Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-07-14
Incidents Of the Raid.

Ioe Ne0eis 0ao tlNE Il fenOsylvanid
coun.ies-Fulton, Franklin, Adams, Yorl
and Cumborlaud-in their power, the last
Of Juno. These counties have Que Hun
dred aud Fifty thousand people, Who have
property worth Fifty Millions Of Dollars
Into this Cumberland Valley swsrmed q
hungry, ragged horde Of armed and well
disciplined soldiers, Who helped them
selves to all needed military supplies-
very genteely but very sweepiugly, to the
terror, discomfort, and lasting pecuuiary
damage of thousands of quiet persons.
As the Rebels advanced, people began
to hide their horses aud cattle, aud the
coveted goods. into the woods for security
but (would it be thought y men we're
found mean and base ouougb to bstray
their nsighbors' property to the robbers
Such men havo laid up for themselves no
small trouble.
Rev. Nr. Smiley, who bad $40. 900 10
clothing, boots and shoes, had to remove
them several times to secure them from
informers, aud succeeded.
Not 50 bis ncishbor, F.Showers, . great
sticklcr for "the Constitution" who felt
perfectly safe With seven hundred barrels
of vhiskey, but which was spirit away
in . very Unconstitutional manner!
The leading of6cers-remembering tho
fate Of the "Two Young Bears in Wanton
Mood"-tried to prevent pilfering, snd 10
measure were successful. But there
were several small grocery and dry goods
stores "oleansd OUT" not altogether of
necesssries, but of Injuries also. One
man vas stripped while tho owner vas
lying dead in the same building.
Al Neville, they had gathered $50
cattle from the farmers.
They robbed even Poor House!
Sunday morning, they commenced rum.
maging from house to house, taking arms
aud everything useful for them.
ln one large town they made the women
cook for fifteen hundred men-aud when
assured the families had no more food to
cook, the fellows we're sati,fed.
When the Rebels saw huudreds and
thousands Of able-bodied citizens staring
and quaking, they cursed them for set
Of towards. And when some Of tho ICON.
praters f.waed before them,
The more manly Rebels spurnsd them and
'aid linen Who would nos fight for their
'~u couutry-such splendid country a.
.his-were not 6t to live in it,"
Whilo they took the Advantages offered
BY epies and traitors, they despised them,
md so expressed it iu various ways.
Mr.. Guss, Of tho Juoiata Sentinel,
vent out with scouting party to keep
he invaders from getting thro' the gaps
~ their southern border. As they we're
,uuniformed, they looked about a. bad Is
he Secesb, aod many mistook them for
Rebels, and ran to hide. and alarmed the
country. But the editor says,
smear Waterford, one old womsu gave
hrec cheers for Jefferson Davis. Another
greed to give Us two cows out Of four,
md seemed satisfied With tho arrangement,
sbile young man who stood by declared
10 would sooner have Davis for President
han Lincoln.
"A man in tho Amberson Valley said
10 had fed from near Chambersburg-
hat when he was at homo he had been .
retty good Copperhead, but the next
ime be saw the Rebs be wanted to have
musket. We judge, that if the Rebels
'ould overrun the whole State, it would
ipe out all Copperheadism."
A scamp near Huntingdon, who mistook ,
,mo Union scouts in disguise for Rebels,
ID then avowed his treason and revealed
l the secrets he knew, has been taken up
r bis revelations, and should be tried
ID punished for 40 example. :
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