t^W THE DYIJWYEAR. by them^antfer in which we treated the been dragged to the cei efeh and pretty as a child just out of dress in which" I had *fiei father, has fled somewhere for protec- "Get up, bays, and let's Ding-dong} thepid Tearjs dying^ hath. Senator Morton, who relished I almost,gMpef ouH 5TJ?ar aunt,jwfcj$ -do tion."/ you at Wiley's that you nail wincenougl &. I 13 WQ&ryj toJwhic1i She 1-eplfed"Very thej exit even more than the departure, you cfdme? Hark tie night-wjnd's singing, These words drew every vestigf of color but you must bring some lere and drinl said! they reminded him of the old song clearly an* distinctly, itwith something Misererel ,'1 ^Ja* from'the listener's face ,they tpldher who yourselves stupid. Tom Sfcott, and you' pealthg^-***1 of the rose just washed by the rain. $ Dinf-dong the hells are of effort,' I come to ma ce an important the men below were, though she could Blakeson, I am ashamed oi you! What Soft are the last hours stealing: communication, but it is all comprised in not see even the outlines of their persons Human souls are feeling would we do if a gang of jrebels should L^ J:ja 'M.. fhid condition? You under- these words: Poor zzie! But don't One week prior to her visit, her father, in5 L^GHOST STORIES. Sad and dreary. catch us grieve Lizzie is quite tappy!' As she one of the King's Mountain heroes, was. stand the mercy we wduldlget, and yet Ding-dong' the moments flying," The events which I record in this pa- finished these words I arted from the found dead in a palmetto grove, and the Drawing nearers you sit there as careless as sfatuesdrunk p'^r have taken place eithe|| in my own bed with outstretched ai ns, but: she had Youth is worth the buying words of Ferguson's Avengers lay on as old Bacchus himself!" When it's dearer faimily or in the famil i il or in the familie|f of intimate vanished, and I fell heav ly to the floor his breast. Then she had deserted her Th^n an expression of coi But no wealth can ever friends, or are from the narf ation of per where she had stood. I suppose that hoime, knowing that the hand that had over the man's face, and, stdoping, he exclaimed Stay the flowing river sonsk of strict veracity, I begin with one after getting Iback to tied I slept till stf|8ck tha father would not spare the Life conies fiom the Giver, told W very lately by a pious and useful morning, but as soon as Isaw my grandmother Not the shaier. daifehter^^ I Up' up! the rebels are cbming!'% Minister of the Church of Englandr I I told her all the circumstances Ding-dong' the night is wsi Wejjljnjgnt the lone gin ti emble when i^But his cry of alarm did not infuse givethikiAWicdote of hfs boyish dayws as and made her Jook at mylbox, which was Almost vanished she fouM herself so near the dreaded much life into the men at the tables One A few short hreaths lemaming much as possSbte in his own woids. in the greatest disorder, *id all the articles scourges of the country, and she did not or two heads were raised, but the drunk-, Ere it is fled & "I was brougflrtmp by my grandfather of mourning which ilhad placed at move until she heard thefiont door opened, Hush'the bells aie ceasing: 1 en leer that made their faces hideous was and grandmothefy who resided in the old the bottom-of the box I fobnd at the top. and heavily booted feet in the room New tenants now are leasing, enough to provoke a smile, ejren from the family mansion n the banks of the DeVwent, My grandmother looked gVieved but said The past is still increasing, below. mad tory. in Derbyshire. This venerable The Old Year's dead' nothing. I still persisted in thinking it Then a calm thought of her situation "Men!" he sneered, confcmptuously. James LaMlin. family1 place, which hadl belonged to our but a curious dream, and ve started diove fear ^fioin her heart, and Alice Dogs' every one of you. I Ve a mind to from^the time of! the Norman Conquest^ our journey thatHvery~m mmg. I was Beauchampe prepared to perform one of ide down to the Pacolet swamp and tell had a wide reputation for being haunted, quite in my usuaJ-spirits henwe-arrived FERGUSON'S AYENGERS, the most daring deeds of the revolutionary ebels hiding there that thi men they and indeed the strjange noises which were at the last railway station*. ^^V*^ war. hate are in their power. I have thought A. Story or Partisan Days. heard and the strange tiicks which were From here we had still! long walk to The noise in the house increased, and that I commanded Tnen, not faunkards!" This for the gallant Ferguson!" played, rfbr which Nothing rational could where my parents lived, an 1 as we were oaths and rude jests preceded and followed and he struck the table with tthe but of The foregoing five words had instituted account, made the belief of general acceptance. ^not expected,! pleased mys by thinking the lighting of a fire on the hearth. his pistol, but could not rousejhis stupid a reign of terror in one of the loveliest From generation to generation now surprised they woulc all be. We Alice, who had longed for a sight of followers. districts of the Palmetto Statea district no death had odfcurred in our family arrived, ana just as I laid i ly hand on the the dreaded six, crept to a spot near the The next moment, with an dath on his entered by the Qatawba and Parcplet without some supernatural warning being latch of the garden gate t* open it for bureau where there was a crevice in the tributaries.6! lips, he stood to the door, which he jerked rivers and their gentlte given, and in what I am about to tell granny, I felt exactly the] same deathly floor. There applying her eye to the hole open, and stepped upon the porch. In the month of September, 1780, you I was the person visited for this purpose. chill and shivering which had come over she saw six wild-looking men directly Cornwallis detached the notorious Col. Curse such dogs as I lead !'j he hissed. me while sitting with my uncle the evening beneath her. Ferguson to the frontieis of North Carolina, I suppose I must lead the hones up, and "When I was about 17 years of age, it before. When I recovered and we They were beyond a doubt, the Avengers for the ostensible purpose of encouraging tie each fool in the saddle." was rather suddenly agreed that I should were going*up the long travel walk, I of Ferguson's death, for several the tories of that legion to take up He was stepping from the |porch for go with 'granny,' as I dalled her, to pay said to my grandmother 'How strange masks lay on the table, along with three arms for the king. Ferguson's force consisted the purpose of attending t file horses a visit of a few days to my parents, who the house looks, granny! jill the windows or four bottles of wine which they had in part of the most profligate and which he supposed were still tethered to lived in the suburbs of Manchester. During are draped with white, aid I never remember taken from some patriot's cellar. Tall,* abandoned characters of the partisan the trees, when a form rose before him the past summer my youngest sisrer, my mother's room having white rough, devil-may-care-looking fellows days, and his march was marked by and he started back with a gasp of terror Lizzie, with whom I had been very little curbams before.' Granny) made no answer, atiocities of the most shocking description. they were, armed with pistols, carbines, Who in the mischief acquainted before, had payed us a visit and as we knocked at the door my The hardy men of Carolinas, Kentucky and sabers, the kind of men who never "Alice Beauchampe," was the interruption at the time of hay-maki\g,and I remember mother opened it, led us into the hall and and Virginia rose against the marauders, court the smiles of mercy or* listen to of the apparition. "The daughter thinking that she wakthft most beautiful received us most affectionately, but spofte and, led by Boone and other backwoods the pleadings of innocence. Just such of| the old man basely murdered by child I had ever spen. Always in a hushed, subdued tone which frighl worthies, gave them a decisive defeat a* fellows as they were, Alice had supposed your hands! Down upon'thy miserable white, with lovely auburn hair floating in ened me. Her first words were, 'Hgw^ King's Mountain, Ferguson was slain in them to be, for she had seen many knees, Godfrey Lang, and beg! for the long curls over her shoulders, and playfully glad I am you are come! looked for the battle,and his fellow foragers,number of the prisoners taken at King's Mountain, mercy you have never granted others darting in and out among the haymakers, you some hours ago.' 'How can that be,' ing about one thousand, were, nearly all and she longed for the presence of a Down, I say." she appeared to me something we replied, 'when we meant to surprise captured or killed. band of patriots. There were true men in Perhaps the shadows of the window angelic, and when her visit was ended I you, and did not write that we were South Carolina at that time who would This conflict revived the hope3 of the sash did not permit him to see a pistol quite grrieved over her departure. I was coming^ 'But did you not,' said she, 'get have given their, arms for a chance to exterminate southern patriots, and forced Cornwallis that was clutched in the hand of the therefore much pleased when granny my two lettersfthe one in .which I the Avengers, and Alice remembered 4o return to Charleston, discomfited and fearless girl, else his rashness might have asked me to accompany her to Manchester, wrote of dear Lizzie's dangerous illness where a little party of patriots been curbed. as I should see my dear ^little sister .from.-scarlet fever a w^ek|^|id|ne^ lay, but alas! they were not very We shall nave rest now," the patriots "Kneel to you? Never!" he cried. again. A year before we had lost an tell you of her death at? 4J 'flock yeste^ y\\ near. said, after the battle "Ferguson, the The weapon that he raised dropped before aunt to whom we were deeply attached, day, which last ough| t|)infve reached 1 "We'll rest here and finish that wine!" dieaded, is dead, and the few tones who the flash that followed his last words and her bereaved husbahd ^as at the you before you started this morning?' _J said ne of the leaders of the band,whose escaped with their wretched lives are not and with a groan of pain he staggered present tiine inhabiting one wing of our I Thispwas a dreadfulfblow |o us, for, las 1 face told that already he had imbibed strong enough to do us harm." back to drop dead among his drunken old family mansion. we told my mother* W ffild" receivll i freely. "Bring in the poultry, and on old Everywhere in the vicinity of the battlefield comrades. It was the 19th of December, 185-. that neither letter. When we jrere a little Beauchampe's hearth we'll prepare a the Americans breathed freer, Alice Beauchampe, amazed at her own after carefully packing my box for the recovered from the shock,"my motner feast." and the loyalists in whose interests Ferguson courage, stood silent amidst the smoke of journey, and laying quite at the bottom told us that the day before. Lizzie knew had marched to his death, curbed "How's the horses'" asked one of the her own pistol. She saw the bacchanites of the box as it stood in one corner of the she was dying and said she felt quite their loyalty,and in secrecyJsWore revenge. Avengers, as the man flung the poultry try to shake off their trpor at sight of room some articles of black crape which happ^ she took leave of all the family But the settlements were soon to learn on the table. their stricken leader, and one rose to his I had worn at my aunt's funeral, I went theKafi lome, and referring fp me Said, that the victory of King's Mountain had "Standing like rocks," was the reply feet to fall as soon as he needed support. to pay a farewell visit to my uncle in his 'I should have liked to say good-by* to nerved the aim of the foe more terribly "Such horses as they don't need watching "Now for the swamp," she cried with part of the hotise. After I had sat with dear Tompoor Tom! Give my love to than any which theyJ **had, hitherto and besides there isn't a rebel within ten triumph, and the next minute rushed him some tinie the hall clock struck 4, Tom!'' As she said these last words she known. 1 miles of this accursed place." from the disgusting sight. and just at that moment I felt a deadly fell back and passed away, just at thator $j The existence of the new terror was "Why there's the Widow Hartzell." An hour passed away,, and the drunken chill and shimrmg all oyer me exactly as moment theicloqk struck *She died, $ discovered by a boy one morning about a "I didn't think of her," was the reply. tories began to recover their chief, who if I had been suddenly plunged into bold then, exactly at the tfrnVwiQett'l 'felt the fortnight after the battle. He found th? "How bitterly old Hartzell, hated us,but had dropped to the floor, seemed to sober water. I becime deadly pale, ari^ my deathly chill while sittmgapith my une'e. "After my grandfather's death I wa& family of Archibald Mettson murdered we caught him at last." them with his cold face and staring eyes, uncle in an alarmed tone asked what was in their own house, and to the corpses "And piesented him with a breast pin! and when they had almost recovered their the matter with me. I told him I did placed till I was five-and-twenty in business had been pinned a paper bearing these Ha! ha!" scattered wits, the foe they dreaded was not know, buf that I had never felt Mich with a master who proved to be a words upon them. a strange sensation before. My uncle imagined professed atheist. Finding me to be an And the laugh went ionnd the room. ^TMs for the gallant Feiguson." that Pm!ust have taken cold And Alice Beauchampe's voice had fired the intelligent4ad and inore 'than usually Alice Beauchampe did not wait until This temble atrocity aroused the county, recOmmtrndexfTS^oihg djrly tOfhped^-I hearts of a patribt TJand for Vengeance. wj! gfbna)ftix2fzr't scriptures, hiyiaadfi the laugh was ended while yet it filled and the excitement was quickly On her way to the swamp she had fencountered was to travel, th$ following day. I it his daily business, by specious argu-* the house with its devilisb|echoes,she glided heightened by the finding of the body of the patriots who had captured "Having quite recovered from my .un- me%t and^eovfert ritiicufe, to ttnaeranine across the" room to a window that another murdered, patriot. On the jcold one of the flying horses, and were follqwing pleasant feelings, I spent the evening^ as* m^ Christian belief, and often flattered looked, out upon the dark palmetto grove bieast, which had been pierced with pistol the trail. usual, and retired to bed at the accustomed himself that he was on the point of succeeding. behind the building. rj| %^Lk balls, wis the pallid paper, aild its time. Nbw,jny bedroom was at He celfyrihly would, have done The conflict between patriot and tiry There was no sash in the wmaow, and words of terrible import, and the country the end of a long, narrow corridor, and exactly so but for myj rememberance of my aunt's was brief and almost bloodless the cool winds of the night kissed the pallid knew that a temble vengeance would be opposite the door by which I entered a*pjearancei mybedrodm at the time of The five avengers were made prisoners, cheek of the partisan's daughter. For taken for King's Mountain. was the docjr of a room said to Lizzie's death! 1 Whenever*! bad ftmSs for and sued like cewards for the mercy they a moment she tried to pierce the darkness During the week that followed the discoveries haunted, which was always kept closed, reflection ang thought of that, I felt, assured had never granted to a living being". beneath the window but failing her endeavors, I have mentioned, the work of and which no servant a the house cOul^ that there was not only a state of I need not describe the scene that fallowed. she crept over the sill resolved the avengeis was terrible. They fell upon be persuaded to ehter, indeed, they very,. tfeing after dea'fch, but a directing power Suffice it to say that the trees to trust to fortune for success. patriot houses at dead of night, and left unanimously avoided going into the corridor by whose agency even ,a disembodied front of Alice Beauchampe's home boi The distance to the ground was not on the bosoms of their victims the five itself after (lark, though it opened pint could return to the scene $vi its the strangest fruit that ever hung fro very great, and the daring girl alighted words which had alieady tenorized the into many bedrooms beside my own. I earthly pilgrimage." i i living limb. without injury. country. It was in vain that the patriots had two or three times, while a boy, been The vengeance of the patriots She was now free to make her escape 5 7T^~ summoned theii cunning and energy for in the haunted room with my grandfather terrible, and when the glorious sun rosi Clouds.f^v to the friends she had latejy left: but immediate the capture of the band of demons, which I saw nothing remarkable about it but Sheip BroTfajn^abyft me again, the dreaded men of the lovely dial flight in that direction was not as it had been discovered, numbered six a good deal of moMy, old fashioned furniture, -Probably the largest and highest-rock trict had ceased to frighten people. her intention. men, masked, and mounted on black and an immense, funeral-looking in the/known world ,is thej&juth. Dome Alice Beauchampe, whose courage hai "Heaven help me," she murmured, as horses. They came and went like ghosts, bed at one end, wit i hangings which had of Yos^mite. Standing at the fork of the led to the extermination of the avenging she glided around the old house and approached up1per valley, it rears itself, a s&tfd rOcky but always left behind the terrible sentence once been splend but were now dropping and1 hand, became the heroine of the day, the horses which the Tories had "which which had made their existence to pieces age and neglect. reef, 6^00 feet above tbe 'ground. after the ternvnation of hostilities, wedded left tethered to some trees a few yards execiable. At times they fell upon their berd Thed in m- rooi i stood exactly facing moreipdwerful hand than, that of a. Titan a lieutenant of Marion's men. Her. oo from the door. hunters and left them upon the roadside entered and the door th has cut otway fi eastern halt, leaving a heroism is venerated, and her gallant exploit Atglance into the room revealed the 0*~ marked with the sign "of vengeance. of the haunted room! across the passage sheer precipice over a mile in height. No narrated daily by hundreds of her 4t paralyze the Caroli- forms ot the Avengers discussing the $ Fear began Another door on the same side of the man ever\ trod the top of this dome Until descendants in the Palmetto State. merits of the Vine with oath and jest, or nians, many abandoned their homes room was blocked up by my box, which last yesift 'Former visitors gazed in watching tbe roasting of fowls. They foi the sake of their families and it is stood against it. I cannot distinctly reimember A Reminiscence of Senator Morton. wonder afKthe spikes driven into the had completely terrorized thecountry,ahd probable that the entile district would whether or mot in entering for rock by har^y spiuts^who had repeatedly under the sway of their lawlessness it was have been depopulated in a short time, A correspondent gives this reminiscence he night I closed mf bedroom door, but end/savored scale, it, The shreds of fast becoming a desert had it not been for the courage of one of Senator Morton in the Cincinnati hink it almost certain that I did so, for rora dangling in tfye wind told the story Alice counted them before she touched woman. Gommeretai: One of the 'pleasantest twas December and the weather very of/ their failure. Last* year, however, a single rein and then in a brief period 'occasions, f that visit to California, i- Her name was Alice Beauchampe. old. after thousands\df dollar! were spen*t, of time she loosenedtbe hors^and quietly way to' the whefe your correspondent had the honof it was a dark night in the last week of their1 I went to bed, full lof my to-morrow's several persons floimd'' led them into a small copse, not far Of accompanying Senator Morton a.nd ovember, vphen the heroine of my story urney, and not giving a single thoUebA ^bp of the dome, and, this sunimei* two away. The steeds did n,ot refuse to obey his ijjkmilyi* was a trip to Virginia Jr the house of a friend. Her own house, either ghosts or haunted rooms, went sheep were discovered* browsing on tha her guidance, and when she reached tiie CityA Among othtrs, places of interest we llch had been deseited for several days, st to sleep. How lohg I slept I cannot hitherto .inaccessible peak.. Mrs. A. J. copse, she struck them with a whipfwhich ^nsitM. was the Consolidated Virginia I not far away, and she had determined daess, but I found mylelf sitting up in Murphy, wife of a\ late ho|el prqprietoi she found beneath the saddle. I was a mine: Very agreeable arrangements were turn to it for the purpose of securing 15d intently watching the door ot my in the valley, writes to a lady in New smart blow that she administered,, and the made to convey the Senator down the icle of apparel left behind in her torn, and the door ofjthe haunted room, York as fellows: ''M steeds started forward and disappeared in shaft into the mine. The platform stairfs Yoi can go flights hich was also open, and which I could John Ahdeifeohisl thb'iSouth\Ddm,e-Jg buildin up to an instant. was covered with canvas and seats were across the corridor las the moonlight eushe get out on her journey, she the top of Thus in a few moments Ferguson's provided for the party. At the last he 11 upon it. From mis room caintf a r.ed of the dangers that environed up now by holding, oft to a rope, but it Avengers had been deprived of their declined going on aocount of his wife fi jure which I watchedjacrossthe passage ,bhe smiled, and declared she did quite a tiresome tri. A few ladies in horses. not being quite strong enough, but he a td which, on approaching my bed, 1 at them. She could enter the the valjflj have nad the ascpnt, and I Flushed with triumph, Alice Beauchape lost came and seated himself by the side of oice recognized as the Taunt I had jugh the kitchen in the rear, am sorry. I did not -attempt itf .But returned to the house, aii~4gi the shaft to witness the descent of other tlte year before,dressed in the same cjothes lu ment without a light,and return am one of the few who have seen th looked in upon the hilarious tenants. members of the party. When I add that I nad last seen her in. \She had a* most sier friends. sun rise on the top of yloud's' Rest, ana She now held a pistol i% her handa the ladies were obliged to don a complete fond and tender expression on her face, she had often traversed was its glory will never! fade* from my weapon which a hostler had granted her, suit of male attire, some idea will be but it changed into an angry frown when, grnible but she made good memoijy^t fc U* v*brf^ tj and she crept to the edge of the porch before formedof the undertaking,the-ladies were strtetchmg over the side $f the bed I tried ^reached her home without Strange to fey, tyrp ab^, &$& theii she halted. There was a flash of venfgeahce three in number,, two lovely young girls to fembrace her, exclaimmg, 'Oh, dear gjlence of the grave hung way to the top of the South pome this in the dark eyes of the partisan the daughter anLniec of Senator Cooper, auit, is that you?' I feltithat clisped the lifting of the summer, a dam and her\ lmb3 ""RV" girl while she gazed upon the party beyond and an elderly lady. Mr. Mackey and thejempty air, the figure vanishing in an ttercor to the young they eVer gottheflS is morMthaii tip the threshold. Once o^ twice she another gentleman comprised the party. insftmt from my sight, I (thought 4 had the kitchen, across canteli. They found bun^hi^ raised the weapon, but lowered it again, The costume the ladies was a dreadnaught beek dreaming,, and lay aown again, to up the stairs, she shootj, to eat, but no wate as if playing with the life of the the leader overcoat worn over blue flannel wait up a short time afteiward and see he*liad left the dew that fell on the dom of the' six-, whose burly form was revealed shirt and cloth pantaloons. Heavy shoes agai the fig4weof-jny.aunt,^ut now differe: The drawer Anderson was going to car by the* light of the fire. V^ and a slouch felt had completed the outfit. tly dressed, advancing from the ithout noise^ some water when I left. She saw tfee fowls, smoking and well On account the'of in tense heat jof haui ted room into mine, tflis time not th the gar- fto tUe bumed, placed Qa the table, and patched the mine the ovepcoat was worn only in AjDutchman in describia comng to the bed, butl "going fell upon the. greed"? men "crowd around for 'their descending and ascending the shaft, and horses he had los said "I box had packed and placed "in the corner .~7WS1. in the absence of su8peadinizs%he pantaloons -heiir'^tongues and movements eady tor the next dav. much alike, specially the of rize,and with told her that stolen liquor was doing its were tied with ajto^tf string tightly loot'tso much likepoth I pt to.the win- Tlisshe appeared to,/iummage over, accustomed work on all save the giant, around the W*ist. The costumes of the tother from which when I brch in front disyj acing the contents and then tossing who nad superintended the cooking of gentlemen were not jess Itriking, and no 1 always catt the oder,. au the things back again/ I) watched hfer one ejojoyedi tits hiditerous aspect like This man appeared per the late rep! the one most dead beef for the nightwas withthe greatest astonishment) and saw SenajtorMertonj He laught immoderately, the angry glances which iectly sober kicked me. of men, mingled her gb slowly out of my door into the and hatf th4. patience to remain seated his companions told that he,t'tenc continued to door if the haunted room. 1 1 don't know -Switzerland has tmtil weketuWAd, flushed with heat and *f he did '**&! *ncJion ba^an$an 'whether I slept again or not, but a third hs,mpe house," dripping ife&jg, *erspiratipn. There was conduct. ing children under time was sitting up in bed a third time not the suspicioiiof a curl left in the from being employj bueh of this" he suddenly deserted for "Come! e: my aunt came in, this time close up to locks the youiAhidies, and they looked after the first of nex frightened cried, rising the table, which had the betl, in long flowing white clotheaa """"J^KIM* imp* i 1 1 'twin aHKHSl^