, 1861-05-03
Gbicaao Cribtatte..


FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1851,
TO onr City Subscribers.
snch Of our subscribers as have been chang
ing their residences or place Of business, are
requested to Leave word at the counting room
.wtera they desire to have their paper 1eft here
after. ..-...,...... -"
TIE War Fund and the Volunteers.
Ia machine 50 vastly complicated ~ War,
Involving 30 many interests both public and
Private there must Of necessity be tmuch jar
ring, sna no little friction. Everybody can-
net be leader. 1tis easier to advise than to
accomplish, and far easier than either to cen
eure. AL and every one who deaires the same
general end glorious result OF successful ter
n1nation o6 the var In the crushing Of rebel
lion, must 10 su they can to make matters
1nove smoothly, and It will require plenty OF
self ssctldcs from every member OF coumu-
nifty. :,
The alEcrity with which cur citizens have
responded to the call TO arms is noble and
generous, and without parallel IN tho histo-
~ Of nations. Regiments have been offered
when companies have been called for. Scores
Of brave fellows have stepped in for enroll
ment beyond and oFer 4hc complement Of the
companies, Not only are there an excess Of
regiments offered and now In waiting, but
there is scarcely company offered but has
been OF must be cut down to the limit Of
numbers fixed upon By army regulations.
This is nohle and worthy Of alI praise but it
Is Of Itself obviously just now fertile source
Of embarrassment On the one hand, and COM
plant upon the other. AL that is to be done
Is to carefully adjust and smooth oyer these
difficulties. It Is no holiday work upon which
We have entered, no morning employment, but
q sad and severe task. There will be ample
room for I'll to serve their country, and the
eubazragsments experienced Just nov, arc or
II for the present.
Indiscrimin2te censure will do nothing to
help the matter. Men thrown loose from
companies by the looping Of an oyergrowu
,mueterfon, viii each find their place, and in
the meanwhile 70 one can justly blame officers
who could do no less than cut down to the
standard 1Isd. We are answering in these
remarks the communications Of several cor
respondents, upon this point, and can suggest
the remedy for the future, Of strict compli-
ance With the regulation fixing the limit Of
numbers. The nuster-rol should be full and
no more, aud then there will not be an excess
Of recruits to be rejected.
But to pass to q kindred topic little nearer
home. Tie call in this city has met with 3
1esponse-so generous that thirteen volunteer
companies are How in service from Chicago,
apd tUtaty Sestu more offered, reported as in
readiness to move nt ! days notice. Those
are iberally envied who are now under OF.
ders and in camp, and doubtless places in
several Of these companies would command
premium.
The volunteers now waiting here to be &C.
eepted and enrolled are eager andimpatient-
Many Of them are married men and have fatni-
lies in narrow circumstances and feel the
need Of MD for their support. This hes.
caused to be visited upon the Committee of
theWar,FEa In this city, numerous pressing
appeals for assistance from that quarter, and
Tbs Comm1ttee In denying such applications
have been Ihera1ly censured by one or two
correspondents Tlosr communications lie
before us.
The, Committee ara gentlemen of inte!li-s
genca, Integrity, aud standing, and in their
hands the Fund is well located. It Is held Is
sacred trust for volunteers, and the families
Of volunteers in the actual service Of the
country. willingness, and readiness TO en-
list, OF the fact Of enlistment before actual ac-
ceptanee hy tile Government, will not bring
Ia Ero hr-+ +I,nJ ~
this fund Generous and noble as their mo.
tives and heavy as their sacrifices may be, 1t
will not do to pey. out s dollar from this sa-
cred trust towards the support here Of from a
thousand to fifteen hundaed men, yet here
and out of service, willing and ready to GO,
but still with their families AID In civil life
When these are accepted and ordered into ser
Woe, and not Until then, will they and theirs
be placed within the design and purpose Of
This Fund.
We do not write this without full apprecl~
alton and sympathy with the many who while
waiting to be received, need assistance We
only state the simple fact that 10 provision
has been made for such cases. and these men
will agree with us that the Fund belonging to
absaut Volunteers should not be diverted from
Its original purposes.
The First of May.
We are not mie,ed by c poor pm when we
write tb24 for the past fo-ty~eight hours tile
house Of Binks, as representative Of The ten-
ant world hos presented moving. sp: ctacle,
melancholy O. contemplation BY the hum name
mind. Smile ifse will ye who from one twelve
tn otI rst rDr}apf Gr1A Tlnri1
beneath your own roof tree, with no one to.
noleet or make you afraid, either With notices
to quit, o. announcement Of rent to be raised
for tEo next year. Smile on, Tlile the BinEs;.
family and their Penates, from the kitch-
en- stove to tho babgs crib, are bundled into
express wagons in exceedingly heterogeneous
asaod atoms, and 60 ratt1ing sway, squares dig
tant to & new location
Ofslch terrific scenes it hath been written
there Is no hint OF redress In insurance polI-
eles. 81 There Is no houshold howsos'er defen-
ded - which If not under roof Of its own IL
net snbject to the domestic revolutions, which
however desirable the result, are traversed By
and exceedingly stony pathway.
It p!ttab1e for the tender hearted observer
to look in upon one of these scenes, the
q wreck Of matter" and crush Of the domestic
Tu7ld The par1or sofa and the Aour barrel
the etagere and the refrigerator. ANNALS FROM
the parl6r liable md kettles from the scu1lery,
eEtfe1es Of yertu long cherished; and tin ware
useful but not Ornamental, the mahogany and
tbs pIne,au 60 grumtling and Gathering away,
the best in the encounter, Like gentleman
snong tue roughs, getting the worst Of it.
And If 1t is distressing the pulling up, and
pidAble the fitting, what wo.da hiss the dc
aonaEy left for the settling down? Binks de,
clares he has esten two meals from the top of
the wssh bench, put the baby to sleep In the
bnck-basket, aud inproVieed a :bedstead for
Bobby oua Of two chairs. himself and Mrs B.:
passing the night On shake-down in the hall.
This is an extrene case, doubtless exaggerated
by Binks, vho Is trialng with . serious sub.
3ect But there Is trouble enough.
We wish mRny Of our tenant world in their |
removals found better homes We svmpa-~f
4hize with most Of them for privatiens and |
deprivations that only the ignorance of mas
terjotneEa, coupled with the cupidity Of land /
lords coun have brought about. In many in
rtances the question OF expense has nothing
to do with It. Il ws2 not matter Of dollar
Or two that put doors and windows ut random
through mtzshapen, illy contxived rooms, as
II the cnulpon ent parts Of the tenement had +
beea shaken loosely ont Of d bag, and rs if |
the thought Of future arrangement Of farni.
trre had no part In the decision and plan.
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