New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-01-09

been dragged to the center Of the room
"Get up, boys, and let's BEGGING. toNd
you at Wiley's that you had wine enough
but you must bring some Here and drink,
yourselves stupid Tom stott. and Won
Blakeson, ] am ashamed Of YOU What
would we do if a gang Of rebels should
catch US ii this conditional You under
stand the mercy we would get, and vet
you sit there ascareless as statue trunk
as old Bacchus himself!'' IA,
Then an expression iie 2 Of Contempt passed
oyer ',7 the mans face, and, STOPPING, he ex-
claimed:
a Up !up the rebels are Ginning %
But his cry of alarm did not infuse
much. life into the men at the table. sS One
or two heads were raised, but the drunk
en- leer that made their faces hideous was
enough to provoke smile, even from the
mad tory.
''tMen!' he sneered, conhmptuously !!
Dogs! every one of you. I've mind to
I ide down to the Pacolet swamp and tell
iebels hiding there that the men they
hate are in their power have thought
that commanded men, not Arunkards p
and he struck the table with the but Of
his pistol, but could not rouse|his stupid
followers.
The next moment, with an oath on his
lips, he stood to the door, which he jerked
open, and stepped upon the porch.
course such dogs as I lead 1he Kissed.
/" I suppose must lead the horses up, and
tie each fool in the saddle.o
he was stepping from the porch for
the purpose of attending to the horses
which he supposed we're still tethered to
the trees, when form rose before him
and he started back with gasp Of terror.
"Wh0 in the mischief
"Alice Beauchampe,n was the inter-
ruption of the apparition.S s'sThe daught-
er of the old man basely murdered by
your hands! Down upon thy miserable
knees, Godfrey Lang, and beg for the
mercy you have never granted others
Down, say"
Perhaps the shadows of the window
sash did not permit him to see "a pistol
that was .clutched in the hand of the
fearless girl, else his rashness might have
been curbed.
''Kneel to yous Never!" he cried.
The weapon that he raised dropped be-
fore the flash that followed his last words
and with groan of pain he staggered
back to drop dead among his drunken
comrades.
Alice Beauchampe, amazed at her own
courage, stood silent amidst the smoke of
her own pistol. She saw the bacchanites
try to shake off their tsrpor at sight of
their stricken leader, and one rose to his
feet to fall as soon as he needed support.
CHOW for the swamp" she cried with
triumph, and the next minute rushed
from the disgusting sight.
An hour passed away and the drunken
tories began to recover; their chief, who
had dropped to the floor, seemed to sober
them with his cold face and staring eyes,
and when they had almost recovered their
scattered wits, the foe they dreaded was
upon them.
Alice Beauchampe's voice had fired the
hearts of a patriot band for vengeance.
On her way to the swamp she had en-
countered the patriots who had captured
one of the flying horses, and were follow
ing the trail.
The conflict between patriot and tory
was brief and almost bloodless.
The five avengers were made prisoners,
and sued like towards for the mercy they
had never granted to a living being.
l need not describe the scene that fol-
lowed. Suffice it to say that the trees il
front Of Alice. b auchampe's home boie
the strangest fruit that ever hung fro4
living limb. -5..#5
\ The vengeance Of the patriots way
terrible, and when the glorious sun rose
again, the dreaded men of the lovely disl
trict had ceased to frighten people.
Alice eauchampe, whose courage had
led to the determination of the avenging|
hand, became the heroine Of the day, and|
after the termination of hostilties, we'd
sded "a lieutenant of Marion's men. Her
sheroism is venerated, and her gallant ex-
plot narrated daily by hundreds of her
descendants in the Palmetto State. SIS S.s
81 a Renaissance of Senator Morton.
"A correspondent gives this reminriis-
icence Of Senator Morton in the Cincin-.
natl Commercial: One of the spleasantest
occasions of that visit to California,
when your correspond dent had the honor
of accompanying Senator Morton and