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ion, and recommended the Legislature to excludo every member who hold their scat by fight of the soldiers vote. Tlic scooDd minority, (one) report disagreed with both others, and dissented from opening the four oases for furlhur adjudication, end recommonded to vacate the Beats of all except the four who held by soldiers votes. The House adopted the majority report on each of the ten cases taken separately, by flhout 05 yeas to 24 nays, thus the matter feinting to the seats of mom hers elected by soldiers votes ended.I learn thnt Mr. Griswold, chairman of ^special committee who reported in favor of confirming the membcrp in their seats, is iD fuvor of Judge Chri6liaDcy being nominated for a second term.. They live in the same district aud arc io harmony. So may nil the people be.'I*-l_Eroin the Ninth Mich'. Infantry.Cjiattano6gA| March 9th, 1865..Editor Statesman Evoty week (lieStatesman fioda its way to my (cut, awayhere in the southern part of -Tennessee, and not.uofrequently ,cach one of its fourooouponM d./vopj-* If’ to os- or n rr ©1come; vieitant, for tlio s6Idier is always ^•lad to got news from liisown State and home. The lust number received. (Fob 15ih,) we thought more tliJin usually iu-terctiug, and wero very much cnterluincd with the various items of news and miscellany, as also with the excellent and instructive story, which was uot all story, but cootuiued, withal, a good moral, thus rendering effective one of l!o highest and noblest office* of fiction.Fur half an hour I have been quietly sitting before1 an open fireplace in our com fur table quarters, enjoying my pipe and the cheerful blaze of a bright Gr6, jis oiily o soldier can cfijoy llieuj. And as TnjrttaragllU (VtfBlfiFrTTltlier and iliilher, 1 recall to mi-SU thiit it is* nearly three months since my last letter to you was penucd. Alas How time flics .! One half Uic term of my enlistment has but a week loll to it. T fie second moot I fertile year’1805 has passed into history. Huw great events crowd one upou another. Icon scarcely jealize that since the writing of ilmt letter, the battle of Nnshvillo has becD fought, and the ODly- effective .rebel ariuy of the West utterly routed aud dis-comGied J a new star has bekLn addpd to the constellation that gems tbo glorious old flag; Congress has taken liooor to it-self aud redeemed the nation, by passing the constitutional nroendnjeut. dedicating the land- for all future ages to Freedom, anj^vheu ratified, as it surely will”bo, by the beccciiaary number of States, there willrnomin.l frnn^lli. nin.. for.-HL. o!’, Mnina tr the fertile plaiDs of Texas, from llic busy shores of tlic Atlantic to tbo goldou bauds Jo f.the Pacific, one universal- about of-joy, pi'ocluitiling that “ Henceforth the Re^ub He sliall be Free —one of tho uatiou'a most tried aiid trusty servants, “ known aud read of all men,” has been appointed to a seat in the highest tribunal of the government; peace corn missioncrij have gone, and come, and gone again, and nothing lias come of it, save to rei-der more patiout than ever before, if that wore possible, tho steru necessity of a vigorous prosecution of this terrible eon tost till theuow writhing, gasping body of the rebellion shall entirely cease to pulsate; the perplexing problem of “ Reconstruction’’ bus received a partial solution’ in the return of a rebol State to loyalty and allegi-auce, of her own free .will, and. undera constitution so radicalaud explicit io jta declarations for freedom, as to put to shame the tardy, progress of rnaoy so-calied Free States; Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Branchville,t. Columbia, and otherimportant strongholds of the rebellion have fallen into our hands. Theco are some ol the most significant and cheering events of a brief tbree months. ThuB, by giant strides, are we making v progress in the cause of Freedom and Humanity.Rut Iain digreiug from the original purpose of my letter, which was to furnishsum items COttCeroiag matters hereabout*.. H you follow tlio 8t*c6L9 ol Chuttuuouga from the railroad deppt oorth towards the river, a.little more, aud east a littlu less, than half a mile, you will uBceud a hill go the banka of tho Tenocasee. Here, a short dibtuace from the atream, you will fibd a miniature city of some two hundred dwellings occupying an area of perhaps four acres. Those dwellings are not sumpluoui edifices, displaying tbe.rikIII.of the architect, the mason, the painter, the. cunuiug artificer, but are plain Boldier Jiuts, with no windows, eaye theclo.tb roof, admitting freely those blessings of Heaveo—-IMit nod raiu,—no floors but mother earth,ne panneled-doors, no partitioned frails, no downey couobes. But they are the homes of brave, true-hearted men, and there is not a vacant tenement on tbe .premises. Tho atreetB, though not paved and traversed by pranoing stead and cosily curriajre, are yet broad and clean, beiug 6wept each day at the expen6e of tbe United States Government. Neither are there apneious sidewalks, dusted by tbr-eilken skirts of tbe useless, but dashing and beautiful belle. And this is tbe-oily which tbe Ninth Michigan hath lyiilt and doth inhabit. Here we eat,.drink aud eliep, pheer-folly doing the dutj auigned u-r-tkxt-ofguarding rflagaiioes, otdinanoo and ordinance stores, oommissary stores, officers’-quarters, the military prison, a., which, with the usual routine of drill, inspection, review, and the oare of our quarters,, oecu py our time so that it docB not drag hovily-A little to the south of tlio Ninth is the encampment of-the Twenty-Second, which regiifieut is brigaded with ours and engaged in tbo performance of the same duty.The sanitary condition of the brigade is uiuoh above (he average, though there have been aomo' deaths lately. Last Friday a tnuh cuinc into our turit and stated that a soldier had just died.very suddenly in Co. K, directly across the street. .On inquiry I was pai nod to learn that tlio deceased was Mr. Albert Hill, of BurliugtuU, Calhoun county, an intimate friend and form er tont-mnto of mine. . 1 had seen him in the strccnbt half- an hour before. ^'Hc hud been unwell for some -time, complain-ing of waDt oT appetite, loss of streiJgtli, and general debility, but bad not been deemed.a fit subject for tjle hospital. lie was one of our detachment of Blair Guards at Jackson, earno with us to Nashville, Was in the fight there and ou the campaign thence to head uff Gen. Iioud aRd. preventliis crossing the Topneeseo. Ho was n professor of religion, a good soldier, and a worthy uiau;Our Colonel, Mr J. G. Parbbursl, of Cold water, a cousin, I believe, of A. Wu Pnrkhurat; Esq., of Marshall, i« on Gcd. Thomas'-stuff, and the command of tho regiment devolves upon Lieutenant Colo-ticl Win. Wilkinson, who, previous to theOil k 1 ll ou L of I ho war was pastor of the ljjplisi church iu Kuujco, J. J. liuhriy, formerly a conductor on tlm Michigan Cccjtrjd, coiunmuds Co. A. G. Iv Hang, ham, of Cliircuce, is First Lieutenant of ihe 6jiuo company, and makes a good officer. Juvues 13. Ifydc, Bon of A 0. Hyde -o f yuur-ci t ypw as—tcclti t)y—p!rornTTtoTl;^D-tr First Lfeutenancy, au cvideucc that he is a*fai'lblu) and efficient officer. He is Aiij-tuot of the regiment. Capt. Carr is is here, in command of company H, furinorly HHKle So l:»i' Mfi 1 IjNi'iv ,'|the M;tlhall ijnys jire ..well. Dr. iVu--ruuii hua.beoD fur aouje time in tho liujpi-tah but now belter and with the rcri-• .mcut^ A. K- Fiiiiu, finu3r!y nl Leppui's store, has a good posiiion as retrimeural dcrk. Wui. Ciuyboni, of ihu Kr^nunUr office, also lias a clerkship, Ed. lo^ursull is in the commissary department.The regiment moteied for puy day before ycsterdjiy, and ilio’ boys arc* in hopes of bdoirpaid off soio.. Two or iliree days rgo we uceived quite an ;icccM«ion of new reeruil« from Jucksou, anil wc undtrslued therenre ilircchundred more behind, which* wiliifill ti.e regimonL to itB mnxiniuiu.Thd wenlhor here during ihc niomh ofiT^V.ruurv, JniLbifiu„wiih•..tUclexccptiou uf-iwu or three dnys, warm, sunny, aud \\\y like spring. We arc eutire si rangers io the cold nud snow we hear of iu Michigan.Yuurs e.h. u. n.tiifKITbt)tlutltl1:oasIIbHIb{1IOfficial War Bulletin.*War Department,Washington, Saturday, March J3 TuMujur General Dix :. The subjoined dispatches have baim u ccivcd at this Deparinjeut.. C. A. Dana,Aasiatunt Sec. of Wat ' “City Point, Saturday, Maroi, 18—Tli Riely^iorid papers of to-day are received The citufederate Congress adjourned sin die at three o’clock to-day.“ The President of the Jumus River Ca nal calls ou tbe farmers of Virginia to ai iu rcpuiriog the canal.‘•The Augusta, Georgia, papers so that A.Ti. Stephens has been in Geoigi' for the past ten duys, and has not yet he^ei heard from, and that they hope this^ileuc will not continue.“ Vigorous efTnrts are making ut Rich mouci to. i he or-auixntion of colored tr„op ' “The following paragraphs ure from lb Itiebmoud Whig: . .XROM MODILB.Mobile, March 4 —This city is stron ly lueuaced. Geu. Maury has issued a ci .cular udvising the penplc to prepero llt; the expected attack. Headvisos ilm uoo combauutd to leave.The exehuDirc commission yestcrdi evening received information of ihu ari ■val iu the bay of u large uuuilier of pijsoi era from Ship Island aud New Orlcui. They ure expected here to-day. ,\Jaj. U well will effect such arrangements as wi eiubruco all prisoners captured iu this D partruent.Mobile, March 5.—One hundred be aeveuty-six navy andaroiy exobanired pri oners urrived here last night.Mobile, March 9.—IV-aosports oontuii iug 2,000 troops, entered the bay yesle day, through Grant’s Puss.-Mobile, March 11.—Fourteen vessc more were added to ihe fleet to duy, mal j pg twenty ono iu sight of the Qjty. Gre. activity prevai's with the enemy iu'tf lower bay. There u every indication , an early attack. n, bheridan’s raid.Lynchburg papers o.f Monday and Tue day, the 13lh aud 14th iost., bring us eonof the details of tbe raid through tl“per couutry, which io view of ths fai that 8heridan has communicated wit Grant from Columbia, we conceive to I withhold and therefore ky thei before our readers. Virginian ‘say* I In the Yankee division sent in that diraotio followed the Orange and Alexander Rki road ua far a* Buffalo river, buruiog th mlroad bridge at that poiiit. bridge between Chariottavilla end Buffalo,distance of more than lorty miles has bee dcilroywi and mneb qf the track torn up(I\■bi.1II
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Marshall Statesman
Marshall, Michigan, US
Wed, Mar 22, 1865
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