Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-03-01

saying, "A dance for liberty"
The board Is down. The horsemen
I ride up furiously, with grnf voice and
clankiug sabre, / sat IN the porch,
with feaverish beat of heart, and quiv-
erlng lip, pretending 10 read as they
/ rode up. The lieutenant commanding
/ without any courteous salutation, de-
mands Are there any Y Yankees here.
I-DsmOunt, men, and search the
house, had no occasion to answer.
! followed quietly to see what they
did. In their madness they turned
ont drawers and trunks, tossing the
contents over with their sabres. They
/ mounted and rode away, to my great
relief, as well as that of my soldier
below, who perchance, in the dark
ness, lost somewhat Of the wonted
/ Icalmness of one born to command.
The rebel tents began to rise this
afternoon rapidly, a halG mile away ;
suggesting unseen hands, or magic
word bidding them unfould at a breath.
/ What can we do for our soldier 2 Once
/ searching the house viii not satisfy
l them. Is there nothing Out to-
/ ward Cub Run is a freestone quarry.
The stone had been quarFied out in
such a way as to leave a little hidden
cavern, BE must get there until some
plan can be matuTed for his escape.
The piekets are toward CenterYllle.
/ The ground between US and this hid
Ing-Plaee is vacant, Aunt Mary must
4 be his guide.
The negroes were true to US. In
/ such darkness as they lived, they were
/ lighted by intuition. Torture could
hardly wiring 3 secret from them where
| a fellOW-servant was concerned. and
| they had a wonderful telegraph always
| ready for use, whereby they spread the
news, and concerted plans to aid each
other With open hearts they receiV-
ed the Federal soldiers as their good
/ spirits, and in them saw the fOreshad-
/ ewing of their deliYeranee. Who
dare say they had no premOnitiOn of
/ their freedom fact the whites. could
not expect p? The great martyr stands
/ In bold relief their prophet. He is
| TO them Do you call them a bru-
/ tai race ? You do not know how pas
siOnately they love their friends You
do not know the wild imagery shut
! ia their souls You do not know their
aspiration now, IN the day of their
/ blessing Aunt Mary $50 we Affection
ately styled herr was indeed to be
trusted.
Dark as it was. so alert were the
rebel sentinels that Donald $50 we call
our SOLDIER was seen. In these times
| everything created suspicion. Often
! the camps were reused to arms at mid
night on a false alarm. A hundred
men were soon out securing the pines
for our fugitive. Time after time their
/ sabres TattIed on the rocks around
him He must be taken when the day
comes He had the feeling of one in
/ a beleaguered town, every moment ex-
/ Decting an attack, k,-0nly with the feel
/ ing intensified by solitude into an ag-
oDy of suspeuse,-death aimed at one
\ mark.
/ About an hour before day, some one
! tapped on our ehambeF-|iRdoW. My
sister, always Wakeful now, started
up.
"Can you help me again
am always to be kept at my wits
| end Puzzled I stood.
"Ah, yes there is a suit of gray.
| left here before the battle by Confed- :
/ crate chieftain. We can impress it. +"
4 Donald must try his luck in the up
! per air. this time. Y on can imagine
/ The man slept Ill that night, with en-
emies darkening his vision continually.
\ The programme was arranged after
( this manner: Said Donald is to I'M
/ personate an Alabama doctor, looking
after the troops in sanitary point OF
! view, ALWAYS remembering to steer
clear Of the Alabama camps. He can
] introduce himself TO the unsuspieiOus
4 Col. Strange Of the 18th Virginia.
/ Through him he can get into the good
graces of the officials, get as much in
Formation as possible. and trust to
mOther-Wit to help him out.
4 We watch in the morning twilight
until he is quite lost. Earth is awak-
ening Dear reader, if you have liv-
] ed on a farm In Virginia, where you
can shut your eyes at sunset and open
/ them before sunrise, when the whip
1 poorWill opens the morning chorus OF
/ the spirits of the air, when the morn
! ing-star and twilight are lost IN day s
j glorious unfolding have seen a
beautiful type of the resurrection, N
/ the splendors of the morning.
! A year will soon have gone, and
4 what has become of our soldiers the
/ sanitary agent and the wounded hou-
/ ave? I have just received a IetteT1lu
i a strangers hand. / will read you a
portion -
81 am alive, having escaped Tighi
royally. After I left you that morning
4 I went direct to the camp of the 18th
Virginia, acted the large man, anU
vas cordially received by Col. Strange
We visited several of the neighb0rinE
camps in company, and l was feasteo
Z with the peers of the realm. l always
had the faculty of peTsonatlDg Othel
people in my frolicsOme, bOyish moods
/ wish you could have seen DIR. tor
don. He is a fne- appearing gentle
man, holding his head high, as becomes
Now said I, my good doctor. i
your chance. Here are horses at yOul
command to take a little airing beyonc
the lines. Gen. BeauregaTd will glv'
YOU a pass. You are free to take {
look at the ankees,-those barbara
; ans. I must tarry night. l will e.
to dress-parade. It was rich,-l meaI
tbe offer of a hundred dollars reward
dead or alive for the Yankee who hac
fhitherto eluded their search. In the
r morning I arranged my little matters
and set out on fine black charger
riding uneoncernedly ~ to Fairfal
IC H., the outpost showed my pas
with a gentle trepIdatlon IN the regIoi
of the hear6.-'R Pass on ABOUT thE @
r miles below I caught sight of so me be
; loved blue-eoats. They take prison
l er Not SO fast, my dear Lieut.. Gray
HAhl the hand-shakings a scouting
party from my own regiment. Il wa
e not 1isagreeable. I have been home
All is brightness there.
I must give you an extract from on
d more letter ~
n "a wounded soldier I left you o.
e the morning of July 23d. In the ex
!, citement of that day forgot my pain
l [ stayed ia the bushes along the Ru
+ until night covered me when I eau
tiously proceeded to tho. place where
l discerned figures in the dlmness Of. tn
+ morning. When near enough to hea
;. the sentries' footsteps, l got down o
my hands and knees in the grass an
a bushes, in mortal fear that some tWi
D. ,-,,,id crack and betrav me- II did nc