The National tribune., 1894-11-29
PERSONAL.

The following story of Lincoln and Curtin is
told by Kate Fields Washington: "The War
Governor was an honest patriot and brave
man, but he was of highly nervous tempera-
ment in bis younger days, and this caused him
to say and do good many things which he
would have left unsaid and undone if he had
had himself little better in hand. Lincoln,
with his quaint way of seeing through human
nature read Curtin like book. With all the
respect which he felt for the Governors strong
points was mingled little irritation at a side
of his nature which the latter would show now
and then. The two men got along very well
till the war was halfway through. and Con-
federate army made an attempt TO cut through
Pennsylvania to the North Then Curtin was
seized with momentary panic, and telegraphsd
to the President: The rebels are within four
miles of Harrisburg and have begun firing
The answer which came back was: what
they firing at?' This ended the CORE
spondeuce. In after days Lincoln used to say,
abiding to the episode: Curtin would be
better man if ne didn't lose his head in emer-
gencies.' And Curtin used to say of the War
President: Lincoln was great mana very
great man-but it was hard sometimes to know
how to take him."
The Board of Trustees of the Garfield Me-
mortal Association in charge of the Garfield
Monument has chosen Andrew Squire of this
city, and Levi P. Morton, of New York. for the
vacancies left by the death of ex-President
Hayes and James G. Blaine.
Cassius Clay Jones, Adjutant. General of the
GAR, was born at Seneca Falls, N. Y, in 1916.
When the country needed men to man her guns
af1oat young Jones enlisted at Albany, aud was
assigned to the steamer Vanderbilt, which was
stationed in the North Atlantic, and speut much
time chasing blockade runners. A tough
experience awaited him when the Vanderbilt
was sent to Fort Fisher, with Gen. Butler, who
made failure of the first attack on Christmas
Day, 1864. The second and successful attack
was made by Gen. Terry with 5000 men in the
January following. Adj't Jones was on duty
at the gun every day in both of these engage
ments. At the close Of the war he returned to
Albany and resumed place he had held on the
Boston & Albany Railroad.
Col. A. w. Toombs, of Darlington, KY, not
long since came into possession of an interest
ing old pipe. He purchased it from a negro
tramp for mere trife. 1t was handsomely
carved long stemmed, and had silver band
on which was inscribed, Found on the body
of an officer in the Thomas Corps on the battle
field of Chickamaugs, Sunday, Sep. II, 1864,
by Lieut.. Will Frazer, Third Confederate In
fantry, Folks Brigade, Cleburne's Division"
Col. Toombs published an inquiry, asking for
information regarding the relic. and received
letter from Lieut.. Frazer of st. Louis, with an
account of how the pipe came into his posses
sion, and the story is an interesting one. In
his communication, Lieut. Frazer says: "In
that terrible struggle on Sunday, at Chicka-
manga, my brigade (Polk's, Cleburne's Diyis-
ion), i'll making the final charge, about sunset
carried the works in its front, which were held,
if / mistake not. BY Boards Division of Reg
ulars. As / stepped over the breastworks, a
Federal officer, lying a battery, apparently
in the agonies of death, motioned to me. l
knet beside him, raised his head and gave him |
q drink of water from my canteen. He feebly |
pointed to his breast pocket, from which / saw |
the stem of pipe protruding. and, taking it |
out, he pressed it into my hands, and with his |
eyes expressed his desire for me to keep it. He !
was speechless. How managed to keep the pipe |
through the mutations of war that followed |
Iudb ulOOuy HaEuIJ huOWs Sub az |
the close, when / settled in New Orleans, l |
found the pipe had stuck to me. In 1863 l |
the pipe to a friend of mine in New |
Orleans, and he had it encircled with the silver
band and engraved. How it got out of his |
possession into the hands of the party from |
whom you obtained it is of course, a matter of
conjecture, and 1 regret its career should have
been so inglorious."
The will of Hannah Thompson, of Philadel-
phia, who died last May leaving her entire
estate of 900 to the Uric Dahlgren GAR.
Post, will be contested by her relatives.
The sword supposed to have been the relic
of brave Lieut.. Nash, of Bath, Me-, and pre-
sented to the Society of the Sons and Daugh-
ters of Maine at Washington, d. c., proves to
have belonged to a soldier in Bath, O., who was
not killed in battle, but is still enjoying excel
lent health in Akron.
Edmund N. Morrill,. the Republican Gov
srnor. elect of Kansas, was born in Maine 1884
He moved to Kansas some time before the war.
He represented the First Districts of Kansas in