Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-04-11

marks made by brs ther rebel Tie cane
he proposed to carry TO Iii native place, to
delight the eyes of his ssmpalhisig friends,
regardless of the joke which Massachu.
sets boy male, to the effect that he was
slow ~ following the example OF the con.
iedrrates, who had cut their sticks soms
lime before
Winchester is just about 100 years be.
hind the nge "a dirty, sloyenly, ill-paved,
rickety, nnpainied, foul.srnelling town. In
all which it resembles every other town IN
the state which we have visited. The de.
moralxing Influence of the.insiitution" IA
everywhere apparent. This lovely valley
OF the Shenandoah, reminding the traveller
OF the intervales on the Connecticut, would,
IN northern hands, be one Of the most -four.
islllng and thrifty counties in the Union
Its railroad is fair specimen of its present
position and progress. As it is laid with
old strap rails--out Of repair, of course--it
will only permit speed Of three to five
miles an hour.
An officer in the cars proceeding to Win.
chester, expressed his astonishment that
any people in this country would put up
with sush miserable affair. A Virginian
replied that they had found 1t good enough
for them, and strangers were not asked 10
travel there. "Ah,' said the captain, "thas
tells the whole story-your are barbarous
and glory IN your ignorance"
A young n an on the train. who, with a
number of female friends, had been ex.
hiblting the reverse Of good breeding, to say
the least of it, asked the same officer how
the manners of the Yankee girls compared
with the style Of the Virginia ladies'. His
answer was equally polished and forbearing,
and left his interlocutor entirely in the dark
on the subjecr. These ladies must have
been of condition above their appearance,
as they professed to own stock in the rail.
road and slaves, but they were obtrusive,
iE-temPered, and nowise unassuming, ex.
pressing much anxiety TO tear and scratch
northern women.
The negroes, as usual, seem to under.
stand matters with tolerable clearness.--
One Of them, speaking of freed slaves and
the worshlessness OF their lives generally
exhibited after receiving their freedom,
proved how almost impossible it is for free
man TO prosper, where 1t is made the prin.
ciple TO brand him as vagabond, lower in
society than the slave, from whom work Is
Withheld, and from whom is expected moth.
ing but sloth and hen-roost robberies for
which peculiariiies If they should be pun.
ished, it is assumed they will burn hay.
stacks and barns. On the other hand, if a
free man prospers and sets too good an ex.
ample of the results of freedom before the
eyes OF the slaves, an opportunity is soon
found to accuse him Of something for which
he can be sold into slavery again, that be-
ing the favorite mode Of furnishing free
negroes for any attempt to rise above the
level OF beasts of burden. 1t was this
mans opinion that the slaves would do
more work Oh the footing of free laborers.
and take pride in emulatlng the better
qualities OF the white race, and this man.
whose argument was delivered with clear
lieadedness, was black-and had been re.
pressed since his birth, by the weight of
southern slave rule. One of the most
touching scenes in the hospital was the
kindness and delicacy with which some col.
ored women approached the patients.--
There was quadroon woman in one Of
the rooms of the Union House, her large
eyes brimful of tears, with tender care and
nimble fingers, assisting the dressing of
wounds, with such success that the un-
unfortunates stretched upon the floor seem-
ed to become much easier directly. Be.
hind came a white woman-perhaps her
mis'ress-with atray holding Refreshments.
Her feelings, were, no doubt, as deep, but
they lacked the expression of the colored
woman's, whose face full of sweet sympa-
thies, looked almost angelic in that cham-
Der of horrors.