Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-08-25
From the Ohio sts,esnans
Brigadier CarrimgtOn and ESla
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BrigaJier General Henry BOBBY Casriueton
Is ambitious Of the fame Of Titus Oates, and
he oniy lacks the courage and skill Of that
magnanimous discover Of plots to achieve bis
aspirations His career as a military man
proving failure for want Of common courage
be has abandoned it, we judge from his re.
cent doings forever. At the head Of two bat.
talions OF the 18th Regulars, with prodieious
plume in bis hat and siupendous sword Al
his side, Brigadier Bo1by, Darlington rode in.
10 the enemys country as far as Lebanon.
Kentucky point one hundred miles from tbs
enemy's lines Here be was met BY little
nigger on a squirrel hunting expedition, and
at the 6rst discharge Of the darkey's shotgun
Carringtoh, under the impression that reei.
rnent Of rebels had fred upon him, wheeled
bis horse and started back TO camp on a gal
lop. lie never ceased running be reached
Indianapolis, aud he has never ventured
south of the Ohio river since. The next we
hear oftbe Booby Brigadier, he was called on
by General Wilcox to take brigade of Indi.
ana militia from indianapolis and move
against John Morgan, who with gang Of
horse thieves vas rowing over the border
When bis brigade was ready to start BriRa-
der Carrington was seen emerging from lit
tie doggery, very drunk, with piece Of cheese
in one hand, a bologna sausage, in the other,
"end his pantaloons very wet This was too
muc hfor Wilcox, and be ordered the Booby
to beplaced under arrest in disgrace
Darlington subsided for some time after
this last great feat, but recently re-appeared
as the discoverer Of Great Copperhead
Plot" which was patronizpd by the poor old
Cincinnati Gazette and one or two other i'm.
beetle Abolition sheets; but it finally fell into
disrepute as a nuisance and a humbug. The
next we hear Of Darlington, he is nosing
around an old law office of the Gon d W. |
Voorhees,, of Indiana, trying 10 smell out an
other copperhead plot, and, Of course, he sue
ceeds. he finds a hundred copies Of the rt. |
ual Of some order, ohly different from the |
Loyal League in that the League is a treason |
able society, aud the Sons of Liberty are not |
But no matter about that, Darlington found |
the pamphlets be also found parcel Of Mr. |
Voorhees, private letters, which confirmed the |
Boobys suspicious. The sense OF honor of
the Booby Brigadier as may be surmised from
his conduct in running away from the little |
niger and his appearance in front Of the In
dianapols doggery, is not very acnte. He re
aognizes no law nor rule Of honor to prevent
him from surrepttiously opening anoth r
mans letters. Indeed, Darlington appears
rather fond of this sort Of petit larcery as a
geCteel amusement he steals Mr. Voorhees,
letters, silts out the "treasonabe express
sions,' and then, at the instance Of his mas
ter, Governor Morton, man as mean as him
self, divulges bis discoveries to the idoiic cor
respondent Of the Cincinnati GeEette, and
that servile sheet is thrown into a spasm of
indignation and feeble excitement. To the
disgust of Darlington, Morton and the poor
old Gazette, the people would not "indig-
nate" and positively refused to become excl
ted about this last and most ridiculous "plot"
of the mouslng Brigadier.
The case of Booby Brigadier Darlington
was becoming desperate, and fears we're en-
tertained that, unless somebody would get ex
cited about bis discoveries, another accident
would happen to his pantaloons As a last
effort Darlington bids the idIotic correspon-
,nt Of the feeble I'd Gazette to ann ounce
that he 10 uIUuJ TO aDnihilate Voorhees, in a
whitening letter, exposing all the bloody treR-
son Of the eloquent Dan. At last the terri
Bile, withering letter, which was to squeloh
Voorhees, and electrify the world appears,
and 10 what do we behold2 A simple con.
fession, signed "Henry B Darlington" that
he, Darlington, had the meanness to open
and read another man letters and the audac-
| ity to parade his meanness in print over his
proper signature. This is the sum total of
the Booby Brigadier's discoveries there is
no other point about it. The quotations he
pretends to make from Voorhees, private let
ters, If not forgeries, are not of a character
that any decent man would dislike to own.
If Darlington by this letter intended to dis
grace himself totally and irredeemably be-
yond the recognition of decent society, he has
succeeded admirably. There is no further
tdepth TO his infamY A man who will con-
fess 10 public print that he has violated other
peoples private correspondence, If he es-
capes prosecution and incarceration in
county Jail, deserves to be kicked out of ev-
cry decent company in which he appears. A
blubbering BOBBY, coward and sneak, the
puppy disgraces even the infamous profession
Of Titus Oates.