Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-05-18

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1850. and Consequently near tie close Of
the revolutionary waT. France and spain
had 18th been drawn into the whirlpool
Of tina; Tremendous strife; but the fact
had hitherto scarcely affected their sub
jeets in the remote regions Of the Mis-
sour. thousands of miles away from the
fierce battle scenes, whether On the land
or sea. Occasionally dispatches from the
Government, il is true, had been received
by the military commandant at st. Louis,
which doubtless contained advice as to
the progress of the pending struggle;
but as there was no official journal-in-
deed no Journal of any sort-and as his
excellencv was a man of infinite reserve,
the information never transpired beyond
the precincts Of the old stone palace and
the citizens continued to live on in bliss
full ignorance, Unclaimed by various
vague rumors, which only told how the
cannon reared and how blood WAS split
afar of. They often congratulated one
another Us TO the situation of their conn-
try, SO far removed from the rest of the
world tia. the shock Of arms which WAS
rendins nations ssunder hardly sent a fee
bic echo into their boundicss forests, did
not so much as cause n leaf 10 tremble
on their ancien: trees. Thus the keeper
of the lighthouse trims his lamps with a
scrsc Of greater safety as louder breaks
the howl Of the storm at sea! No one
ANTICIPATED The possibility of danger. No
one could dream that Great Britain, hard
pressed at almost every POINT of her i'm
meIse domiDions by the most formidable
coalition which ever had been combined
to resist her gigantic power, would waste
one thought on an Insignificant settlement
in the silent woods of the west No
preparation, therefore, had been male to
oppose hostile invasion. TheIe were
very few soldiers at the post, and the dis
cipline Of these had been latteily entirely
neglected. The rude fort was out of re-
pair, aud the useless artillery eaten up
with rust
1t was the first hour Of evening, on the
day before specified, when man and
woman, both young, elegantly dressed.
according to the Frerch fashion of the
period, and obviously belonging to the
wealthiest class of emigrants, were seen
to leave the town of st. Louis and stroll
arm and arm in a northern direction.
They were engaged in conversation with
the volubility characteristic of their ma
ton; and their hereditary gate du occur
seemed to be increased by some peculiar
emotion that suffascd their faces with the
richest crimson, aud caused their eyes t.
sparkle with light like brilliants. Ia
short las We abhor mystery, the worst Of
literary siDs), they we're lovers, and the
morrow had been fixed for the celebration
Of their nuptials. The universal opinion
of all the gossips in the city concurred
as by q miracle, for once, THAT NO tw,
beautiful beings in the wide world could
be more worthy Of each other than Pierr,
Cho.eau and Annette L. Roux-since b,
was the bravest and she the most bewi,ch
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