DIE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
Thursday Morning, September 11,1862.
Sflttttb
TURN ME GENTLY.
Turn me gently when I'm dyiDg,
Gently turn me to the sun,
Let me see the last ray fading,
That shall mark my journey run ;
When the pulse has ceased its beating,
And my limbs are growing cold,
"Press me in my Sunday wardrobe
And my arms across me fold.
Place me in a modest casket.
Color white my choice would be,
Vnadornea by costly fixture,
Close the lid and turn the key ;
Rear me to some quiet graveyard,
Where my resting place shall be,
If it please thee, brother stranger,
O'er my body plant a tree.
Plant an evergreen with branches
Tending upward to the sky,
Emblem unto all wlio pass it.
That the soul will never die ;
Or instead of a weeping willow
With its twigs bent to the ground,
Which will tell my body slumbers
In the dust l>eneath the mouud.
In my narrow house you hollow
On a gentle rise or steep,
Lay my head toward the summit,
Just as if 1 were asleep ;
Raise a marble slab not costly.
With its letters chiseled deep,
IWcoril plain, to all who lead them.
When and where I fell asleep.
Sweetly there my form will slumber,
in the lap ot Mother Earth,
Slumber, while the uncaged spirit
Which is of such priceless worth.
Sours aloft to meet those loved ones,
Loved ones gone asleep before
Cross the chilly stream of Jordan,
Never to be parted more.
Sweetly in the grave so lowly.
Let me rest where all is calm.
Where vain hopes and fond delusions,
And life's ills can do no harm.
Where the wicked cease froin troubling
And the weary are at rest.
There I long to dwell forever,
Dwell forever with the blest.
Vffistc ihiuoiu.
BIDE.
The noble beast which forms the subject of
tnv story had been a bay of the richest and
most glossy color, with a lone spot of white
hair on the forehead. llis tail had been al
lowed to flow, uncurtailed by the itutilating
knife, naturally und gracefully as those of the
wild mustangs of the prairie. The ample
chest, small ankle, and proud neck and the
wide-ap&rt prominent eyes, and open nostrils
denoted getule blood, but, at the time I saw
him, old age had whitened his beautiful bay
coat, long tufts of hair were growing behind
each foot, his eyes were rheumy, and the few
teeth lie possessed wcreloose. I had no
ticed the care and attention bestowed on him
bv every member of that family Not a day
passed that his neck and face were not ca
ressed by soit fcrr.in'Tte bands, ne.d if I had
been surprised at tknt, how much mere so was
1 when Mrs. Morrison, who like myself, was
staying there through tire summer, would fre
quently throw both arms aTocnd his neck.and
while his seft nose Teste 1 acaiHst fc.;r should
er, would 'CuM him peft names, and not unfre
qently her be lutifrd eyes wopld fill with tenrs
while thus employed. '", D >n -John ' received
aK these caresses as if he had been accustomed
to them, frequently following one and anoth
of the inmates [Hie a hnge lirwise-dog.
My curiosity at length became so great
that I resolved to become acquainted with the
Teaseu why he was thus honored with the re
spect and attachment of the household. Not
•many days elapsed before I became acquaint
ed with the reasons, and I assure you, gc-nsle
reader, I considered them sufficient to excuse
any amonnt of affection which it might please
the superior brute to bestow on his fellow, the
dumb one. He had belonged to Dr. Mosety,
of Whitesboro, for many years a practicing
physician iu that place.
The Doctor had been called to Ulica, on
business connected with his profession, and
had been absent three days. During that
time of those drenching warm, breaking tip
Tains had set in. Mouutains of ice were rush
ing down the Mohawk, sweeping everything
before them, overflowing the banks, carrying
away bridges and dwellings, and alarming
•many of the inhabitants as well it might—for
one must see a freshet to understand its ter
rible importance. One must hear the crash
and the mad waters rushing head
long and wild, eager for destruction ; behold
the floating wrecks of many a .dwelling, often
bearing a " thing of life," and sometimes a hu
man life, as was witnessed not long since on
the Lehigh and the Schuylkill.
The night was inky black, and Don John
pidfcred out the way faithfully and steadily,nev
er stumbliDg, but with the bridle hanging
slack across his neck, and his nose close to
the earth, his master had little fear for the
consequences. They were approaching Oris
kany, where a bridge spanned the Mohawk,
•and Don John wbiued pitifally cnce or twice,
till a sharp word from his master warned him
not to show the white feather. On the other
side he could just distinguish, throogb the
dense dat kness.moveicg and glimmering light,
and once lie fancied he heard a shoot ; but he
iittfe heeded aught save getting boused as
soon as possible, aud sleeping off the fatigues
consequent to his profession.
" Now stop, Don, step sure ; old Orikany
Bridge to tuy owu hand and your knowledge,
has lost many a plauk," said the Doctor, pat
ting his beast's Deck, aod pushing the wet tan
gled front-lock from his eyes.
They were oow ascending the little taiueuce
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
leading to the entrance, when the horse stop
ped. " "Go on sir 1" said the Doctor, " you
are nearly home 1" Still DO attempt at goiog
on, and beneath them the angry waters roar
ed and bellowed like maddened devils baulked
of their prey. "Do you hear me, 6ir ?" with
a smart buffet on the neck, and a gathering
up of the loosened bridle into the firm deter
mined hand, and the animal started —slowly,
steadily, surely, firmly—through the broad
back slightly shivered from time to time, and
the gait was so measured and methodical,that
at any other time he would have observed it.
As it was he only let him have his owu way,
though he might have smoothed his neck, for
he had a kindly heart, and his poor beast bad
labored hard through dreadful weather, aud
was sadly in need of food and shelter.
Towards the end of the bridge the steps be
came slower, and once stumbled iu the hind
foot. A quick grasp at the bridle, and a
cheery " Easy John"—easy, sir 1" and again
the cautious hoofs resouudad on the hard
road. They were across,for the animal neigh
ed, and tossed his head till the Doeter shook
in his saddle. " Oue more mile to go, poor
fellow, but first I aud you want some refresh
ments. So riding up to the small tavern door
where a genial light was shining from the win
dows, he called loudly for the landlord. A
dozen or more of the iuuiates came rushing to
the door with lanterns which they curried aloft
and a " Good GOD Doctor, where did you
come from ?" brok from their lips simultane
ously.
44 Come from ? Why from over the Mo
hawk ! What is the matter ? lias the fresh
et carried away any of you senses ? Here
boy," as dismounted, he threw the rein to a
gaping fellow. •' give John something nice,
aud dry him off. Keep him well wrapped up
white he eats, and. landlord I want a tumbler
of red hot Jamaica, quick ?'*
" Doctrr," said the group, " have you
crossed the Mohawk, to night ? and if so
how ?"
" Why on the bridge; are you a'l drunk ?"
said the exasperated physician.
" Doctor said the old gray headed landlord,
" that bridge went down the Mohawk this af
ternoon 1 Come with me and I will show
yon I If you crossed, GOD only knows how
ycu did it.
A shiver went to the Doctor's heart—lant
em in hand, he followed the foot-steps of the
men to the margin of the swollen and turbid
river. Where was the bridge ?"
" Almighty GOD !" said the horror struck
Doctor ; " where is my gratitude ? my noble
beast came over here this night,backed by me
on this solit try sting piece : and I, with this
right hand gave him a blow when he faltered,'
and the Doctor sank upon his knees in the
soft, wet snow, and wept like a child the
men moved from his presence respectfully, aud
left him to himself.
When, after some little time, he made his
appearance, his eyes were greeted by the sight
of his horse, surrounded by the entire house
hold, each contributing to render him some as
sistance. A quart of warm ale was given by
one, another rubbed his neck and chest with
spirits, a third dried his glossy hide with warm
flannel, and others patted his neck or caressed
his nose and fa.e. The Doctor came -and
took the head of his beast against his breast,
and great warm tears rubbed up from his
heart, as the long, graceful tongue lapped his
masters face. " O John, my boy, and I gave
you a blow !" and the words ended in a low,
wailing groan. Men uncovered their heads
and turned their faces front him,and at length
led him inside, where he spent the night.—
The morning revealed unto him the dreadful
danger he had escaped, from the sagacity of
his beast,and again did he grieve for the blow
he had dealt him, when, so nobly, he was put
ting forth more than human power.
Don John never did a day's work after
that. Sometimes his master rode him forth
on a pleasure tour, or drove him, before a
light vehicle, a few miles, with some member
of his family, but his professional labors were
over. Nothing could axceed the care and
attention that were ever given him afterward.
He fed from a manger made of mahogany ;
his room was more like a parlor than a stable;
and company to the Doctor's always paid a
visit to Don John before they left.
Thus they lived many years, the Doctor and
his horse gi"bwing old together.
Don John survived his master some years ;
and when the good man's will was opened,
there was found a clause appended, which re
lated to Don John, to this effect that he
should be given to his youngest daughter, Mrs.
Morrison, while she lived, to be cared for as
he had always done ; and that he should, at
his death, be buried with his shoes on, wrap
ped in his own rich blanket and inclosed in a
befitting box, iu the corner of his own bury
ing ground. His wishes were religonsly re
spected, and two years after I learned his his
tory, Don John's bones were buried in a cor
ner of the old burying ground at Whites
boro.
To DESTROY HOUSE FLIES.— It is perhaps
not generally known that black pepper (not
red) is a poison for many insects. The follow
ing simple mixture is said to be the best de
stroyer of the common bouse fly extant :
Take equal proportions of fine black pepper,
fresh ground, aud sugar, say enough of each
to cover a ten cent piece ; moisten and mix
well with a spoonful of milk (a little cream
is better) keep that in yonr room and that
will keepdowu the flies. One advantage over
other po : son is, that it injures nothing else ;
and another, that the flies seek the air, and
never die in the hoase—the windows being
open.
" WHAT do they mean by a cat aod dog
life ?" said a husband to his angry wife.—
" Look at Carlo and Kitty asleep on the rag
together. I wish men lived half so peaceably
with their wives " " Stop," said the lady,
" tie them together and theD see how they
will a^ree."
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH.
political.
ADDRESS
OF THE
Union State Central Committee
TO THE
LOYAL MEN OF PENNSYLVANIA.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNION STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE, Commonwealth Buildings, No.
613 Chesnut Street.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 26,1862.
FELLOW CITIZENS : In times of war the
political organizations of peace are surren
dered or postponed to the public emergencies.
During the Revolutionary war there was no
party against Washington but the Tories or
the traitors. During the war of 1812, the en
emies of the Administration of Mr. Madison
soon became as infamous as the foreign iuva
ders themselves. The war with Mexico was
waged, as results hove proved, by slavehold
itig statesman, in order that one State more
might be added to the number they have
lately forced into treasou ; yet the public
man who opposed it soon became unpopular,
aud its victorious general was nominated for
the Presidency by the party that dissented
from the policy which resulted iu the war.—
These are the eloquent teachings of the past.
We are now engaged in a death struggle
with the most powerful foe to human liberty
on earth. This enemy is strengthened by
slavery in America, aud sustained by the
monarchies of the Old wor'd. The issue is
clearly made—the contending parties op?n!y
arrayed hga'nst each other. There is not a
nation, an individual, or an idea opposed tc
human freedom that is uot enlisted against
this Government and iu favor of the rebel
lion. We are ourselves our only friends.—
Within ourselves is our only hope. We can
have no sympathy from any other Power
in the world—no sympathy that is sincere
and effectual. The Htate Central Committee,
appointed by the Uuion State Convention,
composed of the loyal men of Pennsylvania,
who met to consider what was proper to be
done iu this crisis, have a simple duty to
perform iu this their first address. They
have only to a.-k whether the examples of the
two were with Great Britain, and the admo
nitions of the war with Mexico, shall be re
collected or rejected in this gloomy hoi r, and
whether the American people will cordially
support the Government in putting down the
rebellion.
The Central Committee would impress up
on the people of Pennsylvania that the one
great subject for them to consider is the danger
to the Republic. There is no prejudices or
opinion that should not be postponed, and,
if necessary, sacrificed, to avert the common
peril. The Convention from which the com
mittee derived its autliOiity acted in this
spirit, and it is now your duty to come for
ward und sustain the candidates that Con
ventioo placed in nomination. We make
this appeal to all loyal men They only are
loyal who recognize this war as one waged
for our nationbl existence—who give au ar
dent and unquestioning support to the Ad
ministration — who sustain all the measures
of Congress for the maintenance of the war
making power —who see in the Southern Con
federacy, and those who are in alliance with
it, tiie enemies of Civilization and Liberty
and who do nothing to weaken the hands of
the Executive. Tiiey arc not merely disloy
al who take arms in their hands, and com
hine themselves into i"i army He is a rebel
who abjures his allegiance and bocomes an
enemy to his flag ; but he is traitor, who,
while enjeying the protection of the Govern
ment, and ostensibly observing his pledge
of allegiauce, contrives to bring dishonor
and defeat upon the country. These rebels
and traitors we are called upon to meet. We
must encounter them on the battle field and
at the ballot box. The ballot box is the
great source of popular power, [f beaten
there, our victories will be fruitless, our suff
erings unrewarded, our sacrifices barren,
and the glory and valor of our soldiers will
end in the triumph of the Southern rebellion
and a dishonorable peace.
It is necessary to restate the causes of
the war. Our opponents have made them
the substance of calumny and misrepresenta
tion. For answer, we appeal to the living
bistory familiar to all men. We need not
remind the people that at the basis ot the
Southern rebellion there exists a hatred of
Northern men and Northern institutions—of
our social, political and revenue systems.—
This has inspired their leaders during two
generations. Wedded to au institution which
has demoralized tbem in demoralizing their
labor, and cultivating the earth by an en
slaved race of men, they have made their
slaves the source of their political power, and
ruled the nation with products of slave la
bor. Tbe happy hours of our national pro
gress have for years been embittered by their
insolence. All legislation that looked to the
prosperity of the Northern States and protec
tion to their industry lias been opposed aud
defeated by them. With the growth of
Northern strength as the result of free insti
tutions and free toil, comes the possession of
political power and the gradual resistance to
encroachments of slavery. Nor need we re
mind the people of the outrages that follow
ed the efforts of the slaveholders to recover
their unholy and despotic domioiou. The
outrages upon Kansas ; the studied iusults to
Northern Senators aud Representatives ; the
ceaseless abuse of tbe Northern people, and
the gradual concentration of the military
and Daval power in the hands of traitors,
all contemplated the restoration of iheir as
ceudency, and enobled them to inaugurate the
treason which culminated in war. Strength
ened by a wicked Administration, and sus
tained by timid and treacherous public men
in the Northern Seates, they were permitted
to organize au armed resistance, and to make
fearful advances, before the Government
could strike a Wow iu its owu defence.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
The election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presi
dency, so fortuoate to the country and so
; fruitful of saving consequences to the whole
people, baffled the immediate purposes of the
conspirators.
The adversaries of Mr. Lincoln's Adminis
j istration are nearly in every case the adver
saries of the Government. The attack the
one to weaken the other. We recognize in
the Executive the embodiment of that au
thority which can alone destroy the rebellion
and rescue the Republic. If the Executive
arm is paralyzed, there can be neither unity
among the people, victory for our armies,
nor hope for the preservation of the Govern
ment.
While thy enemies of the)war propose ad
hering to the form of mere party organiza
tion, the loyal men have yielded their pref
erences and systems, content to defer to the
days of peace the revival of di-putes which
can ouly be repeated now to the injury of the
common cause.
Let the people decide whether that interest
is deserving of confidence which, in the midst
of war, refuses to abandon the prejudices
of party strife, and in the midst of national
peril devotes itself to the work of dividing
the people.
The opponents of the war are more anx
ous to prove their hatred to a party than to
the public enemy. They insist that tho " de
mon Abolition" is the most dangerous foe of
the public peace. We can see but one great
criminal—but one great enemy to the Re
public—and he is now in arms against our
countrymen and brothers. To defeat bim at
once and forever is our first and most im
perative duty.
The adversaries of the war insist that they
contend for the Uuion as it was, and the Con
stitution as it is. We, too, are for the Uuion j
as it was : but not for the return of the ,
armed associates of the sympathisers with ,
treason to the places they so long occupied '
and so basely deserted. And while we renew
our fealty to the Constitution as it is we al
so insist upon the addition of that duty
which the opponents of the war so steadily
ignore, viz : " The enforcement' of the laws,"
whether these laws arc for the confiscation
of the rebel property, the emancipation of all
slaves who aid to defend the fl ig of the
Union, or punishment of the reckless patt
zans in the udbering States who aid and com-1
fort the rebel enemy, demoralize the people, i
and paralyze the arm of the Executive.
If, in a word, we have sympathy to bestow
it is not for the murderers of our country's
liberties, but for the defenders of those liber
ties. The gallaDt soldier teaches us by his
example to persevere in devotion to our coun
try. He offers his life to the Republic with
uncomplaining spirit, reposes full confidence j
iu his superiors,sustains the Government of the
United States, and sees but one antagonist
before him—the rebel who strikes at his own
heart and at the Union of these States. We
should be unworthy of the advantages of
peace and of home if we did uot strive to im
itate at the ballot box an example so freely
set before us by our fellow citizens on the
battle field.
In the fulfilment of these grave duties, we
invoke to the standard of our countrymen of
every class and opinion. We scorn the base
ness that invokes party hate or popular pre
judice. When we behold the adopted and
the native citizen, the Democrat and the Re
publican fighting side by side in the army,
we are inspired by the lesson to do likewise
in the quiet walks of civil life.
Loyal men of Pennsylvania, it is for yon
to determine between the friends of ihe Gov
ernment and the war, ami the opponents of ,
both. It is for you to declare for the sym
pathizers with ireedom or the sympathizers
with slavery and the rebellion. It is for yon j
to decide whether you Abra- '
ham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis. It is for,
you to say whether .the traitors shall be
crushed or whether our free institutions shall
be crushed. There is, and there can be, no
middle pathway. There are, indeed, but :
two parties—patriots or traitors—those who ;
are for the Union aud those who are against !
it. And all men who are not openly Tor
the Republic must be counted among its ene- j
mies. !
It is ii fact that you cannot too carefully
ponder, that the leaders of the opposition to
the Government in this State are the same,
with descredible exceptions, who encouraged
the policy which encouraged the traitors to
commence the rebellion. Their whole effort
since the war began has been to divide the
people of the loyal States. They announced,
early in 1801, that Pennsylvania should join
the South iu the event of a separation, and
this is their secret hope to day. They would
have held the hands of the Government that
the rebels might strike at its heart and would
have succeeded but for the prompt courage
of President Lincoln. They followed the for
tunes of General Preekioridge up to the period
of his desertion iuto the ranks of the rebels.
They repeat his arguments in this their Coun
try's darkest hour. Their plea for the Con
stitution was his plea before he drew his
sword against it. They clamor, as he clam
ored, against the Abolitionists. They de
plore emancipation, ev?n while they deny
that the most effective emancipationists are
the slaveholders themselves. They bewail
confication acts, w.<ile Jefferson Davis se
questrates the property of all loyal men in
the South. And, as if to complete the par
allel, and to show show sincerely they love
the traitors, even as they pretend to des
pise the treason, they see our brave men per
ishing on the battle-field and in hospitals,
from the disease of the swamps and the bul
lets of the foe, aud discourage enlistments in
order that they may be relieved ; and, while
prating of a negro eXodus into the free States
terrify out laboring whites' denounce the
employment of the escaped colored men of
the South to lighten the burdens and lepson
the labors of the white defenders of tbe flag |
We address you loyal brothers and frleuds,
iin tbe earnest hope that you will not desert
your couutrjr iu this ruoiueutqus erjsi;, We
feel that we have the right of this great argu
ment. We are supported by the hope that
all good men are with ns. Everywhere iu
the free States, the same organization for
which we speak is supported by citizens with
out reference to former party distinctions. —
The llepnbJicans have come forward to give
this organization their sanction. The
distinguished and orthodox Democrats have
joined the ranks of the great army of loyal
men, and from every battle-field our brave
soldiers send ns words of approval and of
thaDks. In Pennsylvania, the great People's
party have enrolled themselves in this mighty
movements. Shall it fail! Will yon per
mit. a few discontented leaders, the relics of a
debased and guilty Administration, who are,
in fact, more responsible for the war than
any other class bat the rebels themselves, to
sway you from your obligations to yonr
! country ? This canDOt be—this must not be.
[ Every inducement invokes us to consul -
| date and to operate. The comfort and ne
i cessities of our fellow-citizens in the field of
| war—the support of our patriotic President
and our fearless Governor, that they may
fulfil their great trusts efficiently—and threat
ening aspect of foreign Powers—call upon us
to sink all considerations before the one ab
sorbiug duty of the hour.
The nominees of the loyal men of Pennsyl
vania for State officers, Hon. Thomas E.
Cochran, of York county, for Auditor Gen
eral, and Hon. W. S. Ross, of Luzerne, for
Surveyor General, deserve your united and
ardent support. Mr. Cochran has served
with great credit to himself and advantage to
the State for the last three years to the posi
tion for which he is again presented. He is
known and esteemed for his pure personal
and upright public character, and his
high abilities and extended experience,
ere additional assurances that he is worthy of
the sufferages of the friends of the Govern
ment. General Ross has belonged to the
Democratic party, and is one of that large
aud influential body of men who have for
ever broken the shakles of the slave power,
and who see in the present troubles the op
portunity to prove their independence of those
treacherous leudcs who during these trying
times, degrade the name of Democracy by |
nsing it as a cloak for sympathy with treason.
Beloved at his own home, and in a long
course of public service having earned the 1
confidence of the people and gathered aval
liable experience, he is eminently fitted for
the trust that has been conferred upon him.
To elect these gentlemen, will require the
concerted and *cordial co operation of the :
1 >ya! citizens of the State. It would be most
culpable if, with every other advantage, we 1
should fail to win a great victory in October
for want of an effective and extended organ- .
ization ; or if we should, by dissensions among !
ourselves, on miner issues, give the victory to '
our adversaries. The duty of securing a strong I
and able representation in Congress, to sustain j
the President iu his noble war policy, and to
defeat the candidates of the Breckinridge sym
pathizers, is paramount and binding. Let us ;
not forget that we have also to elect a Legis
lature that is to choose a United States Sena
tor, and that in every county important offi
cers are to be elected. If wc act up to the J
call and to the counsel of the State Conven- i
tion from which we derive our anthority, we I
shall achieve a great and lasting triumph. In |
this struggle it is the duty of ail men to fore- I
go personal preference for the common cause ; !
and he who shall refuse to respond to this sen
timent is unequal to the awful reponsibilities
of the times. To accomplish complete unity,
and to prepare for a successful result, it is ad
visable that the loyal men should meet togeth
er in their respective wards and districts fre
quently. These are the fountains not only of
all power, but, in this emergency, of all pat
riotic purpose and popular enlightenment.—
Armed with the weapons of truth and of love
of country, and strong in the sense of a per
fect understanding among ourselves, we can
defeat all the hosts <■* our adversaries, and en
courage our public servants in council aud our
gallant brothers in the field of battle.
CYRUS P. MARKLE, Ch'n.
G. W. HAMMKRSLEY, W. J. HOWARD, Secre
taries.
Letter from Yorktown
YORKTOWN, Aug. 24,1862. i
—" Yorktown Is taken."
FATHER: —I improve the first opportunity of
writing yon since we were ordered to evacuate
our position at Harrison's Landing. Several j
days before we moved and after the orders I
were issued, the mail going from the army was
stopped ut Fortress Monroe, so that informa
tion of our movements could not get to the
public. After the baggage except what we ,
could carry on our backs was packed np and
sent forward so that we had no means of
writing. I mention these facts to account for
your uot hearing from us for a few days.—
You have general information of the move by
the papers, so I will only give you a brief nar
rative of the marching, &c., of our regiment.
We left Harrisou's Landing at 2 o'clock A.
M., August 16, in a very quiet manuer as we ,
occupied a position in front (then became the
rear,) and did Hot want the rebels to take ODy
notice of our leaving as they might take a no
tion to come down to see us off which would
have caused us some slight annoyance, partic
ularly as our division was the last to leave
the camp.
General Sumner's Corps was three miles in
advance waiting for as to pass, when they be
came the rear guard. We moved on to within
three miles of Jones's Ford on the Chickahom .
iny and haulted for the night after marching
about twelve miles. The weather Was cool for
the season, a fine breeze blowing all day. We
had plenty of dust, however, and withal very
tired and foot soro. We had just commenced
to cook coffee for supper, when we were or
dered to go on picket. Company F. happen
ed tb be stationed near a fteero hut, in the
Woods, where we got some chickens, green
corn and hoe cakes aud " made out" a good
supper for soldiers.
VOL. XXIII. —NO. 15.
We started the next morning at snn rise
i and marched down the month of the Cbieka
j hominy, on the James River, by the most
' crooked circuitous roads I ever saw We theu
halted a few minutes, then crossed the Cbick
ahominv on a pontoon bridge and marched
three miles and halted for the night. This day
had been tolerable, but not so cool as the day
before. We bad marched fifteen miles and
were in a condition to enjoy rest and food
most emphatically. The next morning at day
break we were on the march again. The
weather was hot,roads very dusty. We march
ed through Williamsburg at about 11 o'clock
A. and halted a few minutes to rest and al
low the men to fill their canteeus from a mud
dy spring. We then traveled on slowly three
miles and halted at about 2 o'clock P. M. ; ten
miles this day. We were now nearly worn
out and every man complained bitterly of sore
feet. I hud sprained my ankle and had to use
my sword as a cane,since early in the first day
of the march and was by this time unable to
walk much farther. We were ordered to re
main here the balance of the day and all of
the next to rest the men,and wait for the wag
on traius to pass which had got delayed and
behind on the way.
We enoamped near some good corn fields,
and the men lived on preen corn, poultry and
in many cases fresh beef which they managed
to help themselves to.
On the next day, the the 20th, we pulled
out at (i o'clock A. M , (weather still hotter,)
and marched to Yorktown—six miles—and
halted a few minutes. Then marched to a
position about two miles S. E. of Yorktown on
the York River. The road we took being
circuitous—made the distance three miles so
that the distance marched that day was nine
miles. We arrived at this place at noon.—
Yesterday we struck tents and marched back
through Yorktown to a position half a mile
above on the bank of the river, where I am
now sitting under a Flag, writing to you.
Xow for a few more incidents on the march
and my narrative is closed:
Capt. Cooke was taken sick on the second
day, and I was left in command of the com
pany during the rest of the march wbile he
came on by himself. My ankle was lame all
of the way so that I had to convert my
sword into a cane for support, but rest has
made it now about well; so that I walk with
out trouble. We fared pretty well for food
on the ways as no orders were issued prohib
iting foraging on the march. We took any
thing and everything eatable we could find
without asking any questions.
All corn and potatoe fields, and poultry
coops, were most thoroughly " skinned." All
cattle we found were confiscated, so that I
don't believe there is enough left on the Penin
sula to subsist 20 families during next winter.
I am glad of it, for I don't believe there is a
loyal man among them, and hope they will
have a good starving lime of it. There were
no fighting between our rear guard and the
enemy except a little skirmishing. They did
not follow us in force.
The troops are now nearly all shipped from
this place. We shall stay here for some tiem.
General Emory who now commands our brig
ade has been appointed Military Governor of
Yorktown, and the brigade is detached from
the army to garrison the town. It will be
much easier duty for us than marching aronnd
as we have done so far, since we come to Ya.
I will not complain if we stay here during the
war for we have done as much duty,marching,
and fighting, as any other brigade, and so far
have received only neglect and most umraerit
ed ingratitude from those in high place whose
duty it is to encourage their troops, and least
of all to give them credit for what they do.—
If we had been treated with justice, I, for one,
should be 3tixious to go on with the army to
win "new fields of glory." We do not wish
for the flaming complimentary puffs of news
paper correspondents who get drunk on some
Colonel's whisky, an J then sit down and give
him the credit ot performing some daring ex
ploit with his regiment, which some other reg
iment had done while he and his regiment
were miles away from the scene, and lying
quietly in camp, but we are satisfied with a
plain nngarnished statement cf facts as they
occurred.
We can live very comfortably here after we
get settled and the ether troops get away.—
We get, from the north side of York river,
potatoes, fruit, butter, milk, poultry, &c., and
plenty of oysters out of the river. The men
go in and gather them whenever they want a
mess, which is every time they eat. I buy
them from the darkies at 50 cents per bushel,
and have oyster stews every day.
As the water here is salty, it is a splendid
place to bathe, and we take a swim every day.
In my next letter I will be able to give you
a description of Yorktown and the works
around it. I have not had a chance to look
around aoy yet.
You can't 'magine how we rejoice at the
news of the rapid recruiting going on at home,
but we don't give them credit for any patriot
ism, for 1 know if it was not for the fear of
the draft but very few would now eniist. I
am glad to see some fellows starting by such
a spur, who could not realize that it was their
duty to have enlisted long ago. But 1 trust
they will do their duty manfully, and wish
them good luck and much honor.
Yours, truly
Ist Lieut. T. B. CAMP.
Company F., 52d Reg.Pa. Volunteers.
LOOKING IX THE WRONG BOX.—A Mr.
Thomas Ogden, having arrived in New York
from England, went several successive morn
ings to the post office to ask for letters. lu
ouiring alwuys for letters addressed to Tho
mas Hogden, the postmaster invariably repli
ed that there were none for him. But becom
ing at length quite imputieut at these frequent
disappointments, he thrust his head through
the delivery window, and soon discovered the
cause. " You are looking among the Haitches
sir," he said to the officer within : " you should
look among the