Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-10-06

kcl, be thV hIuOuut ever 80 lLttie, JACK
to General Washington. The sailor
had been granted a further leave OF alb
sence by the naval committee at the
generals urgent request. and was glad
to learn that he should soon have
command of the promised ship OF wal
which was even then making ready in
the Delaware. Honest Bentley-be-
loved OF the soldiery in sl.te of his
genuinely expressed contempt for land
warriors-was lending what aid he
could In keeping up the spirits Of tie
men and in other material ways IN
the camp. Some of the clothing. some
of the guns from the Mellish. M Of
the material captured from the Ues-
slams had gone into the hands and over
the backs and upon the feet OF the
men. But the clothed and the naked
We're equally happy. for had they not
done something at last? Aye! They had
given assurance that they were men
to be reckoned with.
Fired 10y the example set them by
the Continentals, the Pennsylvania
militia, under Cadwalader and Ewing
and Miffiin, had at last crossed the
Delaware and Joined Grifin's men.
Washington had followed them. and
the Goth of December found him estab-
lished in new headquarters at Tren-
ton. A number of mounds in the fields
covered with snow, some bitter recol-
lections and sad stories of plumber.
robbery. rapine and worse. told with
gnashing teeth or breaking heart by
the firesides, We're all that remained
Of their strange antagonists in the
town. But the little town and the
little valley were TO be once more the
e of war. The great game was to
be played again. and the little creek
Of the Assunpink was to run red UNI
der its ice and between its banks.
On the Goth Washington's troops
began to cross the river again. Two
parties Of light Dragons were sent on
In advance, under Colonel Reed. assist
ed by parties OF Pennsylvania rifle
men dispatched by Cadwalader. They
chung tenaciously to the TANKS Of
Won Donop. That unfortunate com
mander had been led away from his
camp at Burlington I'm pursuit of Grff-
fms gallant six hundred. When he re-
turned unsuccessful, the news from
Trenton had so alarmed him that he
fed precipitately, abandoning his
heavy baggage and some of his artil-
lery. 1t was a work Of Joy for the
pursued to pursue, a reversal OF con-
ditions which put the heavy German
veterans at a strange disadvantage
compared with their alert and active
pursuers. They had marched through
that country with a high hand, plum
dering and abusing its inhabitants in
a frightful way, and they were now
being made to experience the hatred
they themselves had enkindled. The
country people rose against them and
cut them off without mercy.
1t took two days to get the troops
across on account of the ice In the riv-
er. And now came another difficulty.
The time of the major part OF the
Americans had expired on the last day
of the year, but Washington had them
paraded and had ridden up and ad-
dressed them In a brilliant, soldierlike
fashion, and they had to a man volun-
teered to remain with him for six
weeks longer, or as much more time as
was necessary to enable him to com
plete his campaign before he went in
to winter quarters. He was at last
able to pay them their long deferred
salary out of the $4,000 sent him by
Robert Morris, which Seymour and
Talbot that day had brought him. and
for their future reward he cheerfully
pledged his own asst estate, an exam
pie Of self sacrifice which Greene,
Stark. Talbot. Seymour and others Of
the officers who possessed property at
once emulated. The men were put In
good spirits by a promise of SO boun-
ty also. and they were ready and ca
ger for a fight.
Reed. attended by six young gentle
men Of the Philadelphia troop, had
been sent out to reconnoiter. Up to-
ward Princeton they had surprised a
British outpost composed of a sergeant
and twelve dragons. The sergeant
escaped. but the twelve dragons, pam
lc stricken, were captured after a short
and Reed and his gallant
young cavaliers returned In triumph to
headquarters. Valuable information
was gained from this party. Cornwall
lis had joined Grant at Princeton and.
with seven or eight thousand men, was
wagons and transportation.
preparing for a dash on Trenton. Con-
Of this not unexpected news
came by a student from the college
who had escaped to Cadwalader and
been sent up to General Washington.
The situation of Washington was now
critical, but he took prompt measures
to relieve II. Cadwalader from the
Crosswicks and Miffiin from Borden
town. with 5000 men. were ordered
forward at M They promptly obeyed
orders and by another desperate night
march reached Trenton on the morn
ing of the first day Of the year.
There was heavy skirmishing all day
on the I'd. CORVALLIS, advancing
in hot haste from Princeton with 5000
men. was checked. and lost precious