moral certainty, sealed, and she is probably gone the way of the Sir John Franklin expedition. The greatest efforts have been made to find some trace of her whereabouts, but in vain. All accounts go to prove that last winter was the most terrible the Arctic regions ever saw within the memory of the oldest navigator. The ice barriers never penetrated so far south, and Commander Wadleigh, in the Alliance, was unable to push further north than 79 of latitude, whereas Hall, in the Polaris, some years ago, went as high as 83. The Jeannette had an abundant supply of provisions, and lacked for nothing in her general equipments, but what avail are any human precautions in the event of being hemmed in and crushed by icebergs? A crank, giving his name as Henry Seward Hubbard, was taken from the Ebbitt House to the Fifth Precinct Station the other evening, where he created considerable amusement by de claring himself to be the spirit of the late Presi dent Garfield. He wa&ssat to the Insane Asylum.