The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-09-01
Prom .IInrry eComcr.

thing appears strange and unfamiliar.
Where, year since, old rickety trm-
bic down buildings were seen onevery
side, now appear large, commodious
warehouses and mercantile establish
mcnts, where any thing and every
thing can be had for the asking, pro
vided always, that you pay tho cash
down before touching the goods
Sutler shops and sluSh houses are pleu-
tiful as woodticks in Mississippi or
graybacks on duty soldier, where the
substantials of life and the luSuries Of
army tables arc supplied to waylarers
and sojurRel.s, at prices ranging
from % cents for a two-inch imitation
pie to a full sized grccnbacll, for . half
grown meal-prcsenting a striking con-
trast TO the eye and stomach Of the
time Of hungry nights and lean days
in Chattanooga, when half starved
men pulled grains of corn from under
mules feet, picked up discarded soup
bones from the offal in rear of the 20
vernmcntal commissary. Then no ho-
tel, restaurant or lunch house greeted
thelonging eyes Of those 'sons Of Mars"
who shortly after moving away to
"hard tack and glory up Mission
Ridge and Lookout Mountain; now
two mammoth hotels, Che Central and
Crutchfeld) are open, and dong a.
better business than any hotel Of Gin
cinnati or the West. ! am informed
by the fat coporal who takes in tickets
at the dining-room dooroflhe Crutch-
field, that tho average number Of per-
sons who have taken Of meals at that
house per day is fire hmolred at one
dollmSpcr meal, inyariaby7dt mtrdncc
This last arrangement prevents me
from patronizing the house as much as
| otherwise should in case 10 such
predatory installment were'demanded.
CHARLEY KUT2, A. Il. CLARK, ABNER
WHITE and SAMUEL McCLEERY, ESQ s.,
each have lucrative berths in the Go
vcrnmcnt service here EX-Licut. |
WM II. PuGH, now on visit home is
also engaged here, and all are spoken
Of as giving the best of satisfaction in
the several departments to which they
are attached. f.Nl d.}HHCl..
" A deserved promotion has recently
been made in the Quartcrmastcr's De-
paMment of one,of Fairfold's favorites,
tho recipient Of the promotion being
Captain AUGCsTUs r. KELLER, former
ly of the 9Oth! Ohio, in addition to
performing faithfully all the duties APP
pertaining to bis office, the Captain
keeps open boarding house for his
Fairfield friends, and in this city of
dirt pies and hair soup, Il clean square
meal, such as Captain Kcllcr's hospital
ity affords, is not to be obtained at all
times The Chattanooga Gazette this
morning has the following;
pRoMorEb.2 Captain A, r. Keller, Of
the Goth, Ohio, for, more than q year
\. A. O. ~, Of the Engineer Brigade,
has received the appointment Of full
40. NJ. in accordance with the earn
Recommendations ofthose who have
learned to appreciate. an active and
competent officer. .-sn:
This gives the-Captain all the per-
quisites and advantages Of staff off
Ger, and makes his position Il perma-
nency and not detachment. None
more fully deseryo'it.
Five Companies of the 1st Ohio have
gone home and one moro will bein the
city for muster ing out to-day. The
veterans of the 17th 43d, 4Gth
and. d.3Oth, in all Of which Fairfield is
represented, will be home the last of
this month. We suppose no question
will arise as to our right to vote at the
next election.
When your humble correspondent
will be home is not known to any one
at the present writing, but it will not
be long after get permission to do so.
Nothing has transpired ola militia
ry character in this city since | have
been here, with the exception of the
Nrming and sending off of all soldiers
except patrol guards, in order to crush
further operations of the rebel raider
General Wheeler. Part of the force
sent out was the 1lth and 10th L. S.
CT ,vulgarly called "niggcrrgimentS.
How they acted or what they did do
not know, but one thing is certain they
are well drill and disciplined. was
an eye witness to one OF their dress
paradcs and shall SO and see the sight
again whenever convenient. There
they stood, immovablc as statues; white
kid gloves on their delicate hands,
heels together, bodies thrown slightly
forward, little fingers of the left hands
on the seams of their brccchcrloons,
eyes square to the front, when the COM
mand "OA tie center DRESS was given.
Two strokes Of Lightning coming from
opposite directions and meeting togcth-
cr at a givenIpoint will be &mile for
the whites of eyes that sent their elcc.
trio flash towards the stars and stripes
Of the U. S. G. II. at the word Of exc
cution ..-.
During the scare here all drinking
houses were closed, and that in Chat
tanooga means II great deal. At such
times, when every body is sober no
fst-fghts occur, no pockets are picked,
no railroad accidents happen, no con
tidencc games can be played on the
unsqspecting, no brcakdowns from
carclessnossof drivers occur In short,
the city is a dead mackercl in thesuh" "
but it is all the better for morality and