Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-22
General Butter.

AFFINITY utterly. HIS falluTes wer
too palpable and egregious. His dc
spatches from the field were time an
again the grossest fctions-woffhy of JON
Pope himself. The landing at Bermud
|, was successfully performed in the face Q
the enemy-always a difficult under
taking as he telGgraphed to Washingto,
and not a corporals guard of the enem.
was within miles We, who could hea
almost every musket shot on the line
gained our first knowledge of Hdesperat
assaults of the enemy desperately repulsed
through the telegram in the New Yor
dailies from "~Headquarters in the Field.
In fact, his own chief of staff revised an,
rewrote thedespatches to Northern paperl
some time entirely changing their tenor t
suit the home reputation of his chief. N
dispatches except such as passed his re
yieWal could be sent out Of the Depart
ment. ~
The public have had hints and outrigh
charges of corruption and wholesale spec
u~lations in his administration. Wer
they all true, il would be supposable tina
so shrewd an operator would cover hi
tracks. We fully believe that there wer,
large tracks to be covered. ~
Anecdotes of Tom. COrwin.
We extract the following from a bio
graphical sketch of Hon. Thos, Corwin, il
the New York Herald:
His voice either required no training al
all, or had received a great deal, as much
indeed, as that of D~emosthenes. Never
had a speaker more complete control o.
his voice. 1t was soft, round, strong and
flexible. Within the scope of afeW briei
sentences it would often pass from the
mountain top to the valley, or expand
from the lowest conversational and conf
dental tone, audible only in the speakers
immediate vicinity, to a climax which
would startle ~thethousands Of his frequent
auditors who. could obtain only Hcurbstone
tickets" 1t used to be a complaint of the
galleries of the House at Washington that
Borwin made all his gten strikes y and
g spares for the benefit of his fellow
members, and WAS dnmh in his great
points TO the lobbyists; and the reporters
always grimbled when he spoke, because
they could catch eYerypart of his speeches
except the points where the laugh came
n His Jokes, they said, were always
told in a Confidential manner. What
they lacked in humor was supplied BY his
Irresistible manner of telling them. M
2 bis very dark complexion was often
made the subject of jokes by Corwin and
his friends. Thomas +. Marshall of Ken
lucky, once told aniIadventure which he
had with Mr.. Corwin at Lebanon, Ohio.
Mr.. Corwin's place of residence. Mar
shall had stopped at lebanon over pipht
and had registered himself at the hotel
e IsMr Marshall, of kentucky" While
sitting IN the public room in the evening
he noticed a neatly dressed colored man
enter the hal, and, approaching the regis
ter, begin to read it. When he had reached
Marshalrs name he read it aloud, and
asked the clerk if mr.. Marshall was in
the hotelnD The clerk replied by pointing
him to the gentleman in question. The
colored man approached Marshall, saluted
him very respectfully, and asked if he be- |
longedto the Lexington family of Mar
Marshall was, as he expressed II
somewhat put out by the IA
miIiar manner of the culled gemman p"
but answered ciyilly that he was. The
colored man was delighted to hear It and
10. meet him.
81 had, 7 he said, "the honor and pleas
are OF serving with Mr.. Thomas Marshall
from 1881 to 1882
Mr.. Marshall, thinking he had met one
IF the old family servants who had Hrun
twayn from K~entuekyto freedom1in Ohio
was about to ply him with questions, but
'ound no opportunity of agetting in a
word ~edgeways." The colored man asked
n rapid succession after the various men,
0ers of the family, spoke feelingly and
amiharly Of old Humphrey Marshall, the
head of the Kentucky. Marshall family
ind at last, asked if the old gentleman
vas acquainted with Henry Clay. On MIR.
replying in the Affirmative the
gentleman began to tell, in a voice
Intended for. the little crowd of listeners
Who had gathered around some reminis-
'ences of Henry Clay, n of which he
,egan by the remark: 'lf5 d '.o
:, q When I was IN Congress with Mr..
You in Congress with Mr.. Clay z" in
errupted MarshallL"You in Congress ~
Yes sir yes, sir. My. name is Tom
tom Corwinl" exclaimed Marshall.
Excuse me sir, but damned if I didn't
hink you Were a free negro."5a /
The Wanna Affair. 90 Is
u Thu 4hH &Tffsfy career of Gen.
raj Schenck Is
The Memphis Argus of the 18th, con-
sins the following {
"Generel schenck hss been placed at the head Of ]
le House Committee on Military Affairs. General I
ihenekls only actual experience in military afxirs ,
lr1ng the war, consisted IN running a railroad
ain, nlied wish soldiers, into an ambuscade, At
Jenna, Virginia {" S
The argus seems TO be but very imper- s
city posted in matters of history. Gen.
ehenek was inactive service from the be- I
inning of the war until the second battle o
Bull Run, in which he was severely
ounded while leading his division, sword j
hand. The affair at Vienna would not Il
we been noticed if it had happened
W months later, when the country had o.
a accustomed to the casualties. of ii
arj and we believe it appears that Cen j.
Al Schenck was acting under orders IN
KING the train down the road, and post W
: companies to guard it against the tn
outing parties of the enemy. Il ham,
ned that n of those parties, with a
ttery of flying artillery, was enabled to
J from an ambush upon Gen. Schencks on
N, killing and Eounding half a dozen
n and as there was nothing else to talk r.,
'ut just then, and the incident was the ",
t military experience of Gen. Schenck. ~
reat deal was said about it. and the cir =.
instances we're wonderfully exapgerated -
misunderstood Gen. SehencKs mill
y records. one,ef whichshe has reason n
q proud and his large and varied civil ~
veil as military experience, makes his D.
to the craftsmanship of the ear
use Committee on Military Affairs one WI,
'Se fitness can not be disputed.
battalion of @ronauts was. once talked fur
n France-loQ bRllons to hold 1850 c.
; cannon, and horses-tOm make descent VIZ
q England. con