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IHK KA.MHJM II JUllLVAl.j I r (. !.:' tO IV EST THt PaT. it A. J. Mi IT i A. M. WOODIX. TEKMS OF S?nCR!PTION. -- One Dollar nnd I'ifty CrnM n Yar, tr rir aIitici. ItAII.ICOAI TI.Mi: TAIII.IX. Dr.LLEFO.Sr.UNi: RAILROAD. ti r- wiiciocirm ioiio wrT Mll- it r.no r. M. NICHT K!'UKs t... A. M. ACCOMMODATION at G.10 A. MOiJIXJ CAST. mail t r.:.a a. m. MfJHT HXl'Rr.S- i l.MH M. ACCOMMODATION' .it S.IU P. M. Arrirnl n Departure of Trnln nt I'm inn City Ohio ami Indiana State Arrive. Htpre Mail 1 l A iij.Ht K.pre I 'J 30 . M. AcCO.'Urm J digit ... I -P f. M. . COlt'MStM 1 II ROaD Arrive. Accomtnrl Uion ...7 10 r. u. 11 '., A. M 12 .V) 5 30 Pp.irt. .7 Ü A.M. D-YTUM A CMOt RliLtOtD. ArriTf. Per rt. M ill ... f 3." r. m. r, i; A. M business' nircttorn. J. R. BROWN, M. D.. O FFER.S hU prof uona! ervicr n to the citizen of Winchester and lcmity. Ofiec south IJe of the Puhlic S-picrc, In th roim f rmrlT fcT!'I tY Or Tril. liftLlence, tppttite the Mfthndnt Church. Ihyicinn, Sursron nnd btrtricinn, mmn i sr u n, i m i a n a . VTTKN'DS promtlv to 11 c.U in the line of bil prfifcs.Hion. Char-cs nilf t. r . C5T Rei-Knee and oMce on Minn bt., Sctlf p irt of tunc. J. E. BEVERLY, M. D., Physician and Surgeon WINCHESTER, INDIANA. OFFICE nnd Rcfidfncr Wn-hington ft., Jotmety occupied ly Dr. Crowliy. I1 DR. D. S. STANTON, Physician ant Surcont ! WINCHESTER. INDANA. ' OFFICE 0or Tripn, Liwrence i Co.'s Crnnrr, wilii !: L Pr-vf. Kr d.tiC M un ftrt-rt, third door eunt of railroad cro'-wi.'. ', R. EOSWORTH, M. D., Physician anil Surgeon, WINCHESTER, IN P. IIfif of th Kidneys treated upon the irr. pro ft I Frrnch im tho I it' CIt EM I CAE ANALYSIS. OFFICE ljt iJe of l'uthc Sunre, ovr U.-.ier i WcU' Mre. I.mht Fmiklin troit, opposite (cr m n II form church. i-:i J. W. W1LM0RE, rn 9 WINCHESTER, IXP. OFFICE Snth s-i.e of PnMic S jh ire, np -tiir-. Kf-i Irnre on IJe:.lrrrp trfft, north-e-t rirt of U'inchr.Cer. Ol-ice hour ffitt f4 t 1- A. M. n t lr.m 1 tr I V. M ROSS .V K Z-L:, DENTISTS, OSS. Oflice ovfr Trir p Jk Liw-nijci-' Gror, rat tile PtiUlio Snire, W i n c h e a t it, IndiitliA. S. M. McCLURE, M. O., PHYSICIAN AMD SURGEON, Ttndft hi- itt a to the citizens of WI NCH EST Ell And violuitj. II 1" d utteutiaa to Dit ea of rem!-, -lJ 11 CHRONIC I) 1 S E A SES. Also, tho. of the E-T3 Ert Ecctie prticalir ittfntlon. Oilier South ld f l'uldlc Squnrf, In tr. Wilmore' Imtal oPW, Reldincoa FrtnkMn -trcrt.nftr Moorman .41 . . " M:NKi:uMioitri:u wii, TANUFACTUKER ot EUENlTEliE W'M -n.l r.:,V.r4 of tho Ut"t n 1 !.rt tjl. E tt of Punlic ji trf. WinchfMrr. " th'omas" ward, , HVRDU- VUE MrVi.nt. W.iMn2ton tr.-ft. north uf tac PaMiff S.;uare, Wmchf.tfr, InJ. . . - idi i xt g ; s . : j. v. ru?:i;i'i,i I TÜln- t rf-luccJ yrWe f r Coli. All . arli.di- wrnrtr 1 '' WHiLIAM P. ARNEY, Proprietor,
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wujvo x wix xll. rilUK TOWNSHIP EITRA RY i Vrpt J. at the rf.uler.'-eor I. w. MAtu. ; (,n7,,l pet the n,vk. ar.d real the , ' n-O'I 1 Mrs.S. KIZER, Lihrarian. ! wmT d7f r A Z E E , j.rroAwrv .ir x.fir, I WINCHESTER. IND., Will attend In all bus3ne..H enru-trd t ) his cr. m OFFICn Will Jut!pe' Drown. 51 V. A. HONIIA3!, ATTORNEY AT LAW AMD . ' ' llilitary Claim Igciit, . , ILI:TFORD CITY, II) IHnckford Cmitr. Irdisna. j).iu. iniX"DBifiTY7 NOTABT TrjTBr.IC, WINCHESTER, IND., dives Eir.cci.il Attention to the Collecting liuiiufc. lü-v K. U. REYNOLDS, .MTTon.vr, .-IT J'.l IP, am) claim a;i:nt. Will attend to all busiucfa entrusted to hi care. OFFICH Tn the Court-IIouse, vp -t.itr, Winchester, lnL -,;,-.v JOHN J. CHENEY, E.fül C. WATSON. 3IILITAHY CLAIM AGENCY. CIIEXKV As WATSO, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WINCHESTER, IND., Are prepared to procure Petition, jJountics anil Arrears J Pay I Upon the rn't f.trorable term. Strict attention piren t; collection nd security of Claim. Oilice in Jail building. 27 . JOHN RICHARDSON. MERCHANT TAILOR ITe-lVf PitUic Squire, Wincfiter. CLOTHS, CASi.MERES AND VESTINGS. Al-ar on hand and ti.i'l' to order fn the luetstvle. PRICES IJEA.SONA1H.E. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, or wixcnr.sTi.it, in. North-eait corner of Wadiington and Meridian ftwti. RatiMn; Hour 9 A. 31. to 1 P. M. urncF.ji. A. McKr.tr, Cil.ir. Tito?. Wim, Trcs't. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. VITLICANTS EOI1 LICENCE TO TKAl'II SCHOOL, WILL UK EXAMINED ON THE LAST SATI'ltDA V IN ECIl MONTH. AT THE NEW PRICK SCHOOL UOi'SE, WINCHESTER. PLEASANT H ! ATT, Exum'tntr, Jiamfolph Cöut.ty. WILLIAM BRADEN, STEAM PRINTER, Blank Book Manufacturer, ASP DKAl RR IN BLANK BOOKS, PAPER AND STATIONERY, No. 21 Wt Vnhhiu!on-t, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, iJT All kinds of Bliinkfl on hand, find printed to order. 29 S PENCE H HOUSE. N. W. Corner I'uion Depot, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. J. W. CANAN. OWNER AND PROPRIETOR W.D.Sarr, Clrrk; J. T. Casks, :U'l Cl'k. . HI BEERT BROTHERS, Manufactures and wholesale dealers in FINE SOFT FELT HATS, OI .Mnin Stmt. CINCINNATI. IG-lr OHIO. C. J. TAYLOB, Book Binder A N II Blank Book Mannfaclnrer, no. 32 y 3Titi:irr, nicliiuoiicf, - - Indiana. NICHOLSON & DUO., noolcsrltcrs V Stationers, Photuqntph Albums, unk Vooks, Iszal Wanks, W ALL T A P E 11 , Curtain Futures, Picture Fronts, &c. Sir. &.e. A:c. 1 CITY ÜOOK STOUE, ; Main St., Or. Citizkns Hank, j - 1UCM0XV, JXD. It J. AN UNDF.UTAKKi:,
f '.ZTTSrv it wa all crusueu ami i u., uuic u-.. V ; i ! that the Fmneror ha. thoughts of arms m uu u.uuwc-ui rjri.k connection with his lood. I ! .m,i further progress with our colts n Ul f (,f its course it giound and that the '"P0 V ' , ririi4.rcd wanls the r gallant connauuder. . Trv. , L rrr n p n.le. A council of raMied evei v thiutr for fully a mile ! backing out o Mexico, and 1 . - cighto'cloch fully U.. : M. 1 ot t0' T.? h ?iZy held between us, and ,idth, when it commenced rising, ; cousin to lm;ak - Lidicrsere on the ground PP'.c-, 7-" " LS'Ä
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i. it a.n doi.I'II ' oi'MV. At the annual meeting of the Old bcUIeib Association, ot KanüoIpU (lty held üu the 10th of June, Jaiu , fo . a5.1uv.mi.11u - vi iuu.iv ... r. .' 4 : .. ... 1 .... i tioi)9 of the early settlement, ol thy county, which was ordered by the Association to be recorded amon its Historical Keminiseences. The foil ouinc: is an interesting extract from it: TI1K FALT.r.N TlMlStR. T will close this paper with a description of the hurricane, and "the lid le n limber"'inade by it, near jny father's resilience. '4, According to tiieest of my recollection, that hurricane occurred in the year l-ll-L I believe that was i the vs:ar. I know that it occurred on the second Sunday of July, of thcycar that it did occur in; for that was the regular day of the monthly church meeting of the Salem Baptist Church, of which my father and mother were members, at which meeting my brother David and I were that day, and we were coming home from the meeting in the evening when we were stopped by the coming up of the ttorm. Hence it occurred about ö o'clock on Sunday evening, the 11th day of July, ISlii, now nearly forty-one years ago. Thero was an unoccupied cabin that stood on the west side of the : Jacksonsburgh road (up which we - . . A. . ... t were coming,) but a Hiiort distance j north of the county line between I.amlolj)li nnd Wayne counties. ALout the tune we got to the county line, we saw a cloiul coming rapidly from the west, and concluded to stop in the cabin till tho rain was over. We lighted from our colts, hitched them, stripped them, and .got into the cabin just as the rain bc'ran.to 1 fall The ronr of the cloud rapidly increased in loudness, and darkness came on so rapidly that in live minutes after we ot into the cabin, it was as dark as a starlight night is, and by that timo no sound was audible except a deep, dead, tremendous roar, which lasted twenty or thirty minutes I think about twenty minutes. After hearing the first pattering of rain ju-st as we got into the cabin, I heard no rain fall, nor no thunder, nor no trees fall; I heard nothing but. a continual roar, deep, dead, anil loud. It went olf About as suddenly as it came on. After we had been in the cabin about a half an hour, it lighted up and the roar left us, und we looked out and saw that there bad been a heavy rain, and that a considerable number of trees, both dead and green, had been blown down around us, though we had heard none fall. We went out and rigged up our colts,, they being two two-year old fillies that we had raised, and started on to our home, which was two miles further north. We found some timber and trees in the road, but r.o serious obstruction to our passing with our colts, till we got a mile north, to where the old man Fredcr-ifh-Zimmerman then lived, and where his son-in-law, John Uetz, now lives. About that time tho sun came out in the west, a hr.lf hour highand the old man Zimmerman and ms sous, John and Henry, were out with their axes to cut oil' the trees and put up the fences and save his crops. The string of fence running north from his house, forty or fifty rods long, was mostly blown down, and some few trees ( for there were not many along there) were blown down across the road and fence the road running along the west side of the fence. They said it had been a terrible storm, and John said, "you can't git home; all to timpbefä plown town across te rote." We said we would try; that our colts were raised in the "woods and could go any where my brother David saying thov ould e-o throuh brush where i i . ..t .i ... . e . a WIM cat couiuu i. ami c aw tm on noithward. The further we went the thu ker ami worse it got,, in- ... i i: tie over a quarter of a mile north of the old man Zimmerman s house, tue cleared or l-artiallv cleared laud: ceased, and from that to the creekcrosinr near my father's house,
more than a half mile in distance, ! atmosphere, the whirlwind was lormthere had been, before the hurricane, ; c,l and commenced traveling east1 t Imil lifPtl :l (leilSe I ivnei l T do not know. liut from the
heavy forest of beech and other tun ... At ? ber. With some ditliculty, but not very much, we got to where that forest commenced, a little south of the east and west division line of KPi-tion 8. T. 1. R. 13. At that point we entered the mass of crushed and broken timber, and worked our way along, keeping in or as near the place where the road had been as we co'.iM keep, till we got near to, and a little north of where Elijah d.i built his house, .Vtlivi. - . . . . . ind where his widow Rhoda Arnold now lives. Rv that time it was get tin"1 dark, and the timber and brush -attiu" thicker and thicker, on the Ground, as we had then got to where
n thotillies) and try and worU ai.0nt two miles more, u cuncr roc ; uns """" .. :f1p r rrfli nlKi anxious once aga-.n t he iiajjininuuu
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our way home ohm-i-. " - aoove lue u1;'. . , ' lhc flllies of bridles aiidnded. . I believe it rose above I
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;on OMr sj10Ui(jer3 and startctl north-1 ward tlironprli the brush the poor fijiies nlcktrimi after us as we dUapiu,.ircii 1 U from them in the brush, j just before dark, .we J i r it ctnerffe.i irom me mass oi orii-sa unj timber at the creek-crossinj: licar niv father's house, and were soon afterwards across the creek and j tin the hill to the house. On Tues-! ,inv. tlu- t'.jiiil dav afterwards, the i . . : fillies came home. They never informed mc how thev got through, and to this day I am ignorant of how thev did it. I could then see j no way for them to do it; and it is ;hai '! even, not to vim-sine hbw it was done. When we got to the house, we found the familj' all in it safe and sound, and somewhat over the fright and alarm they had been thrown into by the hurricane; and they were much rejoiced to find that we were safe and had got home. The eastern hrdf of the roof of the house was blown ofT entirely, weight-poles and all, nnd the bigger portion of the west half of the roof also. Some of the clapboards were blown two hundred yards from the hom?e. It being a hewed log house, no portion of the body of the house was blown down. Yc slept that night as best we could. Kaiiy the next morning the whole neighborhood was a&tir, first righting up houses and fences to shelter i l ri uuim -ies ami muc our ciops. This kept all busy during that day. The wheat in the shocks, mary of which were blown all to pieces, was next attended to and gathered in. On Wednesday or Thursday, I forget which day it was, we went to work to open the county road through the fallen timber, up which my brother and I had worked our way on Sunday evening; for, till that was opened, the intercourse between the north and south parts of the settlement was completely barred.To show the strength and terriblcness of the tornado, I state a fact that we observed and talked about at the time we were opening the road. About a half mile south of my fathers house, which point was a little north of the middle of the tornado, a sound, thrifty, growing Leech tree, of from twenty inches to two feet in diameter, v.as twisted lik: a hickory withe, from two to eight feet above ground, and was laying down all whole except that twist. From tho appearance of the twist and the way the tree lay, it seemed that the wind had struck it and bent it over for falling, and that while it was falling the wind had carried the top a little more than once entirely around by the time it struck the ground, and the timber was so toußh and green and strong, that the tree did not break olf, but simply twisted down as a hickory withe will twit. I noticed it particularly, for 1 helped to cut it out of the road. It had stood just on the west side of the road, and its top lay a little north of east from where it had stood .7. : : r . .1 1 win suae anouier u, . firt-a of tho t r 111 51 ( I O. At All". I . . , VV V. " " " ----- .jonn xioogcs uowm, "ihwi.m,. T l.. 1. ... 1,;.. I. c-tnoi. " UK U MOO'l ( I 1 1 ' . , , , 1 i ! r 1 al,out three hmulml vnr.ls south , my tat .cr's house ami boll, ot -I, cl, 11... ii I. .in.!, c-l.-ii-t n I tu 1 ..... , .... n . ImhvuHl, a twelve or ..It.. , pa lu ! iron ftigar kettle ras Mlting o j Icano, of .,,5 .e so" .-st c-o ncr of his house, which was a low, one-story cabin. The wind moved the kettle some three or four feet from where it was sitting, and ii was found alter the storm, niouui oowu-1 .1 ...I !. I. I.. . I It I,n !l(T'
been carried further; for its round Tlu- joouU then be comp etc bottom having been turned upwards I Now we can not doubt that in these the wind could not hoist it again. impious observations of Jeff. Davis, Mr. Ilod-e's cabin was entirely un- j his mind was miming on this aforeroofed, and I believe some of the j said soliloquy of Macbeth, which ribs or birs blown out of place, but I ; thus begins:
i am not certain of this This shows ' it .t .t..v .. in. i ii-.u c t I'm. i rt' i" nr in uiai mc. hihi i .--i....,,,. Hodge s than it was at my lamer g i T. . ...,, ,n..i iittin riii nouse. n whü sunt,- u. i yards nearer the center ot the winn- .. . i i wind than my lamer s nouse ua, .win hence the wind was stronger meie than at my father's. How fai west or how high up in the I 1 I tracks it leit alter it was oer, u seemed to have got down to the tun - . . .. .. - bcr. or -striu the timber, about the line Utwooi. Kaol,.l, l I,nry coun 0 0 e!,;carlveasV S teeter secme.l to have moved anil il UIU-' .. .. ... ... nearly a stra git line, hut about tue Zc of its course it diverged a t ie to the south. Its center passed n mil to a mile and a half south "r ;;;"m,i Hm h, townSJl UIV ... . ships IS and 19; and its length from ; west tO east, iva aouub si.n. uiiies. , i . . . . . : -I . it PCc:nod to nave come tiown to iuc - 1 timber aooui inc ioun um, ..m ! continue to tb-cetul and get nearer ; the eaith, and, of couie, widening , its Mevaslations, lor about tto
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Mj father's house find tlie road I: have spoken of, were not quite a! mile west of where it rose above the! timber, and its track in which it crushed cvervthin, was a little over ? I . . i .i , ... a nau a nine wiae mere, out us oui skirts tl:rew down timber and did 1 mischief for more than a mile on each side, both north and south of the crash. Not quite a mile west of the: rorul, the orasli was a r.ulc witto, niiu" from that west for nearly three miles, ; the crash w as from n mile to a mile and a quarter wide. All that part was a i dense and heavy forest when the hur ricanc came, with no improvements or clearings in it, and the hurricane threr all the timber down into one immense mass. Some four- miles west of my father's there had been a county road north nnd south through where it passed. That road was opened, as ours was, through the timber after the hurricane, it being a little west of the main crash as CD ours was a little east of it, nnd the intervening space between the two count'- roads, about four miles distant from each other, was, for years afterwards, impassable to man and beast. If any one between those roads wanted to go to the other side of the timber, he had to goto one of those roads to do it; and the space, four miles in length, .from east to west, and an average of a mile in width, from north to south, was, for years, called "The Fallen Timber." Alter some eight orten years of rotting, the settlers began to enter the land and to invade and clear up the fallen timber; and it is now, and has been for years, all cleared up and in cultivation. There are now splendid farms where "the fallen timber'' was. There was no person injured by the storm, and, so far as could be ascertained af terwards, there was no stock injured by it. As all the stock of the neighborhood was then running at large, it is wonderful that none of it was caught where the hurricane passed in its crashing fury; for, had any been so caught, it would seem impossible for it to have escaped bein crushed too. President Lincoln, JelT. Davis niul 31acLeth. AVe think it was two years ago that President Lincoln, in a familiar complimentary letter to the vcteran tragedian Hallet, on his personation of Vnlstalf,- incidentally nlluded to Macbeth as to himthe late Tresident the most Impressive of all Siiakspeiirc s tragedies. Now, it is remarkable that in the death oi President Lincoln we have the remorseless crime of Macbeth repeated, and against a ruler to whom Macbcth's soliloquy, in view of his contemplated murder, will exactly apply: Besides, this Dancnn Hath heme hia faculties so rateklT, hath been So cleat in Ids great office, tVit Ida virtues Will plead like angels, trumpot-tou-ue 1, a willst The titep damnation of his taking cff. This striking parallel suggested itself at once to thousands t men. and this extract was frequently ic located in the Lincoln funeial mot - h h o hh f)th. j i.-m tho A 1 l.-iiitic to the ! " , , , . 1 1 aClUC OCtan. Dill ll l ouw ikvi ; . . . ... l'I L I V.J.
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I acillC ocean. wl 11 1 cin mW. ;,lkri,,e tl,;lt :llH.r . aä3as,illa. , .,,, . " . vis. tu propria inrsvmi, si.ouiti, ,; ' i'uMk,.. ,.,.,, in tl.e - f j,.,,.,,,, 'm, ,lu.s(. al ,e i!la,.c o. Charlotte, N. C, to Urc-ckin ridge: Well, (Jornr.il, I don't know; If it wpre done at all, it were bitter ,t were Wi ,, j.,ue. auj ,t tt,e iav wire doi.c j0 Audy J )i,n.on, tue tust, ami w t .rt St. 1 11 til 11 I i If it were done when 'tis done, ttn twtrc H ( il . , ... lr,sident Lincoln. w ' ' the deed hail been done; but, as in the case of Duncan, this one murder did not clear the way to the rash usurper, and so Davis philosophized that If it were to be done at all, it were bttttr It were d'jn? , which, under the circumstances, was. a very natural modification of Mac-! beth." Finally, to make the comi . i. . ..t .1.. t....:i i- . At tnPTirT 'inr if:iii.. , i i- ; y f nc ''rj-,' Hko Uly Macbeth vl.ei, called to, face the minie. .hamM Ith her, cLrinlrnif ff-wfrr'-'V lum.. ua,.,.......,, - ice of her husband.-fWc. Tue Ilonaparte quarrel is cnarac terized by the New York Times that it "there is any pouucai .- . . . t !-. . n I iWiM II. a. . 1 . I . I... i,,ii,Arln t-ll 111 I I1 1. 11 ... .1 t 1 lll Iii Ull i im j' . - I
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of sending you abrief epistle of the.now the strife beinir over and tho
p'esent situation nnd condition of the regiment. Yv"e left Raleigh about llK ",l ,,,MI rnru u a the railroad at this point on the fob lowing day- went into camp, and here we are to day, with a some what finttoiin prospect of remain incr for some time to come, tjutil recently thf re ha been but little to disturb the eqtiinimity of the usual routine of military camp-life; nnd nil things were moving along as smooth - ly as the "stream of time." Hut since tue issuing oi trie recent order 03 the Avar Department, for the mustering out of all the troops whose term of service expire prior to October first, excitement has run high among those coming under the "order,' over the prospect of soon again returning home. Conflicting rumors, some of which are of the most absurd and ludicrous character, are being constantly labncateU and circu-
lated amongst the men, nnd a fever most enthusiastic cheers. He had of excitement is thus kept raging, hardly prepared himself for such an proving a source of no little annoy- carncst welcome as their cheers indiance tn the commanding officers, in Cated, and was deeply mored. But their almost fruitless cüorts to "keep n a moment, composing himself, he peace in the family." Whether i proceeded to address them in one of the "September men" will or will nctXhQ most carncst and touching combe mustered out now, is a question j lm)n sense speeches that it has over of so doubtful a character at present, ' u en n,y fortune to hear in the arm-, that we arc disposed rather to let it jie thanked thera for the welcome rest j"st where it is, than attempt an wy i,n,i extended him; reviewed expression of our opinion as to the huiclly the struggles through which final result. they had passed; the progress of The weather here is excessively 'humanity and civilization which tho warm, almost, if not quite, as warmjw.ir had'engendered; the triumph of as the month of August in Indiana, our cause, of liberty and constituand ns a "natural consequence," jtional Government; and referred with
more or less sickness is prevalent, j in the regiment, though there are at present but few cases of a serious nature. I he prevailing disease amongst the troops now seems to be dysentery, which lias in no instance, we believe, proved fatal. The number of deaths in the regiment during the past month does not exceed four, all told, and "aU things considered," we think that, as a regiment, the men arc as healthful and cheerful, and, in every respect, in as good condition, physically, as at any time in the past. In a spiritual sense, I am happy to say, there are many in the regiment who acknowledge the divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him. The reading of the Bible is a daily practice with, not only professors of religion, but also with many others of the regiment, and a genuine reverence lor all things spiritual is universally manifested by all. Religious meetings, with preaching, are held in the regiment at least once each week, which are generally well attended by bothcllicers and soldiers, and good order is universally observed. Before closing, I will say that we have just received the intelligence l!)at th(. Mmh rc ilICntf nor any p0r linn thereof, is to be mustered . out t.N im. n lit iiiiuti in- .v v-i.v, 1-4 1.. !.. ......, w -. f T 12 f k tf 1HIL lil.lt iiiv ill II it: I l" I II i vi 1 1 .a inain in the service until the Oth of Auiwt next, at which time it is to be sent home, mustered out and paid otr. This U a fair specimen of the numberless rumors that are daily and hourly passing the rounds in camp, and is worth about its weight Tnos. J. ruCKETT, Chanlain 140th Ind. Vol I Pro in the X.t-hviJlc Union. ;i:m:kal (Jitosi:--. tllasant i.tiui:.r. II rig. Geii. William Grose, commanding this brigade, to-day returned from leave of absence, and resumed command the brigade, duritiiT his absence having been com munded. first, bv Col. L. II Waters!
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His coming was at once licrakieu through the brigade, and every soldier's heart was glad. It wasretolved, ju-t at dark, to giye him a formal welcome. So the regiments of the brinade, the 75th and cOth Lhnois, the Jih, UOth and 81th Indiana, and the 77th Pennsylvania, improvised a as torcn ugui proceisiou, "."' 'f .k.,,, of their byo 'V " ,t JJit o'clock marehe! et, ami t üt up to the Gc ral f' iri70 nnd lllCKCr oi rs. me . FT I blaze and flicker of mousanus oi , t candle, as S lL!.V. f' the men marcnea lurougu to headquarters, presented And tLc joyous1 - . a 1"; . n - r.nt mi the even as, acclaim , io, rr; :" ..... . -r .-omiudes io I', w Til 11- IIIIU .1.' " --
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