Trttor's Corrrsponoenre.

CAMP INDEPENDENCE,
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DEAR JoNEs To coHcoct interesting
items on board ship on the breakers, or
beset with calm, for the entertainment or
amusement Of the "intelligent readers" OF
an invaluable public journal, is labor that
might puzzle a Hercules. No less difficult
Is the task to be performed by me.


Here we are, sir, completely stranded on
the Walnut Hills, and every "mother's son
Of us" lying idle and Iistless, waiting for
some "tide in our affairs" to bear us on to
fortune. And Notwithstanding we can see
and feel and know the full extent-and
height and breadth and depth of our poor
condition, the Editor Of the Vicksburg
Whig, in his paper Of yesterdays date, la
bors hard to convince us (the volunteersJ
that this g City Of the Hills " is the very
place, of all others, where we should be ;
that it is far preferable, in respect of heaIth-
fuIness, expense and convenience, to any
other point on our route to the Eio Grande,
and euea if ii mere not, that aoe (tlle volun-
teers) haze aot entered upon pleasure cam
paiga, and consequently, if we are required
to endanger our health and lives, ,cheR 1t is
mol al all necessary, we ought not to mur-
mur or complain; or, to state it in other
terms, that when man has enlisted in the
service of " Uncle SAM" his health and
comfort are of no importance whatever
The Editor of the Whig iasiauates Uery
strongly, that the sickness of the volunteers
is to be attributed other Gown free living"
If the sage Editor can find no other excuse
for those who have volunteered to defend
their country, who have changed the peace
fuI vocations of life for the stern and se-
we're occupation of war, and a home Of
quiet and comfort for the privatons of the
camp say, sir, if be has not generosity,
nay, justice enough, to assign the true and
obvious cause of their sickness, they would
be obliged by his excepting his oracle seal
ed" The volunteers, sir, know as well as
the Editor of the Whig, that they have not
entered upon pleasure campaign. -
They know something of the hardships
which they have to encounter, but they
cannot see why that constitutes good rea-
son for increasing their hardshps. Nay,
sir, they are willing to go any where duty
may call them; but they had not been
taught that the Walnut Hills, near Picks-
burg, was to be the scene of their hard
ships and of the war. They had not learn
ed, until informed by the Editor of the
Whig, that duty called them to remain at
Vicksburg.


Col. CRoGHAN, of the U. S. Army, with
whose name and gallant exploits are asso-
Grated our earliest recolIections, arrived in
this city on the eth ult,, and on yesterday
inspected our regiment The old soldier
looks hale and bears himself soIdierly. He
comes in advance of Gen. WooL, Who will
be here tit is stated in few days. TRUST
he will remove us hence.


VerV truly, L. I,