THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELDi PA., APJULIO, 1881.
have Hie value of liln life to the utmost
farthing.
Meanwhile, the horgemen crowded
around the foot-print, and one of them
Inadvertently trod upon It. The Ken
tuohlan looked long and earnestly, but
at last he ald :
"'Taint the track. Thetar' mar' ha
a sand-crack on her right fore foot. She
didn't take kindly to a round shoe; bo
the Yank, he gqv her one with the cork
right In the middle o' the quarter.
'Twas a darued smart contrivance; fur
you see, It eased the strain, and let the
nag go nimble as a squirrel. The cork
ha'n't yere ta'n't her track an' we're
wastln' time In looklu'."
The cork was not there, because the
trooper's tread had obliterated It. Read
er, let us thank him for that one good
step, If he never took another; for It
Raved the scout, and, may be saved
Kentucky. When the scout returned
that way, he halted abreast of that tree,
and examined the ground about it.
.Right there, in the roafl, was the mare's
track, with the print of the man's foot
still upon the inner quarter! He un
covered his head, and from his heart
went up a simple thanksgiving.
The horsemen gone, the scout came
down from the tree, and pushed on into
the misty mcrning. There might be
danger ahead,. but there surely was dan
ger behind him. Hi9 pursuers were
only half convinced that they had
struck his trail; and some sensible fiend
might put it into their heads to divide
and follow, part by one loute, part by
the other.
He pushed on over the sloBhy road,
his mare every step going slower and
slower. The poor beast was jaded out ;
for she had traveled sixty miles, eating
nothing, and been stabled in the timber.
She would have given out long before,
had her blood not been the best in Ken
tucky. As it was, she staggered along
ns if she had taken a barrel of whisky.
Five miles on was the house of a Union
man. Bhe must reach it, or die by the
wayside; for the merciful man regardeth
not the life of his beast when he carries
dispatches.
The loyalist did not know the scout,
hut his honest face secured him a cordial
welcome. He explained that he was
from the Union camp on the Big Bandy,
and oflered any price for a horse to go
on with.
" Yer nag is wuth any two o' my
critters," said the man. "Ye kin take
the best beast I've got; and when ye V
ag'in this way, we'll swap back even."
The scout thanked him, mounted the
horse, and rode off into the mist again,
without the warm breakfast which the
good woman had half-cooked, in the
kitchen. It was eleven o'clock ; and at
twelve that night, he entered Colonel
Cranor's quarters at Paris, having rid
den a hundred miles with a rope round
his ueck, for $13 a mouth, hardtack,
and a shoddy uniform.
The Colonel opened the dispatch. It
was dated, Louisa, Kentucky, Decem
beJ 24, midnight ; and directed him to
move at once with his regiment (the
Fortieth Ohio, eight hundred strong),
by the way of Mount Stirling and Mc
I Cormick's Gap, to Prestonburg. He
would incumber his men with as few
rations and as little luggage as possible,
bearing in mind that the safety of his
command depended on his expedition.
He would also convey the dispatch to
Lieutenant Colonel Woodford, at Stam
ford, and direct him to join the march
with his 300 cavalry.
Hours were now worth months of
common time, and on the following
morning Cranor's column began to
move. The scout lay back till night,
then set out on his return, and at day
break swapped his now jaded horse for
the fresh Kentucky mare, even. He ate
the housewife's breakfast, too, and took
his ease with the good man till dark,
when he again set out, and rode through
the night in safety. After that his
route was beset with perils. The Provi
dence which so wonderfully guarded his
way out seemed to leave him to find his
- own in ; or, as he expressed it : " Ye see,
the Lord, He keered more fur the dis
patch nor He keered fur me ; and t'was
natural He should, 'case my life only
counted one, while the dispatch, it stood
fur all Kalntuck."
Be that as it may, he found his road
a hard one to travel. The same gang
which followed him out waylaid him
back, and one starry night he fell among
them. They lined the road forty deep,
and seeing he could not run the gaunt
let, he wheeled his mare, and fled back
ward. The noble beast did her part,
but a bullet struck her, and she fell in
the road dying. Then it was Hobson's
choice he took to his legs, and leaping
a fence, was at last out of danger. Two
days he lay in the woods, not daring to
come out; but hunger finally forced
him to ask food at a negro shanty. The
dusky patriot loaded him with bacon,
brown bread and blessings, and at night
piloted him to a Rebel barn, where he
enforced the Confiscation Act, to him
then "the higher law" necessity.
With his fresh horse he set out again ;
and after various adventures and hair
breadth escapes, too numerous to men
tionand too incredible to believe, had
not similar things occurred all through
the war he entered one rainy midnight
(the Uh of January), the little log hut
seven miles from Paintvllle, where
Colonel Garfield was sleeping.
The Colonel rubbed his eyes, and rale
ed himself Upon his elbow.
" Back safe VM he asked. " Have you
seen Cranor V"
" Yes, Gln'ral. Ho can't be more'n
two days ahlnd o' me, nohow."
" God bless you Jordon I You have
done us great service," said Garfield,
warmly.
"I thanks ye, Gln'ral," said the scout,
his voice trembling. "Thet's more pay 'u
I expected."
To give the reader a full understand
ing of the result of the scout's ride, I
must now move on with the little army.
They are only 1,400 men, worn out with
marching, but boldly they move down
upon Marshall. False scouts have made
him believe they are as strong as he;
and they are; for everyone is a hero,
and they are led by a general. The
Ilebels had 5,000 men 4,400 Infantry
and 000 cavalry, besides twelve pieces
of artillery, so he says In a letter to his
wife, which Buell has Intercepted and
Garfield has In his pocket. Three roads
lead to Marshall's position ; one at the
east, bearing down to the river and
along its western bank; another, a cir
cuitous one, to the west coming in on
Paint Creek, at the mouth of Jenny's
Creek, on the right of the village ; and a
third between the others, a more direct
route, but climbing a succession of al
most impassable ridges. These three
roads are held by strong Itebel pickets,
and a regiment is outlaying at the vil
lage of Paintvllle.
To deceive Marshall as to his real
strength and designs, Garfield orders a
small force of Infantry and calvary to
advance along the river, drive In the
Itebel pickets, and move rapidly after
them as if to attack Paintvllle. Two
hours after this force goes off, a similar
one, with the same orders, sets out on
the road to the westward ; and two hours
later still, another small party takes the
middle road. The effect is, that the
pickets on the first route, being vigor
ously attacked, retreat in confusion to
Paintvllle, and dispatch word to Mar
shall that the Union army Is advancing
along the river. He hurries off a thou
sand infantry and a battery to resist the
advance of this imaginary column.
When this detachment has been gone
an hour and a half, he hears from the
routed pickets on the right, that the
Federals are advancing along the west
ern road. Countermanding his first
order, he now directs the thousand men
and the battery to check the new dan
ger ; and hurries off the troopg at Paint
vllle to the mouth of Jenny's Creek to
make a stand there. Two hours later
the pickets on the central route are
driven in, and, finding Paintvllle aban
doned, flee precipitately to the fortified
camp, with the story that the Union
army is close at their heels and occupy
ing the town. Conceiving that he has
thus lost Paintvllle, Marshall hastily
withdraws the detachment of 1,000 men
to his fortified camp; Garfield, movlug
rapidly over the ridges of the central
route, occupies the abandoned position.
Bo affairs stand on the evening of the
8th of January, when a spy enters the
camp at Marshall, with tidings that
Crauor, with 3,300 (4) men, is within
twelve hours' march at the westward.
On receipt of these tidings, the "big
boy," he weighs 300 pounds by the
, Louisville hay scales, conceiving him
self outnumbered, breaks up his camp,
and retreats precipitately, abandoning
or burning a large portion of his sup
plies. Seeing the fires, Garfield mounts
his horse, and with a thousand men,
enters the deserted camp at 0 in the
evening, while the burning stores are
yet unconsumed. He sends off a de
tachment to harass the retreat, and
waits the arrival of Cranor, with whom
he means to follow and bring Marshall
to battle in the morning.
In the morning Crauor comes, but his
men are footsore, without rations, and
completely exhausted. They cannot
move one leg after the other. But the
canal boy is bound to have a fight; so
every man who has strength to march is
ordered to come forward. Eleven hun
dredamong them 400 of Cranor's tired
heroes step from the ranks, aud with
them, at noon of the 0th, Garfield seta
out for Prestonburg, sending all his
available cavalry to follow the line of
the enemy's retreat and harass aud
delay him.
Marching eighteen miles, he reaches
at 9 o'clock that night the mouth of
Abbott's Creek ; three miles below Pres
tonburg, he and the 1,100. There he
hears that Marshall is encamped on the
same stream, three miles higher up;
and throwing his men Into bivouac, In
the midst of a sleety rain, he sends an
order back to Lieutenant-Colonel Shel
don, who is left In commaud at Paint
vllle, to bring up every available man'
with all possible dispatch, for he shall
force the enemy to battle In the morn
ing. He spends the night In learning
the character of the surrounding country
and the disposition of Marshall's forces;
and now again John Jordan comes Into
action.
A dozen Rebels are grinding at a mill,
and a dozen honest men come upon
them, steal their corn, and make them
prisoners. The miller Is a tall, gaunt
man, and his clothes fit the scout as If
they were made for him. He Is a dls
unionist, too, aud his very raiment
should bear witness against this feeding
of his enemies. It does. It goes back
to the Rebel camp, and the scout goes
in it. That chameleon face of his is
smeared with meal, aud looks the miller
so well that the miller's own wife might
not detect the difference. The night Is
dark and rainy and that lessens the
danger ; but still he Is picking his teeth
In the very Jaws of the Hon, If he can
be called a Hon, who does nothing but
roar like unto Marshall.
Space will not permit me to detail this
midnight ramble; but it gave Garfield
the exact position of the enemy. They
had made a stand, and laid an ambus
cade for him. Strongly posted on a
semi-circular hill, at the forks of Middle
Creek, on both sides of the road, with
cannon commanding its whole length
and hidden by the trees, they were
watting bis coming.
The Union commander broke up his
bivouac at 4 in the morning, and began
to move forward. Reaching the valley
of Middle Creek, he encountered some
of the enemy's mounted men, and cap
tured a quantity of stores they were
trying to withdraw from Prestonburg.
Skirmishing went on until about noon,
when the Rebel pickets were driven
back upon their main body, and then
began the battle. It is not my purpose
to describe it ; for that has already been
ably done, in thirty lines, by the man
who won it. '
It was a wonderful battle. In the
history of this war there is not another
like It. Measured by the forces engaged,
the valor displayed, aud the results
which followed it throws into the shade
even the achievements of the mighty
hosts which saved the nation. Eleven
hundred men, without cannon, charge
up a rocky hill, over stumps, over
stones, over fallen trees, over high in
treuchments, right into the face of 0,000
men aud twelve pieces of artillery I
For five hours the contest rages. Now
the Union forces are driven back ; then
charging up the hills, they regain the
lost ground, and from behind rocks and
trees pour In their murderous volleys.
Then again they are driven back, and
again they charge up the hill, strewing
the ground with corpses. So the bloody
work goes on ; so the battle wavers till
the setting sun, wheeling below the
hills, glances along the dense line of
rebel steel moving down to envelope the
weary 1,100. It is an awful moment,
big with the fate of Kentucky. At Its
very crisis two figures stand out against
the fading Bky boldly defining the fore
ground. One is lu Union blue. With
a little band of heroes about him, he is
posted on a projected rock, which Is
scarred with bullets, and In full view of
both armieB. His head is uncovered,
his hair streaming in the wind, bis face
upturned in the darkening daylight, and
from his soul is going up a prayer, a
prayer for Sheldon and Cranor. He
turns his eyes to the northward, and his
lip tightens, as he throws off his coat,
aud says to his hundred men : " Boys,
we must go at them 1"
The other is in rebel gray. Moving
out to the brow of the opposite hill, and
placing a glass to his eye, he takes a
long look to the northward. He starts,
for he sees something which the other,
on lower ground, does not distinguish.
Soon he wheels horse, and the word
" Retreat," echoes along the valley be
tween them. It is his last word ; for six
rifles crack, and the rebel major lies on
the ground qniverlng.
The one in blue looks to the north
again, and now, floating proudly among
the trees, he sees the starry banner. It
is Sheldon and Cranor! The long ride
of the scout is at last doing its work for
the nation. On they come like the
rushing wind, filling the air with their
shouting. The rescued eleven hundred
take up the strain, and theu, above the
' swift pursuit, above the lessening con
flict, above the last boom of the wheel
ing cannon, goes up the wild huzza of
victory. The gallant Garfield has won
the day, and rolled back the disastrous
tide which has been sweeplug on ever
since Big Bethel. In ten days Thomas
routs Zillicoffer, and theu we have and
hold Kentucky.
A Curious Fight.
A novel combat was witnessed by a
large crowd in Kerry Patch, St. Louis.
A bantam game cock made a fierce at
tack upon a small bull-terrier which had
approached close to a number of chick
ens that were feeding. At first the dog
snarled and showed his teeth, but did
not attempt to injure his Impudent
antagonist. The bantam would not be
subdued by such a manifestation of
spirit. He flew upon the terrier's back
and sticking his spurs in the hair to
obtain a foothold, apparently, tried to
put out the dog's eyes. Terrier then
attempted to snap off the bantam's
head, but the latter was too quick. After
Inflicting some slight wound, bantam
flew a short distance and crew shrilly.
Then he darted back again and met
terrier half way. The terrier was agile
and fighting hard, but was never able to
get a bite of his opponent. He made a
snap every five or six (Seconds, but the
wily rooster always escaped Injury.
The fight last some five minutes, and
only once did bantam's life appear to be
in imminent danger. Bantam lost some
of his feathers lu the fight. Terrier lost
one eye and considerable blood.
High Priced Fruit.
Mr. John Piper a fruit dealer In Sin
Francisco, gives the following Items re
garding the price of fruit some years ago
on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Piper says
the first box of apples of Pacific Coast
production which reached San Francis
co came in the year 1855 from the ranch
of Lewis Allen and Mr. Meade, In the
vicinity of Portland, Oregon, the own
ers of the same having crossed the plains
In 1840 and having brought fruit trees
with them.
Mr. Piper purchased the first lot from
the agent, Mr. King, for $2.50 per pound
aud retailed the same from $1 to $4 and
even $5 apiece. The next steamer, the
Columbia, brought another box, for
which Mr. Piper offered the same price,
which was declined. He finally secured
the lot for $1,121 each and sold them
again to two lads named Keeling (now
In the gunsmith business In San Fran
cisco) for $1.87 1-2 apiece, who in turn
peddled them out at $3 to $5 apiece.
During the Winler of 1853.4, Mr Pi
per and Mr. Andrews,who were engaged
in the hardware business on Davis
street ordered 4,000 to 5,000 pounds of
apples shipped from New York City to
San Francisco by steamer, paying 50
cents per pound for freight. The apples
were packed in sawdust in closed tin
cans. Says our Informant: "The apples
when first opened had a delicious flavor,
but turned black In half an hour after
ward from the effect of the heat during
the twenty days, voyage. Mr. Piper
adopted a suggestion from some one to
preserve the apples by pickling them in
salt water, and sold them pickled for 50
cents apiece, at which price they were
readily disposed of. The fruit dealer no
ticed, however,that customers, after tak
luga bite would generally throw away
the apple In the plaza (Portsmouth
Square.) He was afterward advised to
bake the pickled apples, by way of va
riety, aud actually sold several hundred
dollars' worth baked, for 50 cents
apiece."
The first lot of peaches which reached
San Francisco (1854) came from Mr.
Hill's ranch at Napa, aud sold as high
$50 per dozen; retail. Cherries of Ore
gon growth were introduced the same
year. Mr. Piper purchased the first lot
for $2.50 per pound. Putting them in a
clothes-basket he retailed them on the
street for 25 cents apiece, and afterwards
sold them in his store for $5 per pound.
Strawberries arrived from Alemeda
lu 1854 5, and cost $4 a pound whole
sale, and heaped up in French soup-
bowls, holding a half pound each, were
retailed at a high figure. Mr. Piper re
members getting $11 for a single pear.
The first lot of grapes which came from
Log Angelos sold at wholesale as high
as 1.5 cents per pound.
Editors Troubles.
English editors have their troubles
The London Sporting Times says : "If
an editor omits anything, he is lazy. If
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If he exposes a public man, be does it to
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personalities, he Is a blackguards; if he
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certain family, and the daughter's young
man, who was present, spoke up before
he thought, and said: "I tell you that
Jennie ain't so very light, either, al
though she looks so." And he looked
suddenly conscious, and Jennie became
absorbed In studying a chromo on the
wall.
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