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The New Regiments

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
August
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Cainp of Iostruction at Fort Vauo has been broken up, thcoifi. cers paid o(F, and the Fort desertad by tho ': skoletons." Many of the officen. have activoly engngcd in rucruting tor their seycral oompauies, atiJ it ia doBigncd (lint the three Regimenté sh;ill be macle renoy to tako the field at as early a day as poBsible. The Rogiïnentts wil] rendezvous na folio ws : Tho 5Üi, at FortWayne. The Otli, at Kalainnzoo. Tho 7th, at Monroe. Tho Saline Sharp Shooter?, Capt. Cordox, are attachcd to the Cth Regiment, Col. QuKIEKIUS. IW The Gonrention eallud by the seeession authorilies of Missouri to get that Stilte out of the Union h;is proved lliL'ir own duwuiall. It bas deposed lbo recreant tJoyernor, Lic-ut. Governor, and Secetary f State, nnd filled Üioir places witli staunch Union ir,cn ; bas repealed lbo arbitrary military bill r.nd other obnoxiotfs acts of Uie logislature, nnd inaiignrated a new order of tilinga a place of the conlemphttcd ruign of rovolution nnd terror. Tbe new Governor lias been iqaugurated, and in another column we give place to liis iirst proclarr.ntion. The Gover nor eloct was an old Whig, and at the ia6t eleetion x Bell-Ererelt man, and both the Lieut. Governor and Seuretary of State are and alwaya have been Demoofats. The action of the convention is no doubt heartily endorsed by a majoirïy of the peoplo of the State, and thesecessionists can not complain of i's being irregular for it was a c! i!d of their own begettjng. f' The Frce Press and Tribune emph iticaily charge tbat rcsponsible steumboat owners or agente ófFered to biing tbo returning First Rcgiinent frotn Cleveland to Detroit at $1 per han, but that by order pi Maj. Bidc wiü.r, they "ere brought by rail via. i Toledo at $3 -10 por man, niaking an increased expense to the State of nbout 1,000, and an increased discojnfort to the soldiers not to be estimated. This and similar contraéis nced airing.

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