Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . t; forthere was a home awaiting them in the city—asnug and cheery home, to be lit by the torchesof the boy-god Cupid and his cider brother Hy-men. As for the baffled ones, Mrs. St. John, after afierce illness that hardly spared her life, becamerigidly and austerely pious—savagely good—anddevoted herself to the patronage of youthfuldivines and the support of missionary Wolcott went abroad again, immediatelyafter her conp-dkaf, and I have heard that shemarried a splendid Count, with any number ofcrosses and ribbons on
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . t; forthere was a home awaiting them in the city—asnug and cheery home, to be lit by the torchesof the boy-god Cupid and his cider brother Hy-men. As for the baffled ones, Mrs. St. John, after afierce illness that hardly spared her life, becamerigidly and austerely pious—savagely good—anddevoted herself to the patronage of youthfuldivines and the support of missionary Wolcott went abroad again, immediatelyafter her conp-dkaf, and I have heard that shemarried a splendid Count, with any number ofcrosses and ribbons on his coat, but not alto-gether so spotless in his life as some less brill-iant personages are said to have been. And here, it strikes me, is an excellent pointat which to terminate my story. If, as I morethan half suspect, it contains no striking moral,it at least possesses the element of poetical just-ice—the rendering of which, I hope, will leavemy good reader in the happy state of mind thatall good readers desciTe. G70 HAKPERS NEW MONTHLY VIEW OF Kiotos MOUNTAIN BATTLE-GKOUND. KINGS MOUNTAIN.—A BALLAD OF THE CAEOLINAS. BY W. GILMORE SIMMS. [The battle of Kings Mountain, fought October 7, 1780, constituted a turning point in the war of the Revolutionin the South; the British and Torie?, under Colonel Ferguson, being defeated, Avith great slaughter, by the mount-aineers of Virginia, Georgia, and the two Carolinas. The battle took placein South Carolina, but only a mile and a half south of the North Carolina Ferguson was one of the most distinguished of the British partisanwarriors in America during the Revolution. He was especially opposed, as agreat leader of riflemen, to the Southern riflemen; was himself an inventorof an improved rifle which, in that day, gained him large reputation. Hisbravery was remaikable, as well as his skill. During the battle he used a sil-ver whistle, which Avas to be heard sounding eveiy where through all the dinof
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