Georgetown weekly news., 1855-05-03
Am Incident of the Revolution.

THE want of provisions in the camp of
Rurgovne inst previous to his capture by
+be Americans, began to be severely felt;
the Americans had seized their last supply.
which some boats contained; all resort to
the country lying round, where tory friends
were to be found was totally cut off The
narsecnting Americans had fenced them in
as with wall of vengeance, which could
not be passed; famine had commenced its
unnerving power, sickness was multiplied
among the soldiery, fever attended with its
d,liriums, raved from couch to couch Wa
ter, water was the incesSant cry. And al
though the Hudson on one side of the camp.
poured along its silent waters and the rapid
stream of Fish Greek roared sweetly in the
ears of the sick and Responding forces, yet
it was impossible to snatch a drop from
those dreadiully guarded waters: hundred
bullets were sure to pierce whoever made
the attempt, soon as they stopped to touch
the silver current But such were the cries
for water, by the sick and dying, that their
women, moved by pity, were made superior
to the dreadful crisis. (magining that the
Americans would not from feelings of gal
lantry shoot female.) snatched hastily
their pals. and ran to the shores to try
what the eveEt might be. Their opinion
of the enemy, as it proved, with respect to
their persons was correctly formed, but
their pals were doomed to harder fate, for
while they could not find it in their hearts
to spill the blood of defencelesS females, they
were sure to riddle their pals as they hung
from their hands, so that little or no water
could be procured.
In this dilemma, faithful wife, who had
left her native country for love of her hus-
band; who was one OF the unfortunate Hes
SLAMS sold by his government, to the King
of England at certain sum head, to fight
in cause, the merits of which he knew moth
ing: this woman as she moved from couch
to couch, listening to the means of the sick
for water, suddenly resolved; Il will try.
perhaps may succeed to bring little. >
Her husband tried to diSsuade her, but she
PERSISTED her sympathies were strong, for as
kind and comforting angel she made it her
business to hover over the diseased and
wounded of her countrymen, (the Hessians)
all the while she had been in the army
She sprang along the adventurous path that
led to the dreaded shore, her husband fol-
lowing close as far as he dare; already she
stood at the brink in full view of the guns
on the other side; for a moment she cast an
imploring glance that way, and then to
heaven for protection: her right hand had
dashed the vessel deep into the waters; a
struggle to clear the open shore and reach
the deeply-shaded bank, had marked her
agitated demeanOr when a ball, aimed at
her pail, struck, as she had stopped over
the vessel too low, her angel BOSOM
the blood spouted and dyed the ground be-
fore her quivering frame fell crimsoned in
the gore of her faithful heart. Her hus-
band. who had waited but a short distance
for her return, had not moved his constant
eye from his all of earth, while within his
soul vibrated between the vast extremes Of
hope and despair, her screech struck his ear,
her reeling from showed him that the shaft
of death had cleft her heart aSunder She
had but touched the ground where she fell
when his arms enclosed her, dyed in spout
inr blood from her bosom: frantic with
grief, he dreaded not the flash of the deadly
rife, but bore her to the camp. struggling
in the pangs of dissolution, while he impress
ed Oh her fading TO. ehead the last kiss of
fervent affection.
The grief of this man was respected, not
a gun moved its trigger, hushed were the
voileys OF the sympathlzing, yet brave Yer
monters; her pail and not her person, had
been the aim of the distressed marksman,
the green mountaineer