New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-13

.te reiet boring hGmle.s hal IL ,ressed re ruube,
OF Americans on the rising gou.d aboye Coreo,i
bridge n more than four huodred. " The WHOA
vas a gathering not so much Of officers std so.Aier
q. OF brothers and 90 Ia., of whom every ole wu
a man well known in ms yi.age, observed in Il,
meeting house on Sundays, familiar at town meet.
20, ard respected as a reeholder or freskOlderx
.ou." They saw before them within sunsho. British
troops IN possession Of their bridge, and in es d,.
lance sill larger number occupying their town.
which from the rsing smoke seemed 70 base been
re. on fire. They had IS yet received only u,,er.
tain rumors OF the eV~nts at Lexington. A. .he
sight Of fire in the village, their bret mPGlse vac
70 rush 70 IL defense.
The ofieers meeting in frcu: Of their men, sroke q
few words with one another, ard went bsck % heir
places Barrett the colonel CT horseback u the .elr
uen gave the order to advahce out not - hte Rlss
attacked. The calm features OF Isaac DAVIS, o: Ae-
tor. became changed; the town schoolna..er, who
was preient could never aitsrward nd vogds st:ony
CROUCH to express low his isce redeemed ct ne wcd
Of command. " | have not man that is u'ad TO
90" .sid Davis looking =, the ren OF Acton; AID
drawing hs sword, he cried, :" March His COM
pspy. peirg on the right, led the way tossrd tie
Bird be himself at their head, and oy his sie
Msor John Buttrick OF Concord WIN 1oEn Robin.
son Of Westfod, Lieutenant colonel ~ Pfescoae req.
n ent but on this day volunteer without command.
Thus these three men walked ge,her 10 trout, TO-
lowed by minute AID militia, In double hie rsu-
ing arms. They went down the hllock, en'ersa tAe
by.road came TO its angle with the main road snd
there turned into the cause~ay that led straight To
the bridge. The British begn 20 10 Ike up the panks;
the Americans, TO prevent II, qulckene4 .he' sIep.
At this the Britsh fired or two shots no tho
river; then another, by which Llther Blanc nara and
Jones Brown were wounded, volley folio vel AID
Isaac Davis and Abrer Hosmer the latter son OF ma
deacon fthe Acton church fell dead Inrce hours De-
& Ia b,a Wifi and chiltlren farewell
Tint afternoon he was carried home and aid 10 her
bedroom. His countenance was little sl.ereu, ahd
pleasant in death. The bodies OF two Ctle.s OF as
company who we're slain that day were oro1sas as)
10 her house and the three were followed 20 tae VII
lsge graveyard by a concouse OF tue neghoo.s Inym
II lies around. God gave her length o' usys 40 no
land which his generous selievotlOn assisted 20 re-
deem She lived TO her country touch me Gui! OF
Mexico and the Pacific, and when II was grown greas
in numbers, weatiIand power, the United sta,es 10
Congress paid honors to her husbands msItyrdom,
and con fOrted her under the double oarden o. soroS
and more thar ninety years.
As the British fired Emerson, who was looking 90
frt his chamber vii dow the bridge, was ~ one
moment uneasy lest the fire should not be ret9rned.
II was only for mOmeLt ButtIick leapiDg into the
air. and at the same time partially turning roand,
cried aloud, SIS If with his countrys voice, Ere, tl"
low-solders for God sake, tire; and the cry NE
fire fire ran from lip to lip. Two OF the B7tsafeut
several were wounded. In two minutes Gil wac
hushed. The British retreatsd in disorder toward
their main body; the countrymen were !e', IN pos.
session Of the bridge. This is the WORM Ienowneu
BATTLE OF CoscoRD; more eventual than he.n'ourt
or Blenheim
The retreat of the British from Concord was
attended with the lavish effusion Of blood. During
the day the loss of the British was 273 in Killed,
wounded and missing; while on the American hdo
40 we're killed, "a wounded, and D missing Inc
next night. the men of Massachusetts, streamed 10
from every quarter TO the number OF thousands,
though without artillery or warlihe stores, but
with brave hearts, determined to rescue the Eber.
ties of their country. The spread Of the alarm s
described in one of those episodes of poetic elo-
quence with which the historian occasionally diver.
| SITES the course of his narrative.
| Darkness closed upon the country and upon ne
town, but il no night for Sleep Herafs swift
relays Of horses transmitted the war message from
hand to hand, iii village repeated II to village; the
to the backwOcds the plains TO the sEand'; and
was never eutfered to droop, till it had been borne
Otb, and south and east, and west, throughout the
land. IL spread over the bays that receive the Ssco
aud the PenObsc6t Its loud reyce broke the rest OF
| tie trappers Of NewIIampshire, and ringing Like
bugle-nItes from peak to peak, overeap the Green
Mountains, swept onward to Montreal, and descended
the ocean river, till the respor oei from
Ike cliffs Of Quebec. The bills along the Hudson told
another the tale. AS the hun led 70 the
soutb, twas day at NewYork; none at Pha.
dephia the next it lighted watch fire at Baltimore;
II
the Potomac near Mount Vernon, it sent forward
without halt 10 Williamsburg. 1t trsversed the
Dismal Swamp 10 Nansemond along the ron.e OF the
first emigrants to Moth Carolina. 1t moved onward
and st onward through boundless groves of ever.
green to Newbern and to Wilmington. "For Gods
sake forward ii by night and by day." wrote Cor.
Lehus Harnett by the express which sped for Bruns-
wick. Patriots Of South Carolina caught I'D i.s tones
az the border and dispatched it to Charleston, and
through pines ard palmettos and moss-clad ise osks,
st further to the south till it resounded among tbs
New.Englsnd settleme hts beyond the Savannah Hills.
borough and the Meckenburg district of North Caro-
lima rose in triumph now that their weerisone unoe.
taLty had its end. The Blue Ridge took up the voice
and made it heard from end to the other OF the
valley of Virginia The Alleghsnies, they hs:ened,
0pe ned their barriers that the cloud call" might pass
through 10 the hardly rihemen on the HOton, the
Watauga, and the trerch Broad. Ever renewing iS
strength, powerful enough even to create common.
wealth, 1t breahed its inspiring word TO the fret set
tiers OF Kentucky; so that hunters who made their
halt in the matchless valley of the Ekhorn, commem-
GRATED the 10Th day Of April by naming their encamp-
mtnt LEXINGTON.
The chief remaining point of interest in the
volume is the battle of Bunker Hill, from the vivid
picture Of which we must content surse!ves with
the closing portion.
The royal army, exssperated at retres.ng before an
enemy whom they mad prOfessed 10 despss and by
the sgbt of many hundreds Of their men who 10y dead
or bleeding on the ground, prepared 70 renew the
engagement While the light infantry snd apart Of
tie grensders left to continue the att SEX at the
raience, Howe concentrated the rest of his forces
upon the redoubt. Cannon were brought 10 bear in
such as 10 rake the inside OF the b.ess.wok,
from one end Of it TO the Oksr 20 that the Americans
were obliged TO crowd within their fort. Then the
their knapsacks, advanced in column with hxed
baynes. Clinton, who from Cops Hill had watched