Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-05-04

WEST Fo1YT we ore permitted TO make
the following extracts. from letter wri tten by
our young townsman, i. b. HUEBABD, connect
ed with the military school as a Cndet, at West
Point, TO his friends in this place, dated the 2Sth
ultimo.
The corps is growing smaller every day.
Within a week our class has been reduced from
so members to 81, and there are yet some more
TO leave.
It seems as If we would never get rid Of the
Secssionists--but there are so few now that it
does not make any difference. We may be
safely called a very enthusiastic body Of Union
men. Every one wears the Union cockade,
whistles Yankee Doodle aud the Star Spangled
Banner, children carry the Union flag, and pri-
vate dwellings are curtaned with the same.
Boats 90 by with flags floating from every a.
vaiabe place, and 10 short no one but those
who have a chance to see the enthusiasm dis.
played can form an idea OF it. Everybody is
enlisting, the best families furnish volunteers,
mothers urge their sons, merchants send their
clerks, pay them their full salary and bonus
besides while they are absent. No one seems
to care for money or anything else but Union"
That is just the state Of affairs here The first
and second classes have offered their services
and are in favor Of immediate graduation al
most to man. They will all go doubtless
within two or three months, the FIRST class ex-
pected TO 60 this week. and the second in June
or September.
This afternoon we got wind that q transport
was coming down the river with 1900 troops
aboard, so we collected at different places on
the banks Of the river and gave them some
hearty cheering they all seemed to be in good
spirits, at any rate they cheered Justify. They
were dressed very much like our regulars but
sympathy for troops than any other class OF
people, they do not know what trials and hard
ships they have to endure Cold, exposure
sickness and almost every trial you can think of
Why we do not know anything about it here.
To be sure, we have rigid discipline but that is
alive are the pets Of the army. Well fed
and clothed, have almost every comfort one
could WISH and 10 case Of sickness, good medi.
cal attendance, and two or three men placed
over US all the time to attend to every want.
So you see we might well call this the nursery
of the army, as in fact it really is. The officers
look after US as if we were their children They
see that our rooms are well cleaned and that
we have good warm beds, &c. so you see we in
fact know nothing of army lile-ouly we must
obey. There is no place iu the world equal to il
Next week we shall have 1900 troops.
Whether they are going to make cadets drill
here dOn't know-but it will mike lively
times here and we are glad Of it.
The Conueaut Company has filed up its num-
bers, and organized by the election OF officers
as follows
Captain, George S Cleveland; lst Lieut..
T J Carlin +; o. Lieut. Sidney kelsey Sd
Z Gansevoort EnSign b Jones Ser
geants, 1t, Augustus Beach 81, A L
Webster; 81, A II Nash; II, Il l. Wild
er CorporaIs-lSt, o A Curiu 81, w
w AppIeby ; Sd, G Ii Cleveland 4th, L
G Raymond.
1t is slanderously reported here that our Con-
ncaut friends contemplate expending their gal
lantry and prowess upon their own dunghill
We give the report as we do the telegrapbic
dispatches Of the day, for what it is worth
JOHN BROWN and his army of 400 negroes
encamped near the Virginia line, as published
in the Cleveland Herald, on the strength of a
canal boat captain who landed supplies for
them is, we are inclined to think chimera
Mr.. Brown, we are reliably informed, is looking
after his farm down at Dorset