Maquoketa Sentinel (Newspaper) - May 25, 1854, Maquoketa, Iowa MORALITY LITERATURE FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS MANUFACTURES 3IAQCOKETA JACKSON CO IOWA MAY AGRICULTURE MECHANIC ARTS t SELECTED POETRY Main street ia T E K M S E COPS OHE IfE 4ltn single of three months 2QO six 250 twelve 300 i witl ba given to enable of the above terras will be ad at of all arrearages to that effect no subscriber will be while are 6 for bv of tbo publishers TERMS OF ADVERTISING 12 less one insertion Each subsequent insertion One months u BIX months oneyear 1500 third 2000 2500 t t is made and the oT insertions is not oa the ad they are handed in for they will be continued ia until or accordingly DIRECTORY CO Foreign and Domestic Boots and Shoes Hats and Caps Hardware A BACHELORS Oh uo I never mention I dare not the A bachelor Ive always And would remain the play on To make me change my lot Bui when you win tbe truth from I Euy Id rother not Vou bid inft seek in The charms that others see But were I nowa married mani find 110 joy in da Tis true that no moro pa those I bft have met I do not grace their parties now Bui can 1 ForOl there are ao Recall the past io mo The pleasure of a single So happy calm and The joy Ive known iu with All maidens young and lair each coquette I look upon me lo beware You tell me married men are now The gayest of tUo You hint that bachelors are I heed not whai you say Like me perchance you With a feeling of despair But if youd live as I would HVe A married receive this sides of tha the guos I i i TI I I 1 I me aid he set sail fpr to put in communication with Gen Hor son and the northwestern army He then on Ihe 25th returned to Mal eu where the British fleo going a o a haven in its vicinity waited or the enemy to come out of is crew were taken sick with t laat seized him together with three the quad ron v He was not able to leave hia cabin till lie early part of September when ha re ac additional of Ired volunteers These corns from Harrisons army and were from lie 28th Regiment of Infantry and all volunteered for the approaching The most of them had never seen a square rigged vessel snd wan up and down examining every pirt of the ship without seruple Dressed in their linsey wolsey hun tine with their muskets in their hands BS novel a marine corps aa eve trod the a battle ship On the of strewing the deck with the duad until at length wilh every brace aoc bowline shot away she lay Jin wreck on the water But still through the s matte OB it went before heavy broadsides her col ors were aeon and gleamed forth in that glorious m give up ihe ship Calm and unmoved at the slaughter around him and his own desperate position Terry gave his orders tranquilly as though exe cuting a Although in hia first battle of carnage his face gave no to lena emotions that mastered him An or tha deck was covered with dis limbs puk brains while tne bodies jf twenty aud mail Iny in ghastly groups before him As the sun went down over still lue ilia last beams looked on a mournful specta clo Those ships stripped of spurs and canvas na if they had been ly a hurricane viilo decks At twilight the who had DO board the American were committed to the deep and tho solemn bu rial service of church read ovor thorn A in of a Father years ago thill die aged man lived in our city and on a saddle aud harness shop ni the hend of on or uow stands Courl lions an Englishman by birth und Georgn was Inn onmi He Imd one daughter and two seine his dead and hia daughter kept houso About close of the yeni 1828 oldest sou then suma sixteen ut off and never return The uproar of the duy had silence rested on the iwu and a sailor whose gno at anchor mly by ll ut of order he the poor fellow lhe wee MISCELLANEOUS it was that the British fleet com jOg out of Maiden and Perry BU FUil to meet it Hia squadron consists of briga the Lawrence Niagara Cal and Triple a and five schoon ers can in fiftyfour guns was composed Eels mounting sixty rom his aide by ti twenty four pound she nd expired without a groan Hie second fell athis feet Lieutenant Brooks n gsy dashing officer of extraordinary personal beauty while to him wna dashed by a can non ball to the other the deck and mangled in the most hornt manner His shrieks and imploring cries to Peny to kill him andend hia misery were heard above the roar of the guna in every port of the ship The dying who the deck would turn their eyes ia mute inquiry upiu youthful commander iis if to iie had done their duty Lieut wilh a handkerchief lied around his head and another around his neck lo the blood from his wounds his nose swelled to a monstrous size and t r on Office front room no 1 W GEO D Public will attend to all and of all kinds done promptly JONAS crAint General Land the Air Line Store Southwest of Plane From Harpers Magazine VICTORY ON LAKE After the capture of York aud George by the liter win opo Ded to navigation Captain Perry was able to take some vessels brought for the service from Black River lo Like Erio The at the limn was in of the British fleet commanded by Captain Barclay and Perry ran in encountering it before he could reach Isle now Erie where the other compose hta ron had been built He however this Har J IV JENKINS AT Jackson county Iowa KEFERS TO r SMITII I F E I T r attention be given to pro the late Bounty Mitchells Block up 1 01 S U A and Consellor atLaw paid to the fleet hove Having now collected his whole force ho imde vig preparation to got to sea By tho first of August ho was ready to sat sail but the enemy lay oft the haibor the mouth of which extended a bar that he waa alraid Groceries Ready Cl 1S54 iio 1 AND OFFICE Y JOVAS CLARK 25lblB54 nPl r VI Alt A NORTHROP M Cabinet and Cha two doori north ol Ho Ma 35th 1951no I jAINTER Ganior snd Paper Hi noke i Jfay 25 1 n o 1 J of R iMade Dealer in Fur f Mij 25 no 1 Ubin M WHITE ERand Main Elreo iJj 1854 no t 7 light however thb British fleet suddenly Barclay not dreaming that his was ready to go lo sea having gone over to the Canada shore Perry was at this time but n more youth f twentyseven years of age Lut ardent aud full of energy and From the time he arrived on Iho frontier he winter previous he had been unceasing u his efforts to and equip n ship Materials had to be Drought from Pitts burgh nnd over bac roads nnd streams But after th were for sea he wsa destitute of crews and supplies c his repeated nnd urgent call for inen only promises were nur did they arrive until the English had been able to fin ish and a large vessel tho Datroit gavo them A decided Perry was exceedingly anxious to the it received this ac cession of strength from doing BO menhe was nt last corn palled to abandon all his efforts or to take his chance with his motely untrained crew from a splinter having pawed through it dis figured nnd covered with gore moved among this terrific scene the very of and Perry ho told him every officer in his division WUH killed Others wore given him but he soon returned with the same dismal lidings Perry told him lie must Ret along by himself ns lie had no moro to furnish him and the man went back to his guns Only once more did the shadow of any emelion pass ovor the countenance of this intrepid He had a brother on board was only 12 years old The little fellow had hnd iwo balls pass through his hat been struck with splinters still standing by the side of his stunned by tha cannonading and around him when he suddenly fell Fur a Perry thought he too wai gone but he hud only been knocked down by a hammock which a i cannon ball had burled him in gun but J tone still Perry last out the flag which had been pro it wna aiao kicked from ihe Out prepared and mounting the one hundred men with whom he had slide called his crew about him and said gone to batlle only eighteen stood op nu My this flag words wounded Looking through the smoko ho of Captain I Ay 8avr iho uncrippled sir WSB the out of the battle It was n morning and the light breeze scarely ruffled the surface ofthe wa ter as the two squadrons with all saila set slowly each other The wealh el first but Por ry impatient to closa resolved to waive this advantage and kept standing on whon the wind unexpectedly in hia favor Cap tain Barclay observing this immediately hove to nnd laying with his topsails aback waited the approach of his adversary Wilh nil his canvass out Perry bore slow ly and steadily down before The breeze was so light that he scarcely made Iwo milea an hour The shore was lined wilh spectators ga tho exciting spectacle and watching with the movements of the American squadron Not a cloud dimmed he overhead and the lake lay ike a mirror reflecting upon its beauty and echoed from ship to ship As Perry sett that night on the quarter deck of the Luw rouce with his few remaining of while over and anon the of hia brave below were borne to his ear he was solemn and subdued Tho ex citing scene through which lie had the reflection that his own life hud been spared and ihe consciousness that his little brother was slumbering unhurt in his mock beside him awakened emotions o gratitude to God nnd lin believe that my wifes me It hnd been a proud day for him nnd as he lay that night and thought what a change a few hours hnd wrought iu his fortunes exultation might swell in hia bo som Such unshaken composure auch gut resolution nnd steadiness tenacity of purpose in a young imm of twenty seven in hia first exhibit a marvelous strength of character and one wonders st him moio than his tho mysterious disappearance uf hia favorite child but time that gieat soother mid dr nl culm tn the old troubles the fon WUB numbered with V ings of the prut In 1S3C Toucy let u loiter from England inform ing that hy the death cta relative he some twelve thousand pounds in property nnd thin to obtain presence was required Ht fince to cUim hid Toucy lost iti settling pp his bug and baggage with bis son nnd daughter ho set sail for E About three years ngo a uncouth man In city and imt up nt Ihe Hotel He Mexico spoke good and appeared to be mu with funds His object in visiting the city he informed sundry citizen was to find hia fulher But timo worked ihe New Life of Co Koorie ihm our C J 3 are lo a compl te Lf if eia iro have been hy Mr Sniper ti the of fur this iu other heroes of tho West ng aid i f Geo Rogers Claik Gen Smion Cul Win Ibid Cul Win dipt Lenia the Lew lasts Preston and Flem of and of tho lending pion eers of the West have been md expense and moio of notes taken down thb lips of ot Sevier Robertson Crawford RrK anil others on old by tlm eld have kindly with the in licis contained n the general of MSS notes alluded to will sivo a original und ter All tue di rect mid cull of tho old It waa u grant and oa the news spread bonfires tho firing of cannon tho shouts of excited multitudes un tho of the na tinn Tho bearing of daring in an open boat through tho bouse he had no bi there whole neighbor hood n soul knew him ho knew In fuel us it may seem himself father mil wore entirely Accident person only who Know iho nnd thai was an n mm for ihe From some war anil thero rested Huving hia father thut if ho should ever got rich enough to buy u farm io Tennessee there ho would go Acting pioneer Imag witlim tho asl fix e en lino botu nrd they huiB fredj aud lo ether v nil their i noil rom of lha ilio which mnj to thu tvori from tl o iut lli 9lill of Mi went the flag with a will aod as it swayed 1Ilto hia boat with his younger to the H was greeted with loud cheers ho is to be gained from the deck As tho rest of the squadron l Ui Dcd erect ho beheld the ilag from the mainmast ue to give way witha will The on of their commanders vessel and saw Mont 1 y the movement immediately give upthe to bathe for directed their fire upon the boat OAVS action along loud cheer rolled down lhn woro ia the hands by fira to the Niagara the millo hint thut possibly his people had his flag the in which ha carried his gono there Toucy took passage fur iSaah vessel through Iho lino then traveled all over the State in closed in half pistol laconic far liin futher He gave up tho count uf the victory in n letter to the Secre search to Mexico he tary of the Navy We hare met llit hmlj in his youth nud from and they are ours furnished themen to in returning or writing of discussion and eulogy and he ho found iu the front rink of About The day after tho funeral of tho mnn Toucy Ilia son uni officers tool place A little opon had a that his ing on tho margin uf iho bay a wild returned nnd lived in solitary spot ns tho of in and go he Iho It was a autumn tiny our city and bogins search not a breath of face nf brief visit to th lakp or moved tho forest Hint fringed Toucy 11L y f nn cc thu lonely clearing The sun shono brightly down on Ilio new made graves nnd not aud rested on forest iud lake The cers ench io his appropriate uniform were k with n youg of uim o ns A ha much llinn emre between them Suddenly the line r uskat balla und the men cov The excitement spread below nil Hie wilh fom the rouud ahot and aick that could move tumbled tip tn aid iu that smote the water on ovary ihe combat swiftly through the iron storm ho Perry then visited erery gun having n in and na Iho word of for each of the fiaw him go up Seeing eome of the gallant tars who had side they gavo a hearty cheer served on board lha Constitution many of Finding her and whole Perry backed whom now stood with tied a1 sail Red Rung out his for roud their beada all clear for ndian ho cloose action From erch vessel the nn laidWell you ready All ready I up in the nnd Inid or made to receive them and lhn 0 t0 placed will their hands their had in bargee As wero the boats fell in in a long cession nnd the and ly to the place if burial The flogs droop od mournfully io the still nir tho lo which the oars kept lime roso und fell ir P MITCH EVI WHOLESALE anil Retail D Shoe I Hards K 185J riol ALFRED and Retail in and Oils Stationery and Groceries Main Street 1 m GEO D and Retail Bry Gp and aira x vl I V THOMAS RS Ei glo Iowa no 1 Hay 25 no 1 HOTEL BYC E SHATTUCK of Main and Platte 1 in an action where the superiorly vas manifest He boldly resolved on the latter course ta king advantage of Barclays sudden departure gave orders to his nien to immediately on board and with eight of his ron dropped the harbor to th e morning and young Perry with the great to himself and to his country from the step he waa about to take sent his boat ashore fur a clar gyman requesting him to hold religious ser vice on his ship The officers of the were assem bled on of the St and address on the duty owed to their wna thop offered for the of cause Yonng Perry listing to the voice of prayer RS be going forth to battle nnd young Macdonough lifting bis own to God after his deck was for action furnish striking and beautiful examples of naval men Next morning the water being smooth your honor wae tho quick response three cheers rang over the water Ho then 1 need not say anything to you 3Tpn gave his sail wind nnd boro steadily know how to beat those fallows he added 1 down to the of the lino strain over the water while smilingly as he passed hia firo na he advanced bo passed The wind was so light that it look dn hour along through Ihe hostile fleel within closa A H half all reparations had been range wrapped in fire as he swept oO aud a half all p HUU tx ni till ii i I J t L made to reach the squadron This Delivering his and left he long interval of aBd suspense spread horror and death through the decks harder to bear than he battle itself Every of tbe aod Lady men was the ves Rounding to as he passed the lino he zel or in low end earnest with his vessel close lo two ot the ships in Iri rapid fire Tbo guns from the various blended theh harmony with the scene The doy before had one of strife nnd cnr but those who had closed in mortal hate uow mourned like n band of for and gathering placo of burial n farewell nnd firing ono volley ovor the name less turned endly Thorn in that wild with lha eullen to sing their dirge sleep tho sleep uf tho They had fought and it not lo tho victory 01 the defeat for they hnd gone tn tha land where humna aro forgotten nnu tho battle never conies hail cut it off much to the 1 misery the wishes of the aod that hy o to hri shout gain 3 and once moro hij futher The forthwith began nud 11 puffing fron nn iTii mnn op ni tho to the IIP one stead fast n hurried movement nho By heavens My sou Eon were locked in ench quite n surprised uk ers oti In three days limp wna KN n niun lost for hia home in j no to but its truth nnd us lo ins In will sumo of tho morn of buttle fields with ihu Indi in deep y if tho vOBt Mr iiia Field o ho of wide published by iho in no with hundred illustrations 19 BU earnest of mny expected from his union with Mr Draper in nu in Ich tlo tut n lively Tln on willl be followed by others ison Ki iroin ft1 the shocking piece on her dow tup the El Pan stopped nl Cl ty the X Aubry on liar rip hd slopped t wai stilled by iho is of the landing ho of the F X hld hid R in four of them hod boon knuck ed board nnd drowned it fifth and killed box sonp waa and from opened It WRB hind of a man freshly cut Rod largo believed lo be tlo man uho A who livne in tho left ifin Anbery It 13 supposed and bused 8t for tun pur it fur medical The littlo i of iia and mny nam Atilt ugh If II it precisely ench other leaving and messages to friends in case they foil Perry his last direction in the event that rung out of the Detroit worn deafening cannonade while tho a lowi AS CLA RK snd Retail Dealer In t Dry Goods and all of fi juo 1 STABLE PIPER with too Good enow Iowa nr JENKINS on Main Stl 1851 T Street Mc no 1 May I R B in Stow Tin Sheet Iron and Uol V no I A B the guns of the St the ressel were taken out and two scows were placed alongside end filled till they sunk to tha waters of tinber were then run the forward aod after part of the vessels and made blocks to the scows AH being ready the water pumped out of hero and the rose over ihe She stuck fast however on tho top nnd the i ovs had to be sunk again before she finally clear arid mored deep water The men worked all eight to get this one rig over The passed over ea sily and moored outside The StLaw 8DDC8 was scarcely once more afloat be fore the returning hove io sight Per ry immediately prepared for action but Bar clay after for half an hour M eal ngain up the hike The next dny Perry sailed in pursuit but after crusing n the samy returned to take in On the 12th of BS be wna to under tbe of L an r 111 of hi death to weights to crew of the lo his public ia order to have ready Uho fire ran below leaving their 1 i j and bewildered commander nlona on deck to cost overboard in case they bs r r eaning his face on hi a hand nnd gazing va his wife a loiters for the r last time nnd thon tora thorn np BO that lha enemy should not seo those of h e heart nnd turned awny remarking this is tho most important dny of my lifo Tho Jeep and silence which hod en on the waa broken by the blast of o the followed ly tbe cheer from the squadron A single gun whose shot went skipping past Bret uttering ila stern challenge and ion few momenta nil the long guns of the leot be gan lo play upon American squadron Being a mis and a Parry ould not use his nnd he ex posed to this fire half an hour before could with in straight for iho Detroit E fourth larger than his own he gave orders to the that lagged lo sp within coble length These he were pras eb by from vessel to vessel The light having nearly died the before ehe could get chip The other A me rican having corne up the action m To the from ihe shore tbo scene et this WBS indescribably thrilling Fur out on the calm water Iny a while cloud from out whoso tortured bosom broke incessant flashes nnd loud echoes rolling away the deep and dying amid tho aod of the forest An action so close and murderous could not last was COOD apparent thai victory inclined to iho for while the fire slackened the signal for close action was still flying from the Niagara nnd from every American vessel the answer ing proudly to the wind In fifteen minutes from Ihe time the first signal was made the bailie wus over A white handkerchief waving from the of ihe Queen Charlotte announced hor surrender firing ceased the smoke cleared away Influence of a Newspaper A schoolteacher who has been engaged a long ti mo in his profession rind influence of n the minis f n fumily of children writes to iho OB follows I found ita universal fuel with nut ex ception that scholars and ull who havo to newspaper at whon wilh who not are 1 Baiter renders excelling in and emphasis nnd consequently rear more 2 are spellers end defini words wilh and accuracy 3 a knowledge o in almost half the time it 03 the has made thorn near enough lo opon with her carronade and she had scarcely taken her position before ihe fire of the three her Enveloped in flame nnd smoke Perry strove desperately to ground till ihe rest of ihe fleet should close end fortw will out flinching quo control with tho of ccs nations their government on tke 4 are bolter grammarians hnv ing become familiar every o style in Ihe from tho common place to the finished and sical oral ion of the statesman they mor readily comprehend the tcx nnd ita construct revealing the two commingled with cd and torn and strewed with the Tbe loss oa each side was 135 killed and wounded Perry having secured tho prisoners re 5 write bettor compositions usin better language containing more though moro clearly and expressed G yonng men who have for jears us to allow for the Uin Dent Pi Vt te 1 fit from chief Vius liia upon Rid le Tho subject brirg one of iho of ihe bo could tho difficulties with 3 provided eomo uim nf Iba H fin life Ue 1 know men are Rro and if here is unt care ta ten will bo can ir Hnd will bo if rfl tion I lei ru in n country like women nro and hard in greit tc tif h ins nid if nny of lip siting will linn 1 ba I con i the all mnn ind wink ai the the ir the Cfci of ils orbit if in the j vere required printed it II tile presses in tho country duy mill night o perform tho labor if o lex on hem of ona cent ench ono revenue be nil the mails ty a double trayk d thw uoci ny the of in consumed ry in one would a worm aix high around the District of Columbia and the oir in smoking I would drive Ibe squadron tie world with enough over to do Ihe wind of all the patent Jf oil tho wore from to ha dropped on of tho Capitol a the hail of 1 would bo no to the pelting 3lormand the Id be buried or than be ore iLe next congrees the lies told during the nst wich led lo the hn tial campaign de ihoy J had been enticed On thw polite of Rochester discovered ihn fal low nt the hoi so lifo woman McMillan of certain unless men uf their women self en nnd closing the war cither In I wiM if any laity D to bo Mrs if she wil to mey I to negotiate the fsf A little soo of John Huch ry mysteriously about a week tigo cir The balls crashed thr j was the turned to the lying a wreck in ihe newspapers are tsking the ietd in Ihe debating ex a more extensive knowledge upon a greater cf would inako scup to oT Nature FAST A Mrs io county ia this a fow doy nj from licr hus nl huf pat o clock ond ntme restored her in the whither she had hopelessly drifted She had strock her lag before abo hnd closed wilh the Niagara but now lying ngaio 5fut n word was as he went a silent grasp of wilh greater fluency use nf thir lin of I yours agn when it wits token o ponr Tho of iis from cause or fan resisting At 10 oclock Cied Mr Smiths to be day the was married in nMr j n h m n iho to thus being a she Sliy entitled tear the nemos f TI Miss nil toja in the space nf an will pass p ng t tlf n him unlit amnn rg in her
