Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-12-12
An Eastern Captain going Westward.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 3, 1862.

swung myself Into q comfortable BERN.
The stopping of the wheel, however, for
some time, induced me to peep out the
window, to discover that We we're tied fast
to shore, just below that city. 1t worried
me awhile, but thought, at length, that,
whoever would, might just run of, if be
chose. 10 the morning, tho mate pointed
out the Dix Insane Asylum, 6 or I miles
below Pittsburg. l had often noticed in
the telegraph dispatches in our uexspa.
pers, something like this : "Pittsburg,
Nov. l, lS62.-River five feet four inches
at pier mark, aud faliing-wea,her cool"
&c, but not dreaming that it would ever
interest me. This WAS about the stage
now, aud in consequence We foated at the
rate Of two or three miles an hour all the
way to Wheeling.
Abou, 5, p NJ, VIC reached Steuben-
vile, and between 0 aud 10 at night
reached Wheeling, where we are tied up
for the night. |, is Thanksgiving Day,
but We only think of it to imagine wha,
they are doing at home. We leave
Wheeling at 6, A. NJ, next morning
(Friday, Nov, 2S,) and reach Parkersburg,
Va, at dark. Along the way, at Mariet-
ta, We stop to put off moving. Stand
ing on the deck, We sec the hands take of
an old beds,ead, an old rocking chair to
which once was seat of hickory plats, an
old bureau, old chairs, lot Of pots, ket-
ties and pans, aud, as each old scrap i.
carried off, We laugh and wonder that they
we're worth their freight Then the rough
hands carry off several little negro child
rem: then comes a negro woman, with
child in her arms-it looked very forloru
to see them out there on the vide paved
bank, looking as if they had drifted and
lodged there by the recediug tide but
when q fellow passenger told US that
the negro woman's husband was killed at
the battle of Perryville, We checked our
sport into shade Of rcmorse and pity.
We star. from Parkersburg, break the
wheel, put back, and are detained awhile.
So We come on down, now making ten
miles or more an hour, showing, mean-
while. Stopping At Pomeroy and CALI
polls, with nothing to mar the monotony.
So, too, on Sunday, stopping at Msysvills,
an old, seedy towo, noted for being par
hard place. Arriving at Gin.
ciuatti at 3 in the afternoon. First, We
went to the Soldiers Rest, established BY
the Sanitary Committee, where soldiers
can stop and get their meals st 7, IL
and S o'clock, respectively. This is re-
lief, for yesterday, at noon, was informed
that the provisions we're "doue," and
there was rumbling Of the volcano. l
bad drawn FIVE days rations: tho ser
geants said the men made pigs Of them
selves, frying the bread and eating more
than they should: somo of the men said
they had eaten hardly anything, and blam-
ing one for taking whole loaf Of bread
and trading it to the cook for piece of
cooked meat, aud others with trading of
the salt and bread for whiskey. Ofcourse,
nobody was to blame but themselves, and
of course they blamed nobody but the Of
6cers in charge of them. They bad acted
like children, and like children had to be
taken care of, and cried because they had
eaten all their candy in one bite But
the fact was patent, there was no food,
and they must be fed. So blessed in
my heart the Sanitary Committee, who
fed them on Sunday and Monday, and l
could draw for Tuesday.
On Monday, We all had leisure to run
about. In the western part Of the city is
, very high hill, capped with somebody's
Pyrotechnic manufactory, which We
climbed, and, had the day been clear, i.
might have been glorious panorama-of
he river, of the city, of the rolling bills.
But December sun could scarce strug-
lie through the clouds-,he dense black
moke, from the factories, steam boats, and
himnies, lay like pail over the city, and
ver the hills and river. The noise, the
oar came up to our high point de u" like
be roar Of any other Babel, except that
rom this Porkopelis came mingled with
hem the squealing Of pigs, and on the
wind the scent of the veriest
ottenest cheese-Limberger, or SwOitzer,
rhich you will. So, descending, guided
y the noise Of the pigs, we stesred for .
laughter house. We met six and seven
orse loads Of cleaned porkers on their
ay to the packing house. 1t seemed SO
rutal-desd hogs on the wagons, and
,aded to excess, with brutal drivers whip ,
iug the horses. Walking through the
ud, guided now BY the wagons, now BY q
Iuesls, and BY the scent aforesaid, We t
,eped into low brick building, and saw q
lch sight and smelled such . smell, as ,,
,ver do We wish again to greet US. We !
,nsed m the threshold. but. sick as |