The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1864-10-12
For tle Journal.
To the Central Park Hospital. {.

- sAc 1SGtkdR AT n kASsPEtdG'
1t was four o'clock before we could get
of; few minutes walk takes US to tho
Bowry where We wait for Third Ay4
enue car. just as one comes aloug,
a big wagon drives between us and
it, SO the drives does not sec our sig-
nal. 1t Is some consolation to see, when
the car has passed, that it is crowded to
overfowipg, even the platform. Wo do
not wait ioug for another in which re
soon find seats, as the passengers begin to
drop out. On and on between the briek
walls, with now and then pleasant risB
from the window up or down some tree
lined street, until we reach Sixty-ifth
street, where We change cars. From hero
We Get 4 view Of the open country tho
rocks crop out, looking as though 1t would
take immense work to level them Away
and run streets through their place. But
that is probably what they must come to
as the city cDlarges. 'One Hundred sod
Sixth street. calls the conductor, and
the car stops. Just an hour from home.
Six miles from City Hall where wo sFart-
/ ed; we have rode over FIVE for six pence.
"That's the Hospital, where We seo tbs
flag waving y suggests Charley. Yes, i.
IS; and We turn in through the little
wooden gate, and fellow narrow, beaten
path, through the :urn-stile, under al
arch of the Harlem railroad, through sew
eral very uarrow gateEays, minus gate
over some stepping stones in the bed u
brook now drY, and so on up the Httla
hill on which the building stands. Just
before We reach the entrance, we aoti2e
q step behind, and moving to one side,
soldier with brisk, elastic step, but with
both coat sleeves dangling from LIS shoul-
dcrs passed Us, Oue side OF his face -
sill swollen there Is no mistaking; il is
he whose photographs c0nrade was
selling the last time vas c. the Hospi-
tai, trying this to raise money 10 get him
ID arm. Cur party bought several, aDl
some are tcattered around the county 10
swear by eternal hatred to SIaverv and
all that system Of oppression the: h2s
brought such zoe upon cur country. E3
stopped to deliver his pass to the sentinsl,
and his voice was as CHEEKY as his step
was light, as be told him in which pG-L@.
to fnd the paper.
The se1tinel takes no notice of US. aud
We pass in. I have not yet learned tbs
way up stairs to Ward \, but after some
inquiry, soldier offers TO 90 along and
. show Us the way. "The Sergeant" he
said "was Ct supper, but would be Up
soon.' So We seated ourselves On tbs
well secured benches, like the seats in
= cid time country schoo! houses. We d.
> not wait long Sergeant Greenman comes
in looking somewhat better than when
saw him last. After talking awhile, be
proposes that we 90 in to see Scott who
is back from his furfough Poor boz
hardly eighteen, yet he has suffered the
horrors Of Libby prison till almost dead,
and now Chronic Diarrhea is slowly doing
lis fatal work. Last May saw him Lere;
he said he should never get well u0ie,s
they let hin 20 home for thirty days /.
seemed to gain some then; SAYS he il
falling again now. He seems patient and
resigned to what may happen.
An hour has passed uuheeded We
sh&l. he dark home. Good-byes, are said,
and we take the nearest way down stars.
We stop at the gate to inquire Of tie seq.
tinel the name Of tbe armless soldier.
"Private Beary." Remember pirate
Beary, ye who complain at lesser trla!s.
I have seen him twice since. once at Bar
NUNS Museum, always 6ith the saao
brisk step, and bright. earnest look. When
re were out on the walk | remarked that
if we had come Oh. the way we went in
meant to look IL at Ward 4, Formerly
the Convent Chapel But Cha.ley, who
knows what boys eyes are made for, took
a good look as re passed goi9g il, aa4
said he saw dishes Of blackbesr:es being
served oyt to the soldiers ia bed. l.
seems 70 me a strange arrangement sha.
fruit cannot be furnished at the cemmoa
table here in New York, so near Sanitary
Commissions and Fairs, where fruit sau
be sorsadily obtained. -.
( The convenient cars are passi1e, ! r.ls
to Grand street, good byes, zad noa.a
again. ECH b
August 1854.
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