The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-08-16


Roberts for Governor of the State. When the
first organization Of Erie Couaty Republican
Veterans was formed, and the large gathering
selected presiding officer, Comrade Roberts
was unanimously chosen such President.
When the Republican State Convention sought
for the proper person TO manage the hnancisl
affairs of the Empire State and strong candi-
date to place before the people, with the same
unanimity Comrade Roberts was selected and
placed in nomination for Comptroller.
lie entered the army when boy of II; he
performed active duty with bis command until
the surrender at Appomattox. On his return
from the war, he worked his way through col
lege, toiling upon the farm during vacations and
the lumber woods of Maine to pay his expenses.
Being graduated at the head of his class, he
served as teacher in the public schools of Buff
falo while pursuing his legal studies. In 1873
he was admitted to the bar and began practice
as an attorney.
Mr. Roberts's recognition and application of
the laws affecting the appointment of veterans
| to public positions commends him to every old
soldier in the State, and is sufficient guarantee
that he will be just to his comrades as Gov
ernor.
Gen. Charles A. Whittier, who has been
elected President of the Boston Elevated Rail-
way Company, is Harvard man who went to
the front at the outbreak of the war as Second
Lieutenant in the Goth Mass and rose to be
Adjutant- General Of the Second Corps. After
the war he was appointed Inspector General of
the Military Division of the Pacific, and later
he was sent to Mexico, at the special request Of
Mr.. Seward, to report on the value OF Sonora
to the United States and the disposition of the
people toward annexation. Gen. Whittier was
ore Of the promoters Of the Atehison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad.
Judge Amos N. Thayer, who was recently
appointed to the bench of the Eighth Judicial
Circuit is about 50 years old, and served in
the Union army. In 1861 he was private
in q New York regiment Soon after he was
promoted to Second Lieutenancy. Because Of
his intelligence and general proficiency he re-
ceived still another promotion not long after to
First Lientenancy in the Signal Corps. His
adaptability to this service was such that he
never returned to his regiment, and he was
kept in the Signal Corps. His services were
enlisted in Shermans campaigns. He was still
young man at the close of the war; and be
took up the study of law. Reading in St. Louis
with his uncle, p. A. La Due, he was admitted
to the bar in 1868. He began to practice in
that city, and soon gathered business exceed
ingly creditabe, considering the fact that he
was but upon the threshold of his profession.
He continued his practice until 1874 when he
was elected State Circuit Judge. He was
appointed to the District bench in 1856 during
President Cleveland'a first administration
His conduct of the Judiciary in the Eastern
District of Missouri commended him to the bar
and his associates as the proper man to select
to make full bench in the United States Court
of Appeals.
Ex-Governor Andrew Curtin, war Governor
of Pennsylvania. is 75 years of age, and has a
political career of unusual length. As long ago
as 1885 he had won reputation as a public
speaker, and in 1s4S he was one of the Presiden-
tial electors on the Zachary Taylor ticket His
influence in bringing about the nomination of
Abraham Lincoln and his distinguished service
during the war are well known The ex-Gov-
ernor is often seen in Philadelphia, but his
health of late has given his friends some con-
Germ.
Col. Bosbyshell, ex-Superintendent Of the
Philadelphia Mint, was a gallant soldier, and
enjoys the distinction of being the first Union
soldier hurt in the rebellion. 1t was on April
Is, 1861, that as private in the Washington
Artillerist5 of Pottsville-the first command to
respond to President Lincolns call for 40, 900
men-he was marching with his comrades
through Baltimore en- route to Washington,
when the attack was made upon it by
Southern sympathizers. Private Bosbyshell
was struck on the head with a brick The
missile hit him broadside fortunately, and
while it stunned him and left a very painful
bruise it did not cut through the skin, and
consequently no blood was drawn. Several
minutes later however, the colored servant of
one of the officers was struck, the brick cutting
a deep cash in his head, from which blood flowed
freely. While Private Bosbyshell was thus the
first Union man hurt in the rebellion, the col
ored servant was the first man to shed his blood
for the Union cause.
Gen. Delevau Bates, of Aurora, Neb., has
given two flags aud photograph of himself to
the Libby Prison Museum, of Chicago. Gen.
Bates helped recruit the 121st n. Y.-Urton's
Regulars-August, 1862; commissioned Second
Lieutenant Aug. Is, 1862; First Lieutenant,
July 4, 1868; Colonel Both United States troops,
March, 1864; Brevet Brigadier-General United
States Volunteers, July 80, 1864; assumed COM
mand of First Brigade, Fourth Division, Ninth
Corps, Oct. H. 1864; First Brigade, First Divis-
ion, Twenty fifth Corps Dec. %, 1864 First
Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-ffth Corps,
Dec "a, 1864; First Brigade, Third Division,
Tenth Corps, April 3. 1865; Third Division
Tenth Corps July, 1865; mustered out Dec 49,
1865. He took part in Is battles and many
skirmishes; was captured May 3, 1868, and
confined in Libby Prison from May to May
90 1868; shot through the head inside the rebel
lines July 80, 1864 His photographs show a
large wound on the left cheek. He received q
medal of honor for gallantry displayed on
numerous occasions.
A memorial window in honor of Maj. John
Caldwell has been placed in Center Church,
Hartford, Conn. Maj. Caldwell was one of the
most prominent and influential citizens of
Hartford during the so years preceding the
war of the Revolution. He was one of the
Commissioners appointed to erect the State
Capitol in Hartford, and signed the lottery
tickets authorized by the Legislature to pay
for it.
Herr Krupp, the great gun founder, has COM
missioned Munich sculptor to make statue
of the Chinese Yiceroy, Ii Hung Chang. which
he will present to the Viceroy as a token of