New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-12
MASSACHUSETTS, ALL SAFE.
Progress, and Conclusion Of the Grand Encampmsnt.
INTERPOLATION OF PERLgY POORg.
Peaceful Return Home of the Soldiers.
Prom Our SPECIAL Reporter.

shan fight and the sham soldiers-do We nf al P1ss
i Of With laugh if caught looking at them
"Tbose" said father to his con- yesterday, on the
tran, pointing two very sbabby-lookins manner,
"sre real soldiers and the eyes OF both turned IRON
Ne "tented field" with its 5000 m,ke believes, 70
forsw the genuine article whose trade 1t was 70
Mn and be killed Is IL true that all Of US
make this involuntary protest against tns'
which ia only pretsnse There is probably
some vice. there is certainly q great deal OF dut
Nj NAV make tina. distinction--there is large
expenditure of money, ard some waste OF hehth,
very great deal Of fuse, not little noise, with net
result Of some amusement at the cost of loss OF the
time of from ten to fifteen thousand people FOR week
IL there ANYTHING elsel In Massachusetts, were
Invaded next week would her fgst better for the
dill they get in militia conpsnies'--iodeed, would
the On who would 90 the fighting best, and WITH tee
most slscrity be the men who are in camp at Con-
cord But perhaps l may az well remind myself that
am not Whiting ao editorial.
Nevertheless, when Noah cursed Ham, il was not,
Itale it-though this s not, think, the receiver
oomne ntary that be saw him drunk, bat bscsuse~e
witnessed an indecent exposure. Something OF tnaI
asathems felt rested upon the train load with winch
returned to Boston, this evening at least as 70 co'r
for We were black and dirty-not to say musty-set
who had been TO great msny otaers make al ex-
bibtion Of their folly. Al least this IL one wsy 81
lookipe AZ the after, and am not at all that it
mi the true.t and the most sensible and the vi
which we oil, in our secret hearts most approve.
The Massachusetts, militia have no doubt, are a.
good az any other. Certainly, their uniforms are
quite az br liant when they pretend TO lace, aud
feathers ana fine coors ard quite sensible, when
they do not, as our New-York regiments, to winch
alone can compare them. For aught that know
TO the contrary their evoutions are quite a. skiul
tboupb a felo-ofiicer saii TO ne this morning, when
one the brigades parade, that the men were
very defective in one respect-theif step vas only
twenty four inches, when it should be, forget how
mary, but we will call it twenty. five Bat have
been struck more with this fact: that most OF
the men are boys, men--I suppose, having out
grown this sort of thing Another observation &C.
cured TO me, that between the two crowds tine
crowd outside the lines and the crowd in, the
crowd il uniforms aud the crowd 10 plain clothes, It
was the latter that looked to be the most effective
BODY Of men, and the best behaved. The citizen VINO
had become a soldier seemed to thibk that q license
belonged 10 him 10 manners and language which
vould not be tolerated IN citizens dress Am wrong,
too in euppOsng that the rural ruian is more inoler-
able than the civic 7 l think "Mose' would have
fell that he deserved to have bis head punched for
some things said TO passing women by some oil the
men on guard who were evidently from the rural
Aetricts.
There is a company here called "the Savages,'
and another "the Tsers,' and the rect OF the
troops l presume consider themseves cross be-
tween the two. Are not tickled with names
Because one set throw themselves down upon
their bellies and fire blsnk cartridges into the grass,
and the other can ground-arms with single Gang
il csn-does il follow that they would prove such
terrible fellows in a real fight Would not all that
goes to make the real fighter, have to be learned IN
actual service judge so from oil that nave
aver seen of militia evoutions. When observe,
With the utmost commis.eration these I'M
bappy officers on foot who only by the
utmost exefton voice and gesture keep their men
10 the REQUIRED evolution with anything like passablo
correctness; and when observe, almost with tears,
those s,l more wretched officers horseback at the
entire mercy of the beasts they bestride AID when
look nj the men with their minds at tension as tight
ms their coats to understand what it is that their o
csrs would have of Them l wonder, If q regiment OF
Zounye, were let IN upon Camp Massachusetts, what
would become of the Tigers" and the "Savsges
and whether the last battle of Concord would
stand AZ well upon the record as that first
ope when the soldiers who fought it on
our eide sprung TO their muskets from the pow
tail and the shop bench and fought according TO com
mon sense and not "Scott's Tactics" Any great
military display it seems TO me, is fitting occasion to
reflect upon such matters. Perhaps We shall, ~me
tine come TO the conclusion that hundred men, well
prscced TO fence, TO Of singestics, TO fire at
marx to Jump and other athletic exercises IN COM
Portable and appropriate dress, are better and more
effective than five hundred taught, two or three times
ayear 10 pres. Mt and carry anus, 10 march, and all
the rest of IT, in dress which is cousingermsn to q
tght,jsoket.
But all this, by the by, is TO more applicable to
Camp Massachusetts, than the next reveS ON Wash
ipgton Parade Ground.
The Camp TO day has been ahvely scene. took
avail through 1t this morning, ~ that side where
the liver forms its innumerable elbows with the
elbows Of the field, where the canvas village was
crooking its ten thous and elbows at breakfast. 1t
vas Ii sely scene, but not so lively as outside the
lines. 1t is singular that people easy ,mused
should have invented so few smusewents, and those
few go very poor The bo) ths for the people are
almost as numerous as the tents for the soiieiy.
have thought that the street shows OF New-York
were peculiar to that city, but they are
nearly all duplicated at Camp Massachusetts,,
and some are there which have net. For instance,
you are familiar with that celebrated physicanl am
not sure whether he the one the last sands of whose
life have been so long running out-who parades
Broadway nthe costume Of our great grandfsthers;
but you have not have had the privilege as have OF
Seems his Counterpart muster.feid, selling vial
OF liquid which is an eisctual stopper TO the running
sands. There is new Tom Thumb, indeed two Of
them much smaller and not half so old the original,
either of which the Snowman asserts, is much better
worth seeing than "them wax figures in the next
tha,