■ 96 by many at that time aganist the Indians. The lieutenant with his company stopped a night at Newark. The three Indians were guarded as prisoners, and that duty devolved by turns on the recruits. A physician, who lived in Newark, and kept a small drug shop, informed the office that tw’O of his men . had applied to him for poison. On his questioning them closely what use they were to make of it, they partly confessed that it was inten- ed for the Indians. It was night when they applied for it, and they were dressed in fatiq frocks. In the morning the lieutenant his men paraded, and called the doctor to point out those who had meditated such a base act; but the doctor, either unwilling to expose himself to the enmity of the men, or unable to discern them, the whole company being then dressed in their regimentals, the affair was passed over with some severe remarks by the commanding officer on the unsoldierlike conduct of those who could be guilty of such a dastardly crime of poisoning. The Mexican War.—In response to the requisition made by President Polk, calling on Ohio for three regiments of infantry, to
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