Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-03-30

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On that night, it was, "The Fort is ours +
Without suspecting anything, the two men
seized thesentinel and gagged him. Thesame
thing was done to the other sentinels.
In this way the American forces were not
discovered until they we're within pistol shot
of the pickets. The pickets fred, but the in
trepid Americans rushed forward with empty
guns and fixed bayonets. The drums in the
fort began to beat,and the shout ITO arms, to
arms p was raised by the officers. The
Americans rushed forward, shouting at the
top of their voices, "The fort is ours the fort
is oursr" In few minutes such was the
case, for at two o'clock Wayne sent the same
words, as report of the battle, to General
Washington.
An attempt was made at once to take the
British works on Verplanck's Point. General
Robert Howe was sent to make an attack
upon Fort Lafayette, but in some way or
other, misunderstood the order of General
Washington, and failed to accomplish the un-
dertaking. ~.. "ra
During the Revolutionary war, two rebel
lions, or mutinies, occurred in the American
camp. The first in January, 17s1, and the
other in June, 1888 General Robert Howe
was sent by General Washington to quell both
these rebellions, which he did with dispatch
and to the satisfaction of the Commander-in.
Chief and the country generally.
It only remains to notice what may, with
some propriety, be called the interposition OF
divine providence respecting Howe and some
others. We met Robert Howe and Anthony
Wayne at the storming of Stony Point. On
former occasion we met Robert Howe and
Christopher Gadsden on the field Of honor as
they termed it. In plain English, we met
them fighting duel. The history Of two
other individuals is intimately interviewer
with that of Robert Howe and Anthony
Wayne. These two individuals are Benedict
Arnold, the traitor, and Major John Andre,
the spy.~ Arnold had no love for Howe, and
Andre was accustomed to regard, with sneer-
ing contempt, both Howe and Wayne The
history of Arnold and Andre is inseparably
connected. The mention Of the name of the
one, suggests that of the other. The name Of
Arnold is covered with disgrace, and Andre,
with all his virtues, was not incapable Of
little and mean thing.
Late in the summer of 1850, General
Washington sent Wayne % make an attack
upon British post, short distance below
Fort Lee on the Hudson. The main object
was to drive off large number Of cattle on
Bergen's Neck, within reach Of the British
at Paulus Hook. Wayne made the attack
upon the British post at Bulls Ferry, and
sent Major Lee to drive off the cattle. Lee
succeeded in driving away the cattle, but
Wayne failed to take the post at Bulls Fer
ry, and lost more than sixty men. This
tickled Andre very much, and as he was
poet or at least he thought he was, he made
It rne SUBJECT Of lung epic CARED Ene Sow
Chase" It is divided into three cantos, and
consists, in all, Of seventy stanzas The COM
manders are called by all sorts Of ridiculous
names, and all sorts Of witty things, and
some times obscene things are said concern
ing them. This epic, as he himself calls it,
was published in "Rivington's Royal Gazette"
on Saturday, the 23rd of September, 1880.
It was on this day that John Paulding, Isaac
Van Wart and David Williams arrested An
DIRE. The last stanza of the poem reads as
follows:
"And now I've closed my epic strain,
Itremble as I show it,
Lest this same warrio-drover, Wayne,
Should ever catch the poet"
It will be remembered that Andre was
tried at Tappan, on the 29th of September,
1880. Robert Howe was a member Of the
court martial by which he was tried, and
General Wayne, the "warrio-drover" men
toned in the last stanza Of the poem, had co1a-
mand of the troops at TappaD. Wayne did
catch the poet. we
After the duel of Howe and Gadaden, Ma
ior Andre made sport of it. Howe, Gadsden,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and. Bernard
Elliott are, in the poem, held up I'd ridicule.
Howe was president of the courtmA Artial that
tried Arnold and censured him; and he was
a member of the court that sentenced Andre
to be hanged. Wayne was there as comman-
der of the post. The presence of these two
men must have called up strange refectieps
in the mind of the unfortunate Andre. The
patriots, under Wayne and Lee, are stigma
tized by Andre in his "cow-chase" as dung
born tribes" On the original manuscript
was written by Andre himself, the following
stanza:
"When the epic strain was sung,
The poet by the neck was hung,
And to his cost he finds too late,
The 'dung-born tribe decides his fate"
In military point of view, General Rob-
ert.. Howe wins deficient in the ability to plan
any great undertaking. His failure at sa-
vannah resulted from want of forethought.
Colonel Campbell discovered, in few hours,
a secret passage through the swamp by which
General Howe's rear might be gained. Howe,
although he had been in the neighborhood for
DAYS, failed to discover this passage. As an
officer, General Howe's talents were only mod
crate; but his patriotism was such as to es-
tablish him in the favor of his countrymen.
From the beginning, his attachment to the
cause of the colonies was unAinching. He
was brave and patriotic, but incapable OF
planning and executing great military ex-
pedition.
WHERE THE CH1NAMAN GETS HIS JOKES.
It is said that Chinese gentleman thinks it
beneath his dignity to manufacture his own