Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-24
WAR BUDGET.
SOLDIER WITH AN UNpArR1or1o WIFE.

days ago. On Sunday he visited his spouse
at home, few miles from camp. She tried |
in vain by Cajolery to seduce him from his
duty to his country, and falling she took
rezor to bed with her, and when her pro-
tector was fast asleep, made vigorous at
tempt to incapacitate him from service by
cutting off the forehnger of his right hand.
The husband is more determined to fight
now than ever, and avows his intention not
to visit home again till he "goes for good"
after the war is over.
CONFEDERATE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
The editor of the Wheeling Nevs, writing
from Charlestown, Va, October Is, says:
The prisoners recently released by the
Confederates at Roanoke, and now here, mar
rate most disgusting details of the manner in
which they were brutally treated by those
who arrested and guarded them. They
averaged two meals of rice coffee, half.
cooked corn, and cold cabbage and water, in
six hours, and then fasting for the remaining
eighteen hours out of the twenty-four. And
in several cases old and inoffensive men were
knocked down and jumped upon. Almost
every where that they went they were pre-
advertised as id blue-bellied Abolitionists
and Yankee sops of -, and the people in.
| vited out of their houses to look at them as
beasts of show. -.-
TIE PATRONAGE OF FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS.
The statement of the Boston Journal of the
lSth that letters of credit for $4,000, 900,
or nearly $60,000,0 600, have been sent to
| Europe by Government agents to purchase
army woolens, is exaggerated. On careful in
vestigation, it is found that the sum of $780,
600 was sent, and 100000 more is to
be sent in thirty days, in all less than 81
100000 TO secure cloths to be made up in
this country.
COMPLETING THE QUOTA OF 800 900 MEN.
| Tho aviuanou Of ha daD de r;r
Gus effort now on the part of those States
that have not sent in their quota of the vol
unteer army. The Government needs and
wants to-day, the last man of the 5000 in
the field. No matter if we are deficient in
Enfield rifles for all. The deficiency will
soon be made up, and in the mean time re-
cruits can be drilled with inferior old mus
kets, or, as in the South, with hickory poles,
and thus be prepared for active service. Our
battles must be fought, and our victories
won; and the earlier we have full army in
the field the easier will be our duties.-Phila-
delphiG Press
THE CHAPLAIN QUESTION.
The Adutant General, in ordering all
Chaplains not regularly ordained ministers
of a Christian denomination" to be mustered
out of the service, and none others to be
mustered in, followed the phraseology of acts
of Congress, one relating to the volunteer,
and the other to the regular service, passed
at the last session.
WHAT INDIANA HAS DONE.
Indiana has not only been the first State
to supply her quota OF troops, but her troops
are stationed at more points than those of
any other. She has eleven regiments in
Kentucky, six in Western Virginia, seven in
Missouri, three in Maryland, two at Wash
ington City, and one at Hatteras Inlet. Sew
eral regiments more have been ordered to
VI on1- aauarol of hnnnn
fully organized, tut not yet supplied with
arms. She has fifty-seven regiments organ
lied and nearly organized, and will, it is be.
lieved, soon have at least sixty regiments in
the field.
SECRET STEEL BREAsTPLATE.
A divided breastplate, composed of thin
spring. steel confined between the cloth and
the lining of common military vest, wa
; exhibited to US few days since by Mr. j. S
Smith, and ingenious inventor and mechanic
D of this city. 1t is composed of two leaves
! which lap over at the edges where the vest il
buttoned, so as to cover the entire chest. Be
ing formed of thin spring steel plate, anC
weighing only three pounds snda half, it CAT
: be worn with ease by any officer or soldie
|, during the most active exercise. 1t is very
; strong in proportion to its weight, as it cal
resist the thrust of bayouet or sword, anC
! it will repel the bullets of muskets and pis
) tolls at ranges which would otherwise be fats
d TO life. We saw it successfully resist
, powerful thrust from heavy Steel pointed
. pike. 1t answers every purpose OF q ligh
Q steel cuirass.-Scientifc American.
= La Mountain came pretty near FARM
badly one day last week, over the Potomac
When descending at Hunters Chapel seVe
: raj of the soldiers, seeing the balloon com o.
. from the direction of the enemys position
thought the aeronaut must necessarily hav
been sent up by the rebels. They fred
q number of shots at him. Happily tney misse
the Professor, but made hole in his balloon
The troops in the division are mostly Gel
mans. When he neared the ground hundred
r assembled around him. 1t was with diff
Guilty that he saved his balloon from harI
] and was permitted to land at all.
; GENERAL PATTERSON.
The Rev. Mr.. Smith, Chaplain Of Colont
DO Butterfeld's Regiment, in meeting at U tici
y Wednesday evening, made the fOllowin
statement in regard to General Patterson:
Having acted as Chaplin of Oolouel Bu
teTfeld's Regiment during the three-montf
campaign, he was able to speak uuderstsnC
= iDgy of certain military operations, and pal
D tiCuarly of the movements of General Pa
tersOD, TO whose column the Twelfth Reg
meut Colonel But'erfeid) was attached. NJ
Smith said that Patterson was directed TO
10 one OF tnree LnlngS: ellner 10 aLLaCk VI
rebel General, Johnston, at Winchester, o
e. e. if he was DOT strong enough to attack hI
v, TO at least keep him in check, aud preveI
T. him from joining Beauregard; or, in ea
Johnston gave him the slip, TO follow him
Manassas and attack that position in the rea
70 But General Patterson said he did n
80 wish to shed blood; he conducted the wt
no on peace principles. Colonel Butter6eld wi
then acting as Brlgadier- General, and a.
pealed TO Patterson, time after time, to
allowed with his single brigade, TO attaC
Johnston in his intrenehments. But Patte
son steadily refused. When pickets brougl
As intelligence that Johnston had left Winche
ter, and was in full march to join Beaur
Il y gard, Patterson dlscredited the story, and r
a. sisted all entreaties of officers and meu
n follow. Instead of that, he made mig
= march of twenty miles in the opposite dire
O' tion, and thus kept his thirty thousand mC
out or harms way until the bloody disast
OF Bull Run, which he might have arreste
fell like pail upon the country.
!, The speaker said there was but one opiniC
" of General Patterson among the soldiers
bis division. That was that he was a traitC
He had heard the Rhode Island Regime
"a call him traitor to his face, aud hiss al
n. gToan and hoot him back TO his tent. Mr.,
e- said that Patterson LETT his command at mi
AZ At night, and intimated very strongly that if
had remained much longer he would ha
OF been in danger of assassination from hia IN