The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-09-08
More About that Four Hundred Dollars.

On the 22d of August, just PASSED, Chap'
lain Harper, accompanied by General Russo.
Hastings, General Thomas Nj. Turner and
Major William Mckinley, arrived in Co.
lumbus, Ohio, to consult with Governor
uayes about that dead deserter or dead
bounty jumpers four hundred dollars, which
the Chaplain paid over to the Governor.
Mr.. Hayes stated that his recollection of the
matter was very indstinct, the many things
that had transpired in his life during the
twelve years that have passed since them
having partly blotted the affair from his
remembrance. He did remember the shoot
ing of the man, however, but stated that if
the Chaplain had paid him the four hun
dred dollars he was sure he must have turned
the money over to the Judge Advocate, who
sentenced the man, with instructions to have
it paid back to the country which had paid
it to the deserter, as the man was a bounty
Jumper, and the money could be used to pro-
cure another soldier. But it appears that
the man was not tried By a court martial, and
and therefore there could have been no Judge
Advocate in the case, for an officer who saw
him shot states that the deserter was fellow
who went by the name of Monkey" who
had half dozen aliases and was we'll
known bounty-jumper and that an order
had been issued by President Lincoln that
when caught he should be shot without cere-
mony. This being so, and no trial having
taken place, there could have been no Judge
Advocate in the case, and therefore Governor
Hayes's vague supposition of how he might
have disposed of the four hundred dollar;
becomes very intangible, indeed. ltiscuriou:
that while Governor Hayes distinctly re-
member, the shooting Of the deserter, his
memory should be so greatly at fault in re-
gard to the four hundred dollars The con
nection between the execution of the mar
and the transfer of his grcenbacks, by orde
of Gen. Hayes from Chaplain Harper, tt
whose care the deserter had committed then
| for his mother to the care of Gen. Haye
himself, was so intimate, that we do not se
how the one could impress itself on tn
Generals mind without the other doing
also. 1t is very curious and very quee
thing indeed! Seems to us that had W
been in the Generals place at that time tn
transfer of money to our possession, cause
by so significant and so melancholy an ac
could never have been forgotten by us ic
one moment Still, it is evident that Gen
eral, now Governor, Hayes has very defe'
tive and unreliable memory, as we have n
doubt he has striven with all his might an
main to remember what he did with tn
money.
This is how this matter stands at presen
Governor Hayes having this far been unab
to give better or more satisfactory expii
: nation. The gentlemen mentioned abo'
Q were closeted with him the greater portic
of whole day, but his excellency, to sa'
3 him, could not remember anything moi
d than that which we have given above, Th
y is very unfortunate, indeed, as we were
hopes that the Governor could show that
p used the money to procure another soldit
1t the employment Of which soldier was &
Of main cause of the surrender at Apomatt
B. Court House and the close of the rebellion
But the Governor has thus permitted
splendid opportunity to show that he v
the real conqueror of Lee to go by, and 81
We the public are in doubt about that four h'
he dyed dollars I--Bsiefonte Wdtchm'Gn.