, 1861-10-31
The Dlmculty In tho Hecksr ReE1.
me0t.
Correspondence Of the Chicago Trfbune.1

Ae1AotaL1o LII kAGA ISoH1GtAst Ru5At1oue auu
the persons appointed in their stead during
their Absence mustered out OF service. Col.
Hecker had refused to obey similar order,
first from Major General Fremont and one
1rcm the War Department., aud went to Wash.
iEgton to appeal to the P1eEident to give him
illegal powers to discharge officers against
whom he can bring no charges save that they
have persistently refused to be the blind wor-
shippers Of his military ignorance. OF course
the President refused to meddle with affairs
properly belonging to the military authorities,
and referred Herr Hecker to the War Depart
ment; but this ahero Of Baden,'' as the st.
Louis Republican calls him, mad at the failure
to make the President commit an unconstitu-
tlonal act bY helping him to drive out Of the
service commissioned officers without any
reason, waits not for the decision of the War
Department., which he knew would be against
him again second time, but runs in hot haste
true theatrical style on the neck Of his Gl legal
adviser ex-Alderman and now e2-Msjor, First
Lieutenant 6alomou, and exclaim ng, "Au il
lost, all fs lost! I, Fremont and We other
great men Of this war are to be sacrificed to
the intrgnes Of Blair, Cameron, ete;" The
calls his reg ime1t together and delivers
another Of bis most violent stump
speeches. By the way, if q stranger
should sojou5n vii Col Hecker's regiment q
feW days he would come to the conclusion
that the Government had hired Col. Hecker to
drill or dress parade, in order to teach them
pciltcal economy, or rather trickery, in true
military style. he tells them of the wrongs
he has to suffer at the hands Of the ungrateful
Government in payment for his great labors
aGd the fourteen thousand u dollars he had
3N1 ttSz1 1~%&$ II
tion Of Abrsham Lincoln. Before Major Kuue
and the other officers he had Illegally di6charg-
cd were reinstated he declared soiemn1y before
the front Of his regiment, that If Major Kune
YVES 1ei1Etated, by any order whateyer, NE would
either resign or die martyr in front Of the
regiment. He also on one occasion, with true
dramatic gestures, drew his sword and sRore,
by that get bloodless blade, that the would
never, never allow Major Kune and the oth:r
discharged officers to be reinstated, and even
should the executioner stand right before
him" But Major Kune and the rest were re-
insisted, On the 18th inst, in front Of the regi-
ment, where Col Hecker had to read the order
OF the War Department, On which occasion he
egaln gave vent to his stump speechif7ing
procliVlties, saying that !" it was hard on him,
but that he would not resign, hut fight 1t to the
bitter end" at that point, Whlle calling up
Oh Major Kune to take command Of the regi-
ment, the interchangeable manager Of this
"hole military force, Lieut.. Solomon gaye 3
sign and the few for that purpose appointed
were hurried for the rspidly beaten Colonel,
who rapidly left the ground. But enough Of
particulars, 1t il sufficient to State that tGe re-
turned officers were threatened with assassin
alton, AID that, while Major Kuna Was but
four hours In his tent, pistol or musket was
fred, after tattoo, at his tent from the tent
Just behind his. Next day followed another
tarc1cal performance Of Col HecEer. Major
kune,seeing thst there was hired band in the
regiment which should insult, harass or $685.
elnale him, wished to 20 to Louisville to lay
the matter before Gen. Sherman; but the Col
opel refused to let him 60, aud also put Cap
tain Mauff, another Of the reinstated officers,
urd arrest on false pEeteuces. The excite
ment was high in the regiment, Col. Hecker
ozGeIed the regiment out, and there, nearly
twenty four hours after the shot was dred Ut
Major Kune, he By some hocas, CAUSES IAN
to step forward who confessed himself guilty,
but who EaJs that he only tied three catridgcs
together into q paper and threw them on the
fifty men who saw 1he fash and heard the re-
port Of the shot, and are ready to swear that it
Tas the report Of fire-arm; but Col Hecker
calls upon Msjor Kune to be satisfied with the
explanation given By that pious individual who
considered himself guilty Of plaJing after
and haa1 t-aehipg to see sucha fine body Of
men ag the Gath regiment is composed Of dis
solve their organization. few days more
will tell the fate Of this regiment. By order
OF Gen Sherman the Colonel called q meeting
Of etticers, with view to restore. harmony,
but the breach grew wider by the violent
bearing md speech Of Col. Hecker, whose
whole action betrayed that the game was to
compel the resignation Of the officers who
brought charges agalnst him. Major Kune
thought it his duty % patriot, after ample
satisfaction hsd noW been glvea him by the
for ri 1ior<
proceedings againet him, to Withdraw from the
regiment and to ask to be mustered out OF it,
Gs he does not WISH to serve day longer with
such q Colonel But alas Major Kunes pro-
posed withdrawal has caused five Captains
and eeyen. other officers to request to be mus
tered out Of service, but even should
their request be granted, the feeling between
the various companies Is Of such an iEimica1
nature that the men Of one company regard
the men of another company not as brothers
T in arms, but with dlstrust and hatred, aud this
Is owing, for the most part, to tie ColoneIs
misleading part Of his regiment, the other
part refuses TO be led by him into Intriguing
against their fsTorite officers. What can we
think Of Colonel who distributes among his
men copies Of paper {Chicago Stats Zsiiung)
fleming with the most violent articles against
tbat part Of his officers, who IN guest Of their
rights, have lste)y beaten him before the
proper military authorities. Now, in conclu-
sion, to prore that the dcplorable state now
existing in the regiment, which, as we under.
stand, is to be disbanded in a few days, is or.
ing to the inetficiency and tyrannical conduct
Of Col H5cker, ne give the list Of the off.
GERS who have left the regiment and who have
rendered their designations CT asked to be
Transferred, declaring their unwilllngness to
serve under Col. Hecker:
Lieut.. Col. Mihalotzy.
Msi J. Kune- .....
Adj Ramm1ng VAS transferred at his request to
Missouri regiment.
Company A-Capt Lange, Lieuts. GoEha1d and
Poull.
Company B-Capt. F1icius. -.
Company D-Capt. Becker Lieut.. BuloW and
Company E Capt MaufI, Lients. Busse and
Kokke.
Company F-oapt Kovats, Ltcats. Jekelfaleesy
ard Jacobi-iorme1ty the ~ Lincoln Rides," OF
Gonpap1 H2ac4pt. yon Horn, Lieut. Meyer.
Captain in the regiment aud Captain Of tue OF.
taEa Company he was Captain IN the Mexican
Nar.
company k-Lieut. Hoekster.
: Now, here are Ieutenanb Colonel, Major,
seven Captains, eleven Lieutenants-i at,
twenty commissioned officess-abo have al.
ready left and Who are to leave In few days,
the regiment having asked to be mustered
Heeker, being unwilling to serve under him.
Where Is his much boasted popularity,
which some German papers try to make is
believe he possesses /? Figures scoa't III.