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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1891)
— INTRODUCTION 1 was captured near Cleveland, East | Tennessee, immediately after the battle of Missionary Ridge, Nov. 30, 1863, and, 1 with thirty-seven of my men, was sent i on to Richmond, by way of Atlanta. The enlisted men were taken to Belle Isle, and I, with a number of other un fortunate officers who had joined ns [at different points on the way, was sent to the famous, or rather infamous, Libby prison. Some day, if spared, 1 may write ont the story of my six months’ residence in Libby, but as my experience after leaving that place is more personal, I think it will be found more interesting to the av erage reader. When Grant began his advance on Richmond in May, 1861, there were about 23,000 of onr enlisted men in prison on Belle Isle and some 1,200 officers were confined in Libby. All these prisoners were sent down to Andersonville and Macon, Ga., before May 7, excepting a few men who were held back sick in the hospitals, or who had been captured in the battle of the Wilderness. I was one of those who had escaped through “the great tnnnel" from Libby the previous February, but 1 was recap tured after being out four days and five nights, during which time I had little or no sleep and suffered with the cold and for want of food. On being taken back to Libby 1 was placed with other recap tured officers in the cells under the prison, and here I contracted a fever that kept me weak till the other prison ers were hurried south. 1 WAS AGAIN CAPTURED. About the middle of May 1, with a number of other officers and enlisted men—the latter strong, hearty young fellows fresh from Grant's army—was sent to Charleston in charge of a young lieutenant named Lewis. 1 may add that mv story is true in every particular, and that though there are a great many “I's” scattered tbrongh it, which is inevitable in a personal nar rative, that I am not at all eager to fig ure as a hero. Still 1 think 1 can hon estly say that, like the tens of thousands of conscientious men who fought on both sides, I tried to do my duty as a soldier, though I was not yet old enough to vote. It would really take as long to tell of the incidents that occurred between Richmond and Charleston, as it did to make the trip—forty-eight hours. At Charleston we were confined in the jailyard, where we were under the fire of our own batteries stationed- on Morris island, and not an hour of the day, and frequently of the night, passed that we did not hear the whirr and explosion of the shells sent into the city by General Gilmore’s famous "Swamp angel." The tent in which 1 was quartered in the jailyard was directly in the noonday shadow of a permanent gallows, on which many men had been hanged, but neither the sight nor the dismal creaking at night brought horrible suggestions to my mind. It would have been very dif ficult to increase, through the imagina tion, the awful reality of our situation. After being in the jailyard about ten days, an enlisted man who looked like a living skeleton, for he had been in this wretched place for four months, advised me to “play” sick and get sent to the Roper hospital. It did not require much ability as an actor to play sick, for if I had been in my own home 1 should have been in bed with at least two doctors in attendance. But as the Roper hospital was represent ed by my friend to be a “perfect para dise” in comparison with the jailyard, 1 determined to exhaust every effort to get sent there. 1 asked my comrade if he was sure the hospital was better than the jail, and he replied: “You bet it is. Why, it’s a regular up and down heaven compared with this infernal hole. To be sure it ain’t out of the range of shells, but we don’t mind them no more, but it gives you a view of green woods to the west and blue water to the east.” “Views are all very fine,” I replied, “but they don't appease hunger. What advantages has this hospital in the way of extra grub?" “Fine!” exclaimed my informant. "It is in charge of the sisters of charity, the noblest lot of women you ever saw, and all the rooms and blankets are clean, and if you play it sharp you can get white bread and meat and milk, and all that till you can't rest Ah, if 1 was back there again 1 wouldn't leave unless they carried me away on a stretcher.” And the man shook his head and compressed his iips as if he were chiding himself for neglected opportunities. There was no resisting this tantalizing picture of abundant food and luxurious surroundings. 1 had played sick with great success in Libby, and I determined to enact the same role again. Nor did it require acting. If it were not that 1 kept mad right straight along when 1 wasn’t asleep I should have dropped down from sheer weakness, for the pains and exhaustion of dysentery and incip ient scurvy were added to the ever pres ent tortures of hunger. As a matter of form, for 1 never saw them administering any medicine, two or three doctors, all in Confederate uni form, came in every morning and made a tour of the yard and the prison. The next morning 1 waited near the jail door till they came down, and then, with much of the desperation of Oliver Twist when, impelled by the same feeling, lie held up his empty bowl and asked for “more,” 1 placed myself in front of the doctors and saluted. “Well, sir,” said an elderly doctor, whose face indicated that the milk of human kindness in his heart had turned ; sour before or soon after the breaking out of the war, “what do you want?” “1 want to go to the hospital,” I said. “Sick, sir?" “Yes, doctor.” “Where?” censeljefdre the shrine of Diana. a*u the sea, in the hope of falling in with guards took advantage of the wooding I WHY DO WE GIVE GIFTS? these we may call the presents of ex seme of Foster's command or reaching stops to bring in some tepid water, and ‘ pediency, or joss stick presents. one of the gunboats then operating along this was all we had till the following ; Next come the mercantile or trading morning. PRESENTS OF AFFECTION, KINDNESS, that coast. presents. A. gives B. a penwiper at of intelligence and quick-witted enough to It was midnight when we crossed the i BENEVOLENCE AND CHARITY. Hard luck slill pursued him. He was Christmas, and at New Year's B. gives know a ''GOOD THING” at sight, but who has Lost tho Most Precious Posses«ion in the swamps for two weeks, and one river and were marched up the bluff and A. a pincushion. The gift may be dia on Earth, viz. G<h>D HEALTH-WILL into Camp Davidson, a stockade prison night, overcome by fatigue, he lay down monds, and the response rubies, but the Tlmeo Dauaoa et Dona Fereute, — Joss NOT require a SECOND TELLING to l>e to sleep on a hummock. This was with in the eastern section of the city. Here induced to become a purchaser Stick Present*—Mercantile or Trading principle remains the same; both parties in twenty miles of Pocotaligo, then held we found a number of prisoners, though feel that A.'sgift demands a return, and Present»—Mrs. Grundy's Presets—Per- by our troops. He was “puttin in his not enough to use all the comfortable B. would have a very uncomfortable fanctory Presents—Wedding Presents. best licks a-sleepin,” for he was “right tents that had been erected. Bell and consciousness of indebtedness if the pin I Beltsand Appliances. myself decided to stick together, and I smart petered out,” when he was awak- [Copyright, 1891, by American Press Associa- cushion or the rubies were not forth- Devon know why? Because it is plain cued by a loud laugh and “suthin finding an empty tent we crept in and coming, How many times I have seen to be seen th. t tin I Pa TH ONCE TOLD were soon sound asleep, for we were I a-prodilin of’ him. The laugh came from ROBABLY four- some B. receive her gift, and heard her, is enough The Surprising Promptness with which all classes of people res | Kind to a body of Confederate scouts, and the very weak, and the trip, under the cir- 1 fifths—nay, let us sighing, say: our announcements, and the increasing de cumstances, would have taxed the pow- I prodding was doue with their bayonets. , say nine-tenths— “Now, here's a portfolio from A., anil mand for Dr Gregg s Goods wherever in ers of strong men. Bell told them he was an escaping Y’an- of the people of I must go down town and find some- ; troduced is always recognized and the When wo awoke in the morning it kee, and his captors sent him on to quality of merit lakes care of itself. Meta Christendom thing for her before New Year's day.” phorically our statement is the Button— Charleston, where he had been ever was like a glimpse of Eden, so great was will, within the I know one lady who keeps presents of the Public Press it. and since. The prison authorities knew he the contrast between this camp and that next few days, this sort put away in their original wrap was a mountain man, “and, doggone loathsome jail in Charleston. There hr. (¡iTgii's Elertrir Sprcialtis« both make and pers to be sent next year to other com ’em, they made hit all the harder on were a number of fine live oak trees in receive at least mercial present makers. There is some “1M> TIIE REST.” the inclosure. There were flowering that account, bnt they ain't nigh done The extent of Pressure on the button and one gift in honor thing to say for the custom and also for shrnbs here and there, evidently the re die mk < <•>< <»t Dr. Grrirg’s Eklctrie Goods with me yet. I'm a gwiue to live jest [ of Christmas or 'this class of presents. They express re in “DOING the He?t.” is nio>t satisfacto so's to kinder even things up back there mains of a fine garden that had once oc of the New Year, membrance and a friendly feeling, and rily shown in the marvelous growth of our in the mountains of ole Buncombe, and cupied this site. The tents were well besides in some after all perhaps it might be well for us I business the past G) «lays. the <1—d sneak ez sold me out will larn set, surrounded by drains, and in good Kcpeate«! and increasing demamls f«»r cases supernu all to accept SHch gifts and pass them hit was’bout the worst trade he ever repair. The place was so very nice and merary presents incident to birthdays along until they were shabby and old ’ THI <¡10 GG E!.L.< I PJ<' TOOT WAIIM- EB” are <oming in from all parts of the mixed up in since he was bo'n. The clean, by comparison with onr recent and weddings. fashioned, when they could be given to country with pro.us«» acknowledgements Bells ain't much on talk, but we ’uns’s abode, as to stir as to a realization of that sn much comfort for $1 (the price)was If that visitor from another planet to a fair for the grab bag. They would , got powerful long mem'ries aud ain't our filth and rags. Then the gnards whom we often refer could “drop in" answer for tho pretty pearl counters or I like buying («old Dollars for ten cents were old soldiers, native Georgians, and The Rugge«l Constitution <»t Man when given to fohgittin friends noh foes; no, during the present holiday season, he “fish” people used in old times for games broken. hectiiiH s pitiable in the ex not, praise de Good Mastali, if hit takes I will add, with respectful emphasis, would echo the old Roman cry, “How of chance. They were pretty, and wen- once treme. trom which then* is absolutely no fifty thousand million yeahs. Now yon they were gentlemen. scape without assistance The Gregg But the crowning glory of Camp these Christians love one another!" and supposed to represent a real vahie, but • lilectrie uns had bettah watch out.” Belts i.nd Appliances, in cases of go back to Herschel or Mercury very they were always passing from hand to The last sentence was rounded off with Davidson was what Bell called “the favorably impressed with the brotherly hand and were not really wortii much of this kind, have h<»ne>tlv won their title of ki\<. OF i:t.Ml'.i»lb< one of his fluent oaths, and was evident fodder." The rations of corn bread, ba kindness and large generosity existent anything. Rheumatism is comiuered. sulTerers from ly intended for the enemy in Buncombe con, rice and sweet potatoes were not npon this little globe of ours. obesity are spr«‘diiy relieved, dropsy Next to these come Mrs. Grundy's quickly yie only good, but for the first time in long ’ds. spinal diflieulties ami par county. But say he «line in March, while the presents—gifts made because it is the alysis «lisarpcar. months they were ample. To be sure and many other diseases Tom Bell's narration did me a great east winds blow all along our Atlantic fashion to make them, and one would of'Men am! Women are permanently cure«l we promptly devoured everything given deal of good, for it was a capital story, coast, or in November, when chill fogs seem ignorant and out of the world if fully described In complete < -Oalogue for 6c full of vim and action, and with all the to us, and we could have eaten twice as and nipping frosts and leaden skies in he did not make them. Under this head orclab »rate e’reular tree. We guarantee thrilling situations of a melodrama. much with infinite relish, but I doubt if duce misanthropy and influenza, would coino the flowers men send to their host to forfeit twice the price of any of Dr. Gregg’s Goods found to be not genuine And then liis deliberate way of telling one ounce more would have been to our he have been as favorably impressed? ess after an entertainment, or to the We make an elegant little $3 Electric Belt, it. as if he were weighing his thoughts advantage. which is selling very rapidly nnd which we And yet, why not? Why does all the young lady with whom they hope to There was a stockade around Camp or trying to find words in which to ex world bloom with love aud good will, dance at one; the carriages, the gloves will take in exelmne for any Higher Power Davidson, and there was also the custom Belt land credit |3 on the press them, and his quaint phraseology shown in the practical form of spending due from philopena or valentine sur I'clt i of except new order. Remember the electric and not unmusical voice gave an adde-l ary dead line, but I do not thi nk that its substance npon presents, making en prise, the theater parties and suppers the price "Foo* Warmers” are$1 a pair, worth |10. ever a prisoner was shot there.for stum charm to the telling. tertainments and feasting its friends ex poor victim cannot afford to give and After lie had finished his story and 1 bling beyond the prescribed limits, actly in the middle of the winter, in the yet must, “because it is expected" and THE GREGG ELECTRIC CURE CO had returned the confidence by telling though in every other prison such home last week of December and the first week “all the other fellows do.” 501 Inter Ocean Building, Chicago, III. guard practice was the rule. him mine, I asked: ami mention this paper. of January? Not once, but often, I have heard of By climbing into the trees Bell and "Have you given up all thought of “Why, on account of Christinas and some young man “gone to the bad," as myself had a good view of Savannah, escape, Bell?” THE YAQUINA ROUTE with the fine Pulaski monument rising the New Year!” shouts somebody. we say, because beiug in society he could “Given up all thought of hit?” he re from a parallelogram of green in the “Don't you keep Christmas?” “Oh, yes, not, upon a moderate salary, offer Mrs. peated. “By the great jumpir. jingol 1 center. Camp Davidson had tempting with all the rest of the world, but some- . Grundy the presents she demanded, and I don't think of nothin else. W’y, I advantages for tunneling, and after be times I canuot help asking myself why.” [ so fell into debt or made free with the dream of hit. Hit was hopin that this ing there four days a number of us had 1 always did ask why about everything. moneys intrusted to him; in fact, ruined d—d place would give one a better show decided on one, when on the afternoon When I was a very little girl my father himself by fulfilling this absurd “social that made me play dead sick, and got of the fifth day we were again told to (at Christmas, of course,) made me a , obligation.” T. ZZ. ZZcg'fr, ILccclxrer. them tins to send me heali. But you see i pack up as we were going on to Macon. present of a lovely French doll with Suppose we all agree to henceforth —AND— what hit is—just death and sufferin and [ skip Mrs. Grundy in making out our list golden cnrls and sky blue eyes that ' We marched to the station in a sufferin and death. VVe uns, I reckon, drenching of presents, or at any rate put her off opened and shut, and a rosy mouth that rain and were again crowded has seed lots of men a-lyin, without into box cars, and to keep out the wet also opened—that is to say, one could by with a much smaller and less expensive breathin, ou the field, and I'll allow, the doors were closed, making the air a string under the skirts pull down the I schedule than she at present demands. when we ain’t downright mad, hit’s a foul and as hot as an oven. Bell had lower jaw, producing a startling grimace But of all the various follies and ex mighty touchin sight. Bnt, my God, to concealed in his boot a caseknife, which and the sounds “Ma-ina! Pa-pa!" an travagances with which the pleasant 225 Miles Shorter—20 hours less see the dead that’s took out of lieah he had appropriated at the workhouse, accomplishment described as talking. time than by any other route. idea of making gifts to those we love every mawnin, hit cuts plum into the ; and as the train rolled ont of Savannah Well, I played with my doll awhile, has run in these latter days, the wildest class through |>s*s<nprr ami freight heart, and thar's nogittin uster hit. The he whispered to me: opening and shutting the eyes, evoking departure has lteen in wedding presents. line aj"Fir*l fr^nt Portland nn<l »11 point. In the Wil heart anil the stomach is bound to have The origin of the custom was in the the extraordinary effort at speech, and Ismctle valley Io and Iron» Fan Ftanciaro. “Tonight or never!" thar own way," and 1 could feel that he ! “good old times" before this country These words were on my own tongue, then I began to inquire “why?” shuddered as if he were cold. Time Schedule ¿excel I Sundays) Nobody could tell me, and I proceeded was discovered, and even today in north and 1 was about to suggest that we The guards announced, “Twelve o’clock use the knife to cut a hole in the bottom to find out for myself by the aid of a pair ern Europe and among certain of the LeiiveAll>:invl2:2O pm leave Yaquina aud all's well!" before Tom Bell anil of the car, through which we could drop of scissors. I found out, and my father I primitive people of Transylvania, the 'nivalis 'orvalls 1 1:03 :O3 pm " < CorvallslO orvsIlslOaiu ’vYiiqtiiiial : U» | pm AnivAlbanytl :13a»i Arr'vYn>|liiliii4 I thought of going to sleep. It was down to the track at some halting place coming into the room discovered me ■ kindly feeling is that when a couple of Arr (). & C tiains connect at Albany and ('or- daylight, and the flies had been at work and escape in the darkness, when my sitting among the ruins of my doll, a | the neighborhood young folk marry vallia. for some time, when we got up and put friend anticipated me by outlining the string and some wires in my hand and their friends and acquaintances should The «Uove trains connect at Y aqi ina with the Oregon l>ev lop«-nient < o’a. Line of Steam on our boots and coats, then rushed to ( same plan. an air of dismay upon my face. With combine to start them in life. The ship* between Yaqiiiua an«l San Fianciaco. the window for a breath of air tliat had N. B.—Passengers from Portland ami all Wil- The car floor was far from sound, so one glance he took in the whole scene wealthy give magnificently, a cow or not in it the sickening odor of that char- i that under the cover of our one blanket, and quietly remarked. even two or three, a horse, a little flock ameltt» Valley Points can make close conn«*«* nel house. “Well, Floy, you've fonud out why of sheep, some beds and coverings of tiou with the trains «•! the Y aq VINA I.’ oute at though there was no light inside, we cut ««r Corvallis, and if destined to San “Five this morning; there were seven away one end of a board close to the and you've ruined your doll. You won't eider down or choice live goose feathers Albany Fraiirisco. should aria&ge «» arrive at Yaqnina yesterday,” replied Muth in answer to middle of the car, nnd then we whis have another very soon, my dear, but of the donor's own plucking and curing. the evening before date oi sailing. Bell's question as to the number of pered the secret to onr friends and eager when yon have I advise you not to look Those less affluent content themselves Sailing l>at<‘s. deaths. What mattered it? The sooner ly awaited the next stop of the train. The Steutiier Willnincttv Valley will sail below the surface. Take pretty things with a churn, a table, some chairs, ]>er. FROM NAN FRAN ER<»M Y \QIINA. it was over the better, for, even if at on their face, my child, and they'll last haps a mirror of very modest dimensions, [ continued .] Mil November 3tli once attended with the greatest care, it a piece of linen or homespun woolen, and Nnvembor Ihtll the longer.” Utli is doubtful if one in ten of the men on MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA It was sound advice, and although I so on, down to a cheese or some bushels “ 23Ui •jstli that floor could have pulled through. As fugitives from a Confederate prison did not see the why at the time, when I of apples or potatoes, so that when the Deceinlar <»tll De -ember 2th As it was, there seemed not the faintest was no picnic. Read “A Prisoner of was a little older I picked the speech to wedding is over and the guests gone the l‘..aaetiger anil fteialil ih I ch ala ays the low hope for the strongest of them. Soon pieces just as I had the doll, only instead newly married couple find themselves in . st I'm i loiniaiion. apply C. to HOGDR, War," by Alfred R. Calhoun. Now run after this yellow fever was added to the of spoiling it I found out the real use of a house stocked to overflowing with valu (kill. Fit. A res«. Agt., Oregon Pacific It. ____ it for dessert after we had finished our other horrors of the Charleston prisons, ning in this paper. able property; valuable in the sense of Co , Coi val’is, Oregon. it, and have benefited by it ever since. A Traveling Comfort» pone of corn bread and thin soup that but Black Jack showed great impartial W P. WEBSTER But “What’s bred in the bone,” you being just wiiat they need and what they A woman who is going traveling al know, will come out once in awhile at must have bought for themselves if it Geli'!. I'rt. A P ass ., Agt., Oregon Itevelopmetn evening. ity, for he carried off a number of the <:• Montgomery street Sun Frsnciaco. C» ways takes a book or buys one on the least, and I still say why sometimes, as had not been given. The workhouse hospital was wretched prison officers as well as the Yankees. when the sunlight strained in through After being a week in the workhouse road. But that volume has a most pro in this matter of making presents. Now brides of today, at least in the the window bars, but if possible it was I asked to be returned to the jailyard, voking way ot slipping from the lap How many motives there are for keep city, do not need cows or sheep or still worse at night A few lean can Bell joining his application with mine, when one is not reading or dropping out ing up the practice. First of all, love or churns, or even cheeses in any quantity, —VIA— dles fastened to the walls in tin cans, anil this request was granted twenty of one's arm when there is a crowd, or affection. Every one of ns lias some one, but they do want, if they are going to perhaps lieing left liehind by mistake that made them drip and burn "ont of minutes after it was made. We had a or it may be we have several fellow keep house, all sorts of pretty furniture, plumb,” as Bell put it, served to reveal purpose in wishing to return to the jail. and so lost. It is a wonder some one of beings, to whom it is a delight and a little tables, fancy chairs, draperies, the sex hasn't invented a contrivance to the spectral figures lying without a Of course we wanted to get out of that privilege to make presents. Sometimes ornaments, pictures and bric-a-brac moan and with scarcely a sign of life abominable hospital, but the day before do away with all this tronble.bat no one there is one to whom in making a gift adapted to the position they hold i • so Express Tyains Leave Portland Daily LEAVE ARRIVE. along the floor. After 9 o'clock the one of the guards, a man with a heart in has, so this is offered as a suggestion. we typify the gift of our very self. “All ciety and intend to maintain. Of course Portland 7 .00 p hi SnnFranrisro KJ.bam guards outside began their half hourly him, placed a paper on the point of hi3 that I have and own is thine, dear love,” plate is always useful and acceptable, San ¡-'ran. 7:00 p n> Portland 7.35am cry of “All's well,” a signal that 1 had bayonet and pushed it up to"Tfie window we sing in the depths of our own heart, but why cannot it be given with a view Al»ove trains stop only at following sta grown very familiar with in Libby, bnt where I was standing. Inside the paper and from those depths springs the im to the recipient’s probable need rather tions north of Unseburg; East Portland, here it sounded even more like a mock there was a loaf of white bread and a Oregon <’¡tv. \V<x»<lburni, Salt-in, Albany, pulse to lavish whatever we have or can than to the glory of the donor? Tangent, sliedds, Halsey. Harrisburg, Jun ery. piece of boiled bacon, which was shared Few young couples, for instance, are ction procure of costly or rare or beautiful at city. Irving. Eugene The night was nearly as hot as the with the men lying near. The paper in daily need of a solid silver epergne or the feet of the beloved. Itosebuig Mail Dniljr. day, the air being heavy with a sugges was of that date, the 10th of June, and soup tureen or set of dish covers, or of You all know what 1 mean, but the LEAVE. ARRIVE tion of Bnlpbnr in it, for some shells had it contained an item saying that as the vases more suited to * church altar than most of you read the words with a smile Portia i<l . X:05 a in Roseburg.. . 5:40 p exploded near by that evening. Bell jail was getting packed uncomfortably Roseburg. 6:20 a m Portland . 4 “ :UU p a dinner table, nor do two people, even and a sigh, saying, “Ah! that didn't Albany Lccal, Daily. Except Sunday. and myself had become quite good it had been decided to send a lot of the last long.” No, it didn’t; it never does; counting in the possible contingent, re friends by the time 9 o'clock came, so Yankees on to Camp Oglethorpe, at Ma ARRIVE. but while it did last it was the very quire twelve dozen forks, as many Portland LEAVE pin Albany.. 9: we made one bed of our blankets and con, Ga. spoons multiplied by four varieties and Albany........ 5: crown and blossom of present making. a: a in Portland R: lay down side by side, using our boots We were puzzled by another para But next to these ecstatic love gifts a dozen or so of sonp ladles. and coats for a pillow. In this position graph, which stated that 600 Yankees How much more rational if the friends Pullman Ibiffct Slrtpen, come the presents of affection; those Bell became more communicative and were coming on from Macon, and that that we give to our parents, our children, able and willing to expend such sums Tourist Sleeping Cara, told me his very remarkable story. tho fair grounds were being fixed tip so our near relatives aud our true friends, had combined them in a solid invest For accommodation of second class passen Briefly, it was this: to accommodate any number of prison ment, and presented the certificates to if we are so lucky as to possess any such. gers attached to express trains He was born in the western part of ers. Bell and I wanted, if any prisoners These are honest gifts; real expres the bride as her private property. Every WEST ’SIDE DIVISION Buncombe county, in the mountains of were sent away, to be among the num sions of a desire to demonstrate our af body knows that since this fashion of Between Portland and Corvallis. North Carolina, as his father and grand ber, and we made up our minds, if for fection aud to give pleasure to the object ostentatious display of equally ostenta Mall Train Daily, except Sunday father had been before him. All the warded to Macon, to escape liefore LEAVE I ARRIVE of it. They are a good deal calmer and tious gifts has come in vogue the bride's men in that section were “right straight reaching there or to "die a-tryin.” more rational than the love gifts; we do family find it necessary to employ po Portland . 7 :30 a m A BOOK HOLDER. M cMinn' 10:10 a in up and down, no-inistakc Andrew Jack- The third morning after my return not quite mean or desire to lose sight of licemen in plain clothes to guard the From a piece of dark brown chamois the price of what we purchase or its pro treasures from the thieves, who, also in Corvallis 12 : Vi p m son Democrats, anil some of we uns from the poorhonse two officers, accom McMinn* 2 :.ÎO p m didn't never own no slaves and didn’t panied by a guard of about twenty men, cut an oblong which, when folded, will portion to our means; we do not (meta plain clothes, sneak in among the wed At Albany and Corvallis connect *Hli want to.” They were opposed to seces- entered the jailyard, a very unusual a little more than cover tho back and phorically) sell the clothes from off our ding guests and watch their opportunity trains of Oregon Pacific. sion, and “didn’t want no new flag so proceeding at 8 o'clock in the forenoon. sides of an ordinary l>ook. It can be back to buy a bouquet or a jewel, but to secure the tempting booty. Express Train Daily, except Sunday. long’s tho old one was a-flyin some- The prisoners were assembled—that is, stiffened by pasteboard cut nearly as cheerfully give what we can properly The reception over, the plate and LEAVE. ARRIVE. p niiMcMnn .. 7 .25 p m w'eres in God’s breeze.” Many of these those who were tented in the yard—and large, or by that very stiff canvas used afford in justice to ourselves and to our jewels are at once packed and sent down I MH I a nd . 4 McMinn ’ . . 5 :45 a m| Portland. 8;2ftaiti for men's clothing but purchasable at North Carolinians fled into east Tennes- were told to step forward when their other friends. It is all very consistent, to the safety vaults, there to remain for see, and, uniting with the Union men names were called. Among tho sixty dry goods stores, in which case a lining the sweet folly of love outstrips sober the most part sine die, for it is far too there, they fought their way to Ken- names were Bell's and mine. When the of silk, satin or sateen, of any chosen reason, but affection quietly walks hand rich a lure to burglars to be kept in the tucky and joined the Union army. list was finished we were told to pack shade, must be inserted. The outside in hand with that calm goddess and house, and nobody could ever want to EAST AND SOUTH. For tickets and full information regard It is not generally known that every up, and were informed that we were go can have a design painted or outlined, listens to her counsel and warniugs. use the half of it. ing rates, maps, etc., call on the Company’a with some suitable motto in quaint let southern state, South Carolina excepted, ing to be sent on to Macon. Then in the matters of no real value, agent at McMinnville Next in the scale come the gifts of had white military organizations in the As we had been moving in the lightest tering. and yet made expensive by fashion and E. P. ROGERS, Still another way to make it is to kindness, of benevolence and of charity, a showy exterior, what fabulous sums R KOEHLER. Union army. The First North Carolina kind of marching order since our cap and these also are honest aud worthy, if Manager. Asst. G F. A P Agt did excellent service in the fall cam ture there was but little packing to do, stiffen it with ribbon wire, which is flat so be they are given in sincerity; we all are wasted by way of wedding presents paign with Burnside in 1863 and subse but every fortunate owner of a blanket and can be laid entirely around the ob know persons for whom we do not per of no earthly ase to the recipients, but quently, and tlio Second North Carolina rolled it lip and slung it over his shoul long near its edge. It is covered with sonally care very much, but whom we yet half mining the donor. Fans! I was authorized by the president, and der. We were marched out anil down ribbon held down by feather stitching, pity because they are old, or lonely, or positively know a bride who received men were commissioned and sent into through the heart of the city to the sta which forms the decoration of the case. sick, or have but few friends and few twenty-seven, and many of them almost the Blue Ridge to recruit it from the tion. On the way we afforded a great deal If this is done, the ribbons for carrying means of attr -cting them, and to give facsimilies of each other, and none of fl hardy mountaineers who had stubbornly of amusement to some of the white wom it ought to be placed around the case so some little present to such a one is a them matched to any particular toilet, fl fl refused to volunteer or to be drafted en still left in the city. They came out they will pass under the book as it hangs kindly and graceful act; it has always so that before half of them could be a into the Confederate army. Bell had from their shrubbery surrounded villas from the arm. Several books, large and seemed to me a duty for those whose used the whole would have ltecome old A been a sergeant in the Second East Ten to the street, anil in strident voices small, or packages of pamphlets and lives are passed in the sunshine and fashioned and only valuable as memen TRAOK*AÁwks. TRADE MA ulta nessee, but as he was peculiarly well made comments on the appearance of written documents can easily be tied amid all the sweetness anil brightness of toes. DESIGN PATENTS qualified to help recruit the proposed the “Lincoln hirelings." We certainly in the case, and a little pocket made life to act as moons and shed, if only a fCOPYRIGHTS, «to. One might simplify the list of useless regiment he was commissioned first were what Bell called "a <1—d sorry of a bit of the chamois pasted in reflected radiance, upon those shadowy and expensive presents almost indefi *'£1 v'WJn1 Handbook write to ?? * ( °-i ■‘ni B roadway , Ntw Y ork . lieutenant anil sent on that mission. lookin crowd and no gittin round hit,’ side will bold visiting and business lives creeping along through the deserts nitely, but nearly every one can com , u «^«nng patenta In America Every patent taken out by ua is brought befora To guard against being regarded as a and it is not to be wondered at that these cards, or an identification paper in case of life. plete it for himself. the public by a notice given free of charge in the spy if captured, he wore the Federal southern dames contrasted us unfavor of accident. On this pocket the full And what do you say is the true in A little gift at Christmas time to such uniform, and once on the ground he ably with the good looking officers and name and address of the owner can be a one brings happiness to two hearts if wardness of this discussion? To do took no pains to hide his purpose or to well fell guards who hail us in charge. painted or stitched, for after all there is only for a few moments, and these are away with making presents? conceal his sentiments. No, indeed! I love to make presents They firmly believed, as they pointed a possibility—women are but human— not the gifts of benevolence which ex He was meeting with good success and out to their children "the wretches who that the book may be lost, case and all. presses itself in giving dinners and warm and I love to receive them, but as I be was in hopes of filling his complement had come down to spill the best blood of Any of the following may be put on the clothing and coals to deserving persons gan by saying each present given or re by the end of December, when rashly he the south,” that in dress and appearance outside of the case: who need them, in paying a quarter's ceived onght to be able to answer its “A book for companionship,” “Th'“’ rent for some struggling young couple own why. There should be love or af ventured too far to tho east He was we were a very fair sample of the whole betrayed by a man he thought his friend northern army. Of course we took no are never alone who are accompanied by or in doing something handsome for fection or real friendship and a desire to and captured one morning while he was notice of these women, but it should be noble thoughts,” "A friend always re.i iy those in one's employ; kindness is what show it and a desire to give pleasure be talk or keep silence,” “A ; in the act of dressing, and when he did said to the credit of our guards that they to we show to those in our own social posi hind each present to make it a real thing. and dear,” “For solitary hour not think there was a uniformed Con tried to stop them, and in a number of tion, to those not in need of any material Let us try to do away with the mercantile, federate within miles. He was charged cases used language more forcible than help, while benevoleuce is a more expen the propitiatory and the Grundy gifts as Very Convenient. with being a spy, and with his arms polite, but without having the slightest A set of pock sive and also expansive quality, and im mnch as possible. Let ns make onr wed bound behind him was forced at the effect. plies really benefiting those upon whom ding gifts for the benefit of the bride and ets to hold hair, point of a rifle to inarch to Asheville, I At the station we were ;>nt into box string or any bits we bestow our gifts, and then there is her future home an 1 not for the display thirty miles away. Here he was brought cars that were comparatively clean. In of work, or which charity which is almsgiving, either per of our own magnificence. Let ns in one I before a court, and after a mockery of a other cars there were other prisoners can be used for sonally or through institutions, to those word remember that every gift honld trial was found guilty and sentenced to just brought down from the north, but scraps, is made mean something both to the giver and really and avowedly in need of it. be hanged on the following Friday, we had no opportunity of communicat by fastening A great many persons make charita to the receiver, and rescue the fine old which gave him three days’ grace. ble gifts who never take the trouble to custom from the hollow mockery it ing with them at that time. When we three butcher On the night preceding the day set for I started from the jail it was evidently the cuffs together af t- be benevolent, far less to offer those gifts seems in danger of becoming. M bs . F rank L esije . liis execution he escaped with the con- ■ intention of the authorities to send us to er closing them of kindness whose value depends upen nivance of a guard, but instead of mak Macon by way of Columbia, Augusta at the narrow the tact and personal feeling with which DRUNKENNESS— LIQUOR nA BIT-In all the World there in but one curt, ing his way directly back he thought it1 anil Atlanta, but Sherman’s operations ends by puffs of they are offered. I>r. Haines’ Golden I'peiifir, more prudent to keep along the foot in Georgia compelled them to change the blue silk, from But not one-half the presents made 11 ran lx» eiven in a c np of tea or < offer without kii"wl“.igo of tho prison taking it. effecting» hills to the east of the Blue Ridge till lie route at the last moment, and we were which hang tiny and received, taking the year through, the sp««- i| aii'l pcTniaii’iit < ;i»<*. Whether th»- Mth nt ISA reached the head waters of the Savan sent on to Savannah. moderate driuker or an ak-uliulic wrec k Thousands are prompted by love, affection, kind <>f silk tassels. They drunkards have been cured who have takeu the nah, when he would turn west into Ten ness, benevolence or charity. What ti. i.kji rjMrigc in their coffee without their knowl- In each ear there were two guards, can be gilded, edue. and today believe they quit drinking of their nessee. After being out for a week he and as the day was very hot the doors bronzed or deco then? Why are they made? own free will. Ko harmful effect rewulta from its was wounded and recaptured by a party were left open, and about these all rated with flow Well, a good many are made in obedi Hdiniuiatration. Cures guaranteed. Kend for cir cular and fait particular*. Address in confidence. who were out hunting deserters and crowded who could, to get a breath of ers in oils or ence to the old adage, “Timeo danaos »rkuirtc Co., )»G Xr.ce Street, Cincinnati. O taken to Augusta. Here he gave his cool air and a glimpse of the low, heavy silk stitch et dona ferentes.” We wish to propi 4fllf o'outers,wno wwi «xamine correct name and his old regiment, and swampy country over which that road is ing. Blue silk tiate those who may do us an injury if WU Uli I IvUllw this paper,Of obt*»n ettimafae on advertising »pace when in Chicago, will find it on file a» he was sent on to Richmond. When at I built. We had some corn bread served cord matching offended and may do us a favor if Branchville he escaped again, and this to us at the station before starting, and the puffs is used pleased, and we offer presents much in N. W« A YE R & SO*?, our authorUcd iMont* time he determined to make his wav tn twice in the cou^e of the ilav one of the to suspend them.i sFTOi’.ivxr r pfCicn: * the spirit those old Greeks hioroet in. the Adreitnir.g Agenc I stiff lipper lip. Better times are coming. If we can’t manage to escape to our peo ple, depend on it they will come for us after a bit. But don’t give up. If swear ing comforts you at all—I know it has been a great satisfaction to me at times —why swear in all the languages you are master of; or if you think praying is a better hold, and no doubt it is, pray for all you are worth, but don’t ask God to forgive your enemies—that would be , a little too much—till this war is over, and then we won't have any enemies.” I laid my hands on young Muth’s shoulders as I spoke, auil to my great delight a smile lit up his face, and he shot ont an oath and said: “I guess you are right; I'll try it!” We became chummy at once, and he ‘AU over. 1 think.” And 1 spoke of the scurvy ami dysentery, but out ot re- led me down to the farthest end of the spect for his feelings, which I was par ward, and after some care selected two ticularly anxious not to offend. I said army blankets, aud rolling them np, laid nothing about the hunger He felt my them in an unoccupied corner. He told pulse and dropped my hand. Another me tliat every blanket in the place was man felt my pulse and looked at his in an indescribable state of filth,but this watch—it was a fine gold one—in a pro did not Bhock me; it certainly would fessional way that seemed more like have surprised me if they were in any other condition. The nurse introduced business "Put ont your tongne." commanded me to a tall young man, Lieutenant Bell, who slept near where my blankets t lie elderly doctor. I did so in good shape and turned were placed, but who, though evidently about to the others that they might look a very sick man, had strength enough to up, for lie was looking disconso at it, and 1 wondered the while if they stand could read in it or on it the gnawing lately out of the window when we ap proached him. hunger that was devouring me. I As Lieutenant Bell and myself were "When were you captured?” asked the intimately associated from this time on, man with the gold watch. and particularly in the escape which I i “Last December,” I replied. shall presently describe, I may be par "Where have yon been?" doned for giving more than a passing "Principally in Libby." "How long have yon been feeling notice to one of the bravest and most original characters 1 ever met. He was bad?" If I had answered this question truth at this time about twenty-five years of fully I should have replied, “Ever since age, bnt a wound in the right breast, the hour of my capture," bnt prudence which had not healed after seven months, and the hunger and disease gave him led me to reply. "Since coming here." They questioned me still further, the appearance of a man of forty-five or tapped me over the breast of my ragged more. He was about six feet in height, lithe, and with a form that denoted shirt, then took my name, age and rank, great powers of endurance. The liair and went away, saying that a sergeant was long and dark, and the beard, of a would come to see me after awhile. wanner shade, was soft as silk. He had I was so delighted with the promised steady, bluish gray eyes, and the strong success of this move that I took no in I features of men of that cast usually terest for tho rest of that morning in the found among the Scotch-Irish. I messengers from Morris island, but stood At first Bell—lie said his name was in a position froTi which I could watch Tom Bell and not Thomas—was in the gate by which tho sergeant must en clined to 1 m > distant, and lie rather re ter. pelled my well meant advances, but I was In about an hour a young man with neither angered nor discouraged, for I a book under his arm, a pencil behind knew just how he felt. His speech at his ear and the green chevron of a hos first seemed painfully slow, and he had pital steward on bis sleeve came in, the unmistakable accent of the East and, walking to the middle of the yard, Tennessee and North Carolina moun lio refreshed his memory from the book taineer, with the same tendency to use and called out my name. In an instant words long since obsolete in the outside I was by his side, and looking me over, world, such as the old Saxon form “hit” he asked for it, “yon” for yonder, and to add "Are you sick?” “uns” to the plural pronouns. He was, "1 am,” 1 replied. I think, tho most accomplished and un "Well, I’m to take you to the hos conscious swearer I ever met, nnd curi pital for awhile." ously enough the man's nature was in "To the Roper hospital?” 1 asked. tensely religions; indeed. I never knew Without deigning a reply he motioned him to lie down for tlie night without for me to follow him, and led me in the first dropping on his knees and mutter direction of the workhouse. We entered that forbidding looking building. It was ing a prayer; still, he often confessed to connected with the jail, and was at this me: “Ef the wall don't turn out jest time full of prisoners, our boys, even 'bout right, my faith in the wisdom and more wretched than myself. The steward goodness of an overruling Providence conducted me to a room in the southern will be so shook up that hit won’t be part of the building on the ground floor. i mighty good fo’ much after.” While 1 was trying to break the ice It was covered with dirty cots, on which lay men, every one of whom looked as if with Bell the hospital steward returned with four opium pills, which 1 was to he could never rise again. "The nurse will fix yon a place to I take—-one every night for the dysentery sleep in this ward.” said the steward, | —and a battered tin can containing some with a wave of the hand, "and after a scraped sweet potato and vinegar, which, while I’ll fetch you in some medicine.” he assured me, would "knock scurvy He hurried out of the place, as 1 wished higlier’n a kite.” A s[xxmful every three 1 could have done; and looking about me I realized that I had “jumped out of hours was the prescribed dose, anil as no spoon was to be had he suggested that I the frying pan into the fire.” [ “guess at it,” adding, "It won't hart you 1 if you take it all at once,” and this I CHAPTER I. j found to be the case, for Bell and I ate FROM lllARI.ESTON JAII. WOWillOUSK. TO THE ' | HERE IS A GOOD THING FOR YOU A MAN OR WOMAN, OF DR. GREGG S ELECTRIC OREGON DEVELOPMEN COM PANY’S STEAMSHIP LINE. East and South Southern Pacific Route SHASTA LINE. "SUTHIN A-PRODD1N OF” HIM. I thought Hospital No. 10 at Rich mond the most wretched and hope de stroying place 1 had ever been in, and it certainly was np to that time, but it was as a palace to a morgue compared with the workhouse in Charleston. The hos pital ward must have been the filthiest, most stifling and malodorous apartment I in the building, for it would tax the , imagination of Dante himself to con ceive of anything worse. There were i iron bars to the windows, but had they been thrown wide open and the sick prisoners told that they were free to de I part, 1 doubt if five men ont of about a hundred that were lying and dying along i the grimy floor would have had strength ! enough to crawl through ! Outside, the air was intensely hot; there was not a breath moving ' A live ' oak in the distance, with its gray festoon of Spanish moss, looked particularly : funereal and as still as death. The guards about the building moved in a I 1 heavy, listless way and “toted" their pieces as if they were burdens. Through ■ the windows there was not an inspiring thing in sight but the blue expanse of sky. on which a white cloud rested like an anchored ship In the ward, every thing animate but the flies appeared to be nearing dissolution. Beelzebub, the god of flies, might have made his head quarters in the ward of that workhouse and felt entirely at home. They dark ened the air, nnd their vicions buzzing and more vicious bites were torturing to the nerves. But what impressed me most forcibly was the fact that the men lying on the floor, except in a few eases where some energy remained, did not seem to heed this insect plague It was not that they had become apathetic through habit. Fa miliarity with suffering diss not deaden pain; indeed, where sensation remains it is more apt to intensify it. hut these men were either powerless to resist or the , greater agony of disease and hunger had made them indifferent. The flies ; swarmed about some of the gaunt faces and rose in little clouds when the head was moved. but only to settle down again Here, as at Richmond, the nurses in the prison hospitals were our own men, and the most robust looked little stronger than the poor patients on the floor. One of these men. a young German, with sad blue eyes and an expression of indescrib able melancholy on his pinched and rather handsome face, touched me on the shoulder, after the hospital steward had gone ont. and asked: “Are you an officer, sir, or a private?" ’Well, my friend." 1 replied, “if 1 was back in our lines I should say ‘an officer,’ but here there is no rank. We arc all soldiers, and good ones, 1 hope, 1 though a bit poor and helpless at pres ent" “Ah, sir. if it was only being treated like soldiers,” he said with a sigh, “that would not lie so bad; that is what we enlisted for; but to be treated like dogs, to die like dogs and to be buried like dogs!" i “Don't lose heart, comrade. 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