The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1849-03-13
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| shaped black board, surmounted BY a crown,
and bearing the large lelterod words, /" Po-
LICE STATloN.' t'l3'lfy N3<s y -
The two horseman Numbered at tho door
with the butt-ends Of the'r pistols, and
shouted with might and main. "A nightcap-
ped head issued from a cbanber easement
with sWhat is the mattet?" and the quick
and loud reply was, "oal with the police!
out with all your strength, and lose not "a
moment Mr. Tiizgibbin, Of sporeen.s is
shot al his own door. Hasten or ste viliaitis
will have escaped" f''
The easement was hastily clapped TO, and
the two horsemen galoped up the long
broad street; heads, full Of terror, ever and
anon thrust from upper windows, to inquire
the cause of tina, rapid galloping, but ever
too late. The two men held their hcadlong
way up steep outside Of the town, where
stood vast range Of buildings, overlooking
The whSlo place. n wns the batsacks.--
Here the alarm was given; tho iiiessage de-
livered, and back sped The messcn gers, stop.
ping 10 answer none Of the scores of ready
inquiries from open windows as they gallop-
ed through the streets. 7@Na
In less than an hour moHhted troop Uf
police in olive green costume, with pistols
at holsters, sword by side, and caibine oh
the arm, were trotting biskly ou, Of tbe
town, accompanied by the lwv fiesseneers,
whom they were plying with eager questions
These answered, and sundry inprecaiiohs
uttered, they mended their pace. and went
mile after mile by hedgerow and open moor
land, talking as they went. But far before
they reached The house ST Sporeen. and near
the village where the two Irish horsemat
had halted the evening before, they drew up
and formed themselves into a more ORDERLY
array. A narrow gul.ey was before them on
the road, henmcd in on each side BY rocky
sleeps, here and there overgrown with
bushes. The commandant babe them be Oh
their guard, for there might be danger there,
and he was right, for the moment they es-
sayed to trot through The pass, the flsl, and
rattle OF firearms from the thickets above,
saluted them, followed by "a wild yell, and
several of their number lay deed Or dying
on the road. The Ere was returned prompt.
y by the police, but il was al random, for
no one vas TO be seen ;but another discharge
and another howl announced that the iayssi.
BILE enemy were still there. The head of
the police commanded his troop to make a
dash through The pass, for there was ho seal.
ing the heightsrfon mis- side, the wafy as
sa!ants having purposcly posted themselves
there, because al the foot OF the eminence,
on either side of the road, stretched impass.
able bogs. The troops dashed forward, but
were met by so deadly discharge as threw
them into confusion, killed and wounded
several OF their horses, and made them hast.
lily retreat. There was nothing for it but
awaiting the arrival of the soldiery, which
were not long before the clat;er Of their
horses' hoois and the ring of their sabres
were heard on the road. On coming up,
and learning the state Of the case, the police
were ordered to keep the pass on this side,
and the troop ofcavalry, firing right and left
on the hill side, dashed forward in the same
instant, ard cleared the gully in safety. In
fact, there was no return Of single shot,
The arrival of this strong force had warned
the insurgents TO decamp. The cavalry in
full career rounded the hills, and spurring
tier horses up to their backs, were soon on
their SUBMITS. Not foe, however, was to
be seen, except one or two dying men, who
were discovered by the groans. The moon
had Leen quenched in dense mass Of
clouds, that now blew up in storm; but the
heron soaring over the desert, could see grov
coated men flying in different directions 10
the shelter Of the neighboring hills.
The next day he was startled from his
dreamy reveries by the moorland stream, by
the shouts and gallop of mingled police and
soldiers, as they gave chase TO a couple Of
haggard, baIe-headed, and painting peasants.
They were soon captured, and were at once
recognized as belong to the evicted inhabi-
lants Of the recently destroyed village
There was plenty of work in store for the
hue and cry, for apprehensious, trials, and
hangings.
But since then years have rolled OH. The
heron, who lad been startled in his quiet
haunIs by these things, was still dwelling on
hislofiy tree by the hall of Sporeen.---
Whether Providence had given him capac-
i'y to comprehend anything Of this nature We
know not, though wha, ponderings and spec.
ulations may occupy the lone hours of q
grave, lone creature of the desert. who can
tell2 He had reared family after family as
spring after spring came round, in that airy
lodgment, but no family had ever ienap.ed
that noble and once happy mansion since
that fatal night. The distracted widow and
sorrowlul children had fed from it, SO soon
as the murdered husband and father had
been laid in the grave. The nettle and tho