New-York tribune., 1867-07-31

whence you see tho roam Vanlbnhb ny """'S '.o
mountains. Down this turnpike came Stonewaii
Jacksons slOuching body, when old Mrs' Daroara
Freitch6 hung out the flag he was recreant to. He
passod under tbe siQn-posts of suburban hotels of
struggling brick, and saw the old womahs skinny
hands holding up her colors after soldier had shot
them from their staff She was q widow, who lived
in one-storied house, of bNek, the lower part OF
which abe rented oat and dwet herself IN the garrett
The creek runs past the house. under the side win
dows of IL. and Barbara raised her flag from the
oorrct at the dormer window She was an American
woman of that ancient German descent which peo-
pied Frederick County long before the Revolution,
ord a. IA untrue that Jackson protected her.
He commanded n sergeant on the contrary, to seize
tbe FAC and warn the old lady. Barbara Is dead.
oxoept in Whttiers song and she did not live to see
her standard wave again .unchallenged. Her grand.
sons live now In Frederick, respected mechanics and
fTadesmen. and tho many secessionists of the
town decry the story OF her herOSm am led to be-
iieye from what have heard OF this episode, that
Mrs Freitch6 was one Of those indomitable old
Wings who hated Democrat from the bottom of
her heart, never forgave him, and interpreted the
Rebellion to be only the Democracy that had tempo
rarily stopped over to the South side in body.
1t argues ltte for the schoOmaster OF this populous
town. with its 900 1900 souls that the poem OF
Barbara Fretch6 has no circulation In Frederick,
and was able to find but two persons who had ever
The individual traditions of men obtain little &C.
ceptance near home. AT Gettysburg saw John
Burns who volunteered fought at his threshhold,
and was wounded, the only Gettysburger who stood
by his roof-tree except the original troops of the
town in United States service. p,h
"JOhn Burns was absurd" said an earnest hepuD-
lican, he didn't do any good, and would nave Deen
Shot for bushwacker if the Rebels had known he
got his wound in action lie tod them tat ne ws hs
was shot at But then he's got an Office for IT" .
In addition to this Mrs. Burns adds scorn to cold;
ness by saving that John wouldn't nave ht az nn a.,
for A "A
at home unless there are strangers around
TO return TO Frederick: it was OF old the great
place of departure for the ponderous trains that TOOK
The National Roadto Wheeling, and sent their car
goes thence down the Ohio by steamer: Before tne
times Of steam it got it's growth and riches. WIN
the true parveiH9e iaef iaia0n immediotey an ars.
tocracy and an ariStocratic politics; was
Wing when Whiggery meant very respect,
table Government, q cheap nigger, no noise, ana
plenty of compromise, but very uncertain when tne
Northern lights began TO show their great pulsating
hand So up those shady streets came by buggy saa-
de- and train. tho Rebel Legislature TO carry M
MARYLAND" into conflaQatiOn The fine new Court
House was then unfinished, and tho conspfators
met in private building till the troops OF ,he onot m
swoobed down on them. and showed the horrors OF
war TO Rebel and Loyast together: Drauley
johnson was the Rebel contribution OF TINS loTh IN
officers but when the priyates OF Eariy nade 'leii
last sick mans raid here the place was robbed OUT
right of 5000 and $1,000 spent ilninedl1tcly III
the stores OF five Rebel merchants 10 TINS uay
Frederick owes this money TO me Dahkeis Mno % ~,
saCeu ~ a has,iIv and nnautborizedly made advan-
tagged the Rebels of the town only and VIII be repu-
dated most probably . -. ,
representative of the negro-whipplng, p0cket pick
ing mean and desperate satrap III tho WhOle oou,n.
All this region of country s a testimony 10 ms
cowardce and dospOtism. He had neither courage
nor skill in direct warfare, was destitute OF geheros
ty aud the worst characters ol the entire
were the hiQhwaymen of his military ianlly. lhey
were tho Mexioans of the Rebellion. The money
they stole from the border towns was divided
among themselves. With tho mass OF virginia
Rebels they had consanguinity, ana they
endeayOted TO make the war sequence OF
rapes, pillages and hangings. i bought q book oy
this man Early Winchester. coarse Vltnperatlt 9
unsodcry defcse of his career. full OF ungenefols
assault8 upon Sheridan, who whipped nm OUT ot
even his avarice. and III my EXCURSIONS over tho
routes of the Rebellion nohward nave YET 70 near
johnson, his captains from either Rebel or Uhlohst
They estimated the war as an occasion ior anarchy
and stealing and the life of any one ol them IN TINS
region would not be worth n chicken hawks. As a
specimen of EaIlys soldierly charity give you thls
instance of how he dsmisses Sheridan:
''These events satisfied mo that the Commander
opposed TO without enterprise, aud possessed
an excessive caution which amounted 10 Hmidlty.
Sherman he calls freebooter" Judge Holt MA
mons pcor sq Eas s 10 U@s o !" CanSd afraid
10 como homo "beholding Heaven aud feeling hell
Frederick il tho Winchester of the North, the
rallying place of Rebel AMI Federal troops and out
of the army TRADE its declining commerce rallied
awhile. Party feeling is intense here. and every
man. woman, ana clIu mas u hunuinu stoies "i
vasion and martial occupation 10 tell Here Ayerli
hanged a spy. whom he canght with falso-bottomcd
tin cup full of notes plans, aud lists OF innl ked
citizens, and he hung him at midnight TO
an apple tree with placard Affixed, that
he who should cut him down would be
hung up in his place. Opposite the principal hotel
stands the guard-house, where many desperate de,
serter has fallen dead at the windows. Federal
major gagged OF his men in these streets ana tied
him to the spare wheel OF q cannon TIL the blood
trckled from his mouth. Five minutes after the
mans release ho shot tho major dead. Then there
was hanging.
Hero Stonowall jackson went to the Calvinist
Church. and wrote home 30 his wife of the good 1t
did him. The guns Of Antietam South Mountain,
and Monacacy thundered here and the latter stream,
three times the width of Broadway runs through q
deep clay gorge couple of miles away. Where 1t Is
crossed near together by the TailbTdge to Baltimore
and the turnpike bridge to Washington, the
battle Of MonOc"sy was fought by y,,.ot the he
in front and was repulsed lie fankod far down the
river toward the Potomac and came in upon the loft
of Low Wallace While the battle ragged thus upon
the flank under breckenridge, and Gordon, and
McCauseland Ramseur crossed upon the railway
bridge and the Rebels pushed on to Washington,
the fight that saved tho capital for the
last time The demoralized victors never risked
another battle on Maryland soil. The field Is
now covered in great part with its share of the
wonderful harvest OF 1867 A block-house and some
earth-works stand at the junction. but the river s
deep and turgidy insensae, the woods are dark and
speechless; it looks beautiful over the high green
hills the whistle Of the engine reyerberates among
| the isnug rcd-rO0fed barns and farmhouses and
| they are building metropolitan railroad 10 Wash
ingtOn along the Maryland bank of the Potomac that
will open 10 view hundred pcket-stations and
crest every river hill with country mansion for "a
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