Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-08-25
THE GAZETTE.
THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST %, 1859.
GLORIOUS RECORD.

GLORIOUS RECORD.
We give below IN interesting statement
ofthc services of the soldiers now living IN
roll of the Pension Office:
James McDermut, now living in Ohio, enlis-
ted for three Years, IN III, at Easton. Penn
sylyania. and marched to rendezvous near
Trenton. New Jersey, and thence tn herman
town. Pennsylvania. During this period
WAS in several skirmisles with the enemy,
lint the enr,oe,pent at Germantown was the
first regular battle he was in. Soon after,
returned to Trenton and was occupied at in
teryals in pursuing and harassing the British
and IIessians. as well rs avenging the mercena-
nv depredatioms and cruelties committed upon
the inhabitants Of New Jersey. Was one of
the actors in the battle of Monmouth when
the excessive heat of the sun, combined with
the dust and smoke of the contest, and the
too free use of cold water, caused 50 much
suffering rs well as death to many OF the
combatants. This soldier was under the i'm.
mediate command of Col. Seeley, and well
recollectS the undaunted courage and untlrng
activity displayed during the battle by him
and Gen. Forman, and the conspicuous man
her in which both passed along the lines sew
eral times to animate the soldiers.
Adam Link (now in Ohio entered the reg
ular service in III. His father bold,
fearless man, had settled in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, and In opposition 10
the advice of friends, on the extreme borders
ofciyilzation, near the Virginia line. Being
thus exposed to the subtle dangers which then
surrounded a frontier life. in the vicinity OF
Indians unfriendly to the whites. Adam ac-
qured in the hardships and dangers Of border
warfare an experience which fitted HIM Tor
future service in the cause OF his country. AZ
well az to assist in the protection OF the proper
ty and the lives of the family. Immediately
upon the commencement of hoStiities, the
Indians made descent upon the settlement,
captured his father, then murdered and seal
ped him, burnt the house and barn, destroyed
n large field of corn 100 hogs. 40 sheep, all the
cattle and horses, and 300 bushels OF wheat.
From this period the family, from having
enjoyed an unusual amount OF wealth and IN
de pendencc, were at once depressed into
poverty, and suffered great privation and
danger during the remainder OF the war.
At the time of his enlistment under Capt.
Mason, 50 well was he known as to cause this
remark to be made Of him: "lle is good
marksman, and will now have an opportunity
to try his skill" At different periods he
served in the garrison at Wheeling, Moore,
Dement'S, and Shepherd forts, and acted as
an Indian spy, as well as scouting along the
frontier: was at Wheeling garrison when
Captain Mason was shot through the hips.
John Strait (now in Ohio) entered the
Rhode Island line in l17j, commanded by
Col. Narnum has served under Generals
Green and Sullivan was in the regiment that
landed on the island and marched against the
British fort ON Butts Hill, but found that it
was evacuated; was ut the battle OF Newport.
THE PORT OF TIE WORLD.
A recent number of Chambers Journal
contained an article embodying some inter
eStng facts regarding Liverpool. the greatest
seaport of England and of the world. 1t
appears that in 1857 nearly onc-half OF all
the produces exported from England were
shipped from this port. Out OF El22,ooo,-
600 of expectation. f55 ,OOo,oo0 were eXpor-
ted from Liverpool, about half that amount
from London, sixteen millions from Hull,
and the rest from Glasgow, Southampton, nc.
The population, within four miles OF the EX-
change, mt the presen. time is about 6o0.000
and the rate of annual increase about 10000.
The property and income tax paid by the III
habitantS i'm 1857 amounted TO upwards OF
e. 900 900 or 100000. The amount OF
tonnage belonging to the port in the same
wear was 936, 900 tons, being greater by 10
$50 tons than that Of London itself. The
amount of Shippingwllicl entered and cleared
during the same year was upwards OF nine mil
lion tons. Oithe vessels which arrived from
abroad, the United States sent by far the
largest and most numerous, VIZ: va SHIPS,
of an average hurthen of more than one
thousand tons. There We're from Italy
Ia vessels, from Russia ln2, and from
France 81.
One great branch Of the shipping business
ofLiverpool is the shipment of cmigrants to
foreign and colonial countries. The tide ot
German emigration, even now, flows through
England and escapes through Livcrpo"l. IN
preference 20 Hamburg and Bremen. OF the
2l2,S7j British emigrantS in 1897, nearly
l5G 900 sailed from this port. OF the above
number the United States attracted l2G,9o3,
British America u 600. aud Australia I'll IN.
The number of emi grants who lett the shores
Of Great Britain from 1915 to 1857 was up
wards of four millions aud a half.
The pride of Liverpool is her docks, which
cover a space of no less than four hundred
acres of water along the MerSey. They extend
on the Liverpool side Of the river distance
Of FIVE miles. and two miles on the BIrken-
head side. The sea wall along the Liverpool
side, by which the shipping in the docks Is
preserved from wind and storm, Is one oil
the greatest works of any age. Its length Is
UPWARDS of five miles, its average thickness
eleven feet, and its average height from the
foundations forty feet Great difficulty was
experienced in gaining stable foundation Tor
this great structure and thousands of piles
were driven and many great beams of tim
Der sunk to secure firm bottom. Upwards
of eighty pairs of gigantic gates have been
put up within the last thirty years ana some
of them reach to the unparalleled width of
one hundred feet. BaHimOre american
WISE & CO.,
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