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From the National Intelligencer. ; WIXFIELD SCOTT. - HIS UK AS A COKMAKDM. Continued from Wednesday1 paper. SCOTT SELECTED TO INSTfcCCT ASD DISCIPLINE GEN. BRoirx's ABirr ro the next campaign. Thus far, those larger operations of the war which had been entrusted to the more veteran (Jenerals were, except Harrison's overthrow of Proctor, failures. .. it had become clear that cither the contest must be given up, or another kind of commanders must be found. It was not that these men were too old, but that they were poor soldiers. They had never known enough to be made generals of ; and now they were too old to learn. It is neither because a man is old or because he is young that you can make him safely a leader of armies : k atura must have created him for it, and Art have perfected the work. Nature made a Jackson and a Taylor ; but she alone could never have made a master of war like Scott. All the conduct of this young officer made the Government perceive that in him they had a man for victories. They had advanced him ra pidly ; and the more advanced the more had he shown himself fit for command. Indeed, it has been remarkable in him that, no matter what they have set him about, war or peace, fighting ur negotiating, he has always done it better than any body else. lie was now, in the winter of 1813-14, called by the President to Albany, there to prepare all the supplies for the next campaign, and, under instructions from him, to ' consult on and settle with Gov. Tompkins certain important arrange ments, political and military, which have not yet been divulged. That business done, he was, on the 9th of March, 1814, promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, and sent to the Niagara fron tier, there to form at Buffalo, by discipline and instruction, as fast as they arrived, a new army, meant to act there in the next campaign, under Major General Brown. That officer withdrew for three months to Sackett's Harbor, in order to leave this important operation entirely to Scott, lie went about it accordingly with all his might. We had heretofore used the old English or rather Prussian system of tactics ; but with a poor drill of even that : he at once adopted the far more perfect modern French one that which we now employ and placing the whole army in a Camp of Instruction, a huge practical military school, kept them incessantly, for the next three months, men and officers, at learning the whole business of fighting. First he taught the officers, and then they taught the men. Both were thoroughly trained to all the minor evolutions. This effected, he went on to the higher movements, not of mere squads and companies, battalions and regiments, brigades and divisions, but made them skilful in the manoeuvre of whole armies ; and, in a word, ac customed them to all the duties of the camp, the march, and the battlefield. He did his work thoroughly, and stopped not until he knew that we had now one army fit to cope with the best troops of Britain. lie had received them from Gen. Brown raw recruits ; he gave them back to him veterans in discipline : he had taken them in hand a mere crowd, (a mob with uni forms on ;) they left him an invincible host fill ed with martial skill and confidence, and soon jto sweep before them with the bayonet (that w manifest test of the soldier,) Wellington's old fire-eaters of the Spanish peninsula, that tiad never before given back. THE NIAGARA CROSSED FORT ERIE TAK.XN BAT TLE OF CHIPPEWA. All was now ready for action. At the end of June Gen. Brown returned to Buffalo, and on the 3rd of July Scott and Ripley were sent across the Niagara with their brigades to take Fort Erie. It soon surrendered its 170 men, while the rest of our army passed over ; and now pre parations were at once made to attack without delay the British army, which, 2,100 strong, lay, under Gen. Riall, on the Chippewa below. Early on the 4th Scott moved forward in ad vance, lie was soon met by the Marquis of Tweeddale, who for sixteen miles kept up a run ning fight with him, but could make no stand. By nightfall he was driven across the Chippewa, and at its bridge rejoined Iliall ; "while Scott took up his quarters for the night on Street's creek, two miles above. The space between is the plain of Chippewa, midway on which oc curred the next day's bloody battle. East of the plain runs the Niagara; west of it stretches a wood, bordering irregularly the battle-ground. On the 5th the chief part of the day had been consumed in skirmishes between our light troops and Indians with those of the enemy, when Gen. Riall chose, about four in the afternoon, to an ticipate an attack on him in his lines by passing the bridge of the Chippewa and advancing to offer battle in the middle of the plain. Nothing could be fairer than the ground ; and though he out numbered us by some 200 men, be really supposed us to have at least that ad vantage over him, but that he was more than compensated by the superiority of his troops, who were mainly veterans that had fought under Wellington. Gen. Brown had been at the wood near the centre of the plain directing some of the movements of the skirmishers, when he saw Riall thus pass the bridge, display his columns, and come forward in order of battle. He im mediately hastened back towards Scott's posi tion, beyond the bridge of the upper stream. He met him about to cross into the plain mere- ly to give his men a little drill, for he had yet received no order to engage. As they met, Gen. Brown simply said to him, "The enemy is ad vancing you will have a fight," and passed on to the rear up Ripley's brigade. The few words just recited were all the orders and all the instructions that he thought it ne cessary (such was his confidence in Scott) to give him. The latter advanced to and passed the bridge, now within point-blank range of the enemy's battery of nine guns. His troops crossed it steadily though not without loss, under that severe lire, and, deploying as they advanced, marched coolly up 4o the encounter. The ar tillery of Capt. Towson was thrown off to the right flank, along the Chippewa road, to just the point where the opposing columns would meet in charge, so that it would not only play upon the enemy all the while, but, when the de cisive shock came, rake him dreadfully from the flank. The enemy's artillery, on the contrary, though stronger, was far less judicious v posted, in such a manner that the advance of their own infantry on their left flank soon threw them be tween their batteries and our columns, and thus compelled their cannon to become useless against our lines. So much for the artillery positions. Those of the infantry were on our side equally well disposed. The enemy came on in an un broken line, which outflanked iis and reached into the wood on our left. To remedy this, Jxnworth's battalion was obliqued to the righV McNeil's to the left, with an interval be tween Xlixm ; while Jesup's batalion wasobliqued Btill more latlhe lefVaaa to meet the enemy's right wing M'&fi woooV and there hold it in check. At the point where this was done the wood projected more into the plain than in Je aup's rear; eo that the enemy's line out of the wood was shorter than ours ; and as their line in the plain continued to advance while th ; the wood could not, the" former was presently, at the critical moment when it came in contact with oar centre under McNeil, outflanked by it In turn! These advantages had been at once seen and Mixed by superiority of generalship and that rapidity and precision of manoeuvre to which his men had now been brought, so as to be able (as they should) to execute an important movement almost as soon as their general had conceived it. But this was not all ; a still more decisive evolution was at hand. The movements just de scribed had brought the adverse lines to exactly that point at which that terriblo stratagem call ed the "movement eu potence" (a sort of Hr.kU sidelong attack) can be employed. In it, when J TiS ? u,ee oi me enemy, your flanks are suddenly pushed forward and c your Une tnrown inw tne soaped the rafters of a rawer n wnue uie enemy's line occupies in regard to it, the position which the sleepers have to the rafter. The effect of this is to converge the fire of your own line up on his centre and .cut it in two ; to finish which operation, yon then charge upon John,- (the two angles of your line moving. upon the same point on which their double fire was just now poured,) and the bayonet ends what the balls began. This movement, when well executed, inevitably ( breaks your adversary's line, and is fatal : no troops can stand it Scott now pat it in prac tice. The opposing lines had advanced upon each other, firing, halting, re-loading, and ad vancing again by turns, until now they were within eighty yards of each other. Then Scott gave the word for the evolution en poience. To add to its effect, he had a moment before ridden over to Towson's artillery, (which ho per ceived was, from the smoke and the enemy's ad vance, firing too much to the right,) and told that able gunner where next to pour his balls ; and his next raking discharge was accordingly very destructive. A moment after, the infantry made its manoeuvre. No sooner was its double fire poured in than Scott called out to McNeil's battalion, "The enemy say we are only good at long shot, and can't stand the cold iron 1 I call upon the Eleventh to give the lie to that sianaer : Charge !" 5A like order was given, at the same moment, to Leavenworth's battalion ; and both bodies rushed upon the enemy's centre with the bayonet It was instantly overthrown ; and with it the whole main body of the British army broke, and fled in total confusion. About the same time Jesup, under a heavy fire, advanced upon the enemy in the wood, forced them to re tire, and thus completed their defeat at all points. Such was the masterly activity of Scott (others may boast of "masterly inactivity,") that before Ripley, whom Gen. Brown had gone to order up, could arrive, the battle had been won, and Scott was hotly pursuing the routed adver sary back across Chippewa bridge into their en trenchments. It was at the moment when his terrific charge utterly broke them to pieces, and covered the plain with their fallen and their fly ing, that he raised up his hands on high, and cried out "Ten years of my life for a hundred erood drazoons !" With but that little body of horse, to cut them off from the bridge, he might have destroyed or captured their whole force. Such was the battle of Chippewa. In propor tion to the numbers engaged, a bloodier one has seldom been seen ; for one-fourth of the com batants were killed or wounded. Almost equal in its terms, and fought as if by a regular chal lenge, it was yet decided with such a rapidity as affords an extreme proof of the conqueror's mili tary skill : and would fairly, did it even stand alone, hand down his name as a remarkable one in the annals of warfare. SECOND BATTLE OF THE CATARACT, OR OF Ll XDV's LANE. On the 7th of July, Brown's army (Scott's brigade leading) forced the passage of the Chip pewa, Riall retreating upon Forts George and Messasauga below ; after reinforcing which he took refuge with his remaining force on Burling ton Heights, there to await succors. Before at tacking him there, Uener.il crown held it ad visable to tike the fortified places lelow him on the peninsula ; for, like Scott afterwards, he did not admire marching when he was to have "a fire in his rear." But these British works were now such as field artillery could not hurt ; a battering train was necessary ; and this must be brought up from Sackett's Harbor by our fleet. It was accordingly waited for ; but mean time Chauncery had fallen sick, and we tempo rarily lost the command of the Lake ; so that the heavy guns could not come. Upon this Brown determined to leave the fortresses lehind him and attack Riall upon Burlington Heights. But first he endeavored to draw him down from them by a feigned retreat up the Niagara and across the Chippewa, beyond which he encamp ed. The stratagem succeeded, but not until we suddenly met the enemy was its success known. On the afternoon of the 25th (Sunday) positive but false advice was received from a comman dant on the American side of the Niagara, that Riall had thrown across at Lewis town a corps of one thousand men. Brown at once decided to compel their return by threatening their rear and the forts below. For this purpose, Scott's brigade, now about 1,300 men, was dispatched down the river, at twenty minutes' notice. Within two miles it suddenly came upon a reconnoitering party of the enemy. A considerable body was speedily ascertained tcbe beyond the wood, (at Forsythe's house, just above the Falls,) which we were then approaching. It seemed certain that they could at most be only the other half of Riall's force, and that his movement was merely meant to protect the rear of the body he had sent across the Niagara. Pausing, therefore, only long enough to report the fact by an aid-de-eamp to Gen. Brown, Scott pushed right on. He had no sooner passed the wood than he found himself in the presence nay, under the severe fire of a force full five hundred stronger than his own, and more advantageously posted. For they had chosen their position, and stood on it ready drawn up in order of battle, occupying with their artillery (nine pieces) an elevation which com manded the whole ground. The British line lay stretched along Lundy's Lane, a little beyond (north of) it ; its right, near which were its artillery, reaching to a wood ; its left resting on the road parallel with the river, by which Scott was approaching, and from which diverged at right angles the lane. From their rear were marching to join them, up this same river road, reinforcements, while ours were to come along it from above. We need hardly say that this was Riall, and that instead of having (according to the positive information Brown was acting on) sent off one thousand of his men across the river, he had not sent one ; but on the contrary, was in the act of uniting with a large force which had arrived by the Lake at Fort George from Kingston and Pres cott the night before, by a concerted movement, under LieutenaDt-Gcneral Sir Gordon Drum- mond. Strange to tell, information had been sent to Brown of a movement of the enemy, as occurring only a few hours before, which had not happened at all ; while they had left him in complete ignorance of this most important event in the same quarter, happening the night before ! Such was the situation in which, at a glance, Scott saw himself to be placed ; if ho fought it must be at much disadvantage ; and it was too late to draw off, except by a retreat which could hardly help being presently turned into a flight Now, a flight was a thing be had never Been, and was not born to see. So he decidedly in stantly to engage, as if Gen. Brown's wholo force was present and to fight it out, at what ever odds, until the latter could come to his as sistance ; to which end he sent him, by a second aid-de-camp, an account of the whole state of things. It was now nearly sunset. Scott had seen that on the enemy's left flank lay a space of some two hundred yards, covered with bush wood, under concealment of which that flauk might be turned.' He instantly took advantage of it and sent upon the service Jesup's battal ion. They performed the duty finely ; for they not only turned, but broke their way back through the enemy's left wing, and, after thus cutting it off, returned to their own place in our line, bringing with them Major General Riall and some other British officers as prisoners. While we thus demolished their left wing, they attempted to return us the compliment upon ours, which their right considerably outflanked. But Scott, always as quick to foil his adversary's manauvres as to strike by his own, met this movement with McNeil's smaller but invincible battalion. A deadly contest followed ; but the enemy was at last driven back, though not with out severe loss on both sides. Meantime the main battle of the two centres had joined, and was fought most desperately. Brady's Battal ion, Leavenworth's battalion, and Towson's ar tillery there sustained, with unsaken intrepidi ty, the whole weight of the enemy's superior numbers ; and now, to add to the horrors of the fight the last light of day, which, glistening the spray of the great cataract behind our col umns when they engaged, had spread above their heads to the enemy's view a bright rain- bow of the promise of victory, was eone : and j darkness, thickened by the smoke of batt e only lighted up for an instant by tho artillery's glow or the musketry's gleam, came to add to all that tug- of the combat a blind fury, the ver-1 iest rage of war that can be breathed into the breast of men when they set their teeth like a , vice and their sinews like steel, and swear that nothing shall make them yield. It was thus our men fought through the fierceness of that bloody night-encounter. Scott letting loose all the personal daring which a general must usually control, was eve rywhere animating or directing or leading, and watching every shock or shift of the fight. His horse was killed under him; he mounted an other ; that, by and by, fell dead : he was quick ly in the saddle of a third : he was himself wounded in the body ; but still fought on, as if he had been bullet-proof. The conflict went thus until about 9 o'clock, when Gen. Brown arrived on the mround. The enemvhad receiv ed several reinforcements from below, and an- j other was not far off ; but still we had the ad-: vantage ; their wings had been beaten ; their . centre only maintained the contest aided by j their advantage of position on a ridge, and their yet greater artillery, which was more than twice , as numerous as ours. While that was untaken it j was evident that we could not defeat their cen tre ; and as we had almost too little force to stand up against their centre, it had been im-1 possible, until Brown's succors came up, to as- j sail their fatil artillery. That, of course, as j soon as he had made Scott repeat to him how matters stood at all points, became the first measure which he took. The regiment of Col. Miller, the heroic modesty of whose reply on that occasion will long preserve his name and his hrase as a watchword to Americans, was se- ected for this perilous service. He was sum moned. " Sir," said Brown to him, " can you take that battery?" " I will try, sir," was his answer. He immediately set forward with his corps. But, ignorant of the ground, and with noth ing to lead him over it but the occasional light of those deadly explosions themselves that he was going to muzzle, he might have missed the way, falling upon some intervening forces, and failed. Scott, therefore, who knew " how the whole land lay," became his pilot in person, and led him through tho darkness up to the point from which the attick was to be made. That done, he returned to his own division," in order to favor Miller's movement, by pressing the onset upon the enemy's front. Miller ad vanced steadily to within striking distance of the batteries, and then rushed upon them with the bayonet. After a short but bloody contest he captured them an event, we may say, de cisive of the battle ; for although the enemy made repeated attempts to recover their guns and their position, they were as often driven back by the unflinching steadiness of our men. It was past eleven o'clock, however, before they finally, with no very good grace, gave up the contest and abandoned the field to us. In driv ing back one of tho last of these obstinate and bloody charges, Scott received a very severe musketshot wound, which shattered all thebones of liia lpfY Khoiilitr. ftml still irrnllv tinanl ' i i . , 1 1 - I uiut urui. ddwu, tuso, wns uuuiv wouu- ded about the same time ; and both Generals had to be borne from the field, with hurts that left it doubtful if either would ever be able to serve again. We have only to add, in regard to the tight of Chippewa, that if modern times can show us battles on a greater scale or more decisive in their consequ. nces than this, Lundy's Lane or Bridgewater. they can present none more skillful or bloodily contested : for again (as at Chippewa) the loss among all those en gaged may be fairly stated, as probably one in every four, killed, wounded, or taken. scott's slow recoverv from his wounds pro motion. For a month after the battle of Niagara, Scott lay between life and death, first at Buffalo, then at Williamsville, and nextly at Batavia, in the house of Mr. Brisbane, under the gentle care of whose family he at last recovered just enough to bear the being carried in a litter on men's shoulders. In this manner he was slowly and laboriously borne along from town to town, in search of medical relief, upon the voluntary shoulders of those who loved him for his ex- Eloits, until at last they brought him to the ouse of his friend, John Nicholas, at Geneva. Thence, after recovering a little further under the nursing of that household, he slowly made his way towards Philadelphia, that he might obtain the aid of the celebrated Drs. Physick, Chapman and Gibson. Every where as he pass ed he was greeted by all the public honors and private attentions he could bear. Princeton, in particular, met the suffering hero with the lit erary compliment of an academic reception and a diploma,mademore grateful to thesoldier by the revolutionary memories of that scene of battles. At Philadelphia Gov. Snyder and the citizens welcomed him with military and civic parades. Thence he proceeded to Baltimore, to direct mea sures for the defence of which and of Philadel phia against an expected British attack, he had, j aisaoiea as ne was, receivea a request trom the Government and the Congressional representa tives of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Arriving in Washington in" October, he was, being now again fit for duty, placed in coin-1 mand of that military district, and employed to plan the expected campaigns of the next spring, in which, of course, he would have had a lead ing part, and have won new laurels, if peace had not been meantime concluded at Ghent, on the 24th of December, 1814, and ratified by our Senate on the 15th of February, 1815. After this event there being no further need for him in the field, Mr. Madison offered him the post of Secretary at War ; but he declined it, consid ering himself too young, for he was yet only twenty-eight. Meanwhile, he had been bre vetted for the battles of Chippewa and Niagara to the highest existing rank in our service that of Major General. It is known that at every previous step of his rapid promotion Pres identMadison, though knowing him well and per suaded of his extraordinary military merits, had always objected that, although he deserved it, he was too young. He had thus thought that Scott was made lieutenant colonel too young, adjutant general too young, colonel of a double regiment too young, and brigadier general quite too young. But when, after his late heroic bat tles, it was proposed to him by his Cabinet to advance the youth to our highest military grade, he laughingly answered, "Put him down a major general ; I have done with objecting to his youth." Two years before he had looked on him as only old enough to be a major ; now he thought him ripe enough to be Secretary at War! When, as we have said, Scott declined that dignity, he endeavored to induce him at least to become acting Secretary keeping his army rank, of course until Wm. II. Crawford, then in France, could return to talre the post ; but this also Scott respectfully declined, out of delicacy towards his seniors in date, Gens. Brown and Jackson. IS SENT TO EUROPE: MISSION PARTLY" MILITARY, PARTLY POLITICAL. The enfeebled state of his health and the de- J sire of professional improvement suggesting to him a trip to Europe, the Government now gave him a double commission abroad ; first taiook into the improvements of military science there; and next to conduct certain secret negotiations as to the views of foreign courts in regard to the Independence of Spanish America and the sup posed designs of Britain upon the Island of Cu ba. Of these latter objects he acquitted him self much to the satisfaction of our Executive. To accomplish the former, he examined the chief military establishments of Western Eu rope, conversed with its most eminent soldiers, n.nd attended the scientific lwtiirva of ff, .v,i - - - - Ul ovuisuto of Tactics; bringing home with him, in 1816, ! whbtAVpr ould imnrovp. mir mrn mnA fit r 1 " r v un utuj iur i drawing up those systems of discipline and in- j nruiuvu iui uui ajiui suuiumuit 10 wniCU W6 have since owed our Mexican victories. On his return he was placed in command of the milita ry division of the seaboard, with New York for his headquarters. In 1817, he married Miss Mayo, of Richmond. THANKS VOTED HIM : SWORDS, MEDAL J CONDUCT OT ROBBERS. ' Meanwhile, Virginia and New York had pre sented him votes of thanks and rich swords, " for his uniform good conduct in sustaining the military reputation of the United States, in eve ry conflict where he was present during the late war with England, but more especially in the successive engagements of Chippewa and Niag ara." Congress also voted him, in- the same high terms, (conferred by it on no other,) a large gold medal, inscribed with the names of Chippewa and Niagara, and bearing his image upon it. With this medal two singular inci dents are connected. It was placed for safe keeping in the vault of the City Bank of New York. A noted robber, afterwards detected and punished, breaking into- the safe, carried off from thence every thing else valuable, but spar ed, in evident respect of the brave soldier's on ly wealth, this token of public honor his me dal. Its case was found lying there open, but with its large mass of pure gold safe. Not even a whole life of crime had been able to extinguish in that poor felon a lingering feel ing of patriotism, of pride in his country's best soldier. Alas ! if ever the general admiration of his country should brim that soldier for ward as its nominee for the Presidency, it is but too easy to foresee that there will be men call ed not thieves, but politicians, who will do their best to rifle him of all his hard-won fame, which the robber respected ! But again : long after wards, in travelling by a steamboat from Al bany down to New York, General Scott had his pocket picked of a purse containing some eight hundred dollars in gold. On arriving he ad vertised his loss. His money was sent back to him bv the head thief of the city, with a res pectfuf assurance that none of his people would have touched the General's purse, if they had known his person. QUARREL WITH GEN. JACKSON : THEIR RECONCIL IATION. In 1817 there occurred a very unnecessary difficulty between Gens. Scott and Jackson. The latter had issued a general order grossly insubordinate towards the War department. At a dinner party in New York, Gov. Clinton asked Gen. Scott's opinion of it. He answered that it was mutinous in its tendency, and gave his reasons for that view. The conversation was conveyed to Gen. Jackson by some anony mous tale-bearer. The General, always ready to fight any body who ventured to disapprove one of his violent acts, wrote to Gen. Scott from Nashville, requesting to know if his anonymous correspondent reported the truth ? Gen. Scott replied by telling how far, and the circumstances ; disavowing any ill will to wards him as influencing his opinion. General Jackson rejoined quite angrilv, and with an of fer of personal satisfaction. To this in his an swer, Gen. Scott, who thought General Jackson had no right to be offended, and who (besides that he had no need to give proof of his having courage enough to meet Gen. Jackson or any body) had uo taste for shedding blood any where but on the battle-field, paid no attention. And so for the time the affair dropped. In 1N23, however, they were both in Washington at once; and it being currently reported that (Jen. Jackson meant to insult him whenever they met, (len. Scott sent him a note referring to their falling out, to the fact of their being now for the first time within reach of each oth er, and the possibility that Gen. Jackson did not know it, nor that he would yet remain in Washington for three days. To this note Gen. Jackson returned a conciliatory answer ; they made friends, aud ever after remained upon terms of all courtesy and respect. PREPARES OUR SYSTEMS OF TACTICS ; GOES ABROAD AGAIN. We owe to Gen. Soott almost all we have of a military system. That which we use was (as has been seen) first introduced by him at Buf falo. There he with it converted Gen. Brown's division into men that could not afterwards be beat. He had then only personally taught it : but in 1814-15 it was regularly adopted for all our army, by a board of officers, of which he was President. In 1821 he published it in 8vo., under title of" General Reyu'a 'ions forilie Army." In 1825 he published his " Infantry Tactics." In 1826 he drew up for the War De partment " A plan for the organization ami in struction of the whole body of the Militia of the I'nion," and "1 System of Infantry and Rifle Tactics." In 1835 he published, by order of Con gress, a new edition of the latter. How well his system works has been seen in Mexico, through the armies formed under it. Certainly, we owe much to West Point and its scientific instruction, but West Point owes no little of what it is to Gen. Scott It is ho in re ality, who has given to our army that admirable spirit that high gentlemanliness, that character, that extreme efficiency, that respect for law and that love of duty, which distinguish it even more than its science, and make it the finest body of men in the world. It appears, too, sin gularly enough, that he mav be placed among the earliest pioneers of the Temperance reform. For he published in 1821, a long tract (12 col umns) in AValsh's National Gazette of Philadel phia, proposing a plan for restricting the use of ardent spirits in the United States. Ho was led to tins idea by the mischiefs from intempe rance with which he had to contend in govern ing the army. In 1H2U he again visited Europe, for professional information. TUB BLACK HAWK WAR: THE CHOLERA : SCOTT'S CONDUCT. The interesting events which are contained in the life of Gen. Scott crowd upon us. Wemust therefore pass very slightly over some of them which would show very bright in the history of oth ers. Such a case is that of his conduct in the Black Hawk war of 1832 ; where he not only quieted most humanely and prudently great difficulties with Indian tribes, but concluded treaties of great benefit to our people of the Northwest; and, more than all, endeared himself to every true heart by the manner in which, when the Asiatic cholera broke out among his soldiers with most fatal violence, he nursed and tended them, in total disregard of his own safety, al though himself affected all the while by symp toms of the disease. So terrible was the mortal ity which of a sudden fell upon his men, that out of 950, there were, in a few days, but about 400 left. The rest had perished aboard the steamers which were conveying them, or, when landed at Chicago, had fled from the pestilence stroke; but, overtaken by it in their night, and every where denied shelter and aid by the ter rified inhabitants, had only died, for the most part, still more miserably. Scott's own boat, small and crowded, became a perfect pest-house; out of 220 men aboard, 52 died in the passage, and 80 had to be placed in the hospital when they reached Chicago ! Ihe deck and hold were covered with the dead and dying. Amidst this terrible scene, instead of contenting himself (as most men in command would have done) with merely ordering the medical men to take all necessary measures for relieving the sick, Scott became in person thir attendant, and performed for his humblest com rade, with a brother's care, every dangerous of fice from which others shrank. Much as he has shown himself the hero upon battle fields, he never any where displayed a more genuine he roism, one more pure, noble, and affecting, than upon this occasion. Such has been his conduct towards his fellow-soldiers in all times of suffer ing. Here, while their messmates fled from them, many of their officers neglected them, and their panic-stricken fellow citizens shut their doors and hearts against them, tho great Com mander, as good as he was brave, stood by them as true at the death-bed as in the battle. SCOTT SENT TO QUIET THE NULLIFIERS: DOES IT. Ho had hardly got home from these trying scenes when a fresh order of the Government sent him to another. At the close of 1832 (No vember) Nullification was coming to a head. A South Carolina Convention had passed its or dinance declaring that the United States revenue laws should not be inforced in that State; and its Legislature and Executive were (while insisting that Nullification was the most peaceful of rem edies) making all preparations for armed resist ance. Indeed, the whole .population had, by four years of incessant agitation, been worked up into little short of a public phrenzy. Two thirds of them had learnt to believe themselves the most oppressed people upon earth; they were ready to go to any extremity; and the readier, because they had m a very bitter opposition par ty at home an object of immediate hate, on whom they longed to wreak a doable vengeance,' for not only the sins of the Federal Government, which that party supported, bat for its own. In short,5 these adverse factions,' about equally fa natical, were at a point of mutual exaaperauoa where a collision could hardly be hindered, and where that collision could scarcely fail to become the signal of a civil war. The Union (or Govern ment) party regarded its opponents as traitors to the confederacy; its opponents looked on them as traitors to their State. - - Both were keen to come to blows; the former, thouch the weaker, because they were denounc ed and proscribed by the others, and relied upon ; the strong lederal . arm tor crusuiug uiui soon as it came to arms; the latter; because they knew this feeling, and were doubly furious a gainst those who, though Carolinians, were an xious to have their own State dragooned. Such was the condition of things amidst which Gen. Scott was sent among them. At first to ascer tain exactly what measures were needed, and yet to avoid adding to their excitement by open steps of military precaution, he went down in November to Columbia, Augusta, Savannah, and Charleston, as if on his ordinary yearly visit in specting the United States', troops and fortres ses. When he had thus quietly looked into every thing, he returned to Washington, made his report to President Jackson, concerted with the Government all that was to be done, sent forward to Charleston the revenue cutters and troops that were needful, and then repaired thither himself, with confidential instructions. These we cannot recite further than that he was to keep on the defensive as far as possible, and to rely on legal means of enforcing the law, un til they failed. But a large discretion was, of course, left him; for every thing depended on judgment. Without that, all the instructions in the world would not have been worth a button. Happily for the country, and not less happily for South Carolina, the right man had been chosen for this difficult service, and chosen be cause the Government knew him to be just the man, not because it loved him. He conducted tho whole business to its end, with such steadi ness and skill, with such a happy mixture of conciliation and firmness, of secresy and timely words, that he controlled the violence of both narties. induced the leaders and setters-on of the matter themselves to hearken to his patri otic counsels, and finally disarmed those flam ing animosities and that insane wish to see bloodshed, which had, when he arrived in Charleston, filled all men's minds, and armed their hands against each other. Nothing could be more dangerous than the men, the temper, and the situation of things with which he had to deal, nothing more delicate and yet firm than the management required. A single false step would probably have been fatal and lighted up a civil war, which would have spread through the whole South and sundered the Union. We owe (under God) our escape from these terrible evils only to the exertions and the wisdom of Gen. Scott ; who abundantly proved to all those" who were actors in the matter (among whom the writer hereof was one) that his abilities are quite as equal to dangerous and difficult civil conjunctures as to the handling of armies in the field. FLORIDA WAR ; PUBLIC DISAPPOINTMENT AND IN JUSTICE. Of the Florida war, and Gen. Scott's brief part in it, we need say little. It is not agreea ble to dwell upon operations which the habits of the foe and the nature of the country where he was to be hunted up made and still continue to make invariable failures. The public, with a levity and an injustice of which it has now been long aware, condemned Gen. Scott because, sent off to Florida suddenly and without prepa ration, he did not finish in a month a war which afterwards cost ycirs of exertion and ten mil lions of money, and is hardly ended yet. He lost no battle, suffered no check ; but no matter he did not at once subdue an enemy whom he could not find ; and all his merits, all his ser vices, were forgotten. Nobody knew the im practicable country in which he was to act, nor that it was a warfare of guess and experiment, in which he was obliged to begin by groping in the dark for the best mode of operating. He was laughed at by the public, and recalled by the Administration. But he demanded an inquiry, and the able court before which the matter was tried came to the clearest opinion that he had committed no fault and that his plans were all well laid, and executed with all zeal and abili ty. These transactions were in 1836. E. W J. Concluded next Wednesday. GEN. SCOTT AND HIS OLD SOLDIERS. AN INCIDENT. A gentleman from a neighboring eounty, re lated to us an incident a few days ago, which goes far to show the warmth of gratitude and af fection still entertained for their old commander by the old soldiers who served under Gen. Scott in the war of 1812. "One of these gallant old soldiers," said our informant "resides in our county. He is and has been a prominent and active Democrat all his life, and has six sons, all arrived at mature age, and all Democrats but one." When the news of Gen. Scott's nomina tion was received, it was communicated to the old gentleman by his Whig son, who, knowing his admiration of the General, was eager to in form him of it. Beforo announcing it, he inquired of the old man "Father, who do you think the Whig Con vention has nominated for President?" "Why, Mr. Fillmore, I suppose" was the re ply. "No," said the son. "Well, then, Mr. Webster." "No," was the answer again. "Have they nominated Gen. SCOTT?" inquir ed the old man, waking up with animation ! "Yes '. they have nominated your old comman der," replied the son ; when the old soldier leap ed from bis chair, his eye kindling with the wonted fire of his youth, and striking his hands together exclaimed: "Then I will vote for him! and every one of yoti six ooys must ao so toon 1 never voted for a Whig in my life, but I will vote for Gen. Scott. I have fought by his side in the thickest of the battle, and I know him to be a brave soldier and a good man, and I hope to God he will be elect ed President !" This is the spirit that animates the old sol diers all over the country, wherever they are to be found. We have some of them in our own county, Democrats all their lives, who are equal ly warm in their admiration and ardent in their support of their old commander. The Hero who never lost a battle cannot be - whipped as long as his old companions in arms thus nobly stand by him. Harrisburg Telegraph. EXTRACT. From the Paris Correspondence of the "Nation al Intelligencer." The celebrated Count Alfred d'Orsay, with whose name the fashionable and artistic world has long been familiar, has died since the date of my last at the residence of a near female rel ative, near the town of St. Germain, a few miles from Paris. He had long been suffering with the disease which finally took him off an affec tion of the spinal marrow. The gravity of his situation, however, had been kept remarkably secret ; snd to all except his immediate personal inenas tne announcement ot his death was un expected. There is hardly any man whose name has been more frequently before the pub lic during the last four -months " than Count d'Orsay 's. lie was marked as one of those likely to profit most largely in personal consid eration and in private fortune under the empire to which we are wending. A warm personal friend for many years past of the Prince Presi dent, he had recently received, as an earnest of future favors, a comfortable sinecure, to which the comfortable salary of twenty-five thousand francs was attached. - .Its most onerous charge was the direction, and dispensation of. the Prince's patronage and bounty for the encour agement of the line Arts, of which, as is well known, the Count was a distinguished amateur He is said to have used with an alacrity that uoes great creoii to nis neart tne influence he possessed with the Prince and his own improved private fortune for the relief of distressed artists of all kinds. And in London, prior to the revo lution, in the midst of the brilliant and precari ous life which he led there, he was ever willin though not "always able,ta aid with purse and counsel his needy countrymen.. He has left to his friend CufcsuMWB,. who since the .death" of Pradier ' is the 'most distinguished of living French sculptors, 'the task of finishing a bust of Jerome Bonaparte, which, by order of Louis Napoleon,' he had commenced for the Museum of ereatlles. ? '; - , . - -; , Preparations continue on a larger scale than we' bava before witnessed here for the great ek of the anniversary of the Emperor's Birth-day, on the 15th instant, next Sunday, The Alps are risinsron the banks of the Seine, in front of my' residence. They are to form the scene of an immense military tableau tt"paa; which is to" represent to us Napoleon crossing the St. Ber nard with his army, in the midst of the combin- ea roar oi Aapme ana Datue storm, xne snow, produced by pyrotechnic art, is promised to be so natural and abundant as will send beholders shivering to their beds, in spite of the Seine flowing at their feet to assure them they are not in Switzerland, and of the almanac assuring them that wc are in mid-August. We are to have, too, a sham naval battle (I had like to have said sea-fight) on the Seine. A sham frig ate, large as life, has been rigged up, and is to be manned witn two nunarea real sailors, alrea dy arrived for the express purpose from Brest. Tt is to be attacked bv a flotilla of small steam ers and row-boats. The drama is to represent all the scenes of a naval battle the attack, de fence, boarding, striking of the colors, &c. The President himself promises to honor this exhib ition with his ausrust presence. It is not Paris alone that is to enjoy the fete of the Emperor's birthday. Republican though we are, the day is to be celebrated over the whole extent of France. The Minister of Worship has just dis patched his circular to all the Bishops and Archbishops, directing them to cause the day to be celebrated throughout their respective di oceses, by the chanting of Te Deums in all the churches. A grand review of the National Guard of the Seine is to be passed by the Prince for the distribution of the eagle standards to the citizen soldiery. These standards are simi lar to those of the army, except that the fringe, the embroidery, and the eagles which surmount them are silver and plated insteaa ot gold ana and gilded. Each flag is of the value of one hundred francs. All of the National Guards of the Seine are not convoked upon this occasion Selections are made with a view to prevent the ?ossibility of any hostile political demonstration et of the extent to which the ranks of the eiti zen soldiery of Paris have been purged of all Republican, Legitimist and Orleanist elements, vou mav iudge. from the fact that from three hundred thousand, the number in whose hands arms were placed in the days immediately sub sequent to the revolution of 1848, repefl'ted win nowings and siftings have left of the true, valu able, acceptable, grain, the reduced number of seventeen thousand only. It is to the various battalions of this select body that the colors are to be distributed by the Prince. The marriage of the Prince Louis Napoleon continues to be a leading topic of conversation. Important political signification is given to it, Of the existence of negotiations actively and se riously pursued relative to the marriage oi the Prince, and ot their political character as connec ted with the establishment of hereditary power in the person of Louis Napoleon, I have no doubt. A man of high political station here said three days ago "M. Drouyn de Lhcys (Minister of Foreign Affairs) has in his portfolio the heads of marri age contract which he will draw up in his char acter of V ice-President of the Senate, which he will exchange as Minister of Foreign Affairs, which he will sign as witness for one of the con tracting parties. The young Princess herself, of the royal house of Sweden, dethroned in the early part of this century, is understood to interpose no objection to the accomplishment of the wishes of the French Prince. The glittering prospects which such an alliance would open to her in France have charmed her imagination and overcome the very natural repugnance felt by her family for the French in general and the name of Bo naparte in particular. But her father, the Prince Wasa, an officer in the service of Austria, is reported to be less complaisant. His reluc tance is strengthened, it is said, by the Empe ror of Austria and the Prince Regent of Baden, a relative of the Princess. But these objections, I predict, will he removed, gotten around, or rode over, and the young folks (she is "eighteen and the Prince only forty-four) be permitted to be happy. Prince Wasa drew a pension from France by virtue of the treaties of 1815, until the breaking out of the revolution of 1848. Navy Beef and Pork for 1852. Navy Department, - Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, Aug. 20 '52. SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed "Proposals for Beef," and "Proposals for Pork, ' as the case may be, will be received at thw office until 12 o'ciock M. on Monday, the 20ih day of Sep leraber next, for furnishing and delivering, free of all cost and risk to the United Siates Five thousands barrels of nvy beef, and four thousand barrels of navy pork. Each barrel to contain not less than two hun dred pounds net weight of beef or pork ;, no ex cess of weight in either article will be paid for. To be delivered a: the respective navy yards,- as follows : - - . , . . Barrels Beef. . .. Barrels Pork. At Charlestown Mass 1,200 At Brooklyn. N. Y. 2,600 At Gosport, Va. "1.200 .1,000 2,000 1.000 5.000 : 4.000 One-third of said beef and pork must be deliv ered at each of the above named yards respeciive ly by the first day of February, 1853, doe third by the first day of April. 1853. and the remaining one third by ihe thirty first day of May, 1853, un less earlier deliveries should be required by the chief ol this Bureau. Payment to be uade with in thirty days after delivery. Bidders must specify their prices separately and distinctly in separate offers for the beef and (or the pork, and for each of the places of delive ry, coveriiijj all expenses and all charges. Ihe beet mus' be from well-fattened cattle, slaughtered beiween he 1st day of November, 1852, and the 1st day of January 1853. and weigh tug out less than six hundred pound), nett weight each. The legs and leg rands oi the hind quar.. ers, and the shins and shoulder clods, and at least eight pounds from the neck end of each fore quar ter, or the parts niatked Nos 1, 2, and 3. on the drawing or delineation of die fore and hind quar ters of an ox. which will be aiia ched to and form a purl of the contract, must be wholly excluded from each barrel, and the remainder of the cartau instead ofheiig ct vodha cleaver, ' must - be cut through with a saw and knife, to eive the meat a square, neat and smooth appearance, in pieces of n4 lest than e'gld pounds each.' ' '' " - The pork must be packed from corn-fed, well fattened hogs slaughtered between Ihe first day of November, 152, and the. first day of January, 1853, and weighing not less than two hundred pouuds each, excluding, the heads, joles, necks, shoulders, hams, legs, feet, butts, rumps, lard, and all refuse pieces ; and must be cut with a savo and knife in piece weighing not less than six pounds each. V Both the beef and pork must be salted with, at least one statute bushel of Tark's Island, Isle of Mayor Sr;Ubes salt ; and the beef must have five ounews of fine, pulverized saltpetre to each barrel, exclusive of a pickle, to be made from fresh water, as strong as sah will make it. "v ; The barrels mo.-t be entirely new, and be rnsde of the best seasoned heart of white oak slaves and heading, to be not less than thiee-fourths of an inch thick ; and to be hooped at least ihree. fourths over with the best white oak or 'hickory hoops. - - - v- - Each barrel most be branded by burning on its h'ead "Navy Bed or "Navy Pork," as the case may be, with the contractor' name and the year when -packed, and weight ; and shall aUo be branded on ihe bung..aUve with the letter B. or P. as the case may be The Bureau will alsoat the sametiroe receive pro posals for 30 barrelsof each, pork, beef audio bf de-' It'lMrail Aft k RMt,lttn m! ta k .iro uivvihu ;u unwrto llle first A of January 1553. and lh thirty-first dav ot uy H53, lo be subject in aU'rWpects to ihe conri y lions of this advertisement, , wiih the exppn, Jhat-Key West solar evaporated sal;" ST substituted for either of the foreign salts nrt ,u the words Kev West solar evaporated barrels, and the letters B. or P. on the h..He . ... HMiuvii aro uiBiiuru via (lie UPHf I Diarc, auu suaii oe accomnaniM nn . t 1 11 1 . . " " L' with certificates of the nunnfacturer very at Key West, an to its oriain. and of ih L 11 111 IftA - i r .i and ofihe inspector of the place where cured . i put up, that the said salt has been exclusiwpi. The beef and pork will, unless otherwise rected by the chief of this Bureau, be inspect by the inspect ing.omcer at the repeciive nav yards aforesaid, and by some "sworn in8peC,)r Jf salted provisions," who wil! be selected by th respective commanding officers , but their e gea lor such inspection must be paid by the pective contractors, who must likewise have ikl barrels put in good shipping order to ihe saiigf, tion of the commandants -of the respective navy yards aforesaid, after, inspection, and at their own expense.- ' - Two or more approved sureties in a sum equal to one-half the estimated amount of the contrac will be required, and ten per centum in addition will be witheld from the amount 0f each payment to be made; as collateral security 0r the due and faithful performance of the respective contracts, which will on no account be paid until the contracts are complied with in all respect' and is to be forfeited to the United StatPs in th ' event of failure to complete the deliveries within the prescribed period. In case of failure on the part of the contractor to deliver all or any 0f the beef or pork above mentioned, of the quality ami at the time and placet above provided, the con tractor will forfeit and pay to ihe United States as. liquidated damages a sum of money eq-jai f0 twice ihe amount of the contract price to be paid in case of the actual delivery thereof; whicn liqi dated damages may be recovered from ii.e t0 time as they accrue. Payment will be made by the United States at the periods above specified (-Xcepting the ten per centum to be withheld un-' ... v vu ui me uiuaui, as Deiore ted,) after the said beef and pork shall have injnrtH and TtowA onri kilt, r .1 sta. been k 11 u T .ur in same shall have been presented to the navy aoeni res pectively, duly approved by the coiiima""ndauis of the respective navy yards, according to the lertus of the contract. The parts of beef to be excluded will be par ticularly designated in the engraving to be attach ed to the contract Persons interested can obtain ihem on application at this office. Bidders whos proposals are accepted (arid none others) will be forthwith notified, and as eariy as practicable a contract will be transmitted to them for execution, which contract must be returned to the Bureau within ten days, exclude of the time required for the regular transmission of the mail. A record, or duplicate of the letter informing a bidder of the acceptance of his proposal, will be deemed a notification thereof, within the meaning of Ihe act of lS46,and his bid will be made and accep ed in conformity with ibis understanding. Every offer made must he accompanied (as di rected in ihe 61 h section of the act of Confess making appropriations for the naval service for l846-47, approved 10th August, H46, a copy of which is subjoined) by a written guaramy, signed by one of more responsible person, to the effect that he or they undertake lhat ihe bidder or bidders will, if his or ;heir bid be accepted, en. ler into an obligation within ten days, with good and sufficient sureties, to furnish the article pro posed i This guaranty must be accompanied by the certifica-eof the United States district Judge, U nited States district attorney, navy agent, or some officer of the General Guvernment, or individual known to the Bureau, that the guarantors are a ble to make good their guaranty. No proposal will be considered unless accom panied by such guaranty. The bidder's Hanie and residence, and the name of each member of the firm, where a company oftvrs, with ihe christian names written in full, should be disiiuctly seated. Extract fro m the act of Congress approved Au. gust 10i. 1846. MSec 6. And be it furthr enacted. That, from and after the passage uf this aei, every proposal for naval supplies invited by the secretary of the Navy, under the proviso to the general aoDroona.. lion bill for the navy, anprwed Alarch third, eiah- teen hundred and foriy.-tliree, shall be accompa nied by a written guaranty, signed by one or more responsible persons, to the efieel thai ha er they undertake that the biddei or bidder- wilt, if hs or their bid. be accepted, enter into an obliga tion in such time may be prescribed by ilie Secretary of the Navy, wiih good and sufficient sureties, to turnish tne supplies proposed. No prop -sal shall be considered unless accompanied by such guaranty. II, after the acceptance of a proposal and a notification thereof to the bid der or bidders, he or they shall fail to entpr iBio an obligation within the tune prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, with good and sufficient sureties for furnishing the supplies, then the Sec retary of the Navy shall proceed to contract with home other person or persons for furnishing the said supplies; and shall forthwith cause the dif ference between Jbe amount contained in the pro posal so guarantied, and the amount lor which be may have contracted for furnishing the said sup plies fur the whole period of the proposal, to be charged up against said bidder or bidders, and bis add 1 heir guarantor or guarantors ; and the same may be immediately recovered by the United States, for the use of the Navy Department, in an action of debt against either or all of said pet sons." August 28th, 1852. w4w71 TATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Fbasklix Cousty In Equity, Spring Term, 1852. Nathan Ward, and others vs. - ' Jesse Person, and others. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that Polly Brewer, one of the defendants in this cause, resides beyond the limits of the State : it is therefore ordered, that publication be made in the Raleigh Register, a newspaper published in the city of Raleigh, for six weeks, weeklv. command ing the said Polly Brewer to be and appear at tho next term of the said Court, to be held in the town of Louisburgt on the second Monday after the 4th Monday in September next, then and there to plead, answer; &c. ; otherwise, judgment will be taken pro confesso as toher. v Witness Thomas K. Thomas, Clerk and Master I of said Court, August 2d, 1852. THUS. K. THUMAS, V. M. "Angnst lO,1852.J Pr. Adv. $5 62. wow b6 'RUFUS K. TURNAGB, ATTOBNET AT tAW, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, WILL attend promptly to all business entnifct ed to his care in West Tennessee, North Mississippi and Eastern Arkansas, pay Taxes, &c. Refer to William RufSn, Esq., Dr. William V. Turner, Memphis, and David Melville, New Vork. Memphis, Feb. 26, 1852. IT ly FARMERS TAKE NOTICE, Portable Steam Erigmes for ' driving Thrashing Machines, corn, cider. Portable "saw and other mills, made by the Subscriber. The Franklin Institute in 1851, a warded a silver medal, A Hoisting drum can be attached, and the En gine used for pile driving, loading and discharging cargoes of Coal, Pig Iron, &c the Engine being under the control of one person. Two Horses can .move it from place to place. One ton of coal i sufficient fuel for one week- Persons wishing in formation will please address . A, L. ARCHAMB.U'LT, No 13, Drinkers Alley, Philadelphia Aug. 16, 1852. ,;M NOTICE, THE undersigned having been authorize'! by i',e Trustees of the Caldwell Institute, to sell the property of the Adclpbian JSociety, hereby novtr all those who are entitled to a proportion -l proceeds, to' spply to us by the 15th of Jal,r, 1858; after which time all funds on hand nil ' applied to some benevolent objects. . . H. NORWOOD, V - T B WILSON- -August 11, 1852, , ;--.
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