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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1046, 12 September 1883, Page 4

The present American Secretary of War • —the Hon. Robert Lincoln—is making strenuous efforts to improve the morale, of the officers of the army, which, for various reasons, has fallen considerably since the war. One of the main causes, doubtless, is the fact that a large number of volunteer officers, who were distinguished by, their courage.and capacity during the war, have been appointed to the regular army. They lack the high setlss Of honor and the fidelity to severe discipline which are inculcated in the graduates of the military academy. Another cause is the fact that thearfny, reduced to a mere skeleton, has been almost wholly stationed in the frontier garrisons, where the officers have been freed from the restraints of that society to which, in the larger cities^' their profession always admits themf’ .Gambling and drunkenness, with' the' usual accompanying faults of financial laxity and fondness for debt, have crept into the army. Under General Grant, as President, there also . grew up a powerful clique of favorites, whom he admired for their brilliant services, and to whose defects of character he was blind. When President Hayes came in he saw these difficulties, but he had not the nerve to correct them. But President Arthur is a man of sterner mould, and- he is specially sensitive to anything which reflects on the dignity of Government, He is sustain{Secretary Lincoln in his discipline, aqua great, change has been made. A number of officers have been called to account for extravagant living and unpaid debtsj'f w’o have been cashiered for gambling, others who have been for years in Washington have been ordered totSb-frotiti'er; arid on the slightest attempt to bring political influence to bear to change these orders their resignations have'been invited. 1 , We know.that, there ianothiqg on earth equal to Hop Riders as a family medicine. Look for.— [Advt.] ■' ' DARI'S IN; THE House.—“ Rough oh Rais ’’ a lesirs out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies,, ants, insects, moles, jack-rabbitsi-gjbpbers, Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. i Wells’ ‘/Rough on Corns.”—Ask for Wells’ “ Rdugh J oh Corns.” 7/£cf. Quick relieft;s(Wi^.ctef. pcrmanenfcure. Corns,-warts, bunions. Moses, Moss and Co., t-ydney, <jfwer»jl Agentp-i-ju 1 . . ! - 1