Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-06-26
Correspondence of the Daily Journal
FROM WASHINGTON.

Correspondents of the Daily Journall
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Big Gr0ass, and Big Scare-Abraham
on ARBITRARY Arrests " and Emetics-
Miscellany.
WASHINGTON, June 18th, 1868.
The last Lords day wasn't bit solemn
here. The Presidents knock-down-and-c car
ry out letter to Erastus Corning ct al.
(Anglice, and other Copperheads,) appeared
in the Sunday morning paper, and set the
whole city a-roaring over the discontinue of
the Albany democracy. The letter was
worthy of Abraham Lincoln, when Abraham
Lincoln was an honest man of Illinois, where
his noble instincts were not thwarted by de-
signing political intriguers; where his steps
were not logged by the hounds which ever
kennel near a political metropolis where his
manhood was not suffocated in the foul and
noxious damps of diplomatic insincerity and
falsehood. 1t was clear and forcible argu-
ment, animated by spirit Of earnest patriot
ism, and too generous magnanimity. He
made Corning and his confreres, when con-
trasted with men sincerely devoted to the
salvation Of the country, appear like the
gyved, scare-crow, ragged, tatterdemaleon
troop Of Falstaff, in contrast with an army Of
the best blood of Europe, led by the stout
King Harry himself. Then the letter was in
Mr. Lincoln's peculiar style-forcible, lucid,
illustrated in such homely phrase that the
dullest clown might feel spice Of goodness
or humor in it. Such were the illustrations
of the poor soldier boy deserving, and the
sick chap who would be fool positive to
keep on taking ipecac all his life because his
bowels had been out of order lately. So Sun
day was cheerful day.
yet had, always excepting the first Bull Run,
and the liveliest panic I ever witnessed even
here. l am not certain that this letter will
reach you till it shall have made circum-
navigatory detour by way of the North Pole,
to get out of the way of rebels in Penn
sylvania, who seem to be coming the Grierson
over the old Keystone just at this time, with
marked success. The scare is on pretty ex-
tensively just now, and cannot get at the
truth. Perhaps the government of Pennsyl-
vania is in a carpet bag, and perhaps it isn't.
At any rate, don't believe the army of Lee
will get back to its "original base," except
in demoralized, ruinous condition. No
body knows where Hooker is, but 1 suspect
he will turn up ere long in position to give
Lee some trouble.
But if Washington City be easily scared
out of its boots, it has late teachings of cow
ardice from quarters whence it was little to
be expected. I did not expect that Senator
Trumbull would finch under any circumstan-
ces, much less before mob of sympathizers
with treason. did not expect that Dick
Yates, drunk or sober, would quail before a
demonstration got up in aid of the maligners
of the gallant soldiery of Illinois l did not
expect that Jesse K. Dubois would 60 and do
likewise. Whatever namby PANTY course
might have been expected from such a parlor
knight as Isaac n Arnold, who is great only
in the heroic enactment of making freedom
national and slavery sectional, it was not
dreamed by his friends that Lyman Trumbull
would ever ruin proud record by the COM
mission of blunder worse than crime
Such things have been done before, however,
especially by !" constitutional lawyers" and
the Illinois Senator can point to Seward,
Browning, and even Secretary Chase, not to
mention the smaller fry, as precedent justi-
flying want of pluck at the very moment it
| is most needed.
l refer TO this matter now, to justify the
President, to degree, from certain charges
against him in some of the Western journals.
If the President be blameworthy for revoking
Gen. Burnside's order suppressing the Times,
it must be confessed that those who advised
him from the spot to revoke the order, are
still more blameworthy. He was so advised
by the gentlemen l have named. l do not
think the order was wise, but it having been
issued, think it should have been sustained
if to sustain it had cost the destruction of
Chicago. A couple of batteries of artillery
about the Public Square, loaded to the muzzle
without boo0shed. But in the scare, the
artillery was forgotten, and the shameful
spectacle presented of the government being
dragooned into terms by mob.
Judge Tabor, of our State, Fourth Auditor,
has been performing the duties Of his Office
| for some two weeks, and has already got "the
hang of IT. completely. He is more efi-
Gent officer now than some heads of bureaus
who have grown gray and equity in the ser
vice.
Capt. Drummond, of whose brilliant part
in Stoneman's raid lately made mention, has
been appointed Provost Marshal Of the caval-
ry of the Potomac army, in acknowledgment
of the services he then rendered. The posi-
ton is one of Importance and of great respon-
sibility, and do not doubt that the Captain
will entirely fill the bill.
R. L. B. Clark, Esq, Of Mt. Pleasant, has
been promoted to more honorable and lucra-
tive position in the Treasury Department, but
is yet below where his merits would place
him. My particular and spicy friend G. A.
Page, Of Mt. Vernon, has ''gone up'' from a
S14O0 to $1,000 clerkship in the same De-
partment, while w. F. Turner, ESQ.,, of Keo-
kuk, has been elevated from $1,000 to an
$500 position. So much for Iowa talent this
time.
An intelligent foreigner would admire the
liberality of our government toward its de-
tenders and the care it takes of those who
have lost their natural protectors by the cas-
ualties of war. In bounties, in pay, in pen
sions, the Union is magnifcently generous
The Pension Office IS now carried on by force
double that which was formerly required, and
it still needs more clerical force to enable it to
keep pace with the demands upon it. Pen.
sions already granted, will amount, l under
stand, to nearly $7,ooo,oo0 annually, and
every dollar of it carries with it the promised
blessing of Heaven. Mrs. Col. Mills, of Des
Moines, and Mrs. Col. Worthington, of Keo-
kuk, have each had liberal pensions awarded
them quite recently. Col. Mills, it will be
recollected, died of wounds received at Co.
rinth, and Col. Worthington fell a victim Of a
melancholy accident. LINKENsALE.
Sick Iowa Soldiers.
List Of sick Iowa soldiers arrived Jefferson Bar.
racks Hospital, st. Louis No. per hospital steamers
January and Kennett, Juno 17th 1862 Furnished by
Thos. W. J. Long, Iowa State Sanitary Agent, st.
Louis. Mo.