Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-24

WAsHINGToS, Jan. 81, 1862.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND TRAITS OF Mr.,
sTANTON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81, 1862.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND TRAITS OF Mr..
STANTON.
The new Secretary of War, Mr.. Stanton,
is a stout, thick-set man, about five feet eight
inches high, and apparently about 40 years
of age. Hair and beard very black, the lat.
ter worn thick and long. His head is set
very erect on his shoulders, il any thing, a
little thrown back. His face is round and
solid in expression, with blunt features. His
address is prompt and practical his voice full,
distinct and unmusical. He has never studied
the art of pleasing, and has not the gift of
paying compliments in conversation. AN ex-
hibition of his thoughtlessness in this regard
was manifested on Monday, when the officers
of the Army called to pay their respects to
him on his induction into office. An officer
well sprinkled with gray but yet with quite
a vigorous step and clear eye, was presented
to Mr.. Stanton. The latter recognized hin,
and shook him warmly by the hand, saying:
81 remember you well. ! saw you many
years ago, when you were in the prime of
life, and | was little boy about so high"
And the new Secretary measured with his
hand, as he said this, an imaginary lad of
not over ten years old. The sturdy old Gen
eIal turned and walked off without word
in reply, evidently not thinking himself so.
old as Mr. Stanton's remarks would have
implied.
PERMITS FOR SOUTHERN TRADE.
The Yankee yearnipg for Southern trade
is raoldinary. Scarcely a day passes
without numerous applications being made
TO the War Department for permission to
take vessels into Port Royal, laden with as.
sorted cargoes of shoes, blankets, coffee, salt,
| needles, pins, quinine, &C, &c. In every
case it is urged that the sole desire is to
afford these invaluable luxuries to the poor
| Union soldiers who are seeing hard service
in that inhospitable cline. But the Gov
ernment is obdurate, and refuses to break its
| own blockade. AT least forty applications
for leave TO take goods into Port Royal have
been refused in the past ten days. In two
cases c8Tgoes Office were allowed to be taken
in, on the ground that it might prove useful
to sick soldiers in hospital or to wounded
men in case of battle.
HOME. SICKNESS OF SOLDIERS
The New York Allotment Commissioners,
| Messrs. Roosevelt, Dodge and Bronson never
stop from their labors on account of the
weather. Through snow, rain, sleet and
mud they continue their faithful round
among the camps, renewing to the heart-sick
soldier thoughts Of his family, by appealing
70 him to set aside part of his pay for their
comfort and support. The fact of doing
something for the loved ones at home has an
e1cellent moral eHecL on tne sOlulerS. IL
brings sense of duty performed, binds them
anew to life, and saves them from that de.
spairipg home-sickness that, in the opinion Of
the Commissioners, kills more soldiers than
disease.
&Another fact is ascertained by the New
York Commissioners, which is of singular
interest. The allotment system reaches the
very men who are most in need of its ben
etits. The extraVagant and dlssolute sol
diers, who have been living freely and vast
ing all their pay, are the ones who allo
most liberally TO their families at home. Thi
class OF persons are generally impulsiVe ant
liberal, and when the Commissioners ad
dress them, touchingly and affectingly, oI
the condition of loneliness and distress il
which their families are left, they are read.
to surrender all their enjoyments for thei
relief. The Commissioners are laboring s.
industriously, in order to get through all tn
New York regiments before the army moves