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...ghty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the... ...gg, continuing to play despite the discussion. “But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails,” replied Stuart; “suppose they stop the trains, ... ...he come directly from Brindisi?” “Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience,... ...am upon the waters of the Red Sea. Chapter IX IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG The distance b... ...y way of Bombay, the nearest route thither, now that a railway crosses the Indian peninsula. Among the passengers was a number of officials and milita... ... 280 pounds, 32 Around the World in 80 Days brigadiers, 2,400 pounds, and generals of divisions, 4,000 pounds. What with the military men, a number o...

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... disaster, when it came, was a surprise to all. It was very well known to Generals Shenck and Milroy for some time before, that General Halleck thoug... ...of the several organized Territories is gener- ally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. The m... ...rsements there were for the civil service $23,253,922.08, for pensions and Indians $4,216,520.79, for interest on public debt $24,729,846.51, for the ... ... you, for useful and varied infor- mation in relation to the public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pert... ...tes. The measures provided at your last session for the removal of certain Indian tribes have been carried into effect. Sundry treaties have been neg... ...h. I suggested in my last annual message the propriety of remod- eling our Indian system. Subsequent events have satisfied me of its necessity. The d... ...ed that the danger is very great or imminent, but I will thank you to give Generals Rosecrans and Curtis, respectively, such orders as may turn their ... ...DEATH SENTENCES REMITTED GENERAL ORDERS, NO.76. W AR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT -GENERALS OFFICE, W ASHINGTON, February 26, 1864. Sentence of Deserters. The... ... sent under suitable guards by orders from army commanders. The commanding generals, who have power to act on pro- ceedings of courts-martial in such ...

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...ative merit to swallow and make nothing of the mention of our best cavalry generals irritated him to call Murat a mountebank. Shalders retorted, that ... ...te us an essay on the 10 Lord Ormont and His Aminta morale of illustrious generals of cavalry; and Shalders told him he did not advance his case by t... ...any chance of distinction. No need to say much of his mastering the picked Indian swordsmen in single combat: he knew their trick, and was quick to sa... ...nearly black in their minds. Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian princesses: some have a liking for negresses. There are Nubians rath... ... to condemn Lord Ormont in his quarrel with the Commissioner of one of the Indian provinces, who had the support of the Governor of his Presidency and... ...es- tablishment: one party for our modern English magisterial methods with Indians, the other for the decisive Oriental at the early time, to suit the... ...val of the sharp and summary of the sword in air when we have to deal with Indians. They chose to regard it as a matter of the dealing with Indians, a... ...” He pursed his month, pondering. “No; and in the Austrian ser- vice, too; generals of cavalry are left to whistle for an inde- pendent command. There...

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...ighbourhood, peons of the estancias, vaqueros of the seaboard plains, tame Indians coming miles to market with a bundle of sugar-cane or a basket of m... ...ity, and awe. The impious adventurers gave no other sign. The sailors, the Indian, and the stolen burro were never seen again. As to the mozo, a Sulac... ...d, in the cafe, Luis, the mulatto, took good care not to show himself. The Indian girls, with hair like flowing black manes, and dressed only in a shi... ... of police, some broad-faced, brown little gentleman, with a great deal of Indian in him, would put in an appearance. Leaving his man outside with the... ...en nothing but a charcoal burner in the woods, and their mother a baptised Indian woman from the far interior. However that might be, the Costaguana P... ...ay all those jour- nalists, demagogues, members of Congress, and all those generals and judges cringed before a sleepy- eyed advocate without practice...

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...dinance for the government of this country, here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. ... ... original States. The same process in a few years was gone through with in Indiana, and so with Illinois, and the same substantially with Michigan and... ...ent from the Confederation to the Constitution. Not only so, but I believe Indiana once or twice, if not Ohio, petitioned the Gen- eral Government for... ...na; and what I have said as between Kentucky and Ohio, I repeat as between Indiana and Kentucky: it is equally appli- cable. One additional argument i... ... it is equally appli- cable. One additional argument is applicable also to Indiana. In her Territorial condition she more than once petitioned Con- 8... ...nd what is to be done in regard to this. The coast and Gap movements made, Generals McClellan and Fremont, in their respective departments, will avail... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five MESSAGES OF DISAPPOINTMENT WITH HIS GENERALS TELEGRAM TO GENERAL D. C. BUELL. W ASHINGTON, January 4, 1862. GEN... ... protect public property from robbery and plun- der. Some of the brigadier-generals assigned to this depart- ment are entirely ignorant of their dutie... ... 1861. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 338 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO GENERALS D. HUNTER AND J. H. LANE. EXECUTIVE MANSION WASHINGTON, FEBRU- ARY...

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..., my sovereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at o... ...iving his letters from Benares—for his exclama- tion upon the death of the Indian chief—for his desire to marry his daughter: the woman I was wooing w... ...r which was speedily to rage through some of the fair- est portions of the Indian continent. Shah Allum, the son of Shah Lollum, the descendant by the... ...roke out, and a host of starving sans- culottes appeared among the various Indian States, seeking for military service, and inflaming the minds of the... ...olkar from his impregnable entrenchments? Don’t you know that the ignorant Indian fell into the snare, and issuing from behind the cover of his guns, ... ...room where he sat, I found him in the midst of a council of war; his chief generals and viziers seated round him, each smoking his hookah, as is the c...

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...Dabney’s estate to play with, and they explored it with the stealth of Red Indians and the accuracy of burglars. They could enter either by the Lodge-... ...’s pavement white With serpentine and syenite, Steps with five other generals—” “That’s no good. T ry another,” said Stalky. “Hold on a shake; I... ...rs and the one cigar reeking in amity proved the Rev. John Gillett’ s good generalship. Since the discovery of the cat, King had been too ready to see... ...inks too. Let’s come out an’ smoke. Here’s a treat.” Stalky held up a long Indian cheroot. “‘Bagged it from my pater last holi- days. I’m a bit shy of... ...out Fat-Sow, of course. What’s Crandall done. sir?” “I’ve brought over an Indian paper that his mother sent me. It was rather a—hefty, I think you sa... ...school. When Crandall minor that was—Lieutenant R. Crandall of an ordinary Indian regiment—arrived from Exeter on the morning of the match, he was che... ...soft-voiced, and cat- like, but still Abanazar for all that he adorned the Indian Political Service; and there was a lean Irishman, his face tanned bl...

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...s, and Plato has the added glory of that acquired beauty, that bust of the Indian Bacchus which is now indissolubly 6 The New Machiavelli mingled wit... ...y waggons along the great military road to the beleaguered fortress on the Indian frontier beyond the worn places that were dismal swamps. And there w... ...gnificently en- gineered ascent to a fortress on the cliffs commanding the Indian reservation. My games upon the floor must have spread over several y... ...t there was any one at all in the school who knew or cared a rap about the Indian Ocean, except as water on the way to India. But Britten had come up ... ...ghting an imaginary battle about us as we walked. As we went along we were generals, and our attacks pushed along on either side, crouching and gather... ... journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a priest or so, here a clump of old-fashioned Protestants, he...

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... been of Seriphus; nor you, had you been of Athens.” When an- other of the generals, who thought he had performed con- siderable service for the Athen... ...r- tunate month to the barbarians, for in it Alexander over- came Darius’s generals on the Granicus; and the Carthaginians, on the twenty-fourth, were... ...d mother’s side. Xanthippus, his father, who defeated the king of Persia’s generals in the battle at Mycale, took to wife Agariste, the grandchild of ... ...s. Again, when on a time Sophocles, who was his fellow-commissioner in the generalship, was going on board with him, and praised the beauty of a youth... ...y fight which had much uncertainty or hazard; he did not envy the glory of generals whose rash adventures fortune favored with brilliant success, howe... ...ies of Greece. And Alexander, when he undertook his expedition against the Indians, and found his Macedonians encumbered, and appear to march heavily ... ... to him, though he had enlarged the Roman empire to the Caspian Sea or the Indian Ocean. In a State where there is a sense of virtue, a powerful man o... ...t, Gaul, Germany, and Britain, to advance for his part to the east and the Indian Sea, by the conquest of Asia, to com- plete the incursions of Pompey...

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...like case, might do? Or how would Monsieur Ude prosper among those Orinoco Indians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow-nests, on the branches of... ...he Clothes fly off the whole dramatic corps; and Dukes, Grandees, Bishops, Generals, Anointed Presence itself, every mother’s son of them, stand strad... ...ank on a level with blowing their bodies to pieces by Gunpowder; that with Generals and Field-mar- shals for killing, there should be world-honored Di... ...is Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo- Jumbo and Indian Pawaw be utterly abolished. For all things, even Celestial Luminarie... ...sing: all this you cannot see, but only imagine. I say, there is not a red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole...

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...was devoted to the preservation of ancient archives. There they showed us no end of aged documents; some were signed by Popes, some by Tilly and other... ...ou are obliged to buy it?’ However, these people are not impolite to Russians or Germans. And as to rank, they worship that, for they have long been u... ... run across you in Italy, you hunt me up in London before you sail.’” The next item which I find in my note-book is this one: “The fact that a band of... ...nt leisure, and that we are only able to send 1,200 soldiers against them, is utilized here to discourage emigration to America. The common people thi... ...n the matter of numbers. It is rather a striking one, too. I have not distorted the truth in saying that the facts in the above item, about the army a... ..., are made use of to discourage emigration to America. That the common people should be rather foggy in their geography, and foggy as to the location ... ...ng thing: the guide-book said that up there on the summit the guests did not wait to dress much, but seized a red bed blanket and sailed out arrayed l... ...nd thus increase the variety of my stock. Here rare some specimens which I lately bought at an auction sale of the effects of a bankrupt bric-a-brac h... ... “Unabhaengigkeitserklaerungen” seems to be “Independencedeclarations,” which is no improve- ment upon “Declarations of Independence,” so far as I can...

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...hem with dismal gardens of dry cracked earth, where a few reedy sprouts of Indian corn seemed to be the chief cultivation, and which were guarded by h... ...m Corfu regiments, jolly sailors from ships in the harbour, and yellow old Indians returning from Bundelcund, should think proper to be enthusiastic a... ...ne, and carved all over with names of Allah, and titles of old pirates and generals who reposed there. The guardian of the mosque sat in the garden-co... ...’clock bell rings. Sixty people sit down to a quasi- French banquet:thirty Indian officers in moustaches and jack- ets; ten civilians in ditto and spe...

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... The people were savages serving God and the King after the fashion of Red Indians. T o make this sketch of the struggle exact and true at all points,... ...her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, as it were... ...The Chouans Francine saw the long hedge undulating like one of those great Indian serpents of fabulous size and shape. Here and there, among the gorse... ...elieve in the gravity of a situation in which she was risking her life. An Indian muslin gown, rather short and clinging like damp linen, revealed the... ...o doubt, their services were recorded over the signatures of the vari- ous generals of the former war; and all were murmuring. The Abbe Gudin, the Com...

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...sguise. Mrs. Lovell’s complexion was worth saving from the rav- ages of an Indian climate, and the persecution of claimants to her hand. She was golde... ...rd facing it, arose that day of the forlorn charge of English horse in the Indian jungle, the thunder and the dust, the fire and the dense knot of the... ...es—say, Blucher at the court of the Waterloo Regent. The Hundreds were his Generals; the Fifties his captains; and each one was possessed of unlimited... ...Backwoodsmen in America don’t need watches.” “Unless it is to astonish the Indians with them.” “Ah! yes!” hummed Robert. 317 George Meredith “Twelve—...

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...ld-laced cap?” on which Becky replied, “that he was an officer in the East Indian service.” But Rawdon Crawley rode out of the ranks of his company, a... ...fast-time. “The Duke has gone to beat the Emperor as he has beaten all his generals before.” “His papers are burned, his effects are removed, and his ... ...at her own invitation, and besides this contretemps, there were a score of generals now round Becky’s chair, and she might take her choice of a dozen ... ... sum, as George’s guardian, Dobbin proposed to put out at 8 per cent in an Indian house of agency. Mr. Sedley, who thought the Major had some roguish ... ...y dear, old silly man; and that you shall be an Irish Secretary, or a West Indian Gov- ernor: or a Treasurer, or a Consul, or some such thing.” “Posti... ...iles to the military station of Bundlegunge, in the Madras division of our Indian empire, where our gallant old friends of the —th regiment are quarte...

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...elds. We hear a great deal about King and Parliament, great lords and able generals, Cavaliers and Roundheads, but this story is to help us to think h... ...es going to the Cathedral on Christmas Day, in the midst of all his plumed generals, with their gay scarfs, and rich lace collars. He had put little B... ... honest well-wisher to King and Church to boot?” “Master Henshaw, the West Indian merchant? His is a good, well-ordered household, and he holds with t...

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..., show- ing off the room, the chiffonieres, the ornaments, and some pretty Indian ivory carvings. There was a great ottoman of Aunt Maria’s work, and ... ... he had done more than prove his unusual capacity. All his connexions were Indian, and his father, who had not seen him since his earliest childhood, ... .... Albinia had just sense enough not to object, though the discovery of the Indian plans was such a blow to her that she could not be consoled by all h... ... India seemed going home. She took refuge in the hope that between the two Indian stools Gilbert might fall upon one of the profes- sions which she th... ... you much more good. Yes, you must go.’ In the course of the summer an old Indian friend was stay- ing at Fairmead Park, and Colonel Bury wrote to beg... ...t least she knew how to learn what was wanted, and if her friends, the old Generals, were to be trusted, she ought to have no lack of interest at the ...

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...upulous in his course, possibly, and less remorse- ful, than revolutionary Generals. His smile was quite un- clouded, and came softly as a curve in wa... ...l not be troubled to favour you with a taste of it, or, by Bacchus and his Indian nymphs, I should speedily behold you jumping like peas in a pan, lik... ...e. Thus, when the Government thought of temporizing, they issued orders to Generals whose one idea was to strike the blow of a mallet. At this period ... ... given, and full sympathy elicited from Captain Weisspriess, while the two Generals likewise whis- pered and nodded. ‘Did you draw?’ the captain inqui... ...d that it was a letter of his sister’s treating of family matters. The two Generals, who were close friends, discussed the attack to which he had been... ...if she can,’ remarked the observer; meaning that he considered the sex bad Generals, save when they have occasion to preserve themselves secret; then ...

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...d defensive. The events of the early spring, the bloody failure of British generalship at Neuve Chapelle, the naval disaster in the Dardanelles, the s... ...having need of them, having need of their service, even as great kings and generals and leaders need and use men. For a moment, for an endless age, th... ...old followers of the Rev. Charles Voysey, Swedenborgians, Moslem converts, Indian Theosophists, psychic phenomena and so forth, to meet him. Neverthel...

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... the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty struggle splendidly ended; and truly could it be ... ...er to freshen his pillow. For ’tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too. Farther 19 George Meredith away, over field and bogland, the... ... we’re in Ireland. I burn to! But you’re not still ill, dear? Say no! That Indian fever must have gone. You do look a dash pale, my own; you’re tired.... ...stane, in the county of Surrey, inherited by him during his recent term of Indian services, was on the hills, where a day of Italian sky, or better, a... ...rwick’s there:—worth fifty of me! Dacier, I’ve had my sword-blade tried by Indian horsemen, and I know what true as steel means. She’s there. And I kn...