Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-02
President Harrison Makes Happy Mum
Der of Office Seekers

President Harrison Makes Happy q Num-
Der of Office Seekers.
WASHINGTON, July 1st.-Captain Arthur
Macarthur of the Thirteenth Infantry was
to-day appointed Assistant AdiutanG. GEN
eral to succeed General Drum.
The new Assistant Adiutant. General.
Major Macarthur, was born in Massachu-
sets, July >, 1915, and entered the yoluu-
teer services as First Lieutenant in the
Twenty fourth Regiment Wisconsin In.
fantry, August /, 1862 He was promoted
Major January %, 1864. and Lieutenant
Colonel May Is, 1865, and mustered out
June 10, 1868 He was breve;ted Lieu.
tenant-Colonel of volunteers March Is,
1885, for gallant and meritorious services
in the battles Of Perrysville, Ky. Stone
River, Missionary Ridge and Daudridge,
Tenn, and Colonel of the same for gal
lautry and meritoriOus service in the battle
of Franklin and in the Atlanta campaign. D."
he was appointed Second Lieutenant in
the Seventeenth Regular Infantry. Feb
ruary %, 1866, and promoted the same
day to First Lieutenant. He was ap-
pointed Captain July Is. 1866 Major
McArthur's record during the war was an
exceptionally brilliant one, he re-
ceivlng special mention in orders for
the exhibition OF conspicuous gallautrv
and daring. At Missionary Ridge. when
the color-bearer was disabled, he seized the
colors and carried the flag in front of the
regiment, cheering the men to follow him
up the ridge. AT the battle of Franklin he
received two severe wounds. When in
command of the regiment he retOok some
Union batteries, eight guus, al the very
moment the enemy WAS about 10 turn
them UPON the Union forces and captured
ten battle-tiags and 400 prisoners; all this
when he was nineteen years of age. This
appointment can but be received favorably
by the army, which will at once recognize
the reasons actuating the President in max
ing it. He has good record of war serv-
ice and long continuance in the rank of
Captains, among whom in his line he
stands well near the top.
a. X. Tingle, of Indiana, has been ap-
pointed Supervising Special Agent Of the
Treasury Department, and Alexander Nc
Arthur of Illinois, Chief of Division First
in the Comptroller's office
Hiram Il. Leonard, of Indiana, TO be
Commercial Agent for Ontario
A. LOwden Snowde0, OF Pennsylvania,
to be Minister Resident and Consul General
of the United States to Roumania, Seryia
and Greece.
William Hayden Edwards, of Ohio, to
be Consul-General of the United States at
Berlin.
Augustus o Gourn, of Rhode Island. to
be Consul General of the United States at
Rome.
Eugene Schueller. of New York, to be
Agent and Consul General of the United
States at Cairo.
Consuls of the United States-Wallace
Bruce, of New York, at Lei;h; William
Harrison Bradley CuIiners, at Nice; Ed
mund B. Fairfield, of Michigan, at Lyons
Irving j. Manatt, Of Nebraska, at Athens
William Bowman, of Kentucky, at Tien.
tsin; Adolph G. Studio, of Iowa, at Bar.
men; Enoch J. Smithers, of Delaware, al
Osaka and Hiogo Alexander c. Moore, OF
West Virginia, at ST. Thomas Charles F
Johnson, of Ohio, at Hamburg; Silas c.
HalseY. OF New Jersey. at Snnneherc-