The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-11-17

oo"n over his eyes, and touching his visor re.
spectfully he remarked
Il should like to overhaul that sacord o...o-
sir, for 1 think there is rum aboard of bor,
Iom knew he was playing desperate oama
OUT liberty was to be the result of success, and
he finched not hair.
Ah' the villains ~ uttered the lieutensnt
Up to those old tricks again. Go cornoral
get down into the boat, and if YOU do find rum
IN her they'll catch it,"
hom started quickly forward, but lust as be
s .. abreast of the fore hatchway, he saw the
''"'on 1"Te corporals head rising above the
oouiolnss' 1he marine assembled no biober
| ior with one blow of his fist he sent him hack
',0i" whence came, and then sprang quickly out
| through the port upon the swinging boom, and
having reached the place where the second ont
terS painter was made fast, he hauled the aboat
up and leaped into her. The tide was setting
up the river strongly, and quick as thought
ION cut the painter and rapidly dropped astern.
"Help-help" shouted our hero, at the top
OF his voice. "The boats got loose"
e'Get out couple OF oars yor lubber," cried
'ne ofillcer OF the deck, as he jumped upon the
poop on hearing the cry, where he arrived lust
as the cutter was sweeping past the quarter
DECK "You can held her against the tide"
LON did get out q couple of oars; but the mo-
| ment he got them balanced in the row-locks,
| he commenced pulling for dear life, and to the
utter CONSERVATION Of the lieutenant, the began
rapidly to shoot up the river All the sentries
on deck were immediately called upon The poop,
and their muskets were fred at the deserter
but though two of the balls whistled near the
boat, yet none Of the n did any harm, and on the
next moment Tom heard the third cutter called
away, but he knew the men were all sound
asleep in their Lammocls, ard so he felt secure.
1t was ten minutes before the third cutter was
cast off from the ship, and long ere they reached
Tom he had gained the Shore and was running
| at a remarkable speed towards the city, where
he reached in safety, and before two o'clock he
was on board his own brig
The next morning the Sarah dropped down
with the ebb tide, and as she passed the frigate
Tom saw the seconed cutter swinging in her
usual place,and as he gazed upon the proud flag
that fl ated at the Englishman's peak, he muir
INJURED to himself:
off live, I'll some day take the pride from
| those proud tyrants."
How literally was that saying fulfilled Tom
Macdonough had been Decatur's favorite mid
shpman at the siege of Tripoli and wherever
Decatur led he dared follow" Subsequent to
that brilliant chapter in the page of our history,
occurred the event which is embodied in our
sketch but five years afterwards, on the 18th
of September, 1914, Thomas Macdonough met
one of Englands's proud fleets on Lake Cham.
plain. AT the first brosdside, the English Com
odore, Downie fell, and at the end of fight
which lasted two hours and twenty minutes,
without intermission, Commodore Thomas Mac.
donough was the conqueror of Champlain. He
had gained proud victory; he had indeed hum
bled the pride ofHhe tyrant and that days's
| achievement forms one of the brightest pages ia
| the history of America.
Commodore Thomas ELECTROMAGNETIC hero
of Tnpoli--the conqueror of Champlain he wa,
NOBLE true hearted man, and a terror to all
| enemies of his country, Peace to his ashes and
everlasting honor to his memory