Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-09-10
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1879

bridges Of the bodies of Union men in
1861 in his paper, and was a rampant
Secessionist until he recently begar
the advocacy of Sherman for the Presi
dency in his paper. Phelps is al
original Union man, Presiding Elder
of the Methodist Church, and being
too old for the army cared for Union
refugees.
John S. Mosby, the notorious guer
rilla, is Consul. General TO China on
recommendation of John Sherman and
James A. Garfield, vice Wells, an Ex-
Union soldier.
Stephen P. Bailey, was a Major Of
guerrillas under Mosby. The Wash
lngton Republican, in the war cbroni
cles OF July 9th, says; July "a, 1862
Eighty men of the Ninth Virginia In
fantry were surprised and captured al
Summerville, Va, by a superior force
of rebel cavalry, under Major Bailey.
Major Bailey is an Inspector of To
bacco at Petersburg, Va, at a salary
OF $4,000, under Secretary Sherman.
Robert P. Bailey, son of the Major
also a Mosby guerrilla, is Assistant In
spector Of Tobacco in the Second Vir.
ginia District, at salary of about
5000.
IL. Clay Bailey, also a son of the
Maior,and Mosby guerrilla, is Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Sixth Virginia District, under Secro.
tary Sherman.
Simpson P. Bailey, also Major, and
Mosby guerrilla, is Subj onsul at
Palermo, Sicily, at a handsome salary,
including fees.
J. W, Champman, also n Mosby
guerrilla, was Mail Agent, but is now
Special Agent of the Treasury under
Secretary Sherman.
J. IL. Rives, Captain Of Artillery in
the Rebel Army, is Collector of In.
ternal Revenue Of the Fifth Virginia
District, and has thirty subordinates.
Excepting three of these, Rives and
his whole force are Southern Demo.
Gratis.
Edward W. Massey, an Ex-Mosby
guerrilla, is Inspector of Customs at
Fortress Monroe, Va. Theodore Nelli.
gar who served through the war in
the New York Burgess Rifle Corps,
was discharged to make room for him
In July a widow lady named Barnes,
the daughtero of a staunch Union man
named Pollard, in Virginia, who was shot
down in cold blood on his own door.
step, in the presence of his family, by
Mosby's guerrillas, applied to the
Treasury Department for position,
having the names OF fourteen members
of Congress on her papers indorsing
her ability and respectability but
Mrs. Barnesnot being able to organize
Tor Sherman, was unsuccessful, while
the Departments are overrun with the
proteges Of Confederate members.
The rife, daughter, son and Son.in.ldp
Of Yerger, the er-rebel ioho dSsdssindted
Colonel Crane, Of Dayton, Ohio, Of the
United States Army, at Jackson, Miss,
in 1866, are al in The Department here,
Secretary Sherman can also be asked
how it is that the Sherman family are
all saddled on the public. Here is the
roster of the Sherman family who are
now making sacrifices on the altar of
their country:
" Il. Sherman, General Of the
Army, sl77O0; 1900 of this amount
is commutation of quarters and fuel,
although he has suit of quarters in
the War Department, with fuel and
gas, that can not be duplicated in the
city for $4,000.
John Sherman, Secretary OF the
Treasury, $4,000 with carriage and
forage).
John Sherman, Jr., Marshal Of New
Mexico, $4,000.
r. IL. T. Leopold, husband of John
Sherman's niece, appointed out Of the
Treasury as Commissioner to close up
the Freedman's Bank, 81, 900.
Roger Sherman BARLEY, Sherman's
nephew, clerk in the New York Post
office, $4,000.
Frank Bernard, who married young
Bartlyes sister, is a 81 600 clerk in the
Auditors Office Of the Treasury, and
wao detailed from the Treasury to take
United States bonds TO the Syndicate.
He has been travelling with his wife
several months, and is paid out Of the
appropriation TO place tho loan.
- Huggins, married to John
Sherman's niece, 81 500; was in the
Treasury Department now in the
public service IN California.
Dan. W. Wilson, nephew of Mrs.
John Sherman, Assistant Chiel of the
Engraving and Printing Bureau of the
Treasury, was taken from the position
of Messenger to the Finance Commit
tee of the Senate when Sherman was
Chairman, and put in charge of eight
hundred skilled artisans and mechanics
without days experience-s3,OOO
o. l.. Pitney, Superintendent Of
United States Treasury Building, s2,.
400. Pitney was q confidential clerk
of John Sherman, Jr., and was assign
ed TO this important cilice, in which he
is the purchaser Of the furniture and
supplies for all the National buildings
in the country. The Office proper hav-
ing been abolished by an act of Con.
gress, the law is evaded by keeping
Pitney on the rolls OF tho Treasury in
another capacity, while be is continued
on his duty. 1t is said that Pitncy is
the proper person TO consult by the
tenants in the forty-three pressed
brick houses owned by Sherman, three
squares north of the Capitol building.
IL is further said that residence in
one OF these houses insures an employe
of any of the Departments his place
Indefinitely.
/ have refrained from mentioning
the cousins and the nieces and aupts
of the female persuasion who are aid
ing their distinguished relative in his
race tor the Presidency by drawing
Government salaries, believing the
public will give the clan Sherman due
credit for what the males are doing.
TNGERSOLLO ON THEH HEBRE us