McKean Miner,The (Newspaper) - September 9, 1869, Smethport, Pennsylvania of JoV or blunt co each per aw e fou fl of- ji glare a worried Told of the Colonel proceeded very to teU Ms but tbe 1 dent interrupted summer of the most dis- to this fa his and doubtful year of the late the Colonel of New 1 have been to Mr. regiment for he will do for r ill of camp been to bun and got A mb for wni to r to his Id to relating to rtal ft Byron 12. A will attention to tbe of claims anil o c Una of ond all ith to I Abo agent of IBB S. D4 I- II Y S I C X X f. S V K C E ON Pa. st to in F. 1'a., re- notice nud In most VNo Agent for ft net near Hampton and still presume to Hearing Of MB critical his Am J to have no wife left icr Northern and Most I be dogged to oad worried to death V Mr. Stanton has done JIB in u would feel for me. for Good God 1 I have to hundred thousand m in The crew w and nearly al the soldiers Board ftf or saved but the confusion of the Scott became separated from and she Was lost The try Mr. but it seems My devoted wife lost her A. from coming to nurse me in my Colonel wicked np in the water even take her body byr the the and my she to have come down to the She could have direction every effort was made to discover his or rather her for all hope of finding her alive was soon stayed at That is tbe place The sad if they was In such times y the morning the people humane lending their But the sullen river they must take the Not but that I am sorry refused to give rts and the f young half frantic with I was compelled to go op to 1Vt8aent Within a he re- B word that the body had been washed on that those good jack wearily in his and closed its not except by a slight wave of the the country generous tad Jt cured cared for and were j Mt to tnat it for my that night upon a pillow wet many It happened that just at time inv New Cabinet TIr H in I J it. 4, the the i Mm. havin dl BOOT In hniK I. bo iff Sept. oo n Clock and Jewelry repair tnO Remember t the Posl In Prank t Ikt J .mo not say to yon that no merely al consideration should be allowed to interfere with the national onse is a sad but this a cruel The the that having recently hi oM tor BO Tbe Bennett H re- ht Tbe Bennett H tly been wilt be to ant Colonel's friend proposed they should follow him and they There was then a popular be- lief that all the the and suffering could find a refuge of the and can to and from BW W IBB half the ma If so a Kramer They arc decided to fbc bat ID use br Marly oil Mr. anil alt. tod S. A. Mr. ana Mr. 4 or any one else tow or Manufactured and iota by J. B. Port Al Wagon E would an to of in a Wo feel will folly RM ho I heir Promptly Ji i orders were issued from the War Department M in- to thc decree of with the precaution against thc ture disclosure of important military So it was with some Colonel applied Mr. Secretary Stanton for leave to return to ou his melancholy replied Mr. Stan one can have leave to go down thc flt this on any private mission Our ent ci demand the most gent and I hope I need Providence and the War and that he thought Abraham coln as bard as he was and OB as he was slept Before he was fully there came a quick knock at the door of his and he Opened it to President The good man came forward pale and tears glistening in his and grasped the Colonel's treated you brutally last night ask your I was utterly tired badgered to I orally become about as savage as a wild oat by Saturday drained dry of the of human must bury the L to yoa the very Colonel but the busy hint short it whoa you were not sleep a moment Ite went his and re- turned to bis hotel he that afternoon Visited ty a he told Mn of hie tbe deeply moved lion and and who an- R but vag yery mediately not j 8hoold President T forgiven myself if I had The but little work That was that the plan Was ft noMe Colonel You worth to White were a happy mail such a no last so I thought I would nto town in the cool of the and make jt all right Fortunately I had little We Woman to love and yon must Jt was or such a women day and Mr. Lincoln never have risked so much for gone to spend at what there was thege What but a few miles from and tbp 6f and and how brave and where the call of facing ry I tell if it were not for the we should all go the and should They a that was far out of my carriage is at the Tet there were times when doori m drive you to the War De- the and Stanton about longed to clear that asylum this to bolt and bar Even at that early they found and it against the the Secretary at his post Tbe umes when became too hard and ident pleaded the case of Col perplexing for bis honest and not only requested that leave of too serious and tragic and absence should be given Vat that colly a tiling by a steamer should be the 3ft to bring op the body Mr. President in one of his most said the his homely face dent and He was with the in private alow an Ho considerations of and large rocking Jutting over it In slippered feet in l he in hift dear shop op o. r X Yankee 7 turned upon hta wHb a look of almost savage There in his usually pleasant eyes a angry if said J J r 1 pj Colonel to right M a soft had such there would be no that the army of conic depend But peculiar think of coined was To the surprise of the ident Lincoln insisted on driving him to the navy the order was carried seeming have might be thrown hi thc way of the pious He waited steamer to give every and attention to With him be shook hands warmly at mv yon will have no trouble in this sad try And forget last Away up in there is a grave carefully watched and tended by Bnt every April time thc violets on that mound speak not atone of the womanly sweetness and devotion of her who sleeps are der and tearful with the memory of of the murdered Give Witting Soyt A The lesson inculcated in the ing brief sketch is worth A rustic lad came years ago to tbe metropolis from a At home he bad done well in an honorable bnt he hod read and heard of the wonderful le made up his mind he could do something in it When he reached the city no place seemed open to Bay after day he hunted for stored him in the He would not go back to his Dropping into a large dry goods house one day in search for he chanced to come face to face with the have nothing for you to do this great business man said in reply to his what can you do f he seem to be an honest looking I can do try me. Only give a chance to do And the tears came out and trickled down the cheeks of the almost forlorn though he tried as hard as be could to repress will take the poorest place and do my He was engaged and to He was sect down to the cellar and commenced in by pounding bent which had been thrown in a pile be- side the packing so they could lie This was his work for- two and be barely kept body and together on the pay he Then he was put in a better Then he rose to be a and no clerk was so so so interested great house as He saw hb chance ana ed up in his own busy brain every point in the In five years from that time he sat on the manager's seat and hammered the crooked ins and outs of thc ness straight During ms clerkship he never lost a and no morning went by out reporting promptly at seven He saved money and as the years went Go up Broadway and JW wiu his name in golden over the entrance to one of the largest and est that there are seventeen million dollars worth of His trade extends aO over the His fortune And even though the great merchant ta getting and the old time is a new light Will his new life to hie he tells of those past days and Bays to the young men around if you would a earnest If yon would became a merchant of position foung lady than was in a corner of the a irey to the most profound this strange person soon began to feel less quiet This can't go he it fe too TEe train will soon have to it won't be able to go Come we it One of us must go ont I so supposing you Jump ont of the And he walked resolutely up to the cowering girl j But she said to him do stay for one we lave not yet prayed for the Dnke of Yon are we had forgotten On and let us pray for the Dnke of They were still in. deep prayer when the tram arrived at the and the young girl fainted in the anus of some friends who were ing for soon recognised as a lunatic and with an opera across escaped from the river at the proceedings of us poor Seeing some men crawling amongst the bushes she t ft The of traveling England m in the following which on a line k L This carriage is much to we must lighten it as much as He then sat ed ap in a minute A I 1 rJ 1 1 T Its too fts too And so he sent bis coat of the window to join the then away went r his waist hia cravat and bis He then sat and appeared to be a sudden be turned the young on of immediately obeyed then began fervently the Duke of then for the Duke then for the of in a word all the Dukes of Great Britain and He then sat down The fa and The guard around place be- ing a y tf the it was an easy matter to trade with Id a that ii few of us had with an old whose guard post was that all he to sec the dead i the his reason Wing three and only killed by die Yankee soldiers off duty to often come here I ex- changed my pocket book for a plug An exchange greatest events of this of the or any of our fellows who a good silver watch offering dispose of a an inspection of tbe article being asked it was ly passed over the fence for that when Mr. Johnny Cooly put it in his own pocket and walked ont There were two plans for escape made by and both which I wish to refer The first was in this Between Belte Island and Richmond there was an- other small island covered with thick bushes and was distant from our island about ten feet channel of the river running One ng soon after being mustered out- side five men conceived the idea of wading over to tbe small island ng among the bushes until night and then under the cover of darkness floating down the The first part worked the prison we all thought their escape a but there was one Obstacle that none of us were prepared One of those prying whose osity is the bane Of ail Yankee be would not fore the war was quaint among prisoners from tbe and Cameron Pa. chums with ttf their to narrative During the whole time of. my who are to be found in all cities in the roust herself afloat parole of We were as. to the tics of a- longer or shorter iff many were the bed OR this and fla were usually to be dinners and of oysters our months woold water at the prospect fruits of the a One day I com meal and a bacon mixed the batter well as we confab borrowed an old tin plate for a picked up some chips anil of wood and made went each cabs was but they would persist spite of OOP combined endeavors to contrary to come off the griddle about dozen small I saw a man one day had been eating gome bean having a weak stomach coaU notl stand being a daji heat soon will be the opening which will occur in It is now over twenty years since Dr. the great French and cousin to the first conceived he idea of cutting this after watching the train of in those bore die merchandise of the east from the Bed Sea to the his persistent efforts he had soon com- pany itt with capital of and within two yean from entering his he had work He the Viceroy of the service of some who for small imperiled their lives in the burning sand of the Isthmus and j deathly until the wort is now almost It is to be from 96 to HV feet 20 feet and 88 miles and will pass the largest ship ever It win when The vised the cause and sent a message to tbe prison commander who released the five men from their hiding The second casion also occurred when we were outside of the pen and three men lowed themselves to be buried by comrades intending others to float down river after woron were tn tb is case but a mean one of own known to tne time another man came along than half starved saw the beans ing there and without find out how they scraped them up in and ate every one with a. A. of men would throw away their bacon myself among tha extra I so hard up as 2 harp so eager for food they would pick opt the dirt and devour them greatest the officer of the were hundreds of men so worn ing I fo court hunger that company are to have J re venues for ninety-nine by tbe of Egypt 15 per of Atthe end of the canal will into the possession of the government opening celebration in is to be an occasion of gorgeous most of the crowned heads of the world participating ja and are which been answered well is not as. it 6nght to ily table a much larger share in promoting a than is J A is essential to good can eat in ily any member of the the table in combed a hawking a and secure an extra loaf of bread time anything He was never more taken in bis for the officer was a man of rated him ly for his I do believe if the officer had pointed him oat to na we should have lynched The prisoners by tbe Who declared that he had no tion whatever at a prisoner trying to that it was his privilege to do bnt It was his duty to prevent it to the utmost of his I I could have pre- served the name of so magnanimous a Tbe only book I could get to read was a bible that it comrade I read through several books of We had not been prisoners but a few before prayer meetings be- gan to be held each evening by a being well aware small number and ax days rag would bo crowds added thereto until the winter fa a ly the meetings reached gigantic pro were troubled a they leader ff forget a few thieving his who would preach a mon m chance they with draw heel his shoe and eat right bad no long enough to borrow one of a I have on deprive of coat and even pantaloons sate of ting to eat were always ar- ticles of clothing atoi what as sncb as fifteen or a allowing in currency actual price of the from one to two dollaw For lay part I would not part any of my alonz very finely of I- r the were goods not one member was stealing from a fellow and an- other congregation fell off and the themselves were 4 was another kind of sprung op of Wort est majority of. reported the fact to the who wai found done in wooden norse was out whm he that Ho IT n couple of chaps who in private at bis thirty from man got op Largest with comic
