New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-15

9 ber sixteen; Jubal A. Early, &" Apple Jack
Early") number eighteen; D. Fl. Hill, number
, twenty-One; William H. French, number twenty
two; John Sedgwick, number tWenty-f four !; John
@. Pemberton, number twenty y-seven; Joseph
! Hooker, number twenty-nine, and William H. 7.
Walker, (frst Confederate secretary of war;
forty.Bx. The talent of that class was certainly
not monopolized by its first men,"
In the class Of 1888 the second name is that Of
P. G. 7. ,Beauregard. Number seventeen was
William F. Barry, McClellan's and Sherman's able
chief Of artillery. Below them were Irwin
Mcdowell, nunber twenty-three; William J.
number twenty-eight; and Andrew Smith, number
thirty six. At the head Of the class of 1889 was
Isaac J. Stevens, since known as governor and as
| Gen. Stevens, whose early loss during the war
brilliant one Henry W. Halleck stood, in this
class number three James B. Rickets, number
sixteen; Edward o. c. Ord, seventeen Henry j..
Hunt, nineteen ; and Edward R. 8. Candy, thirty:
| In the class of 1840, William 7. Sherman stood
number six. Below him were George H. Thomas,
number twelve, Richard s. EWell, thirteen; George
| W. Getty, fifteen. Horatio G. Wright was number
two in the class of l84l. Below him were Amiel
W. Whipple, number FIVE; Nathaniel Lyon, num-
| Der eleven; Schuyler Hamilony number twenty
| four; James Totten, number twenty-five; John =.
Reynolds number twenty-six; Don Carlos Buell.,
number thlrty-two; Alfred sully, number thirty
| five; and William F. Brooks, number forty-six.
In the class of 1854 Henry L. Eustis, since bet
ter known as Professor Eustis, of Harvard Uni
versity, heads the list. Below him were John
| Newton, number two; George W, Rains, number
| three; w. s. Rosecrans, number five; GastaVus W .
Smith, number eight; Mansfield Lowell, number
nine; John Pope, number seventeen; AbneT Double
day, number twenty -four; Richard H. Anderson,
one of Lees lieutenants, number forty; Lafayette
| McLaws, number forty-eight; Earl Van Dorm,
| number fifty two, and James Longstreet number
ffty-four: 1t will be seen that three noted Con
| federate commanders-the last one the most eff
| cient-weTe at the foot of the class.
In the of 15l3 William r Franklin hnada
the list. Below him were Isaac T. Quinby, number
six; John j. Peck, number eight; Joseph J. Rey
nolds, number ten; Christopher c. Augur, number
sixteen; Ulysses S. Grant, number twenty-one;
Frederick Steele, number thirty and Rufus Ingalls,
| number thirty-tWO..
| In the class of 1874, Alfred Pleasanton was
| number seven, and below him were Simon B.
Buckner, number eleven; Winfield S. Hancock,
| number eighteen and Alexander Hays number
| twenty.
In the class Of 1885, William F. Smith ('tBaldy''
Smith) was number four. Below him were Thos.
j. Wood, number five; Charles P. Stone, number
seven; Henry Coppee, number eleven; John P.
| Hatch, number seventeen; Gordon Granger, num-
ber thirtyfVe; Henry B. Clitz, number thirty six,
and David A. Russell number thirty-eight
In the class of 1886, George B. Mcclellan was
number two. Below him were John G. Foster
number four; Jesse l.. Reno, number eight;
Darius N. Couch, number thirteen; Thomas j.
Dabney H. Maury, number thrty-seven; George
| H. Gordon, number forty-three, and George K,
Pickett, number fifty nine.
In the class of 1847, Orlando B. Wilcox was
number eight. Below him were James B. Fry,
number fourteen; Ambrose P. HILL Jr., number
| fifteen; Ambrose e. Burnside number eighteen;
\ Richard H. Long, number nineteen; Romeyn B.
4 Ayres, number twenty-five; Charles Griffin, num-
Der twenty three, and Henry NJ. Black, twenty
four. In the class of 1S49, Quincy A. Gilmore
was first. Below him were John G. Parke, num-
Der two, and Rufus Saxton, Jr., eighteen.
We have not now the space for giving such re-
nctdv oE tIno oLrIy Iio+i la4aI
to inspire. We give them as interesting stats
tics in the history of the army and of West Point.
| We will merely say that the " first men" Of the
various classes have generally maintained their
positions for scientific and engineering ability,
| while some of the most famous and successful of
the generals each side Of the late contest came
| from among the pretty well down on the class
lists. The fact that youthful imprudencies at
West Point go far to offset the finest scholarship
and soldery accomplishment explains this fact to
a great degree. We have not pretended to men
| ton all the names of graduates within the dates
above specified who have been especially dis
| tinguished. We have merely made selection
sufficiently thorough to answer the purposes of
this article.
SHORT DRESSES AND B1ooMERs. Dio Lewis,
in an article in the October Herald of Health, says
of the dress introduced in his school:
The short skirts, although in Importance to
health the least vital of these three changes, is,
nevertheless, very important. The skirt should
fall a little below the knee. The pants should be
| large Turkish pants, which, made long enough to
| fall to the ankle and fastened at the bottom by
being drawn close about the ankle with slight
elastic cord, should then be drawn up to the place
usually occupied by the garter; and pulled down
to the middle, or little below the middle of the
calf of the leg. When going out into the cold air
the exposed part of the leg should be covered
with patent leather anklet, and during the cold
season of the year that part of the leg should be
| covered by two thicknesses of Woolen. While all
1IIgr rlffllr nf
nience and protection less satisfactory than the
straight pants, such as gentlemen wear, l never
theless advise it, because it is very easy to intro
duce the short dress with these pants, and very
difficult to introduce what is known as the bloomer
costume.
EsFor example In my schoola Lexington, Mass,
| had more than a hundred fashionable young
ladies last winter, all of whom wore constantly
during the school year the short dress, the gym
nastiC costume, while all the fashionable ladies of
the village outside of the institution adopted the
same dress Indeed, it is almost rare to see in
Lexington a lady with long dress. An attempt
to introduce the Bloomer costume, l am sure
would have proved failure, not in our own
house, perhaps, but in its influences outside All
through our part of the country, when we go out
to ride, we see ladies in the short dress Indeed
some of the elergymen, who observed that oul
young ladies changed for the long dress on going
to church, came to me to say that they hoped
would allow them to come in their short dresses
for they liked very much to see them. single
lady appearing in the streets of Boston in the
regular Bloomer costume attracts crowd OF
boys, while twenty-four of our young ladies car
go into Boston without remark or notice. The fac
is, we men and boys are very jealous of our
breeches, but the gymnastic costume does not in
vove that garment, and so we lords of creation
give our consent to its adoption by our sisters.
--s-S-s--- IN.
! A New GAME.-A piece of rascaty was at
tempted upon Saginaw gentleman in this city 6
: few evenings SINCE which, however, proved {
failure. He had taken his seat in eowded car
! when person near asked if he could give two S.
for $40. The ever obliging Saginawan took arol
of bills from his pocket and passed over the two
tyes to the person. receiving in exchange the $40
which he rolled up with the rest of his bills ant
, lining his money in the morning he found that
I. piece of backsilk thread had been run through
: the bill he had received from the stranger, ant
that piece of the same about three feet long re
p mained attached. The intantinn of the partY fo