Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06

month. Now it takes half dozen, and they
are hardly done with one book before they
must begin the compilation of another. In
the second volume of the Blue Book for
1889, which will come from the press this
month, there will not be single entry later
than June 80 1889.
ONE YEAR BEHIND TIME.
Thus the book is one year behind its time
owing to the enormous task of preparing
the COPY for it. Yet the severest accuracy
marks the whole work. Names are inyarl-
ably spelled correctly, residences are given
lust as they should be, and salaries are set
down to cent as they really are. The boy
who sells stamps in the postofice at Passa-
maquoddy and the Indian who carries the
mail to Squaw Baby's Grave in Alaska, if
they can read, will find their names IN the
Blue Book and find them right.
There are now about Is, 900 clerks in the
Government offices in Washington, but in
1889 there were less than 400. There were
2S4 Treasury clerks; 40 clerks in the Post
Office Department, So in the War Depart
ment and but Is in the Navy Department.
PENNSYLVANIA had then more than her share
of the good things. Pennsylvania men ap-
pear as frequently V in the Blue Book as Ohio
men have since 1876. In the State Depart
ment William Derrick was Chief Clerk of
the Diplomatic Bureau at 81 900, and two
others of the 16 clerks in the department
were from Pennsylvania. George NJ. Dallas
was Minister to Russia az So, 900 year and
Henry A. Muhlenberg, OF Lancaster, was
Minister to Austria at the same salary.
Samuel D. Heaf was Consul at Tunis at
s., ,OOO David 0ffley at Smyrna, ].
P. Hutchison at Lisbon, Alexander Burton
at Cadiz and Albert Davy at Kingston.
The assistant chief clerk of the Treasury
Department was Samuel NJ. Mexican. son
of Governor Mexican.
1t was Samuel Mexican who ran to the
White House and broke in on President
Madison at dinner to warn him of the
approach of the British when they burned
the capitol. James W. Barker First Con-
troller at S3. SOC. jesse Miller First Auditor at
So. .OOO. Peter Hagner Third Auditor at So, 900,
John Moore Chief Clerk of Public Lands at
81, 800 and Henry D. Gilpin Solicitor for the
Department at IS. 800, were all Pennsylvan-
ians, and besides them there, were IL good
salaries in the department drawn by clerks
from Pennsylvania. The Indian Com
missioner. who was then under the Secretary
of War, was T. Hartley Crawford, of
PENNSYLVANIA, and his salary was S., 600.
There was one pension agent in the State,
Matthew Herman, of Pittsburg. He paid
the veterans of 1776 and 1872 the stipend
allowed them bv Uncle Sam, and himself
had only the honor of bis position for his
nay. Pittsburg's only customs officer was
John Clark, surveyor, who enjoyed the
princely salary of $3.50 year. Philadelphia
was the principal port and George Wolf was
Collector at 81, 400 year.
THE KEYSTONE SHOWING.
In the roster of West Point Pennsylvania
had 19 cadets, the largest number OF any
State except New York, which had SO.
Among the Pennsylvania cadets was John
f. Reynolds, w. B. Franklin and John s.
McAlmont Ohio had in the academy at
that time W. T. Sherman, W. G. Rosecrans,
d. c. Buell. and o. S. Grant.
The Pennsylvania delegation in Congress
was precisely as large then as it is now.
There were 3S members of the House. New
York then had 40 instead OF "a; Virginia 21
instead of 10. In that Congress there ap-
pears among members Of the House the
names OF John Quincy Adams Millard
Fillmore, Ogden Hoffman, Abbott Law
rance, Caleb Cushing, Henry A. Wise,
Nathan Clifford, Tom CorwIn and Joshua
r. Giddings.
Henry Baldwin was Pennsylvania's rep
resentative on the Supreme Bench, and his
salary was s., 500, less than half the COM
pensation to Judge Strong, Pennsylvania
last Judge on the Supreme Bench. The
Federal judiciary in Pennsylvania consisted
of Judge Joseph Hopkinson, of Philadel-
phia, who presided over the Eastern dis
trict, and Judge Thomas Irwin, of Union
town, who presided over the Western dis
trict. The former had a salary of 81, 500;
Judge Irwin's was 81 800.
There was not postofice in the United
States in 1889 that paid over $4,000. This
was the salary at New York and about 20
other OFFICES. James Page, az Philadelphia,
James Peacock, at Harrisburg, Robert
Cochran, at Erie, and David Lynch, at
Pittsburg, drew each $1,000. A notable
thing for those days was the fact that Mary
Dickson was postmistress at Lancaster and
had salary of 81 ,4S3. That is almost the
only line in the Blue Book of that year
showing that a woman held a profitable
Government Office.
JULIUS A. TRUEsDELL.