The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-08

A LOVe-A1Ot at h Dep0t-EntoFta1n-
ment-MOORIight PIc-Nie in Oak
Grove.
This old and favorits battery, SO long
looked for, arrived here at half past five
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, direct from
Nashville, which place they left last Mon
day. Perhaps il is better known as Smith
nights Battery, il having been recruited
in this city by Mr.. Louis smithnight, who
went out as Captain commanding the bat
terry. The original organisation was As
follows:
Captain-Louis Smithnight.
I~ieutensnts Prank Robbins, Henry
Roth, Matthias Adams and Oscar Hancock.
This independent battery was mustered
into service on the 29th of October, 1889,
and left Camp in this city, 1856 strong. It
went first into Kentucky where it saw some
service, but Tennessee is the field of glory
on which the boys have made their name
aud mark. For a long time they were
stationed at Murfreesboro, but lAtterly they
have been at Chattanooga.
The battery comes back with 1876 men,
under the following officers /;
Captain-Wm' BEckus.
Lieutenants-H. P. Jocslyn, Henry Horn,
Vim. Nierachier and Henry Heine.
All these officers have come up from the
ranks, and are fine specimens Of military
men, esch one being in physique, appear
ance and bearing every inch a soldier.
The men are all large and robust, the very
pictures Of health and endurance. They
come back with that conscious swing of
Independence and pride which boys may
have who have passed through such battles
as Liberty Gap, Chiekamauga and Frank
lin. At the latter place they lost a much
priced Lieutenant and fourteen men.
Originally the battery was German, with
the exception of one small detachment OF
about twenty-five Americans. The latter
nationality now constitutes, after the re-
cruiting of the battery, about one-third the
entire force. se~venty-fve or eighty of the
original members, who went out with
| Captain ~Smithnight, return.
Alargs number of men, women and chill
dren we're at the depot when the train
came in. The crowd was largely composed
o sveethearts, wives and their progeny. Be-
fore the train had stopped, the boys, their
eyes liked intently on various pieces of cal
leo, jumped wildly from the cars, with sa-
bres, knapsacks and all, and made for the
women. OF all the hugging n kissing
and general love-riot we have ever seem,
that scene was chief. The men seemed to
have the thing reduced rightdOwn to a sci.
ence and an art. And when one remembers
how infinitely more demonstrative and nom
interpretive the Germans are Than the
meeting. Mothers Rugged their returned
boys, martial husbands and lovers clspped
arms around ~sWestheArts, wives, babies
and all, and sent huge moustachios down
upon soft faces without ceremony. Il was
Just such a revel and riot of tender senti-
ments and emotions as the sly god who pre-
sides over that department, loves.
As soon as the officers could summon or
der out of this IoVe-chsos, the men were got
into line, and, headed by several gentle
men of the Reception Committee and LIE.
lands Band, marched up to the Park.
When they arrived there, they sat down to
supper, not waiting for a reception speech,
inasmuch as better things were in store for
them.
When supper had been dispatched, the
men were ordered to march over TO Oak
Grove, near the Camp, whore q picnic en-
tertainment had been spread in their honor
and for their enjoyment, by Captain Smith
night and the friends of the battery.
Through the kindness of Mr.. Thomas Jones,
jr., neighbor George and this reporter had
the pleasure Of q moonlight ride over the
picturesque road leading to the grove, and
also the pleasure of seeing the hsppiest set
of women and children and the iolliestcrew
of men in the world. We nave read in
ancient and sacred lore of lands flowing
with milk and honey, but we never hap
pened, before lastnight, to fall upon grounds
OVERLOOKED with lager, and tits no wonder
if in Escaping" the flood, we got some
what strangled in the midst OF the buffet
ings. The crowd was in its happiest vein.
A. T. Brinsmade, Esq had made them a
felicitous speech of welcome, which they
cheered, and Captain Bsckus, in response,
had told the men that there were their
wives, swsethesrts and friends, and he
would not ask them to go to camp as they
would a 70 5PV.L-GA nirht with the
aforesaid, and this admirable piece of kind
consideration had ELECTED tremendous
cheering, and frequent inhibition of CO.
pious ~draughts of favorite lager had warm
ed the blood and spirits to the fine temper
of the milk of human kindness, and all
were as social as blackbirds in early
spring. They sang, and promenaded, and
fought their battles Ger again to their
clinging DesdemOnas, and between whites
the band stimulated the crowd, and kept
up the convivial furOre with their stirring
blasts. After several casks of lager had
been guzzled, and two or three hours spent
most hilsriously and agreeably, the COM
pany set out on their return TO the city,
soldier husbands carrying babies and
knspsacks and supporting wives, and val
liant lovers each with an arm around her.
The battery will meet On tho Park nj ten
o'clock this morning, when they will march
over TO camp and wait to be paid off. The
boys were loud in praise of the hospitality
and attention of the city, and Judging from
their immense enjoyment of this occasion,
will never forget the magnificent double
reception they met on their return from the
wars.
BUTTER A THEKNoNErER.-There is reason
and authority for believing that butter was
used, anciently, as a test of temperature, and
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