The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-10-13

than any other one month to the American
army, for the multitude, if not for the inn
porlance of its victories. let us enumera tel
such of them as we can at present recall.
On the I'd, Brown sailed from Fort Erie, and
destroyed the British works, O8l4.) On the
9th, Scott gained victory over the Mexi
cans. which led to the capitulation of the
city of Mexico, (l847) On the 10th, Perry
destroyed the English fleet on Lake Erie.
On the lth, the battle of Brandywine was
fought, Q777) On the same day, Q8l4,)
McDonough destroyed the British feet on
Lake Champlan, and Macomb defeated Pro-
vost at Plattsburg. On the 18th, Q779,)I
Paul Jones took tho British frigate Scraps
with the Bon Homme Richard. an old hulk
of an Indiaman, built one hundred years be-
fore, and armed with forty guns, large part
of which burst at the first fire. 1t was the
most desperate naval conflict on record and
when the Scraps struck, the side Of the Rich
ard which was lashed to her enemy and kept
a1oat by her, was so completely stove in,
that, according to Commander Dale, wagon
could have entered her. Two-thirds of Jones's
crew were killed or wounded. The 18th,
our readers know we'll enough, was further
| illustrated in 1914 by the battle of North
Point. On the 18th 1914, Fort McHenry
was bombarded On the 18th, the Ameri
can army entred Mexico. (l847.) (That, by
/ the by, was the very day on which Napole-
on entered Moscow, Q8l2.) and on which
the allies entered the Crimea last Year, On
the 18TH the first desperate battle between
Burgoyne 5and the army under Gates was
fought Buffalo Com. Advertiser.
Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch says that no
MI Hy- hat IS
small in the sense of age. The fly is never
anv larger or smaller than it is when you see
it. Itlays its eggs in some putrid substance,
either decaying animal matter, or manure,
and in short time the egg is hatched, but
the produce is worm, not fly. The worm
lives for short time on the matter, the heat
of which has hatched the egg, and then forms
!, a cocoon, or chrysalis, precisely in the
: same manner as does the silkworm; and
having laid dormant in this state for short
time, emerges at last perfect fly, such as
f we always see it, but it never grows any lar
ger. Nearly all the flies die upon the first
coming of cold weather, but there are still
enough left, having hidden themselves in
, some warm place through the winter, to start
the stock in the spring, and the breeding pro-
ceeds so rapidly that we cannot but wonder
at the immense number we find in summer,
particularly in the country. These remarks
will apply equally well to mosquitoes, except
that in the primal state they live in the water
/, A man who does not claim to be a judge
! of swine, says Last spring | bought lit
tie pig out of drove, and he was good fol
= eating, but wouldn't grow much. He got sc
after week or two, that he would eat large
4, bucket full at time and then, like Oliver
Twist, call for more. Well, one morning
carried out bucket full of dough, and aftel
he had swallowed it all, picked up the pig
and put him in the same bucket had fed
S him from, and the little cu0s didn't fill 1t hall
full =
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