New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-30
A CARD ABOUT GUNS AND THINGS IN.
GENERAL.
NOTICE TO BOREs,


On The representations made by the Eagle Man.
ufacturng Company of Mansfield, Conn.,, Of ite
ability TO fulfil a contract to make arms, an order
for 25 900 maskets was promised to it, by the Assis-
,ant. Secretary of War, in December last. long
delay in the Issuing Of the order, induced the
Treasurer of the Company TO apply to one Of hs
friends who knew me, TO request me to procure
from the Ordnance Department the needed order.
showed the letter making tis request 10 the Assist
ant War Secretary and urged him to have the order
issued. He promised to give The matter immediate
attention. When l went for the order few
cays aeerward, he told NE that il would not be
issued, for the Company already had contract
for 5000 arms. l informed my friend OF
this By telegraph. He replied by telegraph that
Il was not the Eagle Manufacturing Company Of
Mansfield, Connecticut, but some other Eagle Com
pany that had this contract. took this dispatch to
the house Of the Assistant Secretary, aud read TO
him. He retained it as a memorandum, and, pre-
sume, sent it the next day TO the Ordnance Bureau
to correct the misapprehensioa which had arisen
there from the similarity Of the names Of the two
Companies.
The needed order wss soon thereafter issned, and
forwarded to Connecticut But it described the Com
pany a. doing business in Rhode Island. Ny sttea-
ton was called TO this error by a letter which re-
turned the order to me, and which i took 10 the
Ordnance Department, aud left as memorandum to
be used ia he correction of the mistake.
That 10 the history of my connection with the
Eagle Company's Gun Contract. do not own one
dollar OF interest in that contract do not expect
to own dollar of interest in it. 1 have never
received one fart.ing OF compensation for my SER
vices in procuring It, and do not expect to receive
= firthiug IF compensation for procuring It.
Bald purpose to get something out OF IT, Anc
that shall ny mmediste and final release from the
business OF ueneral Agent in the City Of Washing
ton for all people who happeu TO take THE Nrw-
YORK TainrNt or who know me in person or BY
name This bu. mess, relentless exhaustng to my
strenqt and wasteful of my time and my influence
thong I could give about year 10, and suffer no
more th . other representative men do here. For
niue lbs have borne its burdens, being afflicted
duriE. ~ long time with applications for about
everything TIA, the heart of can desire ont Of
matt ,nal capital in time Of peace time Of war.
bored only with reading the letters
o. ne man who wanted the Peruvian Mis-
son. lie never got me to draw on my boots IL
his J5half But, from this persons uisdirected am
lit.on, down 10 the prayer Of ragged lad who
begged ne to place him as an oster in Government
stable-from requests for authority TO raise Brig
AIDES down to the procurement Of discharges from
the ranks Of boys, runawsys frcm their mothers
homes-from cntreates to AS st in the manufacture
of BsigaisFGonerals Inspector Generals, Colonels
Majors, Captains, Lieutenants Consus, and Depart
meut-Clerks, way down to orders for garden seeds
from the Patent Office, and memorial bowie-knyes
A.. N, p.nD D., n
ward countless bushels Of Congressional documents,
mp to enteaties to get from the War Department con
rent that Indians aud Negroes should be mustered
into the seryice-from the torment Of the man With
the portable battery Of nine pistols, to DO worn SIS
girdle and of tho warrior with the impreg-
Dable military vest, down TO the versatile
bore who would have me assist him In running down
the Government with choice between hid unequal
ed breech-loading carbine, and bis inextmsushaois
Greek fire and his infallible shellinclosng molten
iron. and his cannon that would keep firing just as
long ID any one would turn the crank-througn SCI
vices in getting back pay, in hurryiug regulations
through the Treasury for needy creditors OF the Gov
ernment. and in presenting the interests OF manu'ae
turers TO members of Committees charged with ram
inc Tax aud Tariff bills-in and through all thit
inevitable Washington work, / have labored gratu'
itou.y for hee-quarters of year, not without dis
gust and frequent signs Of utter revolt, but doSgedy
and faithfully.
The gross abuse Of me by two newspapers for az
act of dsinerested kindness to Connecticut Mana'
featuring Company justiies me in Immediately ds-
charging myself from further service. give notice.
that the business of Gehsral Charitable Agent In
The TRIBUNE Bureau at Washington is at an snd'
The sign Is taken down-and another slave 10 eman-
cipated in tie District Of Columbia.
H,s,h,asfou Al a. Apri a. 1854