New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-26

| on the road Well was IT for them that they
failed; for when the descending traif, reached
deposite It no more stayed or stopped sban The
emerald water do in their fau at NIAGARA. n
would have pulverized anSthcr had IL encoun-
tered collision. On it wcntthe engineer feel
ing as u me- heart might throb once more, when
ne saw that the train he expected to have
crushed was out of his way and unharmed.
me level reached, the awful speed Stacked,
ana though II was mot brought UP under
control until 1t had run miles beyond the
PLACE Of stopping yet the journey 60 tho
,ggo n,sgg9ot--the seven mile leap had been accom-
piished safely. N 7'1s -., -7s5 ',S IT,
~ The command being with the engine again.
me tram Was backed mp, and when they who
were late arrived, they had the blessed oppor-
tunity o. tneorizing about what might have
happened. their sage conclusions occurring III
parenthesIs Of the courses Of nice hot supper,
keenly enjoyed in that bleak and cold night. in
stead Of struggling for delivery from the wreck
Of life and limb. and property Long was that
fearful ride remembered. Even now in the
memory of my narrator, he can recall that fall
down the mountain. q. !, sgf5 e. .,ssi-s,
The MAN Who FIRED THE FrRsT SHor. The
first American who discharged his gun on the
day of the battle Of Lexington was Ebenezer
Locks who died at Deering, N. H., about fifty
years ago. He resided at Lexington in 1875.
The British regulars, at the order Of Major Pit
calrn, ga having fred upon the few q rebels on
the green in front Of the Meeting house, killing
some and wounding others, it was signal Of
war. The citizena," writes o1s, g might be
seen coming from all directions, IN roads, over
the fields, and through the woods--each with
ms rifle IN ms hand, his powder horn slung to
his side, and his pocket provided with bullets
Among the number was EbeBezer Lock The
British had posted a reserve of infantry q mile
in the rear, in the direction of Boston This
vas IN the immediate neigbborhood Of Mr.. L.,
VINO, instead Of fastening to join the party at
the green, placed himself in an old cellar, at
convenient distance for doing execution A
and Mr.. Lock commenced firing at them, though
there was no other American in sight. He
worked yaliantly for some minutes, bringing
down one Of the enemy at nearly every shot.
Up to this time not gun had been fred else
where by the rebels. The British, greatly dis
turbed at losing SO many men BY the random
firing of-an unseen elemy, were mot long in dis
covering the man in the cellar, and discharged a
yolley of bullets which lodged on the wall oppo-
site Mr.. Lock within remaining unhurt-
continued to load and fire with the precision Of
finished marksman. He was driven to such
close quarters, however, by the British on his
right and left, that he was compelled at last to
retreat He had just one bullet left, and there
was now but one way to escape, and that was
euIough an orenara IN tne rear Ine solulerS
we're all around him, one of them having even
gained the orchard Not d moment was to be
lest3-he leveled his gun at the man near by :
fired, dropped the gun, and the man was shot
through the heart. The bullets whistling about
him, Lock reached the brink Of steep hill,
and throwing himself upon the gronnd, tum-
-bled downwards, rolling, as if mortally wounded.
In this way he escaped unhurt At the close
Of the war he moved to New Hampshire, where
he resided suntiJ his death sOmn twentv Years
after. He lived in secluson and died in peace.
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