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ml change* lime, <u
conduct of tho pres
of the year. Amoi.g otlic
Jow-%? • ■ wit K» 4_.
Jobo Kur^t^r^.,.^ sereriil ycnra>st tl,
7Cblumbu* Tjiruv*, Una
•ffcolwl by Jam<
, .. . . -'I“ n y argao that it will „or, Decausc
•■iMial, occurred in tlio . i» !> 'n,„_ . ’, aC
aUiut the heninnmrr ! . 11 cy T ,ouW ^member that
Ut th ° b ° S,nR,n ^ «^on with the rest of the world is
because it did not in
particular information respecting the
position of his adversaries, summoned
the famed leader of the riflemen, Col.
Daniel Morgan, to head-quarters.
It was niglit,and the Chief was alone.
After his usual polite, yet reserved and
dignified, salutation, Washington re
marked :
I have sent for you, Col. Morgan, to
entrust to your courage and sagacity a
small but very important enterprise. I
wish you to reconnoitre the enemy’s
line, with a view to your ascertaining
correctly tho position of their «ewly
constructed redoubts? also of the en
campments of the British troops that
have lately arrived, and those of their
Hessian auxiliaries. Select, sir, an
officer, noncommissioned officer, and
About twenty picked men, and under
cover-of the night proceed, but, with
all possible caution; get ns near as you
pan, learn all you can, and by day-dawn
retire and make your report to head
quarters. Bat mark me, Col. Morgan,
y mark me well; on no account are you
to bring on any skirmishing with the
enemy; if discovered, make a speedy
retreat; let nothing induce you to fire
a single shot; I repeat, sir, that no
force of circumstances will excuse the
discharge of a single rifle on your part;
and for the extreme preciseness of these
orders, permit me fo say that I have
my reasons. Filling two glasses of
wine, the General continued:—And now,
CuL Morgan, we will drink a good night
and success' to your enterprise.
Morgan quaffed the wine, smacked
his lips, assuring his excellency that his
orders should be punctually obeyed,
and left the tent of the Commander-in-
Cliief.
Charmed at being chosen as the exec
utive officer of a daring enterprise, the
.leader of the woodsmen repaired to his
^ rlers, and calling for Gabriel Long,
the foi-' ,7"-" *•"/;,-«not now u-w, tciion
■ » wax then, and the Che
. oiled by the laws which govern other-epidemfci
being apparently uncontrolled
jlijl, —I'TTr" too instance we have
to record, the effects of the fire of the
riflemen were tremendous. Of the
horsemen, some had fallen to rise no
more, while their liberated chargers
rushed wildly over the adjoining plains;
others, wouuded, but entangled with
their stirrups, were dragged by the fu
rious animals expiringly along, while
the very few who were unscathed spur-
expecta- off to give a cordial!
j to head-quar- hand to the coalman?!
red'hard to regain the shelter of the
British lines.
While the smoke yet canopied the
scene of slaughter, and the picturesque
forms of the woodsmen appeared among
the foliage, as they were re-londing
their pieces, the colossal figure of Mor
gan stood apart. He seemed the very
genius of War, as gloomily he contem
plated the havoc his order had made.—
He spoke not, he moved not, but looked
discovered a party of horse coming' moved, Washington
out from the enemy’s lines. They j their glasses, and ga
r rnmmmmm
queeze of the j wa lkin along in life moonlight, l passed
er°in ° i *° ,s ^dies gentlemen* 1 heard
The cloth
ic up immediately to the spot where j varying toast, the Toft
lay by the brushwood. There they trial, life toast of the ’evening o/dj
i • i'fH hntifi
h.s wests Gif fo
ms only, hi
ot die
oices and saw sum
made me think of
lime I got to the Ho
is the mischief. I
j -j- .na^lnetl logo to/
Halted and gathered up together like a honored life amid tl/e shades of Mount'sIdnmeii^-in!I°navv*<>ffi eer s bi'the 1 next
flock of partridges, affording me so. Vernon-.* All our friend Then, with ^Jwhat Ld . W mini home from
tempting an opportunity of annoying Ins usual oM lashioneJ politeness, he a [o voyn»e,amI iliev was Urinkin wine
my enemy, that may it please your Ex- ! drank to each guest by niiine.N When 1 ....j g n „j' f.’ „„ i, nm „ .:i morn-
cel ency, flesh and blood could not re- j he-enme to ■ Col Morgan, your' ®»d.|i n " a1|;miikin speeches, and hreakin
Atlhis rougb.yet frank, bold and mnnly j fy tame of tVe'^Xi muf agaiKl j f^^rtef lelX
explanation, a smile was observed tn ] vorile soldier, while every eye in the; This momin'r luek-hnother Walk 10
pass over the countenances of several: pavilion was turned upon him. At an , took al |he scl ldiers. They hud a gene-
ot the General’s suit. The chief re- ! early hour the company broke up, and ; raUnosterin nr ,W s l,ivelrv here to bury
mamed unmoved ; when waving his Morgan had a perfect escort of officers j a office^ and I teltyou what’s a fact,
is^quarters, ajl { Charlstoo can parade a pretty respecta-
hand, he continued : * Colonel Morgan
you will 'retire to your quarters, there
to await further orders.* Morgan bow
ed, and the military cortege rode on to
the inspection of the out-post.
Arrived at his quarters,Morgan threw
himself upon bis hard couch, and gave
as one absorbed in an intensity of 1 himself up to reflection upon the events
thought. The martial shout with K "'* — A -— : ' H *’ "*—
'gn
which he was wont to cheer his com
rades tn the hour of combat was hashed,
the shell* from which he had blown
full many a note of battle and of triumph
on the fields of Saratoga, hung idly by
his side; no order was given to spoil
the slain; the arms and equipments for
which there wns always a bounty from
Congress, the shirts for which there was
such need, at that, the sorest period of
our country’s privation, all, all were
abandoned, as, with an abstracted air,
and a voice struggling for utterance,
Morgan, suddenly turning to his Cap
tain, exclaimed, ‘ Long, to the camp, to
which bad so lately and so rapidly
ceeded each other. He was a ware that he
had sinned past all hope of forgiveness.
Within iwenty.four hours be had fallen
from the command of a regiment, and
being an especial favorite with his Gen
eral, to be, what—a disgraced and bro
ken soldier. Condemned to retire from
the scenes of glory* the darling passion
of his heart-forever, to abandon the
* fair fields of fighting men,* and in ob
scurity to drag out the remnant of a
wretched existence, negleeted and for
gotten. And then his rank, so hardly
and so nobly won, with all his
ing honors* acquired i
’ ' ilde
blush-
accompanying him to ,!)
anxious to congratulate'
happy restoration to ra£KTod
pleased to assuie him ofl thei
for his person and services.
".Ii V- e she win of the nation’s bull works.—
* j There was sum fust rule companys and
eein i a good many fine lookin officers among
i ’em. The Guvernor was ihar in his
° I regimentals, hut I could’nt see General
Going to Charleston. j Kittledrum. Ther was one little officer
Maj. Jones has written many amus-i *har " hat had so much military sperit
ing and withal Iruthful dcscriplions of; >" him,Thai it put him completely out
, , ■ , i ot shape. Hcfuurnt slick more n bout
men and places none, perhaps, more , „ lree lbel of hu b( ; nls ; a ,„, hl . | ooked
truthful thatijihc following account of | like a jack-knife that was opened so far
a visit to Charleston. , j that it bent over hack. Its a terrible
After describing Hamburg and that *.P^y that die cooldn’tgrow^a little big-
dreary waste and the imaginable \jU er ' or simmer down hts spent a little
J ,, , it.-. J more, for the sword is certainly ton
goons traversed by the SouiWCaroli"'> - . — • -
Hail Road, the Major proce
Nothing didn’t turn up of interest
the way, and bimeby 1 begun to
signs of town. The closer we go
Charleston, the thicker the plantations hut ther
They say lie*:
‘s. a little out
and houses begun to git. "Bimeby
could see the steeples; and in a few ‘
the skabhard
| a fust rate officer, only h>
j of proportion. The fact is we may §ay
j what vve please, and laugh as much as
i we’ve a mind to, 'bout Carolina shivelry
slake about it, Caro
ls a gallant little
she’s got’s a soldic
itate, aud every
Bp _ _ his march across _
the camp.* The favorite Captainotey-1 th® fro2en wilderness of the Kennebec, j m inils more we was roffnlalontnjmong!
ed, the riflemen, with trailed arms, fell j the storming of the Lower Town, and t i, c i; (t i e frame houses, til \ve got to j -
iiuo file, and Long and his parly soon , the gallant and glorious combats of ( u, e j C p 0 . And now the fuss comment A ^i isicid H°rsc.—A correspondent
“ ... - ... . Saratago. | e d. Sich a evcrlastin rumpus I never J the Providence Journal furnishes the
The hours dragged gloomily away;’seed before. Soon as the gates was j following account ot a musical horse:
night came, but.with it no rest for the 1 open here cum a gang of fellers with j “ A physician called daily to visit a
troubled spirit of poor Morgan. The j whips in their hands, poppin and snap- j patient opposite to my place, of
drums and fifes merrily sounded the pin about ’rnong tlie passengers, axin us \ dence. VVe had a pi
soldier's dawn* and the sun arose, giv-itogo here anil go thar, and whar’:
and
wmsm
the eye, to be more subject to the scythe
of the Deal roycr.
If the admiring eye of Nature’s sweet
est flower could shield from harm the
full-blown ros^, its leaves would uever
wither, its fragrance never die.
If friends could detain the blooming
a?sphere where her virtues
disappeared, but not before the hardy
fellows bad exchanged opinions on the
strange termination of the late affair.—*
And they agreed, item, ion., that their
Colonel was tricked, (conjured) or as
suredly, after such a fire as they had
just given the enemy, such an empty
ing of saddles, and such a squandering
of troopers, he would not have orderei
bloom hut to perish, many Would live to
have their old age irradiated by the
lustre of well-spent years.
But death must come.
Beauty, it is true, belongs to youth,
but not to youth alone. The matron
who is the cynosure of the happy circle,
the charm which lures to domestic hap
piness the husband and the father, has
beauty tod.
Her heart is the centre of human af
fection—her smile the reward of human
hopes. -
Age too—virtuous age hath its beau
ty. Sanctified bj r lime’s sorrows, the
aged toterer on life’s last brink, is beau
tiful, for though the attractions of youth
have fled—the splendor of life’s noon has
vanished—there is a sunset* ghvy upon
the brow prepared to bleiid gradually
with the twilight of existence, succeed
ed, it is true, by Night, but a Night des
tined to retire before the dawning efful
gence of another day.
The thought is pleasant that Beauty
attends all seasons of life.
We may mourn the early Dead, We
may miss them when the Christinas fire
blazes on the hearth. We may feel lhat
the leaves of the Rose, once so sweet
and fragrant, have opened but to with
er, but though the natural eye is closed
in death..there is an eye in the soul of
the survivor which still gazes upon the
loved and early Dead, It is the
aflection which seeks the playmate of
fiis childhood, the friend of liis youth,
the companion of his manhood.
The fragrance of love is novy no long-
met UecThorse,
ken alive. He reinei
the bank and gave hi
the gallant animal v
row, and approael
such speed that he <
margir,, but, with a furio||
off, rider and all, into t‘
nately, there grew a 1
tree at the foot of the 1
der of the river. The bushy
thickly interlaced with
vine ; into the top of the tree
horse and its rider. The fall was
pletely broken. The captain toppled
into the stream, reached the opposite
shore amid a shower nf bullets, and re-
gained the land in safety.’/ t jj
Tile World was made for all.
In looking at our age, I am struck
immediately with one commanding
characteristic, and that is, the tendency
of all its movements to expansion, to
diffusion, to universality. To this I ask
your attention. This tendency is di
rectly opposed to the spirit of exclusive
ness, restriction, narrovvness,monopnly,
which has prevailed in pastTTges. Hu
man action is now freer, more uhconfiu-
ed. All goods, advantages, bqjjis* are
more open ton'll. Thejmvilegql, pet-
liis favorite captain, ordered him lode-.-- -—r-" 1 — : — v . -— —-- r ©—
tail a trusty sergeant; and twenty prime his poor rifle boys from the field, with- give hope, and joy, and glad
fellows, who being mustered, ami or*’out so much as a few shirts or pairs of it cheered not with a single t
dered to lie on their arms, ready at a mo-1 stockings being divided among them.— «r«».«
mcnl’s warning, Morgan and Long * Yes,* said a tall, lean and swarthy
stretched their manly forms before the looking fellow, an Indian hunter from
watch fire to wait the going down of the the frontier, as he carefully placed his
moon—the signal for departure.
A little after midnight, and while the
rays of the setting moon still faintly
glimmered in the western horizon—
•up, Sergeant,* cried Long, • stir up
moccasincd feet in the footprints of his
file-leader, ‘Yes, my lads, it stands to
Colonel is tricked.’
s ! dence. YVe had a piano in the room
the street, on which a young lady
ing 4 promise of a goodly day.’ And ! baggage, and if we was gwine^to the j daily practiseil lor several hours in the
to many within the circuit of that wide-! boat, and more’n twenty thousand other j morning. The weather was warm
ly extended camp did its genial beams;questions before we could answet the i '' ie windows w^re open, and the
' " while • fust-one. The fust thing I knoYvd a feh- ‘l» e h‘ ,rse caught the sound of tho
ray the de- ler had one of my trunks one Way anti | pmnphevvoulddehherately wheel abom,
spairing Leader of the Woodsmen. another one had tolher carryin.*it off in j crossriie street, place linn - 1
1 * " • 1 '•*" • ' * •— • - ♦-
About ten o'clock, the Orderly on 1 another direction, \vhile two
duty reported the arrival of an. officer' pull'm the life out of my
of the staff from head quarters, and see winch should have ih
Lieut. Col; Hamilton, the favorite aid j two fellers off my
rpei;
, with
i erfeefc-and eVes dilating, would lie
I sinui^ the \qutedy,.stand and listen till his
nks monitrous
as jest gwine to tiickle the
had my. carpet hag, when
Morgan followed slowly on the trail ‘ 1 know your errand, so he short, my j who should I see hut my old friep<|, Bill
of his men. The full force of his mili-! <lear fellow, and put me out of my mis- j Wiley, \yhat used to live up to thfe old
of the. Commander-in-Chief, entered the' quick, and '
marquee. * Be seated,* said Morgan, chap
your men,’ and twenty athletic figures tary guilt had rushed upon his mind, i ery at
,1,1.;. ; n momeiit. Indi-‘ •««•*»«
1 know that I am arrest- Planters' Hotel, in Mad
. Js a matter of course. Well, there
gcner*IJy in^the ad-1 j 3 m y 3W ord ; but surely his Excellency
' * * r#1 honors me in deed,in these last moments
were on their feet
an file, march! and _ . VJU|CU
with the quick, yet light and Stealthy ! cm y, or annoying" his flanks f the re'giineiu was. .... . i_ii
step of the woodsmen. : thus much divided into detachments and dispersed of my military existence, when he sends
They reached tho enemy’s fine,' overa vcr y wide fie,d ofaclion - Morgan was in [for iny sword by his favorite Aid,
crawled op so close ,o the pickets of the ' SIS i a . nd m J n, "f ^X^Xwhatl Itjje
Hessians as to inhale the odor of their I and warlike blast. This bo said was to inform hia ■ d “ r Hamilton, tl JOU knew what I have
pipes 5 discovered, by the newly turned hoy*that ho was still alive, and from many piirts suffered since the corset! horse came out
Mn earth, the positions of ther-Wtis : l» r ,he “d «'»" beholding their prowess; oikI like to tempt me to ray ruin.’
'and by the. i Hamilton, about whose strikingly in-
kW ^ “* "S mUi § cnt countenance Umre alwap lurk-
I
Why, hellovv, Majer,” scs lit, «is
that you?” \\
“I blieve it is, Mr. Wiley,” «e^J|,il‘bt
thar ah.t no tellin how long l'il^sl^lf
don’t git away from thesi
scamps.”
“ Well,” ses he,
your bag*
Toiler me."
I sbow’d ’em to I
went with Mr. Wiley
came fdx hiuV^.'i’his was his daily prac-
i ice. Sometimes the young lady would
stop playing wfien the doctor drove up.
The horse would then remain quietly in
his"placfTbut the first stroke of a key
id tq^sl his aticntir
oozen notes would i
across the street. I
Xeetjeverallimes.”
, mid half
ably call him
eased the el-
■ 'Criticism.—Have you seen the opera
of Ltrcreshy Borger, Miss Tinto. No;
Majer, jest pint out! I baint bin yet, Miss Lingo. Well, it’s
to Patrick here,.and then, real beautiful; all the heroes has mas
ted individual.]
human race are becoming more. .T^P
multitude is rising from the dust, f^fice
we heard of the lew, now we henraphe
many; once of the prerogatives ol a part,
now of the rights of ail. We. are look
ing, as never before, through the dis
guises, envelope meats of ranks and
classes to the common nature Yvhich
below them, and are beginning toJ
learu that every being who partakes ofy
n f i it has noble powers to cultivate, solemn
1 duties to perform, inalienable ^rigbli^i
assert, a vast destiny to accomplish.—S
The grand idea of humanity; of the ’
importance of man as man, is spread
ing silently, but surely. Not that
er visible to the out wa r d sense, bunhpri. - .. _ . . f
is that within which detects the perfume l * ,e worth of the human being is tit
led from the pious feelings of a pu:
living now departed friend.
When prosperity beamed she YVasthe
participant of our sports.
When adversity spread its pall upon
the senses she encouraged Us to rise
above the calamity which hung like a
cloud over our morning sun.
For her we lived, for her we wnbltf
have died. But that earthly link is
broken and another friend lias gone to
a world not made with hands eternal in
the heavens. But she is happy. Why
then repine lhat Heaven has claimed
her for her own.
Let us rather be consoled with the
reflection that while death has its sea
sons as well as Hfe, there is a peroid at
hand when the refreshing dewsofnal
will be displaced ;by the df‘
and the Iivinjfancl ’thi
again ‘top
j will meet again
fhen^tberewiil bean eternal Chris
s to the soul.—San..Georgian. "
of Henv-
dead once
ur forth the
Pt oqfireworka an
nstaerhers.
and mustacUers l
WhYcb is Gen. Taylo
1 doat j most favorite march ?
| March thefifth.
all understood as it should bet but that
truth is glimmering through the dark-'
ness. A faint consciousness of it has
seized upon the public mind. Even the
most abject portions of society are visitr i
ed by some dream of a better condition,
for which they Yvere designed. Tho
grand doctrine that every human being
should have the means of sell-culture,
of progress in knowledge and virtue; of
health, comfort mid happiness, of exej*
eiaing die powers and affections ofij*
man ; this is sloYvIy taking its plade v Ai»
the highest social troth. That the War'd
Yvas made.for all, and not for a Ioyv )
that society is to care for all; that no
human being shall perish, but through
his own fuult; that the great cod of
government is to spread a shield over
the rights of all,—these propositions arc
growing into axioms and the spirit of
them is coming forth in all the depart
ments of life.'—Dr. C/uinniug.
A modern Yvriter says lhat ill® dog
iiasrhecnlhe companion of man formoru
than five thousand yearsy and has learn
ed hut one of bis vice#*fmvl that is iq
worry his species when iu (iistre§§.