Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-05-11
From the Southern 4 ir0cate.
THE T0RVS plTGHTER.

"My dear father, do not go out tonight
upon this perilous undertaking as you pro-
pose. My heart sinks within me, as
think of the danger to which you will be
exposed and the suffering you will endure.
Something tells me that its termination
will be disastrous, if not fatal. You say
that you have testified your re ediness for
the expedition. Well, be it so-frame
some excuse for the n-fulilment of your
engagement, and let some other one sup
ply your place. But at any rate, do not
leave me tonight
Thus pleaded lovely girl, as weeping,
she chung around the neck Of her only sur
viving parent. Oliver Morton was rather
past the middle stage of life. His natural
disposition was mild, gentle and amiable,
but by a series of troubles and vexations,
it had become soured and he was very
often grabbed towards ell but his only
daughter, who was the pride of his life
and the olitc ct Of much tender solicitude.
The time at which our story. commences
was the year 1892, when large bodies of
"torics,'' as they were called, were rava-
ging the states of North and South Caro-
lima. MIR. Morton, like many of his delu-
ded countrymen, had taken up arms in the
defence oil the unlawful claims of the Brit.
ish King; but, unlike that class, denom-
mated 'tories," had done so from sense
Of duty. Being remotely descended from
one OF the noblest houses in "England's
realm," aud having been taught that deep
reverence for the "blood royal which is
so characteristic of "Britain's sons" he
could not, for one moment, harbor the idea
of fighting against his rightful lord and
master. From the comforts of his home,
and the quiet enjoyment OF domestic life,
he had been called upon the arena of civ
il strife; nor for one moment did he shrink
from what he conceived to be his duty,
although it was with many a pang that he
contemplated the almost orphan state OF
his only daughter, who was then fifteen
years of age. He was a captain under
Major Ferguson, the commandant of the
tory recruits in those states. The duty
which he was now about to perform, was
one of considerable Importance 10 the
royal cause, and one requiring energy
and resolution. Accordingly, Captain
Merton, on account of a combination of
such qualities was chosen for the com.
mand. The plan ofthe expedition was as
follows:
Information had been received that a
detachment of patriot forces was returning
to General Marion's encampment, then
on the Great Pedee river near the boun-
dairy between North and South Carolina,
with supplies of provisions. clothing, &C.,
Cor the sustenance of his army, which had
been furnished principally by our own
patriotic country women, whoSpartan.hke
disdained not, with their own hands to
assist, by every means in their power, to
forward the glorious cause of American
| freedom. The instructions of captain
Morton were to intercept, ifpossible. this
band, at place called Goodwin's Ferry,
about 20 miles from the camp of Major
Ferguson, where it was supposed they
would halt for the night. The precise
number of their force was unknown. but
| il was supposed not TO exceedone hundred.
Accordingly, Capt. Morton was ordered to
take a like number of effective men and
to spare no pains nor labor in effecting
the end in view. AS he now stood just
on the eve Of departure, with Isabella
clinging to his neck, and heard her as she
lbesought him mot TO 60 out tonight" be