The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-05-26

lOE Ou tne buOulu ueE VI edVu Oue was euO
significant brand, US. They we're being
shipped to the front, to supply the places
Of those that have fallen. What did the
sight of those soldiers and horses tell us?
There is formidable rebellion in the
land, and that rebellion, based on moth
ing but Slavery. Gods de.igns are dOep
and some times mysterious to man,
He makes even the wrath of man to
praise him. 1t appears that God de-
signs by this rebellion to the break the
shacklss that bound down four millions
Of human beings in hopeless slavery
His providence seems to speak this un-
uistabablo language: "The friends of
slavery shall Slay the vile monster With
their own hands" So mote it be. God
is moving the car Of liberty, and he who
opposes it will be ground to powder
Then ys slave wotshippers get Of Of
the track, for the car of liberty is NOV
iug.
Two o'clock A. NJ. April 9th we
arrived at Louisville, the largest City
in Kentucky. It 10 not as we'll built as
Cincinnati, nor as large. l should
Judge its population to be near l30,OO
souls. It's streets are narrow, rough and
filthy. We stayed at the "Nation al
Hotel" place of good fare, but very
high chargsS--s3 per day for board.
Here We witnessed the marriage of
Lieut.. NJ. Redkcy of the 81 o. V. Il.
A. to Miss NJ. Lizzie Umensetter of
Ransboro, Ohio, by Mr.. - of
Louisville. Had they been in our own
beloved Ohio, gladly would We have of.
6ciated, and gladder would Mrs ShultE
have been to have received the "fee. "
But we could undergo almost any sac.
ri6ce to see them happy. Truo hearts
united by love will realiEs the bliss Of
welded life. We wish them q bright
future.
The 2 P. NJ. train bore US from this
pla o of fashion aud folly, to Shep'
herdsville, the shire town Of Bullet
, county, Kentucky. The village is
small and dilapidated. 1t embraces a
Court House and about 6fry families
It stands on the North bank of Sal
River, over which there is maSni6.
cent Railroad bridge, 45 feet high and
l9c yards long. IF this is the stream
up which defeated candidates are sent
/ | pity that unfortunate class Of men,
Directly opposite Shepherdsville stands
Fort DoWolf, where one half Of Co. A
0. V. Fl. A. commanded by the gentle.
manly Lieuts. Burk and Chapman, i:
> stationed. Here We received many
warm greetings from that part of the
company whom we knew in other days
Here, in tho barracks, We preached to
rs attentive audience as we have almos
. ever addressed. We lodged at the hous
! of Judge HOglan'S who is, wo think,
0 good Union man. Fort McAliSte
. twelve miles south Of DsWolf, by Ril
t road, is a substantial earth-work, mann
D ed by seventy as good and true men al
0 ever marched to music. They arc off
cered BY Capt. Somer and hicuts Grin
and Redkey, gentlemen who are in ev
f cry way worthy of the positions which
: they occupy. Here VIC met with mos
r cordial reception. With these kinC
E men and officers We spent the most o
e the time we stayed in Dixie. Here, too
c is located the Battalion Headquarters
where is snugly quartered the gentle
d manly, jovial aud kind-heartsd Surgeon
g DR.. Dwyeri with whom We spent som
9 very pleasant hours, and with whom vi
p. visited Fort BOyl aud Sand, manned
respectively by Co. d. and X. Of the q
e o. V. H. A. Fort McAlister guards
+ Railroad bridge over Rolling Fork o
i Salt River. The bridge is in msgni6
!. cent structure IS feOt high and goo yard
e long. Forts BOyl guards trcstls worI
:. of 90 feet high and know not hoy
|. long, for / did not venture to measur
b it, over gorge in Muldraugh'S Hill
l. Fort Sands, a like trestle.Work, 81 fee
high, over another gorge. l visite
If these Forts twice, and preached once a
e each place. At Fort MoAlister l preach
ir cd three timeS, and at Fort DsWol
/. once. The country is wild aud broker
- The valleys are wet, clay soil. Th
, hills bituminous slate. Scrub oa
: grows in the valleys, white pine on th
10 hills. MuldrAugh's Hill, around FOTl
d BOyl and Sands, iS of hns stone sol
h we'll adapted to fruit growing. ShOul
70 think 4 man a dear lover Of fruit thi
10 would live there for the sake Of cultivi
of ting it.
E, Along this the (LouisvillS and Nasl
sr vile Railroad) are the footprints
4. the iron horse of war. Guerrilla bsut