| Show CAMP FLOYD I 1 U T nov nor and 2nd 1859 5 DIR M EDITOR you paper was handed banded to no me ley ky one of our cur arness chos turn it was to go over into frogtown Frog town this morning after our decler supply of whisky chich owa diun to the new dew re regulations Fu lations cannot pe be sold in in camp J if bod you should ever get patriotic and turn ta wier I 1 will tell you liow blow to fool foo them as is on guard provided th they sy is dis disposed to be vil il agent which bich dont often happen you must git a tin coffee pot and stop up the holes which lets the coaree spout with sealing wax which cart can be got from the compa comp pys nys quartermasters clerk for a small con Bide elde ration which it is ts riot nit worthwhile w orth while tome to mention then fill up the spout with milk and the main cam vessel with whisky and ithe the chances is you will get her though without any trouble in regard to your inquiries about the low price 1 rice of states addles candles and les out side bids the camp as compared to other articles I 1 think it comes about in this way when the boys gits out of money which abich they often does they buys bridles from the salers Sn lers who lindly kindly sells them candles at the very low price of az 25 acts vach eich one and takes them back again in place of coin at 10 cents each at the branch of the regular establishment in n frogtown Frog town for v chis hisky attebe at the rate of ofa 6 00 per quart and shoe blacking pro ratio I 1 allers noticed that when articles gits scarce bearce in camp they goes up amalin fast III in frog also that the privates is is allers very busy talin things over there anticipation antici patin a rise I 1 expect you forgot that I 1 belong to the dragoons or may be you dian didn t know that at men never talk out side of the post whoa you spoke to me about the probable course to be pursued by the administration in ill case brigham Brig haia young should declare war nar against the united states well ell sir air when I 1 I 1 enlisted some ten deais ago owin olinto to the low pr i ce of f wages on the cairo and new orleans rail road I 1 took an oath to serre my country in in such a manner as the commanding officer should direct me likewise to put down ic ie belion bellon and in in all cases to obey the rules what is laid down tn in the army regulations for the discipline and government of the soldiers and one of them rules is is that we soldiers shall speak of the president and the war office in disrespectful terms which I 1 should have to do it I 1 tell you the private opinion of my kernel atso n bat my friend in the told me he heard beard his captain tell the laundry woman of that regiment also some th things ings in connection with the commissary department which aint for nobody but contractors and their particles parti clar friends to know the bug bugler jer of our company vi who ho got gathis hit self ted on ahe sick list and won all the lack back pay from the doctor ana and hospital steward with a mexican buzzel has been 0 1 l to ibe the ranks anti and the money refunded funded I 1 dont think the artillery meli men will vill have hai e to haul their heavy pieces over the mountains mountain this his winter the only chace they had to see them guns on runners was in in 1857 if they Is is ever eier wanted the other side of the moui mou talus lama they will be sent in by the mail in regard to the government mules mule 9 that has been lost I 1 cannot say positively but I 1 have been on the road a good deal this summer and from the amount of mules which I 1 have seen with the frying pan brand which you know bivers up the U S should say not more than 2000 about them pistols I 1 must confess you have got roe me down for all the mor mons in the territory has got one beside them that has gone out of the country cour try the question is is where did they come from I 1 have lost but nine nine since I 1 have been bee n in the country and had a few stolen stole and I 1 know I 1 am a careful man and a good soldier THE BOLD BOID DRAGOON |
