The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-11-19


| hold good throughout the State? We pause for
| a reply.
| Just as we turn from this melancholy theme
| the thought strikes US that perhaps Mr. Har-
| desty kept his whisky in an eight-gallon keg,
and having besides only five-galon and
| three gallon measure, invited his conViv1al
Democratic friends to assist him in an expert
mental solution of the problem that has racked
! the brains of many readers of The NATIONAL
| TRIBUNE during the past two weeks: how to
measure exactly four gallons with the eight
five and three-gallon kegs. If this be the cor
rect hypothesis it would appear probable that
continued absorption gradually reduced the
volume of liquid until by the time the polls
closed the kegs were all empty, and it IS little
| wonder that the postmaster forgot his mailbag
and the Democrats Z" to w.t. to the number OF
90" forgot to vote.
4 NEW PENSION OFFICIAL.
| The President has appointed Gen. Joseph j.
! Bartlett of New York. to be Second Deputy
Commissioner of Pensions, in place of Lewis {.
! Bartlett resigned on account of i'll health.
| Gen. Bartlett has a most honorable record OF
service during the war; In April, 1861, he en-
! listed as a private soldier at Binghamton,
! \. Y, where he had just commenced the prac-
! tice of law. He was elected Captain OF the
! company, and upon the organization OF the 9th
| n. Y. at Elmira, he was elected Major OF the
! regiment. At the first battle of Bull Run, after
command of the regiment by the Colonels or
/ der. A few weeks after the battle Col Siocum
was promoted to Brgader-General and MAJ.
! Bartlett 10 Colonel of the 9th. Immediately
| upon landing at West Point, on the Peninsula,
! the provisional Sixth Corps was organized, Gen.
! Franklin commanding. This gave Gen. Slocum
/ command of Franklins Division, and Col. Bart
lett the command of Slocum's Brigade. From
this time TO Appomattox he was identified with
| the Army of the Potomac as brigade and dl-
| vision commander.
He was very highly commended for his con-
! spicuous gallantry in the Seven Days battles
of the Peninsula Campaign. AT Gaines's Mill
! his brigade lost 504, killed and wounded. At
the second battle of Bull Run he covered the
retreat of the army to Centreyille. AT South
Mountain his brigade led the column of attack
of the First Division, Sixth Corps, at Cramp.
| tons Gap, breaking the enemys line at the foot
| of the mountain driving him beyond the crest
and securing the road for the passage of our
| troops. At Antietam he rendered important
service. At this time, upon the recommended
ton of Gen. Mcclellan, he was promoted to
Brigadier- General. From this period to the
close of the war he was engaged in every bat
tie of the Army of the Potomac. AT the battles
of Maryes Nights, second Fredericksburg and
Charlottesville he was with Sedgwick's Sixth
Corps At the last-named battle three regi-
ments of his brigade, numbering ], 450 muskets,
suffered a loss of 760.
! At Gettysburg he was given by Gen. Sedg-
wick the command of the Third Division of
the Sixth Corps retaining its command until
the Mine Run campaign, when Gen. Sykes APP
piled for him to command the First Division of
the Fifth Corps which he retained until Gen.
Grant took command and consolidated the six
corps into three. That legislated him out of
division command, but he was given a brigade
of nine regiments of veteran troops. With this
command he served through the Wilderness
campaign and in front of Petersburg. For dis
tinguished services in that campaign he was
brevetted Major-General At the battle of Five
Forks he was once more assigned to the COM
mand of the First Division of the Fifth Corps.
Being in advance of the corps the morning
| Sheridan struck Appomattex he formed his
division in two lines of battle, with cloud of
skirmishers in front. and forced the enemy to
retire behind the town, and received the sur
render of a rebel brigade before the general
surrender took place. The next day he was
appointed to receive the surrender of the in
fantry arms of Lees army. Gen. Bartlett was
hit six times, but never for day gave up the
command of his troops.
After the close of the war he was appointed by
President Johnson Minister Resident to Stock
holm where he remained three years. He is
now in middle life and in robust health. The
appointment is a most excellent one. In politics
Gen. Bartlett has always been Democrat.
GOVERNMENTAL ECONOMY"
1t would sometimes appear that this great
aud good Government makes itself ridiculous
in its frantic efforts to save at the spigot," by
clipping in various ways from the soldiers,
while so many bung- holes " are left wide open
for wastage. case in point is the disallow
ance, by Second Comptroller Maynard, of an
item of $500 in the army accounts of Gen. G..
b. Raum. 1t is claimed that he was overpaid
that sum by reason of some misunderstanding
as to the date when Raum formally accepted"
his commission as Brigadier-General. A request
to Gen. Raum to return to the United States
Treasury the amount thus unlawfully and
feloniously filched therefrom has elected from
him the following pungent reply:
see that you have rendered a decision to the
effect that am held TO be indebted to the United
States FOR amount alleged to have been overpaid
Bril.adier-General United States Volunteers,
and that the decision is based upon the supposition
that / was absent from my command without leave
during all or portion of the month of March, 1885.
beg to say that al the time was granted leave
of absence was performing service the COM
mander of the Second Brigade, Third Division,
Fifteenth Corps, under Gen. sherman. When L
came North reported TO Hon. Il. NJ. Stanton, Sec
Rotary of War, and pointed out that would be
able TO return to said command within the time
limited by my leave of absence, Gen. Sherman
then his South Carolina campaign. The
Secretary of War directed that should wait at my
home for orders, and that he would promptly give
me a assignment as Brgadier- General This
instruction was verbal one, but was acted upon
by me IN perfect confidence of its validity. AS
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Winchester Va, and was Immediately assigned to
a command. IL never entered my mind that was
in the least derect of duty, that absenting
myself from service without authority. feel great
| pride in the honorable record of service made by
me during the war, and L unwilling To- lie
under imputation of misconduct. / respect
| fully request a reopening of your decision.
HE GOT PRIZE
| Samuel ]. Tilden, jr has drawn prize pack
| age. The President has appointed him Collec-
| tor of Internal Revenue fer the 18th District of
| New York, in place of James S. Smart, removed.
| The latter had succeeded in making himself an
offensive partisan" the head and front of his
offending being the publication of a Republi-
| can newspaper, and scratching around generally
on that side of the political fence with an ac-
| tivity that was highly improper. A person not
conversant with the facts would naturally infer
| that the new app0intee is son Of the original
! Samuel ]. Tilden. Whoever draws this infer
ence makes mistake. At latest accounts the
| Sage of Gramercy Park was still bachelor.
Nor is it likely that he will, at this late day in
! life, change that condition of celibacy in which
he has found happiness. The new Collector is
| a nephew of ex- Gov. Tilden having been chris
| tened in honor of his illustrious relative and
to perpetuate his name. The chances would
| appear to be good, however, that the old gen.
tleman will Outlve him.
| THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.
The annual report Of the Superintendent of
| the Railway Mail Service shows that on June
! 20 there were S1S railway most office lines in