New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-28

mean the tall man NJ inc oAuo"o '0'' " w.
line, stood with his legs open, and toes torned
MN the attitude of man warming hlmseii
-, fra in his rear--every now and then crane
inc his head forward to see what was going on
at the other end.
! But, / will say no more Of this regiment;
don't know what one it was; it may have
arrived yesterday from the recruiting ground,
and it certainly was fine lot of men,
aud the officers were of sort to make I'M
commonly fine ones in three years. The funeral
march commenced, and then q part OF an Irish
funeral strayed in, rickety hackney coaches
with spawned and foundered and blind old
Washington back-street jades with black
and white drivers, two fellows always on the
box, lolling and splitting; then regiment Of
recruits in dirty gray jackets and trowsers, and
without a really clean.lookiDg thing ON them,
hurried BY, mostly four deep, but some all IN
huddle; they were going for time on run
to overtake the regiment ahead. There was
another regiment of splendid fellows warmly
dressed, but with no more discipline than
school-bOys.
The hearse, by the by, was driven by
respectfully dressed, fat citizen; pro-
cesson followed Of private carriages and hack
ney-coaches, and every now and then some OF
the Irish funeral that had got mixed up with
this, the drivers nursing their legs, chewing
tobacco, and talking TO one another from box
to box in the stoppages which occurred.
Among them there was the President and
others-tbe foreign Ministers, i suppose-With
servants in neat livery, and decenty-groomed
horses with clean. harness, in marvellous con-
trast to all the military equipment. Somewhere
there came in two or three dozen farm hands,
with sabers and pieces Of old cavalry uniforms,
some with their trowsers tucked into their
rusty old clod-hopping boots, others wearing
the trowsers down outside. Some Of the beasts
they rode were miserable starved colts which
had never seen a curry-cOmb or shears, ana
which still bore the chafes and stains oil some
hard. rough pasture. The gear was OF the APP
pearance of that which is sold "all in one lot, "
in selling an estate in the country. NO Co'sach
or Basbi Bazouk was ever half so rude, raw UNI
discontinued. and uncivzed in appearance Us this
cavalry selected for a purpose OF ceremony ana
attending the nobs Of the nation. Speaking ct
nobs, as the respectable carriages were passing,
n Blue Nose asked, Who g that foxy old cove
with the tcide anGke 2" II was member oi
the Cabinet wearing brown SLOUGH hat. Gen
Mcclellan did not appear, nor any DINER
General, at least, not on horseback. 1 thought
| saw epaulettes in some of the Irish hacks.
IL was altogether queer, mixedup business,
with considerable Of civil war, but not the hrst
essential indication Of the beginning OF military
discipline. On the contrary, the general order
said the procession would start at ii. L came
4 off, and left a lot of fellows galloping around
very hard, and trying to get it ready to start
at I2l, and the same spirit OF ine1actness and
indifference to details was evident IN some way
in every man, officer, or private, and in every
movement from beginning until lett. Not
! man of all did | see who seemed to have got
his military legs on.
t Now. if orders are carried out in this way,
, and equipments are Of this sort, and 80 badly
taken care of, and the same awkwardness and
indecision prevails, when the grand general
attack that the people are so impatient Tor Il
made, what chance is there for anything but
confusion, disorder, and a setback that will
lust invite England and France to try to open
the ports, and so lead US into war from
which this generation will not see US clear, and
which will obllge our fields to be cultivated
f and our locomotives to be run by women be-
fore it is ended
Il FeStiRd iente Let US have an army before
We have battle. We can well afford to post
pone it till Spring. We have not begun to
really feel the meaning of war yet, while the
South is even now suffering and strainng itself
almost to the utmost. We can afford to wait
to make a sure thing OF it. The South loses
everything in the necessity Of merely maintain
ing its present army opposite us. MUFf.