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VOL. 1. AUGUSTA, ME., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1870. NO. 185.
^Untulut Journal.
Published on Water, Foot of Court Street,
AUGUSTA. MAINE.
BY SPKAGIE, OWES A SASII.
pailn Jumubft Journal
Is issued every morning, except Sundays.
Can tains the latest'news by telegraph and mail,
gives reports of the Markets,and lias carefully pre
pared political and local articles, and a generous
amount of farming, home and miscellaneous read
ing with a full compilation of State news. '
Terras, #7 per annum in advance; #- 11 payment
s not made within the year. Single copies f cents,
to be had at the bookstores and at this 11 nice.
Advertisements one iuch in length, three in
sertions or less. #1.W; 4* cts. for every subsequent
insertion. Longer advertisement -. or those inserted
for any considerable length of time, will be inserted
at I.Ivorsblc terms ty the advertiser.
Special Notices io per cent, additional.
Amusement Notices, il per square per week.
Mlecltla iicnncbcc Journal,
Published every Wednesday morning,
Is the largest folio paper In the State, containing
now-i, politiuul article-, agricultural ami seientitlc
matter, tales, poetry, anecdote?, liou-ehuM recipe*,
market-, Ac., Ac.
Terms #2 per annum in advance
Transient Advertisements, #1 •>» per inch for
flr.st week ; 2 » cents per week tor each subsequent
insertion.
Special Notices, #2.00 per inch for first week;
50 cents per week tor each subsequent week.
Business Notices, in reading coluiuus, 20 cents
per line for ilr-t insertion ; 10 cents per line tor each
subsequent insertion.
All transient advertisements to be paid for in
advance.
Music in Glasses.
rpilK ,ul>.cnber would inform hi- friend* and the
I public of Aue'u-ta and vicinity, that be pro
p,.-v- to teach Piano; al-o ringing in cln**e«.
Clashes on Piano to consist ol »*ix pupil** each.
I’lii' -\ -lent It i' many advantage.'*, and the expense
|,—private lemons. Private lessons given
if preferred. Would al*o invite the attention ol the
public to the
II. F. MILLER PIANOS !
For sale at his
Music Jloooi, North’s Block,
OPI’URITE CUNY IKiCfK.
The use of these Pianos In many public institu
tion-ami -chools has gained for •hem an enviable
reputation, and throughout the country they are
becoming the most popular Pianos manufactured.
Clas-e- arranged on application at Music lioom
or Re-id m e. IK WiiUhroi. Mrect.
M. 0. MILL1KEN, Teacher of Music.
apr2ttt2in__________
Cutlery and Plated Ware!
A full assortment of
Table and M9orkti Cttllery, Scl»»mr»
TE.I TH.11% »‘r.
Also Plated Tea Net*. lee Pitcher*. Goblets,
Knives, Spoons, Forks and Castors ol
the best quality, at
PIERCE’S CROCKERY STORE,
Xo. Pill Water Slr.tl - - Augusta.
mavittf_____
J, JgT LIDO < 6.,
Millwrights and Machinists,
ASl) MAM FACTU KLttS OF
Ladd’s Excelsior Turbine Wheel.
CIRCULAR AND UPRIGHT
BOARD SAWS
Manufactured at the lowest ea.-h prices.
Planing and Sawing,
In all its branches done in a workmanlike manner
ORNAMENTAL BRACKETS*
Of every description, furnished on short notice.
Shop on Water St., Gardiner, Me.
J. E. LAUD,
fapr36-3m W. S. BliAXX*
Picture Frames!
CHR0M08, BRACKETS, ALBUMS!
Ait1*) cVo*^
In Large Variety.
Picture Frame* of any size made to order at short
notice at
Hendee's Photograph Rooms,
Opposite Post Office, Augusta.
tj»inc‘*2-tf
MWIIOOI), 151th Edition.
4 MEDICAL ESSAY on the Cause ami Cute ol
j'V i'reimtture Decline, show ins how health islost
•uni how rcK.iinuti. It Hives a clear Synopsis of the
Impediments to M.vuitiAiii:. the trealment of St:n
vol S and l’HVSK'AL IJKHIUTY, STKKII.ITY. An.,
and the remedies therefor,—the results of twenty
years’ successful practice. ... , ...
" “There it* no member ol society by whom this
hook will not he found useiul. whether such person
holds the relation of Parent. Preceptor, or Clergy
man.”—Jjowlon AfeilictU Times ami (iasette.
*« ‘Manhood.’ The experience and reputation ol
I»r. Curtis in the treatment of the disease* «et forth
iu tiii> little pamphlet is the patient's guarantee,
and well deserves for the work its immense circu
lation.’1'—Daily Times.
sent hv until on receipt of .10 rents. Address
the Author Hit. CfliTls, 11 Chapman sire. I. Bos
ton, Mass. mar2H.leotl.lm
A F. MORSE.
PHOTOGRAPHER
Water Street, Hallowed, Maine.
gjr Ambrotypes and Card Photographs taken in
the best style. Pictures copied to any size. Al
bums and Frames constantly on hand and for sale.
ly23
Stevens’ Condition Powders!
I'or llufM'a and Callli1.
rjMIE Best Powders ever discovered. All we ask
is one trial and people will he convinced. Price
only 25 cents per package. CHAS. K. STEVENS
Manufacturer and Proprietor, 127 Bridge St., East
Cambridge, Mass.
For sale by A. C. DANA, 7 Union Block, Au
gusta. ipP1
bath hotel,
By O. M. Plummor,
HATH. ME.
Board, - - $1 per Bay.
flljau-ly
Bitters ! Bitters !
30 R. BE WIVETT'S
CELEBRATE I >
JAUNDICE BITTERS!
ARE THE SUREST CUKE EOR
Liver Complaint,
Jaundiee,
* Dizziness,
Indigestion,
Nervous Debility,
Loss of appetite,
Dyspepsia,
Headache, &c.,
To which all person* arc more or le ss subject iu String and Summer.
Ain; mm,\ vegetable;
AikI composed of some of the bc.-t UOO I S tmd 1IKUUS in the world.
Try Them. They are Warranted to do as Recommended !
Price, SO Cents per Bottle.
PREPARED AND SOLD ONLY I5Y
Johnson Brothers,
OPP. POST OFFICE, : AUGUSTA, ME.
HARNESSES if HARNESS GOODS
Of' every Description.
WE are still JAM FACIT lUS'i; ALL CLAs.-l.s OK IIA It.MISSES,
Vm*yin.g 111 l*rlco from 017.0O to SjtXOO.OO !
W¥rE tin nut keep jinv until'.- . t l. lnal.il llarny-s. l.ut lutviiift bail nineta-n vein-'.- , xperifii.-.' in ininiu
» la. lui tok ev.-r. varu’ty >»t' Il.irn... ...la ami the lo.-aler ... Ibal 1mm b.r tin. people ol
Au.ni.ta ami v i<-ill 11 \ , will let the u.. 1.. > amlwintbol <wir .thmI-tv-i upon jh, ,r ow-omeni.
As we keep a larger number "t vvmkuoD and consequently a largei unit greater variety oj
manufactured work than anv iirin in our lint* in this *‘ity . we invite al^ui want ot vuch goods to call
before purchasing, hearing in mind that we keep no Harnesses niaiiutactured l«\ ouiet tiim- lor " hole
bale trade but m tuufai lure all our goods and warrant them to give bat induction.
COLLER & GARDINER,
(Opposite Cony House. 113 Water Street, Augusta.
T M U W BC ® .
Don’t pay two profits on yonr Trunks, but buy at the only place in Augusta where they are manufactured
AT COLLER & GARDINER’S
Augusta Trunk Factory !
sign or tiro “ HIO TXIUNK.”
We manufacture all Dili Trunks, nr.d a our retail trade in Augusta and neighboring towns is very
large wetinkc them special!, for that trade and warrant then. They are no slop work, not cracked
and have g.I leek- We letter nidi iii'-i . 1- and deliver ... tlieei.ywitlio.it extra eliaige. W e also
iminnlaet.ire V\l l.-l’s and . A Itl’l.TIt \< — "i even style, and keep eon-tantlj on hand the large-t
andbl ’t stork :V f miles" and Dent’- Tit WKl.I.ISi. ItA.iS, Mi\WI. sflilK it. the city, and
sclltliem.it srKl'IE I’UU'KS. **' Remember U.u place,
Sign of the “ Big Trunk,” - 143 Water Street.
Opposite fatty Haute. f'hiprtf COLM.KB A' O.t tC Dt.Xtitl.
Great Reduction
.— IN TIIK I’KlCtS of -
BOOTS * SHOES!
The subscriber, having a splendid stock of
IIooIk ami Shoes
on hand, «ill soil the same at the
VERY LOWEST CASH PRICES !
The stock consists of the usual variety kept m a I
store of the kind.
li t 1)11'.S' and
OENTlalSMEX’li,
JIISSKV and
(IllIiUUEAS
BOOTS and SHOES!;
Constantly receiving from tlio mamifSietnreis, and !
will be sold cheap, cheaper than the cheapest.
.1 . II . Ia O W ,
lOO WATEll KI., Aimmitn, Me.
N. B.—Uentlemou’s Cull' l!oot» one dollar less
than at any oilier ptore. ;uiayJi-din
WiJJTED!
I .FARMERS and llunlerp having prime Mm* Skin*
on baud will iiud a caph customer cl highept
market price by seuding them to *1 ki
J. 11. cV CO.,
James H. Leigh,
DEALER IN
Foreign and Domestic
DRYGOODS
Al.so, AUKNT KOK
Wheeler & Wilson’s
Sowing Maelliues -
iVEERLK^ and all Tools adapted to the Ma
chines, couFtuntly on hand.
tVafrr St., itallondl, Me.
flapr-U'
CUSHNOC HOUSE.
Corner ..Jl_ and
jl ty »w
Wintnrop State Sts.,
_A runista. Me.
T. B. BA L LARD, : : Proprietor.
Guests u.«ien to and from the Cars
and Boats Freo.
HORSES AND CARRIAGES TO LET.
tljnUtO-om
Trun 13Lb ! Trun Xsls !
THE PLACE TO HUY
I*rcncU, Eugono, Solo Ijcntlior,
And all kinds of common
T R A V E L LING T R XT Ns" Jv S !
Also, Ladies’and Gent*’ TRAVELLING x SHOPPING RAGS, i« at
HAMILTON & TURNER’S,
135 Water Street. |
The Ttiaht Place to bnv vour HARNESSES, and get the celebrate*! Ot NN H AU,MsS. is at
HAMILTON A TURNER'S, 1*5 WATER STREET.
The cheapest place to buy WHIPS, CURRYCOMBS, BRUSHES BLANKETS, SCltf lNGI.ES, HAL
TEltS, AC., is at HAMILTON & TURNER'S,
135 WATER STREET.
HARNI
For Business, Pleasure, Teaming,
Manufactured from (iOOT) OAK
'Vo would remind the public that our Harness to<
four in number. Al.-o the flr-t premium at fin- lat- '
As our customers are daily informed that our
them and the generally* to call and examine
fered in this city, and we \\ ili convince them that we
for the same amount of money, and if we don’t hat
notice. Sample- of < .old < ,i)f‘ Oroide Silver. Covert*
our salesroom, NO. 172 MIDDLE sTIlEET.
For H;
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Hamilton
135 WATER STREET, -
tllfeb-tf OPPOSITE DEERE
BATH TIBS, COPPER BOILERS,
Water Closets, Wash Basins,
HHA88 & I’LATED WAKE,
Cast Iron
Lead Pipe, Sheet Lead,
And every article pertaining to numbing kept con
stantly on hand and fur sale at
H. R. STRATTON’S,
Corner Bridge A Water Streets.
Under Hunt’s Hat Store.
N. H. Plumbing in all its branches done in a neat
and thoiough manner.
Particular Attention Paid to Jobbing.
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PURE SPERM, CASTOR, OLIVE. NEATS-FOOT,
and ESSENTIAL OlI*S id all kinds, at
Johnson Brothers.
MOSES M. SWAN,
Watchmaker and Jeweller,
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His Stock embraces a line liue of
American and Swiss Watches,
in gold and silver ea.e, including the celebrated
National or Elgin Watch, Waltham. Tremont, Hoi
iniin. lloiinell. l’ardeatix, .lacot, Sc., in both La
dies’ and gentlemen’s sizes.
Fine Gold 3" ewelry,
Solid Gold Leoniton
Vest and Neck Chains,
STERLING A. COIN SILVER GOODS,
FINE PLATED WAKE,
SPECTACLES AND EYE GLASSES,
of the most approved kinds.
CLOCKS or ALL K1XDS,
including the celebrated ITHAC A CALENDAR
uli of which will be sold at the
Lowest Prices, and Warranted.
Particular attention given to repairing all kinds ol
Fine Watches. Chrouotnctcr Itufances applied ami
adjusted to temperature and position. tljan70-tf
DR, A. H. CHAMBERLAIN,
DENTAL SURGEON,
150 WATETl NTltKKT,
Augusta, - - Maine.
Mak.'* the successful treatment of all di.-ea-e** <d
llu‘ mouth and teeth a specialty, employing all the
latent and bc>t Improvement* in the method of till
ing with gold and all proper material. I I-crated
teeth permanently cured, ami their decayed and
broken down crowns tilled and built up to their
original shape and beauty.
Toothache Curotl Without Extracting!
Great improvement in the method of constructing
and titling
ARTIFICIAL TEETH.
DR. CHAMliEltEAIN is inserting a large num
ber of sets of these leetli, which for beauty, dura
bility and adaptation, cannot be surpassed any
where The plate w ill not sl u t ->r drop down, and
is warranted to III perfectly. AU are im tied to call
and examine specimens oi leetii made on red, pink
and white rubber.
EftESU CAS EVEBY DAY.
fmayC tf
ESSES !
Trucking:. Carling: A Expressing.
OCK. Hml liytlir ln-t "I wm-kinm.
ik fill llin prrmiunid ofl'rrefl fit Fir Ja-I Mato Fair—
r\v England Fair. .
Harnrssri arr Manhino Mitih.'il—ivo nnnM invito
he largest stook nf rsmlv-mnde Harnessot over of
lliako the I •• l HAND STITCHED work l., I r had
on hand what i« wanted, ran make it nt -ln.il ,
1 anil Jatianned Trimrnod llanir - nmv hr -ron at
HENRY DUNN & SON.
tie l>y
tfc Turner,
- AUGUSTA, MAINE
*G & HOLWAY S.
A New Era in Piano Fortes!
HAS now become an c-tablished fact, acknow
ledged b\ the bc*t judges of music, in all parti
ot the country, that the
Mathushek Piano,
Is bound to take the lead for
Rich, Pure, and Powerful Tone !
Which .-peaks for itself m notes of triumph overall
other-. TBe Reason of this Great Superiority
is apparent to all who carendly examine the pecu
liar mechanism of the so instruments in
The Kqua I i£in;; Scale,
which distribute* the tension of the strings upon
all parts of the frame, relieving the instrument from
concentrated strain in any one part, lliu- securing
much greater strength, durability, and power ot
keeping in tuue,
The Greater Length of Strings,
through all the treble and middle notes, the distri
bution ol' strings upon tbe
lAneur itridge,
w hioh runs the whole length of the sounding board,
giving greatly
Increased Power of Vibration
throughout its entire length, producing a purer
tone and better accompaniment to the voice than
any other instrument.
All interested are invited to call on
I. C. IIOVEY,
At lOO Water Street, and examine for them
selves, where the above named instruments can be
seen and heard, and will be kept tor sale.
Also a lot of very flue tone,l
VESTRY ORGANS & MELODEONS!
BEST IN THE C'Ol'NTK\ .
109 Water St., I. C. IIOVEY. *
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USERENNE’S PAIN KILLING
2VTAC3-IC OIL.
!_r “ IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM."-as
1L;aI'i:k—
Kenne'- Pain-Killing Magic nil cures Headache!
Kenne’* Pain-Killing Magic oil cures Toothache
Kenne’- Pain-Killing Magic < >il cure - Neuralgia !
Kenne’s Pain-Killing Magic Oil cures Cholera Mor
bus !
Kenne’.* Pain-Killing Magic Oil cures Rheumatism 1
Kenne’? Pain-lvilliug Magic Oil cures >kiu diseases
borne folks seem to be proud of telling how “lame
their shoulders arc’’—of • my crick in the back”—or
1 have got the sciatica,”— and delight in bragging
that ‘ nothing can cure me !”— but when we gi t such
•awful folk-” to use KEANE’S PAIN-KILLING
MAGIC OIL. faithfully, we not only cure their
lamene?* uud charm away their pains, but we ac
tually take all that kind of brag out of them !’’ and
they ’ frankly own up, aud say, “It works like a
charm!”
Sold bv all Druggists, Merchants and Grocer*.
It is put up in three sizes, and called •‘Trial size,”
“Medium Size.” and “Large Family size” bottle*.
WM. KENNE, Solo Proprietor and Manufac
turer, Pm *rn i i>. M v*s.
Wholesale and retail in Augusta by Marshall
Whittled, Grocer. ly27eov\
Shooting Tackle.
n. w . Losro,
SUCCESSOR TO M. LET AND,
a-TJISr SMITH
And Dealer in
Shooting Tackle of Every Variety.
Rifles and Shot Gun* made to order and war
ranted. old shot Guns litnmed out smooth and
made to shoot thick and strong. Also, Ammunition
of the nicest quality.
He pair iut; (lone Neatly and Promptly.
Hlaatlng Powder*
Tin* best quality and largest stock ever kept in
litis market . For sale at Factory prices. Country
Dealers supplied in auy quantity or quality tit dis
count. ljaii-ly
W. L, HALL, M, Dm
I>li.yssician .V Surgeon,
GARDINER, MAINE.
Oflice, over PARSONS & HAI.F1 S Dry Goods
Store.
Hours tVom }»to 12 A. M and *2 to ti t . M.
\ DK. G. F ItltlCKltTT, ( \ „,rnH»n
IU'luitno... | Ul. „ „ Him.. f August*
tlm-june*23* ___
A Free Gift «> iU /
HILL’S RRE1.HAT1C
PILLS. To Rheumatic,
Neuralgia and Gout subjects*
a sample box of these Pills
will be given by F. W. Kins
man. Water St., Augusta, and
for sale by all Apothecaries at
25 cents per box; 5 boxes $1.
0. A. HILL, Proprietor
hHimar-dui COliTLANU ME.
ittisccUamu
V VISIT TO BILL KIN.
The Battle-field as it is To-Uay.
A correspondent visiting Hull Hun
writes as follows, under date of Sunday,
July 10:
This is nearly the ninlh anniversary of
the battle of the first Hull Run. and T
write these opening lines at the Robinson
House, where the hottest battle was con
centrated. This day, Sunday, two weeks
will be the exact annivi r.-ary of the battle.
How time flics! It is a beautiful day, not
quite so warm as the day of the battle and
we all looking at maps and soft boiled
eggs under Robinson's shed, with old
Airs. Robinson looking down at us benev
olently.
“Mrs. Robinson,” said one of the ladies,
“were you frightened when you saw they
were going to light a battle round your
house
“Dear, dear, honey," says Airs. Robin
son, “1 was so frightened that J can't tell
you nothing about it. '1‘eared like l had
done so many sins, they sent all their ar
mies alter iye :t purpo-e that blessed Sab
bath day. 1 ji-t got in the cellar and
praved, and the ole man ho got under a
bridge, and 1 'spent he prayed too.
Thau1 Lord for these bright, still
Sum!.., - now-a days."
Tilt. Oin H<>ad to Hi i.i. Hi n.
We paid twenty-live dollars for a line,
showy, solid team and two horses, and
left Washington with lour persons, one of
u- anting as driver, on Saturday alternoon
at four o'clock. Couutry roads of a fair
sort led us by Hall's Cross Hoads, I’pton
Hill, Fails Church, and across the shallow
branches of the Aeeotink to Fairfax Court
House—fully eighteen miles—where we
put up l'or the night at the clean and not
expensive tax ern of Major Tyler, a cousin
of the deceased President, John lyler,
ami formerly commandant of Marines tit
Washington Barracks.
V l U.LK.
Ceutreville is the tmet ruined of all
hamlet*. There were originally about
thirty houses in it. a majority of which
are now mere chimneys standing erect
unions' weeds, and several of the houses
which remain hate been patched up with
logs and planks, so that what stands is, it
possible, more forbidding than what is
destroyed. At present the only signs of
life about Ceutreville seem to he one
- ore, one shop, one new church, and one
Methodist Sunday-school. There is no
tavern in this place, and there seems to
be no wells of water in the vicinity, and
all the wat r is pulled from the branch, a
halt-dry arm ot Hull Run. The site of
Ceutreville is one of the noblest in Vir
ginia, standing upon the tall spire ot a
long crescent-shaped ridge, w hich bristles
w ith dry lorls along its whole protile, and
makes ‘against the sky a battleuiented
horizon, which might almost give sug
gestions to an architect. Seven different
roads meet at Ceutreville, and in revived
times it ought to be a busy place.
A t’ STONEBKIDGE.
One naturally expects as he approaches
a celebrated Held soon alter the event
which commemorates it that lie w ill ob
serve many vestiges ot the action. There
are but tw o battle-lields I have seen w hic h
bear out this character—Waterloo, where
the loop-holed brick walls of the orchard
remain as they were on the day of the
light, as well as the blackened ruins of the
Chatleau of lloughonmont. the other
battle-field is Hull Run, w hich is full of
ruin, and the signs of ruin begin from the
time you quit Fairfax Court House follow
ing the pathol the northern army. In the
first place there is Fairfax itsclt partly
pulled down; the Court House, widen was
loop-holed during three-fourths of the
war, still showing the fresh bricks in it;
the jail, also loop-holed, and just cm the
out-skirts of Fairfax, a few bricks are ly
ing upon each other to tell where existed
the hamlet of Germantown.
About a mile past Fairfax, the good
turnpike runs off to Chantilly, the scene of
Hope's final defeat, where Stevens and
Kearney gave up their lives. Heaving
this turnpike, our carriage descended into
what is, above all other highway s known
to man, a road of ruin—the road to L en
freville. A forbidding and lonesome look
marks this wide road from a lar distauee.
Hike all the old turnpikes of Virginia, it
had been built in a staunch manner, with
,1 II.1 III. Ill'll'. pin run in «»*■
middle ol it ; some oi tile stoues white and
some veil, hut all large, haul, anil set up
endways; and, formerly, this rampart ot
rock was covered with clay, sand and
gravel, so that it made the broad area ol
the load level and like a parade. Mow
the material part of the road in the eentn
Inis been washed free of all tin1 gravel
and the clay, so that it looks like the naked
skeleton of a blasti l highway, the hones
of a road once merry with life and tink
ling with teams. J ho only way to trav el
it at all was to take the side-paths, or
what are called here the summer roads,
which sometimes run pleasantly lor little
skips, and then suddenly conic to little
promontories of trap rock and outcropping
limestone, at which we could sec the la
dies looking alarmed from a distance, and
nervously holding tight their seats. Hus
lnnclv, tiiis desolate, this battle accursed
road runs from l airlax almost due west
for thirteen miles, passing through Ceu
trev illc, and a short distance from Stone*
bridge it is barred across its whole length
by rails, for Stonebridge is still a ruin after
live y ears of peace and all wagons have
to take to the fields, making a long detour,
and lording Bull ltuu at a point where the
loiur, aged, gnarled roots of the oak, elms
and hemlocks trum a dautcsi|uc bank
against tJio ford, while the other is a dark,
succulent and snaky copse, with swamps,
grapev inos and vv ilil mixtures ot dogwood,
willow aud Virginia creepers. Ilirough
this detile, worthy of the pencil of Salva
tor lvosti, our city-made carriage moved
; like a London shop hunting in a Bengalee
jungle, and directly we plunged to the
1 hubs into Bull Bun, a pretty stream ol
redish gmv color, inclined to be muddy,
with swampy banks, and crops of core
growing closely up to the margin. Be*
low ami above, the stream made an aisle
of black light under the arch of the trees,
and in the current grew bunches of duck
weeds, blue stalked tlugs, and other
aquatic leaves, the appearance of which
indicated snake* beneath them. We made
another long detour on the other side, and
came to a pair of bars, which again ad
mitted us to the turnpike, and here we
made inquiries at the Van l’elt House, and
then retraced, over the track taken by
Tyler’s division, to the celebrated stone
bridge. The turnpike was grown up into
long green grass, and before we got to
the bridge we saw a snake wriggle off
before the horses’ hoofs. Close by the
bridge we took the horses out of their har
ness descended beneath the abutments of
the bridge, and proceeded ourselves to
cross thd stream by certain stones and
lish-boxes which span it. We had no
sooner put our feet ou the lirst stones
than three black water snakes dropped
noiselessly into the water and swam away.
A black boy coming by, told us that the
stone bridge had become a spot where
you are always sure to see snakes, and
that sometimes they lie on the tall red
abutments, and throw themselves with a
lifeless splash into the water.
Till'. 1! 1TTI.K-Hll.il.
1 sat by the .single arch of red limestone,
broken, grass covered, the parapets of the
approaches overgrown—and heard the dark
waters sing and curdle along under the
natural ledges ot rock, and saw the turn
pike barred by worm fences and deep with
grass, u here once, in times of peace, the
young men rode courting, the buggies
rolled to church, the runaway negroes
slipped northward by night, the cattle and
sheep limped in dusty groves to slaughter,
and finally, where great guns rumbled and
the troops stacked arms to rest, and thought
of dentil close by. All these images were
faint by the light of the highway of deso
lation. and these appealing abutments
stretching toward each other and seeking
to spun the river. What a little stream to
he known round the world—fordable every
few rods, not above sixty feet wide, yet
withal a stream of dignity and austerity!
| The timber that grew along the half
| morasses here and there upon its borders
was high and full branching; the morasses
themselves were full of rank grass, and
the movement of the water was sullen and
dull, as if it lot ed to tarry in the dark pools
and drew hack from the light. To left and
right the woods closed in upon the visitor,
and over these tree tops careened the tall
hills, with but one house in sight, and a
vague suggestion besides of Robinson’s
shanty in some huddling fruit trees, which
carried a human intimation. Looking back
toward < entreville from the bridge, a
group of negro ipiarte.rs and a small house
-tooii on one side in an outfield, and a new
negro hut solitary in a cornfield, on the
other, both hacked by wood. Down this
road the half-willing troops of Tyler had
! moved at daylight, blocking up the way,
! delaying Hunter's men, and these last had
| dually re-appeared across the bridge, their
j advance measured by the clouds of dust
I which were denser and higher than the
i cannon's smoke.
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