Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-07-25

g things going along with us. On tn
2 9th the midshipmen who desired Wer
/ offered furloughs. All of them accepte,
except five Virginians, namely. Quarles
Hudson, Slaughter, Carter and Fleming
The things were again put in wagon
and across the country we marched OF
the 29th oi April to Abbeville, S. C
At Abbeville the things were put OF
board some cars that stood at the depot
We had no guard duty to do after leav
ing Washington, Ga. On May the 2C
President Davis and Cabinet and stat
reached Abbeville, coming, imagined
from Charlotte on horseback. On thai
day we five Virginians were discharged
as per the following order, probably the
last official act of the navy of the Con
federate States:
ABBEvILLE, S. c., May 2, 1865.
SIR: You are hereby detailed from
the Naval School, and leave is granted
you to visit your home. You will re-
port by letter to the Hon. Secretary OF
the Navy IS soon as pr cticable. Pay
master Wheloss will issue you ten
days. rations, and all quartermasters
are requested to furnish transportion
respectfully, your obedient servant,
VIM Fl. PARKER, Commanding
Bn order of the Secretary of Navy
Midshipman r. FL. FLEMING, G.. 5. N.
MR.. DAVIS NOT RESPONSIBLE.
In continuation. Mr.. Fleming does
not remember whe1 the. money left
Abbeville, but thinks it was on the
morning of the 1st of May. Some
money was paid to the soldiers at
Greensboro. How much he did not
know, but says he observed soldiers en-
| rplltA hon1p ra:flirO in hui
ets and singing ''one dollar and fifteen
cents for four years serviae" The
President and staff left OF the night.sS
the 2d. A committee Of the Rve dis
charged iaitishipmen, through Csntain
Parker, requested Secretary Resrsn be-
fore leaving to pay them III g,lf svffi.
cient to enable them to Fsseb home
He obtained from him sesssral hundred
i dollars to be distributed pre- rata amoEg
] Z, : aAPal Officers, End each of the mid
lsrssssS5s'eh reoeiyss ie apiece. They re-
nsinF5 -Nss. sA3Beyille rs.siI May Z, when
trey Sss..seea ln0inewaTd. A. few days
| uefofa the remaining specie hs0 been
placed in charge of some general of
the army, and there personal knowledge
of it ends This is the high testimony
OF man who bad followed closely the
fortunes of the Confederate cause in its
| death throes aud who adhered until the
| last feeble nucleus of an organization
bad dissolved. In the close of private
communication recently received from
him he says, referring to the imputations
| against President Davis and his con.
nection with the government money
II have no word of commendation for
mis- accusers Mr.. Davis was never
with the specie train single day dur.
inc OUr cOnn action with If ~ yNa oonv
tribute this as subject which has never
been referred to in any written records
OF the rebellion, and it possibly contains
more succinct history of the route
pursued by the heads of the government
after the Sd of April than any yet given
A TRIBUTE TO THE CADETS.
We have ever regarded the safe
transit of this treasure through so large
an area of country as tribute to the
honesty and law abiding spirit of the
Southern people. 1t will not be forgot>
ten that the region through which it
passed, with its little guard of forty
boys, was filed with straggfers and un-
OthCeTed bands of scattered and suffer-
ing soldiers. Men knowing all the
paDgs of hunger and n&kedness, and
hopeless utterly of the success of their
cause; yet, men who instinctively
obeyed their sense Of law when no law
existed. and kept their hands free from
the stain of robbery while boxes of this
treasure lay III their midst, with the
lives of its slender little body-guafd
only between them aud its possession.
The address OF the commanding officer
to the midshipmen at the depot, calling
it duty of delicacy and danger, was
well justified, and the manner of its per
fp on Hoe fhpro !!onf houS tn
q high NEED of praise and to the his.
toric mention which they have never
before received. Although it comes to
them now, ia the sober days of almost
middle life. when the young edge off
their ambition is worn we'll away, il
will serve Its purpose if it but recalls
the arduous service of their youth and
bring back the consciousness they then
felt of duty bravely and honestly
DONE
Staunton. Va, 1882.
BABIES IN MIDsUMMER.-It is a
pretty big job to pilot baby through a
summers campaign. A prominent
Cincinnati physician being interviewed
the other day expressed the opinion that
a baby should never be given milk save
from the breast of its mother, or, if that
be impossible, from the breast of its
foster mother. Swill is the staple COW
feed around Cincinnati. He stated
that SO many of the dairy cows nowa-
days are consumptive or otherwise dis
eased that in the first place their milk,
even if unadulterated, is poisonous.
Again, he said that the cows milk is
jolted for hours IN hot weather before it
is delivered to consumers, and thus is
literally churned. Thus it is eminently
unfit for the use of infants. The con-
duct of mothers who nurse their chill
dren from the breast was also referred
to. frequently it is the case that
mothers become Overheateda and wrought
up over the wasbtub aud other house.
hold duties and their milk is then unfit
for child to drink. A baby's stomach
Is irritable and tender. It is overloaded
with milk and it becomes a source of
pain just as cinder does when it flies
into PERSONS eye. Remove the cinder
and relief follows, The baby throws up
the milk and the pain ceases, unless it
be hot weather, when it goes Oft through
the bowels and sickness results. So it
is with solid food, only in a more pro-
nounced degree. Therefore solid food
should not be given an infant until it is
able to masticate its food. Especially
StaTCu lOOu, SUCH as potatoes, etC.,
should be avoided.
One great mistake mothers make is
to suckle their children every time they
cry. That is not right. They ought
not to give them the breast oftener than
once in two hours at first, and this in
terval ought to be heightened to three
hours after awhile. During the night
they should not suckIe them more fre-
quently than once. The proper thing
to do is to give them drink of water.
The little things are oftener thirsty than
hungry. The doctor said that ice should
be given the little ones in abundance
while they are teething. It relieves
and eools the hot, infamed gums, and
the baby does not swallow enough ice
water to burt, because it wastes the
greater part of it.
The use of fannels on babies all
through the summer was adimadverted
upon severely. The doctor declared
they should be clad to suit the weather.
Such temperature a. the last week has
proved to be required the use of f1an-
nels, but in very warm weather the in
fants ought to be allowed about one
garment, and that pretty light one
Cincinnati Enquirer.