of the loaded muskets. This decided the conflict, which was over in a few minutes. The surviving guard yielded themselves to mercy before the presented weapons. Such an achievement could only be successful from its audacity and the operation of circumstances. The very proximity of

Savannah increased the chances of success. But for this the guard would have used better precautions. None were taken. The prompt valor, the bold decision, the cool calculation of the instant, were the essential elements which secured success. The work of our young heroes was not done imperfectly. The prisoners were quickly released, the arms of the captured British put into their hands, and, hurrying away from the spot which they have crowned with a local celebrity not soon to be forgotten, they crossed the Savannah in safety with their friends and foes

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TRUE GLORY OF AMERICA.

BY G. MELLEN.

ITALIA'S vales and fountains,
Though beautiful ye be,

I love my soaring mountains

And forests more than ye; And though a dreamy greatness rise From out your cloudy years,

Like hills on distant stormy skies,
Seem dim through Nature's tears,

Still, tell me not of years of old,
Of ancient heart and clime;
Ours is the land and age of gold,
And ours the hallow'd time!

The jewell'd crown and sceptre
Of Greece have pass'd away;

And none, of all who wept her,
Could bid her splendor stay.
The world has shaken with the tread
Of iron-sandall'd crime-

And, lo! o'ershadowing all the dead,

The conqueror stalks sublime!

Then ask I not for crown and plume
To nod above my land;

The victor's footsteps point to doom,
Graves open round his hand!

Rome! with thy pillar'd palaces,
And sculptured heroes all,
Snatch'd, in their warm, triumphal days,
To Art's high festival;

Rome! with thy giant sons of power,
Whose pathway was on thrones,
Who built their kingdoms of an hour
On yet unburied bones,-

I would not have my land like thee,
So lofty-yet so cold!

Be hers a lowlier majesty,
In yet a nobler mould.

Thy marbles-works of wonder!

In thy victorious days,
Whose lips did seem to sunder

Before the astonish'd gaze;
When statue glared on statue there,
The living on the dead,—
And men as silent pilgrims were

Before some sainted head!

O, not for faultless marbles yet

Would I the light forego

That beams when other lights have set, And Art herself lies low!

O, ours a holier hope shall be
Than consecrated bust,
Some loftier mean of memory

To snatch us from the dust.
And ours a sterner art than this,
Shall fix our image here,-

The spirit's mould of loveliness

A nobler BELVIDERE!

Then let them bind with bloomless flowers

The busts and urns of old,

A fairer heritage be ours,

A sacrifice less cold!

Give honor to the great and good,
And wreathe the living brow,
Kindling with Virtue's mantling blood,
And pay the tribute now!

So, when the good and great go down,
Their statues shall arise,

To crowd those temples of our own,

Our fadeless memories!

And when the sculptured marble falls,

And art goes in to die,

Our forms shall live in holier halls,

The Pantheon of the sky!

CHRISTIAN WOMAN IN THE HOUR OF DANGER. 229

CHRISTIAN WOMAN IN THE HOUR OF DANGER.

EARLY in the war, the inhabitants on the frontier of Burke county, North Carolina, being apprehensive of an attack by the Indians, it was determined to seek protection in a fort in a more densely populated neighborhood in an interior settlement. A party of soldiers was sent to protect them on their retreat. The families assembled, the line of march was taken towards their place of destination, and they proceeded some miles unmolested-the soldiers marching in a hollow square, with the refugee families in the centre. The Indians, who had watched these movements, had laid a plan for their destruction. The road to be travelled lay through a dense forest in the fork of a river, where the Indians concealed themselves, and waited till the travellers were in the desired spot. Suddenly the war-whoop sounded in front, and on either side; a large body of painted warriors rushed in, filling the gap by which the whites had entered, and an appalling crash of fire-arms followed. The soldiers, however, were prepared; such as chanced to be near the trees darted behind them, and began to ply the deadly rifle; the others prostrated themselves upon the earth, among the tall grass,