Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-09-24

shall have your wish, if it were only as !
an example and rebuke to the cowardly t
drones that are swarming around me-. 9
Il have my fathers consent already l
she said. He told me I might ask you.
He would have sent one of my brothers,
but the only one large enough is a soldier
in General Sumpter's army. So, if you
please, I'll set out immediately
My child said the General, the task
is too severe for you, independent of the
danger you must incur. Why, it is at
least journey Of three days, and most
of it through Wilderness
Pm not afraid of the woods, sir, and
T as to the journey, was brought up to
hard work, and for that matter, to hard
riding too. Indeed, sir, think can do
the message for you better than a soldier,
for am hearty, and they are weary; be-
: sides, soldier will surely be taken pris-
oner if he is seen by the tories, and your
j dispatch will be lost
= We'll, you shall go after you have
2 seen your father again, and obtained a
t renewal of his consent. There is my
il message already written, but in case you
o should lose it by any means, l will relate
its contents. Should you lose this dis
: patch, and afterward succeed in reaching
/. the camp, tell Gen. Sumpter that Lord
d Rawdon is moving towards Grandby, and
n he must hasten to throw his division in
K advance Of the enemy, and defeat his OBJ
]. iect Gen. Marion and Col. Lee will be
+ at hand to assist him. Remember these
words, my brave girl, and depart as spec
n Oily as you may. God bless you! Co.
With these words, he pressed her hand
lie heartily. She seized the precious packet
I'd saying:
Mt You shall hear from me, General anG
er hastily quitting the camp, she returned tc
er the house of her father. In less thar
n half an hour this noble girl was on the
ut back of feet horse, and with the dis
as patch carefully concealed in her dress
n she dashed down the road along the bank
y, of the Saluda. 1t was not long before
ng the circumstance was noised through thu
ee camp, and many brave fellow who ha'
re never feared to face death on the battle
ne field, hung his head in very shame that
I'D young girl should have seized upon tn
en- glory Of such an enterprise. Volunteer
u were now offered as thick as black ber
or ries, only one Of whom was accepted, an
mt he was despatched to Gen. Marion.
le- was urged by some that the girl cou
IN not possibly reach Sumpter's camp, an
ne hence it would be necessary to send som
one else in the same direction but tn
u" General settled that by saying she was a
III good as any two men in the army, an
80 whether she reached her destination G
- not, nobody should share her laurels.
~ The first day of Emily journey passe
=. ~ away without any incident of momen
ms and the night she passed at the house
'o'' planter. But before the close of tI
% second day, while passing through a woo
she fell suddenly on party of arme
IL" tories. Coming from the direction
Gen. Green's camp, their suspicious wei
V"' excited, and, leveling their muskets
' her, they commanded her to halt. Th
W. she did without hesitation, or any emba
'H0 rassment, when one of the fellows, seiziI
"a the reins of her horse, demanded when
l0 she came, and whittier she was going.
'7' 1 came from my fathers, Hans Grige
~ and go to my brother, who is near O
angeburg, was her brief response.
w Before you proceed, you will go wi
'NN' US to my house. am sure my wife W
ho be glad to see you, said the tory.
- > Assured by their manner that they
tended no personal harm to her, she CO
u;u sented with apparent cheerfulness. T
,ou house to which they led her, lay a5o
half mile distant, and having arriv
.1 there, she was Immediately locked up
room. Apprehending that she mig
be subjected to a search, the quick mind
and girl ate, piece by piece, the dispatch ii
led had been entrusted to her by Gen. Gree
5 of and scarcely had she completed the d
and unsavory repast, when the expect
the wife of the tory entered the apartme
a. and commenced close and prying SCI
rmy tiny of her clothes, hair and person.
ired Thus much we must place to the ere
of the tories, who with all their brutal
raid towards the patriots, had the delieacy
SOL leave the examination of the person
lon't this girl to female hands.
t. Finding nothing of suspicious CHI
hink acter upon her, she was at length perm
ted to depart and on the following d
your she arrived safely at the camp of c.