Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              —J - THE PITTSTON GAZETTE, AID stwBHiiii mmm JOI RML I, 1 ■'1 1 U-J "■ —U ,!' - -- .""" " " • '• ' „ "" ' ''' "' r 1 ■ ■ ' ■ ■' '■■■'■' 1 W1-"- ■■■' . W I" 1 '■"'.I 'J.H1.1 ■ '1, II WlIM 1'jl? IHgg ) JJnuspnppr- -(JDrnntrh Id ihm. liftrnfnrt, Ijit Jllrrrantilr, Joining, JHrrjjnntral, anil Slgrirnlurnl 3ntEreste of tjje Coiintrq, Siistrnttimi, flimiMitmit, fct. )-€m Itollnra |*rr Itmtrar. ME 2.--NUMBER 52. PITTSTON, PENNA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1852. WHOLE NUMBER 104. . - . /•D?,-/ ■ \ / r 51 K»ttkl VOLU ceiw, when they were deleated in that im- camps, crowds, and all that can possibly preasive trial ol arms. i dispensed with for an emergency, tnke Without official authority for their num. t'»e boldest way to victory, risking much, ber, bevond their own acoounta, chargea. that much may bo iccomplished. Ii was ! ble with the usual partiality of euch %tnto- : a course which Cromwell, Frederick or I merits, the English forces in Canada, that Napoleon would approve. Reviewing the , summer, exceeded all the regular troops of campaigns of Alexander, Ciesar, Hannibal, the United States anywhere on this conti- Turenue, Gusiavus, and his own, Napoletinent. There were considerable forces in on testified that their principles were all Canada before peace in Kurope multiplied the same, viz: to keep their force together, them. The Eastern British provinc-s, No- and 1D,) vulnerable at no point, push them va Scotia and New Brunswick, added ma- rapitily on important |Dositions, truat to mony to Canadian levees, which were nume- r8' means, lhe reputation ol'their arms, and rotia and well organized. Early in July, 'be fear they inspired. Never did any reinforcements began to arrive from Eu- one of these mighty commanders think of rope, with the utmost perfection of milita. keeping open communication behind them, ry armament and naval transportation on °f regarding inferior hostilities in his rear, board many transport vessels, though the but always aimed by amassed means at unemployed British navy was itself suffi- one great object. A campaign is like an cient to convey large armies, without em- argument, in which the great position beploying transports. According to Eng. '"{? carried, all the minor ones follo-v.— lish and Canadian credible publications, And always the moral are more important the expedition to America was on a large 'ban the merely military means and consescale, to be commanded bv a lieutenant-ge- quinces. nera!, and several celebrated generals, lea. Gen. Scott was therefore ordered to ding the elite of the Duke of Wellington's march at once, report to Gen. Blown, and army to the punishment, if not conquest, of c#" for help if needed. When, he ir.irchthe whole United States. i 'd| thero was no design or idea in either No better use could he made of that army of the contest tliut ensued. Taking large disposable force than to send them, in ''is men from afternoon drill, when order, great numbers, to Ameiica. It was cliea- ed to Queenalown, Gen. Scott led out the per, more politic, less offensive to'.lie offi. first biigade; the Oih regiment, Major cers and soldiers than to disband them at : Leavenworth ; 11th, Major McNeill; 23d, home, tlint they should be employed abroad, [ Col. Brady ; 35th. Ma jor Jessup ; all feowhere, if many perished, it was on econo- ; ble in numbers; Leavenworth's regiment my. Attacks on the Slate ol New York ■ only one hundred and fitly ; Jessup's some through Canada, and on the city by water; lw'° hundred—not one well supplied with on New England through New Brunswick; i ainunition. Townson's company of artilon Louisiana from Bermuda, and on all the '®ryD Harris' troop, and some volunteer ' Atlantic coasts from Boston to Savannah, cavalry, were with the rest, altogether not were the gigantic plan ol an iucerscd na- eight hundred men. With litis xrniil force, lion. Of the troops destined for their exe- 0,1 their way to Queenstoun, not to tight, oution. it was said that twenty five thou- Gen. Scott fell in with the enemy, right in sand were to be landed from Europe at front, who retired, but it was believed in- Quebec, and ten thousand at Halifax — tended to give battle. Major VYood, the While Brown maintained his foothold on engineer, having recounoiiereii, and repor. the Niagara peninsula, w hioh he did until 'p(l to that effect, Scott des|mtuhed Assist, the enemy gave up attempting to dislodge ant Adjutant General Roger Jon»B to lull im, not lesa than thirty regiments ol reg-I'or'n Brown; a'ld wituout hesitation ular soldiers, besides all other*, amount, led his brigade with the utmost alackiing to between thirty and forty thousand attack the enemy. Though their men of all arms, from Niagara to Quebec, force w as unknown, and his incorisideracomposed the Canadian army, with renown ble, yet with inferior numbers he had in not grea:er than discipline, complete equip- like manner attacked ami beaten the same meiits, and the confidence of tried com- troops a few days before. with menders in veteran soldiers. The same '',e confidence of that success, he made impontoons which carried tliem ovej the riv. mediate disposition for attacking much suers of Spain and France, the fame cannon perior numbers, in n strong posiyon. The which battered formidable fortresses there, rules of war were aguin*l, but fortune fathe very English horses which winged the vored the movement. The BWffSfi? WMiflying aitillery at Toulouse, and worsted oul counting Gen. Drummond's reinforce- Soult; the identical ||.}Dicnl arid moral ment of eight hundred, arrived thai aftermeans of conquest subjugating the most noon; and Col. Scott'* that nigh', of martial nations of Europe, were transpor- twelve hundred more, at first far outnuinted over the Atlantic to dismember, punuh, bered our troops. W hen the conflict first and put down the least belligerent of all began, the British coulu not have been less people in America, to whem warfare was 'ban from two thousand to twenty five but a remembrance, its exactions and se. hundred strong. Their seven pieces of ar. verities novel, odious, and intolerable, illlery were posted on thr summit of a hill, courage. by wliioh he made lieud against formidable odds, and introduced a hardearned victory. The drooping took courage from the fearless, and vied with the example of a conspicuous leader, foremost in every danger. Numberless were the instance* of individual heroism, while the trained confidence aud pride of corps per vnded the shattered brigade, held together, carried forward, and though broken into small fragments, induced to preserve the integrity aud character of the whole. Oue of the bravest officers in the field, Major Leavenworth, of whose one hundred and fifty rank and file one hundred and twenty-eight were killed, wounded, or miVing, and only sixty-four could be mustered the next day, sent lo Gen. Scott that his rule for retreating was fulfilled. Scall having laid it down as an aphorism, said to be attributed to Moretiti. that a regiment may retreat when every third man was killed or wounded. To which mtic.ntion, communicated by another gallant officer, Capt. Hums, who volunteered to serve with infantiy when cavalry could be no longer serviceable, Scott's animating re- PLY, UTTERED IN A TRANSPORT OF 1NTIIEPIDITfr, IMPARTED HOPE, CONFIDENCE AND BN DURANCE TO OFFICERS ANDSOLDIKRS. Wllf tl Jessup's success and Uiull's capture were nmde known to he loudly proclaimed IT tiY CALLING FOR TUBES CHEEKS- Apprised by that vociferntion where to aim in the dark, the British buttery fired a broadside upon Scott's jslution, which, passing over the head!! of the infantry, struck h caisson of cap:ain Ritchie's guns, and Wow up rt'veruj nunntiniiion wagons. Mn-I of bis rre u being killed or wounded ut th' ir guiis, ami be, too, wounded during the tiijiht, vvos aClvisDed to retire. "Never," said the Junntl. iw Ritchie, "will 1 leave this gun but id dvoih or victory." Captains Biiss, f rir». and several other offi- 1 pu'ed possession of the artillery and the eminence. "In the darkness of the night, during that extraordinary conflict," says Gen. Drummond'a official report of it, "in so determined a manner were the American attacks directed against our guns, that our artillerymen were bavonetsd by them, in the verV act of loading, and the muzzles of tie American guns were advanced within a few yards of ours." Willi such unusual homage of reluctant truth, historyneeds no figurative embellishment, common in most descriptions of battles, but unnecessary for reolity more romantic than fiction, truth fairly told by those interested to conceal or deny it. Compared with some other nations' sense of it, English aud American truth is a remarkable characteristic. more eo, if nerrl be, superintending every left in camp when the rest went out to betoperation, which in the total darkness could tie; all these diminutions left, ip the ; be done only by personal attention, rather judgment of reliable officers, no! more feeling than seeing what must be done. — than a thousand fighting men embodied, When the firing on the hill ceased, Gen. when they were marched back to Chippe. Scott ordered all the men of the llth and wa. Moving in as good order from as to 22nd regiments who could be found to be Bridgewater, Ripley led them back to their collected and formed into a battalion ; on encampment, between one and two o'clock whose revival it was that Jessup's success on the morning of the 26th of July ; viewus announced by Scolt. Without figure torious according to every circumstance of speech, the ghosts of the skeletons of and indication except one, which the enethroe regiments were wandering in utter my, not without reason, laid hold of to darkness, invisible on ihe margin of death's claim the victory. The British cannon so river, another Sty*. Revived into a small nobly captured at first, and kept after, battalion,, the command belonged to Col. wards against so many desperate attempts Brady, with whom, too much exhausted by , to regain them, were left on the hill; all loss of blood for command, his Major, Ar- but one of the American howitzers, exrowsmith, remained. After the enemy's changed by mistake in the darkness and repulse, when attempting to /etake the confusion of the -night for that one Eng. cannon, Brown and Scott meeting, directed lish gun, was left too. For want of "hor. Leavenworth to take command of the bat- 1 sns, harness, drag-ropes, arid other contrl. talion consolidated from the three regi- vances to carrv of! these inestimable troments ol infantry, which were formed into phies, they fell at last into the hand* of column in Lundv's Lane. | the English, who returned to the hill «xDn The 1st, 21st, and 23d regiments were j after the Americana left it. Mojor Hindnow on ihe hill, arid Major Mindman, . man going there, by General .Brown's or. Captains Town.son und Ritchie, with their i der, to bring away the guns after Ripley gurn*, on the summit, near the church.— had gone lo Chippewa, found the hill, to. The 9th, 11th. and 22nd consolidated were jjether with the guns, in pomeision of the on Lundy's Lane, or its proximity, with British, who did not fail to proclaim the Captain Middle's company of artillery.— precious prize as proof that theirs waathe The 25th, with Major Jessup, had return- victory, which perversion was further ed and joined Leavenworth's battalion, countenanced by Ripley's destroying the Porter's volunteers, gallantly led by him, bridge over the Chippewa, and borne of hia were With Ripley, arid always among the baggage, camp equipage and provision*, foremost in the hottest fire, several of them preparatory to his retreat to Fort Erie, killed, wounded) and taken prisoners. Af- j Where so many were distinguished as ter their victory, they were appropriately at the battle of Bridgewater, few brevets employed in escorting the British prisoners were conferred ; only on Scott and the two to their place of confinement in New engineer officers. York. ■ ■ — When in formation oame that the Bn'tish Gen. Scott Thirty»Blght Yeara Ago. « ere advancing to retake the cuiis, Scott _ m Registery that standard repository led Uu battalion brigade in an impetuous of Arrer.can history, contained In its charge, which put the British left lo flight : nu er. August, 1814. the following rerout*!™ takm AG.WN fo anothek ch a hoe, and p™pecuve inbuteto Gen. when His sHouumi WAS fractured By a Sc0TTl; opinion formed of the young PAINFUL WOO .1). AFTER HAVING His HORSE j n,B"b" THOMAS JeFFEHSON and his Cabt- SHOT. As HE ItfcTJKKD, IN GREAT FAIN, HIS 1hM FAREWELL on iixii to Leavenwobth was, Raster, VoL 6,p 449. TO CHARGE AGAIN. About the wamo time, Wrnniu,D Wj- Brown was wounded, and though he did Va., August 16, 1814—Thta no. dismount or retire till victory appeared P?1,a"1 .K0'dlerD wbo ha8.not yet attained won, yet exhaustion then compelled him to 11,9 vear, a native of this Connleave the field ; his aid, Major Spencer, [?• (Dmwiddie.) In this State he received was inortallv wounded and captured h'8 edoc8,lon- 'Mt P°l,»h Bt In the Canadian campaign, a round IT* of Willi»m #nd With .kill, man, not tbirtv years of age, Scott won , diligence perseverance and unrivalledelhis Mujor-General's Brevet While this n,luence he practised the law for a shdft. sketch is in hand, alter aji interval of thir. ,lmot ,n .thc f°T'7 Ut,»"8 iv three year.,, as commander of the Amer. f,rtDat 80ul ,a,P,ir.fd ,0 " deeds of arms !»_ ican urmv in Mexico, he lias, by ...any * "Van* "if. f'ylce of. hw «"l»r wonderful victories throughout a triumph ,n.18( 8:. a"d ?."h Che C0.m™l»«0.n ®f «P-ant campaign, realized the promise, of, !8m ''Sbt a"'!1«ry. and '« 8 «bf" time 1814. With matured knowledge of his I J°'"e_d the Southern army under the comvocal ion, and an ardor mellowed by :ime, J '"nnd of Gen- ,Hl" arre,i» the enthusiastic Brigadier in Canada is a h? f f?6' h,lm' and h" consurhniate General in Mexico. M"d delenf .on ,hat ocC;»8,on' bave '®n8 Gen. Brown, when the victory of *,nrCe been b*fore, tbe 1^" Bridgewater, as far as could be judged f conv.nced the dabtnet at Wash.ngfrom all circumstances, was complete, was ,0n' ,'he ,V0.r d at tbat he »?* C*» with difficulty supported on his horse as he K'holart\ the Tohttcian, and the soldur.- retired to Chippewa, and thence to Buffalo, f,nce. no. ",an bas "8C.end«d ,he ™!1S* where his robust f.ame soon recovering '"ry ladder with more resplendent rapidity health, he hastened to a more signal tri ,ha" bas - ™tNF!fLKD *0TT7£" .in., I. over Orummond at Fort Erie. roundshe will have topped the climax All that remained of the first bri- 0 " 0,1 Prf'. ... . , i rtr. . . —:ki . 4; i » G low in» with friendship, veneration and •jade after this terrible conflict did not ex- ., c T. . , ~ ceed two hundred and twenty men ; the Pr,de' forf,b,8t brave 8oldler' * °/ ninth, eleventh, and twenty.second consoli- f",?en8 Petersburg, as we are informed, » . » i m • T § i» have resolved to have made an elegant dated under MHjor Leavenworth, not, alto- .u • . a . l. .. | i j it 1 ' . SVVORD. with appropriate drVices, to be gether, one hundred. Many of the cart. j ♦ nw , •» ..,1; » 41 a • • r i presented to the htro of Chippewa and ndges with which he Amer.cans fired, In hia hands Jlre when attacked on the 4,ill were .aken , d j wj„ 1)eyfir drawn j de_ from ,he cartridge boxes of the English I fpncH of hf, countrD..8 right8, and never lying dead a.ound them. Men and officers, . d lhe"blood of our foes. after five hours constant fighting, were i « , „ „ ■ completely exhausted, and many aln ost fainting with thirst. There was no water nearer than the Chippewa. Before ihej' marched, however, from the hill, the wounded were carefully removed, and the return to the camp behind the Chippewa was slowly, in perfect order, entirely undisturbed bv the enemy. Seventy-six offi cers were killed or wounded, and six hundred and twenty-nine rank and file ; of whom the first brigade lost thirty-eight officers, and four hundred and sixty-eight rank and file. The commander of the brigade and every regimental officer was wounded. Every officer of the brigade and regimental stair was killed or wounded. General Scott and Major Jessup had each two horses shot under them ; Jessup was wounded four limes severely ; Scott has never entirely recovered from his wound in tfie shoulder ; Brady, Leavenworlh and McNeil each had a horsD shot under them. No battle in America, before or since, was ever ao severely contested or with such casualties in proportion to numbers, {pawsir®®! PRINTED AND POBUSnED WEEKLY BT «. HI. Kiciiart 4c II. s. Phillip* Office IVest tid* of Mai,. Slretl, second Story of M* " Lonx SHort" of Winter CJ- Wood. The "GaIett«" is published every Friday, atTwo Dollars per annum. Two Dollars and Fifty Cunts will be charged if not paid within the No paper will be discontinued until all arrearage# arc pai... , , , Advertisements are inserted cor.«|MCuou«ly at Ons Dollar per suuare of fourteen lines for three insertions; and Twenty-kivk Cents additional for every subsequent insertion. A liberal deduction to those who advertise for six months or the whole year. Job Work.—We have connected with our establishment n well selected assortment of Jos Type, which will enable us to execute, in the neatest •trie, every variety of printing. Being practical printers ourselves, we can afford to do work on as reasonable terms as any other office in the county. All letters and communications addressed to the Gazelle must be post paid, and endorsed by a responsible name, to receive attention. j The British, driven down that hill, lea. ving their killed arid wounded, together with their guns, in charge of their conquerors, took counsel and shelter about two hundred yard* from and underneath it ; where, shrouded in profound darkness and discomfiture, they reorganised for anether ellort. Soon afterward, some two hundred of the first regiment found their way up the hill, whither also Major Hind* rnHn repaired, with Oalpt'iitis fowuson and Ritchie, with thfil guns ; and for a short time Gen. Broun was much elated with the triumph, which he hoped would be conclusive. By that time a pale moonlight had disappeared, and nothing but impenetrable darkness prevailed. Sight was use. less ; no colors could be seen ; there was no music. One fi.ig, picked from where it lay on the ground, struck from souif killed or wounded standard-bearer, had to be banded by a corporal, as every officer of his regiment, down to a column sergeant, was disabled or "one ; on stall occasions, many men besid. s the sufferers disappearing from valions causes or pretexts. Amid the irloom of a still, sultry night, in the wild scenery of a picturesque legion, oc. oasionnl shouts ot Onset and triumph, more frequent though fainter cries of distress from the wounded, and continual yells of the tVrftish Indians, were overpowered by the predominant murmur of the vast cataract, with fternal commotion tumbling the whters of one large lake hit J another. Stunned by the incessant roar of mighty waters, the troops, exhausted with fatigue, wore parched with thirst. The toll and tug of war, however, were only begun when they seemed to he over.— When Itipley, with his 700, and Porter, with his 600 men, went to Scott's relief, reduced (o less' thBn 400, as his brigade was broken into fragments, Driy.nmqriij was stimulated as well as st'Migthencd for further etl'orts by the ceminual arrivals of fresh troops ; the !Dr'.ish Annual Register confesses under Col. Seott, received dur;,iSr "'Die action. Moved by every feel. •C.gof soldierly and national pride, duty, and propriety, he was resolved to recapture the lost guns, and restore the adverse fortune of the night, excited by national, even continental or hemi?pheric rivalry.— Europe against America, sharpening individual exaspora'.ion, made a struggle of more than for victory or death. That pe. culiar mixture of respect and aversion which prevails between English and Americans, despising, hating, and admiring each other ; the same lineage, language, s6me of the same Irish and other soldiery in both armieg, and some of the Corps even dressed in tho same grey uniform, the chanties and vicissitudes of precarious conflict, imbued it altogether with the bitterness of Irmilj strife, worse than civil war, or struggle for mastery, regardless of sufferings or consequences. Men on until sides, of strong nerve, unflinching, were forced to give way. But with most a mil. itary conjuncture raged, steeling affection, hi i(11 ing apprehension, and, in a tempest of passion, inflaming all to unmitigated extermination. One of the features of that remarkable battle was an old church, dedicated by religious consecration to peace on earth and good will to man. Near the fence ol the grnveyard of that temple of Christian piety, under the gun of the battery pointed at Scott's position, Miller, by the light of their bluze and report of their explosions, his only means of locating the artillery, moved in silent, stealthy desperation against it, poured in a fatal volley, announcing his onslaught, and then, prostrating the fence, rushed in with the bayonet. and seized the park, from which the British were driven. What a doert for a churchyard! filled with English graves, over which Americans strode to put more Englishmen to death. Po we christen the following en (ray, which wc clip from Heaven in the Heart. rts- if our exchange papers. It eoineth we know not whither, but goeth we feel aurora! by it* touching b«auiy, to every good heartAlbany Journal. Oh, I long to lie, dear mother. On thocool anC£ fragrant gr.ua, 1 Villi naught but the iky above my head, And the shadowing clouds that paaa. And I want tho bright, bright aunshlne All around about my bed; I will cloae my eye*, and God will think, Your little boy la dead ! Then Chrla? w ill aend an Angel T«» lake ma tip to hltn ; He wiil bear me alow and ateudlly r through the ether dim. JUC will gently, gentlj lay ine cers, when the ir own carps were no longer available, joined Major Leavenworth, with his skeleton of a regiment. Col. Brady, severely Wounded ; Major Jessup suffering excruciating pain from several wounds, were of those noble remains that would not retire, even though some of ihem inii. mated an opinion that it should be ordered. Gen. ScottV aid, Capt. Worth, Brigade Major Smith, were bilh compelled, by severe wounds, lo leave '.he field. Of Scott's brigade, one hundred and sixteen were killed, and three hundred arid thirty-three were wcunded or missing, so that not half the original numtJkr remained, whom he finally embodied into a battalion, and led to re/'eated charges. Before Hint, telling them to maintain their ground, he announ- 1 ced the thrice welcome tidings that (Jen. ' Broun, with Ripley's aud Por'er's brigades were at band Volleys of musketry on the hill joyfully confirmed the grateful relief, then indispensable. to I lie Saviour'* aide, wh*m I'm sure that we're in Heaven, My eye* I'll open wide And 1*11 look among (he Angels That s'end about the Thtone, Till I fled my slater Mary, For I know that ahe la one. And when I And h#»r, mother, We will go away alone, And I wiU tell her how we've mourned All the time she haa been gone. Oh ! shall be delighted To hear her epeak again— • Though J know ahe'll ne'er return to oa— • To a*k her would be vain! 1 11 put my arm* around her. And look into her eye*, And rernerolMt all ! any to her. And all her sweet r*pliea. And then I'll aak the Angel, To take me back to yon— He'll bear me slow and steadily, Down through the ether blue. And you'll only think, door motbC r, I hare been out at pl»y, And have gone to sleep beneath a true. This sultry summer duy. Ripley's brigade and Porter's volunteers by cordial and expeditious, but P'i-cui'.aus and unavoidably somewhat reta.ued ad. vance, brings us to the more excited and «kmbtlul ot that nocturnal conflict ; 1,r i( *Das sunset when they arrived, aijJ t'.Tier near two hours of evening battle oy not more than one American to three Englishmen, during the remaining three hours of darkness, seldom, if ever, was there fiercer fighting in the dark. From the lfllh to the 25th of July, Gen- , supported by a heavy line of iufuntrv, flaneral Brown had no tidings and no feurs of ked by calvary. Scott's advance was led his enemy, but no hopes from hid naval by Capt. Harris with his dragoons, and compatriot. Major General Rial, with re- j Captain Pentland's company of the UJd infreshed and reinforced troops, hud foil a wed funtry, both officers much distinguished him to the Palls of Niagata, with every throughout the action, tmvaids the end of preparation made to attack the American which Pentland lost a leg, was left 5n the army, early in the morning of the '«!6th of, ground, and taken prisoner. Jillv, in its former auspicious encampment Between Wilson's tav'.n r.nd Lundy'® at Chippewa. Lieut General Drtimmnud, Lane, near the villa)'.,,f riridgewoter, the Governor of Upper Canada, sailed from British artillery ,,p.jnC(| Up Seott, who York the evening ol the '24th, and reuohed I formed anr1 ic versed his odutnn, faltering Niagara river early next morning, thence ! under ,(* destructive severity. As it must sending forward some regimen:s drawn | 1D« somo time belore Ripley's brigade and from Forts George and Mississaga, l'"idrr , carter's could crme to Scott's aid, he dc- Colonel Moriison, lo join Riall Colonel ! talchwl Major Jessup with the 35th, lo seek Tucker, with about , a lho''.jUn(J soldiers, and engage the British left, wliilo the Ge. sailors and Indians, or-,,..u jo the Amcri. i neral attacked tin ir right. The other can side against Sch.'.ossor. ' three regiments were moved beyond the To contend with all these snp'erioi for. j advanced companies, and stationed where, ces, h- vjng control of all the witters, the ; as well as during the change of position; *.me:ican army at Chippewa, mustered in iheir exposure and losses wre so severe, action not more than twenty-five hundred that bo'.h McNeill and Brady, with many, fighting men. Each of the two brigades if not most of the other officers, were disacontained some eight or nine hundred.— bled by wounds, and their regiments so The volunteers were from five to six hun- much demoralized as to be confused, some dred. The killed and wounded on the 5th retreating, their aniunilion too, ut Inst fal- July, and in skirmishes afterwards; the , ling short. Townsoirs inimitable battery sick and diminutions by other casualties, ! on the right, by incessant revi :rberations ol and departure of all the Indians, reduced i the most exciting martial music, encour. by many hundreds the thirty-five hundred ! aged the column ; but the British guns combatants who ventured to invade Cana- | were so high that his shot passed over ttiPin, da three weeks before. Expecting no ac- • while theirs plunged down with deadly lion on the 25th, especially towards eve- aim, and for some time. Townson ceased fi- lanadian Campaign, Battle of Bridgewatar, or Lundy's Lane. rrom Charle» Jured lnger»oll'» Hirtorr ofthe 8ecuiid War wilh Great Britain—p, !D3-100. [We omit the incidents between the lDattle of Chippewa, on the 5th of July, 1914, and the 2-2d of July—the plan of marching upon Burlington Heights having failed, in consequence of the Navy, under Commodore Chauncey, having refused to co-operate with the land forces.] As si»on as Ripley hoard Scott's firing, he informed his brigade. (Jen. Brown, whose aid, Ca|»t. Austin, had been to inquire what firing it wos, ordered Ripley's .tnd Potter's brigade to the field, and hi* aid to tell Ripley where to take his station. Biown, then, wilh the engineer. Major McRee, hastened forward. Ripley ami Purler lost no time, the men trotting forward lo move as rapidly as possible over the bridge, and nearly three miles they had to go. it was night when they formed for action. Oil the twenty-second ol July, when Brown relinquished the last hope of prompt naval co-operation, his predicament became precarious. But resolved not to abandon the enterprise begun, he came to the heroic if not desperate determination to disencumber his army of baggage, and push forward to Burlington Heights at all events. To mask that movement, and so replenish his provisions from fetorcs at Schlosser, the army was led tack to Chip, pewa on the 25th of Jj'iy, w hose classic grounds and proud recollections soon elicited the memorable achievements of one of the most obstinate, sanguinary, and altoge. ther extraordinary battles by night. In. vidiously criticising the wild encounter of ih.ai bloody night, Wilkinson condemns ticell for rebuking an officer'* suggestion of retreat, by appealing lo historyJor occasions when armies vanquished four times their number. Brown and Scott needed not to recur to ancient history for the military wisdom of never despairing and seldom yielding. Not long before, Bonaparte, .snatching victory from almost defeat at Atuivngo, installed the greatest of modern empires. Some years after, Wellington, lion) near defeat at Waterloo, demolished lhat empire and re-constructed Europe.— The American general's smaller scale had a destiny to fulfil, the character of an army to redeem, anu honorable terms of peace to vouchsafe ; all of which tlio second battle of the Ftflls consecrated at Bridge, water or Lundy's Lane, as it is variously called, superadded to the first known as lhai of Chippewa. Original Anecdote. One of lite arrangements made by \he Committees for the convenience of members of the late National Convention, was the appointment of one lad to act as page to each Sta'e delegation. ThetDe little fellows are very active in wafting upon the delegates, and contribute greatly to their comfort and convenience. At the ofose of the Whig Convention, the Pennsylvania delegation presented to their twentyseven dollars—a dollar a piece—for the faithful discharge of his duties, for which he expressed his grateful acknowledg. ments. He related to them an anecdote of the democratic Convention. said near the close of that convention, after Mr. Pierce was nominated, the Pennsylvania delegation presented to their page Firry cents. The lad was so struck with iheir liberality, that he immediately went out to a refreshment stand, invested twenty-seven cents of the money in gingerbread, came in, and presented each of the delegation a cake, in token of his appreciation of their benevolence.—Bucks Co. Intelligencer. The formidable annoyance of nine lira- ; vy cannons, Drummond having addei' two I lo Riall's seven in battery on the top ot a ' hill, at once suggested the obvious expedi- 1 ency, if not absolute necessity, of overco- i miug so fatal a hindrance to any chance of success. It remains a matter of question whether Brown, Ripley, or McRee was first lo declare that the lottery on that hill must be stormed and taken. General 1 Armstrong awards the honor to the ' necr, Major McRee; The regiments of the second brigade were the "21st, Colonel James Miller, the J3d, Major McParland, ' detachments of the 17th and 19th, with Captain Ritchie, of Major Hindman's battalion of artillery, preceded by Captniii Biddle's anillery. —The first regiment, Lieut. Col. Nicholas, WS3 not attached to cither brigade. Gen. Ripley forthwith ordered Col. Miller, who at once undertook to storm the park Major MoFarland, with the 23d regiment, was to take it in flank, and Colonel Nicholas to keep the musketry employed. After a fc-w rounds, his men recoiled, fell hack in confusion, niug, when it suddenly oame on, three ring, as useless. The fiction brgan towards hundred or more, detailed for washing and other camp services, were not taken from evening ; for more than an hour it was maintained by the first brigade alone, riot. withstanding great disadvantages to oon them into action. was informed by an express of the British movement, about Queensiown, the arrival At noon Gen. Brown tend against, and the loss of half their force; J'ssup's detachment, meanwhile, of the vessels, boat* and reinforcements whose loss in killed and wounded was in brought by Drummond. Soon after, by another express, he was apprised of the ex proportion to ihe other regiments, never faltering in its signal episode, till the ene Afier about half an hour's absence from their place ol retreat under the hill, being leorganisid and reinforced, they were heard again moving up the ascent.— closing his ranks, forbade all firing until the fishes of the British musketry enabled the Americans to uiirD unerringly pedition of Colonel Tucker to Schlosser.— my on tlie right worn routed. By mm- Lieut. Riddle, sent out to reconnoiter, had : ketry, at a hundred yard*, nt first, and not returned, but Captain Odell, comma*- j then the hayone', the British left was put ding a picket on the north of the encamp- {to (light by Jes-.up, who thereupon seized ment, reported soon in the morning to Ma- j.a rond, which he discovered, to mm their jor Leavenworth, officer of the duy, who (lank, and with that advantage routed still sent to headquarters, that with a jjlass a more of them. Scott, with mlliuxiastic troop of horse and two companies of infan- and matchless bravery, jirosecited his onset try, in scarlet regimentals, could be seen, i a personal example to all, if of eatravaabout two miles off, believed to be the Bri- gutU, y»t sustained and invnicih/c ardor.— tish advance, near Wilson's tavorn, not far It was Jessop's good fortune, the common from the Fulls of Niagara. There was no rffi-ct of good eomluot. to capture General apprehension, however, of an attack, or of Riall retiring wounded, together with Gap., any immediate hostile intention, except tain Loring, aid.de-camp of Gen. Drum. against the stores, amunition, sick, and i mond, several other officers, and altogether other deposits on the other side of the river, I one hundred and sixty-nine prisoners—as at Sohloseer, whither it was known the cn- i many as were left unhurt of his own emy had proceeded, and which Gen. Brown : command. Drummond's despatch contess. had no means of either defending, trans, j ed that on his arrival ho found Riali's porting or removing. His predicament, I "advance in full retreat; and when his perilous he felt, was more so than tie was own formation was completed, the whole aware. He had no idea, however, of an front was warmly and closely engaged, the attack, as the British had crosscd over to ' principal American efforts directed against Schlosser in force, still less of retreat, but j the British left and oentre ; after repeated courted battle. A march towards Queens- ' attacks, those on the British left forced town, which might induce the enemy tore, back, and the Af*""'®*"* tempoturn fipm the other side of the river, was rary possession of the road-'' Thus taught his hazardous, not injudicious, and, as by the enemy, and the results, we are safo events soon proved, fortunate determine- in denying the imputed rashness, and, as tion. Nor was it, whatever military theo- was aaid, frenzy of Scott, on that oecalists or socialists may say, inconsistent sion, in applauding the Ability of liis dis. with those improved principles ol modern positions, though they began by » charge warfare, which, oasting away the impedi- ol aeeming rashness, and, at all events, ments of bsggage, tha supernumeraries of admiring the excellent fortitude, as well aa Three more attempt* were mode by the enemy to rCtake the guns on the hill, each one after hii interval of about hall an hour, xnd tiie conflict each time more strenuous, it riot desperate, than that preceding U.— Fur more ihnn half an hour ufler the fourth nrul las-l attempt, in one of which Gen. Drumoioiid was severely wounded, but refused to retire, nothing more was heard. It «a8 past midnight, and still as death, save the groans and complaints of the wounded. A Match.— Here is a match for ibe Kentuckian who got in a salt bin to keep himself from spoiling, for want of a fight: " There is a man in Vermont who has been for the last twenty-five years engaged in a law suit. At the last session, by sopie unaccountable rtiistake of the lawyers in the case, his soit was brought to h closr» since which his health has rapidly declined. He is trying his bear to pick another quar.. rcl as he finds it impossible to exiqt long out ot bis element. 03" The other day, while over in Jersey city, a tall, long-legged, big, flat-footed, six fool Vermonter came up to'us, with a ruih, holding in his hand a pillow-case* well filled, undoubtedly, with 'homo affairs and fixings,' and also gnawing away on a large cake of gingerbread. He look» ed as though he was a hunk. •'Can you tell me, air, what t ime the cars come in 1" inn lire irum tn« in11 uiev were 10 scaie.— Major McFarland was killed,, arid the 23d aluoi. faltwed and retre.-ttd. B'u1 Ripley siifllirentorod 'hem to g oil order, and in person led Clit.-!i up the ascent, where in a ftw minutes tln v displayed, as intended. ; Miller, meanwhile, unsupported either by the l or ii3d, nevertheless moved up.- ward wiili unflinching • intrepidity, drove the British from their gu.is »t the point of the bayonet, took their whole park, and then, forming his men within twenty paces ol the retiring but hardly retreating foe, at lea#l twice his number, a perfect sheet of lire, at hulf-pisiol-shot distance, signalized the desperate efforts of the viciorious to rt'.taiu, the partially vanquished to regaio, ! the great •(niamCHit'and trophy, the pallu: dium and key of the contest. During this ; struggle, of some continuance, the 23d i regiment, gallantly led by General Ripley superior far in numbers, ihe British marched on again, and afier one discharge Irom the Americans as directed, nmuy more rounds wen- exchanged beiween the combatant*, in close atlij luiiutis battle' — Never good marksmen, however, and Willi the disadvantage of standing lower, the British now tired over the Americans, iiVm filonaing shuts were more effective; The battle of Bridgewater was unexpected to both armies. General Rtall had fol. loiveu Brown from the neighborhood of Quccnstown to the Falls, without his being aware of it; and Gen Drummond followed Riall. But their attack was not intended till daybreak on the 26th of July. On the 25th all the British forces and artillery not having arrived, Gen Scott, more courageously than, perhaps, prudently, without the design of either commander, or either •rmy being prepared, precipitated the at range and severe nocturnal contest, by which, of six thousand combatants, seventeen hundred killed, wounded or captured were sacrificed to the point of honor. The British loss altogether, by their sub»(quent ofliciitl report, ui noun ted to fight hundred and seventy-eight ; the American by theirs, 10 sevt n hundred and forty-three. Every General in both armies was wounded, and every officer but ttipley, who hnd several shots in his hat. The battle had raged for more than five hours, three in the dark, whet) ell firing ceased ; overcome with fatigufTand thirst, it was hazardous to rest on tlie hill, because the enemy might cut them off' Irom the camp %t Chippewa. nod tli. British, upii'i forced to give w»y, ri-iivBicd dov.n thn hill to their hiding Fear is of one ond ihe same pal id coinilexion. Courage Wf.irs many faces Miler was as calm, and Ripley almost as cold as Scott was vehement. As the lirst ret*iinent under Colonel Niuhojas, conducted by Major VVoid, was taking its position, Gen. Brown repented to Col. Miller that he was to charge arid take the battery with the bayonet, to which good-humored I y he answered, '1t shot! be done, *ir.' "The cars, air 1" ' "Yes, sir." j "The cars, sir, come in right after the locomotive." Emboldened by the confusion in which a perplexed and obscure conflict closed af. ter midnight, and the retreat of the Ameriban army next day, the British claimed victory, with come plausible pretensions.— 'Iliey olaim, too, inferiority of numbers, though muchnuperior in their own well chosen position, with better armament, more amunition; aod every ntDarn of suo- Majors Leavenworth and Jensup's opin. ion was made known to General Ripley, left in command, that the wounded tihould be collected and the whole army removed to camp. Wagons were accordingly sent fix; to carry off the wounded. Those who had sunk exhausted, tliOKe gone to take care of the wounded, the numbers who in alf battles stray from their places, those marched up on the flmtk, by his order reserving iheir firo unlii within twenty pae. ea, then poured it forth with nucIi elect, that suueradded to Millers, the British wore driven down the bill, leaving I Riplev, with the two regimcoU, in undis- Down went the pillow-cnse—off went his coat—oh, he was full ot fight. Two signs were ones opposite to etch other in Philadelphia, thua inscribed; " Jamei Shotf," and " Jonathan I'c//, ' During the fir-.t Combat on the bill, the first brigade at -''mi- distance enjoyed a respite. ■'C■■■it eager as ever fob hoke fighting, %ii(J BrowD, even