| Show COLONEL STRAIGHTS r ESCAPE col straight wh wio win ma e hla hia escape oat out of libby prison by the famous underground pasq passage age reached foran sa as il lonroe cn the of february in company with the folio following IV an g officers coonel colonel charies charles IV tilden 16 th maine malor major J 11 II hooper sette captain B F fleher fisher chief or of signal C aps army of the potomac captain 11 II B Chamber chamberlain lain loin 97 h new york lieutenant Leu tenant rand h United state Stale Artil artillery lery lety colonel straight readied yorktown twelve days after leaving richmond the new york heralds forts fortress monroe mouroe correspondent gives the folio loveing iving account ot of col straight and captain Cham chamberlain erlain it was about 9 pm when he left the prison passing up canal st beet wo squares the they y turned to the left and went into second street thence goin goinz to the right aid and ald keeping ou ja the t east bide side rf the ibe town at this early hour in the evening it waa was impossible not to meet a and rid pass a good many but wey they did so 80 without exciting suspicion going t by Y the f Q tiona tlona they saw yaw no one taki taking L a northeasterly course they continued their journey fourney proceeding slowly arid and cau cautiously bously ot course until 4 am when they halted in a dense denae wood wood close by swamps swa mops ropa and remained the next day several times during the day jay squads of rebel rebels sent in search of the missing ir boners passel passed close by them then but happily without discovering ther their places of col cot conceal jceal iceal me nent ment n t at dark they started again on their falen yalen crossing creasing the chickahominy on a jalen jallen len ien tee tree tep and a a good luck lack would have t 1 1 encountering count ering eTing no a s they got into a terrible abc tacket k et and this acht accomplished only give fire miles the ibe they lay in this thicket all the he arcond day and the ficq frequent dent firing of guns about thouy thoen materially dissipated whatever of loe yoe enjoyment they might otherwise have derived leaved from their wilderness wilder ness pesa lodge thus ar they had bad slept hut tut t ut little in the day but a on the third night they made an now striking for the Par pai nankey river the ile detours debou s they had bad to make to keep kee themselves hemb hema elves under cover of the w oda az and acampa to traverse travers made this journey slow nd daylight only oaly found quad them thom mid laid way way be tvr pen fen the chickahominy abd aad the next day they paused paulea in a swamp rebel scouts were still prowling about but they lay liy low and quiet and were not discovered they sulf suffered ered greatly from cold next night they reached the near pipers ferry terry and some ten miles above the white house how to get mccross the river which aereal though not very wide wido is deep and dangerous and the weather meantime had bad reached a degree gr e of coldness biking swimming it an impossibility was now the toe question and it was waa a d difficult one tj IS solve thus far they had abstained from coming in contact with any one white or black they were compelled to 0 o call in coll cola contraband assistance and in this thia were four tour days at length they got a negro and the negro got a boat and in this way they gob got across the river and now good fortune smiled on them this negro turned them over to another negro who piloted them fateen fifteen miles down the opposite bank of the river As i a good many of the rebel soldiers anci anil p particularly the cavalry living in this vicinity it and gloucester cou courty county tty were bome borne on fur ab ug they still had bad ta move with exceeding f caution but the kindness of the negroes saied bared sai bai ed hem them from capture they were brought down to york river and sent across by bit a Bige lows landing from here they went vent down the river passing west point in daylight lire arre seeing no one save negro soldiers on picket was the first positive assurance of reaching our lines A sergeant from camp D agli s whose name we have not learned attracted considerable attention on main alain street last friday fri lay by sundry acts and maneuvers not t in this part of the world no tha gallant volunteer drew nis nig pistol on a civilian for simply requesting him not to break down a garden fence on the proprietor of the bannock restaurant he repeated the same operation for as little of fence and because the captain of the police would not pro promenade at the volunteer volunteers volun teera s biding he drew his pistol a third time ile he was very anxious to blow oft off the top oe ot bead but no person being baing bafo bejo exactly in want of such accod accommodating M 0 d at 1 n g services the police seized his pistol pitol and took him tinder under their kind care and keeping and conveyed him to the labrose ca ti till 11 a guard came for him from camp three other blue pants from their anxiety to deliver their sergeant came in for a share of the at the same time we know no hing about the military regulations of camp douglas nor yet very much oc of its uses of punishment but are told that there thera Isan igan Is an excellent sweating proc process ess ets upshere up thera occasion occasionally occasionally all ail y applied to strangers it is not very likely bat our recommendation will ac compi sh much but we should think the drunken rowdies who are ever ready to draw pistols would benefit considerably by the shower bath and sand packing operation MUSICAL we are pleased to notice that the deseret Altie ical association resume their rehearsals and hat bat mr relieved frodi from a pa part rt with th the tie e th theatrical ea trica I 1 e stra fon for a season steps out again for the advance advancement mint of manale as a branch oc of early education wa we take this occasion to draw public attention to his advertisements in to days paper abe high soc al standing of mr C his big integrity as a man of business and the passionate devotion he has so long manifested for the culture of music are guarantees afre of reliability ll ability and c capacity that p purchasers pir chasers of musical mejias and music will appreciate THE WEATHER the most apprehensive oe of drouth are certainly now satisfied with wilh tho the abundance of enow and rain that has bas alien during the past ten days daya the are aro well packed with snow and the fields drenched with water the roads east and webs wess in many paces p adea acea are literally pools pool ot of mud unless there is an early change to met bet er we weather ather alber the griet grief will be found on the other side bide trie rire 17 S district clouw this court met in the state house cf tois this city on mon alon day at 11 A 31 hi hib his honor john titu 7 1 aw chiet chief justice presiding pre aiding alding patrick lynch eq E q clerk regi befi d the following curious statement in n mrs atkinsons recollections ot of tartar ste bat gat A a cabe cage in connection with the prevalent pasal paral on for gambling 21 came under my notice in fit on one e oe of the DC magazines of the bazaar a lady was observed whose history might be briefly bur sur in the statement that she was waa lost and won at cards her lier husband had bad been a wealthy siberian but like many of his hia countrymen he waa was an inveterate car ca ribier urbien la in one t he lost every kopeck be poss pors eseed land ladd house and furniture followed and last of all he tic staked h his bis a young toung andreau and wife she was waa alao also lost and the entered calmy into posses possession nox dox of bis his ivian insa it is not a little curious to bear that hat the pair thug thus curio curlo sly mated had bad lived together twenty years yeas and led ltd a molt happy bapp and gud exemplary efel hoel life it |
