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VOL XXI.
6lobe.
JOAN M. DAME
HUNTINGDON, PA.
The Battle-Field of Gettysburg
A GRAPHIC AND ACCURATE PICTURE
To the editor of The Press : •
SIR :--I have just returned from a
visit to Gettysburg, and if you choose
to accompany me in a long ramble
over the field and bear what a partici.
pant in the battlo has to say, well and
good. ,In the ,main, "I tell the story
as 'ewes told to me;" but it is hard to
say anything new upon a theme alrea
dy hacknied. You newspaper people
have, I know, what most people have
a horror of—long articles; therefore,
"for fear your readers should grow
skittish," you have. my hill permission•
to abbreviate; expunge or, omit, at
your pleasure: Assuming this artiele,
thou, to bave escaped the fate of your
Waste paper baskot,•start with me on
this fine November morning, out the
Emmcttsburg road. For our compan
ion and guide we bare Captain A. F.
Cavada, a gallant and accomplished
young officer, who served all through,
from:Yorktown tol'etersburg, and for
nearly.tWo years on the stall' of Major:
General Humphreys.
About a mile out we halt. The
Captain loquitur. "Now I begin to
feel at home. Let me take an obser
vation,
as "these fences were not here
then. All right. I've got it now,. ,Do
you see that big Walnut. on .the ridge
over there? That was General Rum•
phrey's headquarter Sou the morning.
of ThursdaY; July 2d.' 'Alt - Most worn
out with hard marching, I was . aroused ,
frOm my weary bivOilac at daylight,
and ordered to poSt Colonel Tilgham'm
regiment—the 26th Pennsylvania—or
picket along, here: Later in the day,
the right of our.division, Carr's brig-,
ade, held, this brick house. Further
down was Posted Turnbull's lnittery.
There, below 'that barn, stood Liout,-
Seeley's; 'and . still, further towards our
left the barteri.e& of Birr.e.s.ditisiop,_l
under . Livingston, Smith Rantioipn,
Clark and Winelciw.' I mention them
all, for never, Were guns ,handled: more
beautifully. All suffered fearfully—
Scely's especially.. Re had hardly a
man or horse left standing,tind was him
self severely wounded. He was a gal.
hint offleer,.and had risen from the
ranks. Now go 'with me into that 'or
chard.. I want to find a certain apple
tree which served 11130. rendezvousdn 7
ring the day fOr us 'staff' offieerS:iind
our orderlies. Atoneperiod, standing
under it, with Captains Humphreys
and McClellan, a shell exploded in the
tree, killing three of our poor orderlies
besides striking my horSe." We found
the treeft , ,iteliinna were shattered, and
the top entirely gone,
"About two o'clock the whole Third
Corps moved out in line of battle over
the open ground, and, a more znagnifi
cent spectacle of 'living valor rolling
on the foe' I never, witnessed. Away
over on that bare spot of rising ground
the rebelS had planted two batteries
with which they enfiladed our whole
line, fairly, sweeping it from right to
left. Lord ! how they piteb'ed it into
us! Longstreet's,infantry debouched
from those woods, and in a snort time
all ,around where we are etandingto
the right, to the left, and in frditt—
along.this.'rotl, through that peach
orchard, away down .toward Round
Top; for heitril tlib•battleit4got,
Sickles was wounded near large
barn.'How well I. remember this spot
of ground. It, was hem..behind that
stone fence, that I had been ordered
to post Colonel Burling's brigade. ,On
my way. back, I passed the 114th Pa.
Regiment, then commanded by my
brother,'ldeut. Colonel F. F. Cavada.
It had just been ordered to an advan
ced position,heyond the• road. I rode
up, and shook hands' with my brother.
'Good bye, Fto,,lopk out for yourselfi
yon are' going into a. hot place, and are
Sure to catch it.' So it turned out, the
114th, in connection Ai , itl4 the 68th
Col.:Tippin, , had a bloody tight of it,
,nnd lost heavily.. My brother and big
'brigride .ceinmander, General Graham ;
were both ' 'taken prisoners, the latter
. .
severely; Twpiindede never saw .the
rebels fight Such diabolical fUrY.
The' most,' murderous • fire—canister,
shrapnel,..and ,tnusketryt—was poured
into their very laces, as it were, but
nothirkg stopped theml The 3d Corps,
those heroes of Chancellorsville, and
other bloody; 'by Birnoy,
Huurphreys,De Trebriand, W.ard,Oarr
Itild:OrtlobatillTlOV Cr fopght more hero.
ically.
MI
A.'worcl,.of criticism here. At ono
period 'of ,the battle, Birney, being
hard pressed, , ,enle'd i ttpon Gen. Sykes,
in command , pf4e sth corps, for as
sistance. Sykes bad boon ordered to
support the 3d if called' tip'on p btit he
returned for answer that ho "would
be up in time—:-that his men were tired
and wore making coffee I" They did
come up in about an hour, and, says
Gonl. Warren, in his testimony, "the
troops under General 'Sykes arrived
barely in time to save Round Top, and
they had a very desperate 'fight to
hold it". And again of the operations
neat day. "When the repulse took
place, Gen. 'Meade intended to move
forward and assault tho enemy in turn.
Ho ordered an advance of the Fifth
Corps, but it was carried on so slowly
that it did not amount to much, if any
thing." Gen. George Sykes is a bravo
man, but entirely "too slow," so at
least General Grant seemed to think,
for in the subsequent reorganization
of the Army of the Potomac, the set%
vices of "Tardy George," No. 2, were
dispensed with. The stb, as a corps,
has a glorious record, and never failed
to fight • Well When properly handled.
To resume the'captain's narrative.
"As the afternoon wore on the pres
sure became greater and greater, un
til at last our whole corps, with the
exception of Carr's brigade and a few
other regiments, was:hurled down the
slope, broken and discomfited, tho reb
els following in hot pursuit. Our loss
es were frightful. In our division, of
5,000 men, our loss was nearly 2,000."
"Well, Captain, you saw most of the
heavy fighting done by this army, tell
me, were you ever in a hotter place
than this ?" "Never but once—and
that reminds me of a little story. ,In
the attack upon the enemy's position
at the . first. Frederieltsburg fight, our
diVision was ordered to storm the
heights. As we were preparing to
move, General Humphreysalways a
very polite man—turned round to his
staff, and in his hlandest, manner re
marked, "Young gentlemen, I intend
to lead this assault, and shall be happy
to have the pleastire"of your company.
Of Coarse, the invitation was too polite
to.be declined. That was the roughest
place I ever was in, and I can't con%
ceive, even to this day, how any of us
got back ; alive." Our division' JoSt
1,100 men in _eh() tAtee fl
utes. Ja7tfitS chunp of sues Pl3r
horse received a second wound, and
fell dead finder ,mo. I managed - to
scramble over the ridge, where' our
Men were being rallied, soon After the
sun went down and the rebels were
beaten back beyond theroUd.
"Capt. Chester, of our Military fam
ily, was seen to go down in the melee,
and after nightfall, a ; party startodout
in search of him, We found him near
that large fiat • rock; alive, but griev
ously wounded. His horse arid faith.
fel orderly: both lay . 'ddad .beside him,
and 'across bis legs a rebel soldier, who
he had killed' witb'his, reN;olver,. While
in the act of plundering him of hiS
watch: He was taken up tenderly,
and Conveyed to the hospital on Rock
Creek, where he .died next' day;
"With heavy hearts wo now Set
abont the 'task of burying such of our
poor fellows as were within. reach.—
Always' the Saddest of a soldier's du
ties, it was peculiarly so upon.this oc
casion, for all felt that the rising sun
would faring / with it a repetition of this
day'S, horrors, and
, that, perhaps, at
this'Lour to morrow, some comrade
might be, perflirrideg, this same sad of
flee for us.
"'Few and short wore the prayers we said,
And we spo4o not a word of sorrow,
As we steadfastly gazed on the taco of the dead,
And bitterly thought on the morrow.'"
" fa 'course of the day we:paid a visit
to Mr. Sherfey's house, where we were
most hospitablY received. The .house
stands about the centre of the field,
and is riddled,from garret to basement.
Traces of the conflict are to be seen on
every. side; :including the_last 'resting
place of many poor Southerners. , Mr.
Sherfey's barn was burnt diming the
fight, and some of the wounded who
sought •refuge there Perished in the
flaines. • "These," said Mrs. Sherfey,
prodiiehig tin saris, "contain
peaches that were growing in our or
chard OVer there- at the •tine of the
battle. These aro , ' my 'trophies," In
the frOnt 'dardell grows the beautiful
shrub known as the "burning bush,"
luxuriant with orop of .bright red
berries, typical of.the blood shed at its
roots. "Tal“),f23Krio.pl the berries with
you.and,plantthern,"said,the kind old
lady; grow anywhore, and
will be pleasant momentous of Gettys-
burg."
.• +lVe , next,made our way to Little
Round-;Top, where we •hati the ples—
tire of• meeting , ,Colonel :13stulipider.
This gentleman is engaged in eollOcis
• cr the details of the battle, acid
yid-deubt;'probee - abeek oteguti in
toresti.with his great map. I was Sors
ry : to.; he;4*,•!birn say Witt he intends
deiignating this .As'"Weed'S Hill," in
honor of the gonbivil who fell on its
top. Honor the , :iiitiinery of ttio: biquie•
inwt, iu some wily, Colonel, Ina
don't seek to change narnti. As
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1865.
-PERSEVERE.-
"Little Round Top" it has already pas'
sed into history, and so it will be
known forever. There are few finer
views of the whole field than 6ont this
point, and here took place the closest
and most sanguinary fightingofThura,.
day. In front and to the right the
sth Corps had a heavy thing of it: On
the height fought two of the noblest soli*
diers of the army, Vincent and Rice.
The formei• laid down his life here, the
latter at Spottsylvunie the year after.
All the little stone walls thrown up be-
woof] the huge boulders are Still here
In fact, nothing is chnuged, Would
that this could be said of other parts
of the field. Inscriptions upon the
rock mark the spots where Vincent
and Hazlett fell. Here, too, at the ear
ly age of twenty-five, fell that aceom:
plished soldier, Col. O'Rourke, of the
140th New York.. Graduating at the
head of ; his class, two years before, be
was at once assigned to duty in the
field, and soon became distinguished
for his reckless and impetuous cour
age. Ile was struck while mounted
upon a rock gallantly animating his
men. Fortunately, the extreme left
was held by that splendid regiment
the 20th Maine, then under the eom•
mend, of Col. Chamberlain, afterwarde
one of Sheridan's heroes of the Five
Forks. Firing away their last car
tridge, Chamberlain ordered his regi
ment to charge down the bill, and suc
ceeded in clearing its sides with the
bayonet. The remarkable ledge of
rocks known as the "Devil's Den," di
rectly opposite Round Top, was Gem..
pied by the enemy's sharpshooters,
one , of whom bad a safe position with—
in the cleft and picked 'of our men
with fatal accuracy.. The face of the
boulder behind which he ltty is cover
ed with marks.of•the minnios sent at
him. ' 'One even "wont for hint" clean
through the crevice, but missed. MI
was finally dislbdged by a charge, and'
escaped through: an
,opening to the
rear. Seven muskets, it said; were
fotind in his hiding, place. There ie .
room enough for fifty. On the slope in'
front, of this den lie blpaching,,the .
'Va e v genit . keilafibYYP
With our superb Pennsylvniiia Re- 7
serves, was to ,the rightand . frOnt of
Little. Round Top.. Brigadier General
Zook and Colonel Jeffards--the latter
of the 4th Michigan—were . , killed in"
the field beyond. • Oilonel Seffarde
was killed by a. bayonet thrust,. whila
gallantly holding,,up withl own,
bands the . colors of his regiment. Near
that idoughed field, charging at the
head of his braie
. "Buelitails',7 , fell , our
Chester county neighheir, Col. Fred.
rick Taylor. death in the whole
army was more sincerely mourned.
4 !lnny the ways that lend'to death, lait few
mndly ; dad uneutnie gate;
Standing wherdiar:frao thin daft, tliOr fete,
lloterniined t as thou N!ert, to . dlo—pr do!"
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We now proceed along, the held .
by us on Friday, COlonel $. politely
acting as guide. s ln that little groove
close to our linos, fell the rebel General
Barksdale on Thursday. This violent,
brawling rebel started in search of
"his rights," and this little pile of
stones here marks il i a) . Spot where he:.
is presumed to have found them: It
is said he was drunk , wheelie started
on the 'charge, and: this may acent2nt.
for his headlong, reckless bravery:
True or not; the, story's still : extant.
Here, in the thickest of , the fight, ex
posing 'himself like; a common seldier,
the gallant Gen. Hancock reeeiVed his
wound: That advanced line of works '
was held by the Vermor.t brigade. It I
was commanded by . General Stannard,.
whosubsequentlY gaVe an arm to the:
cans° on the James.. A pile of knap
sacks, just as they 'were unslung, still
lie mouldering hero—Onone . .the in
scription "16th Vermont" is Still visi
ble. EVen now: the debris of battle-L.
bats, shoes, cartridge boxes, baYOnet
scabbards; canteens, &c.-Ale scattered
all over the field. ' Next' We come to
the position held by the 'Philadelphia
I Brigade, composed of the f)th—Pacl ,
dy Owens' regulars; the 72dillaxter'S
Zouaves, and that .sglendid fighting
regiment, the 71st, or California, corn•
mended originallYr . by the - lamented
Baker, and !subsequently by our gal.
lent fellow Townsmen, Colonels Jobn
Marlcoo_aod bri
gade--Vetinin fightore,' , o , i'ohy of
them—was lod upon tliis .occasion by
a gallant New Ye.orker,, Brig. General
Webb, and nobly was the honor of
both cities' sustained! Wald' that I
had it in my power to particularize all
the , organizations, ponspietious ftorpn
rage and conduct in this , great battle,
but that would bo 'mention almost
every regimen battery; itial sqUadriin
engaged.'. From here wo.have'.an
eg—
celleut 'vie*
. .of Seminary Ridge, the
lino of Woods whence the rebels issued
Ull4 .. the beautiful lever fields over
which they'''swept in their grand
Chard°. certainly , is the most
Magnificent battle , field in the world,
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The heights of La Belle Alliance and
Mont Saint Jean in some respects ro•
semble our Cemetery and Seminary
Ridges, with - the same gentle, undula
ting valley intervening; but at Water-
100 the principal road runs at right an
gles, while here, parallel with the pa•
sition. •
Speeking of the bombardment which
proceeded the charge, that experien
ced soldier, General Hancock, says
"It was the most , terrific cannonade I
ever witnessed, and the most prolong.
ed." A•rebel . eye-witness describing it,
says; "I h'ave never yet heard such
tremendous artillery firing. The very
earth shook beneath onr feet, and the
hills and rocks seemed to reel like a
drunken Man. For one hour and a
half tho most terrific firing was con
tinued, during which time the shriek
ing of shells, the crash of.falling tim
ber: the fragments of reek' flying
through the air,' shattered iron' the
cliffs by solid shot; the heavy' , mutter.
ings from the valley between the op
posing armies, the splash of bursting
shrapnel, and the fierce neighing of,
wounded artillery horses; made a pic
ture terribly grand and sublime." After
this came the charge. Our eighty guns,
planted on the'crest, from Cemetery
Hill to Hound Top, "volleyed and
thundered," and, when the infantry
joined in the chorus, so terrible was
the fire that tore through them that
the rebel columns presented the extra
ordinary spectacle of ten thonsand men
playing at "leap frog !" In spite of
every effort, the flower of Leo's voter- .
ans, , directed by tried leaders such as
Garnett, Armstead, Kemper, Wright,
POsey and Mahone,' failedritrearrying
our pOsitieir,''hithough at one or two
points they charg,Cd up to; and even
over it. "What other • than- Southern
troops would 'have'made that charger'
Ay, sir, tut what other than Northern
would have met and repulsed it?
.IVorthern endurance, upon this occa
sion was too much for Southern impet
udsity and dash. "There swung the
pine ligainstilie ' In the blbcidy
ruck hundreds of their 'bei3t officers
;sxcatk,V,.l:ol...Ataiq.thti raj ix..nole.t,.
on' that 3d day of July Went doWe the
sun of "the Confederacy" forever'l Al-'
though known as "Pickett's cbarge,"
Geji. Grahern,.whom 'I met hereyes
terday; informs me that Pickett him
self was not He . deScribee him
as a coarse, brutal felloli and Says he
treated 'filth with the greateatiolminan;
ity after the battle, Whilitt"woundeck
and'it:prisoner in his hand:: The'rebel'
corpS commanders either did ;not 03E 7 -
pose theinselVes 'as freely as our own,
or they bad better, uek,for none were .
hit, whilit Welost ono, Reynoldic kill:
ed ; and two; Ilaneoek and•Sichole,
wounded. The story tekt in L'Lueltwobd,
by Col. Freemaptle; of .the British ar;
my, who was. present, may lelp to ex
plain it.' lie says. that'carried 'away
by excitement, he rUshed :up*to Long-'
street, who •was sitting ,on a fence,
"quietly' whittling a stick,' whilst
Watching the charge,' and Said, "Gen.
Long,streeti isn't this splendid ;
Wouldn't have missed it for the world?'.'
"The you wouldnt," replied Long.
street; "why don't you see we are
getting licked like 13 , --11" We now
crossed the Baltireore pike, . calling on
our way at the small /rani° building,
on the TaneytoWn' road, used as the•
headquarters 'of Gen. Meade on Friday.
This will alwaye• be a point of groat
interest. 'The house is sadly shatter
ed,,and the poor widow who, owns it
corn plai nsbitterly of her lessee. "When,
I comes,home, my bonite . was all over . /
blood; the ,lsojers' took away all my
ooverlits and quilts, two tons of hay,
they spited my' spring,- my apple-trees
and every ding." She says a couple of,
hundred dollars would be a, great help
to hor, and thinks she should get" from
someveres." Sure enough, why shouldn't
the poor woman get it ? In the garden
au Cottage in , the'little ,Wa
terloo the , visitor is shown the monn-,
rnent, erected over the Marquis of An
glesea's log; find the poor -pennant las
Made qiiite a fittle fortiine I:iy 'exhibit.;
ing the boot cut fOin , th'e,l6g,and the
table upon which,the 'amputation was
performed. This hint might not , be
thrown . aoaY,''irTion • anidre enterpri:
slng'person, butTiloubt if :this - poor,
Old; frowsy Ger Man weinitn wiffever
profit by it. 'To tlieright ofOCneeteri,:
HiU 'eletkiiied' the:hatterY'Aefuri
°ugly . aSsatilted by Hays' brig! d y e' of
t i doisi . atia:Tigoili." - The.' lunettes and
trayorsesi; . i:emain ..undisfurbc4, f and
grassgrown... , , '; .
The little eminencoin front,was held,
distinguished' ho t ner,'hy.thet
'eonsCieutious and. 'patriotie. soldier;
Brigadier General WudsWOrth. ~
UP by our men on CUIP's
bill are still tollre' seen, 'except' 'such neh
portion of t e unb 1S .bein,. -
moved by the owner Of the 'ground.
Only 'think of the meanness Of the Mail
TERMS, $2,00 a year in advance.
who is pulling to pleoes ,these monu
ments, and converting the timber into
fence rails and cord wood I The effect
of tho furious firipourod upon Bwell's
swarming columns is visible enough.
Hardly a rock or a tree in front of
hese works has escaped. Many of the
trees aro covered and scarred with
bullets as high as fifty feet from the
ground. There was "wild," as well as
deadly shooting here on that fearful
Thursday night and early Friday
morning. Along this rotigh, rocky bill
fought our Geary, and that distinguish
ed Rhode Islander, Brigadier General
Green, Five months.after, at the des
perate midnight battle of Wahataie,
in Lookout Valley, this indomitable
fighting °nicer only added to the lau•
rels already gained at Antietam and,
Gettysburg. An inscription on a tree
close by: tel the story of a large ,
mound in, the • ravine below : "To the
right lie buried forty-Sve rebels l'
From here we struck across to the scene
of the first day's fight. In the follow
ing communication to Gov. Curtin,
General Cutler tells us how the battle
opened: "I owe a duty to one of your
regiments, the 56th, and its brave com
mander, Col. J. W. Hoffman. It Ives
my fortune to be in the Advance on the
morning pf July lst.• The atmosphere
being a little thick, I took out myglass
to examine the enemy, being a feiv
paces in front of Col. H, he turned to
me and inquired; 'ls that the enemy?'
My reply was 'Yes.' Turning to his
men, ho commanded. 'Ready—right
ohlique—aim--fire and the battle of'
Gettsyburg was opened. The fire was
followed by other regiments instantly,
still, that battle on the soil ,of Penn
sylvania was opened by her olin sons;
and it is just that it should' become a
matter'of history." Here the ggo u nd
fought over by our,brave cavalry Men,
under Pleasanton, Buford, Kilpatrick,
Farnsworth, Merritt,Onster and Gregg.
• r
Never, in,any preceding campaiom,had
the cavalry of this army, rendered such
distinguished and invaluable service.
To meet the enemy was to overthrow
them, until, at last, it was only With
the....sseetha
next point reached was the scene .of
tb . o bloody thOugh , unavailing•strAggle
of the lst; tindillth Corps. The 'marks
of battl6 stiff abcitindi hut•th ' o interest
centres in the spot. where :Reynolds
was' killed. The General was•nearly`
up with the skirmish line—no ''place;
say military inen, for a•corps comman
der; "but that was just ,like John Rey
nolds ;" and , he, had jaiat; despatched
several of . his aids; Capts. Baird, .10. ,
songarten and ltiddle, on, some special:
duties, and was himself watching the
deploymentof a brigade of
.Wisconsin l
troops, when the fetal bullet, fired!by
a sharpshooter, struck Lim in, the neck
and he fell off
~ his horse.: dead. Poor
Reynolds ! , • ,
, T!]Fro barn been tears and bfeaking;bolrts,for
We now stand in, the National Com
eteu,, on Cemetery 13111. Who ~.can,
stanffunmoyed in Allis silent.city of the
dead.,: Here iepose, the precious offer
ings laid upon the altar of the country
by the loyal States. Ordinarily the
filling up of a cemetery is elow.work
ho work of years. Three dap suffi" ced
to fill this ! Arid what is the 'reward
of those brave oleo for their specks of
weary niarehing and days and nights'
of fearful fighting? "Two paeo'of th 9
vilest earth !" Ilei.e they lip, "those
unnamed demi•gode" of the:reTit( and•
file. "Unknown l" "unknown I" 'thp
only epitaph 'of hiindieds: YeS, here
the) lie, "massed" with beautiful mill`'
tar) precision, rank upoh rank, es' if
awaiting the order to appear in review'
before the Great Commander•in chief,
of us all
"Up nutty h fortrein
1%4 e'liaried--41iimn belie In. bine ;
r3lldsurging entolto and !allaying all ,
The braieet were the Brat to fall—.
lb' Aft o t e and pod I" "
Who can'ever ' . foriie . :C'tbose terrible
days Of•lalY.. That 'i)yriOd of
zing' 'stispeiise`?'
And when'the news did come; Olik;
how that sad. 'catalogue upon
the heart: 'strings'! Zook,
Far ni3WOr th; Card;l teed; i effa rdii;Tay"-
for, Atriiwsmith, .Lowery,
Ocisse;liialett, , Vincent, DoVereausi
. •
•
"Period of honor as of WOOB, - .
What bright corers 'twos thino to clout!
Marled m, thy roil of blood what . namos,
To 15 . m/ones memory, and to Fganteari
Laid thorn Choir ta3tfinintottai chthis r ,
So ends my story of Ga:ttY4bsr.g 7
PutiaimM.Mtk,'`Nciti.,•lSd.
' sar-IN the rnidA' dstortny-di's
,enssion, a .gentlemen rose to ,settle 4
matter, in dispute. Wavintrhis
„ firds
Majestically over the ,excite,d dispu
tarits„ he began, "Gentiekrted,,,a,ii, r l
wantis,eoninodsMisc7-L—"
Jerrold interrupts,
~, , tiiiit, is precisely
darwitnt !" The
was 10Eit bavg of Ifmghtdr '
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LOB' PRINTI NG ozncE•
THE "QLOBW -aORi
the most complete of any' in the country, and pee
limes tha moot ample fecilitionlM' pronifitlY oxocuthig lu
the,butstyleievery variety of Job Printiov,Oucb. t7cr
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23.
CALL AND CXA.YETZ SPiOiIfENS WoialF;''d s 5"1
AT LEWIS. 11 . 00 . FC. STATIONERY A AWSI . O sriuk
Proclamation by the Governor.
The 7th of December appointed a state'
, 21tankagiiing Day,:
,
lIA'AIIIBBURG, Nov, The fdllow,-
ing proclamation was issued to 'day,
With feelings of the most profound
gratitude to Almighty . q,od, I invite ,
the'good people of the ComMonwetiftA,
to meet in their placeS ;Of public Ivor
ship on Thursday, the
,seVen'th'daY.4-
December next: arid, hearts:
and Voices in praise and, tlia4a.iving
to Hint, not only for' the Manifest
dinary blessings whielj,, dnOng; the,
past year, he' has Continued te h4tp:
upon us, - for abundant and gatbereq
harvestki, for thriving indtestry, for':
general health,. 'for domestic good or_
der and ' governnient, but also most
expressly and fervently for his ti
equalfed goodness in `sd
strengthened and guarded our people':
during the' last foilryLys iba.tithet;
have been enabled to Ornah io 'the.
earth the late. wicked reboil f01i.:48
•
terminate the system of human sitive.
ry, which causedit,Aswe 'trrestled
in prayer with Him in'the dartr
of our trouble,' when our brothers ant '
sons were staking life and linib for 61
on a bloody field, Or suffering by tor.
Lure or famine in the hells of Ander ; .
sonville thooLibby, so now, when"`
our supplications have been so ilary4
lonely and graCiously answeksi,let'tnl .
not withhold from' Him the homage -
our thanksgiving. 'Let: us Shy to all;
"Choose, ye, this day, whOm yo wilt
serve,- but for us' and our lions°, WO
will; servo -the Lord."• Como, thCri,ye
people whom 'He • bath so 'Allied a - nd
led'; einno ye war worn and mutilltied . '
men whom Ti'd'hath spared tO
to your dear homes, Jet its throng thq •
gates of LIN temples; let us throiv
selves on the knees of our heakta:;Wittfil
a=wilful joy at the foot ok Ills 'throne, ••
and renderalond Our Praise and '
giving to. Him, because He 'bath made
the right to prevail; because:He hatlit
given us the victory; because He bath
cleansed' our ' kind from tbe Stain of;
huinan slaverk, and because; Ho Hitt{
graciously; shown •forth in •the eyeii'of'
all men the great !truth - thrit no .05+
cated,'mo'rni and religioui peoPle. :
By the Governor:
_ :! " .ErA - •
• Secretary of the Cominou'wer(lo;
A National' Thankigfrin:'
By the President , of the United,:Stafis
:America:..• . , '
•
' Whereas,. It hes pleased:4lrnig,hty;
God during the .y,eay-whigh,fiti,now, f ,
corning to an enci, to•refieye our 14,1101 -e -„
ed Cm' 'country fro the fearful ot
civil-'war, and 'to permit initoisecurcii
the blessings: of,ponee unity, and liar" ,
moray, with a groat eniargement,oftim
=4 14 • li'llPrQ 4B '°ur.A o 4Volll:
Fatteri has Ulan during the year: grw
ciously aVer'tedivoni u 9 tlie'calafnit~e
of foreign war, pestilence and'faminer
while oar granaries are full of the frifit,iii
of an. abundant seasen,k, nd.wherpili •
righteounesS exalte,th
sin is a reproacli'te; any peeple
Xow; therUfoie, bkilt.knoWii;ltifit;t l '
Andrew Johrison,Y.Presidont `of .the'.'
United. States, de hereby, reepp3rnend
to the people thereof,that they:de - sot ;
apart 'and observe the 4rEit:Thursificyl
of 'December nest as' a i day tif '
Thittiks--=.giveirPtO ,, the:Ctioaifor of the'
Universe for !these'. qeilveraneciti and;'
blessings. reegm..=,
mend, that on, tbat ; oceasiontirsivillS„
people snake confliOsion of 'our nationid_
sins against His infinite - goodneeis;
with one 'heart. and ono mind; iitiphiz:Vio.
the Divine., guidanceth9.vn.i&sro'fi,
national virtue end . „
In testimony Whereof, 1 haye
unto set my lianctseal;
ethe United States to tiff). aftlied.ll';'
Done W.a.shifigto . q;
this. twenty , -9(ghthtlny.otPetolieti',
4 in the year,of our Lord ono thous:,
`°." and eight hundred Lind spst.i
and of the inde - pentfenect . of'
United States of Ameii&Atiti:
ninetieth:
I 3 Lho 7+:
,Zeir A ,te_m yeare o,ld -,Sunday, sehooll
boy wae aeked 1)s , his, teagber, not:lohi
since,. what , the - phyladterie?,_efi,the
Pharleeee were... "Broad hemtiy_''sneill
as : ladjes,wefi} 15LI . 10 1. Qii'adreSSesi ' 4
the reply, "But the:Phariaees.dkin!t.
wear them for the same _reason tbkai
the ladies do, did they . ?" I 'o, yes,"
was -the; Wicked , imsweri"to . bo gee& of
nien2f
tm., ; 4, gen ticunan,;praising; per
al,pltnnt3 .4 ,Y ° F)Y Plcq o 79':/"Jar`"?. l/
the, presen'oe of. Foote, the fatal. said:
~A nd Nihy don't you lay elairn i to sucii
an acPorniAiOic4 ,Fhat;rigb,
to goutle
mau.
E e thet,i9v,ot
replied . .Pooto ;•:;?;very
the first dicov r
liertiodo you from Y" gun.
ried 'a Yankee eta traveller.
do yon rain i'ierml" "Don't rain at
1.11," sad•. the iisto'nishod .Tonaihah.---
"XeittiOitto - X mind 'Yonf ono
buslnpß.,q." ' " •• • '• -
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