East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-02-01

But at o'clock some dingy morn
ing, obedient to sudden orders, the
regiments march away in good cheer
the army wagoners 60 streaming and
swearing after them; the beat Of the
drum grows fainter; the last stragglei
is out of sight; the canvas city has
vanished like q vision. On such a
morning and amid such a scene,
have loitered till it seemed as if q busy
city had passed out Of sight, leaving
nothing behind for all that life and
light but empty dosolation. Will you
wonder much if / tell you that / have
watched such vanishing with pang
OF regret; that the trampled field
looked dim to me, worn smooth and
beautiful by the touch Of those brave
ffsodrns WIN n nesipnosSs pnosSs Asye, taEod ad, upon
many, that shall never again in oil
this coming and going world, make
music upon the old thresholds! And
how many such sites Of perished cities
this war has made, how many bonds
of good-fellowship have been rent to
be united no more
REcoNNoIsANcE ON PRIVATE ACCOUNT" I"
Every wood, ravine, hill, field, is
explored; the productions, animal and
vegetable, are inventoried, and one
day renders these soldiers as thor
oughly conversant with the region
round about as if they had been
dwelling there lifetime. They have
tasted water from every spring and
well, estimated the corn to the acre,
tried the watermelons, gagged the
peaches, knocked down the persim-
mons, milked the cows, roasted the
pigs, picked the chickens; they know
who live here and there and yonder,
the whereabouts Of tho native boys,
the names Of the native girls. If
there is curious cave, a queer tree,
a strange rock anywhere about, they
know it. You can see them with the
chisel, hammer and haversack, tug
ging up the mountain or scrambling
down the ravine in a geological pas
sion that would have won tho right
hand of fellowship from Hugh Mil
ler, and homo they come laden with
specimens that would enrich cabi-
net / have in my possession the
most exquisite of soil buds just ready
10 open, beautt..is.:i shells rare minerals,
collected by these rough anu dsshing
naturalists. If you think the rank
and file have no taste for the beauti-
ful, it is time you remembered Of what
material our armies are made. Moth
ing will catch soldiers eye quicker
than a patch of velvet moss, or fresh
little flow er, and many letter leaves
the camp enriched with faded souv-
enirs of these expeditions. l said
that nothing viii catch an old cam
paigner's eye quicker than flower,
but l was wrong,--a dirty, ragged
baby will. L havo seen thirteen
dollar man expend dollar for trink-
cts to hang about the dingy neck of
an urchin that at home and three
years ago he would not have touched
with the tongs. Do you say, it is for
the mothers sake? You have only
to see the bedraggled, coarse, lank,
tobacco-chewing dam--is it wicked
for me to use that word in such a
fashion?-to abandon that idea, like
q founding, to the tonder mercies of
the first doorstep.
COFFEE IN THE ARMY.
Some wise man proposed in Con-
gress, you remember, the substitution
of tea for coffee in the army, and told
the people that the soldiers would
welcome the change. A tolerablo fair
specimen Of theoretical stay-at-home
wisdom, but not worth q Sabbath
days journey Of the Queen Of Shoba
to look ut. Why, coffee is their aqua
pite-their solace and mainstay. -
When boy cannot drink his coffee
you may be sure he has done drink
ing altogether On march, no soon
er is O halt ordered than little fires
begin to twinkle along the line; they
make coffee in five minutes, drink il
in three, take drill at hard cracker
and are refreshed. Our comrades
from "der Rhine" will squat phleg-
matically anywhere, even in line OF
battle. No sooner has the storm
swept to some other part of tho field
than the kettles begin to boil and
amid stray bullets and shattered shell
they take great swallows of heart and
coffee together 1t is Rhine wine, the
soul of Gambrinus, "Switzer," and
'Iimberg," in one.
HOW THR SOLDIERS SLEEP.
You would, 1 think, wonder to see
men lie right down in the dusty road,
under the full noon sun Of Tennessee
and Alabama, and fall asleep in a
! minute. i have pussed hundreds OF