Show WILLIAM EARL WRITES tha utah men acro tired of inaction atud discharge I 1 M karl ot athla alty Is in receipt ft aho following letter bail ot A utah light artillery now nt manila and doled january oth 1 I li my auly ti epand a rw minutes in writing t you and id you know how we aro peeling along and hail we an doing wo do not have much to do at present and spend our lime in an endeavor endra vor to take c 0 ourselves but this kind ot work la more donoto I 1 thoua than laborious we arc very tired of it A great many ot u thank it la a shame they do not try and gel us out ot thin place we havea no desho to soldier or the real of our lives it had wo would have joined the army A great many have rr celvid their discharges and the balance tit us would like to ours if ahey keep us here two years it will be necessary to send a battery or two cruit UK as our numbers arc retting smaller things acm to bp shaping themselves lo 10 kuca us our tull length or lime it lit onu continual lound oc and bluster ais the names arc u w end ut trouble baid 11 looks to me as ac wo w have trouble as anon aa ho kiy 0 o net up a orn 0 government and compel these no alvra to abide by their lma which they will nover do they claim that ahey w until the bet drop oc their blood Is spilled or et 1 can assure you thoy are every preparation tor it there is not i night but that there are two or three 0 them killed and the same results occur on our bide all ot this high toned moved out 0 tho city last week for protection and are forcing every ablo bodied man the aee 13 to SO to join them only a i iv days BRO our battery doctor had a who drove his carriage carri ige and the natives lied him hand and foot and took him their bumbera aro very lare about a are laree aa ours so you can seo we would have to do ahr y are a ild to bo armed with the best mauser rines they alao have acme very rood held pieces 0 the latest pattern we have been confined very lone to our du artera for the last two weeks not baini allowed outside and holdine hold lne ourselves in to move against them at a moments notice I 1 know it will bo a frac tor all light it we ever baart for we aro surrounded on all and the city 1 full we did not coma over to and oppress these poor people but to give them their liberty and them from that cruel which they have been under so ions irom tho way the americans started in it would not better it much that Is what they arc objects object ms to now I 1 believe there la something or a w ith gen it would TIP a step backward lor our nation H ever anything like eliat should happen or the world knows our mission here all of the german busl neis men are deeply in sympathy with them the health 0 the two batteries ean brally speak lne ia fair wo have como in the hospital we lost one with the fever have one case of smallpox aarl as a result we were all obliged to ho vaccinated vaccina ted and now wo are all sore arms airet sergt J 0 ans taken to the hospital a few daya ago with taver but at last reports was doing nicely wo have a correspondent fop tho tribune in corp and he aps you posted very well the weather Is cool at night and very warm during the middle ot the day my eyes have been troubling me tor some timo past it teems to bo a complaint in here with no relief have also had the rheumatism bulte bad resulting from tho ot kept so wet tor so bom a time after farst here this ji the worst complaint on the island and to cure I 1 appreciate the tribune and other papers you send mo from time to tune BI ij young sends his beat regards to you bilao will kelson and bickman and M C and aliey all wish to be kindly remembered to allu lr friends our aie scattered very much at present our major Is judge in the superior court jeub has chure of all the property aleut grow Is on his way home aleut naylor with capt grant and a ot ten men have charge of tilea ivor gunboat some call it tho utah navy I 1 remain as ever your cousin and a utah soldier boy his count rys cause WILLIAM EARI |