...rincipals. This may be good practice, but it is not good service. Every man protected and enriched by the government, owes service to the country in its hour of peril. I am glad to hear that W. H. B. Custis , of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, takes no part in the war. This is the proper course for him under the circumstances. It is said he declined a high position tendered by the Federal Government. ...