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WEDDED LOVE.
The following lines are inexpressibly lender.
They arc addressed to a young wife to her des
ponding htisba ;.l:
Come, rouse il.ee, dearest! ’tienot well
To let thy spirit brood
Thus darkly o’er the c.ue.-s that swell
Liu’s current to a Hood ;
As brooks and torrents, rive -, all
Increase the gulf in which they fall;
Guch thoughts, by ga'b’ring up tbe rills
Os lessor grief, spread real ills ;
And, with lhe> gloomy h ides, conceal
The landmarks hope would still reveal.
Crnic, rouse dice low I 1 know thy mu and,
And would its strength awaken ,
; Proud, gifted, noble, ardent, kind—
Strange thou should':.', be thus shaken!
■ But rouse afresh c.n h energy,
! And he wo it Heaven intended thee ;
t'hiow from t ; v thoughts this we iy oo ■/> ,
j And prove thy spirit lirmly great,
ii ould net ......... below
The angry storms of earthly wo.
Fell woil 1 know thy generous sou!,
Winch warms thee into iife ;
Each spring which can iis powers control,
Familiar to thy wife :
For deern’st thou she could stoop to bind
Her fate unto a common mind !
The Eagle-like ambition, nurse I
I From childhood in her he :rt, had first
Consumed with its Promethean llame
The shrine that sunk her so to shame.
Then rouse thee, dearest, from the dream
That fetters now thy powers !
Shake ft't hi.; gloom ! Hope sheds a beam
To gild each cloud that lowers ;
And though, at pro.-cin, seems so far
The wished-for goal, the guiding star
With peaceful ray would light thee on,
Until its bound be won ;
That quenchless ray, then’ll eve r prove,
A fond, undying Wedded Love!
IIIST A Li.
From the Knickerbocker, for July.
THE BATTLE OF NEW-ORLEANS.
The English had determined at tin early
period to obtain possession ofNew Orleans,
and their Danish descents in the Chesa
peake were merely feints to divert attention
from the main object. The plan was ex
cellent. A defenceless coast, an unforti
ti:d town ; a total want of munitions of all
I kinds ; disaffected negro slaves ; a populu
! tion halfFiencli, and half Spanish ; every
circumstance seemed favorable ; and they
already exulted, when considering tho val
ue of the prize which was to be obtained so
easily. The great market of the Missis
j sippi vV Ohio va!i< _v .s u a ; within their rt aeh;
I and animated by their success at Washing
: ton, they regarded the expedition rather as
’ a promenade militaire, in quest of “beauty
and booty,” than as an invasion in which
plunder was to be bought with blood. Ru
mors of their intentions had already
reached Louisiana, and excited much alarm
and a shiftless desire to do something for
and fence. Lafittr, the smuggler, whom the
British attempted to buy over, warned the
authorities repeatedly of the approaching
danger ; and though a foreigner, a pirate,
and an outlaw, offered to servo with all his
band against tho enemies of America.—
Vet little was accomplished ; the govern
ment, as remiss here as eh- where, had pro
vided neither arms nor ammunition. K
ver, a frigate of small draft, and stim and , tin
i!> :ui> tl. a'. . . maim and unfinish il,
despite tho earnest solicitation of Commo
dore Patterson. Nothin:, was ready ex
cept the General— Andrew Jackson. Ills
military talents were fully equal to tho oc
casion. In various expeditions against
the Creeks, he had already evinced that
iron energy, indomitable perseverance, and
ceaseless activity, so necessary to a com
manding officer. lie was the general for
an emergency. Not one of the wavering,
but a man who would keep his ob ject us
steadily before him, as the mariner his port,
and trample down and crush without re
morse whomever barred the path. A char
acter indispensable in a chief, for in war
especially, success is the only thing worth
consideration.
On the 2d of December, 1814, General
Jackson arrived in Ncw-Orleans, on his re
turn from Pensacola. The city was in
great confusion. Committees of all kinds
were disputing, quarrelling, and more de
sirous to fight each other than tho enemy.
• His appearance restored tranquility, for lie
had that strength about him on which men
in danger willingly rely. The General
lost no time in tardy deliberations. Mar
tial law was proclaimed ; the writ of habe
as corpus suspended ; free men of color
I and prisoners enrolled; the Baratarians
welcomed to the ranks ; and every point
which ho thought menaced by tho attack,
visited and fortified. On the 14th, news
came of the capture of the six gun-boats, on
lake Borgue, the only protection of the
coast in the absence of the unfinished frig
ate. The invaders were at the door, and
men knew that the hour of trial had ar
rived.
’ Some ragged fishermen, wl;n earned a
WASHINGTON, (WIVjKUS COUNTY, OA.O AUCHJNT 5, ISB i.
j miserable livelihood on tho shores of the
1 lake, went over to the British, and advised
j them to land at the Bayou Catalina, one of
\ the thousand creeks which intersect the
j swamps of Louisiana. The Bayou was
well olios n, for the Mississippi at this point
was not more than six miles distant from
the lake. On the 10th of December the
army was conveyed in boats to Pine Island
‘a miserable swamp not only devoid ot all
human habitations, but bare oven of trees
and shrubs.’* On this waste they rc
j maim and five days, suffering all the hard
! ships ofan exposure to cold and rain. Ma
jny of tho black troops, unaccustomed to
! change of climate, fell asleep beside their
i fires, and expired. On the 22d,the avant
i guard, consist ng of sixteen hundred im n,
I under th< command of General Keane, was ;
| rc-embarlsed, and rowed to the Bayou, a j
distance of sixty miles, without even an aw- j
uing to protect them aglll.nst the show erst
which fell during the night. Bouity
comlort was forgotton it) the certainty of
success; and when the boats took the
ground under the high roi d-covcred banks
of tile Bayou, the troops leaped ashore with
alacrity, and pushed forward through the j
swamp, where the cypress and tho conquer- j
er':; Intis I grew side bv side in bound! ■■
j j-. music;., to Villeivs plantation, on the j
j 1, ft bat'l; of the Mi: i.-sippi.
• litis ittr every tiling bad gol'iO ‘... 11.— j
A quick march of ton miles over a level
road would have placed the prize within
j their grasp. Col. Tho: ntoii, the second in
command, earn: ally press’ and an immediate
j advance ; sixteen hundred men, lie main
! tallied, were fully adequate to the task of
j surprising an unfortified city : and no time
I was to be lost in delays, fur tho escape of
j several prisoners would soon announce their
arrival to the Americans, and prepare them
| for defence. Gen. Keane, however, thought
| it safer to wait for the second detachment,
I and to reserve the advance for the next day.
; Consequently the order was passed bivou
i ac. ‘I he troops in high spirits, piled their
j arms, lighted their fires, and dispersed in
r .-rkftih cf Provisions, fully impressed that
j “as tho Americans had never fiA dared to
attack, there was no great probability oi
their doing so on the present occasion/
The following proclamation was posted in
different places along ihe high road :
“Louisianians !—remain quiet in your
houses: your slaves shall be preserved to
you, and your property respected. We
make war only against Americans.”
All other hostile demonstrations were
reserved for the morrow.
One Roy, who had contrived to escape
from the English, arrived in New Orleans
at noon of the same day, and announced the
disembarkation of the troops. General
Jackson immediately despatched a party to
reconnoitre the enemy. Before two hours
had elapsed, the scouts came in, a night at
tack was planned, and orders issued to ihe
corps who were to take part in it. The
armed schooner, Caioliue, was directed to
drop down the river, and to take up a posi
tion abreast of the enemy’s camp. About
seven o’clock the Carolina came leisurely
to an anchor before the levee. So great
was ilia security of the British that th< y
were gathered in crowds upon the bank,
watt king with an idle curiosity the manceu
vers of the vessel, which they took for an
ordinary coaster. Sudd nly the trumpet
was heard from her decks:—“Give them
this, for the honor of America !”—and th
darkness of the winter ov ning was lighted
up by the flash of her broadside, as she
poured a shower of grape, anil round
shot among the astonished Englishmen.
More than one hundred were killed before
they recovered from their panic. The sur
vivors crouched behind the levee for pro
tection ; and here they lay an hour, listen
ing in silence “to the battering of grape
shot among their huts, and to the shrieks
and groans of those who lay woundr and Ic-
A discharge from the picquets on the
light summoud them from their shelter.—
Two thousand Americans, led on by Gen.
Jackson, in person, liau forced th ir way
into ill. camp, and were bearing all before
them. In the obscurity of the night, the
ranks were broken ; Americans and Eng
lish mingled tog’ tlior, legit qne drum rir.
Everyman fought for himself alone, as in
the old Homeric conflicts. Musket and
pistol were laid aside for sword and bayo
net, and the western rifle wielded with both
hands like a war-club. After two hours
of tuu and fighting, the English were rein
forced by the second detachment from the
ships and succeeded in beating oft* th ■ at
tack. General Jackson withdrew his men
anJ the enemy retreated once more to the
welcome shelter of the levee. In this af
fair the British lost four hundred in killed
wounded, and taken ; the Americans two
hundred and fifty. Theprisonerscaptured
by Keane, consisted almost entirely of law
yers. The members of the bar ofNew Or
leans had enrolled themselves in a volun
teer corps; and accompanied General
Jackson in this expedition. They were
entrapped by the English and seized to a
man.
Jackson’s measures were as well plan
ned as prompt ; and the employment of the j
schooner in particular, merits all praise.— j
This vessel alone kept the enemy chained j
to their position for three days. During
this all precious interval, the famous em
bankment of cotton bales on Rodriguez Ca
na! was commenced, which was destined
twice to foil every effort of the invaders,
•Subaltern in America.
f British Officer. British Officer. 1
1> U B LI S fi EI) EVE R V TIIU RSD A V MORN 1X G .
and to give tho death blow to all their hopes j
of conquest.
The whole of the next day the British re
mained beneath the hank, suffering the ex
tremes of cold and hunger : as soon howe
ver, us it was dark, the army filed arid took
up a position on the right, out of reach oftlie
('iirolii)u’s guns. By giving her broadside
a great elevation, the schooner succeeded
in throwing shot among them, causing
great annoyance, though little execution.
On the 25ih,Sir Edward Faokenham ar
rival in camp, and assumed the command.
The next day a battery of ten guns was c
rected on the bank, and a fire of hot shot
opened on the Carolina. The second hall
took effect, and in fifteen minutes she was
abandoned by her crew, with the loss of
only one killed and six wounded.
On the 28th, the British Army, under
the command of General Gillie ami Keane,
advanced in t u-o columns about three miles
u !t!! l!:ry fame in sc. Id of tin. American
troops posted behind the unfinished breast
work. The left column on the liver was
instantly greeted with a tremendous fire
’ i rum the guns of the frigate Louisiana and
| those already mounted on the lines. Scarce |
j a bullet passed over or fell short of its mark, j
but all striking full in the midst of our j
j ranks, occasioned terrible havoc.”* Tile ‘
j column was soon forced by the carnage to
; deploy into lines of battalions, and finally to
j halt and lie down in the ditches which in
j tersected the plantation. On tho right the
attack might have succeeded, had it been
energetically directed, for tho works were
unfinished, and only a few guns mounted ;
but tin; loss suffered by tho left division was
so great as to induce the commanding offi
cer to order a halt. In the ditches they re
mained until late in the afternoon, when
the different regiments filed off, man by
man, amid shouts and showers of balls from
the American lines. A few guns which
had been directed against the Louisiana,
were carried oft’ by hand, by a party of sail
ors. The loss which the enemy suffered
in this affair is astonishing; the more so
when compared with the trifling injury
they caused their antagonists. Only ten
men wore killed within the lines, and hut
one wounded on board of the frii/am vv !;//
guns fired eight hundred balls during tho
engagement. The same disproportion is ,
remarkable throughout the invasion. Ma
ny a gallant Briton laid his hones beneath
tho cypresses of Louisiana.
Gen. Packenham did not. return to his old
position, but encamped on the battle ground
on the 23d of December ; his outposts e.x
tended in some places to within three hun
dred yards of the American lines. Find
ing the works so well defended, lie dot’ r
mined to consider them as a regular fortifi
cation, and to breach them. The 28th,
29th, 30th, and 31st, were employed in
bringing heavy guns from the fleet. The
labor and hardships incurred in tbe trans
portation of twenty-four pounders by hand
through a quaking morass, can scarcely be
conceived. Throughout tiiis period, the
position of the British was any tiling but en
viable. The scarcity of provisions had re
duced them to half allowance, and driven
j them to still their hunger with the sugar
they found on the plantations. As they
ha I no tents, they were forced to sleep up
j oil the ground ; and Louisiana in Decem-
I her, is not exactly the spot one would se
lect for passing the night alfresco. Even
the enjoyment of the damp earth was denied
them. The Americans did not grant them
a moment’s repose. From the day of their
landing they had been engaged in one con
tinued battle. Beside the shot that were
constantly thrown among them from guns
greatly elevated on the lines, the American
artillerymen would advance with a few
lii Id-pieces within range, fire half a dozen
I rounds, and retreat so rapidlv is to L-lil
pursuit, whi! ’ l ends men lurked a
ie picquets, and shot down tho senti
ik is. The English had a great dread of
tho Tennesseeans, whom they denominated
Dirty Shirts,” from the color of their hun
ting-frocks. These night excursions were
very popular among the “Dirty Shirts;”
they termed them hunting parties. One of
these worthies is said to have killed and
stripped three sentinels on the same spot in
one evening, and to have made his escape
into camp with the booty. This system of
warfare, although much inveighed against I
by English writers, we think both justifia- j
Lie and wise. When armies meet on for
eign ground to decide some state question,
about which they may be supposed to know
little and to care less, we can understand
that a kind of chivalric understanding
should exist between combatants. Such
wars arc but duels on a large scale, and the
courtesy which directs antagonists in affairs
of honor ought certainly to be exercised.
T'iie case is far otherwise with invaders.—
j Then a man fights for his native soil ; for
his family and friends ; for his possessions,
which would be plundered ; for his home,
which would be ransacked and destroyed.
He considers his foes in the light of house
breakers, and every man slain, one enemy
less, and very justly. This system, too,
succeeded admirably in a military point of
view, by harassing and discouraging the
j English. The repulses they had met w ith,
j the incessant labor and constant excitement
I ill which they were kept by die cver-rccur
’ ring attacks, had disheartened the troops,
and made them heartily sick of the expe
dition.
On the night of the 31st of December. ■
Packenham’s men were employed in erect- i
ing batteries for thirty heavy guns. The 1
!
* Maj. Latours War.
| work was accomplished before dawn. The
sun rose behind clouds, and for some time
S the mist was so thick that the American
lines could not be distinguished. At eight
o’clock the white tents of the camp became
visible, and the cannonade commenced.—
The tire was principally directed against
M’Carty’s chateau, which was occupied by
Jackson as his head-quarters. Although
the house was pierced through and through
repeatedly, the staff escaped without a
wound. The American batteries respond
ed feebly at first, but gradually grew bris
ker, and at length surpassed the British
both in rapidity and precision. The ene
my hud rolled hogsheads of sugar into the
parapet of his battery, under the impression
that it would he as effectual as sand in
deadening the force oftlie hulls ; but it pro
ved otherwise, foi* ihe sh t ( rash ! through
the casks as it they had born empty, dis
mounting tho guns and killing the gunners.
Cotton bales, on the contrary, proved a
much better defence ; and although some
of them were rather rud; ly knocked about
by the twenty-four pound shot, but little ex
ecution wa- don; among the Louisianians.
At three o’clock the lire oftlie English had
slackened very much ; and while the A
; inoricans, reserving a few • uns to return
their feeble salutes, directed the remainder
against the infantry, w Im consequi ntly re
tired in precipitation, leaving many dead
on the field. Soon after, the enemy ceased
firing altogether, and abandoning his guns
Jackson’s loss did not exceed fifty in killed
and wounded.
The Americans had good reason to be e
luted by their success. That thirty pieces
of cannon should be silenced by fifteen, on
ly five of which were of equal calibre, was
tar more encouraging to the invaded than
any advantage they had yet obtained.—
| Satisfied with the result oftlie affair, they
• made no attempt to carry off the guns,
i which were accordingly removed by the
■ English, with much labor, on the ensuing
night. Five, however, were ultimately
left behind.
Once more frustrated in Ins hopes, Sir
; lid ward Packenham changed his plan of
! attack. It was now determined dial a body
: of troops should cross the river, and that an
j advance should be made on both banks ai
j once. A canal two miles in length bv six
j feet in breadth was commenced, in order lo
■ convey the boats from the Bayou to the riv
! er. It would seem never to have occurred
to the General that, ships’ boats could he
pushed on rollers over land in half the time
it would take to dig such a canal. Mean
time tho work was continued, and complet
ed on the evening of the seventh.
Jackson had not been idle during these o
days. The Rodriguez brrast-work was
now raised to the ordinary altitude, covered
by a ditcli, and fifteen guns placed at prop
er distances along the line ; and moreover
a batteiy mounting eighteen guns had been
erected on tho other side of the river, so os
completely to enfilade the English bivouac.
No precaution was omitted nor labor spar
ed to strengthen the position and to har
rassthe enemy. Major-General Lambert’s
arrival with two regim nts had ineieas. and
die British army to nine thousand effective
men. The Americans, although rated at
twenty-five thousand by tho “ British Offi
cer,” mustered hut four thousand men on
tiie lilies. Fascines and scaling-ladders
had been prepared by the invaders for the
troops on tho left bank, who were to ad
vance at the sound of Thornton’s guns on
the opposite side. The Louisianians were
fully apprized of the approaching attack by
the activity and turmoil they bad remark
ed in the enemy’s camp, and were ready at
all points to encounter it.
On the Bth of January took place the last
i dcspfrte off f the Br ? i.-di to obtain pos
. ,1 ot the prize they had been taught to
deem so easy.
General Keane with twelve hundred men
was to make a sham attack on the river
bank, while General Gibbs, with the main
body, was to storm the works on tho right,
in die direction of batteries six and seven.
Fascines and scaling ladders were entrust
ed to die Forty-Fourth Regiment, and suc
cess was considered certain. Jackson, on
the other hand, lay snugly entrenched be
hind his embankment of mud and cotton
bales, his left appuye on tho swamp, his
| right on the Mississippi. General Coffee
I i.mi the Tennesseeans occupied the extreme
left oftlie line, and the batteries were serv
ed by the United States artillerists and mi
litiamen, except No. 2, which was entrust
ed to the crew of the late Carolina, and No.
3, commanded by privateer captains and
served by Ijafitte’s men.
The attack was to have taken place be
fore sun-rise, but owing to the caving in of
the canal, tbe army did not arrive within
musket range until dawn. They were re
ceived by a well-directed volley, which
threw them into disorder ; but they soon
rallied, and were advancing steadily to the
assault, when Packenham discovered that
the Forty-Fourth Regiment had come into
the field without the fascines and ladders.
Colonel Mullens was ordered to return for
them, but losing all command of himself,
forsook liis men. Packenham immediately
despatched an aid to bring them up. This
officer found them in the great: stconfusion.
The General, upon hearing this, placed
himself at their head, and ordered the col
umn to press on at double quick time.—
I Twice they charged, exposed to a murder
! ous fire of musk try and cannon, which
j mowed them down by ranks. The- deeds
| of the thirty-two pounders are especially
I (ominrmoi'ated : “One single discharge,
says (lie ■ Subaltern.’’ “served to swep
n . .i . Ei AS*S* I L, j* iit Hr.
the centre of the attacking force into eter
nity.” The officers exerted themselves to
the utmost to rally their men. but all ef
forts were useless. Two or three hundred
gained the ditch, and endeavored lo climb
the parapet, but the soft earth gave way
beneath their fact, and only seventy suc
ceeded in the attempt, all of whom wore
c•; lured. The death of Sir Kdw aid Pack
eniiam, who fell like a bravo man at the
head of the Forty-Fourth, and Iho mortal
wound received by Goti. Gibbs, completed
tho universal dismay. The column turn
ed and fled. Oil the river the advance of
Gen. Keane’s detachment stormed an un
finished battery occupied by a rifle corps :
instead of supporting his men, and entering
the lines at that point, Gen. Keane march
ed with liis column acros- the plain to the
aid of the main body. .Such a movement
only served to increase tic confusion. Hi ;
troops caught the gi neral panic, and K ane
himself was borne, desperately wounded,
from the. field. M untime the brave band
that had taken the battery, unsupported by
their friends, and unable lo retreat, perish
ed to a man, by (lie rifles of the Louisian
ians. tin the light bank. ('oloti’ I Thornton
carried all before him; drove tiie Ameri
cans from two entrenched positions ; and
| was in full pa. ait, when a m ssengcr
brought the news of the disaster of the main
j army, and the order for an immediate re-*
treat, which he effected without opposition.
It appears evident, from all statements ot
this affair, and from Jackson s address, that,
j the conduct of the militia on the right hank
I formed a striking contrast to the bravery ol
ih” troops on the Rodriguez Canal
Here the carnage had been awful. “A
i space of ground extending from the ditch
oftlie American lines to that on which the
j enemy drew up his troops, two hundred and
fifty yards in length by about two hundred
in breadth, was litcial'y coven and with men,
either dead or severely wounded.” At
j least three thousand bravo fellows lay
j stretched upon the plain, and all wearing
j the British uniform ; lor the \in i ican loss
did not exceed twenty-five men in killed
and wounded.
Gen. Lambert, on whom the command
had devolved, abandoned all hopes of tak
ing New Orleans. A quick and safe re
j treat was the only object aimed at. Dur
! ing his preparations lie was harassed as be
| fore by the Americans, hut nothing serious
| was attempted. The British were still too
powerful to be driven to despair. Matters
I remained thus until the 17th, when the pri
| soners were exchanged’ on both sides; on
1 the 19th, everv Englishman had vanished.
The war was now virtually ended. The
details of Lambert’s skilful retreat; the 9
days bombardment of the fort at Plaque
mines ; t lie taking of Fort Bo wye r ; the
disputes concerning negro slaves; the tri
umphal entry of General Jackson, and the
! usual address, s and illuminations ; and fi
, nully, the ratification of peace, followed
; hard upon each o.hi r, and have little bcar
! ing on the great feat of arms we wished to
i commemorate. On the 23d of December,
j nine thousand English soldiers, who had
j served with success in Europe, lauded on
j the territory oftlie Union. One month af
j ter, the survivors, worn out, baffled, dis
i heartened, their two commanders slam,
! were re-embarking at the same place, lcav
j ing three thousand gallant comrades to
I moulder beneath the cypresses of Louisi
i ana. There is scarcely an instance in
modern history, perhaps none, in which
men, unaided by contagion, have repelled
an attack with so little injury to themselves
and such fearful slaughter to their oppo
nents.
To Jackson belongs the honor oftlie vi
tory. The promptitude with which lie
i planned the attack of the 23d, the skill dis
played in liis dispositions, and tho energy
with which they were carried out on that
eventful night, saved New Orleans from
destruction. The next morning the British
would have blown his force to the winds,
and have seized the city as easily as they
had anticipated. But awed by the bold
ness of a foe they had hitherto despised, and
held in check by tho guns oftlie Carolina,
they gave the Americans time to complete
the famous breast-work, before which, us
before all altar of Liberty; Dngtami's 0:-
vest and best were sacrificed.
W’e owe Andrew Jackson a long debt ot
gratitude, not only for having repelled an
invasion, tho results of which might have
boin most disastrous, but also lor having
proved to Great Britain, (what hitherto she
had maintained to he problematical,) that
the American militia could and would
fight, if skilfully commanded.
Years after, the General finds himself at
. the head of the nation lie defended, and
makes more enemies by a word than ho had
ever beaten oil’ with liis sword. Perhaps
he possessed too little of the pliability of his
emblematic tree fora statesman, and would
better have left the China closet of politics
to one who had less of the headstrong and
headlong bull in his nature. But posteri
ty will decide on this also. Our business
with him was as commanding officer at
New Orleans on the Bth of January, 1815;
a day on which lie earned liis title to a seat
at Washington’s right hand.
FR. FLANEUR.
-1 Evasive Ansioer. —Well, Pat, did
von present that bill for payment, which 1
gave you this morning 1
I os, your honor.
V\ ell, what was the gentleman’s answer?
Evasive, your lienor.
Evasive ! what do you mean ?
M by, your honor, he said he'd he and 1
it lie would piiv it.
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