The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-10-11
From the work of M Ele the Women Of the Revolution
AN INCIDENT OF THE REVOLU-
TION,
RAG Hell WELL.

stopped al the house of Doctor Caldwell,
faint and worn with fatigue, to ask supper
and lodging for the night. lie announced
himself an express bearing dispatches from
Washington to Gen. Greene, then IN the
Pedee river. He had imagined that IL
would be free from danger under the roof
ofa minister of the gospel, but Mrs. Cah-
we'll soon undeccived him upon this pnirt.
She alone, her husband was an objec1 Of p.
cuIlar hatred TO the tories, and she cn'dd
not tell the day nor hour when an attack
might be expected. Should they chance
to hear Of the traveller. and learn that he
had important papers. he would certainly be
robbed before morning. She said he should
have something to cat directly but advised
hun to seek some safer place Of shelter n
the night.
This intelligence so much alarmed the
stranger that Ills agitation would not permit
him to eat. But short time had passed be-
fore voices were heard without, with cries of
"surround The houseI' and the dwelling was
presently assailcd by body of Toriss.-
With admirable calmness Mrs. Caldwell!
bade the stranger follow her, and led him
out at The opposite door. A large locust
tree stood close by, and the night was SO
dark that no object could he discovered a.
midst its clustering foliage. She bade him
climb the tree. thorny as il was. and con-
ceaI himself until tho men should be engaged
in plundering the house. He couI! then
descend on the ohcr side and trust to flight
for safety. The house was pillaged, as she
had expected but The express made his es-
cape, TO remember with gratitude the wo-
man whose prudence had saved him with
the loss Of her property.
One liltle lincldent is characteristic.
Among such articles as the housewife es-
pecially prizes, Mrs. Caldwell had all cle-
CANT table cloth which she valued as the
gilt of her mother. While the Tories or
one occasion were in her house collecting
r,umuvr, WV tIIeIII urUKe open HsssCTIeSt
or drawer which contained it,and tirewaout
the table cloth. Mrs. Caldwell seized and
held it fast. determined not to give up her
treasure. Whens le found that her rapacious
enemy would soon succeed in wrestling ii
from her unless she could make use "i sone
other than muscular strength to prevent hn,
she turned to the other men. of the party,
whose attention had been attracted by The
struggle, so that they had gathered around
her.
Still keeping her hold on the table cloth,
she appealed 10 them with all a woman's
cIoqnence, asking iisome Of them had no,
wives or daushsers for whose sake they
would interfere and cause her to be treated
with more civily. A small man, who stood
at the distance of few feet, presently step.
ped up, with tears in his eyes, and said that
he had wfc-a fine woman she was too;
and that he would not allow any rndHness to
be practised towards Mrs. Caldwell. Ills
interference compelled the deprcd,tpr to
restore the valued article.
PERSECUTION OF TIE Jews. =. In the prov.
ince of Alsace. the merciless perecutIon oI
this unhappy race continued unabaled. The
Alsacien of Nav 81. says that no Jew dare
show himseIfn the street. Many WIN had
attempted to escape to a Swiss village III
the neighborhood. had been waylaid, robbed
and cruel iIl-trcated. One entire family
was thrown overheard, and hundreds were
murdered and lheir property plIlagcd. The
mob was perfectly furious, and paid no at
ten,ion to the police VIII" were in attendance
nominally 10 keep ordcr---while houses
were torn down and whole families murder
cd without Tile slightest Interference. Per
sons in disguise had been travelling through
the villages melting the people, to a crusade
against the JewS-.and the Mayors, though
most certainly aware of the movement, hae
made no effort to check it. The hlSacIef
also gives many particulars of the barbaron'
cruelty practised by the people in mass
againS, the miserable descendants of Abra
ham In Switzerland, too, though they have
rcfrained from open acts violence. vet the!
have instituted a proceeding which vii
cause more suffering among them than an!
mere mob could do, VIZ: the deliberate ban
ishment of every Jew from the cantons %
the countrywide one--lhat of NcufchaleI
which has nobly stood its ground, and op
posed decree SO disg'acefuI TO The nation
vOnShIre.
1t happened rather singularly, however
that soon af,crwarl her mother arrived, II
good health, in London, for the purpose
visiting her, and was astonished to hear
her absence under such circumstances
This led to inquiry, which resulted in the dis
coverv that the missing pair were together
intending to take flight t" America. Wa
Ter. the husband, who was the wOrk-hnuS
schooI.mas,er. had nosnpportunity of obser'
ing any Of these movements. being prison
er in the House of Correction for mIsle
mcanor. While he was under examnat'o
before The magistrate, hc received all exec
lent character for general good conduc
from the master of the work house, Mr.. Bs
con. who thus during The husbands lncar;el