| Show communicated one odthe of the people has his say ay GREAT SILT S arx LAKE CITY april ath 1864 f EDITOR darly DAILY VEDETTE it is a long time previous to this conference since I 1 visited salt L like city and I 1 must confess myself fag agreeably surprised for having heard a great deal about camp douglas and the ions that the soldiers h had ad introduced I 1 expected to have seen strange sights while I 1 staid in the cit city but judge my astonishment when I 1 found all quiet and prosperous certainly more prosperous than heretofore I 1 looked about to find drunken volunteers at ever every y street corner but I 1 did not see one I 1 also expected that the people would have bave been in arms and drilled liko like they ary are in the country but what astonished and puzzled me ine as much as anything was tile the saints 1 talked about and to minera maineri and gentiles in general as though it was not forbidden nor did they look upon it with horror borror th there ere seemed famil familiarity carity ot of intercourse inere ter course Is not this one of the con options I 1 to in anke ike sure that I 1 saw all tho the sights I 1 went up to camp douglas or of course I 1 approached very carefully let I 1 should be tainted with something under the nime of corruption but in what shape it was to show it itself elf I 1 did not know but can c on there I 1 found all peace and quiet and each one minding hh bt own bili business fesq and letting oth others r 3 alo alone ne and do you believe it I 1 I 1 did not find whit I 1 was looking for demoralization n and drunken fie ness welt well sir thinks I 1 to myself I 1 the chapa chapi in in our settlement moment so certainly have been deceived for we all believed s something om ething monstrous had corne come to the country kith tile the soldiers I 1 amongst the rest mark ye belie believed veI it after visiting the caulp I 1 ned to the city in still stil I 1 ruminating over the expected sights rights I 1 WI was to have flave seen feel and thrusting ni my fingers wildly through my hair thinking y a k kind ind of abstractedly and half distractedly hen all at it once a bright thought struck me I 1 remembered having heard of a ne 19 aper published by the soldiers 7 a happy appy thought says 1 I now I 1 have it t 1 s shall liall in the paper all at a glance the vile thing will show its hideous head there I 1 procured d abil a file of if the and seating myself in an arm arin chair began to read and rend I 1 was waa astonished sir I 1 found nothing in the piper reasonably to object to but lots to admire I 1 found terse tasteful well written articles respectfully addressed to the understanding of the people I 1 was wag agitated I 1 began to feet feel ciff curious I 1 was reading a forbidden paper A stealth y claW crawling ling fueling began to run through my veins veins a scene of dizziness be clouded my sight I 1 throw threw down tho the paper concluding conclude in g surely that that was the accursed thing sly my nerves becoming somewhat calmer merl I 1 dozed doled off in sleep and when I 1 awoke I 1 bad a confused idea that I 1 had been dreaming that my cherished hope had bad glided from me so gradually that I 1 did riot not know it only by the presence of a better one under the influence of my fresh light I 1 concluded conell collell ell aided that the imported crime queR question quention tion was an illusion of the mind and that circum s stances lid did not justify the foi boding and alarm there is in the country now sir in the absence of otherwise being able to account for this alarm I 1 have edme to the conclusion it is in the VEDETTE itself you sir have introduced into these peaceful TAI valleys leYs a daily paper is not this against counsel Is not this daily paper publishing a gentile gentil tf practice if one bad ad been wanted would w it not have been introduced by prop proper er authority are you not afraid to go ag against counsel I 1 have not ot come to the city for nothing 1 I shall carry news to my neighbors of this new feature I 1 am taking a pocket full of the to read to them and go golly y I 1 how bow some of them will stare stalo with mouth agape when I 1 read to them some of the arti articles cles and when astride the barn yard fence wo we talk over their cont contents ants not a few of them will bewail bowl it the counsel that deprives them of bf the VEDETTE yours cie alania ass M any of our tra transient visitors in want of a tio 0 or good the shape of a wagon will article ia consult by calling or on IL A keyel keye who their int interests er meviin seen by reference to his adoc advertisement in be other column has an 11 twenty jac jackson so 1 aur aurora thimble skein wa wagons for sale 1 at prices very doiy |
