The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-25
CASES OF HARDSHIP.
CAIRO, April ). 1862.

vicinity OF Lafayette, 1nutdnd, TtIHoNeu "
Scott county, Mo-, where, as blacksmith, he
was doing well. Last summer he was shot
in his own dooryard, in the cool of the even
ing, after working all day, and while he was
holding his youngest child and singing to
it. This was done by one of Jeff Thompson's
men, who was his near neighbor. Yesterday
l saw his wife, with her children, on their
way to Indiana. She had not been able to
reach Cairo before. The sight of this woman
called for sympathy and assistance, which she
will get. She has six children, all girls but
one, and the oldest not over thirteen years
of age. By saving little money which her
husband had left, land by selling off everything
the rebels spared, she managed for over six
months to support her children, and at last
to dress the girls in calico frocks and white
bonnets. They were very neat and clean,
but they had scarcely any other clothes, as
she told ME. The boy, very bright fellow,
five years old, and evidently her pride, was
decently clothed and wore smart military
cap. Her husband was worth about $1,000.
All that was left her washer children.
! A. {. ODonnel came from Iowa to Arkan-
sas, and was engaged in merchandising and
general trading with large capital, and he
was an enterprising, wealthy man. OF course
they took away his property, this partly was
the trouble with him, and he started, with
what housekeeping and small valuable arti-
tcles he could save, for Memphis hoping to
get up the river. Here his wife was sick,
and had young child. He was unable to
get house; he could not get even she'd.
They lived out doors, but made tent Of bed
quilts. The weak mother and tender babe
took the congestive chills. He sold good
note, calling for $50 for SO, and his wife
valuable gold watch for $50, confederate
scrip. 1t was difficult for him to keep what
provisions he bought, because the soldiers
would steal them, and they boldly carried off
sack of flour. He went up to Columbus,
still meeting the same hardships. Here the
little baby died. While they were getting
ready to bury it, and he stood with his chill
dren by the grave, he was told that the cars
were ready, and that he must leave. lie
was obliged to 60, and they Fastened away.
leaving the little coffin on the ground, the
grave still open.
He went next TO MayfieId, and there Civ
ing two feather beds. he got his family hauled
to Paducah, smuggling through the liues.-
Here he sold his wifes shawl Then he wen,
to work as common laborer at Sl5 month
At the end of the n.oat tn he went to Cairo
and with six dollars commenced life again.
Mr. ODonnel is now a commissary in the
60:h regiment at Jonesboro', Ill. He talk;
bitterly.
School teaching is supposed to be profta
bic in the southern states Albert Salisbury
went from Tioga county, PennS! lvania, tC
Arkansas, and engaged in school teaching
Two years ago he married Young lady, {;
Miss Dicky, from near Bloomington, Illinois
who also had been teaching in the vicinity o
Pine Bluff, in a planters family. Mr. Sails
bury had bought small farm above Pike
vile, and, laboring on it during his leisur
hours, had created beautiful home, and the,
lived in nice style. Both were well likrt
: by their neighbo-s previous to the war. o
course his school was broken up, of course h
was ordered to leave. 1t is not an easy mat
, ter to drive a native O. northern Pennsvlva
E MIA from his own farm.
1 Last August the rebels approached hi
J. house through cornield, and fired at hin
while he was eating his dinner. They sho
a through the back door, he ran out of th
e front door and gained the woods. He wa
u slightly wounded in his shoulder Towar
. midnight he came back. His wife lay riea
e on the bed, she neither had been shot O
e beaten. Her husband knew how she dice
: Her earrings had been pulled from her ear
and her gold breast-pin was gone. She ha
a not yet been mother. When last saw hir
a he was as a scout bound for Arkansas wit
II the great expedition. With that terribl
!. weapon, Sharp's rifle, slung at his side, and
n black plume shading his uneasy eyes b
= looked as though he meant to get to worl
He is not choice in his use of the Englis
~ language.
S, We gather from the recedins waves of tt
t, rebellion, that there is no Cannibal Islam
containing such bloody, inhuman monsters
,s exist this day in the slave states. OF cours
T. not all the people are so, but enough are
N frighten and to give character to the rest
le They have been made what they are, /
~ dealing in the souls and bodies of men,"
l. whipping, hanging, and burning human vi
ID tins. Nor are there ten in a hundred c
IL those northern men, talking of compromi
W. ~ whom they would not butcher in cold bloc
of in their own homes, they could get chanc
Il Cor. Of N. Y. Tribune.
eT
E The preternatural desire of Il
Southern cf.ivalry to die sin the last ditch