Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-11
ARMY BUDGET.
ANOTHER FRENCH OFFICER FOR TUE FEDERAL
SERVICE.

The Paris correspondent of the New York
Evening Posi-, under date Of the goth ult.,
says
A distinguished French officer whose
name am not yet at liberty to give, is about
| to leave Paris for America, with the inten-
| tion of offering his military services to the
| Government. He has the reputation of q
refined gentleman, brave soldier, and
true Republican, man who has toiled and
suffered Imprisonment in defense of the cause
| Of freedom. His appearance is certainly
strongly in his favor. IL is enough to say
that he is the friend of Garibaldi, and that
he would have gone to fight for the independ-
ence of Poland, had there been any chance
for that oppressed nation.
GENERAL M'oLELLAN.
Occasional" the Washington correspond
ent of the Philadelphia Press, says of Gen.
eral Mcclellan;
No man could be more industrious and no
man more patriotic II he has been Aattered
heretofore, he is abundantly criticised now.
He is watched, not only by the rebels, but
by the politicians of his own section-the
men who swarm around him with gratuitous
advice every hour Of the day. When every
body has his own notion of the war and his
own idea how it ought to be managed and
when every movement is eagerly scanned by
thousands of sensitive men and women all
over the loyal States it is easy to see that
General Mcclellan has no primrose path of
dalliance" to walk in. OF course, he realizes
all these things, and is, therefore, in no mood
to risk equally his country and himself by
hasty action. | am told that he answered
an impetuous partisan the other day, who
was anxious to know when fight would
take place: II can not tell myself. | can only
say that, when it does come, l am ready"
Davy Crockett expressed it in another way;
, ''Be sure you're right then go ahead
, TRIAL OF BRERCH- LOADING RIFLES.
On Saturday a series of experiments with
, Storms breech-loading rifle was made OF
the Harrisburg (Penn) arsenal, in the pres
9 ence of Governor Curtin, ChiefJ Justice Low
9 rie, General Biddle, General Keim, and a
9 number of other military officers. The trials
0 were made for rapidity of loading, endur.
ance, and accuracy at long ranges. In these
important requisites, and in simplicity, il
7 proved its superiority over all other weapons
u of the same kind. 1t can be fred ten time
!, minute, and throw a ball with accuracy
II the distance of a mile. For mounted rifle
u men, or cavalry, it is much superior t,
n Sharpe's csrbine, both in facility of handling
e and rapidity of loading. The Governor an,
t officers present expressed the highest salts
Q faction with the performance of the weapon
= CoMFoRTERs FOR SOLDIERS.
J, What constitutes comforter for a soldie
q can probably be answered in thousand diff
Il erent ways. But ask the soldier in camp o.
ii a cold night, and he will tell you that tn
> best comforter to him is one of the old-fash
l. iontd hind, u ade of leo and thit X y waddet
l. 1t may not bo generally known that th
n army regulation allows but one blanket t
a each soldier, and even this, in the presen
state of the market, can not be obtained
Hence it has been suggested that the ladie
of large cities could profitably employ the
time and promote considerable degree {
N satisfaction among the soldiers by maxim
y. comforters. They could be made at half th
q cost of common blanket, and for the pul
pose of covering are equally as efficient
promoting warmth. AS the authorities ca
Or not proceed in this matter, the attention
the ladies generally is particularly calle
w to it.
y A MYTHICAL BOY.
We place no reliance in the current new
paper stories the death ofBen McCulloch, e
'n pe,ialy because the factthat an army contil
ues to be commanded by one Ben McCulloC
RS is accounted for on the hypothesis that Il
h. said B. McC. is the son of The Redoubtabl
%. We have known Ben, boy and man, stint
the fall of 1888, and having seen him ever
'c- year since that time, know we'll that he is
an bachelor. No one would be more horrift
than he at hearing the soft impeachment
,us being the father of a son old enough to cor
bis mand an army, alleged against his prete
sions as one of the "young men arouI
town." when in Washington. He is of tb
ice age, precisely, at which confirmed bachel
ard young lady's man is most jealous Of
II. general feminine impression that he is o
af- enough to certainly have cut his wisdo
~ teeth. Our word on it, the Ben McOullot
who commands division of the oligarcby
an army now on the Kansas border, is tn
at same old Ben.
rs. P. S-If there be any Ben McCulloch, j
les in the Confederate army in the West, he
ers doubtless a son of the late Henry McCulloC
lg. (brother to Benz of Gonzales, Texas, a
~, can not be more than twenty years old
r,T n1 Washington Star.
AT A BALE OF COTTON WANTED.
Ten The ladies of Louisa County, Va, earnes
appeal to some gentleman of the Colt
- States to send them bale of cotton, to
S le- made into comforts for the use OF the 81
'A and wounded soldiers at the hospitals. I
destitution Of convtnences at these places
Up. probably we'll known to many cotton plaI
the ers who could readily spare one bale for
aforementioned purpose. One good CO
fort is worth three blankets, and the C
leu compared with the latter is a mere tri
,.e ge- Many families are willing to furnish clC
'In' and have them made, free of charge, VII
his blankets are very scarce, and sold at exort
ant prices.
ace lCoMMUNICATED.I
The The Fremont and Blair Correspondence
The Card of Ihe I'm auirer,s COrrespOI