BELLEFONTE REPUBLICAN
W. W. BROW N,
..DITORS
A. B. HUTCHISON,
RAILROADS
MIFFLIN 6.1 CENTRE CO. Branch R. R
NORTHWARD.
No. 1, leaves Lewistown at 7.20 a. tn., and
arrives at Milroy 8.15 a. in.
No. 2, IeAVCS Penn'a R. R. 10.33 a. at., ar-
rives pt Milroy 11.23 p. Irt.
No. 3, leaves Pen 'a It. IL 4.08 g, in,, ar
rives at Milroy 4.58.
SOUTIIIVARD
No. 1, leaves Milroy 8.50 a. m., and arrives
at Penn'a. R. R. 9.40 a. ra.
No. 2, leaves Milroy 1.15 p. In., and arrives
Penn'a. R. R. 2.1.13 p. m.
No. 3, leaves Milroy 5.05 p. m. and arrives
at Petin'a. R. R. 5.5 2 1 -, p. m.
stage leaves Bellefonte every day (except
Sunday,) at 11. a, 112., and arrives at Mil- .
toy 4.30 pm.
Stage leaves Milroy every day '(except Sun
day) at 5.30 p. m. and arrives at Belle
fonte 10.30 p. in.
Stage leaves Bellefonte for PineGrore Mills
every Tuesday, 'Thursday and Saturday
mornings at 6 a. in.
Western mail closes at 4..00 p. m.
Lock Haven mail closes at 10.00 a. m.
pIIILADELPAIA AND EEIL
WINTER TOM I'ABLE
Through and direct route between PER
adelphia, Baltimore, Harrisburg, Williams
port, and the
GREAT OIL REGION or PENIVA.
ELEGANT SLEEPIN'Gr - C ARS
On all night Trains
'On and after MONDAY, NOV. 23th IS6S
the TraraB on the Philadelphia std Erie
- Rail Read wilt rina a.B follows:
w
'Mall Train leaves Philadelphia I'o 45 p.m
.. " Lock Have - a... 111 a. m
" arr. at Erie ........ 119 p. , rn
'rie Express leases Phila._ 11 50 a m
" " " Leek Ila Ten... 9 59 p. m
" arr. at El is—. 10 In a it:
ylmiraMail les.eslkliiltulelPhla 5 00 a. ta
" " Lack ll:even... 7 TT: p.
'. " mr. at Loe . qll.aven. 7 45 p. m
ART: ,
Y4l - ail Train leaves -?5 a. a 3
" " " Loek iiaven..-. II 21 p. es
" " &^r- at Philadelp - hia., 10 ITO a, in
Expvz.ns lea - v . es p. tn
', it " ,L , wk Caren 6 1(1
" arr. at Phila 4 . 20 p. ;a
and Express conneat with Gil Creek
1.3.114 Allegheny River 111 . 11. Roasl.
Cahecked
LLFPJ2D L. TYLER,
cadent.
R 3 T.LR.OAD
UE::
r;?..1,13 33i.G.LE 7','ALLICT:
FM
ROY , E CLE REIM D R ANCYZES
tOPEITING O TY - 1161E k CrIMKRT.I:6I.D
BRKL , TCH Te, CLEA:TRIM.
41 MILES Ar'efall •CF
On and after Monday, Tebrarayist, 1869
"IMO Passenger 'Trains will .. .ran dailyrcexcept
4.3undays) 'between Tyro And Letu'& Hare%
:and one Passenger ehre r - Tyrone
..and Clearfield—as fertorn-.:
LD E C-
g ST. Y. Tn. s
flail LzaTee Lett Ilavez. p
" 3 55 p m
" ' 4 - 12 p m
Arrive at Tyrone Si. .._....6 {1.5
ra,. E. Express leavesl, llaven at.. 10 20 a in
..... .13 a an
"—.l3elicfente "...11 . 5 - 5 a to
?Arrives at - nTy-roue 1 2 , g p
=1
Mail leaves TyrOTte '8:03 a In
" t.te at 10.5 , 0 a m
" 02 a in
Arrive at Leek 30 p
03. E. Express leaves Tyr0tte.—........ 00 p
ru
"...Itellefortte at.. 8 00 p
"...Winesburg at... '9 05 p m
arrivol at Lock If.avor. - 44t---...10 30 p m
TYRONE, AIM GLEAREIELD
RTgli'iLILD
fClearlield Mail leaves Tyrone at.. 9 00 a m
rrat..lo 40 a m
" .... 10 a in
-Arrive at Clearfield at. . 100 p m
13 OTITHIV.I.RD
'Leaves Clearfield at.--
Arrive at Tyrone at
CONNECTIONS
- Passengers leaves Clearfield at 2 o'clock
m., Philipsburg at 3 o 5 p. in., Osceola at
4 15 p. m., arrive at Tyrone at 3 50 p. In.,
making connection with Cincinnati Express
last at 61y p. m., and with Mail West at
16 44p. •u., on Main Line; also with Bald
IBagle Express, leaving Tyrone at 7 00 p.
:arriving at Bellefonte at S 45 p. m., at Lock
illaven at 10 30 p. in., connecting with Erie
Mail East on the Philadelphia and Erie road
at II 2C p. in. arriving at Williamsport at
12 40 a. m.
Returning, passengers leaving Williams
port at 8 15 a m, on Erie Mail West. arrive
Ett Lock 'Haven at:3 31 a in, connecting with
I:Bald - Eagle Express leaving Lock Haven at
'lO 20 alit, arriving at Bellefonte at 11 55 a
tu, Snow Shoe City at 5 35 p m, and Tyrone
at 1 20 p m, connecting with Way Passen
ger West at 1 40 p in, and Mail East at. 3 31
to, on Slain Line.
Passengers leaving Lock Haven at 2 30 p
and Bellefonte at .1 12 p m, arrive at Ty
rone at 0 05 p to, connecting with Cincin
nati Express East 0 17 p m, and Mail West
at 6 44. p m, on Main Line.
Passengers leaving Tyrone on the Clear
§.ld. Mail or the Lock Haven Mail, connect
from the Day Express East and the Phil'a.
Express West—and on the Bald Eagle Ex
oress, connect trern the Cincinnati Express
mast and Mail West.
Gr.o. C. WILKINS, SUfi'L
EDWARD H. WILLIAMS,
Geer.
IDEAT
MEAT :MARKET,
A. SP. Cor. Diamond, opposite Court House
BELLEFONTE, PENN'A
JESSE MORGAN.,
Would respectfully call the attention of th,.
citizens of Bellefonte and vicinity, to the su
perior quality of
FRESH NEAT
FRESH MEAT !
Constantly to be found on band
BEEF,
PORK',
MUTTON,
VEAL,
POULTRY, &a.,
ja6'69.tf.
o.ln-ny9 on hand
OUR TERMS
FOR SUBSCRIPTION &, ADVERTISING
The " BELLEFO.NTE REPUBLICAN"
is published every WEATMESDAY MOCCNING,
in Bellefonte, Pa., by
A. B. .11UTCNISON & CO.,
at the following rates :
One year (invariably in advance,)s2.oo
Six "
Three 50
Singleos
It is Republican in politics—devoted to
the Agriculture), Manufacturing and Min
ing interests of 'Central Pennsylvania.
Papersdiscontinued tosuhscribers at the
expiration of their terms of siesseription, at
the option. of the publishers, aimless other
wise agreed upon.
Special netices inserted in our local col
urns at 20 ets. per line for each insertion,
unless otherwise agreed npan,hs the month,
quarter or year.
enrlsealcoluerms,2,s
Ms, per line for saoh insertion.
Marriage or Beath anuonneements.pub
lished free of charge. '4Obits.ary.notices pub
lished free,sublieet•to revision and conden
sation by the 'Editors.
Professional or Business Cards, not ex
ceeding I'd lines +this type,'sBOd per annum.
Advertisements of 10 lines, or less, 41.400
for one insertion, and 4 cts. per line for each
additional insertion.
Advertisements h 7 the quarter, half-year
or year received:, and liberal deductions
made in proportion to length of advertise.
meat and length of Vane of insertion, as fel
lows:
SPACE 006g.NTO
Orteinet(or 1O Varestlistype) $5
Two inches_ 7
Three inches—
Four inches,
cob
, Quarter colunint(orsl inches)
Half column (or
One colon - iv:lor 32
Ail axlvertiseme-ats, whether displayed. or
blank lines., , measured. Vynes.of ibis type.
All advertiser:tents clue after 111 e 'first ia
sertien.
Toh Weik . .-el•every -.variety, -snob is Pos
ters.lVlß,heed:4,7l,etter heatis,Cards, , Cheehz,
Enveittpc-s, Paper 'IPJORS, Procr ' ra Mines,
Ilarrke, ke., , ezecteted in the ipage - cyte
with pron.:ph:ll:es, and at tile Init , t reaeona
-ble
:111 comimanications iv.lfiting to
this.dffice. to
A. 11-IfTPCITISA3N f - v CO,.
ik , itcrotite. Pa.
13.dlefoate Masonic, Lodge, No flilB. A. Y.. 14,
meet:, Tuesds7 erping of or before thv
von :119on.
CC22.5td:113 Cenll2l3:Viery. o.N 23, N. T.,
meets second Friday of en taouth.
0. F. Centre Lodge, No. 153, meets
e-.-ery Thursday evening at their flail,
Bush's Arusde.
Fertile conferring of 311r!grees theist Sat.
urtnLy evening of each mmth.
For 'Degree of Rebecca, Second Saturday of
every -month.
T.---:1 - 211 - is Lodge meets every Mon-
•Belleronte Church Directory.
Rre.sbyterian aturoh, Spring St., services at
at 11 s. ns., and 7 p.' m; No pastor
at present. This congregation are
mow -erecting a :iv , church, in consequence
of •which the regular religious services will
be held in the Celia Rouse until further
•notice-
Methodist Episcopal Church, High St., ser
vices 101 a, m., and 7-i p. m. Prayer
meeting on Thursday night. Rev. Jas.
Mullen, pastor.
St. John's Episcopal Church, High St., ser
vices at I.o} a. m., and 7i p. su. Rev.
Byron McGann, pastor.
Lutheran Church, Linn St., services 104- a,
, and i p. m. 11ev. J. A. Hackenberger,
pastor.
Reformed 'Church, Linn St., no pastor at
present
Catholic Church; Bishop St; services 107.;
a. us., ant Sp. m. Rev. T. McGovern,
pastor.
United Brethren Church, High Street, west
side of creek;
services
African SI, E. Church, west side of creek ;
services a; 11 a. m., and 7§ p. m. Rev.
Isaac Pineell, pastor.
TOBACCO & SEGARS
CHAS. T. FRYBERGER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
TOBACCO AND SEGARS,
RALTIMORI: SPUN ROLL. ,
SIX TWIST,
• NAVY, lb and Ib.
Cut and Dry Snaking Tobacco of all kinds,
also Sogars of all grades and prices
at $.13. per thousand, and
upwards.
PIPES ; SEGAR CASES
And all the various kinds of articles usually
kept in a Tobacco Store. Goods will
be sold wholesale at manufacturer's
prices. Give us a trial. I in
vite all to come and ice
far themselves.
Store —Opposite Brockerhoff House.
NEW TOBACCO STORE.
g DO p m
2 55 p m
4 15 p m
5 50 p in
LEVI A. MILLER & COMPANY,
ALLEGHENY ST., BELLEFONTE, PA.,
respectfully informs tho public that they
have opened anew
WHOLESALE ANT) 'RETAIL TOBACCO
6TORE
in the new Iniilciing feeently erected by J. D
13utt2, where they have a 111.17,6 stock of
TOBACCO,
MBERSHA I3M PIPES,
SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO,
the very best. and of all brands, together
witk a large assortment of
GENTLEMEN'S Furnishing. GOODS
In connection with the above, they have
ai.F.o opened an extensive
FA SIIIONAELE EATING HOUSE
On European principles. Everything in the
best of style.
MEALS AT ALL HOURS.
apr2l'69-Iy. L. A. MILLER & CO
GRAIN & PLASTER
GROUND PLASTER AT $l2 PER TON
Just received and always on hand at
co.E 1 JOE. P. I3LYMYER'S WARE
HOUSE, MILROY, PENN'A.,
Salt for sale Wholesale and Retail, All
kinds of grain bought at highest prices.
marll"69-tf.
B
, 0 ;
'2' :v
s3sl2
PO 15
'la 24)
17 I 25
20, 34
25, :55
.55 100
MI
L.GEIGE2.
SEG I..RS,
"Let us See to it, that a Government of the People, for the People, and by the People, shall not Perish from the Earth."—[A. LlxeoLli.]
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
T G. LOVE," Attorney at Law,
• Bellefonte, Pa. Office on High St.
ja6'69-I.y.
TAMES 11. RANRIN, Attorney-at-Law
el Bellefonte, Pa. Office in Armory build-
ins, 2ndfloor.
F.. C. Winds% Preet. b. P. TIMMS, Cash's.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of Bellefonte
Allegheny St., Bellefonte Pa. ja6'69.
=
LINN & EUIt : :ST, Attorneys—at-Law
Bellefonte, Pa. ja.6'69,tf.
H K. II ALLISTER. SASHES A. BEAVER
1 1 ALLISTER & BEAVER, Attorneys
13111_ ' at-Law, Bellefonte Penn'a. ja6'69.ly
EDMUND BLANCHARD. EVAN M. BLANCHARD
,t B. M. BLANCHARD, Attorneys at
L:.w, Allegheny St.; Bellefonte, Pa. ,
ja6'69:ly.
WW. BROWN, Attorney-at-Law,
Bellefonte, Penn's., will attend
promptly to all business entrust,d to his
care. ja6'69-Iy.
JOT IN GRFIS. crrrus T. ALXXANDTIR.
nRVIS & ALEXANDER. Attorneys-at-
Law,V Bellefonte, Pa. Office in Conrad
House, Allegheny St. jao9.ly.
IV J. KEALSR, Attorney -at
. Law, Bellefonte, Pa., will attend
faithfully to all business entrusted to his
care. Deeds, Bonds, &e, executed in the
best style, inarle'69
TTRIAH STOVER, Licensed Antioneer,
1._./ will attend to all sales entrusted to his
care. Charges reasonable. Address, Uriah
stover, llouserville, Centre Co., Pa.
ja6'69.Ana.
GEORGE P. HARRIS. M. D., Physician
and Surgeon: Pension Surgeon for Cen
tre county, will attend promptly to all pro
fessional calls. Office on Hight St., lOrth
Side. ja27'69.1y.
T D. "WINGATE D. D. S., Dentist. Of
ficee on the corner of Spring and Bishop
streets, Bellefonte. Pa. At'home, except the
first two weeks of each month. Teeth ex
tracted without pain. .iaG'69.lY.
TAS. H. DOBBINS, Physician and
Surgeon. Office up-stairs in J. H. Mc-
Clure's nerr.Building,.Bisbop St., Belleonte,
Pa. Will attend to all business in his pro
lesdon, faithfully - at nil times, and.all hours.
jicl3'69.y.
A D. HUTCHISON A: CO'S. :fob
ink Office, " Republ'ean" 13uildina,
Bishop St., Bellefonte, I'enn'a. Every De
scription efPlain and Faney printing done
in the neatest manner, and at prices below
City rates. ;10,6'69.
D. Cr. F 17.31.1. GCO. ai. romir.
- 1) USN. S YOCUM, Attorneys-at-Law,
13 Bell-,orate. Pa"., will'attend to all busi
ness entrusted to them, with promptness.
Office on Northeast Corner 'or the Diamond,
in Mrs. [Twin's stone building. jai:3'69 y.
;[ N ATILsoN & - HUTCHISON, Attorneys.
V atltiv. Bellefonte . . Pa. Collections,
all other and legal business in Centre and
the adjoining Counties. promptly attended
-iv, vqc,..la-s d Ai_
legheny street. jab f 9.
=I
BL AIR STITZER, Attorneys - at-Law,
Bellefonte, Pa. Can be consulted in
both the English and German languages.—
Cface on the Diamond, next door to Gar
man's Hotel. feblo'39.ly.
CENTRE CO. BANKING. COMPANY.—
Receive Leposits and allow Interest;
Discount Notes; Buy and Sell Government
Securities, Gold and Coupons. "
HENRY BROCRERROFF, President.
J. D SIII3GERT, Cast/Lief'.
CEO. L. POTTER, M. D., Physi
chin and Surgeon, offers his professim
al services to the citizens of Bellefonte and
vicinity. Office removed to house formerly
occupied by Mrs. Livingston, on Spring st,
two doors South of Presbyterian church.
marlM-Iy.
BELLEFONTE MEAT MARKET
BISHOP STREET, 'BELLEFONTE PA
The oldest Meat Market in Beßoron to.—
Choice meat of all kinds always on band.
3a6'69.1 y. R. V. BLACK.
Vi. 7 M. BROWN, Licensed Auction
, eer, hereby informs the public that
he holds himself in readiness at all times, to
attend to all Auctions, Vendues, or Public
Sales of personal or Real Estate. Charges
reasonable. Call on, or address, William
Brown, Bellefonte, Pa. marl7'69-ly.
off S. GRAHAM, Fashionable Barber,in
11'.1, Basement of the Conrad _Hulse Belle
fonte, Pa. The beet of Razors, sharp and
keen, always on band. He guarantees a
Sna - vit - without either pulling or pain.—
Perfumery, Hair Oils, Hair Restoratives,
Paper Collars, constantly on hand.
ja13'69.1v.
AARaN R. PAITP.S. T. SALMONS. LVVIR PAW'.
DAUB, SALMONS & CO., Contractors
a d Bricklayers, Bellefonte, ra., adopt
this method of informing those wishing to
build that they will furnish Brick and lay
them, by the job, or by the thousand. Will
set Heaters, and do all kinds of w..)rk in
their branch of Business. ja20'69.1y.
JT H. TOLI3ERT, AUCTIONEER Would
. respectfully inform the citizens of Nit
tany Valley in particular, and the people of
Centre county in general, that he has taken
out a license and holds himself in readiness
to cry Auctions, or other sales at all times,
and at allplaces with in the limits of Yen
dues, Centre and Clinton counties. Charges
reasonable. ja27'69.1y,
BRLFORD, D. D. S., Practical
o Dentist; office and residence on How
ard Street, late the residence of Samuel Har
ris, dec'd. Dr. B. is a gracuate of the Bal
timore College of Dental Surgery, and re
spectfully offers his professional services
to the citizens of Bellefonte and rieinity.—
Can be found at his residence except during
the last week of each month. aprbf6o-Iy.
r IV. RHONE, DENTTST.Boalsburg Cen
t/ . tre Co.,Pa. : most respectfullyinforms the
public that he is prepared to execute any
description f work in his profession eat
isfaction rendered, and rates as moderate
as may be expected. Will be found in
his office during the week, commencing on
the first Monday of Each month, End at
such other times as may be agreed upon.
ja13'69.1y.
TNSURANCE-LITE & FlRE.—Joseph
A. Rankin of his Borough Insures prop
erty for the following Stock and Mutual
companies, viz: Lycoming Mutual, York
Company, Pa.,
Insurance of North America,
Enterprise, and Girard of Phila., Pa., Home,
of New Haven, and any other reliable com
pany desired. Also, Provident Life Compa
ny of Phil'a., and other good Life Compa
nies. jAl'69.ly.
CJT. F. 110LAHA-N, Physician and
Strgesn, having removed from Empori
um, Cameron county, has located in Miles
burg, Centre county, Pa., where he will
faithfully attend to all business entrusted to
him in his Profession. Office in his residence
on Main St., where he can always be seen
unless professionally engaged. In his ab
sence from home, orders may bo left at the
store of Thos. Holahan. marlo'69-Iy.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 12, 1869.
Select Poetry.
My good mamma, she feels so sad, .
And says I am a flirt,
Because I go to promenade
All in my walking skirt ;
She thinks I ought to be ashamed
To go out in the street,
With clothes, she says, all fussed and fixed
To show my little feet.
ja6'69.ly.
A. 0. VIIRST
We want the sanction of the gents
In all our style of clothes;
And yet I want to please mamma,
But more to please the beaux.
And ever thus you'll find it is
- 'When ladies walk the street:
They'll try and manage some good way
To show their pretty feet!
Our bonnets now are but a "mite,"
Though "miyhty" dear they cost;
Beneath our furbelows and bows
Our little forms are lost ;
The tiny heels upon our shoes,
They are so gay and neat,
And solely made, you may be sure,
To show our handsome feet
With parasol above me held,
And our "mamma" to see,
I fascinate the darling men
Where'er 1 chance to ho.
"Oh ! What a charming, lovely girl !"
I hear them oft repeat.
To make their hearts go pit-a-pat,
1 show my pretty feet!
.Cno.—Ain't I sweet, I sweet?
I know I'm sweet, and have a rigl
To pronsnacie the street,
And glad then, is a style
To show my pretty feet.
Put out tby talentito their use—
Lay nothing by to rust;
Give vulgar ignorance thy scorn,
And innocence thy trust.
Rise to thy.properplace - in life—
Trample upon alrs,V, •
But still the gentle Mind hold out
To help the wanderer in. -
So lire, in faith and noble. deed, -
. Till earth returns to ea'tb—
So live, that men shall mark the time
Gave such a mortal birth.
ilistory of too 49th Pensylvallia
DY A. R. AUTCRISON,
Late Captain of Company 'C.'
CHAPTER Xl. 0073 tilt ed•
Resume of the I . oE4—Resignations and "'Ls-.
elearyes among the Officers—Retnrn of tho
o..l....,,, ,, ta:viAl i zia r __,__Ta g _E frol ygßa fife of
Pre , lericksburft—The Morententi of Zee
—The Alarcle towards Pennsylvania,
IME=
During our stay near White Oak
Church, Col. Irwin and Maj Miller, of
the supernumeraries, returned to the
regiment. We continued in the usual
routine of camp, picket and drill duties,
except that our corps was reviewed by
the President, on the Bth of April. and
'we had one other review, by Gen. Sedg
wick, who was now, and during the rest
of his life, our corps , commander. Re
was known in the corps as "Uncle lohn."
No event of particular importance oc
curred in the regiment until the morn
ing of April 28, when the regiment, in
common with the army, moved again to
wards the Rappahannock. The Light
Division, which had been organized, as
was alleged, for particular service, on
this occasion were directed to carry forty
pontoon boats to the river bank, and in
these our brigade were to cross the river
at dawn, and attack the enemy. Our
friends of the Light Division, not hav
ing contemplated such duties, were heard
to indulge in profanity, a thing not un
usual in either the Light Division, or
any other. Our Irish friends of the 43c1
N. Y. were especially indignant., as they
remembered our ancient feud, and swore
that it was an outrage to ask the "i3yin'"
corps to carry canal boats for that bloody
49th. Nevertheless, the boats were taken
to the river bank, and our brigade, now
commanded by Gen. D. A. Russell, to
whose memory every soldier of the 49th
will pay grateful and honorable'tribute,
at the simple record of his name. The
enemy was entrenched on tlaeSouth bank
of the river, opposite to the old Frank
lin crossing. They paid no apparent at
tention to us during the operations be
fore daylight, for the movement com
menced the day previous, and bad con
tinued during the night. The engineer
corps, under command of Gen. Benham,
were to row the boats across the river.
Gen. Benham here tried to arrest our
Gen. Russell, and was informed by him
that he would not obey his arrest until ,
after the fight. It is hardly necessary
to say that Russell was not arreslod
then,..or at any time.
Just before daylight, April 29, as si
lently as possible, the brigade got into
the pontoon boats, forty men to a boat,
and at a given signal, the forty boats
shot out in line, in the fog and darkness,
now just fading into dawn, across the
Rappahannock : . Up to this time all was
silent, and everything was done in dark
ness, and by stealth. A moment after
wards, and the boats touched the other
hank, and the men sprang upon the shore
and charged up the bank. A volley front
the rebel rifle pits was their welcome on
the banks, and after a brief conflict, the
rifle pits and the rebels were ours, and
we were established on the South side
of the river. Col. Irwin received a gun
shot. wound in the foot. and Capt. W. B.
Freehurn was shot througmthe thigh.—
Col. Irwin, although he remained in the
position of Colonel of the regiment for
long time afterwards, was not much with
us, as his wound prevented him from ac
tive service, and he finally resigned.—
Capt. Freeborn died of his wound in
about three months, after having greatly
From f ete2's Mitsical Monthly
AIN'T I SWEET ?
suffered from its effects. He was uni
versally mourned, having been a most
gallant a.a efficient officer, and as the
support of a widowed mother, his death
was a terrible calamity to others.
After we had got over the river, a
pontoon Was laid, and a portion of the
corps crossed to us, and formed in line
upon . the old plain Tue first corps
crossed a mile or two farther down. The
rest, of the army, under Hooker, had gone
to Chancellorsville. On the 30th, we
remained quiescent in our camp, and
were mustered for pay. May 1, we made
no important movement, and the enemy
gave us no particular trouble. On May
2, the remainder of our corps crossed to
us, and the first corps, passing by us, re
crossed the river. and marched to the
support of Hooker. As yet we bad no
news froM 'the main army, and our corps
were now alone in front of Fredericks.
burg, and Marye's Heights. The enemy
now began to show fight, and shelled our
lines heavily, wounding some of our men,
but we lost nonekilled. The shells rico
cheted aortas the plain in fine style, and
burst about us, sometimes even jumping
over the river to disturb our wounded in
the hospitals. As it grew towards even
ing, we advanced our lines, under the
fire of 'artilleryanu skirmishers, and
rested on our arms, in line, expecting to
commence our serious fight in the morn
ing. During the night, heavy firing con
tinued on the right, and in the morning
of May 3,skirmishing began.lively,aleng
our whole line, and.the enemy's batte
ries opened upon us with considerable
vigor. One of our batteries endeavored
to reply,laut was silenced, and compelled
to withdraw. After noon, we began to
move towards Fredericksburg, and were
again shelled by the batteries on the
heights. The Light Division, and some
other troops, then suddenly charged
Marye's Heights, over the stone wall that
was before so unsuccessfully assailed by
the Irish Brigade, under Burnside, and
through the little green field that had
once before received, and now earned
again, the 1111 . M0 of the "slaughter pen,"
and carried the enemy's works, • captu
ring their guns, and a large number of
prisoners: Our Old comrades, the sth
Wisconsin and 6th Maine, suffered heavy
losses,. and the corps generally, suffered
largely, in kith(' and wounded, up to
this time:. We now moved rapidly up
past Fredericksburg; and out the
.plank
road towards Chancellorsville. When
akeut, fo.r.ruiles-ont, just as it began to
grow -4ark`,.: - our we __ e
countered the enemy, and had a I rief,
sharp fight, which resulted in no particu
lar advantage to us or the enemy, beyond
showing us that we could not expect to
go farther without driving out a strong
ly intrenehed and numerous enemy.—
This was Sunday evening, and. we had
heard Hooker's guns during the day,
but had no . news from the army. We lay
down in line of battle, on our arms, once
more, and waited for day again. It was
bright moonlight, and beautiful May
weather. We found here a house that.
seemed to have been a post on the line
of the illicit traders, as it contained
quantities of various articles prohibited
to the Southern people by the blockade..
and most of Northern manufacture. Du
ring the night our enemy were very ac
tive in front, and we busied ourselves in
getting some wounded who lay between
the lines. The woods in front took fire,
and the scene was one well in keeping 1 1
with the business of war.
Our regiment, except the color compa
ny, were on the skirmish line, and were
exposed to the enemy, but lost no men
during the night. The enemy were busy
building rifle pits. The early morning
of the 4th day of May was moderately
peaceful. but soon the enemy began to
press upon us from the woods in front.
Our regiment, on the skirmish line, found
plenty to do, to keep the rebels in check,
as they made frequent demonstrations
A battery posted on the level ground in
our rear, firing close over us, as we lay
on the ground, assisted us materially,
and interfered very seriously with the
rebels, who tried to make a barricade of
the planks from the plank road. After
about noon, it became generally known
amongst the officers that something was
wrong, and by 2 o'clock they knew that
the enemy had re-taken Fredericksburg,
and that we were cut off from our pon
toons, and our left driven back towards
the river above Fredericksburg. The
men were kept innocent of these facts
fol. a time, but, they were too old soldiers
to long fail to see that we were being
unusually crowded. The enemy attempt
ed an advance about 3 o'clock, striking
1 - eavily just to our lett, and were repul
sed, then moved upon us, and were again
driven back. In the midst of the trouble,
two or three little children ran out of a
house at the picket line, and across the
field, under the fire, to us, And escaping
unhurt, were sent to a safer neighbor
hood. Again the rebels attacked us, and
made things lively for a short time, but
gave way, and sought the shelter of the
woods, under our fire, and that of the
artillery. Still, though we held our lines
firmly, and suffered but slightly, in com
parison with our assailants, it was evi
dent that our flanks were receding, and
the enemy becoming hourly stronger,—
As the sun sank, and was directly in our
faces, they again attacked us, but w e
still held our lines. All of this long,
uncertain day, we listened in vain for
news from Hooker, or the sound of his
guns, and saw our lines compressed and
forced into a horseshoe, with the enemy
all around, in increasing force, and with
the river in our rear, and no bridge near•
er than at Fredericksburg, - where it had
just been saved from the enemy.
Our men were being wounded and cap
tured, and killed, and we were so hope
lessly outnumbered that all felt that we
had only before a fight for safe retreat,
not advance or victory. Soon as night
came, we moved silently and rapidly to
the rear, for Bank's Ford. Three com
panies of the 49th acted as skirmishers
upon the flanks of our retreating column,
under command of the writer, and reach
ed the river about 11, P. M., when they
rejoined the brigade. During the re
treat we could hear the cheers of the
pursuing rebels, and occasionally see the
glitter of their bayonets in the bright
moonlight. Arriving at the river, we
formed our lines close to the banks, and
awaited the enemy on one side, and the
pontoon bridge on the other. The reb
els began to gather around us, and we
could see long lines of bayonets in the
moonlight. Shells began to be exchang
ed, and all expected a struggle early in
the morning; but at three o'clock we
were over the river, and nearly all the
arcorwith us—the pontoons had been
completed, and the troops were across,
we, among the last going back, es we
were among the first'going over—l said
nearly all of the 6th Corps, for of our
sixteen thousand of five days before, five
thousand had been lost in our ten mile
journey to Salem Heights and back to the
river—killed, wounded and missing was
the record for the five thousand brave
men, and on the morning of May sth,
just six years before these lines are pen
ned, with all the disastrous news that
came from the army at Chancellorsville
—and the, to us. still more painful intel
ligence from our comrades of the 148th
Penn'a. Vols., who had suffered so terri
bly in their maiden battle—with the rain
drenching us in our camp in the dreary
woods, and the feeling upon us, stronger
than ever before, that somehow our ene
mies had defeated us, and destroyed
thousands of our men, when we so confi
dently expected to conquer, we sat clown
in despondency and gloom, and calculat
ed the chances of the future, in this, the
darkest hour of the war.
[CONTINUED NEXT 'WEEK.]
The Power of a Word
A mother on the green hills of 'Ver
mont, was holding by the right hand a
son sixteen years old, mad with the love
of the sea. And as she stood by the gar
den gate one morning she said:
Edward, they tell me, for I never
that_the great temptation
of a seaman's life is drink. Promise rn e;
before you quit your mother's hand,that
You will never drink."
"And," said be (for he told' roe the
story,)
,'° I gave her the promise, and
went the globe ever, Calcutta, and the
Mediterranean, San Francisco, the Cape
of Good llope,the North and South Poles.
I saw them all in forty years, and I nev
er saw a glass filled with sparkling li
quor, that my mother's form by the gate
did not rise up before me, and to-day I
am innocent of the taste of liquor."
Was net that sweet evidence of the
power of a single word ?- Yet that was
not half. "For," said he, " yesterday
!here came in to my counting room,a man
of forty years, and asked me :
" Do you know me ?"
No."
46 Well," said he, ‘‘ I was once brought
into your presence,on ship-boara,drunk;
you were a passenger; the captain kick
ed me aside, you took me to your berth,
and kept me there till I slept off the in
toxication ; you then asked re if I had
a mother. I said I bad never known a
word from her lips. You told me of yours
at the garden gate, and to-day I am mas
ter of one of the finest packets in New
York ; and I came to ask you to come
and see me."
How far that little eandle throws its
beams 1 That mother's word on the
green bill of Vermont! 0, God be
thanked for the mighty power of a sin
gle word !
A. FA.cr FULL OF MEA.NINCI.---Fle.Te is
the finest hit we have seen at Ihe pres
ent popular distinction between religion
and morals:
In a religious excitement in Boston, a
person met a Christian neighbor, who
took him by the hand and said :
" I have become a Christian."
" You are a Christian, then, all at
once." said the other ; " you profess to
act strictly on Christian principles. • 1
am glad of it. I congratulate you; Sup
pose we now have a settlement of our lit
tle accounts between us. Pay me what
thou owest."
"No," said the new-born child, turn
ing on his hoel, "religion is religion,and
business is business."
So the paper tells us. And what is
there so wonderful about it? Is not the
world full of such christianity
A YouNosn man, who had seen better
days, asked a gentleman for a " truffle,"
which would be most " welcome" to as
sist him on his return to his native place.
lie was told that the Stranger's Friend
Society would help him to a. passage to
Ireland. "Oeh, sir," be exclaimed, "I'm
not an Irishman at all, at all! It's quite
a mistake your honor's making ". The
gentleman persisted in his persuasion
that be was an Irishman, and appealed
to his brogue. "lia !" the man rejoin
ed, "I was in a large mercantile consarn
in London for many years, where they
did a dale of business with Ireland; and
as I was correspondin' dark, may be I
caught the brogue that way."
—Why is an„iafantlilie a diamond?—
Because it is a "dear little thing."
Odds and Ends.
—The favorite tune of the milkmen is
said to be " Shall we gather at the riv-
—What. class ought never to die of
consumption? Merchants with strong
iron chests.
—Who was the first whistler,and what
tune did he whistle? The wind—'•'Over
the hills and far away."
—A' Frenchman said of Shakespeare,
" Ven you had anyzing you do no under
stand, it always is somezing fine."
—A verdant old lady in Nevi- Jersey
thinks the ice crop will be good this year,
because there hasn't been much frost to
injure it.
—" I think our church will last agood
many years - yet," said a waggish deacon
to his minister, "I see the sleepers are
very sound."
—Modest people are now the soonest
frightened. " I wonder what they will
think of me," is not the inquiry of hu
mility, but of vanity.
—Sentimentalists sing, "Giveme a cot
in the valley I love," but persons of a
more practical turn would prefer a wal
nut French bedstead,
young man, who was crossed in
love attempted suicide recently by taking
a dose of yeast powder. He immediately
rose above his trophies.
—"How odd it is," said Pat as he was
trudging along on foot" one sultry day,
"that a man never meets a cart going
the same way he is."
—A two-story house was being moved
on rollers at Fall River, Massachusetts,
last week, when a child was born in it.
This is regarded as a "moving incident."
—A traveller inquired of a guide the
reason why " echo" was always spoken
of as "she," and was informed that it
was because it always hail the last word.
—" Leave you, my friend," said a
tipsey fellow, clinging to a lamp post on
a dark night ; leave you in a condition
not to take care of yourself, (Mc) nev-
Mil
—When a young man is about to set
tle down as "the husband of one wife,"
he should resolve never to make her jeal
ens with his Wild Sallies and his gay
Ann Ticks.
your wig.
—A Unitarian church in Baltimore has Make friends with the steward on board.
had the following successional ministers : a steamer ; th e re's no knowing how soon
Dr. Purniss, Dr. Sparks, Dr. Bellows you may be placed in his power.
and Dr. Burnup. In every strange house it is as well to
Peace to its ashes! inquire where the brandy is kept, only
—"Bridget, I told you to let. me have think if you were taken ill in the middle
my hot water the first titngiallaTia - o - rn- of thT3 nigrit
ing." "Sure," replied Bridget, "and ' Never answer a crossing-sweeper; pay
didn't I bring it up and have it 'at the him, or pass silently and. quickly on.—
door last night, lie as to he in time,sir 7' , One word and you are lost.
—You can judge of a man's religion
very well by hearing his talk, but you
can't judge of his piety by what he says
any more than you can judge of his
amount of linen by the stickout of his
collar and wristbands.
—lf opinion has cried your name up,
let modesty cry your heart down, lest
you deceive it or itdeceive you. There is
no less danger in a great name than in a
bad one and no less honor in deserving
praise than in enduring it.
—People who want to establish a ve
locipede rink can call it by any of the
following names: Amphicyclotheatron;
gymnacyclidium, velocipedrotee or bi
cyclocurriculum. No wonder some peo
ple are afraid of the machines.
—Au eloquent orator proposes to
"grasp a ray of light from the great orb
of day, spin it into threads of gold, and
with (hero weave a shroud in which to
wrap the whirlwind which dies upon the
bosom of can. Western praries,"
—A boy; whose general apperance
betokened the want of a father's care,
being asked what his father followed for
a living, innocently replied: "He is an
office-seeker by trade, but he dont work
at it any more, since he was caught
stealing."
—A young lady took her younger
brother, a little boy of three or four years
old, to church. The preacher was an
earnest man, and spoke very loud. Dur
ing the sermon she saw the little fellow
in tears, and asked what was the matter
of him, He sobbed out. "That man is
hollering at me."
—A. countryman who had never paid
more than twenty- five cents to see an
exhibition, went to view the "Forty
Thieves." The ticket seller charged
him seventy-five cents fora ticket. Pass
ing the pasteboard back, be quietly re
marked: "Keep it, mister, I don't want
to see the other thirty-nine," and out he
marched.
—A fellow, on being asked to write a
testimonial for a patent clothes wringer,
produced the following ;—'lbought your
clothes ringer, and am highly pleased
with it. I bought a jag of wood which
proved to be green and unfit to burn. I
run the whole load through your clothes
wringer, and I have used the wood for
kindling ever since.
An illiterate negro preacher said to
his congregation
"My bredren,woen de fast man,Adam,
was made, he was ob wet clay and set up
agin de palings to dry."
"Do yon say."said one of the congre
gation, "(lat. Adam was made ob wet clay
an' set up ngin the palings to dry ?"
~ Yes, ear, I do."
~W ho made de palings ?"
"Sit down, . sar," said the preacher
Sternly; "such questions as dat would
upset any system of theology,"
VOL, 1, NO. 19.
How iVlontrars Ana TAKUN IN DAV:
rouit.—Monkeys are pretty common, yet
as all the family are remarkably cut
ohm, has it ever occurred to the reader
how they are taken ? Pitfalls will take a
lion, and the famished monarch of tbe'
forest will, after a few days starvation,
dart into a cage containing food, and'
thus be secured. But how are the mon
keys caught? The ape family resemble
man. Their vices are human. They love
liquor, and fall. In Darfour and gen:: •
nar the natives make fermented beer, of
which the monkeys are excessively-lona.
Aware of thie, the natives go to the parts
of the forests frequented by the monkeys,
and set on the ground calabashes full of
the enticing liquor. As soon as-Monkey
sees and tastes it, he utters loud cries of
joy, that soon attract his comrades.—
Then an orgie begins, and in a short
time the beasts abow all degrees of in
toxication. Then the negroes appear.
The few who come too late to get fuddled
escape. The drinkers are - too far gone
to distrust them, but apparently take
them for larger species of their own ge
nus. The negroes take some up, and
these immediately begin fa weep and
cover them with maudlin kisses'. When
a negro takes one by the hand to lead
him off, the nearest monkey will , cling to
the one who thus finds a support, and en
deavor to get off also. Another will
grasp at Lim, and thus in turn till the
negro leads a staggering line of ten or a
dozen tipsy monkeys. When finally got
to the village, they ate securely caged,
and gradually sober clown; but for two
or three days, a gradually diminishing
supply of liquor is given them, so as to
reconcile them by degrees to their state
of captivity.
A PRUDENT old gentleman offers the
following rules for self-government:.
Always sit next the carver if you can
at dinner.
Ask no woman her age.
Be civil to all rich uncles and' aunts.
Never joke with a policeman.
Take no notes with you to a fancy ha--
zar ; nothing but "postal."
Your oldest coat, of course, for an
evening party.
Don't play chess with a widow.
Never contradict a man who studies..
Pull down the blind before you put on
Beep your own secrets. Tell no human
being you dye your whiskers.
Write - not one more letter than you can
help. The man who holds a large cor
respondence is a martyr tied, not to the
stake, but to the post.
Wind up your conduct like a Wit tell,
once every day, examine minutely
whether you are "fast" or "elow."
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.-Au lowa-pa
-1 per of a recent date gives the particulars
' of a romantic story which borderssome
what on the marvelous. Years ago-, a
Pennsylvania farmer loved and married
a charming young girl that lived near ,
him. After the marriage, time passed
on, coon the farmer contracted a taste
for liquor, which frequently got the best
of him, which on one occasion ended by,
the husband stabbing her with a butch
er knife. He left precipitately, suppos
ing he had killed her, and hid himself
in the west, where, in a few years, he'
became a prosperous and wealthy met---
chant. The wife, in the meantime; re- -
covered, and after living alone for five'
years, married again. Her husband,-
however, died at the expiration of a year, •
and she also went to the west. Then the'
incredible part of the story appeared.—
The parties met again after their long.
separation, and became intimately ac--
quainted, but neither recognized the
other. An engagement entered -into,
which results in marriage; and, upon'
the wife disrobing in the evening, he
notices the scar made by his hand years
ago, anti suddenly recognizes her as his
wife of former years. Here is a chance
for story writers.
ALEXANDER. HA\IILTUN•CIIC said to an
intimate friend:—
"Men give me some credit for genius.
All the genius I have lies in this: when
I have a subject in hand, I study it pro
foundly. I explore it in all its bearings.
My mind becomes pervaded with it.—
Then the effort which I make the people
are pleased to call the fruit of genius.—
It is the fruit of labor and thought•
Mr. Webster once replied to a gentle-'
man who pressed him to speak on a,
question of great importance: .
"The subject intereslirme deeply, -but
I have not time. There . sir;" pointing
to a large pile of letters on the - table, "is
a pile of unanswered letters to 'Which I
must reply before the end of this session
(which was then three days off). I have
no time to master the subject so nolo do
it justice."
"But, Dlr. Webster, a few wordS from
you would do much to awaken publioat
tention to it."
'•lf there is EO much weight in my
words as you represent, it is because I
do now allow myself to speak on any
blthject until my mind is imbued with
• II
Gurus of tha Period call Mull:lice pan
solo in New York for $:2-.)0 dollars apiece