Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1881 — The Retirement of Gen Ord. [ARTICLE]

The Retirement of Gen Ord.

Pinchback wants an appointment from Garfield. The Republican members of Congress made a hard fight in opposition to 3 per cent, bonds. R iilroad IViga ion seems to be ex. pensive. Justice Harlan of the U. S. Supreme Court has issued an older directing the P. C. & St. L. Railway to pay the snm of $285,125,08f0r legal expenses. __ A shrewd old gentleman once .-aid. to his daughter: "Be sure, my dear, you never marry a poor man ; but re member that th* poorest man in the world is one that has money and nothing else. i The Cleveland Plain Dealer calls Black -Jack Logan a liar for saying “the Republicans are in favor of pensions,* and that the Democrats eic opposed to pensions”—ami thatßlacb Jack Logan krr-v.he lied when he made such an assertion; Correct. The papers are now urging their readers to keep thsir eyes peeled for th* silver dollar whose eagle has eight feathers in his tail: it is worth f2O. Three hundred were struck off when it was discovered that it was impossible for the American eagle to have eight tail feathers, ami a stop was put to their coinage. The present bird has seven tail feathers.- Ex.

Immediately after 12 o’clock on tbo 81»t of December all the prisoners for debt in Scotland were liberated, in accordance with Dr. Cameron's act. Twenty five men ami two women s were set free from Glasgow prison. As they passed ont of the gates, carrying with them their bt.is and bedding. several hundred persons wr were waiting greeted them with cheer*. A serenade wa» give:. Gr.'.ut is. nt ly at Albany. New Y;t. Got C.reeli was care: ; l D: ; < .. . . u atro g oik er rr.g« ssi ■ ‘Jir : ’l"*' s. y' i : « ■* here ro-r.lgl ;:. -. ‘r :r r. *. m:re that W i: r. was i heir’s 'h s cvui.'ryr-er.d ' * . -• trkiis er. her. s*ste-_A’ und time Tb&r beats Lrr.el-Dm Gru »e ogy Senator Beo.. Harr st., art is iLjjatrjTlls S.-nt’-ei "I: is at? ".i time t st.’ the J-.T.kirs d?.r io aoc ut Genera’Ben Harrises. He Las no National reputation, in auv proper sense of the term. He has cameo no reputation for statesmanship. He is in no regard a distinguished man, and is simply 'notorious as a cold-blooded Pharisee and a well-developed fanatic. He is factional,sectional and bigoted. Such naen do not honor a State nor ornament the Senate. The Boston Traveller remarks that “the South, for the first time in her history, i« manufacturing more cotton than the Middle States, more even than the Middle and Western States put together.” Tt is singular that, notwithstanding the South is reported to be contiALally engaged in the shot gun policy and in concocting schemes £• gain control of the Government, that if manages to produce annually more than 5,000,000 bales bf cotton, and other great staples in proportion, besides increasing her manufacturing enterprises. Northern Republicans will have to reconstruct their opin ions. On ths subject of buying and selling votes, and the influencing of voters by the arbitrary action of employ. ors and corporations, Gov. Gray in his message to the Indiana Legislature said; “The law should be made broad enough to coyer every kind of transaction, suoh as giving or receiving of house rent, offers to employ, or threats to discharge from employment, or to give better posi tious, or the use of any other improper influence with intentjto control, or be controlled in easting the ballotThe corporation which, through its officers, uses the corporate money to influence elections or control legisla tors, and thus debauch moral senti meat, should forfeit his franchise.”

The Indianapolis Sentinel makes the folowing remarks upon the bill of Senator Maxey, of Texas, for the meritorious object of retiring Gen. E. C. Ord as a Major-General, “Before reporting rhe bill Senator Maxey wrote tojGeneral W. T. Sherman, asking for information upon a number of points, as follows: How long have you known General Ord, and what is your estimate of him as an officer and gentleman, and of his servi >es to the country; what is his physical conditioning well as mental; what are his habits; if you have personal knowledge of his condition as respects pro petty; and if your reply should be that he is a poor man, then state, if you can, what snecial demands have been made on his purse and how long have those special demands existed? General Sherman in his reply to Senator Maxey, says he has known Gen. Ord since 1836, and that he “has been a prominent ac*or in every war since 1839—Florida, Mexico, Rogue River, Oregon, the civil war, etc,; always on duty, at the most exposed points; wounded many times, fnever sickenor absent. He has had all the hard knocks of service, and n€ver on soft or fancy duty He has always been called on when duty was expected, aud never flinched. He was a Corps Commander, and at the close of the war Commander-in Chief of the Army

i of the James, and I nave always un- : deist ood that bis skillful, hard march ! the night before was one of the chief j ’ causes of Lee’s surrender.” With re- : ’ gkrd to General Ord’s physical condition, General Sherman says that “as I a young man he was noted for his ! physical endurance, and what he has i enduied since was enough to have ; killed a dozen ordinary men. When I saw him last —about two years ago —he was the same hardy mau, and I infer he is still unusually vigorous and strong for his years, now sixty- ! two. His mental strength is the same : as ever, as evinced by his orders, his . written letters and accounts.” And referring to General Ord s condition as to money, General Sherman rei marks that he has not money enough I to pay te bring his family toWash- > ington City; that he has contributed : to the care of his father, mother, and , ; to the education of a sister; that since j : 185 G, he has had seven or eight chil- , i dren to support, and that, knowing j • that he was subj- ft to be retired in , . 1880, he had hoped and begged for j i promotion to Major-General first, so i as to have the advantage of increased ’ pay; that i*e is a pure and thorough i officer, but singularly unfit to embark in any civil occupation. The biil introduced by Senator- Maxey was rc- j ferred to him tt*> Chairman of a sub- ; Committee, and the result is that a , i bill has been introduced by Mr. Max- ■ ey retiring General Ord m a Major i General. Senator Maxey was a Con- i federate Geneial during the late war, ■ and his generous action toward Gcn- . eral Ord shows that the “Rebel Brigadiers” are not the rort of men that „ Republican stalwarts would have us • believe them to be.” ;