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MY NATIVE HOME.
BY ALEXANDER 0. MEEK, ESQ.
Land of the South ! —imperial land!—
How proud thy mountains rise,—
H<»w sweet thy scenes on every baud,—
How fair thy covering skies !
But not tor this—oh, not for thee,
I’love thy fields to roam.-
Thou hast a dearertpeil to me,
Thou art my native home!
Thy rivers roll their liquid wealth,
Cneqnulled to the sea, —
Thy hillsand valleys bloom with health,
And green with vardurc be ’.
But not for thy proud ocean streams,
Nor for thine azure dome—
Sweet sunny South —lcang to thee,—
Thou art my native home:
I’ve stood beneath Italia’s dime,
Beloved of tale and song,—
On Hclvyn’s hills, proud and sublime,
'YVif 0 wonders throng;
By Tdtnpc’s classic sunlit streams,
. Where Gods, of old, did roam, —
But ne’er have toiitv I so fair a land
As thou—my native home!
And thou hast prouder glories too,
Than Nature ever gave,—
Peace sheds o’er thee her genial dew,
And freedom’s pinions wave—
Fair science flings her pearls around,
Religion lifts her dome,
These, these endcar thee to my heart,—
My own loved native home '•
And “ Heaven’s best gift to man” is thine—
God bless thy rosy girls!—
Like sylvan flowers, they sweetly shine, —
Their hearts are pure as pearls !
And grace and goodness circle them,
Whure’r their footsteps roam,
H<»w ran I then, whilst loving them,
Not love my native home !
Land of the South ! —imperial land '. —
Then here’s a health to thee, —
Long as thy mountain barrier stand,
Mayst thou be blessed and free!
Mav dark dissention’s banner ne’er
Wave o’er thy fertile loam, —
But should it come, there’s one will die,
To save his native home !
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[BY AUTHORITY.]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, a treaty of Commerce ami Navigation
between the United States of America and Ids Majes
ty tin- King or the Netherlands, was concluded and
signed at Washington on the nineteenth day of Jan
uary last; which treaty is, word for word, as follows :
The United Sta'es of America and his Majesty the
King of the Netherlands, anxious to regulate the com
merce and navigation carried on between the two
countries in their respective vessels, have, for that
purpose, named plenipotentiaries, that is to say :
The President of the United States has appointed
John Forsyth, Secretary of State of the said United
States, and his Majesty the King of the Netherlands,
Jonkheer Evert Marius Adrian Martini, member of
the body of nobles of the province of North Brabant,
knight of the order of the Netlierland Lion, and his
Charge d’Affaires near the United States, who, having
exchanged their respective full powers, found in good
and due form, have agreed to the following articles:
Article I.—Goods and merchandize, whatever
their origin may be, imported into or exported from
the ports of the United States, from or to the ports of
the Netherlands in Europe, in vessels of the Nether
lands, shall pay no higher or other duties than shall
be levied on the like goods and merchandise so im- j
ported or exported in national vessels. And recipro
goods and merchandise, whatever their origin '
may be, imported into, or exported from, the ports of
' therlands in Europe, from or to the ports of the 1
United Slates, in ve-sels of the said States, shall pay
no higher or other duties than shall be levied on the |
i * and so imported or exported !
in national vessels; the bounties, drawbacks, or oth
er favors of this nature, which may be granted in the
Spates of either of the contracting parties, on goods,
tnapDi-ted or exported in national vessels, shall also
H ,-an lin like manner, be- granted on goods dinctly ex-'
ported or imported in vessels of the other country, j
to and from the ports of the two countries; it being
®hc WmiMrir of Unwit
understood, that in the latter as in the preceding case,
the goods shall have been loaded in the -ports from
which such vessels have been cleared.
Art. 2.—Neither.party shall impose upontlie ves
sels of the other, whether carrying' cargoes between
the United States and the ports of the Netherlands in
Europe, or arriving in ballast from any other country,
any duties of tonnage, harbor dues, light-houses, sal
vage, pilotage, quarantine, or port charges of any
kind or denomination which shall not be imposed in
like cases on national vessels.
Art. 3.—lt is further agreed between the two con
tracting parties, that the Consuls and Vice Consuls of
the United States in the. [)orts.<Tf tht Netherlands in
Europe, and reciprocally* the Consuls ayd Vice Con
suls of the Netherlands?, in the ports of the said States,
shall continue to enjoy allprivileges, protection and
•assjsta’tjcg, as may*bc / usual and necessary for the duly
exercising of their functions, in respect also of the de
serters from the vessels, whether public or private, of
their countries.
Art. 4.—The contracting parties agree to consid
er and treat as vessels of the United States and of the
Netherlands, all such as, being furnished by the com
petent authority with a pass-port or sea-letter, shall,
under the then eqisting laws and regulations, be recog
nised as national vessels by the country to which they
respectively belong.
Art. s.—ln case of shipwreck or damage at sea,
each party shall grant to the vessels, whether public or
private, of the other, the same assistance and protec
tion which would be afforded to its own vessels in like
cases.
Art. G.—The present treaty shall be in force for
the term of ten years, commencing six weeks after the
exchange of the ratifications; and further until the
end of twelve months after either of the contracting
parties shall have given to the other notice of its inten
tion to terminate the same: each of the contracting
parties reserving to itself the right of giving such no
tice to the other, after the expiration of the said term
of ten years. And it is hereby mutually agreed, that
in case of such notice, tins treaty, and all the provis
ions thereof, shall, at the end of the said twelve months
altogether cease and determine.
Art. 7.—The present treaty shall be ratified, and !
the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington
within six month'of its date, or sooner, if practicable.
In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries
have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the
seals of their arms.
Done in duplicate, at the City of Washington, this
nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
JOHN FORSYTH, [l. s.]
ADR. MARTINI. [l. s.J
And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified
on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the
same were exchanged in this city on the twenty-third
day of the present month, between John Forsyth,
Secretary of State of the United States, and the Che
valier Adr. Martini, Charge d’Affairs of his Majesty
the King of the Netherlands, on the part of their re
spective Governments.
Now, therefore, be it known, that I, MAR
TIN VAN BUREN, President of the United States
of America, have caused the said treaty to be made
public, to the end that the same, and every clause and
article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good
faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
I.N witness whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
Done at the City ofWashington, the twenty-fourth
day of May, in the year of our Lord one
[l. S.] thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and
of the Independence of the United Stales the
sixty-third. M. VAN BUREN.
By the President:
JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of Stale.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, a treaty of Commerce and Navigation
between the United States of America and His Ma
jesty the King of Greece, was concluded and signed
at London on the I l l* —day of December,
twenty-second
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
1 and thirty-seven ; which treaty is word for word as
’ follows:
Treaty of Commerce anti Navifrationbetu-een the Uni
ted States of America and JJis Majesty the King
of Greece.
1 he United States of America and his Majesty the
King of Greece, equally animated with the sincere
desire of maintaining the relations of good understan
i ding which have hitherto so happily subsisted between
. their respective States; of extending also and consol
i idating the commercial intercourse between them ;
and convinced that this object cannot better be ac
j complished than by adopting the sys'em of an en
j tire freedom of navigation, and a perfect reciprocity,
‘ based upon principles of equity, equally beneficial to
I both countries; have, in consequence, agreed to en
ter into negotiations for the conclusion of a treaty of
commerce and navigation, and for that purpose
have appointed Plenipotentiaries: The President of
the United States of America, Andrew Stevenson,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States, near the Court of Her Bri
tan.ic Majesjy, mid His Majesty the King of Greece,
Spiridion I ricoupi, ( ounsellor of State on special
service, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen
ipotentiary, near the same court, Grand Command
er of the Royal Order of the Saviour, Grand Cross
of the American order of Isabella, the Catholic,
who, after having exchanged their full powers, found
in good and due form, have agreed upon the fol
lowing articles;
Article I.—The citizens and subjects of each
of the two high contracting parties, may, with all se
curity for tin Ir persons, vessels and cargoes, freely en
ter the ports, places, and rivers of the territories ol
the other, wherever foreign commerce is permitted.
'l'lu y shall be at liberty to sojourn and reside in all
parts whatsoever of said territories; to nut and
occupy houses and ware-houses for their commerce,
and they shall enjoy, generally, the most entire seett-
OUR CONSCIENCE —OUR CO.UNTRY OUR PARTY.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1839.
rity protection in their mercantile transactions, on
condition of their submitting to the laws and ordinan
ces of the respective countries.
Art. 2.—Greek vessels, arriving either laden or
in ballast, into the ports of the United Stall’s of Amer
ica, from whatever place they may come, shall be
treated, on their entrance*during their stay, and at
their departure, upon the same footing as national
vessels coming from the same place, with respect to
the duties of tonnage, light-houses, pilotage, and port
charges, as well as to the perquisites of public offi
cers, and all other duties ofgharges, of whatever
kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the
prefit of the Government, the local authorities or
any private establishment' whatsoever; and, recip
rocally, the vessels United States of America,
arriving either*'laden, or in ballast,’into the ports
of the Kingdom of Greece, from whatever place they
may come, shall be treated, on their entrance, dur
ing their stay, and at their departure, upon the
same footing as national vessels coming from the
same place, with respect to the duties of tonnage,
light-houses, pilotage, and port charges, as well as
to the perquisites of public officers, and all other
duties or charges, of whatever kind or denomina
tion, levied in the name, or to the profit of the Go
vernment, the local authorities, or of any private
establishments whatsoever.
Art. 3.—A1l that may be lawfully imported into
the Kingdom of Greece, in Greek vessels, may also be
thereinto imported in vessels of the United States of
America, from whatever place they may come, with
out paying other or higher duties or charges, of what
ever kind or denomination, levied in the name, or to
the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or
of any private establishments whatsoever, than if im-j
ported in national vessels.
And reciprocally, all that may be lawfully import
ed into the United States of America, in vessels of the '
said States, may also be thereinto imported in Greek
vessels, from whatever place they may come, without
paying other or higher duties or charges of whatever
kind or denomination, levied in the name, or to the I
profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of>
any private establishments whatsoever, than if im
ported in national vessels. ■
Art. 4.—A1l that may be lawfully exported from
the Kingdom of Greece, in Greek vessels, may also
be exported therefrom in vessels of the United States
of America, without paying other or higher duties or
charges of whatever kind or denomination, levied in
the name or to the profit of the Government, the lo
cal authorities or of any private establishments what
soever, than if exported in national vessels.
And reciprocally, all that may be lawfully exported
from the U. S. of America, in vessels of the said States,
may also be exported therefrom in Greek vessels, with
out paying other or higher duties or charges of what
ever kind or denomination, levied in the name, or to
the profit of the Government, the local authorities,
or of any private establishments whatsoever, than if
exported in national vessels.
Art. 4.—lt is expressly understood, that the fore
going second, third, and fourth articles are not ap
plicable to the coastwise navigation from one port of
the Kingdom of Greece, to another port of the said
Kingdom, nor to the navigation from one port of the
United States of America, to another port of the said
States; which navigation each of the two high con
tracting parties reserves to itself.
ArY^^?— Each of the two high contracting par
ties, engages not to grant in its purchases, or in those
which might he made by companies or agents, acting
iu its name, or under its authority, any preference to
importations made in its own vessels, or in those of a
third power, over those made in the vessels of the
other contracting party.
Art. 7.—1 he two high contracting parties en
gage not to impose upon the navigation between their
respective territories in the vessels of either, any ton
nage or other duties of any kind, or denomination,
which shall be higher or other than those w hich shall
be imposed on every other navigation, except that
which they have reserved to themselves, respectively,
by the fifth article of the present treaty.
Art. B.—There shall not be established in the
Kingdom of Greece, upon the products of the soil,
or industry of the United States ®f America, any
prohibition, or restriction, of importation or expor
tation, nor any duties of .any kind or denomination
whatsoever, unless such prohibitions, restrictions,
and duties shall likewise be established upon articles
of a like nature, the grow th of any other country.
And, reciprocally, there shall n<‘>t be established in
the United States of America, on the products of the
soil, or industry of the Kinudom of Greece, any pro
hibition, or restriction, of importation or exportation,
nor any duties of any kind or denomination whatso
ever, unless such prohibitions, restrictions, and duties,
be likewise established upon articles of like nature,
the growth of any other country.
Art. 9. AU privileges of transit, and all boun
ties and drawbacks which may be allowed within the
territories of one of the high contracting parties,
upon the importation or exportation of any article
whatsoever, shall likewise be allowed on, the articles
of like nature, the products of the soil, or industry
of the other contracting party, and on the importa
tions and exportations made in its vessels.
Art. 10.—The subjects or citizens of one of the
high contracting parties, arriving with their vessels
on the coasts belonging to the other, but not wishing
to enter the port; or, after having entered therein,
not wishing to unload any part of their cargo, shall
be at liberty to depart and continue their voyage
without paying any other duties, imposts, or charges
whatsoever, for the vessel and cargo, than those of
pilotage, wharfage, and for the support of light
houses, when such duties shall be levied on national
vessels in similar cases. It is understood, however,
that they shall always conform to such regulations
and ordinances concerning navigation and the places
and ports which they may enter, as arc, or shall be,
in force with regard to national vessels, and that the
< ustomhouse officers shall he permitted to visit them,
to remain on board, and to take all such precautions
as may be necessary to prevent all unlawful com
men e, as long as the vessels shall remain within the
limits of their jurisdiction.
Art. 11. It is further agreed, that the vessels of!
one of the high contracting, parties, having entered
into the ports of the other, will be permitted to con
fine themselves to unloading such part only of their
cargoes as the captain or owner may wish, and that
they may freely depart with the remainder, without
paying any duties, imposts, or charges whatsoever,
except for that part which shall have been landed,
and which shall be marked upon and erased from the
manifest exhibiting the enumeration of the articles
with which the vessel was laden; which manifest shall
be presented entire at the customhouse of the place
where the vessel shall have entered. Nothing shall
be paid on that part of the cargo which the vessel
shall carry away, and with which it may continue its
voyage to one or several oilier ports of the same
country, thereto dispose of the remainder of its car
go, if composed of articles whose importation i* per
mitted on paying the duties chargeable upon it, or it
may proceed to any dther country. It is understood,
however, that all duties, imposts, or charges whatso
ever, which are or may become chargeable upon the
vessels themselves, must be paid at the first port where
they shall break bulk, or unlade part of their car
goes; but that no duties, imposts, or charges of the
same description shall be demanded anew in the ports
of the same country, which such vessels might after
wards wish to enter, unless national vessels be, in sim
ilar cases, subject to some ulterior duties.
Art. 12.—Each of the high contracting parties
grants to the other the privilege of appointing in its
commercial ports and places, consuls, vice-consuls,
and commercial agents, who shall enjoy the full pro
tection and receive every assistance necessary for the
due exercise of their functions; but it is expresly,
; declared that in case of illegal or improper conduct
i with respect to'the laws or government of the coun
try in consuls," vice-consuls, or cotnmer
' cial agents, shall reside, they may be prosecuted and
i punished conformably to the laws, and deprived of
the exercise of their functions by the offended Go
! vernment, which shall acquaint the other with its mo
j lives for having thus acted ; it being understood,
I however, that the archives and documents relative to
the affairs of the considate shall be exempt from all
search, and shall be carefully preserved under the
seals ol the consuls, vice-consuls, or commercjirl
agents, and of the authority of the place where they
may reside.
The consuls, vice-consuls, or commercial agents,
or the persons duly authorized to supply their places,
shall have the right as such, to sit as judges and ar
bitrators in such difference as may arise between the
captains and crews of the vessels belonging to the
nation whose interests are committed to their charge,
without the interference of the local authorities, un
less the conduct of the crews, or of the captain,
should disturb the order or tranquility of the coun
try ; or the said consuls, vice-consuls, or commercial
agents, should require their assistance to cause their
decisions to be carriedanto effect or supported. Il
is, however, understood, that this species of judgment
or arbitration shall not deprive the contending par
ties of the right they have to resort, on their return,
to the judicial authority of their country.
Art. 13.—The said consuls, vice-consuls, or com
mercial agents, are authorized to require the assist
ance of the local authorities for the arrest, detention,
and imprisonment of the deserters from the ships of
war and merchant vessels of their country, and for
this purpose they.shall apply to the competent tribu
nals, judges, and officers, and shall, in writing, de
mand said deserters proving by the exhibition of the
registers of the vessels, the rolls of the crews, or by
other official documents, that such individuals formed
part of the crews, and on this reclamation being thus
substantiated, the surrender shall not be refused.
Such deserters, when arrested, shall be placed at the
disposal of the said consuls, vice-consuls, or com
mercial agents, and may be confined in tile public
prisons at the request and. cost of those who claim
them, in order to be sent to the vessels to which they
belonged, or to others of the same country. But if
not sent back within the space of two months, reckon
ing from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at
liberty, and shall not be again arrested for the same
cause.
It is understood, however, that if the deserter
should be found to have committed any crime or of
fence, his surrender may be delayed until the tribu
nal before which the case shall be depending, shall
have pronounced its sentence, and such sentence shall
have been carried into effect.
Art. 14.—1 n case an*y vessel of one of the high
contracting parties shall have been stranded oi»sliip
wrecked, or shall have suffered any other damage
on the coasts of the dominions of the other, every
aid and assistance shall be given to the persons ship
wrecked, or in danger, and passports shall be granted
to them to return to their country. The shipwreck
ed vessels and merchandise, or their proceeds, if the
same shall have been sold, shall be restored to their
owners, or to those entitled thereto, if claimed within
a year and a day, upon paying such costs of salvage
as would be paid by national vessels, in the same cir
cumstances, and the salvage companies shall not com
pel the acceptance of their services, except in the
same cases, and after the same delays as shall be
granted to the captains and crews of national ves
sels. Moreover, the respective Governments will
take care that these companies do not commit any
vexatious or arbitrary acts.
Art.ls. It is agreed,vessels arriving directly from the
Kingdom of Greece, at a port of the United States
ol America, or from the United States, at a part
within the dominions of his Majesty the King of
Greece, and provided with a bill of health, granted
by an officer having competent power to that effect,
at the port whence such vessels shall have sailed, set
ting forth that no malignant or coutageous diseases
prevailed in that port, shall be subjected to no other
quarantine than such as may be necessary for the
\ isit ot the health officer of the port where such ves
sels shall have arrived, after w hi< h said vessels shall
be allow 'd immediately to enter and unload their car
goes; provided, always, that there shall be on board
no person who during the voyage, s hull have been
attacked villi any malignant or contagious diseases;
that such vessels shall not during their passage have
communicated with any vessel liable itself to under
go a quarantine, and that the country w hence they
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came, shall not at that tirite be so far infected or sus
pected, that before their arrival, an ordinance had
lieen issued,’ in consequence of which, all vessels
coming from that country should be considered as
suspected, and consequently subject to quarantine.
Art. IG.—Considering the remoteness of the re
spective countries of the two high contracting par
ties, apd the uncertainty resulting therefrom, with re
specjjlb the various events which may take place; it is
agreed, that a merchant vessel belonging to either
aif them, which may be bound to a port supposed at
the time of its departure to be blockaded, shall not,
however, be captured or condemned, 'for having at
tempted a first time to enter said port, unless it can
be proved that said vessel cotrbl and ought, to have
learned during its voyage, that the blockade of the
place in question still continued. But rfll vessels
which alter having been warned off once shall during
the same voyage attempt a second time to enter the
same blockaded port, during the continuance of said
blockade, shall then subject themselves to be detained
and condemned.
Art. 17. —The present treaty shall continue in
force for ten years, counting from the day of the ex
change of the ratifications, and if, before the expira
tion of the first nine years, neither of the high con
tracting parties shall have announced by an official .
notification to the other its intention to arrest the
operation of said treaty, it shall remain binding for
one year beyond that time, and so on, until the ex
piration of the twelve months which will follow a
similar notification, whatever the time at which it
may take place.
Art.lS. The present treaty shall be ratified by His
Majesty the King of Greece, and by the President
of the United States of America, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, and the ratifica
tions to be exchanged at London, within the space of
twelve months, from the signature, or sooner, if pos
sible. '
In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries
of the high contracting parlies, have signed the pres
ent treaty, both in French, and English, and have
affixed thereto their seals. *
'Done iu duplicate at London, the —- t l l
twenty-second
of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-seven.
A; STEVENSON, [l. s.]
S. TRICOUPI, [l. s.]
And Whereas the said treaty has been duly rati
fied on both parts, and the respective ratifications
of the same were exchanged at London on the
j unc | ast j Andrew Stevenson,
t\<enty-ftith
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
oiahe United States at London, and Prince Michel
Soutzo, Ei. zoy Extraordinary and'Minister Plenipo*
teutiary of His Majesty the King of Greece, on the
part of their respective Governments :
Now, therefore BE IT KNOWN, THAT I, MAR
TIN VAN BUREN, President of the United States
of America, have caused the said treaty to be made
public, to the end that the same, and every clause
and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled
with good faith by the United States and the citizens
thereof.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, the thir- '
tieth day of August, in the year of our
f t g -| Lord one thousand eight hundred and
L " thirty-eight, and of the independence of
the United States the sixty-third.
M. VAN BUREN.
By the President:
JOHN FORSYTH,
Secretary of State.
STONY POINT— by rev. j. n. maffit.
Stony Point is about forty miles above New York, and
ten or fourteen miles below West Point, It is a rounds
gravelly bill, of small extent, jutting into the stream, and
connected with the main and by the Morass which is par
tially overflowed with the tide waters. It was fortified in
the revolutionary w’ar, and, occupied by a small force,
might have been considered as a remote outpost ttf the
strong fortress of West Point, It was captured by th*
British in the year 1778, and strongly repaired and garri
sotted by more than six hundred soldiers, commanded by
tiie brave Lt. Col. Johnson. .< ?\ t
A few days before the sixteenth of July, in the same
year, a tall, commanding personage mounted on a strong
charger, was seen oh the eminences above Stony Poinb
lie bad a glass in his hand, and appeared to study the
character of the defences with an intensity of interest!
John,on who was returning the gaze of the horseman,
with his spyglass, turned to one of his staff, and remarked,
that the apparition on the hill portended no good. Rumors
were afloat about the entrenchments that the same tall fig
ure had been seen across the river on the heights opposite ‘
the eminence the day before, like a horseman painted a
gaintt the sky. P. a cow-boy,said that this figure was the
apparition ot Washington, and that never was seen exepting.
just before a battle or a thunderstorm. But while thesti,
idle rumors floated atottnd the atmosphere of the caVnp,lh*
real Washington, from observations made with his own
eyes, was concerting a soldier like plan for its surprise.
On the night of the 16th of July, by the twinkling light
of the stars that broke over and through the clouds, two
columns of soldiers might have been seen under the brow
of the eminence in the rear of the fort. They were stent
men—the silent, thoughtful men of New England. The
eagle-eyed Wayne was at their head, and his heart was
like that of the lion. The regiments of the Febigez and
Meigs, with their youthful Major Hull’s detachment fram
ed the right column ; Buller’s regiment, with two compa
nies under Major Murphy, formed the left. The van of
' the right waS formed of one hundred and fifty volunteers,
I at whose head stood the btave Fleury: one hundred vol
unteers, under llewait, composed the van of the left.—*
And still further advanced, the noblest post of all, stood
two •’ forlorn hopes” of twenty men each—and command*
ed by Lieut. Gibbins, and the other by Lieut Knox.*-* •
Wayne stepped from man to man through the vanguards
saw them take their flints from their pieces and fix the
<!< ath-bayonet. At twenty minutes past eleven the two
columns moved to the bloody work before them, one going
to the left and the other to the right to make their attack .
on opposite sides.
'l'he inhabitants on the eastern side es the river first
heard a sharp crashing as the forlorn hope on either aider
broke in the double row of abattis : the muskets of the
sentinels flashed suddenly amidst the darkness, and in »
moment the fortress vomited put flame and tbitrider, u if