Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-10-29

| sour band is few, but true and tried
Our leader frank and bold;
The British soldier trembles
Wien Marion's name is told.
Our fortress is the good green wood,
Our cent the cypress tree,
We know the forest round US,
| AS seamen know the sea.
Wo TO the English soldierv
| That little dream US near;
On them shall light at midnight
! A strange and sudden ear."-BRYANr.
THE family of Mr. Newton were as
sembled in the little parlor where they
were accustomed to spend their evenings
Mr. Newton himself, venerable gentle
man from the old school, was silently
reading stray English newspaper, his
wife, matron but a few years younger,
sa. engaged with her knitting, as was then
fashionable; and their only surviving child
a beautiful girl of nineteen, and the pledge
of their old age, occupied herself with a
rare piece of embroidery, such as would
put to shame the boosted needle work of
our own day. Suddenly the door opened,
and the gray, woolly head of the old but
Ter was thrust in.
"A note for Missus Emily said he as
he presented il 10 her on small silver
waiter.
The young lady arose. but the instan,
she saw the superscrip,ion of the note,
her face became of dea,hly pallor.-
Struggling, however to conceal her emo
ton, so that i, should not be percepllble
to her parents, she walked with firm
step out into the hall, and pausing beneath
the great lamp which hung in the,passage
tore open the note with trembling fingers,
and began eagerly to read it.
The contents whatever they were pow
erfully agitaied the reader; and she was
forced to lean against the banister of the
; staircase to prevent falling.
Shall bring you glass Of water!
pec,ful distance while she read the note
She started, for she had not been aware
of his presence, and gasped for breath a.
if about to speak. With an effort sh,
, asked
'Who brought this note, Johnson'
1T was lief, here by horseman,' h,
said in whisper. Il believe-I am pos
tive it was one of Capt. Elwyn's men
3 He told me what had happened. and beg
> ged me 10 deliver the note TO you imme
diately.'
Emily paused before she replied. Th
period Of our story was that dark an
s. melancholy era in the history of the rev
olulion. when CORVALLIS, having overru
South Carolina, had expressed his deter
mination to ex,inguish the last spark c
|, rebelion--a period when to be suspecte
of being patriot was almost certain ruiz
and when such Of the Wings as fell in,
the hands of royallsis power expiate
;, their offence with life. The note in Eu
iy's hand informed her that he TO whoi
= she was belrothed had been captured b
the royalists, and was to be executed c
l. the succeeding day. Well, therefor
nigh, poor Emily trembe. But her wea
ness was only momen,ary. She knew
would be useless to apply to her paren
Al in this emergency. The age Of her fat
err had kept him neutral hitherto, al
X Emily was unwilling to compromise hi
now, and by so doing, endanger his lii
Every other consideration connected wi
:, her situation also passed before her.
few minutes her plan was resolved o
and il was one that called for all her e
ergy and high resolve to execute.
Emily, however, was woman
is, shrink at no common obstacles in t
cause Of those she loved. And ferventl
Hol oho I
gallant and courageous Captain Elwy
They had been acquainted from chi
, hood, the father Of Capt. Elwyn havi
resided on plantation contiguous to Il
of Mr. Newton. On the breaking out
~ the war of Independence, the young m
had entered the American army, and
= father dying shortly before the fall
Charleston, Capt. Elwyn's estate
II since been confiscated by the royal q
eminent. Emily had been long secre
s. engaged to The active yonng partisan,
her father, though he had consented to
betrothal, had refused to assent to
nuptas until the termination of the W
Such was the condition of circumstan
- when this note was put into Emil
nan0S. ne mlSSlVe was Written Dy
S: of the troop of mounted volunteers VIII
Elwyn had raised on his own responsil
ty after the fall of Charleston. In ha
words the note Informed her that. on
preceding evening, detachment Of II
force had been assailed by superior M
bers, most of them slain and their lea
= made prisoner. The writer had W
oNs difficulty escaped. He had fingered |,
enough in the enemy's post whittier C
tain Elwyn had been carried, to learn
N the young officer, after hasty exami
~ lion, had been ordered to be hung
traitor on the ensuing day. Lost to
hope, he had suddenly though, of n
Newton. whose be,rolhal to his leader
r. was one of the few cognizant of, and
- written and delivered this note, a
and which he had made the best of his ,
out of the perlous neighborhood.
Johnson she said, looking sUDDE
- up, syou did right in not alarming my
rents. Say nothing to them of this.
80, go quietly and saddle two horses. one
me and one for yourself. Come for
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