Buffalo Courier Express from Buffalo, New York • 1

1 "KT a TED SIXTEEN PAGES. BUFFALO; N. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1889. PRICE FIVE CENTS. troops." The lOOih was the Buffalo Board of snouid outrank the thought of the money to be I made by this particular undertaking.

First, ex- DOM PEDRO'S SUCCESSOR. workmanship then, what price will it command The girl who studies book-keep- I ing or stenography as a stop-gap against the tide I -I'uuiusny until sne can wed a bread-and-bonnet-winner, enacts the trite role of the little naariern nero with his thumb in the dike leak. one is like one who watches for the morning. and proportion As her heart fails at the deUy in ner occupation declines. 7 sianuara oi values, tbe business 1 iaia importunately to her hand and the wedlock that may come, we may well remind her that faithfulness in that which is least is the earnest of faithfulness in that which is great The Trade regiment.

Besides Lieut. Wilkeson. killed in this action from this regiment were Col. James td. Brown and Lieut.

Samuel Kellogg. Samuel Wilkeson recovered the body of the dead captain and sent it home to Buffalo, where it was buried in Forest Lawn. It was at the battle of Gettysburg the next summer that Samuel Wilkeson distinguished himself as a war correspondent. He had, in the meantime, left the Tribune and joined the Times force at the front as chief correspondent. He was not without noted associates at Gettysburg One of them was "Agate" of the Cincinnati Gazelle, who was none other thau Whitelaw Reid.

now tditor, as everyone knows, of the New- York Tribune. Another was Charles Carle -ton Coffin, the "Carleton of the Boston Jour-nal, whose "Boys of '76," "Boys of "61." "Drumbeat of the Nation," and other books have pleased and instructed so many American households. A third was U. H. Painter, chief Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

During the terrific fire that was directed on Gen. Meade's headquarters, Wilkeson remained at the bouse with the his staftV and the correspondents. Writing of the different kinds a sieaaust industry, the discipline of speech and conduct, the concentration of thnnohtsnri nr 4 upon the matu set before one for accomplish- i 7. ciKicniiai io Business prosperity, arV conceivatle preparation for the high aiivi' UUl inner mil i 1 auu mother. y.

i Ah Electric stair Climber. From the liltctrical World. The large number of elevators in office build ings nas made people accustomed to their use, of shot and shell which they were receiving from ana me wish has often been expressed that some tne bands ot tne Johnnies. Reid savs of Wilkeson, whom he disguises thinly as ''W "CU sebv iiugcmcni mignt be devised by which elevators might be installed in private houses. A solution of this problem is an arrangement ex- our heads went one, evidently from some of small arm that had an unfamiliar sound.

said aesthetic always or nothing, 'that's a muffled howl that's the exact phrase to describe I l'r eumoer consists oi three narts. Tbe first of these isthe guide, which consists of two parallel flat iron rods supported on the I 3 Mr. Wilkeson'a description of the scene at paiustraoe second, a movable platform, which Meade's headquarters during the cannonade has is supported by and guided by the rails, and third, a motor. The motor, is an electric one been pronounced "one of the finest battle Dieces' of the War." It was quoted bv Reid in his letter wnicn act directly upon a windlass, to which a cnain is attached which pulls up the platform upon wnicn tne person stands. Each of these to the Cincinnati Garette and is also quoted at length in Coffin's "Boys of "61." He writes Every size and form of shell known to British and to American gunnery shrieked, whirled.

THE MARSHAL DE FONSECA. Seepage j. nine elevators, from story to story, is independent of the other, so that one person might be ascending; from one story to another while the 'A otner is descending. moaned, and whistled, and wrathfully fluttered oyer our ground. As many as six in a second, constantly two in a second, bursting and screaming over and around the headquarters made a perfect hell of fire that amazed the oldest officers.

an orderly, not an ambulance, not vu uc maue to turn Dacaward or lorwaro, or to stop at will, by the person on the Promoter of the Brazilhinsevolution, and Provisional President of Brazil. Errant) in the Rockies. THETLATE SAMUEL WILKESON. AN IRISH GENTLEMAN'S ADVENTURE IN AMERICA. WRITTEN a straggler was to be seen upon the plain swept by this tempest of orchestral death 80 minutes after it commenced Were not 120 pieces of artillery trying to cut from the field every battery we had in position to resist their proposed infantry attack and to sweep away the slight de-tenses behind which our infantry were waiting? Forty minutes fifty minutes counted watches that ran.

so languidly! Shells through ihe two lower rooms, fit shell into the chimney that daringly did not explpde. Shells in the yard. The air thicker and fuller, and more deafening with the howling and whirling of these infernal FOR "THE BUFFALO SUNDAY EXPRESS." SAMUEL WILKES ON. BY JUSTIN HUNTLEY MCCARTHY, and albert delpit. MAN WHOSE MEMORY BUF missiles.

I he chief of staff struck Seth Williams loved and respected throueh the army. FALO WILL KEEP GREEN. separated from instant death by two inches of 1 COPmiGBTBDrtSSiA i -m-'y fl 1 II CHAPTER I. Reminiscences of a Former Writer Tor in the line and at the front. John Wilkes Wilkeson, oldest son of John, was killed in the sudden and bloody battlt of the Seven Pines, in command of Company of the 100th Y.

Infantry. He was shot in the front. His courage was as perfect as his integrity. He was pure as he was brave, and true, steadfast and gentle. Bayard Wilkeson, the oldest son of Samuel, was killed in the first day fighting at Gettysburg, commanding Battery of the 4th S.

Artillery, aged only 19 years, one month and 15 days. An infant, in the language of the law, he was so thorough a soldier and so good a commander that his battery had the post of honor in the Eleventh Corps, the right of the line of march." The Wilkeson? have ever been a fighting race. For six generations sires and sons fought for one cause and another. Each Buffalo regiment that i space, vertically measured. An aide, bored with a fragment of iron through the bone of the arm.

And the time measured on the sluggish watches was one hour and forty minutes: This was Friday afternoon? July 3d. the third an autumn evening a certain gentleman "The Express" A Brilliant War Correspondent and Man of Business. 0 sat at ease in the best room of a certain tavern in Denver, The time was autumn. but the aspect of the year was wintry and wo-ful. A drizzling, thin rain, fine as needles and Thk Express has recorded the death of Samuel Wilkeson, which took place on the 2d and last day of the great battle.

On the first day Bayard Wilkeson had been killed. His uncle, John, of Buffalo, had bees two miles in the rear, waiting for the conflict toend. Samuel had found the body of John's son on the field of Fair Oaks, and John had come to perform the chill as icicles, filmed the view. The inn was a wretched place, but it might well have seemed as pleasing as a palace to anv wanderer abroad at the home of his brother-in-law, Dr, fcdward Bayard, in New-York City. As all he had never before thought of as possible to him.

Whenever the gentleman's eyes rested on the bit of paper they brightened, still, when they turned again to the glowing fire they gloomed, and "The Shan Van Vocht flagged markedly. For the fire was full of pictures, as all fires are to the observant, and the pictures they punted now to their watcher were melancholy enough. He saw the ruins of his family estate in Ireland be saw gallant gentlefo'k of ancient name wandering wearily in foreign lands. Dsolate, pathetic pictures. But the fire pictures he studied were, chiefly personal little pictures in which two persons played prominent parts.

He was one of the actors; his cousin, Gregory Carroll, was the other. The last thing he had beard of concerning Gregory was that he was seeking the hand of Kitty Mellish. the beautiful girl with whom he bad danced a measure on the night before he quitted his Irish on such a doleful evening, yet the occupantof the best room and bad was tbe best did not Buffalpnians must know, Mr. Wilkeson was was made up mostly of Buffalo and Erie-county former resident of this city, a son of the pioneer men naq in it ons or more ot the Wilkeson appear to be over-pleased with his quarters. Jk.

family. The eight grandsons referred to, were nre blazed upon the neartb. and sent aneer Judge Samuel Wilkeson, who built the city by building its harbor," and himself, until he made shadows leaping about the stark walls and xiayard. franks oldest brother; Frank; John W. Wilkeson, from whom in Dart Bidwell- New-York his home some 20 years ago, a public- Wilkeson Post No 9.G.

A. R. is named Samuel H. Wilkeson, son of John William Wilkson same sad service tor bis brother. The third day the body of Bayard was found.

It was taken home and laid beside that of his cousin in Forest Lawn. After his son's life bad been givea up for the Nation, Samuel Wilkeson seemed to lose his zest for war correspondence. He returned to Washington, where he was for a short time at the head of the times bureau. About August, 1863, he relinquished this position, and went into the service of Jay Cooke, especially to boom the government bonds which Cooke was putting on the market. It was then that he wrote the spir spirited and conspicuous Buffalonian.

He was born in this city May 0, 1817 grad quivering in tbe gusty corners of tbe room. The gentleman sat opposite the fire, with one booted leg swung over the other, and his chair tilted back, starring into the flames, and lightly burning to himself, beneath his breath, the gracious Irish rebel tune. Tbe Shan Van Vocht." He son of Eli Hugh and Tell Johnson and Henry Stagg. sons of sisters of Samuel "TOM" REED OF MAINE. SPEAKER OF THB HOUSE OF -REPRESENTATIVES.

(See our Washington Letter.) uated from Union College in 1837, studied law. At the beginning of hostilities Samuel Wilke son was placed at the head of the Tribune was admitted to the bar, and in 1842 held the office of city attorney. Subsequently he practiced law in New York, but in 1847 returned to Buffalo to engage in newspaper work Since the bureau Washington. In March, 1862, he went to the front with the Army of the Potomac a looked as mixedly gallant and depressed as an olden knight in bad luck, for he was as handsome a young Irishman as ever wandered from Ireland in quest of fortune. His costume was a Kate Field's Beliefs.1 From Her Portkcomimr Review, Washington.

present sketch is designed to supplement, not re v-u" i capoDucni tyt a- rtotuUL. -fcl was peat, the obituary records of his life, we append J.beijjve in Washington as the bnb of a great present at the battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines departure from civilized garb towards tbe oic tne following reminiscences and incidents of Mr. May 81st and June 1. 1862. General Heintzel- taresqxie dress ot cowboy-By the ricketty chim Wilkeson'a career, which have been compiled by i believe that a capital of a Republic of man says in his report: "AVhen I arrived on ited articles entitled "A National Debt a National that tiniess a nation had a good-sized debt on its shoulders it could scarcely be prosperous.

In the same way he soon afterward boomed the Northern Pacific scheme, also for Jay Cooke, and was made secretary of the company. In 1809 he made a trip to Pnget Sound, to lok over the route of the railroad. the field I met Samuel Wilkeson. the Chief nome to seek a better fortune in America. She was a handsome girl, he remembered, scanning his dream-picture in tbe glowing coals Would she be sorry, he wondered, if be never returned? Would she be glad if be went back enriched What would she think of him of Talbot Power, scto-f the rained but still proud Power family if she knew that be would hire himself out as a courier.

She ought lo think it better than cattle-stealing or stage -robbing." be said to himself; "and' those are the alternatives, so far as I can see So I go to M. whoever she may be, and she may have me if she will." His preparation for the visit -was singular. It Mr. -Danes w. Dobbins.

It is as a newspaper man and a war corre ou.ouu.oiK of human beings is the locality for a review knowing no sectional prejudices and a ney piece a square ot printed paper bad been lately stuck up, and on this square of printed paper the eyes of the gentleman frequently rested, and whenever they did so an amused light correspondent ot tne Aew- York Tribune 1 spondent that the life of the late Samuel Wilke loving truth better than party. accepted his services as volunteer aide, and I son has the most of interest to the present gener wish to bear testimony to his gallantry and cool ation. The aggressive, fearless, incisive bearing ness during the battle. When the rebel rein and on returning published extracts from the danced in them, and the bumming sped at a blither gait It is a custom in that region to advertise in a particular newspaper with vervbig tvoe. copious notes he had made Only about six forcements arrived about 5 o'clock p.

m. and our troops commenced to give way, he was con ot tne man was reflected with scarcely diminished intensity in his writings. Practical and fervid in his patriotism a characteristic trait of the Wil- such things as cattle ranchers desire to buy or sell. weeks before his death, on account of failing health, he had proposed to retire from his Dost and this clipping was typographically hold in the spicuous in the throng aiding in rallying the men." This was the battle in which Gen. Phil.

Kearney led a most desperate charge, wield intr conventional way, but its matter was novel if its with the Northern Pacific; but the directors, unwilling to lose him altogether, voted to continue his salary, but imposing no duties exceot manner was not. It read the sword with his one remaining hand while his reins he held in his teeth. Edmund Clarence Stedman in his poem, "Kearney at Seven Pines," wanted A gentleman who sooaka Kr.nrh such as he might voluntarily choose to perform. and is perfectly familiar with the Rockv-Moun- Ikeson family with the training of a newspaper man, and the personal courage of a soldier, he was peculiarly fitted to adorn, for a brief period, a. calling in which Forbes, McGahan, Russell, f.

-K-id, and scores of others (including, by the way, jf, Home few Buffalo men) found fame and honored (: names. I As Samuel Wilkeson passed his majority he 'i developed a decided taste for newspaper work. I His father, wisely, did not attempt to renress tain region, to act as guide and guard to a lad'j believe that men and woman are eternally equal and eternally different hence I believe there is a fair field in Washington for a national weekly edited by a woman. I bel ieve in home industries in a reduced tariff; in civil service reform in extending our commerce in American shipping in strengthening our army and navy in temperance which does not mean enforcing total abstinence on one's neighbor in personal liberty. I believe in literature, art, science, music, and the drama as handmaids of civilization.

I believe in religion of deeds. The journal edited by me will reflect my opinions. Mistakes are probable. They will be born of ignorance. From an impartial public I hope for support in the welcome guise of subscription, advertising, and suggestion.

From a heretofore generous press I ask for fraternal reconition. says on a prospecting tour. -Address M. at thli Sound Advice for Business Women. An editorial writer in the Christian Union Up came the reserves to the melee infernal, otnce.

-i said lately in a talk with "Business The gentleman had posted the advertisement "The boy who will succeed in the world is he vsKing wnere to go in through the clearing or pine? Oh. anywhere I Forward! TIs all the same. Colonel: You'll find lovely fighting along the whole line 1" on the wall, as if to see. by regarding it, how he who is content, for a-fTrne. to do two dollars' this natural tendency.

When he reached his wouiu iook in ine employment wbicb it ottered. He was out of money, and nearly ont of hone. 29th year Thb Express was established as worth of work for a dollar. Business girls need to bind this precept upon heart and hand, says Marion Harland in the North American Rmi.i Therefore any source, of immediate income was Whig journal, and its senior editor and proprietor, Maj. A.

M. Clapp, now of Washington, fre Gen. Casey mentions among other regiments the 100th N. as making "a charge on the enemy which would have done credit to veteran for December. Determination to fulfill everv to be appreciatively considered.

But he was something of an aristocrat at home, and there- uuugauou morougniy, in spirit and in quently asked young Wilkeson to contribute political articles for the paper. When the late Seth C. Hawley at the time of his death chief lore the job of a courier was something which consisted of shaving off his beard and mustache. The beard was of American growth, but the mustache had covered his "lip and overhung his month since be was twenty. The clean' shave was in tbe whimsical nature of a disguise.

He smiled bitterly as be surveyed in the glass his face smooth as that of an actor or a lackey. He saw, too, that a change bad come over his expression during his days of western struggling. A line crossed his forehead, his cheeks had become thinner, and his whole face had grown In an hour he was in the presence of Mrs. Mira.Relitska, a Russian countess, wealthy and adventurous, who had come to America on a pleasure tour. He had made up his mind to retreat if the stranger proved to be disagreeable.

But her mode of reception astonished him so mnch that it was long before he regained the sense of reality. At the end of tbe hotel room in a reclining chair lay a woman of thirty or thirty-five years. She had been beautiful but in spite of her comparative youth her face appeared old, upon closer inspection, because of the many fine wrinkles covering the temples and neck. Her gray eyes were wandering, dull and colorless. Only her heavy blonde hair and white-teeth kept the beauty of her delicate hands showed her noble birth.

"Ah, is it you, Monsienr she said in Frencfa in a lingering voice. "Pardon me if I do not rise to receive yon. I am ill. so ill I The young man resoonded with i cter or tne Mew-York Police Deoartment be came editor of the paper in 1851, he also asked tor Wilkeson articles. These were continued although Wilkeson was never permanently em pioyea upon 1 me express, and often wrote ar tides for the other Buffalo papers.

I After a time he wanted to print a paper of his i own. i be paper be started was the Democracy, folio about the "size of the Courier, and printed ido democracy Publishing Company at No Main btreet, corner of Hanover. It was a 'morning paper, and began its issue Saturday. November 11, 1854. With Mr.

Wilkeson were associated Ellieott Evans and Roswell W. and George W. Haskins, father and son. In politics iL. way ue paper was wnig and Anti-Know-Nothin.

mat time tne old Wbig oartv was on th agged edge, and events were shaping which ulminated two years later in the foundation of ikSlChr n. Then he looked ft Mrs. ReHtska.and waited for her to begin, His hard, diract glanos seemed to embarrass the lady, for she, bmshed slightly, and J- he Ketrablican oartv. Mr. WiJkfnn I 1 1 7 1 1 "ww ig iui vvuiiam xi.

oewara, and it was spoke in tbe plaintive. imnWin is earnest desire to promote the nomination and child: lection of Seward to the Dresidencv. To thi "Yon have seen Mason ha tK nd was the Democracy pledged. through whom Talbot had hritfl- i crrtti K. bis same year bad witnessed the dissolution of fore calling on ber.

Yon acceoL I tin, re the great political firm of Weed, Seward and Gree conditions which he has ley, by the withdrawal of the iunior member oi tne nrm as Horace Greelev called mself. "Yes, Madam." "Ah. that is I am to hr it ck. jThij famous triumvirate was very favorably im drew a small syringe from a case on tbe table beside her. I am obliged io use morphine when I suffer so moch.

I am so ill." Lightly and skilfully she inlected th pressed wun tne eminent ability displayed by Mr. Wilkeson in the conduct of his paper. About fifteen months later Seward and Weed induced Wilkeson to. dispose of the Democracy to The Express, and on Wednesday morning, May 9, 1855, the last, number of the Whig yearling was issusd. under the skin above her left shoulder.

Almn.t immediately her head fell back heavily upon the cushion of the chair. Talbot watched her in amazement, asking himself if the woman be crazy. For a minute she remained motion-' less, in deep prostration then anddenl JM.T. wuiteson then bought the interests of Thar-low Weed and George Dawson in the Albany Evening Journal. Daring the year and a half he remained there be contracted inflammatory rheumatism of the severest kind.

Said he, "I wrote up the paper ia the forenoon, and went to bed np as if waking from a refreshing nan. and throwing back her hair with a coquettish gesture, said "I feel quite cured. Now Wnn tal. told me your name, but I have forgotten it in the afternoon to suffer indescribable torture." To rid himself of this ailment, which he thought caused by the local climate of Albany, he "Ah, thanks." nis interest to Tburlow Weed, and at the The young man could hardlv connul hia mr. request of Horace Greeley went to New York as prise.

This animated lady could nr eunoroi tne jrtoune, wbere be remained until the breaking out of the War. whom he bad been studying some minutes before. The heavy eves had tMaima ttm k-ii. His son. Frank Wilkeson, was born in Buffalo liant andnhe indolent figure almost energetic.

She took a Russian cigarette from jarcn, tow. When his father went to Albany he took Frank with him, and when Samuel removed to Frank, with the rest of and touched a bell. After li.htin. hr era rhf. Bhe rested her arm upon the table and graciously repeated me lamiiy, settled on a firm in Columbia County, lying near the Hudson, which the father owned and to which ha rtrnt Yes, vou please me very mnch.

MnnaUn think that my trio will last a vsar. duties would permit. The nut i- has asked me to give you three months' salary in advance. You shall have aix. In eral weeks we shall be able to iud.

"of IUB SKCICO OS D18 father, life. Samuel Wilkeson says: "The cannonade against Fort Sumter which opened the slave-holders' rebellton, was not heard by this veteran as he in A i- other, and either of us shall have the right to break the eng.gement if not with KIV3 111 A'UICSI other." The woman's confidence and her touched him. MI am very grateful for your words. Madam," be said. but I must declln i-awn.

gt of bis grandson heard it and Went into the Union Army, three of them under Lu A7 other 16- Not one of Jhe eigm served on a general staff, was in the department of transportation or supplies, or was V-ver placed on detail duty. Each and all were your offer, for it would give me the lion 'a ah of the bargain. Let ns keen to the cnnt i I fixed by Mason. It is fair that I should receive -v xv a vjr i v. rt Kl 1 a quarters salary before starting, since am Original Drawing by Nate GreenUvtay.

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