The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-01-07


SKY. Bot foremost Of all rode Preston and
bis ssrceant; while their terr0r-supek enc
uies around them vehtdown, afeVery sweep
q theE god swords. like grain on a harvest
Geld.
The royal troops broke in every direction.
The officers seeing resistance was vain before
30 hesdlong a charge, turned also to seek
safety in flight Col. Campbell. however,
seemed disposed to stand his ground, but
Macdonald, riding his powerful sleed against
him, bore him doWa. and the next instant
the commandsnt, 10 save his life, yielded
himself a prisoner. i was at this moment
that MAJOR Lindsay saw, Tor the first time,
the face Of Preston. With an oath, Kissed
between his teeth, he snstched a fre-lOck
from = dead soldier beside him, and pointed
it at our hero, who, not peTeeiving him, he
would infslibly have fallen, but THAI his
narae, EIercd in a shrek by Kate, arrested
bis ear, and turning he beheld his enemy,
who was almost in a line with the window,
whence the warning had been heard. The
lightning thai riyes the oak is not quicker
thai was the blow from Preston's sabre.
Down. right on the head of his adversary,
descended the heavy steel, crashing through
the skull as if it had been SO much paper;
and with that blow, the soul of the william
and assassin went to its long account.
Kate saw no more. She scarcely indeed
saw that. She only knew that her lover had
been warned in time and had escaped for
her father now foreibly drew her in, and shut
The perilous easement, around which the
pistol balls were rafting like hail. 1t was
then she swooned away.
The rest of that night is matter of History
The town was, for awhile wholly in The
hands OF the assailants, and the victory would
have been complete bus for some misappre-
hensien in the hour at which the different
detatebments were to attack, which enabled
a part OF thr enemy to gain their garrison.
where they were too strongly entrenched tc
be taken without artillery. The assailants
accordingly retired after having captured the
town, and made Col. Campbell their prisoner
Preston had heard Hates voice, and, leav-
ing his lieutenant to pursue the fugitives,
sought her out Immediately. His were the
eyes she first looked on when she recovered
frome her swoon. Her glad surprise, or his
own 10y to find her still his own when he had
feared their arrival was too late we must
leave to the imagination of the reader 1t
was one of those scenes human language is
too feeble to portray.
When. toward daybreak, Marion gave or
ders Tor the town to be evacuated. Kate,
so lately ta%intins and heart-broken took hel
rlaao an, hnpcDhaaE { hat u-r,op bnr f,tbor md
and Preston, almost as rosy looking and hap
py as ever. Aspectator could scarcely have
recognized in her the pale and dropping lily
of the evening before.
Mr.. Mowbray, on hearing the sacrifice
which his daughter would have made for his
Lille, betrayed the deepest emotion. He pres
sed her to his bosom, but could not speak,
betraying a look of gentle reproach in his
face, which Kate answered with a look Of
unutterable love.
In a few weeks she became the wife of oul
hero. She would have pleaded for delay
but her father said he was uncertain how Ions
his life might be continued. and that he
wished to see her have a protector before h
lied, so Kate yielded to his wishes.
m|dcuoudlu ulu uoG, IKE his uldSteT, NV
TO see the war concluded. He fell shortly afte
The attack on Georgetown, leaving behinC
him the reputation Of being one OF the mos
gallant soldiers Of the time.
As for old Jacob, he survived to dandlo
the children Of Kate and Preston on his knee
He had nor only taken part in the fight a
Georgetown, batquite distinguished himself
having slain an English soldier in singh
combat. On this feat he was accustomed tt
diIate with much self co mplacency. He al
ways wound up the story with these words
Ale tried nc W to run me through with hi
bayonet, but it was OF no use, you see. d.
sergeant had larned me his back handed
stroke. and I~broughtit around jist So" suit
;ng the action to the word. ovid hat he fel
dead and s~uspendered his breath"