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BY P. C. RICKETTS.
VOL. XII.—No 11
A STATEMENT, <
OF the receipts and disbursements of Cecil
conntv, lor the year 1852, made out and 1
published by Order o( the C'oinnitssioneisagree- 1
ably to the Act of Assembly. I
AMOUNT Of fH.ieKKTV LIAIILL TO COUNTV TAX A- j
TION. I ,
In Hie Ist Uistrict $917,385.00
2nd “ 580,975.00 '
• • 3rd “ 906.603.00 *
4th “ 521.811.00
•< sth “ 771,613.00;
• i (jth “ 826,558.00 ! .
7th is 952.249.00 1
i '
Total in county $5,477,194,00
The county Tax on the above sum at lilty
four cents in the hundred dollars amounts to
$29,576.84
DISItUR SKM ENTS.
For County Coramissioners and their
Clerk $1058.00
F.XI’KNSES Of COUNTY AND CIRCUIT COURT.
Richard C. Hollvdav, late Clerk 495.51
H. H. Mitchell, “ 620.40
Richard Grasnn, Stale’s Attorney 115.00
Win. Haines, late Sheriff 956.55
John Jnnney, “ 231,56
John Jnnney, “ 1,525.75
Edward Wilson,Crier 314.31
Jurors, 1,363.60
Bailiffs, 64.50
Sinle’s Witnesses, 490.00
Witnesses to Grand Jury 58.00
EXPF.NSfS OF ORPHAN’S COUHT.
VViiliam Tolbert, Judge 111.00
Henry 8. Mites, “ 108.00
K. Pennington, lute “ 45.00
Jl.-nj W. Harris, “ 63.00
George 11. Howard, late Register 79.83
James H. Jainar, 130.8^
EXPENSES OF ELECTIONS.
Judges, 231.00
Clerks, 132.00
hai I ills, 12.00
SUPIORT OF THE POOR.
Alms House 2.200.00
“ •• deficit of lust year 467.56
Out Pensions 1.501.00
Special Orders 3HKOO
COST OF INQUISITIONS.
Jurors and Magistrates’ 122.00
ITIiI.IC no. M S.
The annual allowances lu Supervisors in the .
several Districts* amount to the following sum 1
In tiie Ist District 600.00
2nd “ 615.00'
“ 3rd “ 765.00 ■
*. 44 h “ 700.00
“ sth “ 805.00 i
tOh “ 1,015.(0
7th a 680.00
Total $j,!20.u0
Balances to Supervisors of the previ
ous year. 616.21
MISCELLANEOUS.
A.
Abrams John R., for road damages 68.10
Alexander Andrew, lor ironing prison
er.** 6.i7
Amount levied to meet deficit of the
previous yeai 516.00
B.
Biles Charles, allowance to open new
load 70.00
Brown George, chninman on road sur
vey 1 -00
Benin tl John P.> for foot bridge 25.81
Boul leu Tl.omas, for fool bridges 46.2.5
Butler John, roa 1 commissioner 2.00
Brown Edmond, chautuiun on road
survey I*oo
Boulden Levi F., accl for coffins 25.00
Jii Idle Beiij, C, Reel h> Constable 2.50
Biitlon Malilon, lor repairing bridge 4.00
Boulden Geo VV., for ciow s Iliads 1.68
Bowen Benj., witness to Harford 10.00
Bristow John. “ “ 3.00
Barclay John, “ “ 10.00
Bridge at GilpiVs Ford 750.00
B'les Charles, lor mending road 35.00
Boyle Patrick, allowance as bupervi
sor (irregulai) 30.00
IP njnmin (ieorge, ft “ 20.00
Blake Solomon, for loot bridge 15.00
iliyun, George S., witness to Harford 10.00
Bryan Richard, “ “ 10 00
Bryan Richard, “ “ 7.00
Bryson John, for crow’s heads 1.44
Brown &, Foard, clothing for pauper 1.86
Brown Kdmund, Sr. accl as Magistrate 2.90
Brown John K., “ “ 7.28
Burmte James K., for burial clothes
for pauper I*so
Bussey R. K., She’ If ofHarford county
nccl as Jailor, case of Ginn 87.87
Benny Charles VV., for copying laws 10.00
Bohemia Ferry, 80.00
C.
Court House, for repairing 500.00
Cooley John, counsel to commissioners 50.00
• Cowan Benj C., witness to Harford 9.00
Cameron John C., road commissioner 2.00
Churchman Amassa, “ 2.00
Cooley Corbin, “ 4.00
Crouch F A., for coffin and for bury
ing pauper 5.00
Coudon Joseph, for fool bridge 2.00
■Chnmllee John 8., for crow’s heads 1.50
Cantwell M., accl lor collins 6.00
Carter Dr. K C., for attending inquisi
tion 5.00
Cresw'ell J A J., lees for prosecuting
Stale ca*es 23.33
'Cauffman John M., nccl lor coffins 14.00
•Crookshnnks F 8., for burial clothes
for pauper . 1.00
D.
Dysart Catharine, road damages 25.00
Dnhamell Robert J., accl as constable 11.84
E
Emory J K B for medical attendance
at county Jail 20.00
Emory J K B witness to Harford 8.00
Emory J K B Witness to Harlord 5.00
England S f accl for coffius 10.50
England S J for summoning jury on
inquisition L 75
Etherington Samuel, accl for coffin 3.50
Ewing Amos, allowance as supervise!
(irregular) 15.00
Evans John, for bridge repairs 15.00
*F.
Foard Hezekiah, acct as constable 26.44
Foard James L, for hack hire 3.50
Foster Francis A, for coffins 36.50
Foard Richard J, for crow’s heads 6.30
Foard Hezekiah, acct as constable 19.15
Free people of color, removal of 396.66
G.
Graham Z. B, for coffins and digging
grave for paupers 8.00
Graham &. Aldridge, for repaying
stoves I*S9
THE CECIL WHIG
Gollier Francis B, lor roail surrey and
plat 6.00
Gillespie Sam for attending pauper 7.00 ,
Graham Z. B, I'm summoning jury on 1
inquisition 3.22 1
Grasnn Richard, fees for prosecuting
Slate cases in Harford 60.00 1
Giillith Nathan; acct for digging graves 3.00
Garrison George, “ “ “ 1.00
Ginn John, witness to Harford 10-00 ,
Gilpin Henry H, accl lor crow’s heads 1.5(11
Giant Win G, accl lor coffins 7.00
H - .
Hall Wm, witness to Harford 10.00
Hackett Abe, lor digging grave and
halving pauper 4.00
Holland Jacob C, for repairing road 8.12
; Harlan Hannah, for stuff lor bridge 21.00 ■
Harris Charles, for work on the roads 3.93 1
Harris Charles, for hoarding pauper 13.0 ti |
i Hague Win L, for collin for pauper 3.60 i
’ Hall .losinh, lor use of house for bold
-1 ing elections 10.00 |
1 Hyland Jacob, for burial clothes (or
paupers 6.57 1
Hmhlers Ur. J W, for medical atten
dance I ■25
Hall Josiali, acct as constable 3-23
Hanes Win, per diem ns assessor in part 100.00
Hat lord county for costs on cases re
moved from Cecil 326.28
I. J.
Isaac James, witness to Harford 8 00
Jackson Harriet, “ 7.00'
Joy, e Geo H, acct ns magistrate 21.25
Jui.ney Kli, road commissioner 2.00
loyce Gro H, accl as magislrnle 23.00
Jumar Janies H, Ices lor prosecuting
Male cases. 46.60
K.
Kiukead John, witness to Harford 12.00
I I-
Logan Samuel, allowance ns Supervi
sor (irregular) 30.00
Linton Grecnbury, chainnian on road
survey 1-00
Lindsey Win, for repairing bridge 10.06
Lynch Hasson, tied as constable 1-96
Lackland &. Taylor, acet lor burial
dollies lor pauper 2-57
Lillie John, for per diem ns assessor in
part 100.00
M.
' McCall James, for digging grave and
| burying pauper 5.00
Moore James, for attending pauperand
burying expenses 23.60
McLcneban K J), road commissioner 4.00
M alien John, ciinininnn on road survey 1.00
Mason Benjamin, Tor collins lO'jO
. 1 Muslin James, lor digging grave 1.00
! McCauley John U, blacksmith acct 5.07
Marshhunk i. Cantwell, nccl lor col
-1 ims 2.60
Mcunis John, lor foot bridge 16.68
Marsh bank Robt, aid for coffins 15.60
Mclnttrc James, for work on the roads 1.).,5
Mitchell H 11, witness to Harford 5.00
- Aluitimiulc Samuel, " 10.00
McColtough James T, fees for prose
. ciilion 12,39
1 Mitchell H H,acct for medical atten
dance nl jail, inquisitions, \.c. 85.43
’ Murshbank Kohl, for chans lor Regis
ter’s ollicu 20.37
McCullough H, fees for prosecutions 16.66
Madden John C, fur burying pauper 3.U0
, Miller Joseph, per diem as assessor ia
? part 100 00
Maryland Hospital, 500.UU
, ' N.
.Vowlanil Olbo. road commissioner 2.00
. .Vowlaud Glue, for mending roads 4.73
, .vowlnud L U, acct us magistrate 7.16
i P-
Pierson Jacob, need fur crow’s beads 2.22
j HucK Jacob, allowance as supervisor
(irregular) 12.35
J Patton Thomas, for repairing bridge 6.87
Pearce James, li.rwork on the roads 16.25
Pennington Edward, lor grading roads 20.00
Prosecuting R R case, lees for 30U.00
U 1,.
Regers Abner, allowance as supervisor 20.00
Richardson Joseph, witness to Hnrford 4.00
„ Ricketts P C, for advertising for Or
phans’ Court 5-00
Ricketts & Junes, “ for Com. 11.20
Ro wliiigs 4; Gillespie, for but ial dollies
, foi pauper 6.56
7. Rossell John S, acct as constable 6.85
Ricketts George, witness to Harford 6.00
j Ricketts P C, for advertising, and
blanks, Jtc, lor commissioners 42.75
Reynolds Jacob, allowance as supervi
sor on new road 20.00
S.
‘ Scott Unvid (of Jno) for goods forThos
“ Butler W
u Smith John, road commissioner 2.00
Senlmun Lawrence, road survey 3.00
j Scott John, chninman on road 1-00
Scott Unvid, allowance for opening road 50.00
] Sanders Caleb P, accl for coffins 12.00
Slmhorn Jonathan, balance as super
visor
J Slerrett John, witness to Harford 6.00
Shercr Uavid M, “ 4.00
, Scott Unvid, for ditching road 15.50
Smith Cornelius, road commissioner 2.00
; Scnlman Lawrence,for building bridge 28.93
1 Scott Uavid, acct for lumber 8.95
, Spence Joseph H, do 21.04
J Sunders Caleb P, acct for coffins 3.50
Simpers Thomas W, for taxes errone
ously paid 1-68
' Stiles HS, acct for foot bridge 13.50
Scott Wm T, accl lor plank lor bridge 3.08
J Stubbs Slater B, lor medical allcn
. dance on pauper MOO
, Sanders Caleb P, accl for coffin 3.50
1 Smith John R, lor digging grave for
pauper 1-00
) T
„ Thomas John E, for work at the Court
. House 3.50
. Tavlor JR, acct for coffins 3.50
Thomas R L, for burial clothes for
pauper 2.80
I. Trustees uf N E School, for use ol
bouse for holding elections 30.00
. Taylor JR, accl for coffins for paupers 8.00
j. Tbackery Thomas, accl us constable 17.80
V.
I Vanderford H Jr, acct for advertising,
) blanks, &.c 81.75
■) W.
3 Warburton Wm T, nccl for fool bridge 17.69
j Worth SB, road commissioner 2.00
; Wilson Alexander, witness to Harford 10.00
Wilson Thomas, “ 10.00
Wilson Ed, acct as crier ofCourt 50.00
) Wells Geo W, acct for glazing 4.75
Wilson John A, acct for coffins 20.73
) Wells Geo W, accl for painting and rc-
ELKTON, MARYLAND.
SATURDAY MORNING OCTOBER 2 1852
pairing Register’s office 18.00
y.
Yenmans John, acct for build’g bridge 23.10
Total amount of Levy $24,877.38
Collectors’ Commissions on county
tax at 6 per cent as follows:
Dists. Collectors amounts
1 John H Hessey, $297.23
2 John H Biddle, 188.24
3 John P Price, 293.74
4 George Mullen, 169.07
5 Benj T Alexander, 290.00
6 John Lincoln, 267.80
7 Wm Gather, 308.13
Collcctois’ commissions on Stale Tax
at 6 per cent as follows:
1 John H Hessey, $140.75
2 John H Biddle, 88,36
3 John P Price, 136.57
4 George Mullen, 78.50
5 Benj T Alexander, 117.21
6 John Lineoln, 124.31
7 William Gather, 142.12
Balance to meet Railrond and other
insolvencies and incidental ex
penses $2,097.03
$29,576.84
By order of the commissinncis of Cecil county
U. SCOTT, Clerk.
I I hereby certifv that the aforegoing is a cor
rect copy of Ihc Levy lor 1852, taken from the
Books ol lhe Commissioners of Cecil county.
I Ocl 23w U. Scott, Cleik.
StvaijC tacts from aflloimtain Jovcst.
.For The Cecil Whig .
FLORENCE.
BY ELLEN GREY.
{Concluded.)
Chapter ii.
It was the next morning after the parting re
ferred to in our last chapter, that Fima wound
her soil arms about my neck, pressed a farewell
kiss upon my cheek, and entering the old mail
coach was whirled away from our quiet village,
toward the distant .Seminary at .
There she remained a year; then she became
a teacher. She wrote often to me, but never
diil she speak of Henry. Yet, I knew that she
had not forgotten him. At first she gave "low
ing descriptions of her school, nnd spoke cheer
fully, hopefully of the future. She told me of
little Frank a curly headed pupil of seven years,
i and of his lather, a man not younir in years or
suffering; a widower, wealthy, kind and hu-!
inane.
Months passed—her letters erew less cheerful
—a tone of despondency pervaded them. Her
In hors V'ere wearying—her trials more wearying
still. She told of cold words and hitter sneers
from those who looked down upon her because j
of her lowly position in life—ciuel words and;
hitter taunts from those who in intellectual and j
moral worth, were, Oh! so tar, beneath her. |
She did not, as a heart of stern mould might i
have dune, meet them with a quiet smile of calm j
indifference. Nay they (ell upon her ears, and ,
reached her heart to chill and freeze it. They |
drove from her pathway the few gleams of hope
and happiness that were beginning to linger
thereabout.
Again months past. Then came the intelli
gence that little Frank her favorite was ill.
Night after night she watched beside his bed,
for he had grown to love her ns children will
those who are good and pure. She waited till
the sufferer no longer needed her care—till his
little heart grew still, his low voice silent, nnd
the light of his blue eye went out forever. She
grieved for her pet scholar—but her grief was
almost forgotten in sympathy for the father who
idolized his darling Frank, the imaze of his lost
Fanny;—his heart was indeed desolate. And
now she always mentioned Mr. Mayhew, the
i father of Frank, in her letters. He sought her
society more often than formerly. It was hut
natural, she said, that he should do so, for
i Frank had loved her, and his father remem
i bering it, would of course treat her kindly.
It was three months after little Frank’s death
| that I received the following letter:—
“My Dear Ellen: —l sit down to write yon
from a heart filled with contending emotions of
i joy and sorrow. You, Ellen, better than any
i other perhaps, know and understand this way
i ward heart of mine; and therefore you may not
i be surprised when 1 tell you, that a month hence
; and I am to become a Bride—the wife of Mr.
, Mayhew. ‘Do 1 love him?’—is the question
that I know you are wishing me to answer,
i Yes, Ido love him. Not however with a wild
soul-engrossing love, but with a calmer, more
disjwissicnale affection. I have told him of the
( past since my earliest remembrance—of my suf
; fi rings—rny sorrows. Of rny wild, passionate
love for one, whose name I need not mention
i heie—love, such as I did not, niishl not feel for
ii him. I told of the struggle between love and
I what 1 thought was duly. When I ended, he
i' smoothed my hair for a moment thouzhlfully.
I then drawing my head down upon his bosom he
asked ‘Dost thou feel this breast to be a pleasant
i and safe resting place for thy poor weary head?’
i{l essayed to reply, hut my lips quivered, the
i ready tears gushed forth, nnd involnntai ily my
head nestled closer in his bosom, while I wept,
—and thus, it was decided. • • • •
Flora.”
Ten years have passed since Florence Edger
ton clasped her arms about my neck in a parting
embrace, and once again the arms of Florence
Mayhew twined lovingly about me as we wel
comed her hack. But when we looked upon
her and saw the unearthly brightness of her eye,
the deathly pallor of her brow and the hectic
flush upon her cheek, we felt that it was but a
parting embrace, after all—that she must soon
leave us for a land from whence she could re
turn no more forever. And .the fell it, too. She
told us wiih a sad smile, that she had “come
home to die.”
We bad received intelligence of the death of
Mr. Mayhew months before, and we knew that
she and little Florence were coming to make our
hearts clad with their presence; but we did not
know that consumption had laid his band upon
her. We little thought to see her thus, and’it
was hard to still our murmuring hearts and
meekly submit to the will of “Him who doelh
all things well.”
But for ten lone years we have not once men
tioned Henry Lyons, the beroofour little sketch;
and yet, he is neither dead nor married; but at
the lime uf Flora’s return, was still an inhab
itant of our little village, where he had remain
ed during the lone years of her absence, visit
ing the sick and the afllicted and administering
calomel ot consolation, as the case seemed to
require. All bad, with one consent, set him
down for an Old Bachelor, long ere she came
hack. We girls, bad ceased to set our caps for
him, and our mammas no longer fretted about
the fewness of his patients or the littleness of
bis prospects. Some there were, who tboueht
him selfish, penurious, and cold hearted, and a
hater, or at least a disliker of womankind; but
we who knew of bis love for Flora, judged him
less harshly. And when we henicl that the rich
younu widow—for Mr. Mayhew bad left to her
the whole of his vast properly—was coming
tmek to us, who can wonder that our wayward
fancies built many a “fairy castle.”
A few weeks before Flora’s return, Ur. Lyons
was in at our house. Oh! bow I did long to
tell him that Florence —his Florence was com
ing back once more. We weie standing upon
the porch and as be was about leaving I said:
“Ur., hove you heard the news?”
“ What news?” lie asked with an air ol in
difference.
“Why, that Mrs Mayhew, Florence, our
Florence is coming back once raoie to reside
witli her aunt.”
He looked eagerly—earnestly within my face
for an instant—then a painful memory seemed
to come over him, and a hitter smile was upon
bis lips as be answered coldly:
“No, I had not hcaul it,” and bidding me
“Good Night,” he passed rapidly down the
walk.
It was six weeksnfter the return of Florence,
late in the month of November, but Oh ! what
a beautiful day it was! The wind soil and
j warm as Ihc breath of summer, rustled the
snow-drops, kissed the dead and dying flowers
' ol autumn, and occasionally sent a brown and
yellow leaf, flattering to the pavement below,
which, until then, had tremblingly clung to the
almost deserted tree. We hud felt for some
i weeks that Flora was failing rapidly, but this
' day she seemed more feeble than ever before.
I hml been rending to her a greater part ol the
day from a favorite author. Little Florence
hml nestled close beside her mother the whole
ilay long, scarcely leaving her for a moment.
It was almost night, and the golden sunshine,
as it stole in through the half closed shutter,
fell upon her tiny form, as reclining against her
mother’s lounge and resting her little dimpled
cheek upon one thin, transparent hand, she
slept. I arose softly, and was about to lift and
plnce her in a warm and comfortable place, but
Florence observing me whispered :
“Nay, leave her thus; I would watch her
sweet slumber once more; and Ellen,” she con
tinued, “send for Henry Lyons; hid him come to
me, I would see him ere the sun go down.”
I started nt the mention of his name, so un
expected—and my heart sunk within me as I
heard “I would see him ere the sun go down.”
In a very few moments I had despatched to him
a note bearing these words.
“Florence is dying and would see you—de
lay not— but come quickly. Ellen.”
I had not long to wait. A few moments, and
he opened the little gale and come up the walk
with a hurried, unsteadly step. I led him toiler
in silence and was turning to leave the room,
when a look Irom Florence detained me. Hen
ry advanced to where she lay, and gazed upon
her for a moment. Neither spoke. To look
upon her thus was more than he could bear, and
kneeling bes ide her, he buried his face in the
sola cushions, while his strong frame shook
with the deep emotion—the bitter anguish ol
his bosom.
I stole away to weep. Hours later, when I
returned to the room, 1 found Henry still kneel
ing, his lace bowed upon the thin white hand
which had so lately pillowed the hand ol the
sleeping child, who was now alas! awake and
weeping bitterly. The aunt of Florence stood
upon the opposite side of the couch nnd as she
bent above the lifeless lorm of the lovely sleep
er, her tears fell in quick succession upon the
marble brow, and glittered like tiny gems
among the dark locks of our beautilul Florence
—unrs no longer.
Years have passed since the grass
greened above the grave ol Florence Edgerton.
But Henry Lyons still lives; a Bachelor, yet
beloved by many as the sole guardian of Flor
ence, the young heiress, who,’lis said, grows
more lovely each day.
Monument to Mk. Clay.— Nathan
Sargent publishes in the National In
telligencer, dated August 27, a letter
signed by a number of our most distin
guished men, proposing to form an asso
ciation, having for its object the erec
tion of a National Monument at Wash
ington, to the memory of Mr. Clay.
Prentice on Pierce.
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal,
indulges in a merciless criticism of Gen.
Pierce’s military career. However
harsh it may sound, it is certainly borne I
out by the official documents. His falls
at Contreras and Churubusco, though
very unlucky, might have been set down
to bad horsemanship; but his sudden
indisposition and retirement from the
field, when ordered to move‘immediate
ly under the guns of Chapultepec,’ and
his as sudden recovery next morning,
when the fighting was over, certainly
have a very ugly aspect.
But hear Prentice, and make every
allowance possible for an uncharitable
critic:
“The first attempt of General Pierce
at fighting was in the preliminary move
ments for the battle of Contreras, that
extraordinary achievement of General
Persifer F. Smith. During the prelimi
naries, on August 19th, General Pierce’s
horse fell with him and hurt his leg.
That night, at 1 o’clock, the leading
spirits of the American army were ac
tively engaged in the arrangements lor
the battle of Contreras. General
Pierce was waited upon, but he pleaded
that his /eg would not permit him to
take part in that brilliant deed of arms,
which was destined to cover all engaged
... O O
in it with glory.
It was well for the Americans that
Persifer F. Smith, Kiley, Cadwalader,
Shields, and such men were not incura
bly given to sudden attacks of sickness.
They broke through all obstructions
and gained a splendid victory. The
battle was over very early in the morn
ing, lasting about 20 or 30 minutes, and
the defeat was so thorough that Gen.
Pierce may he pardoned fur supposing
that the .Mexicans would not fight any
more that day. Under this delusion,
although he was too much indisposed
before to command his brigade, as soon
as the battle of Contreras was over he
reported himself ready for duty. But,
unfortunately for him, the Mexicans
were quite as enterprising as his conva
lescence. The battle of Churubusco
loomed up very unexpectedly to him on
the day of Contreras, and surprised him
in the field on duty! Caught in this un
lucky plight, he could not hangup his
lame leg, as he had done a few hours
before. Thus fairly in the toils, Gen.
Pierce seemed unable to find a retreat,
and in a fit of desperation, prepared to
stand the brush if possible.
The batteries of the enemy looked
formidable, one of twenty-two guns, es
pecially, seemed to make an indelible
impression on Gen. Pierce, and, instead
of taking a part in the glorious action,
he was taken with a fainting fit. He
says: “1 fell a few yards from the sever
est fire of the enemy.” Before fainting,
he seems to have measured the rage of
the fire with mathematical precision.
He must have felt, while lying “a tew 1
yards from the fire of the enemy,” as
Falstafi' did at Shrewsbury; “Though I
could escape shot free at Concord, 1
fear the shot here; here’s no scoring but
upon the pate. **********
I am as hot as molten lead, and as heavy
too. God keep lead out of me! I need
no more weight than mine own bowels.
I have led my ragamuffins where THEY
are peppered.
We can almost imagine we can see
General Pierce, as we have seen Hackett,
in Falstalf, after the fall of Hotspur,
peeping cautiously over the ‘field to see
if the storm of strife was clearing up.
When the battle was loud in its tumult,
and terrible in its carnaee, General
Pierce must have felt that his sickness
was lasting an age, and he must have
longed for the moment when it would
be safe to be in health again.
Whether General Pierce suffered any
in the way of swooning on the 21st of
August, the day after the battle of Chur
ubusco, we cannot tell. On the 22nd
he formed one of the board for arrang
ing an armistice, and went through
these labors, for three continuous days
without fainting once.
General Pierce enjoyed good health
during the armistice. On the 12th of
September he was again in the field.
On that day his business was one of
manoeuvring merely; and, as there was
no fighting there was no fainting. Gen
eral Pierce kept up all day. But, alas!
there came an order to him to move his
brigade, after dark, under the cover ot a
long range of buildings known as Moli
no del Key, “which place,” General
Pierce says most expressively, "is im
mediately under the guns of Chapulte
pec.” This was enough for Gen. Pierce,
for, notwithstanding he enjoyed fine
health from the 20fh of August, through-,
out the armistice, up to the 12th of
September, and was well enough to be
manceuvring his brigade all of the day
of the last date , while there was no fight
ing, yet, when the brigade had to move
after dark, under the guns of Chapulte
pec, the stomach of General Piei ce came
to a crisis, and was suddenly taken ill
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again. He says, alluding to the order
to move the brigade under the guns of
Chapultepec, “previous to this moment,
however, 1 was compelled to leave the
field, in consequence of severe indispo
sitioni, which confined me to my bed dur
ing the 13 th,” &e.
It must be observed that General
Pierce did not attempt to lead the bri
gade when he found it had to take po
sition “under the guns ofChapuitepec.”
When he was unexpectedly caught at
Churubusco, on the 20th, he made a
show ofleading I i- brigade, but he had
daylight then lor measuring the range
of the “enemy’s fire,” and was able to
faint “a few yards” from it. Bi tas the
movement at Chapultepec was to be
made after dark, and in the darkness he
i might make a mistake and get within
I the range of those “guns of Chapulte
pec,’ to which he so fee i gly allud -s. He
determined, thereiore, not to be con
| fused with the darkness, as to the proper
time and distance from the guns for his
fit of sickness to come on. According
; ly, he says, “previous to this” (the dark
ness) “1 left the field in consequence of
a severe indisposition." He certianlv
had a “severe indisposition” to light
whenever there was anything of that
kind to do. Give him an armistice to
manage and he would work at it three
i days rejoicingly, but bring him within
sight of a battery of twenty-two guns,
! as at Churubusco, and he fainted; or di
rect him to move, after dark, under the
1 guns ot Chapultepec, and, although he
had been in good health for twenty-two
i days, “previous to the moment of dark
ness” a “severe indisposition” came on,
and he left the field. And he took good
care in this case to keep his bed all day
on the 13 th, the day of the storming of
Chapultepec. He was determined not
to be “picked up” again, as he had been
| at Churubusco; he seemed resolved that
this spell of sickness, got up so oppor
tunely “ previous to darkness” on the
evening of the 12th. should outlast any
1 possible change of Mexican enterprise
in the way of fighting.
During the 13th, the day ofChapuite
pec, General Fierce says he kept his
bed, but he seems to have sat up all
night, watching the embers of the fight
dying out. As soon as the last glimpse
iof a chance for any more fighting that
day went out, General Fierce, with
reckless energy, reports himself ready
for duty at day-break on the morning of
the Hth !
The battery at Churubusco, and the
idea of facing the guns at Chapultepec
had the effect on Gen. Fierce that the
panther-pit had upon Quintus, in Titus
Andronicus. He says:
‘•I am surprised wiili uncouth fear,
A chillins sweat o erruns my tremblinu joints.
My heart suspects more than my eye can .-ee.”
It may look very irreverent in ns, hut
we cannot but think that Gen. Pierce,
at Churubusco, “lying a few yards from
the severest fire of the enemy,” and in
, his bed all the day at Chapultepec,
| must have felt as Falstaff did while re
flecting on his convenient fall, under the
i blows of Douglass, and his resurrection
1 after the fight was over. We can al
most hear General Pierce breathing the
! very words of his prototype: —“Sblood !
’twas time to counterfeit, or that hot
termagant Scott had paid me Scot and
lot too. Counterfeit ! 1 lie lam no
counterleit. To die is to be a counter
feit; tor he is but the counterfeit of a
man who hath not the life of a man; hut
! to counterfeit dying, when a man there
by liveth, is to he no counterfeit, but
the true and perlect image of lile in
deed.”
We hand this matter over to the
friends ot Gen Pierce to point out one
error, if they can, in our quotations
from Gen. Pierce’s official reports, or,
failing to detect an error, to show
whether we have omitted a solitary
statement of Mexican events connected
with General Pierce’s military career
in the field of battle. If his friends can
do neither, let them close their mouth
about his military deeds, lest they make
themselves the laughing stock of Christ
endom. Men who can admire equally
the Generalship of a Jackson and of a
Franklin Pierce, should not be trusted
in the streets without a keeper.
Ov* The Democrats have already
charged Gen. Scott with beiiis a “trait
or,” a “coward,” a “swindler,” a “fool,”
and a “liar.” To all such charges we
have no response to make, except forty
years of glorious deeds—a life perilled
for the independence and happiness of
his country —a body riddled by British,
bullets —a character which had passed'
the ordeal of envy aad malice, and re
ceived the endorsement of Jefl’erson,
Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren,,
Harrison and Taylor,
[f3r*lt is said there are 2.000 Mormon,
converts in Bohemia; but that the gov
ernment has put a stop to them by seiz
ing and confiscating their books.
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