The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-06-30

OF satisfaction playing on his sunburr
countenance, as he marches by the var
Gus encampments interrogated with "Say
where did you buy that arr &c. Tn
: contemplation of dinner of nice, fresl
= pork, to hungry man, will induce hin
to undergo considerable danger and trou
BILE in securing such feast.
coNTRABAND OF WAR.
Poultry are never allowed to cackle a
yankees" In fact, 1 begin to thinl
poultry are strictly contraband, judgins
from the large number of "contrabands
engaged in netting chickens. Geese fare
no better; for each soldier, as he ap
proaches fine flock, whistles Yankee
| Doodle, or the Star-Spangled Banner
and at these yankee" airs, the geese
like their Rebel owners, kiss. AS there
are special orders forbidding all persons
from Kissing the national melodies, the
soldiers will not tolerate it from Rebel
goose, and they forthwith issue writ Of
habeas corpus. I need not dwell upon
the fearful consequences of such wanton
outrages. Geese and chickens are quoted
with an absent tendency. These scenes
are of the serio.com order, but when we
behold the sacking of house, how sad a
picture is revealed. Let me tell your
readers what / saw on Sunday.
YANKEE CURIOSITY-BIG SHATNY
SCENES.
At Big Shanty, ON the Atlantic line of
railroad, stands quite respectable look
ing two-storied wooden hotel, which in
peace times was used as the dinner sta
ton for the famished passengers travel
ing from Chattanooga, Tenn, to Atlanta,
Ga.
SHELLS FROM NORTHERN MUDSILLS IN
SOUTHERN HOTELS.
On Friday, while some of our cavalry
were out on a reconnoisanc, shelling the
woods, one of our shells passed through
a part of the hotel, entering a large sleep
ing apartment containing some eight or
ten bedsteads, and passing through the
bedstead out of the south side of the room,
the she'll burst in the yard At this time
several Rebel officers were partaking lei
surely of sumptuous dinner, and, with
out waiting for orders they changed their
base, retiring in the widest confusion
Several ladies were in the hotel at the
time this unruly yankee" messenger en-
tered, and one of them was in the room
through which the she'll whizzed on its
deadly errand, but fortunately the fuse
was long enough to prevent its explosion
Tor several seconds, thereby saving the
terrified woman's life.
Upon the arrival of our advance at Big
Shanty, this hotel which was quite we'll
furnished for this section of the country
vas guarded. The owners having aban-
loned the property the guard was reliev
ID, and in less than half an hour the rooms
we're filled, yes, the hotel was fairly be-
ieged with soldiers representing every
lrm of the service, with sprinkling of
negro servants, the rough crowd all in
ent upon getting something good to
,at," while another portion were bent up
IN mischief. In company with Harper's
Special Artist, l stepped inside to get a
,iew of the premises and to watch the
proceedings. Such scenes as we're there
nacted, and such terrible realization of
oandemonium, neither Mr. .Daviss facile
,encil, or this feeble pen, can half por-
ray. Up stairs, down stairs, inside, out
ide, kitchen, dining room, parlor, and
BEDROOM, all shared the general tumult,
nd not cobwebbed nook escaped over
lauling from these inquisitive "mudsills."
In the parlor was fine piano, drum
ned and played upon alternately, with a
'oisterous crowd of soldiers leaning upon
t, each one shouting for some particular
une expressive of their musical tastes
Give us Glory Hallelujah," shouts one.
No, that's played out" says another
Play Rally Round the Flag" 'Pshaw
i've us jig" and thus it went, aperfect
argon of sound flling the apartment
7hile in one corner of the room two sol
iers were at work winding up and caus
ng an old clock to strike. Look into the
ntry with me, and see the scrambliug of
fly soldiers over barrel Of -four and a
arrel of sugar and molasses, while feath- |
rbeds are torn to pieces. One mischiev-
us fellow has found the dinner-bell, and {
ellis out "Fifteen minutes for dinner. - S
Another has discovered string of COW
ellis, and at once strives to drown the in 9
sounds of his rivals. 8
With the drumming of the piano, the I
triking clock, the blowing of horns, the t
attling of the dishes, the ringing of cow {
nd dinner-bells, the clatter of a sewing j
lachine, aud the wrangling of soldiers O. c
er the spoils, the ear was appalled, and c
eafened, furniture, bedding, cooking u |
snsils, books, pictures, chsna-ware, la
les wearing apparel, hoop-skirts and bon i
etts, were thrown together in promiscu- /
US heaps with all sorts of dirty rubbish. c
or better description the reader is re- S
erred to Mr.. Theodore Dayis's excellent t
Setch, which will shortly appear in Har- I
cr's Weekly, Illustrating this raid upon fl
ne Big Sbanty Hotel. f
ORPEDOES ON THE RAILRoAD-MEN
CAPTURED.