The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-05-18
Florida Correspondence Of the Pilot.
TALLAHASSEE. FLs, !
April %, 1866.

DcuF fLOs. = III ny last PROMISED
another letter soon. and the receipt, to-
day, OF YOUR excellent paper containing it,
reminds ne Of my hardness in fuIfiiIir g
it. Having but few more days to spend
here | must, if wish 10 write Of this
place, do it now.
After nearly nearly FIVE years service
the order which came the other day say
ing that "the services If the - reg-
ment Of colored infantry were no longer
required" ana directing their muster out,
was tie most grateful and refreshing order
which for some time has come 10 4" these
headquarters" | wonder if every VOL
uuteer who leaves the service feels as
| 90, standing on the verge Of long lost
citizenship. | thank God devoutly for
my release from situation in which tie
power vested in "superior officers by
regulations and military law are TOO
often made use Of as the means Of grati-
tying personal spite; and, alas for military
honor the instances when the remedial
power is applied solely from a sense of
duty to the service and the government,
verv seldom occur. This ia as often the
case in the regular as in the volunteer
service. One instance Capt. JONI J.
McCuLLoM, A. Q NJ, formerly lawyer
from Oc,Dto, and, under UoRS, Assistant
Attorney General of the State, was placed
in arrest by Col. FLINT, 7th Z. S. Inf,
ana broughtto trial-though subsequently
acquitted-for using public property
for private purposes in allowing his wife
to ride a public horse. o,day, Col.
FLINT, Commanding Post, takes in a pub
lie ambulance, drawn b, public animals,
his family off on a pleasure excursion to
the Springs. This is bu. one instance,
among thousands, daily occurring.
The people here drew one long free
breath when the Peace Proclamation was
telegraphed. Visions of guards, arbitrary
arrests, and tedious copfneruents, and trial
by the most unjust tribunal in the world
a military colnnissiou-wAich had been
haunting them since the occupation, was
swept away By this olive branch. | could
sympathjze with them.
tbiGk have not yet spoken 10 YOU Of
Tallahassee, the capital Of the peninsular
State. Like Rome. il has its seven hills,
out unlike the ancient queen Of the world,
i; sits on but one, "aud from its throne
OF beauty rules the State. 1t is rather
a prominent place. Many of its defoI-
mites ale hidden by the great live oaks
and magnoiias which everywhere shade
the town. On the bill sides, low Iickety
houses hang, as if fearing ail,-lc oking
as if, in the struggle for position on the
top, these smaller fry had been ruthIossly
pushed down by their more pretentious
neighbors, just as you and have seen,
a. y" '''''0 oo'" "'"'e' . u"s' '1o
''''''0' ''-'','''" '"'s''' '''o my % Ia
ones about the stove, blut bering with cold.
In the new dress nature has long since
brought her offspring here, the town
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'o0 'e''0''''oe0 "a '''o o'' '''''' l-'' '''e'
u '"o '0'''0' "'0 ~ 70 'ee"' 4 LIZ o'''''
"@P''o'' a MASSIVE ou''u''s Of 0s'cN' " as
'n'e"D9,' - y ply '"e ''So''S ''"u 9o'''',9
u 'lo '7'a'7 'oe'e'"' oo"'s u -" "''e" aSi''
pc9l'"S O. 10 SP''7, a"0 Je''o"'SN al over
'''!'"' So,l'7" Ii'' 'l'' '''se y .. -; '''s-'
'"'''"' nc '''''9 '-e5 'S's''' ''7 III sesS'0"
mere las "'"'e' "0'0 "0I d very '"'e'''ge"'
tookiHg DodE OF men. L IS 'o'i Of mem,
or previous "ooy rather, t'iat the pro-"
P''e'"r 81 the only hoie' here had printed
d" 'o' o "'''' q '"'9 'or use q tne mem
bs's' AlIeF Il week use ne discontinued
the i!ac''CF' aod on beih9 ASKED Why,
SAID ~ G1uh pay, theTe wash more tban
Two or th'ee '''e'"oe's couia 'ea1 lhem
az" "o''" e. so'l7 Oh ''S oe'"9
''"e'
b9yoHH tAe importance attaching noce5-
safity 10 Inc town as tho state center, IL