flj£ DJLLAR PER ANNUM iNVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANUA: Thursday Morning, October 25, 1860. (Original s)ocfrn. "THERE'S REST IN HEAVEN." When wand'ring on life's ocean drear. When waves are rolling far and near, In trials dark, 0. never lear, Remember still, " There's rest in Heaven." When foes are thick on every hand, When sorrows deep around yon stand, When wand'ring in a dreary land. Remember still, " There's rest in Heaven." When fierce diseases on von prey. When friends within the grave you lay, When peaceful comfort tlees away, Remember still, " There's rest in Heaven." When age is creeping o'er your frame. When weary, sick, halt, blind or lame, When slanderers your name defame. Remember still," There's rest in Heaven " ROME, ISOO. O. 11. TAYLOR. [At a Republican meeting in Georgetown, Mass.. the following song, entitled," The Quakers are Out," written I bv John G- Whittier. was read : Xot vainly we waited and counted the hours, The buds of our hope have burst out into flowers. So room for misgiving—no loop-hole of doubt— We've heart from the Keystone ! The Q lakers are out Tiie plot has exploded—we've found out the trick ; The bribe goes a begging ; the lusion won't stick. When the Wide-Awake laterns are shining about. The rogues stay ut home, and the true men come out I The good State has broken the cords for her spun ; Her oil springs an,! water won't fuse into one ; The Dutchman has seasoned with Freedom his kroutl H And slow, late, but ceitain, the Quakers arc out! I c.ive the flags t > the winds set the hills all a flame : I Ihko v.i v for the man with the patriarch's name ! B \wai with misgivings away with ail d-miit, ■ '.,>[• Rim 01.s goes in when the Quakers come out 1 [From theGcrtrantown Telegraph.] Historical Epitomes. TITK ATTACKS ON FORTS MIFFLIN AM) MERCER. The battle of Brandywine, wit*i its many disastrous incidents was over, and that of Ger mantown.almost roually uiifortiinate, liad ueen ' -milurlv drawn to a close ; \\ ashington fore | -aw that means must be immediately resorted j ti lor embarrassing and rend Ting I* dec ded (l.e nfreadv too tenacious foothold < 1 Sir i I William If owe ; and in order f..,' the nccom I ■ nenf of such design,he resolve*'upon ereo I • • r fortifica! ions along the I tela ware river and i ■ ,ii-o uhsiriu tietr its channel, for the purpose of i p;eli(* 15 any British vessels,a< might attempt nmaiatiieate v\ i 11 the enemy's army, then V Vl.'iadelphhi. The fleet which hd anchor ; I . . b .'.sapcake Bay, previous to the Aineri- 1 ■i. in defeat at Brandy wine,had already depart- H vf from its mooritus, and was in lull sail for id Howe's headquarters at the city,when ■huii llST of tlie various redoubts comuieu- V ed ; to prevent the advance of these during H progress of their works, the Americans 1 >!er the direction of Captain Duples-is— a ■ iniff French engineer of great talent and ■ c.iitnry skill.—constructed large frames of ■ ' avy timber, anii"d and -n*t lined by ..oden ■ • k pointed '.villi iron, which stood directly I ;-rpeiHlieular when in their required post ions. I T use massive stockades if I hey may lx SO I brined—were sunk directly in the riviiehaiinel I ii"r tic mmth of the Schuylkill, and their , 1 arid dangerous proportions presented an I i.i jhsiucle of considerable magnitude to the j I I ii. ahe low lied Bank similar defences v. ere I -abwerged, ai d the cktravz dr. Jrise at this I ,out, defended l>v a garrison of Americans, ■ • uipied a redoubt afoitg the r.ver shore, H welso s lusted, as to be able, if necessary to H reep the stream with their cannon, if the libit venture to disregard the barriers, and B fenny a pa-sage in another portion. , I'wa> tins fortification which especially de- I icd the Briti.-h Admiral's attention, as it ■ r -M the first serious impediment to his -•' nt Captain Hammond, of the Royal ■ Mm, a comma nd of a small vessel felt the 7 " 'nice of this garrison's redaction, atid lie ■More represented to General Howe, the I "fCcSsity for ils removal, at the same time ■'ig to guarantee the destruction of any ' *: d' fri-f. as might obstruct, their path- I * a J er delay their advance. In accordance *ih tins officer's suggestions,two British regi- , I: Tits were instantly dispatched to the Jersey | 'to aril orders given them to attack the re- I ' y'b a; Ih.hngsport. The American out ■ ' ks were unfinished, and totally inadequate ■ n the violent assault made upon them I : ois majesty's troops ; unsuspecting a land I - I'vthe inmates were of course without any I : ,oration to resist ; they therefore, after ■ A.ng their cannon and firing their barracks, P r t*cipitately,leaving the fort in theencmys I Ihe Briii-h couipan'es destroyed each 'jv G reene and 1 tuples-is to render their own works as invincible as circumstances would permit ; the troops were marshalled and orders given tlienj in regard to the muuoiuvers necessary on the emmy's approach. It was resolved to mainly rely on the inner redoubt, within which : they hoped to check the force of the attack ; the outwork- being as yet unfinished, were of course precarious situations for the little gar : risou ; their si/c was also an objection.as tend ing too much to disperse the little army, i About four o'clock in the afternoon, the as -unit wis commenced by the Hessians advanc ing under cover of a gulling fire from their 1 battery : arrived at tlie outer defences they ! were astounded on observing no signs of life,or preparation- for resisting attack. S ippo-ing that their overpowering numbers hid friglit . ened the Americans into sudden retreat, they | ha-tcncd towards the redoubt, inspired by the cheering tantara of a drum. Rushing forward they sprang up the parapets, and were about affixing their standard of victory between two embrasures, when from a half tnu-ked battery on the left, and two embrasures in front, a ; fearful volley of grape and inu-ketry was liulr etl directly in their faces. The effect of this i fatal charge was decisive and drove theenemv back several paces in great confusion. A ; second division c< until a tided by the gallant Count I'onop in the person, attacked the fort in another portion at the MI ME moment, lii men passing the surrounding possee and a ceudiug the ramparts, before even being aware ,of the enemy's presence. l.'pon these the lire of the Americans fell with fearful vio i lence ; their officer and his second in com maud fell mortally wounded, and -orne three , or four hundred privates were instantly killed; . the accuracy ofaiin and continued tempests of bull- proceeding from a comparatively inv'si- ! bie enemy, were deadly in their effect, arid the entire as well as frequent arid most galling fires from several gaileys in the river. Tin ir loss was great, and though so brief and hur- I ried a conflict, yet its results were sanguinary ; in the extreme ; two thousand of the flower of the Hessian troops thus defeated by but four hundred Americans, whose loss amounted to eight killed and thirty wounded, all privates and not an officer even scathed. Among those ; left upon the field was Donop, the brave lead er of the Hessian expedition, a gentleman of education and refinement, and much extolled ! for his abilities ;he fell at the first fire. An incident connected with his premature end, ' though no long. r novel, may yet possess inter i ) est for my readers, sufficient to warrant its. 1 reuroduction. The purple tints of sunset were mellowing the atumnal sky,and casting long lines of soft ened light over the broad river, which heaved in gentle surges responsive to evening breeze. The mantling draperies of snowy, golden-tip ped clouds hovered above the brilliant west, and caught in their gorgeous folds the last de parting sunshine ; the early moon was already visible, and though as yet emitting but feeble radiance, poured in slanting beams across the heaps of dead upon the bloody battlefield.— Capt. Duplessis strolled mournfully across the fatal plain, over the carnage-stained redoubt, j and along the crimson-dyed abatis, when sud denly a voice from among a pile of dead broke upon his startled ears, as it choakingly articu lated. " Whoever you are, draw me hence.'"— Repairing hastily to the spot, he perceived Count Donop, almost covered by his slaughter ed soldiers, ami apparently gasping for that life which was on the eve of departure. The kind hearted Frenchman was much affected, and ordered liirn to be conveyed to a dwelling near by ; where every comfort was bestowed upon the unfortunate man, Duplessis himself remaining at the bedside and endeavoring to soothe bis last fleeting hours. On the third day the battle,turning to Duplessis, the Count remarked,in tones of m>st profound melancholy, " This is finishing a noble career too early be paused and gazed fixedly at his ! companion ; perhaps the reflection of their different situations passed sadiy across his mind—he aiding to sopress the spirit of freedom Duplessis oDiy laboring in it 3 exultation —for PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY x\T TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. ! he resumed with bitter emotion, " I die the victim of my ambition, and of the avarice of my sovereign." Thus perished the bravest of those foreign mercenaries which the British King had allied to his standard and thus fell one who in the cause of ilberty would have risen to the highest tank of honor and fame ; I his remains were buried upon the spot ; but i now, alas I hear it, Americans, and blush for : Jour countrymen, they have been all disinter- I red, and the bones occupy promiuent places in the cabinet of some antiquarian, whose hands ] should have withered ere they had touched the j sacred ielic. The attack on Fort Mifflin now demands our attention, and with the reeountal of its , stirring incidents we shall close our present i chapter. General history is silent as to many ol its occurrences, but wo have delved into less superficial mines, and trust to display all their depths, thus hidden from universal ac cess. Scarcely had the echosof the first lies siau gun af. Fort Mercer awakened its wild j responses from the Pennsylvania hills, tliau the British vessels which had passed the cht \ vuux de f/inc at Biiliugsport, advanced and opened their fire upon Fort Mifilin. This for tification was defended by about fonr hundred { men, under the command of Lieut. Col. Sam'l Smith, a distinguished officer of the Maryland line. As we before stated, its merit consisted in its strength, us the works had not been con structed with much attention to symmetry or regularity. By sinking these numerous che rau.c de /rise in the river, the channel had been so altered, that although the lower line of barricades was passed, yet the two largest : of the British ships, Augusta and Merlin, ran aground and remained perfectly immovable in the tenacious mud. The American galleys did such execution upon these and the remain- ! ing vessels, liiut a decisive attack was po>t poni-d until the following day, when Fort Mifflin was expected to capitulate, after a few well directed shots ; profoundly were the ene my mistaken in the courage and perseverance j of their gallant foes. Early next morning the j battle was renewed, and a sharp action main- I rained with the American gunboats and gal leys at the same time that a heavy cannonade I poured its terrors into tlie little fort. The j British commander used every endeavor to | circumvent Lieut. Colonel Smith by introduc ing floating batteries into the narrow chan nels which separated Fort Mifil.n from the Pennsylvania shore ; but* these attempts, the l itter's intrepidity alike rendered abortive ai d ; lii> brave resistance materially aided the flo tilia in their gallant and suceis-ful efforts at ; r 'pu'sing the enemy. Such was the deadly fire incessantly main- ! taincd, that the British ships wi re obliged to , give way, and floated slowly down the river ; Toe Au_;u-ta and Merlin were -.till aground, every hope of their being set afloat by the in- Hux ot the tide, having passed away. The ' former of the two was finally struck by a led hot shot, and set on fire : in an instant all on | board was fearful confusion. The flames j spread vvith great rapidity, arid were graduallv approaching the ship's magazine. A majority of the erew flscaped from the devouring ele ment, but a few still remained, among whom was tiio chaplain and several officers and sail -1 ors ; before they could leave, the vessel blew ; up with a tremendous explosion, and all on i board perished with her. The Merlin met with a somewhat similar fate ; having been aban loned by her crew, she was set on lire, and finally blew up. The vtsseis remaining retreated down the river, passed the eh raiu de f, is? at Biliiugsport, and for a lime Fort Mifflin was safe and the Delaware a friendly ; -tieam. But her waters were not destined to remain long undisturbed ; a conflict more gal- . lautly heroic than that which distinguished the succeeding campaign against Fort M ill n, it is not recorded in the annnis of the Revolution. ' Gen. Llowe immediately commenced the con- 1 struction of works on Province Island, a point J ; between Fort Mifflin and the mainland, by means of which lie expected to finally and ef- ; 1 fccuiaily reduce thecliivalric citadel, thus reu- ' dering himself master of the river and its nav- 1 igation. Smith, the American officer in com- ' maud, was harrassed beyond measure by the ' constant fire to which his comparatively un- 1 protected fortrc-s was exposed ; from the first ' until the sixteenth of November, an almost ' incessant cannonade was sustained by the de- j ' voted garrison. Washiugton used every en- ' ' deavor in his power to procure relief and rein- 1 foreements for the gallant defenders on the 1 Delaware, but all attempts were in vain ; an ; order forwarded to Gen. Gates for the pur- •' pose of effecting this object, was disregarded by the latter in the sublimated intensity of his presumption, and tlie commander in-efiief ! < was obliged to await tBo progress of eycuts ; I with anxious and painful solicitude. General 1 Varnum was, however, diqmteked to Red : Bank, in order to render any assistance that j' exigencies might require. j 5 The tenth of November was ushered in by 1 a simultaneous attack upon Fort Mifflin, from j' the entire range of batteries erected on Pro- | ' vincc Island, as also from British ship-, in the ! ! river. The fortifications on the land side were ; five in number, and mounted respectively, 1 eighteen, twenty-two, and thirty four pound i ers ; those on the water consisted of a large ' floating battery, containing twenty-two tweu- ! < ty-fonr pounders ; this latter approached with- j s in forty yards of the tort, and opened a dead- . 1 ly lire upon the stockadoJ and ramparts ; be- s sides these—sufficient, it might reasonably lie ' supposed, to utterly annihilate the garrison at Mifflin —there were six other vessels farther I out in the stream, so situated as to bombard ' the interior and level the parapets. Although ' great losses were suffered on this first day by J the Americans, in the death of Captain Treat ' a brave young officer, and the partial downfall £ cf the barracks, still, such was their comman- ' der's energy and skdi, that he was enabled to | respond with great effect to the destructive 1 shots discharged against them. On the follow- I ing day, the enemy somewhat varied their fire, the result of which burst with fearful force upon dismounted gnus and ruptured palisades; total destrnction appeared the inevitable set n leuce, but sti!! Ccf. Smith fought with ua- : " REGARDLESS Of DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." flinching valor, aided in his noble exertions by Major Fleurr, one of the French allies, who distinguished himself by untiring efforts in re pairing the constantly reopening breaches.— During the contest of this day, an unfortunate occurrence deprived the garrison of their commander's presence ; he had entered the barracks, and was preparing to write for as sistance to General Varnum, at Red Dank, when a shot struck the chimney, shattering brickwork, and covering him with stones and rubbish. Such was the violence of the con j cussicn, as for a time to leave him insensible, and ils effects rendered it necessary to convey him across the river, where surgical attendance ! could be administered. The command now devolved upon Lieut. Col. Russell, who re placed the former, and continued the attack ; exhaustion and ill health finally prevailed over this officer, and Lis place was occupied by Ma jor Thayer of the Rhode Island line, by whose courage and ability the daily warfare was pro tracted, and a faint hope of ultimate success invoked. This latter gentleman was a person ;of the most desperate bravery ; he would ■ rather die within his fortress then surrender ! while a drop of life blood remained. Reinforcements for the enemy in the shape of numerous armed boats, now arrived, and j their firing added to the constantly increasing j tumult. On the morning of the fourth duy, ; a terrific cannonade burst upon the fort from ! a huge floating battery ; bat fearful as must have been its powers, yet that heroic garrison were enabled to silence it guns before the ap proach of evening indicated the happening of renewed horrors. The enemy became dis- j cuuraged ; unaware of the small number with which they had been so unequally contending, i it was supposed that some preponderating force occupied the little citadel ; and they were on the point of again relinquishing the contest, when a scoundrel, who had deserted iroin the Americans, arrived, and inspired i them with hope, from his accounts of the gar rison's inferiority in strength and total inabili ty to withstand, for a much longer period, the perils of the fight. On the 15th a combined attack from the shipping and land batteries was meditated, and . accordingly every arrangement f r the perfect ing of this design was immediately set in mo tion. AH the ships and gunboats in the liv er were drawn up round the fort, leaving a space free for the missiles from Province Is land to hurl their iron storm against it< para pets Early in the morning of the day we iiave men'ioned, a sudden silence pervaded the besieging forces, but it was that ominous calm which precedes a temp -t, when the thunder is for a moment hnsheo and the lightning with holds its power Ten o'clock approached, when a solitary bugle note rang over the wa ters, in wild vet mellow harmony ; in an in stant the air was filled with fiery mi.-.-ili-s, and the hiss of bombs mingled with the crash of ramparts or the bursting roar of cannon. The I day pnsed on with no interruption to the dreadful din, and night hung her dark canopy over the awful scene, only to increase the ter ror of the hour. Flush or. flash illumined the . surrounding gloom, peal on peal reverberated in loudest echoes from the distuut hills ; while the whizzing of cannon balls from the batter ies on shore, and the continued rattling of musketry from yard arms which actually over hung the barracks, made " night hideous " by their frightful dis inance. Major Thayer, the American officer in com mand, forseeing tiiat it would be idle longer to ' maintain the disproportioned co:ite