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The following remarks, on the subject
of marches, are taken from a little work,
"On the Duties of Troops composing the
Advanced Corps of an Army," by Lieut.
Col. Leach, of the British Army; a work
which, for its sound practical views, made
in the vein of a judicious, well-informed
soldier, who lias seen service, commends
itself to the juniors of the profeseion
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"At the time the following orders were
first issued for the march of the light-division,
in the summer of 1809, on its route
from Lisbon to Talavera, the troops moved
off by whole or half sections, according to
the width of the road; but, at a later
> _ period, a general order appeared, which
directed that the infantry should march
by threes.
"The division having formed in rear of
the leading battalion, at whole, half, or
quarter distance, or in close column, aud
the baggage being assembled in rear of it,
the march was commenced with precisely
the same regularity as would be observed
by a regiment or regiments moving in or
out of a garrison town; the bands playing,
the light infantry with arms sloped, and
those of the riflemen slung over the
shoulder, the oflicers with swords drawD,
and exact wheeling distances of the sections
preserved, and perfect silence observed.
"After having proceed a short distance
in this manner, the word of command,
4March at ease,' was given by the general
at the head of the leading battalion, and
this was passed quickly on to the rear from
company to company. The captains, instead
of continuing at the head of their
companies, dropped back to the rear of
them: the reasons for allotting this station
to them was, that they might see any men
of their respective companies who attempted
to leave the ranks without leave. The
officers and non-commissioned officers preserved
the wheeling distances. The soldiers
now carried their arms in any manner
most convenient. Some slung them over
their shoulders, (most of them, indeed,
preferred this mode as the least fatiguing,)
others sloped them, and -they constantly
changed from the right hand or right
shoulder to the left. Whilst some lighted
their short black pipes, others sung or
amused their comrades with stories and
jests, as is usual on those occasions.
gp^BB^^^^^^^ltiiough allowed to prosecute the march
"in This easy and*unresTrainec maimerra
heavy penalty, nevertheless, awaited the
man who quitted the ranks without permission
from the captain or officer commanding
his company. The captains were
always provided with tickets bearing thenown
signature, on each of which was
written, 'The bearer has my permission
to fall out of the ranks, being unable to
proceed with the regiment.' Any soldier
found on the line of march by the rear
guard, without a ticket, was liable to be
punished for disobedience of orders; and,
as no difficulty was ever experienced by
men who were sick, or knocked up, in
procuring this certificate of inability to
keep up with their regiments, such offenders
certainly merited punishment.
"If a soldier wanted to fall out of the
ranks for a few minutes only, ne was required
to ask leave of the captain to do so,
and, moreover, to take off his knapsack,
and~to give it, together with his musket,
in charge of the men of his own section,
to be carried by them until he rejoined
them. This was an admirable order, and
it operated in two ways; first, the soldier
was enabled, not being encumbered with
either knapsack or musket, more speedily
to overtake the column on its march; and
secondly, if he loitered unnecessarily on
the way to rejoin his comrades, who were
doubly burdened with his arms and pack,
he would be certain to incur their displeasure.
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"About once in every hour and a quarter
or half, a halt was ordered, and ten 01
twelve minutes allowed for the men to
rest. When practicable, this was done on
ground near which there was water; but
. it is almost unnecessary to add, that ven
frequently it was not possible to find sucli
favorable spots.
" Preparatory to those temporary halts,
the word of command, 'Attention!' wa?
given at the head of the leading regiment,
and passed on rapidly, (as already stated
from company to company. Upon this
t.hfl rantAins moved auicklv from the rea:
of their companies to the front; the arms
of the soldiers were regularly shoulderec
or slung; perfect silence was observed
the pipes were instantaneously put out o
sight, either in the haversacks or else
where; the dressing and the wheeling dis
tances of the sections were correctly kept
and in an instant there was a magica
change from apparent irregularity to mos
perfec t discipline aad order.
"On resuming the march after thos
halts, the troops observed the same ex
treme regularity during the first hundre
or two of yards, as I have already de
scribed. The words 4 March at ease' be
ing again given, they returned to th
song, the story, and the tobacco-pipe.
"On approaching rivulets or shallo1
pieces of water, which it was necessar
should be passed, neither officers nor so
fliers were allowed pick their wa
through, nor was the smallest break or
irregularity permitted to exist in the ranks;
but the column marched through by half
sections, sections, or sub-divisions, (according
to the width of the ford,) preserving
the same order as if moving along a
I road.
i "That this regulation was, on some
i occasions, too rigidly enforced, I have
; never heard disputed; still, the object at
! which it aimed, viz., that of expending as
little time as possible on each day's march,
so as to give the soldiers time to take their
j rest, to construct huts in the bivouac, to
[ wash their linen, to mend their clothes or
I shoes, to draw their rations, and to cook
their meals, that they might be fresh for
whatever fatigues happened to be in store
for them, was indisputably a most desira!
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j "Those who have campaigned know, J
: that in advancing to attack an enemy, or
j in retiring before one, the passage of rivers !
| in the line of march, even if so deep as to J
1 reach their middles, and under the fire of
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an enemy also, are expected to be crossed
i by the troops without a greater derange;
ment taking place in their order of march
' than the obstacles which they are in the
act of encountering, must necessarily produce
in a greater or less degree.
"With a detachment consisting of a
few hundred men, at a distance from an
enemy, and with ample time before them
to get over their day's march, it would
appear that this order might well be dispensed
with; but with a division of four
j or fire thousand men, the case is widely 1
j different.
"Let it be supposed that it has arrived
j at a stream which admits of being passed
; by sections, subdivisions, or even by companies;
and that, instead of proceeding
I straight through it in this manner, every j
soldier is permitted to pick his way across
in any manner he may think proper, and
to break off from his place in the ranks,
what a vast loss of time would this occa?"?
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have effected its passage? Surely the patience
of those belonging to the front,
centre, and rear of this body of four
thousand soldier?, would be pretty well
exhausted long before the opposite bank
was gained by the whole, and the march
resumed.
"In the rugged and mountainous districts
which the army so frequently traversed
in the Peninsula, it encountered i
various defiles and other obstacles, which
precluded the possibilty of their being
passed except by""a" Very &WXU"TnnnbcT -of- men
a? a time; and the following mode
was therefore adopted by each company
in making its way along. The first company
of the leading battalion, as soon as
it had disentangled itself from the defile
or broken ground, was directed to march
forward, perhaps about a quarter of a mile;
there to pile arms, and the men to rest.
The head of the next company, when it
had cleared the defile, halted about thirty
or forty yards on the other side, until all
the men belonging to it came up in succession.
This done, the captain moved it
forward independently until it joined the
leading company, where it piled arms.
Thus, each company, as soon as it had [
cleared the obstacles, was brought up en |
masse, and at a regular pace, without reference
to those in' its rear. By those
means that most unmilitary%xhibition of
file after file running ou, like a string of
wild erase. to catch those in their front,
was entirely avoided.
"Few tilings tend so effectually to fatigue
and irritate soldiers who are already
jaded, as that of trotting on, bending
under the weight of pack, belts, and musket,
to overtake those who continue to
march on in their front.
"When the division was about toperform
a march not in the immediate vicinity
of an enemy, the following arrangements
were made either for bivouacking
or quartering it, (as the case might be.) j
so that no time should be lost after it had
reached its destination.
"A staff officer, accompanied by the
quartermasters of the division, or (if other
' duties at that moment were required to
be performed by the quartermasters) by
a subaltern of each regiment, preceded
the troops on horseback, so as to arrive
' long before them at the ground on which
they were to halt for the day, or at the
1 town or village in which it was intended
' they should be quartered.
"A whole street, or part of one, (as circumstances
admitted,) was allotted by the
, staff officer to the quartermasters for each
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| of their regiments, who immediately uiviI
ded the street into equal portions for tin
different companies, reserving a house or
two for the staff of the regiment.
"A sergeant of every company of the
] division being sent forward so as to arrive
t long before the troops, and being told by
his quartermaster how many and wliat
e buildings yvere set apart for his own people,
again subdivided the houses into four
equal parts for each of the sections.
.. "In the event of any noise or disturbance
taking place, whether by day or by
e night, the probabilities were that the officers
belonging to the companies where
a- such irregularities were going on, would
y certainly hear it, and as instantaneously
1- put an end to it.
7 "If, then, the division marched into a
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town, each company was by its sergeant J
conducted to the houses allotted to it; &
which they were established in a very few 1
minutes. It rarely happened, therefore, j \
that the soldiers wers kept waiting in the ! ]
streets for any length of time, us has too i
often been the case. ! !
"Should it, 011 the other hand, have,
been intended to bivouac the division, , ,
iustead of puttiug it into houses, arrange- ]
ments of a similar nature were adopted, , '
by sending forward officers and sergeants ,
to take up the ground; by which means . ,
each company marched at once up to its I i
own sergeant, on whom they formed in j
open column.
" The rolls were immediately called; the j ;
men first for duty were warned for guards, \ ]
(also inlying and outlying pickets, if near j '
the enemy,) for fatigue duties, to draw |
the rations, to procure wood for cooking j ,
if none was near at hand, to go for water i
if no river flowed near the encampment, '
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'' This done, and the alarm-post, or |
place of general assembly, having been J ;
pointed out to every one, the men were 1
dismissed; the arms piled, the cooking ! '
immediately commenced, and all further '
parades were dispensed with for the day, j i
except a roll-call about sunset. I 1
"Parties to procure forage, whether 1
green or dry, Were sent out in charge of j
an officer as soon as the troops were dis- |
missed. 1
"Among the various regulations laid !
down for the light division, I must not '
omit to mention what were termed mule- j
guards. 11
"A corporal and three privates of eterv I ;
company, mounted guard at nightfall, !
whenever the division was encamped. ?Tie .
particular duty expected from the sentinels
of these company guards, was to keep
an eye Jo the baggage "animals belonging
to their officers, (which were picketed to
the trees or fastened in some other man- {
ner,) and to prevent them from breaking |
loose.
' 'After the establishment of those little ;
guards, but few instances occurred of 1
whole troops of noisy mules, horses, and
asses, chasing each other round and
through the camp or bivouac, and gallop- ,
ing over the faces and bodies of the soldiers
while they were asleep.
"Independent of their utility in this
way, every company in the division, ha
ing its own sentinel, was sure to berius^ntly~appme(t
of the ,
flight from the pickets in front; nndBhey '
were enabled, also, to communiratM to
raieir reflective companies, withpidPthe
least delay, any orders arriving at? the
camp.
" Those only who have witnessed ? can j
thoroughly understand with what un?om- ;
mon facility and dispatch the division
could suddenly get under arms, form in
column of march, load the baggage,[and
proceed on the route chalked out for it."
A Frightful Contingency. ?A farmer,
from the neighborhood of Gals ton, took
his wife to see the wonders of the microscope,
which happened to be exhibiting in
Kilmarnock. The various cariosities
seemed to please the good woman very
well, till the animaculje contained in a
drop of water came to be shown off.
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rnese seerneu. ro poor uuuei uut ?u *ci j i
pleasant a sight as the others. She sat ;
patiently, however, till the 44 water-tigers," J
magnified to the size of twelve feft, appeared
on the sheet, fighting with their
usual ferocity. Janet now rose i> great
trepidation, and cried to her liisband,
44 For glide sake; come awa', John. 44 Sit
still, woman," said John, 44 and see the
show." 44 See the show? keep us a' man,
what wad come o' us if thae awfu'-like
brutes wad break.
Vitality in Horses.?Some experiments
have recently been made in France,
by persons skilled in the veterinary art,
with a view of ascertaining how long
horses may live without food in certain
contingencies, as, for example, being shut
up in besieged places. These results have
been achieved: A horse may live for twenty-five
days without solid food, and only
drink. He may live for seventeen days
without eating or drinking. He can live
onlv five days, when consuming solid food,
without drinking. After hiking solid aliment
for the space of ten days, but with
an insufficient quantity of drink, the stomach
is worn out. The above facts show
the importance of water in the sustenance
of the horse, and the desire the animal
must feel to be supplied with it. A horse
which had been deprived of water for
the space of three days, drank t4even gallons
in the space of three minutes.
A Sermon by a Brigadier-General. ?
Oil Sunday, the 21st inst., Rev. Mr. Robin,
chaplain of the Twenty-first New York
State volunteers, preached in camp tieai
Sharpsburg. He was followed by Brigadier-General
Patrick, the brave and skilful
general who litis command of fie brigade,
and who has led it most gallantly in action,
and brought it safely from the field, though
with more diminished numbers than when
it entered, many a time. Gen. Patrick
may not be known to many as a christian
general, as well as an experienced and distinguished
one, but so he is, and he is
known among his men by the sobriquet,
'4 Parson Patrick." ^
Old Abe's Last Joke.?'When our jesting
President heard of the recent relW
raid fit Fairfax, in which a brigadier-general
and a number of valuablf-liorses were
captured, lie gravely observed, ,4 Well, I
irn sorry for the horses." 44Sony for the
horses, Mr. President!" exclaimed the
secretary of war, raising his spectacles
ind throwing himself back in his chnir in
astonishment. "Yes," replied Mr. Lincoln,
441 can make a brigadier-general in
Ave minutes ; but it is not so easy to replace
a hundred and ten boraes,"
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Tbe End of the Polish Revolution. I
The brave and heroic leader of the Pol- '
sh insurgents, Gen. Langiewicz, has,
iooner than was expected, met with the
fate which the great disparity between the
Polish and the Russian .forces made inevitable.
The great battle between the Ruslians
and the main bulk of the insurgents
under his immediate command, which
Langiewicz had anxiously endeavored to
i)ut oft* as long as ]>ossible, has taken
[dace, and, although the detailed accounts |
af it have not yet reached us, we knowthat
the brave Pole has been totally defeated,
wounded, and conveyed to Austrian
territory. The government of Austria
is reported to have assigned to him some
Austrian town as his place of residence, I
rv?- *-?^/\ n r?aoaiinf fn linva
LFXj aiTUimu^ iv a icvi^i awuiuu, wv <u?tv ,
conveyed him to the fortress of Cmeow.
His army bns been dispersed, and a large
portion of it has likewise been driven into
Grallicia.
We think it highly probable that tliis
crashing defeat will be followetl by a speetly
suppression of the revolution. The j
army of Langiewicz was the only consid- j
erablc body that the national party had '
been able to rally; its dispersion must, of i
course, spread consternation and dismay
among the smaller bands of guerrillas, i
Langiewicz, moreover, was the only lead- |
er who had gained a military reputation ,
and sufficient distinction to concenter up- '
on himself the hopes of the nation. Even j
if the insurrection should linger on for j
3ome time, it will be difficult to find a sue- \
cessor to Langiewicz as dictator.
Simultaneously with the defeat of Langiewicz,
the English and French papers,
and even the official MonUeur, were announcing
that the insurrection was still
spreading beyond the five governments
(Warsaw, Plocz, Lublin, Radom, and An- j
gustowo,) constituting the kingdom of j
Poland, into the provinces belonging to 1
Russia. Raczynski, one of the insurgent :
chiefs, is reported to have, after many en- !
gagements, succeeded in leading his band, ,
which had been continually increasing in I
numbers, to Pinsk, in the government of i
Minsk, to have occupied the town, and |
proclaimed the national government. In ;
the government of Mohilew, the insur- j
gents had been victorious over the Russians
at Rudnika. In Podolia, the insur
rection was likewise spreading, according I
to late accounts. But all this, we fear,
will be of little avail. After the dispersion j
of the main army, but little of artillery
and of ammunition will be left to the insurgents,
and the occupation of the Gali- !
cian frontier by the Russians will put ob- j
stacles almost insurmountable in the way 1
nt oraffirkr* fvpell till Til ill" PS TIlP fmppdv !
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termination of the insurrection is foreshadowed
by the latest news received at
London, indicating continuing Russian
successes.
The hepe of an armed intervention in
faj*r"uf Poland, which the more ardent of
Her friends had for some time indulged,
was destroyed by the official declaration
of the French government before the
French senate. But strong diplomatic
representations in behalf of an amnesty
and far-reaching cwicessions to the Poles
will be made by most of the European
governments, and, kv? hop?, not *Ju>#ot^er
without success.V- Tribune.
A Hardshell Sermon.
Rev. J. H. Anghey, a Union refugee
from Mississippi, gives the following as a
true report of a portion of a sermon he
heard from a primitive or hardsdell baptist
in that state. It was a warm morning
in July, and the reverend gentleman took
off liis coat and vest, rolled up his sleeves, j
and began :
" My Brethering and Sistern?I air a
ignorant man, follored the plow all my life
and never rubbed agin nary college. As
I said afore, I'm ignorant, and I thank j
God for it. [Brother Jones responds,
' Passon, ver ort ter be very thankful, for
ver very ignorant. '1 Well, I'm agin all
high larnt fellers what preaches grammar
and Greek fur a thousand dollars a year. 1
They preaches for the mouev, and they
gits it, and that's all they'll git. They've j
got so high larnt they conti^diets seripter,
what plainly tells us that the sun rises and
sets. They seys it don't but that the verth |
whirls round like clay to the seal. tVliat
ud come of the water in the wells ef it
did ? Wodent it all spill out and leave
'em dry, and where ed we be ? I may say
to them, as the sarpent said unto David,
much learning hath made thee mad.
"When I preaches, I never takes a tex
till I goes fhter the pulpit; then I preaches
a plain sarment, what even women can
understand. I never premederates, but
what is given to me in that same hour,
that I sez. Now I'm a gwine ter open the
bible, and the first verse I sees, I'm a
gwine to take it for a tex. I Suiting the action
to the word, he opened the bible, and
commenced reading and spelling together.
] Man is f-e-a-r-f-u-l-l-y?fearfully and
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w-o-n-u-e-r-i-u-i-i-y?wonaenuuy m-a-u-e
?mad. " Man is fearfully and wonderfully
made." [Pronounced mad. ] Well,
it's a quar tex, but I said I'se a gwiue to
preach from it, and I'm a gwine to dq it.
In the fust place, I'll divide my sarment
into three heads. Fust and foremost, I
show you that a man will git mad. 2d.
That sometime he'll git fearfully mad; and
thirdly and lastly, when thar's lots of
things to vex and pester him, he'll git
fearfully and wonderfully mad. And in
the application I'll show you that good
men sometimes gits mad, for the posle
David liisself, who wrote the tex, god mad,
and called all men liars, and cussed his
enemies, wishin' 'em to go down quick into
hell; and Noah, he got tite, and cussed
his nigger boy Ham; just like some drunken
masters now cusses their niggers. But
Noah and David repented; and all 011 us
what gits mad must repent, or the devil'll
git 118.
One of tlie Committee of Arrangements
for the Union meeting in New York called
on a prominent banker in Wall street for
a small subscription to aid in paying the
expenses. The broker asked him how
much the meeting would cost; the answer
was, not far from SGOO?including rent,
advertising, kc. " Very well," said the
broker, "send me the bill, I'll pay it myself
and he did. It may be well enough
to add that the same broker has refused
from the beginning to buy a dollar of gold,
or do anything else to throw even apparent
discredit on the government.
Ex-Senator SlideU's property about to
be confiscated in New Orleans is valued at
8230,000. Most of his property and his
( person ore in Europe,
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General JlcC'Iellan. ft
The congressional report on the conduct
of the war is remarkable as dealing not
with opinions, or arguments, or theories, u
but mainly with facts. It is a liistorical ?
statement of the eric/fare 011 certain im- "
portaut points. We have already present- ^
ed in these columns an impartial summary
of this evidence ; let us endeavor to note 0
now more briefly the conclusions which it ei
establishes. We will try to state them in
such a way that, however they may con- 11
flict with personal partialities or prejudi- ^
ces, they shall not be controvertible as jv
matters of fact. p
The army of the Potomac was organized 11
by Major-General McClellan. By the first "
of October, 18(>1, it numbered 185,000 ?
men, and was in all respects fit for immc- ?
diate service. The rebel army at Manas- ^
sas. which was opposed to it. was less than
70,000 strong. But the army of the Potomac
nevertheless remained inactive du- 7
ring the whole winter of 1801-2, and did ^
not move till the rebels voluntarily evacuated
Manassas in March. A victory tliat
winter would practically have annihilated
the rel>ellion. It is not now disputed that
our army would have won a victory if it l1
had been tried, and that Gen. McClellan *
is solely responsible for its failure to try. ?
Secondly: The blockade of the Potomac J
might have been prevented 01* raised at
any time during that winter by nayal force a
with the co-operation of 4,000 troops, a
Gen. McClellan withdrew the troops, and d
is solely responsible for the continuance h
of the blockade. d
Thirdly: The peninsular campaign was n
Gen. McClellan's own plan, reluctantly 8
acquiesced in by the President, and un- p
dertaken by McClellan on the express con- t
dition that he should leave a force suffi- p
cieut, in the opinion of all his corjw com- a
manders, for the defence of Washington. 1j
They fixed the number of that force at f
55,000. But Gen. McClellan, in violation f
of his agreement and of the orders of the 8
President, withdrew all but 18,000 troops
from the capital, part even of those being a
raw, and no light artillery left them. The I
President, therefore, ordered the corps of y
McDowell to remain for the defence of t
Washington, and even including tliis corps
the specified number of troops was not t
VA^ 41?1CS ici wrlvn4 10 on II
IliUUC up* XUl Liiid xo ??uab 10 w&utvvi un
"interference with General McClellan's 11
plans," and is in substance the only ground
of complaint against the President, and t
the only excuse offered for the failure of \
the peninsular campaign.
Fourthly: McClellan took with him to t
the peninsular more than 100,000 troops. \
The rebels had less than 20,000 to resist
his occupation of Yorktown. But he sat ]
down to besiege it; the rebels concluded
to reinforce and resist, and after a month's a
delay the place was evacuated by the rebels
without firing a gun, just as McClellan }
was ready to open his batteries. Meanwhile
part of McDowell's corps had been t
sent him. It is now known tin; . Yorktown j
might have been taken at once, and that
Richmond would have fallen with it. For
the delay and failure McClellan alone is J
responsible. '
Fifthly: There were three other occa- a
sions when, if /McClellan lunl improved r
his advantage, Richmond might have byen ?
vaken by the tioops who cofild at opce ji
have been moved against it; viz.: after the *
battles of "Williamsburg, Seven Pines, and c
Malvern Hill. Each time he hesitated to 1
advance till it was too late, and the rebel 1
capital was saved. -. *
Sixthly: The retreat of the army of the a
Potomac after and during the seven days' *
battles was precipitate and premature. _
, The battles were all fought by the corps 1
j commanders, (fen. McClellan's only share
I in the operation being to order anil super- t
intend the unnecessary retreats by night, r
i And when, finally, after the splendid vie- c
| tory of Malvern Hill, won in his abscence, \
i he again fell back to Harrison's Bar, lie a
l despaired of his army, made no prepara- (
tions for defense for twenty-four hours i
' after, had resolved on surrendering his j 1
I i i :e ? ,1 |
| wnoie army 11 ugum aiuirivi-u, huh n?n ji
only saved from tliut disgrace by a rain I
which prevented the enemy from moving 1
his artillery.
Seventhly: All possible re-enforctments
were sent to McClellan while he was on
the Peninsular. The letters of the President,
of the Secretary of War, and of Gen.
Halleck conclusively prove that eveiy effort
was made to sustain and re-enforce
McClellan, that troops were even sent him
which were deemed indispensable to the
safety of Washington, and that they were
refused him only when no more remained
to be sent.
Eighthly: When ordered to witlidraw
his army from Harrison's Bar, Gen. McClellan
delayed the execution of the order
eleven days after its receipt. By that delay
the safety of the army of Virginia and
\\ ashington was imminently endangered,
and still more so by McClellan's subsequent
failure to heartily co-operate with
Gen. Pope.
Ninthly: The battle of Antietam, which
was an indecisive success, might have
been a complete victory and would have
been followed by the destruction or capture
of the rebel army, if it had been skillfully
fought by McClellan, or if he had renewed
the attack next morning as Burnside
and Sumner advised.
Tenthly: The protracted inactivity after
that battle from the 17th of September to
the 2<ith of October was unnecessary, in
direct defiance of positive orders, di?us- i
trous to the national cause, was and the ,
salvation of the rebellion. The sole re
sponsibilitv lor it resw 011 uen. Aitnjieilan.
The immediate cause of his removal 1
seems to have been this latest and most ]
persistent insubordination. j
We have 110 comments to offer 011 these
statements. They are not charges against 1
Ctcu. McOlellan?they are the findings of 1
an impartial jury 011 the evidence submitted
to them. The sentence which history ]
will pronounce we do not care to antici- (
pate. But this general, so generally 1
trusted, so lavishly supplied with men and J
material, so cordially sustained, so tender- ly
borne with, so long retained in a command
which he repeatedly proved himself j
unequal to wield, cannot longer demand j
that the evidence of his incapacity should j
be withheld, or the judgement of the na- ,
tion be willfully blinded.?Tribune. ,
Com. Charles Stewart, (Old Ironsides,) j
was some time ago made a flag-officer, ]
with a salary of $1,500 per annum. More ]
recently he was promoted tp~ be rear-ad- 1
miral, with $2,500 a year. He has persis- 1
tently declined the hitter appointment,
preferring not tp pay ?2,000 for ft mere
I title, ,
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[ISCELLANEO US AND NEWS ITEMS
Recently, Secretary Chase of the treasry
department, found upon a desk in liis
Rice, what at first appeared to be a picire
of an " infernal machine," looking |
ery much like a goose, but which on furler
examination proved to be a drawing
f an ingenious invention for turning gold
agles into "greenbacks," with the seereirv
himself operating it, and slowly feedlg
it with "yaller boys" at one end,
bile the government currency came out
t the other end, flying about like the
?aves of autumn. While he was examinlg
it, the President came in as he daily
oes, for consultation. Mr. Chase handd
him the drawing, and as the roguish
ye of our chief magistrate recognized the
kenoss of the secretary, he exclaimed?
"Capital joke, isn't it Mr. Chase?"
i foi.l ilm Pinan/imi* "TM
A jUMTj A*im wic imvc uikimvav*) A
ivo a thousand dollars to know who left
S here."
"Oh, no," responded Mr. Lincoln,
'you would hardly do that."
" Yes I would," asserted the secretary.
"Would you, though?" inquired the
resident, with that deliberate manner
liat characterizes him when he is really in
arnest?"Well, which end would i/ou pay
erom?"
A lieutenant-colonel who was wounded
t Murfreesboro', who had been stopping
while at a certain hotel, on the twentieth
ay called for his bill. The obliging clerk
ahded him the document with twenty
ays multiplied by 84. The colonel scanted
the bill and observed its footing up,
80. He turned to the doctor, who was
resent, and asked him if he did not think
hat pretty heart/. The doctor, with that
eculiar toss of the head which indicates
small whirlwind, said: "Xo; if you
iad to pay 84 for a gobbler, 81 a dozen
or eggs, 84 a pound for Rio coffee, 81,'25
or butter, 815 a bushel for ]>otatoes, and
>5 pair for shad, you'd think it was tight."
The colonel ran his eye over his bill
gain, and quietly replied : "Well, I've
>een here twenty days, and ? the article
ou have mentioned have I seen on vour
able." '4
It is said that the doctor rushed out ino
the back yard, and did not cool off till
le had whipped three little niggers.?Bichion
it Whig.
Why is the letter E a most lazy and exravagant
letter? Because it is always in
>ed and never out of debt.
Why is the letter E a most desirable leter?
Because it is essential to ease, pleasure,
and happiness.
Why is the letter K like a pig's tail?
Because it is the end of pork.
When may the letter A be looked on as
, dead letter? When it is in death.
When is the letter U most flurried?
IVBen it is in confusion.
Why is the letter U the jolliest letter in
he alphabet? Because it is always in
fiitl -v
kUU(
A clever hit was made at Albany the
ther day, in a passage-at-arms between
he attorneys who were advocating before
k committee the claims of the Broadway
ailroad bill, and thctoa of the stage interest,
which figures in opposition. , The atorney
foy the latterfiiav matij acreat
lourish of " facte any figures"- If iTbtraiii ? ?v- ^
>f vehement decbfibation, a gentleman
>resent, who appears for the other side,
emarked : " The gentleman seems to
bink with Shakspeare that'All the world'A . "
I slur/*,' and that his clients own a majoriy
of the stock." "The point was well
aken," as the parliamentary phrase is, and
aiscd a shout of laughter.
A certain lady conceived a violent atachment
for Robert Leighton. She was
lot without charms, and she showed them
>ff in his presence most dexterously. She
vjis very constant in her attentions to the
irelibisiiop, very much interested in his
liscourses, and in his work, and made hiin
nany handsome presents. As he seemed,
lowever, to be indifferent in the matter,
ind her prospects of success not particularly
bright, she, one day, in the ardor of
ler passion, said to him: "Mr. Leighoil,
what do you think ? I have dreamed n
liree successive nights that you and I were
narried !" His cool, philosophic answer
vas : " When, dear madam, I dream so
09, we undoubtedly shall be married."
' Neighbor Smith had a party at his resilence
a few evenings since, and the " dear ,
x>y " Charles, a five year old, was favored
vitli permission to he seen in the parlor.
'Pa" is sonfcwhat proud of the boy.
Charles was elaborately got up for the occasion.
Among other extras, the littlo 4
iellow's hair was treated to a liberal supply
)f Eau de Cologne, to liis huge gratiiica;ion.
He entered the parlor, and surireviug
himself as be made liis bow to the *
ladies and gentlemen, " Look here," said p
re, proudly, "if any of you smells a
smell, that's me." The effect was decided,
md Charles became the hero of the evening.
I '
The Edinburgh Review enumerates the
lumber of words in the English language
icqnired in childhood at one hundred,
ind this by an imitative process which
ivaxes less active as the child becomes an
ulult. If he does not belong to the educated
classes of society, he will at no
period acquire more than three hundred
ir tlu-oe hundred and fifty. Upon a stock 4
>f twice that amount he may mix with ^ J
icarned men and even write a book; and 1
this when our entire vocabulary contains
thirty-five thousand words.
A corporal in a West Virginia regiment ! fl
sveut homo on "furlough," and at its ex- I H
piration applied for an extension in this I
styled fl
*" My dear Commander, it is with pleas
iu*e Takes mv pen in hand to inform you
that I am a taken of the Mumps, and
tiope these few lines will find you enjoying
the same blessing; but if there are
lauger or if you think there ar Report to
me at Buckanuoh and I am at your command
my dear Commander, Mumps or no
Mumps."
The N. Y. Sunday Times thus speaks of
the wonderful attraction of dissimilarities
that we see every day: " Tall men usually
marry little women; a frivolous prattler of .
small talk wili select a husband of sense f\
md taciturnity j a man. who could hardly
distinguish between $filf strains of a (le ad
march anil the jerky semiquavers of ' Yan- p1
kee Doodle,' is captivated by the piano *
performances of some amateur imitator of kthe
tinkled brass-wire sweetness of operatic
arias long drawn out; and the rogue *
who regards honesty as akin to insanity,
links himself to a girl who is us pious ua /
C>pUeli?," f