ABSTRACT
Within the Council Chamber the panic was hardly less than without. Most of the members evinced an uneasy desire to get away, till at length Councillor Wenderman of the dry-goods store moved that the Council be adjourned sine die. A party of four commanded by young Gell had followed up the course of the river, the other scouts having preferred to take any other direction, and when about twelve miles above the city had come upon the machines, advancing in a line that appeared to be five miles in length, and steaming their hardest. Gell and his companions had galloped back, but reckoned that the foe could not be more than three or four miles behind them. Their fathers, both in the old country and at home, had ever fought bravely, but never so desperately as when their homes and families were at stake.
