Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-09-09
Harrisburg Correspondence.
FRIDAY, Sept. ,.

While the Cops were firing cannons in
honor of the nomination OF "gentle War
candidate on fierce Peace PLATFORM, a
farmer who inquired the cause Of it sal +!
he thought they had better spend what
they had in shooting the Rebols:.....Tho
men in tho camps published disclaimer;
their guns were not fred. ......One soldier
driy remarked, "That's what's the matter
with everything about M'Clellan-a''cfys
casting porder!' These hints illustrate
the popular feeling.
Every day, meet volunteers from Old
Union. Tho promptncss with which our
little county has always responded to the
calls Of the President, is proud page IN
her history. And in sister Snyder, the
Republican districts have about filed the
quotas, and Center and Middleburs few
over, while Copperhead districts seem to
be doing nothing, but rely on their more
patriotic ncighbors to raise the men and
money to help the stingy ingrates out. y
company of about 40 wss marched in by
Capt Ettinger, to-day, raised mostly by
Rev. L.C. Edmond, of Snyder county, and
to be commanded BY him. (They say, in
one of tho Beavers, those who voted not
to restore to soldiers the right Of suffrage,
were "treated" to an escort, with emusic
more vigorous than reined)
Every day, former officers Of the State
government or members OF the Legislature
come up to the halls wherein they passed
many pleasant weeks. To-day, met here
Jacob M'Curley, Esq., Of White Deer Tp,
who was in the H.R. in 1916, :. Altho'
now a years of age, he bids fair to live
a. long as some of his successors.
Forty prisoners from the Fishing Creek
Confedsracy are reported here to-day. l
am told squad Of ten from Union county
is among "Old Abe's imps' who are now
contcstin- this flank movement of JEFF.
Davis co-operator-," among whom one Of
C.R.Buckalew's brothers is reported.
Yesterday, visited the HARRISBURG !
CEMETERY. From the eastern front Of the /
Capitol, up small hill, q road il cut out
of the rock. On tie left, hid by native I
forest trees which prevent the living and
the dead cities from being seen by each
other, is the place Of mortal sepulchrc. l
should say it comprises % or 30 acres, not
perfectly level, but Of varied and rolling
surface. 1t was laid out about % years
ago, and has many monuments, plain and
costly, and differing Gas minds diftr) as
to taste and propriety. Shut out from the
busiest side of the world rs it is, yet 1t Is
so near that we hear something of It's
clang and roar, and see, not far away, the
upper wcrkships-the long line of rising
dust to Camp Curtin-the great gap in the
Kittatinny mountain through which flows
our lorlly Susquchanna-tho Lunatic As
ylum-and, eastward, smiling farm-lands
and cosey dwellings. On the northwarI
of the enclosure, in two long rows, rise the
stones and boards of those raised up from
the old German Lutheran graveyard to
make room for the Railway. The bones OF
those buried without lasting memorial,
were re-buried together, but monument
promised ''to the Unknown" is not yet
given them or their friends. We see by
the re- placed stones, that several who were
members Of the Legislature, and others of
note from distance, were buried here
because, but few years ago, it vas more
difficult, in some parts Of the State, 10 get .
to and from Harrisburg, than it now is to
go to Europe. Thirty or forty soldiers, a .
portion only designated by hoalstones, lie .
side by side in more recent, honorcd .
graves And here is the spot to which,
hastily passing by all others, the mother
f1udly clings, to live one short life over
again in thought and follow it back to the /
God Who gave and who recalled it. Barely /
distinguishable, yet how strong the tie that
binds her heart and eye to that short, grass
grown mound under which a long-lost yet
still-cherished infant slumbers.
ONLY A BABIS GGiVE.
"0nlv hsby's gravel
Some foot two, at the most.
OF star dssed sod yet think that God
Knows what that little grave cost.
Only bahy's gravel
To children even. so small