Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-05-10

victor, and as such, with the permission
of this worthy assembly, you receive
from my hand the prize you have so wei!
and SO honorably won.
The youth sprang forward and grasp,
ed his hand with gratitude, and the next
moment Anrette was weeping from pure
Joy upon his shoulders. The welkin rung
with the acclamations of the delighted
villagers, and amid the temporary excite
ment produced by this act, the stranger
withdrew from the crowd, mounted his
horse, and spurred at "a brisk trot through
the village.
Thatnight Harry and Annette were
married, and the health of the niyste-
rious and noble hearted stranger was
drunk in oyerfowing bumpers of rustic
beverage.
In process of time, there were born
unto the married pair sons and daugh-
tiers, and Harry Carroll had become
Col. Henry Carroll Of the revolutionary
army. One evening, having just return
ed home after hard compaign, he was
sitting with his family on the gallery of
his handsome country house, when an
advance courier rode up and announced
the approach of General Washington and
suite, informing that he should crave his
hospitality for the night. The necessary
directions were given in reference to the
household preparations, and Col. Carroll,
ordering his horse, rode forward to meet
and escort to his house the distinguished
guest, whom he had never yet seen, al
though serving i'll the same widely exten-
deo army.
That evening, at the table, Annette
now become the digpified, matronly, and
still handsome Mrs. Carroll, could not
keep her eyes from the face of her illus
trious visitor. Every moment or two
she would steal glance at his command
ing features, and half-doubtingly, half
assuredly, shake her head, and look
again, to be still more puzzled Her abb
sencc of mind and embarrassment at
length became evident to her husband,
who inquired affectionately if she were i'll.
Il suspect, Colonel said the general,
who had been some time, with quiet,
meaning smile, observing the lady's GU
rious and puzzled survey of his features
that Mrs. Carroll thinks sherecogni-
zes in me an old acquaintance And he
smiled with mysterious air, as he gazed
upon both alternately.
The Colonel started, and faint mem
ory of the past seemed to be revived as
as he gazed, while the lady rose impul-
sively from her chair, and bending ca
gerly forward over the tea-un, with
clasped hands, and an eye OF eager in
quiry, fixed still upon him, stood for a
moment with her lips parted as if she
would speak.
Pardon me, dear madam pardon me
colonel--I must put an end TO this scene,
] have become, by dint of camp fare and
hard usage, too unwieldy to leap again
twenty-five feet one inch, even for so fair
bride as one wot Of
The recognition, with the surprise, de-
light and happiness that followed, are
left TO the imagination of the reader.
General Washington was indeed The
handsome young leaper, whose mystic
rious appearance and disappearance in
the native village of the lovers is still
traditionary-and whose claim to a sub
stahtial body of bane .tfde flesh and blood,
was stoutly contested by the village
story-tellers, until the happy denouement
which took place at the hospitable man
sion of Colonel Carroll
a Water Spoutin tie Pacifc.--T
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser copies
the following from the manuscript of
pamphlet which is about to be published
in that city, entitled, California as saw
it, the author of which is returned adj
venturer:
When off the Mexican coast, we had a
fine view of that natural but imperfeetly
understood phenomenon water SPOUT
which, in several respects, was new,
even to the old experienced seamen on
board. It was clear, warm morning,
with variable breezes, that scarcely
ruffled the surface of the ocean. At q
distance of about one hundred rods 10 the
westward, suddenly there was disturb
ing Of the smooth water--within an area
of perhaps hundred feet; it at first boil
ed and foamed, thena spray of yapor
arose from the turmoil, which had soon a
focus in its centre, around which it whirl
ed in spiral form upward, as we often
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