r"inirriiiii THE 2" JDcuotci ta politics, literature, Agriculture, Science, iHoralilij, au& eueral intelligence. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. MARCH 10, 1864. VOL. 23. NO. 3' TTTi T7 IMI el JJ n Published by Theodore Schoch. TE RMS-Two dollars a year in advance and lino1 - . , . L .i n.i tUn ..fir in.n f1n11rs and twen ; UM chVii:",,"-w .. l iv..,r.,t.mfti nit nrrptnircs are mud, iNopu u.sou m,, ..... .. o lO-Alvcrtiscmcnts of one square of (ten tessfoneor three insertions.! 00. Ea.-h additional cciiiaiiui.HU....- ,.,.. insertion, 2. cents. monger oiica m iii'"" JOB PRISTISC, OF ALL KINDS, Executed in the highest style of the Art. and on th, most rctison ible terms. From the Columbia Republican. LIFE. BY LOTTIE Ii What is this life 1 that all do crave A long life here below, The journey to the tomb is said, - 'Tis nought but grief and woe. And what is life? that I should live; "Life's but an empty dream The charms of earth, 1 find are false, They are not what they seem. uA whut U life' when friends prove fasle, And from us roam away, Ah ! then, I long to rest this head, Upon the silent clay. And what is life? when love decays, "The dreamy potent spell," 'Tis hard to part from these dear ones, We long have loved so well. Sad is my life, when slander stains Its dagger, with my blood ; My young heart sinks, beneath the weight Of falsehood's cruel load. Saikis my life, when all have gone The beautiful and gay; Ah ! could I now but soar away To everlasting day. Though sad my life, I wait God's will To stil this aching heart; Then take me home to Heaven above, Where friends will never part. Enles of the Preservation of Health. -Wash yourself now and then. Change your inner garments occasionally- " Chew your meat ; eschew greasy gravies. Don't chew your tobacco. Drink as little as you choose. Don't eat much morenhan your stomach will hold. Keep your temper. Temper your keep. If a soldier, don't rest upon your laurels until they have been well aired. Avoid falling out about trifles. Fall out of windows as seldom as possi ble. If your constitution requires )ou to sleep during lhe sermon, see that the sexton has an aired night-cap for you, and a Ued oi not bricks to put to your feet Keep your mouth shut on uusiy g..js. Never open your mouth in frosty weather. C ose your mouth very tight when the wind blows' from thc East. If your business compels you to get out before breakfast, have some breakfast first Ifitiswct under foot, house your poor feet. Beware of the ices of Summer and the snows of Winter. Do not swallow too many telegrams. Keep out of thc streets when gold is fall ing. If the silver of advancing j'ears is on your head, don't change it for paper. Don't let your circulation slacken ; cspe- : cially if you are a newspaper man. Use tooth-powder instead of gun-powder. Neither sleep in hot rooms nor eat mush rooms. 'Live on six nickel cents a day, but don't cam them, as some wretched speculators are doing now. Partake sparingly of wild fowl particu larly of the "canards" that come from the army. Violate, persistently, all thc sanitary rules insisted on by IMVs Journal of Health. If 'ou cannot acconnt for the milk in the cocoanut, do not hesitate to make free use of it Never eat your own words, unless you are madly desirout of giving an additional flavor to the cup of bitterness. Should your thermometer indicate an ex treme degree of cold or heat, immerse it in cold water, until it arrives at a proper sense of its duty. Don't let your physique go to the dogs. Always dress yourself with care. Never dress your salad with cod-liver oil. Something of a Meal. A fellow at a "donation" party in Pough keepsie, recently stowed away in his "phys icbI cfstern" somewhere the following items at a Supper table; Eight large biscuits, Seven cups of cofiee, J Forty good sized pieces of cake, 7en pieces of cheese, Five pickles, When the plate was passea rouna ior kributions be placed thereon Jive cents? VThe widow of President Harrison A at her residence at iortli .Deuu, v- jn Friday last. How the Earth Yields Eiches. An official statement of the mineral ! ! i wealth of Great J3nt.au has just appear eu m t , . c ... i, fiirxtr volition, aim irom u we yauii - . .w fi, inir interesting statistics ot what me earui . . . . yields for the enrichment of the British peo- pie. There are over 3,088 collieries in op- j eration, employing over a quarter of a mil lion of persons including- seven thousand women. The largest quantity of coal pro- duecd in anv one vear was 83.035,214 tons. , This was in 1861. The average export , c r i i i nnn nnn t pnnl From TCnnrlrinfl is nhnilf .(!()(). tons i & , year, u, iron seven auu a a u..ui w Of iron seven and a half millions of j ions were meueu msi yuar, uul ou,w tuu0 clirouic diarrhoea. She was a plaiu, hon . besides were imported. The value of the est liearted farmer's wife, her faee all a pig iron produced last year was nearly j10j- glow with motherly love, and who, to ! 000,000, or 50,000,000. There are 2$0 judge from appearances, had likely never ; copper mines in the kingdom, of which 201 before travelled beyond the limits of her I are in Cornwall and Devonshire, and they neighborhood but now had come many a produced in the year 18G2 over 224,000 ong jmlo to do what might be done for !r , , . , , , no her boy. In the course oi a conversation i tons of one but this gave ouly 14.043 -.tons , ;Jnrmnj w nilpCt.;nn(lr .w. 5f i of fine copper after refining. The tin mines I yieiueu more m xooa man in previous yuait, , lhe aggregate product having been 14,12 tons or ore, worm, alter rennmg, u,uui;,- 000; but tliere is a prospect that the Cornish' m?r,P riil v5nl,l etii! mnrfi lanrefv this vear. ' ..... j . o Tin has been obtained for more than tliousand years in Cornwall and Devonshire, , wifch 'appearJance.J Still sbe sme1 and the mines arc more fruitful than ever. jsad. souiething was on her mind that evi The lead mines yield nearly a hundred thou-' deutly troubled her, and, like Banquo's sand tons a year, and the silver extracted ghost, 'would not down.' At length it from the lead ore in one year (1S52) amoun- ted to GSG.123 ounces. Small quantities ot, : ffold have leen found i w one mine last year produced five thousand .,, ounces, woith about $100,000. Earthly j minerals birytes, lime, salt, and the valu-' rble clays produce annually about eight! and a half million of dollars; and the annual value of all the mineral products is about 225,000,000. The great coal yield, how- ever, urcs. is the most striking item in these Excuses for not Going to Church. Over-slept myself; could not dress in time; too cold; too hot; too windy; too dusty; too wet; tco damp; too sunny; too cloudy don't feel disposed : no other time to myself; look over my drawers ; put my papers to rights ; letters to write to my friends; mean to take a walk; going to take a ride; tied to busi ness six days in a "week ; no fresh air but on Sundays ; can't breathe in church, always son full ; fell a little feverish ; feel a little chilly ; feel very lazy ; expect company to dinner; got a headache; intend nursing my self to-day ; new bonnet not come home ; torn my muslin dress downstairs! got a new novel, must be returned on Monday morn ing; wasn't shaved in time ; don't like the liturgy, always praying for the same thing; don,t Iike cotemporary prayor; don't like an organj tJS noIsy . don,t Hke singin& without music, makes me nervous, the ;rit wnn bllt thc flesn weak . dislike an extemporary sermon, it is too frothy ; cant't bear a written sermon, too prosing: nobody todav but our minister, can't always ligten lQ tl)e same Drcacher. don't like strangers; can't keep awake when at church; fell asleep last time when I was there ; shan't risk it again ; mean to inquire of sensible person about the propriety of go ing to such a public "place as church ; will publish the result. OCT Josh Billin: ITS the philanthropist begs -0-5 leave to state: That onions are -oo(7 for bad breath. Tfaat Rockawa clams are a good opinion for enny young man. The ships are all k.illed she bekos they always keep a man on the lookout. That "turning water into wine" iz a mir akle, in these days worth at least three hun dred per cent The boys ain't apt to tnrn out well who don't get up till 10 o'clock in the morning. That if a man iz going to make a bizness of sarving the Lard, he likes tu see him du it when he measures up onions az well az when he hollers glory hallyluyer. That wisdom ain't nothing more than edi kated cunning. 07" In Icetown, opposite St Louis, which was built on the frozen river during the "cold spell," a bar-keeper built a fire in his tent and sat before it on a three-legged! stool warming his shins, when the fire thawed a hole in the ice and the man fell irJyou musfc stay with your son until he !s uiiu lias nut yui luiuiacu. mo uebi&uiul, . .; , , v lit . veruam xixbii uuy, wab -,uu wiiere tne pro- l! r : V. 1 ' B , into the cellar. (XT Bill T- once kept a saloon m Owego and was remarkable for wit One cold winter gentleman entered 1,,-c cni ,1 nn,i fi,- ;,i i. eveninsr a iiji- i.. t-i IMI I rvn mi n t him in c.lnnf i c?frn lcnmo nt and finally said : -Look here, danger, I have a pair of white linen pants that I'll lonM von Vml. T can't mvn v iviiu T v, D J ade to-day." jgTA female child, borne some ten days since, near Terre Haute, Indiana, has neither arms nor legs, but is stout acd healthy, aud has every prospect of living The Soldier's Friend. In the U. S. Sanitary Commission, our EOldierS soldiers have a friend, for whom our co- pious .Angio-oaxon can una no wora it rlncnvrnf Inn en ffln! y ! tt efnnnp Tm cn nn ,..,., . aescrinti OUUu.u.UUjr Uv, u der, and far-reaching; but perhaps a smv pie story, taken from the Sanitary Com- - mission Bulletin, will speak more clearly, and better to the heart, than pages of dry records. "Away up in the fourth story of Hos of Pl No. 3, at Washington, and in a far o corner or tne wara, was seen one aay, an a - . . - J . r I 1 InltF oif-rnir n flirt oitln nt n imrita Iom , reduccd fa f dcafch , , J i,J, nj.i i. coud on fc something that tasted lilce i10mej SOme good tea tor instance, which sl,e could make herself, and which would uu ueiier tuau lh.il ui mu uuspiuu, auu thought it might save her son's life Of course it was sent to her, and on a sub- ,o ciiyit1a Vi nor fir rv i 7 nm to in Ironm n rr came out in a conhding, innocent way more eviuenuy, ueeau.e il y.a, uppei mos from time to time;"1 u P1 U1 i . Ireeftivinfsvmnathv. that her means were I : : . f . ... , . . about exhausted. M didu t think that it would take so much money ; it is so much farther away from home than I had thought and board is so very high, that I have hardly euough left to take me back ; and by another week I will have to leave him. I have been around to the stores to buy . isome little things that he would eat, ior nc can c eat, tins strong iooa -but the prices are so hiirh that I am afraid, that if 1 and if he doesn't get some thing differeut to eat, that maybe,' and maybe,' ant the tears trickled down her cheeks. 'he won't be so well.' "Her listener thought that difficulty might be overcome, and if she would put on her bonnet, they would go to a store where articles were cheap. Accordingly they arrived in front of the large three story building which Government has as signed to the Commission, and the old la dy was soon running her eyes over the long rows of boxes, bales, and barrels that stretched for a hundred feet down the room, but was most fascinated by the bot tles and cans on the shelves, lie order ed a supply of sugar, tea, soft crackers, and canned fruit, then chicken and oys ters then jelly and wine, brandy, milk, and under clothing, till the basket was full. As the earlier articles nestled un der its lide, her face was glowing with satisfaction ; but as the later lots arrived, she would draw him aside to whisper it was too much, "really she had'nt enough money'; and when the more expensive i tems came from the shelves, the shadow of earnestness which globmed her counte nance grew into one of perplexity, her soul vibrating between motherly yearning for the lad on his bed and the scant purse in her pocket, till, slowly, and with great reluctance, she began to return the cost liest. "Iladn'tyou better ask the price?" said her guide. "How much is it V "Nothing," replied the store-keeper. "Sir !" queried she, in the utmost amazement, nothiny for all this ?" "My good woman," asked the guide, "have you a Soldiers' Aid Society in your neighborhood ?" Yes, they had ; she belonged to it her self." " 'Well, what do you suppose becomes of the garments you make, and the fruit you put up?' "She hadn't thought, she supposed they went to the army, but was evi dently bothered to know what connec- 'tion there could be between their Aid Society and that basket. " 'These garments that you see came from your society, or other societies just like your; so did these boxes and barrels; that milk came from New York ; those fruits from Boston ; that wine was likely purchased with gold from California; and it is all tor sick soldiers, your son as nmcii as any one else, 'llns is the united; ouuus auuiuuy uuiuuiisaiuu muicuuiuo , . you must come here whenever you wish,! call for everything you want; and land a:.. , 1111 l 1 glvinS outi you shall have more, which whcn you gefc backj yfJU can refirnd for; tue 01 ?,ier mothers ana sons; wnen; you are ready to go 1 will put lnm in a berth where he can lie down, and you shall save his lile yet. i ''She did, God bless her innocent, motherly heart ! when nothing but motherly care could have achieved it; and when last seen, on a dismal, drizzly ' ' . the radf 'nce Jj h milki , f tea on tho stoye ofa c!,booso m for t'he con. TTinrninnr wno wir.ii iir r:ir nf!iinin(r fiiii, VUirakUUU V HKJ WUO OUUillJ OUUttViU. " II ix J ,ww , "&v - in the caboose berth, waiting the final wins le of the locomotive that would speed them both homeward. fi-It is estimated tliat the cost per man of the army is nearly ifnotuitc FiUU per annum, A Dinner Speech by Proxy. Last winter a capital dinner was given by Mr. Stoncham, in Fourteenth street, New Tork geect . , f friend or . , ,. , . including some ot the pleasantest char acters in town. All went merrily as a dozen of marriage bells, and when the health of Mr. Stoneham was given, and a speech invoked, he said and what was indeed very true that he never made a speech in his life, and it was too late for him to begin. But he would call upon his friend, Mr. Wagjaw, who was sitting on his right, to "express his feelings, in stead of attempting to do it himself. Mr. Wagjaw rose, and regretted that some one else had not been called on to3do justice to Mr. Stoneham's senti ments ; but having been commanded to speak in behalf of their noble host, he would thank the gentlemen for the honor of their company around his social board, the pleasurn he had enjoyed in their flow of soul; and he would beg that they would give him the additional happiness of dining with him a week from that day. A sudden start pi Mr. Stoneham told how unexpected was this climax to the speech of his mouthpiece ; but the un bounded applause with which it was re ceived, and the richness of its humor, si lenced all objections, and he made the best of it, by repeating his banquet on the following Thursday. It was another good season, A Conscientious Minister. There is a story of a traveling preach- ! er, whose opinions in regard to horse flesh were . ag rcady and orthodox as were the vievs of scrintural doctrine with i- i . i i i t winch lie enlightened nis oacicwooas au- i ,1: .u " j . i,.. uiuuuus, wuu uiilju atyjijjuu uo cut; nuuaw; of a brother of the same faith, who had reared a beautiful colt. Between the morning and afternoon services on Sun day, the two ministers visited the barn of the resident preacher, where the latter introduced his promising colt to the trav eling brother. The guest was so much delighted at the fine points of the animal that he could not restrain himself, and he immediately blurted out the question, "Suppose it was not the Sabbath, Broth er , how would you trade?'.' Only A Farmer. A debate occurred in thc Maine Legis lature on the question ofgrauting a town ship of land to the Maine Wesleyan Sem inary at Kent's Hill, in course of which a clergyman made a speech and illustra ted the beneflts of the institution by quo ting the history of a young man who, through them became a preacher, where as, without the advantages of tha Semina ry he. would have remained only a farmer. "Only a Farmer !"said Mr Small, of Lyndon, another member of the House; "I am a farmer, and not ashamed to be one, and I am now asked to vote the means of elevating men so as to look down and sneer at me !" The bill did not pass. A Northern Stonewall Jackson. One morning last week, says the Brook lyn, New York Times, a young farmer from Ogdensburg, in this State, applied at the office of Capt. Maddox, No. 26 Grand street, for a place in the Union ranks. Thc attending surgeon gave a fa vorable opinion of his physique, and he was accepted. When asked to sign his name, he wrote in very legible characters, "Stonewall Jackson." The commis sioner asked him if that was really his name. "Everybody asks me that ques tion," said the volunteer . "it rises my blood. It is my name, and I mean to let the llebels know there is a Stonewall Jackson North. Mormonism, It would seem that the lately reported schism among the Mormons is makmg headway. We find thc following in thc Cincinnati Gazette of Friday : Thc copy right of a book was taken out the other day, in the United States District Court having the following title : " A Book of Doctrine and Conveuants of the Church of Christ of Later Day Saints, carefully selected from the Bevelations of God, as given in the order of their dates." It is, j ncrhaps, known to most readers that there ; is a lornnuaoie scuisui . ! 11 among these "Saints," the secessionists declaring a- fvmtiof iiAhrirnmr firm PAnfnnfllHP d them- ith wil'e at least one at a time An orf,arjizfltion based on this idea hag bcen in progrcss of completion in this cj. for SQmc time pasfc undor the leader- q j h Smith Iloers wbo iu conju Jr. and Israel L. onjunction with others, T1 nfc rondezvou8 is in , vie;nitv 0f Chicairo. but they have i i on nnn oo i,i ;n ir . . fc, inteml t0 aettle when the . i i -i i ., c:tv for tilc habitation 0- tho faithful 11 Ul. W w w j i- A Good One. have' published the book above referred ,.ni,c nw full Tbnv arc then covered , ivupatncK, with tne mam Dotty, was to 4-n 'Vhnir civ flmf. rhp.v bnvr missionaries in l r thn nil, whichr. attack the citv bv the Brooke turnnikef , ""-j -"j over wiiii uiuj , tu nuiijT x.iw - j - , ) . . ! r,rnrnfino. in lirifrlmm onns dominions, ic .i.v. uinA ,r,iri rM-r.Trnt. thn comonti- simultaneously, if nossible. with the oth- --JJ O ' 11 UU1U1UUU, 1IUUIU . f 1 i 1 t who are very successful iu making con- t;ong re js then communicated to the : er movement. While paSs,S . down street tho ether day, we saw two gentlemen somewhat the for havine: been iu conversation , upt.jn Whisky " Just as we ap- fnbr some unknown USG: nnmninn frnr TTis p.nmnanion TllUliLiUU. fuu f;u"vii j iisted him to rise, and commenced rub- tl e dirt from his coat. Rubbing him down, eh?" exclaimed we. "xNo .exactly; omy iuiu-j u uiui"u - i . i i . Copperheads and Ignorance. If "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise thd Common School lleporfc of Pennsylvania poinls out some peculiar ly happy places. In A. D. 1863, there still remained twenty-jive districts, where thcy refused to provide for the education of every child by uniform taxation in other words they are returned as "uon- accepting school districts." Nine of these are scattered here and there in dif ferent counties, where, probably, there are accidental circumstances, more than- root ed hostility that keep down common schools. Sat there are three counties wherein the) opposition seems to be some what general. We will give their names and the votes at the last election. In SckiSfUcffl are four non-accepting districts West Brunswick, Upper Ma hantongo, North (IndVand Wcst-Penn. North appears not to be an election dis trict The three others voted as follows : For Woodward, 639 Curtin, 196 443 maj. for Wooodward a fair share of his 2041 maj. iu fijtg-nine districts ! In Northumberland county are seven non-accepting Jackson, Jordon, Cam - eron, XV nam nrrf nn m, Upper, Lower aud j Little Mahanoy which together voted thus : For Woodward, 710 Curtin, 392 324 maj. for Woodward about half his maj. of 708 votes in twenty-five districts ! Iu Wyoming county are five non-accep- tins: Falls, Tunkhannock Twp., Wash- ington, Ovcrheld, and Lemon which gave For Woodward, 470 Curtin, 254 216 maj. for Woodward : but Woodward had only 39 maj. in the Mailt rllchr?fte nf fbn tflinlo nnnnrv ! SUMMARY. 15 non-accept.dists. gave Woodward, 1825 " " Curtin, 542 Majority for Woodward, 983 Over two to one for Woodward in these In nnn-nonCnpknl rliWinfa nf tbr. State, while the whole State gave Curtin over 15,000 majority I Union County Star. A Singular Confession. In November, 1S62, a man named John Strawbridge, was found lying iu a dying condition, on the banks of the Sus-1 ouehanna river, near liarnsbunr. tie had evidently been beaten and robbed, but he was so badly injured that he nev- rr snnl-r nftnT heinp- found, and the mur- derer eseaned. An old ladv named Paul r . --0 - . recently called upon District Attorney Herr, stating that a young woman who recently died in Harnsburg, confessed, j upon her death bed, that she, in compa-, ny with a lover, was promenadiug on the river bank on the evening preceding the ny with a lover, was promenadiug on the day on which Strawbridge was found ; . that her lover knocked Strawbridge down and robbed him, supposing that he was over the railroad, on his way to his army dead; that she was forced to swear that but about an hour before our men reached she would never reveal the murder, but : it. her conscience compelled her to state the j As they passed through the country in facts before departing this life. The al- . the most good natured way, questioning leged murderer is in the army, and if f as to whether any Yauks had been seen guilty it is hoped that some means may j there lately, thc inhabitants could not be bc found by which he may be made to j licve that it was Lincoln's cavalry who cflfor fbn nonnlt.v of his crime. The were paying them a visit. The negroes w 14 -t v v v tt j - - case is a singular one uuuuguuub, auu has created considerable sensation in the i . . j.1 i i. city of narrisbur rrr Iron and Steel. Steel is iron passed through a process called cemcntatiou, the object of which is to impregnate it with carbon. Carbon exists more abundantly in charcoal than anv other fusible substance, and the smoke that crocs up from charcoal forge iOW, if you smoke,vand is earn on m a nuiu btuiu. put a piece of iron into it for several days, ; and heat the iron at the same time, it . can manage to confine that wjjj become steel. Heating the iron nc ;tQ nnrf,s sn that the smoke or car-; bon can enter into it. The furnace for this purpose is a coui-. cal buildin of brick, in the middle of. which are two troughs of brick or stone, ! which hold about four tons of bar iron, , At the bottom is a large grate for the fire. A layer of Charcoal IS put at the bottom of the troughs, then a layer of nately, until the bar jron and so on, alternately , nnfl i wIth whioh the furnace is nn(i -nntinucd until the conversion generally happens in about eight or ten days. This is known by the blisters on the bars which the workmen occasionally draw out in order to determine. AY hen thc conversion is completed the fire is then le gc , on am, no Dars r n,a.n n the furuaeo about eight dajs mo.e to cool. The bars ol steel are tnen kikch ouw, and either sold as blister steel or drawn to a convenient size, when it is called ti- tlnrf steel. Germau steel is made out of .... . n t it I 1 X tied steel. , . this blistered rtcel, by breaking the bars into short pieces, and welding them to- gcther, drawing mem uonu w u piui TELEGRAPHIC NEWS, TM GRA&'D CAVALRY HAID. RIDE TO KICHMOND. The fiebd tmi?A Shelled Five Hundred Prisoners Captur ed. DESTRUCTION OF EEBEL PEItTY, ,o i - Treachery of a Hegro Guide. O ur Troops Misled. The Xeqro Huncis A Full Southern Account. Official Despatch from Gen. Kiljmtrich. Tm portant from North Carolina. Front Sherman's Army. Later from the Army of the Potomac. . Full Particulars of Kilnatrick's "Raid", Washington, March 5, 1864. The special correspondent of the New York Tribune reports the following: 1 . . jLim uiuuu iciiKuusOi raiu oi uen. jvnnat- as ended with failure as to tha ! rVu !bim ""u9a 10 ?e aceomp ished,- I but with success in cdEtmcr the railroads between Lee's army and Bichmond, the-' destruction of much property, stores, &c., and the actual shelling of Ilichmond. Starting on Sunday, at 3 A. M., from' camp, with live thousand cavalry, picked from his own and Generals Merritt's and Gregg's divisions, he proceeded to the Kapidan crossing, at Ely's Ford. From thence the column marched to Spoftsyl vania Court House, which place he reached without encountering any of the encmy. From Spottsyhrania Court House ta' the end of his dariDg iourney he was jr.. ! ll more or less harrassed by the rebels, and lently xound that nis lines had fallen in very unpleasant places. At the place last named the command was- divided in to different parties, who were to scour' ! the country as they proceeded toward a- common centre, Itiehmonu. I LverJ road wos t0 bc carefully scouted,. tbafc, 110 concealed foes even m small numbers, should be left behind, so as to- concentrate and worry him. i J-he expedition was a warlike tour, geese, hogs, corn, oats, hay, horses, uiulesy negroes, graybacks, whether made of flesh or paper, that cotdd be' had, were ob tained. They carried with them but two or three feeds each for their horses, and about as many days' rations for the meu, i"e uenerai oeing ueiermmeu tuao ior once the celebrated order, "subsist on the ( enemy's country," should be faithfully executed. i On Monday they reached the V lrginia' ! Central Bailread, and tore up the track ' i" four places, destroying whatever prop-- erty woum renaer tne roaa useiui. Frederick's Hall, on the Central liail- road, they caysy upon a bourt Alartial peacefully holdMg its sessions, and cap- road, they cary upon a Court Martial oiumir us 4. lonel, five tured a Colonel, five Captains and two i Lieutenants. Geueral Lee had passed generally were delighted, and many, in l.i r , i - l fir m. v the presence oi tneir owners, assea co do allowed to go along. A large number were thus gathered together, who cheer fully trudged along with thc cavalry, de lighted at gaining their freedom. Occasionally Uuiou families were en countered, who gave valuable mforma ; tion, and freely offered what they had to eat aud drink. Leaving hrcdencks Hall on Monday, they pushed on to Bich mond, a detachment of five hundred, un- ! der Coloucl Dahlgren, keeping well to the i right, in the direction of Louisa Court House, while General Kilpatrick, withs the maiu body, moved upon Ashland,- both parties scouring the country tho- roughly, aud doing all.possioie damage. un.u w- two main parties began concentrating." Colonel Dahlgren was to move dowa to the right of Ilichmond, destroying as much of the James River Cafial as possi- blc; then, taking the river road, was tox cross uppuauu aim uuiw uiu uiLy irum we south side, and attempt the delivereuccr of the prisoners, of Belle Isle. General It was honed to reach the city on lon day night, or early on the following morning, when a partial if not a total sur prise could be effected. Two of those fa talities which more than once during this war-have snatched success from the vevy grasp of those who, by their valor aud daring, have richly deserved the victor's crown, interposed prevent the consum mation of one of tne best conceivctl and mos brilliant plans of the whole war. Colonel Dahlgren had taken a negro to pilot him to Bichmond. The detachment' had rapidly moved aeross thc country de stroying barns, forage, aud, every thing which could possibly b& c service to the enemy Pushiug on so as,5 yHKhh mond as soon jus possible, ColdneK Dahl gren discovered that his uosjro guide had 1 1 i 1 -It. T.l ' t - IT f :
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