The New York herald., 1862-01-13

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the corps cadets confined hs light prison one month";
attending all academic duty drills and to the limits OF
| the plains until July I, 1862
Cadet Henry Ledyard same offence, TO be connned 70
light prison one month"; and every Saturday and Sunday
until January 1, 1852.
We Of opinion that the great deficiency In the
discipline at West Point consists in trusting this
discipline too much TO cadets. IT is by the connvance OF
the cadet sennes that the grosses violations Of order
including often drunkenness caused at West Point
IT. then the number Of cadets 10 be speedily increased
is proposed to 400, the country will demand greater
sringency in discipline especially regard TO absence
from cadets limits. How is this demand to be met ana
the defect we have pointed out remediedP We answer
that the time has evidently come TO surround the post
with WALL and station the gates and at other points
army sentinels Hsress from the Point must be made
more difficult The best prevention Of inemperance Is 10
the power of doing and not have resort TO
that most painful remedy, disgraceful dismssion.
HOURS OF DAILY DUTIES.
Reveie at five O'Clock A. NJ, from April to September
30 at half past A. M, from the 1st to the 31st Of
March and from the LIST to the alst of October; at
O'Clock A. NJ during the remainder Of the year. Roll cali
Immediately after revee; police ofquarters cleaningo
,accoutrements, &C. inspection Of rooms thirty min
after revee roll call study. Surgeons call quarter
before IA. NJ Peas-upon atrencher, signal for break
fast, at A. NJ. Troop and guard mounting at hafpast
IA. NJ, in barracks; at A. NJ, in camp. Class parade
at A. M when reca'ions eegn and ,.e continue WIN
marched 70 and from the section rooms by squad
marchers from their own number; There are Some
cavalry and sword exercises also at IL a. N.
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every day when the weather is favorable Saturdays and
Sundays excepted.
Parade and Retreat at sunset supper after parade re-
creation.
Cali to quarters, thirty minutes after supper; study.
Tattoo at half past =. NJ.
Taps signal for extnguishing lights and inspection Of
rooms at 10 p in barracks. and fifteen minutes before
inspection Of battalion under arms every Sunday
ing, when the weather permits. Church call half past
10 A. on Sundays; also on the same day there s call
IL trt~x vain ooca
Bpm.
The calls breakfast and recitation made with tho
bugle the other calls with drums excepting evening
parades, at which full band is in attendance.
Military ruie it is seen, provides seven and eight
must be no "burning Of the midnight oil" "Kind ma
tures sweet restorer is not neglected This whole
some regulation Dr. McDouga the surgeon T a. west
eminenty well adapted to the physical developement OF
the cadets There are no indications OF mental or phys
cal overwork" All enjoy an excellent degree OF health
THE ACADEMIC TERM, STUDIES, ETC.
Candidates for tho Academy must report themselves to
the between 1st and the Goth June
annually and are examined the last fortnight Of that
month No shall be admitted who is under sixteen
or than twenty years Of age Or below five feet
in height. There is a surgical examination
In 1851 and previously, the term Of study was four
years from 1855 June 1861 it has been five years
The Secretary Of War has ordered that the period OF study
shall be for four years during the war The course OF
study published in the register of June, 1891 and cor
rected for four classes, is as follows, viz
FIRST CLASS
Military and Cirl Engineering Mahans Field Fortif-
cation; Notes Permanent Fertilization Attack and Do
fence, Mines and other Accessories; Mahans Civil Eng
neering Notes on Stone Cutting Moseleys Mechanics
Of Engineering
Minsraloqy and Geolosy-Dana's Mncralogy Hitch
La,o and iiterature-Kents Commentaries; De Hart
Courts Martial; Rules and Articles OF War; Webers
Outline OF Universal History Defamation and Compo-
sition.
Practical Military Engneering-P Practical instruction
sap rollers SC Of laying out and construct ng
gun and mortar batteries, field Notifications and works
OF siege formation of sockades, abas and other mill
tary obstacles and throwing and dsmantng ponton
bridges.
Exercise and ManGuvres Of the United States Infantry
Practical instruction in the Schools Of the Soldier Com
pany and Battalion Practical instruction in Artillery and
| Ordnance and Gunnery.-practical Pyrotechny Ben
| toms Course Of Ordnance and GunHery.
Natural and Experimental hilosophy.-Bartletts No
chancs, Acoustics, Optics and Astronomy.
Carbohydrates Chemistry; Eectrics from Miller's
Physics of Chemistry.
| Dtascinq-Iandscape.
service; Rules for the Exercise and Maneuvres Of
| the United States Infantry; Tactics for Garrison,
Siege and Field Artillery YOuatt on the Horse;
Jomnis Of War Thackcrays Army Organization and
Administration Army Regulations; Extracts from Nc
Cellans Military Commission TO Europe practical in
struction in the schools Of the soldier cpany bat
| taion practical instruction in artillery and cavalry
THIRD CLASS.
Mathematics-Davies' Descriptive Geometry Davies
Surveying Churchs Analytical Geometry; Church's Diff
ferenal and Integral Calculus.
mars Verb Book; Agnes Tabular System; Rowans Nor
ceau Choisis des Auteurs Modernes.
Spdnish.-Josse's Grammar Morales Progressive
Reader: Olendorf's Oral Method.
Dracing.-Human figure topography.
Tactcs.-Theoretca and practical instruction in the
schools Of the soldier company and battalion practical
instruction In artillery and cavalry
rOrRTH CLASS
MdTcmdtics.- sies Bourdons Algebra Davies Le
gendres GeometT' and Trgonomotry Davies Descrip
tive Geometry.
Enoish Sstdie, and Laercture.-Norse's Geography
Bullion 3 Grammar vocabulares by Professor French
Rogets Thesar .us of English Words Parkers Aids to
English Compositions Frenchs Practical Ethics Frenchs
Preixes and Siixes Webers Outline Of Universal His
tory sargens Eocution; Composition and Defamation.
Tddic.-Theorctica instruction in the schools of the
soldier and company practical instruction in the schools
of the soldier company and battaon practical nstruc
tion In artillery.
Use Of Small Ayms-lnstructon in fencing and bayonet
exercise.
Al the annual examination in June the graduating class
promoted into the army From the termination Of that
examination TO the end of August tho cadets are
camped the plain, and then the instruction is excu
svey military. During the remaining period Of the year
instruction is given In all the courses Of study.
UNIFORM OF CADETS.
Gray cloth coatee, single breasted, three of gilt
buttons in front; stand up collar. Vest for winter
gray CLOTH single breasted, gilt buttons for
summer, white-not indispensable. Trowsers for
winter Of gray cloth, with a black stripe, one
inch wide, down the outer seam; for summer,
white drilling Cap black, round crown, seven inche1
high more in proportion TO size Of cadet, circular
visor black worsted pompon eight inches long, cap plate
on the front The government furnishes the cadets with
all their supplies. cadets pay s $50 month"; and
from this he Ia be provided with his food, cloth
ing books, stationery, mathematical instruments, bed
ding, furniture, lights and military equipments,
cepting arms.
PROMOTION FROM THE RANKS.
Tho system which has prevacd for MANY years of
granting commissions only chiefly to graduated cadets
IS decidedly antrepublican and injurious to the service
II was not contemplated in the plans Of Washington, Ha
milton and Pickering above referred to- During the pre-
rebellion, however there has been great change in
this respect The President has already commissioned
about thirty mcrtorious scrgcans and has left
cics for others There have been commissioned also from
civil life in the regular service $50 officers who
not graduates Of the Military Academy This also is an