The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-02-24

vengeance.
Foar began to paralyze the Caro-
linians; many abandoned their
homes for The sake of their families
aud il is probable that the entire dis
tiict would have been depopulated
in short time, had it not been for
tho courage of one woman.
Her name was Alice Beauchampe.
IL was dark night in the last
week of November, when the heroine
of my story left the house Of n friend.
Her own house, which had been do.
serted for several days, was not far
away, aud she had determined to
return to it for the purpose OF SO
curing an article OF apparel left be
hind in her recent flight.
Before she set ont on her journey
she was warned Of tho dangers that
environed it but she smiled, and
declared that she did not fear them.
She could enter the old house
through the kitchen, in the rear. find
the garment without light, aud re-
turn safely to her friends.
The path she had often traversed
was barely dsccrnablo but she
maio good Roadway, and reached
her home without incident. The 81.
lence OF the grave hung about the
forsaken place, and the lifting of the
latch sent Q chill Of terror to the
young girls heart. Through the
kitchen, across the deserted parlor,
and up the stairs. she crept to tho
room whsrs she had left the object
Of her nocturnal quest. The drawer
of the old bureau yielded without
noise, anil Alice waa drawing forth
the garmout when the voices Of men
fell upon her ears.
She started, dropped her prize,
and with her heart in her throat crept
to tho window that overlooked the
porch in front of the house.
She could see nothing, for tho
night was too dark but the voices
of men, mingled with the champing
Of bits, continued to salute her
cars
This is oil Bcauchampe's house,
said one. "It has been deserted for
several days. The daughter, fright
ened by the manner in which VIZ
treated the father, has fled some
. where for protection
These words drove every vestige
: of color from tho listeners face they
told her who the men below were,
though she could not see even tho
outlines OF thoir persons One week
prior TO her visit, her father, one OF
" Kings Mountain beroes, was found
i. deal in palmetto grove, and the
# words of Fergusons Avengers lay
3, on his breast. Then she had de
c serted her home, knowing that tho
r. hand that had struck tho father
would not spare the daughter
}, Well might the the lono girl trem
a BILE when she found herself 50 neal
4 the droidod scourges OF the country,
O and sho did not move until she heard
# the front door opened bya kick. AMI
@ heavily booted feet in tho room be-
n low.
: Then calm thought OF her situa.
n ton drove fear from her heart, and
d Alice Boauchampe prepared to per
O form ono of the most daring deeds OF
q the Revolutionary War.
The noise in the house Increased
i and oaths and rude jests preceded
;. and followed the Lighting of fire on
# tho hearth
IS Alice, who had longod for sight
" of the dreaded six, crept to q spot
/. near the bureau where there was a
~ crack in tho floor. Then applying
her eye to the peek hole, she saw six
IF wild looking men directly beneath
a her.
n They were, beyond doubt, the
Avengers of Ferguson's death, fol
l. several masks lay on tho table, along
r. with three or four bottles of wine
10 which they had taken from some
If patriots cellar. Tall, rough, devil
III may-scare-looking fellows they We're
armed with pistols, carbines, and
"a sabres, the kind Of men who never
ID court tho smiles Of mercy or lister
n- to the pleading of innocence, JUS
is such fellows as they were, Alice had
in supposed them to be, for she has
seen many of the prisoners takei
10 at Kings mountain, and she longe(
"a for tho presence of u band of patri
n OTIS. There were true men in Soutl
IN Carolina at that timo who would
have given their right arms for
n chauce to exterminate the Avengers
n. and Alice knew where q little part,
t. of patriots lay, but alas -! they wer'
j. not very near.
IN well rest hero and finish tina
an wine T. said one of the leaders Of tn
: band, whose face told that alread!
!" he had imbibed freely. "Bring il
IA the poultry, and on old Beauchampe'
as hearth we'll prepare feast.
of At his command, one of tho me-
N. left tho house, but soon returned
,d bearing with him a duck and severa
he chickens, from whose freshly wrunl
i. necks the warm blood was dripping
NV allows the horses asked one {
be the Avengers, as the man flung tn
poultry on the table.
he "Standing like rocks, was the re
he ply "Such horses as they are don
Ia need watching, and, beside, ther
H. isn't n rebel within ten miles of thi