Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-09

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In this latitude as the Fail comes on
mig-days may be seorehing heat. wbils
, Ihu-nights shall beshivering cold. II rnsv
DC owing to this fact that September il con-
siuered sne most unhealthy month of the
{ear-more so than the excessive heats of
July and August. Still I doubt if it will
be much worse for these soldiers. One un-
fortunate circumstance is, that this is
wooded country, and few such nights a.
tne last will set a fire 10 blazing for every
SorporAls guard in the army; and these
uensel y-grown pine-lands will be rapidly
eleareo when hundred thousand men set
70 cnopPlng fuel for twenty thousand fires
IN the open air.
In the July dust we long for rain
with August came rain-rain every dav
Some of US thought that little too much
Tell but anything was preferable tothedust
Two days ago, while treading nv wav
through camp, a goOd-lOoking, cleanly .-
dressed, fulLbearded soldier, attracted NV
attentlon by GESTURE which was half sal
ute and half beckOn. Reigning up for I
tnOught detected desire to speak with
me, the man advanced, and folding his arms
and standing st his full height, began.
on, do l look like beggar2 Look al ma
ana say If look ss if were in the habit
OF begging? 1 answered in the negative.
and desired to know whether he had anvf
Ihing to beg for then and got his story.
2ala, ne "lIo you chew or smoke Now
oont know whether you are an officer or
q q ~ IN nam, OF sutler, or quartermaster'g
olo-l5' bat If yeal have any tnhanso uitA --y,,
Ior Gods sake divide with me- You see
nave not been paid for FIVE months, so I
can't buy any, and l must have smoka
can't stand it any longer, am home-sick
as school girl, be hanged if 1 haven't
come confounded near deserting. Here %.
ne stopped to light a cigar had
handed him, along with more OF less
klihklnnlek). When puff get back
lpuI, pun, to Connecticut, mean to raise
(put, pull, puff raise tobacco by the acre.
hang me, (puff puff hang me if don't
give 1t all away to poor devils that haven't
money to-(puG puff, puff, poor devils
that haven't money to buy any. Conyer-
sing with him still further, he declared
that he would re-enlist if he could be sura
Of obtaining tobacco regularly, and he
would not re-enlist unless he could be sure
Of it.
The moral to this incident is easily
enough deduced-tobacco for the sol
1iers
The negro soldiers believe in General
Butler with all their might. Some weeks
ago squad Of them presented themselves
at the office of Lieutenant Brown. then
mastering officer here, and demanded to be
out They had heard that Cen
eral Buffers time was out" they had en-
listed to fight under him and they wasn't
gon, t hab any udder man generalizin'
for dem," and they were quieted only BY
the assurance that General Buffers time
was not out.
The humor that crops out between pick
cts furnishes good many funny incidents,
Major Ludlow was lately showing his
lines to party Of civilians one Of whom lli
was conspicuous for his hat, a tall, silk tile
hat, new from an establishment beneath
the Astor House The individual Of the
hat had just said to the Major: as that
man IN drab clothing, just out there under
the tree, one Of your pickets % when the
= man in drab clothing" brought his gun
70 his shoulder and shouted " Saw, you
Teller with the stOye-pipe hat eff you don't
take that hat of id sudden, III shoot
yeP And he of the hat did take it of g
" suddent,D and for the rest of the vay
carried 1t something nerYously in his
hand.
1t is not to be doubted that were the hos.
pitfalls throughout the North subjected to a D.
thorough Overhauling the army would be
the gamer by some thousands. The diff
Guilty Is that the men once in hospital, even
those slightly wounded, who, when a few
weeks have healed their wounds are hardy
and able, do not come back. They are ab-
sorbed IN dozen different ways. Soma
become nurses, some ward masters, some
cooks, others are taken up as hospital
guards, as Orderlies for the surgeons as mu-
sicians for the hospital band, which has
been organized to swell the importance of
the surgeon In charge-until in many hos
pltals there are as many well soldiers "a
sick ones And so it is that stalwart men,
trained veterans, who should be in the field
toOt serenades, simmer broths, bend over
wash-tubs, polish surgeons boots, carry
billet doler for young NJ. Ds., even scrape
their ehlns and mend their stockings, if the
soldier should once have been a barber or
tailor. repeat thorough overnaulinR
Of all the Northern hospitals would send TO
the field some thousands of good soldiers.
At last we have the Paymaster among
US. Several millions of dollars have been
paid to this army within fortnight aad
bow the suffers do thrive. Communication
with the North is so easy, and the
army being quite permanently iocs-
ted, suffers and their goods allow
ed to come to the front, that all the Iuxu-
ries Of the season abound. One NAV sea
any morning at City Point and Bermuda.
Hundred heaps of mellow apples, peaches,
and vegetables that would not discredit
Washington and Fulton markets. Fresh
fish, not tWenty-four hours from the seas
fresh figs, not twenty-four hours from tho
tree. Mr.. Sutler often deals in literature
He will sell you the AtLalstic or HarpeTS
for half a dollar, the latest novel for twice
the sale price printed on the cover, or he
will sell you a halfdozen rolls of cough
candy, or quinine by the dose, or psir OF
spurs, or a shirt, or perfumed note-papeE,
fit for letters to your sweetheart. He keepS
postage-stamps. He deals in bibles. He
has several cords of canned fruits, and half
dozen barrels of eggs, natures own de-
vice in the way of canned fruit In the
way Of cutlery, pocket-knives and cork
screws he Is sure 10 have, scissors usually,
and surgical instruments OCCASIONALLY
Great is the sutler. Like Shakespeare he-iS
a many-sided man. Like Sam Silks
wife one cannot live with him nor
scarcely with him. Like the Miller's
Daughter, he has "grown so dear, so dear
Like Robinson CrusOe, @his right there is
none to dispute"
We take from the Louisvills Journal
the following items Of information:
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