Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-04
COLONEL WILSON'S Rrropr.

Colonel Wilson, or, as he is more familiarly
known, BILLY" Wilson, has made an official
report of his conflict with the enemy on
Santa Rosa Island, and it must be said that
it is curious production. He tells General
Arthur that "hs new clothes were all de-
stroyed," that the enemy's war.cry was
death to Wilson" and that "$5, 900 reward"
was offered for his own head but he con-
graduates himself on two facts, namely, that
his commission is safe" and that his linen
have smelt gunpowder, and now they are all
right" Then he makes this little statement
"They are exhibiting my hair and head in
Pensacola the reward is already claimed:
also an old flag which nailed to the Flagstaff
on the Fourth of July, which has been hang
ing there ever since; nothing left, however,
bat the stars. The ladies have cut II M in
pieces, and have it pinned on their bosoms as
a trophy. Every one in Pensacola has my
sword and uniform. must have had large
quantity of hair, plenty of swords and uni
forms. They say if | was to be taken alive I
was to be put in a cage and exhibited"
The report concludes with these jerky and
suggestive sentences, which sound very oddly
in an official paper, but nevertheless tell the
whole story:
1--WE lay upon our arms every nipht. I
have slept but very little this week. don't
feel well. have got the diarrhea. We will
want eight hundred uniforms Your ODE
dient servant, WILLIAM WILSON,
Colonel COMMANDING"
Medical assistance should at once be fur.
nished, for he is evidently in a bad way.
JUST PUNISHMENT.
In recent case where one of the New
York regiments took the fence rails belong
ing to a loyal Virginia woman, to use for fire.
wood, General Wadsworth issued an order
requiring the regiment to go into the woods,
cut new rails, and rebuild the fence de.
stroyed.
THE CUISINE OF THE ARMY.
DIR. Carl Haas, of the Fifth New York Vol.
unteers, says that his regiment, though en-
camped seven weeks without tents, had not
a single case OF sickness He recommends
rye bread as more wholesome than wheat,
as well as cheaper, aud as to army cooking
be says that it should be done by regimeutai
cooks, and not msdone by each company's
spelling its food for itself He declares that
he has known a whole company Frustrated
by ore badly-cooked dinner. He also sur
gess that each man shall carry four yards
of baDd0ge, of three.inch width, whereby
his wounds may be dressed without a
surgeon.
THE ENFIELD RIFLE.
Mr. Horatio Ross, the "old deer stalker"
in a letter TO the Inverness Courier, speaks
of the EDfield as the worst of modern rifles.
"Put two regiments down." he says, ain an
open country, at the distance OF a mile one
armed with Whitworth rifles, the orher with
Enfelds, what would be the result? | believe
the latter would be destroyed before their
| opponents came within the range of the En-
| field rifle"
DURABILITY OF CANNON.
At the siege of Sebastopol there were
253,042 rounds of cannon ammunition ex-
/ pended. There were one hundred mortars,
from five and a half to thirteen inches cali
Der; one hundred and eighty guns, from nine
! to sixty. eight Founders, including seven
Lancaster guns; and eighty. six eight to ten
inch guns used, and of the entire number
only forty one remained serviceable at the
end of the siege.
| A BAD "MovE."
1t is reported in a Richmond paper thai
Mr.. Paul Morphy, the famous chess player
'has kindly consented to be present" at the
| meeting of rebel chess-club in the Con.
federate Capital. This is the worst move
ment that Mr.. Morphy has made, and ht
need not be surprised to find himself check
mated at the end of the game. 1t is not
safe "opening."
SIGNALS.
The system of communicating by signals
which has been so successfully tested il
Generals Banks and Stone divisions is nov
being introduced on the Virginia side, undel
the direction of Major Meyer, of Genera
McClellan's staff. 1t will be of great serv
ice. and can be readily used at points t.
which the military telegraph does not extend
NOT TO BE DEsPIsED.
An awkward looking youth made his ap
pearaDce at the recruiting station at Lancas
ter, New Hampshire, few days since, anG
desired to enlist as sharpshooter. His ex
tTemey verdant appearance created consider
able merriment among the spectators, and i
was Ir posed that he should try his skill on
head OF JEFF Davis, at the required distance
! Inspecting bis rifle a moment, he raised i
and put ball through the side of the, nose
The company supposing this to be a chanc,
shot, made him fire again, when he put
second ball through the other side of thu
nose. He was then accepted without furthe
ceremony.
just as the last tug of the naval expedi
ton left Annapolis, Governor Hicks, O
Maryland, made his appearance upon tht
wharf, and in a short but patriotic speech
bid the men God speed, with the assurance
that his prayers would follow them through
out the voyage.
- The Secretary of War has authorized
Governor Dennison to recruit company fol
special duty in guarding prisoners of wal
confined at the department established neal
Saudusky. Lieutenant Colonel Hoffman will
command.
The National Guard of New York have
been ordered to hold themselves in readiness
to 20 bouth at short notice This, coupled
with the eorder for officers on furlOugh at thu
North to return to their posts, seems to in
dica!e that Something's up"
PoToMAo AND BUTTERMILK.-An amusing
story is told by some Dubuque boys of tht
Iowa First" about the changes which