Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1862-04-02

como BOYS BULLETS. We received (
number of this little paper last week-ofwhicl
W. A. Sampson, late of the UrbSna Free Press
I IS eJlfrsr=1u-ciief=and herewith append th(
'HSalutatory" and leader" for the benefit O
our home readers:
Qua SHEEr-Having found sufficient ma
terial in the Virginia Republican Office. an
establishment from which emanated one oil
the yilest of secesh sheets, we improve upon
our experience in publishing the Free Press
and issue the "Ohio Boys Bulletin" We
hope that our friends viii not be too critical,
as want Of tine and assistance prevent, our
carrying out the enterprise as we would
wish. W a. SAMPSON.
To OUR FRIENDS AT HONE, GREETING.-We
arrived at the City OF Martinsburg on Sunday
night, March 9th, having marched by cir
cuitous route from Back Creek a distance Of
Is miles. from which point we started about
two o'clock P NJ We are quartered in the
Engine House & Machine Shop buildings be-
longing to the B. d o. Railroad Co.. and are
enjoying hugely the first days of town life it
has been our privilege to enjoy since we left
home.
We have found MartinSburg a town OF very
! fair proportions (about the size OF Urbana, }
! containing some very fine public buildings
and private residences; but the greater num-
Der Of the buildings are of style and materi-
al that show age. The surrounding country,
so far as we have seen, is splendid. From
! the time we left Ohio until we were within a
| few miles of Martinsburg we saw. nothing
| that resembles old Champaign; but the SINH
/ larity between this and our old home is so
striking that we sometimes fancy we can see
/ some familiar spot reproduced as it were for
our especial qualification.
We found the Virginia Republican" Of
! fee on one Of the main streets and proceeded
/ to take possession and convert it to our own
use and purposes. Our first business was to
print lot of blank passes for the Provost
Marshal Having little time to-day we con-
cluded to improve 1t by issuing a little sheet,
and send greeting to the friends at home.
The state of society here IS anything but
enviable. We find y~ ne noble sons and
daughters of old Virginia who would not
tamely submit to the usurpations and impo-
sitiOns of the traitor chiefs, and much have
they suffered and endured rather than COM
promise their honor and be party to the dis
grace of their cOuntry's flag. And then we
find another class who side with the party in
pOwer-when the seceSSionists held the place
they were supporters Of the Coniederacy, but
now that " the Yankees" as they call all of
our troops, have possession Of the town they
are for the Union They may be two faced
and at heart our enemies, but they are not
dangerous. If they have not sufficient cour-
age to avow their sentiments there is no like
lihood nj their risking a collision. The third
clss: are the out-and-out secesSionists. The
principal characters, including Mr.. Alburtis,
the proprietor of the office we are now con-
verting to our own uses, are the objects Of
special care, insomuch that they are furnish
ed apartments in the Court House. There
are but few men of this class at liberty and
they are obliged to keep mum.
Everything has been going on quietly since
our arrival On Monday Col Candy entered
upon the discharge OF his duties as Provost
Marshal The whisiley shops being the
stumbling block over which discipline univer-
sally falls, were soon closed, and guard sta
toned over them. To-day Col Candy took
command of the Post the main body of the
division having started for Winchester, and
Maj. Lockwood entered upon the duties Of
Provost Marshal We viii remain at this
place until our teams come up, when we will
rejoin the Division