It was an hour before daylight, when Mr.Drummond and Mr.Lawrence awoke him.
"General Bacon is dead," they said.
"What! dead ?" cried Robert.
"Yes, dead and buried.

We thought it best to bury him in the forest where his enemies could not find him.

Brent is crushed; his men have deserted him, and all are with us.

The general died very suddenly in the arms of Major Pate." It was the purpose of the friends of liberty to keep the death of Bacon a secret, and there is some dispute in history as to where and when he died.

News of this character cannot be suppressed.