The National tribune., 1889-07-25

I the United States. Then, too, we should have
another Essex. II only TO Perpetuaie the name
Of that Porter who forced whole British
| squadron % drive him cot Of the Pacific. Why
| not have another Niagara. 10 make our younger
people remember Putin Bay and Commodore
| Perryf / fail 10 see much that 10 distinctive
| IN calling our war ships after localities, and
why under the one Of them should be
called Petrol / fail 90 understand. IL the new
ships Of the navy cannot be named to perpet-
uate the names Of those that made our naval
history. for goodness sake let them be named
after the battles in which Americans made
American history.
COLI "JIM" CHRIsTIANoY.
The unexpected In the thing that usually
| happens; and it happened last week in the
marriage Of Col James Isaac Christiancy, over
in Baltimore. 10 one of the pretticst girls that
ever made Washington her home.
That dashiug and gallant Chief-0f staff and
Adjutant- General 10 the brilliant soldier, Gus
| ter. was known 10 every trooper-aTtillery man
| or infantry mRn-in the Eastern armies. where
| cavalry troops operated. Gallant in action. gay
| in demeanor, and the iolliest of good COM
pafions. ho filled the biIl-the best Of oil the
| troopers l ever knew 10 have made subject
for Charles Levers pen.
And get he was the last man. of all / know
| that ! would have suspected of matrimonial
| intentions. He was cynical about women, and
| / used TO fight him hard in argument that the
only true and decent way for a man to live was
| 10 marry. Now, at last, sweet woman has
| taken possession of him. and it is dollars to
doughnuts that the gallant cayalryman will
settle down in his forties" 10 sedate and
| beautiful home life.
| Col. Jim" was one OF that very largo con-
tingent that donned the blue In the rebellion,
when he WAS still boy in years. and when he
was Lieutenant Colonel, in 1864 he was not
yet old enough TO cast vote. / fancy that
most of The NATIONAL TRIBUNE's readers
| know OF that wonderful whirl of the cavalry
| troops up the Shenandoah Valley that culmin-
ated with Early's last stand at Fishers Hill,
and how Casters Division swept down upon
his lines aud took all his guns and almost all
his colOrs away from him. Christisncy was
there, and they tell story of that days work
TO this effect:
Custer got an order from Sheridan to wheel a
brigade take the rebels in flank, and rs his
Aids-de- Camp were all employed, he sent Chris
tianey away. He (Christisncy) rode big sorrel,
colored much like himself, and rode straight
out across the front of the line, across which
our own and the rebel commands were doing
some heavy firing Custer yelled at him 90 go
| by the rear, but lie either did not or would
not hear, and he rode as a swallow flies straight
across the field to deliver his order, aud then
logged quietly back in the rear after the
| movement began. Custer jumped him for his
| rashness, and Gen. Sheridan made some re-
marks not at all complimentary 10 his good
judgment or common sense. Col. Jim quietly
| replied that :" ] don't see what the deuce you
two are bothered about my ride for; did il,
and you didn't; the order had to be carried
in devil of hurry; that's why took the
| short cut"
Later in the evening OF the same day Col.
Jim was squatting on saddle on the ground,
| with a craekeT-box lid for a temporary field
desk, taking memoranda OF the rapidly -arriving
reports Of captures Of prisoners and field pieces,
| and finally, when the reports coming i'm showed
more than half hundred field pieces captured.
he got mad and quit work, with the remark,
| = don't believe these stories; ] don't believe
| the Johnnies have got that many guns left at
| all"
] think that when q regular woman-h ater
does suecumb and gets married, no makes a
| better husband than these young men who
! jump into married life without knowing tho
least thing ia the world OF what be is doing.
| Therefore, i beg leave 20 congratulate Mrs.
| Christiancy. i can hardly understand the
| ColoBei's action, however. for at his old home
in Monroe, Mich, the town used to be full OF
| the prettiest girls ever saw in small place,
| and they made a dead set at Jim when he
went home after the war, the next hero after
Custer that the town sent out 10 the war for
the Union.
FOUNTAIN or ISLANDER.
Afruitful source Of the river Of slande. against
/ Tanner is found in the number OF discharged
clerks and other employees Of the Pension Blu
| reau, who daily swarm about the bureaus Of
the Democratic and Mugwump papers with all
the stuff that they can invent. They are so
1 persistent as TO become weaTisOme to the better
class Of correspondents, who have worked the
matter out and do not want any more Of IT,
even for "hot-weather CLING" when real
| news Is scarce. The smaller fry Of correspond
ents, on the other hand, who must have some
thing 10 get the 81 or So a column they receive
| from the smaller papers, still encourage them.
aud print the most malignant AM improbable
/ stuff Furnished them. As most of them have
been discharged for sufficient cause aud as they
! were generally put iH by politicians as a re-
1 ward for partisan work-displacing better men
| there no bounds TO their rage aud malice
at being removed, and no scruples to what
! they say. The more slanderous they can make
it the better they are satisfied.
TUE PRESIDENTS MOVEMENTS.
The President aud Mrs. Harrison arrived In
| Washington on Thursday evening, aud they
left for Deer Park Saturday at o'clock by
the Baltimore d Ohio Railroad. Secretary
| Window and Private Secretary Halford accom-
| panied them. The President will remain al
Deer Park about two weeks. aud at the end Of
that time viii return TO Washington After
spending few days here be will join Secretary
| Blaine at Bar Harbor and spend a fortnight
I r..
Blaine the President will return to Washing
ton, and after spending a few days here will
return 70 Deer Park where lie proposes TO spend
/ the entire month Of September
During the present visit 10 Deer Park the
President will transact there any business re-
curing bis immediate attention. II has not been
settled whether or not the Official announce
ment Of matters decided upon by him will be
made public from the White House or Deer
Park. II is probable that any appointments
which may be made during the Presidents abb
sence will be given out here, while any mat
tiers which do not require the preparation Of
official documents by the clerks at the White
House will be made public at Deer Park.
There will be no Cabinet meetings held at
Deer Park. IL the heads Of Departments de.
sire to bring any matter to the Presidents at
tentlOn they will make shOF visits to him.
1t il probable that the program outlined will
be carried out, although the length Of the
Presidents stay At each place may be changed
through his personal desires or the demands OF
public business.
TO FACILITATE PENSION WORK
| Secretary Proctor has issued an order suppIe-
menlary 10 that Of the ID inst. 10 expedite
the consolidation Of the records OF the yolun-
teer forces in service during the late war By
its terms the records, lies aud property of the
Divisions of the Volunteer Service Branch and
Of the Divisions Of the Volunteer Enlisted
Branch Of the AdJutant Generals Office not
transferred by the order Of the Sd inst. arc
hereby transferred, with the persons EN- plOyed