New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-30
COLD COMFORT.

Do our readers remember newspaper intlt-
uled TIE atlanta COntsderaey "a journal
which has, even in gloomy times, furnished us
with material for cheerful comment We are
grieved to announce that this once j0yal Georgian
sheet is now deeply depressed at the Rebel
" reverSes sustained during the Winter months" "
According to The COIfeder0ey, the Thermometer
is greater than the sword, and the traitors must
not expect TO win any more battles until hot
weather is well established. At present, the
Southern population is chilled, benumbed, md
"lifeess" at present the Southern patriot ''would
d" scarcely move from a good hickory log fire TO
L" dodge q cannon ball" Wait until the mercury
bobs up to 800 above 0, in the shade Con-
federate yalor is Of very dormouse variety. Just
now, chiyalry is ALTERNATING Poor Tom g a-cold |!
He can I be expected to thaw into inyincibilify
until about the middle of June Then he viii
come out, like polar bear, fat aud ferocious.
Then" says The COnfederaey, he will "revel
4" in his tropical glory" He is never irresstibly
savage until he sweats He cannot bo valorous
save in his shirt-sleeves. IL hot weather "he
pants for blood" Al least, so says The Con-
federaey
On the other hand, according to this newspa-
per, Yankee ia never half go valorous as when
half frozen 10 death. He does MT begin to show
himself till he shiyers He is nobody, unless the
wind is northeast. lie is q sweltering zany at n
temperature one degree above nothing. The solar
4. Il H,r mi
When the " Southron reyels in his tropical glory
the Yankee willis and goes under" Mark
what we say; the Hrst battle on hot day, e1-
claims this military meteorologist, will whlp the
fight" This is certainly plucky, if not precise
" grammatical 1t is evident that nothing can
save us but providential succession OF the
nastiest North casters. Under these crcum-
stances, perhaps our Generals should receive H.
,tructions never to fight except when IT is chilly
To be sure, good many years ago, 1t was I
what YOU might have exactly called cold az Con-
cord and Lexington; and We beleTe oyercoat
were rather than else discarded OF Bunker llill.
We know something about warm weather mp
here .lanted as we are in sucl close proximity to
the North Pole. We beg leave to assure our
brother of The CogjedeTaey that We do not g IN
bear-shns the year round. Exudaton will not
be- phenomenon altogether new TO us. We have
that rarity, the hottest day Of the season, even
Holmes "The folks that on the First Of May,
" Wore Winter coats aud hose Began to say, the
" First Of June, Good Lord, how hot Il grows"
And that was in Boston, tho very nursery aud
Of North-E1Hiers. II Ninety De-
grees above, IN the shade were Docesselily fatal,
We should have "a very dying time here in
New. York, every Summc- one set OF dog.days
would leave Manhattan desert. Yet, somehow,
by virtue of straw-hnts, linen coats, and ice wc
do, some Of US, survive surprisingly high tcmpera-
lures. We DO not call ourselves absolute sala-
manders-new Shadrachs, Neshachs, and Abed.
Iitgos-but we do not believe that the fiery sun
beams Of Secessa will quite slnge the buir Of our
soldiers heads nor that our braves will be driven
to Sidney Smiths extremity OF getting out of
their flesh TO sit, OF stand, or do battle, in their
bones. Somehow we cannot think Of cur gallant
fellows advancing with fans in one land and rifles
in the other. Thus far, in more than one hight
they have shown themselves cool euough--we
hope il will not be different in June.
1t is curious TO notice this propensity Of the
Rebels to rely upon Hot Weather aad the Yellow
Fever. 1t would be still more curious TO see
them upon their pious knees praying for peEti-
lcncc-humbly supplicating for miasma-beseech-
ing Heaven to change tie proportions Of the at
mOspheric air, and TO diminish the quantity of
ozone-tenderly relying upon the gentle Offices of
measles ed rever.and- aaue-s signing for the CO.
operation Of the small-po -pox--begging that fate may
cut us OF from our quinine, and that every bomb
which they fire may shiyer at least one of our
medicine-cbests. They don't seem 70 remember
that if death should become general, they might be
called upon TO die just little. Under the most
favorable circumstances, in past years, accima-
ton has not saved them from fatal periodical epi.
demics-they have been swept of, even os If they
were Common mortals. How viii it be will tho
Lot ekies bending over their dirty camps-with
The Commssaliat Department in coufsiCn-yitl
thc army Uniforms and Blankets in rap--ailh no
habits among tho men of selfreslranti and witt
10 intelligence among the oilicersl VIII rot these
q children Of the sun" as The Contoderacy calls
them, be in some danger of disessei The At
lanta paper assures us that under these crcum-
stances, 4" the current of life in Southern Arle-
tcries " flows with accelerated speed" fl NAV
possibly flow altogether too fast.
The COn(,dsrdoy assures It's readers that no