The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-06-19
Spirit OF the Republican Press.
From the Cincinnati c omme rcinl.


A Greater than Napoleon iu Ohio.
The Columbus correspondent Of the Cincn-
natl Commercial perpetrates the following:
II attended evening parade at the camp near
| Columbus Col. Irwn's Regiment was on pa
rade. arrived after parade had proceeded some
time. The regiment marched past me in col
umns. But few companies were well disciplined,
and far fewer cffoers appeared able TO give or
understand the word of command. How long
this regiment has been on duty do not know
This d ess parade was by men not in their uni
form, but 10 their shirt sleeves. Scarcely an
officer, either was in UNIFORM or had even a side
arm. Indeed | understood that officers thought
/ the State supplied them. All the companies
! had good arms, but regret to see them fright
and not vanished; the latter saves much work
This dress parade appeared also to be kind o
A review, There was an officer be Gre the center
| OF regiment, for whose honor he companies
/ were marching past; yet he appeared listless,
shifting his position, and apparently thinking OF
his appearance. | observed this officer care fully
for though young (probably 25) his dress was
| splendid. / have seen many persons o d,stin-
| guished rank review soldiers, but none dressed
! ike this. This officer had "a white fpa,her---
floating out in the wind beautifully. The rules
Of our army make tie officers hat to be turned
up at the right side, with three black feathers Tor
the highest officer others two concluded this
| could not be an officer of tho army MOTTO
e1 also, at the officer guard Of honor in a
| company Of zouaves, who appeared very at
tentive and jealous. Guards of ho,sr, by the
rules of the army are only allowed to porson-
ages of the highest rank concluded there
fore, that this must be some most distinguish.
ed person. have witnessed reviews by pa.
| l.co l., ~. u
Secretary Of War, Lieut.. General Scott, AMI
Gen Wool None O. these ever had guards
of honor nor such hat. l have seen La
Fa ette the Prince OF Wales, and others re.
view, but these had DO such guard, OF CAP.
Il recently had reld that Napoleon went to
review with guard ofhoGor, and the Prince
Napoleon BY his side. noticed child take the
officers hand during review, and thought poss-
bly, it might be Napoleon or some such officer.
felt much graified that chance had placed me
where | could see per on OF such high rank.
At the close of 7 ,rsde aud Review, the officer
of the regiment marched up for the closing sa
lutte. and this officer appeared to make o short
address, at which tho regimental ottic RS, in
their march to their places appeared, when their
backs We're turned, to smile. This officer was
then escorted off the ground by the guard OF
honor At the close OF the exhibition, enquired
Of one who appeared to be citizen OF the place
who the Distinguished officer was, who ID been
just escorted off. He looked at me singularly,
and after moment replied, Sir that is the
recent partner OF our excellent Governor; he is
addicted to speech making, order. issuing, and
sensations. He is our Constitutional element
Adjutsnt General Darlington. HIS propensity
to sensation is so great, that recently, when
company from Dayton came over to present
banner, the Governor, who had been asked to
be present, (hut not to speak, ,)not being able to
attend, had his apology sent by this Adjutant
The friends Of the banner had regular speech
maker, the ladies had bouquets. To the sur
prise OF ALL this adjutant took the responsibility
OF delivering the banner and speech hmselG and
the company had to adjourn to another place to
have the thing done over" ! was abashed, and !
left the parade hoping the State would have no I
longer such fancy men and fancy work 'W"
Abe state iM the TIN Cup Business.
We have been disposed to deal chartaby |
with the Governor on account of the heavy and |
novel duties which were imposed upon him hy |
the civil war, but we regret to say we are com.
PEELED by facts to express determined dsappro-
baton o the manner in which he has made con.
tracts for army supplies. We cannot frame any
decent excuse for the reckless extravaganza
which every day developes. We were disposed
ni,na faeie to regard the contracts for uniforms
as the best that could be made under the cir
cumstances, but the enormous profits p4cketed
by the contractors and the inieriority oi many
OF the uniforms, oontrasted with the price paid
for them, IS sufficient justification f,r the harsh
est public censure. A communication in anolh-,
er part Of our paper on this subject, though not
altogether correct in solne particulars, is too
true in its general character. Our own inves-
tigations sustain substantially the results ex.
hibited by our contributor. The cost to Gov.
srnment for regulation unforms"--much bet
ter than those supplied to the Ohio Volunteers
ID 50 80 each without the scales" say SO
80 with the scales. Contrac SHproved by the
Governor were made for 5000 uniforms with
.hs 'scalcs'' at $l6 EACH SO here is the large
margin of$5 So on evch uniform or $4,000 on
The lot not to consider the inerforty of quail F
" in the goods furnished. We are assured by
business men, that even this is a
asorablo exhibit, ."|