The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-12-08

the gray boys and tho blue-placed
them often in a peculiar predicament
TLere Is no doubt that by her tact and
personal popularity Mary Daley, yonne
as she was, did much to save her family
and neighbors from the inevitable loss
aud suffering consequent upon their we'll.
known southern proclviities.
A little anecdote in which she played
part went the rounds of the newspn-
pers while she was still in her school
days. On his way to Wheeling, in a
private car, President Buchanan made
tho usual welt at Oakland station, where
many persons assembled to be presented
to the chief magistrate. When Mary IS
1 turn came, the exalted bachelor put the
question to her that had served him
throughout the interview: "And what
1t to are you from, miss2" From the
same state as your exctllency," she
quickly replied, 1.-The state of single
blessednessl"
Another story my friend had from her
own lips rs they were walking through a
new wing of the hotel, which before
completion had been taken for a tenn
porary barracks and hospital by the
Union forces in possession of tte read
and encamped at this point. Some sick
and wounded Union soldiers wer
brought i'll one day. Mary looked across
from her window into the opposite
rooms, where the poor fellows had been
laid on blankets and mattresses. Her
heart melted at the sight of the suffering
enemy; she braved even the terrible
Cynthy, who was none too fond Of The
Yankee" and insisted upon making a
| large caldron of chicken broth for them.
When it was done she carried smoking
bowlful in each hand TO the window.
One young fellow, pale and famished,
took the savory mess and put it eagerly
to his lips. Hold on, Bob sang ont
comrade on the floor beside him, "m1y
be that stuff is poisoned Tho sick
man hcsitated for one moment, looked
at Mary, whose eyes, frank as the day,
doubtless flashed their indignant protest.
"Oh, for shame said he, "Ill trust that
girls face for my life. Here's tbank'et
to you, miss" and down went the sour.
In tie rapidly varying phases OF the
war on this borderland-th road now
in possession Of the government, nov
torn up, thirty miles in n night. by
Jackson's Stonewall brigade-the per
sonnel OF the social circle at the hote
became curiously mixed, not to say en-
barrassing; secret or suspected sympa
thizers with the rebels took their SOM
and enjoyed their delicious mountair
mutton, side by side with the very UnioI
officers in protective command of tht
road. They smoked pipes of peace to
gether on the veranda. and saog senti
mental ballads to Miss Marys accom-
paniment on the parlor piano. Genera
Kelley was at the house at this time
with his two daughters, and from day t.
day he would drive about the mountain
roads in his ambulance with party tha
often included the author of "Stonewal
Jacksou's way" who, by the by, wrot
that stirring ballad, that Holmes calle'
the finest lyric of the war, sitting on t.
veranda of the Glades hotel while all tb
rest of the guests hal gone on picnic
the very day of the battle of Antietam!
1t was while Gen. Kslley was still il
the house, gong to and fro on,the road
as the martial exigeucies of the hou
would call him, that young James woul
t call him, that young James Daley and
g devoted chnm of his conceived the dai
E irg project of crossing the lines to joi
! the southern army. They were both fl
(; miliar with the almost impenetrabl
= trails of the woods on the border, an
e they laid their plans accordingly.
n few friends were in the secret. Ga
!; capital racouteur undertook to keep th
c captain Of the guard amused with tai
n and toddy far into the small hours of th
o appointed night; some women praye
y aud the general slept. The next morn
T lug one lady called the attention of al
) other to the suggestive fact that th
o rubber cloth piano cover had disappear
T ed. Later in the day Gen. Kelley di.
II covered the departure ana took in II
X situation at a glance. The mother
e one son wept and wrupg her hand
Don't distress yourself, madam sal
e the general, with somewhat ironical col
= dolence, 1--WE will soon have them bot
r. back hereg-as if that were not ht
n cruelest feaIl A party. headed by Gol
II Kelley himself, was hastily mustered
d pursue the iu5itives. Hour succeede
j. hour of cruel anguish in the family, AT
is of more or less excited anxiety to all
S the house. But at last the soldiers r
d turned, and the boys were not wat
, them. No collision or conuivauce c
10 the part of any one could be provei
f Perhaps the kindly officers were not ov'
}. eager to verify their possible suspicion
). and tho affair was hushed up.
: The next report of "our laddies gor
&c over The border" was an adventure
a which they succeeded in turning II
u tables very neatly upon their form,
i pursuer, Gen. Kelley. Gen. Crook WI
10 at this time associated with Gen. Kell,
J. in the protection of the Baltimore
q Ohio road, and owes to this circumstan,
his acquaintance and subsequent rel
O. tions to the Daley family at Oaklan,
y The official headquarters, however, we
o located at hotel in Cumberland, Nj
: a charming picturesque town on Il
a read, half way between Piedmont an
IS Oakland. II was IN this lovely cIt
: nesting in its bowl-sbaped valley amor
of - thousand hills, that party of ca