The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-09-26
Milftary Items.

on board a rifed cannon, and $50 soldiers
from the 5Ist Regiment under Col. CFuft,
and left for Green River. The boat will go
as far up as Rumsey, taking back to their
homes the soldiers who came down to
Spottsville last Sunday.
The steamers Nick Thomas and w. H. B.
and the gunbosts Lexington and Tylor
passed up Monday night. The Thomas was
returning to Cincinnati, with the Pearl
Street Rifles, the escort to the feet, and the
gunboats were going about their business.
They were undoubtedly going About seek
ing whom they may devour."
The commissioned officers of tire Evans
vile Rides, are, Capt. W. E. French LIST
Lieut.. Chas. H. Butterfeld End Lieut.. I
Haas. The commissioned officers of the
City Guards are, Capt. W. A. Gwynn; lst
Lieut.. Richard Hornbrook 2nd Lieut..
Ben. Griffith. The latter company visited,
the Journal Establishment Monday night,
after their organization, and from the hearth
ness of the three cheers they gave for the
| Constitution and the Unisn, we should
judge they are of che true metal ana viii
do their duty nobly.
A new regiment, to be organiss1 ia the
eth and 10th Congressional Districts, will
be rendezvoused q Goshen. The three
regiments, now forming in these two dis
tricts, will be full in few days, when all
the energy of the northern portion of the
/ State will be exerted for the formation of
! the new regiment.
Complaint has frequently been made by
papers in Ohio that Indiana was getting
credit for sending troops into the field where
I the credit rightly belonged TO Ohio. This
may be the case to some extent, but we
know Indiana has lost more than she has
gained. Perry county, in this State, furn-
ishea full company for an Illinois German
. sF.IrOnent Fountain county furnished a full
! theo fs'Az Col Berdan,s sharp-shOoters at
sense Of al Northern part of the State
I -llieart. id fully three companies, for the
Irish sfr,gzsse organized in Illinois, while
several cavalry companies have gone to join
regiments in Illinois. Besides this, Colonel
Baker of Oregon, whose headquarters are at
Philadelphia, has obtained several compa-
MES of cavalry from Indiana, and to-day,
recruiting is going on in indiana for caval-
ry regiments in Illinoia, Missourii and Ken
lucky, and for sharp-shooter regiments, and
foreign re2.:nrr"s generally.
We make no complaint of this Indiana
will furnish more than her qnota-of troops,
anyhow, and if she helps any of The lag
gard States, why, it will be thrown in for
good measure. We do not want however,
the term laggard to apply to Illinois, for the
gallant Suckers have done about as we'll az
+ the Hoosiers. If the papers in the States
that are complaining would go to work 20
encourage enlistnents, instead of exhibiting
jealousy about few men they lost by GO
ing into other States, they would materially
aid in the prosecution of the war against
rebellion, and dry up much of the dis
position to grumble and find fault
. Contracts for upwards of S400, 900 wosth
of clothing, equipments and Subsistence
, stores, having been let within few weeks
} by the United States officers at indianapolis
for the use of our troops, now numbering
f 40 900 men, in camps of instruction and IN
the field.
The 18th and 10th regiments, which
were organized under aw of The State
corresponding to the regulations for the or
ganization of the troops for three months
, service, contain but 10 men each. In or
; der to get these regiments 6lled up to the
present regulation standard, recruiting
/ officers have been dispatched to various
D parts of the State to obtain recruits for the
? incomplete ranks. AT these regiments
l have but one year to serve from the time
' they first entered the service, there will
: not be the least difficulty in getting recruits
to swell the companies to the full standard
, Of one hundred and one men.
The Albany journal says since the order
to make light blue the military standard,
cadet gray cloth is being rapidly dipped up
to the true standard The result will be a
fine color for few days