Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-15

with colors cased and drums no. beating a
British or German march.
but, rejoined Ross, "my Lord Corn
wallis did not command at Charleston
There. sir" said Laurens, you extort
another observation it is rot the individual
that t5 is here considered It is the nation.
MS remains an article, or I cease to be a
Commissioner"
N9tning more was to be said the article
stooo, and the enemy marched out with
eolors cased, while the tune they chose to
follow was an old British march with the
quite appropriate title Of 1.-The World
Turned Upside Down"
The French line presented brilliant suec--
tscte. the Americans, war-worn Continentals-
were less attractive. Taeir lress was roor AZ
best, but Tor lack OF show there was a soldierIy
bearing that commanded attention. At the
head OF the respective lines were the COM
mandiDg Generals, nobly mountetl-yYashir. O.
ton, Rochambeau, Lincoln, LAFAYETTE. Ste1-
ben, Knox, and the rest. Leading the British
came General OHara instead Of CORVALLIS.
The latter pleaded illness, bnt he sent his
sword by 0Hsra to be given up to Washing
ton. As O'Hara advanced to the chief,
he was referred to Lincoln, who, upon re-
eeiving the sword as token of the enemy's
Submission, immediately returned it to the
Dttblsii WHOSE trVui)S bEeu IuaIcueQ
between the two lines TO q field On the right,
where they grounded their arms. Ia the
field squadron of French hussars had
formed circle, and within it each regiment
marched and deposited their arms. There
were sad hearts in tie column. The Colonel
of the Bsyreukhian regiment, Won Seybothen,
led his men into the circle and gave the COM
mands: g Present arms! Lay down arms
Put OF swords and cartridge-boxes !" his
cheeks wet with tears. A corporal in the
SevenEy-sixth faelingiy clasped his nlusket to
his breast and then threw il down, with the
words !" May you never get SO good mas
ter" Writes Captain We marched ont
reluctantly enough"
After few days rest the British were
marched to the prison camps at Winchester,
Virginia, and Frederick. Maryland, but
Cornwallis and the chief officers went to
New York and Were paroled. Both WASH
lngton and RochAmheau however, for sew
eral days entertained their brave and gallant
foes at camp-dinners, at which the English
were honored guests, who no longer spoke of
Mr." Washington, but addressed him as
His Excelleney General Washington" The
American army, about November LIST, took
up the line of march for the Hudson. The
French remained near Yorktown until the
following spring, when they returned to
Rhode Island. In December, 1882 they en-
q
IN America OF about two and q half years.
There surrendered on the 10Th of October,
to w ashington, ,24S soldiers and $40 seamen.
The enemy lost In the siege 156 killed ard 326
wounded Fifteen hundred were on the sick
list as uafit for duty at the time of the capitu-
lstion. Twenty-iour reeimertal standards
were surrendered, of which eighteen were
German and six British. There were turned
over 244 pieces Of artillery, 70 of which were
L. =, H. -.
was 20 killed and 90 wounded, and che French
loss 81 killed and 154 wounded while the
allied forces had, on the 19th, l, $50 on the
sick list. All through America the
NEws OF THE SURRENDER
Was received with the leudeat acclaim and
the widest demonstrations of Joy. Phila-
delphia, the capital, was illuminated. The
army in the Highlands fired saIutes for
week and built bonfires. At Yale and
Harvard there were orations and celebra-
tions, and in all army camps banquets
and saiutes. Louis XVI, of France or
dered TIE Deum sung, and Paris was illumi-
mated November 9Th, in honor of the VIC
tory. Even in Great Britain tie news was
gratifying, and though the King was firm for
further operations, Parliament in 1882 ruled
to authorize him to make peace with
America. November 80, 1882. the articles
were signed and the new nation was recog.
nized.
YORKTOWN,
About to be the scene of the celebration by the
American and French people, and where a
noble monument is to be appraised, place
once the center OF colonial culture and wealth,
is now small hamlet, containing at the
most but thirty dwellings. II lies on the top
of steep bluff Of stony mari, covered with
sand, the highest ground on either the York
or the James river below Richmond.
AT the time of the revolution it, COM
mercial decadeLce had already begun ;
for even then it possessed not more than
seventy houses. Il had long ago ceased to be
the rival of New York and Philadelphia.
The buildings which now remain are separ-
ated by bare and empty spaces where others
once stood. Some of them face what were
once the side streets. where there sre now no
vestiges OF sidewalks or rOadways. In the
whole place there are but few Enclosures and
scarcely half dozen gardens. The main
street runs parallel 70 the general line of the
shore. and may be 400 yards in length. To
go about one must plod through sand, which
gathers and gives back the heat Of the sun
with seeming great increase.
ONE OF THE HISTORIC POINTS
In the town Is the cid church OF Y ork parish,
first built at the close of the seventeenth cen
fury. The chuIehyard ground is now an
open common, and not vestige Of fencing is
TO be seen except around three or
four of the t0mbs which are best
preserved. Two of these, those Of the
founder of the American Nelson family
and his son, remained SO long unguarded that
they have suffered shameful mutiation.
Thomas Nelson, the grandson of the first
named and the greatest of the three, lies
in vault which is unmarked at the
foot of his fathers tomb. William Nelson.
wto built the Nelson House, was father of
the Thomas Nelson no signed the Decsra-
militia at the sisSe Of Yorktown.