The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-17

The Pay Departm ant Of Kentucky
Great MismanaRement.

ofeab MlsmdnaBemenJ'
Under this caption the LOUISVILLE Dem.
oorat publishes an editorial stating that !
In accordance with a general rule, es- I
tablished and praoiiced In combinations
by the United States Senate apportion-
ing paymasters ia tho Federal army, |
each State is entitled 10 one paymasier
for every five regiments sho has furnished |
"a. the service. Kentucky, as it is well |
known, has furnished over forty regi- /
ments to the Government in this war,
and is, therefore, entitled 10 at least eight
paymasters. In April last our Slate wagt
allowed but three-MAjors Speed, Thnr-
sion. aRd Mebstsr--aRd- the -proportions
Of other States were mostly filed, Ken
lucky being thus far short. ln'J une aud
July, Major Chas. T. formed, Chief Pay
master for the .District Of Kentucky and
! Tennessee, RECOMMENDED 60 the War De-
partment Mr.. Charles NJ. Terrill, of In
dinians, aud Mr. Charles 4 A. Allen, of
! Massachusetts. as additional pavmas.
tiers, and they were appointed and
| charged on the army register TO Ken
lucky. In November last, Major Speed,
OF this city, resigned, thereby leaying
but two Paymaslers who were in truth
| kentuckians. ~ 1H@--1
Messrs. TerriI and Allen were depart
ment clerks, the latter being cousin Of
the Major and their appointment under
the circumstances, by his recommended
ton, evnced degree Of favoritism on
the part of Larned which is not only in
exeusable, but strong evidence that the
Majoris not 'thc right man in the right
place"
It appears that the above offence
Of Major LARSED, although a grave one
is far from being the most serioss, which
he has committed If the following
statement of the Columbus, (O) Sats
Journal DO true, he should be promptly
removed from an ofIlce-which he has
, grossly mismanaged
PAYMAsTERs DEPARTgENT.- few
weeks ago, we were informed by tele.
8 graph that Major Baber, of this city, had
q been dismissed from the service as Paw
. master. At the time, no statement was
made of the cause of dismissal. We
have since learned that the dismissal
was ordered on thereport of Major Larn
ed, the Chief Paymaster. The case was
q Investigated after dismissal Gas usual, ;,
and resulted in reyoking the order oil
dismissal, and in reinstating Major Ba-
e Der TO his post--as the following orde
= shows:
r e.rf--s-r,s /" WAR DEPARTMENT.
: ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
= WAsHISsgoN, Feb. 9lh, 1868.
Q general Oy9sts--N0. 81:
70 "By direction ofthe President so mucl
y of General Orders, No 208, of 1862, a
: musters out OF service Additional Pay.
e master Z. ?. l.. Baber, BAroer is hereby
revoked. @ ,-.-..
- ''By order Of the Secretary Of War =
10 "OfiCial. l.. THOMAS
i Adjutant General.
:. sc d. Townsend, Asst Adi't Gen"
By General Orders No. 2OS, of Deem
Der II, 1862, several Paymas,ers wer,
= mustered out of the service of the United
m States, on 'he eport of Major Charles T
IA Larned, Chief Paymaster at louisville
/, Kentucky, without any precious notice o
- the charges against them. The grounC
'e alleged in the case Of Major Baber wa
TO "ineffciency." He was en- route with
n. party TO pay Gen. Grants army, unde
10 the orders Of Major |. ~ Cook, who hat
been placed in command Of the expedi
= tion by Major Larned, when his "muste
ls out" fret came to Major BIS knowledge
Of Returning immediately, he collecte,
n testimony TO refute the charge, and Oh
Feb. 9th the papers in the case wer
ID presented to the President of The Unite,
q Statee, who forthwith personally investi
Of gated FUZZY the facts, together with tn
NJ Secretary Of War and the Acting Paw
j MASTER General, and made the abov
10 order of honorable restoration.
70 The proof was clear that Mai Larned'
n. report was grossly partial and incorrect
IN that Paymasters who had not done hal
as much work as Major Baber in th
- sans Tina were rated "a No. ~ while h
l. was set down 81 "ineillcient;" though Il
to his seven mrnths' service in that depart
q meat no had disbursed over S8lS OOO Z
"a twenty regiments of Infantry, three hat
= talions Of Cavalry, four batteries and nu
re mer0uS resigned officers &c, ca irelY Il
l. their satisfaction, as evidenced by thei
ID statements filed In the War department.
=. his single payment of 100000 to Gen
George w. MOrgsn's division at Cumber
W land Gap being the largest and most diff
4 ficult ever made in the service. And o
id thirty-hve lPaymasters ia l. irned's dc
partment, only two did more work.
This is the third instance within tire
70 weeks in which Major Larned'sreport a
N TO his subcrdinates, has, on Investigation
- been set aside as untruth al by the Wa
ut Department. Majors Nunes ADD Lowr,
- being the two otheC instances, aud NOR
OF the same sort are under examinatio ion
rs Major l. N. Cook, the gambler, who hac
IN hatlered Major Larned with the idea @
Z, becoming Paymaster- General, stood hig
!, in his report % and seems TO have pos
" sessed his unbounded confidence
!. The Democrat adds that the facts as
. serted by the Journal ate sustained b.
a documents which have been Gled in N
= Departments at Washington, and state
meDts Of army officers who arc person
/. ally cegniEant Of the facts. Let Secie
tary stanton act upon this subject.
a The New Orleans Era Of the lst, saws
II About twenty perAous arrived at Hlckok'
= Landing yesterday afternoon The
~ tvant frnr, haVa L. "a.