Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-06-08

Wagnon, with his gigantic feature
= all distorted by the death agony; an
$ Pollock, with that pale smlle whic
t commonly characterizes eorpses pc
by gun shots.
. But who were those in the yer
n centre Of the ghostly circle-thos
with their faces baptized in elotte
J blood? Could he CT edit his eye
that witnessed the appalling terror
His Mary and her ba4 4e were parcel
Of the vanishing panorama.
He saw no more Uttering
wild cry of mingled ra BE and anguish
that startled the very wolves from
their covert, he leaped into his sad
idle, and turned his horses hea(
homewards.
All night. with a whip and spun
amain, he rode Ike na2dman; and
the first gray twinkle Of daylight
CLEANED in t be east when he bounded
to the earth on bis own threshold.
He paused TO listen; all was silent
within, save the song of the cricket
cbirping on the hearth, The traa-
quill stiffness seemed to soothe him
and restore the reign Of reason, as
he murmured =
She sleeps we'll. | was weak in
deed to credit the feverish haIlucina,
ton
He. knocked at the door, but there
was no answer. 3
Mary, dearest, awake. 1t is l.
Open the door to your husband.
Yet there was 10 sound-only
the cricket sung on. He tried the
knob of the door with his hand 1t
was safely locked, and he said to
himself
'All is right; but she sleeps very
profoundly.
He struck again, fiercer and louder
F-onee, twice, thrice. and then with |
both hands, fairly shouting
Mary, dear, awake--openl / am
But the cricket alone replied with
IFS morning music. I
The cold sweat began to roh from
MS forehead as he trembIed in every /
imB; and then, making one desper-
tie effort with all his strength, he K
lashed TIE shutter from it's hinges
t was perfectly dark within dark
nd silent as tho centre of a gra Fe. L
He groped his way to the b ed side, |
nd threw his arms around thd be-
owed ones. Q, Joy! they were t herel /
Ie couia feel their figures ben cath. )
he sheet--the fiill-rose Of queenly t
eauty. and the bud folded in her bo- "
ON. lie stopped for a kiss of ten
erness. Avauntl the lips were ol t
,e! 0
.Ho! for candle 1t was kim 4
led in moment, and the light re- ii
ealed it all q
The woman and child were literal d
torn into pieces by a volley of
all and buckshot that had been G.
red through a crevice behind the Y
sdE v
Nut the bereayed uttered no lam h
not so much as n tear be- ST
ewed bis CLASSY eye
All that day and the following L
ght Albert Willis hurried to and o.
o over the country. detailing the b.
orrible tragedy. and arousing the d
sople to vengeance; and the next [
orning full eight hundred men, t
loroughly armed, mustered at the st
mp-ground, two miles south OF ci
fayetteville, whence they imme- Fas
ately marched tostorm the Strong b;
I'D of the legallzed outlaws. W,
As they entered the village, they OF
ct Gov. Yell, who happened to be
ssing through land he Instantly ad- le
sed them not to venture on an at kl
elk, as the grocery fort was garrl> OF
ned by fifty men, with load of
muskets, besides four or five can pl
N taken from the public arsenal;
d tile news tended very much to 70
oil the ardor of the citizens, al ee
ough they still proceeded. tw
They moved forward in solemn TX
lumns till within thirty yards of til
e grocery, which previously had fal
t shown sign of human life, and til
lere, in fact, nothing was to pe wa
en but tire old wooden walls yawn- ha
: with empty port holes, and the wf
lr black cannon peeIing through DIR
cir rude embrasures.