Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-09-16
Harrisburg Correspondence.
SATURDAY, Sent. 3


Last evening and this morning, wa
among the hundreds of lookers-cn at tn
place where, semi-weekly, thousands ge
their food-the market house and street
adjoining. Evenings before market NOR
nings, is favorite time to sell vegetables
and tho gas or other lights used, durin.
warm weather, make it a place of resor
where one never tires. This morning,
man-not content with big prices-camt
with "pound balls" of butter which were
under weight, and his whole stock was
justly tho "arbitrarily" confscated But
all dealers are not "rogues in grain moi
hard-hearted in butter. A good-souled
volunteers wife, scant in change yet desi.
ring butter-sprcad for the bread Of three
little ones, said to farmer, '.Sir, can not
you afford to throw off something for a
family whose husband and father is fight-
ing your battles at sixteen dolls month ~
The man proved "loyal," for he said, 81
can get fifty cents for every pound, but
you shall have what you want at 45.'' So
she saved 10 per cent. by direct appeal.
! asked chap, who weighs about 25O, if
It was not too hard work for those slender
fonales, young and old, to lug home their
full market baskets, many of them going
great distance! He said no-he rather
thought they liked it. But lady once
inquired of, said it was not desirable-she
tainted away the first time she attempted
to carry her provisions thus, and to many
the loads gave side-aches or other pains.
But the producers generally are stout
enough for their work. Many farmers
daughters, l am told, rise at midnight
harness teams, and come in by early dawn.
to dispose Of surplus produce of forty diff
ferent sorts more or less. For wives and
mothers, such girls are "worth having" in
more respects than one.
News Of the capture of Atlanta, in an
authentic form, was on the TELEGRAPH"
bulletin board this morning, but not on We
Ccpperhead's. The latter ..did mt know
Is 1t was true-not official-brags of the |
6hoddyites," &c. They seem hard to be
convinced Of anything favorable to the
Union cause, but they hear of our losses
early-don't doubt their genuineness
and even magnify them.
For the first time in Harrisburg, visited
the Mayors Court, in search of a gentle.
man for whom had to wait an hour.
Gen Roumfort, the Mayor, had military
education. Now, in the afternoon of his
life, he Is not in the field, but is baking
bread and dispensing justice. He had a
new recruit "up," charged with stealing
hats. 1t appeared probable the sad, silly
looking chap, had only bought the stolen {
goods, while drunk: so he was dismissed {
with lecture, after paying tho costs and
restoring the property. Like others here,
ne had more money, for bounty. than he 4
had ever seen before, and felt bound to
get mellow and make fool of himself as
. first step to its liquidation (By the :
way, these arbitrary" acts Of the Market y
Clerk and the Mayor, would be awfully y i
unconstitutional in the President y :
Next, woman in black came to tell Of =
trouble she had with some neighbor, and 3
although she appeared perfect innocence, y
The Mayor eyidently y suspected her equally !,
1t fault in the quarrel. Two other poor y !
looking women-one weeping and wiring
ing her hands in a corner-were there,
seemingly friendless, and 'alone:" whe- I. !
ther present to answer for wrong doing
alleged, or to seek redress for sufferings
l did not learn Left, rejoicing
in my soul that so few of the females Of (
'ur country are in the unhappy condition N
of too many who throng towns and cities "'
without any certain, clear, definite know e
edge Of the way they are to obtain fair n
md honorable livelihood. ru
Ny business closed, ready to leave, seek Sc
he train, and find a seat, about the usual 10
Car full of people anxious to =;
,o-who must be home tonight ht-"why In
lon't they start?" We soon hear that n
the train is little behind time-two III
,ours late-just left Hanover Junction !,
when they come-four hours n
,ehind," &c. To pacify passengers, our W
ar is butted and pulled about various CO
lines, and the puff and blow of solitary so
ravsling engines often disappoint our T..
:opes. Persons who bade goodbye and io
hook hands, more or less hours agone, rh
ppoar, and are "Glad to see us back FIR
gain-how did you leave them all in sf M'
.cwisburg "a pleasant day-delightful ::
yening," and various other quizzical com ha n
,snts to amelioratc or aggravate the dis Al Al
omfort of sitting in car five or six hours Be-
'aiting the arrival Of body which might Ian
ONE like an unknown comet and find one Eh
OF ready to take the desired advantage NJ. NJ.
J
Whom I had read all the papcrs-except WI WI
"Patriot & Union" which a rascally e.
swsboy imposed upon one or two sound gen
MON men as "the evening paper haf haf
tention was directed to an elegantly ton
ressed, fair-skinned person, just opposite
y seat, Gin the grocery just above that ;ne IN.
aunt "MClellan restaurant busy eat =,
'g nuts, ,one knee reposing upon the other, m
Id chatting with the soldiers of all sorts W.
no thronged about. The expression of
10 countenance as our eyes happened to
eet, aud the contour of the neck as the
cad was thrown one side, were strong ey Nj
lenoes, even to one never curious to OBJ Nj
'rve, that the person was a woman Nj
mans clothes; and l hardly expressed Nj
.e opinion to the gentleman by my side
han Il