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Show Ama iif- T'- '&&'& &maggftfttSSisyfg fVM t&sks&S&tai reaching the Fedthey could personally do in me way 01 the eastward; the four endured great sufafter the eral as having country, in posts rousiug pursuit, DARING AND SUFFERING. and in sendiug out searching parties from ferings in tho mountains. The last tvro entered upon a longer but every village and along overy ruad Swift riders were dispatched In every direction more Speedy course. Starting southwest to spread the alarm. Telegraph stations! they reached the banks of tlie Chatta-houcli- e river, where they purloined a boat ahead were reached and messages flashed A History of the Andrews Railroad over tho wires, which gave, often with a aud were soon gliding placidly toward the In considerEaid Into Goorgia in 1862, great deal of exaggeration, the outlines of gulf of Mexico. They were tho occurrences of the day, nnd stiinfnoned able peril from the rapids near Columbus,-Ga.and were obliged to obandon tbelr loyal Confederates to put forth their ut moot efforts to prevent the escape of the skiff and make a difficult detour to pas The Most Heroic and Tragic Episcdo fugitives. Such appeals were not in vain. this otistaik-- ; but seizing another boat of the Civil War. AVithlu twenty-fou- r hours, in spite of the below the rapids they ran on, with many storm thut was raging, all the country be-- ' notable adventures, till they nt length tweett the acne of the chase and the I'nion reached Appulaclucola bay, where they our keeping together undfff 6nft bead. An lines wus strongly and vigilantly guarded, rowed boldly out to sea nml were picked By WILLIAM PITTENQER, A MLSIILB or THtt EXrrOITfol. army scattered and disorganized is lost; and every means employed to prevent any up by the Federal blockading squadron. L and our little army was no esoeptioa. fugitive from larking lathe woods or pass- They made the whole journey in less than n mcsith from setting ont. and wero thus !. f.i , V. Y., tcbv War Thi fatal command which Andrews now ing northward. and I'Utjiijlu- l ty .U'ruu.-iVet the writer bos always believed that nble to uarry the first definite news to ll wnn incui.j as we were huddled together in the gaic, if the sky hail Washington of the fortune of the enterKtsnu f: KfKR is Tin? not cvn. wo! box of the tender, was to jump off, T at once to get del is advi-nbbeen eear So as to prise in winch they had been engaged. right- into the smoke anil one by one, scatter in the woodb, nnd each they !V 'iiVtdre u.u render traveling shoved tin burning ear on to K We who had been recaptured went back eiV'viy 'o.i.ti hi !,.i:.in. htr' e to make !.:a own way buck to m ri- but tug tins town, vvhlih lululit priM-nniM.'iiiie ahead, wheie it was the b nloii armv to our prison with nenvy bearis, behoving We hesitated, but had by the no bridges 1I10 stats possible that tlie sentence auainst which we had mu ilillliultics. As then left t Miiokeiuid sputter hi the rum 011 no concert of action, no leader, no tune to. burn now for n considerable the sale t riu h. for the Gist day striven would now fall upon us. But our for council, and the instinct of obedience t!ie only other thing was to try once more We win null on what proved to be our was still strong within n: but it was a and night, he mid anticipations were not realized. We wero The engine wns to tear tip the many strictly guarded in Atlanta, first In the mien bni a l.ni if ih,lut run I fatal oilier, and led d.rzet.y to the cabin: probably t f others would have city prison, and afterward 111 tlie barda,.' n..- nut n'-- .f t. ut It tr msfui md us 111 again in good running unulition, mol we : nisheil rapidly forwaid, putting frequent on tin p.ii 1 f those w ho v. e. 1. a moment from a fonmdjble body of escaped, of i U racks. for two months, and then obstruct ions on the trank mostly by droptho late the l'ur my onn pint. I We were not even to Richmond. alarming picked soldiers, ready to fight to death, in one but or Milks of ties firewood, co u 11 try took yet recognized as prisoners of war, nnd honestly lay claim to uny giu.ter le,.: into a scattered mass of fugitive boys, beping or two instances by rc erring the engine, wus wildered aud hopeless in an enemy's were always made to feel that vve were in time, aud it to ilim I lind often felt in ordinary military country. jumping out ut1 piling up olatrut tmns. danger; bnt no further court practicable No matter w hat happened, there At a fat arable plate we stopped again for serv ice traveled Yet no one of us felt like censuring our martial was convened for u. At Richhave of a more permanent break. was the assurance that we still had one leader for this order, which eveiy oue at alic.ul mond vve were sent at first to the same swiftly resource the power to turn around anil the moment behoved to be a terrible misthe pursuit clear prison as other eaprive Federal troops Ixmg praetlt e bad made hr skillful in this matter, anil the last two stops had attack the pursniug foe. From the betake. Probably he thought that each man to the Federal the celebrated Libby but were soon reshown us that the eperny timid not run lines. In the moved to Castle Thunder, where we reginning, such conflict had been present of the party would find relief In being to my mind as matter of course. cost entirely on his own resources. afternoon and stormy night, by Incessant mained for the winter. The Federal secupon us without great tare. No wo dnidedr.t once into four parties. Scott It must further tie remembered, in ex- journeying, I succeeded in getting far retary of war, Edwin M. Stanton, was leaving camp, tins bad been reckoned a taluial consequence of our position. It planation of tills mistaken order, that away from the abandoned train; so that deeply interested in our expedition, after nnd n companion tut the telegraph; had been frequently talked of among tho Andrews had slept none the night before, when at midday I was captured near lie had learned the particulars of it from Knight uirclully lnspcfUd the engine; two or three ran bin k Jti-- out of gunhours Lafayette, Ga., 1 was more than twenty those who had escaped, and he directed men, and not one of them seemed to re- that he had been nearly twenty-fou- r shot, ftnd heaped obstructions on the gard it w ith ar.y more dre.nl thun nu or- without food, and that hq had spent nules distant in a straight line, which that efforts should be made to iudure the w track, lulu the remainder worked with dinary battle. We had been careful to Nearly two days ond a night in the most represented over double that dlstanco of Co::edoratos to consent to our exchnnee. select large revolvers, tot live nnd uot for exhausting labors, both meutul and phys- devious flight. This would have carried In this lie was tlnuliy successful, though might nnd fAain in taking up a tail. It t lint took a here little was oicmrcuce He me almost out of danger if it had been vve were not to be exchanged os prisoners show, and when we found the enemy ical, that it Is possible to conceive. gninlng upon us, or our leaders (dans for hail seen Ids cherished plans, when on the in a northwest direction but unfortu- of war, but to be included in a special place that has been much misrepresented we felt their destruction fulling, A southern nccouut, widely brink of sureesS, overthrown by wliat nately it was southwest! I was confined arrangement made for some 300 citizens opted, only said that our time tostiiko would sooc seemed (be remorseless band of destiny. for one day at Lafayette, and then rent and fugitives on each side against whom says that Andrews men ul most mutinied boastful feci We come. this The the not at fails did have him To the many failures nnd sorrows of bis under strong guurd to Chattanooga, ex- -. there w ere 1 harges more or less grave. place. against me these: The writer mid the men in the ing that we were an overmatih for past life had been added the crowning peering Immediate death. Uix car had come to ful that there was large Ixvdy of southern soldiers, for we all frtiefortune of this defeat. Perhaps under My companions fared no better. Wlth-ou- t knew how desperately they could and his calm brow he realized this with an no need of running so long be'ore the purfood, dreadiug an enemy nt eveiy often dal flgld; but of tho ordinary citiof anguish, and felt that the bouse and on every road, anil with no suing train, width we could see to he a intensity zens gathered up, as we presumed our greatest favor he could do those ho had means of directing their footsteps, they short one, with probably not mm h if any greater force than our own. Now while pursuers were, or even of conscripts, we led within sight of a horrible death, anil wandered around for longer or shorter ns many were at the rail as could Hull liad no great fear. That we tad not our iuto the presence of an enraged and periods of time, and were nt length all accustomed fttut? 'frfut ft 3erlotiv disadvanplaces to woik the process of lifting it trinmphnnt foe, was to separate them nt captured. Andrews, with all his marvelwith our lmei'feit tools wns very slow, once from his own dark and shadowed ous skill, was not more fortunate In eludtage, but this could bo femedfert by getrequiring more than live mlnultsl said ting into close quarters; and vve trusted destiny. If so, that was tho must fearful ing pursuit than others. No resistance to Andrews: 'Ve call capture that ttohi, that our leader, who had shown such won- mistake of nil: and as this order was was offered, for in each case the capture FULLER. A. Willi im If you cro willing." derful skill in management, would lie able given, we coulil almost, as we looked was made by overwhelming force. WithI answered: Howl-- he asked. This ho gave to the operator, saying: to put us within short range of tliepur-sulnsouthward through the driving rain and in a week 0,1 but two were secured. Kind ft good plnco on' A curve who to 'Don't speak to anybody or lose a second train, where we felt sure that we tho storm clouds, behold nlrcady the dark These owed their comparative fortune to there are plenty of bushes" (as the toad till you put Unit through to Chattanooga. could quickly give a good account of it. outline ot tho Atlanta scaffolds l' the fact that they stmted in an enstern had numberless curves, and ran mostly Jump for the platform wjicn I slow up, direction, nnd were therefore less closely Probably the fact of Auilrewa having thoso on wns ami keep never been In battle, but always engaged followed. Fulling in with some Union through woods, this easy); "thou let for I must push burnor rail a Yankees from gottiug op in schemes where his own cool daring and sympathizers, they received valuable nid tM ptit on some obstructions nnd hide; one bridges." and information; and uf ter ward securing sagacious plnnnirg counted for everyof our engineers can run fthead a mile or ing tho work. The was operaa boat, floated down a small tributary to tenibly quick thing, and mere force for nothing, made two and come buck after ns; when the' torft almost in and home was at the which office, him hesitate to order an attack the Tcunessee river, and then directly past enemy1 stop to clear the traik wo will rush was he shed lief the cleared had mid fuller ire would throw aside all 5l1e.se qualities ChattRnooga and Bridgeport. They sup(m them, nnd when we luivo captured uhd the llrst words were over determine the issue A desk the at by simple lighting. posed themselves at length to be out of them our other engineer can reverse their to had time Whether wires. the we bavo get would was when near time they firmly danger, and learning thut Gen. Michels Engine and semi it in a hurry dow n the Is disputed our leader's eommnud if thcro the over cut whole the message forces wero in' they entered traik to dear the road of any more train very doubt fid, and not material, for the had been an officer of any authority among boldly, only to find that he had fallen that may be follow mg." answer every pur- us who could have been substituted for would two lines first Lack and that they were in the midst of It Is Andrews said, la bis quiet way; Had fuller stopped at tills point, him; but not nntil Andrews himself hA'il) pose, gray coated soldiers! They tried to extriWILLIAM SESSlKaEO. WILLIAM aZBEirZ, It is worth trying," and and good pluli. himself went iuto tlio office long definitely abandoned his authority. cate themselves in vain, wero arrested, mobebt nvrriM. looked around In a meditative manner; to set the operator at work, it is been PARHOTT. E. B. BASOK, i JACOB has flaws sent to in the enough and bock detected their disguise Mnny question os ft' weighing the chances. Then the almost certain we would have bail the rail prasked: "Why did you uot reverse your CROUP OF EXCHANGED PRISONERS. , , Chattanooga, where they found all tlie enemys wlilstle Rounded; we Raw them up, nnd then all the bridges above tluit LEVVIXG ink LOCf MOTIVE! other members of the ill fated band. engine, and, jumping off, lot it drive back On the 18th of March, 1863, the exrush up fo the' oliM ructions we li.ul placed It was pitiful. The General bail served Even the two who had been accidentally would have been burned; though It at the euetuj?" yimt good could thut 6u the track, stop by reversing, and lalior point change was effected, aud with feelings e ever since the morning hour in,, ief t behind at Marietta on the Is still possible that enough of the have done? If their engine and our own 'l9 morning of that cannot be described the writer and os frantically to cleur tlio road An we wre have been pushed through to had been destroyed, as was very probable, fearfu1 speed and patient waiting, In ex- - n10 chase were discovered nml brought to his live might companions returned to enjoy the doing In trying to raise the rail. This secure our arrest in Chattanooga. with a considerable number Of ultin raptures and In almost despair. It common gathering place at Chatta sweets of safety and freedom. Scarcely But our efforts vera in vain. The stub- was another striking iuRtnnce of the togetner we Would only have been w here we was hard to abandon her now. She was most was hero QUr lives, progpc able to realize tlit-lgood fortune, they born spikes still held, and ns they were many narrow margins on which this day wero before we The engineers, uninjured. captured the engine ut nil, substantially cloomy and desperate. Captured within journeyed by truce boat from City Point, move on to called Andrews care Brown taken Again, and had ready good Knight, w hole country would have , or uniforms the that .lie without binged. lines, except enemy's to Va., Washington, where they were retVt "All aboard," utpl we dashed awny. As fuller pressed on toward the great liecn aroused mid our thrown off. of her, aud with wood and oil in abundregular arms, we had every reason to An- ceived by President IJneoln and other That Wan not the place to make a light, tunnel, even his resolute heart almost died The second trniU Woulddisguise no would have there been ance,difficulty ticipate tlio severest treatment. lmve been on tlio Yet high officials with every mark of honor. as we all knew, for revolvers against within him, while all his party liegnn to ground in a few minutes and the power of m her part itr completing the run to nearly two mouths Intervened before any So ended our experiences of daring nnd was still Huntsville. She shotguns and riltes Would hare had uo blame him fur foolhardiness. He feared to Jogging along blow was struck a delay caused proliubly in connection with the great pursuit would have been undiminished. at the rate of chance at long range,' but from au ameight dr ten miles an hour, by the reference of the whole case to Rich- suffering Into its dark depths. It was still We bail no w ish to sacrifice our own Andrews railroad raid into Georgia. bush we' yofihl have been' climbing Into plunge maintain1 fhat anil could a little pace lied with smoke from our engine; nud he until the last effort possible bad mond nnd some apprehension' of Federal their euglho and cars before they could well knew that If we jumped Off nt the been made To merely destroy the end. had no longer. The pursuers had also dimin- retaliation. ished their speed, so as to joVt keep us In pick tip their guns, and the conflict would far end and liurled back our locomotive at charm for us, when that destruction A Marin, H,rih imt hare bfien many mlnVes doubtful. bitn, it meant a horrible death to every could neither having nppargutdy no wish to press CHAPTER XV. promote our escape nor eight, what This was the nearest we came to' what a 011c may have oetinied' to' them like npon Among tho inmates of tho National on his train; and he was by no means serve a military purpose. AVlV A PARING ESTRAOEPY AWrt'L AS southern accmi- called open mutiny a wounded and dying lion. .The colnmanff Soldiers home at Togus, Me., is Richard Rnre that wo would not do it. Mr. MurCAPE. a mere respect fu suggestion in the lure of phy, who lmd so ably stood to "Jump Off ami, Scatter was repeated, 1dm all tho Rowley, who wns captain of the gun on ly XTIL CmPTER Ufllner more Was Work. ever No with tho injunction1 to be Quick about It, oiu It was at Knoxville In .ost Tennessee the Kearsarge when she sunk the Alawhile, hero counseled prudence, pointing Was' that! HOPE. Andrews otieved to reverse the TitE LIST as the engineer wished heartily during out all the perils of au umbush. llut fulthat the soldiers were first arraigned for bama off the harbor of Cherbourg, nml drive It back npon tho enemy.-Witthe whole of this ffaf; had Aonfe of us ler We croui hed down ns well as we could as apparently no 0110 cl-- did, trial. Previously, thb lender, Andrews, France, nnd bald an; thing more nhodt (his plan for the realized, need performed an act of bravery lie no snch a reason there could hail been tried at Chattanooga but no deof pressing on to save In tlio tender while passing Ringgold, saved his ship and her the time, partly beeartsB wo felt thht our the deaerate some that the enemy might imt sec our num- more hesitation. It is snid that cision had been rendered. 1 .ittle time was which probably aud ho had made so many road; leader was better able to' fudge What Was the town vve arose three or four had already got off nt. the needed for tlie proceedings of the court, ns Crew. Tho battle had raged for over an and boeu so marvelously favored ber, nn.l when to be done than we, uiu! partly, also, I Mint a kind of fatAlIsm took bold ot btm. nmi Imikeil about us. The country was first word of command, bnt the most of the raiders did uot deny to the hour and a half, when a 100 pouDd rifle mud tsmfoss, liecnp'-- e tie thought lie was He determined not to lose a uilmito, no mostly wooded and rough, being much us had hesitated, not on account of .the Union army aud having entered the shell from the Alabama struck the gun only waiting for the bent paee to turuani matter what the danger might bo. It may cut, up by the branches of tho swollen still rapid motion of the train, but in the enemies lines with hostile purpose. On which Rowley was sighting and fell on our foes, and that we would ibbu have nil aswuUbesuid here that no prudent and Cliickamanga creek. We had no fuel, idle hope that in sumo way this terrible" fhis vvua based the charge of being spies. tbc dock, with the fuse stilj burning.. In one the tight lug we wanted. Now be after averted. wu on os a was few parting might added In tho case of the leader there common sense kind of puisult, such might have taken though clambered tlbwn on the step and the charge of disloyalty to the Con- an instant Rowlov picked it upand threw T!u full speed of our engine tv,is again any other man would have em- water soaked fenou rails and broken them another off. it into the sea, where it exploded just a nei-hlnl-towus first I the called Into requisition ns tie ni'drlie be the among to had friend would lo have a swung ns bcu professed burn; but what federacy, ployed, could have had the slightest uor the last, and jufcipmg unsktllfully out of their cause, and to be engaged in their it touched the water. The sailor's beard and by the aid of ft few tleW dropped chance of success. Hut even fuller quailed use Every eorabu.-tiblscrap was rare of forward, whirled service. Each raider was tried separately, m the track we were once more it fesprrt-abl- o ns and mustache were burned off by the they dived into the cloud of smoke that fully gatheirtl up and thrown into the cn fiom tho step, instead distune Abend , We needed tins In- hung around the eutrauco of the tunnel, gine. Worst, svmptnn of all. a large pair over nnd over on hands and feet for sev- and only one of them each day was fuse, but ho stepped back to his gun and rnii- - lirom-ii- t terval bmlly, for it was by no means cer- nnd held his breath for a few seconds ot saddle butrs, which wc lmd never seen eral rev olutiomv the court murtiil. There sent a shot into the sinking Alabama. losing in a tain that the switches at this mint would (they were still nt full speed) till lie saw, Andrews without from the time of the dition, though unhilit, with the delihi rate seonie I no reason fur iiiese ve-Capt Winidow at once gave tho order be properly adjusted for our immediate whh a sigh of relief, a gleam of light midnight conference, together with his of a few scratches from tlio br.enwith proceeding'-- , but same of tho ra. iers hid to man tho ringing and give throe cheers I looked over afterward reason to be exece ,u,.v grate-ty.tho which and abounded, it of some tlmt 110 place other now serious was there and knew pot, that through; and cup clothing picrci ahead, jiasage ."or Quartermaster Rowley. The latter v. inch Wero the animated Scene Willi the deepest inter for the d i ly in t.ie.r 0.1 might arlso. Wo might have a other engine in the tunnel! On he pressed, lie did not need for immediate t. lionized his after The men who' jumped off. were. .10- - was thus oce.ij on return to s veu wnsgr ,1nttlo with forces in front us well ns in for he knew the value of the Chichamuuga flung remorselessly iuto the furnace. a.ly i I ' m d. n tlio rear, for Dalton was tlio largest tow n bridges ahead as well us vve did. Various pipers went along. Those were Wording to Instruetiens. flying 111 different (if the number bad ih country. Congress, voted him a gold wore would directions, a few others . we bail reached since leaving Marietta. just coming advance of the Uni. .i h.l. lie received other valuable gifts, p t.ie probably documents that lie Here a road diverged to Cleveland in a t Lincoln personally thanked it the CHAPTER XII. compromise himself or others In case of off the engine in.nadcb the same way that- - Corrt nml c itw were I had while tie : done, 1. e whole parr ; eugmeei Tennessee, where It connects with the capture. Such preparations were indeed .1 Ter several djys before his intcr-l.-.can. a relirttxtxo , to the out of r scheme curry Almain line from Richmond to Chattmiooga, ns d,,,., ominous. But his nest command the tempting v.ilh tin-- president, Rowley had ac-.Tint for the wetness of the day all his last ho ever gave to us as a party was versing the engine, which could do ,m;a Ga. I. co.n-- 1 . thus making a large triangle, or, n a railno to V foiled. been oven would frequent invitations to drink have a now, good At efforts ;i, more dreadful still, and for thu first rime except possibly delay mmiicatul to t road man would any, . yet great 1, ,.gne, and probably showed the . that time no telegraph wires were on this We now did Wbnt bad been in the mind that day there shot n pang of mortal ter- the inevitable pursuit a little, and give nuut nleil. tle uwiur u m cross road; they wen not ppt up till 18T7. of Andrews, doubtless for some time post ror to my heart. Not tlio crash of tho us a better opportunity to organize sentence of in ic 1 its. As lie arose to go Mr. Lincoln iid w lmt he might have tried even at the There were nl.--o nlimeriitis side true lea, engine down nn embankment, nor tlio our plans. Tbe brakes of the tender were for them. Au.i.eus Inal si r.did gave him a hundred dollars, saying: and a probability that cars might lie left OostemuiU bridge, had not the Interval coming ot another train of the enemy put on still more to dimmish speed, ond. from ,js conn. id, a nmi put tu i.cutli a "Now dont drink too much liquor; is fearwas made. reversal the so a Hero liven two that nnd of us us Calluiuu between between ou from some and wabntl slight seven the soldiers The Week earlier. north, shutting nut drink them; standing a little, but not too much. I more than made-uour hour's delay at fully short. lie ordered us to fire our tires, would have caused such n sense of coufliet of authority. The pursuers say their death with n heroic forri'mle vilmh know just old sailors all like a little you grog, loosed were not the brakes wo was that while Were It to ear were over of now last steal nnd murk ahead and of even admiration the runhing. again; excited and hopeless misery Kingston despair be careful and not drink too much.' but our engineers ;p equally positive that tlieir enemies! No event of regret the war made but tune, there wns uncertainty of the road said easily, but was much harder to do. mo. This was the order which, ns intibeing rightly adjuVed for us. It was Everything about the car wns ns wet us mated before, our party, had they been they were. It Is not material, for the re- a more profound impics-mupon the therefore ueoessary to stop at the opening It well could be. The rain fell iu tor- projierly organized, would not havo sult is the same. The steam power was people of Atlanta, w hero all these events There Is a Difference. so low, that though the engino moved nre still vividly remembered. of the smith, which was fortunately a rents, and tho wood was drenched In the obeyed. There was a jolly littlo group about ntfd For onr situation whs still far from des- back It was with moderate velocity, and I little way down from the large passenger tender. It was by no small effort In the hurry and confusion of great miltable iu a down town cafe last nigh depot, which had a Shed over all the skillful firing tlmt the engine lire could perate. Aside from tlio capture of tho saw the pursuers reverse also, aqd coming itary events the fourteen survivors seem shaking dice for the lemonade. The fa.-t runtruths, nidi through which we had to be kept nt the heat required for pursuing train, which would now have to n full stop, whistle two or three times for a rime to have been forgotten. But man who threw the lowest number had pa.--. ning. Hut desperate lingers tore every- beeu very difficult from the fact that wo ns it appruache'd a seeming whistle of- in October of the same year we became to pay for the lemonade and tell a story, Hero the coMiicw and adroitness of thing combustible loose from the ear, and liad neither fuel for rapid running, nor alarm, though there was littlo in tho ap- convinced that another court martiul was shone out With luster. smashed it Into kindling. Some blazing the obstructions on board that vvein nec- proach of our poor General to fear; anil about to assemble to adjudge our rase. All at the table had been "stuck but one a We bad no rea-o- n to hope for a ditler-c- gentleman who is noted for his keepness It Is likely that when vv had spoken of fagots weie stolen from the engine and essary to place 11s far enough ahead for then they moved slowly before It for converdict from that already given; and of repartee. The gentlemen who had lighting a little wav back, bis mind was the tire made to burn. The rapid motion an ambuscade, there was another plan to short distance till the two were in with driving rain was nn obstacle at first, which onr leader was virtually pledged, tact, when tho weaker stopped anil the wc resolved to strike boldly for our freebeen "stuck told nothing but anecdotes occupied rather with the problem of passsteam off. was sheltered nnd we The railroad fed w blaze shut as the but hicli np great presented every prospect of eaving dom, preferring death, even in hopeless and antique tales. Not a new story had ing Dalton, uud of judging by Wliat. took was chase over. ns It well aa it too our own was now it late grew rapidly, lives, though fight, to quietly waiting tor the execu- been recited; and they were all chestplace there whether the enemy was till soon but possible. one could stay ou the lo accomplish our original purpose. We warned. The train wns stopped, he ran tioner, Accordingly, when the jailor nuts. When tho XIV. CHAPTER noted for repothers Watch all tlio nnd and car were miles some five it, was beyond Ringgold, that the tiaik clear, brought oni- fooil in the afternoon, he was artee had been gentleman forward, CAPTURE OP TI1E RAIDERS. TttE and on stuck" there was aplocomotive. tender the crowded of or mile within a nineteen Gra.vsville, was seized nnd held eilent while the keys were spoke to one or iwo bystanders, and The last stage In this remarkable en- wrested from him and the doors unlocked plause, a call for drinks and a demand back to liia (nvst in an Wgievediugly sliort The steam wav now gradually shut off miles bv the longest railroad course from From that city westward terprise may be more briefly described. before an alarm could lie given. There for a new story. "I can tell a etorv, time. To one or two who had pome up that we might come slowly upon the Chattanooga. The raiders, wearied, hungry nnd without were seven fully armed sentinels on duty. said the gentleman, as he ordered the miles fureven In these few seconds, he said. J am bridge and be able to leave the burning to Bridgeport was twenty-eigh- t nt the right place. We came to ther. Bnt tho nearest way to Bridgeport Five' of these were secured nt the first proper thing, but I'll ask you a conunrunning this train through to Corinth, ft tv! car just rush and thtir musket wrested from their drum. have no time to spare," aud nodded to a full stop at thtn first Chlrknmnnga was not through Chnttanoog.i, bnt further Go ahead, he wa told. lnrue one. anil well covered. In south, and by that route it was not disgrasp; but the other two lied through the Knight, who oneve mar put oti the fall bridge, n Well, he went on, what is the differor forty miles. nnd alarm. Greater the fore of the engine t tiers was nothing to side It was nt least drier than on the out tant more than thirty-fivgave gate prison success than this was scarcely possible In ence between a turkey and a man! be gained by care in avoiding alarm any aide, and we doubteil not that with time The direct course was at right angles wit h This odd conundrum floored the ?,- the attack ot unarmed prisoners upon A "t inrf the pur It. would burn Will, The cr.'y question tho numerous mouutain ranges, which We here run almost worm Sad a route Ruer was beard and we rubbed at Mis woe: "Will that time le givent" vigilant guards. But a strong reserve crowd. Tlie questioner was appealed to the added almost the last of our oil anil nearly over which cavalry could not be used, and Tho difference between just outside of the gate wns almost imme- for au answer. depot, w hieii luen ub1 light double inn k, and p.i- - ml vviUi, fearful the last sink if woo,. knowing that a whii h was known to more thaw one of diately ou the scene of action, nnd tho a turkey and a man, he explained, as if and far l vvi not Wuo-our had nation Two comrades ahead, strife 'oecc.ma too unequal to be longer ho rose to leave, is that a pocket party. ri f speed tinder its roof. I leiv turkey isnt maintained. Nothing but flight in the stuffed with his tnoet terrible flight. The darting into this bridge could be made ta turn well, compose, which Would have guided chestnuts until it's dead." to wc v.ai.tcd have could all time woods or a in the thick We clear sunlight toward the wood, a mile iu cloudy the partial durklieeaof tlie shed was bud Cincinsa-tNow to awav. remained. There was - wilt chose, The crowd comprehended. enough, bnt just nt the far end the main get wood and everything else, la fact, we weather by day or night. . track bends suarply to the left, nnd the put life itself on Mils lust throw, anil left have left our tram in body, and Wuthout rapid firing, and for a time tlie lielief pre- Commercial. ourselves, in cose of failure, vailed that a number of the raiders had ewerte was so sudden, amt the speed delaying to seek concealment, to have Trouble Brewing in Abyssinia, For a considerable time, as it struck over tlie etrenms and mountains at been killed. This wns not the case; bnt eo hgh, that Krvght Imfieved he was bankrupt. The indications are that historv will sons six were letaken and led back to the rushing on auolher side track, and thatin seemed to us. though It must have been right angles, as rapidly as we could go, would have been our most hopeful course. pnaoa from which they had broken ont repeat Itself on a larger scale. The ruling a moment would come the awful crash. Measured by seconds rattier than ni mites, Hut instead the engine instantly rightist, we tein.uued on tlie other side of the Uro I,ong before night of the next day we with such high hops a little while before race of Abyssinia is of the best Asint e and the history of the country w vvati litit.. and he again saw tho truck straight then the inexorable smoke of would have been safe withiu Mitchel's the writer amongy Ainnfortnnate uum stock, a lung nml brilliant fomanee. They him. But so quickly had we pass'd the seen, the pm ronncrting the lines. Why not? Ilow could tho enemy ber. were that we could hot certainly deWmine burning car ith our engine was pulled have captured us If they scut cavalry, That eome should have been captured nominally Christianized 1,100 years agoy whether the peopleot the sta.iou had been out and vie slowly moved on. Too clearly these would necessarily have made long is not to be wondered at; the marvel is and are Mouophvsites believing in the vve saw the rum of allour hopes To wait circuits nnd have lieen obliged to adhere warned or not! that any escaped; and the marvel grows single nature of Christ They receive When their fortune is followed further. patriarch by appointment of the Koptlo A mile abode Dalton, which wns about the coming of our tors wns vain. They to the lines of tho road, and thus cotlld to near ns lia7o not come whllo Christian hierarchy of Egypt .no cost Hinging os s6ou as the headlong rush f the en- -, were nowhirar at band, and we could sen They traveled in couples, concealing and sides. Even the mountain the day and muting what them ?,0fKTt ha, his court at Gonilnr the guns, with which they w ould lie able he'valleys during ginc coqld be checked, we (stopped again, their overcould woods thick have not tliey Col. Jesse Glenn's to fight n at long range. The oar which, tp progress they could during the night. religious capital, ahd is addressed As g A PEW OP THE ESCAPED RAIDERS, just opposite to vi here were He is, practicallv, encamped in If the day had been drv, would long before taken us. If tbry followed us with a They suffered greatly from hunger and Souna, Onr Father. regiment of conscripts on our and for we, and of the foot, filled of country, strong party fleeing the bridge with a mhss guides ignorant from the cold that soon came on. Two worshipped, and blesses his congregation a field. Their position, whhh was within this have of have deserved would to if no tint means their of with lives, course, was escais) directing . of them Went westward, ahd finally, priests by spittiug over them, the dev- -' burning faster thnu 00 or 300 yard- of us, was probably not roaring flame, otoes not have held our distance for were inn most unfavorable jwition for tho episcopal virtue reeec-until we wero close to them, audit the bridge. To take It to another bridge we could possession of boat, drifted down sides inthinking or If was miles ridden had It moie. the saliva instead of fn the fingers. for their wus forty f they probably rnm the interwould escape. their useless, attempting thv Tennessee river drenching tliev till at arrived the was better to take the risk the whole country for a a little after noon woen the locomotive j fiuon iines, abend nnd rai-esix weeks after break-wn- s They are intemperate atid immoral, and ference than to lose time by seeking an- have given it littleofchance to burn sway abandoned. Two trains of pursuers . (,,g out of nearly the bridge. Very general man hunt, they would have had woik. Again from the shelter Two others went nre prononui-eby good captains the best prinu. other place for more pres-auto organize were ut hand, and these soon exchanged northward through Tennessee to Ken- - fighters in the world. The science too sadly we left the tall colmnu of smoke only twenty four hours or and the wire was cut; but ft was a second no small have then could skill of nrd tho saw pnn-nerIt, party The the behind. nnd and most of the' flashed car, country, had. bcu late, for a message arrested twenty armed mcu. In fine, this the chase bv rail for a hunt In the wood, lmw loss found lie their is would morality, was serious MCott the realizing as among even to Jews and Yet thev did not ,xe!y to much on what , through, no doubt , Mohammedans. obstruc- - if it wus permuted to consume the budge. plan of c.iape through a mouutmuoua bringing it down. .The usual tlous were here piled on the track, and we again essayed to take np a rail, for the ClucLaniaugn bridges weie just above, and we wanted time enough to get them on Are, h ping that fuller Would stop long enough at Dalton for the purpose of getting ins telegram realty, to allow us to No men ever finish the track lifting. worked with more desperate energy, but all in vatu, long before the rati was louse the pursuers wore again upon us. The nice recommenced with all Its speed nnd fury. The gnat tnutiel was a short distance ahead a glorious plane for an ambii-win re, in the darkness, the gnus of the enemy would be of little value. If Andrews was disposed to tight, there would e the place of all others to do it. With the smoke of our train tilling the some, with our party in nmbu-- h along the sides, success would Ice comparatively sure, if they hail twice our iiumlier, for ot course we e,,t!-- r.jt tell how much of 3 reinforcement tiny might pick np t Dalton, But we kept right on through the tuuucl ami the village of Tunnel Hill liejond, where we carefully drew down to conic. .1 our number from 'he curious eyes of any who might be about tin At Calhoun fuller bail received a small but very clfect've only a boy Id jeers old, but worth n dozen ordiby means of one of those apnary iih-parently small circumstances which often influence the course of great events. At Chattanooga tho chief oltleers of the mail lmd become alarmed by receiving no dispatches from Atlanta, or the stations below Kingston. They therefore directed the young assistant operator at Dalton to jump on the passenger train just then leaving thut station and go south, sending them back word at each station passed till the cause of the Iroub's was found. Ho hail only got as far ns Calhoun when Andrews passed, and fuller In a moment after. Thu latter hnidly came to a stop before bo saw tho operator, and called Inin, nud without a word of explanation seized his hand anil dragged linn on the train. Jn the tun up, however, he mailt nit tne necessary explanations, ana wrote out tho following dispatch: filler's n.Lih.tt.wt. To fien. 1 end better, eummuudernt Chattanooga: "My train wan raptured this a. m. at Big Shanty, evidently fry federal soldiers tu disguise. They are making rapidly for Chattanooga, possibly with the Meil of burning the rnSroad bridges In their rear. If I do not capture them in the meantime, set) that they do not pass Chattanooga. and densely Wooded country did not appear to uie to be more dangerous than a cavalry dash on the lines of the enemys communications an every day military affair. Even if Mltchel did not prove to be in the neighborhood of Bridgeport when we arrived, wd would then have been lit the toy id mountainous district, w here we would linve met na many friend as foes. All that we needed in the way of provisions and guides our force would hare enabled us to command, and even guns and ammunition could Readily have been gathered on our way. Hut all these advantages di pended on h, - I PuMi-JiIn- IS-- lc ! li- t j . vvi-i- c, c. d . j Wu.stiu-- CodHtj- Selectfnen-- A. J. Alexauder, Hansw Cvj, iiitngs, 3. H Murdock. If T UtitJ Clerk Assessor and the. Hiekn.H Treasurer Joseph tlsttii Attorned Wm. Uuyt: Sheriff R. Jones. Coroner John McRohaldi Recorder T. ft. (tiles. 8urretr km. Tl AU. BuVs, ? null Wootton. Precinct Officer. MEBta . raaiiK-T- Justice of the l'eaoe H. - v !f sMuperintcrklvnt of IHatrtrt 1 pu-hi- Otttaer, Probate Judge T.S Watson. M. Alrl, t W. Witt, jr dt. C! John Clyde, J. Con-tiu- lktillUT. M1HH4T JiiMtlct of the I'eate-Dii- AllOt Van Wd - ' Kicrice ( . u . 1 ,!! c ot the t in e oust ubli John I BrcrioOG J. 11 -- t P. Terry. Kowi-is- . is; PUhllMT. WAU.-ni! Offif mm ran m t 1111 of till Peace Austin Glenn, Marquis Itatty . n-- l roiistntde Ue-fo- At iaristian. Uandberg is prepared to do General Frtl Blurksm thing aaln Just A -- short not lee and reasonable terai ' l'ruduce taken iu payment. , O11 Street, He)er City NC ridt?Dc. 1 south of Thos. ftmlth'i 1 HMtf J F RICHARDSON, Undertaker, Funeral Director and Eibitur, Attorn full lino of Undertaking Goods coaitiMfy on Hand. Real A PHiLLif-a- . F. T. J. g I I I 1 pc oaa, Offica, Malu Stieet, Park City, Oppoait, Park City Hotel. Office open Day me h. J. Paium. Baird R. Street Ph Phillips Bros.&Baira P. O. Address : II. 3. Phiixim, ager, Lock Box 1, Heber, Utah. p.' Mu- - sn a Falnlf . nics-Mig- r AT. NOTICK. We will ate a saltatd Mat to any perxui furnuhlnf In fora at lee ttu ill lead to the of aateali f recovery any ranee bearing the above "ir dl no stock, except beef steera. trU , !h j 1 "jy 1 Ci , ' I ' - $ L. : Horse brand, Q on left thigh. JOHN N. CARROLL, P. O. 11 UEliDEll ASD CATTLE VBAlll. AO A Wnsnteli Cotmty, fbi eatry. VUtM. . Heber, Wasatch Co., tUL At cu-gi- e ly M iliffi-x-ull- y t doors north of Potoei Park CUjt l ' Everythin Neat. Cleaw and OW.fit Tables will always be supplied wltAlkf Ua the market afford. ' '' I. 1 - rr; ToJ Of 1 v -( cr . ,tiie r ll.-l- i r ed i- - a 1 ; e iy . . JUST ARRIVED. Larc j eonabi ,, i, o , : Shipments! and GREAT VARIETY, & At the new Millinery Establish :m:x2s. ' t c , In Old Post Office Building WILL EOT ; . BF VSBIBSOlPl, fvljn . Thao JWStMJJ Thanking my patron for past and 2m taodtJJT bnatnesa to strict attention by price, I hope to merit a share f r MidWa , ronuge. ' - vf 1 I ta and Surrounding Country p ht QX ;j-ad- ic:' MEW MILLINERY! .n-- t v .l F.H.RICF., Proprietor, y i.h-ii- 11 1- .,,k. " ZFatrcuagre Scllciteajutw .uie . it tie feist ft Meals at all Hours, il u-- Jlw3 - I Uwwr ri 0E , Robt.TIIORNT 't 'WIlsbg,r t i 'f Utah, Carries the Mall from ffeber lo and intermediate point, , XX arts 'I 0 Jjihr i hnpi-lesid- ,r ! i &il if YVfll Carry rassemrersrPretykt Package to MWtway,- Charleston. hw- - , , . wa ;rr . leaasoisalsis Xe l'-for- fit-wa-s vv 1 tliem-selv- il titf i Sew ea Stock of r, . butTKr' ?"- j ni WihCs.Liquore 0fidt? Mm c Cologne Cplrlti toit MEDfciL rtsfr' - le--- s s ? - littH S, Unrdsck Propit' t ams: $ w vrO! I HWI iUJ t |
