, 1865-03-30
INDIANAPOLIS CORRESPOND.
ENCE.
The !" Situations" In EndIannpolIx-
Striking 1le-Kentucky uft-r FuEI-
I1vcs-GSccrulttnE Played out,


uves-tsccrulttng t''ayed out,
Especial Correspondence of Inc Cbicsgo Tribune. j
INp1ANAro11s, March 2s, 1855.
The city is dull and dusty. There seems to
be q lull in ali kinds Of excitement, People
nrc quietly waiting Tor something to turn up.
A fortnight ago everybody was alarmed about
that terrible paagne-the spotted fever. It
WIS believed to be raging in Camp Caring
ton among the raw recruits. Next it had
ccme down into the heart OF the city. Ru-
mors OF some one being attacked who lived
ttan the next blockn were prevalent in every
street, and created d decide sensAtton. The
diseases at Camp Canington proved to, be
measles and eryeipelas, and the person In the
he1t block was found to be afflicted with the
typhoid fever or the small pox. Following
close On the heels OF this came the statement
that the park grounds In the western part of
the city had been taken Possession Of by the
Government authorities, and that large and
permanent hospital WIS TO be erected thereon.
The rainy mu1ky weather only served to
helehten all gloomy 1orebodings Of pestlence
fem such a sickly focus, and the
people began to murmur. Finally, Col.
onel John Coburn Was dispatched
10 Washington to intefccdc with the mag!
mates for the prevention Of 80 great an evil.
&c wcnt-he expla1ncd-thc magnates saw
wire brought the glad tldings. and all was
peace again. Then came the terrible draft
and marked out some 400 OF our domesticalty
inclined citizens as victims for the Southern
Coniedcsacy. "Ah then there was hurry
ing to and fro" And after days Of anxiety.
s4eeplcss nights, and much expenditure Of
.syety hard cash." the quota was filled, and
Trouble No. eyaporated. The last of the
eleven regiments went southwark on various
lines Of railway. Gov. Morton went East
Chaplain Lozser fitted nor:hnard In bcna1f |
Of the Sanitary Commission; receptions at
the Bates House we're over, and all WIS quiet
again.
lhe rain fell faster and the mud grew
deeper. But through the rain and under the
mud went the Irish pioneers of the street
1ailS ay, and mp Eest Washington and Penn |
sylvan,a streets, still On towards hassachu. |
settS avenue stretched the parallel rails, and |
heralded glad times to the dwellers IN the /
"ou.squlrts and '.rhubarbs." Higher rents |
went up street with the iron bars, and prices |
Of real estate kept company. An imitation |
swell front miles away on Dawson street, cast |
Oft its dull colors, bloomed out in drab coat |
over lis poplar sides, mud put on arfstocratic |
ai With the window blinds it had waited SO |
lorg for.
Some genius, With an eye for wild grease.
eaw an ohy scum On spring On the farm Of I
Dclzel, three miles from The city. A deci. !
d. dty first class sensation this "Pap's struck |
lie" And the next day. through the min,
which hadn't stopped yet, went number Of |
slyentitiic" gentlemen, armed with nmorel-
las and pint faska ito hold the samples Of |
OILY ont TO the aforesaid spring. They re- !
turned Triumphant, with empty TASKS, but |
with boots new creased with the floating lu- /
b1icator. Others followed; and now a we'll !
is going down-and II that succeeds We shall |
commence to turn up our oil factories at com
mon chaps with few thousands, and swell
out into greasy and opulent metropolis.
The oil business made us happy but some
Of our conservative Kentucky nel,, ,,hcors we're
Elk Of them came over from that lively State,
armed with pistols and long knives, a Ia DAN
iel Boone, al er some fugitive Slaves. They
had never heasd about the repeal Of the fi1g1-
tive slave law, evidently, and they cherished
the hope that the statu quo Of the ''nfsgt."
had not been materially affected by the cruel
war.
The most Of them Ind dabbled little into
the guerilla business under Jessie's lead
but had thrown up long ago, aud were for
peace and the Union as it Is, and the consii-
tuition as It was. The negroes they were
eolorcd Union soldiers. The stupid fellows,
trusting to Marcy Abe LinLin, n1id confident
that this was the era Of f4eedom, has uc,u-
ally abandoned their families, taken guns in
their lands, and gone down tu take pop at
the chlyally;; Tue Kentucky chaps we're
time, crast:allen and minus the n.gge:s.
1he police were Abo:itionists, and kept an
eye, many eyes, on the Villains. Their rights
we're denied them and they crossed the river
cross and proiane. I expect they arc gone
to gucrillcriug again to sweetcn their tenn
pers.
Recruiting is played ont. The draft is 60
iLE on and the Victims are coutur into cuinn