, 1861-07-12
The roth Regtmeat-.-Its Equipment,

ct Springfield their uniforms, with shirts,
thces and stockings, and also their knapsacks.
Their arms, such as they are, they received
last week, and these will be replaced By Mimic
muske:s In short time .'-' F..
Meanwhile targets have been aet up, and the
boys have been taking few lessons In target
pactice. And considering the weapon, some
good shooting has been done. OF eighty-fou
shots fred by Capt Stewards company, ut one
hundred yards, sixty passed through the ter
get. The latter is . white board, upon which
is drawn the figure Of man.
Much i1justice has been done this regiment
l'y the delay in its outfit, Perhaps no one il
10 ttame, but certainly the result has been no
less to be regretted.
We call attention to an earnest appeal from
Col. Turchin to which our citizens should
literally respond. 4 dinner is spoken Of, for
the boy to morrow. It shon.d be nothing
further than such as our citizens can well
11ake up By donations from their swn homes.
This may very properly be dona and pleas
ant affair secured, but let nothing be spent
when 60 many needfu1 requirements for the
t,coIe remain to be filed.
CAMP LONG, Chicago, July II.
There arc scne articles not allowed by the Coy
esnmeDt Of the United States for the regular army
which arc Of great value to soldiers 10 the cam
paign, and though they may be got with the army
Or $omnany's fund, the volunteers have no -oney
to buy them.
One Of these articles il the flannel bsndase to
cover the abdomen In rainy weather, or in the
night time on guard duty or in case Of diarrhoea or
dyttntery. h r ~ the European armies are provided
Auotherartic l. the dripping Dan, to burn cof-
1ee This article. also, IS not provided By the
IN oa Is
most essential Testorattye dill ioE fstieued
means 10 get those articles, decided to appeal to
the citizens OF Chicago to proTfde US with them,
We have 60 many citizens Of Chicago in our Regi-
ber costs and blankets, also, but We restrain
ourselves from asking citizens Of Chicago to fur
nish us With them. they have done much for the
Col. Com. 18th Reg III. '. II.
4 rumor prevailed In the city and at the
camp yesterday, that this Regiment was under
orders to leave to join Mcclellan in Virginia,
to start on Sunday night. Il has not definite
y transpired that such is the case, but 1t Is
certain the Regiment will not long remain
here after its equipment
By General Order No. 33 promulgated from
the War Departm ent on June 18th, and before
referred to in our columns, eleven new regi.
ments we're organized and added to the mill
tary establishment, in conformity with the
Presidents proclamation Of May Sd. Of
these new Regiments the headquarters Of the
Sixteenth Infantry were established in this
city.
We referred in our last issue to the arrival
here of Major L. ]. slemmer, Of Pensacola
fame, to take charge Of the enlistment of this
new Regiment Major Slemmer yesterday
| opened his Headquarters IN the new brick
block at No. Isl Dearborn street, nearly oppo-
site the new Post Office where for the present
barracks will be made Tor the recruits until
such lime as their number demands enlarged
| accommodations.
The officers who have reported at this rem
dczycus Of the Regiment are as follows:
Aaiors.-S1emmer md Coolidge.
(; =, Captas1s.-CEo1ton, Stanton, Barry, Wooason,
[ 1st LfeuteH1HfS.-Keyes, ChristpphcF. Hosea
| King and Aleyn.
Col. Andrew Porter, commanding, is in ser
vice on the Potomac and to his subordinatee
]
Recruiting stations are being established. 4
second in this city, additional to Headquar-
ters as above, has been opened 1t No. 1874
| West Randolph street.
Capt. TroWbridge has opened Recruiting
Station in Milwaukee. Capt Ti1den is loca-
ted for the same purpose at Kalamazoo, Mich.
Lieut.. King goes to Dubuque. Lient Alleyn
| to Oshkosh, Wis.
The regiment is splendidly ot1icered, and the
loyal Northwest should and will doubtless feel
aprlde in seeing the Sixteenth filled up rapid
" and with its best material, There are in
deed Inducements for the recruit not offered
in the volunteer service, nor even at the ordi.
rn1y Army recruiting station. The private
has knowledge that his regiment will be
from his own section. From the hour Of his
enrolment he is relieved from all care or vex.
alton such as have hung about our volunteers
IN camps, the questions Of equipment and r.
tfons being in the hands Of army officers.
We are confident that the Sixteenth will moi
lopg be allowed to AWAIT the completion Of it.
muster rolls.
srABBIEa AT ASALooN.-Ase serious stabbina
affrsy took place, among the small houls, al
FowIer's saloon and sai1ors' clearinghouse
On Monroe, near the corner Of Wells street
where party of sailors got into drunker
row, in which one Of them, German namet
G. Anderson, received q dangerous wouni
from large clasr-knife in the forehead, nes1
the temple. 4 large artery Was severed AMI
he bled 50 freely as soon to became insenslble
The police we're called and be WAS removed tt
the Marine Hospital Upon regaining con
sclousness he accused Mike Fowler, keeper O
the saloon, of stabbing him, and he was t.
ken into custody. Yesterday morning he VA
examined and held in the sum Of $500
The Battle OF the South Branch.
Nights dueky mantle had fallen upon th
South Branch. We do not mean that it ha
7 fallen nowhere else, but that has nothing
l do with the account before Us, Alonelyind
? vidunl paced his rounds on Old Street Bridge
smoking chcroot, or pipe, for authoritic
differ. Hewas the bridge tender, and tro1
+ the circumstance Of being allowed to dra,
+ his pay monthly, might be termed legal ter
der. Mildly the comet beamed down upo
i him, with its half extinguished tail Our tai
i has but begun.
Suddenly from the direction Of Bridgepo,
there came scream, aud such scream.
= = rang out upon the night air. The tenderhear
= it, and was satisfied. Satisfied WAS he in
y double sense, he didn't wnnt to hear any nor,
u and was satisfied it was ting. And 80 1t Wa
Redly glowed the fires In her furnaces .
the sDas1, low, black steamer parted with hs
prov the turbid waters of the South Brancl