The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-08-03
HOW GEARY'S MILITARY GEpCEi
TON WAS MADE.

The following amusing description
Of the "no-p prefix" candidate for Gov
ernor, we clip from the correspondence
Of the Sunday Mercury, written from
Cape may:
DeuT Nacmy-I'm anchored for the
season and am in Observation-Disclosures
| OF preservation. ] see by the papers,
and hear by many Of my friends who
came down yesterday, that you ''had
great tines in ''oid PhiIly" on the
Fourth. don't envy you! l dislike
all that sort Of thing, and witnessed
enough ''pomp and show" during the
war to last me the balance Of my days.
| was amused though, in reading the
graphic accounts Of how the thing went
of. should have been glad to have
been present for0ne thingandtha was
to have noted how Master Geary be
haved. | suppose though he kept his
vanity down as much as possible-that
| it did not stick out more than foot.
have met Geary upon several occasions.
! | met him at the "Race Course" below
Philadelphia, a day or two after Andy
| Curtin commissioned him Colonel. !
met Tom Elliott the same evening
waiting for him at the st. Lawrence
! Hotel, who introduced his pomp0sity.
/ The same Tom Elliott, by the way,
who made himiust what he is. Who,
during the war, sung his praises in |
Of the PhiIapeIphia papers, including
! the Smddy Mercury, and who spent
! days and nights in writing up evry lit
| lie one horse or X Roads skirmish and
for what? To glorify the vanity Of this
man Geary. EIliotthas gonet0 his long
home, and Inever see Geary's namein
| printbut what I think the h0nors belong
iNzy Glv-Sl l,"~
EIliott's devotion. One Saturday eve
ming there came a rumor to Washing
ton that Geary had fought great bat
lie and won great victory. This was
the Saturday preceding McCiellan'sfrst
march on to MANASSAS. Washington
was full Of newspaper indefatigables,
who desired to telegraph what few i
tens they had gathered concerning it
Observation-Disclosures to North. Your
correspondentwa was at that attineconnect-
ed with a New York paper, and along
with Others went to the telegraph shop,
scratched OF oar Startling" and We're
politely toldby the cIerksinattendance
that the news "could not 60"
''Why?o Of course was the next in
terrogatory.
"AIr. Sanford, censor, forbids it,"
Sanford. of course. was wished some
where else, and anumber ofcorrespond-
ents still carry him a grudge that will
be paid some day with interest.
On Sunday morning-a bright and
beautiful morning itwas-nyea ears were
assaiied with the cry OF "PhHadeLphia
,Sutdzy Mercury! Stplday Dispatch!
! Full accounts of the great fight"
invested of course, and then found that
Tom Elliott had commenced the work
that was to make great man out OF
Geary.
GLOW did dthey get this news in Phil
adeIphia?' asks one correspondent.
GLOW did they get il ," replie>
George Bower, whom you sawinterred
q few weeks ago-''why Tom Elliott
telegraphed it to ,he Associated Press
ofcourse." And so T0m did.
[ last saw Geary il the flesh Al
Gettvsburg, one year ago last Wednes
day. There was number Of distin
! guished people there. Quife a mum
Der. Meade was<thege, and made I
! speech. Howard W,tS there, and st
G was Doubleday and Sykes.
Geary rode a splendid black charger
His uniform was the brightest, and hi
. gauntlets Just the thing for show. lii
: beard was newly blackened and oiled
' and he was. IL have limited 'galius'
q looking.
And Geary, he was Master of ceremo
nies. He was splendidiy gotten up 70
: the occasion, and he certainly loO6et
; very fine. but still rcsemojed anythln:
: but a Major General. Governor Cur
tin introduced me, and t5eary, hearin.
that | was connected with 50 loyal
$ journal as the Mercury, remarked tina
J. he had just parted in Washington wit
/. Tom Florence, 10 Severns and othe
!. good Fellows. Still did not, could nc
like the man, and SO told our amiabi
> Governor.
o Nv distaste to Geary arose PartI
It from a prejudice created in my mn
10 towards. him by Vein Forney, Esq
the brains OF the Harrisburg Ie{egrdpI
e Geary, itappears, some time previou
y had been wounded and was takin
le things easy down the Cumberian
" Valley. But Forney related now al
- ish every thing was about his casti
and informed me that he had "a guar
n marching front of his house, and wa
Is as might be supposed, the "laughir
n s;ockn OF the good people of the Vale
III Think of that for Major General, re,
~ ing home wounded, having qua
y posted in front of hisbOud0ir. Stylis
lis rather, you say. Very much so
/ plain people to swallow easily.