New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-13
3 NUMBER 164.

ADOPT any tone he may suggest in fdrtherance Of
the common cause. They can organize trans
port corps in time. ,t z- - no.. 80 .~,-.
There are plenty Of excellent mules in the South
II the planters can in their patriotism submit to
ruin and send them from the fields. Horses in
ABUNDANCE can, no. doubt, bs precnred from the
southwest and smuggled out of Kentucky. TWEEN \
ty1ive brass field pieces, one rifed CUR throwing
tihrty-pound shot and shell from q small bore and
perhaps several other guns not enumerated. cap
tured at MANASSAS, will go some way to make mp
ior the want, OF field artillery, under which the
tonfederates were aborng, and the quantity of
ammunition Of all sorts which fell into their hands
aast s!rehgthen thenin their weakest peint. The
thousands Of nuskets left on the field will be no
Indifferent acquisition, and they have been already
applied to arm men who were not wen provided
previously with small arms; while whole regiments
are made happy by the blankets, .overcoats, can
teens. knapsacks and aecontrements of all kinds
distributed among them to the great relief Of the
Confederate Treasury. 2-s'E. n ~ 4f5'7lH sfE &
9 RE.eRGAsIzArfes oFTHg FEDRRAL AgaY. Mean
whilerthe army of the United States is undergoing
a complete Reorganization in the face of the enc
my. The old army Of volunteers and three montiisf
men may be looked upon as annihilated or at all
events. dissolved. twoald be curious to aaser7
tain how many of them will resnist, even under
different officers. The affair at Manassas not only
destroyed McDoWell's army, bat it gave a heavy
blow and great Encouragement to the very spirit
OF the American system, by which men were
placed in positions they had no fitness for, and
large masses of armed men we're assembled whom
it were delusion to consider as an army.
Hr. Davis saw the mischief long ago, and by
special actof Congress of the Confederate States
at Montgomery, he seized the power Of appointing
officers. 1t may seem strange that the soldiery
should not feel proper respect for the men they
had selected to command them, but the fact is
that such mode of selection, particularly in the
lower grades, was injurious to all real discipline.
II an officer insisted obeying the rules and regu-
lations of the army he was regarded by his nDfli-
majors an ungrateful fellow, who was using the
power they had given him to vex aud harrass them,
and he, TOO often, in spirit of retaliation and in
ignorance Of the proper means Of enforcing a re-
spect to which personally, perhaps, he had little
claims, resorted to gross language abuse and
harsh treatment and incurred the positive con-
tempt and hatred of men who took little care to
conceal their feelings. -.
It is hard to teach Americans discipline. Their
regular army has been for the most part composed
aof Germans and Irish. The people are ayerse to
have observed particularly in the North, are less
manageable, &C biddable,'f as mothers say, than in
the old-fashioned country, where the fifth com
mandment is held in respect. Master Pickle and
Miss Pert are fond enough Of saying 81 wont'
all over the world but the breed is unusually large
in America, and disebedienee seems to pass cur
rent for independence. And, as. the child is the
father of the man, so sovereign Smith on principle
rebels against obeying the order of sovereign
Brown; kicks in his inner man, recacitrates
morally, and even physically, and only succeeds
| by the pressure of a self-applied duress. 5
A WHISKY SCENE in THE FEDERAL ARMY" Ser.
geant, will yon and look at this mans pass -
called out sentry at the Long Bridge the other
day; do you think I'm going to shout myself
hoarse for your y! .e-. t.-. .-.. -r ~ sFr 49,
And when the sergeant did arrive, the sentry
who had been sitting down when I came up, used
bad language and threatened to report him,
Yesterday evening, as was riding through
Georgetown, saw officer g fall in y his to
go on some patrol or relief. They were drawn up
by the side of the street.
."What have you got in that bottle?" said the
officer to one of his men. @Gu, 5r- r.. -.
| SO Whisky" - -,- ..
"Let's have drain," quoth the affable subal.
| tern. -- 30 t'
"Don't take it all, then,n responded the pro
| prietor, producing from his haversack the black
bottle, which had been detected by the eagle eye
| OF his superior.
The officer held it up to the light, guaged the
contents, smelt the mouth, and then took long
| pull, which was followed bya sounding smack o
the lips. and fust-ra,e u of great intensity.
The bottle was restored, and then Shoulder
arms-by the right-wheel-quic march," ant
| away went bottle, officer and men sf
| 1t would be very unfair to assert that such Off
| GERS are common and such practices usual; bI
that there is, on questions of discipline, extra
ordinary deviation in principle, sentiment ant
practice in the American people from those of an.
other military people, requires no proof, when W,
see Col. Richardson, in an official document re
specting the conduct of his troops at Manassas ac
cusing his senior officer; Col Miles, in reply, pub
fishing statement which appears in all the news
papers, in which he says he was not drunk, an
prays God to forgive his accuser. They will b
taught by experience and the sweet uses OF ad
versity--bitter to sthem-wi force them to bend t
discipline in order that they may conquer; and
they desire to carry on the campaign, and escap
the Caudine Forks, they must stoop, as peopl
free, intelligent and brave they are, have done
to the thra of order and obedience. |a
! DIsoRG AN1zATIoN AND RIoF IN THE FEEDER A
| ARMY.-That much can be done by the jHdciou
| exercise of authority in enforcing military rule
and regulations among them, as among the rest Q
mankind, is conclusively shown by the grea
I changes and improvements effected in the army 0
Washington, and, above all, in the city itself, b,
young General Mcclellan who bids fair to be tn
next President, if his success is at all commen
surate with the enormous praise and fattery which
| much against his will, are forced down his throat
Before his nomination TIE streets of the capita
presented spectacle, The like Of achch aCds probaH
neuer seen IN any ciulized city, A routed, demon
a1'zed a'may, with just sufficient equipment t
enable them TO be terror to civilians, and to il
tlict death and wounds in their drunken quarrel.
crowded the thoroughfares formidable only
those whom they were intended to protect Th
| hotels and bars were filed with officers who's
regiments were in state of complete disorganizs
ton. The small tradeapeople trembled for the
little stores. Suddenly out comes an order, whic
give entire, lest it might be said the words hav
used eXaggerate the condition OF affairs at tt
period in question. Z s.t z
| TFIere Mi. Russell publishes General Order
(No. q of Assistant Adjutant General William
dated in Washington, July 20, and directing +"
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soldier be allowed to absent himself from his con
and visit Washington, except for the performant
of some public duty, or for the transaction of il
portaRt private business, for which purposes wr
ten permits will be given by the commanders
brgGdas' etc.
The eitizen-soldiery were astonished and indi
| nant, but they were nevertheless arrested nj
J blackholed,' and confess it gave infin
satisfaction to observe the very sautary results
: the process. The Sanitary Commission, with Co
siderable boldness, published certain recommend
: tons for the improvement Of the discipline of Il
, army, which is, Indeed, in need of change for tt
: better. They ascribe the difficulties which tbs
meet in carrying ont reforms to lack of discipin
which thus injuries the health of the army
Mr.. RUssELt. MEETS A SPANISH GENBRAL-I
Il CHIEF FROM CuEA-THGY HOLD A 5CoTNCII.. {
MILIrARY CR!TICsM.-tIen. Lana, who comman
The Spanish troops in Cuba, has been over here
n tour, and he expressed TO me his Trof0,t1d dsO
islbe1G al te state OF tifgs pisib{e in the FeCe1
: camps at tie Other side Of Tie Potomac. He W
here, however, at a bad time---iust after the fig
. from Manassas. His criticism, however, on la
sentries, on slovenly and hEequipped troops,
. dirty arnls and aGcoutrelnerfts, were Just. Abs
all, he ama8ed, that in IN army of recEn
there no drill or exercise to be seen.
Company dril2 is not much offended to; tho b;
TALON drill is Of the most elementary eharaete
= y and. indeed, with the exception of skirnishing
|. Cairo, l have never seen anything but the ordina
. advance in bae, or marching past at slow time
at the douh1e in columns companies, or of su
= = divisions, and such common movements. II
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