The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-05-07

naue tNe rest prisoners, and took possession {
an tneir arms, stores, provisions &C., withol
any loss on our side TIE enemy having halle
one or two hours at Lexington, found it necessar
10 make second retreat, carrying with then
many of tn cir dead and wounded who thew pu
!h'o chaises and on horses that they found stand
ing IN the road. They continued their retrea
from Lexington the Charestown with great pre
cipitation and, Notwithstanding their field pie
4 ces, our people continued the pursuit, firing
them till they got to Charlestown Neck, (whicl
they reached little after sunset) over which tn
enemy passed, proceeded up Bunker Hill an,
soon afterwards Went into the town, under tn,
protection OF The Somerset man Of war, Of g.
guns. rE.a st'
ain Lexington the enemy set fire to Dea. Jos
eph Lorings house and barn Mrs Mulikens
house and shop; and Mr. Joshua Bonds hous,
ana shop which were all consumed. They
also set ii re TO several other houses but our peo
pie extinguished the flames. They piaged al
most every house they passed by, breaking and
destroying doors, windows, glttsses, S1c.-carry.
ing off clothing and other valuable effects. Il
appeared to be their design 10 burn and destroy
all before them and nothing but our vigo rous
pursuit prevented their internal purposes from
being put in execution. Buttle savage barbara
~ exercised upon the bodies of our unfortunate
brethren who fell, is almost incredible Not con.
tent with shooting down the unarmed, aged, and
infirm, they disregarded the cries of the wound
ed, killing them without mercy, and mangling
their bodies in the most shocking manner. -
I'VE have the pleasure to say, that notwith-
standing the highest provocations given by the
enemy, not one instance of cruelty, that we
have heard of, was committed by our victorious
militia but, listening to the merciful dictates of
the christian religion, they 'breafhed higher sen
timents Of humanity
1.-THE CONSERVATION of the people of Charles
town, when our enemies were entering the town
is inexpressible the troops, however, behaved
toerably civil and the people have since nearly
all left the town.
Here follows list of the Provincials who
were killed and wounded, which is omitted.l
awe have seen an account of the loss of the
enemy, said to have come from an officer ofone
of the men of war by which it appears that
63 OF the regulars, and 40 marines were killed,
and l03 of both wounded in all 2I5 Lieut.
Gould of the 18th Regiment, and Lieut. Potter of
the marines, and about twelve soldiers, are pris-
oners.
"Mr James Howard and one of the regulars,
discharged their pieces at the same instant and
each killed the other!
sour late brethren of Danvers, who fell fight
0The p ib fsT f5s .KeEa uttered with great
the friends and relations of our deceased breth-
ren-who gloriously sacrificed their lives in
figbting for the liberties of their country. BY
their noble, intrepid conduct, in helping TO defeat
the forces of an ungrateful tyrant they have en-
dearcd their memories to the present generation,
who will transmit their names to posterty with
the highest honor"
There is much poetry ia the Indian Mytholo-
gv. In Hoffnan's "Wild Scenes in the Forest
and Prairie" we find the following beautiful le-
gends of the
ORIGIN OF INDIAN CORN
"There is place on the banks of the softly
flowing Unadilla not far from its confluence with
the Susauehannah, which in former years was
an extensive beaver meadow. The short turf
stoned down almost to the brink of the stream,
whose banks in this place nourish nota single
tree to shadow its water. Here, where they
flow over pebbles so smooth and shiny that the
Indian maid who wandered along The margin,
would pause to count over her strings of watn-
pum and think the beads had slipped away,
there came one day some girls to bathe anu
one OF the most beautiful of all, fingered behind
her companions TO gather these bright peDpies
from the bed of the river. A water-spirit, VINO
had assumed the form of musquosh, sat long
watching her from the shore. He looked at her
shining shoulders-at her dripping locks, ana
the gently swelling bosom over which they Tell !
and when,the maid lifted her rounded limbs from
the water, and stepped Eighty upon the green
sod, he too raised himself from the messy nook
where he had been hidden, and recovering
his own shape ran to embrace her. The maid
EN- shrieked and fled, but the euamored spirit
pressed closely in pursuit, and the meadow al
fording no shr ub nor covert to screen her from
her eager pursuer, she turned again towaads the
stream she had left, and made for spot where
the wild flowers grew tall and rankly by the
moist margin The spirit still followed her; and
frightened and fatigued, the igirl would have
sunk upon the ground as ihe approached, had
she not been supported by a tuft of flags while
hastily Selling and twining them around her per-
son to hide her shame. In that moment her
slender form grew thinner and more rounded !,
her feet became ndurated in the loose soil that
opened to receive them (; the blades OF the rag
broadened around her fingers, and enclosed her
hand; while the pearly pebbles that she held,
resolved themselves into milky grains, which
were kept together by the plated hust. The
baffled water-spirit sprang to seize her by me
sillken ,assels of the rustling maize was all that
met his grasp"
BE CarefaL.-A woman in Darlington a few
days ago, in preparing beet, for boiling, which
measured thirty inches in circumference, dis
covered on cutting it open in the middle, large