SEMINARY, March 1,
1861.
MY DEAR MAJOR: Your
letter from New Orleans was received on Monday night. . . Will do all I can to
carry out your suggestions.
The Board met
yesterday, left things in statu quo, and appointed Dr.
Clarke temporary treasurer. The ball went off very well, the cadets conducting
themselves with great propriety, though to a certain extent with bashfulness.
Last night one or more of the cadets stole the mouthpieces to all the
instruments of music in the building and cut the drum to pieces. So Joe Miller
has been filling blank cartridges all day from an old bronze musket, Cleland
having gone to town to repair damages. On the day after your departure, Mr.
Vallas inaugurated himself, and issued all the winter pants. Consequently a new
cadet who has just come in has none at all. There was a strong run among the
cadets for dimes, many professing that they had not had any for four months.
All of my chemicals
have come. I shall send Van Nostrand a check in a day or so. St. Ange is
grumbling as usual, Vallas having found it necessary to threaten him with a
report to the Board. Said report St. Ange anticipated by a complaint for
redress of grievances, which grievances had prevented his blackboards and
windows from being mended, and had not allowed him to have O. O. Blair in
French, etc. The Board sent his petition back and the Academic Board meet this
evening for considering it. What nonsense!
[Continued the next
day: See Francis
W. Smith to William T. Sherman, March 2, 1861]
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