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Scuotcir to Jpolitics, literature, Slgritnlture, Science, JBomlitij, citta Oenei'al Intelligence.
VOL. 23.
STROUDSBURGr, MONROE CQJJNTY, PA. JULY 28; 1864;
All the Amendments.
Several of our exchange havo argued
ably and repeatedly in favor of voting
"For the Amendment." They allude to
Published by Theodore Schoch.
TERMS Two dollars a yeaHn advance and If not
paid before the end of the ytfai, two dollars and twen
ty five cts. will Tic charged.
No.paper discontinued untiuill arrearages. are paid,
,8 ?oV?n or (ten hnes) or ! Prosed amendment to our State
Je$s, one or three insertions, si oo. Each additional! Constitution, coufirming the right of the
h.ortion, 25 cents. Longer ones in proportion. o u l . t - .j - j
11 Soldiers to vote. But there is much dan
ger from using that expression. There
are three Amendments, to be voted upon
JOB PR'IffTING,
OF ALL KINDS;
Execnted in the highest style of.thc Art, and on the
most rcasorrtble terms.
A Soldier on Grant's Campaign.
The Middleton (N. Y.) Press publishes
the following extract of a letter from a pri
vate in an Orange county, regiment in
Grant's arm.
We arc enjoying ourselves in the usual
way. vc nave ngnt lor oreajuast, dinner
and supper, twice between meals, and three
times during the night in short, it has be
come a second nature. It is said a man
who will leave his meals to fight, loves it.
In that case the Yankees must love to fight,
separately. A vote "lor the Amend
ment" is uo vote at all it will be cast
out, and not couuted. If you wisli to aid
Soldiers in the use of the elective fran
chise, vote the ticket headed "First A-
mendmeut," and containing, within it,
the words "For the Amendments." Nor
will voting "For the Amendments" in a
lump, answer each amendment must be
voted for or against, by itself, to have the
vote cast or auy avail.
The First Amendment is for the Sol
diers, to be voted on accordingly.
The Second and Third Amendments
are designed to aid in proper Legislation,
to prevent ambiguity and coufusion, and
check the frauds "and trickerv practiced
hereafter be conferred upon the courts of
this commonwealth."
This, also, is obvioilsly just, arid polit
ic. Very much of the time of tbe Legis
lature is occumed unon cornorations i
which could and should be uniform in 1
their character, and the propriety of I The writer
granting which could be much better and
more fairly determined by the Court (or
Judges and Grand Jurors) of their re
spective counties, than by 133 men who
are strangers to most of the corporators
and to the locality interested. In Har
risburg, practically, the Senator and As
semblyman of the respective counties do
r all its legislation, as no other likes to op-
A Rebel view of the 8itiia:ion
. A long article in The Georgia, Consti
tutionalist of ,the,29jih ult., argues that
the South should not imitate the North
in lies and boasts, but confess the truth,
and not make successes out of disasters.
dodge' of
exposes the Rebel
making their p'eople believe that
ston is driving Sherman
. l . . an
wants mm in tne ioiiowing
The magnificent army of Sherman has,
without loss and without battle, forced
John-
just where he
language
lor it is an everyday occurrence to jump up by souie meu in aud out of the Legisla
from i 'coffee and hard tack, and give the rcbs ture. They are therefore very import
ant.
a round or two. .
Our regiment has been under fife twenty
three days in succession, fighting more or
less ever da. It is whittled down pretty
close. We hive about eightv men
iT linifi ninn m --- - . . ma... . I
m Mixvu iiiiib iiitii in vsuiu jiaii vj, ijuw in
the front, fighting like heroes. We have
lost niousaiids oi men, out more men come i
in dai'y than we lose. I saw two Wisconsin
The Second Amendment is as follows:
"No bill shall be passed by the Legis
lature containing more than one subject,
left w'llc'i snail oc clearly cxpressea vi tne ti
tle, except appropriation bills.
The exception is the only objectionable
! feature in this section for money is
sometimes voted, in an appropriation bill,
itself.
vcli'nli rnnlr? nnf, rwss in n liill hv
ii rri . i -l r J
regnncni yu-iuruny, in. x amy sevemn ana We beicvc the Executive, the Judiciary,
Thirty eighth, enlisted for one hundred days Legislative, and other Departments.
?o do garrison duty. Grant has brought them
to do garrison duty before Richmond.
Grant makes the band box soldiers fight
White collars and patent leather boots are
"played out," He fights his men for what
they are worth. He has the full confidence
of the men ; all orders, charges marches, and
all, are cheerfully obeyed.
Our troops can see the spires in Richmond,
the glorious fruits of thirty-four day's hand
lighting, and we are bound to take it, take
a look all around, and go through Dixie on
a double quick. January 1, 1865, will see the
flag floating all over the United States, its
thirty-four stars and thirteen stripes frowning
on .secession as it slumbers in the grave.
Sharp Speech.
A 3Ir. J. 11. Woodard a 3roung man of
about twenty, had made himself partic
ularly disagreeable to some persons by
his expressions of loyalty, and, out of de
nson, was called upon at a public meet
mg to make a speech, lie responded to
their calls in substance as follows:
Gentlk.men: The great cry that 1
have heard to-day, has been peace, peace.
I tell you that there is no man in the na
tion who desires peace more than I do, a
permanent, lasting peace. Cheers.
And, gentlemen, 1 will tell you how we
will get it. Fight this war out. Take
every negro in the rebel States and ex
terminate every d d rebel, no matter
where you find him. Hisses. Gentle
men you need not try to hiss me down,
for 1 am an old soldier and have faced
almost as mean a looking crowd as is now
before me. I mean the thieves aud bush
wackers of Tennessee. I know I was
called upon to make a speech out ol de
rision, and I iutend to tell you what I
think of you. When God said he would
nave Sodom if one righteous man could
be found there. I have no doubt he
would have done it, and to-day, it you all
stood upon the brink of hell, and he were
to say that he would save you if one loy
hl man could be found among you, I have
not the least doubt but there would be a
great many strange faces iu hell for sup
per. I will tell 3ou something more before
I leave you. The Baltimore Convention
has nominated Abaham Lincoln and An
drew Johnson, and we intend to elect
them aud end this war too. We will
subjugate every infernal rebel in the
countr', no matter whether North or
South, for when armed rebels on our
front are whipped, these old soldiers who
have been through the Southern Confed
eracy will come home and walk right
through your infernal Copperhead party,
just like Abe run his rail through the
rotten canker of the old Democratic par-
Gentlemen, when you wish, to hear
from me again, you have only to call up
on me. 1 am alwa's at home. -
William Woodard is a resident of Ohio,
and has been adjutant of an Indiana regiment.
the Charity donations, and all Laws,
should be passed iu separate bills, at dif
ferent times, so that each one should
stand upon its own merits, and not, as
now, be smuggled in, and allowed to pass
upon the spur of necessity, by log roll
ing, at the end of the session.
To show the deceptions practiced by
bills relating to different subjeets, and
under unsatisfactory titles, we notice a
few on our last Senate file :
"An act to authorize the sale of certain
real estate." Where? and whose? are
reasonable inquiries, not answered by this
title, aud for all public benefit the bill
might as well have had no title. If the
act was proper, why was not the title full
and fair?
in act to chaugc the venue in a certain
case. Whose case: what country:
Very many, having suits in Courts, would
be alarmed by such a nugatory yet an
noying heading a bill.
aersiana eacu case, Dy whom wrong can
be detected, and the responsibility thus
brought to the right persons. Petty in
corporations could be more cheaply, hon
estly and satisfactorily obtained, under
general than under special acts Vote,
then, on "Third Amendment For the
Amendment."
It has been alleged that the 2d and 3d
Amendments are designed to hill the 1st:
but the hearts of men we can not j-udge
we think the Amendments are all right,
whatever the motives of the proposers.
Now, voting for each of the three
Amendments would be more likely to in
sure the success of all while omitting
one or two, or voting against them, would
complicate voting, and might endanger
the first. Then, print all your Tickets
and
Vote for all the Amendments !
And get some extra votes for the ab
sent 100 day's men.
THE LATERAID.
Capture of 4 Ficccs of Artllery and 200
Frisoncrs Rebel Loss 500 hilled and
icounded Our loss 215 hilled and
wounded.
Washington, July 21, 1864
The following has been received at this
bureau :
Headquarters near Winchester, )
Via Harper's Ferry, July 20, 1864. j
Gen. Averill moved out from Martins
burg, on the Winchester Pike, on the 19th
with a force of infantry, cavalry, and ar
tiller, aud encountered a cavalry force
under Jackson at Darksville, which he
drove under cover of the intrenchments
i at Winchester, where they were re-en
j forced by 5,000 infantry under Breckin
ridge
rim i ii t
- "An act for the promotion of anatomi- j "age; inis morning, Aven I manoeuvred
- cal science," was to give certain bodies llIS force so as to compel them to come
and without battle,
back one of our best armies, under a fa-
i vpritc general, and if he only had intend
ed a raid, the destruction of the vast agri
cultural interest of the sranarv of our
pose whatever they may ask of ulocal" State is a loss which we are ill-prepared
business. This section would transfer it L to endure, and totallv unnrenared trfrc.
to other, better informed authorities to ' trieve. The evil is, first, the withdrawal
men who, in the nature of things, but uu- from market of the essential food : second,
the increase of population caused by refu
gees, which makes an increased demand
on the producing capacity of the State
third, the increased prices which tend to
-depreciate the currency, which cannot
bear another one-third repudiation.
Then if it be more than a raid, and
Sherman holds his front by fortifications
and his rear by guards, it is an actual loss
of empire. Therefore, with harm actual
ly done, and with Atlanta and the great
railroad interests involved in the fate of
a battle that Sherman may or may not
risk, is it wise to tell our people that
the invasion of pur State is but a "stupid
blunder" of the enemy ?
Just eight hours before the battle of
Baker's Creek, a general high in command
told a lady in our hearing that the cross
ing of the Mississippi by Gen. Grant
placed him at our mercy, aud that the on
ly thing to fear was that he would take
the alarm and escape to his gunboats be
fore we could make the attack. Twenty
four hours later our broken columns were
hurrying along the same road in retreat,
and the lady who had believed the gener
al could not save even her wearing appa
rel. That general was not named Peni
berton. Instance after instance of this kind
have we had during the war, and yet grave
papers, with able editors, talk of the cer
tain tity that Sherman can never take his
army back to Chattanooga, and congratu
late the country that he has marched into
a trap. We once had some experience
with an old rat that sprung the steel trap
from the underside, and always took off
the bait and never got 'caught. The Yan
kees haVe a peculiar faculty of marching
into traps and staying there. Our only
commentary upon such writing is that,
i
are so expensive as to pernaps awaxen
smiles in the North and in Europe when
wcboast of them
the-movement cn Staunton, and Loxing-'moneyj and I had taken up on my way
ton, to be rendered unavailable for pro.vis-lNorthniy trunk, which I alwayslleave at
ions. Grant is to throw his array into some headquarters, and never take into
fortifications across the railroads from the field, and in it was all my new cloth
Richmond south, and so cut off our arraying, all my boots, Jewelry, &. They
supplies. Thus the starvation of a siege! robbed me down to my last five cent piece,
will boas effectually secured as-if an army and even took my railroad checks .with
could be found large enough to surround the remark, 'Well,. I guess you m'ig'Kt ii
the legions of Lee, as Grant did Peniber-J well pass iu your, checks One fellow
ton; provided, of course, that the Dan-, came riding up with a nice new pair oi
ville-road shares the fate that the Weldbn riding boots I did own, and after con-rat:
road probably -will. julating me on his prize, which he saict
If Gen. Lee chooses to stop the same was worth over 8800 in Richmond,ihe
by a fight, he has to put his finger on slip-; had the cool assurance to ask me if I had
pery ijrant, and stop his fiea-like flank- not sl pair of spurs that would fit them:
"The ladies on the train, most of whom
were irom Baltimore, were the most offeai
have said so at once.
I attack him.
In the House, "An act to lay a bounty 1 Jhe ht lasted three hours and result-
tax," referred to oue township only but . 1,1 ""i" UIUS i,UULUU uuli "I1VU UB
errr,c n.rht nnrnr fV, Kfnto hind their intrenchments with a loss of
Why not say what township it concerned,' ' one General (Kelly) killed, and four pie-
for the information of that township, and css 01 ?"-cry.an? prisoners captur
to set all the rest of the State at ease?
A "further supplement to an act relat
ing to Sheriffs' does not refer to Sheriffs
at all, but gives the Commissioners of
Carbon county power to pay 2,25 per
week for boarding prisoners, past as well
as prospective. Instead of "relating to
sheriffs," the bill should have read "An
act to confer a special favor upon one
ed, and 500 killed and wounded. Our
loss will not exceed 215 killed and woun
ded. We have none missing or captured.!
Ihe invading force have not yet escaped
with all their Maryland plunder.
Win-
Defeat of Gen. Early's. Forces at
Chester.
Washington, July 21, 1864.
Sheriff bv raising the usual compensation i The Star says that a dispatch from Gen.
for boarding-prisouers, iu his case only." i Hunter reports that the following has just
oecn received irom uen. Avenu :
"Near Winchester, July 20. Breck
inridge divided his force at Berryville
last night, sending Early to Winchester
and taking the other division toward Millwood.
"I attacked and defeated Early to-day
in front of Winchester, killing and woun
ding 300 of his men, capturing four can-
"An act to repeal Sec. 4, of an act re
lative to a certain election districts, ap
proved April 27, 1855." Why not say
what the bill was for, iustead of such
rouudabout verbiage to hinder legislators
from knowing what it was for who
wants to hunt up old law books uselessly?
or who has time in the usual hurry of
legislation ? j
ings; and having found him and stopped
him for a fight will have to chargo the
I hills Grant will occupy, aud the trenches -sive of all the band. They kissed Major'
Grant will dig. If President Davis con- Gilmor, embraced the flag, took all4 the
ciuaes to swap capitals, and giving Grant buttons off his coat, pointed out the vari
Richmond, starts off ahead of him for ; ous officers' baggage, encouraged them irf
Washington, we will have the army to ! plundering, and assisted in dividing the
subsist in the desert waste between the . coutents. T
a lot of my private letters, aud a daguer
reotype, which she would not give up. un
til she had been with me to major Gil
mor, to prove they were not official docu
ments. It is rather a hard blow upon'
me, after all I have been through the
past year. First, to have my horses burn
ed up then have all the heavy expense
entailed by my sickness; and now to lose
all, and the little money I had saved. I
am perfectly willing to serve Uncle Sam-
1 r ii 1-. . i i
uui, even ior tne actio ne gives us now,
and exposed as we arc in the army, to be-
two capitals, have to make time on foot
that will beat the transports on the Poto
mac and the Chesapeake, have the forti
fications of Washington to storm, and a
siege to stand there should he get inside.
We lose Richmond if we hold the Wel
don and Danville Railroads; we lose the
railroads if we save Richmond, or we at
tack Grant in his mighty trenches if we
try to save both. It is true that Gen.
Beauregard could still keep south of Grant
aud prevent raids into Carolina, but could
not keep mm from stopping the roads
south unless he has, enough men to attack
Grant in reserve, and place him between
two fires. We hope Grant thinks he has.
This is a game with no possible hinder
ance, perfectly plain to even unrailitary
comprehension as our own, and we respec
fully submit that there is no fun in it.
DON T CROW BEFORE "WE ARE OUT OF THE
WOODS.
The writer is aware, from personal
1 ""V T- ."i ,r n v a .r s m n 1
ODservation , that there is a
popularity and enthusiastic
devotion
ng plundered all the time by our money
grasping Northern friends, but it becomes
tough when exposed to two fires, front;
and rear.
"It was more abominable in my "case','
because, for tbe first time, my name, ad
dres3, and profession were on my trunk.
So largely and plainly were they put on;
they knew perfectly well whom they were
robbing. It is the first time in my expe
rience that a medical officer on either 'side
(or certainly where we have been the cap-
to Grant among his soldiers not equaled tors) hasTbeen f abomnably treated. I
by anything ever seen in that army be
tore not surpassed iu the army of Lee
and very much like the love of the Old
Guard of Napoleon. Therefore he can
flank and fight for some days yet before
they get tired ot it.
rnt n -i i
.inese are tacts, ana plain as they are
suppose I can do no less than exist thro
it all."
WHAT THE FACTS ARE ABOUT GRANT.
In like manner do we talk about Grant,
and amuse ourselves over a set of facts
which are far from
amusing.
W
e are
"An
against running
act relating to passenger rail
ways, repeals the Jaw
them on the Sabbath.
Another act favorable to public mor
als, as one would suppose by the, title,
had exactly to opposite meaning in the
bill, in our opinion.
There sre two bills reported, entitled
to waste- Waste of
relating
"An act
what?
"An act relating to Allegany county"
raises the salary of one officer to 4,500,
another to $3,000, &c.
"An act relating to a certain alley." -But
what about the alley? And is the
alley in Philadelphia, Reading, Pittsburg
Harrisburg, Centerville. Le'wisburg, Erie,
or where ?
There arc perhaps a dozen bills passed,
each year, headed "A further supplement
to the act incorporating the city of Phil
adelphia' on all imaginable subjects
raising salaries, legislating men out and
. , - if i ji . . , ! in offices, making certain offices compati-03-Aschool
marm m England has adopted We inouipatie witb otherS opening
a new ami novei muuu 01 puuieuiuuu n tuej d i streets, alleys, &c. SSo. lll),
boys disobey her rules she stands them on;jj. r ., embraces three or four different
their heads and pours cold water down their j subjects not one of which is indicated
trousers legs. by the bill, some of which may be right
and others wronir. but each of which, of
ft7-An linnnsf Dntitli mnn nn iiplno- asked course, deserves to be considered and de
uon, several hundred small arms, and a
bout 200 prisoners.
"Gen. Lilly is seriously wounded and
in our hands. Col. Board of the 58th
Virginia is killed.
"The cannon and prisoners have been
sent to Martinsburg.
"The enemy's loss in officers is heavy.
"Prisoners admit their force to have
been 6,000.
"The commands of Jackson and Inibo
den which were present, are not included
iu the mentioned strength."
l l ! i t n
how often he shaved replied -"Dree times W ojiiseu.
a veak day, but Sbon-tay, den I shafe every
day.
Now, is it not manifest that in' common
nonesty, and for the protection oi the
mass of the people in legislation, the ob
iect of bills should be fairly seen on their
0T-The clergyman who "catne to a head" face, and that every subject matter should
m his discourse, was mcifeh disannointcd to- Ktnnd or fall on its own merits ? No fair
find no brains in it-
man
it seems to us, should hesitate
to
the
Vote, oh "Second Amendment lor
Amendment.
The Third Amendmeut reads:
"No bills shall be passed by the Legis
lature granting any power or privileges in
AYtentibriTo vour6vn bulineWany case where the' authority to grant
and never mind other people's. " J 'jSirch powers or privileges has been or may
OCT" When' is a lover" justified in call ing j
his sweet heart honey 1 "When she is Bee-
loved.
Retreat of The Rebel Raiders'.
Washington, July 21, 1864.
Eighty-one Rebel prisoners have been
brought here from Sandy Hook, Mary
land, They state that they were in charge
of one of the plunder trains, and were o
vertaken near snicker's Gap by a portion
of the pursuing force under Gen. Crook.
A fight immediately followed, but the
train guard, finding it impossible to save
the train, destroyed it by fire and retrea
ted, leaving the teamsters and others at
the mercy of our forces.
. A letter received by an officer in Wash
ington from Sandy Hook, Md., states that
many stragglers from the retreating Reb
el forces come into that place daily and
surrender themselves.
The men are worn down by rapid mar
ching, and many of them are barefoot and
their clothe? are torn to tatters.
The Evening Star learusfrom a former
citizen of Madison County, Ya., who has
for some time been sojourning in Fairfax
County, that he Iras trustworthy informa
tion showing tljat the Rebel raiders have
met With so many mishaps in getting a
way with their plunder from Maryland
that what they have managed to Keep win
hardly pay them for their trouble. v
perfectly satisfied that the Commander of
the Armies of the United States might
have reached the result he now aims for
with but a small portion of the loss he
ias now sustained, and that too, with all
allowance for the peculiar Confederate ar
rithmetic which kills Yankees so fast on
paper ! Lieut.-Gen. Grant was greatly
mistaken in his idea that, having turned
he flank of Gen. Lee in crossing the Rap-
idan, there simply would be-a foot-race
for Richmond. But two things have
since been demonstrated, and both are serious.
First That the army of the Union is
so large and powerful that the usual mili
ary axiom, "flanking is more dangerous
o the flanker than the flanked," does not
apply.. The strategy of Grant, which
consists in simply withdrawing one wing
at a time behind the impregnable masses
of the center and other wiug, would be
fraught with peril were that centre and
remaining wing contracted enough to be
enveloped, or weak enough to be broken,
but is perfectly safe as it is.
Therefore, he is at liberty to play, tricks
in plain sight and without peril, simply
because ho is too bin to catch ! Conse
quently, in a succession of tricks, even
bv one of the only moderate ability of
Grant, there is danger that one not seen
or ioiled at exactly the right time may
catch us. Such a result would not bo de
struction to our army, for Lee also is too
big to hold, but it might do us harm.
A Brave Maryland Loyalist.
We have been permitted to copy tho'
following extract from a letter written by
Mr. J. A. Hamilton, of Sweat Air:"Mnrv-"
it is not iu good sense to talk of the trap land, to a relative of this city. It exem
that Sherman occupies, or of the bull- plifies very clearly the "chivalrous7' con
headed Grant butting his brains out a- duct of the rebels, as well as the hrav:
gainst the walls of Richmond. and determined spirit of the Union men
Vhen the supplies of Sherman are cut who were unfortunate enoufrh to fall into'
off, as we trust they will be, andtthe great their hands :
raider of .Mississippi broken in battle or Ou Mondav niirht. at two o'clock. T was
starved out, begins a disastrous retreat o- awakened by the galloping of horses and1
ver the country himself has devastated; the rattle of sabres, and was soon ordered
when Johnston thunders on his flying to come down, bv'a souad of Gillmor's
rear, and Forrest stops his flight; when cut-throats. There being no male person
the fords of the Tennessee are in peril, but myself about the house, there wasof
and Chattanooga again besieged : when course, nnthino- frt hn ilnne hnt nWir
Western Tennessee looks up in hope, and Upon stepping out among them. I
Johnson, the traitor, trembles in the for- called by name, and asked where my for
tifications of Nashville,then let us all flap Ses were. I replied, "There is one in the
our wings and crow, and not till then. field." I had sent all the rest to a secure:
When Grant changes base in the Mc- place in the woodsand should have done
Clellan style, Malvern Hill is again an al- So with this, but he would not stand tied.
tar of sacrifice, and our horses drink at and had to be left to his fate. "Get him!
the Potomac and pasture in Maryland, Up. Is it your sorrel horse, Priam ?"
then let us laugh at "bull-headed Grant," came next. "No." "Where is he?" "I
have sent him away, to avoid vour can-
turing him' "Now, d n you, we will
burn you out for this." They concluded
first to catch the other horse, which they
did. They next demanded mv blooded
and examine the embrasures around Rich
mond for the brains he left about loose.
OCT Why is the letter S like the
of war ? It turns words to swords.
GRANT CAN HAVE HIS OWN WAY.
The second danger is of the siege of
Richmond. Some of our cotemporanes
and the most of our corrcspoudents laugh
at this : and yet Grant has it in his pow
er to besiege the capital, or force an attack
on himself, or force an evacuation of Rich
mond. Not that he has his choice of
these three things, but can forco that
choice upon us.
Iu Grant's moving upon the soth of
Richmond and threatening James River
near the city, Gen. Lee has choice of two
evils. If he keeps ahead of Grant and
holds the Petersburg line inviolate, that
flanks necessarily gets between him aud
Richmond, and walks into the city at his
leisure. If Lee keeps between Richmond
and Grant, the latter of course gets be
tween him and the Southern States' com
munication, and cuts off the only source of
supply uovy leit, as the valley of Virginia
is in the hands of the enemy. If Lee
wants to have Petersburg and Richmond
both, he will havo toUttack Grant in one
of his craw-fish movenVeuts, and will have
to attack the. positions and intrenchments
which tho ' granll spade-aud-pick army
never exists an hour, without.1
TV mrr indnrmenfc the plan of the cara-
Misfortunes of an Army Surgeon.
An incident of the Rebel Raidr-The Se- korsc aga-Qj Swcarjng I should prodtrce
1 refusing, the officer called for.
matches. We were then on the'
following lettgrjrom a young doctor cap- 'ay from the stable to the house. I, .en-
fnvnrl nn tho Ho hmni-o tr-nn mvna cnniA aeaVOrCQ 10 QlSSUaUC inem irODl DUmmo-
LU.WU J LA illU JLUlli' U V W U-klWU -wf W I n
idea of his hardships, and of those females the house, and they finally ordered me -to
who have been allowed to act as spies and hand over three hundred dollars as aran-'
co-operate with the rebels in the Monu- som for the sorrel. Here' they goVmy
mental Citv. The writer is a Massachus- Hamilton blood up, and I positively re-
etts man, and relates what he saw with fused to produce the horse or pay the mo-
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his own eves and heard with his own ears, ney, ana torn them it Durnmg was their
ml I I .
and only too severely experienced in his
owu person
July 15,11864.
"Here I am in this place,. on my way
to Beaufort, as I wrote you I was ordered
to. And a pretty ou my way I have made
of it so far.
"I wrote you that I should probably
leave the next day, but I found that no
steamers were to leave there ; and, finally
as the privateer Florida appeared off the
coast, I was advised to come to this city
and get passage here. I began my jour
ney, but ill luck would have it. took the
train from Baltimore, which was s'topped
by the rebels. I was seized at once, be
ing in uniform, and after some little de
lay was started for Richmond, I man
aged, after goiug a short distance, to es
cape into the woods. I had not gon'e far
however, before I was again taken, and
brought back to my starting place.
"After several hours' detention4, I con
trived to be sent under guard to see Ma-
ior Gilmor, the leader of the band. Ua
my ropresentions, aud through" tno innu
endo of a lady on tho train, I Was at last
paroled, and allowed tastart for Baltimore.
I hid in thc: woods, and thcu went bad-
could save any of my effects
only alternative they might burn.
Suddenly they determined to hang me','
or make me yield. The officer called'Qt.
a private for a rope, which he brought r
but, finding me not to be scared, ahotlier
of the party suggested that burning the
house wouid hurt a d Yankee worse'
than hanging him. Meantime J had
called Emma and lier sister to take' the
children out of bed and to a place ofsafe
ty. The rebels th'6n deliberately fired;
the corner of the house three times, and
having demanded some blan'kets aifd
robbed me of 26, which I had on my
person, they left, swearing they would
return next night, ana charging me?-to"
have Priam there. Accordingly next
night, having sent the women and chil
dren away, 1 garrisoned the house, with
three more determined, well-armed men,
and waited for the rebels, but they did
not come. Poor Charley proved as"6b;
stinatc with the rebels as he was iu tlio'
hay-field when you were here, andafter
getting him as far as tho road, they "smit
k-;-.. u !' 1.1.- - i.
him through the
head.
Precious"' Self-knowledge
pi. 'Who mado you ? asked il lady tcaclfer"
of n" lubber ot a boy. Who had lately
jprecursei4 'paign is at last developed.. -.WcsternYir?.
. " : ;jiniayJth6i-Vlley aud- its-resourcesxis by
to see if I
I found the shell ot my trunlc and the re-1 joined her crass.
mains of my valise, buf't everything I owu-1 -I don't know,' said he.
fil in the world was gone. L have lost 'Hon t you Know: i,ou ought to'De
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every cent 1 had, every particle ot cloth- asharaeu oi yourseir. i uoy lourteeu
in"" I owned, my letters, pictures in fact, years old? Why, thorc is little Dicky
every valuable keepsake I had ; so that Fulton he is only three he can tell I
I was landed in this city with nothing dard say. Come here, Dicky: whoihada v -but
mv toothbrush aud five paper collars you ? ' vlf;"
I nicked off the ground. 31 v watch I 'God said the infant. v, " , ..
saved by throwing it into the bushes asXJ -There! said the teacher, triumphantly
was marched along, and in the evening! 'I knew ho would remember .iV - - ,-Y, f
wfin't hnnk and found it.
"L must .bonearly aithousand dollars
out of -pocket, for fchaoSover $250. hi
Well, he ouglitcr,' said th cst u pulJi
nt t
niadevvA
. -a - a,.
taint but a Jittie while.. smco'heiw
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