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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 41, 7 October 1867, Page 247

Railroads akd Modern Warfare.— The wonderful part which railroads play in modern warefare was first manifest in the Crimean campaign, though it was the subsequent Italian war wiiicli; brought out the fact in its astonishing significance. The Danish hostilities reiterated the lesson for Europe; and the Prussian 1 war of 1866 crowned the commentary. Yet it is in America, after, all that steam transportation, both by land and sea, has won its greatest triumphs. The recently published report of Gen. Parsons, the chief of. rail and river transportation, exposes a marvel of aehiev.ement, in his department during the war! . Take, for example, the transfer of the Twenty-third Army Corps, in January, 1865, from Eastpo.rt, Mississippi, to Washington., Twenty thousand men, with all the 'cores’ artillery and over a thousands animals, were; carried by rail and rive,r. from the Tennesee to the Potomac, a distance of' nearly 1,400 miles, in the dead of winter, over; rivers:andjmouutains blocked . with snow and! ice, m .an average time of eleven days being occupied both by - advance and. rear-guard—and all without , the loss of life or property. . Such a feat is probably unexampled in history, a,hd it illustrates the enormous influence hereafter to be exerted by the question of transportation ;in war.' This is but one of a numerous series of triumphs recorded in the [document just quoted.—Pauama Star & Herald. Going Beyond the Instructions.—A man and his [wife,-who hied’ been' married ten years, [disagreed, and determined ..to separate. The; terms of their separation were to be decided on by the judge' of -the in.'vhieh. they lived. 4? Thoy were Parisians. “Have you any ’’children P «Ho.w;Ufianyr? 0- “ Thre,e :7 -two; boys : and a girl—and it is with, tliem lies our dificuly. Madaime; wishes." to~ have - two,' of them ji so. do l ” ; “Have : you agreed to abide by. myidecisipn ?” ? “We have,” said both'of them- “ Very -well/my friends ; I condemn you, then, to have another child, so. that;;,you; may each, have two.. .When you worthj’lmOgistr^ dren,' we now hate five? 1 " r