Vincennes Gazette, Volume 3, Number 52, Vincennes, Knox County, 31 May 1834 — Page 1

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according! v. Sueh articles of produce, fis nre used iti a

ftie nciwu, auorueu in me opinion ot len

i o iivnr, a sutiicient justification for its being

i earlier into meet. I An accurate examination however, of the de

fences ot the r ort, made by the General at great per.-onal hazard, showed but too clearly that

our eiii.iii nowuzers which una neen transported .11 ri . ... '

on me oai-Ki oi norses, our only artillery, could

muue no impression upon its massive earthen

parapet, whilst the deep fose and frasincr bv

which it was surrounded, afforded, no prospect oi the success of an escalade, but at an expense

oi vaiuaote lives, which tlie occasion diJ not seem to call for.

family, will be received i?i payment for snbrcriptions, at the market price, deliveied i:i Vin-ienns.

I'rom inc Voiciniiati JJaHi 1 du riistr. Noma L! k.n n. (Ohio,) 17th Feb., 183-1. Pi:ar Sir : I have seen with no lit'le interest the discusrion which is now going on in the House of Representatives on your proposition to extend tlie pension laws so as toemhratc those who f-ervrd in the Indian wars of the W estern and North Western froninrs; ate! with surprise and mortification have obseivc -d tlie contempt with which that service has been spoken of by some i t the nieiiib' rs of your body. I- it possible, that the events of a war which so long baffled, the efforts of cur en ernmcnf , in which so nmchj

flood was spilt, and so nnu:b treasure expended ;;rid forgotten? 1 )o tho battles in which lint-

l:-r, and Gibson, and yilis, :.nd Kergu-on, and llait, and Kirkwood, and Harden, and Gruman, and I'helon, and Newman, and Oi ihani, (all distingui-hed in the earlier scenes of the revolution,) fo'i-hl and fell, Oecrves to be characterized as the Loiidiils of private and ob tcure waifare? Would Randolph, niid Lincoln, and lekei iii', have niciertuken a s lemn em-b.'in-to nrr.uitce the term of a pacification between the print ip.d of a frontier station, and the chief of h bind of ?a vnjrcs? Would Wayne,

with all the honors of his previous distinguished service, "thick upon him,'' have again assumed the lagum to command in a war ot that character? The commissions of all these men attesting that they were in tlie service of tliHt country which they had long and faithfully . rved,

wuie sicned bv George asiiiti;ton, mul coun-

Froni my situation, ns Aid de-camp to the General in Chief, I mention these thing? from personal knowledge. If then the relation I have given is correct, "it must be admitted that the war of the Revolution continued in the Western Country until the Peace of Greenville in ITLC). It is ursred against your proposition, to extend the benefits of the pension system, that their

claims are ot a different character Irom those who served previously to the acknowledgment

I of cur independence, that the payments annu

ally mhilo tr. tlie latter, are intended as an equivalent for the loss sustained by them, by the depreciation of the papt r money on certificates, in u hich they were paid, and are to be considered as the payment of a just debt.

Tins I know was the motive for passing the

first uivvs upon i tie subject, aud with regaid to

those who served the whole or greater part of

the war, it was a very just view of the subject liut that ground must have been altogether aban

doned, in the passage of the subsequent laws,

extending tlie pensions to those who served in

any way, either voluntarily or by compulsion, for tlie short period of six months To persons

of tins description, a small part of the pension

added to what they before received, would discharge the pecuniary lebt ; the residue of the amount must therefore be placed to the account

ot gratitude for the performance of hard and faithfal service, and which was not requitted by the payment of the compensation which was promised. If this be correct, and no other motive can lie assigned for the extension of the Pension System, there will be no difficulty in establishing the claims of those, for whom you

contend to superior regard, from their couutry, to at least a moiety of those who now enjoy its bounty. Tlie compensation of the soldiers engaged in the early campaigns of the West, was nominally considerably less than had been promi'ed to tiie soldiers of the Revolution. So

low indeed, that but for the existence of other

tersigned by Henry Knox. I had, likewise, the I motives to engage in the service, the Govern-

honor to receive (wo commissions from the same Inent would have been unable to fill the ranks ! provided for. Although I an authority, and I did really believe that ,,, thejofthe small military establishment of that pe-lH(mit that within those dates, seven yean ol to.l-ome se,v ice, in which my rioj. ,,., , ... '

youth was spent, I was in the employment ot

luy country. Tht the North Western, and Indian War, vriis a continuation of the revolutionary contest ii susceptible of proof. The Indians in that nuarfer bad bei-n nrned in the first seven

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nud they bad no inclination to continue it utter the peace of l.UJ. It is to British influence that their subsequent hostilities are to be attributed. The agents of that government never eased to stimulate the ir enmity ugainst the United State, and to represent the peace which had ben made as a temporary truce, at the expiration of which, "their great fathers would unite with them in the war, and drive the ongk'lhes from the land which they had so unjustly usurped from his red children. ' This was the cause of the detention of the Posts of Detroit, Macanac, and Niagara, so long after the treaty of 1 783. The reasons assigned for so doing deceiv-

eil no liooy aucr tne lauure oi me negon avion

A large portion of those who served with llai tner and St. Clair were soldiers of the Atlantic war, and not an inconsiderable number dated their service from

commencement.

necticut, Col. Kingsbury of the same state,

Col. Shatnburg, of ISew Orleans, Captain

Gaines, of Ky., and myself. Of those

who were in service in irJ2, who are

now, or who were very lately living, in

addition lo the five already mentioned, there are six, to-wit; General Solomon

VanKensaleer, of N. Y. Capt. Slough,!

ot Penn. Col. Pike of Iudi ina, Gen. Clark.

of Missouri, Captain Taj lor of Ohio, Cap

lain Marshault of missisiippi, and Gen Brady of the present armv, making but

eleven out of the who were in ser

vice at the treaty of Greenville, in 1705.

My situation as aid-de-camp to a commanding General (Wayne) gave me an

opportunity of personally know ing every

oflicer of the army. I left the seivice in 1797, and shortly after the military es tablishmenl was reduced, and many of the

oiheers of course disbanded. Scattered as they were, however, through the Union, I have never ceased to make en

quiries after them, and the above list con

tains the names of all that 1 have good reasons for believing are now living. It is highly probable, however, that there are a few more, possibly enough to make the number 15. Taking this as the fact it makes the survivors less than six per cent of the original number. 1 think 1 hazard nothing

in saying that if this is assumed as the

criterion for determining the number of

non commissioned officers and soldiers now

living, who were in service at the period

of the treaty of Greenville, that it would give a larger number than will be found

when proper lists are made out. And that

the whole number which would be em

braced by a law making the receipt of

the pension to depend upon a service of

three years, between 1784 aud 1795, would not amount to 400,excluiive of those who as Revolutionary soldiers are alieady

am w illing to

If I of the superior hardships encountered by

. , me wesieru armies, compared v i sea service, or of the armies oner

country above any of those who were engal ! any other quarter of our country, in the western service, I can yield the superior,-! modore Perry, after his glorious ty to noothcrs. I cannot agree that the valiant i r v. :.. '):,!

which places their claims to thu bounty of their' sea 6erv,ce or the armies operating in n ..... I. I i I r

Coin-victory

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summer soldier, r.f :, c!v r,,,,,,!!,, cr. .k.ii:"" ,iu lnK UOUQT IU aci IU

be placed on a level with Ihose who, in winter! PUuSequent operations ot the N. W. and summer, for years sustained the hardships' Army as my Aid-de-Cani. Seeing that ut n wilderness war against an enemy whose the greater part of our troops were with;,Xnl vioot rain,uiy army were frequently without the necessary i, l,lat l,ieir 0,,ly subsistence was fresh.

supply of clothing. Those employed in the j Deet without bread declared that he had western wars were certainly better supplied, always been of opinion that a seaman's Tlpavofthefonnerwasahvaysinnrrcar.andilife was harder than every Other, but olten for a considerable period altogether with- ii.a i10 - . r J. . . . hell. The limited compensation allowed to! , . hf "aS Convinced of his mistake, the latter was, from the year J790, and not be-'j ,e ,,aa never been m a situation, he said, fore, regularly paid. But it contributed little j w ')ert- he could not, when his duty on to the advantage of the soldier from the exces-jdeck was over, put on drv clothes if he sive price whirl, was demanded for every arti-j was wet, lie in a warm birth, and generaleJe which vvtiuJd have coritributed to their com- iv en,, i- r. .. , v- . , , fort. Thi, was the case not only with the no,,- luxe nething warm and comfortable commissioned ofliceis and soldiers, but with the!!.0 eat 11 the gallant Commodore had subalterns also, whose appointments fell far Tormed such an opinion from the hardships

shoitof providing their equipments and the or-; and privations of the army for a few days

"incus oi comioriaoie living. cui ii;U the U10l)thSof

was from the

f Spiitembpr rul Octolier.

exposure to tiie inclemencies of , i. , i ,

the weather that made the sullerin of the .'u,v mure wouiu li s commisserauou western army, peculiarly severe. '1 he si k and j ,or western soldiery had been excited, it wounded soldiers of the"rev cdutionary urmy al-jhe had witnessed their suO'erings through ways had a resource in the houses, the church-. the whole of the winter caaipaigQ of the er, or at least in the bams ami stables, vlu"i:h previous year were every where to be found. Such luxurious ! n-i . t- i t i accommodations the western soldier enjoyed ' 1 L,e Other opinion to which I have TC only in amagination, ns the thirsty mariner the''errt;d, is, that, of the distinguished officer springs and streams of his native land, llowjat the head of tlie Quartermaster Departoften hme I seen them laboring under those dis- j lncnt of the U. S. He had served two war'Vwf 1Wh,C al"u:tUuXl ";'! campaigns in the northwest, before he was u-eless, unless cotqomcu with pbelter and i warmth, lying on a blanket saturated wiih wrt.j ,va? iafcerreil to the northern army, 10 and with in other canopy than the wide ex-jhich he gained imperishable renown, panseofheaven. In a wilderness warfare against j Speaking of the two services, in a letter Indians, the service of the guards is particularly :tlQ,v i(1 possession, and after Dllttingr

w

severe. In an inhabited countrv. the tucket

j --i and even the namn itiinnN. inoiei-:) llv nrni iv

houses as well for defence as for shelter, and it i the former for heroic bravery, on an en-

the claims of the officers and soldiers of

is seldom thev are debarred the use of fire. In

a campaign against Indians, houses were out of the question, tents were generally prohibited, even if they were to be got, because they indicated the position of the guard, and lire was almost always prohibited. In tlie severe winter

tiie equality with the latter, he says that in relation to the rest, (the difficulties to be encountered, and the sufferings to be endured,) that the operations on the Niag

ara were but children s play compared

there must

have been ten thousand men enlisted and

brought on the Western waters. What has become of them ? In the year 1790 Ilarmer's Kegiment and the battalion of artillery lost more than a third of their

The deficiency of Inumber, in two successive cusrairments.

those to till the ranks, was supplied by near the site w here fort Wayne was afier

young men, who weie allured by pi o6- I wards erected. Ol the fate of those who pects of obtaining a settlement in the far-'composed tlie establishments of 1791 and famed west, that at the close of the war, ! of 1792, I can give a better account from a small portion of the countless millions personal knowledge. The remain ot upof acres of land possessed by the Govern-i wards of 900 may be found the victims ol inent, would be assigned as compen-jtwo battles fought on the same spot, in sation for their inadequate pay, and as a November, 1791 and January. 1791, reward for their successful valor. Part of! Some hundred or hundred and ten between the latter, like the former description, j forts, St Clair and Jefferson, and about as continued their service by renewing their (many more near the rapids of tho Miami engagements, until the close of the war. i of the Lake, in the battle of which closed

To those who will consider the force ofithe war, and brought pace to the Coun

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r.nd Col. Fkkerhig, under British meditation ! '):tl,lt uon ,ne human mind, this will notary. After making a proper allowance

voluntarily tendered.

The bare suggestion of a wish by the British authorities would have been sutlicient to induce the Indians to accept the terms proposed by the American Couimiisioncrs. lut, at fny rate, tlie wiiLhoiding the supplies with which the Indiana bad been previously furnished, would have left tio oUier alternative but to make peace From that period, however, the war was no longer carried on ' in disguise." Acts of open hostility were commuted. In June, 1794, Ihe Indians assembled at the Miami of the Lake, and were completely equipped out of the

King's stores from the fort, (a large ami regularly fortified work) which had been built there, in the preceding spring, for the purpose of supporting the operations of the Indians against the army of Hen. Wayne. Nor was the assisttmce limited to the supply of provisions and munitions of war. On the advance of the Indians they were attended by a Captain of the DrUMi Armv, a Sergeant, ami six matroiies, provided with fixed ammunition suited to the t-clibre of two field pieces which had been taken from Gen. St. Clair and depflsifed in a creek, near the scene of his defeat in 1791. Thus atlondfd they appeared before Fort Recovery, (the advanced post of our Army) on the 4th of July, 1711, and having defeated a large detachment of our troop? encamped under its walls, would probably have succeeded in taking the Fort, if the Gnus which they expected to find had not been previously discovered and removed. In this action Captain llarUhoni of the f.rst sub. legion was wounded by the Indians, and afterwards kilb-d in a struggle with Captain McKee of the British Army. Upon the advance of the American army in the following month, the British Fort at the P.ppids was again the point of rendezvous for the Indians. There the deficiencies in arms, iinimunition, and equipments, were again supplied; and there they wer fed with regular rations from the King s stores, consisting of dour nnd Irish beef, until the arrival of (Jen. Wayne

with his army on the 20th of August, in me eenerid action of that day there were two miji-1 tin companies from Amerstburgh and Detroit. The Captain of the Cutter (who was also the clerk of the Court of that place) w is found nmotigst the killed, and one of his privates taken prisoner. These unequivocal acts of hostility noon the part of Great Britain did not pass unnoticed by our government, and although anxious to avoid a general war, the President determined that the aggression on oar territory by the erection of a Fort res, so far within our acknowledged limits as that fort of Miami's,

required some deei-ive measure. Authority wn? therefore given

appear extraordinary, notwithstanding tor those who fell m partial and obscure

the hardships incident to a war carried on

to General

mi-

v..-,.o i.i liis.iospess the intruders i! in his o

ion," it was necessary to the success of his operations against the Indians. Mthotih the onalification of this order in its

literal sense, mi-ht be opposed to its execution, ...- ti,,. .M.tiie tiefeat of th'3 Indians the dar-

,mr violation of the neutrality which was pro fcsd,by the supply of fjod and arms and am

ii nrn-r tr, st:,t that Captain McKee as

i ti.t h,. ;,.. frnd lo save Hartshorn, bar

that be refused quarter mo! attempted, to kd! bun, (MeKec) and would have -vicrrded if be bad nut Leeu anticipated by his (McKte'i) ser-

in an uninhabited wilderness.

1 have no document by which to ascertain the number of men retained in the service at the close of the revolutionary war. But the military establishment in 1790, consisted of one regiment of Infan

try, of three battalions, and one battalion of j

Artillery. The whole number, of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, being 1216. The allowance of pay at that period was, (o a Surgeant $5, a Corporal 1, a Musician 4, a Private $3 per month ; deducting, however, one dollar from each for hospital store. In the year 1791, a second regiment of Infantry was added to the establishment, increasing the number to 2176, the pay continuing as above. In 1792, three other regiments of infantry were directed to be raised, of 960 non-commisioned officers, musicians, and privates,each, together with a squadron of dragoons of 320 men,tnaking the sum total of the establishment 5276 non-commissioned officers and privates. 1'ievious to 1791, the field and platoon offi. cers (there was no General officer of the line, llarmer acting as a brigadier by vir

tue of a Brevet,) amounted lo 53. In that

year to 101; and from that period to 1797, to 259. This number added to the noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, gives the total strength of the Ie gion at the peace of Greenville, in 1795, at 56:53. I do not kuow what period of

I service it is iutended to make the criteri

on for claiming the proposed pension. The non commissioned officers, and privates with the exception of the two regiments of levies who served in St. Clair's campaign,) were all engaged for a term of three years. Taking that as the criterion, I cannot believe thit there is any

probability, that the number of claimants

would be such, as to ei?e anv cause ol

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alarm, on account of the sum it would re-

pure, to pay the pensions at the etisto-

mary rates i"r uiai iicno i vi sciovc.

All the calculations that can be made, to ascertain the number now living who

would be embraced by such a provision, must of course be considered as uucertain.

There are, however,facts in my possession

which would induce me to fix it so low as

to remove at once all apprehensions for

the Treasury by those who agree with me

in opinion. Fi-m the above statement, it apnears that after the additional regi

ment had :-een added to the establishment, in 1791, the number of coromiMoned of liccrs m sci vica were 104, Of that nuin-

of 1 Ty l-'J, at the erection of Fort ?. Clair. : to thnso of Ihe TV V I'mmicr

when an ensign in the 1st regiment, 2d infan-l Th(13 mijdj for the c,aimg oftbe Regl. try, I commanded a cuard every other night for i , , ., three weeks w hich had neither fire or covering ,ar 1 rT J" re,a.t,0n to ,h.se of any kind It was very rare that a night pas- weie employed in defendiog the first seised over without more than one man btiin: sent dements of Kentucky and Tennessee.

.on. camp wiui pieunsy or some oiner hhikih- i y ou ,JO (j0ubt have obtained more accu-

conflicts, remains a large surplus to be ac

counted for, and happy would it have been for them and more honorable to the country, if they too, like their fellow soldiers, had met with a soldier death and a boIdier's grave . I have remarked that most of thoe who fol

lowed llarmer to the West were revolutionary soldiers, a number of others were recruited in the New England States for the Sid regiment of Infantry, in 17yl, all the officers of which, except the subalterns, being also of that service. Besides those who fell in battle, many of them sunk under the hardships of the service, others were mustered out for inability. In the year

1795, much the greater part of the number j

which remained had congregated into one company of the tst regiment of Infantry, under the command of Jacob Kingsbury, whose name I have mentioned as one of the surviving otlicers. The union in the character of that gentleman of all the qualities that are admired rn the soldier and esteemed in the man, gave him always the choice of the men whose terms of service had expired, and who were disposed to reenlist. He chose those whose locks, like his own, had been bleached under the helmet, and whose iron constitutions enabled them to survive the hardships of a service that had proved fatal to so m iny of their comrades. They were the Augaspedes of the army. Although the parallel holds no farther than the age, the dis

cipline, and the unconqucraoie unnnes ot the

American veterans; the uecoratious, itie weaitn,

and the treachery of the conquerors of Darius

aud Antigonus were equally iinlinou ii to them. I had tlie singular honor, upon the promotion

of its veteran captain to a majority and my own to a captaincy, to have the command of

this company assigned to iuc at the time when

three-fourths ol tlie number

doubled my own. i ueiieve

man of them now alive. Hut it is not Ihe most

aged that have perished. Most of the recruits of 1791, and all of 1792, were young, robust men. They have likewise disappeared, some the victims of intemperate habits, contracted under circumstances to excite commisseration aud sympathy rather than the feelings w hich are usually produced by it. But much the greater portion hy diseases, the seeds of which were fixed in their constitutions in the course of their severe service. iSo one who has not been eneaed i" tr :it least an eye w itr.rss to both ser-

vices, can conceive me umereuce iween uie hardships ol a war carried on in an uninhabited

wilderness without reach or extent, ami a set

tled country opposed to the army ot a civilized

nation. I do "ot mean to undervalue the services and sufferings of the patriotic army of the revolution. My feebln etforts were never relaxed when I was in a situation to serve them,

not only to satisly their just demands, but to obtain lor them substantial evidences of the gratitude of their country. Indeed I have never seen any one who was willing t j go as far as I would have done, to satisfy tlie latter claim. But 1 would have limited that exlcud-

ed liberality to those who actually achieved our independence, to those who adhered to their

heroic leader in an me viei.'-itu:i-s ot lus pen

matory complaint. To these attacks the most

robust were equally, perhaps more liable, than those of a liifierent habit. If these ore facts, and I aver them lobe so, from personal knowledge, the small number of officers which remain that composed the establishment of 1791, and my calculations of the number of surviving non-commissioned oiTicer3 and privates, will create no surprise. To the greater portion of the most meritorious of the latter class, tlie bounty now proposed to be given will come too late. An account of their sutferings, if it were possible to collect it, would fill a page in our history, which would place us in no very honorable contrast with tho conduct of every other civilized nation. In all these the soldier who ha? worn out his constitution and his ttrength in the public service is provided with some retreat where the remoant ot his life is passed in a state of easo and comfort. Our maxim has been to consider all obligations satisfied when the veteran, no longer tit for service, receives the last cent of his tlipuhited pay. lie is then turned out like a worn out horse, and left to the support of a precarious charity , often withheld tiecause he bears about him evidence of a disgusting vice, unavoidably perhaps, produced in the course of his arduous serv ice, whilst those of the redeeming virtues of loyalty to his country and devotion to his duty, have been left behind him in the camp from w hich he was expelled lor no crime but age and debility.

rale information than I can give you. But I cannot help offering my testimony in opposition to the assertion which has beta made in your house that the ivhite tettlera were generally the aggressors. So far from tin's being the fact, 1 run convinced that nineteen out of twenty of the numei ous conflicts which took place betweern them and the Indians, was either to repel the attacks of the latter, or produced by pursuing tt retreating parties of Ihe Indians which had committed depredations upon the settlements. As it regards the want of humanity which was manifested by both parties iu this warfare, nothing o thai kiud can be attributed to the whites, but what was unavoidable. They gave no quarter, but it was because of the certain escape of the captives whom they spared, to convey intelligence to their foes, and conduct their parties to the habitations of those by whoni thej' had been spared. The Indiana took prisoners, generally, women lor a worse purpose than death, and bojg to be adopted in their families; when men were taken prisoners

mat tins is not an exaggerated picture, aIJ;unJ carried to their towns, it was for the

the early settlers adjacent to the scene of the

military operations of the period can testily. They have witnessed in the villages these wretched maniacs (mania potu) the sport of boys, and they have met them wandering on the high ways without an object beyond the momentary oblivion of their sufferings. If at the period to which I refer a human being should meet the eye of a traveller, presenting the picture of wretchedness, he might without enquiry, be set down as a soldier of VVuyne, not improbably of Montgomery Gates and Washington. The last that I know of such protracted service, lately died near me at the age of 85 or 80. He had enjoyed the Revolutionary pension for some years. When I was nbout taking his declaration, upon asking where he had served, Tell me,' said he, 'where I did not serve. 1 lifted at Chambersburgli, at the beginning of it; and I went with Gen. Thruston to Canada; I was with Wayne at Bra tidy wine, Germantown, Monmouth, if tony Point, and at Green Spring in Vir-

purpose of gratify ing their revenge by the

itilliction ot torture. 1 he few who escaped, effected it by the humanity of the French traders, who overcame their thirst of vengeance by appeals to their avarice. Having considered it incumbent upon me to make the statements contained in this communication, und standing in tho character of a witness for my brother officers aud soldiers it is scarcely necessary for me to add that i will not, under any circumstances, participate in the benefit which any law that may be passed on tho subject confers upon them. 1 have the honor to be, With much respect, Your very humble servant, W. II. HARRISON. The Hon. Tnos. Cuilton, of the House

" Uia : I1UU I wus Willi nsnni) a j " c . . f . IT e know : and then I listed for a marine-ami I ! of Kcpresentatl ves of the U. S

was with Treble, and Decatur, in the Mediter- r . S'lliLlL1 J!!!1LSJJranean; and with Katon, at Oerne.' j VENTS IN GUN3. The story of (his vcrteran is not, however, lo j ,t ri3 ,on;; bppn COinplained of that a very the point; but I cannot refrain from 'lu?! iare ,,ortion of tho charge of all pieces of ordanolher, of ono who will be embraced by is expended at the touch-hole in vent,

modification of your Resolution. the force of esnlosion through which has hither-

homo

In September, I Hit,, when 1 was leaving j tQ prevelte(1 tlje uge of percussion caps to field-

no, i was torn oy a ne'guoom mm uu.-c ';ri;cce9or

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t , . rw f a rr in rp fMinn nini ir 1 1 ;i a nsu uecu u iu-

who was on tlie , rilQ, ;r.,1n..n1.nr hnt nn safe meant

V .4(.ui ...v.w .

... I nasscd. that an out soldier, wtio v

' .i ' . V"' . i way to see me. was in his barn, and too ill to', , . invented ston the vent-holes of guns

... :. :. .. . . ' . proceed. Upon askins: why he was put in the . . . . , rcoadi,1K. A very simple.

bam? the man answered that 4he was insoV'"!but n't the same lime moat certain remedy for fensive a condition, that he could not keep him ! ,)OSe evjp, has been shown us: lht joint inveuir, his small house but that he was very com-j .. f ijartholomevv, of Titchfield, and

fortably situated, and that he tiutl provicieu ioi-.j, JI. Clarke, of I'ortsiuoulli ; n consisis in all his wants. ' Such appeared to be the fact. j tj. introduction of a pin through the metal of The story told by the veteran, was as follows : b()r(, ,.,. aIKi g, oved into tho vent field, aud lff hn.l trrvnl'hp fetid, a few months in the; .. rinsotfi the vent-hole as to be airtight.

Revolutionary War, and came, shortly alter, j Pma t,rijou of this pin is perforated at tho

with Mariner, to the West, m n. v ""jtMlti,Bnd an opening iu mo nuc commuuu-ai.es continued untd the terni of bis enhstmerit expir-jwj(i t,ie to1( h.hoic. Ht the perforated end is ed. lie then returned to reunsylviuiia, and in; j.ltr(i a per,.ussion cap, the fire from which the year 1792 again re- nli'ted for another lc"u ; i3 guliicieiitjy strong to ignite the cartridge, and of three years, which he also served out, and rt,Iuais in it place the veut is nevwould again have re-enlisted, hut was consul-; ,lCscd. This mode of striking tho pin ired unlit for further service. Ileihen returned j whcn the gun is to be discharged, is ingenious a secone tiuie to his native Stale, and there set-, . simf1(j nnj j3tj0ll0 ,y a Iljail w10 stand tied and married; but, from his infirmities, fo,ln'1 1 beliind the gun, w ith n lanyard in his hand, as reat dil'icnltv in supporting his family. He , j,.. now does, when he puUs'the trigger of a lock endeavored to" cet the Revolutionary pension j. this contrivance no looe powder or quill

hut failed, lie nig still told mat. vv cu.i.v. . . ; Xxlhvi are wanted t,y which mnuy nciioem n nensiou. if his long servicrt was properly statd,h;ive ha ej artilent can Lappen in

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be bad nerermineu iu come

"There is another instance of this kind now in

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the rc-loading the gun from the vent feing unstopped. It will be a great saving of powder, l.t ihrouah the vent, either les

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louscareer.or who once having rrprc;l to tm - .m.pnit the opinion 1 hive given! .! w.Hrd of th-ir euuutrv. h.d t omn.ued to fol- I IU1CB w -uj poi 4 fa (

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sou to whom I r for, served live u.onuis u. !(h,r. i( ' 0UiJtt-a this will mae iwenry-nve Kevobitionarv War, aud iv Vfats as a sergeaul. c differf nee. The inveniiou is sanctionin that of the'West. ',t.ti ,y tnP Admii .ilty Hoard, and l about to ba I i,r,T Iouvp to refer to two bi-'h autho- bcaid the EiH'-ni.

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