Show tina TIMIS s AT TIM THE FORT the soldiers just paid affat off it foit churchill ate having ft a jolly time cfall if all accounts be true trite while the hangers on ate aio reaping a 1 harvest of green backs 11 gambling an and drunkenness diun kenness ate aie the order of the day and we wel e mod ined last night nigh that upwards of foi doity ty men had fa found und tl t ay into to the 11 guard house bouse almeady ali eady cady virginia nevada union may 29 we have seen paragraphs similar to the abon aboe e in quite a number of our nevada e exchanges x and while we cannot but ingret cegret tb thit I 1 t the bacis facts should bo be such abou amou among the sol soldiers sold diels icis now at fort churchill as to td give rise to such stich reports we must highly felicitate ourselves and the command here on the different state of affairs presented by a pay day at gamp camp douglas our soldiers here did let them themselves thessell sell CS foolishly loose on one the first pay day after our arrival here but since with rare exceptions they seem to have come to the conclusion that this thing of having a high old time about pay day was discreditable in the first place and did not pay gay in the second it would pro probably bably be difficult to find in any other equally largo large r command of soldiers so many men who are temperate on principle as are to be found in the command in this dis thiet and while this is in great measure owing to the respect entertained by the soldiers for their relatives at home their commanding officers and themselves the agency of the order of good Temp lars long 11 since established in the ad regiment and branch lodges of which are found at all the posts in this district is not to be ignored as having greatly contributed thereto intemperance here bore is at any time the exception not the r rule 11 ae and habits of intemperance in this command involve loss of caste among among the enlisted men those nevada volunteers will probably pio bably give a better account of themselves in when hen brought in contact with this command and under the immediate immedi ite and latent influences of garrison lodge no 65 1 0 G T we hope and trust such may be the case I 1 |