Show The Surrender of Yorktown At noon of the 19th October we have the first act of surrender Yorktown i York-town changed hands Two redoubts on the left of the enemys works were at that hoar taken possession of by detachments from the allied army Colonel Richard Butler commanded the American and the BTurquis Laval the French party nach of one hundred hun-dred men At two oclockwe reached the closing scene The army of Cornwallis marched out as prisoners of war grounded their arms and tben marched back Accounti agree iu deecnbmg the display and ceremony on the occasion aa quite imposing The British appeared in new uniforms uni-forms distributed among them a few days before and it only required the flying of their standards to give their march tbe effect of a holiday parade But their colors were cased and they were prohibited from playing either si French or an American tune Tbin was the return of a compliment apiece a-piece of justifiable as well as poetic retaliation on tbe part of the Americana Ameri-cana for wbat toe enemy were pleased to command when General Lincoln was compelled to surrender at Charleston the year before The matter came up at the meeting of tbe commissioner Tbis is a 1 harsh article said Ross to Liurens What rticle1 answered the latter lat-ter The troops shall march out with color cased and drums beating a British or a German march hYes sir returned Laurenn with I a touch of sang f roil Hit is a harsh I article Then said Rasa if that is your opinion why ia it here Whereupon Laureua who had been made a prisoner at Charleston with jincoins army proceeded to remind loss that the Americans on that occasion oc-casion had made a brave defense but were ungallantly refused any honors of surrender other than to march out with colors cased and drums not beating beat-ing a British or a German march But rejoined Ross my Lord Gern wallis did not command at Charleston There sir eaid Lanrens you extort another observation It is not the individual tbat is here considered it ia the nation This remains an article or I cease to be a commissioner commis-sioner Nothing more was to be said tbe article stood and the enemy marched out with color cased while the tune they choose to follow was an old British march with the quite appropriate appro-priate title of The World Turned Upside Down As the prisoners moved out of their works along the Hampton road they found the French and American armies drawn up on either side of the way the Americans on their right and extending for more than a mile toward the field of surrender The French troops presented a brilliant spectacle in their white uniforms with plumed and decorated officers at their head and gorgeous standards of white silk embroidered with golden JltursdSlis floating along the line The Americans were lees or an attrao tion in outward appearance but not ho less eagerly eyed by their late an tagoniets Among the war worn continentals con-tinentals there was variety of dress poor at the beat distinguishing the men ef the different lines bnt to compensate for lack l of show there was a soldierly bearing about them which commanded attention The militia formed in their rear presented aless martial sight BO far as cloth jug and order were concerned But all theee men were conquerors and their very appearance bespoke the lordships and privation they and heir States had undergone to win in the struggle At the head of the respective re-spective lines were the commanding generals no ly mounted Washing ton Rocbambeau La Fayette Lincoln Lin-coln Steuben Knox and the rest Leading the British came General OHara instead of Cornwallis The latter pleaded illness but he seat his > sword by OHara to be given up to Washington As OHara advanced to the chief he was referred to Lincoln Lin-coln who upon receiving the word ns t v token of the enemys submie iouimmediately returned it to the British general whose troops then marched between the two lines to a field on the right when they ground ed their arms HENEY P Join szola in Harpers Magazine I I |