Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1893, Page 11

STORIES OF OFFICE _ SEEKERS, omething About the Crowds Which Haunt the Departments. A LOOK INTO THE BLUE BOOK Applications by Mall—Hundreds of usands Awaiting Action—Stories of OMice Seekers and the President—Cleve- land and Harrison Compared. ‘Written for The Evening Star. ASHINGTON IS FULL of office seekers. They crowd the hotels, they have filled up the board- ing houses and you meet them in the corridors of the great depart- ments and in the lower halls of the White House. The civil ser- vice rules seem to make no difference in ther demands and President Cieveland has to send | arge number of them every day. His daring his last administration en- s him to dispose of them with refreshing He has fixed hours for his dent does business & good judge of men an Cifice-seeking ¢: He does n clock. ¢ 4! 0 come much | rds to the door- on Cleveland's assistant postmaster general. He wanted to have e country | and he told the that he beds See pee \= Mow tain gy epheenprns turned Gat T want the place for a democrat.” “But I can't do that, governor. I masthave some other charge than that of or he will have to stay out his term. I have got to have a charge made bys reputable per- son.” “Well, I'l file charges myself,” said Gov. Cartis,” “You tats year pes aad write them “All right,” said Mr. Hay, and he began to follow the “He did?” was the , “why, that’s bed.” “When you were eppoisted,”’ Gov. Curtin went on, “he said you were a damned copper- “That's worse,” said the official, laughing as he wrote. “‘And third and last he called me bed names," said Gov. Curtin. “Now isn’t that oe 4 “I think it is,” was the reply, Iwo onder bie removal” oe tae 1i8 same experience was a minent men during Cleveland's ist admin- istration, but many of them did not get their appointments as did Curtin. CLEVELAND'S HONESTY. There is one thing about Cleveland's treat meet of office seekers. He never tells s man he is going to give him s position when he has no idea of carryit people leave the impression in this regard. On the other han when he wants to give # man an office makes lots of friends by so It different with President Tarrio reemed to like to grant a favor, an after he had decided to give a wanted be would let him go away with the that his application was ‘This was case with an appointment of Senator Stanford’ Stanford, I am told, called ‘the President to urge the appointment of a friend of his, but he could get no satisfaction regarding it. That eame afternoon the appointment was rent into the Senate, and it is that it had left the White House before Senator Stanford made his call. You can never tell from Harri- son's actions or his face on which side of a ques- tion he is. Ho prided himself on the iron mask which he wore over bis feelings and he argued ig ! i il je-room. At and is ready to the aboat 10 0 have the room from one man Jead« one of his cal room and talks gainst his 3 on the corner of it, without even ofice seeker Not infrequen’ desk as be tal and be disyos taking the papers which eac brings with bim. orrices wuicn ILL BE CIANGED, rks right nember in- the offices, the: is beine: ° for it. It is largely from the oficial Blue Book. he | i this book is in pro- ekers, the mail has ae idly increased in all the departm t Wash- ington ducing the pest mozt. The letters of | lerks are brought in in bags Ds cations come in by nds. ‘The appointment clerk of ‘the tens of f thouse: POSTMASTER GEXERAL AND HIS WORK. of the treasury hasa score of clerks who do little else than take care of this mail, and in the pigeon holes of this office hundreds of thous- | ands of papers and letters are now filed away. | carefully indexed and briefed and ready for use | med in them | ket an appointment. It is the same in the Post | Oice Department, and I was told not long ago that there were some‘hing like 400.000 applica- | tions im one of the departments here at Wash-! ington awaiting action. The post office appli- | cante usually rend volummous papers, and a bundred-doliar-a-vear job often more | papers connected with is than one of the big | city tal appointments. The candidates | send im their papers and recommendations. ‘They have petitions signed by the citizens of their towns and it takes a Isrge number of clerks to put these into shape for Postmaster | General i. When a case comes up the Postmaster General wazts a brief of it ready for him, and he takes this brief with bim to the White House if it isan appointment that the President has to consider. An absolute civil service would, in fact, largely reduce the work of the departments, and it will surprise many to know that in some of the offices under the ment it requires the services of one man Sly and day out to open the mail STORIES OF OFFICE SEEKERS. Public men have learned to know that Presi- dent Cleveland decides matters for himeeif, and | Tremember how an Ala- did eight years ago. Dama delegation called at the White House in | 1885 with a lixt of appointments in their hands and thought that they would carry away all the offices of that state at one visit. President Cleveland received them and asked what he eould do for them. Their ieader replied: “Mr. President, we have agreed upon the names of the offices for Alabama. We represent the state and we are in perfect harmony. We would like intments made as scon as possible, and here is the list.” Cleveland looked at the leader for a moment. He thea moved his eyes slowly around over the rest of the delegation, and as he scanned the last he said: “Gentlemen, if your attention has Bot yet been called to the tennre of office act and the civil service law permit me to ask you to look at it.” And with that he dismissed the elegation. Some of the men recommended ‘were appointed and others were not MZ. CLEVELAND AND THE OFFICE SEEKZRS. Some of the older Seratorsand Representatives med to bossing their dis- oy the way Clev ments, and not a few of ‘them carry their resontmerts with them today. Youremember how Andrew G.Curtin,the famous ‘Sa: governor of Penasyivania, called one day He bulldozed toa certain extent his and the only man who hed the nerve to stand out against Lim on all occasions was Jeremiah Rusk, the Secretary of Agriculture. In plain janguage Unele Jerry would take ® common- sense View of every question and he would hammer it into Harrison. Harrison would fight him‘until he left the White House and then, in nine cases out of ten, would adopt against the matters which he most approved. cabinet, | Uuele Jerry's view of the situation. I was talking the other day with a confidential em- ploye of the Post Office Department about this maiter, and he said that this view was the same as that held by Gen. Clarkson. Said he: “Clarkson got to dislike Harrison very much before he left the post office. His generous nature and kindly soul was the reverse of that of his chief and I remember that one day he came into my office with a buadle of rs in hishand. He had been up to see the President about some postal appointments. 4swe chatted together he picked up the papers and sali “President Harrison is the queerest man I have mot. I have been at the White House ‘ing with him about some offices which wore to be given to his friends. I knew that the men RRISON AND UNCLE JERRY RUSK. who were to have ths offices wore his friends and I had ejected them with that view. As he looked over the appointments he a me2 objections to each of them and at last I dre my chair to his sur- prise and Mr. President, you are the q: have ever met. Why, are only about 2,000 | it seers to make you grunt to doa favor for a| he is about twenty. on't understand it. It always makes oblige m: nds, but it seems to oa miserable to do likewise. PRESIDENTS AND OFFICE HOLDERS, Tt is funny to note how offices have been secured, in the past. Cleveland cannot be fiat- tered very easily, but some of the best office : ons have been secured in Andrew Jackson gave a great many to toadving office seekers, and office seek- are the greatest toadies in exist- daring Jackson's admin- istration a man called at the White House and found Jackson smoking an old clar pipe. He began to talk of tobacco, and after he bad discussed the weed for a few moments he ani “Sir. President, I want to ask a favor of ud what place is that?” said Jackson, frowning as he snw what he had thonght to be a friendly call change into an office-seeking | visit, “Ah,” replied the cringing office seeker, “I am not an applicant for a position. At least not now, but my good father is as fond of to- bacco as you and he toid me when I camo shington to tell you it would be the pro est day of his life if he could have a present from you of one of your pipes.” Jackson hereupoa ordered the servant to bring him a fresh pips and offered this to the visitor. The office secksr refused it and said: “No, Mr. President, let me have the one vou are using. Give it to'me just as it, is, with the ashes smoking within it, and you'will receive the everiasting thanks of my dear father.” Jackson handed him the pipe and the man wrapped it up in a silk handkerchief and, say- ing, “Oh, thank you, thank you,” and bowed himself out. Jackson was delighted and when the man’s name came before him a few days after as an applicant for an important place in the Treasury Department he gave it to him. | BX WANTED THE PIPE. Little things had great influence with Gen. | Jackson and the young man who came here to | Set an appointment lost his chance by making | irreverent remarks to President Jackson about & sermon which the two heard together. HOW A CLERK'S NOTE WAS MADE GooD, The most of the government clerks at Wash- ington are good pay and you will not finda more reputable set of peopie anywhere. are now and then, however, some who re- fuse tosettle their board bills, and this re- | minds me of how Andrew Jackson fixed a case of this kind. I think it was a clerk in the Treas- zy Department, who had run behind with his board bill and who, when he was some months |in arrears, gave a note for its payment. |The note went to protest and the woman failed to get payment. she | Went to the White House and called upon the | President. Oia Hickory received “her j and as ab her story his eyes m she was throug! yuested her to | “note for the entire that his j back and get the clerk's note for amount that was due her. She replied note was not good and that it would only en- tail the cost of @ protest. President Jackson assured her that this time there should be no from President had but little influence in this matter, ‘and Sint ho wes running the Post Ofice Dopart- ment Your kingdom and Jour cabin 1s your castle. You are s sovereign and you will itinevery throbbing of your pulse, and every day of your life will assure me of your thanks for this advice.”” it was the same with old Senator Chase, who, Salmon P. Chase, afterward chief justice, asked for = government office, told him he By Go ae not ruin putting e employ of Uncle Sam. This is the same today. There is no worse place in the world for a young man than the government offices of Washington. The clerks after a time become pure mac! nd there is less snap, energy and get-up-and-git inside these great government departments than there is anywhere in the American continent outside of the West India Islands. Fraxk G. Caprenter. WEALTH JOINS POVERTY. A Rich Widow to Bestow Her Hand on Her Coachman, From the Boston Post. Mrs. Dr. Hiller of Wilmington, far famed in connection with the costly sarcophagi built by her husband before his death for himself and wife, is to wed again. The ceremony will take place at the little Catholic Church in Wilmington on Easter morn, and the groom will be Henry Hiller, for- merly Peter Surrette and the coachman of the bride. The wedding will be accompanied by iavish display and splendor probably not before ap- | proached in New England, if the present plaus are fully carried out, ‘The groom was a poor, illiterate New Bruns- wick Frenchman, whose name was changed by due w to Henry Hiller, at the in- o who will now ‘have him educated so as to assist her in the conduct of | her affairs, and perpetuate the name of Ler first husband. | ‘The pope's concent to the change of name | was obtained b: { at the wedding. | Mrs, Hiller is the sunny side of fifty, and . He is going to be a doctor in the future. | Three weeks ago in conver ation with a Post | reporter Mrs. Hiiler stated that there was no| | truth whatever in the story, but quietly in- formed the reporter that he had put an idea | into her head. Now, the wedding invitations are out. They are very costly and beantiful, written on ver- | milion’ paper with letters of goid. | Arrangements are all perfected, and those y Father Ryan, who will officiate | ,., | fortunate exough to obtain invitation will vee | | the most gorgeous sig] Wilmington. | _ Peter Surrette, or Henry Hiller, as Mrs. Hille | wants everybody to cail him, ia about tw | five of ag2 and came from New bi wick four years ago. | and after ‘struggling around on odd jobs | given a position on the Hiller estate. “He soon | Warmed himself into the good graces of the | widow, and today is persaps the luckiest man in Am ‘that ever was seen in vague, and a year ago iast summer he went | every Sunday io a blacksmith shop and was According to the very dull pupil. and after a few atten upts i | teacher gave it up in disqust. and the ‘French. man,” as the peopl in the village call him, was told’ to keep out. Fortune came to his rescue, jand now he will be placed in the hands of a | tutor and be fitted for Hervard University at his future wife's expense. He speaks only broken English, and boards in a little small house with Henry Surrette, » Cistant relative. Dr. Hiller says she has no relative in the World, but there are those in Wilmington who claim that there are some re‘atives of hers alive and who will be aeard from later. It is stated on excel'ent anthority that Mre. Hiller is worth €5,000,000 and that her wealth ia rapidly increasing. ‘The fact that such a wealthy woman isto marzy an illiterate young man employed as her coachman and educate him to assist in carry- | ing on her affairs has caused no end of talk,but | ehe says that although he is poor he is honest. | and she cares not what the world may say. Life. “Your beanteous face is just as fair As when, ere Lent camie ‘You banished sweets and took to prayer, ‘To keep you free from sin. “Your golden hatr is just as fine As when, six weeks ago, ‘You sipped with me a g:ase of wine, And let me kiss you—so. wTnere ts no be ‘nd fasting bas not ston away ‘The mischief from your brow. “If you are, then, no better, desr, why ry ‘dust think of what we've miasea™” He ceased. She “My love,” said she, a “ yhedto have sect 70 eee ——2+____ Satling O’er the Main. From Once » Week. . Bruns: | to it, i He was a woodchopper, | members of the cabinet, not including Mr. His idea of the English language is very | s | taught his letters by the uroprietor of the shop. | history and object are inseparab! mith's story, Peter wax «| full meaning of their declarations understood, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, i Be i i i F i g E i E L i E Saf tHE | HEit PY de i ment daring the rebellion. In that protest President said of Gen. McClellan that at time, August 81, 1962, it was not safe to intrust to him the command of any army of the United States, In my better I told of the writing of a protest by Mr. Stanton, the day before the one the President E nary protest which Mr. Stanton wrote, and which is as follows: ‘THE PROTEST WRITTEN BY MB. STANTON. “Mr. Prosident: ‘The undersigned feel com- pelled by a profound sense of duty to the gor- ernment and the people of the United States and to yourself as your constitutional advisers respectfally to recommend the immediate re- moval of George B. MoClellan from any com- mand of the armies of the United States. We are constrained to urge this by the conviction that after a cad and humiliating trial of twelve months and by the frightful and useless sacri- fice of the lives of many thousand brave men andthe waste of many millions of national means he has proved to be incompetent for any important military command. And also because of recent disobediance to superior orders and inactivity he has twice im- periled the fate of the army commanded by Gen. Pope, and while he continues in command will daily hazard the fate of our armies and our national existence, exhibiting no sign of a dis- position or capacity to restore by courage and diligence the national honor that has been so deeply tarnished in the eyes of the world. We are unwilling to ve accessory to the destraction of our armies, the protraction of the war, the waste of our national resources and the over- throw of our government, which we believe must be the inevitable consequence of George B. McClellan being continned in command, and seek therefore by his prompt removal to afford | bod; an opportunity to capable officers under God’s providence ‘o preserve our national existence.” WHAT LED To THIS ACTION. The circumstances under which these pro- ts were written were the alarming situation of Gen. Pope's army in the Second Bull Run battles, and Gen. MeClelian’s disobedience of orders in getting his army to Alexandria and then refusing to send the troops to Gen. Pope, who was at the time fighting Lee's whole army. Secretary Chase was at the department ver; often and talked of these doings to Mr. P. Watson, thenassistent secretarvof war. Thisled to the suggestion of the protestby Mr. Chaseand Mr. Wateon wrote it in substantially the form which was written by Mr. Stanton as Inow give. To this protest in Mr. Stanton’s band- writing Secretary Chase got tie signatures of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Attor- | ney General, and himself and Mr. Stanton igned it. Mr. Stanton, therefore, did not sug- gest the protest, nor did he get the signatures its charges were sanctioned by four for although Mr. Welles deciined 0 sign’ it when asked by Mr. Chase, be wid he disapproved of the couree of Gen. Me- Clellan. Mr. Seward and Mr. Blair were not asked to sign either of these protests. as they ported Gen. MeCiel!an as commander of the Army of the Potomac. ‘that both these pro- tests may be considered together—for their and the There repeat the protest which the President jimvelf wrote and which I first gave to the public in my letter, as above stated. ing this protest the President had before him the one which was in Mr. Stanton's hand- writing and k; all about it. The one written by Mr. Stanton is referred to in ‘Abraham Lincoln—A History,” but the historians never saw it, while the one written by the it himself was never known to his historians until it was published in Tax Stan by me. THE PROTEST WRITTEN BY THE PRESIDENT. “The undersigned, who have been honored with your selection as part of your confidential advisers, deeply impressed with our great re- nsibility in the present crisis, do but form = painfal duty in declaring to you ar deliberate opinion that ut this time it is not safe to intrust to Major General McClellan the command of any army of the United States. And we hold ourseives ready at any time to ex- plain to you in detail the reasons upon which this opinion is based. “To the President.” This protest bears unmistakable evidence that the President sanctioned the charges set out against Gen. McClellan in the protest, which was in Mr. Btanton'’s handwriting. The President's protest was written on the m of August 81, aud the immediate eause wl brought it forth was the conduct of Gen. Me- Clellan at Alexandria in connection with bis not sending out his troops to help Gen. Pope, then fighting Lee's whole army at Bull ‘Run. Up to that time for fourteen days Gen, Pope had been fightin continuously pa / and marching in the toils and was at Alexandria and st Washington to get troops out | T° to belp Gen, Pope are fully known they will show 5 conillien of things which tended 7am alate tions Gen. Pope saved his arm; from destruction will forever stand to senate, whleh te bicoelan wa to give. ‘MB. LINCOLN'S INTERVIEW WITH &'CLELLAX. be constrained i iH H 2) tt i if fe a Pe EEE General: I desire you to furnish me informa- ft ordered the gen- of the = to tion upon the Ist, At what date you eral the Potomac “Wasurxatox, August 30, 1862, “Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: “Sir: In reply to your note of last evening I heve to state: First. That on the 30th of July I directed Gen. McClellan to send away his sick ‘as quickly as possible, tory to his moving in itome latectiomse bectring so amoer ces order was repeated August 2. On the 3d of August I directed him to withdraw his entire army from Harrison’s Landing and bring it to Aquia creek. “2d. That the order was not obeyed with the ‘aogier! T expected and the national safety, in my opinion, required. It will be seen from my telegraphic correspondence that Gen. Mc- Clellan protésted st the movement and that it was not actually commenced until the delay in geting off the sick. As shown in my nce I was most earnestly pressing him to move quickly for the reason that I felt Fery anxious tor) the safety of Washington. From all the information I could obtain I "s army and attack this city. I also believed that our only safety was to unite the two armies as rapidly as Possible between the enemy and Washington. he object of pushing Gen. Pope torward to the Rapidan was simply to. guia time for Gen. McCiellan’s army to get into position some- where in rear of the Rappahannock. This Iat first hoped to accomplish br landing the troops of Geus. Burnside and McClellan at Aquis creck. But the time which elapsed between the arrival of these two armies compelled me to bring most of Gen. MoClellan’s forees to Alexandria, as Gen, Pope was then falling back from the upper Rappahannock before the main y of the enemy. When Gen. McCleli movement was begun it was rapidly carrie out; but there was an unexpected delay in com- mencing it. Gen. McClellan reports the delay was unavoidable. “$d. That on the 26th August at 11:20 tele- graphed to Maj.Gen, Franklin, at Alexendria, to march his corps by Centreville toward Warren- ton and to report to Gen. Pope. Finding that Franklin's eorps had not left I telegraplied to Gen. McClellan on the 27th at 10 a.m.'to have it mazch in the direction of Manassas a soon as possible. On the eame day at 12 m. I again telegraphed to Gen. McClellan tha: Gen. Porter reported a general battle imminent, and that Franklin’s corps shonid move out by forced marches, carrying three or Zour days’ provisions; to be afterward supplied as far as possibie by railroad. [also gava him the pozi- tions of Gen. Pope's troops as well as I could ascertain them, and suggested the possib thé the enemy would attempt to turn right. At9 p.m, Gen, McClellan teiegrephed that he should retain Cox's corps with Gen. Franklin till next morning, and would visit my headquarters immediately. He came to my headquarters soon after midzight, and left about 2 o'clock in the morning of the 28th. At our interview I urged on him the importance of pushing forward Franklin as early as possible. Hearing about noon that Gen, McClellan had not reached Alexandria. I tele- | graphed at 12:40 p. m. (28th) to Gen. Franklin if he had not acted on Gen. McClellan's orde: to do soon mine, and move toward Manasses Junction, At Lp. m. Gen. McClellan tele- graphed to me that the moment Franklin could be started with a reasonable amount of artillery, he should go forward. At 2:45 p. m. he telegraphed some rumors he had heard about the enemy's movements and expressed tho opinion thatthe troops sent from Alexandria should be in force, and with cavalry and artillery. or we should be besten in detail. I 3:30 p. m, that not a moment must be ashing as large a force as possible ) 80 a8 to communicate with re) lost in toward Tl i i i th tf | i is i ff ; [ H i a i i! ff f F yi Hi i oan ie [ ge # # g i e E j ? F Col. Haupt brought the general ashore with him andat the conclusion of the above intervie’ Heupt'sofficein Alexandria Gen. McClellan, after writing a mounted his horse and rode off, leaving Col. Haupt ima condition of dissatisfaction and uncertainty. Col. relief in , for 200 shooters as # guard for the relief train, but gotno answer. At midnight he took a lantern and went four miles down the road to Gen. Hancock's camp, found him in bed and got the guard from that admirable soldier. train went out to Pope'srelief and brought back jon. On the 24th, Col. - Fe action than if they had been For several days the officers were demanding transportation, which they knew could not be furnished, and such demands were only an ex- cuse for not going. ‘The trouble seemed to be ‘an indisposition to help Gen. Pope, and asa consequence only ene-fourth—-21.000— of the Army of the Potomac (90,000 strong) took part in Pope's battles, The railroad was but a single track, with a limited equipment of care and engines, and were u1 often detained a the front. — aead fact that while these were a1 pte en were in Wi and Pope was fighting, and, whatever may be anid of bis incompetency, he fought his army with courage and constancy and stayed the march of Lee upon Washington, where he certainly would have come but for Pope's fighting. the midst of tho uncertainty as to Gen. Pope the telegraph operators ard the railros men were, under thedirection of Col. Haupt, the advance pioneers pushing on to the posts of danger ont to Fairfax and all along the line, bringing off the wounded, Sending news of the peril at the front and calling for “help for him whose flaming sword beckoned toward Alexan- | dria for help day afterday. ‘MESSAGES THAT SHOCKED MR. LIXCOLN. In hus telegram ef the 28th, at night, Gen. MeClellan said, “Pope must cut through to- day,” and it is in this very telegram, referring to Franklin.that Gen. McClellan aleo says: “We are not yet in condition to move, may be to- morrow morning.” Marvelously strange words these! Fourteen hours later, ina telegram to the President, be said: “Pope must be left to get out of his scrape.” It was not Pope's doings that he got into the toils of the great army of Lee, and if it was, certainly it was shocking even to think of such @ thing when the Army of the Potomac was within a day's marching distance of Gen. Pope. Every tele- gram from the battlefield and from Alexandria was on Mr. Stanton’s desk day after day and ‘night after night, and these two especially shocked both’ the Presi dent and Mr. Stanton, for the President was with Mr. Stanton much of this time. On the 27th, at night, Gen. McClelland advised Gen. Halieck that he had at his disposal 13,000 | men, including Franklin's corps, and some | artillery, and recommended that they be kept for the’ defense of Washington, but added: “This force is in readiness to march at a mo- ment’s notice to any point you may indicate.” | Looking now at the subsequent struggle to get | Franklin sent to Pope, how strange the matter seems. It did seem strange to the War Depart- ment at that time. POPE FIGHTING ALL THE TIME. It is important here to repeat that while all this very peculiar correspondence was going on Gen. Pope's army was in the toils of a powerful Gen. Pope, before the enemy could be rein- | Washin; e was not in condition to move and fight battle. At 8:45 { telegraphed to must be no further delay in moving Frankiin's corps toward that they must go to- morrow morning, ready or not ready. If we delay too long to get ready there will be no necessity of going at all. for Pope will either be deteated or victorious without our aid. If there isa want of wagons the men must carry pro- Visions with them till the wagons can cote to their relief. At 10 o'clock he replied that he 's 6 started at 6. m., and that he could give him but two squadrons of cavalry. At 12m. he telegraphed that Franklin's corps at proper ammunition and without tion; and again at 1 p. m. he telegra; that that our people must move moreactivelyand find out theenemyis. ‘Iam tired r Late in the that ‘s exandria and his corps ‘at Anandale was contrary to my tnd stdored hime t0 a. and the facts of this dis- T direciad, protant the rllrend cad open cut as our communication with Manassas. Gen. MoClellan replied at 8 p.m., referring tele- fame gd ald Wine be bed not dormed ft sate Anandale, and that in Alexandria Early on the to trans- at 9:40 to Gen. Mo- seca with (29th: e ii E Bi a At that time it was Mr. Stanton who said, while watching this telegraphic play between Wash- ington and Alexandria, andin which be took no ¢ asan actor, hi Gen. Halleck ought to we gone to Alexandria and taken the troops out I, and that bad “‘Stooewall” Jackson been at Alexandria hi elude Gen. as & factor entering into the solution of the im of bis wrmy. He as having already been and all hisections are in singu- lar contrast wit sincere a ee er ns to ton, and Wan army ‘Corps shotld be seat to {he Chan bridge, while even yor Lee was mak- Pie tes fghting to der safe those very de- was ren fenses toward which he was foreed by a greater power led on by an and fm- Petusus fighter. GEN, M'CLELLAN’s conTbanrsess. ‘There never was an order given to Gen, Clellan, either by the President, the Secretary the done to Pope Tam persuaded to say that Gen. Halleck was not free from great responsibility. WCLELLAX axD sTaxTax. lA REMARKABLE LETTER A Prominent Professional Man's Extrace- inary Statement—His Outspoken Letter bases thiizia & 2. @oNK, aD. other advertised articles, but shonld they 40 fo? As the late Dr. J. G. Hotiend, writing over his ‘own name in Scribner's Monthly, aad: that many of the best proprietary m the day are more successful than Many physicians, and most of them were first die covered oF used in actual medical practice; when, wever, any person Knowing their virtue and their popularity secures and advertises the opinion of the bigoted, all virtue went jolland was an educated the him, and up to not on the battle! MIGHT HAVE REACHED POPE IX ONE DAY. How strange this all seems when it is remem- dered that Manassas was only eighteen miles from Alexandria and Bull Run only twenty, and that by marching troops could have reached Popeinone day that would have saved him from defeat. On the very day that Franklin's march was even Gen. Porter's corps of regulars on the field and knowing that Pope ‘was fighting did not help bim and on account of which Pope was the troops marched these twenty miles the raid made by the enemy ina march of fifty-eight miles in ction of two days on and the Bull Run bridge could have been prevented. Col. Haupt, at Alexandria, was ‘that shocid march, Mr. Watson and Gen. at Washin, were doing Sabatel Gass emee ane to cee Pepe L “It is a fact edicines of out of Dr. Bi: prejudiced observer, and he unusual experienoe. should not be decried. yxiclam, an an- e¢ froma broad ne WEEKLY BULLETIN W. il. HOEK. Now is the Ebb tide in business; it is just between seasons; win- been no accasion to put the troops in the de- fenses of Washi But Generals McClellan and Porter not only outranked Pope. but the former had lost his Stews things were the Alpha and the Omegs of things were the Alpha of these sad and deplorable p all these things were then known in the War De- rtment, and from ite ee with every variety Of de- mand, of reproach and excuses for delays, and | ts, is going out ana “4 ead the final disaster sounded the alarm, and the President realized that his greatest army, the | PefBSP*¥0usre preparing to move intoenew home; idol of his hope, was passing through’ the | if # wecan be of profitto you, as we are moving out shadow of death. ‘Our stock as rapidly as low spot cash prices will do tt, to make room for spring goods, WHAT GER, FORTES SAID, Our matting stock ts fest arriving, the etylesen® Referring to the withdrawal of the army from | qualities eclipses all former efforts. Matting Bugs, 3 feet by © fest, for 400. each the peninsula, Gen. Fitz John Porter, in his Paper entitled ‘The Battle of Malvern Hill,” tations “the penisaular paign the pect i cam of the Army of the Potomee virtually ended on the 4th of July. From that date until August 14, when the army at sundown took up its march for Fort Monroe, its commander was engaged in the siruggle to retain it on the James as against the determination of the Suite Which we are selling at $19.50 ise persuader. A ntce line of Baby Carriages now on exhibition. (Carpets at casb moving-out ortoes this weal W. H. Hors, mhiést =. STH AND PA AVE. his wife that— “The absurdity of Halleck’s course in order- ing the army away from here is that it caun reach Washington in time to do any good. but will necessarily be too late. I hope to be ready & tomorrow afternoon to move forward in the direction of Richmond. { will to cateh and thrash Longstreet, and then, the chance 1115 FS: N.W, offers, follow into Richmond while they are hammering away at Pope.” He did not “hope to be ready to move for- ward in the direction of Alexandria, but of Richmond.” While having » struggle against eet Fee { 5 ‘We have also eseured « large lot of MEN'S HAND-GEWED BUSSIA CALF BALS. AND BLUCHERS, ‘which sell everywhere for 65 ond 68. ‘These also go to you et $3.75 ves ram Fos Tus Lanms ‘We have lotsof genuine bengains i sample shoes and job low, end we can save you from $1 to 62 on every ‘pair purchased bere. Eft iif & fi : i & Hi : i i 4 4 EEE H4 iE it f i i i f i i e & i Tas Wassex Sos Hoom 1115 F S:, N.W. % eee | §. 3 . i F A i ® & Hie t dl