The tri-weekly herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-04-18
From the Pftsrs5~ry Erprsas.l
The Secret Of Military Success.

history proves the truth of the Bible, that
the battle is not always TO the strong. From
the earliest records Of history to the present
day, the smaller number has won at least
three battles out of tive. Success, in war, de-
pends on efficient organization, steady discip-
line, courage and endurance. Few men have
ever possessed the capacity to establish these
things in a large army.
The Roman Legion numbered 5000 men
"a Consular army about $4,000, With this.
force they conquered the world A French
corps d'a3'mee conposes 90, 900 men. Napoleon
was in the habit of saying he could not find q
marshal who could handle ttat number. The
Athenians, with 10000 men, defeated the
Persians at Marathon, with 100000 men, and
with less than three times that numbe: won the
battles of Plates and Salarnis, and drove Ave
millions of invaderSsfrorn thcir soil. With 500
men, the Swiss at Morgarteen, defeated 10000
Austrians. With an equally disproportionate
force they fought sixty pitched battles and
maintained their independence. .'r
Bruce defeated Edward of England with his
trained army Of 100000, at Bannockburn,
with $4,000 half-armed Highlanders =
The Prince Of Orange, at the head Of se7e-
raj small provinces of Holland, not one of them
larger than Virginia county,. maintained
their independence against the most powerful
monarch in Europe, and defeated armies
three times as numerous as fiS own. and COM
mandcd by John, of Austria and Alexander
Farnese, the greatest military leaders Of the
age:
Leyden withstood the whole power ofSpain,
at that time the most warlike nation in Eu-
rope. Maximiiap, Of Germany, Louis the
XII, of France, and Pope julius II, formed
sthe infamous league of Cambray, for the de-
struction OF Venice. With heroic resolve she
entered the field. Superior force might have
overpowered her, but God is ever on the side
of the right Discord and dis$ension broke out
among her enemies. Their armies were de-
feated;and Venice was preserved.
1t will ever be so. The success Of 3 gallant
struggle on the side ofright and justice against
wrong and op preston, is inevitable. A gittu-
Gus and brave people in q good cause have
never failed. If We are right and do not falter
we must succeed.
Grant opened bis grand campaign with
$50 600 men. Has Richmond fallen Has
Petersburg? The fact is, these half million
armies are simply humbugs, and are almost
always the victims, if not Of cannon, of pesti-
lence, famine and mQtiny. Brave men, we'll
organized, we'll equipped, are the sincws, the
life, the soul of an army. Money cannot buy
them. They fight, when they fight at al
IN principle Week as We may appear, and
strong as the enemy may seem. in the hour
of peril we shall have the strength CT David,
our enemies the weakness of Goliah.
- FooD for WEAK. SroMAcHs.--In the Me-
moirssof Count Segur, vol. !, page 1GS, there
is the following anecdote: Ny mother (the
Countess de Segur) being asked. by Voltaire
respecting her health, told him that the most
painful feeling she had arose from the decay
Of tcs stomach, and the difficulty Of finding
any kind of aiimcnt that it could bear. Vol
taire, by way Of consolation, assured her that
he was once for nearly year in the same
state, and believed to be iHcurab!e, b'it that,
nevertheless, a very simple remedy had re-
stored him. 1t consisted in taking no other
nouriShnent than yolkS Of egg, beaten up
with the tour Of potatoes and water. Though
this circumstance took place as far back as
fifty years ago, and respected so extraordinary
a persouage as Voltaire, it is astonishing how
little it IS known, and how rarely the remedy
has been ppactiscd- It's efficacy, however, in
case Of debility, cannot be questioned. and the
following is the mode of preparing this valua-
bic article Of food, as recommended by Sir
John Sinclair: Receipt-Beat up an egg in
bowl, and then add six tableSpoon-fuls Of
cold water, mixing the whole well together;
then add TWO tabIe-Spconfuls Of the fariaa Of
potatoes, to be mixed thoroughly with the
liquor in the bowl. Then pour in as much.
boiling water as will convert the whole into
jelly, and mix it yell. 1t may be taken either
alone, or with the addition of little milk and
rSoi<t or best sugar. not "only for breakfast,
but in eases Of great s,omachic debility, or in
consumptive disorders, at .he other meals The
dish is aght, easily digested, extremely whole
some.and nourishing. Bread or biscuit nay
be taken with it as the stomach gets stronger.
One of our citizens was thus accosted By
the landlord: ''AS every thing is on the rise,
7 feel IT. INV 6uty to raise tha rent Sir \"