Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-10-11
IN GOVERNMEN7 Z
EMPLOY.


Especial Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer
WASHINGTON, d. c., September 20,
1S76.-Thc subsidized Radical press,
as well as their Major-Generals and
other cross.road orators, continue to
raise terrible howl and endcavor to
fire the loyal Northern heart with the
false declaration that the Democratic
party is Influenced and controlled by
those who, in the late war, were in re.
bellion against the Union, when the
fac Is, from the close of the war to the
present time, the Republican party,
with Grant at the head, has not only
recognized, but Officially ordered Union
soldiers to stand aside and give lucra-
tive places 10 open and notorious rebels
Of the most dishonorablc and pusillnn-
imous stripe. The records and docu
ments on file in the department show
the disgraccful fact that VIM. II.
Chapman was Lieutenant-C Colonel of
Colonel John s, Mosby's guerrillas,
and is now Special Agent in the
Post-ofiice Department at s8a day.
His brother, Sam +. Chapman, was
Captain OF Company i, same com.
mand, and is now a Postal-car Clerk,
receiving 81 400 per annum, running
between Washington and Richmond
This man, W. Ii. Chapman, is the one
who tied Union soldier to n tree
severed from his person his privates
and then placed them in the victims
mouth. He also assisted in the hang.
ing OF the six Union soldiers belong
ing to the Sixth Michigan Cavalry,
These atrocious facts were reported to
Postmaster Jewell and he dismissed
him, but Grant made Jewell reinsttte
him, which was the direct cause Of
Jewell leaving the Cabinet. These facts
can not be successfully denied, as the
evidence is on file in the War Depart
ment. The influence in these cases are
Grant and Mosby. Elias Griswold, was
appointed by Grant, through the in
flucnce OF Mosby, to an 81 800 clerk
ship in the Treasury Department Au-
gust "a, 1876, He was Major and As
sistant Adjutant-General on General
John II. Winder's staff, and was in
charge of Andesonville prison.pens
during the war, and also in charge Of
Castle Thunder and Tobacco Ware
house at the colse of the war. John
G. Hester was Second Lieutenant on
the rebel ram Alabama, and is now a
Special Agent in the Department Of
Justice, through the influence OF Sena-
tor Morton and Col. Mosby. Miss
jackson, whose father killed young
Ellsworth in the Marshall House, in
Alexandria, in 1861, is now nine
hundred dollar clerk in the Treasury
Department through the influence OF
President Grant and Colonel Mosby.
Mrs. Mumford, whose husband cut
down the Stars and Stripes in New
Orleans, is now in the Treasury De-
partment at 81 cooper annum, through
tho influence Of Senator Morton and
Colonel Mosby. VIM. NJ. Caslin, Ma
jor and Quartermaster in an Alabama
Regiment, is now in the General Land
Office, receiving $1,000 per annum,
through the influence of General Bab-
cock and President Grant. Marcy
Adison, q Sergeant in the famous
Black Horse Cavalry, is now clerk
at 81 400 per annum in the Surgeon
Generals Office, through the influence
of President Grant. Miss Mosby, a
sister of Col. John S. Mosby, is clerk
in the Patent Office at 81 200 per an
mum, through the influence of Presi-
dent Grant and Col. Mosby. Thomas
Y. Mosby, brother of Col. John s.
Mosby, was bushwacker during the
war, was appointed by General Grant,
on the 18th day of August, a Gauger
in the Fifth Virginia District, through
the influence of Col. Mosby.
There are now twenty-scven of
Mosby's guerrillas in the Government
Departments, including nine more in
the Navy yard.