New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-17
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en-, AGO. Nobody wss killed. and only aoou. All
dozen we're severely wounded. ] An SPEAK
ing now Of immediate results. How many of the
soldiers got their deaths o cold" by Leef4og amid
the dense fcgs which prevailed at night on the
camping ground, vii probably never be known.
Perhap. it s not of much importance to know. If
Solferino costs forty thousand 70 fifty thousand
lives, surely We ought 10 be glad to get off with
a lost leg, & smashed skull, and crushed foot or
two. The loss Of property was not large. few
tents were burned, bat no houses nor barns; t'e
gamblers plucked the greenhOrns very thoroughly,
but what the latter lost in cash they gained IN ex
perieDoe, so erythiDg was made square. There
was CT Considerable loss Of temper, and possibly some
gam of personal popularity, but this is very doubt
fol. Very little is lO.t or gained, in this respect,
BY cur military displays. Ii the stableboys on the
field look with admiration upon the horsemanship
Of tue Commander-in. Chief or Of Brgad!er Gen.
Butler, who will be candidate for the same posi-
top, the stable men az home turn up their noses
with disgust or contempt as they read glowing &C
counts OF the exploits of these military gentlemen.
The rank and file of tie soldery, az general thing,
are not influential politicians. Many OF them
are Minors and transient, non.vOtnS people;
many others know little and care lees OF Poitics
very few are governed by military preferences
in the exercise of the right of voting. Many OF the
if any Of these are concsted by official complais
ance and good treatment, quite as many are Of
Tended by real or fancied sights. Major b. PerIey
Poore's military tusceptblites have been shocked
by the preference shown by the Governor toward
the Cadets, over his Dogtown corps Of "Savsges,'
and Msjor Burbank Of the Boston regiment, has
been dissatisfied ever snce the Governor
established the Second Battalion Of 1nfan-
try; and Capt Toomey is, of course,
displeased with the summary disbaDdiDg Of the
Lafayette Guards. But then he is an lrishmin,
ard of no great account. On the whole, the Cover
Orsproft and loss are about elus As It is Unlver
sally acknowledged that bis Excelency bore him.
self admirably throughout the three days, aud as
Gen. Butler his presumptive rival, is one OF the
best field officers, and maneuvred his troops with
great success, probably no startling political effects
will result 10 ether and both may deem it unne-
cessary to appeal again to the fundamentally OF
State muster for an increase of popularity.
The Legislature net on Wednesday, but have
not yet done much. They VIII soon be deep in the
work of revising the statutes, and before the Le-
gslature of leG0 is ready to assemble, will, unless
they quarrel too violently, complete the work,
which was begun in 800 The Commissioners
appointed by Gov Gardner to revise the statutes,
were Joel Parker, Professor at Cambridge, VIM. A.
Richardson, Judge of Probate for Middlesex Co and
a. A. Richmond OF Berkshire Co. Mr.. Richmond,
from ILL., health and other causes, has done little or
nothing, but Judge Parker and Judge Richardson
have been very steadily employed for four years
That they have done the work well is conceded by
everybody. The Committee of4l appointed at the
Winter session Of the Legislature was at work
three months or more Their report and proposed
amendments, make a book of about $50 pages. The
laws Of 1859 are incorporated into the statutes, as
reported by the Commissioners and some new leg
islatioD is recommended, but most oil the amend
ments are changes of phraseoOgy designed to make
the language uniform. The printing OF these pro-
posed amendments seems TO Judge Parkeran impu-
tation of incOmpetency or insccuracy against him
and his associate, and he exhibits no little sensitive
ne 50 on the subject The Judge is sklful dispu.
tant as well Us a great lawyer, and has evidently
been not averse to " skrimmage" with the Com
Dittee. Some months ago, the Law Reporter IN
dertoOk to critcise bis work, but Judge Parker
forthwith issued pamphlet in its defence, concern
ing which the general verdict was that 1t was
as satisfactory as it was unnecessary. Some
criticisms of The Daily 1deertser were disposed of
in like manner
Knowing perfectly well his sensitive, not to say
begereHt disposition, the Legislative Committee
would have done well to shun quarrel with him,
espt cially as there was little if any real occasion
for enc. But, in their report to the Legislature,
drawn up by their Chairman, Mr.. Charles Hale,
they gave narrative of the proceedings of the Com
miitee in connection with the Commissioners,
" hch has unfortunately furnished the Judge an
excuse for addressing memorial to the Legsla-
ture, in which be supplies at considerable length
the omissions, and corrects what he deems
the eTrers of Mr.. Hales report. Those
VITO are at all interested in the relations
which the Commissioners and the Com
mittee held toward each other, can, by a careful
reading of the memorial of Judge Parker and the
report of the Committee, obtain Il very good idea
of the subject. But very few people, suppose,
care anything about the controversy. Unimpor-
tant as it is however, this quarrel, as it may pro-
perry be termed, together with the quarrel which
was engendered by the election of Mr. Hale as Chair
man of the Committee, over Mr.. Phelps, whose
position as President ofthe Senate was supposed to
give him prior claim to the hOnor-these qusrre!s
do now seriously threaten the Of the whole
Revised Code. If the Senate can be made to be-
lieve that its presiding officer has been nsulted
and wropged by members of the House, and II
Judge Parker can succeed in getting majority OF
one branch 10 espouse his side of the controversy
with the Committee, then there is an excellent
Of "row" and the failure of the work.
This nav be fun to the lookers.on, and profit to
the holders Of old copyrights, but the public are in
terested in putting stop to the quarrel as soon as
possible. Il is matter of comparatively small
consequence which way it is settled. Judge
Parker having put himself right upon the record,
I obody now or hereafter will venture to cite the
fact that verbal changes were proposed as evidence
that his work s not well done. So the change Of
phraseo,ogy may be safely made. And, on the
other hand, they may be safely refused. The Code
viii cost the State at least a hundred and fifty
thousand dollars whether il becomes law or not.
If the Legislature rejects it, suffers II 10 fail by
reason of private quareS, it will throw sway this
amount Of money and gain nothing but plentiful
crop of ridicue and disgrace. The people, who
are deeply interested nor only in the disposal Of
their prope rty, but in the completion OF the Re-
ysed Code VIII be apt to hold the Legislature 10
strict resnnnsihllity. The ontsiders who are