The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-02
BE ready. boysl' he said. ~
The women were crying and screaming

The women were crying and screamin
: and talking Union all the time
One or two blows made quite larg
opening, and with single jerk Bill tor
up the flooring. . .
Nv hat do you suppose we saw? sT-
There lay the three rebs, dressed il
? dirty homespnn. huddled together at tn
bottom of a wide hole that they had be
meath the house. .
Bill was a powerful fellow. He seizee
one of the rebels by the nap of the neck
5 and not only pulled him out. but pitched
, ilm to the further end of the room. One
of our boys instantly covered him with
i pistol
I Without waiting to rest, Bill served
the other two in the same way.
You ought TO have seen him as he
turned to the WON IN.
well, old Sixpence, you re Union Won
are an the old man? an alters hez
BIN And iyou never seen no reb. YOU
never did, Miss Brass? Nor you nuther.
on your word and honor, Miss Secesh p
| They hung down their heads, blushed
out word. We disarmed the rebels
and led them to the General. But it was
hard work. | never saw men SO exas,e.-
! t1Cf W W yiiCil THESE a&e,lE-
slns. If our wounded man had died |
DON'T believe The General could have
held them back.
r, Next day we had orders to return to
| Harper's Ferry The three ,rebs were
Narrated to the boys on saddles, and
forced to keep up with us ali day long on
loot. Their shoes we're taken from them
and they had "a hard road to travel.
believe" that day. That was the only
| punishment ever inflicted rpon them for
the attempted assassination of our men.
This" added the surgeon. twas in
the days when we made war on ,cace
principles and it would not have done
then to have hanged the wretches. Ii
might nave exasperated the South. Won
know. So, as said, al we did to them
was to force them for one day to Keep
step to the Union cavalry hoofs !"
Why we Moved, and how we Moved.
The history Of Nations tells US that
Editors, as well as other great men have
moving day. frat evetitfu! tIaV came
to us early. last Saturday morlliag. Why
1t came We will tell. j, 1t is not SUPPOSE
bic case that We lived in house Of our
own. Ut course We rented Our land
iord, whom we pad quarterly in prom
lses and with remarkable promptness,
tooksto muttering complaints against eur
KIND OF currency, and finally went so far
as TO tel US, Just as we were aanning a
Woman1for washing done years ago, that
he would like to have rs ray our next
quarter rent with Old ncwsuapcr ac-
counts, on give ilinI3our uete, as what NE
had paid him so far was not sufficient to
keep the cat-ilolesof the house In repair.
W. regarded his unca!ied for remarks as
a personal Insult-an laiury which count
less years coallfnever etface.S L hurt as
touched our pllde, that pride that had
been handed down TO Us through many
generations No heightened gentleman,
would pocket such an insult g0i course
zee wouldn t. Telling. the woman who
owed US for washing that we would call
around m a day or two, she went her'way
mutterlngs sonlatl1ing that sounded ike
es, that what you have said for sew
erai years. :" We presume ths poor wo-
man wasanxlous to pay us, and felt griev-
ac at the turn things had taken. With
streai!s OF flashing lighting streaming
pfoinlscu0usly over our placid, bu5sustialy
neamlnS countenanSe; We turned with
tierceDess upon the inSultcr OF our dignity
the sou;icas 5ruisec Of our naive pride !
anti asked hin If he was aware who /
stood before him. If h. made a practice
OF n2qltlpg Sentjem II, ii he took II for
small hSli N L tn joX,-if he knew we
had served term IN the WiScs,n in Leg
lSlature, ant Yv;ss the yU.seslur OF many
stamps,-it' he thought we would rent
his mouse after such an Insult, aid if he
didnt ike orr renittances. He sto1d
ike trembling ASPEN leaf III hail
storm, position the reader can readily
imagine, and heard the whole exl losion /
OF cioqaence. Having made up his mind
that he had abused US, he. offered to let
US have the house a year longer and take
promises forzray, which offer we indig-
nantiy stamped beneath our feet. We
informed him, then and there, that ne
had got all the patronage from Us that he
could get-that VIC should vaeatcf his
house. The look of regret he hung out
told US that he was sorry TO lose so prom
a patron, but we were as unrelent, g as
the rock sUrGamed ages People Will
learn, some of thasa day, that it woa' do
to insult ed.tors--that it is labor lost.
Finding a house, the owner of which
promised not to be 50 internal particular
about a little rent. we hired Jiin Babcock
to come over and move the fireplace
benches and two or three her things too
heavy for the family to tote The NOV
Ing procession was formed at an early
hour-early because ne had got tcw
chickens the night before. which it was
not essential that everybody should see.
In order to save time aud avoid eli ng
our handkerchiets too full the househ Id
put their Sunday iiXings over their every
day toggery The proceeding didn
disfgure Us much There are Two reas-
ons why it dan t. In the ir8t place, we
are hard to diSfigure, aud in the second
place, we hadn't extra clothes enough to
pay for a disfgure. But to the process
sion. 1t was a grand spectacle No ere
has dared to even hint that it WASH tt
oEr friends were delighted Jim and
has horses ,Ge.. :, ~ . !, 10, ..o
rear Of Jim. Our load consisted of a
hand,ess fryingpan. two small straw
ticks four army blankets, being one for
each member Of the family. half a box IF
paper collars, three sheets neither OF
which was in the wind and table.
All but the first and last named articles
We're snagy tlcd up in a handkerchief.
Mrs. Editor followed Us, which she swcars
to do it We go to the uttermoSt. or anv
other end, ot'tte earth for which friend
II aliuslon she has our thanks She car
red IN her arnS-not a bahy-for we
haven such a piece Of furniture to our
backs-but a full set OF TIN dishes for.
being sure footed, there was no danger
Of her falling down and breaking them.
The woman.whom we have hired to spend
the winter at ,ouT house, took the next
poSition She fatpd na cionpa;I Md