Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-15
CUES the Portable Saw MILL
Burn the Portable Saw mill
Blast the eyes
of ha who flies
To bring as a Portable Saw mil


But we are still hopeful. We have re-
ceiyed no orders to put up winter quarters,
and expect to foot ir over the "dark and
bloody ground" yet The feeling that pre-
walls among the troops here is that they
would rather go through another campaign in
Kentucky or the South than lay idle in
winter quarters in Western Virginia during
the season.
The weather here would mis- t-ify not only
the "oldest man in America" but even Mer-
riam, the renowned meteorologst of Albany.
Two, and even three weeks ago, persons in
camp, weather. wise in their own conceit,
pronounced an opinion that the pluvial sea-
son was fairly over; that we would have
snow "'fore mornin' )" and, sure enough, as
soon as the fog cleared away the next day
say eleven o'clock A. M.-snow could be
plainly discerned on the surrounding noun
tan-tops. The neat day, however rain COM
menced falling, and continued doing so for
four consecutive days; and since that period
it has rained more or less all the time.
Where all the water comes from can't i'm
agine; but don't blame them for getting rid
OF it up above, for, as Mr.. MantalIni would
say, "it's demnltion disagreeable fluid"
down here. G.. -.
Our rolls for payment have all been sent
in, properly made out, and we therefore ex-
pect an early visit from Major Haseltine, the
Paymaster of the Ohio troops here. Should
the city of Cincinnati send out persons to
transmit remittances to friends and relatives
it is TO be hoped that they will confine them !
selves to their duties, and not attempt any
thing in literary WY. OLe performance
of that kind, which appeared in the Oincin-
natl Commercial of late date over the sig.
nature of Mr.. Leonard Swartz excited as
much merriment from its ridiculous state
ments as from the looseness of style that
pervaded the production. The bare idea of
there being four hundred Secession cavalry
on a road which has been for four months
and is now being constantly travelled with
out any impediment, is supremely absurd.
Somebody must have been playing quips
upon the innocent credulity of the elderly
gentleman of the party. And the rather
left handed compliment he took occasion to
pay Lieutenant-C Colonel N. L. Anderson, by
saying that he lacked business qualifications
for that position, does that gentleman injus-
tice. The regiment has been under his COM
msnd for over two months, and during that
time, (and feel that l will be borne out by
my comrades), l can confidently assert
that no regiment has been better taken care
of than it has, as far as his power went.
Their proficiency as soldiers is ascribable to
bis energy, as far as a field officers duty in
that direction lies; and you can form an idea
OF the degree of perfection TO which they
have arrived, when regular officer unhesi-
tatingly pronounced them equal to regulars.
Again, Mr.. Swartz states that Colonel An
derson came to him" for advice, and that
he told him to send Quartermaster Shoema-
ker to Cincinnati, with instructions to re.
main there until he procured what the regi-
ment needed 1 can state upon the most
reliable authority that this statement is en-
tiIely untrue. Lieutenant Colonel Anderson
is not in the habit of consulting civilians
upon matters of business pertaining to the
regiment; and if he did, II is to be presumed
that his Judgment would not lead him to
Mr.. s. at all events. .'....
Mr.. Swartz also states that che saw"
among other equipments, "blaHksts for the
Sixth Ohio.p In this, as in other matters of
veracity, he is equally at fault. There were
ho blankets to be procured in Cincinnati,