American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-03-05
FROM" The May Flower for 1861
ETTE, THE HEIR ESS
OR, THE FORAGING PARTY.

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M ETTE, THE EIRESS +;
OR, THE FORAGING PARTY.
TALE OF THE LAST WAR.
By J. II. Mgraham
LConcluded.l
"Well tomorrow, too shall march to the
leasure Of pipe and drum | will enlist as
uvate and make my way up. Annette shall
e won."
He paused, thinking he heard the sound Of
airs. He looked seward, but the twilight ren-
ered objects too obscure to detect any boat APP
roachng. Yet each moment the fall Of the
weeps came clearer and nearer and he soon
MAS enabled to discover a barge pulling in to-
yards the bridge. His position, in the shadow
f an oyerhanging limb, shielded him from OBJ
ervation He saw that the boat contained at
east twenty men. 1t moved slower as it drew
nearer land, and person standing up in the
tern directed its landing. 1t struck the shore
close by the bridge within the inlet and al
Kl1ost beneath where he stood the party debark-
~. He now saw that half of them were sea-
4 fen and half marines, and that all were arm
xed. They were commanded by young mid
hipman, who forming them into column,
marched them up the bank and on the bridge.
Edward, as they came near, drew himself up
nto the limb, and was concealed by its foliage,
while he observed with surprise their stealthy
movements.
elbow far is the grist mill, hence, Sambo?"
asked the young officer, looking about him af-
ter all his party had got on the bridge, save
man to guard the boat.
''The first mill am 'hout third Of mile
up de creek, and the tother one, where the
most grst be, is mile. There is a good path
along the creek shore" answered man, in
the true Yankee negro intonation, but speak
ing with manifest reluctance.
"If you deceive me, darkie, you are dead
mani" said the MILDLY, very positively.
81 knows dat we'll huff, so ! tells you de
truth, tho | hate to nightly. | knows all
bout dis place COZ / used to lib here once
ODER dar is whar Squire Harwood live, and
ober dat way am widdur Ogilyie, an | wish
dis niger was safe in dar kitchen. | never
go cook agen in Boston ship, nor no oder one
alter being taken pris'ner by the British, as |
am dis time! | wish may neber see blue wa
ter agen, if gets my liberty dis time!"
"Hist with your noise, each OF you march
forward in silence. We are in an enemy 3
country, and must be cautious"
eyes, | guess you BETTER" said the negro,
sulkily. "If de country people know'd you was
~skulkin here arter corn, and flour, and sheep,
and oxes, to keep from starvn' to death, as we
have been week past, they be round as thick
as snakes in de grass, and debbe one OBJ you
get back to your boat? So, | advise you, mas
sa, to keep sharp eye to wndward! Guy! how
mad all on 'em be in de mornin,' when
dey find out you land here in a prize-ship wild
on'y two guns aboard and thirty men, n' carry
off clear to Halifax de grist from desc two
mills, and sheep, and turkeys, too, for de lieu.
tenants dinner! Dey sware den, and expec
de Squire swore enuff for whole regiment"
"ForwardG' cried the mddy. "Silence, all
of you, and advance swiftly and with eau.
tion!"
They filed off the bridge, and taking the patti
along which the negro led the way, they were
soon lost to the sight of Edward in the gloom
of the overhanging banks of the creek.
These men, then are English" he reflected
as he let himself down upon the bridge; "tht
vessel is prize, bound to Halifax, with mid
shipman and two-and-thirty men-twenty herr
and ten remaining on board! My course Is de
cided on! 1t will take then an hour to visi
both mills. Half of that time is enough for me
shall know where to seek the militia party
with the fife and drum; and if can find TWEEN
ty brave men among them to put themselve
under my orders, W II win Annette before 10
morrow's sun rise!n
AS he spoke, he glided noiselessly away fron
the bridge, and, after getting beyond hearing
of the man in the boat, he flew like the win,
y across the meadow in the direction of VIVA
was called the "Cross Road, cluster of vii
u fage habitations, the principal Of which was
large country tavern where he knew he shou
find assembled many of the militia-men VIII
had borne part in the review in the neigh5or
ing town. This inn was about half mile dis
tant from the bridge, on road in the rear
Squire Harwood's farm, across which, leapin
fence after fence, Edward Ogilvie was now fly
ing with the speed ola deer.
The tavern, as he came near, was so que
that he feared that the men he sought had lei
for their respective homes. Seeing light i
the tap, however, no hoped yet to find som
persons assembled there. Through the window:
as he approached the door, he saw that the ba
room was nearly filled with men. The nez
moment he was in their presence. His mar
ner was Invested Of all excitement, and spir
calm and resolute beamng from his eyes,
There were at least twenty men in the apar
ment, most of them with knapsacks and bayc
net-belt upon their persons, and some leanin
upon their muskets; while the guns of the re-
of the party were stacked in corner of til
room. Some of them were smoking, othe
drinking and all listening to a long warn toI
by one of the party, of certain exploits by hin
self, personally performed at the battle (
PlattsbuIg.
On Edwards entrance, the landlord first NJ
ticed him.
"Ah-so you can enter a tavern on trai
ing day, MIR. Ogilve; glad to see you. Thouq
you are not much of fighting man, Iii
you for your brothers. sake, who are all ser