Anti Slavery Bugle

Some of the Beauties of the War—

The following is an extract of a letter from James S. Jackson, Esq. relative to Col. Marshall's Kentucky Regiment, dated in Texas, Sept. 23:

"I hope by the next letter I write to give you an account of improving health in the Regiment. You ought to see the men.—Their condition is a reproach to the Government. They are barefooted, and some of them literally without breeches, many without hats and coats, but they stand up as proud as if they were dressed in imperial purple. The Government is indebted to this Regiment this day $75,000—it has received no pay whatever, and though paymasters pass and repass it, it hath seen no signs of payment. Young men of education and intelligence, used to the luxuries of private life, are by this neglect absolutely turned naked into a wild country, and exposed to the climate and suffering from the weather, without any care for their condition on the part of the Government they serve. They would raise a row pretty quickly, but that they respect too highly the feelings of their own officers to place them in an awkward position, by drawing down on them the displeasure of the War Department."

Besides the above, the Kentucky Reporter states that upward of four hundred are reported to be on the sick list.