A READER RECOMMENDS COL. POPE FOR PROMOTION

COL. CURRAN POPE -- "An Old Subscriber" writes to the Cincinnati Enquirer from this city, and calls its attention to a Kentucky Colonel, who, in the judgment of the writer is the superior of any given by the State to the service.  He says:

The individual to whom I refer is Colonel Curran Pope.  He is a graduate of West Point, and during the prosecution of his studies there was distinguished by his undaunted courage, coolness, ability, and modesty.  From the inception of our national difficulties to the present moment he has advocated the cause of the Union and the prosecution of the war within the provisions of the Constitution.  He desires the restoration of the Union as our fathers framed and founded it.  He is a man of untiring energy, and unites within himself all the virtues of a Christian and the stern qualities of a warrior.  He is one of the wealthiest gentlemen in the city, but upon the call of his country he separated himself from the endearments of home and the luxuries of affluence, and went forth to do battle from his crumbling country.  By his untiring industry and energy his regiment enjoys a discipline superior to any other Kentucky regiment, save that of Col. Fry, the hero of Somerset.  Hoping that you will insert this brief tribute to a man neglected by the Journal and Democrat, &c., &c.

Col. Pope will despise the malignant slur contained in the last paragraph as much as we do or as much as Colonel Fry will recoil, with the sensitiveness of a true patriot and brave man, at the fulsome praise so invidiously bestowed upon himself at the expense of other gallant officers, his companions in the glorious victory on the Cumberland.  The "Old Subscriber" to the Enquirer need not think that Col. Pope will be pleased with his effort to give him commendation, however richly deserved, while a false aspersion is coupled with it against those who have known him long, appreciated him highly, and never neglected him or his command since he first began to recruit it.  Col. Pope is an accomplished gentleman, has received a military education from his country, and when an opportunity occurs he will carve his own record on the page of his country's history, without the aid of any flunkyism, or the assistance of the "veritable Jenkins" himself.

Louisville Journal, February 10, 1862