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and sizes—many of them are in rather a suffering condition. Measures are in pro-i»r-58.veP*wAst gress to ameliorate their condition. j(General Hints, who is in command at this post, left night before last, with three companies of colored troops, and crossed gl over the Potomac, into Virginia, to recon- ra he 1 noitre—I suppose—probably to recruit. th I The expectation is, that soon a general a, exchange ofprj*°uer9 will taxeplace which | n(if so, will considerably uZ*‘*is,‘ th* P°Pula- j cetion of the Point. But of this tnorJ *ere 1 01alter. I), s. E.u-idthleII.ncinhrg€arthcoIUal■e-lin i a neIeln-ti(leiV\ecUKthhaarprTHHeroism of a Woman.A San Francisco print relates the circumstances of a most heroic and intrepidor J art, on the part of a lady, w hich was perch j formed last month in the Indian country:£“ About the 15th of March, a telegrapher ; dispatch w as published in the papers tel-th ! ling the story to the effect that the Over-| land Mail coach had been aMaeked by Indians near Cannon Station, and the driverkilled. On the 25th. a lath named Mrs.• •John 1J. (Iemail, with her child, arrived in San Francisco from the East, through the Overland Koute. and put up at the Oeci-dential Hotel. She was the only passeu-ger, besides her little one, in the very same00 i coach on the box of which the driver was shot by the Indians. The dispatch, therefore, was true, but the whole truth was j not told. The details of the ?* flair, as nar-j rated by this lady, are most thrilling, ande. j herself the principal actor in them. Instantaneously with the shooting of the driver. Mrs. Gerrish leaped out of the stage leaving her child within. At the same moment four or iive shots nr*re W6i6 fired ■ 1111 by the Indians, one of which struck a hoise on the head, and ho fell. .She instantly cut him loose, mounted the box, a*!d, seizing the reins, applied the whip vigorously. The driver, on being shot, s- j fell back into the boot behind the seat. acj i The three horses were put to the top of r j their speed, and continued running for a about two miles, when luckily they en-j countered another stage from the opposite ^ | direction.. In this were a number of sol-* diers, who instantly came to the aid of the1 ' heroine she and her child were re-leased from the' Deri,{)US Mrs.Gerrish is a very oung“ ofdelicate P'wsiqn*; but her endue *abasli-ssnts-toanbuNcsae*dledp Utwnopetblt;toito12usthiatTL‘this frightful adventure exhibited courageHItj — * v««i. v.»vv« vvva* ateand presence of mind rarely equalled, and never surpassed by the sterner sex. She is a native of Ohio, and has been on a visitto her Atlantic friends. Sh3 went North to join her husband, who is at presentinJreaop€colirou
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Madison Weekly Courier
Madison, Indiana, US
Wed, Apr 27, 1864
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