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He had four children, (three sons of whom survive,) by his first wife. In 1813, he married a sister of Ex-Governor Noble, by whom he has had 21 children, 8 of whom survive. Between his first and last there is about 40 years differ- ence.
He still resides in Boone county, Kentucky, and although in reduced circumstances, he has never received a cent by way of pension-Con- gress having passed no law granting any to Har- rison's soldiers. -
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The Methodist Preacher.
LOOKING TOWARD MY NEW APPOINTMENT .-- Up to the close of Conterence, I have kept faith- fully the forty dollars reserved for the purchase of a horse so soon as I should reach my new circuit. But over and above that I have not five dollars, and wife and children all want new shoes, and my boots have given way at the side. They have been twice half-soled, and the up- pers wont stand it any longer. My only coat is all threadbare, and white at the seams. That, however, is no matter, it will look well enough back in the woods, although it has rather a shabby appearance here among so many shin- ing new black coats. But, besides the abso- lute want of shoes and boots, it will cost us all of thirty dollars to get to our new home. Where, then, is the horse to come from ? Be still, des- ponding heart! The Lord will provide. You go forth in his cause, and he will take care to supply the armour, if you will always keep it bright and whole! Yes-yes-weak, timid, trembling soldier of the cross! The Captain of your salvation will go before you, and lead you on to certain victory. Only be faithful : look not back for a momen ; but press forward.
I have just had a talk with brother T- He called in very kindly to give me all the advice, encouragement, and instruction that he could, in regard to my new appointment; and also to furnish me with a list of the names of some of the prominent brethren. There is no parson age provided for the preacher's family. Nor do the people pay the rent for one. But a log cottage, he says, with a little patch of ground for a garden and pasturage, can be had for about twenty dollars a year. A cow will cost as much more, But where is the money to buy her to come from? Ah, me! If I had just about as much as it costs three or four of the sisters here for ribbons and laces, how rich I should be. The elegant dinner-set, upon which our food is served here every day, the good sister told my wife, cost eighty dollars. There was a plainer set for sixty ; but the first set had a gold band, and she liked it best and gave twenty dollars morc, for the sake of the gold band. Now, just the price of that gold band on the dinner-set would buy me a cow. Ah, me! These thoughts trouble me. But hush! hush ! poor, doubting, murmaring heart! Thou shall not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid- serrant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. If the good Master has pros- pered our brother and sister in their basket and store, I ought to be thankful to him on their ac- count, that he has given them the good things of life with a liberal hand.
of which fills his soul with the deepest anguish. Dear, good old man ! His troubles and his trials here, will, I trust, make him richer there. 1 cannot, however, coincide with him in all his positions. I cannot follow him in all his ex- amples. The bounties provided by nature- her delicious fruits-sweet flowers-honey from the rock -- were not all made in vain; or, only for those who look not for good things beyond this world. They are all for us, if in our pow- er to obtain them, and to me, it seems a greater sin to put aside the blessings thus provided by our Father's hand, than to receive them, and use them with thankfulness.
But he is sincere, and the Lord looks at the heart. I wish more of us bad a portion of his self-denying spirit. I am sure I need some of it to enable me to bear up more patiently than I do. I do wish I could never feel troubled about anything -- that I con'd really say from the heart : ' Thy will, not mine, be done.' I often say as much with the lips- but, alas! it is, I fear, only from the teeth outward.
I had written thus far in my journal, when my wife came in, and holding a stout bundle in her hand said, with a cheerful smile,
. What do you think this contains, dear ??
. I don't know, I'm sure,' I said. . What does it contain ?'
' You shall see,' was her reply, as she unrolled it. There were three pairs of shoes a piece for the children, and three pairs for wife, enough to last them all the next year. Then there were four frocks a piece for the little ones, and four new gowns for wife, besides various other matters, such as muslin for underclothes, and nice warm Canton flannel, and stockings!
·Not all for us?' 1 exclaimed,in astonishment, as Mary displayed these before my eyes.
. Yes, all for us. May the Lord reward sister A- for her goodness-we cannot.' Tears of thankfulness were in her eyes.
'Amen" I responded, fervently. In the next moment my heart smote me for what I had thought and written about the gold bands on the dinner set. Several times since I have turned to the page of my journal where it lies recorded, and taken up my pen to erase it. But I have as ofien determined to let it remain. It presents a true history of my feelings, and I cannot blot it out.
After supper that evening-the last we were to spend in the kind family of brother and sister A-, brother A- began to ask about my new cireuit, and how I expect to get along on ii. I felt a little delicacy about replying to his ques- tions-for I could not speak very encouragingly, and I never like to make a poor mouth. But he was in earnest, and cornered me so closely that I had to tell all the truth about the means the circuit afforded, and my own poor condition.
I met old father H -- y this morning, with his cowhide shoes and leather strings, wool hat, coarse coat, and shirt collar unbound with a neckeloth. It is two years since I last saw him. We talked for half an hour about matters and 'And so you still have your 'horse money' safe ?' he said, smiling after he had got all out of mc. things. He is no happier than when I last met him. Not so happy I think. The luxurious living of our rich professors troubles his soul. 'Yes, that still remains untouched. But a part will have to go for stage hire. That can't be helped. Though I doubt not, something will turn up, and that I shall get a horse after I get there casily enough. Horses don't cost much in that section of the country, and then to add to what is left after paying our fare, I hope to He has lifted his voice against it faithfully, and enforced his precepts of temperance and modera- tion by a rigid, self denying example, but it is all of no avail. There is no diminution of the evil he complains of. Ilis own perverse heart, too, causes him great affliction. The bitter things which he is daily compelled to write receive about ten dollars for the sale of some against himself, humble his soul to the dust. He finds, he says, every day, lower and lower depths of evil in his own heart, the discovery!
things at the old place, left in the care of a good brother. It will all come right, I know, brother A- It always has come right.'
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No doubt,' he said. 'The Lord will pro- | Recollections of a Voyage to Italy in 180 vide.'
Brother A- seemed thoughtful after he had said this. After sitting for a little while, he said. rising,
'Come, brother P-
I followed him up stairs, into his chamber He closed the door, and then opened a large mahogany wardrobe, well stocked with clothes.
'You and I are near about the same size,' he said, taking down a black frock coat, that was very little worn. "Try on this and see how near it will come to fitting you. I have not worn it for some months, and it is a pity to let the moths get into it. There" he continued, as I drew on the coat, 'it fits you just as well as if it had been made for you, and scarcely shows the wear it has had. Let me see,' he added, turu- ing again to the wardrobe, 'what else we have here. Ah! this is just the thing for you!' bring- ing out an overcont, made of stout beaver cloth. .You will want just such a thing as this next winter. It will keep yon as warm as toast while riding among those snowy hills. I found it al- most too heavy for me last winter. But to ride in it will be the dandy.'
He did not stop here. Two pair of good pan- taloons, as many vests, and a pair of excellent boots, were added to these. I tried to thank him, but my voice was so husky that I could not articulate distinctly. The remembrance, too, of what I had thought and written down about the gold bands on the dinner-set, with other reflections not clothed in words, choked me. He did not stop here. Next morning as I shook hands with him, and bade him farewell, he left two pieces of coin in my hands, saying as he did so, with a smile ;
.Don't touch the horse money.' brother B- A minister can't walk around his circuit.'
Excellent man ! May the Lord reward him? As for me, I feel humbled before my Master, for mny want of faith. So many-many times has he brought me safely out of the wilderness into a clear place, and yet I am unwilling to trust him.
Mutton and no Mutton.
It is odd enough that a sheep, when dead, should turn into mutton, all but its head; lor, while we ask for a leg or a shoulder of mutton, we ne- ver ask for a mutton's head. But there is a fruit which changes its name still oftener ; grapes are so called while fresh; raisins when dried. and plums when in a pudding.
MARRIED,
On Thursday evening, Oct. 31st., by the Rev. R. S. Killen, at the residence of Samuel Lewis, Esq., Mr. Ed- ward P. Lamphear. to Miss Rebecca S. Lewis, daugh- ter of Thatcher Lewis, all of this city.
On Thursday evening, Oct. 31st, by Elder James E. Challen, Mr. H. F. Davis to Nancy Gano, all of this city.
On Tuesday evening. Nov. the 5th inst., at Christ's Church, by the Rev. Dr. Brooke, David Austin, jr., of New York, to Miss Cordelia Picket, adopted daughter of John P. Garness of this city.
On Wednesday evening, 6th inst, by Rev. Dr. Co]- ton Mr. John K. Waits, to Miss Catharine Carnelly.
DIED,
In this city, on Monday, the 4th inst, of inflammation of the lungs, Ann Eliza, the eldest daughter of James S. and Eliza Ogden. azed 17 years.
Her parents in her have sustained the loss of a dutiful and affectionate child.
On Wednesday the 11th, of consumption, Mr. Josiah. Nicholas, formerly of Morris county, N. J.
The language of a thorough sailor, is sui gen- eris, and much of it is unintelligible to the un. initiated. It was sometime before I could com- prehend readily all the phrases which I heard. In performing many parts of the duty on ship- board, it is customary for the sailor to answer the order by repeating the words in which it is given; as in directing the steersman, hard-a- port, he replies, hard-a-port it is, sir. The stew- ard having misbehaved himself, the Captain turned him before the mast, and took a smart active fellow in his place. Just after he had got into his new berth, I desired him to brush my coat, then on me, which he began to per- form so gently that I could scarcely feel him, and I exclaimed, with a little impatience, Brush away, Tom. Changing his hand instantly, to a manner which resembled curry-combing a horse, he repeated, Brush away it is, sir; and was pur- suing his operation with so much energy, that I was obliged to moderate him, by saying, I anı afraid you mistake me for the main mast, Tom. I was pleased with the sailors, and found them to be the frank, honest, and jovial, good-natured fellows, which they are generally reported to be.
The monotony of sea life renders every acci- dental variety interesting. A sail discovered in the horizon, or any distant and cloud-like land calls the attention of all on board. The latter is sometimes useful as well as pleasant, and serves to mark the sailor his position on the chart. On the 29th of July, we passed the Azores, or Western Islands. Pico, except its top, which rose above them, was shrouded by the clouds. From its height condensing the vapors that float around it, I suppose this is fre- quently the case. Moore mentions the same thing when he passed it .
"The only envious cloud that lowers,
Hath hung its shade on Pico's height."
There was a fine effect produced on Terceira, by the sun shining brilliantly on one part of it while the rest appeared deluged by a heavy shower of rain. The climate of these Islands must be delightful,
On the 7th of August a sail was visible from the mast head, astern of us, and steering our course. She was scen the whole of the next day and appeared in chase of us, close by the wind. The following morning finding her within a few miles of us, the captain ordered the ship to be tacked and stood for her; when alongside she proved to be brig Huntress from New York bound to Leghorn. On the ensuing day we made the land, which proved to be Cape Spartel, on the Barbary coast. The wind was light and fair, and I went aloft to have a better view of the scenery which we were approaching. I ob- served something which appeared to be a large
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white rock on the shore, directly ahead of us [ sail on her as she could carry. As soon as this and had seen it for at least half an hour, when some one made it out to be the sails of a large ship, approaching us, close hauled; but we still could not ascertain what she was, till having ap- proached within two or three miles, she changed her course, and we perceived her to be a vessel of war; in a short time, having tacked again, she came alongside, and proved to be the British frigate Topaz.
Cape Spartel is one of the head lands which form the straits of Gibraltar: Trafalgar is the other. The outline of both coasts is very varied, and distant mountains are seen over the lower lands near the shore; but to an American, ac- customed to behold the hills and mountains of his own country clothed with towering forests, the bare and rugged hills of both shores present the appearance of great sterility. At this time the wind was fair, and there was every prospect of passing the straits without any difficulty ; but the wind suddenly came round to the east, and blew with great violence for several days, so that wo tacked from one cape to the other, without making any headway. I became very tired of it, and could have exclaimed fortiter occupa por- tum, with all my heart. I felt all the tedium which Horace mentions. In this situation we spoke the brig Greyhound from Boston, and the Huntress, which had parted company rejoined us. Till our arrival off Cape Spartel, the voyage might be considered as a very pleasant, although a slow one, the winds in general, being moder- ate and the weather fine. But we now paid pretty dearly for our former ease, being beat about from cape to cape without being able to get with- in them.
On the morning of the 19th, we observed sev- erul vessels at anchor under the lee of Cape Spartel, and as we had very strong gales, ac- companied by a rough sea, the captain deter- mined to bear away, and come into the smooth watcr[under the lee of the land. As we ap- proached it, he said to me, that he thought I would be able to catch some fish, and directed one of the men to bring me some fishing lines, which I got ready, and waited for the opportu- nitv of trying my luck, when the ship should be hove to. We had not reflected on the possibili- ty of any of these vessels being enemies, and were approaching them with great confidence, when a large brig that lay rather in shore of the others, got under weigh, and at the same time hoisted the French flag. I saw it the instant it began to ascend, and turning to the Captain, who was near me, said, "I believe we should have other fish to fry than those we expected to catch." "By Jove!" exclaimed he, "A French man-of-war brig." All hands were piped, the ship tacked, and in five minutes had as much
was done, the decks were cleared, the men cal- led to quarters, the guns double-shotted, and every thing prepared for action, the brig being in chase of us. The other vessels, although two or three of them were armed, kept their posi- tions. Conjectures were now hazarded, about what the big could be. She showed eighteen guns. "I'll swear," said one of the mates, "that some of the vessels under the land are not French built ships." "In that case," says an- other, they "must be her prizes." "If she has taken and manned so many prizes," said the Captain, "she cannot have many men left on board, and if she hasn't, she might not be an overmatch for us." "If we could take her," said the first Mate, "we should be able to cap- ture all her prizes ; that would be a glorious haul of prize money !" In ten minutes it was all ar- ranged. The conjectures were communicated to the crew, and the determination to take the French btig and all her prizes, was received by them with three cheers, so animating that I my- self felt a little of their spirit. The ship was then hove to, and she stood for the brig, under reefed topsail; on which, the brig hauled her wind, took in sail, and then tacked again for us. We were directly close along side of each other, when, behold, down came the French colors, and in their place an English ensign was dis- played. I heard one near me exclaim, in a tone of great mortification, "d-n it, she's not a Frenchman after all!" It was easily to perceive the honest fellow thought he had lost a large suin of prize money by the transformation of the na- tional ensign.
Our ship had been well armed before leaving port; and although the number of her men was small in proportion to her guns, yet they were sufficient to work the guns on one side. I have said she had thirty men, but this included her officers. Her twelve guns were six-poun- ders. One part, which is usually neglected in merchant ships,had been well attended to; that is, the security of her quarters. The space be- tween the outer and inner planks above deck. was stuffed full of seasoned hoop poles which, from their elasticity, formed an admirable defence against shot; and above the wood work, iron staunchions to the height of a man's head, filled with old cables.
On the passage, the crew had been frequently exercised at their guns, in which exercise I had participated ; and my shipmates acknowledged that I could beat thein at a target with a mus- ket or pistol and single ball. Indeed, it would have been singular had I not had some superior- ity over them at these weapons; for I have .been very fond of shooting from my childhood, and can recollect having my gun when so small
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as not to be able to hold it without a rest. The | Captain said he saw no reason why a person who was so expert with a musket, should not be a good marksman with a cannon, and offered me, in case of an action, the command of a gun. "Very well," said I, "If we should be compelled to fight, it would be less awkward to be busy than to be idle. What is considered the most honorable position ?" "The quarter deck, for it is usually the most dangerous," said he. Of course, I could do nothing else than take a quarter deck gun.
During our conjectures about the supposed French brig and her prizes, I had taken partic- ular notice of the spirited manner of the first mate; and the animation which he displayed at the expected rencontre. It was he, who expres- sed his mortification at seeing the English in the place of the French ensign. He was about twenty-two years of age, born in Nantucket, out of which he sailcd when but eight years old, on board of a whaler, in a voyage round Cape Horn. There is no better school for a seaman than these voyages. He who is accus- tomed to pursue his enormous prey amidst the icebergs of Hudson's Bay, or the rocks of Terra del Fuego, can bid defiance to any thing. He had been at sea, with but few intermissions ever since. I had taken little or no notice of him during the voyage. Nothing had occurred to bring him out. It could easily be seen that he was a good sailor, and perfectly at home at all parts of his duty : but this had very little in- terest for a landsman, and I had seldom spoken to him. The trite adage of nimium ne crede colori, applies to many men who seem better than they are, but Charles Ramsdell was better than he seemed to be. He was not only an ex- pert sailor; but a brave, frank, and honorable fellow.
During the following night, the wind moder- ated, and the next morning (the 20th) became fair, and we stood into the straits of Gibraltar. At 4 A. M. Tarifa bore N. W. Ceuta point, S. E. by E. and the rock of Gibraltar N. E.
I was very soundly asleep when Ramsdell came to awaken me, and said, "I think that we shall have a battle; there are several French privateers near us." "Well," said I, "I shall hear you when you begin, and that will be time enough to get up." "No," replied he, "you had better see that the men are ready at your gun; I am very certain that you will be wanted there shortly." I laid a few minutes longer, till think- ing that it would not be to my credit, if my com- panions should imagine me more disposed to re. main snugly in my birth, than to join them, I got up. On repairing to the deck, I saw sever- al vessels under the Spanish shore, which were pointed out to me as French and Spanish priva-
teere and gun-boats. There were at that time four American brigs in sight-one was near the Spanish shore; the other three astern of us .-- Two of the latter were the Huntress of New York, and the Greyhound of Boston. The brig near the shore appeared to be unarmed. One of the privateers boarded her. and sent her under the guns of a fort. Several sails were visible far astern of us, which we supposed to be a fleet we had seen under Cape Spartel. Some of the privateers stood for these. while two of the largest bore down on the brigs astern of us. It was the duty of our captain, as it is the duty of all commanders of merchant vessels, to avoid an action. The breeze was fair, but light, and we had all sail set. I find by the log-book, a copy of which is before me, that the remarks were made only to three o'clock in the morning, at which time we were going at the rate of on- ly two knots (or miles) an hour; but the cur- rent, which always sets from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean, favored us. The privateers sailed remarkably well. The hindmost one be- gan to fire on the brig nearest to her, which be- ing unarmed, and seeing no prospect of escape, hauled down her colors and hove to for the pri- vateer to board her. I felt very much like a per- son who sees a venomous snake in the act of swallowing a beautiful bird. The quarter guns had been run out of the stern-port. I asked the captain to give me permission to fire a shot at the privateer, to which he assented, but said it was too far off for me to liit. I aimed the piece and fired; the shot struck in the true direction, but short of her, on which she immediately love to for her consort to come up to her, which she did in a few minutes, (the brig not having been boarded, but lying to with her topsail to the coast,) and after some consultation they both neglecting the brigs which they could easily have taken, as they were unarmed, bore direct- ly down on us. Each of them, as we after- wards ascertained, carried two long brass twen- ty-four pounders, which worked on slides, and were served by regular artillerists, in her bows : and as they came down on us, these were fired with very excellent aim; and that at a distance, which from the inferior size of our guns, we did not think it expedient to answer. The effect of this distant fire is, I think, more unpleasant than that of a closer action. You see the gush of smoke from the gun; you know you are in the spot aimed at ; a twenty- four pound ball is on its way to you ; you can count eight or ten delib. erately before it reaches the spot, and before it is decided whether it strikes you or not. For my part, I endeavored to persuade myself, that this would not strike me ; but apprehensive that if one of those shot came through the stern it would bring a volley of splinters with it, I jum-
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ped on the taffrail, and sat there endeavoring to ) teers might suspect that a running fight would judge of the distance by counting the seconds place us within the protection of the British batteries, before its conclusion, and therefore would attempt to carry the ship by boarding, and he directed the boarding nettings to be triced up, which placed us all as it were in a cage ; but the enemy threw such showers of grape and cannister upon us, that in a quarter of an hour's time, the boarding nettings were cut away in all directions, and the rigging was so torn to pieces, that the ship became perfectly unman- ageable, and she drifted without our having any power of directing her course. About this time the ensign was shot away from the mizen peak, and fell on deck. The Frenchmen supposed we had struck, and both vessels began to cheer ; but a continuation of our fire soon convinced them that they had been mistaken, and a very smart sailor, of whose name I recollect only the first part, which was Tom, without waiting for orders, snatched up the ensign, ran up the miz- en shrouds, and tied it fast. It was not, how- ever, long before the mizen shrouds were shot away, and it fell a second time, when the part of it which was left being torn to ribbands, was run up to the fore top gallant mast head, and dis- played such a tattered escutcheon that it would have been impossible to tell what nation it be- longed to. which elapsed from the firing of the gun till the shot passed, which it did with a whiz, which I did not find quite such pleasant music as Charles XII, declared the first volley of musket balls which he heard, to be. It was thought best to retain our fire till the enemy should be quite near us. I had remarked a good many holes made in onr sails, and ropes cut away by the round shot, when my attention was attracted by a sputtering noise, and I was just going to ask the captain what it was, when catching me by the arm, he said, "they are firing grape, get from the taffrail." It was my duty to obey, which I did without the slightest demur. I think I can recollect my feelings at the time, very well .-- I had in the course of the voyage more than half an inclination to see an action : but then I should have prefered having the control of both its du- ration and intensity. As it was, I could not help seeing that we were greatly outnumbered, the consequence was, a very hesitating mood wheth- er I should like it or not. I had never scen a battle. Ic was worth something to see one. It is not every day we have an opportunity, but this was misty and chilly-that kind of weather we call raw, and I had not eaten my break fast ; and let me tell you, that a breakfast before a battle is not to be despised. I fancy no one The vessels of the enemy were long and low, and built for sailing, and full of men. In the disabled situation of our ship, one of them took a position directly under our stern, and within fifty yards of us; the other lay on our larboard quarter, about double that distance .- We could not give the least direction to our ship; but as the current set us to the eastward, and the wind though light was fair, and assisted our drifting, it was evident that it was necessa- ry only to fight long enough for the ship to be carried into such a situation, that if the priva- teers should at last succeed in capturing her, they could not get her against wind and current to Algiers; but would have to take her to the British vessels of war, which we could see, very composedly viewing! all our troubles from Gibraltar. I do not hesitate to acknowledge that after the engagement had lasted an hour or more, I was sufficiently satisfied with its duration and effects, and I should not have objected to some of the British vessels com- ing to partake of the honors to be obtained; on the contrary , I cast my eyes several times in the direction of Gibraltar, when the smoke would permit me to see it, and felt no small degree of surprise at the tranquility with which the com- bat appeared to be viewed. But the sailors and soldiers on that station, are accustomed to see and hear cannonading, and custom does won- ders, or they might not have considered it any likes to fight before breakfast; and I knew not how to get mine. The wheel had been unship- ped, and the tiller ropes rove through blocks in the cabin; and the cook was stationed there to assist in working the ship: the steward was at one of the guns. If I was again in such a situa- tion, I would advise a different disposition of af- fairs. While I was in this blank humor, Rams- dell said to me, with as much glee in his coun- tenance as if he had just been partaking of an excellent sea-pie and a can of grog, (by the way there was no grog given to the men before the action ; that was another error.) "I'll warrant, we'll knock the dust out of these fellow's jack- ets, if they come along side of ns." From the size of the enemy's vessels, I was not quite so certain of the correctness of this declaration as he appeared to be. They were up with us in as short a time as he desired, and before I could make up my mind whether I wished them in our vicinity or not. Their fire was returned with spirit. The wind was light, but fair for Gibral- tar, the batteries and shipping of which, were within sight, having by this time emerged from the straits and passed Europa point. The cap- tain thought it best to keep the sail on the ship, and continue the course, although we fought un- der great disadvantage by doing so, as we were able to reply to their fire with the two stern guns only. The captain apprehended, that the priva- | part of their business.
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