Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-08-16

me regiment of well grown boys
from fifteen TO nineteen. Nothing
can withstand their charge. Boys
bound and leap over the ground as
if they were at play, and dash at
any thing without thought, like SO
many blind pups. For hard fight
in the street, for headlong rush,
give me the boys.-They are perfect
imps for fight,
This boy some weeks before had
leaped fence and climbed para
pet some hundred yard ahead of his
company, and was taken prisoner,
though not without killing three
Mexicans and wounding the Colonel
before he gave in. His mother, a
widow, (though lady, and why not?)
heard of it, and as he was her only
son, yearned for his release. She
had no money, no influential friends.
Suddenly she recollected that she
was Mason's widow-hope was
lighted up IN her bosom at the thougt,
and she dried her tear. She said,
l will test the talismanic power of
the order my husband loved and re-
vered SO highly"
There was movement of inter
est with the listeners. Grave gentle
men drew nearer and gave closer at
tention, doubtless being of the order
themselves. The soldier, evidently
gratified by the size and eagerness
of his encircling audience, resumed
his narrtive.
She sold some little articles of val
ue, and with the money she reached
Washington city; she reached the
Secretary of the War Department
on foot and dusty. with great diff
Guilty she obtained audience with the
great man. for our big secretaries are
as big lords as English lords are, on,
ly wanting the title. A poor soldier
or poor. woman stands poor
chance with quality.
swell, ma'm," said he, crustily, as
she entered and he saw how dusty
she looked-but when she removed
her veil, and he saw that she was
lady-like and hand handsome too, he
half arose and pointed to a chair
Well, she told him of her sons can
ture, and that she wanted to 20 to
him.
IL cannot help you, main. Very
expensive! He will be EXCHANGED
by and by. Better wait"
You can help me to a passport,
SIR" she said, nothing daunted.
"Ofconrse; they cannot refuse that
to you at the Secretary Of States
Office. You say you are poor. How
DO you expect to pay the expenses
ofa journey to Mexico? 1t is visi
onary scheme. Good morning MAIN
"Sir, if you could recommend me
to the care ofthe officer in command
OF the regiment that sails from Balti-
move"
Impossible, ma'am." To the page
in waiting) "Who did you say wait
ed!-tell him ] am at leisure"
care you Mason?" said the wild
ow to the Secretary, making sign
for the page to delay.
"Yes, ma am"
81 am a Mason's widow. NV
son is Mason's son. / appeal TO
you, sir, in that capacity, and by the
honor and truth of your honorable
order," said the widow firmly.
The Secretary's manner at once
changed to one of courteous interest.
''Stay," he said to the page. Take
a seat, ma'am."
And FROM that moment, the affairs
of the widow took quite new turn.
The Secretary gave her politely
writtennote to the Secretary of State,
who in turn, gave her.a letter TO the
commandant at New Orleans, to
furnish her a free passage to Vera
Cruz. The lodges, at the instigation
OF the Secretary, advanced her three
hundred dollars, and the widow left
Washington ON her mission. The
stage agent, who was at Pittsburgh,
on her showing him letter which
the Grand Master furnished her with,
(but which she could not herself read,
1T being written ina mysterious cy-
pher, but she knew it was potent,(
would not receive anything for her
passage. The captain of the steam
boat at Pittsburgh had no sooner de-
ciphered it, than he gave his best
state-room, and her passage free to
New Orleans, so that when she
reached there, she had two hundred
and ninety dollars Of her three hun
dred left.
Here she waited on Gen. -----.-.-
IN command of the station, who in
structed Col. WHO had tho
charge of forwarding the troops to
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