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The Fede 0.1 Chanieleon.
One evening an how. after the sun had
gone; down, a couple of men dressed in
soiled rebel Uniforms,and each holdingin
his hand a good Austrian rifle, 'rapped at
the door of a small frame building near
the,OH--road in Virginia. Th;knock
was answered by an old woman whose face
was ,almost concealed by the tangled mass
of her gray, uncombed hair.
"And what may ye want here ?" she
escrsimed, as her deep set eyes flashed
upon the kwo menl havn't the small
est bit, of Ijonny eake to offer ye, for it
was all —l l
"No; interrupted one of the sel
diers, "we don't want anything to eat,but
we want you to tell, us, and that in quick
time, 'too, whether you have seen a slight
but strong looking slip of a man go by ]
here of late?' • .
"Dressed in bineand carrying a double
barrelled rifle," added the other. l
l "Hey ! hey !" cried the hag, lifting
her hands and sneaking in_ a sharp angry
voice. . _
"If ye hadn't interrupted me I redlcon
Yno'd heard : me speak of him before now
as that wak the very man who came here
and bon. I t all my cakes. It was about
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two hourl ago ) , and--" I
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did be go after he left
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"Whic ' way
your inquired both men, eagerly. I
"Before I answer that question you
must tell me who he is," said the old wo
man with the curiosity natural to her sex.
"He's a celebrated Union scout whom
we call the "IFederil Charnel-40n; because
he changes his uniform so Often. Some
th,neslit is blue, at other t i mes gray,ard
and he has even been seen wearing the
seen
disuse of an aver
farmer. lie has shot
wore of out' tnirthan is at all', pleasant,
and we hallo al roving commission from
°tin colonel' t, go on a hunt after him and
capture Mill: f We can, either dead or,
iiiive2 And 4- r'W owe have replied to
you, f " continu i ed tlie speaker a little impa
tiently, "we demand that you answer our
question and,-;—" , e 4,
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',.l)ktuailtl - interrupted the 6, , g, in shrill
ii:ercink tones. ''ls that the Proper way
2 .
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,qeak to d woman, and
i n old woman
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"Come, come; answer us if Yon please
cried the solder, in a milder tone. "I
wean no hartii—it is my way of speaking."
"Veil per,qaps I may forgive you and
perna • .tu , e •
ps not,,ol.stuu 1 cnd woman shaking
herL head. 1.!
“,flow far your camp from here ?"
'That is :that to you? What has that
to do—" -
"There you go again with your accurs
ed 1 incivility i" shrieked the old hag,
;fiercely, ':but you shall answer my ques
' tioo befire' you get a single word out of
; [
me., No; then, how far from here is
you:: camp, and how many men have you
[ in and areurid it ? I intend to carry your
IfeilOws sotne eurn•cakee, d'ye see, and I
I want to kiloW the number of months that
1 I bdie to p i oCk for.' - 1
"(..1h in Itha.t case," said the rebel. "I
de not sed aziy reason why I shouldn'i
satisfy yos.l ( i Our Camps, then, are,about
five miles ifim, here/near the—cross
road's, and $r numher way be about five
'thotisand.r 1 f
‘‘That, 1,64 do," tried the old woman
with a. ottrin cif satisfaction--"yes,that will
do. t And l new you are.sure that the man',
iwbolcame here to buy a supper is the , one
you z - e afterir ._ -
LIN T e are Sure of it, for although we
i i
have never e;a the man's face we'd know
-hiM by his double barrelled rife, as no
body else i 4,14. Yankee army carries a
weapon of hat kind." . '
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'tAy, ay{ it's the right one then," said
tho hag. 'flu he had finished and paid
fir his men Ole . says to me : "Friend, I
sho,nlid likd to put up here for the night
if yo hay no objection." But as I did
notl like t . &,..Vea of accommodating a
Yankee an 1 more than I could help I
toldlhitn t ere was no room for him as I
' espeted vi.+tors before many hours. ,
"Well, thpn, said he, can you tell me of
any place whece I can passifhe night a
little comforiable. You see,. he added,
looking towdid his big double barrelled
rifle; "I don't like to camp out, as ,it
looka like rain, and this piece might be
1 hurtibiit," J"I don't knew of any place,
I aniiwered,ffsbort of four miles from here
! r -i i ari old barn which is tight enough 1
thialk, to keep off the rain." "Four miles
is la long di4ance ' said he; "and as I have
ben tramping about considerably to day
I don't feel muchilike carrying this heavy
load iso ifar,'l pointing to his knapsack as
he spoke. 1 1 Willtyou be kind enough to
let ikrernaiti till morning 1" . -
"Well poi," said I, hesitating a little
andihrtming a significant glance at the
well Ifilfed
,pocket book in his ;hand. He
t understood the look a.nd gave inea green
dollai.. "All right," said I, and ho then
departed, saying he'd call for his lugfmge
in the nArning, after he should waken
from his sleep, in the barn. "Now tben,
continued the timeaker, which will ye do
—go after him at once or wait in ambush
for him until 'morning ?" ..
The two Et, ol4r'ers drew back'a few pea
QeOofea fo flee fitiqeipiss of Ihqo Qs ochey, Qissokismtioit of *0419, I.ile6fits Webs.
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COUDERSPORT, POTTER COulTrx, PA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 12, 1865
and held a short consultation,after which
they egain advanced to the the aide of the
old woman. i
I "Wei will go now," said the one who
had spoken first, "that is if you can de
scribe to us the exact position of the
barn."
"I don't think I-could describe it so
that you could find it in the dark," replied
tho bag, "but as I am willin' to do every.
thing in my power for the confederacy, I
will go with you, andshow yon the place.
"That is right," answered the rehel,and
we'll see that yon and rewarded for your
zeal.
"I don't want any_ .reward for helping
my countrymen," replied the old hag. I
am always ready to help along the cause."'
With these words she disappeared into
an inner room, but eitme forth in- a few
minutes with a gray blanket thrown over
he shoulders.
.1 "I took this out of a Yank's knapsack'
said she with a short, day Laugh; "don't
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you think it becotnes me ?"
g.Aye,aye,my-good woman,very much.
But lead on, if you please,for we have no
time to loose."
The hag then closed_ the .door of the
house-
"Forward march 1" she exclaimed
imitating the voice of a man with strong
lungs. "Forward march 1 Close up 1
close up !" -And she Moved along the
road at the slow,tottering paoe natural to
a person of her age.
The night by this time had become
very dark. The sky was obscured with
thickidrivino• olouds,and the wind scream
ed and roared among the tall pines that
towered upon each side of the road.—
Occasionally a heavy branch torn from its
native trunk would fall 'into the road
with a terrible crash, and mare than once
the rebels started back and cocked their
pieces in the belief that the din was
caused by the discharge of some Yankee
rifle.
"Ha! ha I ha!" laughed the oldhag
upon one of the- oce.asiclns, "it seems to
me that you are easily startled. Don't
you think your commander might have
picked out a pair of bolder hearts - than
yours for this expedition ?"
"You'd better keep a silent tong,tut in
your head, my good womau,nntil you've
bad an oppertunity to witness as many
battles as we have," answered one of the
men ; good soldier is always on his
guard."
"Aye, aye !" replied the old woman ;
but he should know how to distinguish
between the crashing of a dry branch and
the ring of a rifled musket.
The, rebel nid not relish the noise made
by theloud, sharp tones of the female
guide, and, in order to put an end to the
conversation, he controlled himself suffi
ciently not to 'reply-to her last remark.
The party then continued their way in.
silence—which was not broken by either
of them until they pad gone about three
miles, and a loud clear challenge sudden
ly started the rebels.
"Halt ! vvbio conies there el
"Friend answered the old woman in a
clear ringing voice; "friend with prison.
ers !"
sr • FP
'We are betrayed yelled !her com
panions and, even as the words passed
their lips they were surrounded by a
dozen Federal soldiers, one of Thom ;car
ried alautern.
As-the rays of light flashed upon the
hag the rebels saw the gray haii the blan
ket, and the female apparel dropped to
the ground, revealing the slight but iron
like frame of a tin! m soldier in primed of
life.
"It is 113 e, by—l' exclaimed the prison
ers, simultaneously, as they glanced; to
the long double barrelled rifle which he
now held in his hand; "it is he—the
scont—the Federal Chameleon!"
- "Aye, aye I" answered the latter, as
he leaned noon his weapon, with a quiet
smile. "You are trappel l sure enough
thanks to my disguise, which is only one
of many that I carry in my knapsack.
allow me to express my .thanks to you for
the information you gave me regarding
the position of your camp and the num
ber of your men. I hays already sent a
message to my colonel in relation to the
matter, and I perceive that he has com
menced to act upon it."
And as he spoke he pointed down the
road where the dark outline of troops
forming. Into line might be faintly distill
a
o nished.
it They:were soon .in motion, and in the
course of half an hour the boomina " of
cannon the rattling of musketry, and the
scheers : of the Federal troops proclaimed
that the combat had- commenced. The
din continued for about an hour, when
the prisoners learned frpm others who
were brought to share their quarters,that
thetouthern troops had been surprised
and totally routed.
Gen: Logan Bois than
formerly a strong Demo.
Abolitionist, and would
to see Jeff. Davis hut ,
no doubt will bo the
traitor."
Battle Field of ChlekamaUga
A correspondent Of the Cinoinnati
Commercia/ has jot' visited the bailie
field of Chickamauga, and gives, in alTell
written letter, his impressions of its ap
pearance. He left Chattanooga on the
morning of the 27th ult., and entered the
field by` the famed Rossville Gap. He
says :
As soon as we entered the gap, our
eyes mot - unmistakable signs of the skir
mishing which took place through the
narrol'defile, as the rebels fell back
slowly oward tbe final line of battle. A
squad of tired rebel soldiers, on their way
to their homes, sat by the road side as we
Ipassed,l eyeing us with glum stolidity,
evidently debating the risks of an encoun
ter with the well filled holsters that hung
on our saddles. We came upon the
-scene of the first day's battle—September
19th--on the left of thO Lafayette road.
Here it had beau falsely represented that
a rebel brigade was yet this side of
Chickamauga creek, without sapport, and
i that a rapid movement might succeed in
capturing them. A division was quickly
hurried into the woods And ran against,
instead of a "demoralized"- brigade, Long
street's corps, in good fighting condition,
and the conflict soon became fearful. It
way on opened ground, neith4r party
hiving time to do anything more than ,
throw
.up in a few places, rails or logi to
the height of two or, three feet. Our loss
was very heavy, General Brannan's divis
ion alone - losing, in ' a few hours, over
2,500 men. Our lines were forced back
to the road and badly shattered.
THE EVATENCES OP CONTENTION AND
The &round was no lacking in evi
dences of the bloody kwork which had
been enacted upon it. iAlthough Nature
had, for two 'years, been undisturbed in
her kindly efforts to restore and to heal,
yet the whole surface was strewn with
ghastly proofs of the mighty wreck which
had been made there. No army had be
fore passed through there, the farms were
quiet and prospering; the tattle were in
the fields, and as the destroying columns
swayed madly to and fro, crushing the
fences before .thent, many of them met
death, and in all directions are scattered
heaps Of bones that show where they fell.
The ground is roiling, and about equally
divided between, field and forest, and
through these lines were formed, with
regard, Mainly, to the fitness of the posi
tion, and 'little to its claarnees, or other
wise. AS we rode over din field, it was
plainly evident where the rebel dead had
been buried, and where our own, the few
of them that were granted that poor
boon. The rebel soldiers had been placed
in graves; howeverphallow, and decently
covered with earth'or stones, and the spot
marked by a neat bead board, labelled,
and the Iwhole often surrounded by a
square pen of rails. Our own boys had
the hard fate of being left on the field,,
and when the rebels vouchsafed to bury
them, they were collected in rows, or in
groups of two or three, upon the ground,.
and a few spadefuls of earth thrown over"
them. t do not suppose that one-half
of our dead were buried, even thus slight
ly, and before spring the rain had exposed
the extremities of these. At one end of
one of these little mounds lay a pair of
skulls, bleaching in the 'sun, and, at the
other, two pair, of Aces, full of bones.—
Better that they should; have-, lain in the
open air, wrapped in their blood stained
blankets, than to have them subjected to
this mockery. In one of these skulls the
wa=ps had built their nest, and flitting to
and fro with busy wing, they were hiving
their little stores, and would defend them
with boldness against any. who intrude
upon their strange direllinn. p place.
In another place,. at the foot of a tree,
lay a little bean of human bodes, where
some soldier had. erished, and remained
unburied. Here, mortally - stricken, be
had, perhaps, painfully dragged himself
few paces from the - place where lie fell,
and leaned heavily against , the friendly
trunk of the great tree, while the route of
battle' raged fiercely about Lim, and his
hard preSsed comrades were driven back
step by step, till at last the "breathless
darkness" gathered thick about him, and
he bowed his head in "stern agony," and
the soul escaped from its prison house.
After surveying this
,part of the field
we rode: away towards Crawfish Springs,
near the second day's fighting, with a
view to discussing, by the aid of its cool
waters, the collation we had brought. On
the way I dismounted, reverently, to pick
up a battered bullet lying by the wayside.
Crawfish Springs should be visited by all
who go to the battle field of:Chickamauga.
The water flows, out in a broad, noiseless
sheet from the foot of a hill about fifty
feet in elevation, and is said to be always
clear and of the same proportions in
Whatever weather. Here, duffing a part
of the time on the memorable 19th and
20th of September, our soldierisought in
vain co slack their 'raging thirst ; for,
then,gh neither party were in paueuien
ongh he was
,e is now an
his
Lich he• has
the arch-
DEATH
of the Spring, the rebels knoiving the
locality, shelled it so that it was dangerous
to approach.. On the bill which was
rendered immortal by the fipal rally made
by Geberal Thomas, culminated the in
terest of the whole field. Here the car
nage in the rebel ranks was very great
and in the cleared fields which lie around
its base, out horses tread at every turn
upon the little tuft covered heaps, whie`h
Onmber all the ground.. No ruins of
earthtyorks remain to show the positions
of the forces ; only here and there a slight
barricade of logs, hastily thrown together
in broken lines, marking the place where
a regiment or .a few companies still clung
together and shoulder to shoulder,
breasted the storm. On three, sides the
waves of the rebel hosts surged; and were
broken iiipon that hill like ticreacminstla
rock bound coast. Forming in life fields,
they charged across them with a fury
which threatened to overwhelm all i.
ruin; bat, fiom among the trees which
covered the sides and summit, there came
so deadly . a hail of bullets and cannon
shot that they withered and sink to the
earth before it. Nearly one half of the
trees have been broken off by the shells,
and among the 'fragments of flint, which
thickly cover the ground, the relic hunter
May gather bullets yet, scattered on the
sarface, like !acorns . after a storm in an
oaken forest.
,
f But hero, as in all places where man
in his passion has made Elia Wreck, na
tdre has displayed her kindly 'power in
haling her own wounds, and her unwil
lingness to per tuate the bloody foot
ptints he leaves ebind. Even this bar
ren soil. wonderfully enriched by the
libations of ' blood poured out upon it,
blossoms with flowers, and the vines
creep over the rugged ground, covering
ite hideousness and the bleaching bones
frOm our sight, or wind about t he shat
tered trees and lend their verdure to con
ceal the jagged rents which yawn among
the branches. - Fragrant roses, self
planted, bloom above the graves, as if set
by the hand of affectitin, and t he wood
bine and the tender morning-glory- trail
over the rude worm fences built by the
men over the lowly duit of a comrade.
Casualties' of the War.
H statements at the War Depart
; meat comptite the number of .deaths in
the Union armies since the carensence
meta of the War, including the starving
prisoners, at three , hundred and twenty
tire thousand. There has doubtless been
fully two hUndred thousand Southern
soldiers removed by diseaSe - . and the cas
ualties of battle, to that not less than
five hundred and twenty-five thousand
.lives hate .been sacrificed in 'this 'nnholf ,
contest,- begun and prolonged the]
Sontli.in their vain effort: to build Up a
republic and strengthen the'slatre power.
Our greatest losses dtirini, any .one
campaign occurred at Gettysburg, when
23,267 Union soldiers were killed, wound
ed and taken prisoners.. Hooker's cam
paign of 1863 in therWiiderriess ranks
next to Gettysburg
as far as' regards
Union losses, they having amounted Ito
twenty thousand, though geacrally,
ported at only ten. • Burnside lost 1,200
in the battle Of-Fredericksburg, McClel
lan 11,426 at Antietam, Porter 9,000 at
Gaines' .Mills Rosenerane 12,085 at
Murfreesboro Cud 16,851 at Chickamauga
and Sherman I about '9,000 in the two
days' battles around Atlanta. •
.ThelOfficial reports- of Gee; Grants'- ,
Imes from- the time he . crossed the Rap
idan until receiving the striender . of Lee
compute them at ninety thousand. In.
the
: variaus.eneragements fought bfGen.
Grant in the eng agements
he lost 13;573 men at
Pittsburg Land*. 9;875 in the eevere
contests around "V - Icksburg, and in the
attack on Missionary Ridge about 7,000.
Thor:O.:Our losses in Manylofthe cam
paigns have been heavy, they yeb fall
below Those incurred -in• some of the
guropean war's. • This h as been due, to.a
considerable eztent, - . to the • efficiency of
-tire-medical:•'department. and 1 the - -lavish
amount' of supplies, at :least ono-third
' greater than 'those -furnished to any
Enropean army. . A report recently made
to the Imperial Academy of Medicine, by
Chenti, Physician of -the • French army,
iestitaates the losses of the Crimean war
las follows : killed on the field
: ofbattle or
miseing,'lo,24o;lost in the Semilante,
702; 1 died various digeases at Alma,
8,084; died of cold, apoplexy, before
Sebastopol, 4,342 ; -died in the field and
general hospitals,-71,247; total, 95,615.
Thus, 'of 389,264 men sent by Dunce to
the Crimea, . about one-third. found_ -a
soldier's grave. • . • .
•:•The siege and redaction of Jerusalem'
' resulted, says !Josephus, in the "loss of
1,000,000 lives -60,000 Persians were
placed Itors rla combat at the battle - of
Arbela, and :100,000 Carthagenians in
the engagement of • Helena°. 12,000
infantry and 10,000 cavalry perished on
the fatal field' of Issue. Spain lost
000,040. lives during . the persecution of
the Arabians,.and 800,000 in expelling
the Jew. Frederick the Great inflicted
TE=B.-41.50 PER Atirinnff,
a loss of 40,000 on the-Austrians in the
conflicts of leuthen and Leignitz. The
battle of Jenna„ and the lessqr engage
ments hismediately . feloiving, cost the
Prussian army over 80,000 men. At the
battle of Leipsio, the Fiensh suffered
casualties to the number of 60,000, and.
The Swedes and their allies! 40,000 more.
50,000 French and Russian soldiers lay
dead and dying on the 'field after the
battle of Mushowa, and Napoleon again
lost 47,000 men at Waterloo, and the
Duke of Wellington 15,000 more.—.N.l:
Cons6tercia/ Advertiser. ,
Hamilton, in her direct and forc
ible, / ,,,,but not always elegant, style, sotno
times advances sentiments which we can
not approve; but the foll Owing practical t
view of religion commends itself to every.
ono who desires to live a truly Christian
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"We want a religion that softens 'the
steps and tunes the voice to melody, and
fills the eye with sunshine, and cheeks
the impatient exclamation and harsh re.
hullos; a religion that is polite, deferential
to superiors, courteous to inferiors, and
. considerate to friends, a religion that
goes into a family, and keeps the husband
from being spiteful when dinner is late
—keeps the wife from fretting when the
husband tracks the newly washed floor
with his muddy boots, and Ma ea the
husband mindful of the serap4r nd the
door mat—keeps the mother patre twhen
the baby is cross; amuses the ehildren as
well as instructs them ; .prom fitly looks,
after the apprentice in the shop, and the:
clerk behind the counter, and the student i
in the office, with a fatherly care and;
motherly love, setting the solitary in fain:
Hies, and introducing them to pleasant.
and wholesome society, that their lonely:
feet may not be led into temptation. We ,
want a religion that shall interpose con._
tinnally between the rats and gullies and
rocks of the highway of life, and Elio
sensitive souls that are traveling over
them.
"We want a religion that bears heavily,
not only on the exceeding rascality of
lying and stealing—but a religion ; that
banishesshort measures from the counter, -
small baskets from the stalls,. pebbles
from the cotton bage l clay from the sugar,
chicory from the coffee, otter from batter,
beet juice from vinegar, alum from bread,
strychnine from, wine, ~water from milk
cans, and buttons from the contribution
box. The religion that is te' save the
world will not make one half a Pair of
shoes of good leather and the other of
poor leather, so that the first shall re
dound to the maker's credit, and' the
second to his cash; nor if the shoes be
promised on Thursday morning, will let
Thursday spin, out till Saturday night...
It does . not send the little boy who has
come for the daily quart of milk, to the
barnyard tio'see the calf, and seize the
opportunity to skim off the cream; nor '
does it surround stale butter with fresh,
and sell the whole for good; nor. sell off
the slack baked bread upon the Stable
boy; nor 'deacon' the apples;
"The religion that is to sanctify the
World pays its debts. It does 'not borrow
money with little or 'go purpose of repay
ment,"l4 concealing or glossing over the
fact. It looks upon a man who has failed
in trade r and !continues to live in luxury
as a - thief. It looks upon him Who prom
ises to pay fifty dollars on' deniand, with
interest, and who neglects to pay fifty
dollars on -demand, with or without in
terest as a liar." •
A FREAK OF TILE TELEGEAPEL-Of
all the freaks of telegraph, the following
is the moat laughable which has come
under our personal knowledge. ..tiot long
since a graduate from one of our eastern
theological lichee's was called to the pas
toral charge of a church in Ithe extreme
Southwest. When about to start for his
new parish be was unexpectedly detained
by the incapacity of his presbytery to,
ordain him. In order to explain his non
arrival at the appointed time he sent the
following telegram to the deacons of -the - 5
church : "Presbytery lacked a gnome
to ordain." ,In the course of its journey
the message, heceme strangely metamor
phosed, and 'reached - the astonished dea
cons in this shape: "Presbytery tacked
worm on to Adam l" The sober church
officers were greatly diScomposed anti
mystified, but after a grave consultation
concluded it was the minister's, faeetions
way of announcing that he had4ot mar: -
ried, and aceordiagly proceeded In a pra
vide lodgings for two instead of one; .
tornado passed through La Cro , 4se,
Wis., prostrating fifty, dwellings in the
town and vicinity, and doing other dam
age to an immense amount.
Daring a_storm in ChieagO,-a few \days
afr 'p o, the lightning played some curious
freaks. i It-took poscssion of the rails on
the passenger railways, and ran alone;
them back and forth, to the great fright
of'passengirs. It also cot some fantastic
tricks on' the telegraph mtg.
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