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BY 8. W. MASON AND CO.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY. MARCH .3* l?6a.
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THE DUTIES OP OFFICERS TO
THEIR MEN.
There are few greater mistakes, than
for an officer to imagine that the only
duty he owes hi3 men is to be performed
-solely on the field of action, on the
patade ground, or in the drill room. Not
only does a good officer see that his men
are drilled up tp the highest state of
efficiency; that their arms and accoutre
ments are ever in perfect order and ready
for use on the first alarm ; that their
horses, if thevdiave them, are the best,
are provided with the best forage, and
are groomed in the neatest manner ; in
short, not only-does the model officer
attend to- tue work of his men, but he
•looks carefully after their comfort. He
•tees that they are provided with the very
<>est of everything allowed by the Regu
lations—that their tents are whole, and
also that they are pitched in dry places
and properly drained. This last is an
important point, for experience has shown
that soldiers, especially recruits, will
never attend to this unless carefully
watched. In fact, in this, as in most
things else, the soldier will never learn
to take common care of himself, until the
sky rains yellow pumpkins and all tko
Dutchmen in the country get blind dmnk
on skiih milk.
The model officer will also keep a l
sharp eye to the Hospital accommoda- l
tioa of his men, more especially if his j
regiment chance to be afflicted with one •
of those worthless, worse-than-nothing
apologies- tor Surgeons, who once infest
ed the service, but who ate now nearly
all rooted out, and their places filled with
better men. Many a man sick enough
to be under the care of the Doctor will
throw away his medicine because he
doesn’t fancy the taste of it, or will eat
any and all trash his injudicious com
rades can contrive to smuggle into hia
possession. There is scarcely a Sur-
geon in the- service who has not
had to pitch out of his Hos-
scores of half-decayed ap
dozens $f Sutlers’ pies (leather out
aide wnd white oak chips inside), bottles
-of SancpAnUa, cider, and whiskey, and
every sort of trash that sympathizing but
lunatic fritads saa provide. In this re
gard we may expect soldiers to learn
discretion when all the Lemon trees bear
salt codfish aad every yellow dog in the
land has a red cabbage growing on the
■tip of his tail.
The model officer will also have an
-eye to the amusements of his men. They
most have their pleasures* and it is far
-better to have them of a proper, health
ful and invigorating kind, than to let the
r soldiers find their only entertainment
in smuggling whiskey into camp,
getting drunk and consequently in
to the Guard House. For, unless he
have books, Gymnastics, or some sort of
games arranged for him, he will, in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, take
to the dram bottle, and will ever
continue to do so until the condi
* tfcm of mundane things is so altered
.that we can pick green peas off the
Planets and hang our hats on the boms
of the'Moon-
To sum up, the Model Officer will do
very many things that the Officer com
monly does not do, and will bring his
men into the field in a much more effi
cient condition as to drill—will keep
them in camp in far better condition as
to comfort, will have fewer men in the
hospital, and will in every way get out
er his troops more work and less grum
bling than can be got out of twice the
same number not properly cared for.
Though as to the’ grumbling question,
soldiers, like sailors, will grumble—they
must grumble, it's part of their trade, and
they could'ut know how to live without
it. We can, in truth, uever hope to hear
soldiers and sailors stop grumbling until
the earth shall sneeze itself inside ont,
and we have to bore Artesian Wells a
hundred and forty miles straight up
wards, to get a peep at the Stars.
Irish Union Society.,- —This Associa
tion, one of the many charitable brother
hoods of Irishmen, after four years of in
terruption by the war, held a quarterly
meeting hist evening at their hall, on
the comer of Lincoln and Bay streets.—
Hon- Dominick A. O’Byrne, President,
in the Chair; £ohn G. Duggan, Secre
tary.
The minutes of the previous meetings
held were read and adopted.
An election for officers to serve the
ensuing year was held, they to be Install
ed on St. Patrick s Day. Tae election
resulted at follows:
President, Hon. Dominick A. O'Byrne;
Vice President, Andrew Flatiey; Trea
surer, Patrick Naughtou; Secretary,
John C. Duggan; Standard Bearer,
Stephen Wal3h.
President O’Byrne appointed the fol
lowing officers and committees;
Steward, Richard O'Byrne; Door
keeper, James Halilgau.
Committee on Finance—M. J. Doyle,
E. H. Smith, James White, Francis
Dowd, Patrick Hanley.
Committee on Sick—Andrew Flatiey,
John McHugh, Stephen Walsh, James
White, Daniel Clark, Patrick Hanley,
Richard O’Byrne.
The meeting adjourned to Thursday
evening. 9th inst.
Golden Ale — We have bad the privi
lege and pleasure, for it is both, of tasting
an article of Ale, to Which is prefixed the
name of “Golden,” and which is manu
factured at Albany, New York, by Pierce
Skehan. To say that it is creamy and
foaming as to its head—that it is truly
golden and sparkling as to it# body—that
that it is most pleasant to the palate, and
that it is agreeeth admirably with the
stomach —that it is healthful, invigora
ting and enlivening—that it is by far the
beat article for this climate we have ever
seen in these latitudes, is to say compar
atively little in its praise.
In addition to its many other admirable
qualities it possesses the most desirable
one of cheapness. Though in every re
gard a first class article, it as offered at a
cost which shames the inferior brands
and puts them literally “nowhere.” For
further particulars inquire of the maker
and agent, Pierce Skehan, 178 Brough
ton street. ,
Removing tile Capital os* New York.
—Tie New Yorkers have become so
thoroughly disgusted with the rascalities
of Albany legislation that they have de
termined to no longer use that village
a location for the capital of the State.
The question of the removal ia creating
great excitement throughout the State,
and many towns have entered into eager
competition for the prize. . Rochester,
Ithaca, Syracuse, Brooklyn, and a num
ber of other places have made munifi
cent offers to the State, in the shape of
| donations of land and money, in case
their individual claims carry the day.
New York city will doubtless be the
winner, as she certainly ought to. She
offers to give a splendid park as a loca
tion for the public buildings, and to
build a State House to cost four millions
of dollars.
JEW ENGLAND LETTER.
Boston, Feb. 25. 1865.
7b the Savannah Hevahi.
As I-sit down to writs you a letter
from the Yaukee metropolis a warm rain
is giving a heavy' strain to the backbone
of winter, which, in this climate, is only
less tousth than the spinal column of the
rebellion, about which there have been
so many columns in the newspapers.
We have had a severe winter, in spite
of the prognostications of the musk-rats
and others who live ia holes in the |
ground. So much the worse for them. |
Avery active individual who came |
direct from Savannah informs me that
the crocusses are in bloom in youi- inter- j
esting. and balmy locality. There are
certain sorts of “cusses” in bloom here, j
but none of the variety mentioned by the
“reliable gentleman” from Savannah.
So much about the weather, as l ob
serve that it is an important teature in
your paper.
A great question among our merchants
and manufacturers is, Why does not
Savannah ship cotton to Boston?” New
England has a great appetite for cotton,
and will eventually consume the larger
part of that which was sent North from
Savannah. The question is discussed on
our streets, aud elderly gentlemen, given
to dividends, exclaim: “Why is this
thus ?” Boston does not like to have it
that it is a second class city,
but the central position and vast enter
prise of New York is rather too much
for it - .
That Boston still lives though is proved
by a tremendous dry goods, trade sale
which has taken [dace here tins week.—
Over ten thousand packages of dry
goods were entered- for sale, and the
samples covered three-fourths of an acre
on the floors of the ereat warehouse of
Jordan, Marsh & Cot Tne heaviest
houses of New York, Pnilaietphia, Bal
timore, Cincinnati, Chicago, Buffdo, Der
trofct, St. Louis, and many other Eastern
and Western cities- were represented
here; and the sales were very brisk, not
withstanding the news of the fall of
Charleston and the probable occupation
of Wilmington—news calculated- to at
fect the market foe cotton and cotton
goods which was received on
the first day of the sale Which
news also was the occasion tor a joy
ous celebration of Washington's Birth
day,. more joyous* than has ever bee a
known before in this section. In Boston
salutes were filed on the Common and
Dorchester Heights,—once bristling with
cannon in “the days that tried men’s
souls,” (if you will allow me to coin a
trope for the occasion); — the bells were
rung, and business was generally sus
pended, with the exception of the news
papers, which observed the day by pub
lishing the news of the federafoccupa
tion of Fort Anderson and details of the
fall of Charleston. Perhaps the most in
teresting feature of the day in New Eng
land was the celebration of the Amos
keag Veterans in Manchester—a time
honored festival of a time-honored corps.
They had a parade and dinner during
the day, aud a grand ball in the evening,
at which the elite of the New Hamph’.re
towns —Concord, Manchester, Ports
moßtb and Nashua—and numerous guests
ft’om out of the States were present.
Are you short of females in Savan
nah ? There is a superfluity in this
part of the land. For years the young
men of New England have been joining
the innumerable caravans that move to
the westward, to say nothing about those
who have emigrated to the South, du
ring the last tour years, many of whom
will never return—and there is an un
healthy preponderance or females in our
population. The sphere of female labor
hus been very generally extended to
clerkships in dry-goods and millinery
stores, but still there are many women
here who have no reasonable chance to
be mated, and. therefore look forward to
a checkered life. The Governor of Mas
sachusetts referred to the subject in his
last message, and suggested that some
thing might be done to aid females who
might wish to emigrate to those sections
of the country where women have not
depreciated on account of an over-is
sue—in short, where “ma” is always
quick at £ ‘pa.” A committee of the
Legislature is now grappling with this
interesting question, and it a practica
ble plan is agreed upon, orders from Cal
ifornia and the great west for “sweet
hearts and wives” will be. filled “with
promptness and dispatch. ” lota.
DOMESTIC TRIBULATIONS I % NEW
YORK.
A series of domestic revelations has
just come to light, showing to our com
munity how much deformity there is in
this, as in othey great cities of the world..
Among them is the case of a young
married lady who suddenly left her hus
band’s and has since resided with
her father in an elegant up-town man
sion. She sues for a divorce, and for the
care and custody of the child, alleging
that her lord had extended to other fe
males the wifely name and privileges to
which, she claimed an exclusive right.
The husband brings a counter suit,
charging tbat it would be quite improper
to commit the tender infant. to the man
sion aforesaid, and declaring that the
proprietor thereof, though of high re
spectability in this city, has been con
victed of criminal acts in other States,
which have been, hushed up in some
way ; t he also says that a sister of his
wife, who likewise Besides in the ele
gant. thansion alluded to, has made
strong love to hi 114 endeavoring to draw
him from the path- of fidelity, and ex
hibits a letter from, her of the most ten
der and suggestive kind,lading to that
end. She “does, not think he loves her,
but still lives in hope3 be will think
enough Os her to take her away with
him,” and offers.him all she has to do so.
The case will be a. racy one when it is
spread before the- people.
Still another case is that of a young
married woman who eloped with a dis
solute fellow whose youthful and charm
ing wife had abandoned him after a che
quered existence of two years, in conse
quence of his- inability to provide for per
The tatter has since earned her subsist
ence by playing minor engagements in
different Theatres. Not long since a
friend, hoping to reform him, took him
to his house in Brooklyn, and the result
was an intimacy whicu has culminated
in an elopement. The husband ascer
tained that aU. was not well, and drove
the ingrate from his door, and the erring
wife deserted her little children and
manly husband to share the fortunes of
a WTetch who cannot respect her. Their
whereabouts is unknown, but must
soon come to light, as neither had means
to enable them to live together any great
length of time.
Another case is that of Col. Allen,
whilom of the l3t New York Infantry.
Not many days ago he encountered his
wife on one of the Brooklyn ferryboats ;
taking a seat by her side, he urged her to
reconsider her determination to live apart
from him. She replied their life had been
too nnh3ppy,and his treatment of her too
bad for her ever toi ntrust her happiness
again to his keeping. On her refusal he
rose and abused her in the most shame
ful manner. The crowded cabin became
the scene of intense excitement, ladies
