Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1892, Page 7

—_ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. AUGUST 27, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. 7 “Den ole miasus tell de solger "bout de Yankee | all de way to de city for it, a . braid and light blue trousers, and wore sabers. was a dark bine fiat cap topped with | and making frightful wounds. George H— ‘at ley sick in de best room, an’he say he it's ent fg fod lt mighty fondo BACK IN THE FIFTIES. ‘They were the of the hour. The troops, Venther, distended with setae | era a a. smarine, aimed hs mashed *gwine talkin’ wid him,an’ he go up destairs an’ | tuken all day in de saddle. She gite lots ob let- after escorting the President and his predeces- | with sloping visor and the letters “U. 8. M.,"" 8 man who was sbout to throw brick and I ‘low dat he ‘so weak hissef dat | ters, an’ in one ob de fust letters she git de sor, Gen. Franklin Pieres, to the White House, | anda short jacket and trousers of light blue, | ebook bis head warningly.. The man dropped he could skasely walk, an’ he taken to|cap’n’s pitcher init. I see it an’ was de fus’ to formed in two ranks, in open order, along | without trimming. White cross-belts were worn. the brick end retiral When the mob aw de cap'n fist like he is his’ brudder. It do me | tell ole missus w'at she got. She tole her mamma : From | Penmyivania avenue, on the north side, along | They were whitened with « mixture of white that no blank cartridges were used they fed im ocd io see dem two men, an he say by-an'-by at ahe send it back by. do fas’ mail but she How Washington Was Freed Lafavette, Square, and presented arms ‘as the dead and gum > a a | the sFidest confusion. The ground was covered to Grace, ‘Dis man mus’ some it dat, it tin’ on ¥ ir. Buel it 30 we q and mat wit! and pie: ol fog OR ry — Bi ccs Soin caea teak eet | rem ceric: Annes ree |e ce *s *Gusty, ‘quiel ” it) w ps ™ ‘ne men to “eee "¢ . \e nine.” Dat twenty ‘miles eway, to SiGe ge ney dere cams mnie, an in dat a day Pronch’s battery drilled on the White Lot, the masele w downward and the lock under. the owe ou tne ‘ vhe say ehe go; dey was no man on an’ cap'n say dat he comin’ on Chris'mas day, ni ges, arm), for we had no tompions, and the rain A phys a Ni, took all de borves ‘cept de cap'n's had been tuken | shuah, and he gwine bring his mamma an’ two | RIVAL GANGS OF TOUGHS. |" Ii) tS ge warre ror, | ranaing dows the barcoete sed fy ie, main A hyeicinn Grove to he bananas for de army, én’ dat horse was too wild fo’ | friends, an’ from dat time out had to Ttis said that $0,000 people witnessed the | barrels wet many of the cartridges so that the hospatal. It was a brave act.na the marme's lndy to ride, but in spite ob all ofe missus say | fly round dat house, an’ de good Lawdy knows . muskets could not be fired. As the barrack uniform might have drawn 0 fire of rioters Gates closed behind us we were greeted with upon the carriage. The other injured men were Fells and carses by a waiting mob, to which we eoon able to tnke their place in the ranke Miss Grace, wid de help ob de wimins fum de | dat it worried ole missus, but Miss Grace she | When Official Authority was Net Recog- | drill, sometimes pressing so closely upon the cabins, put de saddle on de horse an’ she start | ecem so happy dat de cap’n comin’. Shesay| nised—An Election Riot in °57—The Ma- | battery that the evolutions were made with difti- “LIZA, | bar'l ob wine run down his neck, an’ I’se seen | out, but “fore sho go de confedrit solger, he | dat de wah dun make dem po’, but Maras Fred culty. | Firing ‘‘with the prolonge”—thatis, fir-| paid no attention. The grounds cast and west | We formed a hollow sqanre, smale eowk, wd ood natured, | white men fist a» bad. say, ‘You mus’ hab gold to buy de quinine, | he say dat make no diffunce, de turkeys dat fat | Tines Called Out—How They Dispersed the | 1°71 1 TOR ting dragging. the gun by «| of the Capitol were then laclored by'a high iron | the canon, i charsn of com paleunany sa ;| ‘An’ all dat day went b: kase dey won't sell it fo’ confedrit | dat dey fedders won't stick in dem no more. Rioters—Baltimore Plug Uglies. rolonge rope attached to ber,” or fence set in alow wall. As we were near where dragred inside. 1? motherly ofl | Av al, Get day went by on’ oll money,’ an’ dat make = Miss Graco| | ““W'énChris'mas mawnin’ cumalong, dohouse Front whecls—cassed the utmost wonder, awe | the Butler mansion now stands we ware aren te | conti ot nee eo. colored mint, Sti Grace, she fist walked about like a solger | stop minit; den she walk in| was ll trimmed up nice wid ferns an‘holly. an* and admiration, as very few of the crowd had | another party of rioters, who ran back toward have bees Letere we avrited is the house- hersef. She put all de house in order an’ she | to cap’n = an’ Bay, le minus set out de bese dishes, but dar was no ‘Written for The Evening Star. ever seen a light battery before. The colored ra say: ‘Fix up company root "cook up | hab some ob your r, an’ she cried a bit "bout dat, an’ say she HEN I FIRST SAW | element was not then so prominent as now on Garfield statue they overtook and passed | curses: but at lor “Sh Meepee ae eerie chickens axe Weta al’ abe eotae Ey [maT begs bagi Ehsan < yous. oki way cost | “wh cls aatic Tere eno totceroloee es the city of Washington, | Occasions of this kind, as slavery existed ina | us, dragging by a rope « bras cannon eris |mews fet te tere Taen genera! manager in the red brick mansion {.... if de solgers cum dnt a way best te be good | pocket full ob gold; take it all an’ Welcum, an’ | sea,’ an’ while she was hopin’ dat ole black in the spring of 1857 {| Mild form in the District, and the crowd of dentiy « sfx pounder, on = ship's four-wheeled © around the corneron K street. She was, to use ¢o 4, an’she say to her mamma: ‘If € i more w'en I gits well.’ An’ sho’ as you | scamp was drownded, ‘long cum a tappin’ at de ing . % barracks. As we passed the present site of ments the mob returned, with threats and fring, whic! aminwe or two, one of the white colored boys which now sweeps around the | carriage. © rammer, left in the muzzie, hav ot from the head of it: wearer. He phrase, d wid de family,” and Sherman eum along de road Ts gwine to in- | lib, Miss Grace tuken out ob his coat, dat hanged | do’ and old missus say,‘Come in,’ but dey don’t woe srestly disep- | street corners just ahead of the leading band, | showed by its projection that the gun contained | clasped his huts upon hes batt ead Bel like Jebatablé question whether she or the vite him in and give him a cheer in de parlor.’ | on de wall, a han'ful ob money, an’ she went uy but jis’ kept on a tappin’, and ‘missus Pointed. Accustomed | like dead leaves before a hurricane, in every | a heavy cl t was afterward found to | door. | by de bed’ an’ she say: ‘I hate Yankees, but I | say, ‘Liza, go to de door.’ don't want dem to dis.’ An’ de cap’n ‘reach | seo would kill you wid laffin'; dere was’ de rag- out de han’ dat was all rightan’ he take hold ob | gedist ole black nigger dat eber was. An’ I look i dress an’ kiss de edge ob it, an’ den | twice ‘fore I find ont dat ‘twas olé black Isrul, s responsi- | I tell you, Massa Cap'n, I neber seed no bra Fesponel- tady like she was dat time, an’ de house was a dusted up like we was gwine to have a part matters in the house 4,’ just ‘bout dat time, an’ de day was mos’ ks own the place and who bie for its When she bas ar as I was to the solid| parade was either very small or entirely ab- contain a fall charge of powder and ten A number of men soon sent. 4o twelve pounds of small paving | away the dead business blocks ©. / "in those days there existed, especially in the | stones, nails, rife balla, a plece ef chain eed lem, awaiti clean and well-paved | northern staies, » prejadice against the uni- | some say, glass bottles. ‘Ther ps 1 to carry We stood mo- A, but sickened 4 wound another w ‘ hallenged us to with the rf ten persone had rn sb take. the two-year- gone, Miss Graco, she went out on de porch, he laff, an’ hie eyes twinkle #o funny, an’ he | an’ "fore he could suy one word, my ole missus, streets of Philadelphia, | forming of officials. A uniform, except when | “come and promised to meet us “at bern killedanltwonty or thirty woented, One 1 ‘lows dat she “gwine down to Wen she see ole Esrul a runnin’ up de road, | Say: ‘Sliss Grace, I bet you all ée gold in my | she say, ‘You ole rascal, wat you done wid de Washington reminded | worn by the military, was considered a non-| the market house.” Some young marines mont up to us, exclaiming: “You killed ee en iw’ his arms and hollerin’, an’ dat time he | pockets agin a glass ob wine dat I ain't gwine | silber?” an’ be shooken all ober at de fire Park and git me of alarge, straggling | American livery of servitude. Policemen in| near Lieut, Henderson volunteered to. pur tm nd, now kill me A corporal lor dat ‘fly outen missus’ eyes. An’ he say, now kill rporal lowered hab a jug or « gourd. an’ be dun forgot | to die, You and your good mamma, an’ Aunt in” Aw northern cities wore badges on their breasteand sue them and capture the gan, bat. his fied bar inte him, but was the com- © bar'l, an’ right bebin’ him dere was | Kachel, aint gwineletme die,’ an'hesmileagin’ | ‘Dat’s w'at I cum for to tell yer. Miswus, country village. The | small patent-leather tips around the tops of | he replied that the officers did not wichio we cheket hea’, aca threo blue solgers, an’ two ob ‘em was | an’ Miss Grace she wey: ‘Cow you uin't gwine | please gib dis po’ free. ni a. bite a: “if | Baltimore “pl ores, walkin’ | to die, but I jes’ hate Yank in’ ‘tw Den she fly | ob bread an’ a bit ob ment, an’ I find de silber.’ "t mor'n a minit 'fore | But he say nebber since he enjoy de ‘mancipa- one of dem on_ his s side an’ leadin’ two horses, an’ ole Isral, | outen de room, Poorly paved or not| forming any one but a soldier, whose dress was | Streets were either | their high silk bats; but the idea of fully uni- | violence if they could avoid it. He adde paved at ail, and after ® rain or thaw the mud | toooften ridiculously gaudy, was considered pre- | they reust us sheot down all aronnd the cannon | the firet to ran wh and take it with the bayonet!” Several old vet- whistled aroun or standing as a sort ryt ace | ’ pe : . that a Washingte iat scart dat b ht ou by de | sue was on de horse's back an’ flyin’ down | shun dathe git ‘nuff to stop de wolf gnawin = posterous. The mayor of Washington—for this | erans in the ranks, who ee en nee ete oe ee “didn't stop, on'y te holler, “De|de road, ‘an’ ole missus, she sit down an'| out de life in hie body. aa’ we A Gh ain | met Netcom, The Cigtteh met Sonny | Ee an akg maker ak ally Govetemans | thetee Gn tee ce vole fore nfiine true to duty, both = how | ery, she so ‘fraid sumpin’ would happin to dat | black Isral a big chunk ob bread an’ meat ‘nui | buildings were unfinished, the present wings ner.an’ | Ri en his I heah’ afterwa: dat ole Terul was aleepin’ in de fen somebody kick him in de ribs, an A | e about this time uniformed his police force of | would be insulted, stoned and sent back, An’den oum along de dark, an’ it rained | to feed s field hand, an’ dey don’t gib him no | aud domo of the Capitol not being in existence, | some thirty men in white linen suite for warm | had been years before. looked serions at Uae oid an’ drizzlin', an’ we put wood on de fire | time to eat it, for ole massa git de shovel an’! while the widely separated positions of the | weather. The rough element laughed at this | remark and were grimly silent. yes to ewenr, an’ dere was th | an’ jis’ sot dero an’ pray, an’ Aunt Rachel | dey start away to de woods, an’ in no time at | public offices caused one to realizo at once the | dress, for they could see the policeman on SRE RIOT O0r Read wave Trem. an’ be didn’t siop to say howdy, | she sittin’ up in de cap'n's room thinkin’ w'at | all dey cum in wid a load ob silber ware, jix’ as ut like ro | the darkest night and easily escape across some . tuswiered, no-eount, Tow-dows niggals dat he | de nes’ yarb to bile up an’ gib him, an’ den wo | bright aaa dollar. “My! how missus laff anv cry | meaning of the words ‘ity of magnificent | Ofte many vacant late Laddgortemringaee gd aptery eaetouslen i ne cut ticks fo’ de house. hea Miss Grace comin’ ap steps, an’ wo all| at de same time, an’ de black wimmins dey fly tely called “the island: rec tepented yer, | About the time of President Buchanan's in- | Mayor Magruder, who again read the riot act young Miss Grace, she en yan’ dat po’ gitl she almos’ fy in | ‘round an’ polish it up, an’ set off de chins, an’ | Trout cet nreg the cite te eae dives | Stguration the marine corps was increased by | and urged tho howling mob to disperse, but he ‘an’ she say dat she gwine to she dat ‘fraid, an’ she all wot put on de silber, an’ all dis time nobody see de | 4 ig ees Fee and thes clinay | the enlistment of 200 additional men, raising | could not make himself heard, It wae reported dey was three ob dem, an'wen| “I tuken s piece ob light wood an’ put de | young missus, An’ massa say it wan tine for de | Pela OF the eae ee ake, and the slimy | the corpe to 1,800 or 1,400 men. Many of the | that he hed rend the rict ect miso thes ahet | n was white in do face,an’ | horse in de stable ‘an’ gib him eam fodderan’ | company, an’ Masm Fred, he bin gone two | iat in some pleees, werelevel vith themeoand. | recTuits who came from Philadelphia and New The mob now discovered a new cause of er two wae holdin’ him on. his horse, en’ | wen I cum in, Mies Graco, she talkin’ fas! ae she | days, to cum back wid dem, an’ it gittin’ most | Sua tone yatta norectiongs Salty serene, | York to Washington were young Americans who | rage. Corporals King and Hearner® caniovoa by he side, an’ one ob dem solgers he | could "bout all de tings she hearn in de city, an’ | dark’ w'en Miss Grace, she cum down outen her | *4 #t night people sometimes w: haswafor | had been thrown ont of employment in mercan- | in the bakerr at the barracks, were in chtin froo de gute alone, up de walk. nn’ he tay |she had w lot ob tings to tell ‘bout de war, | room in de top ob de house, un’ she way, “Dey | ito the horrible pool, and were either suffo- : 3 L Ps f the business | dress when called to “fall 4 though ¢ s b , ° | Foor in ° ‘| cated outright or fished out in a shockingly | tile establishments on account of the busi: is ch thes esieon | se sts | Mesh sal ass) stn) Subs | counts) Din ween) feos rep rian, 08 | tena ee ne eee, failures rand consequent “hard | times” in | wore fatigue caps and jackets, thes had n time iebag, package | : n’ 1 ¢ | of this canal, not far from the Capitol grounds, | 1958-7. Previously I was informed the mai ange their citizen's trousers of green wn¢ “T hope | powders, an’ she say: We used. to pay two | gate, an’ de cap'n was de fayt to. jump out, an were mostly of foreign birth. The newcomers, | black plaid. and wishes for » showered upon de who bore led rioters. ful eyes and the screen the fountain would climb into the granite ly the mob once and sent a bul- tte ¢ bevend, and they disappesrea. policemen and the captured the city hall, Here joined us. On t from some un got into the good graces said to me. while she ing upon a bench in the park vat it ‘pears to me I bin ; ow, at dis time is dat mamma. and ‘fore dat was ait she it was dat I belonged to hansom | outen de dis de way hit was missus places we “ ees ciate he rioters supposed from their wed at with horror, ey Haddon home in "Gusty an | so pardon me for do intrusion, ‘muadam, bat | shillins in mones for dat, an’ now I hab to pay | be run up de path an’ catch a sight ob, Miss | See So beeen et |e myself, were antious to go to sea. and wore dress that we bad been reluforoed by members toa pump in rear We hed Feap'nan’ he done got shot froo de | twenty gold dollars for it; an’ dar is a paper ob | Grace, au’ she dat scart dat she run an’ try to | - é j | much disappointed when the Niagara, sent out | of tho Montgomery Guards and mingled with pag gen Tr, an it mighty painfal en’ we mus’ stop | nosdioe dat we use to pay five conte. for an’ I| hide, but decap'n, he too _gulek an’ ho eateh | Wearly opposite the navy yard, was © shed | 101 the rst Atlantic cable, was furnished | the cries of “Buchanan's pipe-clayed pets!” and : * ; , fishery, where some fine shad were caught in the | *© Jay th and on de d ar kind help un’ take k: ob him “tl | had to pay two dollars, but we mas’ hab needles; | her in de parlor an’ fasten de dvor. des with a picked rd of older soldiers, and an- ‘ome on! We don't fear your blank car- | the city hall « Jive aba, osu tease tae kena: [wake GES Leickige ie Gus kim ‘idee ae eal 1 os soe a posed ct maracas Eurl || Nave narc cist: Inappen in dat room | tad season, and with them were, drawn out | Ciher Eigein; { tulal Aes Minmnestaesng wl tcidges noes acer eae wean ieee i ahr f ae * An’ Miss Grace, she sa: ‘ome. sir, | paid two hindred dollars in confedrit money; | for "bout half an hour. MAE te China, could not accommodate half the new | still urged them to disperse, telling them the et, stacke pingloresly ed . nto de gato, | 90 yo" see, rdamma, data alldemoney wo got for] | “+An’ Mansa Fred. be bowed in’ de cap'n's | pero"? drawn in by capstans worked by | ren” T'was disappointed in missing the Chins | marines were: there to trotect, rot’ fe ohne efo’ Miss Grace . his horse | de’ Ins’ horse we sold; but de money is no| mamma an’ de two friends, an’ dey was de same | D#"4- er our musk- ps. Here our with —— ap nol a = f WHEN THE EASTERN BRACE was Navroapex, | TUM, And was devoutly thankful afterward. — | peaceable citizens, z dat a way, an de young lady toted him up de waik, an’ pat him in| good.’ tleftde cip'n at de house de year before. A is a saaadas dc greece Goon efter we sarchel te tho pelser Gn nm’ big nad to unk I beng her or eek a cheer on de porch, an’ you nebe Pca three | “*An’ de inissus, - gwine down in de Ca aan aioe solgers was ah de same asif| The Eastern branch was ins much better Monday, the 1st of June, 1857, was election | S'8t precinct, fourth ward, wees, we were the e {f to go to school such blue solgers, dey was all young 1, an’ | an’ brung up a gourd ob wine, kase we nebber | dey bin confedrit solgers an’ wid ole massa al, | condition than it is at resent, but the shallow “aie é 4 again surrounded by a furious crowd, who that three - Lea Beagrie Adie mith reap eta as Dea cap'n, an’ how he | fin’ de silbor wat ole Izrul dun hid in de woods, | in de wah, 1] P day in Washington and there was much excite- grected the mayor's order to open the poils on their way from we were ordered te with instracti locked up in m: great store by me, aay feelin’, but dar was no use askin jan’ sho went up to de cap'n’s rooman’ Aunt | ‘An’ bimeby Massa Fred, he say: ‘You don't | eeiadert raphans = atten recs frenz | mont, It was stated that the Baltimore “plug | with yells, threats und the viles lanceage T “Sve’ n' seem like she |dat, for de minnit he sot down in! Rachel she gib him a powder an’ a good swig | open de door, Miss Grace, I'gwine take it off de | ae fags fected aa - greta) in the habit of coming to Wash- | ever heard, and that is saying considerable. As t get ‘long no bow, less I help. Lots ob his head fall back at somnd | ob wine, an’ she sing to him jis’ de same he was | hinges.’ de cap’n walk out wid my young sini ecisrubleo = begre pep et aa = rin ington and “bossing” the city elections, and | we stood in line on the west «ide of 7th street, ng gentlum in ‘Gusty sot dere eves on Pp. an’ he was dat white dat ole missus she | # baby down in de black folks’ cabin. An’ wen | missus on his arm, an’ he walked up to his | ¥™ dabcey plascpe a Saati cio ‘althe if ered the old soldiers of the navy yard guard stated | about I street, the mob suddenly entered a car- to me, eqz she, *’Liza, I|donery. Young missus, she tell me, ‘Go put} Miss Grace look in de room ‘fo’ she go to bed | mamma an’ say, ‘Dis is my prize, mother,’ an’ | 2 0 praetor aie Jone; ge the | that troops had sometimes been called out, only | riagemaker’s shop on the east side of the stro b dem younggentlum.’ | de horse in de stable and fin’ ole | doy was bofe sleepin’. Ole Aunt Rachel dun she put her arms ‘round my young missus an’ Sule raid ‘uale tt Sudntorah ya erage — to be insulted and sometimes assaulted. It was nd in a few moments they had plu de wah duneum long, an’ dd make him gib dem a feedin’ of cor jonas hersef to sleep in her cheer. An’ dey gib | kiss her, an’ de cap'n bowed her to his friends, | b#ll was about < its present depth and where known that certain “tough” who worked in piece of iron or wood suitabl ole massa say he gwine, but young Masea Fred fork An’ ole Isrul he mighty | de cap'n de powders an’ de wine, and he gittin’ | an’ he say: ‘Looken out for her, kaso sho hate | the pension office now stands was, if I rightly | se navy yard had in some way (it was alleged | fora club or micile, Tbe less mos ture tres army or navy g our line an wwled ont of counter adie chat he was pleased aleu : ¥ ° : ber, an old Jail building. The only troops 7 j 4 . e say no, dat he gwine, le ma : ut dat and he rub de mud off and hang | better ebery day, but he dat weak dat de winter | Yankees.’ An’ dey all laff, ‘cept Miss Grace; | Temember, an ol by theft) obtained possession of old muskets, | considerable. One of the leaders, said to he Another man excited th ice or poll cree ae ‘aoe on yen saddles, an’ while he doin’ it he feel | mos’ gone ‘fore he could sit up, an’ de cap'n | her face dat red she couldn in or near the city were twenty to forty of the | Lich they enwed off Just below the amall of ths | from Baltimore, whe seas wall demea eed ore pity of our officers by passing al the line “I want to sec the man that shot Massa Fred be tuken de best horse on de plan- | big. he dat nice an’ he shave hissef wid young Massa “An’ in a little while dey wasall sittin’ around | °Tdnance corps at work ‘he arsenal (now the he saddie an’ good clo’s, an’ he tuken| “De solger, he say, dat dey hab ii Pred ad wea he face ail clean an’ nice | de table, an’ ole massa, he say, ‘Liza, gib ole | *Ttillery barracks),where some 500,000 muskets, stock and just above the lower band on the | one of the then fashionable white high hats excl barrel, : : aking very short guns, called “‘plug | with a wide black band, stood in front of us, my bos to see him; that'sall.” We suse teal do Sothncs, a’ sag dathe | bunincss 00 da, an’ Gat bout fen rik ar | young boy, an’ he put his good black Isrul a gourd ob wine an’ a snack an’ tell bape had — So ee oe pistols.” ‘The weapons, oA deyelicey carry a| having in his hand a piece of the wheel of an | pected, and were afterward informed correctly, home soon wid all de Yankees | dey had # scrimmage wid a few men, au’ dat de | ssus kind a sly like an’ kiss her | him to looken sharp after de preacher's horse.’ | and what marines might happen to round musket Fall about a hundred yards, were omnibus or stage, part of the felloe painted carried attached to the waist behind, concealed | red, with white stars, We had noticed that by the coat skirts. The “plugs” were also well | several of the leaders wore these white hats, | gen supplied with the revolvers in use at that time. | and the word passed among our men to “mark | “All boys. ; They were generally called “ boxes,” as/ the white bats, ap'n laff ns hesingachune. An’ | basin, Ireckin. I gwine take him to his gran'-|* Marine guard would be sent toany vessel | te cir bartels were. all. bored. was an imaginary one and thab of us for future vene of the rioters wast The Montgomery ar on account of theif seem liken dey nebber git de Yan- | cap'n as shot, an’ dey didn't want to leab hin off, an’ it was a long time “fore we | an’ dey was tryin’ to gotode army, but ¢ wen he did cum home he | cap’n was too badly hurt to do it until de ’ dirty dat he look | could rest. The ole missus, sho say, dev y wite trash, but de | come, an’ che tell me to go down ir: de collar a her his mamma, an’ ole missus she like | De ole house ring dat night an’ dey kep’ it up ned at the marine barracks and the navy in she ery for old massaan’ yonng Marse Fred | for a week.” An’ dat two-year-old boy ober dar | Yd. Before a war vessel was sent to sea a home. an’ Miss Grace she sa: p'n | is Miss Grace's fust grandchild, an’ if it want | Umber of marines—seldom over 100—would | welcome to stay, but she hate Yankees,’ for me he be dead ‘fo dis time fallin’ in de fish | be #ccumulated atthe barracks. From these | an'dat make de an't kill a cat supposed by us to be tho | Guards became anpor ; eA 2 in one piece of | badge of the Baltimore “plugs.” supposed participation in our operations, to. de hole dat’s shoot in his | get some wine: dat it muke de wounded man | de spring days o um ai de-cap'a walk cute bit, eS peeciee ih poe leaving only 3.00 poral's izon, which revolved ‘an the pioce was cocked. insincere aeseasiiian: seh baikes aaaita aaa lowin’ all v¥y one is monstus | feel better, an’ w'en she suy dat she glad ole | an’ once ina while cum de news dat Sherman _—>— \ 5 ‘As the barrel was moving while the shooter was : . chee : Bins css Mcuh chek thats: devs he hoact | ved uacin'S epensel ds fecrsecay: lot li vos onn| soleuse cutie yay ort: ea: cia ames ter Bek SOME WIND VELOCITIES. Tacks, A permanent guard of twenty or thirty | taking aim ani the pistol generally Jamped ap | 4 delegation from the mob now waited upon | Tt wax dark when the train ffom Baltimore long cum de conscription an de silber wat ole Isrul hide in de woods, but ——— men, generally veterans, was kept at the navy | Ward'when fired, the weapon was not so danger- | Gen. Henderson, who had joined us, and told | rolled in. We stood at “attention.” One bune solgers, he «ay to Miss | she can't do it, an’ de cap’n say: ‘So many | Some Anomalies Which Provoke Inquiry as| Yard. Their quarters were in poor condition, sea, an’ wen young ption to dat, de ossifer i | dred and te et, weary, Ment Gane. ee yee Wace erees Only two store Bigh and swarming with cock: | ¥8 a# it appeared to be. him that if the marines were not instantly | dred and ten wet, weary, hungry marines, many oney, an’ we | scallywags gwi 1 ‘ e AN EARLY MORNING RIOT. withdrawn they would use force, or words to | with muskets (including my own) which could tay dat he got a mind to put a paper on Massa 3 Bets aa. Lwin vou | Jetdo aitbor stay in. de, round, ‘an’ « gont'd | From the New York Tribune, Sais Lan ene ee Early in the morning the rioting commenced. | that effect. At the Junction of 7th street and | not be discharged as we. had no ball screws Fred. too, an’ ole macs he cua acine. but he | would rt me put de capa on a bed an’ we will | ood nnffor hint io drink wine outen,\an'| "Charta have recently been published by the | MA0° to Keep. down the Part of the men. Several persons—among them a little girl—| New York avenue, at what is now Vernon | which would take hold of tho wet cartridges-= Eine along wid de patroiler jes’ de same. drese his wounds. an’ leab him an’ go on to de | den he ink ont de comer ob his ere, an" ole | yntted States weather Larcan showing the suene | Park. they bad planted their six-pounder, so | were to enter the cars and arrest 300 fresh Bale “Young Massa Fred say dat one is nuff outen | army. We hab important business, an’ we will | missus fay to me: ‘Bring de gourd full ob | ahect a veluelty of tha etda a RIVAL GANGS OF TOUGHS. were wounded by bullets from straggling | aimed as to rake our entire line, while the five | timore ruffians, well armed. for close fighting! de fambly to onet dat be gwine stay home | cum back tomorrow an’ get him an’ bring a| wine, Liza, an’dat’s all you can bab today; | @rection and velocity of the wind at a largo : shee ? * At that time Warhington probably ined | riotors. In one part of the city a number of | street corners and the strects around it were | The -rospect was not « pleasant one. The mus’ sabe sum ob dat wine for our solgers | number of stations in this country during the | 7 dangerous ae ny pro] nate a leading citizens caine out of thelr homes with | black with men—the crowd being estimated | sto pod ‘snd instead of 'a plug ugly” « pretiy jwen dey ts home.’ An de cap'n different months. They are valuable, both to ation thi Stead “cll pe firearms and the rowdies left. Ido not re-jat 1,500. Drammer Richard K., who had | little woman, dressed in black, «prang from the » he hope dat mighty «oon. for de cap'n sas, | those persons who wish to study in detail the | PoPUlation than any other city in the eastern | Womber the ward in which this took place. | fought Indians on the plains with the sixth | steps ms of Capt.’ Maddox with the Mba senog null t0 ride to/Byivany | sseorological conditions of any particular lo- | States except Baltimore, where the rival gangs | Mayor Magruder, whom I remember as a fine- | infantry, stepped from the ranks and aimed his ». my Gear, I heard you were n I mus’ be gwine. mothe’ lity and a pants ih of “plug uglies” and ‘blood tubs” fought | looking, fearless’ and able man, didall in his | musket at the men around the gun, but was | all killed!” “We wanted to cheer the brave little sw'en dey cum. An’ while Iwas buildin’ | will think I've dead an’ four | cality and to students of the general laws that | with firearms on the streets and in the market power, with his small police forge, to preserve | sternly ordered back to his place. We faced to | wife, but discipline did not permit. As we ab de grate my young Miss Grace wid her | months since T heard a word fum home or de | govern winds. While a majority of the results | houses. At the risk of offending many of the order, butin vain. The rough element ruled | the rightas if to march away down 7th, and the, d to enter the cars the conductor told us as brought up pitcher of water an’ | army, an T want to haba hand in de wind up.’ | herein embodied harmonize finely with each | respectable class of veteran firemen candor the city. The marines were kept in their | crowd, thinking we were about to retreat, yelled ‘the “plugs” had started on his train, but de two rolgers was jis as tend as a chile ob de | An’ Miss Grace, she jurap up an’ say, ‘You bet- | other and with observations in other lands, | COMpels me to say that in Washington at that | quarters, but the mayor finally called on the exultantly. | hearing that we were waiting for them ‘they had yu, taken off his clo’s, an’ dey was all blood, | ter go now, I hate’ Yankees,’ an’ he jis’ turn de bole in he sculp giten well. Leastwise, ntil he git ® good wot say dat an’ sho as you lib 6 | room upstairs, where we allus put de je Atlanty dey dun smireh Den “bout dat time ‘long ¥ tooken off ali de ni de digai i i time, ax well ax in nearly all other cities, the | jocal military com nies—among them Iremgn-| The election officers, who were standing on left the cars three miles this eide of Baltimore, * dey washed him ” mise ‘onght in | wite in de face an’ laff a little, an’ she say, ‘You | there are some curious exceptions which pro- | tcughest citizens were generally found attach i : " i . a t= lo antl ~~ = ifieors aan ed" het Tite ch =n | stay here until my brudder Fred comes home voke inquiry as to the causes to which they are tote generally al ed| ber the Light Eee the Montgomery | the sieps and sidewalk, pale as ghosts, when we | He suid that eighty-six men of French's battery volunteer fire companies. This statement | Guards the “German J oat a vthim’ in de bed. All dis Miss | an’ he will wind you up. You ain't liken all de | attributable, may be denied, but I know, from having been a| Gent's Mounted Gasca. Fhe’ rakes gahs for along time gu’ some ob akin’ de cook fly roun’ an'she | confedrit aolgers yit.’ An’ ehe run in ‘Two of these apparent anomalies are to be | member of a fire company, that the firemen, or | reported that it was all they conld do to keep | unheard on account of the uproar, the recruits | We marched home through a fearfal thunder a’ de way yit. an’ dey tuken ken broth an’ oder good tings for | house. { heah it all kes I'so alla: belpin’ | gound on the Pacitic coast. In most regions | °°¢n the hangers-on of a fire company, who was | the rioters out of their armories, There | stepping oneach other's heels, uitil a halt| storm. No street Inmps were lit a points came-had disappeared: But we immedisiely | from Fort Melfeury would soon arrive to ne e troops, however, | countermarc! up the street, orders being | lic je black Isrul. An’ dey'd wp'nan’ she tuk ‘em up to de room herse’f. | Tound de house. I peekin’ out de winder, an’ not ready to fight at any moment, and for the | were soldiers nearer than Fort Mc- | brought us together witha crush. A‘front Washington. The darkness was unt : he aid ouiten de gin house an’ | An’ she say to her mamma: “Maybe some: | decap'n, he whistle soft to hisself, am dea he | lying at low levels and in temperate latitudes | jeast ponsible reason or no reason whatever, was | Heme” Bitte chick eee noe by | face" brought us in front of the gun, which the | the lightning seemed to play around the Bide ts de woods til dey all gone Dy, an’ den he | body will “gib our darling Fred good | wall round de house whar de old missus sittin’ | the wind attains ite maximum velocity at the | considered a “poor stick,” and was generally ht battery K of the first artillery, | mob hadewangaroundeothatit reked the leftor | of the bayonets. Some of us expected to be eum bac care. I hate Yankees,’ dat what she allus; an’ he smoove his hand ober -her hair an’ talk | warmest hours of the day, that is, between 2| made to feel that “bis room was better than his about ninety men in all. As a last resort Presi- | our firstcompany (of which I had the >) | Seed epon She the inn 0 ‘the “Ole massa always say dat ft take mighty | say, ‘but dis un ain't noregiar Yankee, leastwire | low an’ quiet to her, an’ she look up in his | and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The minimum | company.” é Revs onan’ Y ~y% omy man to keep an eye on Isrul, an’ | like none dat Leber hearn tell ob. An’ w'en fuse a gry, aod he pallea ber head over an ioe = Ae ee on fart neon THEIR WEAPONS. Tt ee ee tliptnted dockins frame basing, with iron | being oak by ‘Tiewtelnes i wosnaen a ne a an le cap'n he dri el issed an’ Coaxed her until she 6 in’. I - vin ed ‘om | southeast corner we t up se i times 1 an’ Ineh: hie de apne drink de wine Cr eds eat wong Mg age agen sacle | show that in portions of Oregon, California and | _ Instead of using fists, bricks and spanners,as| Our recruits, some sixty of whom had never | b#*Ted windows. Itstood.a little back from itheast corner of the Capitol grounds the ¢ eupper de ‘war soon. ober Aciegpe, ond af points even farther island, the | tbe firemen of New York and Philadelphia did, | oarriad sanakets, were much exatied when about | Prk nads hick Perr forse letoeriad aoe | ee re an nine mae a au right, sad tho’ seas — = Croaie tebitew dpe aga those of Baltimore and Washington often re- | twenty-five old Mexican war veterans from the | toward the southeast corner, In the neat of | toarchod t will” by twos, and one of the mun R . # goandleab him, an’ wen dey cum back |e makes ole missus laff, an’ bimeby Miss | The cause o retardation may, sorted to knives, pistols and e: . Bud y fee 7B sil becca Frse eothacbe B al ins sven cadens git kien: Ged date cols alana aie on otk tee “seeds rk, an’ | some influence exerted by the aie fhe Gyon Suns. Bud | navy yard marched into the barracks. It was | the market appeared to be an open lot. Men remarked, “Oh, no chauce at all against such « 4 Eggleston I heard very little about though he ‘ od aro : ‘ ra! t ery; L take | day or so: an’ sho as you lib dem young solgers | she call me an’ say, “Liza, bring a'book| Rocky mountains. The system of diurnal | -S 4 = ugh he | near noon. rainy, but very warm, and we were | were clustered around the cannon, one holding . 4 * ae n 3 Pras gometimes mentioned; but evervbody | all thinking about ‘dinner call,” when every | straw over the vent to prevent the rain from| At the barracks Gen. Henderson briefly mer was lone- | w'en dey go away outen de room de tears cum in | fo’ de cap'n to r an’ 1 say, ‘Wa't kind ob a | changes in velocity at great elevations, as upon | heard of and dreaded the city terror, “Chris” | man who aber fight was called to emarsstent d wetting the priming, while one or two others thanked us for our faithful performance of » de cle miesus an” de | dare eves an" one ob dem, de hansam one. he book? Pon she si) Meeks oe an’ ee e iio aise eee Hee gitboley ts ipee Pre | aoe e. He oo ae aia ‘mall, or | two or three crippled old veterans being left to | had lighted cigars or burning fuses. Brave old very disagroeal du nd dicniseed a vest_dey know how, | goin’ back an’ aay, ‘Cap'n, you an’ I dan titin’ | two of dem; one Bible ‘nuff fo mal n . 1¢ top of | at least, a very short man, but fearless, strong, d th iS the riote his | Gen. Henderson, in citizen's dress and un- ar taen were next dia had to go down 25 | three seara now ail de time togedder an" Thate | Yankee good. I hate Yankees.” An’ de eap'n | the Filfel tower, scarcely” 1,000 feet igh, the | ested oe gone ea eae sleaya| Stesotial aie Uiel ae eet ee oe any wolf. i ie rae yr . ‘ dese aloe hey mi ¥ wi armed, quickly placed himeelf against and in letters if der ux aus. De | to go an’ leab you, an I wouldn't do it if you | be tay: he bring a Look to suit hisse'f. an’ he | highest velocity is not usually attained uniil 10 | escaped the punishment that other men would | steno ett esas tad Seb oaateomen front of the maszi@ of the gun, and by pushing | gusrd ery at de news kuse Atlanty | didn t ogder me to. Iknow it my duty an’ I| gwine in de house an’ fetch ont de best book, | or 11 o'clock at night, or about nine hours be-| have received. It was alleged that at one time a it was washed yellow instead of biue—and ob-| the men away with his umbrella Bomar | When French’ evvy house in de country | mus’ go.’ An’he put his arms around dat| Wid a r, dats on de shelf, an’ sittin’ | hind the climax at the central weather office in | policeman, who had been ordered to arrest him, | tained tenn uct ammunition, with the loss of | them from firing it. A well-dressed citizen | they were armed with sabers only, it is said. A solgers in’em, but seem | cap'n's neck an’ kiss him on his forehead, an’ | down in de cheer side of Miss Grace, he begin | Paris, only bore ragtceeirberar mh entered a house where Boleye was concealed. | some men, for the old veterans would certainly | ran to Sergesnt Major Kobineon, who was on mob threw stones at them, but fled when the d watch over our folks an’ dey don’ | widout saving anuder word he went to read. Fust she turn up her nose, but de| Another notable fact ix that this same average | “Chris” crouched ina barrel or h ead, in | have sold their lives dearly. We were supplied | the right of the line, begging him not to fire on command “Front face!” wa given. The arté- room an’ den he salute de cap'n an’ sly cap’ kep’ right on readin, an’ old missus, she | daily maximum exceeds the mean minimum to | which he hud cut loop holes. When the police- | mits toate rounds each, I think, of “buck and | the people. Robinson tripped him and he fell | lery got muskets at the arsenal am a niggs boy nT h dem two solgers wen d: de away | Move up her chair an’ Miss Gzace, she,drop her | @ greater degree on and near the Pacific coast} man entered the room Boleye fired " i " < A, etn —oaggty “* nap Ale eso Cod fool peer orm plone pager eas ah or eee Ror | Gunil dose’ cleewbere’ a1 they Untied Sear; | ats ee 00) ye & large | ball” cartridges. These’ cartridges each con-| headlong intothe gutter, full of water. He | here some time. The marines w mo’ ob dem tor « long time. “An ole mixsus, she was makin’ a dress for | especially in summer. At St. Pai horse pistol through one of these loop holes, | tai ith three bucl ily d left. barracks, some of th Oma; | fodging itecontents a hangtal of eope eee | tained a round ball with threo buckshot on top | hastily rose and le eR ey : i ‘ one, it is said, fatally “Dat night de Cap'n tole missus dat de Sher- | Aunt Rachel oaten one ob her ole onee, kuse wo's | Galveston, Louisville, Buffalo, Boston and | in the efticer's body ST = el Se ordisyerc eee ; pice : : i and then made his escape | th. ylinds tainii heavy chargeof “4 . iven, | Bey: the baker, afterward man army wasn't comin’ widin thirty miles ob | gettin’ mighty po’, an’ we hab to patch upebry- | Charleston, for instance, the’ highest daily | to the ontskirte of ‘the city. Hers he wes noe gunpowder, ‘The muskets “were not so heavy | _ THe ofder “first platoon forward” was given, | ne” the bakes afterward n pizen de | our plantaticn an dat she musn’t fear; dat he ‘an wen T cum out to ask w'at we gwine | speed in winter is from 35 to 70 per cent greater | nished with a horse by some of his friends and talkin’, and den he | could w dat's de last ob him. I | ‘sturb nuffin’ w'en he was da: ed, kuse de pat thing he waa ‘fraid of was dat s0 ral part of Washing- tohave a piese . some four fest The piece bud ye by some of the marines of the , t : : ees ie, Se, se fourteen | Md the veterans rushed upon the gun. In-| "\t,’ "as we called the on ke care ob dem, an’ de soldiers wouldn't | 10 git fo" supper, ole missus was fas’ asleep in nm the lowest; in summer from 60 to 125 per | rode across the country to Baltimore, where he pater “adating ‘the reat ager were | stantly a shower of stones, bricks, clubs and | ton, along Pennsylva her rockin’ chair, an’ de cap'n wgs sittin’ berr | cent. But at Portland, Roseburg (Oregon), | was concealed by other associates. The office smoothbores, with percussion locks, and | bullets rained upon us from all sides. Private of the bre 4 close to Miss Grace, an’ seemed she couldn't | San Francisco, San Diego, Yuma (Arizoua), | died from his wounds—no wonder—but “Chris” | weighed, with the bayonet, about twelve | Byrnes of the first platoon was +hot through long, cut up folks would eum long dat road an’ keep her eyes off his face while he was readin’. | Boise City (Idaho) and Salt Lake City the in- | had sufticiont influence, it is said, to have his| pounds.’ The drummers and fifers were | the face, the large ball crashing through th been brough: ’ to Andersonville privon. An’ be eay. if any ob | I jist whisper to Miss Grace, ““W'at we gwino | crease in winter is nearly or quite 100 per cent, | death ascribed to other causes, He remained | plucky and wished to go, but none | bones into his month. He dropped his musket | frigate Niagara, which Lad been employed sm de gray solgers cum long to not tell dem he was | to bub fo supper?” go not to wake up ole | while in July it ranges from 150 to 850 per gent | absent until the affair had blown over and then | dnder sixteen old were permitted to do | and staggered back to us. Ashe took his hands g the ckble. Some rioters recognized sin. at ele E eae gas, fo abe bab worry ‘nuff, au’ de cap'n say, | in most cases; at Roseburg it averages 600! | returned to his former haunts in Washington. | yo. ‘Two of te sous of eae dont sergeant, | from his face the blood gushed over his white | Kearney and attacked him. He used the cable am a letter fum| “Dat night ole Isrul he gwine to see his ole in like we gwine hab company to supper | That the orographical features of the western | It is reported that Boleye afterward became & » shot in the right | ooman, who was # field hand, an’ dat he | tonight; better cock ‘nuff fo" ‘four. “ Ise part of the continent ina measuro account for | quiet, respectable citizen, Hamilton—and an excellent instructor he was— | belt, and some of the marines, with with gute yell, com- | small yer wires sure aise ol orig : 2 nd died of con-| were in the ranks. Thomas, a fifer, was about | menced firing. Sergt. Duffy, a veteran, was percha, with twisted iron wire outside—as m de- ate kins or ce Soe a stars, Nate 0% Roem | NER obra elleee. Gl cata clase ene [Peters eee, cone nenrt is | eutapiion' scene yeers!agn.) Goins persoes any | svuniy sancsiebliiebdls Same: a dnearmars oes | Rees neat aye eee en Rad ee eae jensive weapon. It was about an inch thick, ead nto > him an’ Rat he en, All Ga Boye gone an | ee ee eee ue one tia. | peonccine "setae lation ofimimrinsa “TE TA8 | ip ss aiillltiving. At thab| time ithe peaceable | gtr aioay alters wemieeee eteieee Set ooe tee tines tee ee le ae grasp, felling them 'rap- it was cole an’ dat de " * She say, ‘Be you] a a a Ce = oy oon 2 ae a — oes, oo apogee tizen, on his way homeward at night, would | diers. back with a paving stone thrown by the men | idly, and returned wi ious injury. be well, an’ dev take good ’ ry plantation.’ Av she say, | eat itall myee'f; git anything. jun feelin’ | aa the “1 reeze’—a@ light wind | sooner have met a lion just out of his is ro i ola eks the “ engaged in weed is leva, oa foc, no coast nigesh, ont | Miwa Tasos.” An’ hs weak o6 tenia’ to Mise | often cbeerved In cumaier,eatling inshore ix j cage than | The Marine Band, however, disgusted every- | pressing on our rear. Private Dolan, now a| ina few wook: engag the Bolove and his associates, if they had any real | body by refusing to turn out. One of thei messenger in the Interior Department, while 1 the warmer part of the day—prevails to | or fancied against him, or if he be- | said, “Ze band is to play moosie; no to fight"” | holding his piece at “ready” hed the exp nipale on different war veesels. While tm uu np de nex’ mawnin’ ole Terul table wen I hea Miss Grace holier, and I) gteater extent where the coast thus visited has | longed to “the other crowd.” Nearly all the bandsmen appeared to be Portu-| knocked out by a bullet, which glanced and European waters the samo year the au mule, an’ he was de best one on de pic thought she was gwine to lose her senses, an’|® mountain range for, ite background. The | cue uxrixisuzD wasaixorox Moxumenr. | guese or Itallans, and there slovenly appear- | painfully wounded him in’ the knes. A young corvette Plymouth, Capt. Dabigren, Dee eee ir eck ee aL eee ee EN des Mes re a et es eee eet te ok Amdlibas | ass Wialitagtod; oc Anacostia’ caves 4s | ents lam SERARN eee teint eee oma eee ee Virginia, who was afterward successfully, the first Dablgren guns, I sas lost in | niggal,’ bat ele low de mule was a gze't loss, | I #ee Messe Fred, an’ ole missus an’ Miss Grace | surfaces, to which is due this atmospheric in- 3 z the brilliant show made by Sousa and his excel- | taken out of tho service by his father under | that Capt. T'vler had been tried for ‘murder, le to get| Kat ehe soon forgit do male, kase, che got to|& hbuggia’ ob ‘him an) ervin’ an’ talan’ few, sppests to be more) cocsplougus, with peuciptce po genio aed re lent band at present. Gen. Henderson, a gul-| the “baby act” (on account of being but that none beard him order hie men. $e ze : rd becadennn i mat an’ tay litely on | On, an’ I grabbed him by de lege, knse dat's do - nd market gardens, an hills ani . ef 2 One A | gate for de eap'n, an) abe we pe a | Gee ere OU ea reer figs pee meer ucied oe eee lant and popular old veteran of the Mexican | under age), was struck in the back by a fire. and that he bad retaliated by having five i eattered to the four winds #f Grace. 1 was jis’ gwine out to call dem to de ‘scattered @ four win de missus glad to git shet ob you. ia . highlands around it were covered with woods | and Florida wars, was then in command of the | brick or stone thrown by @ young man, | of the rioters sent to the penitentiary for righ= say she know de fool mun he ‘glad rhe well,’ | 40wn on top ob me, an’ mos’ kill me, an’ de! sea breeze and the conditions mentioned | wi vated i: 4 ey ah - feradaantty opr empty band ‘missus wre scart ane see | cap'a wen he saw de four ob us rollix’'on do| by Laughton, as. ‘promoting vir nea | With cultivated fields here and there, ‘The | marine brigatle, and he joined as down town fn | anid to have been one Wella, from ‘Anus’ Aran ing and sedition. There was some excitemen® i : d to the I Asyl % 3 — own ir came : preety co . a ae Seadaée acon ni on| porch, he laff mos’ to kill hisse'f. An’ w'en | there admirably afforded. What is trae rr Saennateee is new asthe Wenn wee ee not having time to get his uni-| del county, Md. The Virginian, with a yell of | during the election in 1858, and the marines look #0 wite tout an’ got de best ole collud w & i 5 i i the & er is | pain and rage, faced to the rear—being in the ted to be called out, but the dose of fire and say, he dui | de place. She's de one dat take care ol all de | Miss Grace git up ont ob de tanglement an’ | of the effect of mountains upon a breeze which, | monument, which had been commenced several | 2 onic Capt. Tyler to a a meee tim at his flcing | eed bed purged Wachington of tts wens’ aips art dat he nebber tind | sick folks an’ de babies, an’ dat ooman—her|Smoved down her dress rhe say: ‘I hate | if it could be separated from all other atmos-| years before, had been standing unfinished and SOME OF THE OFFICERS. assailant, shot him dead in his tracks and coolly ment. Baltimoreans were afaid to come | name's Rachel she tuacn* care ob de cap'n, | Yankees,” an’ kotch hold ob Massa Fred ag'in. | pherie motions, would last only afew houre at merely covered with a roof of boards for along A < j. | commenced reloading, exclaiming, with an | bere again, and those of the Washingtonisss She wash his wounds an’ brash his huir an’ | I went an’ set de table ober an’ put on | time, is also true of that continuous, though | timo, It resembled a huge ‘chioscr, and are | He was in citizen's dress at first and hurri- “k up de bed, an’ all de time de cap’ us happy as if he was in his own home a: | huve no hole in he shoulder. “Leastways de days roll on an’ on, t = i x ~ .“ oot . jumpi 1” | who had not fled from the city to avoid gnadder piate, but seem liks de cap'n an’ Masia Se reenter nee dae both ogg echoes inside sounded like distant thunder. I | €dly sent for his uniform. Some panic-stricken | °° ae eee eee ment were diagusted with euch Fred dat eat and da; berms reas | visi: “Mes is i- ‘ASUAL “SWell, do’ cay'n an Matte Ered de'soon | Of high barometric pressure iying over the | iat one day with a friend named Robin- | sorvant or relative sent him his fall-dress uni- attended thereafter to their son, whowas an excellent singer. Standii : ‘Aman reached over with acigar or fuse to gittin’ like brudders, an’ Massa Fred he say dat | ocean toward the great stationary continental elient singer. ing on | form coat, very dark blue, blazing with gold affairs, The bloody punishment we an ley wa 3 Pr] : . x the gravel floor in the center of the monument " a fire the cannon and instantly had the muscle | was q heroic remedy, but it ended the rule #f rolgers did't eum back wig de docter he like de Yankeos. “Au he say dat be got naff | low areas. |The Coast range, Sicrras and Tock- | he cang the bewutiful song. entitled “Washing: | stecaret reer a sre taminigamendaonger 4 pep opamp marge Aermatienryegrnet | og ‘Washington, for «ill kerridge: an’ de days an’ de weeks went |, ob walt an’ he gwine ty pitch in a crap ob cot- | ies, and no doubt the vast mountain plateau, |ton's Grave,” commencing “Disturb not a high silk hat and black vest and trousers and | thrust of amarine’s bayonet. One man shot | time. we ole in de wood | de cup'n's horse got dat restless in de sta ton; dat he got no imbney an’ de niggahs dun | thus operates with double effect at the warmer | glumbers; let Washington sleep.” As his | his beautifui dress sword belted around him. | through the back of the neck sat on’ the —_ © ace | Peete load Tal oe av a begs him. Dat | gone, “captin’ de witamin folks, an’ be rockin | eee oe teat in war oti eatce Danes re tered: | magnificent voice echoed and re-echood ttm | He weeatbears; resoitineoltion far tae eas ground and placed his « -box” revolver a ee dig a Joug | horse ain't used to Joafln’ in de stable as: doin’ | dey go, too,soon as dey Kin, but hegot to make a | Moreover, that in our latitudes there is a broad, | the sides of the great chaft Tthougat T hed | Le such an emergency. We numbered exactly | almost against the breast’ of Gen. Hendcraon, | ¥Fom the Chicago Tribune. away, long | nuffin’ for de corn dat he crap somehow. De cap'n say he got plenty os, Permanent air stream Orang around the | never heard any music that would equal it. one hundred in ranks—corporals and privates—| but « corporal’s bayonet pierced his breast | His Mamma—‘Willie, I wish you would ge| i de leaves | Rachel an’ de missus an’ Mise Gra part hem oN pent metirr edlgeees ely [Tere oy ener ub ep don err PRESIDENT BUCHANAN’S ESCORT, Bad fon or treire otkcars and sergeants, We | three or four times with the quickness of light | into the pantry and bring me the bettie with) i | fitin’ to keep dat man alive, t make Massa Fred glad, an’ de two men o ., af 4 7: ‘You Iaral, | she makes peultices, an” yar! evry day an’ evvy nigit an’ dey slep’ in de same | time, and even over the continents its under | | At the inauguration of President Buchanan | bad no music, and were quickly divided into | ning and he sunk back apparently dead rubber cork in it that you will Gnd on the tap) in de road an e dan a bucketful, an’ he pneset an’ fermifuge an’ smile, | hisse? evvy day, spiten all dat we bel in de best room, an” dey arrange dat Masta | #ide i rarely more than a mile or two from the | the President's escort comprised two companies | £%° companies, Brevet Major Zain and Greed popeey ap eg gel pd Ee Fred, he gwine to 'Sylvany wid de cap'n an’ de | earth: ‘The tendency of this great current | of cavalry—the President's Mounted Guard of | quien. and Lieut. Henderson ‘econd. | ground until forced away cap'n he gwine home or back to de army ‘to be | Would be to accelerate by friction any atmos-| Washington and the Port Tobacco (Md.) cav- | “Charley Henderson, i Ole Missus an’ Miss Grace dey migh’ in at de wind up,’ so he An’ dey gwine to | Pheric movement going on underneath it in the | giry, each numbering about forty ‘cee, The men, was the general's son, and was as popular an’ one day wen he wery bad ‘longeum start befo’ sunup de nest mawni same direction. such as the monsoon and sea | da7 was fine and the troope wore no overcoats. | with the t™mnk and file as his! father igers, an’ dey say dey gwin« take | ‘Dat night dey all sot out on de porch in de | breeze of the Pacific coast, but to retard such | ‘The cavalry, if I remenber rightly, all wore|was. He killed s Mexican officer in a| piece of brick into the vent with Lan’ she say,‘ de | "long de cap'n, leastwise dey giine tske his | moonlight, an’ ole missus, she gwine off to bed, | ®# proceeded in a nearly cont direction, the | tify blue caps, with n yellow band anda yellow | square sword fight in one of battles in | the wl, an Lain'tgwine | horse, but Mies Grace say no! dat her Lorse | an’ den Massa Fred, he say good night, too, an’ | 80Utheasterly winds that favor the Atlantic sea- plume of horsehair, dark blue frock coata, with Mexico and brought off his poncho ese were 2 ukin’ of it, If) an’ “dey can't hab- him. Dats de | kiss Miss Grace. I dun sittin’ up in de kitchen | board in summer, for instance. collars and cuffs of orange yellow, and’ light | “Bully Zeilin” was also » gallant and wine dey feelin’ dat | fust tine Miss Grace eber tole a lic, gn’ | to close up de house w'en dey’s ull in, an’ won | _ These and some gther peculiarities of Ameri- | Tine trousers, strapped down ‘over their boots, | veteran. Capt. Maddox was a courtoons aken us allot along | I knows de good Lord made light ob|Ilock out in de moonlight I thought dey all | C®M winds revealed by the charts in question ‘They were armed with sabers and each man | looking officer, but a stranger to the dat, kase he werea powerful good aniins! pers, in, so1 went to de do’ an’ Iheah de cap'n | deserve, and will no doubt receive, careful ex- carried a pair of large single-barreled pistols ‘ i ‘| de man he look at de cap'n an’ say, “Howdy, low, to hisse’f like. an’ he holdin’ Miss | mination. the holsters at his saddle bow. These t de | Yank,’ an’ de cap'n say, ‘Howdy, Job: g a i 3 i; 4 BF i i E ; i ; Fi s ee & i fasset an’ be missus didn't i i | ij Grace in bis arms, an’ she tryin’ to get awa} would 8 Tot run ont in his hat, an’ he a mighty weak way an’ deconfedrit say, “oor | but he kiss her fust, spiten all she cota ‘an, ‘What She Said. The troopers peepee ped 4 cen baer mn eivil tert Tustesd of boing eel near’ the Capitol, | 7 down, ole | debbil, he gwine die off, sho as you born, ‘eed | Den he let her go,an’ she jis’ straiten herse'f up From the Indianspohs Journal. marines wore the stiff, heavy “tar bucket’ luates of Annapolis. Only two ever rose | sticks of wood on the northeast corner, which a wn de rod smackia’ he is," and he say, ‘good riddance t) de | an’ say, ‘I bate Yankees," an’ run inde house.| ‘Fickle, false one,” he hoarsely cried, “you (of the ehape, but not so high as the ranks of this aristocratic organiza-| the rioters were throwing at us as fast as his mouf an’ a steppin’ mighty spry for a’ ole | Yankees.” Dat kind ob talk make Miss ( An’ de cap n look at do stars an’ moon a bit, | are not a woman; you are s statue—a marble | the Alexfndria Light Infantry now weet) tion so far as I know. They were Capts. Gil- | were sawed off, when the negro was thot and Dilin’ mad an’ she say dat de cap'n was @ ge: &n’ went up to de spare room to sleep. An’ in | statue, with a heart of flint. Unfeeling, cruel, | blue and red balls, or pompons, in front, and Tansill, the latter afterwardacolonel | killed. The crowd was of men end man an’ dat he ain't gwine todie.if she can hulp | de mawnin’, fo’ sunup, dey went away, but, insensate, you go on your rathless r blue swallow-tail coats, turned up, with red on | in the confederate army. Both were promoted | boys of all colors and the it, early as it Was, Misa Grace was sittin’ by de sdechteh ironies way. Over ® | tho skirts and trimmed with » blue and | for bravery in Merico, where the marines did’| killed was a twelve-year-old ‘brother af, Hirnest | | “An’ den de confedrit solger tole ole Missus | winder, an’ watched dem out ob sight in de | Path strewn with the crushed hearts of confd-| req” shonlder scales, with ‘t servico—as they always do—acting as|Kendig of Washington, one of the marines. mis- | dey sick of fiten. an’ dey'd be proud to be jaiten | mawnin’ darkness. ing men, as remorseless in your career of con-| yhite cross belts and t blue trousers. fantry in Gen. Scott's But the actual | He had pushed his way to the front and young Miss | ob it, an’ dat de Yankees dun git insile Syl | | “Well, when young Massa Fred cum back he | quest as any chieftain of old who led his cohorts | Tho Washington t Infantry, commander of the marine ba here on|was on the curbstone when the ball by de coat : ‘lerul. | vany, au’ miseus gib dem a good feed, an’ dey | brung good news, for ole massa comin’ home to battle across the smoking ruins. of desolated | companies, under om Tait, a most occasions was Sergt. Maj. Robinson, the | struck him. Some marines did not fire, ot untlér you coat? an she say: , had no more'n got round turn in de road | soon, an’ "fore de summer cum he back safe an’ | homes.” , wore suits of similar cut, but| very model of a soldier. . Tall, erect and hand- ne cokes fo te oe aneen eeeneey 4 rul, put dat jug down.’ “fore long cum anuder one jist crawling ‘long, | sound an’ de wah dun end, an’ he say to de the trim and were white some, with dark hair and mustaché and a cour- over the heads of. the marks An be jist dcapped dat ar jug an’ bang he head | be dat weak,«n’ he lost an arm fitin’. Dat man | missus he don't care fo’ de mggabs, he dat glad of red and yellow. The Montgomery Guards, | teous address, always arrayed in a faultess uni- | of bullets and buckshot may yet be seen on the flown, an’ Mies Grace, she say: ‘Isrul, you bin | was our nearest neighbor, but he dat changed | de wah gone by. an Irish company, wore trousers of a peculiar | form, he was'at once the sergeant major and | brick ‘at the corner of 7th and K, near mt hearn de chune army | dat we didn't know him, an’ while w> cooken| ‘An’ evxy time dat he find he look inde green and black ‘plaid. ‘These trousers after- Somtnanter tbfthe besteline, the Geil inntesns phy CS Several men fell ss Comin’ yit, an’ you jis’ fuin’ to haba feast | him a bit ob meat he gib ole missus a le:ter dat | woods fo’ de s#ilber dat ole black Isrul dan hi some trouble for the company, | of the young who seemed to obey him | Many muskets were wet and could not be dis- on de wine | Yas fum Massa Fred; it’s de fust time in| den, but dey can't find it, an’ massa, he say: which I will state further on. There were sev- St titeeiy as the did, and the firm | charged. One marine snapped three ate “But ole Isrul. be clar to goodness t’ain't so an’ | months, an’ it say—'eause dey readin’ it ober so | ‘No use; dat misable niggab, he dun ron off eral other companies in but as my position but Kind Sdvisor and fiend of ths culisied sosee man who was fring s roveiver os at he did heah de music ob de aukees playin’ | many times dat Flearn it by sound—dat he ie| wikis but ole missus cate “Devs. sateen ae twas near the head of the T did wot have | Ho died of consumplion ceased by overseer: | enact arteea a ond’ ef mn tnod terme chunes. an’ mised’, she sped@dat niggah an’ she mos’ well, an’ all de same dat he was hiten in do silber on an opportonity to inspect their dress, he Hon ted Sepeten, 5 ts Bast battle of Bull | tiring to two of the barrels which drav bim ouien agin towateh fo de Yankees. shoulder at Atlanty an’ sent sway @ ner to some of dat salute was fired near toand northeast of the | Run, where like a hero. fire. ‘The ballots flow too high, ‘The man, An’ ebry litte whiie ole Isrul he'd cum back de norf: dat all de folks was good to him an’ he dis country Capitol by Maj. (since general) French's bet-| The veteran jas could be seen through the wide cracks in an’ ‘clar dat be heah de music an’ it was time to | would soon cum home. An’ it say hia father tery K, first U. 8. artillery, four six-pounders, | much too small for him, his his | fence, fled and escaped. But for the forbear- Jet de wine run off, but Miss Grace, she know | well, too; dat he was a pris'ner an’ had plenty b id who marched from their station at Fort Mo-| musket in ee outside of his} ance of the marines the loss of life must dat ' failin’s an’ she know he lyin’ all de | to eat. Leastwise he aay dat he gittin’ mo’ to Fred Henry, Baltimore. wore high stiff. waist belt and box well to the | been great, for the time. 3 ole Isrul. ithe bad de chance, would | eat an’ mo’ clo’s to wear in de jail dan inde all her own ‘with @ small red plume and red. front. eM fired at @ distance of onlys Jay hisself down on be back and le: de whole ' army, fitin’ all de time. dey mus’ go dark biue jackets trimmed and seamed ‘The fatigue dress of the marines at this | fearful execution, knocking mea he, Pe