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saha AND THE DOCTOR;
OR, THE
Avenger of the Wronged.
“Go on ” said the doctor, impatiently, he wanted
to know all: he wanted to hear the end.
“Well for a long time things wint on that way?
docther dear. Miss Sada getting paler an sadder
iverv day, an' mesilf, yer honor.
’Td spake a word,
by LIEUTENANT FELIX.
CHAPTER XI.
and infant la>. n ( . anno t have her long
1
plied and went out and shut the door^ ^
to think. R w-as im^^ f lieen suns hine in
and Agusta dead! bhe wno nau for yearSi
dla.l h :° U He might*have *it there anbour,^en a
> ” re "■ ,lry sar "''”"
yet jKile and haggard still- asked.
:i hy S'SSS*«'r"-
, SmSiilfttot ran t close me
HtUifl oJiiKls. mil y t favo
sweet-tenqiered k *tie Sa haunted his dreams, the
possessor of the lat e that lonely horn’s,
face that came-up.before'him-ffl “Shure,
» -
'■'r.ri'EUSflSrC bright. ~
ing the girl's aim. and shakmg^fj.fT , irison r
mesiif that ye may know how well I loved the
i rtl ng Ve nivlr saw Teddy O'Cnnnel, the
gSTlad in Ould Ireland! I luved young Teddy, an’
heluved me, when we were children; when I come
over toAmerika. it wasbecase Teddy was afther
comin Teddy wint to work in the brick yard, an I
furSlisthress Sands; we were both gom’ to save
our erninsTan’ when we got enough to buy us a
little home uve our own, we were gom to be mar
ried Well, one day, Teddy kome. Arrah, yer
honor but its mesilf that niver saw anyone im-
rovein looks like he had; he was bright an hand
some an' he towld me he come into a good fortune,
that in* rich owld uncle had been afther leavm hnn
work to do m yer life
u™, docther dear, I was mightily
plased, an’ begin to think about -eweddrn^ dr^.
ye'll niver have a stroke
in At first, docth
Se ver honor, that I’d niver lave or forsake the
now mrtherless, fatlierliss young crathure. Och
Raters docther. dear, it was a mighty hard
You don'tmeanthatSada“^-^t
s "““ "ft
T . The J dear Miss Sada. that s grown more like
’• - • * Tdav she lived, shure. there it is this
is a c<
thing
HSWSsSSBsae
there, ”
The doctor staggered back faint and trembling.
“■Who put her there! , t i, s
“Its mesilf that f,
h was like takin’ me'life to part with Teddy,
wintto Ireland, an’ left me, an he married anuther
m..i ., n - the- ride in thir coach an four, but I don t
Sre fur the riches, it was Teddy I loved, oh Teddy,
me darlint. ”
CHAPTER X.
v. lir ;ed her face in her hands and wept bitter-
Iv toe doctor respected her sorrow and that re-
Ij . the aoc i, ill hear of Sada by dis-
put her there; but
how could they help it!
that
/its them that’s not to blame, for
rip it! They said they were sorry
—mavbe they were ; but I’ll tell ye the sthory doc
ther, dear : but I want to ax ye a question 01
fU “What are they. Biddy!”
“Well thin, yer honor, why couMn *2Vrit tove
swered list one uve the letters Miss Sada w. it io > c.
It wouldn't have taken but a bit of time, or bin such
a "Did Sada ever write more than two letters to
“•‘Two: the dear creather "rote more than half a
dozen letters to ye, an niver a bit uve an anrt
did she git to one uve them. She wr ote to^orthr
an’ did'nt hear from ye at all, h ’
poor thing an’ said she knew ye had forgotten ner.
C Mi/s Safla. mesilf said to her, the likes of doc
ther Abel don’t forgit so easy ; write^ghr
way, Miss Sada, write agm. me darhn , wnte agm.
but niver a word did she ever git from j e.
“I received two letters from Sada, and I ansnei-
ed “Shure b and niver a word did she git from ve
docther dear, ah' that was tHe.thin? to^trouWed
her so She told me i she was deceived mtirelj in
Docther Abel: an' then, poor thing, she would- cry
asif her heart woul<} break: but say! docther, dear
didn't it make yer blood bile like to think how Mlss
^“SuffM-ed! 1 Why, she wrote to me she was well,
an “Hlppv, a shure. an’ yer eyes must havediren mak
ing a mistake in the reading mtirely; Miss Sada
niver wrote the likes of that, poorthmg, rt.> aN'i-
ger of a slave she.s been since ye left Maple wove.
^ Algernon went to the drawer, where he kept his
letter™*! "ook two delicately Witten missives
rrt that Miss Sada's handwri*
'-fiL'in to Biddy .•*“*
dnnu tJ 'f that catf
mighty sorry day when Teddj ^ when the news
words on his lips, a.M ^ after hopin'
came thathe was married: d ^k- but aftoer Sw
an' liopin.em all tm t + qmte
But I lived, doc-
ri^e to Miss-Sada: unlade
^"An/'whatlx'c'ameof Three FingeredJoe-
sther Joe. faith, and it was ^‘^nVnd staved
*- »>»"* >' “,£Sf •.rad.;?iiS
Masi
college
there the likes o a dd dri nk an gamble,
. tn.-nori of sixteen, vour lion
young
about three hundred f I oUa, ' , i^ < l s 1 nl [m lt take that
amin’s an’* thought ther “ had it
fur security an’ let the poor thing g ^ - t it
all in gould put away in me trunk, 1 " ent w g
yer honor, an’ that was gone too. „. f, ,v
y “Did you keep your trunk lock ^’. did that
“Faith, yer honor, an’ it was mesilf ttrnt dtttna
an’ I carried me kay in me pis-kit all ther tun
wint to Mrs. Sands an told ht into yer room
laughed a little and said, no °ne kay in yer
but Miss Sada, an’ she knew ye> kept^erkay
dress jxx’kit: yer thought tliei gi ghe* wasn’t
yer see she wasn t even go<xl f. • , purse an’
contint with takin ther jjood
pin. but stole yer hard arnui s BuM>
“I’m afther confessm to y%J.slape d
ned for a minute, yer h<; nor ’“”ftom e , I was
with me, for when Masther Joe • her but
afeared to stay alone; ^ mes uf for turnin’
jist a minute, an then I ^ted sonleh ow, I
can°ttel[ that toe had nothing ^ do wi^;
* yer
honor, so me suspectin’, did no kind o good.
“And what then Biddy! dorR ,> I
“What tliin, shure, sir, what * r sav
heard Mr. Langdon, he was Madam • ’ ^ e . dhev r e
there wasn't any blipTor Miss » > jfj ss g ada
to go to prison for sartrn’ an I « Juissi
mify had jist one friend,tor
hlTmavl^toe might be saved. Tliat was why me-
tof'come afoof aiT^lone, withouta.Fbeg ;
gin’me way to see you, doc > ■
lands was yer friend an ^ " /I to
^—-
in’, promise me, vei honor.
“And when is the trial, Biddy. ,,
“Dav afther tomorrow, docthei.
heard from Biddy, quite unmanned him, and for a
few momeiite remierexl him perfectly incapable of
aC “sfda, gentle, suffering, unprotected Sada, must
be saved,* But how! Ah, there was e Biddy”
“Go back to your room anil sleep now Bi ,
he said at length; “Y ou need rest, and 1 can best
“kS^gMtad’irft the room, he threwhimeelt
upon a lounge, and pressed his hands <iver his fore
head, as he always did when in a deep studj. He
thought over all he had heard, weighed all the c ir
cumstances ill his mind, and came to the same con
clusion Biddy had arrived at. by a qmc-kei
of reasoming. To wit: Intuition. Yes, there was
HISTORICAL SKETCHES
In North Carolina,
The Battle of King’s Mountain-
When through the gap th ® “!^ffi,!ult!and hml the
the mountain is at places very & j^de stockade
timber been removed and . required the
erected on the crest, it would have^eq < f ]if0 to
most reckless dash and ' ra y from so se-
have driven a well discipline > possess the
cure a fastness. Fergiison elthe * or he be-
sagacity to perceive this ^ so very
him home in disgrace: v
as he wuz, only turned^« thf , u , rht
or, and small of his age: > ou » -g-mds lie an-
looks!”
-Och "ndstresssint him off to another College, an
certainly a plot; but who was concerned m iit. and,
what was its object! AN hat could it lie in the lettei
AIin Sands bad received, to cause her such extraor
dinary emotion! Anil could it be possible Sada was
concerned in it! These were questions of ms own
propounding, and the answer (lid not come to them
readily. Why did Madame Bastile remain at Ma
ple Grove, and what was the cause of her famihari-
tv with Mrs. Sands! The latter had taken great
He gist tuck up the boots ap^,, ' iphis loneliness bSlduty called and he must
be asked,
<• me, dpetl
1,1/know: for,,
e hatfij^sbbne s he ifm-t^ciN' tr-a p-except yert
BS tlV ■
^Thedoctor read the letter to Biddy, both of them
through before stopping for an answer, and all the
while the girl listened aghast.
“What do you think of them, Biddy!” he asked,
as he refolded the letters and placed them in their
envelopes, , ... .. ,
“I think they're all a lie, yer honor; Miss Sa.la
niver writes the likes in all the world. Happy!
Och. lie jabers. an’ if she's bin happy I'd like to be
afther seem’ a miserable crathure; an' the lethers
tell ye how good Mrs. Bands has been to her when
the tarminted her day an'night. ’
The ti-uth was beginning to dawn upon Algernon,
and with it a feeling of remorse and horror as he
thought of what the poor girl had suffered, and
must still suffer to require such deception as bad
been practiced bv the writer of these forged letters;
tor forged, he did not doubt they were. There
must have been some base treachery somewhere;
where was it! , . ,
“Did Sada put the letters she wrote into the post
office herself! ’ he asked.
“Two uv ’em yer honor, the utliers I put in me-
Sll “Did anv one see you put them in Biddy!”
“I think not yer honor: I put them m the letter
box afther dark.”
“Whv did yon do that!’ „ ,
“Och. but I wasn't afther bavin Mistiness Sands
know anything about it. Sorry a bit u\ e an an
swer would me iver heve looked for if she had.
“And who was post master. Biddy!”
“Och. as to that, the post man was honest enuff,
an honest man. an' a good one. Squire Gray, you
know him. docther dear.”
“Yes. I know him, it is all very strange, Biddy,
but let that go for the present, and tell me of Sada.”
“A long sthorv it is. yer honor, hut the daylight
is coinin’an’ I'U make a short one uv it. Afther
you left the neighborhood. Mis. Sands changed into
a perfect devil. I thought she was bad enough a
fool but she got tin times worse. I don’t know as
she did anything the law could git cr hold uve, or
not if «he did, ther wasn't anybody afther havin’
interest enough in Miss Sada, to take ther affair
into court. Mr. Lerrydom, yer remember him.”
“Yes.”
“AVell he gist thought iverything Mrs. Sands
done was jist right, an’ as he was a lawyer, he had
ther law on his side, you see, docther dear. Once I
towld him that Misthress Sands was too cruel with
the girl, but he said Sada was willful and bad-
tempered an’ needed correction. The housekeepei
used to threaten to tell of Misthress Sands, but she
had good pay, an' although she was afther bein’
kind hearted enough, liked money too veil, to gi\e
offenses to Mrs. Sands. Yer see, I was cook an
Miss Sada was chambermaid, an waited on Madam
Batile, an Misthress Sands, an’ did all ther dirty
work no girl else wanted to do. Many an’ many s
the time, I've staid up late at nite to polish the sil
ver an’ brass that Misthress Sands had ordered
Sada to do, an’ do my baking, so I could find time
in the mornin* to help her with the chamber work.
Poor Miss Sada, it makes ones barte ache to fee her
goin’ about so uncomplaining like, an’ the bright
light clean faded out uve her eves. An’ the weaker
aiv poorer she got, the worse Misthress Sands was
to her. I can't tell ye, hut ye know the edge uve
ones tongue can cut, some times k ors© than a knife,
an’Misthress Sands tongue can cut. I tell ye. “It
give Miss Sada more pain than all the hard work
she was afther doin’. She didn't spake rough: her
words were soft an' aisy as yer phase, but their
meanin, that was the trouble, poor thing. Some
times she used to lie on the floor the whole nite an’
cry an wish she were dead, but ye see, yer honor,
taint tin m. that’s afther wantin' to die, that dies.
Masther Sands, Heaven rest his soul, wanted to
live, bw the died; what a strange world this is.
Poor Miss Sada, it would be better fur her if she
was dead with Masther Sands.” ...
Biddy paused to wipe the tears from her honest
face.
nsodtoaet but it wouldn't do any r
hfwh t to Miss Sada and threw a pau- uve his ould
dfrU-boots at her. ‘There.’ said he. rough as an
rada bear ‘go right away an’ black them inside uve
five minutes ’ - The ould Sands’ blood rose up m her
Sreandshe went on with the' wv*k.she wasdoing,
without mimlin the young divil. or w hat hesaid.
‘fin ’he said again, ‘doyou hear that, M^ss t>e„gar.
eves to have ^his^lleX^| **
Essfss
*7.
sthruck her three or four times rite ontorheqA
she fell over a^ofe jflrs’' San&rfcnai, kiss Sadc^yii'
I wrWS'iStti'Hfid jn w iththe butcher khjfe; you s- ait ?,i,e
“'t he
his
iild-
“But. why didn't you inform some one of the
abuse, Biddy!”
“Iniorni, shure. and it is yourself that talks uve
informin', who’d believe the word of Biddy Ma-
goon. aginst that uvej a grand lady Tike Mrs. Sands,
and the fine young gentleman like Masther Joe, an
Lawyer Langdon, that said jist what Mrs. Sands
was afther wantin them to! AVell, things went on
this wav for a long while, yer honor; 1 tried all I
could to protect the young crather, and many an
uglv ould blow mesilf has saved her. AVe used to
dred to have Masther Joe to come home at all, at
all. and whin he did, I used to keep Miss Sada out
of his way all I could.
“Ah, thim days! I don’t like to think over agin;
and maybe it isn’t afther doing any good. A\ ell,
yer honor, I'm coming rite to the dreadful part uv
it. One day. that woman in black. Madame Ba
tile, sed she had lost a fine dimundpin:I’m not af
ther tellin ye much about this woman, because she
niver sed much or did much; she sewed most all
ther time, and it’s my firm belafe she heard iverv
word was spoken in the house. Shesamed to be all
the time a listenin, yer honor. The only thing that
bothered me was. w hy Mrs. Sands kipt her at Ma
ple Grove at all. at all: if for a seamstress, why did
she make so much of her, for Madame always sat
down with her, and Masther Joe when he was there,
and sometimes mistress an that woman would lock
tliimselves into a room and talk iver so low by ther
hour togitlier. Well, you see, along towards ther
last, something samed to lie afther troublin Mrs.
Sands mightily, she looked skeared at ivery little
noise, and always wint around to see . ef all the
doors were afther liein bolted and locked ivery
night: ye know I told ye once that I thought ther
house was haunted, an that Mr. Sands couldnt
rest in his grave, shure: if be might see how
poor Miss Sada—he loved so well—was treated.
Och. but it was afther a dreadful night, mesilf can
niver forget, a letter come to Mrs. Sands. It was a
dirty, square-looking letter, with the awfulest wri-
fin on the back uv it. I brought it from the post
office mesilf, and when I gave it to Mrs. Sands, her
face turned as white as a sheet, snd she looked as et
she was going into one uv her fits, yer see, she had
siveral spells uv them afther ye left.”
“And what caused them?”
“Faith, an’ it’s mesilf that can't tell, yer honor.
“AA'as she attacked in the daytime!”
‘•>’o, vour honor, it was afther dark ivery time.
“Do you think she saw anything to frighten her,
or ” . T
“Shure an' ther same I can't tell ye re. but, as I
was agoili’ to say. all the night afther she got that
letter she walked ther room, an’ some uve ther time
wrung her hands as ef she was afther goin clear
daft. AVell, about tin o’clock, she sint for Madame
Batile. an' she stayed in Misthress Sands room until
ther next mornin’. There was a good dale to do
ther next mornin’, so I was up most all nite so 1
could hilp Miss Sada ther nixt mornin. As 1 wint
up to me room I met Madame Batile comm down
stairs: her face was whiter than I iver saw it before.
But as I was afther sayin’, ther nixt mornin Mad
ame Batile, said she had lost a dimin pm, an a
purse of money; that she had left it uponther stand
in her room, laveing her door unlocked: that when
she went to go to bed she missed them, an was on
her way down stairs to spake to Mistress Sands
about it, when she met me. Faith, yer honor I
don’t like to think about it, nor talk about it, but
thev called in the officers and sarehed ther house an
all ther sarvint's trunk an’ when they looked in
Miss Sada's trunk thar ther purse an’ pin was tuck
ed down in one corner. ”
“In Sada’s trunk?” exclaimed Abel in constema-
tU “Yes in Miss Sada's trunk; an’ the poor thing
cried an’told how innocent she was about it, they
tuck her off to jail, bekase, you see, no one would
go ther bail fur her/’ .
Here the tender-hearted girl wiped away a few
tears from her eyes and continued:
“Shure, yer honor, me sthory snot doneyet, 1 had
interest in Three Fingered Joe, despite his ugliness,
whv wash! The more he pondered the further in
to the darkness he plunged himself. Just as the
dawn began to light up the doctors roo ™’£haries
Battsford tapped lightly at his chamber door, and
entered. How perfectly heart-broken he looked^
Briefly as jxissible the doctor made Charles ac
quainted with the particulars of what he had heard.
Charles listened quietly, but when Algernon to d
him he must leave him alone in his sorrow he would
not hear to it. '' , , , ,
“I cannot be of any service to the dead b> re
maining, my dear Charlgs,” Abel replied 'There
are scores of kind neighbors around you, but little
Sada has not a friend but faithful Biddj and m> seit
in the wide world - ”
“So you go out by the first stage!
4 6S. *
“This is very unkiufln you, Abel, and I suppose
it is necessary.”
He maderiio more
Nor him: Abel’s 1
BY H. I). CAPERS.
Cornwallis knew well the character of this peo
ple He could not have been ignorant of the fact
that the Scotch and Irish Presbyterians descend
ants of the Corenanters, had given to North Caroli
na its principal population. The annals of English
history had unformed him of their devotion to lib
erty and traced this devotion through many bloody
conflicts, back to Magna Charter and the English
bill of rights. He knew that tins people had come
to these Western wilds to enjoy freedom of con
science from the trammels of law and priestly dic
tation, and having now become a power, through
manv vears of privation and trial, that they would
a ^- every sacrifice maintain theii declaration of ab
solute independence, first made by them, in the
goodly county of Mecklenburg. Hence it was that
he sent afthe head ofliis advance.eolumn, a Scotch
man “ft man of intrepid heroism, of sound judg
ment and inventive genius,” who possessed concil
iatory manners and diplomatic tact. The spec-nil
dread of Ferguson was Isaac Shellby. Born to the
use of arms in a frontier country where the strategy
of the hunter, and the subtle craft of the Indian,
called into exercise every device of ingenuity, to
secure the one and avoid or overtake the other, he
had become matured in the very best school of the
scout. Nature had given to Shelby a Herculean
frame and endowed him _ with great physical
strength and endurance. AA’hile in his breast their
steadily burned an ardent love for the cause of his
struggling country. Ferguson had met Shelby at
Cedar Springs and again at Muskgrove Mills on
the Enoree river in South Carolina. He had telt
the force of his blow, and knew the superior parti-
san skill of this hero of the mountains, who, had
he lived in the (lavs of Brace would have made a
character in a thrilling tale for the pen of "1 he
great Unknown.”
Just after the affair atRamsour’s mill Shelby,
then among the mountains of his home m AN ashing
ton County, (at that time North Carolina, but now
Tennessee) conceived the idea < if making a union ot
the partisan bands of AVestem Carolina and striking
Ferguson a sudden and a decisive blow, betore he
should have advanced far into the State.
Ferguson had established himself at Gilbert town
in Rutherford County, and issued a proclamation ill
which he declared that he “came not to make war
uixm women and children but to give them money
and relieve their distresses. The effect of this
move was to bring to his standard many torvs
and others who lielieved the cause of the Conti
nental Congress” to be hopeless. His force at that
time comprised in regular British soldiers and
“Tories,” about 2.000 men and was being increased
bv daily additions from the disaffected of the
neighboring country Bv a concert ot agreement
and action.\he brothers McDowell. Colonel Sevier,
Shelby AVinston, and Campbell, met at AN atauga,
in the* Blue Ridge Mountains, on the 25th of Sep
tember 1780, with such of their partisan comrades
as could be informed in time of the appointed
rendezvous. A eouneil of,war was immediately
held to determine upon a proper commander foi
the expedition. As a result of this deliberation we
have placed upon record, an instance ot sdt sacri
ficing devotion to the cause resting upon the nnnds
sagai'iiy tu imurirt ^
lieveil, more possibly, the artifice of the engin-
strong as not to require the a . . y Jdds.
eer to insure its maintenance or he
The latter must have ***« ,?^„ d bla^phemous a
would not have made so bold a 1 * T, 1 ^ Jf his field
declaration as the one we have quoted fro
After marching all night and ' heavy'
the next day, without rest and .,® afternoon
fall of rain, the ixartisan advance, on 11 the
of the 7th of .October^- m Hie ^
t s this above the attack-
British and at once
Ferguson. So elevated " 1,1110 nmild tire
ing columns that the partisan to each
upon the enemy on all sides of'battle to
other. This readily suggested the Pf^Sana of
snch quick ’perceptive, mmdsas hrfd con
the attacking force. The ngM " n | D l - 3 alld
by Colonel Sevier and combed ofMcU™^ and
AVinston s troops was to attac ^d com -
nortli, the west wing umler » j Carolinians
posed -f his own and AA Chains homn t ,
on the east: while the ^ the south
Shelby and Campbell, was t ' T ’order the par-
front of Ferguson s position. having
tisans moved up the ^" nt ^init to lie in easy
marched r . . e “ ou " h s ^ n> was opened upon
reach of each othei, a snarp nre column
all sides. The first assault the fight
lead 1 iv Shelby on the southeast. Hil be roes
became fierce, and here
met their death. M»n> of these 0 f the
with his own command, carri th * I^^T'amnlx’lTs
retired and being reinforced b> Colonel Canq
Virginians renewed the attack.
tt” ...pt, bv Ferguson at the neaa 01
famous regiment, the 71st upon
with fixed bayonets, made a aes !' e ™;f 1 ^;| : ;. OI fu-
sion some distance l«ck. J&ce l "b f
flanks were exposed to the attack^ f
AA’illiams and Sevier, Ferguson
McDowel,
retreated to tne
by Shribv and Campbell who gained ^summit
crest <lr °Here'he was met bv Wtoston, AVillianrt and!
Cleveland. Camp^Rharfnow^ron^to reg-|
winter
lorters.
A*fi was it only auty?
1 ections. The doctor felt
|«rt ached for Charles Batts-
EATl
ami the hearts of these patriots, which, alas for us
of the South, was not illustrated during tlie late
war of Secession. ,
Officers are generally jealous of command and
there are very few instances of record where a
plumed Knight has ever lowered his lance and
* . -., 1 i.a.j. ,.c pommond MYP in deteat or
yielded aright of command, save in
death.' But the spirit of these men was --
the weakness of human vanity— Necer. says the
historian AVheeler, were purer minds deliberating,
ige Story?— •
[Philadelphi^Evening Bulletin.]
At Plogastel, in Britanny, there is living an En
glish physician named Thomas Cart well, aged
eighty-two years, who tells travelers a strange
story, in which he says he figured as a principal au
thor.
On the 5th of May, 1S21, Najioleon the Great died
at Longwood, St. Helena, after causing Sir Hudson
Lowe so much unhappiness that he went crazy, and
returning to England, lost all his fortune in extrav
agant speculation in stocks. The Emperor's last
companions, Bertrand, Montholon, Gourgaud and
Las Cases, immediately made a demand for a phy
sician expert in the science of embalming. Sir
Hudson Lowe, who shrank from no expense, sent a
physician, and Italian named Antomarchi, who
had attended the Emperor when he was troubled
with a sty in the eye. The doctor hastened to his
work, but certain instruments were needed. He
required at least two assistants, etc. Sir Hudson
Lowe made haste to supply all his demands. He
sent a boat to an English frigate, at anchor in the
offing, with a request for two naval surgeons, sup
plied with everything required for the embalming
process.
One of the two persons sent was a youth of twen
ty vears, well educated and full of ambition, and
he was received on the island as Assistant Surgeon
Thomas CartweU. He and his comrade hastened
to assist Dr. Antomarchi. About four in the after
noon of May 6 the work was begun. The corpse of
Napoleon I. was lifted from the little bed where he
had died and placed on a long marble-topped table,
which was still intact when, in 1858, Napoleon III.
bought with Government funds, the small house in
which had died the man whom he persisted in
making the people believe to have been his uncle.
The process of embalming was not finished when
night came and interrupted it. Antomarchi and
his assistants agreed that the completion of it must
be postponed until the next morning. They deter
mined to go to bed and resume their work at day
break. First they covered the Emperor's body
with a white cloth which they sprinkled and satu
rated with certain liquids to prevent putrefaction.
The various internal organs that had beed removed
were placed in metal cups on the operating table.
Then the 1 hree operators went to their rooms and
slept profoundly.
They had hardly been asleep an hour when
Marchand. the valet of the dead Emperer, knocked
at Cartwell’s door, calling out, “Come down, sir,
quick! A great misfortune has just happened.”
“AVhat is it!” said the young surgeon, appearing in
his uniform. “Oh, sir, the Emperor’s heart has
been eaten up by rats!” It was true. The island
was infested with rats. They were as thick as the
English. AVliile Marchand was out of the room
some rats rushed in. and, finding the heart of thi
conquerer of Austerlitz in a basin, had made but i
mouthful of it. The valet, on returning to tl
room, saw them scamper away, and all he could do
was to announce the irreparable loss.
What was to lied me'The physicians met and
consulted. It was impossible to conceal the absence
of the organ that had been eaten up, the operation
of embalming having been begun before witnesses
who had seen it. To confess the accident was to ex
pose Marchand to severe rebuke, and the poor fel
low was already wretched enough. A happy
thought occurred to CartweU. “If we could only
get a sheep’s heart,” he suggested to Antomarchi
with excessive caution. AU the four persons pres
ent looked at one another nervously, hesitated, and
then began to laugh together like four Roman au
gurs. They understood one another. Marchand
ran to a neighboring farm, killed a sheep and
brought back its heart still warm and palpitating.
O11 the next aay, the 7th of May, Antomarchi
and his assistants, in the presence of Gen. Bertrand
and M. de Montholon, finished the embalming of
the Emperor, without any person among his suite
in the least suspecting the extraordinary perform
ance of the night before. If the story is true, and
if the old retired English ex-surgeon of Plogastel is
not a joker, the heart of the sheep of St. Helena has
been resting for thirty-three j ears under the dome
of the Invalides!
never were firmer hearts assembled/’ The officers
commanding the several detachments, were_of
euual rank, but as the force was m Colonel Charles
McDowell’s district, he would m courtesy be enti
tled to the command. There was an objection ho\
ever to Colonel McDowel' ; one which impaired his
canacitv, and one he in all candor and manly frank
ness admitted. His advanced age and inactive
habits were recknizeit by his own good sense and
el(( va «*I%kels i disqualifying him #or the eom-
*nd of aKrfj’lyeditioiL upon the hazzard of whiclj
upended tv,e Liety ofYTesterii North Carolina^
“tjtf&iudced k'%3|ial si-nifiv*Xof uNbther (officers tluj*
sincerest frieleiSiiji and unfit disinterested purpose.
Who that will read the history of our late war with
any care can fall to see thajt personal ambition did
not always give place to the weal of the country.
In order to relieve his associates of all embarrass
ment, Col. McDowell volunteered, to communicate
the plan of attack to General Gates, and turned
over the command of his Burke County partisans to
his brother Major Roliert McDowell, an officer of
undoubted courage and resources.
From AYatauga. the united forces of these parti
sans rangers moved in the direction of the enemy.
The movement of so large a force as the union of
these several detachments inspired confidence
among the mountaineers, who left toeir harvest
fields and domestic duties to join theirt countrymen
in this determined effort to destroy the army of
Ferguson or perish in the attempt. Through" the
kindness of Col. McDowell Tate, of MrlTganton, (an
officer whose gallantry will be remembered by those
of his comrades of the army of A'irginia, who may
read this paper) I have received several interesting
incidents of this inarch, which came to him from a
Mr. John Duckworth, an old veteran of these
memorable days, who died near Morganton at an
advanced age carrying to his grave the battle scars,
and traditional stories of a partisan ranger.
Duckworth had lieen wounded at Ramsour’s mill
and was still suffering from his wound when the
approach of the Partisan band called him from the
seclusion of his home to share with his old comrades
the issues of another conflict. He stated that as the
small army moved along the mountain roads, the
patriot farmers would leave their work in the fields
and in some instances, without a farewell to lov<
ones, would take their horses from the plow .
mounting bare back, withom. blanket or saddle, car
ing only for their rifle) always in easy reach of
them, they would join some chosen leader as if they
had just returned from a furlough or had been re
lieved from some picket duty.
During the march, this small army of determined
heroes was under the command of Colonel AN’m.
Campbell, of A'irginia, a courtesy extended to him
at the suggestion of the gallant Shelby, who thus
recognized an obligation of respect for one who had
come from a distance to aid the Carolinians in this
most important enterprise. When near the “Coic-
pen's,” in South Carolina, further accessions to their
numbers were made by the arrival of Colonel AVil-
liams, with a force of four hundred partisans from
South Carolina. This addition swelled the aggre
gate number of the patriot army to 1S00 men, ac
cording to the official report drawn up and signed
just after the engagement by Campbell, Shelby and
Cleveland. Upon reaching the Cowpens it was as
certained that Ferguson had retreated towards
Broad River and was in camp at the Cherokee
'ord.
It was determined at once to advance and
ttack him, and that there should be no unnec
essary delay nine hundred picked men, well mount
ed, were chosen, leaving the remainder to advance
as rapidly as their condition would ixrmit.
After dispatching a courier to inform Cornwallis
of his situation Ferguson retreated from Broad Riv
er and t(X)k position upon the summit of King’s
Mountain, in the present county of York. He con
sidered this position so advantageous for defence
that in his field order, issued only two days liefore
the 1 wttle, he impiously declared to his troops that
he held a place so strong “that God Almighty could
not drive him from it.”
To the eye of a military engineer the position held
by Ferguson might have been rendered so secure as
to have required the slow approach of a regular
siege to have starved a determined garrison into
submission. To approach the summit of the moun
tain, 011 which Ferguson had drawn up his army of
regular British troops and “Tory” militia, it "was
necessary to pass through a gap, leading towards
the present flourishing town of Yorkville, for a dis
tance of fourteen miles.
Detachments of Sharpshorters could have hung
upon the flanks of an advancing enemy and imped
ed the progress of a Ixxly of mounted men through
this gap while at several points there are command
ing positions which if fortified, would of necessity
require an assault before the colunm could advance.
>n lilt? linujv sm. * **v.^v - — ,
Dowel's unerring riflemen poured into the 1
the British a terrible fire. Ferguson n ith no idea
of defeat resting on his mind, fought with te ,
peration of a lion at bay. . Attacked upon all snles
the fatal circle ever lessening and b, ‘ n ', ,
him a cordon of fire, he placed hunself at the head,
of a few grenadiers and made an attempt to foi^j uils lul .
his wav through the American lines. In this 1.
effort he fell—his body bearing the marks of £*ss maker-,
bullet wounds. The British flag winch had^o receive a
floating over a rude building used as head-qur OIlml( . ]u ied for
was now lowered and the white emblem of e prices. Par-
raised bv Major Dei>eyster. who succeeded, yisit to tlle
command of the British, upon the death otq always look.-d
son 6 e J" es that S av '
The total British force for duty, on tbejfternoon, now
the battle, taken from such official reports might indeed, for
been enabled to examine, amounted to 18'd an ever ready
of which number 650 were regular troops a trusted friend
remainder •‘Tory” militia. ccompamed h. r
The loss of the British from the official; hke a golden
made bv Shelbv. Campbell and Cleveland,
killed. 229 wounded, 13 missing, 659 prison,,,,1 S( >t down.'
15CO stand of arms. , *seologj andgen-
The Americans sustained a loss ot 2s k ,j n after a con-
60 wounded, among the killed Ixiing th^ down where
AVilliams. In this engagement the Ame- > e m. Contrary-
secured not more than eight hundred ett batehin’. and like
and of them not a man had seen otti'ot a particle of moth-
regular service of a partisan or militif> n she is to 'em they
Among the prisoners taken were r
who had rendered themselves espeo- as to their number,
their neighbors by acts of the most < [ Towed to send poor
despicable character. Several of he lot if the pesky ole
outlawed and declared to be pul>li‘. m varmints ami raise
coining within the equities of cm.
There is standing to this day a famovy country lived our
thespot wb-r T-Zrr" nlet iD ea P*d tile *'T iIa ° f
nas been know , 2T a centurj as t he /'harylKli s of moth-
lows.” This o-, d tree ’ looks mde » to turkey^ °i
pm, m T/cfj. dWT-rom t^i^E&VM. a
large limb projects almost at right angles from tiie
trunk, and is so unnaturally long as to apjxar to
have lieen fixed to the body of the tree by artificial
means. This is the “tories gallows,” and upon it. by
order of a “drum head court's marshall." there was
hung, without ceremony, about thirty of those out
laws captured with the troops of Ferguson.
The news of this brilliant victory went from the
mountain top to the valley homes' of the Carolin
ians. and with clarion notes called upon the sons of
freedom to rally for another effort in the cause of
independence.
Had King's Mountain proven to the American
arms as disastrous a defeat as it did to the British.
General Green could not have rallied an army
to oppose the progress of Cornwallis. His lord-
ship would have moved through North Carolina
with no material opposition and have struck the
rear of AVashington's army with the same result t<>
the cause of our struggling colonies as came to Gen.
Lee from the unobstructed march of She:man
through the same territory in 1S65.
Inspired by this glorious victory, those who had
yielded in despair after the defeat of Gen. Gates at
Camden, returned to their commands.
General Davidson was soon enabled to reorga*
ize the State militia, and to gather about the
“Homet's-nest" such a force as to enable General
Green to hold Cornwallis in check.
The dark hour, just preceding the day-spring of
established independence passed and the morning-
star of a new Republic came to our sky amid the
rejoicings of the King's Mountain victory; a star
which was not destined to set in the gloom of an-
oter night, but which was only to lose its brilliancy
in the rising sun of a nation's glorv.
1 f.
LONDON’S LATEST SCANDAL.
The Publisher of 4 Town Talk” Arrested
for Slandering Mrs. Langtry.
The publisher of “Town Talk," one of the so-call
ed “society’’ newspapers of London, has lieen ar
rested for an alleged libelous article upon Airs
Langtry and Mrs. Cornwallis West, well-known la
dies of fashion. The substance of the article con
cerning Airs. Lantry has already been current in
the rumor that her husband had instituted proceed
ings for divorce against her on account of her re
puted association with the Prince of AVales
“Town Talk” comments on the matter usin<*
language of the most vilely suggestive character
There being no responsible editor of “Town Talk ”
the printer was, after some difficulty, found and
taken into custody. He has given Ixmd for his ap
pearance at court when wanted. Much indignation
is expressed by the numerous friends of the assailed
ladies^ at this attack upon their reputation, and
threats of iiersonal violence and punishment were
freely made in connection with the party or par
ties responsible for publishing the slander In oth
er circles the opinion prevails that although the ar
ticles implicating the ladies could not be justified
they themselves had challenged slanderous tongue-
by accepting the anomalous positions they held in
London society. The arrest and its cause are prom
inent topics of convei-sation among fashionable
people, and it is thought that this scandal will cost
pone, if it does not break up, Mrs. Langtrv's con
tern] dated visit to the United Ssates. 6 *
Fees of Doctors.
The fee of doctors is an item that verv manv ar
sons are interested in just at present. AA’e believe
the schedule for visits is $3.00. which would tax
man confined to his bed for a year, and hi need of a
daily visit, over £1,000 a year for medical attend
ance alone! And one single bottle of Hop Bitters
taken in time would save the $1,000 and all the
year’s sickness.—Ed.
Total receipts of butter in Boston since Jan 1
have lieen 599,14O packages, against 519,986 for the
same time last year. Exports for the week have
lieen 7533 packages, against 1I41 for the correspond
ing period of last year. Exports for last week in
cheese were 4968 boxes, against 983 boxes for the
same time last year.