Just as the Oregon regiment was coming into line on the parade ground last evening and while recruits and regulars made up a good half of the crowd that blocked the roadway the fire call came sharply from the guardhouse and there was a rapid scamper of every beleggined and blue-coated spectator to his place in fire quarters.

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Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house.