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rfales of land and negroes, by Administrators. Execu-
ors. or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the
drst Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in
the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-
House in the county in which the properly is situated.
Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette
s i rty days previous to the day of sale.
Notices for die sale of personal property must be given
in like manner, fortv days previous to the day of sale.
Notices to the debtors and cieditors of an estate must
also be published forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be
published for four months.
Citations for letters of Administration, must be pub-
li-hed thirty days—for dismission from Administration,
laiintldy six. mouths—for dismission from Guardianship,
forty days.
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tie full space of three months—for compelling titles from j
Executors or Administrators, where a bond has been I
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■si'. ;lie legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. |
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the Federal Union Office.
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mention.
S VGA!?.—St. Croix, Porto Rico, New Orleans,
Coat and Crushed Sugar, for sale by
April J1. 1-40. JAMES IIF.RTY.
C lOFFICE.—Java, Rio, Laguavraand St. Domin-
J go, for sale by JAMES HERTY.
April 14.1846.
GLASSES.—Prime Cuba Molasses, for sale
1 by
by [April 14.]
B ACOSf.— Prime new Bacon, for sale by
April 14. '
JAMES HERTY.
i, for sale by
JAMES HERTY.
I ^ALOLIS.—Canal and Country Floor, for sale bv
April IT JAMES HERTY.
r |^LA. Imperial, Gunpowder and liyson Tea, for
A sale by [April 14.] JAMES HERTY.
R .4ISSA’S.—Choice Raisins, for sale by
April 14. JAMES HERTY.
CPIfES.—All kind of fresh Spices, forselahy
O April 14. JAMES HERTY.
j\r A HL?».—All sizes Nails and Tacks, for sale by
In April 14. JAMES HERTY.
S PAI>ES.—Ames’ best Spades and Shovels, for
[April 14.] JAMES HERTY.
S CYTHES.—Ibbotson’s Patent Scythes, for sale
hv [April 14.] JAMES HERTY.
A XES.—Collins’ and White’s Axes? for sale by
Apr” ’ ‘
April 14.
J \MES HERTY.
POWERS & WHITTLE,
ATTOUNIES AT LAW.
MACON, GEORGIA.
September2, 1845. J 2 U
w. T. A A’.'afl. nSLUl'ITT
V ^IEE PRACTISE LAW in the severalconntie:
of the Flint circuit.
U'. T. ConaiiiTT, La Grange, )
\. 11. Coi.iyJiTT, Mu on. )
(Office in Macon.)
nec.3,1845. ir ~~°
LAW NOTICE.
R. SAFFOLU & J. M. BOLLMG,
aTILL practise in the Courts of DALLAS and
LOWNDES, and in the adjoining countie
also in the. Supreme Court.
Address Satfold & Boling, at Pleasant Hill, Dallas
county, or Hayneville, Lowndes county, Ala.
Dec. 1G, 1845. Gui—27
ANDREWS X GAKTKELL,
AUovwVes wV Law.
n AVING formed a copartnership in the practice of
. the law, will attend the Courts of the Northern
Circuit, and in the Supreme Court when sitting at Mil-
lcdgeviile.
<iarnktt Andrews, ?
Lucius j. Gartkell. j
Jau. 12, 184G. U—U
GEO. W. FiSH
JIUorne u «< Late,
MACON GA.
i t/'ILL attend the Superior Courts of the counties
YV of Bibb, Baldwin, Wilkinson, Washington,
IVi.r,,* Pulaski, Dooly, Macon and Houston.
\ny professional business entrusted to his care, shall
(ip attended to with nil promptness nn
Jan. 22, 18 Hi.
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f IT RACES.—Straight and twisted Traces, for sale
b y LApril 14] JAMES HERTY.
G ' SJXS.—Double and single barrelled Guns, for
E sale by [April 14.] JAMES HERTY.
C l-LOi' Si K It Y.—F ine and Common Crockery,
for sale by [April 14 ] JAMES HERTY
QOAP.—Steam and Turpentine Soap, for sale by
O April 14. JAMES HERTY.
P OTASH.—Ju st received, prime Potish, for sale
by [April 14.] JAMES HERTY.
C l AIV2JLES.—Sperm, Stearic, Adamantine "ami
' Tallow Candles, for sale by
April 14. JAMES HERTY.
I A,ASA'S. A few “Cornelius”' Lard Lamps, for
_J sale by [April 14.] JAMES HERTY.
O ILS.—Sperm, Linseed, Train, and Castor Oil,
for sale by [April 14 ] JAMES HERTY.^
t jP 5! £i I* IE X TP 3 X K—Pure Spirits Turpentine,for
J. sale by [April 14 ] JAMES HERTY.
M A Cli E 65 E L.—Whole and half Barrels, ft'os.
I and 2 Mackerel, and Kitts do., for sale by
April 14. JAMES HERTY.
”¥/INE<iAU.—Sev eral Barrels pure Cider Vine-
* gar. forsale by [April 14.] JAMES IlKKTxr.
W SfITE LEAD.—Pure and Extra No. I,
White Lead, for sale by j
April 14. JAMES HERTY.
C l SIOEOLATE.— Best No. 1 and 2, Chocolate, '
/ for sale by [April 14.] JAMES HERTW
S ilOES.-Lage lot Russet Brogans; Ladies’and
Misses Kid and Morocco Slips, etc. Ac .forsale by
April 14. JAMES HERTY. |
1 jMOBACCO.—Large lot fine Chewing Tobacco’J
A also fine cut Chewing and Smoking do., for sale
by [April 14.] JAMES HERTY.
I ifcOX.—Large lot Swedes and English Iron, for
sale by [April 14 ] JAMES HERTY.
S TEEL*—Cast and German Steel, forsale by
April 14. . JAMES HERTY.
£ 4 AS’fi'f MG.*>.—Large snjipiy English and Ame-
rican Castings, for sale by
April 14. JAMES HERTY.
5JTL G2SY.—Best English Cutlery, for sale by
Medical Notice.
D n 9 F BOZEMAX, respectfully tenders
his professional services to the citizens ol Milledge-
w!U\ and its vicinity.
All calls made at hisoffice in the Darien Bank Build-
in.;, will be promptly attended to, day or night, j
April 28,1846. tt—io
NOTICE. .
Y WILL attend to the taking out and forwarding ot
8 GRANTS and Copy Grants, for a ^ of 50 cents
,ALFRED M. lIORiOiV
Milledgeville, Jan. 13,134G.__ tf T__
Griswold’s Improved
€ O T T O M <&r IM S •
THE SUBSCRIBER WILL
Continue Hie Manufacture of Gsese
April 14.
JAMES HERTY.
S IEVES, &C.—Sieves, Coffee-mills and Black'
ing.for sale by [April 14 ] JAS. HERTY.
( 4AKDS.—Cotton, Wool and Horse Cards, for
V sale by [April 14.] JAMES HERTY.
£ t US£KY COMBS. Vaiious kinds Curry
Combs, for sale by
April 14. JAMES HERTY.
S ~ TAJSCIS.—Fine “P remiuui” Siarch, forsale by
April 14. JAMES HERTY.
U yOODEN" WAKE.—Tubs Buckets and
Keelers, for sale by
April 14. ‘ JAMES HERTY.
7 _ ASBX, —Athens and Eatouton Yarn and
Oznabures, forsale by
April 14. “ JAMES HERTY.
TSfOOMS.—Fine and common Shaker and
JJ Whisks, for sale by JAMES IIERTY.
Milledgeville, April 14, 1340. J*i_
From Charleston via Au^sisU
Y
At his Old Establishment, in CLINTON,
Junes county, Ga.
i TE can oiler no bolter recommendations in favor of
11 his gins, than the fact, of having supplied more
lh,in Tic,Ice Hundred planters with them dm mg the Ust
two years, while no other factory has probably sold in
ihe suite as many as one hundred during the. same time.
No expense will he spared to sustain their high rep.itj-
t on and render them still more perfect n possible
They will be warranted as usual to perlonn well amt
delivered at the purchasers residence. Engagements can
I... made with his travelling agents, or by letter directed
,u hi,n ’ SAMUEL GRISWOLD.
March 30,4836. . lf ~ 42
i A OUR MONTHS after date, application will be
F m i le to the honorable Inferior Court oi Baldwin
County, when sitting for ordinary purposes, lor leave to
soli two iiugro women slaves, the property ol the estate
of Catherine Ifarrall. late of said county, deceased.
JAMES O’BRIEN. Adm’r.
May 4, 184G. __ 4<
Wart* Sheiiil’s Sale.
W i| J, be sold before the Court House door, in the
Town of Waresboro’. Ware county; on the
tirst Tuesday in JULY next, within the usual hours ol
.,'ile the following property, to wit:
st’ixtv head of slock cattle, taken as the property ot
I if , N, when to satisfy one mortgage ti fa issued Iron,
.lolm Ntwberi , > jn f avor 0 | Thomas
John Nev^^P^^S 1 '*
April 29, 1840. r _ 4
S t OUR MONTHS after date, application will be
F uiade to the Inferior Court of Jasper county, s_.t-
•i f’o'irt of Ordinary, for leave to sell the real cs
Lite of the late Alexander N. Buchanan, late of Jasper
: „ u! . for the benefit of heirs and creditors of said es-
} ’ WILLIAM TOLEFRKE, Adm r.
tJte - Deboms non.
Monlicello, May 4th, 1846. 46 __
A«1 iHittistvalOf’s Sale.
i GREEABLE to an order of the Inferior Eourt o
\ Jones comity when sitting for ordinary purposes.
l>o«,Fdoor. i» CU,,,0» O,. • »
first Tuesday ill August next, between the usual hours
Ilf sale 202 1-2ac.es of land. No. 70, 10th district. on
the waters of Hagcreek. in said county, “^n.ng arid, of
Barnes and Biliingslea; sold fur the benefit of the heir»
of Silas T Middlebrooks. deceased. Terms on the day
Kk ISAAC R. MIDDLEBROOKS, Ad,nV
May 12. 1846. 4 —
L ulled States I»isti ict Court, [ In Bank-
District of Georgia. ,.> ru l>tcy-
T<)HN SIMPSON, of Decatur, DeKalb counvy, Ga.,
sJ Carriage-maker, a Bankrupt having filed\ \iu feu-
f.oii, praying that a full discharge from his debts m, y «
decreed and allowed, and a certificate thereof be granted
to him: Notice is hereby given to all creditor
proved their debts and other persons in interest toap-
p ar ;u the Court House in the City of Savannah, on
the eleventh day of August next, at eleven o clock, A.
M . to shew cause why such discharge and certificate
shall not he granted. r,, ,
GEO. GLEN, Clerk.
Savannah, May II, 1546. 49—lit
ItliLLEDDEVlLLE TO MACON.
FAKE REDUCED!!
I rom Charleston to Milledgeville, Sll 50. lo
Macon font do., $14 50. Omnibus included.
Near, st, cheapest, and only direct route daily,
(Sundays not excepted,) through without delay.
L EAVING Augusta by Georgia Rail Road, 9.^o clock
P. M., Warreuton by Stage 12* o’clock, A. M.,
thence by Sparta, arriving at Milledgeville at 11A
o’clock. A. M-. Gordon al 4J o clock, P. M-, thence
by Central Rail Road to Macon at G o’clock, PM.
From Macon, leaves for Gordon by Genital Railroad
at6 o’clock, A. M., thence by Stage to Milledgeville at
104 o clock, A. AL, to Warrenton 9 o’clock, P. AL, in
tinTc for the cars on the Georgia Rail Road for Augusta,
and arrives there in time for the cars on the Charleston
^ Passengers, through, on this line will in all cases have
the preference over those on the way.
r Pl)is lino connects immediately at Macon, with the
Macon & Western Rail Road, and with the line of
stages goiug Sotilh and West, to Tuliahasse, Columbus,
and Montgomery. Ala.
Fare at Augusta, received by Agent Georgia Rail Load;
at Warrenton. by F,. Hale; at Macon, by W. A. Mott ;
at Milledgeville, by A. .Mott.
KN;»X & MOTT, Proprietors.
Milledgeville, March 31st 1846. 42
u J^The Augusta Constitutionalist, Macon lelegraph.
and Columbus’Tunes will copy until the 1st of June and
forward their accounts to us for payment. K. M.
In Pulaski Superior Court,
October Term, 1S45.
Alfred C. Bostwick, Complainant,) ^HI for Injunc
ts. ' lion, discocery
Dennis Perkins, Lucius Hopkins. & , and relief.
George White, Defendants. J .„.
g T appearing to the Court by the return of the hheritl
J_ ^at the defendants in the above cause, cannot be
found in the said county. It is on .nolle, of com.-
fo, u,o ■!«“ gss 1 xeSckweb;
, ’ 1 "’ Sol’is. for Complainant,
A true cop, MITCHttLc'Irt.
„ , ,, iji.-j 30—4m
February 11,
¥~10UR MONTHS after date, application will he
F made to the honorable Inferior Court ot 1 wiggs
county, when sitting for ordinary purposes for Rave t„
sell the lands belonging to the estate ol 1 uffip R. Jessup
late of said county deceased.^ ^ JESgup AdmV
April /, 1845.
Udey’s Patent Straw Cutter.
rpHF. subscriber has purchased the exclusive rig it. to
JL construct and vend this admirable Alachin -
counties of Baldwin, Washington and WiUumob11 »
regarded by tliose who have examined it, as far super or
to any thing of the kind ever before used Any number
of them can. in a short GARMANY.
Milledgeville, April 25,1846. 46 11
./J/LLJEUGEU/LLE, GEORGI.f, JU.YE 9, (816.
___ jPOIEffET.
[for the federal union.]
Lauretta.
By Backwoods' Artist.
Young and lively as the roe,
Artlessas an angel lyress,
Spotless as a flake of snow,
As a bounding lambkin tireless,
In her gambols o’er the lawn,
At Aurora’s gliui'ring dawn,
Was the fair and lovely maiden,
Deck’d with roses—heavy laden
With the fruit that Heaven "yields,
On the farmer’s smiling fields—
Like a fairy from above,
Was Lauretta, my sweet Love.
•
In a bower dress'd in flowets,
On a bright and cloudless day,
I enjoyed my happiest hours
During the sweet month of May,
W ith Lauretta by me. trembling.
The pure angels, fair resembling,
W ith her blue-lit orbs adotvn,
Sparkling on the jewel’d ground—
In her hand she held a lyre,
And my spirit caught on fire,
As she gave my lips a token
Of the truth her love had spoken.
I had often thought a fairy
Was a nympth of fairy land
Dress d in muslins, light end air*
Dancing on some diamond strand,
Till 1 saw Lauretta bounding
O’er the lawn, with wreaths surrounding,
Her (air form of angel-mould
With long linglets of pure gold,
O er her marble shoulders trembling.
And a soul 1 thought resembling
Those pure houris that brightest shone
’Round ihe great, eternal Throne.
Anirer.
“ What if thy brother comes to thee
With rage upon his cheek—
’Tis better thou shmtldst pleasant be,
And not iu anger speak.
If for a harsh word you return
Harsh language in reply.
You light a fire, perhaps lo burn
Through years of misery.”
AN INDIAN COUNCIL.
A THRILLING SCENE.
The subjoined stirring sketch is from a new
work by Judge Hale, entitled ‘‘The Wilder
ness and the War path,” and is descriptive of
the coolness and presence of mind of Col.
George Roger Clarke, at a council at North
Bend. _ . , .
An Indian council is one of the most impo
sing spectacles in savage life. # It is one of the
few occasions in which the warrior exercises
his right of suffrage, his influence, and his tal
ents, in a civil capacity, and the meeting is
conducted with all gravity, and all the cere
monious ostentation, with which it is possible
to invest it. The matter to be considered, as
well as the details, are well digested before
hand, so that the utmost decorum must pre
vail, and the decision he unanimous. The
chiefs and sages—the leaders and orators—oc
cupy the most conspicuous seats; behind them
ate arranged the younger braves, and still
farther in their tear appear the women and
the youth, as the spectators. All are equally
attentive. A dead silence reigns throughout the
assemblage. I’lie great pipe, gaudily adorned
with paint and feathers, is lighted, and passed
from mouth to mouth, commencing with the
chief highest in rank, and proceeding by reg
ular graduation to the inferior order of braves.
If two or three nations be represented, the
pipe is passed from one party to the other, and
salutations are courteously exchanged, before
the business of the council is opened by the
respective speakers. Whatever jealousy or
party spirit may exist in the tribe, it is care
fully excluded from this dignified assemblage,
whose orderly conduct, and close attention to
the proper subject before them, might be
imitated with profit by some of the most en
lightened bodies in Christendom.
It was an alarming evidence of the temper
now prevailing among them, and of the brood
ing storm that filled their minds, that no pro
priety of demeanor marked the entrance of
the savages into the council room. The usual
formalities were forgotten, or pui posely dis
pensed with, and an insulting levity substitu
ted in its place. The chiefs and braves stalk
ed iu, with an appearance of slight regard,
seated themselves promiscuously on the floor,
in front of the commissioners. An air of inso
lence marked all their movements, and show
ed an intention to dictate terms, or to fix a
quarrel upon the Atneticans.
A dead silence rested over the group; it was
thesilence of dread, distrust, and watchfulness;
not of respect. The eyes of the savage band
gloated upon the banquet of blood that
seemed already spread out before them;
tiie pillage of the fort, and the bleeding
scalps of the Americans, were almost within
their grasp, while that gallant little band saw
the portentious nature of the crisis, and stood
ready to sell their lives as dearly as possible.
The commissioners, without noticing the
disorderly conduct of the other party, or ap
pearing to have discovered their meditated
tierchery, opened the council in due form.—
They lighted the peace pipe, and after draw
ing a few wliifls, passed it to the chiefs, who
received it. Col. Clarke then rose to explain
the purpose fin which the treaty was ordered.
With an unembanassed air—with the tone of
one accustomed to command, and the easy as
surance of perfect security, and self-posses
sion, he staled that the commissioners had
been sent to offer peace to the Shawnoes; and
that the President had no wish to continue the
war; he had no resentment to gratify; and that j
if the red men desired peace, they could have
it on libera! tet ms. ‘Tf such be the will of the
Shawnoes,” he continued, “let some of the
wise men speak.”
A chief arose, drew up his tall person to its j
full height, aud assuming a haughty attitude, j
threw his eye contemptuously over the com- |
niissioners and their small retinue, as if to ;
measure their insignificance, in comparison
with his own numerous train, and then stalk- |
incr to the table, threw upon it two belts of :
wampum, of different colors—the wai*and the
peace belt.
“We come,” he exclaimed, “to offer you :
two belts of wampum; they are ot two differ- j
ent colors; you know what they mean; you
can take which you like!” And turning upon
his heel resumed his seat.
The chiefs drew themselves up in the con
sciousness of having hurled defiance in the
teeth of the white men. They bad offered an
insult to the renowned leader of the Long
Knives, which they knew it would be hard
for them to Aibmit to, while they did uot sup
pose they would dare resent it. The council
; pipe was laid aside. Those fierce wild men
gazed intently at Clatke. The American saw
that the crisis had arrived; they could no lon
ger doubt that tiie Indians undetstood the ad
vantage they possessed, and were disposed to
use it; and a common sense of a dauger caused
each eye to turn on the leading commissioner,
j He sat undisturbed, and apparently careless,
| until the chief who had thrown the belts upon
the table had taken his seat; then, with a small
cane which he held in his hand, he reached, !
as if playfully, to ward the war belt, entang
ling the end of the stick in it, drew it to
wards him, and then with a twitch of the cane
threw the belt into the midst of the chiefs.—
The effect was electric. Every man in coun
cil of each parly, sprang to their feet; the sav
ages with a loud exclamation of astonishment
“Hugh.*” the Americans in expectation of a
hopeless conflict against overwhelming num
bers. Every hand grasped a weapon.
Clark alone was unawed. The expression
of his countenance changed to a ferocious
sternness, and his eyes flashed, but otherwise i
vas removed. A bitter smile was slight
ly perceptible on his compressed lips, as he ,
gazed onthe savage band, whose hundred eyes |
were bent fiercely in horrid exultation upon j
him, as they stood like a pack of wolves at j
bay, thirsting for blood, and ready to rush up- \
on him whenever one bolder than the rest i
should commence the attack. It was one of i
those moments of indecision, when the slight
est weight thrown into either scale will make '
it preponderate; a moment in which a bold
man conversant with the secret springs of hu
man action, rna^seize upon the minds of all
round him, and sway them at his will. Such
a man was the intrepid Virginian. He spoke
and there was no man bold enough to gain
say him—none that could return the fierce
glance of his eye. Raising his arm and waiv
ing his hand toward the door, he exclaimed,
“Dogs! you may go!” The Indians hesitated
for a moment, and then rushed tumultuously
out of the council-chamber.
The decision of Clarke on the occasion, sav
ed himself and comrades from massacre. The
plan of the savages had been artfully laid; he
had read it in their features and conduct, as |
plain as if it had been written on a scroll be
fore them. He met it in a manner unexpect
ed; the crisis was brought on sooner than it
•was intended, and on a principle simtlartotliat
by which, when a line of battle is broken, the,
dismayed troops fly before order can be restor- J
ed, the new and sudden turn given to these '
proceedings by the energy of Clarke, confoun- i
ded the Indians, and before the broken thread :
of thetr scheme of treachery could lie re-uni
ted, they were panic stricken. They had come
prepared to browbeat, to humble, and then to
destroy; they looked for remonstrance and al
tercation; for the luxury of drawing the toils I
gradually around their victims; of beholding
their agony and degradation, and bringing on
the fata! catastrophe by an appointed signal,
when the scheme; should be ripe. They had
expected to see on otir part great caution, a |
skillful playing of off, and an unwillingness to j
take offence, which werg gradually goaded in- j
to an alarm, irritation and submission. The
cool contempt with which their first insult was
thrown back into tl eir teeth surprised them,
and they were foiled by the self-possession of
one man. They had no Tecumseh among
them, no master-spirit to change their plan so j
as to adopt a new exigency; and those braves,
who in many a battle had shown themselves I
to be men of true valor, quailed before the j
moral superiority which assumed the vantage
ground of a position they could not compre
hend, and therefore feared to assail.
The Maiden Name of Washington s Wife.
—A correspondent of the Pennsylvania, re
ferring to a statement, that “neither Ramsey,
Marshall, nor Bancroft, mention the maiden
name of Mrs. Washington,” the wife of Gen.
Washington, says she was the daughter of
John Danbridge, of Virginia, aud was born in
May, 1732, in the county of New Kent, Colo
ny of Virginia. Jared Sparks, in his life of
Washington, mentions that her maiden name
was Danbridge, but gives no further particu
lars respecting her, previous to her first mar
riage with Col. Daniel Park Custis. A biog
raphy of Mrs. Washington, written by her i
grandson, G. W. P. Custis, Esq., was publish- >
ed some years since in the American Portrait |
Gallery. He states that she was “descended '
from an ancient family, which first migrated to
the colony of Virginia, in the person of the
Rev. Orlando Jones, a clergyman of Wales.” j
The Language of the Heart.—Once came
the loving Genius of the human race to Jupi- •
ter and prayed “Father give to men a better j
language. They have only words to express (
joy grief or love.” “Have I not given them .
tears'?” said Jupiter, “tears ofjoy, tears of
sorrow, tears of love?” The Genius replied, (
“Tears do not speak all the heart. Father
give them another speech, that they rnay ut
ter their infinite longings—may paint the lin
gering light of the morning star of childhood
—or the rosy down of youth, or the golden
glow of the life to come, shed on the clouds
before them, after the sun has set. Give them
a language of the heart, rny father.” Then
Jupiter heard amid the melody of the spheres,
the Muse of Song approach. He beckoned
to him and said:—“Go unto men and teach
them thy language.” The Muse of Song came
down to Men and taught them Music, and fiom
that time the heart could speak.
Think.—Thought engenders thought. Place
one idea upon paper, another will follow it,
and still another until you have writted a page.
You can not fathom your mind. There is a
well of thought which has no bottom. The |
more you draw from it, the more clear and 1
fruitful it will be. If you neglect to think 1
yourself, and use other people’s thoughts, giv
ing them utterance only, you will never know
what you are capable of. At first, your ideas
come out in lumps, homely and shapeless, but
no matter, time and perseverance will arrange
and polish them. Learn to think, and you will
soon learn to write, and the more you think,
the better will you express your ideas.
Eighty or a hundred thousand ball cartridg
es are often fired in the course of a military
action without killing or wounding more than
five hundred men.
” a “
From the American Rccitut.
ELOQUENCE OF NAPOLEON.
The eloquence of Napoleon uas remarka
ble. We do not think any military leader ev
er equalled him in that respect. Some of the
speeches of the ancient cotnmauders, if cor
rectly reported—as a few of them undoubted
ly were—are very noble; and many moving
add resses have been made to armies in mod- j
eni times, ou occasions of near peril, ami on
the eve of battle. All military eloquence,
moreover, which is at all effective, has neces
sarily two great elements of oratory—brevity
and rapidity. There is no time for long ha-
tangues, when the soldiers spoket. to can al
most look into their foemen’s eyes. But there
was a Napoleon’s speech, at all times, a di
rectness and simplicity, a condensed energy,
an abrupt rapidity and startling clearness—in
short, a certain pointed, terse, unpetuous and
imperious decision, both of thought and ex
pression, to which we have never seen a par
allel in any speaker, whether of the senate,
the bar, or tiie battle-field. Its force was man
ifest in the effect produced, which Was over
whelming. This was aided by his consum
mate knowledge of character, of human na
ture. He never failed to excite, to subdue, to
melt, to thrill, the soldiers whom he addressed:
and he had equal influence over his officers,
his cabinet, or the populace of Paris. The
same qualities were exhibited in his conversa
tion, dispatches and diplomatic dealings. As
a public speaker treating of various subjects,
he might have found it necessary to cultivate
other qualities; but had he entered that walk
in life, he would unquestionably have become
a great orator. The instances of the effect of
his eloquence are numerous. Mr. Headley
quotes one striking and brief enough to be re
quoted.
“Soon after the battle of Castiglione, and
just before the battle of Rivoli, he made an ex
ample of the 39th and 85th regiments of Vau-
bois Division, for having given way to a panic,
and nearly lost him the battle. Arranging
these two regiments in a circle, he addressed
them in the following language:—“Soldiers,
1 am displeased with you—you have shown
neither discipline, nor valor, nor firmness.—
You have allowed yourselves to be chased
from positions, where a handful of brave men
would have stopped an army. Soldiern of tl-.o
39th and S5th, you are no longer French sol
diers. Chief of the Staff, let it be written on
■i-—;. .... Harris, "They arc no longer of the ar
my of Italy.”
“Nothing could exceed the stunning effect
with which these words fell on those brave
men. They forgot their discipline and the or
der of their ranks, and bursting into grief, fil
led the air with their cries—ami rushing from
their ranks, crowded, with most beseeching
looks and voices around their General, and
begged to be saved from such a disgrace, say
ing, ‘Lead us once more into battle, and see if
we are not of the army of Italy.’ ”
From the Baltimore Ametican.
The Battles ou the 3£io Grande.
The following minute and graphic account
of the battles of the Sth and 9th May, in
which our gallant Army wen for themselves
imperishable renown, will be read with deep
and thrilling interest. It is from the pen of a
heroic officer, who nobly bore his full share of
the duties and dangers of the trying occasion:
CAMP OPPOSITE MAT AMOR AS,
May 13th 1846.
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Our brave and considerate old General, find
ing that the enemy waited to recieve us, and
that we were passing near a lake’ of water,
the day being very hot and the men thirsty,
halted in full view of the adversary aud direct
ed the men to fill their canteens with water.
We had now a little leisure to examine the
force of the enemy and its composition. The
horizon in our front and to the tight appeared
lined with cavalry, (Lancers and Dragoons.)
The woods in their rear were giving up col
umn after column of Infantry, and batteries of
Artillery were observed taking their designat
ed pi aces in our Irom uuJ «« our flank* The I
lowest estimate at the time of the enemy’s
force was 5,090 of all arms—our own being
under 2,000 fighting men. We have since
learned that on this occasion the enemy had
over 6,000 fighting men. But the greatest dif
ficulty under which we labor§d was the abso
lute necessity of protecting, in an open prai
rie, from the enemy’s numerous cavalry, our
enormous train of provisions and ammunition,
without which, even if we gained a victory,
we could not relieve our garrison oppr site
Matamoras, or'maintain our position there.—
Besides we were miserably deficient as to the
number of our caval y, having only som 200
Dragoons, while the enemy could not have
had less than 1,800 or 2,000. The men being
refreshed, our General rode to each Brigade, j
told the men to keep cool, and when the ene- |
rny charged not to fire a shot until they were
repulsed with the beyonet, and had turned i
their backs in flight.
Our advance was then recommenced slow
ly, hut firmly, wagons and all; and when we
arrived within good artillery range, their bat
teries opened upon us, some of their balls
bouncing along the plain and passing us >in
“rechochel;” others flying over our heads, and |
falling in the rear, showing us in a few mo- j
meats that their pieces vvete served with skill j
and precision. A movement was now observ- i
ed among the enemy’s cavalry as if about to I
charge, and tiie regiments nearest them were i
thrown into square, or formation, preparatory j
to square, and so disposed as to protect our
own artillery whenever it was ordered to fire.
During this time, some fifteen minutes, the !
enemy’s fire was received in perfect silence j
by us, and at length, Captain Duncan having ;
been ordered to open upon them, advanced iu
the most gallant manner, and placing himself j
in a position to be protected by the Infantry, j
assault the enemy’s cavalry, and one which |
would enable him at the same time to gall
their cavalry and masses of infantry, sent a
withering fire amongthem, which created some j
confusion, aud which was answered by our
squares of infantry by one long simultaneous
shout, wlych showed how anxious they were I
to be led to the charge at once—but this could
not be. They were destined to give the
strongest evidence of courage that a soldier
can exhibit—to stand in squares for hours un
der the fire of the enemy’s artillery, so as to
protect from the enemy’s cavalry our own ar
tillery, whilst the latter wa3 mowing down the
enemy’s rauks. As soon as Duncan opened, *
&
[MO. S*t.
Major Ringgold’s thunder was heard on the
right, Lieut. Churchill’s from the 18 pounders
in the centre, and all the enemy’s batteries
opening at the same time, a tremendous can
nonading ensued, which on this plain of al
most boundless extent, presented a spectacle
of great magnificence.
The battle commenced at 10 minutes past
2, P. M. It had lasted about an hour, when a
large body of the enemy’s red lancers charg
ed the 5th Infantry, with a view of cutting oft’
- our wagon train. They were met with the
most tranquility, aud a discharge of musketiy
from the 5th (Gen. Brook’s) Regiment told us
their fate. They fled precipitately, leaving
men, horses, and guidons on the field. In the
meantime the whole order of battle had been
changed to conform to the manoeuvres of the
enemy, and our Brigade, the 1st, which was
the left, now found itself in advance and on the
right—the Artillery Battalion being on the ex
treme right and most in advance. It must be
served also tiiat in these different changes our
General was always slowly but steadily gain
ing ground to the front, and the enemy gradu
ally falling back. The enemy’s fire having
slackened, and then ceased, Gen. Taylor from
his new and more advanced position, ordered
all his batteries to open, and in his turn attack
ed the enemy with such fury as to cause evi
dent destruction in his ranks; but still they re
mained firm. By a charge on them they
might have been routed entirely, but then we
must have exposed our wagons to be captur
ed by their cavalry, and that could not be
thought of.
Ihe battle had now lasted from 10 minutes
past 2, P. M., to about 7 P. M. At this mo.
ment the enemy was discovered coming down
with his left flank in great force of cavalry
and infantry, onthe Artillery Batlalion and the
IS pounders which that battalion supported.
The IS pounders were served by thirty men,
and the artillery Battalion was about 360
strong. Both the battery and this Battalion
were in such a position that they could not be
supported by the other portion of the army,
and at the time the charge commenced the
Battalion had deployed into line. However it
was throwu into square by a prompt manoeu
vre, and awaited steadily the Mexican charge.
On they came, “horse foot and dragoons,”
shouting and yelling, when a single horseman
rode into the Square, and said, “Men, 1 place
myself in your Square.” The General was
immediately recognized by the men, who
gave him three cheers for this evidence of his
confidence. At this moment Lieut. Churchill
discharged one of his IS pounders, loaded
with grape, into the advancing ranks, creating
great havoc, but not checking entirely their
onward movement. They marched forward
to* within good musket range, some 150 yards
of us, halted and delivered their fire, which
our men received quieily at a shoulder. Find
ing that they would come no nearer, Colonel
Childs, commanding this Battalion ordered the
volley, which was given as if in parade, when
the enemy immediately retired, and the action
ended for the night. Our army slept on their
arms precisely as night found them, and oc
cupied the position in which the enemy com
menced the battle. The two armies slept
quietly almost in presence of each other. The
night was serene and beautiful, the moon cast
ing the softest light on every thing around us,
and but for the groans of the wounded and the
screams of those who were suffering under the
knife of the Surgeons, no one could have im
agined the scenes which had occurred but a
few hours previously.
On our side we had fifty-five killed and
wounded. The gallant Major Ringgold was
mortally wounded, and his noble steed killed
by the same shot, as he was giving his last
fire for the night, and after having distinguish
ed himself by the coolness, precision and effect
with which he managed his Battery. Captain
John Page, of the 4th Infantry, was horribly
wounded, supposed to be mortally. Many of
ficers had horses shot under them—Captain
Bliss, Lieut. Daniels, Capt. Montgomery and
several others.
Many dragoon horses were also killed, and
the escapes were almost incredible. In Ma
gi uder’s company two men, while at an order,
had the bayonets of their muskets cut off by
cannon balls, passing just over their shoulders
and between their heads. He had also a man
killed on his immediate right and left. Some
of the balls fell into the centres of the squares,
and recoached out again, without touching any
one. Others fell just on the outside and
bounced over. To stand patiently and coolly
in square under such a fire, for five hours,
without firing a shot, is the best evidence of
disciple and invincible courage that troops
can give. But more: the offect of this con
duct, which none but regulars could have
shown, must be considered. The next morn
ing the enemy retreated, leaving the field
strewed with their dead, and having lost, by
their own confession, five hundred in killed
and wounded; but we have fouud out since
that his loss is much greater. The enemy’s
artillery was numerous and served with great
rapidity and precision: while we had little
cavalry, and they had an immense proportion
of that arm. Hence our shell and grapeshot
told briskly among them. In short, we gain
ed on that day a great victory. When we con
sider the enemy’s numbers his numerous and
effective regular cavalry, and well-drilled in
fantry and artillery, and above all that he bad
chosen his own ground that upon which he is
most accustomed to fight—the plain—and
compare all this with our inferiority in all
arms, and that we were incumbered by a train
we could not afford to lose, we can only ac
count for the result by the impression made
on the enemy by our firm and unshaken ad
vance; by the steadiness with which we re
pulsed their cavalry, and by the unrivalled
skill of our artillery officers and men—to
which must Le added a perfect knowledge on
the part of both men and officers, that if we
lost that battle the Fort at Matamoras would
fall, the Army be destroyed, and our depot
Point Isabel be taken, to the eternal disgrace
of the American Army and the ruin of the in
terests of our Government, for some time, at
least, in this part of the world. We could not
afford to be driven back a single inch, and all
were prepared for any thing but retreat.
On the morning of 9th, the Mexican army
left the field at early dawn, and after arranging
our train, we commenced the march towards
our fort at this place. At 2 o’clock, P. M. we
found the enemy drawn up iu great force, oc
cupying a ravine, which cur road crossed,
