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‘TfWO DOLLAR^&FIFTY CENTS, \ B®v©to(sl to 3?<a>MtEfl®'s,flows* J j^RjAADVANCE EYU. R. JtANLBITER. fw ‘&<© :mm .;j. ■ _ ~ / ‘■;. _ - Ittjk / MAIDENHOOD. By child of many prayers ! ipfaih quicksands— life hath snares! Kb and age come unawares! Vke the swell of some sweet tune IPorning rises into noon, Kday glides onward into Jane, Childhood is the bough where slumbered Birds and blossoms many numbered; Age, thfift bough With snows encumbered. ■jltlLßO? E® THE FRIGATE’S TENDER; •oft wifi NAtt-rtc.a trusts. A tale of Ike last War, founded on the fact. It was early on a sunny morning during the progress of the last war with Great Britain, that a young naval officer, standing on the battery at New York, had his atten tion drawn to a group of persons earnestly engaged in watching two vessels just visible far down the habot. , What is it, my friends Ihe asked in a frank honest tone, as he joined. The tender, again eh as inn in a schooner, irir, answered air old tar, touching the point of (us bat as he noticed the anchor button on the officer’s coat. , , Here is a sivy-glass, sir, said a’ master's j mate who Stood i J ar, at tire same time re spectfully handing to him. ! Thank yea my man, answered the lieu- Bienant with a smile, ns he took the instru ■merit and placed to his eye. K J3y its aid he could clearly distinguish an farmed schooner, ofabout ninety tons, crowd fing sail in chase of a trading fore-and-after, (that was making every exertion to escape, bwtfe by lowing and throwing water upon Lithe sails. _ .. . ... L The dho U about half a mile ahead, sir, 1 said the master mate-; but the tender sails tike a shark in chase of a dolphin. The fine and-after don’t stand a Chance of get ting in past the fort. The tender can sail, and I am the one that ought to know it, said a stout, weather-beat en looking man. She was a pilot boat, and the fastest -craft that ever danced over the waves. Three weeks ago I and my crew were out in her when yon English frigate suddenly made her appearance out of a fug bank and brought us to. But ( took to my yawl, and pulled for ti e land a league away, and escaped ; for the fog was so thick the Englishman could not get a glimpse of me. It is my schooner they’ve turned into a ten der, sir, and that’s made so many captures ithe lagt three weeks of our small coasters. She carries forty men, and a long thirty two, so I hear, observed the seamen in the group. And is commanded by a luff and a reefer, added the master’s mate. It would be a blessing, observed a man of-war’s man, who had not yet spoken, if that craft could be caught napping. It aint safe for a sloop to put her nose out of the harbor, beyond the cape ; but while the frigate was there alone, they could skip along the coast injight water, and show her their heels. But now, every thing that ventures out is brought to by that long gun of the tender’s. That’s a fact then, responded another seaman. She hastaken or driven back into port no less than twenty-six craft in the last three weuWe. T eball be glad for one when our frigate lying off there gets her arma ment aboard, for then I think we’ll swallow the English frigate outside, and pick our teeth with the tender. All these remarks were heard by the young officer, who all the while continued to look through the spyglass at the tender and her chase. There goes a gun ! cried several of the spectators, as a flash and a jet azure smoke came from the tender’s bows. That is bold enough,, observed the young officer, as if speaking his thoughts aloud, the impudent tender is almost up withuhe fort, and dares to fire at the chase in dupe ry face of the batteries. It is only to try and do her mischief, sir, said the master’s mate; for she lino* the fore-Bnd-aftor will escape h r-*-o she fires a gun to cut away something. You are, right, my man, responded the officer, for she has put about and ataods to seaward again. He continued to v.itch the retiring tender for aome moments in silence. It's a pity that wo hadn’t an armed cutter in por t that would sail fastef than slve can, so that we might give her a chase out, said a lad, approaching the . group. His dress was that of a mid shipman, and his air sin gularly free and fearless. Ah, Frank, are you there ? said the lieu tenant. When did you get back from your father’s ? Last night. I was in hopes to find the ship ready for sea, Mr. Percival ; but l am told it will be three weeks before we can get ready, I want to have a brush with John Bull’s frigate, who hovers off the har bor with such bravadoing. When did you get in town, sir 1 Yesterday mowing. Have you been witnessing the pretty chase down the bay, Frank 1 Yes. I would give a year’s pay if I could have a hand in capturing that rogue. Come aside with me, said the officer, put trnghis arm in that of the midshipman.— Your words but express my own wishes.— t have conceived apian for capturing that tender. In what way t demanded the youth with animation. I will sliow you. The tender ’s game ap pears to be the coasting vessels ; from which she takes men to impress in the British navy, and also plunders the craft of such things as they contain which are of value. My plan is to charter an old sloop, the worst looking one that it is possible to find in port, yet a tolerable sailer, for she must work well and readily obey her helm. T will load her deck with hen coopß, well filled with poultry, pens crammed with pigs, and a few sheep, and a calf or two, by the way of variety.— You laugh, Frank, hut the commander of the tender will find it no laughing matter, isl succeed as I anticipate. 1 shall ship about thirty.five men and conceal them in I'nM, nrill (nlro wornrmml of. my Oflift with one hand only visible or. deck, I shall set sail out of the harbor. When I get out side, I think I shall be able to show John Bull a Yankee trick he will not be likely to forget very soon, but all will depend on our good management of the affair. Now you see what I would be at, Frank ! Will you join me i Heart and hand, sir, responded Frank Talbot with enthusiasm. Will you allow me to be the hand on deck to help work the sloop 1 Yes, if you can talk Weathersfield Yan kee. Wall, I rather guess I ken, tho’ I ain’t been to Connecticut among ’em since last grass. This reply was pronounced in such an in imitable Yankee that the lieutenant burst into a heaity laugh. You will do, Frank ! Now we want to proceed at once to action. I want you to go to the Anchor rendezvous in Pearl street and drum us about five and thirty men.— Take only those that are daring and ready by for any thing. Let none of them know your object, lest you be betrayed, information being conveyed to the tender. You will find men enough in these times who will ask no questions. Meet me at twelve o’clock at the Exchange Heading Rooms and report to me. The midshipman then took his leavo and hastened up the battery. The lieutenant returned to the group, and taking aside the - > >-'• J before him hie project. The old tar enter ed into it with zeal. Together they went to the docks, where, on account of the block ade, lay idle a large number of vessels of every description. They were not long in discovering such a craft as suited them; a Hudson sloop of seventy tons. She was im mediately put in trim for sailing by the mas ter's mate, and three or four men whom he employed, while tho officer proceeded to buy up and send on board his live stock. CHAPTER 11. The morning following these events, the tender of the British frigute was standing off and on under easy sail, veiy close in with Sandy Hook. The wind was from the southwest and blowing nbout a five knot breeze. The sky was without a cloud, and only sr gentle undulation lilted the surface of the ocean. The tender was a clipper built vessel, very long and narrow in tho beam, and con structed wholly with an eye single to her fast sailing qualities ; and she gave proof of them by overhauling every thing. She curried amidships a long thirty-two pound or. Her crew consisted of about forty tnen MADISON, MORGAN COUNTY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1840. in the Uniform of the British navy. They Were now principally assembled in the bow and on the windlass, talking together, or wgtcliipg the shore. Aft, the officer of the deck, a bluff, full faced young English mid dy, was lounging over railway, smoking a cigar. The. man st the‘--’•ii had a sinecure of his post, for the vessel skipped along so easily that she seemed al most to steer herself. Sail ho ! cried the look out from the heel of the bowsprit. Where away? quickly demanded the of ficer. Aye, aye, I see answered the middy, leveling his glass at a sloop just stealing out of the harbor, closely hugging the shore.— It is another of the Yankee coasters. A sail in shore, Mr. Stanley, said he, speaking through the sky light. The lieutenant, a stout fleshy, port wine visaged John Bull, camo on deck and took sight at the stranger, who was about a league distant. It is a lumber sloop ; but we will bring her to, if she dares to venture out ; for we can get some fresh provisions and vegetables from her, if nothing more. Shall I put her on the tack, sir ? Not yet. Keep on as we are, till the sloop gets an offing. If we run for her now she will take refuge in the harbor. The sloop stood out for half a mile, and then hauling her wind beat down along the land. The tender delayed the chase until she had got too far from the entrance of the harbor to get back again, then putting about run for her so to as cut her off. The sloop seemed to take alarm, and putting about be gan to make the best of her way towards the harbor she had left. Confident in the speed of his own vessel, the English iieuten ant felt satisfied that the chase was already Ins, and laughed at the ettims ofThe'-sToop to get away. At length they came near enough to see that her decks were literally covered with piss and poultry. A rare haul we shall make this morning —said the middy. Enough chicken pie for the whole of the frigate’s crew, to say nothing ofturkies and roast pig for the cab in. What a regular slab sided skipper sho has in the helm. Man and boy, she has a stout crew, said the lieutenant, laughing.— They look frightened out jf their senses, as they begin to think they ate gone for it.— Sloop ahoy. Whatyo want? came across the water in the strongest nasal of yankccdom. I want you to heave to, brother Jona than ! I’d rather not, if it’s all the same to you —l’m in a mighty hurry. Frank ! added the disguised American officer, in an under tone, when 1 order you to let go the jib, you must draw it aft as hard as your strength will let you. lat the same time will put the helm hard up, so the sloop will pay rapidly off, and fall aboard the ten der ; for I am determined to fall aboard of her. I shall curse your blunders and order you to let go ; but don't mind me, keep pulling the jib sheet hard to windward.— Leave the rest to me. Now, my men, lie said speaking through the companion way, lake a good grasp of your pistols and cutlas ses. When l6tarnpmy foot on deck over yuui ut-aus, iiuow on me natcncs, leap on deck and follow me. “ Heave to, or I’ll sink you. What aro you palavering about ?” shouted the Eng lishman. The two vessels were now side by side, steering on the same course, abeam of each other, the tender to leeward, and about a hundred fathoms off. Well, don’t be too free with your powder and I will. Aminidab let go that ‘ar jib sheet 1” “Yes I will,” answered the young reef er ; and with heaity will he began to draw it to the windward. At the same moment, the American officer put his helm hard up, and the sloop rapidly payed off right toward the tender. ” Let go that jib sheet,” shouted the 1 English officer. ” Yes, Aminidab, you turnal fool you, let it go I say ! lot it go ! Don’t you see we ore coming right aboard tho Captain’s vessel !” The English officer was about to pour out upon him a volley of oaths, when see ing that tho sloop would certainly fall foul of him, lie tinned to give orders for tho J protection pf his own Vessel; but ere he I could utter them, the sloop’s bow struck hei near the fore ligging, and swung round stern with stern. At the same instant the American officer stamped upon the deck, and forty men made their appearance from the-bytebes, fore castle and cabin, atid leap ed after Percival upon the tender’s deck. , Th* Englishman, taken by surprise, sur rendered without scarcely striking a blow ; i and getting both vessels under sail, in the very sight of the fiigate. the gallanL young captor sailed with his prize back into the harbor, after an absence of six hours and twerty-seven minutes. This exploit is doubtless one of the bold est and most spirited affairs that came off during the war. The account given is a faithful narrative of the transaction, and the chief circumstances will be recognized both by (he brave officer in question, as well as byhis fiiends. © 13 /A T 0 © M □ CORRESPONDENCE. “ Resolved, That a Committee of three be : appointed from this Company for the pur- * pose of soliciting, for publication, a copj of t the chaste and spirited Oration delivered this day by Ensign Saffold.” Madison, July 6th, 1846. Ensign : The undersigned Committee, j appointed under the foregoing Resolution, ! (unanimously adopted by the “ Morgan Rifles” on Saturday afternoon last, the 4th j instant,) beg leave to lender to you the cor dial thanks ofthe Corps for >he chaste, beau- j tiful and appiopriate Address delivered by yourself on the Anniversary of our National Independence, at Johnston’s (formerly As kew’s) Spiing, and respectfully solicit a odjvj- ■*£* til* oamv fui publicutlUll* With considerations of high respect, We remain, dear Ensign, Your obedient servants, C. R. HANLEITER, VVM. M, DAY, A. C. WINGFIELD, Committee . Thomas P. Saffold, Esq, Ensign “Morgan Rifles.” Madison, July 6th, 184 G. Gentlemen: Your note requesting for publication, a copy of the Address l had the honor to deliver before the “ Morgan Rifles” on the 4ch instant, is before nte. In plac ing (lie Address at your disposal, permit me to say, I am well aware, if it possess any merit, it is altogether in the manner in which old and familiar truths have been combined and illustrated. Respectfully yours, T. p. saffold, Messrs. C. R. ITanleiter, 1 Wm. M. Day, £ Committee. A. C.jWINGFIELD, ) j ORATION. Fellow-Citizens and Gentlemen of the “Mor- i gan Rises .-” This is the anniversary of a Jay memora ble in the History of the World. It is well and properly observed as a season of rejoic ing and communion with each other, relative to our history and condition as a people. In doing so on the present occasion, we find much to excite our patriotism and grat itude. Wo nave u leuuuiy linger in ex tent, than has ever before been controlled by any people. Ranging along the Atlan tic Ocean, from the 49th to the 2ath degree of latitude, it stretches west ward to the Pa cific, the distance of three thousand five ( hundred miles. Nor is its surface covered with chains of mountains of eternal snow, or far-reaching deserts of burning sands: it lies under a. more genial sun, and teems with richer and larer productions, than any portion of the Universe, of equal dimensions. Wherever the hand of industiy touches it, • it literally “ blooms and blossoms as the rose.” Its majestic rivers, bursting springs, j wildernesses of limlrer, luxuriant verdure j and fertility, and exhaustless mines of cop- j per, lead, coat, gold and iron, are evidences j of its capacity to sustain a population of an I hundred millions with as much freedom | ftom want, and the toil and labor of the ori- j ginal Curse, as is consistent with man's vir- j tuo or happiness. Nor ia this all. The j God cf nature has impressed upon the face i of this magnificent teiritory, the most strik- j ing lineaments of beauty and sublimity ; . majestic rivers gracefully wind through t valleys smiling with tiro evidences of taste i and industry, and the sun daily goes to rest . behind * mountains, whose jutting crags and lofty summits, have for centuries defied the lightning, and mocked the thunder storm. Who, he paused upon some elevated spot and viewed them, has not felt his bo som swell with emotions, as beautiful and sublime, as ever thrilled in that of a “ gazer upon the Alps or the Apperiines ?’’ These glorious landscapes which everywhere fneet the eye, together with our b ys and harbors, wide-spreading lakes, boundless praries and primeval forest, daily shed over lbe 4 mihds of our countrymen theif oWn glorious hues, and train them, as far as physical causes can do so, to those concepiions of the tender and beautiful, as well as the grand and sub lime, which constitute the essence of taste and eloquence, poetry and the fine arts. Such afe the native and imfnutable qualities of j our home—catlsifig us to feel, *• the lines i have fallen to us in pleasant places,” and I that •* ours is indeed, a goodly heritage !” But.thereareeventsinourhrstory.far nobler j and more impressive, to awaken our love of country. A minute history of the erreum- j stances by which these were brought about, is beyond the limits within which’ I am cir- ; ( cuniscribed. Let us, however, take a bird’s ■ eye view of some of the featur es that would appear from such an inquiry Going back, i then, to the period at which the magnificent edifice of the Roman Empire tottred amt : fell beneath the rude touch ofthe Northmen, j we find, after those barbarian conquerors j 1 had becomesatiatedwith plunder, * i government was established upon the prin- ; j ciples of Feudalism, in which those elements i of liberty, that had infused into the Roman i j people the energy and courage which bore j their standards victorious to the farthest l confines of the then known world, were tin- j known and disregarded. Then commenced j that gloomy midnight of the mind which ’ -rested upon maitEThtf - ’ Jtffing the period i known as the middle ages. After this was j dispelled by the storm which put the world j itt commotion, and bore the purple tide of ■ war to the consecrated plains of Palestine, the revival of Printing, the discovery of j America, tiie invention of Gun-powder, i and the reformation from Popery followed j in qttick succession. Then commenced that j struggle between the people and their rulers, which ended itr England with the acknowl edgement of Magna Charts by King John j on the banks of Runnymede, and tire j forfeiture on the block, ofthe head of King Charles tire First itt 10GS. During that struggle Milton “woke to ecsiacy the living i lyre,” and the sentiments that swelled his j noble strains, with the principles that after- t wards thrilled ir. the eloquence of Burke, ! were written in letters of blood upon the j tablets of History, by the swords of Hamp- j. den and Cromwell. These events com- : muuicated to the minds of the original settlers of the present United States, that impulse which carried them beyond the narrow circle of ideas in which those of their predecessors had revolved for centu ries, atad finally drove them from home and the associations ofeatiy days, that they might j enjoy in the wilderness of tlresavage, that re- ■ ligious and political liberty, which is the nat- j malelemerit of tire highborn,immortal mind. Than their characters, philosophy presents ; for contemplation nothing mere sublime.— History furnishes no parallel; and until that principle of our common nature, w hich caus etntri-fsurciirts m ‘paHsr. Hr iticti jwmirrT through the wilderness, string their harps, anJ sing the praises of their ancestors, is ‘ completely changed. American Patriotism j will bunt with a brighter lustre, when its | votaries remember they are tire descendants j of these tnen. By them the wilderness was Conquer ed, and _ the foundation laid on which ! has been erected the freedom and indepen- ! dence of the present l rrited States. Hap py for us they were no visionary enthusiasts, ! seeking a elate of society unregulated by law. If they had little of the spirit which | | acknowledges the ’'divine right of Ktngs,” | and proclaims tho doctrine of ” passive obe- j dience and non-resistance,” they had sttil j less of tire factious disorganizing view# of j bindern demagogues, who pursue shadows j and phantoms, leaving substance and reality unsought for, and far behind. Hence, i i throughout their whole history, they taught j | virtue, intelligence, and the rights of person j i and property, as the groat truths of civil j j liberty. Under that teaching, the first chi]- I , drett who were born here, imbibed the spir- J j it, which caused them, on the day whose j ; anniversary we celebrate, to cut asunder the j j fords of colluvial vassalage, and step be Idly £ YOLCME V. NUMBER 12. and at once into the broad blaze of the me ridian.Suri of Republican Freedom! And the young Eagle, a proper representative of their character and destiny, when first he plumed Iris wings for flight, “ gazed as fixedly and with’ as unquailing an eye upon its dazzling glory and splendor” as he now does after sev enty years have given strength to his pinions and power to his sight. This chapter in our history lias awakened man in all the nation* of the earth from bondage and bigotry, and is destined to regenerate the whole face of society, or shake the quivering earth to its foundation. Already has it unfurled the tri color 6f the French Republic ou half the ca thedrals of feurope, and echoed the war cry of freedom from the heights (A tire Allegha ny to the loftiest peaks of the Andes. It is 1 a garland richer and brighter than ever be j fore adorned a nation’s brow. Who would | exchange it sos the decemviral tables of Im i p£r’al Rome, with the canons of Papacy. ‘ and the regal concessions of Magna Charts jto boot ? These have been productive of ! good to mankind, and stand, on the pages of the past, proud mementoes of human geui : us; but when compared with the principles embodied in the Declaration of our Inde pendence, they, all combined, become as “ a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.” Ettprience has shown that mankind ha’ 3 been prosperous aftd happy in proportion as government has assumed a popular form. Tire Republics of Antiquity, under this form 1 of government produced the men whose names yet ring through the w orld like clarions . calling to victory. It is true the attempts to establish it in modern times’ have not always j proved successful. In many instances, a 1 state of society more deplorable than that from which it was attempted to escape, has i succeeded the overthrow of the ao<d** or i .ss -tfao -Revolution in . France! Hailed by the enthusiastic lovers ; of freedom throughout the civilized world as the dawn of a brighter and more glorious era in the annals of lime. Anarchy and Blood marked its footsteps, overturning the forms j of Repnb icanisro as soon as they weie ; erected, and finally compelled the people to j seek protection from the tyranny of each | other, under lire strong arm of military ! power. The cve r -clianging dynasties of S South America and Mexico, furnish inelan J chofy examples of the same character. An- I archv arid Revolution, at the recurrence of every change of Rulers, mark in letters of j blood, tbe history of thoseunfortunate States, j Scarcely a year passes but that the country | of Bolivar is embroileJ in civil war, and with every change of the seasons, the palace j of the Montezuma* echoes the tread of a j new military despot. With us—thanks to ! a kind Providence—the esse has been dif ferent. Neither in its origin, or progress, has our government involved the people in crimes or excesses. Without the shedding of a drop of blood, it was made and ratified. During an existence of three score years, it lias moved with the regularity and harmony of the most ingenius mechanism. Under ‘ its fostering care, what has not been accom ; plisbed ? Three centuries ago, a distjn i guished navigator, impelled by the exam j pic of the great discoverer, moved along I our Eastern shore. Up to that time, no civilized heart had ever caught tire itispira j lion of the forest which had here risen in v antLuutt’otl tts4%lgo winds* ; and breezes of Heaven. The mountain i had raised its lofty summit, ftom which the ; cataract thundered to the march of time; : and no eye had seen it but that of the wilj 1 tenant of the woods. 6o entirely savage | did the face of nature then appear, that Se bastian Cabot made his way back to hi j monarch and merchants, without attemptiu : either settlement or conquest. After this, a ! long period of nearly an hundred year* 1 glided by, before Raleigh planted his foot 1 upon the beach of the Roanoke, arid en camped a detachment on the banks of tho | Powhatan. Two hundred and twenty-six I years ago, the Pilgrim Fathers landed on | the eret- memorable rock of Plymouth; and j fiom the seeds then scattered in the wilder f ness, has sprung the gigantic growth of the i American Nation. To-day, tho Star Span ; gled Banner floats over the heads of twenty i millions of Freemen. From the genius of j freedom they have imbibed an energy and ! enterprize, which has caused the forest to } tecede, until the woodman’s axo and the (armor's song have mingled their sound* ; with thu roar of the most distant tributary of tire great Father of Waters, ard made it* every wav© .a pulse of living-commerce.—