The News and Herald, 1877-06-14

the first peorson I confirmed was Captain Cairnos, and ' I ordainod Colon ol Parsons, who gavo up the, military life, as a priest of tho' Episcopal church." THE COMMISSARIA'r. Tho committee on Commissariat and Mess reported to-night that they had inspected theso depart-, ments and found everything deserv . ing of high praise. As already stated in the iheald, the quality of the food and supplies has veiy much improved under the managembnt of. Lieutenant Mills, and their cost has been materially reduced. - CHEAP WASHINo. The laundry interested tho com committed - mitted committed very much. It is filled' 'up with stoam pitliparatus manipulated by liirbd men and women. The cost of washing a pair of heavy gray cloth trousers is only three cents, and but two cents is charged for washing and ironing a pair of the white linen trousers worn by cadets, while a shirt is laundried for ouo cent. F"INAN CIAI, 'IIOSPECTs. Many of the graduating cadets were troubled about their financial' prospects. Congress not' having passed the Army Appropriation bill they will get no pay while oft' onl furlough after graduating, and as some of them are not burdened with this world's goods they do not know what they shall do. There probably never will be a time in their lives when they will need money so much as they do at present, because they are for the most - part -without civilian clot hing, without trunks or any of tI' - thousand and ond 'things that a nihn in ordinary life needs. To supply a graduate with an outfit would require at least $500, and the greatest sum which one can save from his pay during the four years of his training is loss than $200. What is a poor cadet to do ? Tho Colorado Shepherd. XcmN Orlcaws '1nies. It is too good to be true, that story about Bon Butler's going to Colorado to turn shephdrd. It can not be that Bon is about to encase hi, noble paunch 'in a berger's 'vest and checkerboard his bulging calves' in ribbons of many colors. Ben has always got his living by hook or by crook, but novir by the shepherd's crook ; and tlough ho has often piod all hands to quarters, lie never (lid and never can pipe Phyllis to the garden gate beneath the twink twinkling - ling twinkling stars. The spooning that' Benl has done was not of that kind the poet sang who loved to sport with Amaryllis in the shade And with the tangles ofNira's hair-" His spoons were of another and a sterhler sort. W should like to see Ben in rogu rogulatioi - latioi rogulatioi Corydon togs ; like to so hini with pointedhiat and silken stomach, and varieated logs, shutting his bad e yo over a primitive flute and trilling soft, plaintigf serenades by night. Everybody would like to kniow that Ben was engaged ini amorous and enervating pursuits,' and that the One-yed Bully of the Capitol was metamorphosed into the Fl1abby Fluter of the Vald. How comfort comforting - ing comforting to feel that never again should that strident voico make echo in the halls of state, but that hienc'oforth it was turned to nbtes of swan--lhiko swooetness at his Phyllis' ' eaves I And then how like a gehtle dowv from hohiven the thought that, peradvent ur, tirin somel soft and stilly night; wheni all the wvorld was wrappyed in sleep and only the earwvig and galli% nipper roamed, a band 'of -stealthy Ii ed men might- slip) uy on JVenjammn ~vhore be snored of peace and mnno mnno~iecnce - ~iecnce mnno~iecnce ahd childhood's happyp hour, I hand disembowel Benjai4f beneath the silver moon I Alas!I this is but a wvierd and fleet.. ing vision-someo'rkro and beautiful figment of4 abrain surcharged with 6arly vgdetables. It hath a straw.. berry marh, and we do know it for a1 rank fantasy. .Inven While y.o rave aind bablo of green fields, tifo' stal"a wart ]Denjamin is girding'tip'"his loins anfl sharpening his l~athlo axe and bollowving to squires and' hbnch hbnchmen - men hbnchmen to lead forth tho faming "barb, a'abraddjo which lie will presently bear doivn upoil the quaking'* Whito 'Go to I Our Blen'jamin will herd no sheep thiih year. .' The billy, goat may ,Asg1 and the stump-tail bull may warble in the gr'ovo, but all ini yain for ~enjaminI " ,Gon. T. M. Logan, of liohmond~ will deliver -the annual 'ddreds' be-. foi'e the survivors of Hoed's Toxas Brigade, at Waco, on tho ..27th instant. -* - - -