The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-18
4 BRATE GIRL.

George Enos Throop, in 81. Nichols for July.
In the year 1871, while Clinton and
Washington were watching each others
movements near New York, General
Schuyler, having resigned his command
On account Of some unjust charge
against him was staying at his house,
which then stood alone outside the
stnckade Of wall Of Albany. The Brit
ish commander, therefore, seeing his
opportunity, sent out John Walter
Meyer, with a party Of tories and Ip-
dians, TO capture Gen. Schuyler.
= When they arrived on the outskirts
Of the city they learned from a Dutch
lAborer that the generals house was
guarded by six soldiers. The Dutch
man the minute the band was out Of
sight, took to his legs and warned the
general OF their approach.
Soon after a servant announced that
there was a strange man at the back
door who wished to see the general.
Schuyler, understanding the trap,
gathered HIS family in one Of the upper
rooms, and giving orders that the doors
and windows be barred, fired pistol
from one Of the top story windows to
alarm the neighborhood.
The guards who had been lsupging
in the shade Of tree, started to their
feet at the sound of the pistol; but alas,
too lstei for they found themselves sur
rounded by crowd Of dusky figures,
who bsund them hand and foot before
they had time to resist.
And now you can imagine the little
group collected in thai dark room up
stairs, lhs sturdy general, stand ing res
olutely by the door, with his gun in his
hand, and his black slaves gathered
around him, each with some weapon,
and at the other end of the room the
women hud0led together, some weep
ing, some praying Suddenly a crash
is heard which chills the very blood,
and brings wildly TO each ones mind
the tales of Indian massacIes so COM
nsn ut that day, The band had broken
- - VIZ VI tit hAnA0hss
AT that moment, Mrs. Schuyler,
spTinging 10 her feet, rushed toward the
door; for she remembered that the baby,
emily a few months old, having been
forgotten In the hurry OF flight, was
asleep in its cradle on the floor. But
the general, catching her in his arms,
told her that her life-~as of more value
than the child's. and that, if any one
must 60, he would. While, however,
this generous struggle was going on,
their third daughter, gliding past them,
WAS soon at the side Of the cradle. Fr
All was black as night in the hall, er-
cept for small patch Of light just at
the foot of the stairs. This came from
the dining room, where the Indians
could be seen pillaging the shelves, pull
ing down the china and quarreling with
one another ever their ill-gotien booty.
How TO get past this spot was the
question, but the girl did not hesitate.
She reached the cradle unobserYed, and
was just darting back with her precious
burden when by i'll luck one Of the saw
ages happened 10 see her. Whiz! went
his sharp tomahawk within a few inch
Is OF The baby's head, and, cleaving an
edge OF the brave girls dress struck
deep into the stair rail.
just then one of the tories, seeing her
dit by, aud supposing her to be a ser
want, called after her: "Wench, wench,
where is your MASTERY" She stopped
for moment, called back, Gone TO
alarm the town. and hurrying on, was
soon sale again with her father upstairs.
And now, nearly all the plumber hav-
ing been secured, the band was about
to proceed to the real object of the ex-
petition, when the general, raising one
OF the upper windows, called out in
lusty tones, as if commanding a large
body of men: Come on, my brave fell
lOUsi Surround the house. Secure the
villains who are plundering" The cow
ards knew that voice, and they each and
every one Of them took to the woods as
fast as their legs would carry them,
leaving the general in possession of the
field -.
The old Schuyler house looks now as
It looked then, except thar the back
wing for the slaves has been torn down,
and some few alterations have been
made around che place; but when you
arc shown the house, you can still see
Die dent in The stair rail made by that
Indians Ratchet more than a hundred
years ago.