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Show 5! 0 EARNEST. t 0f Yesterday May Be the il f orn Campaigner f Tomorrow. - pjjf y PEOM FORT PUTNAM. Life f tlie Cadet The jj-Xlie Barracks Fort Put, Etc. If ' !1 the month of months for the , t wo0 has completed his ga study, read' for " inarions, and look forward 1 gt an early day a heuten-1 heuten-1 Lisaon in Borne branch army of the United "be desires to carry away a olleetion of his student home ij 1 he should climb to old Fort , a feet above, and view West 1 .'stretches from the base of the -t to the apex projecting into casting a lJiS&CHS Const! ution, where they rnay 2 comrades also marchinon ttt ee beat, or may look down on tw Kfting the bTm or TcC between the two forts. TW-faVJlS? as one would see it duringTirSn aUwas activity at West pTf.!!, Turn to another date, four vears later. It the 81st of May, i;82 nation has passed the crisis of ArcS's treachery: Cornwallis has surrendered but it is yet war time, and Eh oops still occupy the city of n 'f - f1',00"- tinelon Z beat look down on what was Fort Arnold, bur, since the treachery of the man for whom it was named callnH Fort Clinton There are Sfof so thing unusual about to take place A regiment of artillery is drawn up on S w lh dine' the fort behind which is a grand colonnade colon-nade built of green boughs. A party is approaching the landing from the river barges It consists of his excellency Gen. Washington, with wife and suite; Governor Clinton, Maj. Gen. Knox, and many other prominent officials and citizens with their wives. Having landed they mount to the plain unper-ceived unper-ceived by the troops drawn up in line and are conducted through the colonnade, colon-nade, proceeding In the stately fashion of the times. They are there in honor of an important event. The colonies have an ally, Louis XVI of France, who has just been presented with an heir. France is the main support of the colonies, and it behooves the commander in chief of the American army to pay due respect to tho advent of a dauphin. Perhaps if one should climb to "Fort Put" iu the evening the evening of the graduating ball and listen to the strains of music floating out on the quiet air, and picture to himself the scene within, he might smile at the contrast between this and the ball which took place in honor of the new bom dauphin. Then the venerable Washington on none of whoso portraits has anyone ever seen a smile with the elderly Mrs. Knox, "carried down a dance of twenty couple in the minuet." Of all the dances ever laid out by a dancing master none has 01PINO OCT IN AUGUST. aes the grassy parade ground, nelly strip, at the south end of nids the guns and caissons of a field artillery; then the green which the cadets as soon as saiinations are finished are into camp. Against a corner rated field projects an angle of ton, its parapet and scarp and :arp overgrown with a coating to green velvet. On the oppo-of oppo-of the river and to the north I ragged promontory of the East ' fled fit one time Martaliers rand it, low, marshy ground, : far to the bills. Directly river, once swept by the guns 'onstitution, is modernized by York Central railroad, which he water space into two almost rts. To the north tower Old st and Storm King, faced by ;antio sentinels of equal height posits side of the river, id along the rear parapet of t" the front is too broken to -one gets another view east and i Directly beneath are the buildings, the cadet barracks ies of a quadrangle the aca-alding, aca-alding, the hospital, the chapel, 17, while near, on a hill slightly an that on which "Fort Put" t, stands the astronomical ob-'. ob-'. On the opposite side of the If hidden by the foliage, is the leRobertson house, where Bene- NO VIOLATION OF ORDERS. ever been more abBurd than this minuet and it is scarcely possible to conceive of anything iraore solemn than George Washington and Mrs. Knox leading down the twenty couple of Continental officers, military and civil knee breeches and powdered wigs and their ladies, whose height of hair resembled more than any thing else the top of a one horse shay. How different from the scene in the cadet ball room! A forest of white legs are triangulating in circles, sliding, gliding, whirling, sideways, backwards, in reverse. Each cadft holds by the waist a youthful beauty in silk, in tulle, iu satin lace, mingled in exquisite combination of colors. There are but two shades in the uniform of the cadets, tho gray and the white. But in the costumes cos-tumes of their partners are all the colors and shades of tno rainbow. Those youths, these maidens know no stately minuet. They spin, they twirl, now tilting before ft change of direction; then darting from one end of the room to another, threading their way among other shooting couples, as if the youthful youth-ful guido had spent his boyhood as a pilot on the Lachino rapids. Truly this, compared com-pared with Washington and Mrs. Knox leading the minuet, is a pleasing indication indi-cation of the progress of the age and the increased, fitness of things. So, also, are the parade ground flirtations, flirta-tions, wherein cadets sometimes obey orders and still promenade with the girls of their choice. During certain cer-tain hours the young warriors are not allowed to approach within a prescribed ;ld breakfasted on the morning ;U, and the rocky point from put out in a barge to go on i British ship Vulture. On the ! of the river, looking south, is 1 face of Cozzens' hotel, and be-accession be-accession of summer cottages. iowa Anthony's Nose looms ently stopping the current of which it really turns aside, tending the stir, the excite-the excite-the examinations going on be-1 be-1 Fort Put" is as quiet, indeed aet, than the day when the ital sentinel paced to and fro on The river flows as tranquil-iner tranquil-iner rounding the point drifts !' as in Revolutionary times. the rattle of a drum is ibe court of the cadet barracks, ' notes of a bngle ring "thin r' as the cadet is called to some ! Then firing is going on in enear by, and at long intervals boom, reverberating as the ssed back and forth, at first ansa an-sa faintly, till its last sounds "going to sleep in the sleepy in fancy U2 years. It is not ''.tat June,1778,the spring when a'"w built, when Fort Arnold fenced, when tho Great Chain : Col. Putnam has mainly com- fort which bore his name, i 'Wrise sounds from a party distance of visitors. A stick or tno proper length, held by both parties to the evasion, allows of unlimited chatter without the technical violation of any In the chapel at West Point is a silent moral, recorded by an omission. Among the marble tablets bearing the names and dates of birth and death of all the generals of the Revolution is one left blank, for the man whom the tablet commemorates com-memorates died an alien in a foreign land. Back near the choir gallery, where it is not easily seen, is this unobtrusive censure. The name which does not appear ap-pear is that of Benedict Arnold. R THE BALL ROOM. ?. eun up the steep winding -a still leads to tho summit 'el , n from b7 treee, 'of tiTncy the shotting and - oa ragSed Continentals as V th. their heavy burden. ;,"iclosnre of the fort those of ,'Jpirrison not working on the nt? nrelotmmS about, a e various engagements of K have already taken place, the strength of theposi- -sip9 what further works tho SJ4 engineer, CoL Eoscius to build. . .i m ti!e plain there'are white yJ do not cover cadets. The --'iT8 has not J'et boeu born. ..."''"'Prary abodes of men jf- n a-.-iuil war. On the '-'rl Arnold, tha em!cn JA |