Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-23
JonS Paeslx's LAsr-Inasmuch as Com

/ .Toyx psrx,v,s T..sr-Tnosnncb NO Con.
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gress, lor so!ne lllne o'e mas iantestea d us
inclination to increase the pay ofarmy officers,
John Phoenix. of the .tI.ate Oregon Ter. LIST
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O'iesi'is = fostS e'se' hoil winch VIC eAHact the
following;
Being nv views on this eupposition it an
pearine evident that Congress- is not going to
help us in any other wav, have a project TO
submit, which / think must be approved by
/ the army the government and the people at
/ large 1t is we'll known that within the last
few years, ganny bags, -four sacks, and the
lighter articles of clothing have increased great
/ ly in price and that still the SUNNY is nv no
means equal to the demands. propose, then,
that the Senate failing to pass the present bill
! for the increase of paw should make n small
appropriation ($I0G, OO0 would do it, for fur
nishing each officer Of the army, with one ofthe
newly invented patent sewing mrchincs, which
would place i'm his hands at once an easy. pleas
ant and profitable method of Increasing his
means of subsistence. These machines should
/ be of the "Croyer & Baker, patent and coloretl
to correspond to the different cor6s 6'drmee.-
/ Thus we would have red machines for the ar.
| tilery, blue for the infantry. medium green for
the rifles. and deep or very green for all brcyet
| second @l;eutenants DRAGONS and officers
| troubled with rheumatism, govt, &c, to be
! furnished with the box pattern: all others
capabIe ofusng their legs to receive the tredlle
machine. Then the army. like the-sower in
the parable. would 20 forth to sew. -
| To avoid the interference in,l.usi 1ess or over.
| stocking the market with any particular article
/ the different corps should confine themselves to
the mapu(acture of such garments os their nre.
yious occupation would render the most easy
and agreeable From their en,plovment they
might also derive new and more eyprcssive Il
| ties. Thus the artillery. accustomed to makin9,
hrnncl,os co,Id ,,.nt,ioore7
and might be called the Ist snd ID .I ond 4tS
/ Trowserioons; the infantry. used to the sack OF
/ cities and fortified towns co,ld mike emmy
bo@o md shonid be t",,,,oS ,Io Ist Of e..
| G1nny Baggers: while the cavalry and Dragons
long accustomed to resort to every shift for n
living. could readily produce shirts and MIGHT
he distinonished MS the LIST Red Flannel the
| LIGHT Muslin. or the Linen Bosoms THE engi-
neers familior With thc hest method of fbroS.
inc nm breostu-orks Ivo,,Id be to co,sofs moi,
ars. tho tonoTranbicoI o1eyinoors ,r, ,nai.ino
drawing wonld inanI1f,ctnTe drawers. and the
ordnance tn whom, ,,,oLino stocl.s Ion6 horrals
oiso5 is familiar would fI,r9isI, tIe cro,ts TLa
staff of the ormv accustomed onIv tn tb@ligbt
and fancy lnty, co,,Id t,,r tIe, otTantion 10 ct
fine, M crnbr6;aercd sbirts and articee If tbot
JeScr6tion II m,,st bc oby;onS to oer,, ono
ttf al; ,,;t i; r AZ ,t I;,I;at
/ sr,ccess
All Tho n,nrrs s,,, t,, co,1o l,;o,,,I,, oD,,rovo
tho incrcose IF tbe .rmv nav. Int as C6ngrese
cont o fLat ;f ts, iii o;I ,,o nc tbo mo-
cbines thn neonn Con chow ;be;r .nnrnr;ot;on
Of the army NV bnvin.. omr roJciaps Rise
mo bo" ,.r,, rt5t Jo- 20 10
innate that stronS Ist ,i"ntennSt of ;nfantrv
could rroJnce Cort, ,r, Loos MR. lis,o ,rJiS
at tweptv cents oni4ee w9nI he "nnn to- the nnS
Of the ,4on,Lors IF CloIarass botore tbaT ~.
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oelay 10 connecticut TO De IN readiness ior tue
pO9''f lieutenant Colonel Flabbcr has leave or
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