a rigid examination, which proving as fruitless as brushed the victim with his cloak, and yet so utterly before, the comrades withdrew to a short distance impossible was it for the prisoner to claim the asfrom their prisoner, having previously warned him sistance placed as it were within his grasp, that his not to stir on peril of his life. heart sank within him, as, undiscovered by the intruder, the sound of his departure was momentarily lessened in the distance.

The dreadful gag which had been forced within his mouth occasioned intolerable anguish; his neck yet smarted from the effect of the divided skin, and That the passage in which they stood possessed the murderous grasp of the robber felt fresh upon his another outlet exclusive of that by which it had been throat, his arms were pinioned behind, and as his entered by them did not now admit of question; but persecutors stood but a few paces away in deep and to attempt to escape by flight was even more impracearnest consultation, the impracticability of accom- ticable in that dismal vault than might have been the plishing his escape by flight was too great, and the case, had he subjected himself to the trial in the open certainty of death, if overtaken, too undoubted, to in-street.

duce him to dare the risk. Presently a sound as of The dreadful gag, and many though not dangera distant footstep fell on his ear, and eagerly the ous wounds which the prisoner had received, caused poor wretch listened in the faint hope that deliver him excessive pain, and the agony of mind necessaance was at hand. Neither was the noise unheeded rily attendant on such an awful situation proved by his captors; for, bending to the ground, they en- nearly beyond what nature could sustain. deavoured to ascertain the direction from whence the It was now full two hours since his capture, and unwelcome arrival might approach, Steadily, and during the whole of that long and awful period he at measured intervals, the steps drew nigh, and at had existed in expectation of suffering an immediate the same moment the clang of a sabre trailing on the and cruel death; and as the last echoes of the ground proclaimed the owner of the weapon to be stranger's footfalls died away in the distance, and armed. the brigand's breathing more freely gave indication that they considered their danger past, my unhappy friend, firmly conceiving that his last hour had arrived, mentally offered up his prayers for aid to that Being whose power he was confident could preserve his life, and confound the machinations of his enemies even in an instant.

"Demonio!" suddenly muttered the smallest ruffian, as rising from his recumbent posture he made a thrust with his knife at the unarmed prisoner, which, fortunately glancing by a button of his coat, saved him from further danger than the infliction of a slight wound only on the breast.

At that moment the other robber, seizing their Once again the smaller savage approached his prize by the arm with considerable violence, thrust fast-sinking victim, and, with a most diabolical exhim before them towards one of the many dark pas- clamation, would unquestionably have sheathed his sages abounding on the spot, and where the bright knife in the prisoner's breast, when at that most influence of the sun even at mid-day could scarcely critical moment a noise of a person entering by the lend a straggling beam to illumine the almost pitchy way the other had departed, stopped him ere his darkness. To what exit could so dismal a place bloody purpose could be accomplished. lead? Was it possible that an outlet beyond what The vile intention of the wretch being thus frusthe eye could scan, might place the adventurous ex-trated, the two ruffians, not caring to take a second plorers on the broad quay ? or was it merely the en- chance of detection, skulked stealthily towards the trance to one of those dreary and ill-ventilated vaults, entrance of the passage, and treading noiselessly on pointing to the accumulated stores of some affluent the pavement without, crept into the silent street, and merchant stowed below! Of what extent the pas- were seen no more,

silence.

sage might have been, the captive had not the means Steadily the person approached, whose providential of ascrtaining; for, on proceeding about a dozen coming had in all probability saved my friend's life; paces in the gloom, the ruffians stopped, and having yet, as it was fully as objectionable to be put to death placed my friend between them, and posted his back in mistake by a stranger as purposely by the robbers, against the wall, each drew his abominable knife, he judged it the wiser plan to remain passive until and holding one of the instruments at his throat and the man had passed, when, dreading the reappearance the other at his breast, they enjoined the deepest of his persecutors, he fled as rapidly as his declining strength would permit towards the place where he Louder and louder grew the echoes of the stranger's well knew some egress must be found; nor was he footsteps as he sauntered slowly up the street; but mistaken, for hardly had he traversed twenty yards having reached the entrance to the dark passage when a sudden rush of fresh air convinced him that where the victim and his gaolers stood secreted, the the portal was at hand, and in a few seconds he new-comer made a short pause, and having drawn emerged from the lonesome avenue upon the quay, his sword, a very common and necessary precaution and within a few doors of the mansion where he in similar situations, he entered the very passage dwelt. where the robbers and their charge lay perdu.

Weeks had passed into months ere the evil conseAlthough the figures of the party that first entered, quences of the harsh treatment he had received were owing to the extreme darkness, were invisible to the obliterated from his person; and though promises of stranger, yet as he advanced, and necessarily closed reward were liberally offered for the detection of the up the aperture of the entrance, the outline of his parties implicated in the foul and cowardly attack, form might well be traced against the uncertain not a clue towards discovering the perpetrators could lights without; and as he paced onwards, his sword be gained; all remained a mystery, in as far as any extended at arm's length, it may be readily surmised disclosure was effected relative to the delinquents, what were the feelings of the captive at finding aid and as time wore on, the sufferer allowed the affair so near, that the stranger passing onward almost to pass from his mind, and the transaction, when by

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accident it was recalled to his memory, bore relation | favour of Government by doubting the strict performbut as an adventure which occurred in the distant ance of any promise made by it?" days of auld lang syne. With the utmost deference, colonel," replied the Time, with the usual rapidity of pace, rolled on- subaltern, "to you and the Government, I beg to reward on his course, and the evening of a beautiful fer to the case of the officer who lost his life on a summer-day saw the hero of my tale landing from a similar service some months back, on the failure of well-appointed yacht, in which he had accompanied his attempt, but without the slightest reproach on his some friends to point out the beauties of Malaga. courage or discretion; and whose widow is now de"Buenas dias, caballeros," uttered some half-dozen pendent on the precarious charity of the benevolentand half-apparelled ragamuffins to the party on step- all parties in the State shifting the blame from themping ashore; and, exactly similiar to the good old selves. The Treasury required the vice-regal order custom in England, each of the polite welcomers to pay the compensation promised-the Lord Lieuproceeded to appropriate to himself certain particles tenant, humanely disposed to yield, referred the claim of the baggage for the nominal purpose of conveying for the recommendation of the Commander of the the articles to the domicile of the right owner, or, Forces; but that distinguished officer (who has asfailing to discover his abode, appropriating the property to themselves.

"I know your face to a certainty," exclaimed our friend of midnight suffering, to a long bony fellow, who, among the others, was laying his hands on any article he could seize. " Surely I've seen you before now?"

sumed the command since the transaction occurred, and knows not the critical circumstances under which the deceased officer undertook this dangerous service) sets his face against the claim altogether, as offering a precedent for officers stipulating for personal reward for services which it is only their duty to perform. Thus, for a point of etiquette between public depart"No, senor, no es possibile," calmly replied the ments, the compensation to this hour remains in arlathy mendicant; but my friend could not be mistaken rear. With this picture before me, sir, I trust you in the man, for it was he who, although ruffian as he will deem me excusable in requiring some specific proved himself on the night of the adventure, more pledge, if merely an official letter, which would leave than twice preserved his life from the dagger of his my mind at ease with respect to my family, whatever companion. Under those circumstances, would it fate awaited me."

have been just to have seized him on suspicion of the A frown on the brow of the man of office, and a crime? and even had he ventured so far, what proof cold bow of dismissal, with orders to await further had he of the man's identity, saving his own bare instructions, sent the poor subaltern away in no very word? None; so passing onward without further enviable mood. comment on the matter, he joined the party to which he was attached, and his first and most energetic recommendation which he uttered to each individual was carefully to avoid dozing on the Alameda until midnight.

From Tait's Magazine.
THE REBEL CHIEF.

A Scene in the Wicklow Mountains, 1803. “WELL, sir, you are still disposed to proceed on the secret service which you volunteered ?"

Of all public functionaries, your high military chiefs are surely the most intractable and cold-hearted; they seem to feel as if their dignity would be compromised, should they, for a moment, descend to the level of common sense and kindness. It would really appear as if those heads of department had been chosen for those unamiable qualities alone, to fill stations, abroad and at home, where the nicest spirit of discrimination, the most humane and liberal consideration for the feelings and remonstrances of all those (particularly of inferior rank) who claim their protection and justice, should form their chief qualifications for office. It would be an invidious and ungrateful task to refer to particular instances within our own times, but a glance at the list of those (This question was put by the late Colonel A, high functionaries, (colonial and domestic,) for the adjutant-general in Ireland at the period above stated, last half century, would establish the fact. The into a lieutenant of the -th regiment, then on ferior officer would be forever ruined in his profession, Dublin duty, who attended for the great man's who should convict his superior of oppression or inorders.) justice. The lecture just read to an adjutant-general "I am ready, sir, at any moment, to proceed on by a poor lieutenant of the line, about to proceed on my hazardous mission," respectfully answered the a perilous and yet inglorious enterprise, curdled the lieutenant; "but, considering the risks of such a ser- blood of the man of power, with momentary hatred vice, I trust it may not be deemed unreasonable on of the humble subaltern. And this was Ame to request some pledge or guarantee from the Go- a brave and honorable soldier, who at Vimeira signavernment, for the fulfilment of the terms on which I lized his valour, and who perished, on the retreat to venture to undertake it—namely, promotion, and the Corunna in 1809, amidst the general regret of his proclaimed reward, for the death or apprehension of gallant companions in arms! Surely there must be the Rebel Chief; or in the event of loss of life, a some hidden curse in office, which withers and dries competent provision for my family." up the nobler fountains of the heart, or freezes them The cold and cautious Aattempted to into a cold forgetfulness of the fine and generous feeloff any direct pledge on the part of Govern- ings of our nature! an opinion, which, of course, will parry ment, not from any sinister views, but solely from be denounced by the officials of all ranks; but let official jealousy, which fired at the base idea of an in- that pass; so long as man is the painter, the lion will ferior officer presuming to dictate terms. He sug-be drawn as prostrate at his feet.

gested to the subaltern, "whether he did not risk the The capture or death of Holt, the Rebel Chief of

the Wicklow Mountains, had long been an object of cover of the falling twilight, escaped with comparadeep anxiety with the Irish Government. This ex- tively small loss. The fate of this body decided traordinary man, of whom little was previously Holt's movements. He saw the chance was lost by known, save that he had been a farmer in comfortable the rashness of this premature attack-which, hapcircumstances, took the field in 1798, as chief of a pily for the tranquillity of the country, was so formidable body of rebels; over whom he held a se- speedily put down-and withdrawing his own folparate and uncontrolled command. Participating in lowers from their allies of the hour, he made an the short-lived triumphs which the early successes of instant retrograde movement, anticipating that every the insurgent army afforded, he subsequently shared effort would be made to cut off his retreat to the in its defeat; but, being a man of uncommon vigour mountains. His march was unceasingly pursued of body, great mental resources, and a master of that while the darkness of night afforded him an escape kind of vulgar oratory and persuasive address which from observation; and the morning's light saw him is so effectual with the Irish, he succeeded in attach- and his band of rebels safe within their old positions, ing to his green standard, under all his reverses, a unbroken in numbers and unsubdued in spirit. tolerably large force of those desperate outlaws-the The proclamation of martial law, the calling out scattered remnants of the late formidable rebel army. of the yeomanry for permanent duty, and the reinWith these he withdrew, at the close of the above forcement of all the military posts in the districts year, to the fastnesses of the Wicklow Mountains, bounding on Dublin, in a few days restored some the wild scene of his nativity; with every glen and show of tranquillity to the lately alarmed and still valley of which he had been familiarized from in- agitated city. But the insurrection, though checked, fancy. Within the mazes of this untravelled region, had not been entirely crushed; but few prisoners Holt found means to elude all the efforts of military were taken in the night's action of the 23d, and of skill and enterprise, to seize him by force or ensnare these not one person of note or respectability: the him by stratagem. The utmost ingenuity was exer- reputed leaders and promoters of the movement were cised to mislead and harass the King's troops in this yet at large. mountain warfare. The rapidity of the rebel's move- Holt, once more secure within his chain of posts, ments, and his apparent ubiquity, baffled all the plans unknown and inaccessible to all but the experienced of the professional soldier: military science was put mountaineer, defied all the powers of the executive. to shame by the superior tactics of the mountain Various expeditions were undertaken to bring him to chieftain. In this manner he held all the powers of action; but not one met with even partial success. Government at defiance for upwards of four years. His superior knowledge of the scene of warfare On the breaking out of the ill-concerted and feeble enabled him to anticipate and defeat every movement insurrection of 1803, Holt once more descended of the troops. His scouts were numerous and faithfrom the mountains, in all his former terrors, to join ful: nothing in the garb of soldier or stranger could a large body of rebels from the adjacent counties of enter the mountain district without Holt being imKildare, Wexford, and Meath, which, to the number mediately apprized of the circumstance. Itinerant of ten or twelve thousand, were to rendezvous in the beggars, sham cripples, even children, were on the vicinity of Dublin, and be ready to pour in their look-out to guard his haunts, and make some signal force in aid of the metropolitan outbreak, on a given on the approach of danger. His depredations were signal. Holt had actually advanced, on the evening latterly confined to mid-night attacks on the small of the 23d July, so near to the scene of action as parties of troops scattered along the extensive line of Rathfornham, (a village only a league from Dublin,) military roads which had for some years been in prowhen his further progress was suspended by the in-gress through the mountains. In the course of one telligence of the defeat and dispersion of the dis-night, his parties had been known to sweep away all organized rabble which attacked Dublin; and which, vestige of the labour of weeks-plunder the provialthough contemptible in numbers and array, and sion magazines-demolish the guard-houses-diswithout any known or ostensible leaders, took the perse and drive in the picquets, pursuing them, pike Government so much by surprise, that their precipi- in hand, to the very gates of their stockaded barracks Kancy alone averted the most lamentable mischief. then disappear, as if by magic, before the mornThe atrocious although unpremeditated murder of ing's dawn, leaving neither trace nor clew to their the Lord Chief Justice Kilwarden in the streets, mountain retreat; while, on the very next night, a when on his way to attend a council, would have similar and equally vigorous attack would be made proved but the prelude to more extensive butcheries, on a post thirty miles distant. "HOLT," the Rebel had the rebellious crew had any one man of talent Chief, was at once a word of terror and reproach. and sufficient daring to direct their excited energies. Five hundred guineas of reward were offered by The insurgents, to the amount of some thousands, Government for his apprehension; yet, amongst the had proceeded within musket-shot of the Castle of shoeless, ragged, half-starved outlaws he commanded, Dublin (the seat of Government) ere their mad career not one could be found to betray his chief! Was received a check, by the appearance of a body of this a virtue or a crime? Posterity will answer the cavalry and infantry, called suddenly to arms. Had question!

such a man as Holt been at their head, there can be The officer whom we have introduced to the reader, little doubt that the Lord Lieutenant, and the officers as a volunteer for this dangerous enterprise, was a of the State, would have become the prize of this young Scotchman, of the humblest fortunes. He desperate attack; but in vain the rebels looked for a had served in Holland and in Egypt with much leader. They stood a volley from the infantry, and credit; and was esteemed by his corps as a man of a charge from the cavalry, with desperate resolution; distinguished courage, fortitude, and perseverance. but, unled and unsupported, they fled in all directions With a young wife and two children to support on through the numerous streets and alleys; and, under his humble pay, his enjoyments, it may be supposed,

were but few. Life he held at nought, except for tain track-a road so little used, since the year 1798, the sake of his family, to whom he was fondly at- as to be scarcely distinguishable from the naked face tached, and for whose benefit he volunteered this of the barren mountain. On leaving behind them present hazard. The excellence of his character in the last military post, the party halted at noon to his regiment gained for him favourable consideration water and feed the cattle, forming their bivouac beat headquarters; and the pledge he so earnestly re- side a mountain stream. The lieutenant took that quested having been unreservedly given, he prepared opportunity of distributing the arms and ammunition, for his departure with his characteristic zeal and and giving his final instructions. Each soldier was alacrity. directed to seat himself beside his musket on a car, Whatever plans he might originally have contem- to be ready for instant action, but on no account to plated to effect his purpose, they were forced to yield make any display of the arms until the moment for to one arranged by a conclave of official dignitaries, using them arrived. before whom he appeared, to receive his instructions. An idict boy, (who either was, or assumed to be He was directed to select a non commissioned officer, dumb) in a state of destitution, had attached himself and twenty of the most active, intelligent, and trust-to the party the first day it entered the mountains; worthy men from his own regiment, to accompany and who, for the reward of a biscuit, and fragments him as the expeditionary force. The soldiers were of the men's rations, had rendered service by fetchto be disguised in the uniform of the drivers of the ing water, and cutting heather, for cooking, on the commissariat waggon train, himself wearing that of three preceding days' marches. Of this wretched a sergeant-conductor of that corps. Thus equipped, object no suspicions whatever were entertained; but the whole were to be incorporated, and march with a his sudden disappearance, during this short halt-no detachment of the commissariat train conveying the one could tell how or where-raised a momentary monthly supply of provisions and stores to the several alarm; and although it was accounted for, by some, depots established in the new line of road in the as the boy's terror at the sight of the fire-arms, the mountains, (in the progress of which the officer was lieutenant could not divest himself of the suspicion to collect all the information he could obtain of the of treachery; and therefore drew together his party rebel chief and his parties.) This duty performed, in as compact a body as the long line of cars admitthe whole party was directed to take the short route ted, enjoining the strictest silence, and concealment across the mountains on their return towards Dublin; of the arms. The party proceeded unmolested, and, on which track it was supposed they might fall in apparently, unobserved, for two or three hours, with some of the parties of the rebel chief, and, by gradually surmounting a long range of hills, which possibility, himself. This ruse was suggested, it they had been ascending since morning; when, on was said, by the then Commissary General, as a rounding a projecting knoll which lay in their route, bait for the rebels-several small bodies of whom the ears of the lieutenant, who had ridden a few yards had, on former occasions, intercepted detachments of in front, were saluted with the whizz of a ball, the waggon train on this route; and to whom they which passed within a few inches of his head. The offered no molestation, (that corps being an unarmed order" Halt! stand by your arms," brought in an body,) except a rigid examination for concealed arms instant twenty fine light-infantry men into rank, and or ammunition. Several of the drivers attached to ready for action. As yet, however, no enemy apthe present expedition alleged that, on some of these peared. The party then cautiously advanced, until, occasions, they had seen the General; but subsequent having left the knoll a couple of hundred yards in events proved that his precautions to conceal or disguise himself were so effectual, that, of the various descriptions published of his person, appearance, and equipment, not one was found to be correct.

their rear, the lieutenant once more halted them and prepared for action. Feeling satisfied that they were in the presence of an unseen foe, he made a keen reconnoisance of the position, and more particularly of Plunder, beyond the means of subsistence for his that part over which the thin blue smoke of the daily diminishing force, no longer appeared to be the lately discharged fire-arms still lightly floated. object of the rebel chief, whose hopes of a successful Orders were given to the sergeant of the drivers' rising had all been abandoned, when he learned the corps to form his cars in a hollow square, into which capture and execution of that ill-fated youth, Robert the party might retire and sustain the battle, in the Emmett; and, as a last resource, he contemplated an event of an attack from superior numbers. This preescape to America; previously to which, he sought caution taken, the officer dismounted, and, armed to reduce his followers, and eventually disband them, with his double-barrelled gun, proceeded to take a as opportunities offered for their return to their dis- nearer view of the localities of his ground. In front, tant homes with safety. They had stuck by him and about a mile distant, was the towering summit through all the vicissitudes of his fortune, and he de- of the Ram's Head; beneath the craggy base of termined to share their perils until he alone was left which stupendous cliff, lay their scarcely discernable to encounter the last danger. This state of the rebel route: on the right, an open and partly broken range chief's affairs was in part, known to the Government, of sterile mountains for many miles, extended 10and it was imagined he might be captured by a coup wards Blessinton: between which and their present de main in some unguarded moment of fancied secu- position, and not above three miles distant, a small rity such was the object of the present expedition. military party was stationed during the day. The The convoy marched from Dublin about forty left presented the rough and tangled side of the strong, including the military whose arms were con- mountain, sweeping with a continuous descent far cealed on the carriages. After a march of four days, as the eye could reach into the deep and lonely valduring which the whole line of posts were supplied, ley. The chief object in their rear was the knoll the party proceeded on their return with the empty they had so lately passed, between which and the cars, taking (as previously arranged) the old moun- party nothing could approach unobserved. There

was not a tree or shrub of sufficient size to form an ment, dispersed and fled; while the sergeant and his ambuscade for any number of men within the whole party, taking advantage of their confusion, suddenly range of his vision; but the lieutenant's ready eye wheeled round, and were three or four hundred yards saw that the low brakes of furze and tufts of fern, as beyond the rebels' fire ere the latter had collected well as the detached pieces of rock, which lay scat- and reformed. Directing his retreat towards the tered about, afforded a secure shelter for a single nearest military position, the sergeant maintained his lurking foe. The afternoon was overcast and sultry; party unbroken, and kept his pursuers at a distance that awful stillness which is only to be found on the for some time, by the active fire of his covering mountain or in the desert, reigned around, unbroken party. But it was not in human nature to hold out by a single sound from the lips of the well-disciplined much longer; the rebels were gaining ground each soldiers. Silence and the most intense anxiety pre-moment; every effort which skill and courage could vailed for a quarter of an hour, without a move, with- suggest were made, but the odds were overwhelming. out a whisper, when the lieutenant fancied he per- At length, seeing themselves within one hundred ceived a slight motion in a brake of furze about fifty yards of the deadly pike, the gallant soul, with his yards on his left. He stealthily approached the spot, panting and almost exhausted party, turned on their with a keen and fixed gaze, when his suspicions pursuers, and standing, like lions at bay, determined were confirmed by seeing a human face cautiously to sell their lives dearly. At this awful moment, rise from the furze, and, after casting a wary look the distant cheer of friendly voices (so different from upon him, again bury itself in the brake. He had the rebels' wild "Hurra!") broke on their ears, and just time to send a bullet in that direction, when he revived their sinking but unsubdued hearts. Another, beheld the idiot boy rolling and scrambling down and a nearer cheer, followed by a random volley at the slanting mountain side, as he conceived, wounded; the rebels, assured them that succour was at hand. he soon, however, sprang to his feet, bounding off In another minute, on came a party of fresh troops, like a deer, and, before the lieutenant could discharge headed by an officer, at a running pace, whose aphis other barrel, his figure disappeared, as if the pearance soon turned the tide of battle. The sound earth had opened to receive him. With greater of the musketry had fortunately reached the ears of caution the officer rushed forward to secure the trai- the advanced sentinel of this picquet nearly an hour tor, shouting to the sergeant to send a file of men to before; and the whole line having been placed on the his aid; but just at that moment a body of rebels, alert, on the march of the party across the mountain, to the number of fifty or upwards, sprung up from the officer, following the direction of the sound, lost every brake and tuft, like tigers from their lair, no time in hastening to the rescue, and happily arroused by the lieutenant's fire, and commenced their rived in time to save a handful of gallant men from attack on the party with a savage fury, sufficient to massacre. The retreat now became an advance, appall more gallant hearts. Their assault was met with fresh courage and renewed hopes. But the by a steady volley, which checked their advance, wary rebels, on the first appearance of the red-coats, and sent some of the assailants, writhing in agony, had relaxed their pursuit, and having gained a rising down the mountain's side. Nor was the rebels' vol- ground, they discharged a few shots; then, with a ley ineffectual. Three soldiers fell wounded by the simultaneous shout, fled like a flock of affrighted first discharge; after which several attempts were birds in every direction, leaving the bewildered milimade to storm the position into which the soldiers tary at a loss what course to pursue. A few bullets had taken shelter, but each attack was met with were sent after the fugitives, but with what effect vigour. Several of the rebels were bayoneted while could not be known.

scaling the cars which formed the temporary safe- The former position regained, the drivers, the guard; but against such a superiority in numbers, a horses, and carriages, were found uninjured. The much longer resistance was hopeless; particularly rebels had disappeared at the same time with the as the drivers' corps were entirely useless from want troops, and no fresh party had approached. Having, of arms. Fortunately the rebels seemed to be but in their united parties, thirty effective men, the officer scantily supplied with ammunition; they had there- directed his attention to a search for the missing fore to depend chiefly on their pikes-a weapon lieutenant-a task which the sergeant, with half-awhich the troops could not have contended against, dozen of his own men, anxiously undertook; but, but for the protection afforded by their barrier of cars. after an hour's absence, they returned unsuccessful; An effort, however, became necessary to extricate and, to add to their fears for their officer's safety, the themselves from this unequal contest. Availing him- two drivers, who had been sent in pursuit of him self of a momentary cessation of hostilities on his during the action, returned about dusk, exhausted front, the sergeant despatched two of the drivers with fatigue, and in utter despair at what all now from the rear, unobserved, to search for the officer, considered the certain loss of the gallant lieutenant. for whose safety he now entertained the deepest ap- They had traversed miles in various directions withprehensions. Perceiving the rebels concentrating out seeing a human being, or any trace of footsteps, their force to make one desperate attack on his little save in the immediate vicinity of the position; and party, the sergeant, with a degree of skill and gal-also the impress of the bodies of the rebels in the lantry which would have done honour to a higher clumps of furze and fern. It was evident that they grade in the service, instantly determined to give the had withdrawn from that side of the mountain for assault, rather than wait to receive it. One of the the present. The wounded soldiers were despatched, cars having been removed, the party made a vigorous on a car, to the nearest military post, for surgical aid, sally on the besiegers of their position: forming a and with a demand for a reinforcement. The united line, they poured a volley upon the rebel ranks, and party made their arrangements to bivouac for the then charged bayonets at the top of their speed for night in their present position, placing sentinels at half a minute. The rebels, panic struck for the mo- all points, and lighting a fire to attract the attention