who, in dreadful apprehension, were awaiting the issue of her daring and heroic exploit.

Waltermeyer hastily summoned his followers from the drawing room, where they were engaged in plundering the plate, and who reluctantly desisted from their work, to listen to the orders of their leader. At this moment the general threw up a window, and called out" Come on my brave fellows, surround the house and secure the villains who are plundering." The party terrified at this, and supposing that they were surrounded, made a precipitate retreat from the house, carrying with them the three men who had so heroically defended the house, one of whom was wounded. Waltermeyer himself had received a bullet from one of the general's pistols, but was only slightly wounded. By this time the city was alarmed, and the citizens came hurrying to the spot, but not before the entire body of assailants had fled.

The three guard were conveyed into Canada, and were restored after the war. To each the general bequeathed a farm in reward for his services.

ADVENTURES OF DR. CALDWELL.

THE REV. DAVID CALDWELL, a Presbyterian minister in North Carolina, was very much subjected to the persecutions of the loyalists. At one time, while he was absent, a party of British came to his house and occupied it, turning Mrs. Caldwell out of doors, who was obliged to seek refuge in the smoke house, where she remained for two days with no other food than a little dried fruit. After remaining for two days on the plantation, during which

time they had destroyed everything, they prepared to leave, but before doing so, in order that nothing should be left undone which their hatred could suggest to do, the valuable library of Dr. Caldwell, containing books it was impossible to replace, and manuscripts that had cost years of study and labor, was wantonly burned. A large fire was built for the purpose, and the books brought in armsfull and cast upon the flames.

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"The persecution of Dr. Caldwell continued while the British occupied that portion of the state. His property was destroyed, and he was hunted as a felon; snares were laid for him, and pretences used to draw him from his hiding places; he was compelled to pass nights in the woods, and ventured only at the most. imminent peril to see his family. Often he escaped captivity or death, as it were, by a miracle. At one time when he had ventured home on a stolen visit, the house was suddenly surrounded by armed men, who seized him before he could escape, designing carry him to the British camp. One or two were set to guard him, while the others went to gather such articles of provisions and clothing as could be found worth taking away. When they were nearly ready to depart, the plunder collected being piled in the middle of the floor, and the prisoner standing beside it with his guard, Mrs. Dunlap, who with Mrs. Caldwell had remained in an adjoining apartment, came forward. With the promptitude and presence of mind for which women are often remarkable in sudden emergencies, she stepped behind Dr. Caldwell, leaned over his shoulder, and whispered to him as if intending the question for his ear alone, asking if it was not time for Gillespie and his men to be there. One of the soldiers who stood near caught evident alarm demanded what men were

the words, and with

meant. The lady replied that she was merely speaking to her

brother. In a moment all was confusion; the whole party was panic-struck; exclamations and hurried questions followed; and in the consternation produced by this ingenious, though simple manœuvre, the tories fled precipitately, leaving their prisoner and their plunder. The name of Gillespie was a scourge and terror to the loyalists, and this party knew themselves to be within the limits of one of the strongest whig neighborhoods in the state."

The plantations of Dr. Caldwell and his brother Alexander, were near each other. One evening, during Alexander's absence from home, two soldiers entered his house, and began rudely to seize upon everything they saw worth carrying off, having ordered his wife to prepare supper for them. They were supposed to be long to the army of Cornwallis, at that time foraging in the neigh borhood. Not knowing what to do, Mrs. Caldwell sent to her brother-in-law for advice. He sent word in answer, that she must treat the men civilly, and have supper ready as soon as practicable; but that she must observe where they placed their guns, and set the table at the other end of the house. He promised to come over in the meantime, and conceal himself in a haystack close by; and she was to inform him as soon as the men had set down to supper. These directions were implicitly followed. The house was a double cabin, containing two rooms on the same floor. While the men were leisurely discussing their repast, Dr. Caldwell quietly entered the other apartment, took up one of the guns and stepping to the door of the room where they were so comfortably occupied, presented the weapon, and informed them they were his prisoners, and their lives would be the forfeit, should they make the least attempt to escape. They surrendered immediately, and Dr. Caldwell marched them to his own house, where