The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-09-24
The AmOurS of kifpatrick-His
''Camp Furniture in the Army.
Salisbury, N. c., Aug. 20, l

Salisbury, N. G., Aug 20, 1866.
Editor of the New York Daily News:
We inclose a copy of two paragraphs which
we have clipped and copied from the press:
from the Washington Union
"GEN KiLPATRIcK-We were asked by
several of our readers, what the principal ri
NOR now afoat amounted to relative to Gen.
Fitzpatrick, our Minister to Chill. We did
not wish at that time to give the particulars,
but as it is no longer secret, we state that
he is charged with the greatest disrepect, both
to the people he represented and to those to
whom he was sent, by introducing to Chiliaa
society a woman of VIGOROUSLY bad repute.
We hope the rumor is not true"
From the Newbern N. CO. Commercial.
"Wonder if this is not the same piece of
furniture Gen. Wade Hampton captured at
Fayetteville n c., when Fitzpatrick made
so narrow an escape without his unmention-
ables, and which he subsequently introduced
into private family at some point on the
| North Carolina Railroad"
| To the latter extract, that of the CONNER
| cial-we wish to reply for we have the facts
| .sl.iei. enaIio as to do SO. During last Snna-
mer, while this same j. Fitzpatrick lnow
Minister to Chilly then in command of a caval-
ry corps of the United States Army, which
command was stationed ON the N c. r. r. at
Lexington and other points, attempted to in
troduce into the family of a intimate friend
of the writer "two pieces of portable furni
ture," the peculiar kind and cut of which
was objected to on the part of the gentleman
| of the house, as he had been previously in
formed by another Federal officer in the COM
mand that it was not suitable to the furnish
a
the houses OF such men as j. Fitzpatrick aud
his kind.
Board anG lodging was desired in the house
of my friend for these two peices of furniture
on the part of Fitzpatrick. This was not
granted, and to satisfy mean spirit of retail
iation and revenge, this General ordered
company of his command to come and select
the t1ower-garden of the ladies of the house,
on which to encamp, and which order they
carried out the same evening, against the
earnest remonstrance of the family. This
furniture accompanied j. Fitzpatrick to more
pose from the look OF it that it must have
been "picked up" and had originally belong
ed to some sink Of iniquity. Yes, this "lurni-
ture' was women, two depraved young vim
men" dressed in male attire, and who were
introduced by Fitzpatrick to all as members
of his staff, ON differ emf occasions These are
undisputabs facts, and can be proved by the
most respectable citizens in Lexington. This
furniture, no doubt, followed Fitzpatrick
Though perhaps at a respectable distance) to
his bird-house in Valparaiso, for it is most
supposable in view of all these facts that the
furnishing of his house would be incomplete
without these wax figures.
These things it was possible to do while
this horse thief, bank robber, and raider, was
playing the tyrant over the people Of the
South; then he was full-plumed general,
holding high commission in the United
States Army. Now minister, and in for
egn capital, representing the same Cover
ment, he is found playing the same role he
played here in North Carolina; in both posi-
tions we see nothing but the brute Why
have we not seen great cutlery of righteous
indignation from the vrtuous press of New
England THAT civilized section of the United
States, where women are burned to death for
witchery, and children whipped to death for
not saying their prayers at mouths old,) a
gainst this great national scandal. In closing
our reply to the question of the Commercial,
we would say that we have it from the mouth
of one of Kilpatrick's own escort that the
"piece" in question that was captured by
Gen. Hampton near FayettAillc, N. c., was a
Massachusetts, schooi-marm that had followed
Fitzpatrick. FRANK"
A CLEAR COMPLEXION, sparkling with rud-