Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-07-15
The west Point military Academy.

Folnt 10y the Board of Examiners, com
menced on the lst inst. We have published
list of the graduates The life of a cadet
at West Point is one of hard study, under ri
gid discipline, as will be seen from the fol-
lowing details, given by the correspondent of
the New York Herald:
He sleeps in the barracks, in room with
one another; at five o'clock in the morning,
in summer, and at half past five at winter, the
reyeille awakens him; he Immediately rises,
| doubles up his blankets and mattress, and
places them at the head of his iron bedstead;
he studies until seven O'Clock; at that hour
the drum beats for breakfast, and the cadets
fall into rank and proceed to the mess pan.
Twenty minutes is the time usually spent at
breakfast Guard mounting takes place at
half past seven and twenty four are placed on
guard every day. At eight o'clock the bu-
gle sounds and the recitations Commence
at one o'clock the bugle again sounds the
professors dismiss their respective sections,
the cadets form rank opposite the barracks
and march to dinner. Between eleven and
one, part of the cadets are occupied in III
ding, and others in fencing, daily. After
dinner they have until two o'clock for recre-
alton, and from two till four they are employ
ed at recitations. AT four O'Clock the bugle
sounds, and they go either to battalion or light
artillery drill. This exercise lasts an hour
and a half. After that they devote their time
to recreation until the parade, which takes
place at sunset. After parade, they form in
rank front of the barracks, and the names of
delinquents are read by an officer of the ca
diets. Supper comes next, and after supper
recreation until eight o'clock, when the bugle
sounds the call to quarters, and every cadet
must be found in his room within a few min
utes at study, and must remain there till half
past nine, when the buge again sounds this
! is called tattoo; and at ten the drum beats,
and every cadet must then be in bed, having
his light extinguiShed, and must remain there
until morning If, during the night a cadet
is found to be absent from his room more
than thirty minutes, and does not give sat
isfactory account of himself, charges are pre-
ferred against him, and he is court martialed
The use of intoxicating drink and of tobac-
co is strictly repudiated; so are playing chess,
wearing whiskers and great many other
things. The punishments to which cadets
are liable are, prlvatlon of recreation, DC, ex-
ira tours of duty, reprlmandS arrests or con-
| tinement to his room or tent confinement in
! light prison. confinement to his room or dark
prison, dismission with the privilege Of resign
ing and public dismission.
Through the months of July and August
the cadets are encamped, and during the en-
campment the instruction is exclusively mill
tary. The only Through allowed to cadets,
is two months when they are in the third
class.
The pay of the cadet is twenty-four dollars
per month, and his board costs him ten of
this. From the balance he is required to
dress and defray his other expenses, and he
Is prohibited from contracting debts without
permission. AS the reward for all his labors
and deprivation, the cadet acquires an excel
lent education-in mathematics better prob
ably than he can get at any other institution
in the country. The training here of both
body and mind is very thorough and com
! plete." One of the exercises Is described us
follows:
THAT part of the cavalry exercise called
running at the heads and ring, was attended
| by the Board of Examiners, and many other
! spectators. This exercise takes place i'll
/ great hall in the basement of the academic
/ building. This hall is very dark, dismal
+ looking place, with row Of columns, only
few feet apart, through the center, extending
its entire length, and is utterly unfit for the
purpose of which it used.
! Twenty-eight horses, promptly equipped,
are led into the hall. Lieutenant Sacket, the
instructor in this department, sits near one
side of the room, mounted on splendid white
charger. Twenty-eight cadets, members Of
the graduating class, march in, and at the
command Of the instructor, all are instantly
mounted. Posts are placed along the sides
of the hall, and on the top of them balls of
stuffed canvass about a foot in diameter, and
called 'heads, are put. On the arms of some
other posts much higher rings are hung
The cadets ride around and cut, in various
ways, at these heads and rings with their
horses on fast gaIlop. The lieutenant sets
an example. Not stroke Of his we'll aimed
sabre misses; but 10. as he completes the
round, in consequence of the curb chain of
his bride breaking, his horse plunges forward
against the board fence, directly in front of
tllc ldlllCc, c1iii hphit Sptcy lidt pun OlC
side, and his immense heavy rider falls with
him. For an instant there is a half suppress
ed shrek, when the rider and horse are both
seen to have arisen and the promptly given
order, Next ELECTS round of applause
Soon afterward another horse slipped with
cadet at the opposite end Of the hall, and
am told that owing to the total unsuitable
ness of the hail. accidents are Of frequent oc-
currence. But the cadets acquitted them
selves i'll this exercise in manner most ere
ditable to themselves and their instructor
In spite of all the disadvantages from the i'm
perfection of the hall, under which they Ia |
bored, all the eyoutions and the numerous |
and the numerous feats difficult in perform |
ance, were admirably done. They rode with |
out stirups, the stirrups being crossed over
the horses necks,"
GAvAzzI-~A gold medal was presented |
to Gavazzi last Thursday at New York, by |
the Waldense Lodge, of the American Prot !