The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-06-21

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Invalid 20 KING health airoaL When ne ever Aomsh
got the despasch be Wen. siIalxhssy y ee,,a. .
YORK city. and there found the cfieer's iasni, :
that IS his ieiher ans other psf q =
story OF his fathers death sad D ne,her eeins "a
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Keep me real coa.vm 2, ~. 's a. - % ire v,ris
was in low circumstances living ~ a nlsefab ~ 40
cality In The ciy-bnt ior a ihai a. honcst ant ~
upright Us the richest In the land.
wRASGLK oyEa COARSE
Now TO return 20 the southern post. Word WAS
teiegrapbed 10 the West Point authorities after me
officers death, and preparations were there lnsae
for the funeral The Cadet corps were 70 tsrn oai
on the arrival OF the body and the funeral cere-
for the deceased was well known 10 all tae
Of It'll the ranks Of The corps a. the ume q
his death. guard OF honor. consisting Of four
olhcers' classmates Of the dead man. accompanied
of the tragedy on their way TO West roint. The
train bearing the corpse arrived at night time IN
10 be placed in hearse the officers had the lore
sight 20 engage to take 1t tothe Hudson River Ran.
road depot when several persons whom they dd not
know came up and proceeded In an uncercnonious
way to take The body. The officers fnteriered aud
the young widow. who stood by placed herseif
tina, they would kill the first who came near the
corpse; but the strange party was nothing daunted,
ana one OF them advanced and declared himsei 70
be the brother OF the dead man. "And this woman,
he added, pointing to female clad In black ut his
side, who was weeping, ''this woman was Lieu
tenant IS vile. She was married 90 him years
ago, and that person who claims 70 be his wife has no
claim on this body.n These remarks duinbfounded
the officers, and the Fifth avenueygrl WAS terrified
She asked Tor explanations and the brother Of the
officer, modified at the sight OF her sorrow. told her
what her heart refused to believe. The oiicer had
was born to him before he got this appointment.
How he had kept the whole matter secret and mad
entered the military academy bearing his own
red before he became q cadet under an
assumed name is a thing. which but only
curtain fell in the last scene OF this West Point
tragedy in humble house IN the lower part OF the
CITY, few days after the wrangle over the ccrpse
at Jersey City. The scene was heart-rendng one.
A small apartment was darKeaed by thick curtains
hung over the windows, and in the centre OF the
the dead officer. On the lid was silver plate bearing
his full name and rank In the army. There were
sorrowing friends about, ana when the lace OF tue
dead was shut from mortal view forever
there was n woman clad IN mourning who
kneg at the colin side with her head buried
in her hands and sobbing as though her heart would
break. She was the wife Of the lieutenant OF ari
lery the graduate OF the class Of 1861 but she
not the young Fifth avenue girl. Two hearts were
broken by the bali that sent the officer into eternity
and although the one was that OF wife ana that OF
the other was not, the future of both will be dark
ened by the same cloud and their lives made full OF
woe by the same recOllectOns
AS my companion stood up TO leave the cemetery
i VeHtufed 10 ASK, Nv Ill the Class Oh bS erect a
monument here 10 the memory OF him who Is
gomez" pointing to q tombstone al our very side,
he asked, "What Is that inscription 2" "Falthful
unto DEATH" replied. "The lieutenant OF artillery
viii get no monument here" was his answer, AID
we both .et the silent graves behind us, without
speaking another word.
THE NEW REGIME.
The third clast obtained their two months fur.
Tough to-day ana there now remains at the Academy
but classes the second and the fourth, OF
including the plebes Tue following new officers
have been appointed in the cadet cOrps:-
Captdins-Cadets DAVIS, G. B.; WATSON, Hoag and
Edmunds.
Lieutenant ana Adjutdnt-Cadet Mckinney.
Lieutenant ana OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Russell.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Nave, Knox, Bacon Wood
rur. 7. M: Steeyer, Goddard, Townsend Mott,
Pardee Roe, Ayres and Stewari
sergeant MGiOr-Cadet Allen, J.
Cfdertu SefJed1W-Cadet WetmOre.
! SergeantS-McFarland, Wood, lamar, Baker,
Elliott, Walker G. B.; HeneY Hatfield Wood, A Il.
| Carr, Buchanan, Booth Abbott, Patterson, Pond
and Lyon.
Coapora,s- Gilmore, Dyer, Clark, Taber, Gardner,
Hoy,e, DAILY, Casey, Russell, Knapp. Holmes, Gus
man, Blacum, H. p. Walker II. L. Reed, BaIly, La
PoCt Craig, Smith, Knapp.
thus It viii be seen the gap made by the graduates
have all been iilled up and the new regime Will re
main in force TO next year unless some Ill wand will
blow somebody out OF line.