The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1853-04-06

lfgi~ss performance Of his duties. fsI
Juba Was consistently pioas He MAS
also shrewd and ready in every emer.
gency. and Mrs ssewart frlt that he
would save her. even al the peril Of
his life.
Juba. even while speaking. had
seized her hand and dragged her to-
ward the staircase. But now gust Of
wird drove such volumes of thick,
black snake toward them. that she
was almost sufIncafed. and she pansrd,
unable To proceed. Ii was not time
TO hesitate. 50 Juba. saaiching her in
his arms as he would child, and drag
ging the cover entirely over her face,
dashed into the railing volumes el
smoke. aud down the great staircase.
lie was not moment too soon.
Scarcely had he reached the botrom.
followed by the afirighted maids. be-
iore the passage was closed entirely by
dense wall Of flame. Neither he nar
the female servants, indeed, ESCAPED
entirely unhart. But the table cover
eiies tuaIly protected Mrs. Stewart.
Juba had scarcely, however. placed
his mistress safely on the lawn, before
she started up. crying. "where is the
babys Who has seen the chlIds 0h.
il is in the huuse YETI Aud she
woulh have rushed toward the blazing
door way il she had not been insasntly
and lorcibly detained.
The servants looked at each other in
dismay. nthe suddenness with which
the conaagration had spread, and in the
excitement of their mistress danger.
uobody had thought Of the child. Ii was
an only one, boy about two years old,
who slept with his nurse. or nanny"
as She was called in the household, in
a back room in tie upper story. Mrs.
Stewards first thought. ON her escape,
had been to look for darling; and bat
for this the absence OF the-child might
haze been even longer overlooked.
The servants, we say, looked at each
other in dismay. The hallof the house
vas sew all in flame, the FIRE pour
ing out through the doorway as from
the mouth Of furnace. so that Ngress
by that path was impossible. Mos: Of
the.,second story was also burning, and
the entire first floor, for the conllagra-
tion had broken out there originally
To reach the apartment where the
nurse, probably paralyzed by terror,
was still with the child, seemed out ol
the question entirely.
But there was one there who deter
mined to make the attempt. The sigh
of the mothers face, anu the sound o
her broken means, as she sank into tn,
arms of those who restrained her, ex
hausted by her struggles TO escape, de
termined Juba to tly at least to rescue
his young master.
81 viii go, missus," he said, "doh't
cry no'more."
lie looked around, as he spoke, fol
some means of scaling the second story
There was no ladder and only on,
stair ase, but the bough Of an orna
mental tree, that oyershadowet th,
house, fortunately held out means q
access to bold heart and strong arm
] Not stopping even to hear his mistress
thanks, he clambered up the tree, raj
out on the limb, and dropping on th'
roof disappeared within the dwelling.
/. How brcathless were the moment
that ensued The flames were spread
ing with trightful rapidity. The caves O
the building began to smoke, shown,
that the fire within had reached TIL
roof, and soon after the whole line o
them flashed into conilagration. Mean
time the lurid elemept poured ou
from the windows, ran upward lickin,
. the combuslible front, and streamed il
a waving, dazzling pyramid. high ove
the top OF the mansion, far into the blu
firmament. Millions of sparks, accom-
panied by volumes of rolling smoke
, safled down the sky before the breeze
completely obscurlng the heavens a
| intervals, tho6sh occasionally this thicl
canopy partially blowing aside. tn
clam moon was seen peacefully shinin
, down through the rent, in strange col
+, trast to the otherwise terrific seen,
. The roar oi the conilagrationhal now b;
!. come intensely loud and, to add to tn
: horror, there beganto be heard the aw
) ful sound Of timbers falling within til
house.
E Mrs. Stewart had watched che fir
! in silence, her hands clasped, an
i lips parted, ever since Juba had disaE
: peared within the house. Each mt
ment appeared an age to her. At la'
5 the suspense, thus lengthening out il
d terminably, as it seemed, became in
e tolerable.
e "0a! il is in vain," she cried, max
e ing new effort to rush into the flames
: .'he cannot find my boy. Let me 6
) myself. For the love Of God--"
!, But at that instant, through til
!. smoke that almost hid the only windo
that was not already on fire, appeare
S the faithful Juba. holding aloft the IL
), fant. The flames were all around, an
I, in moment more would overtake hln
: He made rapid gesture for some on
/. to approach.