Major Muldoon On Gen. Schenck

HEADiiUABIEr.s IIevvï Aimi.M:i:v. I A -i 01: Jiovsi:. ( T the Editor of the World: ■ Sir : A fricnd of mine said to me ;i day or two smoe, " Muidoou, you ware a soldier, I hear. What do you know i out piesont Minister to England, I ral Sohenck?" I didn't i'cL'l partioularly flattored to Te twitted as to my misfortunos in earlier years, and the tact thut I am now Buch an activo workcr in the loyal Bepublioan ranka ought in some degree to uiitigate the blamo viiic:li :ttt;ichcs to me in mon with all tlnsc othcr unfortunatos wlio have been goldii But I kiiow my fiiüiid'smtcntions were kindly, and I gaid : fi General Schenck was onuof those soldiers a fellow could not knpw muoh of unless he pussed most of his tiiue at the roar in the recent bickerings." And ' :;iil [ WOuld I !. ttim up. For it ocourred to me, notwithstandixa he liad never done anything in the military line torender bim imniortal, that lic might have a good book record, inasniuch as he has boon a very loyal liepublinan sinco that inteiesting poriod in oiir ttistory whun General Badeau wroto his ]-it:-iotic conclusión of the second 1 :'s littlo speech, " Let us havo 1 did not iind Major-General Sohenok's aame mentioned in the tir.st book I took to, cntitlod, " Distinguishod Generáis of tho War," although 1 did find it frequently ivlluded to in another work, entitlcd, " Distinguished Wbmen of the War." I can understand how t.hoso book men might classify sueh nico womenly men as Colonel P. lí. Howe and Brigadier-General ArUiur in the hoop-skirt list, bui I do not fully undi ratand why they should put our Couit of !St. James Minister in that e' And it strikfs ine thatsuch an obviously ijnproper location of this distinguí man calis tor Congrossional interïerencé. Congress ought to cuuct that General Schenck is not a woiuan, although it would beau únconstitutional and oiii ls usurpation of power for thai and températe body ui' patriota to enaet fin L llowo and Arthur aro men. . y w'.iuui i!"i General Schenok, it seems, was a lawyer in early lifo. But he made a mistake while preparing imisiion to the bar, and got to B lyle insteadöf Blackstono, v,-liioh gave sueh a turn to liis plastic mind that Ly the time he was rcady to be admitted lie was better euited to Congress than the i . '11, i.i +■ n c.nr Vin nrafl 1 n í i ■ v il llo to mako laws f or others thaa to expound , thoso which had boon rhade by otbers. You sco it is much . dttbelaw to thfl Umus than to suit the times ío the lawa made-for us by our wilfuliy ignpraiit forefathera, especially if you aro in the loyal party ; and a disloyalist don't know aoytning of lá"w, anyhow. For inBtanoe, what doos thatconspicuous disloyalist Caleb Ousliing kuow about law ? And it's a vilo slander on out pr cifted Ghief M:i;.'isu:ite toassert tha Cushing is the principal law adviscr of tho crown. Wken tho bickorins bojran lawyer Schonek had great difooulty in getting a. goneral's conunisêion, because the administxation tros ttien Btrongly predisposed tü put none butDomoorataOB guard with Bxmh ornamenta, and he was i Bepublioan. But somo one- it may have been Schend; discovered a military germ in liim, which only required a oontract or Bomothing of that kind to enable it to expasd into a flourishing military g iuui, ai; l He was inadj a brigadior-goncral. it was a sjroat day for tho oontraotors and the country when he was appointed, and il' we had been given more of such . il.s I doubt ik. I the war would have been in active progresa up to ttia date. llis reputation as a fe;hter ir. basod cntiroly on the battle of Vicuña, wbioh has been spoken ofby tho eynical as " tho hand-oar flght.'' The batue of Vienna was not so much of afight ;s Waterloo oröettyeburj it was enough to establish liis reputation as a strategist flrmly and forevor, beeause his politioa wereall right. Hu waited nntil bis mon had rooeived i i'our months' pay, and theu loaded them : on platform oara and gave each a canteen, of "whisky and started the train fbr Vienna, whion was then in charge of the partios of the sueond part, and sat amid mpatriots and Btiggestod a littlo game of draw poker. He ha l won thrcu 'ïiioiiths' of thoir pay, and had m bet "which they b ■ ivith thi ■ month's w.igu:-, whon he suv he had the ■ ; haod -haviag only a pair uf v.liilo thuy held tliruo ten spots - whun lio engaged the compatriota in what . tve sinco Bpofcen of aa chin musió until tli ■; train ha l run ui to within 300 yarda of n fortiñoation owned by the partiesofthe geoondpaorti who opened on thüin with tw- six ponnders and about 1,700 other smaller Bhot-gUHS, Which created so inuch confusión in hia picnic party that Ik: was ublo to rako in the entiro pool, although, as I havo suid beforo, lic held the Btnalleet hand. Ou the strength of that fïclit, whioh resulted in severa! funerala, and whioh tiúnly developed a high order ofstrategy, Imwh made a major-goneral, notwithat&ndinghe waa a Republioan, :md I surprise of all and to fche inexpressible of bis men, who were ánxions to ggtintosuoh flghts every dny in thc week, he retired írora tho Qeld, ÜVLiuy good men, who liad only tho besi uur-sis ut' thoir country a'; heart, i to iudcu htm to romain. y OOuld aot brillé tlioiaselvcs up to the loas of so maoh evident military abilii v : bul H was oí no ose, he reñgaed and vTont back tu Oongrees, where he became one of the authovs of a vcry oeleb work, cníitled, ' The Oondui i ofthe S":tr," wliiüh shows loss knowledge oí war, and ]iiox"o slíill in the art of drawing mileage and gettíng up a large printiog and pa. lontract, thuu any work ovor produoed, l''r.iii the "Lot us havo peaco " pcriod up to the time he was sent to tho Court ot' St. Janus he iU-viiii I his entire l'nn; i and great energiea tu looking yñse cuul claiming to bc loyal, v.-ith an occasional allusion to his servicia in Uio fiald, to draw-pokor, and to ailver mines. He is said to be th! best hand at drawp in the Untted Btates, Erom thüfact Shat !i has no facial expression whatever. -Must liumnTi faces, you know, have the sad or tlii! small-pair oxpTession, and tho mirthful or the l'ull-liand expression ; but his fuco is striot.ly Con il, and altogether without :my kind of oxphs Ho is .1 vcry talentcl man in his v;iy. kind to his superiors in olHv. II.' Is v. ry loyal, or ho would not have Iven sont to Englánd. [Tnli nu Sickles, wlio is also vcry loyal, he aever killed i man i'i ■ mini 1 dbn't bi'liovo )iu isoi' that forgiving turn of inind that characterized öickles after he shot lv-y. But Qen ral Bchcnck uscil to boast, witli :t groat deal of ardor, that he had killed as many of the enooiy aa they over killed of Iiiki. Am: from all I can I iai o of His military history his word can be relied on in this respect. General Schenck is a very brilliant orator when he is arou d, as ho is sure to be if Borne obafcure meniber vontn pes to liy bofore Congross i Bohema in which lic has not had a cake. I sp iak of the General .is bon-g still in Congross, ns ho will be without doubt if he isrecalled, Ho talks through liis nose evah more ! oharmingly than the great unwashedand uncombed Aai And becan pronounoe thatdiroful an1 rebels" with such effi :t as to secure a niajority vote on any question. That story il,-.'.:. hjs being ooanected with the Emma miue in Boston is all Ho has been too muoh in the society of the pi ■ and suoh hightoned patriota as Senators Btewart and Nye,ot' Nevada, to think of loweru dignity of bis position in swAi a mauner. Di'l iiiy ono cv ■!■ i -losFi'mcis Adaras -f asing lus position at Victoria's oourt to aJvert'ne unl forward tliu intorests of any mine, railroad, or p itent cino? Not if I havo boon corroclly informed. Tben, wliy charge this on ücneral Scaenck, wli ■■ ts v.-iy mnchmoro loyal than any of the Adamses? Mr, Editor, in my judgment all this abuso whieh is huapcd onour pure-heartcl müktstei comes trom the tact that ho was once a soldier, and rallied aroond the flag in Washington, whoro thu bulléis werrj thickest in aramanition ohests, and contracts wcro strewn like auturan leaves in all the pathways of tho truly loyal. But so it ever haa beon. Many nioons since, Torn Brown'wroto : " Our Gol and soldier we aliko adoro, Jnston tho brink of anger. ooi bflfore; . rtei' delii eranoe, . li y are alike r quitad, Our God ïoï fO I :i ■ u ] I Dr ;-oldler ï-i And in all history I know of bat ono cloar oase of recognition of true soldierly morit and great military services - tho appointment of Brigadier Quarter-Master-General Arthur, Collector of tho port of New York, by tho socond Washington. MULDOON, Major Hoavy Artillery.