The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-12-04
CAPITAL CHATTER.
The Times Correspondent Has
Costly locsted Himself at
Washington.
The Thomas Statue CorsidaFsc-
Also the Beloved General.
What Kansas PsopI in Washington
Arc Doina-tyho Sra here.
Newsy Notes oi the Nation.


Special Correspondence ofTHE TINEs'i
wAsEISGToN, D. c, Nov. q.
he last week has teen rather swift ss
regards cold weather in these parts, anc |
still fingers with us crisp and irisid. The
"oldes, inhahitant" has beer running over
his "Reminiscences OF veal; er fscts, and re-
ports the present
cJLD SNAP
as having 10 parallel in the month 81 No
vember inside OF bis record or reco!ltc-
ton.
An Eus!ishDsn would call il c'ersr
winter in The Canadian Dominion 4 eli
mate where the tEer.no zaeter jumps thirty
degrees or no.chss in Twelve hCurF, cluno
he couuted mild snd sslub.ious, with Ger
tainty.
THE ARMY OF TEE CUMBERLAND
discovered its ichozpi,ality when II S3s too
late to remodel programmes. However,
their memorial service in homer Ct Msjor
General George Henry Thomas was sue
cess in all its outlines. The day WIS raw
and bleak, but the north wind did not chill
the ardor of the solGiers of the Army OF the
Cumberland. They had seen colder days
accompanied with hsrdshirs and danger.
THE THOMAS STATUE
ia the best of all the equestrian statues
erected in Washington, There ere now SIX
| soldiers in brorze on horseback in this city:
Washington, by Clark Mills; Andrew
Jaskson, by Clark MILF; General Scott, by
Brown; Mcpherson, by Robbie; General
Green, by Brown; ard Thomas. by Ward
| Thomas has the beet location IN the city,
the moot commanding ard from which
point one can look toll length through or
up two avenues-Massachusett and Yer
mont. and two streeis-M. and Fourteenth
or eight points CT the compass. Scott
Thomas and Green are located on Massa'
chuset,s avenue, Mcpherson on Vermont
avenue and Washington and Jackson Oh
Pepusylyan;a avenue. There are only ten
equestrian statues in the United State
Washington, by Brown, in New York;
Washington, by Il. w. Crawford, Rich
mond, Virgins; Jackson, AZ New Orleans
by Mile; Washington, in Boston, by Ball
and six In this place. 1t il estimated thai
there are not over seventy equestrian
statues in the civilized world.
Scott and Thomas were Nirginisns from
below the James River. Both studied Law
and were admitted to the bar, but the lattel
never practiced, while the former did
Thomas was appointed cadet to Wee
| Poip, by Andrew Jackson, and 10 year
sfterward he defended the capitol OF Tenn
essee. Twenty-one years Thomas served il
the army, ard was As modest an otticer as
ever wore an epaullet. Just after the war
with Mexico, Congress authorized the rails
ing of two cavalry regiments, the First an,
Second cavalry, and when the war cams
J upon us in 80 these two regiments were
serving in Kansas, Texas and the terrific
ries. F. V. Sumner was Colonel OF th
First; Joseph f. johnson, Lieutenant-COl
opel, Ben Mccullough, Msjor; Geo. Il. Nc
LeIlen, Bid, Ransom, Stuart, Mclntyer
Crit,enden, Lomsx and Mcintosh, Lieu
tenants. The Second regiment had ALDER
Sidney johnson for its Colonel: Robt. +
Lee, Lieutenant Colonel; ". J. Harder
George III. Thomas and Eirl Van Dorm
Majors; with 4. Kirby Smith, Geo. Stone
! an, iAA 1'A
'en.
lhese men were the soc'ai companions
lnomas, anu All went INTO ID, Oonieoeracy
Most OF tnem came from ltHien,isI lauii-
lice, with an ancestry and record mons
alienated himself somewhat by marrying
Northern woman, and hence MS cemraGe
were disposed tc cut him little, most
1 Il II
: whom were Southern men. fhomss stool
for the Union, and while 1t Is true that !
took some coursge to stand sgaInst IN
pressure OF his immediate surroundings
we must give that Northern wife, Mr.
Thomas, some credit for Ihomas' firm
ness.
= remember the fret cavalry quartere,
in Kansas and at Lawrence, in 1857. |;
officers were heart and brain against Ere
State men. They represented Southern
chivslry and hrst families, ami trestet
, Northern men As the mudsills OF society
How the times have changed the state e
things, political snd social, II the las
seventeen year. The mutsIlls are now o.
: top, the political structure having bee
inverted in the conflict. Lee and othe
Southern leaders or officers occupied Pc
sitions before the war beyond the fancy O
cream oil Thomas 10 aspire ior or attain
) Lee was the husband OF a direct descend
ant of Mira Washington, and he owned
vast estate adjoining the Capitol. Hi
house was the moot handsome resort in tn
whole country, and trusted servants waite,
on him at every turn. Thomas was a sub
J altern on the plsins, and his family connec
tions were unp.eIentious aud not intiu
entail. Consequently, he had no note uu
til an emergency called him out, when h