Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-12-04

The FIGURES ON DRESS PARADE-Assume
an army of 100000 men formed into single
line and allowing two feet to each man, there
are $3.50 feet in mile allowing two feet
to each man, and you have 2640 men to the
mile. Now divide 600 900 by 2,640 and you
have instead of % miles 227 miles and frac-
tion over now countermarch the right wing
and place as rear rank and you have front
! of over | l3 miles, should the Generalissimo
wish to make a rapid inspection by rail it
would take two and half hours, if on horse
back it would take one day of twelve hours,
and give no time to feed on the road at that
Now form them into hollow square, front
and rear rank, and instead of being not quite
three miles from side to side, it would exceed
% miles, aud the square would contain over
7S4 square miles,a larger area than auy coun.
ty in Ohio When marching at the rate of
20 miles per day, it would take including ar.
tiIlery, ambulauces, &c, two weeks for the ex-
treme left wing to reach point left by the
right wing now place this army on guard,
say so feet apart, we might then guard a ter
ritorv of over two millions of square miles, or
hollow spare being 1927 miles from side to
side We will presume that the relief guard
travels at the rate of twenty miles per day of
twenty-four hours, which seems very slow, but
when We consider that they must halt every
SO feet and give the countersign, &c, it will
keep them busy to go the twenty miles. 1t
will then take from the time the guard starts
until the last guard is relieved 295 days or
over months, at the end of this time he must
look very much as the man did that was sent
to the Atlantic telegraph Office and command
ed to wait for the European message. AS a
sentinel is not allowed to stand still he will
have travelled about 7240 miles.
Now take the number of men that have, are,
and will soon be engaged in this war aud We
have over two and half millions, place these
on guard on the equator and it would eHcir-
Gle the earth with guard 80 feet apart
This army'S regular ration of potatoes would
be over 1900 bushels per day.
EDMUND BURxE.-When Burke came for
ward, as his custom was, to the middle Of the
House of Commons to speak, the first pecu-
liarty which caught the eye of the spectator
was the glasses which he almost constantly
wore in the days Cf his celebrity. He was
tall and noble looking, with decidedly pre-,
possessing appearance by no means smart
in his dress, yet possessing personal dignity
which the tailor could not have given him
Ii seemed full of thought and care and the
firm lines about the mouth, the strong jaw,
and severe glance of the dark eye, spoke Of
many an inward battle which was known 10
no human observer The head was solid and
intense, rather than massive, high rather than
broad, and tolerably prominent, fuller, one
would say at first sight, of the reasoning than
of the imagining power His nose, which
was as straight as if it had been cut after q
bevel, opened out into two powerful noStrilS
made apparently only to sneer. Altogether
he looked like great man with great les
sen to read to men, more than like gentle
one set in the world to please. He spoke with
decided Hibernian accent, although he left
the country early in life. But it is to be re
marked that men of genius hardly ever lose
the tongue of their youth. He had q voice
of great compass, and be was never required
to hesitate for words. They came quick and
vehement, frequently almost beyond the power
OF utterance. AS he spoke, his head rose and
fell now it swung. and anon it oscillated from
side to side of his body, moved by the intense
nervous action of his frame. Young Gillray,
the foremost of English caricaturists, sketches
Burke in various postures and attitudes. One
of the most characteristic of these represents
him as rapt in.lhe delivery of some splendid
oraton, with bis hands clenched and his arms
raised erectly over bis head his whole body
picture of living energy.-BritiM Rerieo.