The New York herald., 1870-02-22
"THE SEVENTH" In arms.
A battle by Gaslight In the Seventh Regi.
ment Armory-A General Fire All
Along the Line-List OF the
Killed and LimMng.
"PRo PArRrA EFT GLORIA"

There seems to be great deal OF trouble just now
IN TWO or three OF the companies OF the Seventh
regiment The Sixth company had high old time
OF 1t q few weeks ago, which was fnaly wound up
by the resignation OF one OF tne non-commissioned
pnlcers and BY one or TWO OF the commissioned
Dflcers making promises to DO good boys forever
thereafter. Tho colonel, who naturally has the vel
fare Of the regiment at heart dropped In one night
at one or the meetings Of the company, ana during
little semi-ofical conversation, remarked that ne
knew that difficulties would occur in companies
but they should "never allow them to get into the
newspapers" The colonel didn't say why. On the
strength OF good many things TOO numerous to
mention the Sixth company made peace with itself.
ana the Seventh everybody thought was Destined to
m era OF harmony throughout the length and
breadth OF Its ten full companies.
STORM CLOUD.
But the fates decided otherwise, for Q war,
I'm combat acharne as the French would term II
WITH most exquisite appropriateness, broke out In
one OF, the very best companies OF the command
Company A-commanded Dy Captain Richard ALI
non. How the whole thing happened was In this
Way:-One Of the ieutenants OF the company
named 8. @. Barr. was called upon one day last
month by three OF the members OF the company who,
presented him with paper signed by eighteen OF
The company requesting him to resign his position,
end they stated, OF rather the petition
stated. that facts had come into the DOS.
session OF the slgnsrs which. In their opln-
Ion, were derogatory to his character o.
m ofiicer. They explained what they meant,
and Barr refused to resign or recognize their au-
thority. He states that three Of the members went
70 several persons with whom he had had business
transactions and represented themselves as "com-
Ml.tse o. tne First company, Seventh regmentr
and that they had been empowered by the company
70 investigate his business matters How the com
mittee had been appointed was mystery to Barr,
VINO, being member OF the company, would have
KNOWN he says. the three individuals had been ap-
pointed as committee for any purpose. Al any
xSte several OF the parties the 'committee'' called
upon Tor facts as to his business showed them to the
door rather unceremoniously.
THE STORM SETS IN-THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
A few days after this occurrence the monthly
meeting OF the company took place. at which were
present ffty-fve members out OF the ninety which
the company inspected as It's strength last inspec.
sion day. When Captain Allison took his seat ana
called the meeting TO order things looked ominous.
The gas was burning dimly, and the red-hot stove
seemed to have been specially prepared to render
tho atmosphere in Q condition to suit the hottest
KIND OF redhot belIgerents. and even General
Duryee, In oil, on the walls, with his martial CLOAK
around him." appeared to have lost his
usual benevolent expression Of counrenance.
and was apparently determined to descend
from his perch and take . hand in the row
snat was brewing. The gavel fell on the desk sew.
oral times before perfect order was restored and
tnen the routine business Of the company beg an.
EVERYBODY was hdgetry and evidently desired the
Crisis TO come. IL came; and then the scene was
lively. One Of Barr's friends made motion to GEN.
sure and repudlate the caucus and investigating
. new member Ga Mr.. StevensD as ne was calledl
Snat made tho old members open their eyes, some
Win surprise, others with lndignaron just as they
happened to relish or desplse the speakers ideas OF
xne company's way OF doing business Then the
Eortny !. orators on the other side OF the
house, those who favored the doings Of the sin
Sestgators,' gave vent to their eloqucnce ana for
few minutes the verbal STRIFE threatened battle
scene with the First company IN mortal combat, and
several broken skulls as a grnnIng background.
several ex-members who were present were itching
20 get lneo the hight but vote Of Inc actual mem
bers kept them out, and thus Barr, VINO had ex-
pected such majority against him, was deprived Of
2 few stanch supporters. There came next q cross
tnat had been kept up 20 this time pretty wen weIi
masked within its broadcloth trapplngs, and mo-
SION BY one Of Bars friends 70 appoint COMMITTEES
90 nvestigate the power and authority OF the nves
ugators was lost. Then II was that the Barr faction
naw the nRht was hopeless one against overwhclm
eng odds.
DAGGERs THAT DIDN'T KILL
Before retlring in good order, however they made
nna assault on their enemies. charging them with
abuse OF power and contending that even II Barr
mad done anything wrong IN his capacity as blsl-
nsss man the wrong was not proper subject for
could DO that He had certain rights as an ofncer
which tho members could not dIvest him or aud II
laws Dy which he could be tried and punished. The
other SIDE could not this point and argued that
% snsy naa . the power TO inyestgsts members PR.
dong things on the square,
e Ono Of the wratny members then jumped to bis
regiment maintained ITS strength This indivldual.
who had evidently allowed his angry passion to rise
Zoo high for the good of his fellows, was made to
AubSid0 quite suddenly Dy loud and dEcOrdant cries
OF "Order." All things mortal have an END in this
world, they say. and the meeting, belng an exceed
1ngly mortal affair TO many, finally broke up. The
Contending factions on leaving the room silently re-
solved among themselves to do ~ Hamlet docs to
nus nt mother ID inc aa M 70
DECIDED to use daggers there would have been on
both sides the taest running that was ever seen In
New York.
The Friday night following this nigh old time the
members OF the company assembled al the armvry
for drill 1t looked very much, AZ member after
member dropped In and d0nned his jacket ~ though
there would be renewal OF The battle OF few
sHow dye do OLD noss ~ petween many bot the fac
lions hadn't quite got over tho Old row. They
didn't wear different colored neckties to show to
which side they belonged, but the way they scOweu
at one another was enough 10 indicate what each
Dnc was thinking about. Barr was present and he
friends tried to make him feel as much At home as
ever. At last member made remark that Mr.
Barr wasn't gentleman, or words to that effect.
Another member named swift who heard the
mark, Informed the other In the languagelof Horace
shat he was 80 liar" Then the anti-Barr man Went
FOR Mr. swift, wnen, by some means or another. he
ran his head against one OF Mr. Swiits lists, which
some say was rather hard for the Aforesaid mead.
A PASSAGE At ARMS.
week passed BY ana all went ~ merrily as
m marriage bell In the company, simply because they
didn't hold meeting. The 0tner night, however,
they had drll. Everybody fct ugly. and somehow
or another verbal passage at arms took place be.
tween Mr.. Wheeler, an ex-mcmber OF the company,
anc Sergeant Swartz. The latter told the former
very PLAINLY that he didn's think him saint, and
many other things, which rled Mr.. Wheeler very
mucn, who, 1t IL Useless to say, IS very much 0p-
posed to Barr, as the courts are now showing. Mr.
Wheeler responded In very terse terms but In this
instance no blows were interchanged, although MIR.
Swartz dared his lnterlocutor to take up" tho
quarrel In Q manly way. The friends Of the wrang
ling parties then interfered and nut stop 20 the
Eun. The factions didn't take hand In H. although
The musKcts stood HANDY and bayoneted.
A TRIANGULAR MISFORTUNE.
The drill ended without af0rdlng subject for a
coroners inquest and then 1t was that Captain ALI