The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-20
ANNUAL MILITARY EXAMINATION,
THE CADETS AT WEST POINT.
Names Of the Graduating Class.
ADDRESS OF THE HON. KENNETH RAYNoR.
MR.. ANDREWS REPORT
&C., &C., DO.


SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD.
WEST PoIsT, June II. 1853
There have been matters of considerable interest
In the progress of the Of the Cadets
count of tho commencement of which gave you in .
previous letter.
First amongst these was the exhibition in fencing
The instr In this departn Mr. De Jsuon and
he enjoys the credit of having great
In IT, In nothing is the advantage Of training and edu-
cation over mere strength and untaught brute
force more apparent than in the Of fencing 1t
correctly named for man acquainted with it s com
peey fenced about against the Of half dozen
men unskilled in their Mr. De Jsuon is French
gentleman Of education who has sustained good repu
tation duris9 his entire residence here and he has nov
been conneced with the institution eight yearsyet
he Ia paid only hundred dollars year This is
lttle fencing is to be taught at all-aud who can
doubt its usefulness to an officer Pit Is desirable
to have well taught Then let the instructor bs fairly
paid 1t ia the duty Of Congress to make provision for
this and their gaantry may be appealed now to stinu
late them to q more prompt performance Of this duty
for though Mr. he Japon has rendered himself perfectly
unapproachable to the sword even in the hands Of .
practiced fencer Of ordinary SKILL he has proved
equally invulnersbe to the shafts OF the little blind
god, whose quver, coats of mai shield again It.
a salary Of only hundred dollars, is o doom to
perpetual single blessedness here.
Ono of the best encers who have graduated here for
feversl pears past, NJ. Bonaparte of Baltimore
grand nephew Of Napoleon the First.
The Light Artillery drill, under Thomas and the
Infantry under Major Garnett alike crediabe to
those officers and to the cadets
Tho riding the plain Lieut. Sackett was very
spirited and exciting The Lieutenant is about half
horse, half alligator, with little touch of
tie arthquake," and he weighs two hun.
dred and forty fvs pounds, there is room for con-
siderable Of each ingredient HIS open spirit he infuses
into his They ride like Arabs; and IL Santa Anna
could witness them when with the yell Of The wild
Indian and rush like the fall of an avalanche they
mako charge, he would understand that the American
troops would be found irresistible in future var as they
were in the last.
There stationed here and enjoying certain advan
tages of instruction under officers of the military acade
my, company called ''the sappers, miners and pom
toniers" Several Of the men composing it served
privates in the Mexican Probably there is not
better ocmpany in the United States.
One evening we them under the direction of Cap
tain Culum erect and ponton bridge 1t consist
ed of pAnks laid upon udia bier float, in the sha
Of logs with peaked ends, iDaaed with air. bound
together with ropes You Uay judge Of ths expedition
with which this we-dIilled pany performed their
outy when tell you that the bridge hundred aud
eighty feet in length constructed thirteen min
ates and taken away 10 less ,h.n ten
On luesoey, MAJOR Ward frJm IDA, delivered an
ADDRESS before the Disecic Soc ETY.. did hear it.
but 1t is spoken OF as very happy and taking effort
He raaed glowing eulogy upon Gen Scott; while many
who voted :or him ne ssy tney glad that Gen Scott
vas not elected President every inclined
accord him the highest honor as q military man
The frirg at the target apd siege guns
under the direction Major Porter considered very
succesdui
Last Wedpesday morning cadet James E Fort of
Oswsgo. New York who sd itted in 1851 died after
illness Of several nooths He in this 2lst year OF
his age Az the request Of hs father his remans we're
removed to bis home tor interment ~thout osentaton
The usual order 10 wear Grape thirty days given
and presume monumen, viii be erected 10 his memory
Almost the very day when hi. classmates after two
years confinement ere joyfuiy their friends
fuylough of two moo,h-, to give and receive con-
tnusl plea sores, he l. borne to his chidhoods
his closed to its beauties which he longed
more to look upon, his lips still his heart cold His
form ia covered over with the sod which his young feet
Dad pressed in play, aud all his youthful aod ambi.
!ous dreams of future dsnc ion and glory buried in
this early grave
Tho enthe First Class passed the examination and
ceived their diplomas 1he following are their names
Ard the osder in which they graduated