The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-06-28
Deserved Tribute.

Deserved Tribute.
The following editorial article taken from
The indianapolis Monitor, relative TO his ex.
celIency Gov. Morton and his able assist
ants, deserves the special notice Of all In
"While we accord 70 our soldiers deserv-
ed credit for W hat they have thus Tar done,
we must say that they have had placed De-
fore them every incentive TO right action
and glorious deeds. Never were men sent
to battle for principle whose welfare was SO
well and carefully looked after as have been
ihe settlers of Indilna. Happy Is IL Tor
her that her present Executive was placed
10 the Chair OF State at this particular Time.
He seems to have been, indeed. The right
man in the right placc--a most happy com
cidence. He seems TO have anticipated,
more than the Executive in aEy OF the other
States, just what should be done to meet
the future wants and exigencies OF tue serv-
ice lie has been vigilant in s.ason and
out of season TO procure the best o. arms,
sufficiency of clothing. al ample medical
supply and attention, and everything that
could administer to the wants and comforts
Of our soldiers If at any time he has fail
ed to cause these things to be promptly fur
nished, it has no. been from any want OF
personal exertion. His perseverance has
had the effect of quicken;ng dilatory officers
in the regular service whose rule may have
been to "take it easy" And not only are
our own men to be thankful to Gov. Morton
for his tireless action In their behalf. Ills
example has been followed. though at
distance, perhaps, by Governors OF other
States, whose zeal in the cause has been
directed and quickened by his action
Governor Morton has been greatly aided
by the officers Immediately under hum. IL
deed, his appointments in this respect have
been very happy. Major General Love Is
an officer Of experience in the regular army,
AID his military know ledge and extensive
acquaintance has been of the greatest value
to the Governor and the State. AdJutant
General Noble has also been Nigilant and
untiring in his official Capacity. while Mr..
Holloway, the Governors Private Secre-
tary, has been entrusted with extraordinary
duties for man in his situation, all OF
which, we believe, have been executed with
great judgment and ability. 1t Will DO
to surname him the 'Indefstigable.'
Letter from Tuscumbia, Alabama.
We are permitted to make the following
extracts from letter from DIR. Vim. II.
Mendenhall, now in Alabama, in charge of
the medical department of two Batteries. at
tached to Gen. Woods Division. lie writes
to his sister from Tuscumbia. Ala, under
date Of June 10th;
We have been in Alabama now for a
week, having left Corinth few days after
the great battle there Of which | supposs
YOU heard some exaggerated reports, but the
truth is there was no battle at all except a
little picket shooting and diminishing, and
no more of that than we had had Tor ten
days before.
Our destiny is now to Eastern Tennessee,
but we have the bridges to repair on The
Rail Road as We go, which will take some
time, as they have nearly all been destroy
ed some by Mitchel!s's forces and others by
the rebels.
After spending about two months in the
wilderness about Shiloh and Corinth, il is
really pleasaat to get in such country rs
this. We had got but few miles into AL
ALBANIA until came to splendid planta-
tons with beautiful residences and any
amount Of darkies The first real slavery l
saw, was females. each with a mule and
a plow in large cotton field, and a number
Of both sexes of various sizes, ages and color
with hoes, but the majority Of them appear
to have an easy time. We would see from
10 to 40 at every plantation peepng through
the fence cracks as we passed. with nothing
to do. all looking in better condition than the
free negroes in Richmond. and great many
of them secessionists. They boast of what
their army has done and is going to do. but
they say "lud massey we never 'spected you
way down here" They are raising but
very little cotton this season. having orders
TO raise corn for the army. Provisions of
every kind are very scarce. The three sta
pies, salt, coff and tobacco. they cannot
get except from our army. which we can
take handful of each OF the above articles
and trade them for all the vegetables. milk
and butter that we want.
We are now encamped at the suburbs OF
the town of Tuscum5is. with nice gardens
all around US from which we are we'll sup
Piled with vegetables. Tuscumbia is a fine
town, with about 1000 inhabitants in time
of d. ace, bat the men are all away with the
execution Of about go or 80; in fac. the
whole country is almost drained of young
ard middle aged men. 1t is surrounded
BY beautif country and nice stream
of water full of fish, having its origin right
here at town from three large springs, max
ING larger stream than Whitewater.
The spring has been very backward here.
We have had no very hot weather yet. but
the last few days have been pretty warm"
local NEwsPAPBRS.-A contemporary
sneakinp of local ne spapers truthfully saws