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jfrawnttalt Daily §leraM. BY 8. W. MASON AND CO. SAVANNAH, FRIDAY. MARCH .3* l?6a. -Tl. 1 .17. , ■■ .. I.■„ ■.l —■ ■ ■■ ■ vt ' ■■ ■ 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