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They were of much the height and build of Seth Brown and his brotller; but what Grrand could possibh' have taken them to the Cape, when their f:ltiler "had accounted 50 plausibly for their absellcc?

A vague, fOl'mle:;s misgiving came to chill my heart with dread. "hat errund could llave led those two young men to Illy de~ohte dwelling,on a night of revelry? I set my tectll and strode on faster. 'Vas that lightning, thnt reel flash through the darkness to seaward? N J. ld,e!" a pause came the sullen boom of a calm or.. A signal of distress, no doubt, from some ship in peril. I pressed on. At last I could see the light-house, sending, as usual, its friendly oeUlns of radiance far over the roaring sea. As usual? No, for my practiced eye soon detected a change. The red light burned alone; the green lamp was gone!

" Great Heaven!" I cried, aloud, "this is some dreadful accident, or else villains have been tampering with the lights-those young ruffians-the ship-the invitatioll-I see it!" With a groan I set off to run at my utmost speed, hoping to arrive in time to light the extinguished lamp before the doomed ship, whose signal I had heard, should be lured to her fate. For at a glance I had diviued the heartless scheme of the wreckerso The red light burning alone would be taken for that on Cape Lookout, ancl the captain, utterly deceived, would seek an imaginary channel where the fatal sand-banks lay.

Belore I got home, however, flash upon flash, boom after boom, told of the urgent danger which the mariners had perceived when it was too late. Each report was nearer and nearer, and the vessel must be driving fast toward the Ice-shore. I hul'riedto the house. Juba was asleep and snoring in a corner of the kitchen, and the negress was' rocking herself before the nre, crooning out some plantation ditty. Evidently the blacks kneW' nothing of what had been done. I ran up to the glazed chamber, where the lamps stood. Hastily I relighted that which had been extinguished, and then approached the glass and looked out. For a While I saw nothing but the flashes or the minuteguns: but presently a broad and lurid glare arose, and I could see by the light ,of an enormOtlS fire of tar~barrels and wood, which had been hastily piled upon the beach, that the vessel had already grounded_ She had struck bows foremost, her upper spars and rigging had gone overboard, covering l1er deck with a tangled mass of "uin, the waves breaking furiously over her. Hard by' I could see a nnmber of men, their swart figures clearly defined in the blood-red light, bustling up and down the sands. They had lighted the :fire-the wreckers. Without pausing to consider the possible conse~ quences to myself, I hun'ied down the larIder, call~ ing on J uba to follow me; and, rushing toward the beach, boped that I might be in time to reach a helping hand to some· of the poor perishing creatures. When I dloew near r heard a great shonto

~1I\~4Ships. ~he,whole ,sea, coV'erei! all overwith nl!l'gJilents of ,wreck,

and struggling The ll\iterW(ll"e bllt . few, and their cries for help weiedisreg\lXdedby the greedy wretches ,on shore, who rushed, with loud shouts, waist-deep into the sea, to secure plunder. Chests,ccasks, and other prizes were l?-urried. ly grasped, and rolled or dragged above the reach of the waves, while the w,;'~!!kers encouraged each other in their unhallowed task. It was a hideous scene, but I saw little of it, for my eye suddenly

_ lighted on something like a 'bundle of clothes, lashed toa bench of light cane-work, which was floating in an eddy hard by. The white bundle stirred as it was swept past,and the long gollien hail' of a child"and the pale pretty face of a child, were clearly visible in the crimson light. In an instant I was standing in the foaming water, which reached above my waist, and I had a :firm grasp on the object that had attracted my notice_ The undertow nearly bore me off my feet, and I staggered,

. but I held the child fast, cut the cord that fastened her to the bench, and bore her in my arms to the beach. A sweet face, innocent and beantif.l, the face of a seraph! She was wet and cold, but fear had not benumbed her faculties, for she clung to my shoulder with (me tiny hand, while, with the other she pointed to the sea, and murmured in a weak voice, "Mamma! Please help! ,04 pray, pray save mamma !" "

, Poor child! I looked on her with pity; no doubt was in my mind that her 1110ther had perished in the disaster. The little girl-she could not have been above seven years old-pointed eagerly to a mass of wreck that turjled ,md twirled in the eddy

- as it drifted, past, and begged and prayed me ,pas-sIonately "to help dear mamma." "

The child was l'ight: there was ahuinan :figure lashed to those spars, and the long brown hair and the streaming garments showed ,that the apparently lifeless form was a woman'so I laid 'the, cbild lightly ,on ,the sand-bank, telling her not, to be afraid, and thl'owing off my coat, plung\!d into the sea, and with great difficulty dragged the, floating mass to shore. ,The little raft,' hastily composed of a couple of studding-sail-booms and a hencoop, lashed together, had drifted far out before I reached it, and the strong current nearly sucked me out to sea as I swam back, panting aud dripping wet j but I managed to drag the poor lady from the waves. She was quite insensible, her eyes were, clQsed,and but for the very faintest action of the heart I should have thought life ex.tinct. A pale, delicately-moulded face, with some resemblance to that oHhe beautiful child, though the complexion and color of the hair were very dissimilar. The little girl put her arms round her mother's neck, and kissed her a hundred tirlles.

I now began very seriously to cOJ].sider how I should get the sufferer conveyed to safe shelter. To, the wrecker/) I, dared' not appeal; . Fortunately they.h~db~llntoo busy ~o no tic!! what waS goin~ onata ~is~anceoffifty " arid, if they had ,seen me ' , me for one of the

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no living claimants of the property which tkey were lawlessly appropriating.

As I swam back with my second prize myface had been toward the wreck, and I had distinctly seen two human heads rise above the broken water, and two eager, gasping human faces, and the outstretched bauds of two Illtlf-drowned llIen. Both were uareheacled and drenched with salt-water, but by the momentary glimpse I caught of them I should have said that tbe elder was a seaman, the other, who wore a dark mustache, a gentleman. They held out their hands, and cried for aid, but none came. Only a tall man, whose face I did not see, but whose figure was like that of Japhet Brown, repulsed them with a boat-hook he carried, and pushed them back into the deep water, amidst the jeers and yells of the wretches 011 shore. And so they sank, murdered for the sake of gain. I felt that my own life ,hung on a thread. If any ,vrecker espied me, the villains would not hesitate at another crime. But how could I go? I could calTY the child with ease, but her poor mother!

Thank God! Juba, in person! I had quite forgotten that I

had ordered the young negro to fonow me i I had far outstripped him, but I looked up and saw his black face. He was dreadfully Illalomed at the fierce shouts and excited gestures of the wreckers, and was on the point of making off when I caught Mm by the collar. Between us we contrived to carry the young woman oyer the dreary sand-hills between us 'and the light-house, the child being sufficiently loecovered to walk. We laid our patient on my bed, and when Aunt Polly had exhausted her first transports of astonishment, she proved an excellent nurse. Thanks to the care and zeal of the kind negress Mrs. Fairfax. gradual~ ly revived. It was from her own lips that I learned her name and position in life, She was t,he young wife of a gentleman of good fortune in North Carolina, and nephew to the Governor of that State. But-poor thing !-I could not disguise from her

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that she was a widow, though I spared her the additional pang of knowing tha.t her husband had been one of those who had been inhumanly thrust back into the sea to perish, although I had little doubt that one of the murdered men had been Captain Fairfax, whose description tallied with that of the poor victim I had beheld.

Leaving the widow weeping over her recent loss, while she clasped her rescued child as if she feared to lose her too, I went to make preparations for leaving the island. Most fortunately I had employed my leisure in repairing a dismantled boat. True, it had no mast, but it was noW' water-tight, and a pair of the old oars were flt for use. Before I slept I brought the boat from the creek, and moored it to the quay ready for a start. :My great fear was that, before we could escape, some of the wreckers might discover that I had been an eye-witness of their crimes, and had saved some of the passengers on board the foundered ship, wbich I now learned was the Astwote, of Boston. On this account, shortly after daybreak I caused mattresses and pillows to be placed in the boat j and Aunt Polly, Jnba, and I, carried down Mrs. Fairfax, who was ,too much exhausted to walk. The child followed, and Aunt Polly arranged the blankets and cloaks around the invalid, while Juba was to take one oar, and I the other. The black lad was not wholly unused to a Loat, having rowed on the river neaf Wilmington. In case of pursuit, which, however, seemed improbable, I had plaCid tIle loaded gun in the boat, had hidden one of the cutlasses under my pea-coat, and concealed the other in the sand. We were jnst ready to push off When I l'emembered that my sketches and drawings, which I was loth to leave, were still within the light-house. I ran back, put the }HIrtfolio under my arm, and was on the threshold of my late dwelling, when the figure of a tall man appeared in the door-way-J apbet Brown!

His face was swollen and coarse with drink, and his fiery eyes droopecl as they met mine.

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" Whither away, chap? Yew seem in a plaguy hurry;" he ~owled, and extended his hand.

" I am going out. I have no time for conversa.tion."

The young villain burst out into oaths and curses.

"Conceited :British hound, wbo be yew, to refuse to shake an honest man's ha.nd?"

. "A murderer's hand, you mean I" I cried, in. dlgnantly, though I repented the words before they Were well out.

J aphet turned Ih1.d with passion. "You know too much, my gentleman. I'll stop your jaw pretty smart."

So saying, he threw himself upon me, but I was luckily armea, and I drove him out of the lighthouse, pursuing hiM, cutlass 1n hand, for a short distance. Then I went back to the boat. J uba and I were not first-rate rowers, the boat was heavy, and our progress was slow. Before we were hall-way across the sonnd I descried a IlwUt whale·boat cleaving the waters on our track. No doubt the wretch Japhet had given the alarm to his comrades, and had we been overtaken the secret would have been preserved by the eacrifice oC all our lives. But a .sloop passing within hail picked us up and carried us to the main land. Before nightfall we were able to place Mrs. Fairfax and her little daughter under the safe care of her husband's rela.tions.

I have little more to tell The gratitude of the Fairfax family pressed upon me a large pecuniary reward. This I declined, but I gladly accepted patronage which enabled me to leave for Europe two years later with-for an artist-a purse reasonably hea.vy. :A states marshal, backed by, an armed force, was dispatched to Cape Hatteras with a warrant for the apprehension of the guilty. B I,1t some delay had occnrred, and the Bra wns fled to Texas, in which remote region,.years af'terward, I read of the ex.ecution, by lynch law, (.f Japhet and his father for robbery /lnd lllurder.

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Shaw of t~e North Carolina forces, and now senior in com. mand, askmg What terms of capitulation would be gran ted. General Foster's answer was, .. Unconditional surrender " {Jolonel Pool wanted to know how much time would be granted.. ",fO ~onger than will enable you to report to yeur seDlar. Colonel Pool retired, and, after waiting for what he supposed was sufficient length of time without a reply, Ge}leral Foster commenced closing on the enemy, when Major Stevenson of the 24th Massachusetts, who had gone with Colonel Pool to receive Colonel Shaw'S answer appeared with a message that General Foster's terms wm accepted.

DESTRUCTION OF THE REBEL FLEET.

- The destruction of the rebel1leet by Commander Rowan is thus described by the same correspondent:

We came in sight of Elizabeth City about eight o'clock, and as we approached we discovered the enemy's steamers -seven in n~mber-in line of battle, in front of the city, ready to recelve us. A fort was also discovered on a point which projected out some considerable distance--one-fourth of a mile, perhaps-in front of the rebel line of steamers' and directly opposite of this fort was a schooner, anchore~ on which were two heavy rifle guns, the distance between the fort and this schooner being about half a mile. Four large guns were mounted on the fort, and it was thought by the rebels that no fleet of ours could pass this narrow channel; consequentll they considered themselves safe, ~i~ a~~ fu~~~tance a their navy, drawn up between the

• At the sight of the enemy every thing was in readiness for battle. To describe the wild deligh~ of our brave bluejackets wben they first discovered the enE:IIlY is more than' the pen can do, •

The charge was short and desperate, and, w;ithout any exception, is one of the most brilliant ever made by the American Navy. All eyes were on the Commander,Row_ an, to see what the first order would be, as we were rupidly approaching the foe.

]n due time he ran up th~ signal to eDgage the enemy in close action, hand to hand. We were then about two miles from the enemy. Tllis was a signal for a test of speed as well as a signal fot a deadly encounter with a. despemte foe, whose all was staked upon this final engagement. For a clistance of two miles it was a race between our steamers iu their eagerness to outstrip each ~:~ee~~ f~!.to be ilrst to meet the enemy of the Republic

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nrl~e of th~ Secolld Divlsion. It may be inteteati to mentIon In this connection that the :First Company ~~ regiment was armed with the "Burnside riil.e"-a W.e4pors that did good .execulion in the bllttla in avenging tlut wrongs of the lllventor ilion the C(>.l'eb,l" of. tbtl traif;ol' FIo!a. Colonel Burnside'lJ . killful get;er~lJlhlp on thl$ 00-~lon brought him to the immeciitlte notke of the tluthor: itles at Washington, nnd on 6th of Augul't laFt he Will! ~ mOted. to ~ full Brigadier-Genlral. 1'el'>on811y, General Burnslde lS a. man of fiDe lll'pt trenc<:, \\ itb a lofty fore.. head, ,,:xpt;eaalve of detp p€nctratitln. Hib Illllnnera ~ very wlODlng apd pleasing, while at the same time bU fea~ures denote a firmness and det'll;i,eneflJ' of chlU'at::ter elDlDently aPP1'?priR!e to the important podtion which h, .occupies. He IS, Withal, a strict di~clplin'l:rinn 11 m~ implacable ene~y to military irregularity, and y~ a lIlOSt popular man Wlth every one.

FLAo.:OFFlCER GO!.DSBOROUGH. Flag-Officer Loui!! M. <;Toldsborollgh, commander of the

n~val part of the Burnslde ~l(p diticm, was born in the District of Columbia.. He is.a dtiztn of the State (If Mary. land, but; received hll! nppomtnlent in tbe Lnited Stare. Navy fi'om the Di trict of Columhia.

His first entran:e into the nllvy t!earsdateJune13.1812. He bas COIlJeqUeJ Ily been nearly fitly years in the United ~tates .service, ov ~ eighteen of which he has plUlSed at sea: m the·various g &des of the nsVltI servk'e. Alnong otlIe;s, he conunaJlned the Marion, 88 gU!ls, in 1842, at the ti!Ue she was attached to the eqllndron of Olmmodores Rid~ely and MOrris at Brazil. In 1841 he commanded the Oh10, 74 gnns, and afterward eomnlanded the Cumberla'{td, 44 gun!!, aDd the Levant, 18 gun!!, at the time thOlla vessels.were attB.ched to the squndron of. CLmmodore 8ilaa JI. Strmgham in the MeditelTanean. The Ollmberland was ~he :fiag-ship :vhi1e under his command. Hia time of semc~ on shore lS a1J?ut twelve years, and he hAS been off actlve duty about eighteen years.

The date of r· J3 present commiesion is September 14, 181J5. He late~ oommanded tlle 1:niteil States tiigatl! Congr~ from ",bleb position he was appol:nted to oommand one half t:4 the Atlantic Blockading SqUAdron, IJll.. perseding Con....1ooore Stringham, who was formerlY ill c.ommand, Hi~ flag-ship was the lTinntllOta, and hilt /ItatIcn for Some time was Fortress Monroe. Although the late act relative to officers in the navy places: him nomtn. ally on the retired list, baving been ova' forty.nve yean in the service of his country, yet Commodore Goldsbor. ollgh, llke many other old officera in the na~ is a. man of too much expt!rience and energy to be iUow~ to retire upon his laurels,as his brilliant performance at Roanoke Island abundantly testifies.

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The POlDt where the fort was situated necessarily brought our steamers nearer together, making them sure marks for the enemy's guns; indeed, it wOllld be a lIlb'ucle if a sllot from one ofthe enemY's guns did not strike some one of our steamers. Under the circumstances, most any other commander would have thought it advisable to iirstattuclt the fort and silence the guns on both sides of that nlllTOw point, and then attack the l'ebel stelWJers' but not 80 with the brave and intrepid Rowan, whose' motto iB to charge bayonets on the enemy whenever and wherever he may be found. In action tIle position of the commander's B?ip ~ in the centre of the squadron. The Delaware, ~aptaln Rowan's fiag-ship, was at the head of the advancmg columnt and led the van. No attention was paid to the fort or urmed schooner, as they dashed 'by tlletll through a perl'ect torrent of shells and grape, boarded the rebel steamers, and engaged them at the point of the bayonet, as the panic-stricken rebels leaped into the water in every direction. Many were kllied by the bayonet and revolver in this hand-to.hand fight, and sank below the water. Their real loss will donbtless never be known to us' the Slaughter, howeTer, was fearful, and the struggle short and desperate-not more than fifteen minutes in durution.

Brigadier-General John G. Foster, COJnn1andingtheFhst Brigade, who received the surrender of the rebel.trOopi OD. RoanokelslandLwaa bom in New lIamptilm:e in.l~gtaduated at West point in 1846, standing nnmber four in his class, and was breveted Second Lieutenant of Enginecm in the company of which, the rebel General Gustavus W. Slnlth was then Captain and General. M~lellan First lieutenant. On the 20th of August, 184T, he was breveted First IJeutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Cherubu8co. He was With the storming party engaged at E1 MoUno del Rey; in which engagement he was severely woundedt and for his gallant and meritorious conduct while in this bat.tle he was breveted Captain, his cOlDlllission bearing date September S. 1847. He was Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Military Academy during 1854, and in April of that yw was made a full First Lieutenant of Engineen. On the 1st of July, 1860, he was made a full captam,at the same time holding a brevet higher rank. He was also one of the brave few who eo long and so gallantly defended Fol1 Sumter ngainst the rebel soldiery of South CarolfM:. Since hill. return from tbat fort he has been ill

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THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION. 1" Jl: devote a large port~on of our space this '"eek

to Illustrations of the Burnside ExpMition. On page 136 we give portraits of the commanders GENERAL BURNSIDE and FLA(}-.OFFICER GOLDS~ BOROUGH; on the same page a picture of the DEBTRYCTION OF THE REBEL NAVY UNBER COMMODORE LYNCH; on page 137 an illustration of the CHARGE OF HAWKINS'S ZOUAVES upon the rebel batteries; on page 140 a portrait of GENERAL Fos'fER, who r~ceived the surrender of the rebel troops; en pa"e 134 A CHART OF ALBEMARJ,.E SOUND abGwing the field of operations of the expedition; and on thIs page a MAl:' OF ROANOKE ISLAND showing the position of the rebel batteries~ I

A v,er:y neat anil comp!ehensive report of the operatIOns of the combined 1leet and army is given in General Burnside's Report, as follows:

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United Staua .Army. Washington: GmomAL,-I have the honor to report that a. combined

atta.ck upon this island was commcllced on the moming ef tbe Tth by the naval and military forces of this ~pedHion, which has resulted in the cRllture of six forts,forty t1a::Ja~:~~~~ ;~~nd prisoners, and upward of three

Among the prisoners are Colonel Shaw, commander of the island, and O. Jennings Wise, commander of the Wise Legion. The latter was mortally wounded, and has since died.

The wllole work was :finished on the afternoon of the 8th inst., after a hard day's fighting, by: a blill:iant charge in the centre of the island, and a rapid pursuit of the enemy to the north end of the island, resulting in the capture of the pl'isonersmentioned above.

We have had no time to count them, but the number is estimated at nearly three thousand.

Our men fought bravely, and have endured most man-:IJYd!~:eh:~~~~l:. incident to fighting through swamps

It is impossible to give the details of the engagement, or to mention meritorious officers and men in the short time allowed for writing this report, the !;laval vessel carrying it starting immediately for Hampton Reads, and the reports of the Brigadier·Generals having not yet been harided in. It is enough to say that the officers and men of both arms of the service have fought gallantly, and the plans agreed upon before leaviug 'lIatteras were cariied out.

I, will pe excused for saying in reference to the action tllat . I '9we every thing to Generals Foster, Reno, and Parkl\,as'more full detaUs will show.

I am sorry to report the loss of about thirty-:five killed, and about two hundred wounded, ten of these probably mortally. ' Among the killed. are Colonel Russell, of the Tenth Connecticut regiment, iLneJ Lieutenant-Colonel Vic~ tor de Monteil, of the D'EpeDeuilZouaves. Both of them fought most gallantly. I regret exceedingly not being able to senC .. t'lll1report of the killed And wounded, but will send a dL~p""" '. 'n a day or two With full returns. . .

I beg leave to lUciOi!e a copy of a General Order issued by

brigades of Generals Reno and Parka. The advance was supported by six howitzel'S, commanded by Midshipmen Porter an~ Hammond, and manned in pal,ii from the fleet. After.f0l'dln~. a creek, General Foetl!r's forjje,:~I! .. ~p }tii.ijI the enemY's pickets, who fired their pieceSi\iia:,\iiW:: 'St~jJc; lng the main road, the brigade pushed on, and,after marching a mile and a blllf came in sight of the enemy's posi. tion. To properly understand its great strength, in addition t? wll~t skillful engineering had done, the reader will bear lD mlnd that the island, which is low and sandy, is cut up and dotted with marshes and lagoons. On the right and left of the enemy a morass, deemed imp&8llable, stretched out nearly t11e entire width of the island.

The upper and ll)wer part oftbe island being connected by the narrow neck on which the battery was situated and a.cross which lay th' road, the battery of three guns' had been located so as to rake every inch of the narrow causeway, which, for some distance, was the only approach to the work. General Foeter immediately disposed his forces for attac!J by placing the 25th Massachusetts, supported by the 28d Massachusetts, in line, and opened with musketry and cannon. The enemy replied hotly with artillery and infantry. While they were thus engaged, the 27th Massachusetts came ap, and were ordered by General Foster to the left to the enemy in the woods, where the rebel sharpshooters were Htatiened. The 10th Connecticut was placed in support of the 25th Masfl4PhnsettB.

General Reno now came up with his brigade, consisting of the 21st Massachusetts, (Hst New York, 51st Pennsllvania, and 9th New Jersey, and pushing through tJi.e swamps and tangled undergrowth, took up a position on the ligl!t, with the yiew of turning the enemy. Thill was done WIth the greatest alacrity. ·Meanwhile the contest raged hotly in front, our men behavini gallantly, not wavering for a moment. The Massachusetts men vied with the men ofConnecticlIt; those of New York and New Jer· sey. cOllrageously supporting their brethren of Pennsylvania, Our troops were gradually overcoming the difficulties which impeded their approach, and though fignting at great disadvantage, and suffering severely, were making a steady advance. Regulars were never more steady. General Burnside was near the place of landing, hurrying up the resel'Ves, receiving reports, and, eo far as practicable, giving orders.

General Foster was in active command on tIle ground. His brave and collected manner, the skillfulness with which he, 9.'! well as General Reno lind General Parks mareuvred their forces, their example in front of the line, and their conduct in· any aspect, inspired the troops to stan{l where even older soldiers wonld have wavered. In this they were seconded nobly by officers of every grade. General Parks, who lUld come up with the 4th Rhode Isllmd, 8th Connecticut, and 9th New York, gnve timely and gallant support to the 23d and $Tth Massllqhusetta. The ammunition of our artillery getting short, and our mllll It'LVing suffered severely, 1\ charge was the only method of dislodging theenemr, At this juncture Major KimbnlJ, of Hawkins's Zouaves (New York 9th) offered to lend the charge, and storm the b1LUery',vith the bayonet. "Yon are the man, the 9th the regiment, and this the mOnlPllt I Zouaves! storm the battery! Forwardl" was Genernl Foster's reply. They started on the ~'un, yelling like devUs, cheered by our forces on evcl'Y side. Colonel Hawkins, WllO was leading two companies in the flank movement, joined his regiment on the way. On they went, with fixed bayonets, shouting H Zonl Zou I Zan I " into the battery, cheered more loudly than evel'. The rebels, taking flight as the Zouaves started, went out when they went in, leaving pretty JIluch every thing. behind them, not

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The fort and armed schooner were deserted quite as soon as were the rebel steamers; for it was made quite as hot work for those behind the guns as it was fol' their confeder,ates on the gun-boats. Our lOBS is two killed and about

adVllnce, for the rebel steamer :flag. ship cf we rebel navy, on which was Commodore Lynch, and run her down, cutting her through. The Ceres ran straight intI' the reb. el steamer ElliS, and run her down in like manner, boarding her at the Bsme time. The Underwriter took the Forreat in the slUDe style; while the Delaware took the llano ny in fine shape, she having received ten shots from our squadron, which made dayUghtthrough her in as many places. The Morse, Shu:wsheen;-tJoclcwood, Hetzel!, Valley Oity, Putnam, Whitehead, Blinker, and SB1tmo'Ur also covered themselves with glory. Every officer and man in our entire sqaadron behaved like a hero, one as brave as the other, all through this desperate charge. The teniiled rebels, as they forsook their gun-boa.ts., fired thetn, and thus all but the Ellis were burned, including a new one on the stocks. Four were burned, one calltul'ed, and two made their escape-the RaZm'gh and BeaU/art. They are in the canal which leads to Norfolk, but are not lIble to go through, on account of tbe locks having been destroyed; consequently they will be captured before this reaches yout as theyeau go only some few miles tOWlU'd NorfOlk.

ACTING MAJOR-G;ENERAL BURNSIDE. The Commander-in·Chief of the expedition, Bligadler.

Genera.l Ambrose Everitt BUl'llSide, was born at Liberty, in Union County, Indiana, on the 23d of May, 1824, and is consequently now in his thirty-eighth year. In 1842 he entered the West Point Military Academy, and graduated in 1847, w;ith the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Second

the sUp~l'intendence; iOf~tih~eiiji~;~i~i=~ and has there ahOW~~forth some

THE CAPTURE OF FORT HENRY. WJ!l· devote page 138 to i11llstratiOIl$ of FoR'l'

I:IIDmY, whose capture bYcml"'gallan;tNaVY,-ander Flag-officer FOOTE, We recorded in' Qur.lasfll1Q11.. ber. Our pictures are from sketehesby our;"t~. tin Western correspondent Mr. ALEXAlitDE.Ri~,:, FI.OT. We refer to last number for a fu,U a'c¢o~* of the affair, and subjoin the following refiU'e~ to tbe letters on the MAl' ot the Fort:

A-82-pounder harbette guns •• • ••• 19 B-24-pounder barqette rilled gun. • 1 (buJ:8ted. BW$ C-1().incb Columbiad.. .... ....... 1 D-24-pounder siege-guu •••• ~ ••••• ·1 E-l2-pounder slege.gtU1lI ......... t F -Flag-staff. 11 rw. II_Drawbridge. K-WelL M-Magazine. O-Ordnance storet. Q-Quarters. P-Adjntant's quat'ters. R-Ofticers' quarters.

THE EXPEDITION AG.A.INST SAVANNAH.

United States Artillery. In September of the same year he was transferred to the Third Artillery, and wa~ attached to tIle rebel General (then Captaio) Bmgg's company, with which he marched in the division of General Patterson to the city of Mexico, and there remained until the close of hostilities. With this company he also was WE devote page 182 to illustrations of the move· engaged for three 01' four years in the Indian border wars ments of au! EXPEDITION AGAINST SAVANNAH, of New Mexico, distinguishing llinu!elf in an encounter from sketches by our artist, Mr. Davis. He writell : with the Apache tribe in August, 184\), near LOB Vegas, where he completely routed them, killing eighteen and THE ENTRANCE OF OUR QU~-:BOATS INTO THE. tnking nine prisoners, besides cnptul'ing a number of SA V ANN AH RIVlm, AnOVI~ FO In' I'ULASKI. horses. Fot'11is gallantry on this occo.sion he was brought to the notice of the Pl'esiilent and Congress, nnd in Dl'oom- On several OCCrulions previolls to starting this expedition bel', 1851, was promoted to the rnnk. of Firrlt Lieutenant. Captain John Rogel'd, of the navy, in company with Cap.. In the commission appointed to 8ettle the bound81'Y lines tain Donohoe and Lieutenant Wilson, of the army, mada between the United States and Mexico after ilie war be- frequent trips for the purpose of llSCel'ttlinitlg the depth of tween the two countlies, General BUl'nl!idesf;lfved as Q'Ulr- water and facilities fol' cnterlngthe Savannah River lIW.U tar-master ~ and in 1851, in the capacity of bearer of dil!- FOJ.'t .:(:1ul~ Th~e of!icel's :had need to use an cautlon, patches from Oolonel. Graham to Pl'esident FiUmore, he lind in the dark, foggy p.lghtl! bad ~ome esC!lpes that were traversed u.distance of twelve hundred miles v,crOS5 the exceedingly nlll'row. PlaiDl!, from the GUa River through thelndian country, Tllis prefllce to the expedition being 6u(('c&;f11lly llcoom-nttended by an esco~t of but three men, in seventeen day!!. pliilhed, General Sherman made, with tlll' swiftly-roll'ed Subsequent to this he W8.fl stationed at Fort Adnmd, in gig of the J[IClellan, nnder the cover Of the gnUs of the Newport harbot·, and retired'from service in October; 1858. Pemoina,' UnadfUCt, and others, II. reconnohisance·tQ as-In the interval to tbe outbreak of the present tl'Oubles he cert!l.in the exnct position: of nflhil's. Wllile eo engaged occupir,d himself in the civil walks of life, Shortly after the gun·boats of' 'l'tltunll's tle('t CODl(J down, and a brisk l1is retirement from the ariny he turned his attention to cannonade waS comDlencerl lJetween 0111' b~nts and th081l the lllnnufactul'e of a breech-loal:'ling rifle-well known as of Secesh-in which Sec(,~h co~,l(l not see the polnt" and the <I Burnside rifle"-invented by himself, and lJOsSessed I'ILD. away.' The low st,'lg'6 of the tide l'l'~ventcd (jur boots, of peculiar and superior merit. DUling the Administl'a- not yet in the Savannuh, flllffi pm'Nd.IlI!. t

me on the 9th inst. . . lam most happy te' say that! have just received a mes

sage from Commander Goldsborough stating·that the expedition of the gun-boats against Elizabeth City and the rebel fleet has bllen entirely successful. He will, of cOlll'Se, ilend his returns to bis department,

~irice tlien the 1l.eet have occupied Ellenton, Hertford, and have made explorations up the Oho",an and Roano~e.Riverliwithol1t meetiQg any enemy. In all pl'obabUitythetroo.psha~ealready sev.ered

General Foster imIl1edlately reformed his brIgade, "while General Reno, with ·the 21st M8.flsaclmsetts and 9th New

,YOI.·k, went in pU1'Suit. Following in quick time, General Fostel' overtook General Reno; wllo had halted to m!ike a movement to cut off the retreat of tl.. body of rebels, ~l111nbering between SOO and 100Q. on the left, .nearWier'S Point, and not fill' from the Upj)6l,' battery. Taking a part of his

Reno J,luaned oll,in that direction. It being unUe11~rQPllL thnt there was a two~glln battel"Y neIll' ~hellbag ~nfhot ',1;,;,,,,t;1,,InaWkins, WjtJll1ia, Zouo.ves,was dispatched

tion of BUQhanan it W.ltS submitted to Secl'<1tal'Y of War The steamel' lVln;!leld Scott, in conn';'ill:; t1le 48t1~ Ne,w Floyd" who gave assurunces that it would be adopted. It York Regiment, <Jolonel Pcrry, to t lit' f('Cllf' of /J.ctlon, l'!11l trallspir'ld subsequently, Il0wevel', that Floyd hud mnde A on 1\ mud flnt, nnd upon tllll l'ocecling (If the. tide (ll'ackei( blLl'gain with anotlJC1' invontOl', with whom he was to ahare ~Dtirely open, r()D(lel'ing bel', with the exce)lt~on of net the profits, nnd General Burnside, who bad inClined can. machinery, 0. toLal Io&' .. She was at lJ6l:!t So mere!h~ sid crable e:.-penae.in bringing his weapon to pelfertion on Q.nd it i8 perhaps rortl1n~te tliilt el10 waslo..<t I.n 1\ creek. the strength of Flord'~ IJl'omisos, was ,conseqneutly in- 'l'llit EXPEDl'l'lON TO W"\llSAW SO~N'DI. volved in some puctlui;tl'Y difficulties, from whicl\ nll up-light !lind honorable cllt\rnctel' and pel'F.twel'ing i!l(ll\~try The large s.tenmers C08'J?101Jolltcl1l, Boston, D~l(I.1/Jll1·e. ho.ve since entirely telicved h~lU. lIo ~olLl the e8t{lbU~h- and BeMdere, with a nl1mb~r of f!ohooner!t in tow, weni ment in Brietol, where hirl, I'ifle WtlS 1'Ilullufuctllrad, to llis down to."Yo.l'saw· incotUlmny willi .1!('vlll':Il gun~bOl\ta, for b LI ·11, vlolus' e 'l'cd't if' '1 d. the.p111'POeeofentEldngtlleS(1.vnnnlthruv~, bytbeif:~yof

ro le1'-ll - a y,'.1 1 IQnc Cnt:l 1 OU, ntl~ l\l'ms Ie. 'tlle'V, iln.' ,1i.1l, ~on niver, nnn. in tltis 1"1)."'.0;'1'010, nllY Bnn ... er

the railway. conne<:tions at or. near Weldon.

1\ considerable quantity of tbe alms to th~ Cfoyel~])lcnt.J .. . lIe W/1.9, Sllbseqnent to .this trnnsltcti(m, connectecl w!th fronll~ot't uln~ki, tho I!tel11.l1er J1I,IOZc!!aJl,wJth G~.n~. the lllinois. Central Rail.l'oad, in company wi~h. Gl:1nern!, LSIIQl'i;1'1.,fLf'teRrn.d.· Com111o(lorc Dnpont ·onbOt\rd, fQl~~wfrr" M'(J)elmn. While in UlloileJsJnnd he llecame.RC!\lt1niutdd I, Tbe.ili'Clc!/mJ.., be$ng \18e(1 liS tIle ~ng~cehlp. withnnd mro.ned It clH\l'nlillg ancl mnst eatimaL)101ill1y:of shortly llftcr to IInton lIe.ftd. . .. '.' .....•... " . r,·; Providence, ntlimed MiM Bi~hop,. wirh""honi:he. J,1enloved infol'mation fron'\.li'ortress :MolU'oqt,h~~r i

to 0hicngo whBl1 llppojntcd to th'e llos~tJonin the rdll'oo.<l se, .vero fi.!r, llting .hns be, ell (l'oing on nanr SM. ·n,· tl'llll"," , c6mpany .. 11,1\\ ing lJC011 \,r!,(}t~d ~l'et\lllll'~l' ·of the (!q1l11~tlny; ., .. .., ~he l'emoved'to New Ynrk:, wI1'l1'ehelmr1 been, bnt.ll. ~hOlt.. nn(lth:n.t the citywns l'cpol'ted to llrn'e been cl\P-time Whf:\:I1,~Il1JlD)Olle,'ll>r GnY:i'rJ1Ql'Sp1'l1glle to trI\ce,com:-: ,ttired tl1e'Union troops,n1ost }11'ohl\h1,;, tl1()~O! runnd of the~i'l:~tlJ,gi}~\"nt:l{1io~~LiI,Jtn(lVohlPt\'en<;with Wrlg1it ltl1Ll .Cllj1tllin D<lYj", ,.-:}\I., ~l\tere4

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No" 123.-VoL. V.

JEFFERSON DAVIS. At the time our last number went to press,

the ina.uguration of Jeff Davis, as President of the Southern Oonfederacy, had taken place, but hlloQ not been reported in this city. His address has sinca been received. It is an evidence that the Sout.h relies; rather, upon the exhaustion of our federal government, "by the immense load of debt," than on the milit.arv power of rebeldom. But although as a rebel document it is moderate in its tone, it is false in its assertions. Mr. Davis says, "Our Oonfederacy has grown from Ri x. to thirteen States. " Yet witu this untruth upon his lips, he knew that Price was driven out of Missouri, that the Confederacy has not a firm hold on a foot of ground iu Kentucky, that Tennessee is in danger, that North Oarolina is held by a thread, that South Oarolina and Georgia are iuvaded, that our gunboats have been up the Tennessee to Florence in Alabama, and that Oharleston,

NEW-YORK, SA.TURDAY, :MA.RCH 15, 1862.

I:lavannah and New Orleans are threatened by our advancing and victorious armies. Mr. Da.vis alludes angrily and with a vexgd and troubled spirit to the "aquiescence of foreign nations in a pretended blockade," but he Bays, "although the contest is not ended, and the tide for the moment is against us, the final reEult in our favor is not doubtfu1." With a little self· glorification he conti~ues:

" For proof of the sincerity of our purpose to maintain our ancient institutions we may point to the constitution of the confederacy and the la ws enacted under it, as 1" ell as to the fact that through all the ne· cessities of an unequal struggle there has been no act on our part to impair personal liberty or the freedom of speech, of thought or of the press. The courts have been open, the juuicial functions fully executed, and every right of the peaceful citizen maintained a8 se· curely as if a war of invasion had not disturbed the land."

He draws a contrast with the state of our affairs in the North, and he asserts:

"Whatever of hope some may have entertained that a returning sense of juatice would remove the dallger with wbicb our rigbts were threatr·ned, and render it possible to preserve the Union of the Constitution, must have been dispelled by the malignity and barbarity of tbe Nortbern States in the prosecution of the ex· isting war. TLeconfldence oftbe most hopefutamovg us must have been destrl)yed by the disregard they have recently exhibited for all the time-honored bul· warks of civil and religious liberties. Bastiles filled with prisoners, arrested without civil process or indict· ment duly found; thp. write of habeas corpus suspended by executive mal!ldate ; a State Legislature controlled by the imprisonment of members whose avowed prin· ciples suggested to the federal executive that there might be another added to the list of seceded States; elections held under threats of a military power; civil of ficers, peaceful citizens and gentle women incarcerarM for opinion's sake, proclaimed the incapacity of our late as, ociates to administer a governm~nt as free, liberal and humane as that established for Our common use."

Mr. Davis was aware of the defeat and cap-ture of his army in Kentucky, and thus alludes to it:

PRICE SIX CENTS.

It Tile tyranny of an unbridled majority,lhe most odious and least responsible ferm of despotism, has de· nied us both tbe right and the remedy. Tberefore we are in arms to reIiew such sacrifices M oar fathers made to the holy cause of consti1utional n·Rty. At the darkest bour of our struggle the pl'ovJ.fi ... l giV~.8 pI .. ce to the pprmanent government. ..4ft"fr tJ, mes ot s!Jccesse~ and 'Victories, wkich coverecZ 007' arms ~tk glory, we have recently met with. 3erious disasters lhK in the hea.rt of a. people resolved to be free, thes.· ... asters tend but to sUmulate to increased res 8tance."

As it is pl'Obable that the succeFsful advance of our armies will continue, and as we are assured tbat in a few weeks the national sta.ndard will wave in every clty gf the revolted States. the inaugural address of Mr. Davis it'! not of much politkal importance. . It must, however, be remarkable in the history of thA cOllntry. and whatever may be the fate of Jeff Da.vifl, the mere assumption of power for BixY@!lrs as the elected President of thirteen States, is an event that astoni has ];>y its au daclty , and dazzles by its mere ephemer~l success. Mr. Davis acknowledges that the rebels have attempted more than ~hey have power to achieve.

DEATH OF p . .JENNINGA WISE.-BRINGING RIM ASHORE IN A BLANKET AFTER THEBA'l:TLEaT.ROANOKE ISLAND. SKETOHED BY MR. J. BENTL1!lY. See page 298.


THE NEW-YORK

GRAND FANCY DRESS AND MASQUERADE BALL OF THE ARION SOCIETY, GIVEN ON FRII

.SPEOIMEN OF SOUTHERN OHIVALRY FOUND ON ROANOKE ISLAND AFTER THE BATTLE. F.ttOl'tI A SKETOH BY MB.BENTLEY. See page 298.


-LLUSTRATED NEWS.

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J.A.Y EVF1NING, FEBRUARY 21, AT IRVING HALL, NEW YORK. SKETCHED BY OUR ARTIST. SEE PAGE 298.

EXPLOSION OF A CANNON ON BOARD THE GUNBOAT HETZEL, DURING 'l'HE ENGAGEMENT WITH FORt: BARTOW, ROA.NOKE ISLA.ND. SKETOHED In: J. BfilNTLEl. Page 29-''''


Burnside General Ba.rko. Mr. Bentley.

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No. 325-VOL. XIII]

TRAGI 0 INOIDENTS Of the Burnside Expedition.

IT seems now to be generally conceded that, deeply as is to be deplored the untimely fate of such gallant men as Col. Allen and Surgeon Weller, no expedition of equal magnitude has ever passed through the ordeal of so terrible a storm as that of the 13th January with so little loss as that whose arrival in Pamlico Sound we recorded and illustrated in our last number, and some of whose tragic incidents we portray in the present number. And when it is borne in mind that, in addition to the fury of the elements, there was the villainy of the contractors, who

Entcl'o(1 a~('ording to (.be Act of C(mgreS'lltl the year lSr.2 by Fn.\XK LYS1.m. ia the Clerk's OffiCE: of the Di3t~ict Court for (h<J Sonth~rn District of New York.

NEvV YORK, FEBRUARY 15, 1862.

purposely deceived the Gov~ .TlIE BURNSIDE !lXPEDITION--LOSS OF THE STEAMER l'OCAHON'IA; ON HATTERAS ISLAND, AND DROWNING OF NEARLY A HUNDRED HORSES.

[PRICE 6 OENTS.

ernment for the sake of gain, the event almost reaches the regions of the miraculous. it is currently reported tl1at, when Gen. Burnside saw so many of his vessels ashore, he turned round to one of his aids and said, "Those villainous contractors have ruined me." The Tribune, in quoting the words, signifl.cantly reminds Gen. McClellan that Wellington, an Irishman of considerable military genius, very efficiently put a stop to the career of army villainy by hanging half a dozen rascally contractors one :tine morning before brcakfast. But we are afraid that no such summary action will be taken by our Government, whose forbearancc is fast exhausting the patience of the great Ameri-

BIJRYING THE BODIES OF COLONEL ALLEN, SURG'EON WELLER AND T~E SECOND MATE TO THEm GRAVES.

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1,AVAL ACTION llU'l'W.t:BN 'rilE U. 1:>. \'fAIt STE.BJJ:1ll. ~l!:';H:;~ll'l'I Alm Tlll~ RI-,nRL IRON-CAHBD FLOA.'l'IXG 1] ,\.TTJ:llY , J:A~1, A~:]) 01'lJEI:t RBllEfJ s-rJ;;A'1I!EltS, OFF Hm MOUTH OF 1'HE I)ASSE ~ L'OUTRB; NZW o in:'l:;i\XS, ;JA~:UARY bl'.-HW.~I A SKBTCH llY.L", OFrJClllt os BOARD THe :'Hl:-iSlS:31PPI.-tiEg PAGE 218.

Albatross. York, of Duhlin. u. S. Bn~que GemGbok.

A D~TACfn.rtNT OFU. ::!. SAILOT.SFIt{lU THE GmmOATS AIiBATROSS AND GEMSBOK, 13URNI}:(J TI-I1il COXIItAUAND VESSEL YORK. UOuIE OF IlOG'iJllDl'LE1', NEAR 13EAUFO:RT.:N. C,"';FHOll A S}O!ll'Clt ~y ANOFFIOB ON ·130A~D· THE ALl3ATROSS.-SEE PAGE 218.


Entered aceortling to the Act of Congr<~s'l In the year 1862, by FRA:\K LESLIE, in the Clork'~ 01liL:e of tbe District Court for the SOllthern District of New York.

============================~ No. :~:27--VOL. XIIL]

The Victory at Roanoke Island. THg first blow of the Burmiide Expedition has fallen with terrific force 011 the enemy's flank. After innumerable delays and disasters, the Expedition succeeded in fairly entering Pmnlico Sound 011 the -:!:tIl of February. On the Gth it left Hatteras for Roanoke Island, commanding the passage between Pamlico -and Albemarle Sounds. which had been strongly fortified and garrisoned. It rea~hecl its destination

NEvV YORI{~ ~lA .. RCI-I 1, 1862. [PRIGE () CENTS.

Oll the ith, und found that the defences cOllsisted of not less forces 011 tIle lower end of the island. This movement was than six fOl'tsalHl batteries, lllounting over 40 heavy guns, rapidly <ind successfully effected, ill face of the enemy, "withand garrisoned by betweon J,OOO and 5,000 incn. The out'loss. These operations consumed the 7th, and it was passage between the two SOlluds was found obstructed by not until the 8th that the worl\: of reduction commenced in sunken vessols and heavy piles, behind ·which lay the rebel earnest. On that day the barricades in the Sound were flotilla of eigut vessels, lUlder cOlllmand of Corn.- Lynch. forced, the rebel iiotilla defeated and dispersed, the forts The bombardment of the principal fort was at once com- silenced and captured, and the entire' rebel force 011 the menced by the gunboLtts, under Com. Goldsborough, while island, with the exception of a few hUlldr~ds, ·who escaped Gen. BurnSide, under cover of a few "Vessels, landed his in small boats, taken prisoners. Nor did the operations

:tHE nultNSIDE EXPED!1'lON-TBE FLEEr AND ntANSPOJit.TS OU u1'iU.A' DUlUNG 1'lllllSTOItM-IllE GlNlLltAL GIV'mG ORDERS.-SEE PAGE 236.


MARCH 1, 1862.] PRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRA TEP :,J F'\VSP APER.

FLAG OFFICI1:R. L.' 1\(. GULlJ,,];;OlW(JUH, Cm('IA"'Dl~n U. R. FLEET IN

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f;ILVER. 1:RUMPET PRESI(NTED TO CAPfAIN ELLRIDGE, OF, THE U :-, TRANSPORT ATLANTIO. BY THE OFFTCERS 0F ~ Hl'J 3 RD in;,'. HAMPSHIRE VOT.UNTEERS.--SEE· PAGE 236;

\R.~·B. 'B:rul!'t'fAN, JR., AIDE TO COl'lIMODORE PORlER, OF TIlE U. S. GUNBOAT ESSEX, mSSISSIPPI SQUADRON, KILLED AT rORT IIlilNRY,.

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No. 328-VOL. XII!.] NEW YORI{, lYfARCH 8, 1862. [PRICE 6 OENTS.

THE BURNSIDE lfXPEDlTLO.N-THE ~A:rIO.NAL FLEET STEAMING THROUGH CROATAN SOtTh"D-ROAl-tOKE ISLAND IN TIm DISTA.NCE. FEBRUA.RY 7.-FROM A SKETOH DY OUR SI'ECIAL ARTIST ACCOXl'ANYING THE EXPEDlTION.-SEE PAGE 251.

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THE ;BURNSIDE :EXpEDmOl¢~~~<S~Trr.EOF ROANOKE ISLAND, SATURDAY FEBRUAJW a-DEOISIVE IlAYOmrf CHARGE OF '.J'fI)j ltiliNtm 'll'~ YO~,.iVOLUNTE:ERS, lIAWKINS'S ZOUAVES, ON, THE THlUllE GID.i BA'lTERY.-FMY A 8Xi'OOll BY 0Ul!. Saow.. ARTIST, E. Sc~ Esq., ACOOHl'AlmNG TlI:II EXPiDmoN,-SEJill'AG'E 251.

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THE SOLDIER'S BUllET-PROOF VEST. THIS protection entirely supersedes the cuirass llOW in use with all the cavalry of Europe. It in much lighter, much cheaper. and is destined to become an exceedingly important defence to oUf men, not only for cavalry but inftllltl'Y.

The yest is made like the ordinary military vest, but it contains two plates of fine light steel. It weiahs from three and a half to five pounds only. , It will resist all bayonet and sword thrusts pistol b:tlls at 10 paces an(l rifle balls at 40 roels. A heavier plate f~r cayDlry and artillery, weighing eight pounds, is proof against rifle balls ~lt the short distance of 80 paces. . .

Messrs. G. & D. Cook & Co., of New Haven, who are now fillil1O' hrge ord8rs, havc perfectecl this simple and efficient protectio~ through tltree months of constant trial in the presence of mr<ny officers. It has been tested. in the' presence of some of our be~t dtizens at the warerooms of tho Messrs. Elliott, at No. 231 TIl'oadway (where it is sold); also at the Bellton Barracks, St. Louis at' Cincinnati, and at other places, where its value has been proved'beyond doubt. Its merits are ~llch that a Board of Officers. upp:'>i!lted by the 'War D':·n:1.rcmenr lw.YC it now undergoing a series of

S~EELPL,A.TES INSERT.ED Il'l' MILlTARY VES'l'S.

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Tennessee Shore. Island. Rebel Boat. I~lan,d. Kentucky Shore.

l'HE WAR m TENNESSEE--THE Al'I'ROACH OF TlfE U. S. GUNBOATS ~O FORT HENRY. TENNESSEE RIVER.-FRO}I A SKETCH BY OUR SPECIAL AItTlS'f ACCO;UPANYING 'l'lIlU EXPEDITION.

MAJOR-GENERAL U. S. GRANT. MAJOR-GENERAL ULYSSES S. G~T was born at Point Pleasant, Clermont" county, Ohio, April 27, 1822, and entered 'Vest Point Military Academy, from Ohio, in 1838, where he graduated with honors in 1843, and was attached as brevet 2d Lieutenant at Corpus Christi in September, 1845, and served as such through Mexico, under Gen. Taylor, at Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma and Monterey, and under Gen. Scott from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico, and was twice promoted for bmvery. He was regimental Quartermaster from April 1, 1847, and when he resigned the service on the 31st July, 1854, he was a full Captain in the 4th Infantry of Regulars. After his resignation he settled in St. Louis county, Missouri, and moved from there to Galena, Illinois, in 1860.

Upon the breaking out of the present war he offered his services to Gov. Yates, and was appointed Colonel of the

. 21st regiment of Illinois Volunteers, and served with his regiment until promoted as Brigadier-General, with comITllm;ion ftml r~tl1k from the l'ttll of M[l~T, 18£":1. Hf' 'rV:18

engaged as Colonel and Acting Brigadier-General in seveml of the contests in south-eastern Missouri, and his course as commander of the south-east district of Missouri has been thoroughly scrutinized, and among 11is most pmiseworthy acts was the occupation of Paducah, and stoppage of comml.lnicatiou;f!lld s,?pplies to the rcbels, via the Tennessee and Cl.lmberl'fLnd l'lvers. The manner in which he conducted tbe battle of Belmont is still fresh in our reader's minds. r1'he rest of his course as commander there is too well known to be repeated here, and certain it is that his action, in every instan~e, has been applauded both by his superior officers and the people. After the captUl'e of Fort Hemy a new district W'tts created, under the denomination of the District of West 'l'ennessee, and Gen. Grant assigned by Gen, Halleck to its command. He was senior in command at the capture of Fort Donelson, and for his services in that brilliant achievement, was nominated Major-General by the Presideut and promptly confirmed by the Senate, A new department was at once created for him, that of Western Tennessee, with his headquarters at Fort Donelson. To him mainly nttnclws the honor of the first great Victory of the war.

MAJOR E. A. !<IMBALL, OF THE NINTH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS.

EDGAR ADDISON KnvIBALL, Wil0, with Lieutenant-Colonel de Monteil, led the decisive charge of Hawkins's ZoauYes at Roanoke Islnnd, and drove the enemy out of Fort Defl.::mce, "wns born in Pembroke, New Hampshire, in 1824, ~Lncl was eductttcd at the academy of that-town. At an early age he went to Concord, and apprenticed himself to a printer, the profession to which we owe so many of our ablest statesmen and bravest soldiers. Having mastered his trade he settled at Woodstocl{, Vermont, as publisher ancl"eclitor of the Woodstock Age, a paper which he conducted with much ability as a Demecratic organ. From this dream of peace he was roused by the Mexican War, when he at once threw down the pen and took up the I!!wol'd-for although a great novelist has E"ldd the pen is mightier than the sword, it frequently happens that it requires the sword to put mankind into a IJrOper frame of mind to listen to reason. Such was Mr. Kimball'l!! popularity that, despite his youth~ he 800n l'aised a company

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~()i+l;iDr; tlLtsSE.') ~. GRANT, DO~1MA.NDING TJImy~,~>,:~~SRt;,j1jb"ll CA.ll'rU~E OF ]i'ORTS HENRY AND DO!trji..s&~ •• ,~.;" " '

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MARCH 15, 1862.] FRANI{ LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWBP APER. 267 to friendship, in the very teeth of my despairing confessions to her, she said:

({ Friel1dship! if you were murri13d to Mrs. 'Yarburton, Hubert, how would you like her to have a friendship for another man such as she has for you ?"

" I do not se~ the object of such a question," I replied. " Its purport IS to warn you, Hubert. Are you so SU1'O of your

self, of her, that you can thus for ever seek th,e society of a woman you have so dearly loved, I will not say that you still loye, with impunity to both ?" .

H Why should you daunt it ?" "Because I feel convinced that y~u are only heaping up infinite

sorrow, i£ not guilt, upon yourself." " Whv, am I not to have friends ?" "Frie"nds! Is it a friend's part for a woman who is the wife of

another to absorb to herself a young man's time, thoughts, happiness; 1,0 enoourage him to give himself up entirely to her ?"

" She is always urging me to marry and ·settle l1€ ar them." "Yes, to give tae heart she has rifled to another, to make two

miserable instead of one. If she really loved you, would ShA not urge you for your OWIl honor, for hers, to leave her? If yon do not love her, you never have loved her, and all you have told me is falsehood, O-r YGlU ,10 love her, and this conduct may lead to possibilities

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it·self all enchantment and soon soothed away my ve~ation. She was gIncl that my ties to Speynin.gs were weakening every moment, for I told h('r I had determined to leave. To a woman of her stamp th.a possession of !1 life to administer to hers, tochorish and adore her; was delightful. She forgot, as we all do, that selfishness indulged at the expense of the cll1ims of others upon us, l'eeoils sooner or later upon oneself. "\Varburton lectured me a good eleal that mOl'lling on the necessity of asserting my own free will, and not to waste my manhood on servile depenclence on my mother. To hear him, one would snppG'se my mother had beeEl. some doting old woman, who to satisfy some SImile caprice prevented my engaging ill some useful oarcer. He had a way of spealdng of her that in any other fritUle of mind would have enraged me, " an excellent person, but liying so completely out of the world that r: he was ignorant of the necessities imposell qn me by position-her early ciroumstances, no doubt, had an iniluence in limiting her views, but her good sense would point out to her that tying a Ulan of twenty-five to icUeness hnel n. country retirement was not exactly lloing her duty." .

All he said chimed in so well. with my own rebellious thoughts that his words sounded to me like the wisdom of Solomon.

I could not well go to VieUnlt for two months, but these two months seemed to me like infinite ages, and I searched for some excuse to shorten the time. It came. On this very morning there came an invitation to the Wal'burtons from some n:iends·of his in

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if friendship it were, 01' in the same eategory as this sinful passion, if her surmises were correct, and it was passion.

Marian and I parted affeotionately at" the lodge, and I paused to see her graceful form fade in tha twilight. 'Vhen I sntcred the dreal'Y room Fanny was alone. She lllet me with a serious and reproving look. She told me my mother was lying down; she had heard of the death of old Mrs. Spencer, my great uncle's widow. T1lOugh I did not know her, I knew well the affe-etion which united them, and that~ but for my illness ln the autumn, she would haye gone as usual to see her. "Vhen I entered the room. where my mother was I saw she was worn out with tears. My hE*Lrt smote m.e, and I spoke more tenderly than nSl.lal. Sha was to·uched. She held my hand between hors and pre:.sed it fondly; we talked of irrelevant matters for awhile, .but my answers were absent and oonstrained. After having made up my mind to the l'Upture at once it

. seemed vexatious to be foiled. After a while she observed my 3b~ sence of mind, and asked me'what was the roatter. A little hesitation and I told her all my plans; she listened calmly. •

" When did yd'U say you were going?" she asked in a con-atrained voice.

There was not a word of remonstrance or r1!l~ret. I w:as initated ; the res{)lution I had come to after so much agltation anfl pain-for I was a moral coward-seemed to have no import whatever. I was provoked and my vanity suffered. I turned and said:

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/I Tho faot is," I said, {i there is one quality which every woman Scotland, with whom I also was acquainted. In tho postscript was possesses, and that is jealousy. You are jealous of Marian, mo- this scntcnCi3: ther."

"Hubert," said my mother, and her eyet> ilashed, H I Can forgive l( If your friend, JlJl'. Spencer, is hettel', we should be delighted if all but words like these. N ever repeat suoh a word I1gain. It is an he wonlrl aCCOl11ptlllY you. Do you think we could senu him an inviinsult to me, and an outragc to my love for you. There Cttn be no tation?" eompal'isonspossible." . .. - Thb clenched my doubts. I should be absent for two months, !, I had 11e\'('r seen her so ang;ry. I was 'Pl'OportlOhntrJy so~ I got and then I should go abroad. my teeth, and vowed with an lllwarcl oath to free myself ~mroediate1y 'The i.Varlmrtons accepted the invitation fOl' all of us, and we re-from these discussions and admonitionf· solved to go together.

My mother's patience was at last worn out .. She lookecl more Having !nade up my mind, I rcsolveu to execute it. I was inipa~ grave and lmhappy than I had ever SE'en hcl'. Fanny,who had )',8'- ticnt to get it over, ~mcl to ban.ish from my thought nIl butt4e"9l;i~, tUl'nccl home, was miflp.rable at seciug how ill my mot?-cr 1001l:ec1, .and ra.vishing· idea that ftll" two months I should be under the soon had sCl'roely patience to Bpenk to me. All thl,s I cOJ3.stl'ucd· as l\{ari:tn!. She and I, and the children, walked. frolj;l;t into wrong dcne to me, and considered the ineyitllble consequet;to!9l> together;. the children phycd on in front, !mcl s!1e hu' , of my own cruel unkindness wanton acts of offence towards me. I 'We tlt:kod of the pleasanL pro-p"'cts of these tWQ mo was to stri1:f:', hut no blood was h flow; I was to grieve, but t<!lara ea,tely hand.lod my bmi,;ed soul with he1' soft }ndulgenoe were an llnpal'danable injl\ry. . • .... .. }ll1llt!ty; how1i1):e \em ~~:ogcl she !Seemed, ancl :nY: beatt rose''i:LJ)l

On' lllordll!;!; a few days afterwards, r announceS. my mtentlGIl.{)f •. ~n~t~n!iln:te:~nc1.&mn&tJon when I thq;ught fi thlS,l!l th~.,wor!'lalJ, r ,~rl~ FTlct'(iin(StJ:;f: (t:r at 1;h" Grang~1, ~nd added .oal"elessl.l', that~ shol,l.ld .:~~ktl~tQ'~hre:up ..... thif!iil!the~'n'.d~' sleep.· th~.'.r.(' •.. J.Ily .... l.n.:1l.h.f:ll." .'waSSll.CIlt, but.l1er .ey. t!-s .metmUle.' p .. "rHl. ,d.l.d .. !.~ ... !.}.t .... ! ..•.. e' ........ nll~~~~~,~h~' '" their f!lanc~. crx :m., H.t*" r'flro.nell .1~ .. s Often .. T.ea.urrea to me. }Jut. I hila. I m.;d'l.~:l' .. l~~e Hon·for (>nff'r<:'<lup:ona d(J~"tnTarcl path) and every minut~ accelerated my Ma;dci,ti.' way in descent. .. . .. ,. .. I whwh d'het. At present

WhLll r arl'ived.aithe Grange, :Mar$an $~.W. tMl'ewas a Flond on. she. was 'P rsatlOu her lips lad beC'll mybr()w. She wassweet1').es$.itseiLf~,,)fiYh~ a;.';1ke4 no guestlOns, but sealed •. She ";Mll~t.,,~;CQ:gputd in sucha~ame, Or to applied herself to sootll;emy troublec1i0~i:ht •. Be1ng WIth her WaS of place amotlier ~ loyeO\lli t6~~~:as this holiday iriendshiPI

"The faot is, yOll make my home so misernbb with yonr groundless nnderuel jorilO1.1sies r can s'tay no longer."

1'ho nppareIlt quiet with which my mother had heard my first words had been .an .exorcise of great sclf'contrnl. There 'W:lS too little light in the room for me to see the death-:palenet·m which ()Y€'r-' spl'oadh.cr fac9 when I first broached. the subject, or the cnnv1l1t;ive m!lnnol'luWhlCh .she clasped her hands together, or I might have spal'cel her. AS It was I persevered. An {'xeeutioner who has stretched a criminal on the 1 aek, and who finds the first turn of the engincinadequate to force a complaint, lllay from thoilBll.lnespiritof l;b~t~i5\:)l1,is.m,even :mo~'e than ~he spirit ,of cruelty, ~iV'eoit tm extra t1:l;;mlj ;. ~al.what we wlll, there 18 som ethmg of th(} tIger m every un.~

. human heart. I might uow be satisfied with the ('fleet : ~he started up, and: the flood of bitter sorrow autl dhap

'ent lU rue, which had been slowly amassin'" during the"c ,.;E;!l!liy.months, overfim,:t>d. ,} ~;hrtlUJ~bftck, c()rlYide~ and at;I~'lll(;r1. .",lfl'f'lt had boen a frwnd, :she l'lfl.ld, "who hid tln'ol1'll Inntself

. ~P:Qn anothro: friend, as ),OllC:1st YOUl'self \lpOnln~lybull rOll ,\'l'ote ~ci me fropl V cniue, usiI;g my mind, nl\y:th!J~tl'G, niytitl'IBJ l'li:1 ministers e( you.rll 111 the premcdltttted Hn:1s.rs~f.\llxa..tioplp;rt.;y()ll hfld f.nnctl from the date" of that lettel', to approMh neal'Cl' the (;1)j!:etcf your ullhallo1\'Bd pasOlion,tl.nd whenyqur. etl:d. '~'as ac"tltunlLhed. ea~ting off that friend a,s a wom-outglov:e,IHlah .cohl~1l1{}Odcd ingl';:tititdc would l1nve seell1ec1 heartlefls. C.lfough,.but when it- is a mother's lift) and h.oart's blood you have been playing wit.h, and' when. you wind up tIllS unparalleledtre!acll~~!~J!ooming to lUe at .such. a tUM to wound me to thEJJW~'l!Iy:pelhng me-tha.t all my efforts) my endu"


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[Especial attentio'n is invited to thc remarkable Story of which we ihis week present the opening@ihapters. They exhibit an originality and power which is alone comp~ble with the work. of tho most illus·

. itrionsliV!i:m.g masters of fiction.]

I Written for Frank Leslie's IUU8~rated Newspaper.]

THE HALF-SISTERS. A ~tory of Metropolitan Li:(e.

THE BLACKSMITH'S FORGE.

:1 lIAD passed that forge night after night for as many months as I 'had fingers, and no matter what the weather the fire was always ,alight, sencl.;ing up sho,,.er5 of ,sparks and flashing a ruddy glow out :along the dark. Ever beside the anvil, sometimes with the firelight ,on his broad, glistening face, somutimes beilding to his work. and making the iron ring with sturdy blows, stood the blacksmith, honest John Raby, gripping the heavy sledge with broad grimy hand;

:11. heavy hand that of John Raby, the blacksmith, which could make I the iron writhe at will, but I knew that if laid upon a Ch. ild'a head it

. "Would have rested as lightly as j;histledown. I knew that tha blacksmith's name was John Raby upon the tosti- I

'monyof a square signboard over the door; upon which that name was printed in the midst of a spray of horseshoes, and I knew that ne must be honest upon the testimony of his broad, shining face, and because he always carried his toil so far onward into the night. So I used to reason as I passed by the forge, glancing within where the bright glow lit up boxe3 of tools and racks against the wall where idle hammers hung, and broken tires of wagons, and horseshoes in 15cores, and glowing heaps of coals piled upon the forge, and the blacksmith himself, and the apprentice at the bellows, who was so dirty that his eyeballs were brown.

It was in a little winding lane at the. base of a hill, and was surrounded by great shops and warehouses. The lane was a short out to my own lodgings, on which account I was first induced to go through it, but finally I became so used to the welcome light streaming out from John Raby's forge, that I doubt if I should have slept if 1 had ~one round by Bean street, and reached home thPough that l'espeet.'ble thcroughfare. I was young then, and there wa.s little enough, God knows; of kindly significance to me, and I could never bring myself to give up the cheery good-night of the .orge.

Many a time I have stopped and leaned against the post to which

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horses brouciht thither to be shod were tied,and which was gnawed into craggy, splintering points, and aggressive, penetrating knobs, which made it of all posts in the world the least. promising to lean against, and looked in at the whirring wilderness of sparks and the fiery flakes which flashed from the red-hot iron when old John's hammer fell upon it with its stll:Jy cl~nk. clink, clink. It is not

strange that r came to know him at length; and. 1 MIl' sure that'the trivial circumstance of his kno,ving me no more than h~ knc'iv Adam would never have prevented me from going str:tight up to Mm,'put;.: ting out my hand and saying, "Ho,v do you do, IT olm Raby ?" if I had. ever caught him alone and at a disadvantage. " . '

Not 1. lew times ha.d T canght a glimpse of a little gray dress arid

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The Naval Battle in Hampton Roads. A GREAT naval action took place 011 Saturday, the 8th of March, in Hampton Roads, off Newport News, bctween the great iron~platedrebel steamer Merrimac, supported by the rebel iron-plated /ilteamers ,Jl11l1cstoWl1 and Yorktown, and the National wooden sailing frigates Cumbefland, Congress, St. Lawrence, and the steamer Minnesota. The CUlI'lberluncl was run into by the Merrimac and sunk, the ofi1cersbeing captured, but most of the crew esc:1ping in small boats; the Congress, which was out of commission, anc1 without a crew, was captured and buriit. The Roanoke was helpless,

. having broken her shaft some months ago, and the Minnesota grounded before being able to take a part ill the action. After the destruction of the Cumberland and Congress, the rebel steamers commellced the bombardment of the L ational

. Elllcampment and bat-teries at Newport

; News, but without ·much effect; their evident intention being to engage and cal)ture the Minne-

• sot!1 (the other National vessels having taken refuge under the guns of FGrtress Monroe), which was still ttg1'ouncl on Suncmy, the 9th. During the night of the 8th, ndVvever, the iron floating battery Monitor reached the fortress from New York, and at daylight next morning (Sunday) engaged singly the rebel squadron, then bearing down on the Minnesota, and a.fter"an action of :five hour~, not only sUCo:

ceeded in driving,off the Yorktown' and .r amestown, but \ in Q

disabling the iron monster, the Merrimac, and chasing her into Norfolk.

Such is a brief out:: line of the only purely naval action, worthy of the lJ.ame, which has taken place 1m;ing the war. It has proved that wooden ships are no match for i1'o11- clad steamers,

; and that the principle adopted by Capt. Ericsson, in the Monitor, is, superior to any other for h~on~ clad' vessels. The Monitor had but two g'unR, ll-inch Dalgrohn's, carrying 184 pound wrought iron sulid shot. The Merrimac had eight 11-illCh navy guns, and

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rimitC alone, defeated 1101' three antagonists, cach larger than herself, iron-clad, und cttrrying 2'.1: gnns. SIle, moreover, came out of the fight of l1Ye llOurs, during P:1l't of which time she was within 10 yards of the Merrimac, and some~ times actually touchillg her, without perceptible damage or loss of life! She sustained triumphantly the severest test to which any vcssel ever built has been subjected.

We nppend the details of tho engagements of Saturduy and Sunday, as they have reached us by telegraph from Fortress Monroe..:-tclegrnphic communication with that point having been, singularly enough, opened for the :first time, by submarino cab~e, ""hUe the action of Saturday was going on:

. TllC Action on Satnr(lay. About noon on the 8th n, suspicious-lookIng vessel, looking like a.

submerged house, with the l'oof only above watcl', w~\s discovered

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moving down from Norfolk, by tho channel in front of the Sewall's Pointbattories. Signal guns were :fired by the Cumberland and Congress' to notify the lIIinnesota St. Lawrence and Roanoke of the approaching. clanger Thero war nothing Pl'otl'uding above the witter but a :flagstaff fiying the rebel :flagan.d t short smokestack; SIle moved along slowly, and turned iuto the (]hannc. leading to Newport News, and steamed dil'ectfol' the wooden. sailing frigates Cumberland lind Oongress, which were lying' at the mouth of Jmnes river.

As AOOU as she came within range of the Oumberland, the latter opened on her with bel' heavy gnns, but the ba.lls struck and glnn(]ed off without effect. ller ports wore all closed, and·shemoved on in silence, but witli a fulllleRc1 of steam. In the meantime, as the Merrimac was Itpproach* ing the two frigatos on one aide, thu rebel iron-clad steamers Yorktown and Jamestown clUlle down J amos river and eug-Itg'ed Ollr frigates on ~he other side. Tho bltttcries at Newport News also opened on the Y()l'k, town and Janlestown, and did all in their power to assist the Cuml:-~J> land and Congress, whicb, being sailing vesselS, were at the mercy of the approaching' steamers. '1'11e Mel'rimne, in the meantime, k<apt steadily on her CO~ll'Se, and slowly nppronched the Omn1)erlan<i, when she and

the Congress, at It distance of 100 yards I rained full brondsides on the iron-clad monster that took no effect, glancing upwards and flying off, having only the effect of checking hcrprogross for a moment.

After receiving the first broadside of the two frigates, she ran on to the.Oumberland, striking her about midships, and literally laying open her bow. She then drew off and fired a broadside into the, disabled Ship, and again dashed against her with bel' iron·clad prow, and knocking in hcr side, left her to Sink, while she engaged the Congress, which lay abont It quarter of a mile distant. The Oongress had in the meantimo kept up a sharp engllgement with the Yor}ctown and James· town, and having no regular crew on board of bel', s~cing the hopeless nClls of rcsistmgthe ironclad steamer, at onell struck her colol's. Her crew 11 ad beendischarged several days 'since, an'" three compani<ls of the Naval Brigadc had been put on board temporarily, until she could bo reo lieved by, the St. Law· renee, wbich was to have gon~ up .on' 110nc1ay .. t.o take.her position' as one of the l>lo~ku.ding ves'sela of the James river;, :

On the Congress atrik. hIgher colors, thcJames. tQwn approached, and took fJ:om on board of her 1111 her Officers as prisoners, but allowed the crew to escape .in bOllts. The vessel beingthus cleared was fired by tho rebels" when the Merrilnaa and her two iron. • clad companions (lpelled with shell and shot on the Newport News butteries. The fir. ing was briskly returned,

,two 100 pound ArmI strong guns, recently imported from Eng~ land, and the Yorktown and Jamestown carri.ed six and eight h"WlS respectively. Yet the Monitor, with two~, and having ;,~to~e pfless than " .op.e}t4dtd of thelIel'-

THE BUn,NSIDlll EXPEDITION-:rlIE LA.TE LIEl.s'r.·COL. DE ltoNTElL, OF TUE ))':EPINEUIL ZQUA.'VES, A.ctl:NGA.S A. PltlV:.A.TllJIN TaE 9rH NEW '£'OItK MG;t1t!ENT (UJ\.WlWIS·S ZOU.AVES)r IN TIJ:E A'l"1'.ACJ{ ON TUlll T.I:lEJllE, GUN BA'I'JiJ!W."t', ;e.04J:jOP ISLAllP, FlmRUAlity 8.--FMM A SU'J:CJ;I DY OUR S:t'EC~ A~'J;l5:r AOCOH-FA,.-qYniG, 'Imi E..Xl'EDlIlON.··SEE G'E 2~O. '

In tho meantime tho etcmu frigl\to nlinnesota, having partly got up stCRlU, was being towed up to the relief of the two fl'igates, but did not get up until .t was too late to llssist them. She WfiB

also followed ull by tun frigate St. Lq;wren<lll '. which was taken in ;;.~,~ by several .of the smull harbor steamera. Both vessels, when within about a mUeor the rebel fleet, grounded, but nn. mediately. engaged the Mertimn.c, whfch, ,for dIe tUne being, was stationary, and, t is oolieved, aleo aground. The RQa:o.' oke, whielthad bee", ying off the" fOli for four mouths, . was a.tt~p-ted 1;Q be towe4 into Iction '


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Cannon thrown into the River . Bflrracks and :lIIagazines dug lito the Hill. Principal Road. Rnttery. Heavy Iron Chain across the River.

WAlt IN KENTUCKY-VIEW OF THE FORTlf~CA1'IONS OF COLUMBUS, ON 1'HE :MISSISSIPPI.~FROM A SKETCH DY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST, lIIR. II. LOVIE.-SEE PAGE 299,

'COLONEL RUSH C HAWKINS. THIS gallant and popular soldier was born in 1827, at "Voodstock, Vermont, and is the grandson of Dexter Hawldns, a. native of Providence, Rhode Island, who, entering the Revo· lutionary army when he was only 16, fought with it till our forefathers had achieved their independence, and particu-

larly distinguished himseh in the battle OJ. Bennington. Col. Hawkins is also a grandnephew of Gov, Hopkins, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. At eight years of age he was left an orphan by the death of his father. He was educated at the military.school of Capt. Partridge, of Norwich, Vermont. In his 16th year he went to Boston, to seek his fortune, and there met with Lieut. Lynch, who,

by a strange coinCidence, was in command of the rebel flotilla at· Roul).pke Island, where Col. Hawkins and his splendid regiment so greatly distinguished themselves. Having expended his last dollar in the payment of his fare to the City of Notions, he offered his services to Lieut. Lynch, who was just starting on his well-known expedition to the Dead Sea; The Lieutenant engaged young Hawldns as Volunteer Cadet, and in that capacity he entered the sloopof-war Portsmouth. After visiting the chief towns in the , Mediterranean, Hawkins returned just in time to take part

ims:a· c, 11AWKI~~, cOlln1ANDING 9T~ :NllliW YORK lllilGIMENT, OR "HAWK~NS'S ZOUAVES."

THlil WAR ON 1,'HE OOEAN-BUltl',ING OF THE REBEL GuNB~~T~~'\V~OF~,!g~%FORRESTj ORO:ATAN'SOUND, FEBRtrAa-y.'lnx. l1l!.Olt A SKETOHBY OUR SPlllCIAL ARTtST7 Mlt •. SOlJ'ELli':"1'"Sl!jm l'AGE !:!99.;

in t1ieMexic~nwar, for upon tp.e arrival of thePortsmo'qth at Pens.3:cola that vesSel. was·or.dered t@ Vera Cruz. Be

", 'there.entel'ea. the Corps of Sappers. and Miners, organiz~d atWes : Point, andf011Qwed Gen. Scott to the very Halls 0£

·the Montezumas. Before,however, he rea,chedthi'S p0i1llifJij he was often under fire, . and alVt ays .conducted himself'VViJtll

'j, the greatest coolness and daring. He. was pres.:nt ltttll~ celebrated charge up the Causeway, Which ended:tn,~hes'(tr .. tender of the CitY' of Mexico. In tl1is ea,mpaig11. Jie ~e ~:; Digitized from the collections of the New York State Library, Albany, NY

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