Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-05-06
'Cumulatin' A Beehive.
BY CAPTAIN JERE WILLIAMS.

BY CAPTAIN JERE WILLIAMS.
Boys, know where there is Secesh
beehive said Jack Phillips, one dull NOR
ming, while we were quartered on Cheat
Mountain Summit.
Where is it?' asked one of his two hear
ere.
If you'll promise to 60 along and help
to 'cumulate it, III tell you.'
Count me one,' said jed Wicks.
Count me half dozen, il you want that
many said Bill Reese.
But III tell you boys, it's down at Rob-
lson's, on Cheat River, and worse than that,
it's in the kitchen loft; and still worse, he
has two all fred cross blood hounds
Come to think said Jed Wick's, q
havn't time to CO.
| never agreed to co. said Bill Reese
Look here, fellers, | tell you we can't
'cumuiate that ERE honey, and eff you fell
ers are afraid to go, can find somebody
that ami.
Tbs left handler at their courage set
them to warding off with other excuses.
I'm not Altered to CO. said Jed, but
may be Robson is q Union man, and il
wouldn't do you know
l.. 3
one OF these cussed neutral Secesh, that's
ten times wuss than an out and-Outer.-
He carries news 10 Green5rier camp, and
I'll prove il on him alore week.
But them interrupted Bill, we can't
get past the camp guards, and if we could,
it looks little too much like stealin'.'
'Gettin' past the guards ain't common
amusement, said Jack, Jist say you'll 20,
n nd hn Al
al pint, we'll GO 'cordin to law and custom.
you know. Fust, demandin' of the Secesh
bees to take the oath, they refusin', we ar
rest chem and con6scate their properly
All fair and legal, you see. What's stealin'
IN times O. peace is confscatiOn' and cum
ulatin' in time O. war. For stealin' you 90
to Jail, but for cumulatin' you git promoted.
so, you see, in a moral pint of view it's
intirely different
Their qualms Of conscience being thus
satisfactory disposed of, and Jack having
insured their hides against the hounds,
they agreed to 60 il he would get pass to
take them through the guard lines
Come right along, then, he said and they
followed him to the remote beat, where was
walking to and fro, German sentinel, who
could not read English. After the usual
challenge, Jack advanced, and drawing
from the folds Of his pocket book crum-
lled paper, read as follows:
CHEF CHEAT MOUNTAIN SUMMIT. Va,
October IS, 1861
The guard will pass the bearer, and TWO
comrades of very important business.
Brig Gen. Milroy.'
The German understood none of this.
except the name and title of the General
and Jack. to prevent him from calling a
corpora! of the guard, looked very imports
ant, and made him understand that the
General wished the expedition kept a pro-
found secret. The sentinel deGerentially
stepped aside and they yassed on.
How in the dickens. did you get that
pass Jack?' inquired Bill.
Pass be hanged! 1t was nothing but
little note Robson sent up to TIE General
tother day by me, about the boys stea.in'
from bin. Yes, | gave it to him much
But what does the note say?' eagerly
Inquired Bill.
why it says as how if the Gineral lows
any of the soldiers stealin' about him, his
dogs shouldn't leave har nor hide of 'em-
lie done II to skeer me, as be noticed me
eyin' Of bis bee hive. took the hint
and told him like as not some Of the
boys would be down this very day, and
mebbe steal his beehive or so,nethin' /;
Says he, do you see thea?' pintin' at his
dogs. Says l, keep a sharp lookout and
mentioned to him specially to keep his eye
peeled to day.
Bill and Jed stopped.
Jack said Bill, my opinion is you re
trying to get US into ar Internal scrape'
Nary time, fellers; nary time. Just
want the Secesh cuss to understand that
Jack Phillips can 'cumulate that beehive
IT him and his dogs were a straddle Of it,
tell you pom honor, that / have the ropes
all laid, and that beehive is as good as ourn
without airy scratch. I'll manage Robson
and the dogs myself; they shan't as much
as look towards you.'
After some further assurances they pro-
ceeded, and when they approached the
house they crept quietly thro' the laurel to
make reconnaissance. There sat Robson
| in the very door through which they had
/ to pass in order to reach the beehive, and
/ by the doorstep, lay the two ferocious
! dogs.
Appearances, certainly were not very
promising, but Jack quietly remarked, 'ail
! right, old fcller'
Now Bill, said he, you and Jed remain
here, silent and still, until you hear me
holler, and then double quick in, wrap a
blanket around the beehive aud bring it
| into the laurel up the pint. You needn I
be ateer'd of Robson and the dogs, they'll
| be tended to-
About two hundred yards from the honse
was foot way across the river, that part
iarthest from the house being single
| plank. The water was three or four feet
deep, swift and cold and the banks quite
! BLUFF.
| In about an hour from the time Jack
left his friends, Robson was startled by
hearing squawking in the direction OF
the bridge, and looking up saw Jack eros
sing the river with chicken under bis
/ arm.
Hold on there, you internal scoundrel 2
he shouted, or IN set the dogs on you.-
Here tiger, here Maze and he and the dog.
started on run.
faint none of your chicken shouted
Jack, feigning fright. III see whose
chicken it il, you Yankee thief
Jack stopped at the further end Of the
foot way, and stood with his foot under one
end of the plank, while Robson advanced
from the other. shaking his fist and exclaim
ing:
'PllIeach you to come here stea lin, yol
| pilferin', seounderlly abolition
| KERsoUsEii
Jack had dexterously thrown the end o
the plank sidewise, and Robson aud th,
dogs were laundering, and fighting, anC
climbing over each other in four feet O
water, Jack gave loud shout, TO * to hi
heels and at the appointed rendezvous fount
his comrades with hive of rich honey =
Wakes SPIRIT.
The life Of a Massachusetts, soldier, a
the battle of Roanoke, was saved by bal
striking and CHANGING from the miniarur
of his wife. See what it is to be married
On "Wednesday. n man IN Rochester