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■"The Tioga County Agita-Uis;:
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Attorneys & counsellors a ;Law,
will attend the 1 Courts of Tioga, Pi iter’and
J-IcKoan counties. [Wellsboro, Jan. I: 1883.]
.wxcKiarsoif HocsiV'
CORNING, N. Y. ,
Maj. A. FIELD,.; prietor.
GUESTS taken to and from the y t: _ pot free
of charge. ’ 1863.] .
PESSSILVAKIA HOtf^E,
CORNER OF MAIN STREET AND THE '.I rENUB,
Wellsboro. Pa
J. W. 81G0NT,.... i Pr ipriefcor.
THIS popular Hotel, having been re-fitted
and re-furnished throughout; is now -o K'm to the
public as a first-class house. [Jan. >- j 1563.]
D. HART’S HOTE,L
WELLSBORO, TIOGd CO. Fl : ?NA.
THE subscriber takes this methodinform
bis old friends that . - i,has re
sumed the conduct of ibe old “ Cryshfc* fountain.
Hotel," and will hereafter give It his Attention.
Thankful for past favors, be solieitsa renfT.al of Ibe
same. DA.VXD.-'LAKT.
IVcllsboro, Nov. 4, 1865.-ly*
IZAABI WAI/TOK HOTi SiE,
Gaines, Tioga County, Fa:
0, C. YERMtLYEA,
THIS is a new hotel located within’easy ac
cess of the beet fishing and-hanting |i;ounds in
Northern Pennsylvania. Iso pains will be-'ipered for
the accommodation of pleasure seekers and : fhe trav
elling public. {Jan. 1,i1863.]'
WELLSBOEO IIOTEIj. 1
B. B. HOLIDAJ,
THHE Proprietor having again taken possession of
j* the .vbove Hotel, will spare no insure
tho comfort of guests and the traveling pa At
tentive waiters always ready. Terms reasc fable,
uellsboro, Jan. 21,'1863.~tf. •'
fro WATCHES, CLOCKS i'AKD
P|l 'JEWELRY! -
Repaired at BULLAUD’S & CO’S. *3,* by the
subscriber, in the bostmauncr, apd at as ]op as
tho same work can be dope for, by any first S£te‘ prac
tical workman in the State. * ' •
Wellsboro, July 15, 1863. 1 A, R. j/ASCY.
A • FOLEV,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelrv, fee.,
REPAIRED, AT QLP PRICED:
POST OFFICE BUILJANjG,
NO. 5, UNION BLOCKS:
TVellsboro, liny 20, 1863.
E. It. BLACIf.,
BARBER'& HAIR-DREf^ER,
:SHOP OVER C. L. WILCOX'S ST* RE,
NO. 4, UNION BLOCK.
Wellsboro, Juge 21, 18(53. V£-
AGRIODIiTURAI. mPLEE;l|rfs.
I WOULD inform Dealers in Agrioulftir. J Imple
ments, that I bare Horso Rakes of the.-most ap
proved styles and superior quality. 'Hand
Rubes of a better quality than any manuli l itured in
this section, which I will furnish in any C4i JJtity de
sired, tofdealers in the of-Tiog;, Bradford,
and Lycoming. iD. sfl#oUD.
Mainiburg, Nov. 18, 1803—9mos. s * . • s*
CLAIM ,
TEE undersigned will promptly prosecute all
claims againsUthe Government for seT’ ices ren
dered in the Military or Na’val Service of United
States. Charges reasonable —will' advance he legal
necessary fees if desired. No charge if’ip,* success
ful in the application. D. McNApG I*KON.
/?-/crence»; Hon. Victor Case, I. W. i%' m|f, Ex
nminmg Surgeon at Knoxville, Pa.j 8.. ijlrang,
Clyraer, Pa., F. Strang, Hector, Pa., . pcebey
Harrison, Pa. . *! ; • *
Westfield, Jan. 11,186-1.-6mos* * «
TREISIM DEIMRTtMT,
Office of Comptroller of the rfency,
WASHINGTON, 2-# J 864. ,
XTTHEREAS, by satisfactory -evidence
to the undersigned, it has been msappear
that The First National Bank, of V. eljifatfrongh,
in the county of Tioga, and State of -Fore ?y|vania,
has been duly organized under and,aeci'-uliig-to the
requirements of thoactof Congress, entilleta***£n act
r .u provide a national currency,.secured ly n pleuge of
United States stocks, and to provide for circula
non and redemption thereof,” approved ?7d ruary 25,_
ISC3, find has complied with all the proiUie is'of said
net required to be complied with, before eoi ’inencing
the badness of banking: ' • *
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Been Etfc iirinoon.
Comptroller of the Currency, do hereby ‘it-,ii£y that
the First .National Bank, of Wcilshorvig)?,fcounty
of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania, is iirtJiotfzed to
commence the business of banking nude ~ljbe .act
aforesaid. " \ '
In testimony whereof, witness my band Huii £bal of
office, this twenty-first day of March, Ificd;.'. -i
{- » 1 HUGH McCUUXNCH,
1 - ( ’ Comptroller of the fh rrcncy.
MarSO G4~9t : f : •
BOARDMABf AND CM A t»S
CELEBRATED ; ;
PATENT IMPEOy- :b
INSULATED IRON KIM, AND ' fRAME
PIANO FORTES!
These pianos have the‘pure musical t( X- of the
together with the strength of the .Jrnfcjhnd arc
thu> far superior to all others. The -Overstrung
giving in connection with the Aal *rit Iron
Aim. full, round, powerful, and sweeT \* These
pianos will remain in tone a greater lertgt'j of time
•'.han any other pianos known, and are -w»M' nntfd for
•the time ofcfive years. <i ©is ’these
jdauos at the same prices as at'the want .rooms in
•Albany or New York, saving the buyer-tins i spcnec of
there to huy, and /will keep the
<,f'three years, without charges. Fot a general
'JCBcripti on of these pianos send for a cjiicular, con
talnlng prices, styles, I. G. IfpYT, *
Osceola, Tioga Cul’afcy Pa.
Ofceoia, Feb. 17, 1864. j
Ohio Mjowcr and l&t tVyer.
L’AIIMEItS in this vicinity can proco'rt this very
-1. aluable Machine by calling on •, ]
WRIGHT -BAILIE!^
bare a S ent y for Ihe sale of iL 'X. one of
\ e best machines in uso, everybody prsi f ig*it that
is ufced it, and it has taken the first pr3* i am' at all'
_te and County Agricultural Pairs in V Union,
t!j 1E > by all considered the best in ufo. T-t \ impossi
y° £U Pply the dejnand’for this celebrate .Machine,
tho&e that want a No. 1 Machinj;,, 6St in the
or ‘u, must call soon or they will all be ,-c , .
bci 1 » 110 fc tde draft; it does not w©sjci' upon the,
chi** 8 Doc^ > * 8 3 P erfect ‘ durable, mu' Jieap ma-
L ne ; sale by • * * „
BALDWIN, -'■ * *
i* l - BAILEY, Mansfield. , • I• ;
« KILHX & BAlLEY,'Wellsboroj Pa. . 1 -
Jwelltboro, May !8, 1864-tf ‘ -*
P°SCEKIRATED LYE, foraale at, T- !
v BOY’S BBl’a SIOBE.
THE AGITATOR.
VOL. X.
DRUG STORE#
Prince's Metallc Paint, , Pfizer & Co's .Chemicals,
Thaddeus David’s Inks, Fluid Extracts,
Concentrated Medicines, Rochester Perfumery and
Cincinnati "Wines and Flavoring Extracts,
Brandy, Paints and Oils,
Whitewash Lime, Petroleum’Oil,
Kerosene Lamps, - Drugs and Medicines,
Patent Medicines, Schoolßooks,
Stationery, ” Wall Paper, ‘ . „ "
Wyoming Mills Wrap- ' Window Glass, 7 A
1 ping Paper, - ■ Dye Colors,
'Furnished at Wholesale Prices by
W. D. TERBELL,
Corning, N*. Y.
NATIVE BRANDY & WINES,
MEDICAL & COMMUNION PURPOSES.
CATAWBA BBAftDT.
THIS BRANDY has been-analyzed by the Medi
ical Direbtdr of the Naval Labratory at Brooklyn,
and substituted for .French Brandy, for nse in'the
United States Navy; It is also used and recommend
ed by Dr, Satterlee, Medical Purveyor in New York
of U. St. Army, in the Hospital of bis Department,
DRY CATAWBA Wim
..IVoprietori
1 THIS WINE has all the properties of Dry Sherry
Wine,
SWEET CATAWBA WIWE.
.Proprietor.
THIS WINE for its mildness is adapted fop Inva
lids and for communion purposes.
Messrs, zimmermann a co., .of cincin
. nati and New York had formerly partnership
with N.«Longworth of ,■Cincinnati the wealthy Native
Wine producer, and therefore enables them to furnish
the best of American production, at moderate prices.
' Sold by W. D* TERBELL, at Wholesale and Re
tail, and by Druggists generally,
Corning, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1864-tf.
Farmer’s Catechism.
Question. What is the best kind of Wooden beam
Plow ? *
Answer, -ThoWIARD PLOW, *
Qnes. Wherein docs it excel all others ?
Ang. In ease of draft, in being-less liable to clog,
and in fact it excels in every particular.
Qacs. Where is this Plow tn be found ?
Ans. At the KNOXVILLE FOUNDRY, where
they are made,.and at various agencies around the
country. * (
* Ques. Are there any. other plows made at that
Foundry?
Ana. i Yes! Biles makes various kinds of.wooden
and iron beam Plows, both for flat land and sid&hill,
and ho keeps ahead of all other establishments by
getting the BEST PATTERNS invented, without
regard jo the COST.-
Ques. Are Plows all that Biles makes ?
Ana. By no means. He also makes HOUSE
HOBS,* a superb-article for Corn, Potatoes, Ac.
ROAD SCRAPERS that beat the world. Cast Cul
tivator Teeth of a very superior pattern. Shovel
Plow Castings for new laud, and Indeed almost every
thing that is ever made at a Foundry, from a Boot
Jack to a Steam Engine.
Ques. Would you then advise me to buy there?
Ans. Most certainly would I, for besides making
tb© best KIND of #reryj thing, Biles makes those
that arc the most DURABLE, and it is a common ex
pression where his Plows baye been introduced, that
they last as long as from two to four got fit any other
shop; ho has always been at the business from-a
small hoy and ought to know how it is done, and if
you try his wares once, you will be ready with mo to
tell all wanting anything in that line to go, send, or
in some other way procure them of J. P. BILES, at
the Knoxville Foundry. j
Knoxville, March.3o, •1863-tf.
THE Town Council of the borough of Elkland, in
the county of Tioga, hereby give notice,- That
at a meeting of said Council, held May G l7lh, 1864, it
was
Resolved, That whereas the citizens of the borongh
of Elkland suffer much Inconvenience in consequence
of The running at large of cows, cattle and neat stock
within the limits of said borongh i Therefore, be'it
ordained, amL it is hereby ordained by the Town
Council of said borough, that on and after the 25th
day of May, 1864, all cows, oxen, or other cattle,
sheep, bogs, or horses, found running at large within
the limits of said borough, be seized and confined in
a suitable pound, that shall be prepared by the pound
master of said borough, and kept therein until the
owner or owners shall pay or cause to be paid to said
pound keeper of said borough, the sum of twenty-five
cents per head for said cattle, sheep, hogs or horses,
as the case may bo, together with the expenses of
keeping the same. And in case-the owner or owners
thereof do not pay the said amount as above specified,
the pound master of said borough shall have-power to
advertise and sell said cattle, sheep, hogs or horses at
public auction, according to the provisions of an'act
of Assembly in such cases made and provided in 1851.
JOHN CHASE, Burgess.
David Dccher, Clerk.
DRVGS & MEDICINES.
Lvo. 3, uiTion block, wellsboro, pa.
P. R. WILLIAMS,
BEGS leave to announce to the citizens of Wells
boro and vicinity, that ho keeps constantly on
hand all kinds of
, DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
Chemicals, Varnish, Paints, Soaps, Perfumery, Glass,
Brushes, Putty, Fancy Hoods, Pure Wines, Brandies,
Gins, and all other kinks of Liquors of the best
quality. All kinds of
PATENT MEDICINES
such os Jayne’s Expectorant, Alterative and Pills;
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Pills and Cherry Pectoral; Helm
bold's Extract Buchu, Sarsaparilla and Rose Wash ;
Mrs. Winslow's Sothing Syrup; Wright's Pills;
Clark's and Cheesgman’s Pills; Hall's Balsam; Bin
ioger's London Duck Gin ; Herrick's Pills and Plas
ters; Brown's Bronchial Troches, <feo., Ac.
May 26,1864-ly. P. R. WILLIAMS.
MRS. A. J. SOFXELD desires to call the atten
tion of life Ladies of Wellsboro* and vicinity,
to her New Stock of Spring Millinery Goods, consist
ing of the latest styles of Bonnets, Hats, Head Dress
es, Caps, &c ., and a variety of French Flowers, Shell
and Straw Ornaments, the latest novelties in the way
of Trimmings. Infant's iiats and Caps, Old Ladies'
Dress Caps, Grenadein Veils of the newest shades.
Mrs. S. feels particularly grateful for the patronage
of her friends, and would say that she has engaged
one of the best Milliners for the season, and is pre
pared to repair Straws in the best manner. She is
receiving Goods constantly from New York, and will
keep a good assortment. Her rooms will be found
hereafter opposite Roy's Drug Store, in the building
lately occupied by Miss Smith.
Wellshoro, April 13, 1864-tf,
CAME into the enclosure of the subscriber on the
16th inst., about four miles south of
on the ‘ Cedar road, in the Cdolidge neighbor
hood, one Large Red Cow, with white face, and some'
other wbiCa;Bpots. The owner is requested to come,
forward, projvo property, pay charges for this adver
tisement, and take her away. JOSHUA PEET,
Dclp|ar,ji|ay 25, 1864.
DrhateO to tDe of the Errs of JFrrcOoitt stio the SpresO of fhealthg Reform.
WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE
WHOLESALE
Zlmmefmaim & Go’s.
FOR
NOTICE.
New Millinery Goods.
ESTBAY.
WELLSBOBOj TIOGA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1864.
„ Select s©efts.
The birds, 1 against the April wind,
Flew northward, singing as they flew;
They sang: ** The land we leave behind
Has swords for corn blades, blood.fordew."
M 0 wild birds, flying from the South,
What saw and heard ye, gazing down?"
“ saw the mortar’s unpturned month,
The sickened camp, the blazing town!
“ Beneath the tarry-lamps,
- We saw-your march-worn children di©: _; j
In'shfouds of moss, in cypress swamps.
We saw your dead uncoffined lie. .
, ** We heard, the starving prisoner'© sighs; ,\t
. And saw, fro pi line and trench, your eons
Follow our.flight with homo sick.eyes,
Beyond the battery's smoking guns.*
And heard and saw ye only wrong,
And pain*" I cried. “ 0, wing-worn flocks?"
“We heard," they sang, “ the Freedman's song.
The crash of slavery's broken locks!
“ Wo saw from now, uprising States,
The treason-nursing mischief spurned.
As, crowding Freedom’s ample gates,.
The long-estranged and lost returned.
“O’er dusky faces, seamed and old,
And hands horn-bard with unpaid toil.
With hope in pvery rustling fold,
We saw your slar-dropt flag uncoil.
“ And, struggling up through sounds accursed,
A grateful murmur climbs the air,
A whisper scarcely heard at first,
It filled the listening Heavens with prayer.
“ And sweet and for, as from a star,
Replied a voice which shall not cease,
Till, drowning all the noise of -war,
It sings the blessed songs of peace !*’
So to me, in a doubtful day
Of chill and slowly greening spring,
Low stooping from the cloudy gray.
The wild-birds sang or seemed to sing.
They vanished in the misty air,
The song went with them in their flight;
Bat lo! they left the sunset fair,
And in thp evening'there was light.
[From the Tribune.]
THS RETURNED. VETERAN.
This is an account of one of Major General
John Logan’s men. Geri. John, when a boy,
was in the Mexican war. "When bo returned
he studied law, and at the age of twenty-five he
was elected a Congressman by a vote almost
unanimous. Ilia district included the whole of
Southern Illinois. His home is in Carbondale,
Jacksoncouhty. He was the people’s idol.—
He know everybody,-and everybody knew him,
lie can make a good speech, be Is a first rate
lawyer, and is one of the best dancers in the
country. 0, how he can dance. He ' looked
like a girl, and yet, with dark complexion, ev
ery one took him to be part Indian. - One rea
son why the'people liked him so well, was be
cause be was a democrat, and hated the ’aboli
tionists. He used to give it to them bard.—
Once, when he spoke here on popular-sover
eignty, I asked him a question or two, such as
Lincoln used to ask Douglass at Freeport,Which
concerned him but he called me a Yankee-
Abolition-Preacher, which made' the people
laugh and say it was good enough for me'.—
However, they all went against Douglass, and
that was bad for- Logan. Whenever he under
takes a thing he does his best. At this time he
commands in Northern Alabama, and has his
headquarters at Huntsville.
When the war broke out, he-fignred the mat
ter to see how it was going, and then went for
the Government with all his might, soul and
strength. ; Thousands deserted him and called
him traitor ; other thousands stuck to him.—
Some of his relations fairly shine with copper.
He has a younger brother, a good deal like him,
who is true. lie raised one of the first regi
ments, and became its colonel. It is now the
31st Illinois regiment of volunteers. Then he
resigned his scat in Congress,’and our beautiful
friend J. T. Allen took bis place.
In those early days of the War John was at
Springfield, when a Mr. Grant came to him to
tell him his troubles. This Grant was a tan
ner, and, having an idea he could fight a little,
had raised a regiment and brought it to Spring,
field, where it was in camp. But the men bad
not been swornin,' and finding it a harder busi
ness than they expected, principally on account
of poor beds, they were going to back out and
go home. This was Mr. Grant’s trouble. He
could’nt see how to get along. It looked as
though he would have to go back to his tan
yard. Perhaps Logan could help him. “Can’t
you talk to them?" said John. “No,” Soys
Grant.” “ I can,” says John. “ Call them
together.” i
They had all heard of him. He made thbm
a speech two hours long. He told them all
about our government, and how the war dom
menced. The sweat rolled. He jerked uff-his
coat and handkerchief. You never saw a man
work harder in your life. He related stories
which made them laugh, and then he described
a soldier’s life,in such beautiful langueg’e that
one would think no other life had so many
charms. When he got through, the men were
impatient to bo sworn in, for fear they might
lopse.the chanoe. This was the way Mr. Grant
got a start, and he has done middling well
since then, for-now he commands all the armies
of the Great Republic. •
A short time since John Logan’s old regi
ment, the 31st, cams'home on a furlough to see
the folks and to recruit. One of the companies
was raised on Rose Prairie. Here lives ’Squire
Clifford; be is an old'settler; be has been a
Justice of the Peace for many years, for he can
read \ he has a large farm, well managed ; he
is rich, and bis only sod 1 Andy is an officer-in
•the'3lst.
The old man set on tlig' porch smoking his
home made tobacco, waiting for the wagon. —
Andj married a few months before be went
into the army. And his wife also sat on the
porch, while her baby, nearly two years'old,
ran from her to its grabdfather. Susan’s father
keeps store in the village of Prairie Eose ; he
fs postmaster, and one of the bead men; She
can read and write. Being brought up quite a
lady, she never works out doors except to pick
cotton and to bind after the cradles,’ and sbe
holds up her bead, as she might, for she isreal
WHAT THE SEEDS SAID,
BT JOHH G» WHITTIEE.
ifftCacellang.
handsome, and if anywoman ever loved her
husband, it is she.
# “ I doni^knqw how Andy would like that
kind of talk,” said she, “ for he writes 'in his
letters altogether different.”
“Don’t you be troubled, gal,” said ’Squire
Clifford; “he writes so just to please the offi
cers, for they open all the letters.”
“I hope they don’t open any of mine, though
there’s nothing bad in them."'
“ You just wait and see how I’ll talk to him,
I’ll bring him,around, sure,” ..■ .. -
The ’Squire-was a peace democrat. To .tell
the truth, he belonged to the Knights of the
Golden Circle, a lodge of which was organized
by the lawyers at the county seat; and, being
an influential man, he and a few others had
made Rose Prairie a hard place for Union men.
It astonishes one to see how plain men, hopest
in their dealings, and neighbors, but ig
norant, can be moulded by the intolerant and
designing. When slavery made the people
ignorant, a foundation'Was laid for every spe
cies of intolerance—even of infamy and'eriine.
All at once the wagon came-through the yard
with’the horses trotting, which they had seldom
done before, and it was*filled with soldiers, who
were the Rose Prairie toys, and Andy among
them. Almost in a moment Andy had jumped
over the bars, and was I near the porch, when
Susan gave a spring(around his neck, and*
would have thrown him over if be had not been
tall and strong, and if he had not braced him
self; and -there she-hung,, lifted up frdta the
ground.
“ Now, I want to see my boy,” said Andy,
, as he gentlybeld him up, and, for the first time,
gazed upon him with dyes as clear and as full
of satisfaction as they were on the blessed
Fourth of July last, when, with his compan
ions, he stood on the ramparts at Vicksburg.
His mother and his sisters also came around
him, and there, was a great time. - They all
kept looking at him. He was.older and tanned.
There is scarcely a person in the whole North,
old or young, who does’not know the exact co
lor of the Vicksburg tain. It is said' that the
rebels were worse tanned, which is likely, since
Gen. Grant is a tanner, Andy’s'- clothes were
so clean they seemed, new, and the blue cloth
was very fine. The women thought bis beard
was so very funny, for it was only.'a little bunch
around his mouth. could not keep their
eyes off thefbright, round little buttons on his
blue vest,.and his sfainipg patent leather sword
belt. His hair was cut so as to make him look
as smart as Gen. Logan. . His father was proud
—he knew his boy was handsomeland smart, —
hut he had returned handsomer! and smarter
than he expected. 'After the first ’ few
-ausanijoia tittle.for she'began to' hurry'-the
supper; but one conldjsee by the glimmer of
her dyes, under their lashes, that she. had plea
sant thoughts. ;
Then they had a good supper. It should
have been good, for they had been preparing
victuals for several days. Everything on the
table and around the bouse looked as though
there had been a wedding. It was very nearly
a wedding. ~ . j
As spon as supper was over the .old man com
menced. He spoke ofjthe wickedness of the
war, : of high taxes, of the - overthrow of the
Constitution, and the ruin of the country; and
concluded by saying that we ought to a let the
South go. Susan and the women tried to get
him to talk of somethir|g else, while Andy in
terrupted and tried to explain, hut he would
listen to nothing; and hie talked till he had do
thing njiore to say. He made out a terrible case.
Then Andy said : ;
“I see bow this business . Some, of
them lawyers up to theicounty seat'have been
larninwyou these thingjs. Andnow let me'tell
you, though they sound mighty big, there’s
scarcely a word of truth in them, from one end
to the- other.” I
“What’s this, what’s this?”', said the old
’Squire. *; Do you mean to call your father a
liar? Say, sir, am I alliar ?”
Andy's bunch of beardj began to work in a curi
ous way, and he waited] a little before he spoke.
“ Who talks about liars but yourself? I’ll
tell you what the army would say of you,, if
you talked like that strong (hem. They’d say
you wa? a d d traitor ; and if you didn't
happen to have a first best friend by ybu, .they
would string you up. !And I’ll tell you,’ too,
we think a heap more |uf on out-and-out rebel
than we do of the traitors athome, who, when
we strike the rebels a lick, help them to strike
us back.”
“You git out of my house. If you ’are thy
own son, you shan’t insult me in it. I have
-done,with you—you shan’t have none of my
property—not a bait-|—out of-my house—l'll
have nothing to do with you 1” , 1
“.That suits me if it does you. Susan pick
up what things you want now, and leave the
rest for another time, j We’ll go to Bob Rey
nolds’, He’s a good Union man. Your dad’s
a Copper, I know. You’ll hear a different story
one of these days, dad; mind I tell you.’’
“ You may go to the devil, for all I here.’*
Andy buckled oh his sword and §tood wait
ing fur Susan. She was running around taking
care of her things; hijr sistirs-in-law were hel
ping her; while Mrs.-Glifford tried to soothe
her husband. - He would listen to nothing; his
son had turned out to |be a Yankee nigger, and
most be he Vvanted a nigger wench; he wouldn’t
speak to him, and never wanted to' see him
again. !
The house, lately sjo joyful, had become a
house of mourning. ■ All the' women folks cried,
and the baby, seeing, something was wrong,
cried lounder than anybody else.' • •
At last Susan was jready, and, crying, she
left the house with And j’!; and they
through the lane. In addition to. this trouble
Susan had another, which was on account of - a
piece she had just got in'the loom, and she had
thrown the shuttle only a few times to see how
it would look. Her father-in-law had planted
a patch of cotton for-her and plowed it, and
•she had hoed, picked, got it ginned, and sphnl
almost all winter in spinning and coloring.—
She was going to have a piece of cheok for
dresses for herself and baby. .Now she did not
know what would become of it. Perhaps the
old man'would outit out of the loom.
They had gone quite a distance, when-Mis.
Cliffurd came ihto the porch aiid called her.
“ Susan, you forgot your pocket handker
chief.” ....
c She went back, while Andy waited. She
was gone-a-long time. -Once -she came out,
lingering; and then very hastily, wont back;—
At last she came running, and, looking pleased,
said his father wanted to speakwith him. He
turned rather reluctantly, and found his father
filling his pipe by the fireplace.
‘CI want to ask you one' question, Andy.—
Answer me now, fair.- Sayin’ nothin’ about
them Northern chaps, ain’t it a shame to us as
comes from the South to be fightin’ and killin’
our'own hind of folks, and some on ’em our
own kin ?” . '
“ I don’t want no dispute with you, dad, but
I can answer that mighty sudden. Itis a shame
—but thebhame is theirs, not ours. It is they
that’s fightin’ us. We didn’t strike the first
lick, we didn’t want no war, but they did, and
they’ve tried to break up-the Government.—
When they want peace, and to have things as
they had 'em'before, excepting one little thing
as has gone up, all they’ve got to do is to say
it. But if they’ve got an idea they can make
two Governments out of one, that belongs to
both of ue, they’ve got a bigger job on band
than,they’ve got an idea for—in fact, the thing
can’t be did. I’ll tell you what all John Lo
gan’s men, and the rest the sojers say ; we say
we’ll sweep ’em from the face of the earth, be
fore we give np to,’em. And we can do it."
“That’s dreadful hard;talk, Andy, but there
seems to be something in what you .say about
the first lick. I handn’t thought of that. 1
say, Andy, you ain’t a gain’ to desert vonr old
father fcase he got riled and spoke kinder sharp.
Let’s argerfy this business. I’ve got the hand
somest clover lot you ever seed, and the primest
wheat you ever set eyes on. I want you to-look
at ’em. You shan’t go—what a talk it’ll make.
We’ll argerfy and keep cool.”
So things quieted down. Tbs women were
happy as crickets, and Andy went through the
story of the fights ho bad been in, at Belmont,
at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, where Logan
was wounded at Shiloh, at the Big Black, and
Champion Hills, and finally at Vicksburg. But
even then be was not done. There, was not
time that evening to tell all. In listening, the
’Squire was so proud of his eon and of the suc
cess tif the Northern army, that he almost for
got ho was a Democrat. . ,
Next morning before they started, Susan had
to show her husband her piece, and how she
coaid weave. He left her weaving with all her
might. A woman needs strong ankles to work
-the treadles, and, in weaving, she gets, them.-
They went out to look at the wheat and clo
rci« cuw tlfom TTtllKiug IWUQd^,
and at lae't.to'stopby a pair of bars. The old
man held down his head a good deal, as if lis
tening, while Andy made gestures, as if en
gaged in telling something. When they came
to dinner, of greens and plenty of other things,
tlile ’Squire said:
“Old woman, if what, Andy’s been telling
ine is tine, there’s some mistake about this
Golden- Circle business; and*l’ve guttodook into
it; and if it’s-so, and it seems to he So, then
them lawyers to town has been lyin’ to me the
cuseedest.”'
When Andy’s furlough expired, and he had
started,to return to the army, His father gave
him his best wishes and hoped hia safe return.
He hoped too that be might be victorious over
the rebels in,every battle. Susan held up her
baby as high as she could, that he might see it
to the last. It would be bard to undertake to
fell how’much encouraged Andy felt.
-Soon after this, it was talked about among
the Copperheads that the furloughed soldiers
bad been converting the people of Ruse Prairie
to Unionism, and a couple of lawyers came
dqwn from the county seat to see about it.
Mr. Clifford being the most influential man,
they called on him first. After going through
a considerable long, smooth and slippery intro
duction, they told him their business. Ue con
fessed he bad changed bis mind, and he thought
men of learning ought to know better than to
be deceiving plain farmers who couldn’t be ex
pected to know all about politics. And how
could they know, when they never had much
schooling—and this was because the blasted old
slaveholders where they came from didn’t want
no schools. One of them, who is figuring to go
to the Legislature, let;out, in quite a speech
filled with genuine copper democracy? telling
about Lincoln’s tyranfiy, the overthrow# of the
Constitution, high taxes, tha ruin of <jhe coun
try, and concluded by saying we ought to let
the South go.
' “I’ll tell you,” said the old man, “what
theyMsay of yon down in the army, if yon
talkea that way to ’em. They’d soy you was a
damned traitor; and if you bad no fust best
friend with you, they’d string you up; and if
I was with ’em, I wouldn’t kere much to help
’em. Them’s my sentiments, fair and square.”
■“ This is very strange, ’Squire Clifford ; very
strange, indeed. Wby, sir, you belong to our
order of the Knightaofhihe Golden Circle, and
you cannot have forgotten, the solemn oath you
have taken, nor the dreadful penalty which at
taches to the violation of that oath.”
This made the ’Squire mad.
“ Git out of my house, you infernal scoun
drel—you traitor to your God and your coun
-1 try. You lied to me to git me into it. Git out
of my bouse! And if auy of you Golden
colors touch a hair of me or mine, I’ll send for
Andy and the l rest'of the boys, hod, by the Je
hokn, they won’t leave a greuse-spnt of your
whole gang. Git out of my -house; I’ll have
nothin’, to, do with, a traitor to my- country and
the old flag of the stars and strines.”
The lawyer went—they both went. When
he'was getting on his horse, he said :
! ’ “Good-bye, Mr. Clifford. You’ve gottobea
! Yankee nigger, I see. It must.be you- want a
j nigger wench.’’
“ Yea, 1 do, I want a thousand of ’em. I
| ain’t afeared of niggers as much as I was. I’m.
asbamed, though, I ever was a traitor, like you
are. Yes, I was a traitor, and I helped to fight
■ agin’ . Andy and Susan'and her baby there.—
But, thank God, la bia mercy, I’m a traitor no
longer." , . ■ ■> • .
■ It would have dene you good, bad yo.u seen
ho w pleased the women were to hear the’Squire
gfv3 the lawyers his mind. ■ 'N.G. M. ,
■ l)of<eoi.A, Unich Co., 111, April 2d, 1864.
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(Near Bermuda Hundred, Ya.) v
May 29th, 1864. ),
Friend Agitator: —As Butler's movements
oh the river James are attracting a good degree
of the attention of our people at home,
in the absence of-any particular details from
this locality, a brief account of a trip up said
river from its mouth, might bo found of suffi
cient interest as to warrant its perusal; at least
I flatter myself that such might be the case. >
Sunday, May 22d, at 2 o’clock P. M., we em
barked on board the Golden Eagle, (a 2d class
ferry boat,) at Portsmouth, Ya.; and ran down
as far as Fortress Monroe, where we took on
board a skilful pilot, and about 5 o’clock P. M.
entered the spacious mouth of the James river-
Just here is a point, or rather an obtuse angles
known as Newport News, and is the site d£ a
strong Union battery. It is celebrated as the
scene of the dashing debut of the first rebel
ironclad, (the Merrimao.) Within a few yard*
of the beach, and a trifle below the battery, lies
the bulk of tbe’ill-fated Congress, (plainly vis
ible at ebb tide,) while directly in front, and
about forty fathoms from shore, the gallant
Cumberland went down, but still unconquefe’d,
—her stars and stripes still proudly floating,
from the masthead. It seems but yesterday
that I saw her struggling with the rebel mop.
ster ; and I can still hear the yells of deflapea
that wont up as the ship went down, carrying
with her the scores of dead and wounded.—
Full a score of the crew were clinging to the
shrouds and other parts of the rigging—ami
these ware saved ; —but out of a crew of 300
men, two-thirds found a seaman’s grave.
On our right, lying at anchor, with her
broadside toward us, we have a splendid view of
the new ironclad “ Roanoke,” it being the tJ.
S. frigate Roanoke, cut down, razeed and re
fitted, until not one particle of her former shape)
can be recognized. She is a powerful vessel, of
perhaps 4,W)0 tons bnrthen, and sports three
immense turrets or cupolas, each of which
mounts two guns, of fifteen inch caliber. At
a distance, her side resembles a beautiful gra.
nits wall, surmounted by pleasant little sum.
mer bouses; but the romantic fanSy is sotQ£
what dispelled, upon a nearer approach; *
Leaving this hard shelled baptist behind
we continued on. our way up the river, passing
James river lighthouse No. 1, which is a neat
little cottage, about eighteen feet square, stan
ding in the center of the river, but to the. fight
ol the .main channel, and mounted upon an
iron, structure, so that the floor never gets damp;
There is a beautiful piazza running entirely
about the- house, and upon this we beheld a
couple of bright faced urchins at play, having
no fear of being drowned, as an iron railing or
latticework precludes the possibility of any of
the smaller fry tipping overboard; At the side
of the house, and suspended by a couple of
stout halyards, hangs a beautiful little “ life
boat,” no doubt entirely at the disposal of the
mistress of the place, (who, viewed through a
fine opera glass—and 1 beg her pardon for be
ing so rude as to gaze at her—seems to be quite)
good looking,) and answers instead of a coach
and four to carry her on her visits to her near
est neighbors, only two and a half miles away<
Indeed, she seems very fond of music, for, as
we steamed by, the band struck up, •* Listen
to the Mocking Bird,” and she leaned oat ovsf
the terrace, and bringing the glass to bear, wa
could see her watching until the last distant
strain died away, when she disappeared within.-
Ean until eight p’clock P. M., when we drop
ped anchor off Warwick Court House. A de
lightful gale set in about nine P. M., causing
us to lie close to )he decks, and to hang fast to
everything having a permanent location, for
fear of having to make a bed in company with
the finny tribes, (we have no evidence that mer
maids existas far np as the James river,) and
your humble servant does not think the change
a very desirable one. Tripped anchor at day
light, and continued on our way. Nothing of
interest occurred fur thirty miles rub; Not it
single guerrilla deigned to fire a shot, although
we were totally unarmed. About ll o’clock
arrived off Fort Powbattan, where we fell in
with the captured rebel ram Atlanta; taken by
the ironclad monitor Weehawken on the Ogee
chee river, near Savannah, Georgia. This ves
sel is built, os are all rebel ironclads, after the
style of the Merrimac, with sloping sides or 1
decks, while fore and aft there is an immense
prow, built of wood, and covered with thick
plates of iron, the whole surrounded by circles
of band iron about four inches i thick. She
mounts six heavy guns, (100 pounders,) and
her ports are closed from the outside, by heavy
wooden slides covered with iron armor, and fas
tened to the deck at the top by heavy staples.
The bottoms of the slides are connected, thro’
loop holes, to the carriages of the guns, by
thick iron cables, so that on running out the
pieces in time of action, the port holes are un
covered, while the recoil of the piece slackens
the chains connected with the slides, and they
fall by their own weight, thus closing the ports.
This formidable ir.,n monster was built by ihd
of Savannah, who gave their jewels and
family plate for that purpose ; but the uugal
lant Captain of the Weehawken boldly faced
the withering storm of female indignation , and
carried off the trpphy, amid the gnashing of all
the beautiful teeth in the Confederacy. - r
At ten o’clock P. M., Monday, dropped, an
chor at the wharves of Bermuda Honored.—
This is an insignificant, miserable little place,
or was until the arrival of Butler’s armada gave
it a show of importance. It contains about a
half dozen miserable bouses, and mud to na
astonishing depth. It is separated from City
Point, another apology for a town, by the -Ap
pomattox riv'er, which at this place is about 14
miles in width. Butler’s forces are advanced
from this place about six miles, where ho has
excellent fortifications, and can hold the whole'
of Lee’s army at bay. But I will not bo tedi
oos, hot reserve the remainder until some fu
ture time. M. I>. Bf’
Most persons wo aid rather see you stand drt
year head, than uao it’for any purpose'lt&#
thought. ,f - *
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