The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-23
AN ARMY OFFICERS CAREER.
TTrOv Times. 15th.1

terday closed upon a man whose brief lis
tory is indeed q sad one His name is Virgi
S. Eggleston, and he fell from one of tn
most responsible and honored positions in tn
army of the United States. Born of great
respected parents in the village of Palmyra
, in this State, he received good education
and was prepared to discharge with credit an,
intelligence the duties of a worthy, if not
prominent member OF society. He possessed
, influential friends, who secured for him {
position in the Paymaster Generals Depart.
ment of the army.
While residing in Washington and per.
forming with fidelity the duties Of clerk in
the employ OF government he became &C.
quainted with the daughter of Henry Wilson's
landlady and eloped with her. They were
married and returned to the maternal domi-
Gil. MIR. Wilson now interested himself in
the young man, whose character was excel
lent, morals unexceptional and intelligence
| superior. With the assistance Of other friends
MIR. Wilson procured for young Eggleston
the position of paymaster in the regular
army with the rank of major. His appoint
ment was one of the last acts Of Andrew
Johnson's administration.
The fact that he had been taken from civil
life and given position in the army which
SO many ieutenants and captains coveted,
caused Eggleston to be regarded with q zeal
Gus eye, and from the start he was unpopular
in the service. However, he was sent to Ore
gon, and went thither, taking with him his
young wife, giddy, thoughtless creature
over whose shameless career subsequently we
will draw the vail of silence Major Eggles-
ton was in the Modoc war, and was one of
the first to enter the lava beds after the cruel
murder of Gen. Candy. His heroism gained
him some favor with the officers, and his mil
ltary career now became more promising
The subsequent discovery of his wife's bad
conduct made him desperate, and for the first
time in his life he became reckless and en-
gagged in a life of wild disorder and dissipa- |
ton. The more he tried to do for her the |
worse she grew. Debts multiplied, and sor-
rows filled his cup to OVERLOOKING. At last
ne began to use the public money to meet his
own and wife's extravagances. The sum of
ST. 600 had been embezzled and squandered,
when he was arrested, tried by court martial.
and sentenced to be cashieted, and impris-
'ned IN the Albany penitentiary for the pc
ROD OF five years, and to remain in confine-
nent until the amount Of money embezzled
vas restored to the Government, which prac-
lcally amounted to a life-sentence. Presi.
lent Grant approved the proceedings of the
court, but, with generous Endorsement re-
,ardlng Eggleston's bravery in the Modoc
var, fixed the limit of the imprisonment at
en- years. s
Yesterday, Col John Green, of the regular {
rmy, and Capt. NJ. c. Wilkinson, of Gen. !
towards staff, committed Major Eggleston
, the tender mercies of Gen. Pillsbury. His
istory is sad one, and there is great SYM
athy felt for him by wide circle of friends '
considering that the amount of money en- I
ezzled by him was only twelve thousand c
oilars. his sentence seems largely dispropor- t
onate to that inflicted upon Hodge, brother L
aymaster, who stole nearly five hundred Y
lousand dollars, and was sent to prison for +
My five years, and was then pardoned out at
he end Of eleven months
That wonderful old woman, Virginia De;a- s
It. has been doing it again IN Paris. Nine. II
ataZzi had Il dramatic soiree, at which Deia- 81
It appeared, getting out of sick bed to
sep her promise, and, dressed as a Brittany P
,asant, she sang Berangers "Lisette." Too d
eak to stand alone, she sat for some minutes 81
an easy chair on the stage, and then ad-
need to the foot-lghts, supported by two "
treSses OF the "Francais." The voice of "
venty-seven years is said to have been full II
weak melody, and her by-play as some n
ing remarkable and delightful. 81
The old well remembered nod and shrug N
d expression of the eyes were all there. and "
e aristocratic audience was carried away Ca
III catuuoAdSiu uut, dlteT I'LL, II woman OF |
arly eighty years trying to leer like an iIIl
;hteen-year old grisette of the Faubourgs w
to sicken at rather than applaud. ar
ench love in a French garrett as Beranger su
nted it, with light hearts, light heels, and w
ottle Of Tin ordinaire, was all very we'll in
day. with youth at the helm and pleas -
at the PROV, but at eighty-faugh A ~
nderful old woman is virginie Dejazet, and ~ ~
} ought to stay at home. III III
The Rev. Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, the newly ye
cted Bishop Of Southern Ohio, is at pre- .,
It rector Of the Church of the Holy Trinity 70
Philadelphia. He is a Low Churchman Ra
about thirty-eight years of age. 1t is
ed as singular fact that out of the eight
hops chosen since October tlas five are
Ter forty years of age
Philadelphia man says that when his wife sci
J up in the morning With jerk, and ans
lecting to do up her hair, goes silently up
has h. g 49,.