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, i . . . is 1 i . : j i . a . . , ,-4 . . L- i; i- - - . - i I I' Th? following' poem was written by T. B. ALncicu. one pf the Editor's of tbe Home JocrXat It h rcrilj one of tie mot exquisite, poems in the English language, anl abounds in image of incffablo 8wectncs3 and bcautj If there in ft mother who has lost a dear littU wir, ijnd can read thh delicate and admirable momMj on u a little lijfe Ouxt teas but thret April lony?' and not feel a deep! touch of sympathy and ricf, thch sha jnuat to rcry destitute of those gentle and amiablo feelings which beau tify nid adorn woman. Ed. - " i I I k I B ABIE BELL. TIIC.ro EM OF A. LITTLE LIFE TIIAT WAS lut Tiinnc AntiLs lo.vo.' u lf ht hri'l Heal, Itkinlc she xronhl hate been Lilus without ami roses within I " j : Mkrvell. ' I Have yon not heard the poet tell How mme the dainty liable Bell Into this w.orhNjf ours ? The rntes of heaven were IH hi.ir? 'r i ii n ioiuc'1 nanus ana arearay eyes, ' WanderingontofParadi.se, Kho Maw this planet, like a star, Hung in the purple depths of even lu bridges, running to and fro, 0cr which tho 'white-winged Angels go, She loochwl a bridca of flowers those feet rw iiui inej um rifii ixrni the bells Of tho celestial asphodels I . ' Thor foir liko dew unon thn flrttpor And all tho air grew strancely sweet t Ana nn came dainty JJilbic liell Into this world of ours. I 1 i . .: J. ' ir. - Fho C.imfl and broittrht dr!if(nii fnv J Tho B wallows built beneath tho eaves; Iike Buu-light in and out the leaves, The robins went,1 tho live long dayj Tho lily swung its noiseless bell, And o'er the Porch the trembling vl Socmed bursting with its veins of wine 1-4 t f .1 4 A.. 1 I now sweeny, somy twilight fell I O, cutl was full of ining birds, '' And happy upriug-tic'e flowers, When the dainty Babie Bell Came to this world of ours! III. O Bnbm. daJnftr T..V:., T-11 llOW llltr ahiV mrovr t'rrrn v - . What woman-nature filled her eyes, What notrv within tViAm l-il Wo full of meaning, pure and bright As if she yet stood in the light . Of thoso-oped gates of Paradise 1 And we loved Babie more and more: j never in our hearts beforo Was love so lovely born : Wo felt we had a link between This real world and that unseen Tho land beyond the morn! And for thft Invo nf iliran il n n .... n For lovo of hnr whom Cm aA C.tU i no mother s being ceased on earth yhrlt Babio came front Paradise) For lovo of Him who smote our lives, Anil wnl'A t)a j .1 r ' - -r ivv I. iJ a r . t - ' e said, -SWf Christ!. our hearts bent do I.!L virtlpf n Tfor rotn 1 I wn I' 'i i . iv. i . And now tho orchards, which in Jnnn Were white !and rosy in their bloom A' iiiin me crystal veins ot air ' With gcntlo pubjes of perfume Wcro rich in Autumn's mellow prime: Liuma wfrcjioues oi noneyea wine, The hived sweets of summer time! The ivory chestnut burst its shell r Tho soft-checked peaches blushed and fell Iho i grapos were purpling in the grange, And time wrought just as rich a chano In little Babie Bell! Her tiny form raoro perfect grew, And in her features we could trace, In softened curves, her mother's face ! Her angel nature ripened too. I I Wo thought her lovely when she came, But she was holy, saintly now .... Aroumi her pale, angelic brow 'Wo saw a slender ring of ihinc ! . V. Cod's hand had taken Which held the portals of her speech : And oft sho said a few strange words 1 Whoso meaning lay beyond our reach "ii" "nn nui u cuilU 19 U8( I Wjs never held her bciug's key! f We could not teach her holy things : Sho was Christ'! self in purity ! h ' L M' vi. ; , It camo npon us by degrees : !-We saw iu shadow m u rit j Tho knowledge that our God had sent ! His messenger for Babio Bell ! '1 Wo shuddered with nnUnonJ i Ana a our hopes were changed to fears, Ami O I An. I . . vu iuyugn ran into tears L.iko sunshino into rain ! Wo cried aloud in our belief ' ' 0, smite us gently, gentl'y, God ! ,1 each, us to bend and kiss the rod, And perfect grow through grief.". Ah, how we loved her, God can tell I . Her little heart was cased in ours : ' ' Our hearts aro broken, Babie Bell ! ' VII. " j- At last he came, tho messenger, ' ,' a no messenger from nnseen lands : what did dunlv Uhin, Hall- . uu j irossea hjDr jittlo hand3, , t She only looked more meek and fair! ' We parted back her silken hair: ! ' Wo laid some buds upon her brow. ' White buds, like scented flakes of snow Death's brido arrayed in flwera! And thus went daiofy Babie Bell Out of this world of ours! . , I ! J " . AVl. We surrender a considerable portion of our space in thU number, to an article of an inter esting historical character to every patriotic North Carolinian.. It tells of the! heroic deeds perfunned by one of our glorious fore-fathers daring the sanguinary and troublous days of the Revolution. Tho snbject 0f this Biographical sketch, was probably a native of Granville, and there may perhaps be living among us descend anTs of this patriot-soldier. We re-rret that we " I J : i : : ii - : .,. i are compelled to omit,, owing to the length of the article, many important passages, ' and a number of interesting letters. Ed. , From the X. C. University Magazine. COL. JAMES WILLIAMS. B ATTLE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN. i . ' i - Old Williams from Hillsborough came', To him the South Carolinians flocked amain. ' '. j . , We marched to the King's Mount, Campbell was j there, " ;.!. Shelby, Cleveland and Col. Sevier: Men of renown, sir, like lions so bold, Like lions undaunted, ne'er to be controlled, We set out on onr march that verj same night, Sometimes we were wrong, sometimes we were j right; , I Ou hearts being run in true liberty's mould, We valued not hunger, wet, weary nor cold. On the top of King's Mountain, the old Kogue we , found.. . jj Like lightning the flashes, like thunder the noise, Our rifles struck the poor tories with sudden surprise. '; ; -, ' !-;: j' -' ; Old Williams and twenty-five morej' , I .When the battle was o'er, lay rolled in their gore; With sorrow their bodies we interred in clay, Hoping, to heaven, their souls took Jthcir way. ' This being ended we shouted amairi, Our roice was heard seven miles on the plain; Liberty shall stand the iories shall fall, Here is an end to my song, so God bless you all ? " i Soxo of tub Revolution. I j . 1 ' . , " ; . . t ' " I Of the five Colonels who ' commanded the American forces at the Battle of King's Moun tain, our attention has been directed to the memoir of one, Col. James Williams, not the least distinguished of that gallant band, and the only one who died a soldier'a death' in the field of battle. In Jphnson's Traditions1 of the I Re volution, we find a very interesting! account of his life and services, and in Gibbcjs' Documen tary History, there are published a number of letter? from Col. William's to his fami'y while absent from them in the service of his country, which still furthar illustrate the fine character oi ine man, and show us of what stuff a tru&J patriot is made. A compilation from these and other sonrces, of the principal events of hia life, as far as can now be known, may; not be unin teresting to the readers 6f the Magazine. . :CoI. Williams was a North Carolinian by birth, and is supposed to have removed from Granville County to Laurens District S. C, in 1773, in company with his brother Harry. . His other brother, Daniel, remained in Granville until after the Revolution, and then also went to South Carolina. , i ; . Diligent enquiry has failed to throw much light upon hi3 family or relatives. It has been suggested that John Williams of Granville, one of the first judges under the State "Constitution in 1777, may have been of the same stock The late Col. Joseph Williams of Surry county is known to have been also of the same family. James Williams seems to have been early in the field, in opposition to the aggressions of the British Government In 1775, he was a mem ber of the Provincial Congress which assembled in Charleston, nd which, by the first article of the Constitution of 1776, was declared to be tho General Assembly. He was also appointed one of tho Committee for the execution of Ue American Association, for the district lying between Broad afld Saluda rivers,;' where his zealous partizanship brought him at once into personal conflict with his more temporizing and moderately disposed neighbors. His wife must have shared largely in the activity arid spirit of her husband, since we read of her; attempting to assjst him in an affray with a Mr. Cunning" ham, by seizing his opponent by Vie queue. In 1778 he was in command as Colonel1 of the Militia, and was called on by General William son to assist in carrying aid to Georgia, and in defence of South Carolina. , ! - - " ! ; After the fall of Charleston, in May 1780, Col. Williams, as well as many ' others of the leading men of South Carolina, took refuge in this State, where he continued in active partiz an service; Ilia sanguine temper i led him to hope even against . hope, and iri the darkest hour of hi9 Country's fortunes, ; he ! still wrote cheerfully to sustain the sinking spirits of those he loved bestv . 1 ; ' ' ' ; '":':-' . .4 ) ' In August of 1780, occurred . the ; disastrous defeat of Gen. Gates near Camden and that of Sumter, at Fishing Creek. On the 1 8th of the same month, Col. Wffliams, undismayed by these accumulated misfortunes; with a band of 15Q men, attacked and loUlly defeated a large party of British and torie3 at Mus'grove's Mills. on xnorce river, unaer the command of Col. ' ' ' . ... i 1 - - - - i I I v 1 j - innis ortne S. C. Loyalists. This brilliant ac tion, of which a. full account is given hi John son's TradiUons, infssed fresh hope in the sink ing hearts of his countrymen. Got. Rutledge, of S. C, who had taken refuge in tins Sute after pates' defeat, was then in Hillsborough, in one of a number of extremely ; interesting fetter?, addressed, by him from that place to the S. C. delegates in Cpngics Jind which ire now being for the 6rst time, published in liuaseU'a ItfagajineOiarleston, writes thus: I iaave seen Col." Jas. Williams, whose affair vith Innis, (not killed as you have heard, but recovering of his wounds,) was truly brilliant. Ie is gone on : with a determination -to 1 dis tinguish himself as a partizan, and I believe he will. 1 1 have put him and Sumter, (each of whom may be ot service, but they wilj never agree,) under Gen. SmallwoodYcommand.II 'V After the battle at Musgrove's miljs, Col. Williams, after visiting his family, fell back to Hillsborough, in this State,' and on tho' 8th Sept. received the following order from, the Governor of North Carolina : i .; ; - y 1 r ; . j M j :" t ' ; : r Sin ' n,SB0R pt; 8, 178a , You are desired to go to Caswell county, and to such other counties as you think proper, and use your best endeavors to collect any num ber of volunteer; horsemen not exceeding one hundred and proceed with ihem ! into such parts as you Judge proper, to. act against the enemy, and in this you are to use your own discretion. You may assure the men who turn out with; you that they shall be entitled to all the advantages and privileges of militia in actu al service, and that it shall be considered as a tour of duty under the militia, law, they serving .prescribed; by law j for other i militia men. Al Oomraissaries, and other staff-officers ire required to grant you such supplies as may be necessary. , ' ;:., i. :'r. .. .,;.f j. In. gl,inS yur men you are to make no dis tinction jbetween men already drafted and others: and, in case of need, you are to impress horses for expresses, and other eases of absolute necessity. ; : j , - ; A. NASH. It wa3 withlthe troops raised! under this order that Col. Williams joined Col's. Campbell, Cleaveland, Shelby and Sevier, and went to his death on King's Moutain Ha xekma to hv hovered round dol. Ferguson'sforee, watching his movements and having traced him to King's Mountain he united' with I the lother foiir Col onels on the 6th: of October, thjdjy before the the trlditjon is, j according j to t a battle. The count in Johnson, that Col. Williams. d that time a brigadier general's commission fronl Governor Rutledgei J This would have? given1 him the command, as the officer highest in rankf If the fact were sol; he nobly concealed itj and luuii uis aiion. as commander of his own men : among the independent Colonels who fought in, that action! This ; tradition." s ! probably; nothing tooijeltXcM count oflhe bame,the!'comrnand fas given to Col. Canpbell, hj courtesy, as they were all! North Carojinis but he, Col. Williams fcotnl! manded with CoK Cleveland, thej left wing in' the attack. hVhen list seen beforcj he recefved his death wound, he was ascending theoun-; tain. Hi3 charger had. been. shot 'through the mouth, and at every step was covering his rider with foam and blood. . He had returned to his command, and was cheering them on when the fatal shot, fired from ! the heights -above! him1 1 took effect between his shoulders and ranjred lownwards through his body. ; He fell within i I j , , Vf Vo .. erguson. Both- metthir Jate at the same moment, v Col. Williams; wa3 borne from the battle-field into a tent, gome water sprinkled in his face, he revived and his first words were;: "For God's' sake,-boys, 'don't give up the hil)!',' y: :T; !.:' 'I;, !; He died the day after the battle,; and his death was such as became the life; of the Christian soldier. He raised his headland ! drank some water; tnen went to sleep, and his! soul passed away so quietly tnat it scarcely .seemed like death. His remains lie about 'eight miles from the field of his own' and his companion's glory in a grave oh the plantation jbetween Bujffalo and Broad Rivera, just at their confldence. Two rude stones mark the ' grave,1 which is situated on the side of a hill sloping toUhe feast,! arid in full view of the1; mountain ivhere ;he woqhis earthly immortality! It is to be j hoped hat private munificence or public patriotism Iwill place an appropriate monument above" his! re mains or disinter! and remove ;tnein. to Kmg's Mountain, and place them, by' the side of the brave CnBONiCL.w v ': ' :. ;' '' . Col. Williams two sons, Daniel arid Joseph, boys of H and 16, were both in the actibn",!and were both murdered soon after, iyl a barjd of tories near Saluda; under the command l of; the Robert Cunningham whose queue their mother had seized in h;s fight with theMther sme years before. I Daniel being the oldest, inherited his father's pistols, and threw jthero ' intoFthe flames of the burning house rather than the tories should 'possess ; thferh " after j his1 deatbj One would have.'thought that some jbld, neigh borly feeling would have urged Cunninghani to. save these two? lids, and "that ilia ! old , grudge against their faCher would have f been ! buriedln his grave. Their nephew, Col. William ! of Laurens Dist, S. C, hai marked their resf in? place by a suitable monumental In person Ccli Williams wis (ibbul five feet ; i ' i i . r 'i - i 1 :; ili-- a : '. : : : : . . ....... nine mchei high and corpulelt, ' lie was i of !a 1 ! . i tl very dark complexion with black hair and eyes. His hose waa uncommonly lare, and turned up, with nostriU very large, eseciaUy ; when di lated by passion or excitement He b repre sented to have been a rough,ash man,; but at the same time of aremarkablf good disposition. His lettm to his wife and sns ebow that he JUS nd sincere pieiy lwbjch,?wbi!e it confirmea hi pfayica aW Reared Jo him a rare mofaI cparageJ: The Rey, S. Balcn sUtes that during the Itevolutionlthe Colonel and his family accompanied him; to the place of worshipj and the Colonel ie the music with as much ease as he would ave commanded' regiment in the day of ba&le." Among the many heroes that North Carotina has furnished to our common country, there! has been no braver soldier or better man fhan he whom the neighbors speak of to this daj ! as ! " Old King Mountain's Jim."! ill i "i.M :"'-::rfv .j Thlere can be no difficult! 1 in pronouncing that f Ferguson had not fallen t King's Mounf tain,,CornwaEis would not have surrende.rek at York Ton. King's mountain wis the pivot on which the Revolutidi turned at the South, It is, in many respects, the most inj portant, the nost interesting, and the most glorious battU in our great contest for freedom. It was fought on our side exclusively by roluri teers, without even the preseijco or advice of a single regular officerand without a single piece of artillery. It was a victory! won by j undis ciplined militia over; a veteran and gallant com mander, who Jn all i the elements of a .great military leader, had no superior of his rank perhaps of any rank-in the Iritish service; j i T i1 a nS !facts j of no sifnilar incident in our tory are so little knofn. j The ) British Chroniclers of that day seem to have; regarded the "extemporaneous host, " fthe numbers of which they greatly magnify, ai a race of' giants, peopling the mountain gores and 'western wild whose existence down that time had not been suspected by civilized man. Of all the accounts that have been writteji of this battle,-!-the recent narrative, of Mr. Irwng, in his life if Washington, ia the most graphic in delineation, l.ne ffOf1 polished and eiegarit;in style, and the most inaccurate in the statement of factsj i He really seems to suppose, for example, that' Gil. :M,9.wn as somewhere west of North Carolina and that" The Huntf rs of Kentucky' were in numbers and prowls, the, heroes of King's Mountain, i- j j!;,. : k!!:- !'?'-. :JNo man bis ever seen noan will ever see -i-a King's Mountain muster "ioll. None ever eS-The followers of ; fiti James I arid Rhoderic Dhu, with few exceptions, can'rbe in divklualized by history, with a much certainty, as the gallant men,' who answered the i silver whistle of Ferguson with the death!defying snout of Williams and the echoing voice ; of a thousand rifles. ' I : vM:WfMM i ' I R is perhaps impossible to ; show- with much cerkinty, not merely who they were,; but whence tbey came.; Col. Preston, in I his ad dress at the anniversary celebration of 1855, supposes the little army to have been composed of tnen, nearly in; equal numbers from Vir giuiapNorth Caroliha and South Carolina," 1 If North Carolina had have been las fully and as atly represented at , the Celebration as in the Battle-field at the i feast as in the fight, - we would probably have had a different estimate! Leave slaughter to the Turkish hordes : And shed the blood ofScio's vine.' It appears from the official-account of the battle,1 recently exhumed by Mr. Lossinjr. from the papers of Gen.1 Gates, that on the '25th of beptember 1780, Col. Campbell with 400 Vir ginians, Col. Isaac Shelby with 240 men from Sullivan, and CofV Sevier with 240 men! from Washington county, N. assembled at Wa tauga, where they were joined by Col Charles McDowell, with 160 men. from Burke and Ruth crordt Tbey began : the march across the mountain on the 26thand on the 30tfl, on the Catawba, their forces , were augmented bv thn action of 350 men from Wilkes an Surry, XT 'if! p ' c T T uiey reacnea tne Cowpens on the 6ih October, i they wire met by Col. James .Williams! ;At the time the! junction was formed with Williams.! the armv was composed ot 400 Virginians under Camp bell, and 990 North Carolinians under Shelby. evier, McDowell and Cleveland.- From these 1390 men from Virginia and North Carolina, and frpm Williams' regiment V 900 of the best horse men? were selected for the attack' and, on the ing day the victory was won. i t hi number of. men wh, fought; under Williams, will never be ascerUiued, and the proportion from South Carolina, is a matter pe'r pyf grWterbcertaint. " ...I The-authority to raise a company ofmounted men i in Caswell, ; indicates one element of William's -regiment j. The father of the Hen. Anderson Mitchell of Wilkes; was a member of the! Caswell company. ; V -' ; ' The . second ascertainable, element of ; this regiment js the sixty men under' Hambright nl Chronicle, from then Tryonowj lincoln county. ! ;v!j r-,rit -'TV '-?-! 4-"' .d " '-- ' ' r? (pwrlia) aBbui !3aeorgians, under Major Xbandier and CL JcKsonif 'j ,TheW uthCarcm fortion we aie unable to state with much con- -!.tf i : --i ' -- Edence of accuracy. General 3 I I-eroir, whor -P"n unaer Ulef eland in his ac count of the Battle. J casually Wmarks that . The advanced party of mounted -iulantfr being joined by Col. Williams, jwiih a South Carolina mniUa, In; the evening arrived at a place called the Coir-pens in South Carolina," &c j Th South Carolinian bnder Williams Mere doubUesa the elite pt the State, probably JF : er proportion Aan W settlement,, and braver men than these whojwith the infant Jacon"er tnred in the military school ofb-ivie, were no. here to be-found, ; I I ; jTHeDiciTOBRrEwaaan exHe Long his friends m North Carolini, from Ancust 1780, to March 1781 few men in peaeend m war, ever served a government so well la September 1780, Williams and Sumter were with him In Hillsborough, at that time the seat of government in North darolina. , Their foUow era were generally in ourjborders. Marion, the 4 Swamp Pox," emerged from his fastnesses at intervals, but South Carolina was a conquered province, imd his the on y semblance1 of ganizea opposition to British nile. Ramsay's Tennessee il twS? G3ia JHH P 336. 12 Wheeler's Sketch J in? RusaelTs Magazine for Sept. 1857. p ; I t" ''''- ' L'1 i I ' ' j j J es sie Brown. 504. The Allowing beauUful tribute laheneroine of Lucknow, is from the pen of Vmrin,a p pen of Virginia P. Townsehd, the gifted Editress ot Arthur's - II .! I H ought to have taken a East 'India war. W Home Magazine : Every woman has, or peculiar interest in the fearful tragedy of the Summer bf eighteen hun dred and fifty-seven, foreman hashere' borne a part, and occupied a position1 not Wen occu pied among the nations of the earth ; ayand the great rallying cry of this battle has been the name and honoi of woman J ;fj- . I ' : When thVtidings of an insurrection among the Sepoys of India first reached us last sum mer, nobody felt any sjiecial interest oraympai thy with either party ; nay, it fright have been that what existed of these was partially with the ; insurgents ; for this revolt was !feh by manjr to (be the rising of the oppressed 'against the .oppressors, the long delayed retaliation of a people who had borne what- the ! weak usuaUv nave w uear irom tne utrnno- and ifchom long years of unjust taxation and petty tyrannies had at List goaded to rebellion. !But a jlittle later there irose a err from tb.t far ftfT trA . oaataA a4 i ; f . . . :jv'--. fw wonarous tropical beauty on the blue waters of the Indian ocean? a ery that smote the heart of Christendom as the heart of a single man. I ' j ". ! : " wjnder here was a swift a'rmingln no ble's hal and by peasant's hearthstone, for the moans o murdered women J (and the cries of slaughtered children, came piteously across the Summer! iwaters, and roused all the Teutonic chivalry in the heart of the nation,' and through and strong men with; blanched faces out the aiiea tnetr uauus ana swore to avenge the woman, in the name of the God of -wrongs battles I Oh, it is this reverence for woman that sh a bright and steady light overiall the darkness" and barbarism of the early Teutonic race; it is this, that, next to the Bible has placed the mes faaxon nation so far above all the nations of the earin, trie brightest stars of all her star of strength and gloryj ; But thrbugh all the details of this war the sickening and revolting newspapers havetgiren us pictures of scene?, which for tragical power and, living pathos, surpass the history of any war the earth has ever witnessed. j What paint er ever conceived of a scene like ihe one where the band f soldiers clustered Wound the body of the mirdered girl, land each 'reverently re-, ceiving -yrk of the tresses that had crowned her young head in life and innocence, bent with haggard brows and fiery eyes ovr their fearful task of counting the hairs'thereini before they all liftec Uieir hands and swore that for every! one of thdse another life should! make recom pense, j-! f 1, vi; : ; 1 0h EnS'isl1 maiden girl! terrible as was iny law iu iue iair iana or thy father's adop tion, surely thou wast' avenged, and it , may be from the grave , made by thy foul murderprs, thy voice, could it speak, " would come back softly to us, ! i In the midst of wrath, remember mercy ! Who, too, has not read the! letter of that la dy, of. Lucknow. We pity the man or the woman .who eould steady voice. "do it witfv drv eves and Howf simple she tella her story, ha for tra- gical interest and heroic patience, has never, : patienc nt or m in all the jannals of anaent or modern history, been surpassed. , Here, in the heart of this practical . nineteenth eentury,1 " was enacted a drama, whose "scenes of terror, despair, and fi nal deliverance, exceeded all that it ever enter ed into the hear t of genius to conceire of. The days of the Cassarsythe wars of the Crusaders never furBisbed a tragedy like this, just think pTisaeAforJonth, in the.iiesidihcy at Luck! now with only that li tie band of brave men to r t - c . i m stand between them ania death so terrible that invJginstion turns away tickeoed and 'appalled at .the thought ; but one can well conceive how thft 4unutterable horror," at Cawnpore, only a fe?rnulea distant, haunted them by night and 17, seemingly a frightful prophecy of the iater that awaited them, j Their foes, Ay lhaii5and.arin:afew hundred were pres.. ing closer and closer foea' who carried Uneath tte faces of men hearli bejortf which it teemed fiends must shrink abashed. 1 . : et; bt)tr calmly write thU bravo ladjfrota Lucknow I . "We were Tully pertuaded thai la twenty.four hours aU irnuld be over. The entf. neers had aaid to, and all knew the worat- W; women strove to encourage each other, and to perform 'the light duties; which had been as signed to us, each as conreyjnff orders to tho batteries, and supplying the men with pro? I sfons, we performed day and night She had gone out to render someoSm of this, kind with "Jessie Brown," tho wife of. corporal in her husband's regiment. Worn out with fatigue and that haunting terror of tho to come, the two women aani upon the ground. ' foor Jessie wrapped heir Scotch plaid about he and laid her head In the mistress' lap. A -constant fever. consumed her, and she had fal len'away VisiWy for the last, few days," while her! thoughts continually- wandered jiwaj to thej purple bills nd green rsHeys of her Scotch home.' How touching are,those word : I pro mUed to awaken her when, as "she said, her father.should return from, the ploughing r So th poor Scotch woman sank to her sleep, un de those burning midnight ekieSf amid dreams of jier cool, naUve heather, and of the peaceful cottage threshold where the watched for her fotjicr's coming at nightfall. i . . ler companion, loo,1 sank into a troubled slnmber, though the candbn was rdarhg near bef, for the brave little band on the batteries, though all hopejhad now forsaken them, had resolved only to yield with their Uvea. v addenly a wild unearthly. screanT struck through the lady's slumber. She opened ber eys, and there stood Jessie Brown, her figure "Pjngnt, nd her white, sharpened face bent ea gey forward. Suddenly the lhrbt of a rt joitoverswept her face. ; She bent forward and grasped the lady' s handstand drew her close toher, crying, with 1 quivering hpr, Dinna ye Mir it ! It's the Slogan' o the Hirhlanda J W're saved ! we're saved I" ' Jt she knew it, she knew it, the old cry of br Highland home. Her - ears had caught through all the din and : roar of artillery, the music of her native mountains. What pen csz tel the joy that -fined the Scotch woman's soul at-those well rememberedjsoundi, or with what feelings she knelt down and blessed the God of her Cithers for this deliverance I put the poor English lady heard nothing of tbW The 'rattle of 'the mu6ketryn only broke thjj sUUness of- the night, and she thought "Jessie was stiU raving as she sprang to the batteries and her .Voice rang up loud and clear alve all the roar of the fight: 'Courage! courage! hark to the Slogan to'Hhe Macgregorthe grandest o'them a bore's help at last T l;: v ijAs her roice. : pealed afong the line, a new kfe BPrang to. the hearts of those worn out mn. They ceased firing, and listened as the dying listen' for some hope of life. But they Oily heard tho f tread of ; the enemy, and the sound of the sappers; ,and the Colonel shook hU head, and the men'sCheads sank again, and the-wail of the' women who had flocked to tho spot'at that cry of joy rose up and filled the midnight with moans. K j " : - ' fTnen Jessie, ; who had; sank on: the ground sprang j up, ' and her voice rose and vibrated once mre in triumphant certainty along the linet V'iIlyoa!no, beheveit rlool .The Slogan in deed has ceased, but the Campbell's are com iny;l D'ye hear! d'ye hearT And then they did hear it those willing wmen those - worn oui 'men I Sharp and ciir there swelled, abovci the;thnnder of the canon the " pibroch of die Highlanders; and T knew that deliverance was at hand. ; Nor" wnder.thcy thought tbe!voice of God was in -th blast of the Scottish bagpipes; no wonder thy all sank on their knees, and the strong m$n, and ;the feeble woman, and the lisping cjld, sobbed out 'from 'hearts too fall for wwrds their thanks unto Him who had "given tfrim the .victory!.w Oh, !speaking "as men speak, wuld it not have been worth some years of a lifetime, to havej been with that little band at Lucknow as it rose up, and to have joined a thousand lips, and rolled down to the Highland regiment, as it never rolled before, "God'tave. tfy QneenV ; , ;.' ' ' ; ; V "How the sound must have thrilled the hearts o the Highlanders, as they answered load and eager with that sweet old tune, '. " 1 ' "Should auldacquainlance be forgot." . a No, blessed he Godl they had not forgotten "juld lang syne ;? for through-toil and weari ness, and; forced marches, under those burning ' se8thyihadcce,bringbgde'iveTancewher had theyjielayed i&ct another, day, all wdJubeed'ov ... :-,- ' ! IC Jessie: Brown.! : Jessie Browo I brtre Scotch woman; joii had your reward when they - .i v - L- ,r s if J M 4 ' 'ni i' -1; Mi ! J i .t v : v i. - s; 1 Xr t
The Leisure Hour (Oxford, N.C.)
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March 18, 1858, edition 1
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