North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-05-13

person to pass without proper authority.
Bogus" was either fully impressed with
| the Importance of his charge, or supremacy
! disgusted with what he considered is insle-
nficance, and he determined, come what
might, to fulfil his Instructions, not only IN
spirit, but to the letter will not say that
he prayed for the approach Of an officer, bat
am little fearful that he kept his eye turn
cd more constantly in the direction from
which he expected him to appear, than he
| did towards the enemy. In due time his
vigilance was rewarded by the appearance of
the 90 officer of the day." who was quietly
| permitted to come 10 within the usual DIS
tance, when his ears were saluLed with the
customary challenge: Halt who comes
there % to which the party approaching
approaching promptly responded, "oflicer Of
| the dav !" but continued to advance. Now
" Bogus had ordered him to halt and he
determined that that order, if he never lived
to deliver another another one, should be
obeyed-so he yelled at the top OF his voice,
Hold on there, God damn you ! Halt +! |
say !" The officer paid no attention 10 this
rather peremptory challenge. but came few
steps nearer, when Bogus" cooked his rifle,
and assuming a Threatening attitude said;
- Now Just you mark time or III blow
YOU to hell in second" This brought the
the officer to a stand still = but Bogus"
had got it into his head that "strIct disci-
pline'' required MIN to L" mark time" SO he
SAID, IN a tone Of menace, q told you to
mark ume.' and I'Il be swamped If you amt
got 20 do it," The officer remons trated, but
it was of no avail, he had to " mark time"
until the officer Of the guard was called, and
he was relieved from his unpleasant prcdica,
ment " Bogus" with his usual good luck,
escaped with slight reprimand from the
officer, and ahearty cursing from the 6 Off
Ger Of the day"
But " Bogus" is not, by any means, the
only peculiar character Of whom our compa-
ny can boast, although he is special, in his
way, and is, | believe, without rival in the
regiment We have our "corruptor of
words" for instance, some of whose speeches
certainly outrivaI Mrs. Partington, in even
her happiest efforts. He is at present detail
ed from the company for the purpose Of car
rying the Division mail He pays US fre
quent visits however, rarely without an in
crease to his vocabulary. | said to him the
other day, jerry, how does it happen that
you are over here SO often ?''
|, bo : H. n,
and get commission whenever | want one
and then l 60 where please"
'..Well, Jerry" inquired what is the
news over at Head quarters 2'
"Oh, nothing particular, only they say that
Hooker is going to design if Lincoln don't let
him have his own way"
"Ah, indeed and what does Lincoln say
to tins Is he willing to let Ola Joe have
his own way p
81 believe so but he'll hold him sponSiJie,
if every thing don't come out right"
"WelI Hooker has no objection to that, of
course, and, presume Is perfectly willing to
assume all responsibility for his own actions
but, Jerry, is there DO news from up the rv-
er ?'
ooh, yes they say the calrary has been
making recognixarce out towards Gordon
vile, or some other place, and they had
quite Sguirmish. \ retail of themcome in
with a lot of prisoners, yesterday"
g" had heard of that, what do they say
about the prospects fer fight, over your
way ?"
Not much but they seem to think
that fight is inrentdbLe before many days"
But enough of Jerry. His distinctive char
acterstIcs are as pl alnly defined that we need
but superficial view to read HIM like a book.
The Pay master is in camp and we expect
hams green backs" to us, during the day
! They will come in time, for We have been
hard up for change, long time. The To-
| \. Y. was paid yesterday and started for home
this morning. The 4th, n. Y. is being paid
this IN priIng, and it is currently report
ed will leave for home this morning. This
"'i. leave but two remaining regiments in the
BrIgade-The 1st Delaware three years men)
and our regiment. We ex pect to leave the
field some time next week and lean assure
| you that the day We turn our backs upon the
river will be the happiest of all the days that
we have passed since We left the hills OF Wy
oming, though the last few months of
our soldier experience has been quite :he
! pleasantest part Of it. w will reach home,
probably, ONE time between the 18th, and
! 2fth. -
| really do not anticipate that we will get
into another fight but there is no telling at
| this stage of the game. II the government
cares to re-enlist the men it would be the
worst possible policy. Send them home with
only the sunny side of soldering uppermost
in their minds, and two thirds of'them will