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Show CAMPFIIIE SKETCHES. SOME SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. Story of the Sinking of the Schooner Royal Savage In the Campaign of 1776 The British Burned the Vessel at Night. THE SPANISH CAVALIER. A Spar.ish cavulie' stcod in his retreat, And on his gui'.ar piayed a tune, dear; The music so sweet, they'd oft-times repeat. The blessing of my country and you, dear. I am off to the war, to the war I must go; To fight for my country and you, dear; . But if I should fall, in vain I would call, The blessing of my country and you, dear. And when the war is o'er, to you I'll return, Back to my country and you, dear; But if I should be sla'n you may seek me in vain, Upon the ba.tlcfbld you wi 1 find me. W. D. Hendrickson. against hostile Indians near Mct.el-lan's Mct.el-lan's creek, Tex., Nov. S, 1874. A few days preceding the latter engagement General Miles was encamped on Red River, some distance to the west, with nearly his entire command, which composed the expedition of 1874-75. The military officers were aware that the Indians held four white children as captives, and the most strenuous efforts had been made and were being made to release them. General Miles finally decided to divide his command into three columns, their course being directed toward the northeast. The right column was placed under command com-mand of Colonel Baldwin, who at that time was a first lieutenant. For three days he moved toward the northeast. On the night of the 8th of November, 1874, the column headed more to the north for the purpose of crossing the head of the small tributaries of the north fork of the Red river and the Washita. The troops had been on the march scarcely an hour, when the scouts reported a large camp of Indians In-dians in the immediate front. There was but one incentive that spurred every man of the command to advance. ad-vance. Without halting the column for formation, the troops were thrown into line to the front, and the Indian camp was immediately charged, resulting re-sulting in the utter defeat of the hos-tiles. hos-tiles. They were forced to abandon everything, and the command was aitole to recapture and release Adalain SINKING OF A SCHOONER. The schooner Royal Savage was destroyed de-stroyed in the campaign of 1776. During Dur-ing that summer the British were busily engaged in preparing a fleet for lake service. Three boats were launched launch-ed at St. Johns. The Americans were also actively employed at the o;her extremity of the lake in preparation to oppose the ' threatened invasion. The superiniendence of the construction construc-tion of the fleet was conn led to General Gen-eral Arnold. By t e middle of August Arnold was prtpar d to take t'n.e rake with a naval fo ce ca rymg fifty-five guns, seventy-eight swivels and manned by'395 man. His fleet consisted consist-ed of the sloop Enterprise, the schooner schoon-er Liberty and gondolas New Haven, Providence, Boston, Spitfire and Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. After several small engagements engage-ments between the Americans and Canadians and Indians the fleet was anchored on Sept. 23 in the channel between Calccur island and the main shore. His fleet tad been increased and numbered fifteen vessels, mounting mount-ing eighty-f.ur guns. The British force was twenty-nine ve;s:ls, mounting mount-ing eighty-nine guni. At 8 o'clock on Oct. 11. the English and Julia Germain, two of the white girls whom the Indians had held as . captives. Colonel Baldwin is one of the youngest officers in the army who saw service during the war of the rebellion. re-bellion. After the civil war he was with General Miles through nearly all of his Indian campaigns. No officer in the army stands higher than he in the estimation of General Miles. DEWKV'S LUNCH BASKKT. I Admiral Dewey carried his lunch ev. I ery day to the navy yard, when the Schley court of inquiry was sitting, says the Chicago NeW3. There is not a decent lunch-room within a radius of a mile of the navy yard and the admiral evidently was aware of this fact in advance, ad-vance, for on th first day of the inquiry in-quiry he hurried into the gunners' workshop jauntily carrying his Iff lunch basket, while Ah Lin, his Chinese Chi-nese servant, followed close behind tugging at the suit case that contained the admiral's uniform. Ah Lin and the suit case monopolized the attention that day. The crowd did not catch on to all the fine points of the diminutive basket that the hero of Manila carried. Lat"', the arrival of the basket was were discovered passing Cumberland Head with a strong north or northwest north-west wind, and bearing in the direction of Crown Point, toward which it was supposed Atiio d had retired. As the English appeared in sight off Camber-land Camber-land Head General Waterbury went on board the Ccmgress galley and urged that th-y should immediately set sail and fisht the enemy in retreat on the broad lake; but Arnold declined de-clined at that hour to change his line of defense. Captain Pringle was some distance ahead of the Valcour when he first discovered the Americans. He immediately imme-diately changed his course toward the island with a vi:w to engaging th:m, but fcund great difficulty in bringing any of his vessels into action. About 11 o'clock, however, the gunboats ware enabled to creep to windward and take a position to the south of the American Ameri-can fleet, whtn they opened fire upon the Royal Siv.-ge,' wh ch, with the galleys, had advanced a short distance 1 1 in front of the line. The British watched for as ecr&ei ty m ma tlai v the head of the court of inquiry himself. him-self. The basket is of the finest Filipino Fili-pino weave and of a peculiar light green color that makes it look seasick when contrasted with the white walls and woodwork of the chamber in which the sessions were held. It was always carefully wrapped with ribbon of that particular size and color that the dry goods clerk hands out when asked for "baby ribbon." When the' court made its midday adjournment the admiral hurried into the retiring, room in the rear of the court, balanced the basket on his knees and patiently unwound the narrow blue ribbon. After he finished his luncheon he as patiently wrapped the ribbon around the basket again and put it carefully on his table. When his work was done for the day he bore his lunch basket to his carriage, tenderly placed it on the seat beside him and drove out of the navy yard. The crowd enjoyed the be-ribboned be-ribboned lunch basket almost as much as the admiral appeared to enjoy its contents, but so far as could be ascertained ascer-tained no one had the temerity to chaff him about it, although it is well known that the admiral enjoys a joke, ANECJDOTO B! "BOB" EVANS. Admiral Evans, in his interesting' autobiography, "A Sailor's Log," relates re-lates an amusing anecdote of Capt. " Trenchard, who, when he commanded the Rhode Island, had a very accom- plished steward, a colored man who had become so expert in catching flies oft the captain's bald head that the captain wasever annoyed by them. "Admiral Lardner," says Admiral Evans, Ev-ans, "had for his steward a large, heavy-handed Irishman, Who watched the colored man with great envy while ' his master, undisturbed, enjoyed his meals. Pat's master thrashed at the flies and swore roundly as they lighted on his close-cropped hair. The colored man went' on catching flies with a quick, dexterous movement of .his right hand until Pat could stand it no longer. long-er. Drawing back he made a vicious swing at a fly, but, instead of catching it, he caught the admiral an awful blow on the back of the head. The admiral, thinking there was a mutiny, grabbed the carving knife and made after Patrick, who retreated to the spar deck, and there was a hurdle race fore and aft the officer of the deck and the orderly trying to catch the admiral, ad-miral, who was doing his best to put the carving knife in the back of Pat, who finally escaped, but never bothered both-ered any more about flies on the admiral's ad-miral's head." Chicago News. f' schooner Carleton soon afterward came to the assistance of the gunboats. The Royal Savage sustained the fire of the British flc-et lor som time and j until her masts were crippled and much of her r'gglng shot away. Then they attempted to return to the line, but, running too far to leeward, grounded near ihe southwest point of the island and w e abandoned by her men, who succeeded in reaching the other boats in safety. At night the British boarded the schooner and set i fire to her. The battle resulted in a victory for the English and almost total destruction to the American fleet. The hull of the;scho:ncr Royal Savage Sav-age lies on the spot where she was sunk. The upper timb:is can yet be seen during .low water in the lake. Arnold's papers were on board the schooner and we e lost. Burlington, Vt., Free Press. FEEED CAPTIVK GIRLS. Frank D. Baldwin, for some years captain of the Fifth United States infantry, in-fantry, who was nominated for colonel of infantry by the President, has a wid acquaintance throughout the West. He was a conspicuous figure during the campaign against the Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge agency in the . winter of 1890-91, and, after hostilities had terminated, ter-minated, made a personal investigation investiga-tion for the war department of the origin of the Messiah craze which caused the trouble at Pine Ridge. Twice he has been awarded a rqedal of honor the American Victoria cross the first time for distinguished bravery brav-ery In the battle of Peach Tree Creek, Ga., July 20, 1864, and on the second occasion for gallantry in action |