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No one feels the ne cessity cf speech when a cigar is in his mouth, and it is very uncomfortable to be in company with a man, and dread to say any thinglest it should jar on his sensative feel ings; so we smokul on in silence thinking a groat deal. His mobiluexpressive face plain ly showed the tumult that was going on within; bUtitis Thad no idea what direction his resolution would take, I dared not say a word; and to leave him in this condition seemed unfriendly. Our silence was broken by the return of Briggs, who said, impatiently— "Rackit, make me cigarette. I can't rest. I have been wandering about the streets like a murderer." Rackit, who had just finished making one, presented it t.. him, and tie puffed furiously as bo went to the easel on %Thiel' stood Mrs Beauchatup's portrait. "What a Mee sh.• ha•!" he exclaimed.— "Look at it., What a smile: Who cuuld help loving such a woman?" Rackit flung a glance at me, in which I read as plainly as if he bad spoken the words,. "he must take her back." "Did you ever see one to compare with her?" inquired Briggs. "Never!" replied the painter. "And I have always said that you are a lucky dog —the luckiest of dugs —to have captivated the +•ffectiuns of such a woman. Johnson will tell you that I have always said so." "Don't!" groaned Briggs, "don't remind nie of my Itissl" "Pho! she's' not lost." "She is though." "You fancy so." "I know so." "It's nothing but a loner's quarrel—kiss and make up." "AIII I wish I could kiss and make up." "What is to prevent you?" "Everything!" "Nonsense! Who ever heard of a marriage being broken off fur a little tiff? Why, my dear fellow, angels tiff sometimes—for the sake of making up again." "I should be glad enough to make up.— For on reflection I will confess that it was I who was wrong yesterday—very wrong—l was hasty." "No doubt. Your temper is peppery, you know. I have always said it of you." "No not generally. But yesterday, per haps —" "Yesday you were hasty—perhaps a little offensive—it may be brutal —" "No, no, I wasn't at all that." "You can be brutal, Briggs—q know you can; not that you mean it, of course. She will understand that. And no doubt you laid too much stress on a little vivacity in her language; she is so vivacious!" "She is. Besides, if she has a fault, I . never expected her to be quite perfect." "Of course not. A' perfect woman would be a • monster—her goodness would be an eternal reproach. As far as I elm judge— and Johnson will tell you I'm no bad judge of women—my experience is tolerably ex tensive. Well, as far as I can judge, Mrs- Beauchamp combines all the 'quitlitios ne cbssary to make a man happy." "All, all," responded Briggs. "And, moreover, let us joke as we like about marriage, it is the dearest aim We have in life, you know." "That it is." "The haven into which the storm-tossed mariner—and all that kind, of thing." "Evictly my sentiments." "Well, then go at once, and ask her for giveness. Tell her you regret the hastiness of your teniper--"" "Never," said Briggs, with reisolittion: "Madman!" "I may be mad, lam miserable, licit I am rbrolved. We are parted forever." "Now, don't be absurd." '•Tes, .yea. It's easy to say, Don't be ab surd. &Butiffiriraiirthinks * * this blow is a heavy one' * * but niity l -confide in 'yogi two * * * diner-v.4h meat the "elab'ta-day—yei shall know all" "` • "Tell' it at atice," said I: 2htit woman has no heart!" exclaimed Briggs. Then going to her pbrtrait, be apOs trophised it; "No ! „-yoettiave no One catt'readli play face. ' Racket, lOok at this picture—and then read this letter.". • Behtinded ti crctapled data to Racket, who stotoothed• it,' read' it; - and returning it, sa i d' —"Well, upon my word, '1 see nothing to object to in IL" . " • . - "Yon don't?" , exclaimed • the' astonished Briggs, throwing. away. the and of hin'olgit- -'4obeion %ball judge. listeil : to ibis.. In the driest tdocr Imaidginibre bl3gin:to reed: - ••7ohn."P• ' • •" ' "Well; yositinune fin'i it? 'Yon wouldo'S i3ars her itay Ire: tiiiifte*Biigger "You think - that's litorioebegidiziiig - ; do you?" • ' • • - ''ilibeinightlitifbiliM, - igisr - ititilled Ma tt. ."NO,RNTEAT'AiNMEN'T IS 'SO WIMP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PEIN - NSYLVA.NI, SATURDAY MOANING, AUGUST 3 "Don't let us be unjust. '.To hit is simply affectionate, comes from the - heart. I may be wrong, I don't know whatJohnscoi thinks, but there seems to me (under the circum stances, observe!) something very - touching in that simple John. It is wortti a hundred phrases such as dearest pet, or my own Too tles." "And perhaps you say as much to what follows." He then read,.severely: "When people find they have made a mistake, they aro bound by every consideration, not to continue in it, but if possible to repair it.— We made a mistake in fancying our natures suited each other. It would be very wrung to continue in this error. Let us part." Briggs here looked vit us as much as to say, What do you think of that? As what T thought was yeryuriequivocal, I was si• lent; but Rackit broke forth: • "Well, never did I hear a more dignified, and at the same time touching, accent at a wounded heart. How'free it is from rhodo mantade, and from sophistry! She throws no blame on you, observe! Not a syllable.— She doesn't say that you showed yourself coarse, tyrannical, violent, brutal—" "Because I didn't!" "Yea, yes, you did; you coLfessed as =ell nut lung ago. Besides, suro you were angry, and anger is always blind." "I don't care %shut I was, that letter's plain enough." ''Quite plain, if read in another spirit.— Let any unprejud!ced eye read it, read it without bias, without anger, and it will be found as noble in conception as it is scvero in its simplicity of style." Briggs, somewhat staggered by this unex pected, and to him, incomprehensible, view of the matter, looked at. me. F-rtiniately I have great command over tny and did nut explode in a loud Iluinortu guf faw. "Oily profound feeling," cm:tinned Rack et, "ecer expresses itself snuply." "But where is the feeling here?" "'Where?" replied Rackit. "In every phrase. Listen, while I read." Ile took the letter, and, throwing a subdued reticen t tenderness into his voice, which did honor to his talents as an actor, ho began: "A would be wrong to continue in error. Do you not feel the selective delicacy of that word error? Then ton, the phrase: Let us part! No shrieks—no reproaches—all is severely calm, like the expressions of a Roman ma tron. "But go on," said Briggs; "you see, she adds, 'we were to be married shortly. Our marriage is now impossible.' Really the tears gather to my eyes as I read this." Briggs was moved but not convinced. "Yuu certainly have a way of reading it," he said, "which wasn't at all mine. But listen to this: Ido not think that you will find a nature to suit your own, but you are free to try. Henceforth we can only be friends. You will only see me when united with anoth er.—Emily. "Of course," said Rackit, "If you persist in throwing that accent in it, you may road hatred in the tenderest eonfes4ion of love.— What does sho really say? Why, that she fears that you cannot find a woman worthy of you; but you are free to try, she will nut be an obstacle to your happiness, she will withdraw into privacy with her grief—" "Pho! she talks of marrying'anotherl" "You misinterpret again; read it properly thus; You will only see me when united with another, Emily. It's as clear as day, that she refers to your marriage, should you find a woman worthy of you. Then—when you are happy—when her presence can no longer be an intrusion—as a friend you will gee her again. Observe further, that hero the letter ends. Emotion has reached its climax—tho pen, dropsfrom . her hand." "Ile Us a way.of reading, basen't he, Johnson?" "Why , -Yes." I replied, "but then you knout everything depends on the =Tea It's the tone which - makes the - music, not the notes. SupPose.l say to a woman, 'You're a pretty oreature';!--that as mnmistakable gallantry; bat if I say theiarne Words with another emphasis, 'You're a pretty creature,' it's a sarcasm.", - _ "Of course," interposed Rackit. "A wo man may call you a wretch, and mean that you are a darling; all depends on the ac cent. When a, Frenchman calls his wife cabbage,!--the-accent -- malres it . palata ble." • "You almost persuade Me. The fact is, I ahculd like CO be piireueded." , "Go hoincu' read the letter; over in the spirit I have sugiested,"and itovillsoon be clear Wiyea'itit yon need to . Make • the proper ailvanees--10, apologia° fdr, your candid; and 'nit for' big her thit life can halmim . 'hisppineint for you wit h out iiirLalluding darkly to yonr,. black-handled 'ra r e - Of—end she will quickly make it Up; ion "life glide 'pia goid adii4e," said I. it " and de -1 When the Nitreiigao r oi• be'CfsiTly, upon him, we both give rent to Orir 'long pent:upfituitli - ter." l But Rick ePeedily.he7 came serieqa "Golf - the left !wingle rented;'' Al-. "I 'have atilt the Widow tiifight: If I can manage to'ptick a decent quarrel with 444 she will vicirtups be ready to welcome the tipii3tgint Br!glis. ' li's'a " ticklish bull- Des ". tbo°,o;' ° can ' t o:ll4t ihi°?P 01,4 i I „ don't' want' 59 marry her, 151o:4,104 after iiiitngeoioro that I loved.her better than :ItitC4Uppose it'd possible to get up clitaitellf'ette is bent on it. CLIAPTER V. TUE SECOND BLOW'REGINR TEE QUARREL. . - Considering how easily two people, quer el- about - foolish trifles, and misin terpret phrases or actions, it is remarkable thist there should ever be a difficulty in*getting up a good "row," when one of the antago nists desired it. If those who" love and re spect each other quarrel and regret to du so, surely one would think it must be very easy to quarrel when there is any desire for it?— Yet, I appeal to the experience of every middle aged reader, whether he has not oc casionally found it by no means an easy thing to pick a quarrel. You m ready enough to strike, but if your adversary won't put up his guard, you are shamed into n,;t striking. You may oven lash yourself into a rage, and strike; but, :oppose the blow is not returned? you then learn that it is the second blow which begins the quarrel. Ruckit found himself in this position.— The widow informed him of having broken off her engagement with Briggs; and he re ceived the intelligence with the most mitiga ted rapture. But she refused to see this, and accepted his feeble excuses. When he said he was deep in meditation, she inquired if it was respecting their future lot? "No," said he, "I was meditating on try great picture—the Virgins of the Sun." With playful reproach she said, "I thought a lover would have had other objects of med- i tation." "But I am an artist—and artists, you know, are always self-absorbed." "Women do not like that—and I warn you, I utn a very woman." "Not a tyrant, I hope," he said coldly. "No," she replied, tenderly placing her hand on his arm, "a slave." Rackit mentally observed that this was the velvet of which Briggs complained. "You must make me a sharer in all your thoughts," she said, "and in all your cares." "Impossible an artist can never—" "Have a care! Remember I shall have a right to know. As a wife, I may insist." Here was an opening; and ho seized it. "My dear creature let us be perfectly frank with each other. I must tell y u, be. forehand, that I shall admit of no inaistance; and that on the merest trifles I pretend to have entirely my own way." "Do you revolt already?" "Yes," he said, trying to get angry, "al ready and always. It is necessary to be plain at the outset, I never could, and I never will, yield to a woman's caprices." Here was a blow well delivered from the left; and he expected a rejoinder. She looked a little staggered; but taking his un. willing hand, said: "Well, then, it is I who must yield." It was clear to him that that match would n't light. "With very bad grace," she continued, "could I even - seem to thwait the man who was soon to be my husband." "And if he were already your husband?" • That would be a very different matter, you know." "Rh!" said Rackit, quickly. "In a husband;" she replied, with diabol ical coazingness, "my confidence would necessarily be absolute." The claWs were shown, but it was clear they were not prepared to scratch—just yet. "You turn from me. Look me in the eyes, Charles." He felt that if he looked ho was lost; so he did'nt. But she took him by the shoulders and turned him round. Their eyes met.— tiers were so blue, so tender, so bewitching; that it was all over with - his resolution. A" quarrel was hopeless: After an infinite amount of lover's prattle which 'I need not repeat, they were on the best of terms, when Bub came into say that Charlotte insisted ohspetiking with him. • He stepped into the adjoining room, and there had to encounter a young woman who seemed by no means indisposed to quayrel. "Mr:Rack:it, sir," she said, "I - witihes to know this: Am Ito sit or not?" - "Yes, yes, of course; but not yet.". "Because I'm tired of waiting." "Very well, then, my dear, go home." "But I don't want to go home with a flea. in my ear." • , "Then "remove the flea, and go home without'it:" "But I don't want to go till I have sit.-- It was settled I. should sit. My family . knows I'm to sit; and sit I will." "S'o you Shall; kit not now." "I dare say, indeed;'n'ot now means never." "You foolish girl," I tell jou I waneyMi to sit but it•must be scinie'other day; par ticularly engaged just now,andas youlon't *int to wait, go home. If you don't want to•go home, wait." ' . - "I want to sit, acid don't Do yeta - Ceier — find ysiurself hetaeen„ilick 8 siTH " "Often / my dear, but_ L only sit_cn,pust," `' i 'Thats. it—'l Runt StivenFiiiniee were pgisaidla tryitaL ; to penioltde obiZrlottathit she was not ill-treat edi' ate iiehtn`to'Cry.,`tititt made Bsck i im psti'ent;sad time he hid got rid of her, and mattered 14 painting-n:O9ON be • sr e e,^ ,• . was an sin l I mp atient sad irritable frame s of mind. What should • awaithlus he{e„lotat s scene with thewidovv, who had heard a fet . pptle. Zice:in,r - r smgetiv , ears. and who...began to kel udi.7 ; 1 9 1 09. 1011 P ' ;' ) f. , .a l 4 , o l tir her atttikave she bows very plainly to intimate to hint. He was in r no mood to listen' patiently to _such non I sense, even liad he no secret desire to quar rel with the widow; and when ho had brought her to something like an explicit uvasnl ofjualcusy, he said quickly: . "Then 'um I to uuderstadd you are of a jealous temper?" "D I not love?" she answered. "No evasion••. Spook plitinly. Because it is requisite that you know beforehand, that I urn one of those who hate jealousy, and think it monstrons. ridiculous, insup portable." "Then for your sake," she said submis sively, "I will curo tnymelf of it." It was plain; she was a domon in crino line; and she would not quarrel. "You will !earn to correct all your bach elor habits when we are married." "Perhaps. And yet no one knows. Bad habits cling to one like a damp shirt. I al most fear I shall never change." "Then I must learn to accommodate my self to them, for I shall at any rate alvrays be certain of one thing." "And that is?" "Your love." "Seriously, do you think love of such su preme importance?" "Tne ONE important thing in life " "Then why did you not marry Briggs who adores you?" "M it ho." "lie does, I a4mre you. his lore iy im nunoc: lie WA)) here just now, and ire grief at the idea ”f losing you was so pa thetic, so heart-rending- [ bur r to confess the simple truth, I felt ashamed of my position. I felt that I had no riyhi inflict on a hu man being so great a wron4 11.810 deprive him of the woman ho adored." Mrs. Beauchamp raised her handkerchiet to her eyes and said, almost sobbing, — You felt that?" A. bright gleam danced before him. He had evidently touched the right chord at last. Women are so sentimental! "Yes," he said, "so profoundly did I feel it, that I began to ask myself whether it would be a nobler part to sacrifice my own happiness—to relinquish my claim—and to be content with that proudest of emotions, the preference of amoebae's welfare to your own." "Noble, noble fellow!" she sobbed. His heart bounded. The success was so great as it was unexpected. He blessed tho sentimental nature of woman, and erm tinned: "Yes, Emily, I thought this, and I feel it it still. Much as I should rejoice to call you mine, I feel it would be nobler, better wiser, to give you up." "Noble creature!" she exclaimed, remov ing the handkerchief from her radiant face. "You make me love you more. By those words you have riveted forever the bond which bind me to you." • It was no use. She would have him, and his struggles were vain. It seemed to him as if Nemesis, in the form of a widow, had attached herself to his life. It was— "Arenas tome mimic' ea roils Attaches." And he had nothing left but to resign him self. Either she could not, or she would not understand him; one alternativewasas fa tal as the other. CHAPTER 171. ANOTUZR LETTS& A man more thoroughly worried and beaten I never saw than poor Rackit when I milled on him half an hour after. All liii'mission fur Mrs Beauchamp seemed vanished, or rather to have become changed into savage irritation. Ile blamed himself; bit, as uiusl, the reproaches be heaped upori his own con suet were strongin expression bat mild in feeling: It was upon bar head that the bit ter vials were emptied.: She vi*sildetigning hypoOrite; 'a demon incarnate, lie didn't know what Vices might not beOcmcealeil be:: nenth that soft exterior. Wily did she wish to marry himfwhy persist in wishing it, when it was so palpable to the dullest mind that he didn't wish it? He bad no wealth to tempt her; he had no rank; he had no fame —as yet;, he had not anything remarkable in the way of personal attractions; what then could she see in him?. It was clear-she had some sinister motive. Briggs was a better match, yet - Briggs had been thrown over-board? Why was this? Some horrible design mast be hidden here. I suggested that he should write: her n plain letter avowing that he was by nature unfit for the quiet of domestic life, and•un eqnivically expressing his sense of the hale.' takes which he had made iit'antei imagining thitiiecosild Settle. !'Yon told her she was a beam of sunshine, and now;yoa can hint to bar titafin, an atelier it is necessary to let [hobnails doWn to keep the sisashineoat7" "pi 'AO ier`he paid; ltd lie - sat down to write:„ —But]it is no easy master,to write on such-subjects: still loss easy , is it to tell a women whom you .I;aew sworn that you heyt - , - impOsaiblelt 113{1, can haye,beenin your right senses when yon swore it.7liiackit thrust his disengaged hithdithreightio redtindant loelrs; bilistleo 7 Lively the end of his pen, drew digurni.On his ti.ettitig-boolrOmt'esittinot get;beyond I "illy dear. Mrs. .Beauchamp." Presently berme,- and .lighted a alga:ante, in gloomy meditation, lOommionly Y thotight seemed to idspire itlin,lnnd :he eat down; but when he came . : exiiriesii..the thought in wmrd.i. it 'mimed masterly InippUtable, as be titres, downlhis' Den .itfiTv•i•i , tne I rii4 a. Can fel!an , what 4.0 - And I began to help $1;50 PER - YEAR 21. ADVANCE; $2.00 .17`N0T IN ADVANCE 1861. him. We hammered out a letter together; hut it seemed so-tame that wo both felt it wouldn't do. We tried again, but with no greater success. - "I tell-you what it is," ho exclaimed at length, "I shall cut and run. I'll pack up and go to Rome. I want to seo Rome; and when she hears that I have quitted England without informing her of my intention, it will be a delicate way of letting her know that rhave changed my mind. She will despise me, perhars, and abuse me, certain; but better that than she should marry me." "Better still," said I, suddenly illumina ted, "if you were to write her precisely the same letter - which she wrote to Briggs; I remember the words perfectly." "By George! what a good idea!" "She ,cannot take esception to her own sentiments in her own words, you know. If it was justifiable in her to throw Briggs over as she did, she can never pretend that you are not equally justified; any by using her very expressions you escape all os‘il "Say no more. Tho thing is perfect.— Juhuson you're a genius. I never thought so before; but in you, common sense amounts to genius." In a few minutes the letter was written, :4ealeci l and despatolied by Bob. Rackit was now is an uproarious state.— lie punched me in the ribs, and called me his beet friend. Lie san4 at the op of his voice A data mode ognora, and threw such fe..vor ant° Addio, Lcanara, Addio, that one might have imagined bins to be a Mario— in a great coat. In the very height of this excitement, Briggs arrived. face flushed,..eyes sparkling, hair damp with perspiration. ' "My dear fellows," he said exultingly, "I am so glad to find you both here. Only think! you rentemher that — lo ter I showed you from Mrs. B npf a flani: It's the Fi-st of Apr:l: she has' beer making Uri! fools of us." "You don't say a-1" "Fact. L !Imo. "Jits ‘ rt 4:to 4om the loner here by a. mel4l-,_:,r—t:te ogle I read to you—she sant this other c clue, Listen," and he read aloud, " •Dearest at the time I write this note t.. you, I send another, and a very dliforeo, ono, co ymt, by a messenger et Mr. Itackit's. If that seem ineoniprehensible to you, look at the date and all will be exblaioed. If the date does not enlighten you, come for consolation to yours, ever affectionately—Emily Beau champ.'"" I congratulated him, and thought that Rackit also would he overjoyed, but to my surprise I read an expression.of deep morti fication on his . features; and then_it occurred to me that, glad as ho.certainly was to have escaped the marriage, he was deeply vexed at having been made ridiculous. Re called on Mrs. Beauchamp that very afternoon, and received from the bewitching widow an explanation which_was a. reproof. "My dear kr. Rackit," she said,. "for some days you made vehement love _to me. Don't deny it. You know you did; yet yon• knew all the while that I mts engaged to Mr. Briggs—Tour friend andmy old play, .mate. I tried quietly to call you to order; but in vain. Now, I was certain that you really cared nothing for me." "Oh, Mrs. Beauchamp!" "Yon didn't, so dun;! pretend - you did I knew enough of you' to be sure that the attraction lay in thefruit being Idebidden. The whim soddenly :seized ins of putting your sincerity to tho test, and the license of All Roots' Day, suggested the means." ' "But, 'oppose you had been mistaken?" "Then, I confess, my prank would have placed me in a serious position. But I Was: quite safe. I knew with whbm - I anti play ing. I knew that, if volatile and Thought less, he was, and . would - always prove birri self—a gentleman" ' lle took - her hand, kissed it, and pronoun ced lair an angel. But from that 'day to this I haventiver heard him - mention the name of Mrs. Smythe Brier. Pirst-litemolutidiat. Battle The following description of the battle of Lexington is from- ,Banoroft's seventh vol ume of the History of the Gaited States. On the afternoon of the 18th of April, the day, : on which the. Provinoial Congress of Idatmchusette ,adjourned, Gen. Gage took *alight infantry and grenadiers-off duty and.secretly prepared an expedition to de• stray the colony's stores at Concord. Bat the-attempt bad, for: servoral days been saw ponied; a strict watch had beeo.kept, and signals were connected to announce the first movement of troops for the country. - Samna Adams and John Hancock who had not-yet left Lexington for Philadelphia; received a timely-manageifroas Warms, mud-in eons*. queue, the Committee of Safety 21112101Mtillir part of the public, 'totes and- seareted. this comma. ~ • ••• „ „ , Oa Tuesday.• ths:Littb; ton-orstutre Ser geants la -.distant' disPereat - theassilres throat:lkea:abridge:and faatherweet,-ttati tavapt all:oosnmorioationti. .10a'the foliate ing night, the grenadiere.andlight inGietry; not Imo than eight.bandred- in namber•lhe Sower of the worst ataiten; commanded by the incompetent' Mohr. oa.'entith, create ed an the boats of the teatispart from the foot nf the Common to &et-Cambridge. There they- remised a day's pnrrieitme, and near milinight after grading wet' marshes. ctgAt ~. .verei by e elveltit-men. they I.' "rail Ahruszi2 We'sr Odinabsage so Cmoord. • [WHOLE NUIBER-1,619: 'They will miss their aim," bald, one or the, party, who obserred : the departure.— "What aimr asked-Lord Percy; who over heard the remark. "Why ibe..cannon at Concord," was the answer. Percy hastened I.to Gage, who instantly directed that no one should be allowed rodeaste :the-town.- Btit Warren had already at 10 o'clock, diepetch edliam Dawes tl rough Roxbury to Lex ington, and at the same time desired Paul Revere to set off by way of Charlestown.— Revere stopped only to engage-a friend to raise the concerted signal, and five minutes before the sentinels got orders to. prevent is two friends rowed him poet the Sammerreet man-of--war, across Charles River. All was still, as suited the hour. The Ship was winding with the young flood; the waning moon just appeared above the hori zon; while from a couple of hinteine tower of the North Church, the beacon .streamed to the neighboring town as fast nd light could travel. A little beyond Cearlee ton.Neelc, Revere was intercepted by two British-officers on horseback, but being him self well mounted; he turned soddenly and leading one-of them into a ehry pen l;_he es caped from-the other by the read to Med ford. As he passed on hecwated the min ute men of that town, and continued to rouse nearly-every house on the road to Lexing ton. The troops bed •not advanced fur, when the firing of guns and the - riogicg of bells announced that their expedition had .been heralded before -them; and:Smith sent beck to demand a reiafercement. Oa the morning of the 19th of A pril,-be tweets the hours of twelve and one, the robs. sage-of Warren retched Adams and Ran o .ck, who divined .0 once the ob.!ectof the expedition. Revere. Vierefore. and Dawes, joined by 'Samuel Proqcott, "..t high sen - of liberty," from Concord, rode forward, eating op the inhabitants as they rode along,llll in Lincoln they fell upon a party of British officers. Revere and Dawes were seized and taken'tmok to Lexington, - where they were reletsed; but Prescott looped - ever a low stone wall an I galloped on to Concord. There, at ab .ut two in the morning, a peal from - the belfry of the meeting house ale 3 the inhabitants of the phicc — to their town hell. Thercame forth, old and young with their fire-locks ready to make good tae resolute words of their debate. Among the most alert was Emerson, with gun in lmnd, his powder horn and 'pouch of tails slung over his shouldes.. By his sermbris'itna prayers, boiled so hallowed the enrhp3lhstit of his flock. -that they hold the delenles of theislibertieti- a part-of their cu'veuatre wits. God—:hie pretence witlimrmv pieried MS - oerity. and Stinnkthetied 'their seitseitf d.tty. From daybreak to suariie the ad ra mons rats from house ta house Through Acton, express messengers and volleys frdm Minim' men spread the alarm. ' - Lexington, in 17/5. - may have had 76 . 0 habitants forming ext's' and huviito for- their minister the learned and' ferr:d James - Clark,' the bold inditer of patri,-•...: papers that they yet be rend on the t,wn: record. In December. 1773: n tbev htl obverted their renregearatire I re dresii for:their grievances, for. "riot their neglect shuit , ithey b 9 eueieved." year later they epurited the usptf . t/ifk... ,Ia 1774, at variotte taste .rneetinge, they, rp,ed icijnirease their stoolr. of ammunition . "to encouragemilitary aiscipline,,an 4 put themselves in a., posture..of,defenoe against their euernies.'.! ln December, tisey , dis tributed the "train band and alarm list, arms 'lid ammunition," and resolved to_ supply the training soldiers with'bayonete. At two in the morning, under the eyei:: of the- minister,-and .1f Hancock' 'Sad 'Adams. Lexington common was alive ncitiritli. diem only, but `with many old men also:who-Were exempt in cases of immediate dimmer to-the town. Tho roll wee cakisd, and iont.or,!he militia and alarm, abbot ode ans wered td their ,niiM - ei„. The oaptaio. John Parker, ordered every one , to - load. powder and hailrbut to take MO not to fat) first.-- Messengirs seat to cloOlotierfat&ihe British-regulars reported that there was ife aigrief their approach.- A-watch was there. furs set, anti •-the company dismissed, with orders to come together at the-beat - of 'etre drum. Some went to , tbsir'hetnits, soints to the tavern, near thelsontheast comet Of the 0013:103011.' • . - • • Adanwand lianeoelt; whose Tireiiiriptiolks had already been divulged. and whoebleli are wee believed "tobe Intended. were cow pelted by perattaidon to reline tewarde_Wol barn. • The lost'eti . ra . were raoleblnifrom,sfea4 when tlielch:embitt party, lid 14 Pi'tosiro, a Nejcitof`iiiirfaas, V discovered advioctios cioickly'and in aliens". Alarm pm were fired, sod the "di'imse - bast. Lisa than 1 .4 1 .r,PV• A ll @aloall-r.P•rhisPe bag thocsia.7. 7 lind. ig sightof half *adman, unarmed meo, -were parade:l4n two nolo. few - 'kale north of the meetioghoosa.. The Willett van. hearing thesirarnx , and the alarm guns, halted to load; the remain ing companies came iv and--htdted.to load; and at half an - hour before enerise-Ritrad• wanes party hurried forward at double oink& time, almost uporre ran. closely !Meowed by the grenadiers. Pitcairn rode in front, Ind when within live orvlrrotrarthe =stunts Men, 'cried nut: —"Dieperr, yeyilliane. ye rebel* disperse! Lay- dein your ate `ertli di4POrßef'. • The main part be thii - ca3taciVy ay. 1 . inutiboter:ip.,ike g ran i AVM!. ac t z ieodoil., soarer to resst frac tiro tally: 'At this Plutairtidisc a ltaigidealatai. and with a load vein cried "Fir."
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