The New York herald., 1868-06-11

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nobody interested is sorry that Il does not Candid.
1t may be all very well 70 make thorough rders o.
the ssoSsps d 1ss ae, s tss Sss cs Ds
De made to run less risks IL strikes one nas snoud
pc made available. There 10 one horse here WHICH
He S Is 0Iei'0n caiied after m the chairman Of the
Board OF Visitors, General Frankln: TINS
S,9St Sa a. the & d ~ Ia viIanousy ss though his
namesake were not looking at him nom balcony.
He rears p1nges rU Iss -, ~" mo Soes Ssss
of new Bride. He is terror to many cadet and
does great deal by his bad example TO draw more
corum and yet he elves high' on the best OF oats
and has never yet "fessedn In examination when
the .plebes,, who have seen him ana his trusty com
paniOns he ought to be 'fOund" at once and sent
home to learn good manners, after which, in all
ment Committee, he might be allowed to return.
Why, seriously, person can't well imagine
Just think Of some thirty or forty cadets in charge
slashlng sabres at wooden heads and firing on their
pistols at all sorts OF immaginable enemies, each
horse behind him, or endeavOrng with all his might
TO set his fore feet the shoulders of the cadet be-
lorc nlW Every once IN Wnlle, III you look quick
enough all about you at the time, yOu'll see
cadet going head over heels into far corner Of the
hall ten or twenty horses jumping him the mean
whlle by way OF equine triumph. Then again horse
and his rider don't happen agree, and the one s
anxious to get rid OF the other as the other Is deter
mined TO keep his seat SO the horse rears and
plunges, and amid crash OF sabres and the startl
ing reports OF pistol shots dashes headl0ng to the
ground, the rider getting probably badly crushed
limb and permit to the hospital and the drill goes
on merriy. 9 1t may be a very nice thing for the
horses, but u s rather hard on the cadets think
But suppOsinR one should be killed, as one might
easily be II he was careless enough to be thrown
these 'pebcs, come every year, and he would not
be missed Yet 10 must he said there are many
cadets who like to get hold OF these fends Of horses
to show or their hOrsemanship II they get injured
no one sympathises. s r.,
LIGHT ARTILLERY DRILL.
There was q light artillery drill this evening on
the plains, several third class men acting the
gunners and their officers being chosen from amo ng
the members OF the graduating class. Colonel Piper
directed the operations. All the evOlutiOns that
battery OF light guns Y supposed to make
ing the firing The most interesting feature
OF the drill was the rapidity with which the
guns We're worked and the fact that the
carriages were several times actually taken to pieces
and strewn about the ground, apparently in utter
disorder and put together again ready for use and
the guns fired In much shorter space Of time than
II takes me to tell OF it-in fact In just fOrty-six
onds. The orders were all given by bugle sound ex-
cept that for firing. - l.-.s
The cadets will lay aside their gray and don their
white pants tomorrow, and thus inaugurate the
summer season.
General Schrlver, the Inspector OF the Academy,
arrived here from Washington this evening, and
General Grant will arrive tomorrow. Visitors are
last filing up the hotels. SO are the mosquitoes