V <>l He fought gallantly at the late bat
tle of Shiloh—was wounded in the thigh,
and taken prisoner. After the repul'd of
the enemy Monday, he was found in a rath
er secluded position, where he had lain 30
h *urs without food and wet from a riiei’Cli
ing rain. The fatal disease of that climate
(dyseut rv) seized him, and terminated Li
earthly existence the next day after he readi
ed home, lie leaves a wife and four child
ren shorn of a kind husband and father.—
Galena Advertiser.
tiT A gentleman reports from Hazel
Green that the committee appointed to
visit Pittsburg after the late battle, in
which a number of Hazel Green men were
wounded and several kiiio I, and see to
them, had succeeded in bringing Lieut.
Putman up the river to Keokuk at which
place lie was left until he gets sd>!e to trav
el. Iris UiieVed he will recover from hi
wounds, which were at fimt considered fa
tal and so reported. Daciel Howard of
the same Company has died since his re
turn to Hazel Green, not frori the
effect* of his sk'ght wounds but of sickness
contracted in camp. Mr. Feast 1 , same
company, w ounded in the knee, is doing
well.
Cb irle* Carroll, of Carrollton,
graudsbn of the bmioitt signer of the
Declaration of Independence, is, with one
or two exceptions, the largest slaveholder
in Maryland. Kind as a patent to his
three hundred negroes, he hails the Presi
dent’s plan of emancipation with gladness,
lie has told his slaves not to leave him,
because the time would come when they
would be free on their native soil, and that
then he would employ them as free labor
ers at good wages.
