Train from Cincinnati did not get here till midnight so we did not get Saturday's Gazette last evening. A little before twelve last night we heard the sound of chopping toward the hill. It was a moonless night and we feared some one was tampering with the railroad so we aroused and sent forth John to reconnoiter. He soon returned saying that the railroad was all right, but some fellows were chopping a tree on the hillside (a bee tree it afterwards proved) and he was disposed to watch them awhile. While thus aroused we heard firing at Parkersburg between one and two o'clock. First alarm guns, drums beating and then about twenty rounds of musketry. We feared the camp had been surprised and a fight had taken place.
Mr. Andrews preached from the text: 'Not this man but Barrabas'. Pretty full congregation.
John Roberts who went down to Parkersburg this morning reports that the firing was occasioned by a false alarm.
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