Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-07-07

bod sake ana the cry 'hrc tire. fire
ran from lip to lip Two Of the British
tell; several were wounded. In two min
utes all was hushed. The British retreat
ed in disorder toward their main body F.:
the countrymen were left in possession of
the bridge, This is the world renowned
battle ef Concord more eyentful than A..
gincourt or Blenhoim."
The retreat of the British from Concord
was attended with lavish eiiusion of blood.
During :he day the loss of the British
was two hundred and seventy thr c in Kill
led, wounded and missing; while on the
An ercau side forty nine were killed,
thirty four wounded, and five missing
The next night the men of Massachusetts
streamed in from every quarter o the
number of thousands, though without mr.
tillery or worlike stores, but with brave
hearts, determined to rescue the liberties
Of their country. The spread Of the alarm
is described in one of those episodes Of
poetic eloquence with which the historian
occasionally diversifes the course of his
narrative.
Darkness closed upon the county and
the town, but it was no night for sleep
Heralds on swift relays Of horses transmit
ted the war-message from hand to hand,
till village repeated it to village; the sea
TO the backwoods the plains to the high
lands and it was never suffered TO droop.
till it had been borne north and south,
and east and west throughout the land.
1t spread over the bays that receive the
Saco and the Penobscot. Its loud revel
broke the rest OF the trappers of New
Hampshire, and ringing like bugle notes
from peak to peak, oyerleapt the Green
Mountains, swept onward to Montreal,
anddescended the ocean river, till the res
ponses were echoed from the cliffs ofQuo.
bee. The hills along the Hudson told to
one another the tale. As the summons
hurried to the south, it was one day at
New Y ork in one more at Philadelphia
the next it lighted a watch-fre at Bati-
more thonce it walked an answer at An
napolis. Crossing the Potomac near Mt.
Vernon, it was set forward without halt
1t traversed the Dismal
Swamp to Nansemond along the route Of
the first eingrants to North Carolina 1t
moved onward and still onward, and thro'
boundless groves of evergreen to Newbern
ana 10 W llENOils VI NNOh . edHt lbl -
ward it by night and by day, wrote Cone-
Illus Harnett by the express which sped
for Brunswick. Patriots of South Caroli-
ma caught up its tones at the border, and
despatched it to Charleston, and through
pines and palme.tos,t and me- ss-clad live
oaks, still further to the south, till ii re-
sounded among the New England settle
ments beyond the Savannah. Uillsborough
and the Mecl<lenberg district of \ Caro-
lima rose in triumph, now that their wear
isome uncertainty had its end. The Blue
Ridge took ~ the voice and made il heard
from one end to the other of the valley Of
Virginia The Alleghenies as they listen
ed. opened their barriers that the lold
call might pass through 10 the hardy rifle
men on the Holston, the WaJauga, and
the French Broad. Ever renewing its
strength. powerful enough even to create
commonwealth Il breathod its inspiring
word 10 the first settlers OF hcutucag; Ho
that the hunters vino made tLc} Ealt IN
the mutcl les valley of llt0orn com
mcmaratcl the lgth of April by naming
their encampmut Lexington"
Ihe chief remaining point %. .nt5r-5.
In the volume is the bas,o af na,ka.
Hi. from the vivid picture O which we
must content oursoIye5 with tie closing
portion. ....
"rhc r7val army cyrsYcra.aI st retreat
inc le.o,e an enemy whom tAcy Lnl r.r,.
fesSed 20 dospise. and by thes ..t Of ma,
nv HUNDREDS of their men wuo llv dad
or bleeding on the ground, prcuarcd to
renew the engagement WuiIc the light
infantry and plrt Of the crcnaaia-, were
left to continue tie attack at tle rail-
fence. Howe concentrated the rest OF H,
forces upon the redouat. Cannon were
BROUGHT 10 bear in such a lu.nncr as %
rake the inside o. the brea-lw.rk. iou
one end oft to the other. So that the A.
malfcans were Obliged to crowd Ni,un
their ia,t. Then the British troops Law.
inr d.-,ncumLered themScl, e. 1. t.o
i.Iapsack. advanced in columA with lsrl
lavonets Clinton. who from Copp', Uii
had watched the battle, at this critical
moment, and without orders pushed of
i'm boat and put himself at the head OF
two battalions, the marines and the l7tn.
which seem to hesitate on the beach as il
uncertain what to do. These formed the