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Show On the War Path. One of the buys in blue who poured too much Christmas whisky down his throat on Friday, no doubt feels sad now, aud wishes he had been a temperance tem-perance soldier on that festive occasion. occa-sion. Tho defender of his country, armed with a couplo of inurdcroua-looktng inurdcroua-looktng knives and a billy, attacked the Eleventh ward, and was about to take several of the residents of that quarter prisoners. Be!ore he had succeeded in doing any damage the police got hold of him, and escorted him to the city jail whero he .remained .re-mained till yesterday morning, when he was turned over to tho military for chastisement. The boys of the Fourteenth have almost universally conducted themselves, while in the city, with propriety. It is seldom that any of them give the guardians of the pcaoe trouble. |