The weekly union record., 1865-12-23
FoRr CHuRcH1lL. Dec. 18th. 1866.

ton, where We have been Statioued for about
three months, on the 26ih Of last month for
this place We arrived at Susenville OF the
18th, where We remained over night. called
on Longmore Of the Sage Brush, who was
kind enough to give me one of his last issue
+. which was about ten days old they did not
issue any the week before on account OF the
rain. We arrived at Virginia city on the 9Th
of December and camped over night, and
reached the Fort the following day. This is
a much more pleasant place than Smoke Creek
Station. We have good quarters here, built
Of adobe brick. There are now four com
panes stationed here, three Of Infantry, and
our own Co, of Cavalry The post is CON-
manded by Capt. Wood, Of Co. F 9Th, I. S.
/ Regulars Two of the companies now here
are Nevada Volunteers. waiting for their dis
charge. They will probably be discharged
10 two or three days. We are waiting very
impatiently for our discharge, but with little
prospect Of receiving 1t before spring. There
Is one great Question asked by all of Us, but
answered by none, and that is why are the
Nevada Volunteers discharged, while we, the
California Volunteers are sent to garrison the
Nevada Forts? The boys from Butte, with
Us, are all we'll We left at Smoke Creek
Station, Co d ID. Cav. Cal. Vol. Co. ID
as the most of the citizens of Butte remember,
was raised by Capt. Mclaughlin, the Co is
now commanded by Capt. VIM knight. There
are but few in the Co, that served under
Capt. Mel. Our mail fecities are very good,
We get the mail daily from Virginia city.
This is a very cold and bleak place, it showed
almost all day yesterday. We have two
Indians in the guard house, confined for the
murder of two white men. Yesterday We
were all paraded to see o man drumed out of
the service. He belonged to the Nevada Vol.
his crime was deserton. l see By your pa
per of the 9th, that Mr. Ballou. who was muir
dered by the Indians on the HUMBOLDT road,
was a citizen Of Butte Co. His death was
terribly revenged by Co. & % Cav, which
is stationed at Dun Glen, about 100 miles
from this place. They followed the murder
ers to Queens River, where they came up with
them and had d fight the Indians lost about
60 killed. and the soldiers had one killed and
TWO badly wounded f. Nj. WoopMAS.
CO. K %, Cav Cal Vol.
SOUTHERN NEws.-The Savannah Republ
can advocated the reputation Of the rebel
State debt with great earnestness, and said in
late article
The attempt to faSten the enormous debt Of
upward Of twenty million of dollars upon the
impoverished people Of our State Is a bold
move bnt cannot, from the very nature OF lis
gross Injustice, be successful. A bout seven
teen millions of this debt were incurred for
the purpose of destroying the power of the
Federal Government, and setting up in its
stead a mouarcbial form of government. The
acknowledgment or population of this gigan.
tie debt involves great many serious points,
and upon its prompt decision hangs the future
veal or woe Of Georgia, and we consider the
attempt to fo>t this heavy burden upon our
people, in the present attitude of political at
fairs. deplorable mistake. The vitality Of
btuTSid, a. wen do tHS private iut6fc>Ne vi
every hard working mechanic in the Empire
State. call for an immediate reputation of this
debt. Integrity. justice, honor humanity plead
for the repudiation of the debt The widow 5
and orphans cry demand its reputation.
The same paper. commenting on the refusal
of Great Britain 10 consider the question of
damages inflicted on our commerce by the
rebel pirates, says patrotically:
What strengthens Great Britain in her in
shifting course is the belief Of her Government
that although the American civil war is at an
end, it has Rot left the American people
united people. 1t is for us, the people Of the
Southern States Of the American Union now
to undo this belief of foreign Powers. By
unanimous loyalty, in thought as well as act !;
by service Of the heart as well as of the bps
. to eur common country it is for us to to in
Spire the President ard Congress of the Uni
ted States to maintain our national honor
against these foreign Powers in manner worthy
Of our common history. If foreign war shall
be inevitable, let Great Britain understand
that Georgia is as loyal US Massachusetts, :;
that South Carolina is as true as Maine that
Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana will
support their national Government with no less
ardor than viii their sister States of the North
and West; that in such war on land she will
confront, united. the armies that were enemies
at Shiloh and at Gettysburg, and that. on the
sea, the once hostile iarS OF the Monitor and
Merrimac will renew, under one common flag,
their common glories Of the war Of 1872.