The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
Explained.

Explained.
A Washington letter TO the Cincinnati
Gazette explains the motive OF the President
in making the change Of internal revenue
collector In that city-rcmoving Mr.. TAY-
LoR, a most accomplished mercantile busi-
ness man, and strong Republican. and put
ting IN his place SAM. CAREY, a most accom-
plished humbug and strong Abolitionist
IL was in accordance with the Presidents
late circular, directing he appointment o,
military men, disabled IN che sQUicei' Rich
enough! General CAREY in the service"
General CAREY "disabled"l What rebel
cemetry holds the decomposing bodies OF
this brave Generals san2uinary exploits
where sleep the brave" hewn, cut, slashed,
demolished by the trenchant blade OF this
renowned hero, "disabled in the service"i
The lamented Tom CoRwIN first flashed
his genius upon the country, by pronounc-
ing what some regarded as a eulogy, but
Others as an obituary (which 1t proved.l on
a"GersrdI Carey Are we to infer that
the military toggery of the renowned
''Michigandern has been donned by the
valiant Buckeye" THAT all "CAREYs' are
warriors, heroes. disabled In the service
and therefore worthy of the retired list, y
the peace establishment
In our minds eye, we can see CoRwIS
now, on the floor of the House, in his elo-
quent glow of enthusiasm, portraying the
martial air the warrior-mien. the fierce in
tent of one CAREY. ave all. in fancy. now
see the gentleman in that most dangerous
and glorious event In the life of mill
tary General, on the peace establishment
parade dGy' We can see the troops in mo-
tion; umbrellas, hoe and axe-handles and
other like deadly implements of war over
shadowing all the field, when 10 the ledde
of the host approaches!
Far OF his coming shines =
his plume, white, after the fashion of the
great Bourbon, is of ample length and
reads its doleiul history in the bereayed
necks aud bosoms of forty neighboring hen
roostsi
Mounted ne Is, too on his crop-eared
bushy-tailed mare, the singular obliquity
of whose hinder limbs is described by that
most expressive phrase, sickle hams"-her
hight Just four teen hands, "all told;'' yes
sir, there you see his ''steed that laughs at
the shaking of the spear y that is his ''war-
horse, whose neck is clothed with thunder"
son the eve of some desperate enterprise,
such as giving order to shoulder arms,
1t may be- occurs a crisis. A
retreat is ordered and troops and General
in twinkling. are found safely bivouacked
in a neighboring grocery! But even here
the General still has room for the exhibit
tion of his heroic deeds. Hot from the
fields, and chafed with the untoward events
of the day, your General unsheaths his
trenchant blade, eighteen inches in length,
and with remorseless fury, slices the 'odter-
melons that lie in heaps around him, and
shares them with his surUtUi7g friends
Other of the siuews of war are not wanting
here. Whtsky, Mr.. Speaker that great lev
eler of modern times, is here also, and the
shells of the watermelons are filed TO the
brimw
At this crisis our General CARY dis
mounted his war-horse, trenchant blade,
epaulettes, white plume. and AL his para
phernalia of fierceness, volunteered iu the
cause of Total Abstinence" for years
waged relentless wars against Alcohol. be-
came General-in-chief of Temperance
brigades and at their head was found, when
the armies against the late Rebellion needed
some quartermaster or commissary's clerk,
to once more put on the armor aud rush TO
the front room of some brown-stone front
on Third street. Cincinnati. five hundred
miles away from danger of being disabled
in the serptce!"