BATTLE

OF NORTH POINT,

12TH SEPTEMBER, A. D. 1814, And of the Independence of the United States the thirty-ninth.

On the north front, beneath the basso-relievo on that side, is the following inscription, also in letters of bronze::

ROMBARDMENT

OF FORT M'HENRY, 13TH SEPTEMBER, A. D. 1814; And of the Independence of the United States, the thirty-ninth.

The basement and fasces thus described, form together thirty-nine feet, to show that it was founded in the thirty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States.

it lead to sin; the Atheist who says, not only in his heart, but with his lips, "there is no God," controls him not, for he sees the hand of a creating God and reverences it, of a preserving God and rejoices in it. Woman is sheltered by fond arms and guided by loving counsel, old age is protected by its experience, and manhood by its strength; but the young man stands amid the temptations of the world like a self-balanced tower. Happy, he who seeks and gains the prop and shelter of Christianity.

Onward, then, conscientious youth! raise thy standard and nerve thyself for goodness. If God has given thee intellectual power, awaken it in that cause; never let it be said of thee, he helped to swell the tide of sin, by pouring his influence into its channels. If thou art feeble in mental strength, throw not that poor drop into a polluted current. assume the beautiful Awake, arise, young man! garments of virtue! It is easy, fearfully easy to sin, it is difficult to be pure and holy. Put on thy The colossal, but exquisitely beautiful statue, strength, then, let thy chivalry be aroused against which surmounts the fasces, is a female figure, rep-errour, let truth be the lady of thy love-defend her. resenting the city of Baltimore-upon her head is a mural crown, emblematick of cities; in one hand she holds an antique rudder, symbolick of navigation; and in the other she raises a crown of laurel, as, with a graceful inclination of the head, she looks towards the fort and field of battle. At her feet, on the right, is the Eagle of the United States; and near it a bomb, commemorative of the bom

bardment.

The height of the monument, including the statue, is fifty-two feet, two inches.

A single glance at this monument, trikes the beholder with admiration, and suffices to convince him, that its various parts have been designed and combined by the effort of talent and genius of the first order. But if the architect, fully impressed with the moral dignity and beauty of his subject, has conceived a plan worthy of his exalted genius, the master-hand of the sculptor has been no less happy in communicating to the pure marble the most admirable proofs of the power of his chisel and the perfection of his art. The attitude of the noble statue, and the natural flow of its drapery, afford a true personification of ease, grace, and dignity: the proportions are strikingly beautiful and correct, and its execution, including all the sculptured parts of the monument, is that of the finished artist. This elegant structure presents a glorious testimony of the patriotism, devotion, and gratitude of the citizens of Baltimore, and a no less gratifying evidence of the rapid advancement of the arts in this country.

TO YOUNG MEN.

There is no moral object so beautiful to me as a conscientious young man! I watch him as I do a star in the heavens: clouds may be before him, but we know that his light is behind them, and will beam gain; the blaze of other's prosperity may outshine him but we know that, though unseen, he illumines his own true sphere. He resists temptation not without a struggle, for that is not a virtue, but he does resist and conquer; he hears the sarcasm of the profligate and it stings him, for that is the trial of virtue, but he heals the wound with his own pure touch. He heeds not the watchword of fashion, if

Southern Rose.

AN AMERICAN CEDAR SWAMP. THESE Swamps are from half a mile to a mile in breadth, and sometimes five or six in length, and appear as if they occupied the former channel of some choked-up river, stream, lake, or arm of the sea. The appearance they present to a stranger is singular-a forest of tall and perfectly straight trunks, rising to the height of fifty or sixty feet, without a limb, and crowded in every direction, their tops so woven together as to shut out the day, spreading the gloom of a perpetual twilight below. On a nearer approach, they are found to rise out of the water, which, from the impregnation of fallen leaves and roots of the cedars, is of the colour of brandy. Amidst this bottom of congregated springs, the ruins of the former forest lie in every state of confusion. The roots, prostrate logs, and in many places the water, are covered with green mantling moss, while an undergrowth of laurel, fifteen or twenty feet high, intersects every spring so completely as to render a passage through, laborious and harassing beyond description. At every step you either sink to the knees, clamber over falling timber, squeeze yourself through between the stubborn laurels, or plunge to the middle in ponds. made by the uprooting of large trees, and which the green moss concealed from observation. In calm weather, the silence of death reigns in these dreary regions; a few interrupted rays of light shoot across the gloom; and unless for the occasional hollow screams of the herons and the melancholy chirping of one or two small birds, all is silence, solitude, and desolation. When a breeze rises, at first it sighs mournfully through the tops; but as the gale increases, the tall, mastlike cedars wave like fishing-poles, and rubbing against each other, produce a variety of singular noises, that, with the help of a little imagination, resemble shrieks, groans, growling of bears, wolves, and such like comfortable music. Wilson.

REVOLUTIONARY ANECDOTES.

We have gleaned from the publications of the day, the following anecdotes of the revolution. first relates to the battle of Bunker's Hill-and is The from the pen of A. E. Everett, Esq. :—

"THE veteran Pomeroy, to whom I have already particularly adverted, and who at this time held no commission in the line, when he heard the pealing artillery, felt it as a summons to action, and could not resist the inclination to repair to the field. He accordingly requested Gen. Ward to lend him a horse, and taking his musket, set off at full speed for Charlestown. On reaching the neck, and finding it enfiladed by a hot and heavy fire of round, bar and chain shot from the British batteries, he began to be alarmed-not, fellow-citizens, as you might well suppose, for his own safety, but for that of Gen. Ward's horse! Horses, fellow-citizens, as I have already

whenever the sailors were piped to stow away of course granted; and from that time forward, around and looking on, with the most gentlemanly their hammocks, Jack was to be seen loitering leisure. He always continued in the same ship with Decatur. 'I could always know the state of my bile by Jack,' said the commodore. If was in good humor, and wore a pleasant aspect. Jack would be sure to heave in sight, to receive a friendly nod: and if I were out of humor, and wore, as I sometimes did, a foul-weather physiog nomy, Jack kept aloof, and skulked among the other sailors.' It is proper to add, that Reuben James received a more solid reward for his gallant devotion, than the privilege abovemen tioned, a pension having been granted to him by government. On another occasion, Decatur had received at New York the freedom of the city, as a testimonial of respect and gratitude. On the as the noble animals that rode them. Too following day, he overheard this colloquy between honest to expose his borrowed horse to the 'pelting two of his sailors: Jack,' said one, what is the of this pitiless storm,' and to dream for a moment of meaning of this freedom of the city, which they've shrinking from it himself, the conquerer of Baron been giving to the old man ?" Why don't you Dieskieu dismounted, and delivering Gen. Ward's know? Why, it's. the right to frolic about the horse to a sentry, shouldered his musket and march-streets, as much as he pleases; kick up a row; ed very coolly on foot across the neck. On reach-knock down the men, and kiss the women!' '0 ing the hill, he took his place at the rail-fence. His ho!' cried the other that's something worth person was known to the soldiers, and the name of fighting for!" " Pomeroy rang with enthusiastick shouts along the line!"

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THE Knickerbocker tells the following anec-of capital. dotes of Commodore Decatur:—

"The late gallant Decatur was a sailor to the very heart's core, and loved to tell anecdotes of the common sailors. I recollect one which he used to relate, to the following purport:

"In one of the actions before Tripoli, while fighting hand to hand with the captain of a gun-boat, Decatur came near being cut down by a Turk, who attacked him from behind. A seaman named Reuben James, who was already wounded in both his hands seeing the risk of his commander, rushed in and received the blow of his uplifted sabre on his own head Fortunately, the honest fellow survived to receive his reward. Some time afterward, when he had recovered from his wounds, Decatur sent for him on deck, expressed his gratitude for his self-devotion, in presence of the crew, and told him to ask for some reward. The honest tar pulled up his waistband and rolled his quid, but seemed utterly at a loss what recompense to claim. His messmates gathered around him, nudging him with their elbows, and whispering in his ear; He had all the world in a string, and could get what he pleased; the old man could deny him nothing,' etc. One advised this thing, another that; 'double pay,' ''double allowance,' 'a boatswain's berth,' 'a pocket full of money and a full swing on shore,' etc. Jack elbowed them all aside, and deliberation, he announced the reward to which After mature he aspired; it was, to be excused from rolling up the hammock-cloths! The whimsical request was

would have none of their counsel.

THE SCHOOLROOM.

It is believed that there are lasting and painful infirmities which begin in the school-room. It is a convenience and a relief to a busy mother to send her children to school for several hours in the day. She considers them safe while so em ployed; not only so, they are getting learning and preparing to get a living. But at this tender age, while the bones are hardening, and the deli cate structure of the human frame is easily deranged, it is more than probable that long-contin ued sitting lays the foundation for diseases which show themselves in after life, and occasion afflic tion to the child, and cost and pain to parents. The learning that may be acquired in these early years can be no compensation for such evils. It would be far better for parent and child, to have good schools for playing, as well as for learning, during the early years of infancy. The natural athletic action of the human system has no tendency to deform or enfeeble it; while the tedious confinement of the school-room is certain to do both. All that is contended for, is, that there should be a rational mixture of bodily action and mental employment for children, as mutually learning; and, however common such thoughts auxiliary in preserving health and in acquiring may be, they cannot be too often expressed until they are carried into practical and general effect

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A short time previous to her capture by the Constitution, the Guerriere had fallen in with, and taken a French prize. Among the passengers transferred to the deck of the Guerriere, was a French gentleman charged with despatches to the American govern- ABILITY REQUIRED FOR INSTRUCTION.-No mistake ment, who, on presenting himself to the British com- is more gross than that of imagining that undiscipmander, was dispossessed of his books and papers lined teachers are the fittest to deal with ignorance and peremptorily ordered to go below. and mental rudeness. On the contrary, to force the Overwhelmed with this sudden and unexpected rays of thought intelligibly through so opaque a metermination of his mission, the gentleman passed dium, demands peculiarly and emphatically a great several days in great distress and agony of mind, clearness and prominence of thinking, and an exact which was not a little heightened by the haughty feeling of the effect of words to be chosen, combined, bearing and insolence of his victor. Once or twice, and varied. addressing him with his blandest manner and best English, he said:

"Go below! you frog-eating, swallow-faced wretch!" was the only reply of the proud Briton. Ere long, however, a sail was descried on the edge of the distant horizon. Her gradually increas* Strange as it may appear, this order was actually obeyed. ing size gave token that she approached-and, as And at almost the first shot the Constitution struck the hogshead; she neared to view, the tapering spars and the grace- its contents spreading over the deck conduced, no doubt, to the ful trim of the Yankee were seen.

Captain Dacre, with glass in hand, had observed It is proper to state, that after the broadside, the action on her from a mere speck, and as soon as he was satis- the part of the Constitution was continued by one gun at a time -but in such rapid succession, that the captain of the Guerfed that she was American gave vent to the wildest riere believed her to be on fire; and in consequence ordered a expression of joy. He paced the deck with exulting momentary suspension of operations.

In returning once to New England, from a visit to to climb, and high enough to look into every corner Niagara, I found myself, one summer's day, before of the fortress. St. Clair's most probable reason, noon, at Orwell, about forty miles from the southern however, for neglecting to occupy it, was the defi extremity of lake Champlain, which has here the ciency of troops to man the works already construct aspect of a river or a creek. We were on the Ver-ed, rather than the supposed inaccessibility of mount mont shore, with a ferry of less than a mile wide, between us and the town of Ti, in New York.

On the bank of the lake, within ten yards of the water, stood a pretty white tavern, with a piazza along its front. A wharf and one or two stores were close at hand, and appeared to have a good run of trade, foreign as well as domestick; the latter with Vermont farmers, the former with vessels plying between Whitehall and the British dominions. Altogether, this was a pleasant and lively spot. I delighted in it, among other reasons, on account of the continual succession of travellers, who spent an idle quarter of an hour in waiting for the ferry-boat; affording me just time enough to make their acquaintance, penetrate their mysteries, and be rid of them without the risk of tediousness on either part.

Defiance. It is singular that the French never for tified this height, standing as it does in the quarter whence they must have looked for the advance of British army.

In my first view of the ruins, I was favoured with the scientifick guidance of a young lieutenant of engineers, recently from West Point, where he had gained credit for great military genius. I saw nothing but confusion in what chiefly interested him; straight lines and zigzags, defence within defence, wall opposed to wall, and ditch intersecting ditch; oblong squares of masonry below the surface of the earth, and huge mounds, or turf-covered hills of stone, above it. On one of these artificial hillocks, a pine tree has rooted itself, and grown tall and strong, since the banner-staff was levelled. But The greatest attraction in this vicinity, is the where my unmilitary glance could trace no regularfamous old fortress of Ticonderoga; the remains of ity, the young lieutenant was perfectly at home.which are visible from the piazza of the tavern, on He fathomed the meaning of every ditch, and forma swell of land that shuts in the prospect of the lake. ed an entire plan of the fortress from its half obliter Those celebrated heights, mount Defiance and mount ated lines. His description of Ticonderoga would Independence, familiar to all Americans in history, be as accurate as a geometrical theorem, and as bar stand too prominent not to be recognised, though ren of the poetry that has clustered round its decay neither of them precisely correspond to the images I viewed Ticonderoga as a place of ancient strength, excited by their names. In truth, the whole scene, in ruins for half a century; where the flags of three except the interiour of the fortress, disappointed me. nations had successively waved, and none waved Mount Defiance, which one pictures as a steep, now; where armies had struggled, so long ago that lofty, and rugged hill, of the most formidable aspect, the bones of the slain are mouldered; where frowning down with the grim visage of a precipice had found a heritage in the forsaken haunts of war. on old Ticonderoga, is merely a long and wooded Now the young West-Pointer, with his lectures on ridge; and bore, at some former period, the gentle ravelins, counterscarps, angles, and covered ways, name of Sugar Hill. The brow is certainly difficult made it an affair of brick and mortar and hewn

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