Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1884, Page 4

. i K i b v 5 5 7 B THE OMAYA BEE. Omaha OMoe, No, 916 Farnam St Conneil Biafe OMeejNo, 7 Btroot, Noar Broadway. New York Oifice, foom 65 Tribunc Bailding. - Pabilshad evers norning, exoopt Sunday! ©aly Monday moraivg daily RAMA BY NAT +..$10.00 | Thros Months . Lo 600 | (me Month Por Week, 25 Cente. The $3.00 Lou1.00 N WRRKLY WWR, FURLISIRD KVARY WRADNRADAY, TRRMA POSTPAID, One Year. .00 | Three Months. Bix Monthe. . 1.00 | Ono Month ... . Amerloan Nows Company, Solo Agente Newsdesl i In the United States, CORRRAPONDRNOR, A Oommunloations relating to Newn and Fditorial ‘matbers should be addrossod to the Korow or Tns B, ) % BUSINRSS LRTTNRS. | ATl Business Tottors and Reinittances shonld he addrsssad to Trr Ban PURLHING COMPANY, QMARA- Deatts, Cheoks and Postotfion ordars to be made pay able to the order of the company. HE BEE PUBLISHING C0,, PROPS, R, RIIIWATRR, Editor, Fiteh. Manager Daily Ciroulation, ', 0, Box AT 483 Srwiva has como to atay. The Italians have arrived and tho hand organ is heard in the streets, Anr there any more membera of the Iato legislature who have not been pro- vided for? Sinee the railcoads have gone out of politics, Dr. Miller has gone out with them, Itissad, »s had botter mind his own business and let our congressmen Goversor Dav and senators attond to the distribu the federal pateo Tho wires that connect the Nebraska state house with the national capitol aro leaky, but tho telegraph oporators are not responsible for the lerkago. Par. Hawes would have come home Tong ago to manago the presidential cam- paign, if ho wamn't neodod in Washing- ton, to steor and adviss Senator Man- derson. Laxp Commissioner Kexpari has had his hand in the land-grabbing b usiness so much, that he wants to coatinue his corrupt influonce after his term expiros, through land offices packed with his silent partners in rascality. Tire belt line anaconds has moved another link. The council has passed an ordinance to open Nicholas street and take the ground nceded at an appraise- ment. When the city has paid for the street, the anaconda will swallow it. Fon nineteen years the woman suffra- gists have been firing their potitions at congress. Senator Manderson hred ono of theso petitions into the senate from Ne- braska the other day. Strange to say, congreas atill survives this fearful bom- bardment, —— Tue occcupants of the Lincoln state house have put their heads together to advice Senutor VanWyck that the nomi- nation of Alonzo H. Church wiil be very satisfactory to them. The occupants o the Lincoln stato house had better mind their own business, They were not elected to dizpense land offices among political barnacle: FHLe A e Tur Mexican Central railway, just oompleted, is a windfall for defaulters and crooks, who want to leave the coun- try for the country's good. The default- ing state treasurcr of Alabama availed himself of almost the first train to cross the boundary line. He met with bettor success in gotting away than Polk, the Tennessee defaulting treasurer. Nosony has becn taken more by sur- prise at an unexpected compliment than Becrotary Frelinghuysen. The foreign affairs committee of a politicaly hostile house of repressutatives propose to thank him for the admirable manner in which ho has handled the Lasker mattor and the far more hostile English journals can- not help commending the adroitness with which he defined the position of the goy- ernment in the dynamite business, —— Tux wholesale liquor dealers are pur- suing a very ehort sighted course in ro- fusing to pay their license, There is not shadow of doubt that the law makes no distinetion between wholesale/and rotail dealors, Every unlicensed wholesale dealer is liable to a FLeavy fine for each sale that he makes. If the wholesale dealers continue to defy the law they lay themaelves liable to penalties which will make it very costly as well as inconven- ient. In view of the fact that they have been allowed to go unlicensed for nearly two years, it would seem that they ought to have cheerfully taken out liconses if prosecutions for past violations of the law were dropped. EET———— Now we can understand why our navy department is 80 busy with preparations for war. Canada hus & Senator MacDon- ald who seems anxious to get intoa row with us on a very trifling matter, Last wouth, it cars, & numbes of Ameri- cans crossed over the bord.c on a lynch ing oxewsion and tied up an ludian to the first convenient tree. This was, of ocouree, very wrong; but life on the bor- der is dull, Indians sre bad, wany of them, and according to an eminent wnili- tary autliority the majority of the good ones die"young, Mr. MacDonald, how- over, takes a difforent view of the (ugps- tion. Ho thinks we have broken the neutrality laws and wants reparation or blood. He should move usa vote of thauks, If the Iudian fn question had mot been sent to the Great Father Canada would in all probability have been compelled to support him and thereby seriously cripple its treasury, WAS FITZ JOHN PORTIR A TRAITOR? | We herewith present to our readers th opinions of several of our castern and weatern exchanges on the Fitz John Por. ter business, They are cheerfully com- mended to the attention of the Omaha | Ber. There may be found but little dif- ference in the extracts, All of them show a realizing idea of the enormity of the traitor's crime, and the miserable and cowardly efforts by which it has been sought £ be excused. Theso papers have doubtleas heard of Gen. Grant's opinion, and doubtless respect it for what it is worth, « * . . * So far as we hiave heen able to oheerve during the considoration of tho Porter bill, the Brx has had very little, if any- thing, to say as regards its merits, 1'rom reliablo information, as also from tho oxtract above published, we feel that e By holds that Porter has been wronged. 1 this is true, and if, as we are in formed, the Tiex: editor has knowledyo of his own which sustains him in his belief, why has he not given the public and his hero the benefit of it? Who knowswhat momentous importance it might have as sumed whiloe tho bill was pending. Was not this injustice to the traitor! - Omaha Republican, As an active participant paign which terminated so disastrously in the cam. to the union army in the second battle of Bull Run, the editor of Tux Bre had amplo opportunity to form an unbiased opinion concerning the responsibility for that historic disaster. We have nover hemtated to e firm conviction that Fitz John Porter was unjnstly cash- ferod from the army and stigmatized ns Had he been guilty of deliber- ate disloyalty, he should have been shot, but, having, as wo heli traitor, ve, boen made n scape-goat for General Pope's criminal blunders, and for more than twenty years subjected to the odium which attaches Benedict Arnold, it bt tardy justice that congress should restore to him and his child to was on an honorahle Wo havo said very Yittle about the Porter case of late because our views name, had been expressed years before a rehear- ing wus granted to him, and inasmuch as the passage of the bill was a foregono conclusion, wo did not deem it necessary to waste timo and space in revamping that subject. Tho carpet knights, who odit the Omahn Republican, insist, however, that Tuwk Bie shall give its reasons for refusing to brand Fitz John Porter as a traitor, and we imagine that these reasons are satisfactorily given in the letter which we renublish in this issue from Tue Ber of May 16, 1882, W do not expect to convince the valiant paste pot vetorans who wore in thew swaddling clothes twenty years ago, or perhaps were doing faithful ome wuard duty in shedding red ink for $1,200 a year in some counting-room, This class of warriors will sneer at the opinions of trained army officers who make war a lifo study. They affoct a lofty patriotism and convict Porter of treason because in a critical period of the war when the country was wrought up in its most in- tonse passion he was tried aud convicted by court-martial, which was organized to conviet in order tosot an examplo. The fact that Kitz John Porter was a brave and gallant soldier in the Mexican war, that he distinguished himself at Malvern Hilland Gaines’ Mills, that he made forced marches with his corps to join Pope, while other commanders Jagged behind and did not reach Pope until after Bull Run, all goes for nothing. So also the other fact that the brave soldiers of the corps which he commanded aro almost a unit to-day in demanding his restoration. The most vindictive assaulis on Porter come from editors and politicians who had no part in tho war, and from veter- ans who wore in the armies of tho west #nd know nothing about the Virginia campaign, General Logan, who has for years been working for political capital among the ex-union veterans has raised the cry of “‘traitor,” and it has been echoed all along the line by the unthinking crowd, who imagine that they are again in front of rebel armies v hen thoy assail Porter. Granting to all the right to their opinions, wo would ask in all candor, is thero ancther instanco in all history where a goneral that be- trayed his flag has ever sought reinstate- ment! From Bouedict Arnold to Goergei and Baziine, no traitor has ever dared to ask his betrayed countrymen to re- e ’ : THE DATLY BEE--OMATA, THURSDAY, MARCIT 20, 1884, &_—_—:w — tary of war, in making his terms with Sher- | Joe Johnston, and when General man marched his triumphant army down Pennsylvania avonne,he refnsed to salute | scretary Stanton, who was reviewing | the troops. . has had the temerity to charge General § wver . man with being a traitor, Unfortunately the Fitz John Porter case in mought to be made a party issue, | It was but natural that the democrats in congress, who regarded Porter as the victim of his politizal opinions, should support tho bill in a body, and, on_ the other hand, through bull-dozing, and the partizan howl of paste-pot chivalry, fow republicans had the courage to vote the way they would have voted had Fitz John Porter been a republican, Those republicans who did vote for Porter in apite of party terror- ism were nearly all soldiers who served with him in the Virginia campaigus, and who regarded his treatment as the height of injustice. To us, the attempt to make the Fitz John Porter case a party issue nppears very injudicions. The republi- can parly cannot atford to stigmatize as | traitors those who believe with General Girant that Porter has suffured a great wrong, Suppose President Arthur, who | of the | the what for years has boe should same opinion, | bill as it attitnde ors who differ | approve passos | will | crs, In that ¢ from o republican him on this question. Suppose Art be the for president, where | blican editors who | should furthermore that ux republican nomin will i ave the rep now rainin, hue and ery agaivst Porter! 1, however, to note that, with the cxcoption of tho | Logan boomers, fow leading republican journ mado fools of them. solves. ¢ our part we shall closo this controverey right here. Tuy: fast 80 much appreciated as the fast females down The Commercial Gazctte says thav the great fast mail b and Chi- cago, of which we have heard so much, has a rocord only about 25 miles an hour. maila do not scem to be half in slow going Cincinnati. een New York ““Ihe Flying Datchman,” a broad unage train of England, regularly makes 198§ at the rate of 46.6' miles an hour, and the “Flying Scotchman,” a narrow guage train, 139 miles at the rate of 482 miles an hour, The great fast mail is two hours and five minutes slower than the limited express on the Pennsylvania road. Let the f. m. wear the cow- cateher behind. 1r Valentine has so much influence with the president why can’t he secure for himsolf the circuit judgeship, which Las been left vacant by Judge McCrary Val. was elected to the bench, as the supreme court decided, by 2} majorit He would bring experionce, if not integ- rity, honor and dignity, to the United Statos circuit beuch. Ti state of Beatrico is still perplexed over tho postofiico muddle, The present postmaster etill holds the fort, but Gen- eral Weaver is moving on his works, and weeording to latest advices Morrison is now beginni ¢ to vead lis titlo cloar. Tu for Vulentine's suc- cessor has alrendy begun in tho Third dis Valentine is very wodest. He only wants a fourth term. Why nota comnissien for lifs ? campaign Bixns of a feather will flock together. It is perfectly natural for Glenn Kendall to vouch for Alonzo H. Church, but what honer or Kendall? nan will vo WEST OF THE MISSOURI, “‘Tt never raing but it pours,” is as truo of railrond buwilding as of the weather, The moment the B, & M. ap- peared in Hall county with its surveying gung the U. P. began preparations to protect “its territory” from invasion. Tho attitude of both companies is such that the farmers of Hall, Buffulo, Sher- man and Custer counties are cortain of ono or both roads at an early day. The Grund TIsland Independent asserts that the B. & M. has ‘secured right of way from Grand Island twenty-eight miles store him to his rank. Does any intelligent man contend that Fitz John Porter, if guilty of treason, would main- tain a fight for twonty years for restora- tion? Oh, yes; Loonard Swett said that he heaxd Lincoln, after reading the evi- dence, say that Fitz John Porter ought to have been shot. Lincoln may have said it, and he may not have said it. In the light of the testimony, as he knew it at that time, he may have expressedsuch an opinion revere Lincoln, but he was by no means infallible, Less than thirly days beforo ho issued his emancipatisn proclamation he sent & messago to congress in which he recommended the continuation of slavery until the year 1900, “1tis an insult to the memory of Gar. field, who was a member of the Porter court-martial, to undo this sentence,” say others, Why is it an iusult to the moniory of any man to unds a groat wrong in the light of subsequent tosti- mony? Why should Logan, who at best w3 uo wrained soldier, and a great deal moro of u politician than a soldier, offret the opinions of Perry, Orook, Rosecrans, Slocum, ond last bub not least, Goneral Ruggles, who was chief of stafl of Popo, aud handled every order and dispateh, which Pope sent t» Porter, both before and after the battle! *‘But Porter disobeyed orders and is a traitor,” shout his enemies. It is true that Porter varied from his instructions, using his best judgment according to the out in a northwest direction. The line croeses the Loup in the vicinity of the Loup bridge, running near or along the range line of 13 or 14, whence it will be pushed on in a general northwest direc- tion. The Union Pacific now proposes to occupy the route along the Mid- dle Loup river, surveyed two years Bgo. There is plenty room for both ronds. The country drained by the Loup river and its numerous branches.s unsuryassed as an agricultural and stock raising region, most of it already well sottled by an in- dustrious and prosperous peoplo. The majority of the emigrants now pouring into the state are bound for the mnorth: western counties, where government aud railroad land can be had for a song, Now towns are epringing up at various points and the probability is that by the close of the year every acre of good land will bo taken. Theso faots are well known at railroad headquarters, and it is perfectly natural that the two great radroad cor. porations of the atate should vie with ach other to control the anaually in. creasing traftic of that region. 1o a very fow weoks thero will belively times in the ratlroad camps at Grand liland, Thore is yeta very large openin another nortn and south ruile in The Salins, Lincoln & Dec. tur, which started out with loud hurrah last summer appears to have been buriod For a short timo it was a thing of beauty, o dazz'ing jewel in the hauds of sbrewd managers, but its brillancy disappeared when the question of bonds was broached in the townships along the route. Here and there local aid was promised, and, in somo instances, bonds voted, but in the ebraska. | opurate th | well de: for [ of aid, and practically cut off the Kaness portion of the title, that an eatly spring will intuse some life into the concern. It is not likely th tield will remain vacant any great length of time, On the 15th inst., an organization with similar title,excepting the substitution of of Fremont for Decatur, was perfected in Kansas and documents filed to vive it legal standing. Four prominent Nebras- kans are among the incorporators, and the capital in round figurea is only one million for a starter. If the Fremont aud Wahoo directors of the company bestir themselves and make a showing of activity, the B. & M. would be whistling for traffic in Dodge county before the dog days of August. Thets is yet hope Kansas speculators seem determined to secure a lico of the good things in Ne- braska. A delegation from Smith's Cen- tor recently visited Red Cloud to talk railroad with the business men of the lat- ter city, The conference was brief and businers-like and resulted in the organi- zation of a local company. The object of the company is to build a road from Red Cloud southwest through the counties of Smith, Rooks and Trego. It is confi- dently asserted by tho Kansas men that the people along the proposed road will vote liberal aid for ita construction, and that the B. & M. company can bo in- duced to push the road through next| summer. Steps will bo taken at once to secure a preliminary survey, to work up ad along the line, and to ascertain upon what terms capitalist s induced to equip and a rich snd loped section of the country, and will, if built, prove an rtant feeder to the B & M. system, The line will pass through Kenesaw cut-off y to begin the work of grading on the west the frost leaves the ground. There is only twen‘y-tivo miles to be graded, but the is very broken aud the work slow and heavy It is ostimauted that this portion of the line will_consumo four months of steady work, This branch will make a clean saving of thirty miles to Den The road ruus through a fine country, anc new towns are already springing up. The contractors of on the B, & M. have everything in ¢ ond a3 soon a3 count Tho congressional appropriation to foed the hungry Indians of Montana will reach thera in time to pay the funeral ox- penses of a largo number of untutored bucks and squaws. The condition of thete unfortunate peoplo is a disgrace to the managoment of the Indian bureau. Tho agent at Fort Peck warned Commis- sioner Price of the impending calamity to the tribes in that vicinity, but his words were unhoeded. These people were expected to hunt and provide for their own subsistence for at least two- thirds of the year, the government furn- ishing supplies for about one-third. While the butfalo roamed in large herds over these vast plains, it was an easy matter to subsist, and, according to the Indian ways of living, they lived in lux- ury, and there was no incentive for them to work; but now the game has practi- cally disappeared, for between the In- dians and the many white hunters, the buffalo are a thing of the past in the northwest. Neither the department nor the Indians anticipated such a sudden disappeurance of the game; therefore no adequate provision has been made for theic subsistence throughout the present year. With the thermometer be- zero all wintor and snow a foot deep on the level, puor Lo's condition was most deplorable. All the doge, 3,000 or more, were devoured. the next victims, and the cove! teopecs, dried bufalo hides, were actually eaten for the succulence contained in them. At the sub-agency at Wolf Point, a large number of the Assinaboines have died of starvation, and tho sufforing and privations endured by the living would shock the sensibilities of the coldest nature. Surcounding them on all sides aro numerous fat herds belong- ing to white men in the east and in the west, and some fine morning the sjarving Assinaboines or hungry Yanktonians will swoop down upon some ranchman, and carry off his whole worldly wealth of an eatablo nature. But these shrewd fellows are alive to their danger.and are keoping a close eye on their stock, while the mil- itary are ever on the alert, determined to compel the mizerable savages to peaceably starve to death i obedicace to orders, There is nothing small about Wyoming. She has land enough to *‘give us all a farm,” without touching the National Park, her newspapers are pugnacious and pert, and her stock well watered, Al- though some pretty tall companies have been formed there lately,with herds num- bering in the tens of thousands, it re- maived for the “‘Central Association of Wyoming” to capture the entire bakery with a capital stock of £10,000,000. Of course Cheyenne was the birthplace, and will remain the headquarters, The com- pany propose to do wonderful things for the territory; to purchase and develop mineral lands, build railroads and sell town lots, construct canals, ditches and dams, build castles in the air and sell them to tenderfoet, and in fact to do any or all business by which money can be made, The trustees for the fitat yoar are Albert J. Rothwell, California; L. D. Shoemaker, Wil esbarre, Pa.; Harve Munseil, New York COity; Daniel H. Wallace, New Castle, Pa.; John W, Hoyt, Cheyenno, Wyo.: E. P. Schoonmaker, Troy, N. Y.; H. W. Paluer, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; H, L Horton, New Yorl City, and John R. Bothwell, New York City. To the Editor of T Brk, 1 acridentally saw an article in The Sioux Ciey Daily Times, takon from Tue Ovana 2 'salo of government lands h you woul s will o Z % el o not baen y. The date of tho salo has wided upon yet, but it is quite The government will yive five years tiwe to purchasers, requiring only a small cash payment as & puarantes of good faith. " ''ho lands have been Jaid off in 49 acro lots, and will not bo sold for less thau the appraised price. The valuation 18 as follows: Kive lots at $4 per acre; 20 lots at §5 per asre; 7 lots at &6 counties where the largest haul was ex- ,circum-unw of the situation, Such discrotion is exercised by comwanders of i ng, To add to the revers ‘overy army corps, General Sherwan Ihimull disobeyed the orders of the secre- pected the reception was decidedly chill. | of the com pany the B, & M. atepped in and built south to Salina without asking a dollar acre; 101 lots ON TO RICHMOND. The Historic Campaiga With Headqnar ters in the Saddle I ile. | The True Inwardness of the Dis= aster to the Union Army on the Bull Run Battle Ground. I'ope's Blunders Charged Up to Fitz John Porter, Reminigcences from the Fieid by the Editor of the Omaha Bee. [Republished trom The Bee of May 16, 16 On the first day of July, 1862, 1 tered the city of Washington under orders from Major Ecker(, superintend- ent of the United States military tele- graph, department of the Potomas, to re- port for duty at the navy yard, then un- der command of Admiral Dahlgren, I en- had come all the way from West Virginia, had as army tele where T ympanicd Goneral Fremo grapher, through his Stonewall My dutics ab the navy strous campa against Jacksou, ard | t and mon ith th [ econcs of the opening drama of t were vory lig been dowil 8 bellion, and my ve temperam:nt do. manded more stitving work than con had in the sending and receiving of dis- mentand patches between the navy depa the admiral's headquartera, Just then all Washington was agog over the advent {of *‘the great warrior from the west,” whipped Beaur had ward near Corinth, and boasted that he had nearly the army. A created for him and a magnificently equip- ped and disciplined army of nearly 50,000 men was placed at hin disposal, He as- sumed command with a bombastio pro- clamation announcing his determination to move on to Richuiond by the shortest route, and promised to keep his headquar- ters in the saddle until the confederats capital had capitulated. 1 was anxious to bo a personal witness of the fall of Itich- mond, and applied at the war oflice to he dotuiled to accompany General Pope. On the 24 of July I was ordered to re- port to the general” at Warrenton, which point i reached a fow days before the battle of Cedar Mountain. I accom- panied the general to the Rapidan and was with him on that brilliant retreat from the Rapidan to the Rappahanock, in which the whole army fell back twenty miles in one night, taking with it safely all its supplies, baggage and several thousand wounded men who were in the hospital at Calpepper. After the army had fallen back, Gen. Pope was reinfcrced by four divisions, numbering some 25,000 men, who had been detached from Gieneral McClellan’s army on the peninsula, These troops had come by way of Fred- ricksburg, and among them were the divisions of Gonerals Hooker, Kearney, Morrell, Sikes and Fitz John Porter. A few days before Cicneral Fope had taken up his beadquarters at Warrenton Junction, where he was when Jackson made his famous raid, Jeb Stuart made 2 who bagged whols southwestern rebel new department had dngh with his Black Horse cavalry and and all tation, with captu.ed a number of stafl ofli the staff buggage at Catlewt's Unfortunatcly my o wont the rest and with ita diiry of the d of the campaign up to that time, whict contained some interesting reminiscences, On the 26th ol 1qust, while Gieneral Popo was at Warrenton Junction, plan- ning a battle with Lee, which was to be fought on the plains near Warrenton, the telegraph operator at Manassas an- { nounced that a large hody of rebel troops was ooming in and he would soon be obliged to decamp. T was at the instru- ment when this dispatch was receivedand soou after the wiro “‘went open’—that eation with Washington cut off. Up to this time we had supposed that the body of Longstreet’s and Jackson’s armies were in our front on the other side of the Rappahannock, A eonstaut artillery bom- bardment had been kept up across the river and in the neighborhood ot the fords and the impression was that wh McClellan was evacuating the Peninsula, Lae's whole army was pushing forward and trying to cruss the nver that separa- ted us, and to force an engagement lLe- fore McClellan's army could muko a junc tion with Pope. It was a little after noon of the 26-h when Cioneral Pope was notified through an orderly that the enemy was coming in at Manassss, and that we were cut off’ from communication with Washington. About 8 o'clock vhat evening Col, Smith, of Pope's staff, came into theotlize to inquire whother the line waa gtill open, and when I answered yes, he said: “‘We shall have to send out a reconnoissance to-night towards Manassas to see what's the matter, and one of you will have to accompany it and telegraph what you find out.’ "It was nearly md- night when 1 was ordered to accompany a regimeut of infantry numbering about 400 men, that had been detailed to re. connoiter. Up ) that day railroad com- munication had been uninterrupted be- tween Washington and Warrenton June- tion, but on that day no train had ar- rived, and the report reached headquar- ters that all the traine had been fired into and ditched along the road. The troops ordered upon this midnight roconnois- ance was the Seventy-third Now York volunteers, commauded by a captain, and they were put upon the only train then at Warrenton Junction, consisting of four flat and two box cars. 1t was one o'clock a. m., of the £7th before we got started, The uight was pitch dark and tho train was compelled to move very lowly in momentary expectation of be- g fired into and diiched, Before d light we reacted the neighborhood of > near Bristow station, which w {tound on fire, A great 1 fire was a | raging at Manas minotiag country miles around, I “‘mad an eileb to commuvicate by wire| with b £ but failed to rouse the At dawn @ battery of robel artillery cume in sight | o rbain the mle will take place in April, {and opened on our train, the balls raking | the dirt in the neighborhood, The com- mandiog offizor thought best to have the train moved back as there was linbility of robel eava'ry flanking sround the wcods | that skirt the road to cut us off, After | moving back a few miles we made another | vain effort to communicate. Finally the | train moved back to Warrenton Junction, Weo had picked up a union conductor 88 per acre; at £10 por acre; 870 lots at £11 per acre 130 lot at $12 per acre; 151 Per acre; 44 lots at at 815 per acre, lots at §1: { about 30,000 men, was at Manassas. $14 por scre; 7 luts | our arrival we proceeded to the telegraph ! foun loflice, where General Pope was hvhlingl whose train was ditched by rebels, and ; he reporied that Jackson's army, with| Onl | L[ impossibley owing to the poor roads, and | been is, the cirsuit was broken and commun. [ Run was .{some important evidenco touching the t o full acconnt of v hat we I een | and also telling that the conductor wh )| was with him reported that about 30,000 | men of a'l arms were at Manassas, (ien, Popedismissed the officer contemptuously with the remark “Pshaw, it's nothing but another cavalry raid like tha letts.,” About 11 a. m,, of the not at 7:00 as stated by Ropes in **his army under Pope, ' (ieneral Hooker's division advanced towards Bristow, where they had a brisk fight with Ewell's division, whom they finally dislodged. Now for the first time General Pope was forced to admit that Jackson's whole army had gotten between him and Wash- ington. Had he acted promptly when notified by the military tolegraph corpa that the rebels were coming into Manassas he could have prevented Longstrect from making a_junction with Jackson's army which might have been defeated and captured. Pope’s dilatory and vacillating movements gave Jackson a chance to take up a commanding position, dostroy 2,000,000 worth of stores after supply- ing his hungry and ragged confed’s with provisions, clothes and munitions. On the 27th Fitz John Porter was directed to atart at 1 o’clock the next morning from Warrenton Junction to be at Bristow at daylight. General Porter, however, did not move forward until daylight on the mwerning of tho 28th, and his ailure to obey the order strictly is the only foundation which Gen. Pope had for him court-martialed. Gen, Vorter & reason for not marching as ho was directed, that it was a very dark night and it would have been | their obstrucion by immense trains, to move his army for tht without seattering th during {his | that on v hich Gen, Porter marched and it took me more than six hours to muke my way through. As far as the 1 reach the country was cover aon masters and team- kenover the movements vall Jacksou, who was now be- them and our army, wero trying to pass each other, yelling, cursing, howling like demons, and blockading the roads in their mad haste, 1t was a perfect babel of confusion, It would have been utterly impossible for any large body of troops to make their way through thousands of teams on that very dark night without breaking ranks and stattering along in every direction, and there 18 no boubt that Gen. Porter made a great deal better time by starting at daylight than by at- tempting to march at one o'clock. On the evening of the 28th the army fought what was known as tho battle of Gainsville, in which several divisions on each sido were enzaged,with no very great success. During this battle General Ki; and General Ricketts, two commanders of dwvisicns who were posted in the neigh- borhood of Thoroughfare Gap, with the view of keeping Longstreet out,retreated abruptly from their positions and left the the Gap uncovered. This blunder ena- bled Lee's army to make a junction with Jackson on the next day, and made Pope's defeat on the two succeeding days almost a certainty, King and Rickett’s, who were certainly more culpable than Porter ¢ould have been, sat on the court- martial which tried and cashiered Porter. General Pope1s eminently a man of great promises, and althouzh his army was badly disorganized, and there was really no order in anything during that eventful campagn, yet Pope was con- fident that he would vag Jackson, and 1 remember the dispateh we transmitted to Washington the night before the second battle of Bull Run, in which he said he was sure of bagging the wholo army. My own impression as the time was that we were ona wild goose chase, tramping fromone corner of the Manassas battle ground to the other wlthout any definite object. Adjutant Gen eral Rusgles, through whom the orders were issued, was as jguorant of what was coming next or any plan of action as I was when telegraphing the dispateiies from Manassas. Daring the two succeeding days, the 20th and S0th of August, the second battle of Bull sht. 1 had established a temporary telegraph oflice at Manassas, and from there all the dispatches to Washington were transmitted. were threo members of the military tele- graph corps on the ground, myself, J. H. Nichols, now a real ecstate dealer at Denver, and Edward Conway, who died ¢ Lake some years ago, Conway and Niciols did u great deal of foraging, and left me to do most of the work so tha every dispatch that was sent by om the field passed through my hauds. Theze dispatehes were firet exultant over a tremeudous victory and tinally made reluctant admission that we were badly beaten. The lust dispatches after the battlo were sent out of a box car I found on the track two miles above Manassas station. All that I saw and heard then and there convinced me that There | yoars, Hosaid most emphatically that Pope had lost his head and all was con- fusion and disorder during the two days and furthermore that Ifitz John Porter was utterly blameless of the charge that had been laid against him. He had exer- cised the discretion that others had exercised at the same time and at oue or two points actually checked the advance of the rebels and saved a large portion of the army. In conversation with President Arthur on the same subject during my stay at Washington, the president said that General Ruggles had told him pretty much the same thing nearly four years before, so that the chauge of views re- cently expressed by Grant does not entirely influence the president, who seems to have taken gn interest in the Porter case years before he had any thought of exercising any authority in the matter. 1 have been a republican since that party nominated General Fremont as ita standard bearer on the free soil platform, but Lam firmly convinced by personal obaervation that General Pope himself is largely, if not wholly responsible for the disaster that overtovk his army at the d battle of Bull Run. It was a ous blunder one one side and good generalship on the other. Had Pope ucted promptly when first notified that the rebels wero in his rear at Manassas he could have gained nearly a whole day, and headed Stonewall Jackson off with a fair prospect of whipping him and captur- ing his_army. To dispatch infantry mounted on {lat cars on a reconnoissance i the height of imbecility, especially if he believed they were to check awalry raid, Every subsequent maneuvre made first bluuder worse, and the end was tho outecome of an ill considered and v conducted campaign, for which "1tz John Porter was made the scape goat. i E. Rostw it GONSTIPATION GUNS TIPS | There no medium through which disease so often at'acks the system as by Constipation,and there is on other i1l flash is heir to mo apt tohe vegl cted, from the f. mateijal incouvenience may be im-~ mediately felt from irregular action of the bowels. 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