The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-04-16
For The Cecil Wing.
RISING SlN, April 9th, 1864.

hlslNG N, April 5th, 1904.
Mr.. EDITOR :--On Thursday evening and
Friday last our usually quiet village and
! ueighborhood were thrown into the most in.
tense excitement, by stranger who drove a
! four horse team and put up at the hotel
He engaged forage for ] 800 cavalry which
he reported would arrive here from Whining
ton the next friday evening. The whole
neghborhood, of course, was soon in the
most intense excitement. Mine host went
to work Immediately to prepare for the
drove of hungry horsemen, and baked up
several barrels of -four. Every farmer in
the neighborhood measured his hay stacks
or mows, and made calculation of how
much he could spare to feed uncle Sans
horses. The Union men congratulated
themselves with the quiet satisfaction, that
| they were not as those sccessionists who hid
their oats for fear Of its being con6scated,
and went round with tears in their ewes for
the prospective loss of their hay ricks that
could not be concealed. The good Union
men chuckled
% 1t is good thing to be Union man "
said they. " We will get tall prices for our
oats and hay, without the trouble of moving
them from the premises, and all in solid Green
Backs, too! Who would be rebel? ~ and
they rubbed their hands with entire satisfac-
ton. The good danes of the village and
neighborhood were busy as beavers, baking
knickknacks for the soldiers, while with
frugal and prudent foresight that was com
mendable they hid away their tavorite hens
with chanticleer to guard them in the back
yard.
The pretty damscls, with expectation on
tip toe, rising higher and higher as Friday
evening advanced, donned their " Sunday
Draws" and arranged their hair in the latest
tyln With &c Gall 1azt
the Captain with his whiskers ~ got sly
glance at them in their dishablle. All day
on Friday the country round about cmptied
its population into the Sun to see the horse
men arrive, while every ear was strained to
catch the first notes of the Drawing trumpets.
The herald who had driven the four horse
team and engaged provender for the cavalry,
left very early on Friday morning for Belair,
which he said was the next stopping place
for the troup. His bill was called for and
assurance given the landlord that it would
all be settled when the officers squared off
the cavalry bill. At length, as evening
| crepton, and no cavalry made their appear.
ance, suspicious began to be whispered that
the man with the four horse team, who had
set all the bakers at work in their kneading
troughs, and the good Union men who had
hay and oats for sac; to calculating how
much they could spare IL feed Uncle Sam S
horses, while their secession neghbors hid
their oats and went about bathcd in tears at
the prospective loss of their hay) and the
good DANES to gathering their hens and
roosters into the. backyards, and the pretty
girls, who thought the - Captain with his
whiskers" might "takc sly glance" at
them, to putting rat, in their hair, and don
ming their meeting" dresses, was conf
dence man. Doubt, at length, like the shades
of evening, began to deepen, and the truth
at last became manifest that the man with
the four horse team was confidence man,
and that mine host" had been swindled,
and the whole community made the subjects
of stupendous sell. lis needless to say
the confidence man with the four horse team
hasn't been heard of since. He doubtless
enjoyed the joke as well as good supper
and breakfast, while onr citizens expe-
renced all the pleasure of a keen expecta-
ton, which is the essence Of enjoyment at
last. ZEB.