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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD.
VOL. 1-NO. 144.
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important also to every wife and mother as it affects
their future welfare.
, SEE TO IT AT ONCE/ DO NOT DELAY.
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At the office of the Home Insurance 00.,
ju2T 89 Bay at., Savannah, Ga._
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julo lffid .
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the most favorable New York, terms.
For further particulars apply to '
CHARLES L. COLBY & CO,
Jones Block, corner Bay and Abercorn streets,
jclS ts Savannah, Ga.
rj.-'REASURY DEPARTMENT, . *
EIGHTH SPECIAL AGENCY, \
Charleston, S. €., J ane ‘id, iS<55. {
The undersigned, in addition to bta duties as As
’ Bistunt Special Agent of the Fifth Agency, has been
assigned to the charge of the Eighth Agency as Depu
ty Supervising Special Agent.
All communication? relating to the business of the
business of the Fifth Agency should be uJ dressed to
Port Royal, S. C., and all leiatiug to business in the
Eighth Agency should be addressed to Charleston,
S. C
JOHN H. PILSBERY,
ju2B Deputy Supervialng Agent.
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
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' Dealers in Sheeting, Shirting, Osaaburgs, Yarns,
Rope, Bagging, Manufactured and Smoking Tobacco,
«Sc’., Ac.
Particular attention given to the Purchase, Sale and
Shipment oi CuT'i'ON.
R.u.bton’s Gsauits Ra«o7,;—Tki3i> Kauqs,
4 MACON. GA.
RsfEtiEKOM.—Erwin & Hardee, Claghorn & Cnn
ninguam. Su>annah; L. G Bowers, S- M. Karrar, Cos
lunious; K. 15. Loiiy & Cos., L>. 15. Di-vis, Augusta; P
p. PeabQ. V. A. (iaaKilj, Atlaiiru. .l»-b,lm
W'JMiii HOSPITAL TRAN&CRIPT."
Tue paper above named is published at Hilton Head
S. C., by M. J. JloKebba.
It is designed by the Publisher to make an Interest
ing and Instructive Paper, not only for
. SICK AND WOUNDED tOLDIERS,
bat a WELCOME WEEKLY VISITOR to ail resided
of Hilton Head.
It will contain Original LOCAL NEWS, a summary
■NORTHERN NEWS, and carefully Selected MIS
CELLANEOUS ITEMS * Ju3-tf
J|rjj ipoobs anfo (Clothing.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS B%
SUTLERS’ AND NAVAL STORES, DRY GOODS,
BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS,
Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, <ftc.,
No. 5 Merchants’ Row, Hilton Head, S. C„
W. C. RIDDELL. fjul3-tf] H. J. MURDOCH.
ARRIVAL OF GOODS.
SKEHAN & CONY hteG HAM.
Os 176 Brovahton Street,
Receive by every steamer fresh consignments of Goods
from New York, consisting of
BOOTS and SHOES,
Ladies’ BALMORALS, &c.,
Gentlemen’s Felt and Straw HATS,
CLOTHING, GROCERIES, WINES,
Dublin and London PORTER.
Golden ALE, in Cases and Barrels;
Also—A choice selection of GARDEN SEEDS,
Which we offer at low prices to the Trade,
led
'J'O THE CITIZENS OF GEORGIA
The termination of a sanguinary contest, which for
the past four years has presented an impassable barrier
to all social or commercial Into* course between the
two great sections of oar country, having at length
happily cleared away all obstacles to s removal of
those relations which formerly bound us together in 4
fraternal union, I take the earliest opportunity afford
ed me by this auspicious event, to greet my Southern
friends, and to solicit from them a renewal of that ex.
tensive business conneetidfi which for a quarter of a
century has been uninterrupted save by the great pub
lic calamity to which I havg adverted.
It is scarcely necessary, on the threshold of a busi
ness re-union, I should repeat the warning so often
given to iny friends —to beware of all those 3pnrious
and de’eterious compounds which, under the specions
and false titles of Imported Wines, Bra ndics, Holland
Gin, Liquors, &c., have been equally destructive to
the health of our citizens add prejudicial to the interest
of the legitimate importer.
Many years of my past life have been expended in
an open and candid attempt to expose these wholesale
frauds; nor expense has been spared to ac
complish this salutary purpose, mid to plate before
my friends and the public generally; at the lowest
possible market price, and in such quantities as might
suit their convenience, a truly genuine imported arti
cle
Twenty-five years’ business transactions with the
largest and most respectable exporting houses in
France and Great Britain have afforded me unsurpass
ed facilities for supplying our home market with
Wines, Liquors, and Liquersof the best and most ap
proved oraiidsih Europe, M auiiition to my own'dis
tillery in Holland for the mannibeture of the "Schie
dam Schnapps.’
The latt*r, so long tested and approved by the med
ical Faculties of the United States, West Indies and
SotQ.li America as an invaluable Therapeutic, a whole
some, pleasant, and perfectly safe beverage in all cli
mates and duringpnll seasons, quickly excited the cu
pidity of the home manufacturers and venders of a
spurious article uuder the same name.
1 trust that I have, after much toil and expense, sur
rounded all my importations with safeguards and di
rections which with ordinary circumspection will in
sure their delivery, as I receive them from Europe, to
all my customers.
I would, however, recommend in all cases where it
is possible, that orders be sent direct to my Depot, 22
Beaver street, New Y'ork, or that purchases be made
of my accredited agents.
. In addition to a large stock of Wines. Brandies, Ac.,
in wood, I have a considerable supply of old'tried for
eign w ines, embracing vintages of many past years,
bottled up before the commencement of the war,
which I can especially recommend to all connoisseutß
of these rare luxuries.
In conclusion, I would specially call the early atten
tion of my Southern customers to the advantage to be
derived by transmitting their orders ’ without loss of
time, or calling personally at the Depot, -in order to
insure the lulfillment of their favors from the present
large and well selected assortment.
UDOLPHO WOLFE,
ju23 lm 22 Beaver street, New York.
jyjACKY, HOGG & CO., #
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. .2 Stoddard’* Block, opposite Custom House,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Having opened a House at the above stand, in con
nection whu our House in Philadelphia, we offer to
the Trade—
-250 barrels Bourbon and Rye Whiskey; Hams
Breakfastßacon anil Shoulders. Bagged Beef, Lard
Broom , Washboards, Lime in hogsheads, <fcc,
Consignments to our House in Philadelphia solici
ted, MACKY, HOGG A Cos,
No. 2 Stoddard's Block, Savannah, Ga.
ju2o-lm 26 South Water street. Philadelphia.
The Proprietor of the
SAVANNAH CITY FLOUR MILLS,
Begs to announce to his numerous patrons that he has
made a num,.er of improvements in t bet machinery at
tached to his establishment, uud is now prepared to‘
furnish his customers with a full supply of the best
GRITS AND MEAL,
gind everything that can be expected from a
FIRST-CLASS MILLING ESTABLISHMENT,
He pledges himself to always sell and do
bis work ,
26 PER CENT LESS
for the benefit of the citizens, than many of his com
petitors. He is prepared to grind Wheat aud Corn at
iba customary t£ toll, and in addition will, as above
Buffed, always be prepared to furnish his friends with
everything iu the old style.
His place of business is at the well-knowD sj>ot at
tire FOOT OF BROUGHTON STREET julb-tf
The Regular Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of
the Southern Hisurauce and Trust Company will oe
held at the office of the Company, in savannah, on
Wtdnesday, FJth July, 1805, tor tne purpose of elect
ing Directors for the ensuing year, aud for the tran
saction of such other business as may be brought be
fore the meeting.
H. BRIGHAM, President,
Per J. C. MqNULTY,
ja22 ts Assistant Secretary.
SAVANAH, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1865.
actual AND REPRESENTATIVE
* POPULATION.
Much has beeu said iu the papers on the
subject ot Negro suffrage; but Robert Dale j
Owen, in a recent letter to the President, lists
placed it in an aspect no less original tbau
striking. In 1860 he made the following I
statement,
The actual population of the States com
posing the Union, and their representative ’
population, have hitherto differed considera
bly ; the actual population, in 1860,* being
upward of thirty-one millions (31,1 48,047,) j
aud the representative population about
twenty-nine millions and a half only (29.553,-
273). ' The difference betweeu the two is
nearly one million six hundred thousand (i,?,
594,774). See Compendium of Census, pages
131, 132.
The reason of this is apparent. In the
year 1860 there were, in round numbers, four
million of slaves (3,950,591) in these Slates.
These slaves were not estimated, iu the rep
resentative population, mau for man. Five
of them were estimated as three; for by the
Constitutional provision regulating the basis
of representation (Art. 1, Sec. 2, f 3), there
was to be taken the whole number of free
persons and three-fifths of all other persons.-
Two-fifths of the “other persons” Were left
out. But two-fifths of four millions is one
million six hundred thousand. .
About two million four hundred thousand
of the slaves are to be regarded •as having
entered, uuder the last census, into the basis
dpf representation. In other words, the white
slaveholdiug population of the South obtain
ed a political advantage the same as that
which they would have reaped by actual ad
dition to their population of two million four
hundred thousand free persons. As . under
the last census the iatio of representation
was fixed at one hundred and twenty-seven
thousand (Census, 4 ’page 22), the South, in
virtue of that legal notion of two million four
hundred thousand, additional freemen, had
eighteen members of Congress' added to her*
representation. Her total number of repre
sentatives being eightv-four, she owed irftrre
than one-fifth of that number to her slave
property. It follows that if, in a republican
government, the number of . free persons be
the proper basis of representation, she had
upward of one-fifth more political influence
than her just share. Each one of her voters
possessed a power (so far as the eleetiou of
the President and of the House ot Represen
tatives was concerned) greater by one-fifth
than that of each Northern voter.
We have not space .to copy all the details
of Mr. Owen’s statement, but the following
comprise his principal inferences :
Thus it appears that the present experiment
in reconstruction, if guttered to rtm-its course,
and it interpreted as I think we have just
cause to fear that it will be, tends (inevitably,
it may be said) Jo bring about t*vo results :
First; To cause the disfranchisement of the
freedman. Whether We effect this directly, as
by provision of law or by $ disqualifying
clause iH.a proclamation, omwdiether w« do
irtSy leaving dir decision to fßS'iqy.raer mas
ters and his old enemies, matters nothing
except in form and in words ; the result (Jt
brought about with equal certitude in either*
way. Passion, prejudice and self-interest
concur to produce this result.
Second ; It establishes—not- the odious
three-fifth clause, not even merely a five-fifth
clause —but something much worse than
either. It permits tne investiture of the
Southern white with a preponderance ot
political power, such as no class of men, in a
democratic Republic, ever enjoyed since the
world began.
* * * * *
Unsuccessful Rebels cannot, by bits of
paper called Secession ordinances, take the
State out of the Union ; but, by levying
civil war, they can convert all the inhabitants
of the State into public enemies, deprived,
as such, by law,ot their political rights. The
United States can restore these rights—can
pardon these public enemies. And we have
the right to*pardon on conditions ; as, for ex
ample, on the condition that Slavery shall
cease to exist; or on the condition that more
of those persons, who form the basis of rep
resent at ion, shall, because of color, be de
prived of tne right of suffrage.
If we neglect to impose the first condition,
the cause of the Rebellion .will continue,
and will some clay, produce another. If we
neglect to impose tne second condition, au !
oligarchy, on an extended scale will grow
up in one large section of the country, work
ing grave injustice toward the voters of
anotUer section- The three-fifth abuse will
reappear in a giant lorm.
But if we suffer Inis, it canuot fail to dio-
Unsuccessful Rebels canuot, by bits of
paper called Secession ordinances, take the
fcjtate out of the Union ; but, by levying
civil war, they can convert all the inhabitants
of the State into public enemies, deprived,
as such, by law,ot their political rights. The
United States can restore these rights—can
pardon these public enemies. And we have
the right to*pardon on conditions ; as, for ex
ample, on the condition that Slavery shall
cease to exist; or on the condition that more
of those persons, who form the basis of rep
resentation, shall, because of color, be de
prived of the right of suffrage.
If we neglect to impose the first condition,
the cause ot the Rebellion ..will continue,
and will some day, produce another. If we
neglect to impose tne second condition, au
oligarchy, on an extended scale will grow
up in one large section of the country, work
ing grave injustice toward the voters of
another section- The three-fifth abuse will
reappear in a giant lorm.
But if we suffer Inis, it canuot fail to pro
duce, as slavery produced, alienations and
heart-burnings. _ Under any plan of recon
struction involving so flagrant an injustice it
is iu vain to expect harujpny or permanent
peace^between the Northern and Southern
Sections of the Union.
It is not here denied, nor is it deniable,
that, under ordinary circumstances, a State
may, by a general law applicable to all, res
trict tbe right of suffrage; as, for example, to
those who pay taxes, or to those who can
read aud write. And it is quiletrue that the
effect- ot such a law would be to give addi
tional political power to those who still en
joyed the elective, franchise. But a State
can only do this after she has a State Gov
ernment iu operation, not when she is about
to irarne ouc. North Carolina is in the
Unioa, as she has always beeu; but her peo
ple, having lost, by war against tbe Govern
ment, their political rights, are not allowed
to go on under their old Constitution aud
laws. They have to begin again, as Idaho,
if desiring to be a. State, would Uiave to do.
The people of Carolina have to’elect
members oi a Convention, which Convention
has to irarne a State Constitution, to be pre
sented, for acceptance or leleciion, to Con
gress. Now, just as Idaho, taking her first
step toward State sovereignty, could not, on j
her own authority, begiu by denying a vote j
in the election of members of her Conven
tion, to half her free population, or if she
did, would find her Constitution rejected,
lor that cause, by Congress, as not emanating
from the wuoie people ; so, in my judgment, I
ought not North Carolina, having forfeited
her State rights aud beginning auew as a
Territory does, to-be permitted, in advance, j
to reject more than a third *of her free popu- !
lation—36l, 522 out of 992,622. I hope she !
will not so construe her rights as to venture ;
on such a rejectioff- If she does, Congress :
ought to reject her Constitution a3 authoriz
ed by a part of her people only.
But, beyond all this, we cannot safely al
low the negro-exemption clause to take its
chance along with other possible restrictions
to suffrage which a State, fully organized,
may see fit to enact. First, because oi its
magnitude. It is au act of ostracism by one
half the free inhabitants ot an entire section
of country against the other half, equally
free. Secondly, because of its character and
results. It is an act of injustice by thus®
who have assaulted the life of the nation
against those who have defended the national!
lite , an act by which we abandon to the ten- j
der mercies of the doubtfully loyal and the ;
disguised traitor those whose loyalty haS
stood every test, unstained, unshaken , men
ignorant aud simple indeed, but whose nute
fidelity never failed either the Union fugitive
beset m the forest, or the Union cause im
periled on the battle field.
The decision of a matter so grave as this
should be taken out of the category of those
rights which a State, at her option, may grant
or may withhold; because, being natioual in
its cbnsequences, it is national in its charac
ter. This is a matter for Federal interfer
ence, because, like emancipation, it is a mat
ter involving the Federal safety.
Tlie British System of Fortifications—
Granite Wallsund Steel Bolt*.
After expending several 'millions sterling
on granite fortifications at Portsmouth and
elsewhere, the British Government have be
thought themselves of testing the value ot tbe
works, both as. to the strength of their posi
tion and tbe impregnability of their struc
! lure.
The scope and character of these fortifica
j tions are said to be especially due to the mili
j tary geuiu9 ot Lord Palmerston, who brings
: to modern engineering science the experience
jpbe acquired iu the War Office sixty years
agq—whatever that may be. And so well
j satisfied has the venerable Minister been wi’h
I his defensive armament at home hitherto, that
he has urged its adoption for the protection
of the two or three thousand mileskii bound
ary line between the neighboring Colonies
aud the United States.
The plans of the main works recommended
for Canada, in the report of Col .Jervois, are
essentially framed upon the Palmerston Ply
mouth model. There is no particular secret
we believe about that model—so iar as tbe
British Minister's theory is concerned. Gran
ite and bricks make up the whole thing. And
if modern innovation had not brought the
! steel bolt and 800-pounder into common use,
the Palmerston fort might have beeu the
! model for the world.
It is a comparatively small matter, perhaps,
! to fiud that several of the most imposing of
these new British forts—such as those at
Portsmouth —are commanded from diffeieut
surrounding eminences, because these emi
nences might themselves be fortified, now
that tbe engineer’s error has been discovered.
[ But itjg a rather more serious thing,, we take
[ 11, to find that’me errtnhc walls with brick
.backings are no more impervious to the steel
■nbolt fai-ly aimed from a 300-pounder, than if
they were so much stage “scenery” got up to
; illustrate the fall of Lncklow. Tbe discove
ry of this rather important fact would, proba
bly, have been made earlier, had our expe
rience in tbe business of building aud taking
, forts been available for the British War Office
;at an earlier cfcte. As it happened, it was
only the other day that Lord Palmerston and
the engineers of the War Office came to the
conclusion that it might be well, before lay
ing out ten or twenty millions more on the
grauite forts with brick backing, to make
some experiments with the new ordnance
pieces, to see how the matter of impregna
bility really stood.
A building, then—corresponding in all es
; sential respects to a section ot the new fofts
j—was erected on the marshes near Wool
-1 wich. It was constructed of granite, backed
with brick, and of the proper thickness to
make the test complete." A 300-pounder was
used, with a small charge cf powder, and a
steel bolt, at a distance of 250 yards (equiva
lent to a distance of 1,000 yards with a full
charge.) At the first shot the building was
shaken and the bricks behind the granite be
gan to buige out. The second shot made a
marked impression on the granite itself, and
dislodged the bricks inside, so that the work
ing of the guns in the casemates of a fort
similarly constructed would have thenceforth
been rendered impossibly. The third shot
knocked the granite into splinters, in all di
rections, and tne extemporized tort began to
topple.
—lira. F. W . Lander has sailed for Europe,
and will spend the suramer.abroad.
—A hundred and fifty thousand copies of a
biography of Mr. Liucoln have been sold at
Pans.
The Emperor of Austria has announced
intention of being crowned King of Hun
gary.
Junius Brutus Booth was released from
imprisonment on the 23d, by order of Secre
tary Stanton.
The New York City Directory, just is
sued, oontains 13,532 more names tnan its
predecessor of last year.
—The Richmond Whig says: “The libera
tion of the negroes gives the South a claim
to fourteen more representatives inCongress.’’
About one hundred and sixty thousand
troops have Jest Washington and vicinity
within the last eighteen days. There re
mains about thirty thousand yet to leave.
The friends of Mrs. Surratt have auda
ciously taken to delending her by means of
anonymous pamphlets, which the scatter
liberally through the Washington hotels.
Preparations have commenced for muster
ing out between forty and fifty thousand
troops, from the armies of Generals Meade,
Hancock, and Logan.
The parties arrested at Ban Francisco,
charged with intent to violate neutrality by
invading Mexico, have been dismissed by the
U. SS Grand Jury.
FRIGE. 5 CENTS
AN ARMY SONG. .
Nett to the “Star Spangled Banner” the
most popular and frequently heard song in
the American army is “Benny Havens’ O!”
As we have not seen it in print for several
years, we presume our readers will be glad
10 have it before theih. Benny Havens was
the keeper of a hostelry a few miles from
West Point aud beyond the limits of the
United States jurisdiction. It was a favor
ite rendetvous for tbe cadets, to which they
would skulk off on Sunday for a dinner, and
“oft in the stillo night” for supjper and a
spree. It was of course in the worst odor
with the Superintendent, who looked upon
it as the lountain head of dissipation and
ruin. All the anathemas of academic discip
line were directed against those who were
discovered to have been out to have been
out to Benny Havens, but in proportion to
the peril of the adventure was the eagerness
ot the cadets to display their nerve and dar
ing, aud the greater' their ahaudon in their
frolics, and dismission has been visited upon
many an inconsiderate youth for a few hoars
sport at Benny Havens. Thus known to the
iumates of the institutioh and its alumni a
gallant officer, O Brien, who laid down his
life in t loridu, embodied, the associations
connected with Benny Havens in the earlier
\ erses oi the following song: Everybody at
West Point, can ot course chq sing the song
for the air is a simple one and the chorus lu
lanoue and jolly. Besides, we presume the
whole worlg knows that 467th of the “arti
cles of war” expressly provides that “any
officer who is igaorant of the words and tune
of “Beamy Havens O!” or fails to join in the
choiua when he hears it sung, shall be cash
iered or otherwise severely punished.” To
the original song have been from time to
time added to meet the exigencies ot the
service; the last one is a tribute to the mem
ory of the author of )hat song.
Come fill your glasses, and stand np In a
row.
For a sentimantal drinking we are clad for to go •
In the army there’s sobriety—promotion very alow—
And we’ll sigh o’er reminiscences of Benny Havana,
_. - . Ba , nn y Ha*? 118 O \ Bonny Havens OI
We 11 sign o’er reminiscences of Benny Havens OI
L€t nS knouL° Ur foßter father - th « Republic as yon
Who in the path of science taught ns upwards for to
And then the Widens of oar land, whose cheeka with
roses p4ow,
Who were oft remembered In onr cup at Bennr Ha.
vensO! '
Benny Havens OI 4c.
To the ladies of the aim 7 our cups shall ever flow—
Compatn ms in our exile, aud our shield ’gainst every
May th aDo #ee their hu9band9 S eneral *i with double pay
And Join us iu ourchoruasoi at Benny Havens OI
Benny Hav|ns O! 4c.,
To the ladies of the Empire State, whose hearts and
albums too,
Bel>r B d<ll Xami)le ° f WI7D£ that •bipfiog aaldiers
We b i*m.w- loßg fareweU - the best recompense we
Our loves and rhyaeg had their source at Bennv H«.
vena, O I J
Benny Havens, 0: 4c.
Os the smile-wreathed maids with virgin Um. ilka
roses dipped In dew, . v ’
Wh ° < vievv > ba ° UI butter-halves—we’d like to take a
But sufficient^ to the bridal day, is the ill at it,
our hearts with chorussing old Benny
Benny Havens O i
to General Brady—God bless the old
He’s an honor to his country, and a terror to his foe
B reß * ou his laurels and sorrow never
Bnt live to see a thousand years and Beany HavensO *
Benny Havens O! 4c. •
UerC B rea b v a blow ° eneral T * ylor ’ ' vho9 « ron * h “and
Strikes terror to the ranchercs of braggart Mexico 1
Krtto show 7 ne ’ er tul ' Bet “* decds and ae’er neg-
She hohis him worthy of a place with Benny Havens
Benny Havens O i 4c. '•
T ° 01 hero—'’ vici ’ ; man —brave 3cott, the great
FiU OUr gobleta to the brim-let no one shirking
May liie’a cares upon his honor’d head, fall ligbtlr as
the snow— J
And biajame be dear to every Mend of Benny Ha-
Benny Havens O l 4c.
Oh, when yon and I and Benny, and General Jackson
Are called before a final court, onr course of life to
view,
May we never ‘fees’’” on any point-but then be told
to go,
To join the army of the cless’d, and Benny Havens «!
Benny Havens OI 4c. 1
To our comrades who have fallen, a cup before we go.
ThCy ‘l°ar” and the f I,fe * blood free| y oat “Pro bono pub-
A marble points the stranger to where they rest be
They lie neglected far away from Benny Havens O l
Benny Havens O! 4c.
May the army be augmented—may promotions be less
81OW;
May our country in her hour of need, be ever ready for
the foe;
Award each State a regiment of regulrrs who know,
Their officers were chosen chums of Benny Havens O l
Benny Hnaens O !
From the courts of death and danger, from Tampa’a
deadly shore,
Comes np the vojee of manly grief—O’Brien is no
more 1 *
In the land of sun and, flowers his head lies buried
low— '
No more to sing “Petite CoquilW't or Benny Havens
Benny Havens O! Bcmj- Havens O t
No more to sing "Petite Coq-jiTU" or Benny Havens
0:
•When a cadet Is called to the blackboard to de
monstrate a problem or solve an equation, he la some
times unable to proceed anti is forced to ovnfeaa his In
ability, This happens so often that it is found econ
omical to abbreviate -‘confess,” and the answer to a
question as to how a cadet acquitted himself of any
trying task, frequently is, “1 had to ‘/«as.”
t “Petite Loquilie" is the French name of the Island
on which Fort Pike Is situated. O'Brien was a long
time stationed here, aud wrote another song, ulso
well known iu the army, which he entitled ‘•Petite
Coqnillc, or the Die ol Shells.'*
Tbe thorough-bred black staliion Don
Juan, ridden by Gen. Custer at tbe grand re
view at Washington in May, is saicl to have
been taken by him for hfs own use without
compensation. His owner is said to have af
ford undoubted proofs of loyalty, whereupon
Secretary Stanton gave an ojrder for the ren
dition ot the animal. He was valued at $9,-
001). Like action was taken lately in the
case of a pair of matched marcs, for a year
in possession of Major Brinton, Faymaater'a
Department.
