MY ADVENTURES IN RUSSIA. . COHCLCDBD. THAT was the programme exactly. The steamer left the quay without other pas sengers, and pushed out into Lake Ladoga, which stretches away to the east of Cron sdadt and St. Petersburg. Getting clear ' of the shipping, the steamer was liended to the northeast, and then I know that Joe was right. To guard the fourteen on the chain there were ton soldiers, all sullen looking, uncivil follows, who would not answer a question. The twelve Russian prisoners ou the chain kept sobbing and lamenting, but the women bore up more bravely than the men, and were the soonest over their outburst of griof. We all sat down in a circle on the deck of tho clumsy dirty craft, and the guards occupied benches a little distance off, and gave us no particular attention. Encouraging one of the prisoners to hopo that something fav orable might turn up in his case, I ques tioned him as to the long journey, the usage we would receive, the fare, and what the prospects were of escape. " Ab,my dear Bir," he whispered, " have no hope from this moment I They look upon as wolves, and we will be treated as such from now to tho end. I have read that prisoners have escaped while pursuing the journey, but they were recaptured and cruelly tortured, and then sent to even a worse fate than Siberia." I saw that it was no use trying to en courage any of them, and Joe and I held conversation between ourselves. Both of us had read as much as the Russian bad about the journey, but we began planning escape from the very start, and were quite positive of getting out of the country some how, if we could once elude the vigilance of those who would guard the chain. The steamer went along like an old tub, having a head wind and a bad sea, and it was near midnight before we landed at Bhakudoo, a small town on the northeast. We marched up the crooked street to the jail, filed in, and dumped down on a stone floor, having no straw or blankets, and having had no food since morning. When Joe found out that they did not intend to feed us, he began howling and hooping in a way to make one's hair stand up. The prisoners begged him to be quiet, put he would not, and continued his noise until an official came in, when I explained what was wanted. He shook his head, and went out, but Joe's yells brought him back, and after storming around and threatening, he finally brought some bread and water. ' Done of us got much slesp that night, and at daylight we were marched out, and our guards delivered us to those who were to take the chain through to Siberia. These men were differently uniformed, lookiug more like guides, but well armed, and had bad previous experience. I ' never could understand why the Russian government tramps its prisoners so far across the coun try, when they might have posts and use some sort of conveyance J but it is perhaps because they do not take time into account, and marching wears out no wheels. We were to go the whole journey on foot, as the commander of the guards informed us. He stated that if we made no trouble weshould be well treated, and get the best of fare in bis power to give j but that if we attempt ed to escape, it would end in the speedy death of those who planned the enterprise. It was four hundred leagues to the Ural Mountains, and fifty more to the point where we would be loft, making a journey of over thirteen hundred miles. lie would be satisfied if we made six leagues, or eighteen miles, per day on an average. This would give us a journey of seventy five days, or nearly three mouths, not counting for delays. There was a general sobbing and groan ing among the prisoners as they contem plated the hardships of the long march. The fare would be black bread and water, with meat now and then, and vegetables every seventh day, if they could be pro cured. " It's too much walking and too poor liv ing for a Yankee," replied Joe, wheu I had explained the soldier' statements. " I'll bet you an anchor against a chaw of 'bacco that I don't march a week 1" , I should have said the same thing, only I didn't see at that moment how we could help taking the whole journey. The word was given to march, and away we went, just as the Russian burghers were crawling out of their beds. The weather was by no means unpleasant, it being midsummer, and the weight of the chain was so evenly distributed that we marched quite freely. The fnut thing was to practise us to march; a soldier went in front of us, another came behind, each calling, " hip hup," Jn place Of "left left," as in the American army. After a littte practice we could march pret ty well, and the soldiers took a free and easy gait, behind us, except one wh6 inarched some distance in advance. . . Tbo day was extremely long and full of hardships. The road over which we march ed was stony and rough, and the country was generally dreary and forbidding. We passed through several small villages, and were looked upon by ths residents as Americans gaze at a circus procession. ' Joe and I took . note of every landmark, and the appearance of the country, and be haved so well on the march that one of the soldiers complimonted us af night, when we drew up at an untenanted loghouse, half way between two villages. Here we were to stop for the night. There was clean straw on the floor, and one of the guards went away to a farmhouse and pur chased a supply of bread and a bite of meat all around. Joe gave them a lively sailor song before we stretched out, and I never slept better than daring that night. We were on the road again at daylight, and the march of, the first day w Act o de scribe the march of the next seven. Tho prisoners were in better spirits as the days went by, and even got so that tbey spoke cheerfully of the future. The country was sometimes quite well cultivated, but gener ally it was composed of a sterile soil, rock, hill and forest. The villages were further apart after the third day, and we jogged along sometimes for three bouis without meeting any one. " I have gone as far as I mean to !" whis pered Joe, as the eighth day was drawing to a close. " We must give thorn tho slip to-night !'! , . ., He explained that while crossing Lake Lad ago on the steamer he had found and secreted a large nail. We had been care fully searched before leaving Cronsdadt, and every article removed from our pock ets, and this search bad not been followed by a second. The sailor had therefore retained possession of the nail, and he bad made such use of it on the uight before this explanation of his as to make it possi ble to free himself from his irons. He ex amined mine closely is we walked along, and be thought he could bend up the hook around the link so that the band could bo unclasped. Everything would depend on the disposition made of us that night. Ho requested me to secure a piece of flint stone, if I could do it without exciting suspicion ; and just before dark, under pretence of stumbling while crossing broken ground, I picked up and secreted a thin piece of stone, as large as my hand and as tough as iron. . The journey ended at dark. It was a waim pleasant evoning, and the chain were a unit in asking that we might camp on the ground, instead of being taken into a farm er's cowshed, as was proposed. The sol diers bad experienced no trouble with us, and after some hesitation, granted the re quest. Thus far on the journey two of them bad stood guard by turns, so that they had run no risks, and lost but little sleep. As we sat in a circle on the ground round a tree, tho ends of the chain were brought together and locked, and the sol diers thought tbey had struck a brilliant idea. Joe rattled off a couple of songs, and then I braced my back against a stone and spread my feet apart, and he hugged up to me aa close as he could, and went right to work at the irons. We were four feet from any of the other prisoners, and the guards were twenty feet away, sitting to gether. Mod never combine more caution, ingenuity and persistency, than when working for freedom. With the nail and the piece of stone Joe worked deftly aud vigorously, while I held the chain in such a position that the other prisoners could not take the alarm. The poor wretches had not the remotest idea of escape ; even bod they been free from the chain, I doubt if they would have had the courage to creep away. The word "Siberia" is enough to unnerve any Russian, and few gangs will ever think of escape after being once, started on the road. The guards could not tell from our posi tion who slept and who remained awake. Two of them stretched out for sleep, and the other two kept watch, maintaining a muttered conversation, which allowed Joe to work with more vigor than be would otherwise have dared to use. He got his irons off in about an hour, and then com menced on mine. Either because the blacksmith bad made a poorer job of it, or used inferior material, the rivet through my irons soon yielded to his efforts, and by midnight we were both clear of the chain. The prisoners bad all been asleep for hours, but the guards were awake and alert. The night was pretty dark, but I could make out their forms, and our irons bad not been off five minutes when one of them rose up and walked around the cir cle, to see that we wore all right. He mado no discovery to excite suspicion, and when lie sat down again Joe whispered to me : " I'll go first ! If I have good luck, fol low me ; if we are discovered, leap up, and we'll rua away together 1" My heart never beat faster or louder than when the sailor commenced working himself away. It seemed to me that be was fifteen minutes passing from my sight, and I was so excited that my hair was wet with sweat. He had crept away without raising an alarm, and now it was my turn. The chain was across my lap, and I was a long time working clear of It; then I found I must drop over on my side, aud turn on my face. I expected discovery ev ery instant, and even when I bad joined Joe, forty feet away, it was hard to realize that I had neither awakened any of the prisoners nor alarmed the guards, , We crept on our hands and knees about a hundred rods, and (hen moved like burg lars for a good half mile. , There was but one course to pursue ; if we would get back to St. Petersburg, the minister would of course protect us. St. Petersburg was dis tant more than a hundred miles, ' but we knew the direction, and set out with con siderable confidence, having heard no alarm from those left behind. , We bad five hpurs before daylight, and during these hours we were hardly ever off a "dog-trot," and we made a good twenty miles. We flanked one villago, and did not once meet a person, though we pur sued, tho road most of the timo. When signs of daylight appeared we discovered that we had been holding too far to the north, and had thus departed a consider able distance from the direot route back to the port on Lake Ludoga whore we landed, This was, however, of no great moment, and we looked about for a place to stop, realizing that our dress would prohibit us from traveling during the day, if there were uo other considerations. , We select ed a thicket of pines on a hill, which we afterwards found to overlook a village not more than half a mile away. We also dis covered soon after daylight that there was not another thicket or bit of woods within three miles of us. This made us anxious to secuie a less exposed location, but when the people began to move about, we dared not make the attempt. It was a clear sharp morning, and we suffered some with tho frost until the sun grew strong. We had no provision, but were too anxious to feel hunger. The road was half a mile away, in plain sight, and we saw quite a number of horse men pass during the forenoon. It was about one o'clock before we got an alarm ; we beard a horn blowing a great way off, and a horse and rider finally passed us on the gallop, and halted at the village. That he was a courier heralding the nows of our escape was plain enough. When a mem ber of the Siberian chain gang escapes the soldiers do not leave the chain to pursue, but notify the first traveller or farmer, and keep right on their journey. Tho traveller or farmer must spread the news, and each one who receives notice must give notice, and be on alert. There is a severe penalty for harboring or aiding an escaped prison er, and a small reward for delivering him We now knew that the news of our es cape was being spread, aud expected that our place of refuge would be searchod. Several villagers put off on their horses, and the courier took another road, but no one came near us, and the afternoon passed without cause for alarm. Moun tains were in sight to the southwest and the northwest, and before darkness came we had settled on our direction. The jour ney to St, Petersburg around the lake could never be made ; neither would it do to return to tho port of Shakudoo, where we had landed from the steamer. We de cided to work further to the north, and strike Lake Ladoga near the mouth of the River Soir, and then iu some way get transportation across. When night came we left our retreat and headed to the south, so as to make a detour of the village and the farms. We were both suffering considerable from hun ger, and were so stiff that we did not get along very fast. After an hour's travel ing, and just as we were heading to the north, we heard the baying of hounds on our trail. We were for a moment unde cided as to wbother hounds were tracking us, or whether the dogs were accompany ing a party along some road, but we soon made up our minds that we were being bunted. No domestic animal has the fero cious nature of the Russian bloodhound ; once upon a trail, and nothing can rival its persistency iu following the track. The country was devoid of trees or water courses, and as the deep-toned bays came nearer, Joe and I started forward on the run, keeping our course, but having no plau to escape the hounds. We were cross ing a farm, and coming upon a logbarn, the door of which stood open, we dashed in. A horse and colt ran out, and Joe shut the door when the bounds were not over ten rods away. There were two of the dogs, and I sup posed they picked up the trail while ram bling around, else they would not have done just as they did. They followed the trail to the very door, and then both ran after the horse, which galloped off at a fu rious pace, ne ran away half a mile, and then made a circuit back, and by this time the farmer was out with his gun. He fired at one of the dogs, and the report and his shouts drove them off. Our foar Was that he would come to the barn, and it was soon realized. We dared not leave the oover until sure that the bounds were out of the 'neighborhood, and the man was at the door before we expected him. As he came up we moved away into a eorner, aud he opened the door and came in, grewling and cursing about the houuds. We had moved into the eorner where he kept the rope fur fastening the horse, and be came right op, hands stretched out, and clutched Joe's clothing. ' Next instant he was down on the floor, the sailor having bim by the throat and I by the legs. " Now hand me the rope, and I'll fix him up so that he'll anchor here for the balance of the night 1" whispered Joe. The man did not know who we were, but if he escaped us he would raise an alarm, and we must therefore make him secure until we had a good stmt. . We bad bim bound and gagged in five minutes, and wore just rolling bim into a corner when we heard footsteps at the door.' Next moment the voice of a woman cried out : " Husband, where are you ?" , The man struggled a little, though he could not speak, and she called : - " There are government officials at the house, who are following the chain gang to reprieve two Americans ! Answer mo are you there?" 1 ' ' Tour husband is here in the corner !" I answered, as we sprang up. The woman screamed and run.and while Joe was untie ing the farmer, I followed, herf I reached the house just behind her ; a wheeled ve hicle stood at the door, and at the table in side sat Vlitchy and a companion spy, , " I am very glad to see the gentleman 1" exclaimed Vlitchy, as be caught Bight of me ; " you have been pardoned 1" I never fully understood how it all came about. After my arrest, government spies went to Mr. Morrow, and told him that I had been drowned from the quay. My un clo, for some reason, did not accept the statement, but bad cause to believe that I had been arrested and sent away.. He made a demand on the government for my release, and, in short, raised a storm about their ears, and finally got at the truth. Couriers were then despatched to bring us back, and an apology was made, and the matter finally blew over. I bad not been in St. Petersburg four hours when my un cle said : " A steamer leaves to-morrow morning ; your passage is paid, and you will be on board an hour before sailing ; this country docs not agree with your health." I did not hesitate about following these instructions, as there was more at stake than my individual liberty, and Joe got a ship tho same morning. The two police officials jtood on the quay as the steamer backed out, and, as both removed their hats and bowed, one of them called out : " The gentleman has our best wishes for a pleasant voyage home I" Such a Nose. ' Stotcshury lost his nose in early life during an interview with a patent hay chopper, but he succeeded in procuring a wax nose of such a marvelous construction that only keen scrutiny could detect the fraud. ' One night Inst winter, while Stot esbury was on his way to Miss Johnson's, a tremendous fire broke out, and Stotes bury stopped to look at it. He became deeply interested and drew quite near to the flame. The heat was so great that Stotesbury's nose gradually softened, and assumed something of the - shape of a raw oyster. He did not notice it, however, but went calmly onward to Miss Johnson's. When he entered, the servant girl at the door gave one startled look at him and began to laugh in a most boisterous man ner. Stoteshury, indignant, pushed on ward to the parlor, as he entered, Miss Johnson rose to receive him. As sho caught a glimpse of his nose sho stopped, looked amazed, aud then buried her face in her handkerchief in a convulsion of laughter. " What is the meaning of this extraordinary conduct, Miss Johnson ?" de manded Stotcshury. "Oh, Mr. Stoteshury," she said " please excuse me but wha wha what's the matter with your nose ?" Stoteshury went to the pier glass, gazed at the serious oyster on bis face, jammed his hat suddenly ou his head, and fled from the room. As he reached the entry, he found Miss Johnson's little brother just in the door, and aa that urchin perceived the condition of Stotesbury's face, be. gave one wild yell and shrieked, " Oh, Tilly, come here, come here quick, and look at old Stotesbury's nose !" Then Stoteshury emerged all at once from the frontdoor and went home. Ho is now wearing an Inclia rubber nose, aud goes past Miss Johnson's without ringing the bell. fapt. Jack's Theology. Capt. Jack got off a good thing just the day before his execution. A clergyman was engaged in explaining to him the immortal ity of the soul and the consolation of reli gion to one in his fearful situation. He told bim all about Heaven, and what a blessed place it was, and how happy he would be when he got there, where he would meet many of his old friends who had gone to glory before him, and how much happier he would be in the next world than in thiB one, and that instead of suffering a loss by the change he would be the gainer, and that in view of the great glory into which he was about to enter, it was better to die and be translated into Heaven than to stay here In this wicked world of siu and suffering. Jack listened attentively, and when the preacher got through said : "But, are those things true you are tell ing me ?" , "Yes, every word I told you." " You are certain about them ?" " Yes, sir, I am certain. There can bo uo doubt about it." '' ' ' " You know it to be so?" ; " I do and am positive about the truth of all that I told you." 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Mnrii q U 187S, widows of olllceis who were killed, or u it-urn uisnusB comracieu in me service, are now Biiuucu m w.uv per mourn lor eacli ol their clnl dren. The ituardian of a minor nlMM of ni,, jieretolore only received IS.Ou per mouth pension id nun ciitiiitru iu fwr nioui. . Soldiers who receive Invalid pensions can now have their pensions Increased to any sum or rate betweeuSK.aiiilSlH.nHriiiniii.il. Soldiers who have lost their discharges can nowj Fathers and mothers who lost sons In the serv Ice upon whom they were dependent for support til-"iv, uinum lieimiuus. I The undersigned having had over 10 years ex iHiiiuneo iu me mini agency ousinest win alien yruiupuy iu ciuiiiis uniif r i tie aoove ace. Call ou or address LEWIS POTTER, ' Attorney for Claimants, ' ' New BloomHeld, 7 20tf. Perry Co., P: ROBINSON HOUSE, (formerly kept b Bweger and Shuman.) Kru Blootnfltld, Ptrry County, T: AMOS ROBINSON, Proprietor. This well known and nleasnntly located hot has been leased for a number of years by the pre! enlproprletor.anu lie win spare no pains 10 aecor miKlttt hln quests. The rooms are oomfortahrt the table well furnished with the best In the Dial ket, and the bar slocked witn cnoiee liquors, careful and attentive hostler will be Inattendane A good livery stable will be Kept Dy tueuroprleti April 8, 1871. tf Dissolution of Co-Partnership. NOTICE Is hereby given that the copartn, ship heretofore existing between the umli slgnf d. under the name of Kough, Snyder & ( is dissolved by mutual consent. The books of I til in will lie round with J. W. H. Kough, and i tlee Is given tn.it aceounu niusi oe seined will thirty days from this date. J. W. 8. KOUGH, . W. 8. MNYDKK, W. II. KOUOIL Newport, Aug., 20, 1871 , The business heretofore conducted by Koud nnynera iu, win ue coniiiiuen oy iriesunHcriut J. W. 8. KOUGH, W. H. KOUUU,
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