Heroism in a Child

1847 Scientific American  
358 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. SOUTHERN VORRlCSPONDENCE. rain poured heavily upon us. At 7 o'clock Fc>reign UeDl.. ,E:xtrac>rdinary Inland City. in the morning we l'eached Uniontown, at tne Pope Pius IX. on the 15th ult gave an au-About the time Col. Don i phan made hit!; &lUec>tt's, Harper"s Ferry, Wheeling, &C. othe l" side of the mountains, having been 12 dience to the s on of the Lib e r a to r o f Irela nd, treaty with the Nav;jos, a division of hi s com • WHE!'�!"G, VA . , July 15,1847 . o r 13
more » ... hours crossing them, and here took a and made a eulogy o n Da nie l O'Con ne l l , i n mand was entirely out of provisions, and the From Baltimore to Wheeling is" distance good breakfast sharpened by the mountain terms w � ic � must have e x cited t he g r atit ude I Nav�jos supplied his wants with liberal�ty. A of 400 miles via Pittsbu rg, and 3 00 going by breeze. I have no time to say mor e at pre-and admIratIOn of the yo ung mem ber fo r D un -I pOl'h on of the command, together WIth Col the Blue Ringe Mountams. It wasa beautiful sen t. Yours, &c . I dalk. At the . mom�nt at which the v i s itor Doniph . a�, w'mt to th . e c�ty of the �u � ai Inmorning when we left Ellicott's Mills (9 miles BRAMBLE BRAK arose, after havmg kIssed the feet of the holy dians, hvmg on the RIO PIS C OW, '. vluch IS supwest of Baltimore,) on board the Cumberland father. the Pope said to him: " Si nce I am posed to be a branch of the Gayla, made a cars; the cou ntry along here presents a wild
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