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VOLUME %M. 7 - ; NUMBER 44.
TEE RISING OP THE PEOPLE.
Poem Delivered before the Pal fata • Baps. Society
• of Harvard
BY ETIII3IDOB COTLER
The dram's wild roar awakes the land,; the
fife is calling shrill ;
Ten thousand starry banners blaze on town,
and bay and hill ;.
Our crowded streets are throbbing with the
soldier's measured tramp;
Among our bladed cornfields gleam the white
tents of the camp.
The thunders of the rising war hush labor's
drowsy hum,
And heavy to the ground the first dark drops
• of battle come.
The souls of men flame up anew, the narrow
heart expands ;
And woman brings her patient faith to nerve
her eager hands.
Thank God I we are not burned yet, though
long.in trance we lay.
Thank,God I the fathers need not blush to own
their sons to-day.
Oh I sad and slow the weeks went by; each
' 'held his anxious breath,
Like:one Who waits in helpless fear for some
sorrow great as death.
Oh I scarcely was there faith in God, nor any
trust in man,
While fast along the Southern sky the blight.
ing shadow ran.
It veiled the stars, one after one ; it hushed
the patriots song,
And stole from men the sacred sense that
parteth right from wrong.
Then a red flash, the lightning across the dark
ness broke,
And with a voice that shook the land the guns
of Sumpter spoke ;
Wake, sons of heroes, Wake 1 The age of
heroes dawns again';
Truth-takes iu hand her ancient sword, and,
calls her loyal men. .•
Lo ! brightly o'er the breaking day shines free..
dom'a holy star.
Peace cannot cure the sickly time. All hail,
the healer, war!
The calling was heard by Plymouth Rock;
'twas heard in Boston Bay;
Then up the Piny streams of Maine sped on its
ringing way.
New Hampshire's rocks,Termont's Green hills,
it kindled into flame;
Rhode Island felt her mighty soul bOrsting
her little frame;
The Empire City started up, her golden fetters
rent,;"
And meteor-like, across the North, the fiery
message sent;
Orer the breezy prairie land, by blufF and lake
it ran,
Till Kansas bent his armi and laugbed'to find
himself a man;
Then on by cabin and by, camp, by stony
, wastes and sands, •
It rang einitant down the sea where the Got
den City stands. •
And whereso'erthe summons came, there rose
an angry din,
As when upon a rocky coast a stormy tide
comes in.. '
Straightwaythe fathers gathered voice,straight
way the sons arose,
With flushing cheek, as when the East with
day's rod current flows.
Hurrah l the long despair is past our fading
hopes renew;
The fog is lifting from the land, and 10, the
ancient blue I
We learn the secret of the deeds the sires have
handed down.
To fire the youthful -soldier's zeal, and tend
his men renown.
Who lives for country, through his arm' feels
all his forces flow,
'Tis easy to be brave for - truth, as for the rose
to blow.
Oh I Law,
fair form of Liberty, God's light is
on thy brow. • •
Oh ! Liberty, thou soul of Law, God's very
self art thou ;
One the clear river's sparkling flood that
clothes the bank with green:,
And one the line of stubborn 'rock that holds
the water in—
Friends, whom we can not- think apart, seem
ing each other's foe :
Twined flowers upoin a single stock with equal
grace that grow.
Ohl fair ideas, we write your name across our
banner's fold; - • -
For you the sluggard's brain is fire ;" for you
the coward bold.
Oh! daughter of the bleeding past I Oh I hope
the prophets saw I ,
God gives us Law in Liberty, and Liberty ,in
Full•many a heart is aching , with mingled joy
• and pain, - -
For those who go so proudly-forth and may
not come again ;
And rea.ny_a heart is aching for those it leaves
behind, •
;Mil: thousand, tender histories throng in up
og Ole mind. -
The old JnPikbieBs,thi, young men-and Praise,
their bearing high ;
The w_oeme._ in the doorway stands .to wave
. them bravely by. • •
,One threw_ her_arms abont her boy, and said
"Oood bye, _my son,
la4d help thee de the valliant deeds. thy filth.;
er would ba.ve.done,v •
9nl . held
. ap to abearded man a littia child
• -
-Aid Said! ffr.shall not be alone for thy dear
, .I@e arkil this:;
41.opei a rosebud' ,ha•her band; leant at a
Age
uTby conitr,v, Neo ihe finis'', she 'Midi' "be
thy second bride."
Oh t MOt • hera, yirhen arOund,•your, heart's ye
- 1 ...-count-your obeerbled - -
And mica froairtlfeiiiclianted ring the Bower
cyan gona; , • f
On I wires ; when, a!er the cradled chr41:743
bend. E . •
And.Yeicee:Whick the 'heart can hear across
the distance call, : A "c, ;
Oh Insidlik.V.hen t ikthelaceileas high
ope the little caee, • • '
And look till ye can look no more npon the
- proud young face,
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Nat only prai!the Lord of Life, who measures
mortal breath, •
•To bring the - abgent back unscathed ontofthe
fire of death; - !
Oh! pray with that • divine• content, which
God's best favor draws, -
That whosoever lives or dies, he saves his ho
ly cause
$a out of shop . and farmhouse, from shOre
- and inland glen, ,
Thick as the times in clover time, are swarm
ing armed Men ;
Along the dusty roads in haste the eager col
umns come,
With flash of sword and musket's gleam, the
bugle and the drum
Ho I comrades, see the starry flag, broad-wav
ing at our head,
He I cpmradeB , Mark the tender light on the
• dear emblem spread. .
Our, fathers' blood has hallowed it; 'tis part
of their renown;_ ~
And palsied be' the caitiff hand would pluck
its glories flown, . • , . •
Hurrah I hurrah I it is our home, liere'er
thy colors fly;
We win with thee the victory, or in thy shad
ow die I
Ohl women 'drive the rattling loom, and
gather in: the hay;
For all the youth worth love and, truth are
• marshalled for the Tray.
SoUthward the hosts are hurrying, with ban
ners wide unfurled,
From where the stately Eindson floats the
wealth of half the world;
From where amid his clustered isles, Lake
Huron's] waters gleam ;.
From where the Mississippi pours an Unpol
luted stream ;
From where ICen tucky's fields of corn bend In
the southern air;
From broad Ohio's_lusclous wines ; from Jer
sey's Orchard fair;
From where - between his fertile slopes, Ne
- braska's riVer's run ;
From Pennsylvania's iron hills; from woody
Oregon ;,
And Massachusetts led the van, as in the day.
of yore. 1 1 . .
And gave her reddest blood to cleanse • the
stones of taltimore.
Oh I mothers ' sisters, daughters, spare the
tears ye' fain would shed ;
Who seem to die in such a cause, ye cannot
call them dead
They. live upon the lips of men, in picture,
bust and song,
And nature folds them in her heart, and
keeps there safe : from wrong.
Ohl length of lays is not the boon the brave
man prayeth for;
There are a thousand evils worse than death
or any ivar—
Oppression with its iron strength, fe'on the
souls of men,
And License with the hungry brood that
haunt his ghastly den.
But like bright stars ye fill the eye; adorning
hearts ye draw ;
Oh 1 sacred, grace of Liberty; Oh 1 majesty
of Law.
Htirrah the drums are beating; the fife is
• calling shrill ;
Ten thousand tarry banners `flame on toWn,
and bay s and hill;
The thunder'of the rising war drown Labor's
peaceful hum ;
Thank God that we have lived to see the saf
fron morning come—
The morning' of the battle cal!, to every
soldier dear!
Oh joy! the cry is "Forward I" Oh, joy the
foe is near.-l•
Forlll the crafty men ofpeace have failed to
purge the land;
Hurrah the rank of battle close; God takes
his cause in hand!
THE OLD KLEG-IdikEER MID THE NEW.
BY CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, .711.
1
" Never was the origin of a great straggle
mor inscrutable . than that of the one now
ragin' in Ainerica. . . Future historians
may perhapsdeteet.the dominant element in
the great ferMentation of passions and inter
ests, but we shall not affect to do so. .
Commercial jealousy, . a longing for in
dependence ~ . long bickering; and mit
that antipathies, may have found expression
in a fierce demand for political divorce. But
that the liberty of the African race was not
the true object of the movement on either
side, even at its outset, adinits of every proof
short of demonstration, and that the' slavery
question has since been utterly lost in the
melee of civil war, is capable of actual demon
stration."—The London :Times.
Just four centuries ago there lived in
England a man, great his dey, known
in history as 'Earl Warwick the King-,
maker.. For:years, sometimes siding With
one faction and sometimes with another,
he was a fruitful source of 'war to , Eng
land, and thel arbiter. of ber destinies;
until finally, by his turbulence, he brought
about his own destrudtiOn.. - Before' that
was affected, he, had set. up and pulled
down dynasties and kinge=he had caused
infinite wars and misery—and finally, at
one period, be, bad made the whole polity
o England. to rest on his shoulders. ' In
his time, in short, he ,was what Cotton is
in ours. Such was Earl: Warwick, of
whoin:Sume inset] these words, no less ap ,
plieable'to the interest' of 'nor days
,than
to the Bann of numerous
retainers were more deveted : to , his ;; will
0 ./tn: P.o e in;:Pki laws ; 'and
he: was the last of-,thoso,unghty barons
Who foritterly v oirerawed.thu °town, and
rendered the people incapable of any rep
ular system of civil government." .
If, in the year of grace 1461, newapa-
cbciteil to lite if : 1'1,000.0f 'li'qes DallocheY;-'.' . l4_o,lAl3 . 3oo.4o'tiort' 'af.....4**11;:i, pit:iitti7' ; i4 4,0: ebis;
COUDERSPORT, POTTER :00013,17, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23; :1361.
pens bad been what they now are,
.Ithw
absurd would have been the . position
Of some Paris Times or Amsterdam #er
iihose editors, in looking fop "the
unhappy civil convulsions now devailtat
ing a friendly country," bad - Xesoluiely
ignored the existence of the great King
maker—had sedulously attributed those
convulsions to the exportation of - corn,-
then first permitted; to a national debt,
then first contracted ; or tolany and ev
ery cause, provided only by so doing the
existence and influence of the- great Earl
could, with an eye to various tender
points at home, be ever ignored. Yet to
day, ;four centuries later;-that is what the
English prim is persistently doing 'while
America is battling with . her great king.
maker. They will attribute the strug
gle to "tariffs and commercial jealotts,iee,'!
"to longings.for independence," "to mu
tual jealousies," and to ti thousand Other
absurdities, but the real cause tonc'hes
them too closely, and that they will not
see. On the contrary, with them ,it is
"capable of demonstration" that thO real
cause has nothing to do with the result.
In titith, America is but living 4! over
again the old history of England. We
to-day haite our great barons, as they once
had ,before. Ours, however, are' inter
eats of trade, while theirs were but
men:. , We have our King-maker( but
ours: is not one man, but millions 'wade
one by monopoly. - One ovelgrown inter
est, : grown insolent by prosperityyand too
powerful for the Government, is seeking
to overthrow it,.and to install new i gov
ernments to suit itself. Hume soya that
"30;000 persons daily lived at the board"
of the English King-maker, but ourii
ports some 6,000,000 at borne and as , ma
ny abroad. The death of Warwick end
ed the wars of fhe Roses in England, and
perhaps we might now learn a usefulles.
son from the musty pages of Englisi his
,
tory.
There are certain questions which are
leard every day. Why, people ask, have
sentiments on slavery changed so within
a '_century . ?—why did Jefferson preach ,
one doctrine and why does Jefferson Da
vis preach another 7—how is it thatwhilsi
Waihington was an emancipationist,
Wie' is not 7—why was slavery :dying
out sixty years ago, if it was to .be the
most powerful interest on the continent
to` day ? The single significant woad cot.
ton le an answer to all such questions.—
Sixty years ago emancipation was econo
my ; now slavery is profit. On the' books
of the -South slavery has been transferred
from 'the debit to the credit , sale of the
account. Cotton .bas proceeded step by
step in its career, like a miglity,power.—
At first, in its day of small things, mere•
iy profitable, it slowly, built up for itself
asocial system—it .then created a doe
trineof inorals, ethics, - and economy,
adapted solely to that 'system---it, then
bad its colleges, Itt preachers, and its
statesmen—it then finally, grasped at
the Government, , and, driven from that,
our King-maker, like its great English
.protAitype, tried to overturd . the govern
ment, and to establish a new' one' better
adt4ited to its tastes. So- Stands the
question now. Our Warwick isin arms
against the Government. How can be
Actually be dealt with ? The old War.
wick was slain, but you cannot put to
physleat death it commercial interest. If
discussion - would have destroyed it, it
would have fallen long ago; but on dis
cussion it grew, fat. Wars and battles,
though necessary as a means, 'are"-anti
quated and vulgar remedies, and force
rarely strikes at the root of au evil. Yet
the real.remedy is evident, if peoPlii would
hursee it—is attainable, it people'Would
hat -Strive for it. .To bring;:slayerY - and
the country back to where they Were
ty 'Years 43, 'slavery must be made no
more profitable than it then Was. 'To de
stroy.power, ao•that-ik
,net again
land agru'rr rise to liana n l / 2 . isre Ft" de
ittroy- its cohesive force ;.4.-tbe bond of
union ameng alave-ownms. That -bond
ef pnionis
.not.property to _man-- , -is not
African servitude; - thato.ciliOive force is,
not even thccotton crop,—Dist both.anion'
and cohesion spring from thO 'monopoly
of , the cotton crop. Destroy quit
plant new cottoil.fielda--fasten its' pro
duction in other lands by other systems
of labor-;-foroe the South .] to compete
with the world; and, When elaireryi ' is no
than i t 1
more ,trrofitabie than t :was sinty years
ago, its ethics, itemorals,-'an4: its • poiret
will disappear Vith - fts - profits.' I Conquer
the South _ itbattle a doyen , times li over
run its territory; emaneipat , its slaves,
and drag it baokwito the lotr,"bitt If
you leave it its. monopoly 14 your la
bor will have been in vain I ,Again the
African will - drift back 111 1 ti bondage ;
again ' the cotton-king -Willi rear his
head ; and again, soon or Ilei s lutist this
conflict be fought to thelittet end: We
must destroy' oar Warwick iefere ;peace
can be seam , and -:healthyil ',3empetition
is the-one, only, fatal weapon,:
Of this - Iv : tit is the; prespeift 1 Thll
blockade is a.; last effective,Unfl : the cot
ton otop is +ut up for .the present.—
They talk of papturing and opening col
ten, ports.,Heaven .graiftil that if .the
Government ' should de soii'l the • Cotton,
safely 4oredlti the interior,i Intay not be
fortheonling I Every additional day of
the. blockade; every sililitienal penny
per pound u I piled on to the present price
of cotton, is One more. turn I of the , bow
string tnund:the neck of the Southern re
bellitin and the cotton !, monopoly. 'Day
by day
. the papera tell use of 'tic* cotton
fields planted—of new cOmpefitorsipring
ing np. Enumeration is useless. ": India,
Australia, Hayti,' Jamaica, :Brazil; Peru,
Central Ameries,' Egypt, and-indeed ail
of Africa, are filletwith a new hope.-.-
While the blockade lasia these countries'
are 'favored With a prohlblicayi, tariff,
which secures to them the markets of the ,
world. , lint -their efforts arc yet, young,
their.resoureds are undevoloped, their la
bor is not Systematizek their channels of
trade are not.opefied ; '',l?iit All they need
is time ' and encouragement.: Both..these
the blockade supplies.! ILet it be, raised ,
by foreign or domestic power, and before
the Southern control of the market"ell
these young' efforts must !go helplessly
down. , To bring this struggle to
Ow a , de
cisive e, the best use Congress could
make of it would be ; if , the Cimstitntion
stood not in the way, to aiprOpliain feu
millions of money to be exPended under
the direction of ,Dr. Livingstone •in the
developmeni of, the cotton culture , in
Southern Africa. Like : the Romans of
old, we :too should carry 'our' war into
Africa. . ' ' •
t 'fill b •
Thu; in spite o f ng , rations,
not:only is this war waged against a - giant
.wrong," but it is a great cicilizer. It
opals up undeveloped lands, and though .
Carried. Oh, Englfrid isseris, thel
name of the 111°4111 &tiff, it i iein fact the
greatest engine of free, .radel tigainst mo l i
tiopoly, thrit. this world :bass! atter sdetli- , —,
When• viewed in tbeie ' possible results,:
the struggle , rises to magnificent and pc4 : L I
etical prop i Ttrons. I quarters • "of the,
globe parttOrtte lti it Sanit face of man,
has a stake , on its Iretrillt: ! , The Indian,'
the Central American, • the Australian;
the Egyptian, and, ilast, and l Moat of all;
the African; may read in its progress the
signs Of their destiny.!: '; A' !brilliant • wri.
some•menths•ago said ':"There era&
no. be a Russian war,'Or aii3epoy inutinyi
Or an Anglci-Freneh invasiOn of china;
or an emancipation! Of the rierfs =of lits 4
sin, without, the effects thereof being setti.;
sibly experienced the iheres 'of the
Superior oTori the banks of the Steramem.
to ; 'arid the..eivil war that 4 is , raging in the
United Statei-:- proirlises! 'to p r oduce per-
• ,
manent consoquences'to the inhabitants of
Central India and ICentral Africa." 'So
it will sure/y{lls if 'Our: hioekade daelt k it
Il
sontinue, 4Di', it 41.4 War, in 1 " its ,re
breaks up the production lof cotton but
for two shortl years. --To•Ailea,:.• • jai:
Lice, the great atenernentr is Let
her:the up, and , thiough 'healthy cOmpeti.
tiod prove' thelilierator'efi hr
the development Of her resinircee is the
sole coaditicin of •Ilt9r ,Oefetie. 10 :tht t
7.
great' Oitir,iot , B ' l l ll4 't ( P'Otr
Livingsione-tells, of the 'exliteneit of
cotton - and rice and sugar • lands Odh as
the world noier dreamed of before. -They
need but.tillage, by day - We''aie
fowl' tillage-toward, thou!. Sonsepre
beitthuent tide *alibi(' 'Oval' their
nit hatelready*W.tied-
More than a year ago, betorthis strug
,
gra and blockade were thoug ht
poesible,
`I
''writer in that - hand-book:of Secession '
Dc Bow'al .
.said ill truly
istonishiog that•the cstpitaliste E tif n •
Witt as Nell as that large body of people
bOth in that eotintfy arid Amerins!who
really wish W benefit thong*s, have
not concentrated their dohs in -develop
inkthe resources of Africa; for it is Tin
i&tbledly Itrao I doe hoot this cottntry
in futuPe dines, come the bulk of the'
cotton.thttt :itt to clothe 'the world. I All
*fries is literally , a cotton. growing dyad.
try." To day ) through the folly of , the
South, the Prophecy may 'already be ver
iied. • 1 ,
People are fond of talking of the resillt
of the first gun.bred. at . ;Forth Sumpter.
,1 4 4ither that, ner any that aucceeded it,
did indeed any !bodily damage,. but its
consequences, have been itrenietidoni—on
paper. =li roused the North, destroyed
earery, broke down the cotton monopo,
ruined ,the south, and prodpced many
Other resultu But though ' all these
Were indeed accomplished, , , Lim gun
r would be as nothing compared: itith the
I declaration of the blockade.: dec
!Oration echoed: round thiwOrld. It id
parted new hope to every , friend of free
trade, and to every inhibitant of attrop
list clime. the Indian heard it, and it
told him pf future riches; the free black
of America heard and -it thundered in
Ihis, )ears the +monis of a righteous k retribu
tion; and, last and most of,all, Africa
may have heard it, and sluggishly awoke
out of a borbtrism frorketernity; If, in
the bounds of possibility, such results
taliji be fortbcoming,, then some ffitiiits
historian ; of. America may use of our
King-maker almost the very_•words of
11111/30 in regard to,, Earl 7arwiek of
of the olden time : "It was the greatest
as well as the last of , those inonopelies
Which formerly overa*ed -the Govern
ment and rendered the people intiapable
of any regular system of civil pOlitY."
AS,
•
gentlemeC of Detroit has furnished
the Adtertiseri of that city with the-fol
lovrinst acaount'of this, herolo officer
"Col. James( A. knit*" ths in
the city,of UtiOa, New Yink, in the year
1829, and is consequently in his thirty ,
second year. His parents were dative. ,, '
'of Ireland His mother,' after the'death i
Of his flitter, which took; ;dada 'wind - he
was a child, removed to Chicago, *here
She has resided with her son for the past
twenty-three years. be married a re- 1
spectable Irish American , 'in Chicago,
named. Michael,Lantry, Who has' Et.eadily
watched' with fatker's soliettwde the
eapanding mind of the brave young mil-
Ife,' Was edudateii- at the CathOlie
College of Notth Chicago, under the su
perintendance of -Mr! Kinsella'', now . of
•
New York City. Bela :a strict me mber
of the Catholiti church'. 10 1852,1. 1853
'and 1854 be read laW'in the Foii ; ce of .
Hon. Isaac S. Arnold Congressm an from
the Chiesgo District. i re)r tt short time
he edite4 , the , Western _tablet, a semi-re
ligions Weekly inewspaper in Chicago. -
•In 1850, he was - admitted an attorney
at-law in' ihieago: - at this time, held
the position of seecrnd iileutenant in the
,Chicago ,Bbields Guards; one of tho corn
, . I
'Fames now attached to the Irish - trigacie,
.
no* in Itlissoun and which d o n e se welt
,st Lexington. In the - winter of 1857,
Senator . ritch; of Indiana, 'tendered hini
a - clerkshipin. the Departtnent of the Itt
terior. He accepted , the :positiOn and
spent the. Winter at Washington.; .Dur
ing his residence in Waehingtop ; he cor
responded with , the ttica - 7,'4/egraßit i over
the ,ion de platie. of "gatan. i ' After his
'return from Washifigton he';ivai eleeted
Captain ;ofthe' Shiehi4 attar& On the
'naws arriving. of dais- lxim'barduiefit - :of
Fort: 3umptcr, he threwhisecrttlinto.the
national mom The ;American
eompanies held a meettag which be
tr Was 'v,hitirtriati. - Shottly afterwards - be
went tOrWashin' to with int'
g, a en
by,: the. Senator' ; bonglitei - lon", his
.deatb.be,d, r to the Preeidenti.tendering a
terbe palled:the Inab-ltrigade:
He was 'elected Colonel, :and went,to work
with tt' will. the -cotirse of:lthelrigadei
up 4o the li taiiiii f fa "well
known; 'it has nobly, bravely and honor
ably done its duty.
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COL Mn Worthy of,•itt poise.
EL, bettO,roan &atrial* 3 Ike in
the State orIllinoia;-- Since Ylinttithia
to tell the thfferebee.betirmkaletoxstwa
ter, a ghent 'of
,spiritolis - ,0r.10i11,--liquor
has not passed;hialips._ is f ik
temperance mail, dithellghfhtilafjecnind
sod whole td s !sulk: Ife rl ittitz
feet three inches in , beightywith swicry,
elude frania Wm, -Anstrotu*lmzel
eye -au otieti, frank Celtic fsce,otitipped
with cow*, dtiliL and; : indefieniied6d,
surnidnuted with a t bushy lirofnasitm of
hair; tinetlitt4l grey. -~, , On, the c26th
bf Isoo, be was married:to Miss
Maria binge . tit,, by the :Itomital,flatholici
13ishoti. thiitiagcl.. •
A fine scholar, a good
Haut writer ,
a promising latiYitiyiras iia
*hal the lid thief' df the : D . 64lf* irtioilt;
ed. Now be continue
so—one of the bravo dafejeers 'of 'the
Union. one tlf lily lait letters, receiv
ed by the gentlemen alicive'lilluded to,
he says : «If I die, "I fall in -defence of
oar Leis and Constitution lertl •° ex
ample be followed by .au-ki,eVeriman
who loves,the fame - and isrioliti Of :the
fathers, who made us a viit and : - honora
ble people."
BoBlftleitAla".
General William Stark.Roseneiaiis was
'born in the county of DelawitrO, - State of
Ohio, on the sixth bf September; 'lBl9.
His ancestors of the' father's' isidO4ere
originally from Amsterdam,. and on the
mother's were of the HOpkirtse..4, - .,.11e of
whom signed the decllitfition Indent;th.
dance. At the age of -eighteen, - ,ea
own direct application -to . the Secretary
of War, (the Ho ' ni Joel IL poinitsit) he
tii fttiptrudea civet at West, Point Id
1837. lie graduated among 'the fiverind
became brevet lieutenant oretigineers id
1842. His first `thilitary''
Foriftia Motirbir', beitimaided" One
year, first assistant its CoI:R.T. Delitiv
sy. In August, 1843,1 e martial Mies
Ann Eliza '_Hegeisiitt, fitt - litCdttiplished
and worthy representativii - Oi` the old Nest
York family of thdt name, - arid Was Order:
ed to West to act as assistant
fessor of Engineering and NaturaEPhil.;
esonity. ,
After reinidniiii `ler Sad& tfi
Academy; he was transferred to Newport;
Rhode Island, - and made Engineer-in-
Chief of the fortilleatleria, his
citted to the satiiiiiition 4 the, War De.;
partment. in 1853 be iitirs' made Ettg:
strutting engineer at the :Navy Yard;
Washington, Dititriet- of Ctrittinbia. In
1856 he aceenteciihistinferiptendency of
, _
"the Curial Coal Coronary of Col, River;
Kanaiihi Court floats, .firgiiria, and
Presidency of die ,Coal 'River Niislgatiod
Company; whir& be eetained>nnttl April;
1856, when he rernoved to =qicu l innatti i
and engaged in the manufiiiitiire ,of coat
oil and prnssiatdof • potash.".: This waif
his business when, he 'RI called,' by Gtn:
era! M'Clollan, to iiet as chief.engineef
and aist*camp; and thence ahortly after;
promoted to a Brigadier GentriThithip td
the. regular army.-
lri all these various positions, 4 Generei
liosenerrins has exhibited dig most Until.:
lug - industry, indomitable energy and
spotlas integrity. None ever knew hint
whose tesneet and eartfidenee hidid
Command, and the writir'of tat **emit
could ode tenreit `
,--among
certain papers kindly anVniitiedf to yid-
inspittion- by
. the :actoid:
piloted. Ides . liosiddranit, lys iitrepon ai
a letteridited Washington 14thi
1856, testifying to - liti,!.-11:01iiintrans /
high abilities, integrity arid: eneigy, acid
signed .iieftersoie DaTie./?1
Socially, the General ; rinlts to'-the re:
finement - of thU•getikeinik i ; iii frank,
free slin* mannerls d lidrieg: r"
tiding bu
Western:..Mulittieer be is'
little above the: -inedinmjheight:, rather'
thin. and 'very ereOt, feaiurei, sts'
striking as Ibis broad - Torebeicr'aiid deaf
grey ekes.: General Rocenoratra ieua acia.
Der of itriqtOmtn,
"Ma
. fri,efo," e btti
bandiGie thief' iziwiiisk l a l e':=—"And 4
yon 111010 replied' the not len
wife, "are tbegrave.diggere."
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