Pittston Gazette

              D.i?so1 Oldest NewsoaDer in the Wvommg Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1890. A Weedy Local and Family Journal. Notable Events. With kerosene to lightxhe fire Was Bridget Dolan's mad desire. She turned the can in manner light, And soon the fire was burning bright. to uiistart officers of the regular service whose sole conception of their functions is to treat with insult and contempt the hardy frontiersman whose mere presence with the command would be of incalculable benefit. "We have it from indisputable authority," says The Miner's Light of Brandy Qap, "that when our esteemed fellow citizen Hank Mulligan and twenty gallant shots and riders like himself went in a body to Gen. at the cantonment and offered their services as volunteers against the Sioux now devastating the homesteads and settlements of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone valleys, they were treated with haughty and contemptuous refusal by that bandbox caricature of a soldier and threatened with arrest if they did not quit the camp. When wilf the United States learn that its frontiers can never be purged of the Indian scourges of our civilization until the conduct of affairs in the field is intrusted to other hands than these martinets of the drill ground? It is needless to remark in this connection that the expedition led by Gen. has proved a complete failure, and that the Indians easily escaped his clumsily led forces." mies. It could not be said of him that he showed that deference to rank and station which was expected of a junior officer; and among the seniors were several whom he speedily designated "unconscionable old duffers" and treated with as little semblance of respect as a second lieutenant could exhibit and be permitted to live. Rayner prophesied of him that, as he had no balance and was burning his candle at both ends, he would come to grief in short order. Hayne retorted that the only balance that Rayner had any respect for was one at the banker's, and that it was notorious in Washington that the captain's father had made most of his money in government contracts, and that the captain's original commission in the regulars was secured through well paid congressional influence. The fact that Rayner had developed into a good officer did not wipe out the recollection of these facts; and he could have throttled Hayne for reviving them. It was "a game of give and take," said the youngster; and he "behaved himself to those who were at all decent in their manner to him. gentleman, no one can iiarm mm, especially when all the good .fellows of the regiment are his friends, as they are mine, I thank, in the Riders. eyed, Oond faced old soldier is the colonel, and he is snapping with electricity, apparently. TIE HULL! HIE. really believed that ir it had not been for Dr. Pendleton there would have been no war, and maffy men said that if the war ever ended and the doctor came back there to live they would shoot him on sight. The war did end, however, and the doctor returned, and in a few weeks was practicing his profession in the very families who had promised to Bhoot him on sight. Such are the changes in men's sentiments in times of war and in times aa an adjunct or tne war, was Known chiefly in the border states. In Kentucky the home guard became one of the prominent features of the times. They were armed by the state with old fashioned muzzle loading muskets, and beyond that each man furnished his own accouterments. They had no armory or camp, each man carrying his gun home with him, and they gathered for drill or a raid upon special summons. The small boys were utilized in summoning a squad of home guards on short notice. These men did some hard fighting at times, but as a general thing they did some of the cleanest running on record. come to search Ills house, but he would give them his word of honor as a Christian minister and gentleman that no ona was there." "This way, Hull. Come right here, and Til show you what you are to do." And, followed by Rayner, Hull and Hayne, the chief rides sharply over to the extreme left of the position and points to the frowning ridge across the intervening swale: "Ah, Hayne, it is a hard thing to teach a youngster that—that thenr~are men who find it very easy to make their juniors' lives a burden to them, and without overstepping a regulation. It is harder yet to say that friends in the army are a good deal like friends oat of it—one only has to get into serious trouble to find how few they are. God grant you may never have to learn it, my boy, as many another has had to, by sharp experience! Now we must get a good night's rest. You sleep like a log, I see, and I can only take cat naps. Confound this money! How I wish I could get rid of it!" RECOLLECTIONS OP A BOY—'61-05. A guard was placed to watch the old man while others went in search of tht supposed "rebel" fugitive. They finally found him, and the parson was turned over to the Federal authorities and kept in prison until the war closed. METHODS OF DISGUISE. A neighbor of mine met a company of men one day clad in Federal uniforms. The leader stopped him and looked over his horse, and ordered him to dismount and change horses with one of the gang whose horse was "bushed." The young man pleaded for his horse, saying that he was a good Union man, and that he had a brother in the Union army, and that was his brother's horse. Of course the horse went, for the men were guerrillas in disguise. This custom of disguise was also practiced by the Federal scouts and home guards at times. An acquaintance of mine was ordered to dismount and unsaddle a beautiful gray thoroughbred horse. He declared that he was a thoroughbred secessionist, and that he had often desired to join the army, but had remained at home on account of his aged father and mother. His horse joined the army there and then, but not the Confederate army. "*•' INVOLCNTAHY "HOSS SWAPPING." These horse swaps did not always re- • suit so disastrously as they at first indicated. The guerrillas preferred Ken tucky thoroughbred stallions to other kind of horse, and ' stances where these were fresh horses, after rest ment they rallied fror dition and proved to value than the horse It used to be commoL farmers who had good them down and leave that they had tb*." less beasts, and thus seizure. I have many horses on the farm thr tied them out in the keeping only a few ' in the barn. A man there was whose wife's mamma Came on a visit from afar; They all had many a merry day. And now he's sorry she's gone away. The Incidents of a Four Tears' Fight in a Badly Divided Region, by One Who Was There—Murder and Robbery—Brave A youth who wished to wed a maid. Straight to her father went and said: "Kind sir, I love your daughter dear." "She's yours, with fifty thousand clear." "There, Hull; there are twenty or thirty of the rascals in there who get a flank fire on us when we attack on our side. What I want you to do is to mount your men, let them draw pistol and be all ready. Rayner, here, will line the ridge to keep them down in front. I'll go back to the right and order the attack at once. The moment we begin and you hear our shots, you give a yell, and charge full tilt across there, so as to drive out those fellows in that ravine. We can do the rest. Do you understand?" Defense and Cowardly Attack—Some Amusing Incidents. of peace. When the work of recruiting for the Union army had begun in earnest, the custom of holding what were called "barbecues" was inaugurated. A large gathering would be held in some grove, and orators and recruiting officers would address the people and appeal to the spirit of patriotism until men who sat beside their wives with a child upon their knees would kiss the wife and child and walk up by the dozens and sign the roll which meant separation for years for all, and forever for many. As rapidly as the companies were filled they were sent on to the nearest post or "camp" and merged into the rapidly filling" regiments and brigades. Often there would be left only the old men and small boys to take care of the home. Every able bodied man, including in some cases father and sons, were enlisted in the army. The stovepipe Joint was out of place. Dismay-was on the poor man's face; He climbed and pushed with might and main. And easily shored it back again. By WABBEN 0. BENTON. Upon the street, where strollers stray, The peeling from an orange lay. And every member of the throng Stepped over it and went along. —Washington PosC [Copyright, 1800, by American Press Association.] In my native village in Kentucky the people were about equally divided in their sympathies between the "Union as it was" and the "secession doctrine." A WAR OF "BACKS." I remember one occasion in particular where a force of home guards, several hundred strong, were assembled to intercept a raid of Morgan's men. Word kept coming to headquarters of the strength of the enemy, and the numbers increased with each repetition, until nothing short of annihilation to the whole home guard force seemed possible. Already the tramp of horses' feet could be heard. Brave farmers stood with guns at half cock and looked into each others' faces. Officers nervously raised their field glasses to view the approaching hordes. Then they looked across the river to the west and contemplated the untrodden and secure recesses of those deep woods. They looked toward the foe once more and beheld fifteen horsemen riding fearlessly toward them. If the advance guard numbered fifteen men what must the army itself be? The thought was too much for these citizen soldiers. They remembered that they had wives, children and sweethearts to defend, so they took to the woods, and to make sure their retreat, they never stopped until they had placed several miles of an almost impenetrable forest and canebrakes between them and Morgan's invading hordes. "Where do you keep it to-night?" THE DESERTER. "Right here in my saddlebags under my head. Nobody can touch them that I do not wake; and my revolver is here under the blanket. Hold on! Let's take a look and Bee if everything is all right." He holds a little camp lantern over the bags, opens the flap, and peers in. "Yes, all serene. I got a big hunk of green sealing wax from the paymaster and sealed it all up in one package with the memorandum list inside. It's all safe so far, even to the hunk of sealing wax. —What is it, sergeant?" . The recognized leader of the latter was & bright young physician, who has since achieved fame in his profession. This doctor enrolled a company and organized it as an incipient army, and armed them for purposes of home protection against any "invasion of Kentucky." ! There was a young man in the town jwhose sympathies were with the Union, and he likewise enrolled a company and |began to drill them. These men were distinguished by their caps alone, as neither had full uniforms. The secessionists wore gray caps, with the letters f'H. P." upon them, signifying "home protection." The others wore blue caps, with the regulation "U. S." upon them. [These men had not learned to look upon each other as enemies exactly, although they were always on opposite sides in all discussions, which were frequent and spirited. There was but one man in the town who could "play on" a drum, and I have often seen him stand at one corner of the court house square and beat the drum while the two incipient armies Iwould keep step to the time of the same drum. "I understand, colonel; but—is it your order that I attempt to charge mounted across that ground?" By Ofcpt. OHAELES ma, U. S. A. "Why, certainly! It isn't the best in the world, but you can make it. They can't do very much damage to your men before you reach them. It's got to be done; it's the only way." Author of "Dunraven Itauch," "The CoioneVi Daughter"Marion's It was a thorn in Rayner's flesh, therefore, when Hayne joined from leave of absence, after experiences not every officer would care to encounter in getting back to his regiment, that Capt. Hull should have induced the general to detail him in place of the invalided field quartermaster when the command was divided. Hayne would have been a junior subaltern in Rayner's little battalion but for that detail, and it annoyed the captain more seriously than he would confess. Faith,n Etc., Etc. The gamblers, though baffled for the time -being, of course "get square," and more too, with the unfortunate general in this sort of warfare, but they are a disgusted lot as they hang about the wagon train as last of all it is being hitched in to leave camp. Some victims, of course, they have secured, and there are no devices of commanding officers which can protect their men against those sharks oi the prairies when the men themselves are bound to tempt providence and play. There are two scowling faces in the cavalry escort that has been left back with the train, and Capt. Hull, the commanding officer, has reprimanded Sergts. Clancy and Gower in stinging terms fot their absence from the command during the night. There is little question where they spent it, and both have been "cleaned out." What makes it worse, both have lost money that belonged to other men in the command, and they are in bad odor accordingly. "Very good, sir; that ends it!" is the calm, soldierly reply; and the colonel goes bounding away. [Copyright, by J. B. Lipplncott Company, Philadelghla, and published by special arrangement Nor was the Confederacy without its active friends in Kentucky at this time. A convention had been called to meet at Russellville, which organized a provisional state government under the military protection of Gen. Buckner's army, and this convention appointed representatives to the Confederate congress and determined to carry Kentucky into secession. But the Federal forces in the meanwhile were menacing Buckner and getting into an uncomfortable proximity with a rapidly augmenting force. Buckner made a feint to move on Crittenden at Rochester, but got no farther than Russellville, whence he was ordered to Fort Donelson, where he arrived in time to get his raw Kentucky troops into that engagement. No sooner was Bowling Green evacuated by Buckner than it was occupied by the Federal forces, and it continued to be the key to the military possession of Kentucky throughout the war, and figured prominently as a base of supplies and control of the great northern and southern artery, the L. and N. railroad. PRELUDE. A tall, soldierly, dark eyed trooper appears at the doorway of the little tent, and raises his gauntleted hand in salute. His language, though couched in the phraseology of the soldier, tells both in choice of words and in the intonation of every phrase that he is a man whose antecedents have been far different from those of the majority of the rank and file: A moment later the troop is in saddle, eager, wiry, bronzed fellows every one, and the revolvers are in hand and being carefully examined. Then Capt. Hull signals to Hayne, while Rayner and three or four soldiers sit in silence, watching the man who is to lead the charge. He dismounts at a little knoll a few feet away, tosses his reins to the trumpeter and steps to his saddle bags. Hayne, too, dismounts. — aiD) -u some inexchanged for and good treatfom their jaded conbe o£ far greater taken in their place, in those days for horses to starve (hem unkempt, so appearance of worththey would escape times worked gh the day and „ woods at night, old or blind noet thrilling adventure* settlements where organized home guards, individuals or families were for mutual protection, most noted instances of this °»ttlement remote from communication In a settlement lorthwestern corner of ome twenty-five miles n, which was the near?ne notable event bap's, the village post' secessloTilsm, and the most reckless many Confederate solsix miles from this village occupied by an exnection by the name "It is all an outrage and a blunder to pick out a boy like that," he growls between his set teeth as Hayne canters blithely away. "Here he's been away from the regiment all summer long, having a big time and getting head over ears in debt, I hear, and the moment he rejoins they put him in charge of the wagon train as field quartermaster. It's putting a premium on being young and cheeky — besides absenteeism," he continues, growing blacker every minute. " Will the captain permit me to take my horse and those of three or four more men outside the corral? Sergt. Clancy says he has no authority to allow it. We have found a patch of excellent grass, sir, and there is hardly any left inside. I will sleep by my picket pin, and one of us will keep awake all the time, if the captain will permit." Taking his watch and chain from the pocket of his Imnticg shirt, he opens the saddle bag on the near side and take; therefrom two packets — one heavily sealed—which he hands to Hayne. Imagine the feeling when it became known that the fifteen men who were supposed to be the advance guard of legions were in reality "Jake Bennett's gang" of just fifteen, and they rode into one edge of the town as four hundred home guards fled out at the other edge; and they looted the place at their leisure, unmolested. Thus one of the most sanguinary battles of the war was unfought and a glorious victory was not achieved. TBS CONFEDERATE INVASION. "In ca£2 I—don't come back, rou know what to do with these—as I told you last night." But the war spirit was in the air, and events soon assumed such shape as to leave no doubt that a war was coming, and that speedily. At this juncture Gen. Buckner occupied Bowling Green (a point at the junction where the Louisville and Nashville railroad crosses Barren river) with a Confederate army. At the same time Gen. Crittenden, in command of the state militia, acting under the instructions of the legislature of the state, established headquarters at Calhoun, eighty miles west, on Green river, and he subsequently moved up to Rochester, within fifty miles of Buckner's camp. Federal forces likewise were concentrated at Louisville, under Rousseau, and they established a garrison at Muldraugh's Hill, a point near Elizabethtown, on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, which commanded two very high wood spans of trestle work or bridges which were liable to be destroyed and thus cripple the line of road, so necessary for carrying men and supplies to the front. "Well, captain," answers his adjutant, injudiciously, "I think you don't give Hayoe credit for coining back on the jump the moment we were ordered out. It was no fault of his he could not reach us. He took chances I wouldn't take." Hayne only looks imploringly at him: "You are not going to leave mc here, captaiu?" The long day's march has tempered the joviality of the entire column. It is near sundown, and still they keep plodding onward, making for a grassy level on the river bank a good mile farther. "How far away is it, sergeant?" "Not seventy-five yards, sir—close to the river bank east of us." Some of the. occurred in retired there were no but where iuD banded togethe; One of the occurred in a any railroad or with the outside w in the extreme Hardin county, t from Elizabethtown est railroad point.' pened. Big SprL office, was a hotbea supplied not a few guerrillas and diers. Some was a fertile valley tensive family cod of Tabor. "Very well. Send Sergt. Clancy here, and I'll give the necessary orders." "Yes, Hayne. You can't go with us. Hark! There they go at the right. Are the packages all right?" "Oli, yes! you kids all Bwear by Hayne because he's a good fellow and sings a jolly song and plays the piano—and poker. One of these days he'll swamp you all, sure as shooting. He's in debt now, and it'll fetch him before you know it. What he needs is to be under a captain who could discipline him a little. By Jove, I'd do it I" And Rayner's teeth emphasize the assertion. The soldier quietly salutes, and disappears in the gathering darkness. Hayne, with stuuned faculties, thinking only of the charge he longs to make —not of the one he has to keep—replies be knows not what. There is a ringing bugle call far off among the rocks to the westward; a rousing cheer; a rattling volley. Rayner springs off to his men on the hillside. Hull spurs in front of his eager troop, holding high his pistol hand: Not always, however, was this the result of home guard operations. There was a young man in the neighborhood whose two elder brothers were officers in the Federal army, and he and his aged father were constantly tormented by guerrillas on that account. Woodward was married, and in a few days afterwards a gang of guerrillas, nearly every one of whom was known to him—being mostly boys from the surrounding country—came and led away his horses just at the time for cultivating a crop. Woodward gave the alarm and collected about twenty picked men am} pursued his despoilers. The guerrillas were surprised at a farm house duringihe night. They were unaware that they were pursued, and consequently were sitting around smoking and telling stories, not even having a sentry on duty. The house was fired upon and the guerrillas ran for the barn where their horses were feeding. Then a fierce fight ensued, and young Woodward was shot dead and several of the guerrillas bit the dust. *tand* mutely looking down on the ing frame of hit father't old friend. "Old (Hull seems bound to leave the sports as far behind as possible, if he has ■to march us until midnight," growls the battalion adjutant Ut his immediate commander. "By thunder! one would think he was afraid they would get in a lick at his own pile." "That's what I like about that man Gower," says the captain, after a moment's silence. "He is always looking out for his horse. If be were not such a gambler and rake he would make a splendid first sergeant. Fine looking fellow, isn't he?' As soon as Kentucky was practically abandoned by the Confederates, and Tennessee became the contested line, there appeared upon the 6cene a class of refugees from Tennessee, particularly the eastern part of the state. These people were in the main poor, slaveless, illiterate and loyal. Many of these rustic fugitives, when once safe within the Federal lines, imbibed the spirit of war and enlisted in the army. They came in squads of a half dozen or more and traveled on foot through the forests in order to avoid encountering guerrillas. Events now followed each other in rapid succession. The lines of the contesting armies were more or less clearly defined, and Kentucky was no longer claimed as Confederate ground. THE WANDERING REFUGEES. Far up in the northwest, along the banks of the broad, winding stream the Sioux call the Elk, a train of white topped army wagons is slowly crawling eastward. The October sun is hot at noonday, and the dust from the loose soil rises like heavy smoke and powders every face and form in,the guarding battalion so that features are well nigh indistinguishable. Foot companies of stalwart, sinewy infantry, with their brown rifles slung over the shoulder, are striding along in dispersed order, covering the exposed southern flank from sudden attack, while farther out along the ridge line, and far to the front and rear, cavalry skirmishers and scouts are riding to and fro, searching every hollow and ravine, peering cautiously over «very "divide," and signaling "halt" or ■"forward" as the indications warrant. "How much did you say he was carrying?' asks Capt Rayner, checking his horse for a moment to look back over the valley at the long, dust enveloped column. "Yes, sir. That is * face thftt one couldn't well forget Whp waa the other sergeant you overhauled for getting fleeced by those sharps at the cantonment?"The young adjutant thinks it advisable to say nothing that may provoke further vehemence. AH the same, he remembers Rayner's bitterness of manner, and has abundant cause to. "Now, men, follow till I drop; and then keep ahead! Come on!" There is a furious sputter of a rush of excited steeds up the gentle slof&, ft glad outburst of cheers as they sweep across the ridge and out of sight, then the clamor and yell of frantic battle; and when at last it dies away, the riflers are panting over the hard won position and shaking hands with some few silent cavalrymen. They have carried the ridge, captured the migrating village, squaws, ponies, travois, and pappooses; their "long Toms'' have sent many a stalwart warrior to the mythical hunting grounds, and the peppery colonel's triumph is complete. "Nearly three thousand dollars in one wad." "Clancy? He's on guard to-night A very different character." "How does he happen to have such a sum?' When the next morning breaks, chill and pallid, a change has come in the aspect of affairs. During the earliest hour of the dawn the red light of a light draught river boat startled the outlying pickets down stream, and the Far West, answering the muffled hail from shore, responded, through the medium of a mate's stentorian tones, "News that'll rout you fellows out." The Bun is hardly peeping over the jagged outline of the eastern hills when, with Rayner's entire battalion aboard, she is steaming again down stream, with orders to land at the mouth of the Sweet Root. There the four companies will disembark in readiness po join the rest of the regiment. . All day long again the wagon train twists and wriggles througli an ashen section of Lea Mauvaises Terres. It is a tedious, trying march for Hull's little "I don't know him by sight as yet Well, good-night, sir, I'H take myself off and go to my own tent," A "Why, Crane left his pay accounts with him. He drew all that was due hit men who are off with Crane—twenty of them—for they had signed the rolls before going, and were expected back today. Then he has some six hundred dollars company fund; and the men of his troop asked him to take care of a good deal besides. The old man has been with them so many years they look upon him as a father and trust him as implicitly as they would a savings bank." i At this move of the "Lincolnites," as they were called, the "secesh" established a garrison to guard the Green river bridge of the same road at Mumfordsville.A t Daybreak again, sod far to the east the sky 19 all ablaze. The mist is creep* ing from the silent shallows under the banks, but all is life and vim along ths shore. With cracking whip, tugging trace, sonorous blasphemy, and ringing shout, the long train is whirling ahead almost at the run. All is athrill with excitement, and bearded faces have • strange, set look about the jaws, and eyes gleam with eager light and peer searchingly from rise far over to the southeast, where stands a tumbling heap of hills against the lightening sky. "Off there, are tbey?" says ft burly trooper, dismounting hastily to tighten up the "cinch" pf his weather beaten saddle. "We can make )t quick enough, '8 soon as we get rid of these blasted wagons." And, swinging into paddle again, he goes cantering down the slope, his charger snorting with exhilaration in the keen morning air. The Tabor settlement was well to do old time Kent* who were noted as being, v exceptions, adherents to thC were not only "Lincolnit were "offensive partisans," t now be called. Their well lu oft declared hostility to the seu which prevailed in their locality Ci. them to be looked upon by their neig bora as traitors of the worst sort. their lives were"~ZJftSn fhreatenjdr®!#"* some of the men in particular dared liot go to the postoffice even for mail or to summon a physician. Finally they were notified to leave the country or take the consequences. SOME BRAVE UNIONISTS. They were an independent and witha' a plucky set, and they determined to stay at home and defend their lives and property at all costs. Every able bodied man of them went armed at all hours ana siept at mgnc witn guns at tneir bedsides and revolvers under their pillows.Sam Tabor was not surprised when one afternoon he heard the rattle of hoofs coming toward his house in the woods road near by. He hastened in- y. doors and barred his house and took his wife and two little daughters upstairs and bade them lie down in the middle of the little attic room in order to be out of range or reach of bullets. The house was a square building a story and a half high, built after the fashion of Kentucky houses—of hewn logs some eight inches thick and notched down at the ends, where they lapped—making an almost solid wall the thickness of the logs. These houses were practically bullet proof for anything less than artillery. In each end or "gable" was an opening dignified with the name of window. These windows were about two feet square and were closed with board shutters which worked on a "slide" or lateral movement. Besides Tabor there happened to be present a nephew about 16 years old, and tlieir arms consisted of two old fashioned, long barreled, muzzle loading, double triggered rifles, and the elder man had his ever present revolver. This latter weapon was not one of these modern implements such as are worn in the vest or pants pocket, but a veritable battery with a 12-inch barrel and weight enough to do effective business. \J "V r V r i i a d It was apparent that the possession of this line of railroad was to be the key to the possession of the state. Dr. Pendleton was in communication with Gen. Buckner and his little army of recruits was a part of that command. The state guard company was under the direction of the Federal commander, Gen. Crittenden. Thus Hartford was distinguished as being headquarters for two hostile armies, both drilling with one drum and awaiting developments. In consequence there was but little fighting in the state that could be dignified with the name of battle; yet there was a class of bushwhacking warfare which was ever fruitful of most exciting episode without being of sufficient importance to gain recognition in the pages of war history. With the exception of Bragg's invasion of the state (failure to prevent which Gen. Buell has had occasion to remember), the battle of Perryville and Wilder's defense of Green River bridge against Bragg's army and a short period of hostilities about Paducah, the fighting in Kentucky was of the skirmish and bushwhacking order. And yet not a hostile Indian has been 'seen; not one, even as distant vedette, has appeared in range of the binoculars, since the scouts rode in at daybreak to say that big bands were in the immediate neighborhood. It has been a long, hard With the guerrillas was one young man, ant over 17 years old, who had joined the band only that day. He was hid in a fence corner, and might have remained quiet and escaped discovery, but he was young in the cause and had not learned caution. He wanted glory and he got lead. He was seen drawing a bead upon a home guard not thirty feet from him, and two or three, seeing his desperate purpose, fired upon him, and literally bespattered the fence rails beside which he stood with his brains. But Lawrence Hayne, With all the light gone from his brave young face, stands mutely looking down upon the stiffening frame of his father's old friend, and his, who lies shot through the heart "That's all very well," answers Rayner; "but I wouldn't want to carry any such sum with me." "summer's work for the troops, and the Indians have been, to all commands that boasted strength or swiftness, elusive as the Irishman's flea of tradition. Only to those whose numbers were weak or whose movements were hampered have they appeared in fighting trim. But "It's different with Hull's men, captain. They are ordered in through the posts and settlements. They have a three weeks' march ahead of them when they get through their scout, and they want their money on the way. It was only after they had drawn it that the news came of the Indians' crossing, and of our having to jump for the warpath. Everybody thought yesterday morning that the campaign was about over so far as we are concerned. Halloa! here comes young Hayne. Now, what does he want?' [TO BI CO*TIHU*D] This state of affairs continued for a Sow weeks when a crisis was reached, and it looked as though the first battle of the war in Kentucky would be fought there and then between these little armies and whilom friends. One day a wagon train came into the town from the direction of Owensboroon the Indiana line. And it had become known that supplies were being run into the Confederate lines in this way, so the commander of the "Lincolnites" called out his men to Btop the wagon for inspection, whereupon the Gray Caps marched out to prevent any interference with the wagons. Here was an issue. Mow H* Made Himself Su'nu. "Has that yellow haired dude been around here to-night?" command of troopers—all that is now left to guard the train. The captain is constantly out on the exposed flank, eagerly scanning the rough country to the south, and expectant any moment of an attack from that direction. He and his men, as well as the horses, mules and teamsters, are fairly tired out when at nightfall they park the wagons in a big semicircle, with the broad river forming a-shi':ing chord to the arc of white canvas. All the live stock are safely herded within tbe inclosure; a few reliable soldiers are posted well out to the south and east to guard against surprise, and the veteran Sergt. Clancy is put in command of the sentries. The captain gives strict injunctions as to the importance of these duties, for he is far from easy in his mind over the situation. The Riflers, he knows, are over in the vallev of the Sweet Boot. The steamer with Earner's men is tied up at the bank some five miles below, around the bend. The —th aro far off to the northward across the Elk, as ordered, and must be expecting on the morrow to make for the old Indian "ferry" opposite Battle Butte. The main body of the Sioux are reported farther down stream, but he feels it in his bones that there are numbers of them within signal, and he wishes with all his heart the —tli were here. Still, the general was sure he would stir up war parties on the other shore. Individually, he has had very little luck in scouting during the summer, and he cannot help wishing he were with the rest of the crowd instead of here, train guarding. combinations have been too much for them, and at last they have been "herded" down to the Elk, have crossed, and are now seeking to make their way, with women, children, tepees, dogs, "travoisi" and the great pony herds, to the fastnesses of the Big Horn; and now comes the opportunity for which an old Indian fighter has been anxiously waiting. In a big cantonment he has held the main body under his command, while keeping oat constant scouting parties to the east and north. He knows well that, true to their policy, the Indians will have scattered into small bands capable of reassembling anywhere that signal smokes may call them, and his orders are to watch all the crossings of the Elk and nab them as they come into his district. "Not yet Why, papa, what in the world is the matter? Did you miss your footing on the train? or"  As soon as the Federal front was far enough from the Ohio river, facing south, to leave room in the rear of the line for operations, innumerable guerrilla bands appeared upon the scene. While these bands of marauders and freebooters were not attached to either array, they were in sympathy with the south and operated chiefly against the life and property of the loyal citizens. After this scrimmage was over it was found to have cost more than it was worth. Woodward had recovered his horses, but had lost his own life. And while the horses could have been replaced, his place was not so easily filled. An aged father and young wife were left to care for thetr interests unaided until the war closed. "No, I didn't miss my footing on the train. I undertook to gently remind that dude of yours that he wasn't wanted here, and this is the result. When he comes to-night tell him he can have you, and he can't have you any too quick to suit me. A man who can use his hands like that fellow is protection enough for a dozen women. If he asks for me, tell him I've gone to Africa or Camden and won't be back until the marriage has blown over."—Philadelphia Inquirer. Before dawn a courier has galloped into camp, bearing a dispatch from the commanding officer of the Biflers. It says but few words, but they are full of meaning: "We have found a big party of hoe tiles, They are in strong position, and have us at disadvantage. Ray net with his four companies is hurrying tc us. Leave all wagons with the boat under guard, and come with every horse and man you can bring." Riding a quick, nervous little bay troop horse, a slim built officer, with boyish face, laughing blue eyes, and sunny hair, comes loping up the long prairie wave; he shouts cheery greeting to one or two brother subalterns who are plodding along beside their men, and exchanges some merry chaff with Lieut. Ross, who is prone to growl at the luck which has kept him afoot and given to this favored youngster a "mount" and a temporary staff position. The boy's spirits and fun seem to jar on Rayner's nerves. He regards him blackly as he rides gracefully towards the battalion commander, and with decidedly nonchalant ease of manner and ai» "offhand" salute that has an air about it of saying, "I do this sort of thing because one has to, but it doesn't really mean anything, you know," Mr. Hayne acoosta his superior: The leaders of these guerrillas were generally deserters from the Confederate army who could not return home and they did not choose to return to their command. So, for the sake of employment and through a love for adventure more than any patriotic motive, they gathered about them a following of their kind, and many of the second crop of Confederate boys could not very well reach the southern line and did not discriminate very finely between a legitimate Confederate soldier and an independent band of highwaymen. Among a number of refugees from East Tennessee was a man named Davis, who achieved a local celebrity for his daring exploits in the home guard service, and more than one unmarked grave in Kentucky is indebted to his gun for its occupant. He had been driven from his home by the guerrillas, and resolved to get as much revenge as he could. When a Confederate brigade under command of Geu. Lvons passed through Kentuckv from Missouri. Dursued bv a Federal force under a CoL Burbrid0e, Davis was shadowing on the rear of Lyons' army taking notes. A RUSTIC IIEfiO. i Excitement rsn high and every man in the town tock sides. Old rusty rifles, fowling pieces, butcher knives, brickbats and stones were called into requisition, and had a fight begun, a fierce hand to hand struggle would have ensued. But the Gray Caps weakened and the wagons were inspected and found to be loaded with whisky in barrels, which some far sighted speculator was running south for future emergencies. Before 7 o'clock the wagons are parked close along the bank beside the Far West, and Hull, with all the men he can muster-77-some fifty—is trotting ahead on the trail of Rayner's battalion. With him rides Mr. Hayne, eager and enthusiastic. Before 10 o'clock, far up along the slopes they see the blue line of skirmishers, and the knots of reserves farther down, all at a Btand. In ten minutes they ride with foaming reins in behind a low ridge on which, flat on their faces and cautiously peering over the crest, some hundred infantrvmen are uisposeu. Winers, omcers ana me closers, are moving to and fro in rear. Mice Mathematics. "And now, children," remarked Professor Hailes in one of the public schools the other day, "if a family consisting of father and mother and seven children should have a pie for dinner, how much would each one receive?" He watches, despite the fact that it is his profound conviction that the Indians will be no such idiots as to come just where they are wanted, and he is in no wise astonished when a courier comes in on jaded horse to tell him that they have "doubled" on the other column and are now two or three days' march away down stream, "making for the big bend." "jfifrjlgn scouting parties are still out to the eastwdnlijie can pick them up as •'Why," remarked the bright boy, "each would get an eighth." Then the Gray Caps were disarmed and told to leave the town, which they did, going direct to Bowling Green, where they joined Buckner's army and began their soldier life in earnest. To show how little these men realized the situation and what was before them, after the Grays had started in farm wagons for Bowling Green, one of three brothers concluded that he would go back and join the Blues. He was the younger of the three, and the other two failing in their efforts to dissuade him from carrying out his purpose, told him that they would shoot him down like a dog on the first battlefield they met him. It so happened that after a day's fighting at Fort Donelson this younger brother, while engaged in carrying off the dead, found his brother who had promised to shoot him lying in a ditch with a minie ball in his hip. He cared for his brother until he sufficiently recovered to be exchanged, and he returned to the Confederate command and remained in line until the close of the war. A CONFEDERATE RETREAT. The chief business of these bands was robbery of banks, stores, residences, barns "But there are nine persons, you must remember." or barn yards, wherever booty was to be found. I saw one of these bands whose saddle blankets we're bolts of fine dress silks which had been "taken," as they called it, "taken" being a more polite phrase than "stolen," and they carried other fabrics of equal value for blanketing for their horses. These raids were fraught with a continuous excitement and adventure. The usual method was to dash into a town, firing promiscuously in order to stampede the people, in which they generally succeeded. "Oh! I know that; but mother wouldn't get any. There wouldn't be enough to go around."—Albany Journal. One incident occurred on this occasion which will indicate the nerve of "Tennessee Davis," as lie was called. A fanner living on the road near Hartford had been required to load his wagon with grain and such other supplies as he happened to have, and accompany the army until they went into camp for the night. His wife was in bed with typhoid fever, and had with her two young girls. A mile or two behind the rear guard of Lyons' men there came a straggler who had become detached from the main body, and he appeared to be intoxicated. He dismounted and entered the room where the sick woman was, and his entrance frightened the young girls, who fled across the fields, leaving the invalid at the mercy of the drunken brute. he goes. He seiXto the main body of his infantry, a regiment focatarly known as "The Riflers." to push for a landing some fifty wiles down stream, scouting tbe lower valley of the Sweet Root on •the way. He sends his wagqn train, .'guarded by four companies of foot and Dtwo of horsemen, by the only practicable road to the bend, while be, with ten seasoned "troops" of his pet regiment, tbe —th cavalry, starts forthwith on a long detour in which he hopes to "round up" such bands as may have slipped away from the general rush. Even as "boots and saddles" is sounding, other couriers oome riding in from Lieut. Crane's party. He has struck the trail of a big band. "Ah, good evening, captain. I have just come back from the front, and Capt Hull directed me to give you his compliments and say that we would camp in the bend yonder, and he would like you to post strong pickets and have a double guard to-night." They are of Rayner's battalion. Farther back, down in a ravine, a dozen forms are outstretched upon the turf, and others are bending over them, ministering to the needs of those who are not past help already. Several officers crowd around the leading horsemen and Hull orders: "Halt, dismount and loosen girths." The grave faces show that the infantry has had poor luck, and the situation is summarized in a few words. The Indians are in force occupying the ravines and ridges opposite them and confronting the six companies farther over to the west. Two attacks have been made, but the Indian fire swept every approach, and both were unsuccessful. Several soldiers were shot dead, others severely wounded. Lieut. Warren's leg is shattered below the knee; Capt. Blount is killed. Municipal Amenities. Chicago Man (to stranger)—I tell you, sir, Chicago is the place for the fair, and no other city will get it. Stranger (evidently a foreigner)—Yes, of course. But what is this great fair to celebrate? "Have me post double guards! How the devil does he expect me to do that after marching all diay?" Chicago Man—Celebrate? Why, the— the emancipation of—no; the—the discovery of gold in Cal—or, the invention of the tel— I'm hanged if I know!— Lawrence American. Tabor took position at one gable and his nephew at the other, just in time to see seven armed men dash out of the woods and jump their horses over the yard fence and surround his house with 5; out of triumph, which saiil, "We've got you now." A few random shots were fired by way of introduction to the — iness of the hour, when the leader shouted to Tabor to come forth and surrender or his house would be immediately burned over his head. The reply to this threat came simultaneously from the two long rifles from the two windows and there galloped away two riderless horses, one of which had a moment before held the captain of the gang who had threatened the farmer with fire and death. "I did not inquire, sir; he might have told me 'twas none of my business, don't you know?" And Mr. Hayne has the insufferable hardihood to wink at the battalion adjutant—a youth of two years' longer service than his own. Presently Mr. Hayne appears, elastic and debonair as though he had not been working like a horse all day. His voice sounds so full of cheer and life that Hull looks up smilingly. A "LOOTED" TOWN. Then all who were found were marched into the street and corralled in a compact group and a guard placed over these, while others dismounted and looted the stores of what they wanted. Then the iorce mounted ana put spurs, and were gone before the frightened villagers had time to collect their senses. There was a very large fat "judge'' in the village of Hartford, whose sentiments were a little too freely expressed to suit some of his neighbors, and as the system of mutual spying was practiced by both sides, when a guerrilla band appeared it was surprising to note the accuracy of their knowledge. "Well, youngster, you seem to .love this frontier life." The True Reason. "Well, Mr. Hayne, this is no matter for levity," saysRayner, angrily. "What does Capt. Hull mean to do with his own men, if I'm to do the guard?' Sympathetic Old Lady (giving money to solemn looking tramp)—Is it your inability to get work, my good man, that causes your dejected air? Tennessee Davis happened to see the flight of the girls, and he put spurs to his thoroughbred horse and soon entered the sick room. He took in the situation at a glance, and seizing the gun of the Confederate straggler, which stood against the door, ho ordered him from the house and marched him across the road a few rods into the woods and shot him dead with his own gun. The doomed man saw at a glance that his days were numbered, and marched gloomily to his death. Davis coolly remounted and rode away. "Every bit of it, captain. I was cut out for the army, as father thought." When the morning sun dawns on the picturesque valley in which the cantonment nestled but the day before it illumines an almost deserted village, and brings no joy to the souls of some twoscore of embittered civilians who had arrived only the day previous, and whose unanimous verdict is that the army is a fraud and ought to be abolished. For four months or more some three regiments had been camping, scouting, roughing it thereabouts with not a cent of.pay. Then came the wildly exciting tidings that a boat was on the way up the Missouri with a satrap of the pay department, vast store of shekels and a strong guard, and as a consequence there would be some 2,000 men around the cantonment with pockets full of money and no one to help them spend it, and nothing suitable to spend it on. It was a duty all citUena owed to the territory to hasten to the scene and gather in for local circulation all that was obtainable at that disbursement, otherwise the curse of the army might get ahead of them, and the boys would gamble it away omnng- themselves or spend it for vile whisky manufactured for their sole benefit. Gallatin Valley was emptied of its prominent practitioners in the game of poker. The stream was black with "Mackinaw" boots and other craft. There was a rush for the cantonment th«t rivaled the multitudes of the mining 'days, but all too late. i The command was alreadv packine un when the first contingent arrived, and the commanding officer, recognizing the fraternity at a glance, warned them oatside the limits of camp that night, declined their services as volunteers on the impending campaign, and treated them such calmly courteous recognition of tbeir true character that the eastern prat was speedily filled with sneering comment on the hopelessness of ever subduing the savage tribes of the northwest, when the government intrusts the dutv "We used to talk it over a good deal in tluD olii fluvs when I was stationed around Washington," answers Hull. "Your father was the warmest friend I had in civil circles, and he made it very pleasant for me. How little we thought it would be my luck to have you for quartermaster!" Solemn Looking Tramp (preparing to light out)—No, mum, it's my liability to get suthin' to do that keeps me all the time pensive and cast down.—Harvard Lampoon". "That is another point, Capt. Rayner, which I had not the requisite effrontery to inquire into. Now, you might ask him, but I couldn't, don't you know?" responds Hayne, smiling amiably the while into the wrathful face of his superior. It serves only to make the indignant captain more wrathful; and no wonder. There has been no love lost between the two since Hayne joined the Rifiera early the previous year. He came in from civil life, a city bred boy, fresh from college, full of spirits, pranks, fun of every kind; a wonderfully keen hand with the billiard cue; a knowing one at cards and such games of chance as college boys exoel at; a musician of no mean pretensions, and an irrepressible leader in all the frolics and frivolities of his comrades. He had leaped to popularity from the start. He was full of courtesy and gentleness to women, ana became a pet in social circles. He was frank, free, off handed with his associates, cpending lavishly, "treating" with boyish ostentation on all occasions, living quite en grand seigneur, for he seemed to have a little money outside his pay—"a windfall from a good old duffer of an uncle," as he had explained it. i The two never met again until the "Where's Rayner?" asks Hull, with grave face. struggle was over and they had returned home. They continued the best of friends until the Confederate finally died from the effects of his wound, the ball never having been extracted. "Just gone off with the chief to look at things over on the other front. The colonel is hopping. He is bound to have those Indians out of there or drop a-trying. They'll be back in a minute. The general hud a rousing light with Dull Knife's people down the river last evening. You missed it again, Hull; all the —th were there but F and K, and, of course, old Firewater wants to make as big a hit here." Willing to Barter Her Secret. "The fellows seemed struck all of a heap in the Itiflers at the idea of your applying for me, captain. I was roady to swear it was all on father's account, and would have told them so only Rayner happened to be the first man to tackle me on the subject, and he was so crusty about it I kept the whole thing to myself rather than give him any satisfaction." Mrs. Smith—Mrs. Jones told me something about you today that you would like to hear. I promised not to give it away, though. The work of enlisting men for the armies went rapidly forward. All future acquisitions to the Confederate side had to be'made in a quiet way, as open enlistment was no longer allowed outside of Buckner's lines. There was a farmer in the community who was noted for his illiteracy and stinginess. He enlisted two aorto in th« servion whnww "under age," and drew their pay just as he would have let them out to service. On an occasion of a raid it became known that the raiders wanted the fat judge. He was sitting in a store and could not escape, so he ran up stairs and turned a dry goods box upside down and drew up his short thick legs under the box, and there he remained concealed, and the very room he was in was searched, but fortunately he was not found. At this unexpected turn of affairs the remaining five men made a dash for the barn, which stood some sixty yards from the house, and in order to reach which the horsemen must pass in full view and exposed to the window at which Tabor, Sr., was stationed. In less time thnn it requires to relate it, five shots had been fired from that old revolver, and never had such fatal work been done before. Strung along that sixty steps were three dead men and one horse, and a fourth man kept his saddle for a few hundred paces into the woods, when he fell to the ground, having a ventilator shaft, as it were, through his abdomen. Mr. S.—Well, won't you tell me? The neighbors cams in and shoveled 1oo8e earth upon the dead man and left him to fill an unknown grave. "I said that I wouldn't give it away, but—but I'll sell it to you for a sealskin sacque."—Lawrence American. A PREACHER CORNERED. One of Tennessee Davis' exploits was the o-pture of a man who was suspected of harboring guerrillas, and yet no positive proof could be had. The man was a Baptist preacher of the old fashioned "hardshell" school. He lived in a settlement in the northeast corner of Ohio county called Texas. There was not a loyal family in the settlement. Davis set a trap to catch this parson, which succeeded to perfection. He dressed himself in a full regulation gray uniform (the officer from whom he obtained this suit met Davis one day and had no further use for the uniform) and came dashing up to the parson's home and told him to "hide him quickly, the Yanks were after him." He was hustled into an unused attic and covered over with a lot of old rags and his horse was rushed into the woods near by, all of which was done with such "neatness and dispatch" that it was evidently not the first experience the parson had had in hiding fugitives. "Larry, my boy, I'm no preacher, but I want to be the friend to you your father was to me. You are full of enthusiasm and life and spirits, and you love the army ways and have made yourself very popular with the youngsters, but I'm afraid you are too eareless and independent where the seniors are concerned. Rayner is a good soldier, and you show him very scant respect, I'm told." "The —th fighting down the river last night?" asks Hull, in amaze. Circumstantial. Some of the leaders of these bands were men of more than ordinary daring. John Morgan, who began his career at the very outset of the war, made himself famous for his dashing raids, and the very name of "Morgan's men" came to carry a holy terror to the people along the border. Mosby was another leader of the Morgan stripe, and Quantreli's band, west of the Mississippi, and many others of less or at least more local fame, added to the terror of the Union citizens of the border states. These men were not organized to fight, but to harass, pillage and burn; and while they were not particularly anxious to take life, yet they never hesitated to do so, and in the most cruel manner, when it answered their purposes. Many scenes of savage barbarity were enacted by them. Mrs. Charles (to her son James)—Do you know who's been in the pantry? James—In the pantry? No. Mrs. Charles (an hour later)—James, come to tea. "Yes—swept clean round them and ran 'em into the stream, they say. I wish we had them where we could see 'em at all. You don't get the glimpse of a head, even; but all those rocks are lined with the beggars. Damn them!" says the adjutant, feelingly. At this period the custom of carrying huge butcher knives in "scabbards" as side arms prevailed. And as the government did not provide them, the country blacksmiths used up all the stock of flat files, as these were supposed to make the best weapons. Many of the men became experts in pitching these knives to stick point foremost into a tree or post. During one of these practices a knife glanced and stuck through the heel of one of the boys above mentioned. When his father heard of the mishap he remarked that it "must have well nigh ruined the shoe." James—I don't wish any tea this evening. Shore. Ha Thought AU Wrong;. Scarcely ten minutes from tl»o time the approaching hoofs were heard there had been seven shots fired from those gable windows, and there lay five men dead, the sixth shot through the body and only one left to tell the tale. Now this last man appeared on a hillside facing the fatal window at what he supposed was a safe distance from the small arms which had been so fatal at short range. As he stood by the side of his horse looking toward the cabin, roung Tabor, having in the meantime eloaded his trusty old rifle, crept to the vindow, and, resting the long gun on he window sill to "take rest," as he "We'll get tur chance here, then," replies Hull, reflectively. "I'll creep up and take a look at it. Take my horse, orderly." "Well, he's such an interfering fellow. They will all tell you I'm respectful enough to—to the captains I like"  He is back in two minutes, graver than before, but his bearing is spirited and firm. Hayne watches him with kindling eye. "That's just it, Lawrence. So long as you like a man your manner is what it should be. What a young soldier ought to learn is to be courteous and respectful to senior officers whether he likes them or not. It costs an effort sometimes, but it tells. You never know what trouble you are laying up for yourself in the army by bucking against men you don't like. They may not be in position to resent it at the time, but the time is mighty apt to come when they will be, and then you are helpless." His father, a scholarly man who had been summoned to an important under office in the state department during the war of the rebellion, had lived out his honored life in Washington and died poor, as such men must ever die. It was bis wish that his liandsome, spirited, brave hearted boy should enter the army, and long after the sod had hardened over the father's peaceful grave the young fellow donned his first uniform and went out to join "The Rifiers." High spirited, joyous, full of hmghing fun, he was "Pet" Hayne beforehehad been among them six months. But within the year he had made one or two ene- "You'll take me in with you when you charge?" he asks. Later, this same "boy," as he continued to be called, was shot by several bullets, any one of which would have killed many men, and at least one of which passed entirely through his body. When the news reached home that John was shot, a neighbor asked the father if John was much hurt. He replied that "some said the wound was mortal and others thought it was only fatal;" he could not tell himself "how it would determinate, but leastways he disposed the bounty would be safe anyway." "It is no place to charge there. The ground is nil cut up with ravines-and gullies, and they've got a cross fire that sweeps it clean. We'll probably go in on the other flank; it's more open there. Here comes the chief now." There was a leader whose band was known to excel in savagery. They were known as "Jake Hennett's Gang," and were much 011 the order of the James gang in later years. This band on one occasion took dinner at a hotel, and when they were through inquired their bill. They took from their vest pockets and tendered in payment a number of negroes' ears, which they called "Lincoln shinplasters." the advent of the guerrilla came the home guard, which. In a few minutes Davis' gang, in "Lincoln coats," came up and inquired of the parson if he had seen a "reb" pass that way within a few minutes. He had not seen any one and he was quite sure none had passed that road. The party said they must search his house, as they had reason to believe he was secreted there. "Of course, they were more than wel- Two officers come riding hastily around a projecting point of the slope and spur at rapid gait towards the spot where the cavalry have dismounted and are breathing their horses. There is hardly time for salutations. A gray headed, keen Conrov—Jimmy Kelly, be all th' saints! could not hold the gun "off hand," he drew a bead upon the man, who by thin time had concluded to try one more shot at the window before leaving. But he was an instant too late. Tabor's gun ran* out noon the silent air just as the [OOHTTKtnrD OK SECOND PAGE.] Conroy—I'm t'inkin th' cabin yez had in Glannockerty bate th' place jez live in now, but if Mrs. Kelly's below O'ill fo down an' shek th' hand av her.— udsre. Kelly—It's mesilf, Murty. "Why, Capt Hull, I don't see it that way at alL It seems to me that so long as an officer attends to his duty, minds his own business, and like a A THOROUGHLY RECONSTRUCTED DOCTOR. Some of these illiterate Kentuckians m