teristic traits of steady and ready bravery and prudence were also once more conspicuous in the resolute manner in which he held his position beyond Gettysburgh up to the latest possible moment, and in the coolness, foresight, and skill with which he first fixed on the key-point of the Cemetery, and at the proper time withdrew fighting, occupied his new position and held it against all comers. the next day, the second, at eight P.M., the Eleventh corps again. repulsed a desperate assault upon its position at Cemetery Hill, inflicting immense loss, and its fighting was brave and effective throughout the whole battle. On When Rosecrans was superseded by Grant, General Howard and his corps were sent, as tried and proved soldiers, to reënforce the army of the Cumberland, and have since formed part of General Hooker's command. After midnight, on the night of October twenty-eighth, General Howard's corps, then encamped under the west slope of Lookout Mountain, repulsed a fierce night attack by Longstreet's corps. In this fight three regiments of the Eleventh corps (Seventy-third Ohio, Thirty-third Massachusetts, and One Hundred and Thirty-sixth New-York) charged, routed, and drove from their works the whole of McLaws's brigade of two thousand men, making forty prisoners. The brilliant manœuvre of which this attack was part resulted in the substantial opening of the water communication of the Tennessee to General Grant's army. In the sharp affair of November twenty-third, which gave us the key position of Orchard Knob, in front of Chattanooga, the Eleventh corps was in reserve. On the twenty-sixth, it was operating along with Sherman against Bragg's right, not effecting any direct advantage, but drawing the rebel troops that way and leaving their centre weakened for the wonderful charge up the Missionary Ridge, which gave us the Ridge, the position, and the victory. A cool exploit of the General here deserves recording. At the time of the repulse of Longstreet west of Lookout, General Howard, in moving across the field with a small cavalry escort, came suddenly upon a body of rebel infantry, answered their hail with "All right!" ordered them to approach, and then so sternly and peremptorily ordered them to surrender that they promptly did so. Since the brilliant victory of Chattanooga General Howard and his faithful and veteran corps have remained with the army of the Cumberland, under the immediate command of General Hooker, participating in its various operations; but these have not, so far, been of a nature to furnish any further history of importance. In closing this sketch, it should be added that General Howard, beside his professional abilities as a soldier, is of singularly pure and upright private character, and a professed and consistent Christian. SALMON P. CHASE. O public man of the day, the President alone excepted, holds so prominent a position as the present head of the Treasury Department. Occupying a post always one of the most important under our system of government-though popularly accounted less honorable than the Premiership-the present war has multiplied a thousand-fold the powers and responsibilities of the place, making it palpable that, while military affairs might stumble yet afterward recover ground, upon the successful management of the finances hinged not the war only, but the very existence of the body politic. Hence Mr. Chase has been constantly in the public eye, and his policy has been the object of attention for all classes. Though his public life does not extend through so many years as some, his services have been such as to make his name familiar to his countrymen. Like many of those who have achieved eminence in the West, he is of New-England stock and birth, having been born in the little town of Cornish, New-Hampshire, on the thirteenth of January, 1808. When he had reached his seventh year, his father removed to Keene, in the same State, where he died two years later. At twelve years of age young Chase was sent to Worthington, Ohio, to be educated in the care of his uncle Philander, who was at that time Bishop of the State. His uncle having accepted the presidency of Cincinnati College, he entered that institution, but at the end of a year he returned to his former home in New-Hampshire. In 1824 he entered the Junior class of Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1826. In the fall of that year he left his blind mother and his home at Keene, at eighteen years of age, to make his first essay at practical life, friendless and poor, with only the capital of courage and his recent education. He made his way to Washington, provided with a few letters of introduction, and advertised in the National Intelligencer for pupils, intending to open a select private school. Not finding pupils, he applied to his uncle Dudley Chase, then a Senator from Vermont, for assistance in gaining a clerkship in the Treasury Department, but his uncle refused to aid him in that respect, and at length, after several months of idleness, he received from a Mr. Plumley the offer of the transfer to him of a flourishing boys' school. Accepting this, the success of his first attempt in life was established, and three years after (1829) he was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, having read law, while teaching in the interim, with |