The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-01-18
IntereePtton OF OOntraband swine I

IntereePtton OF OOntraband swine
To THE EDITORS OF THE JOURNALS:
Sirs =" Arma virumque cano,a or in
other words, l would relate tale to you OF
the recent invasion of Kentucky, by a
chosen band of the 60th regiment, Indiana
volunteers. We, after an affectionate fare
well to all we held dear to as, left this place
on Tuesday last at noon, on board the
Courier, and after short, but pleasant trip
characterised as usual by the gentlemanly
conduct and kindness of the officers of the
at, we reached "Longs Landing" We
disembarked in double-quick time, and hav-
ing obtained darkey for guide, started
for the farm of a gentleman called Crutch-
field, who received US Hospitality, and kind
iy gave up his barn to the men as a sleeping
place, and made the officers comfortable in
his house. | Hoald here remark that the
party was under command of Major Jack
Templeton of Western Virginia military
notoriety, and consisted of ninety men, and
the herein named officers: Captain Coz,
who, by the by, is not afraid Of anything
mortal, and Lieutenants Wilsey, Merrill,
Thrall and Walker; the last named officer
was in Virginia with the aforesaid "Msjor
Jack, but never heard of his distinguish
ing himself very signalIy.
But to return to this expedition; we left
our comfortable quarters at Dir. Crntehfialds
at 450 A. NJ on Wednesday,, in consequence
OF rumor reaching US, of there being some
contraband swine in the vicinity which
said t'porkers were destined at no far
distant period to Fill the porkhouse of some |
contractor for the Confederate States army |
But alas for the uncertainty of human af- |
fairs; we, like the devils in Holy Writ, were |
after those "swine," and noon of the 18th |
saw us in possession of them. We found |
them on the farm of Mr.. Early, but the |
said Mr. A" Early" did not remain late |
TJUUTTTEF pegFITU 0T uOUUETuT
politics, he succeeded in giving us the slip, |
and SO after some considerable search over |
the premises we departed, with q kind as
surance from the lady of the house, that /
rebel troop of cavalry under command of
one johnson would be down on us before |
we could get our seizure to Henderson. |
Well, as we were in the pork line we con-
cluded we ought to try and save our
!" Bacon" so away we went with our drove,
and IN consideration OF the kind promise |
concerning the cavalry, we dispatched a
courier to Henderson to request REINFORCE
ments from that place. Our request was
responded to by Captain W. of
the 44th Indiana who, IN consideration of
the excessive GOODNESS of the weather, OBJ
jected to stir an inch, but left US to get /
through as we best could. Poor, dear man,
should hate to hear of his picking tobacco |
in Richmond.
AS it turned out, we did not get an attack |
of "chronie secesh" on the way and got |
our booty to Henderson by sundown.
| cannot close this letter without bestow- |
ing the heartfelt thanks of the crowd on |
Capt Lambert and Mr.. Held of Henderson, /
for their kind and liberal attention to the |
state of emptiness, under which our aeso- |
phagi labored-
We reached Evansville at P. M. rather |
tired, and very much pleased with our trip. |
We did not forget, however, to fire a |
parting volley at certain imaginary enemies |
on the Kentucky shore, and then both Of !
fcers and men sought their couches and
became INVISIBLE.