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Show in lt sorrow, beamed upon tho wintry Luna lighted night and then faded awsy forever. But, as nothing of the kind occurred I shall gay nothing of the kind. I ahall only wish thedear, devoted girl the truest and tenderest of lorere and the brightest and happiest of lives. Upon her youthful youth-ful head may the choicest benisons of heaven fait unstinted! Mav violets of beauty and lilies of sweetness bloom ever Hi her pathway and fill with fragrance all her coming days. What was remarkable about the girl was that none of the enemy suspected her of giving active aid to the UniouibU. They knew she was loyal; indeed she did not deny her loyalty; but, on the contrary, told them her sympathies were all with the north aud her most earnest wishes for the suppression of the rebellion. re-bellion. She 6aid what she pleased with impunity. im-punity. She was young, pretty and intelligent. in-telligent. Everybody liked and petted her as if she was a child, when she had the feelings, the earnestness, the convictions convic-tions of a woman; and, from her openness open-ness and candor, they presumed she told them all she did. They never dreamed of her secret excursions, her nightly expeditions, ex-peditions, her conimunicatious with their enemies. - The southern officers were half in love with her and told her, with great indiscretion, indis-cretion, all their plans and expectations, never imagining she would make use of them, which, of course, she did most effectually. ef-fectually. No doubt, being feminine, and possessing feminine tact, she encouraged en-couraged her admirers sufficiently to elicit from them what information she needed, and, in that way, was enabled to be of invaluable service to her friends. For nearly four years she had devoted her time to the servico of the republic; had risked her liberty, perhaps her life; had acted the heroine on the stage of our great national drama, without the least self consciousness or any other inducement induce-ment than her attachment to the cause. Her parents were in comfortable circumstances, cir-cumstances, quite wealthy, indeed, for that region, and had given her a very fair education, and some accomplishments accomplish-ments which were very remarkable for a girl reared in the rural regions of the south. She had been petted and flattered by secessionists of both sexes, who had in vain attempted to seduce her from her allegiance; but she ever remained true to her country, and to those who defended it in the time of its extremest need. That she may some day be genero.'-sly compensated in a higher than material form for her services, is my earnest hope and desire; though I feel assured that recent re-cent events, establishing the integrity of the republic, will be to her the most precious reward she could receive. After leaving the heroic girl we marched seventeen miles, camping on top of a mountain about S o'clock in the morning, and kindling a fire, when I crept under a blanket that one of my companions kindly offered me. therV enemy had SSSJSZ HE bet- and my8 tens would prevent the probabilitv ottte recapture or extermination of all o us. SLtWne,Tribmie coPondent, wasatleast likely, underexisting circumstances, circum-stances, to be different. If Mr. Richard-Jon Richard-Jon were retaken, I might get througJ If I were retaken, he might Just before leaving the ravine the scout obtained some provisions ?or us which we enjoyed after our long fast. We then started at a breakneck pace over the ndges, falling every few hun- tr! .j'0'"11'? tnat I marveled some of us &d not break our limbs. Once my knee came in contact with the root or a tree so- forcibly that it seemed shattered, and I did not recover from the soreness and lameness occasioned by the fall for days after. About Bunset our partv was on the summit of a ridge looking down into the valley where resided the girl who tho night previous had guided Dan Ellis and his companions by a private path out of the way of the rebels believed to be in the vicinity. For more than an hour we sat there, watching the house in which she lived, and seeing ten or twelve rebel cavalrymen ride up to the dwelling and then depart in squads of two or three. At dusk we descended through the valley val-ley cautiously, and met her at the appointed ap-pointed place, mounted, and ready to act as our guide. That girl, not more than 16 or 17, belonging to one of tho stanch-est stanch-est loyal families in East Tennessee, was known to all the Unionists in the county. coun-ty. She bad assisted many true men out of awkward predicaments and dangerous situations, and had shown herself willing will-ing at all times to aid them. She had often arisen at night when she obtained intelligence of importance, and communicated commu-nicated it to loyalists some miles distant, preventing their capture or murder by the enemy. Ellis had known her from childhood, and depended ou her for information whenever he was anywhere in her neighborhood. neigh-borhood. She had told him the preceding preced-ing night of the presence of the enemy and recommended the division of his band, as pursuit was possible, assuring him that she would guide the footmen, as she would him, if they would be at a certain place at a certain hour. The girl, whose name I will not give-though give-though I can state for the benefit of the romantic that it is a pretty one and would sound well in a novel was decidedly fair, intelligent, of graceful figure and possessed of that indispensable requisite to an agreeable woman a sweet voice. I confess I looked at her with some degree of admiration as she sat there, calm, smiling, comely, with the warm blood of youth flushing in her cheek, under the flood of mellow moonlight that bathed all the landscape in poetic softness soft-ness and picturesque beauty. It was natural that almost any man of gallantry and imagination should idolize idol-ize her under the circumstances, but I did not. I gazed at her as I do at most of her sex, with the cold eye of art, and at the unvarying angle of aesthetic criticism. That scene was a good theme for a pic- NAMELESSHEROINE. stance Out of Many of Woman's Daring When Put to the Test, GHT tecm the oobfedeates. respondents of Northern Papers Pi-loted Pi-loted by Southern Unionists Brave Mountain Maids. hi, book, "Four Years In Seoessia," ! jjenri Browne, who was war cor-,'oudcnt cor-,'oudcnt for The New York Tribune, ' this story of his experiences while ing from Salisbury prison, North llina, to Tennessee, in company with l,ardm, of The New York Tribune; .j, of The Cincinnati Gazette, and other, piloted by a loyal Tennessean, , Ellis: sry in the afternoon of Jan. 10 we t five or six of the hostile cavalry are dance of us only a few miles. Ellis ncdiately calls for those who have to follow him, and away they dash pursuit of the f oo, while tho rest of who are on foot and weaponless, 1 along the road towards Kelly's , in the Nolechucky mountains, arriv-tbere arriv-tbere just before sunset. I, it was the appointed rendezvous, Ellis and his party reached there ut dusk, after a long and useless a and we prepared to camp for the ht Dan went to one of the Union ses a few miles distant, and returned li the information that we were almost rounded by the rebels; that it would lecessary for the horsemen to separate u the footmen, so that in the event of suit the latter would not be taken. II Was activity at once. Those who lain down in the deserted and dieted di-eted cabins of tho abandoned plan-on plan-on to which we had repaired were ised. Horses and mules were saddled, s extinguished and every preparation Jt for speedy departure, ho cavalry wore to move first, the mtry to follow after the others had c far enough in advuueo. Ellis of-J of-J me a mule Richardson and Davis e mounted but as it had no saddle, I remembered a partial bisection en-td en-td on bare muleback tho night we rnoyed to the Union settlement in lies county, I respectfully declined, ferring to walk rather than to un-;o un-;o a repetition of those tortures. I a gave Davis my quilt to use as a illo cloth and bade my friends good-fully good-fully expecting to seo them again in moroins at the furthest, ider they had been gono about half an ir a scout named Tread way, who had it placed ia clmrgo of tho footmen, 1 us to fall in; that wo were to crossa untain and descend into a ravine to we would camp until the next lit. But where aro wo to meet the other inquired I. ''Oh, we won't see in again until we reach Knoxville, if ever have the good luck to get there." Ve had learned tho day before that rw about our forces being at Green-? Green-? and other adjacent points were tout foundation; that our lines were Strawberry Plains, fifteen miles east Knoiville, and that we must go thero oreirecoiild have any hopeof freedom, hat was nearly a hundred miles f.r-r,andthe f.r-r,andthe intelligence was rather dis-. itcning, for wo had been imagining journey was nearly at an end. No ibt many of us felt like the North oliniart of tho party, who had been rison nearly three years, when asked ct tired. "Tired?" echoed he, with lingled air of disgust and contempt, iiy, this would wear out an iron man." no reply of the scout: "We won't see in until wo reach Knoxville," smote my heart like the sound of my death II. , , epilation from my friends the three unions with whom I had escaped, !'ivhoni I had endured so much in enaud on the march to freedom uwl a calamity I could not bear. It , Jmdowed to me everything gloomy horrible; recapture, dungeons, de- and death. nd while I stood there in the dark--not to advance for twenty-four ri they were every minute hurrying making the distance greater be-'"us. be-'"us. They are going to. freedom, ht, and I am left behind. My :" is written. Liberty is not for me. all perish hero in those mountains, the few who feel an interest in me never know tuy fate. , tia!ly considered, too, I had lost tjuiit, which had saved me much suf-rS, suf-rS, and I was penniless, my Bohe-". Bohe-". brothers having ail the niouey there m our party. " record in my note book is: "I have rs hope now of getting through, 'ill do my utmost aud compel the aS spirit to rule the weak flesh. I march till I fall fainting on the road "hunger, cold and exhaustion. Iam y never to give up. Still am I worn, weary and wretched, and all views of human life and expe- coma up mentally darker and 3w than before." Ncstrians proceeded to the ravine wlt a big fire-, the weather was too s'eep. We were hungry, having nothing to eat for twenty-four hours, ere was little prospect of getting ; scout went off somewhere and left "e, most of the party being ignor-"J'y, ignor-"J'y, coarse, imprudent fellows e cwldren iu character, whom I could aOT to stand picket or act cau-rabout cau-rabout anything. They disgusted rV, and I saw there was little T"h such simpletons. iwC?nretunle1' havlng visited a irTi? Unionists, who reported us in angerous vicinity; that -we yet y perilg to encounter, and must br r oautioua u we wanted to arf The worst of our perils, M to mc, were hunger, cold and , ei cavalry, who passed along a r ?r that we distinctly heard J , . SuPPosing thev had seen - ?wcipitate'jr left our caroo fire. "PthemounUin in fine confu-ihnS confu-ihnS nmine at high speed for a lreds of yards, I paused to ob-ivm ob-ivm ne wa" Allowing us; and n? one, I called out, and we tnen reconnoitered; th?n re-or re-or camping place. The fire of , still bnrarng in the chilly, aad. atafal.busnackf , ni ture. The girl mounted, and the central figure, with 'some eighteen men In half military, half civil garb, with, bronzed faces and a certain wild appearance, travel stained, ragged, anxious eyed, standing around her in groups, listening to what she said in a low but earnest and pleasantly modulated tone. ' She gave directions as quietly and composedly as a veteran commander in the field, requesting us to keep some distance dis-tance behind her; saying that, if she were halted, we should stop and lie down; that, when all was safe, she would cough, and that, if she saw any danger, she would sneeze to give us warning. All ready, she struck her horse, a spirited animal, and darted off at a pace -that we pedestrians could hardly sustain, evert funning. Confound that girl! I thought. What does she ' rush along at this rate for? I have not had much experience ex-perience in following in women's lead; and if this is a specimen, I want no more "'w'e were out of breath, all of us, and had fallen so often in our haste that we wero suffering from numerous bruises and abrasions, but she dashed on mercilessly, merci-lessly, dragging us after her. I reached her side once, and told her to go a little slower; that we were greatly fatigued and that some of us must fall hopelessly behind if she did not check her pace. She drew in her rein until those who had been nearly distanced came up, and then only walked her impatient im-patient steed for the remainder of the distance. . - She guided us seven miles througli woods and ravines, over mountains and along valleys, away from the frequented roads and paths, until we came to a long bridge over the Nolechucky river. A e were fearful that might be guarded. So we waited on one side while she crossed to the other. If she went on we were to follow. If she stopped we were to wait on the bridge where we lay concealed until she returned to tell us what was in SiTentlV we crouched on the frosty ground, hearing her horses hoofs ring out clearly and sharply upon the cold night on the planks of the bridge. But no challenging voice greeted our atten-five atten-five ear. The bridge must be unobstructed unobstruct-ed we thought, as the hoofs grew fainter 'd Strand at last when they were no longer audible, we knew she was on the road riding toward her Sister's bouse- she bad told us she would-and that, btr miX accomplished, we had parted with oTr fair guide and wouldsee her no more, . For the sake of my romantic readers if I have any, I wish I could relate the occurrenceof some sentimental scenes between be-tween one of the Bohemians and the Sessheroine. It would look well ,n paber and read well, too, but, so far as I Karn, neither of my fellow journal-Z journal-Z exchanged a word with ber U night before; and as for n?'?; iae toward her was one of irritation m Extreme haste, and my solo words-"Do words-"Do fro a little slower! Sing like atlcodonng.d sentimental glitter in composition. If I weacouscientious jounjaltst and a cfohistorianl should relate . par interview with the fair stranger much S SK- ot Contanni Fleming. 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