The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-20
Military Items.

The Louisville journal OF Saturday
says: There are at present two thou
sand and ninety patients in the general
hospitals in this city, and two hundl ed
and eighty-nine vacant beds During
the past week there were seven hundred
and nineteen patients admitted, ffty-One
returned to duty, thirty-two discharged
from service, three furloughed, seven de-
sertions, and twelve deaths.
The Valparaiso Republic announces
the return home of Daniel Brown, sol
der taken prisoner at Murfreesboro,
who has ever since been jost;ed about
the Southern Confederacy. He gives a
gloomy picture of the condition of the
rebels, and says that they speak of North
ern dough-faced butternuts with the ut
most contempt and detestation, and with
| whom they wish to have no intercourse
whatever. He had passed through many
exciting scenes-was at Richmond-and
made some narrow escapes.
The Princeton Clarion has received a
letter from Captain B. H. Polk, of the
SD Indiana, stating that Andrew Jones
and - Hazleton, ofhis company, were
killed in the fight at Thompson Station.
The following is soldiers recipe for
making 'mush:"
Take half a cup of water that runs in
the brook near by, two hard tacks, a
piece of butter as big as you can afford
when buffer is 40 cents pound, and
your pay is thirteen dollars per month;
set this upon the fire, and if you can
beg or borrow it, put in little salt Let
it boil until the hard tacks are thorough
ly soaked; eat it hot; and if you do not
call it good it will be because you
have not been out on ''picket," and got
a savage appetite thereby.
The Valparaiso Republic learns that
Thos H Fifeld, Esq, of that place, re.
ceived dispatch on Monday last from
Paducah, KY, announcing the death Of
his daughter, Almira, who had been in a
hospital there caring for our sick and
wounded soldiers.
The oath of allegiance has lately been
administered to one hundred and sixty
four rebel prisoners at Camp Douglas.
The Chicago Tribune advocates the
| appointment of our iEvalided officers,
SCARED and MANNED honorably in the
battles of the Union, as fit persons to
hold the positions of Provost Marshals
under the CONSUMPTION law. The Editor
says:
They bear about them unmistakable
proofs of eminent fitness for post where
loyalty is the first consideration They
would never have gone into this war had
not their hearts been il. it. If this test
be deemed inconclusive, there is the sup
Elementary, and:fnishing one, in the fact
that disloyal officers rarely come home
from the wars With more wounds than all
poor horsemen are exposed to. The
wounded officers are the men who tried
to do their duty in the face of danger
and their loyal swords will pick right
sharply the shirks and malcontents who
deny the service they owe the State
Stand away gentlemen who have no 9th
er claim than what the party owes you
or the fact Of influence at court Room
for the veterans Of the war of the rebel
lion! Let us have the officers with scar
more honorable than knightly decora
ton placed where they can still serv
their country.
Senator Nesmith, of Oregon, in
speech some days ago, in abiding to tn
presence at city hotels of shoulder
Straps, said: "a news-boy says that h
threw a club at dog in front of Wi
lard's Hotel, the other day, and hit min
Brigadier Generals-and it was not
very rood day for Bripadiers either"