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VOLUME XXXVI.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1866.
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Here is a legend of an English Monk, who died at
the Monastery of Aremberg, where he had copied
and illuminated many books hoping to be regarded in
Heaven Long after his death his tomb was opened,
and nothing could be seen of bis remains but the right
hand, with which he- had dene hi. pious work, and
which had been miraculously preserved from decay.
For you nnd me, who love the light
Of God's uneloistered day,
It were, indeed, a dreary lot
To shut ourselves away
From every glade and sunny thing,
And pleasant sight and soand.
And pass from out a client cell
Into the open ground.
ir.
Not ns the good monk, Anselm, thought,
For, in his cloister's shade.
The cheerful faith that lit his heart
Its own sweet sunshine made;
And in its glow lie prayed and wrot*
From matin-song till even.
And trusted in the Book of Life
To read his name in Heaven.
III.
Whnt holy books his gentle art
Filled full of saintly lore !
What pages, brightened by his hand,
The splendid mis-oile bore!
What blossoms, almost fragrant, twined
Around each blessed name,
And how his Saviour’s cross and crow*,
Shone out from cloud and flame!
IV.
But unto clerk and unto clown,
One summons comes away,
And Brother Anselm heard the call.
At vesper-chime,one day.
Ili- busy pen was in his hand,
Ilis parchment by hi« side-
lie bent him o’er the half-writ prayer,
Kissed Jesus’ name and died!
V
They laid him where a window’s blase
Flashed o’et the graven stone.
And seemed to touch his simple nam*,
With pencil like his own ;
And there he slept, and, one by one,
Ilis brothers died, the while,
And trooping years went by and trod
I- is name from off the aisle.
VI.
And lifting up the pavement, then,
An Abbot’s conch to snread.
They let the jewelled sunlight in
Where once lay Anselm’s head.
No crumbling bone was there, no trace
-Of human dust that told.
But, all alone, a warm right hand
Lay fresh upon the mould.
VII.
It was not stiff, as dead men’s are,
But, with a tender clasp,
It seemed to hold an unseen hand
Within its living grasp ;
And ere the trembling monk, could turn,
To hide their dazzled eyes,
It rose, as with a sound of wing*,
Eight up into the skies!
VIII.
C)h ! loving open hands, that give ;
Soft hands, the tearthnt diy:
Oh patient hands that toil to bless;
IIow can yeeverdie !
Ten thousand vows from yearning heart*,
To Heaven’s own gates shall gear.
And bear you up, as Anselm’s hand
Those unseen angels bore !
IX.
Kind hands! oh never near to you
May come the woes ye heal!
Oh never may the hearts ye guard
The griefs ye comfort feel!
May He, in whose sweet name ye build,
So crown the work ye rear,
That ye may never clasped be
In one unanswered prayer.
8. T. Wahl.
Baltimore. April 8th, 1806.
could have invented the mechanical parts
of language, or mastered their grammars,
■otne method must have existed by which
j they could interchange ideas, communi
cate reciprocally their thoughts, and make
known to each other their feelings, their
wants, and their desires. Hence the lan
guage of signs and symbols—the represen
tatives of objects and sounds—retained
by the deaf and dumb to this day. Thus
we hear of the‘‘language of the eyes;”
expressed more fully by the great English
dramatist in Troilus andCresida “There's
language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
nay, her foot speaks.”
Still the question recurs, what was the.
primitive language, whether of signs or of
emblems, since it could not well have been
a language of letters T It must hare been
some process by which the eye operated
upon the mind, and doubtless very rapidly,
or the primitive couple would have made
slow work in telling long stories. I can
not admit the priority of the clumsy ideo
graphic characters of the Chinese, or the
awkward hieroglyphics of the Egyptians.
The Mexican picture-writing answered a
very good purpose among the subjects of
Montezuma; but it has not yet been prov
ed that Paradise was one of the countries
desecrated by Hernando Cortes- There
must, therefore, hare been some method
of communicating perceptions, and making
ideas pass from miud to mind, since Jem- j
my Thomson’s conversion of silence into an
expressive language, will ouly answer the
purpose on special occasions, and among
people accustomed to make a good deal of
noise.
After due consideration of the subject,
therefore, and taking Milton's description
for my authority, as to what sort of a
place the garden of Eden was, I have ar
rived at the conclusion that the first under
stood language nai that of the flowers.
Time immemorial in the East, the culture
and appropriation of flowers, has entered
ment of the Americans from their fortress
es in the highlands, and the subjugation of j assumed the command in New York, (be
all their works along the river, that the j tween whom and her father there had,
navigation to Albany might be nnob- during tbe then recent French wars exist-
structed ; thus, either.to enable Sir Harry j ed some little intercourse.) she sought
Clinton to meet tbe expected conqueror \ refuge, and found protection under bis
of the north in the old Dutch capital, if roof in that city. Mrs. Putnam and her
the business upon his hands should re- ; daughters treated Iter with the affectionate
quiro a greater force in that quarter, or to j tenderness of a child and sister. There
allow General Burgoyne an undisputed ] were some circumstances in the case of
and triumphant descent of the Hudson, as j the young lady, which caused General
the case might be. Such, in brief terms, | Washington to* regard her with distrust,
were the leading features of the British j Her father was in the ranks of the foe, an
campaigns as they were concerted for the j active and skillful officer, and a very able
summer of 1777, and, it may well be | engineer; and it was paid that she, berself,
supposed that the treason of Arnold was
not an incident of the first attempt made
Ly the British commanders in New York,
to obtain information as to the localities,
and the strength of West Point, and the
other fortifications among the mountains,
of that celebrated pass.
New York being in possession of the
British, and the highlands of the Ameri
can troops, the intermediate portion of
Westchester County was known as “the
neutral ground,” being in actual posses
sion of neither party, and yet subject to
the incursions of marauders from both.—
Early in the month of June, while prepar
ations for the movements already indica
ted were actively making, the attention
of some of the lower outposts of the
Americans in Westchester was repeated
ly arrested by the equestrain exercises of
a lady ‘from below,” who rode with the
spirit of Zenobia—the beautiful and brave
captive queen of Palmyra, who, in chains
of gold, was made to grace one of the tri
umphs of Anrelian, and the matchless
graceof the Maid of Orleans; a noble ani
mal, elegantly caparisoned, carrying him
self with a gait as lofty as though 6be
scorned the earth on which she designed
to tread. Not, however, that the lady
was alone, since she was always attended,
sometimes by one, bat oftener by two or
three gay cavaliers, from their port and
into all their pleasure., Ibeir pastime,, and , be „ ring eridently »„ d „([ m00ut .
procession.
Wreaths
their religion. Tbe bride at tbe altar, and
the warrior in tbe triumphal
were crowned with flowers,
were twined by the hand of beauty, to
grace victoriovs brows in their games : in
cense-breathing festoons were hung upon
the altars of their divinities; while the
victims for their sacrifices were decorated
with chaplets and garlands
beauty was emphatically that of flowers ;
and when the meet lovely pair in creation
j ed upon chargers fleet as the wind. Tbe
I little party were often observed galloping
i over the hills and dales, in different neigh-
; borboods; sometimes in Tarrytown, and
j at others, in Rye and Mamaroneck : and
| those of the inhabitants who occasionally
saw them pass along the highways and by-
. - ways—their proud steeds now “telling
^ 8te P* w ’-th gentle majesty,” and now
nu ora bounding imperiously, showing “with glit-
teiing eye and nostrials drinking the air.
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TO KATIE.
May your life forever b*
Radiant as a summer sea,
Tinged with dev.’y flower*;
May no sorrow on thee rest,
May your heart be deeply ble»t,
Id all tbe coming hours.
May your heart be ever free,
Is my fondest with for thee,
Thro’ all coining time ;
M*y the dearest one you love
Ever pure and worthy prove.
And bright hopes be ever thine.
VlATO*.
Miiledgeville, May 1st, 1866.
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THE LANGUAGE Of FLOWERS.
[The facts in the following tale were related to
the late Col. VVm L. Slone by Aaron Burr, in one
of the many and long conversaiions held between
them upon Revolutionary times. ]
rbilologiBts have for ages bewildered
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Miiledgeville, April 9,1866. tf
suddenly found :ht*meelvei» in the midst of , - - , , • , , . - . ,
, J . , . n hot courage and high desire —reported
the most ample and luxuriant llower-gar- „ , , f . _ , , c r
, . A t . ,, b , the laoy to be young, and of surpassing
den that ever bloomed beneath the eye of i ,i • / .
J - beauty. At times, as trom their frequent
expeditious they became more intimately
acquainted with the country, they grew
more familiar; approaching, by degrees,
nearer to some of the American outposts,
and lingering about the lines longer than
they were wont ; until, at length, some of
the officers of tho latter began to think of
making a pretty captive; under tbe im
pression, no doubt, that an officer or two
of rank might perchance be captured with
her. But the horses of our officers were
of no match for the blooded coursers of the
says the poet: a fact which I cannot be-* mysterious equestrians, who approached,
lieve such bright and prue intelligences as or galloped away from the American lines,
Adam and Eve were slow to discover. as best suited their convenience or their
I think it was the celebrated Bishop caprice.
Berkley, who, in a very ingenious treat- But good swimmers are drowned at
New Jersey ; but when General Putnam) officers taken in Ler attendance, for which
reason she was yet detained. Her request
to write to her friends also denied ; for al
though not the slightest suspicion was
harbored as to any improper motive on
tbe part of an artless, though accomplish
ed, and manifestly well educated young
woman, yet the watchfnllness of military
usage must be observed with indiscrimi
nate exactness. She yielded therefore,
to the force of circumstances, with a much
better grace than most females would have
done. As the ofiicer was turning upon
bis heel to depart, however, she beg
ged of him to obtain tbe permission of Sir
Harry CHnton to call at her father’s house,
and bring along ber guitar, and a box of
water-colors, witb her pencils ; at the same
time, and as if by a sudden thought, pul
ling off one of ber pretty slippers, and
telling the messenger, playfully, that by
exhibiting that token to the family, it
would be recognized, and the articles de
sired sent in return, although the good
general would not allow her to write for
them, lest treason might lurk in her crow-
qtiil!. It was not, of course, suspected
that a slip of paper might have been con
cealed within the lining of a lady|s slip
per, taken thus accidentally from 6ucli a
beautifully turned loot, any more than it
was imagined that a reply might have
been breathed back through the medium
of a guitar thus sent for :—sufice it to say,
that the instrument and the paints were
both received by the return of the flag ;
and sweetly did she play on the one, and
mingle and spread the colors of the
other;
But the exchange of prisoners was not
as readily agreed upon as might have
been anticipated. Difficulties were in
terposed by the British general, occasion
ing considerable delay; meanwhile the
charming captive was doomed to remain
some two or three weeks linger under the
protection of American gallants. 'She
was most agreeably entertained, however,
and her time pleasantly occupied, either
with her guitar, her pencil, or.tbe compa
ny of the gfcy cavaliers of the army.—
The old general, also, in his plain, blunt
way, contributed all in hia power to
meliorate her captivity. His language
was quite unpolished, and a lisp iu his
utteranee deprived it, apparently, of much
among her other high accomplishments,
had received a scientific education, and
was well instructed in military and archi
tectural drawing. Washington, therefore,
thought it imprudent to retain her as an
inmate in the family of an American gener
al, and it has been said that ho at one time
seriously meditated keeping her as an host
age for the gopd conduct of her father.—
But, although from the American connec
tions of Major Moncrieffe, and from the ef
forts that had been unsuccessfully made to
wiu her ever from the royal cause, it may
well be supposed that he was regarded
with no special cordiality by the Ameri
can commander-in-chief, yet the idea of
the existence of any such design is not to
be entertained for an instant.
On the approach of General Howe to
New Yoik, with the British forces from
Boston, Miss Moncrieffe was removed^to
Kingsbridge, where she remained for a
considerable period in the family of Gen
eral Mifflin, by whom, and his lady, she
was also treated with kindness and re
spect. While residing at this place, she
enjoyed the privilege of occasional excur
sions farther into the country ; thus ma
king herself acquainted with the localities
of Westchester, which were not without
advantage in the subsequent field-sport6,
in wdiich I have already described her as
engaging, once too often, as her captors
supposed, at least for herself. This, how
ever, by the way. After Sir Win. Howe
had taken possession of New York, Gen
eral Putnam obtained the permission of
his superior to send Miss Moncrieffe to her
father, who had then been appointed
major of brigade, to tlve division of Lord"
Cornwallis. She was dispatched with a
flag of truce, under the cbaige of General of tbe real eloquence and strength which
man, or scattered its dewy odors upon the
air, what could have been more natural
than that the happy and innocent couple,
who had been placed there “to till and
dress it,” in waking tbe 6weets and call
ing forth the beauty of the countless blos
soms blushing around them, should have
fancied some peculiar expression in every
flower, and bestowed upon each noine defi
nite signification.
Flower* are tli* alphabet of angela—whereby
They write on bills and field* mysterious truth*,
ise, has shown that colors are only a form
of language, suggesting ideas to our minds,
fj^m the habits and associations of previ-
experience. If this be true, flowers
must constitute a language, as well as the
melting dyes of the rainbow, far anore co
pious, from tbeir great variety ; and
equally beautiful, both from the richness patrol of lighthorsemen were enabled to
and delicacy of their hues. A language, cut off their retreat, and succeeded, as Pat
too, particularly adapted to the eye of a took the corporal's guard, in making them
last, says the proverb, and the dashing
strangers were also caught at last. Wax
ing apparently bolder by their previous
successes in flight, the fair reconnoiterer
with her gallants, ultimately threw them
selves into position in one of the glens of
the Croton River, by reason of which a
Knox, and was joyfully received by her
parent, who soon afterwaids, during the
quiet occupancy of the city by the troops
tf his majesty, took up his residence in
his own house in Broadway.
From tbe day of Miss Moncrieffe’s (ie
parture from Kingsbridge, to receive a pa-
lent’s fond embrace, General Putnam had
neither seen or beard of her, until she
was brought to the fortress a prisoner, un
der the circumstances already related.
The recognition was instantaneous and
mutual; and the veteran general received
her more like a long absent daughter than
a captive,
her beauty.
All eyes were riveted upon her, as she pas
sed the encampment on the plain of the
Point, and ascended to the mountain for
tress, tho citadel of the highlanders ; and
the young officers were immediately up to
I it possessed ; but his conversations were
' marked by a vigorous understanding, and
, sound sense.
Miss Moncrieffe was fond of exercise,
nnd with a firm and sure foot, she would
I climb the rocks and precipices like a moun
tain goat. She had au eye for the pic-
| turesque, and in tho rambles which she
I took with little parties arranged for her
; pleasure, there was not a mountain sum
mit in the neighborhood that she did not
I scale, nor a valley nor glen that she did
| not explore. And both from the crest of
! the Crow’s Nest, and the yet loftier brow
I have repeatedly spoken of j 0 f the Fishkill Mountain, she had ample
It was indeed extraordinary. | opportunities of gazing, to her heart's
content, upon the wild and magnificent
scenery of that romantic region—moun
tain, crag, and glen—and the glorious
Hudson, rolling onward to tbe ocean
through tbe deep gulf below. Ever ready
with her peucil, but a moment was neces*
sary to sketch a landscape from every
their ears in love with the fair creature.— j
She 'was not twenty, and was in full j
bloom of youth, health, and beauty; ber ' point where a new viow was presented to
step was clastic, and her form all symme- j Der admiring vision. The fair one was a
try and grace. Her countenance beamed ; botanist, too, gathering and studying eve-
with intelligence and vivacity. Her fore-1 T j wild flower she saw, and carefully pre-
guage. As to its orgin, the inquiry has
long since been given up. Theories have
been accumulated upon theories, and sys
tems formed upon systems, but all to no
purpose. Like the hitherto fruitless in
tjuiries into the origin of evil, ending in the
single and lamentable fact,—that no good
ever came of it,—and that, being in Para
dise, Adam fell; so in regard to language,
being in Paradise, Adam talked, and Eve,
too, beyond a doubt, or her daughters are
very unlike her. Avrd fteX, even hi this
most enlightened of ages, past, pTe*e»Lorj propriate.
to come—notwithstanding tbe school
master has been abroad so long—the
questiou as to which language is entitled
to the honor of primitive formation, is still
open for discussion. The Isrealite will
affirm it to have been Hebrew, inasmuch
as that is the language of the holy wri
tings. But the learned Brahmin will con
test the honor for the Sanscrit; while the
literati of the Celestial Empire will main
tain, with equal pertinacity, that it was
spoken by Confucius ; and both can forti
fy their positions with earlier dates than
the age of Moses, or even of Abraham.—
The small cluster of real Iberians, yet re
taining their distinctive character in Spain,
will declare that it was the Basque. Gen
eral Valiancy, tbe antiquarian, would as
sert, and prove by pages of argument,
Gaelic to have been the original language,
derived by the Irish from the Phoenicians.
Zeisberger would probably claim the hon
or for the Delaware , while from his long
residence among them, tbe excellent
Heckewelder may have adopted opinions
in favor of the Mohawk ; and last, thoogh
not least, the intelligent inhabitants of
Coinmunipaw are understood unanimous
ly to eoncur in the opinion of Van Gorp,
that Adam and Eve sung their morning
and evening hymns, and held their sweet
colloquial intercourse, in low Dutch !
But I care not wbat was tbe language
first spoken—whether it was either of
those to which I have referred, or neither ;
whether it was the Coptic, or the Berber
of Mount Atlas, or the Chickasaw. It is
quite evident to my mind, that neither men
nor women could have talked until they
knew how. Meanwhile, and before they
woman, of all others the most susceptible
of whatever is tender, beautiful and ex
pressive.
But, however sweet, and peaceful, and
passionless, in appearauce, flowers have
not always been used as the language of
innocence, or of Cupid ; and Bellona her
self has in at least one instance, thrown
aside her torch, to use with treacherous in
tent, the beautiful emblems which I have
been aiming to illustrate. A little fra
grant of romantic history will inform the
reader how, and for what purpose, the sis
ter of Mars became
deavoring to speak
none of her family have any right to ap-
all prisoners, by surrounding them. The
heroine, though evidently young, bore tbe
roverse of fortune with commendable phil
osophy ; and her two squires in attend
ance, being soldiers, could of course do no
less. She was indeed very beautiful;
but the ‘the spoils’ did not in all cases ‘be
long to the victors,’ in those days of un
sophisticated patriotism ; and as the lady
entreated that she might be taken to head
quarters, to ‘her dear frieikl General Put
nam,’ as she styled him, the captors could
not be so ungallant as to deny the request.
It Was in the spring of 1777, that the
veteran Putnam—a brave, Muff old sol
dier, who two years before had been trans
ferred from the tail of his plough to a high
post in tbe continental army—was first in
command of the highland pass of tbe.Hud-
son. That year was one of signal impor
tance in the annals of tbe American Revo
lution. Tbe mother country had deter
mined upon a more vigorous effort to sub
jugate her refractory colonies, than had
yet been put forth since tbe commence
ment of hostilities ; and campasing were
projected upon a broader scale el aetion
than had before been deemed neeessary,
in order to tbe ultimate and even speedy
success of tbe British arms. To this end
a powerful blow was to be struck at the
north, by the army of tbe gallant and ac
complished Burgoyne ; tbe most brilliant
and formidable expedition that had taken
the field in America since the invasion of
Canada by Sir Jeffrey Amherst. Sim
ultaneonely with this movement from that
direction, it was resolved to detach Sir
William Howe, w>th a large division of
the British army from New York, against
Philadelphia, by way of the Cbesepeake,
for the double purpose of seizing upon the
commercial capital of Peon., then the seat
of the American Congress, and of diverting
the attention of the American commander-
in-chief from the advance of Burgyone—
tbe vaunting soldier who had boasted that
he could march through tho whole Union
with an army of five or ten thousand men.
Not anticipating any serious impediment
to his descent upon Albany, another part
of the design contemplated the dislodg-
a dissembler, by en- j Even republicans acknowledge that which
in a language which j Junius calls tire divine right of beauty ;
1 and a pretty woman is a tyrant winch no
American soldier feels authorized to re
sist.
On Ler at rival at West Point, it was
found to be indeed true that the veteran
commander of the fortress, the ruins of
which bear yet his own name, was tbe
acquaintance and friend of tl e handsome
captive, who was no other than the cele
brated Margaret Moircrieffe, daughter of
Major Moncrieffe, an accomplished officer
in tbe British service. Major Moncrieffe
had been successively in the staff of Gen
erals Monckton and Gage, and also of Sir
Jeffrey, afterwards Lord Amherst. The
heroine of my tale was the daughter of
Moncrieffe’s first wife, by whom she had
been left an orphan in tender infancy.—
Her father had married as his second wife,
a sister of Governor Livingston, of New
Jersey, but she had soon deceased ; and
the Major himself, having a third wife,
was now attached to the military family
of Lord Percy, the late Duke of North-
numberlaud, whose timely assistance se
cured the retreat of the discomfited Bri
tons from Lexington.
At the breaking out of hostilities, Miss
Moncrieffe was residing with the friends of
ber lata step mother, at Elizabethtown,
and her father was yet in the staff of Gen.
Gage, in Boston; and as he was an Ex
ceedingly active, and very accomplished
officer, who, notwithstanding his American
associations, was naderstood te be an ul
tra-royalist, his daughter was of course
attached, trom sympathy and affection, if
not from the convictions of her own judg
ment, to the caase of the king. She was
consequently eyed with jealousy, and
treated with perhaps unnecessary, if not
undeserved harshness by her friends in
head was fair, and her eyebrows resembled
delicate penciling upon Parian marble.—
Her jet-black eyes rolled sparkling in
liquid light. Her cheeks, blushing like
the rose, and possibly lightened in color
by the exertion of climbing tbe mountain
to tbe garrison, vied with the yet deeper
tint of her lip, turned with the most deli
cate outline. And then her dark glossy
hair, waving in clusters over her neck and
bosom. Her voice was music itself, and
her bright and dimpled smiles absolute
witcliery. In one word, as Dryden—
“glorious John” would have said,
“Her eyes, her lips, ber cheeks, her shape, ber
features,
Seemed drawn by love’s own hand.”
Such was tbe beautiful apparition at
the fortress in the character of a prisoner.
It would be quite unnecessary to add, that
every possible attention and every proper
indulgence was extended to the young
lady, so suddenly and romantically intro
duced into tbeir circle, and whose presence
was so welcome. But this was uot all; the
serving every new plant for the leaves of
an herbarium.
Thus the time pasted pleasantly away,
the beautiful captive contributing her full
proportion to the social enjoyments of the
post—now climbing a mountain like a
chamois; now pasting an hour iu the cool
of the evening with a select circle, in
Kosciusko’s garden, fronting the grotto
beneath the beetling brow of the Point ;
and now dancing in a pleasure-boat, light
as a Yeuetian gondola, upon the moon-lit
bosom of the Hudson, joining the silver
tones of her own sweet voice in the song,
or accompanying it on the guitar. Not a
few of her leisure hours, moreover, were
spent in painting flowers j an amasement
of which she was not ouly particularly
fond, but to which the was asaidoously
devoted; and in the execution of which
she was a remarkable proficient.
The conversation having turned up
on the subject of painting, one morn
ing, and some one of tbe breakfast cir-
_ , . cle having complimented her upon ber
officers of rank, and of the first families, ; j L. -i
, [’uncommon industry with ber pen oil,
were ambitious to study her wishes, and i ,. J , , r .
make themselves sl.ves in contributing to j » ld g™"* 1 expressed » desire to
her comfort, while at the same time the! see some specimens of her skill ic the
beautiful girl was treated with so much J divine art, and of which he beard auch
kindness by the little community of la- j warm commendations. Accordingly,
dies on the station, as though all their own i a t the next visit she made to his apart-
-personal attractions had not been ama-1 me nt, she brought along a variety of
Timriv nW.,r«A if not totallv eelinsed. in I piecegj which he examined with un
feigned admiration. After glancing
_ j v-*. ..— ,
were admitted to her
zingly obscured, if not totally eclipsed, in
the brighter glow of her superlative
charms. Among the young officers wb°. fro7n one to anothe ,. f or a raomeD t,
society, were
accomplished aids de camp of the com
manding general, one of whom was Colo
nel Burr, of New York, although he was
absent from the post at the time of her
capture ; Colonel Brooks, of Massachu
setts, and Colonel Hamilton, than aither
of whom, none were more gallant or ac
complished. whether in the drawing-room
or the field. Others, also, whose names,
like those just cited, have subsequently
filled a large space in their country’s his-
the veteran broke out with his usual
preliminary exclamation:
‘Odds curses! Miss Moncrieffe, you
paint a-most equal to natur, and in
deed I don’t know but yours are bet
ter than the ra-al flowers J*
‘No, general, you flatter me. I suc
ceed with single flowers, sometimes,
tolerably well; but I don’t get along
in tying up boquets, on paper, to my
tory, strove to render themselves agrees- i liking. I having been trying my hand
ble to the facinating captive, among whom | a j. g roll pj n g flowers this morning, by
was the illustrious Kosciusko, and '* lt 1 1 disposing some clusters in various parts
whom, to appear interesting to tbe ladres, Qf ^ , andgcapft of the parjide * nd>
Several day. intervened, perhaps a fort-1 which you saw me sketching from tbe
night, after the capture of Miss Moncrieffe, j parapet the other dfty.
before General Putnam had occasion to} ‘Upon my word, bat are pro-
dispatch a flag to New York, and at the
departure of the officer, the young lady
affected a strong desire to be allowed to
accompany him. But the general was
too much of a Yankee to lose so fine a
chance of driving a bargin and making
something extra by the exchange of tbe
digous handsome though,* exclaimed
the veteran.
‘Them pond-19lies and bull-flags
look as natural as in the swamps of
Pomfret.’
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