Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-11-02


of Said Eeventy-ive, more or less, prison
ers therein fhcarccrated--you will tell me,
taking them Altogether, that they are not
a hard-looking set of men; neither are
they. Many of them-indeed most of
them-af'e well to do citizens, whose over
zeal in the tgtsc of 5EttSessfaa lave FENDER
ed them obtoSioSs u The ruling military
authorities for the time being. More to
convince them that there was government
defacto known as the United States of
America, than for any overt acts of treason,
: which under charges and specifications
could be laid at their door, they have been
arrested.
After learning that my visit among
: them was not to crafty depraved relish
to revel in their mifortunes, but to serve
them in conveying messages to their DESC
, late homes, they Aocked around me. Sew
, eral told me where / could buy eggs and
bctter@-the same gentlemen entrusted me
t with note to wife, brother or servant
$ One wanted change of linen, another
: charged me to instruct his colored boy,
r Abel, to plow up the cotton twelve acre
f lot and plant it in corn. Another, to en-
f courage his wife to hope for his speedy re-
: turn, averring that Bill D. should pay the
, penalty of his treachery with his life, al
g sight.
| But the person above all others whose
D acquaintance Icoveted had not deigned tc
t approach me. In truth, it was his social
a companionship, to secure which, | had
r made this visit From covert motives
D desired that our introduction should be
i incidental rather than at my solicitation.
! l found him reading dilapidated novel
f -percAed upon his top chunk" My
comments upon the trashy character of his
t literature opened conversation; he dis.
t avowed his preference for such reading,
}. plead the cnnui of his confement as an
e apology for honoring "Beedle" by the pc.
e rusal said l should place him under OBJ.
S legations if l would send him in anything
y to read addressed George Williars-hc
e would be sure to receive it, George was
: hahds9sooAtthie young maa, tcardless, com.
: plexion which Ire enameled virgins ot
!. y,jd. Which formed t6e ba,nsy dark EYES, brow'
# for intellectual development Gtoimbe Con y Or T;
Fowler would have selected as a mode
l. among thousands, and yet this boy of Il
e summers, precocious in intellect, precocl
: GUS in hatred of Yankees, precocious in ad
:, ulation of Southern superiority, precociou
h in everything which tchded to the ruin o
II the country, could elect for himself nj
s more honorable way to vindicate his as
= sumed grievances than to band his fortune
e with cabal of outlaws.
Il He was less subtle than proud, les
e grateful than vindictive, so when l voun
d teered to effect his escape he swore tha
re he would requite my efforts by proving II
IF "Lincoln's hirelings" that the persecution
l. he had endured should be repaid an hun
dred fold
ct eympathizcd with him in his sense O
E. outra geous wrongs. l, too, had score
lie cancel-though Northern man and Yan
X kee [ had been treated with contumely j
IN the house Of my friends, cheated of m
It. rights in the line of promotion and ad
to vancement; chicanery, duplicity, syct
S, phancy and falsehood had usurped tn
f. place of justice and honor, and being col
s. stantly goaded by the memory of thes
as wrongs. utter rccklessness held the master
to of my actions. / would unite my destln
OF with George; and to prove the fidelity
er my professions / silly required him
is seize the end of rope should one appci
y, to him between the hours Of twelve an
IS, one o'clock that night. Accepting this il
of timation as talisman of my integrity "
parted.
We The second relief midnight had n
on sturned out" before George Williams ha
as seized the end of the represented IL
,r- walls of the stockade, mounted the hor
NJ awaiting his approach, passed with tt
IA writer the advanced picket, and beto
ly the first beams of the morning sun hi
r. foreshadowed the return of day, he sto'
'c- upon the verandah of his fathers manslo
ay encircled in the embrace of her who ga
,al him being. Oblivious she was to eve
gn surrounding object--shc only knew tn
en- she had heard the voice of her first-bo
sc and though the ensemble Of her toll
,rt but one remove the styis sf the first MIA
is tua.meker " iier sex---.it We're satrile
ST. rerssmbsf augHt of That Seen
= But tRat mothtFs affections, and Q
bfessiohs Of most devout gratitude to h
ill Heavenly Father for the safe return
MI her boy.
Of Mr.. Williams senior, had tacitly yiel
'de ed the reception of George to his motht
giving bis joint attention to our hor'
nm .ie .,o+ ;oo,,;a;tiva IN learn I