The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-09
Admiral PauIding.

Admiral Paulding.
One of the naval heroes of the early
days of the Republic died on Long Isl
and, Oct. 20, at the age of eighty-one
| years. Hiram Paulding was the senior
! flag officer on the retired list of the
navy and the last surviving officer of
McDonough's victory on Lake Cham
plain. His long life spanned the whole
| period from the first great achieve
ments of our infant navy to its vast de-
celopment in the war of the rebellion
from the days of the trim frigates and
the clumsy three-deckers to those of
the turretted monitors and the triple
| plated iron monsters of modern sea-
warfare. He was the son of John
Paulding, the leader of the three pa
triots who captured Maj. Andre in 1880,
and was born on his fathers farm near
Peekskill, on the Hudson. Through
the influence of Washington Irving he
was appointed midshipman in 1911,
and when war broke out with England
he was assigned to the President, the
temporary flag ship of Commodore
McDonough's improvised hotilla on
Lake Champlain. At Plattsburg Bay
he did Lieutenant's duty on the Ticon-
deroga and bore heroic part in the
memorable engagement which closed
the struggle for supremacy on our
Northern frontieW and baflled the last
efforts of the British to invade the State
of New York. He was but seventeen
years old at the time, but he infused
such spirit into his command that the
fire of the Ticonderoga was so rapid as
to cause the officers on the nearest YES
sells to believe her to be in flames. In
this battle, one of the most glorious in
our naval history, the American squad
ron consisted of fourteen vessels mount
ing eighty-siX guns, and comprising all
told, including some soldiers doing
| duty as marines, $50 men. The British
force numbered seventeen vessels car
rying ninety-siX guns and over 1000
men. The British fleet was almost an
initiated, all the larger vessels being
captured and only few row-galleyS
escaping. The bloody character of the
fight may be judged from the fact that
the British flagship Conliance, out of a
crew of 800 persons, lost 1874 killed and
wounded, while Mc'Donough's flag
ship, the Saratoga, lost fifty-seven in
killed and wounded out of crew of
PIP persons, and the other vessels suf-
fered in proportion.
After the war closed Paulding joined
! Commodore Decatur and took part in
the capture of two Algerine cruisers
and in the humiliation of the Dey of
Algiers and the Bey of Tunis. He
reached the rank of Lieutenant in 1916
and made four years cruise in the
Pacific After his return, feeling the
deficiencies of his education, he got q
leave of absence and spent eighteen
months in study. In 1922 he served
with David Porter, now Admiral, in the
Sea Gull, the first steamer ever used
for war purposes. His subsequent
career took him to almost all the navi-
gable parts of the earth. He went in
the Dolphin to the Musgrave Islands in
search of the mutineers of the whale
ship Globe. He cruised in the Medi-
terranean, the Baltic, the Indian Ocean
and the China Seas. In 1887 he was q
Commander, in 1874 Captain and in
1851 a Commodore. In 1857 he az
rested the fillibuster Walker at Grey
town, Nicaragua, for which service
Buchanan sent him into retirement, at
the dictation of the fillibustering slave
holders, who then conducted the policy
of the Government.
When the rebellion broke out he was
siXty-five years of age, but although on
the retired list he rendered much val
liable service. In 1861 he commanded
the force that destroyed the Norwalk
Navy Yard. In 1862, commanding the
New York Navy Yard, he fitted out the
Monitor, and it was owing to his ener-
gy and foresight that she reached
Fortress Monroe in time to check the
destructive career of the Merrimac.
He took the responsibility of withhold
ing telegram ordering the Monitor to
Washington, and knowing the danger in
Hampton Roads, hurried her off under
her original orders to that point, where
she arrived in the nick of time to en-
gage the rebel iron clad.
In July, 1862, Paulding was made
Rear Admiral. During the New York
draft riots of 1868 he rendered invaluable
service by dispatching a naval battalion
to aid in quelling the mob, causing
gunboats to patrol the two rivers, and
moving other vessels with guns trained
to sweep the streets if necessary. From
1866 to 1869 he was Governor of the
Naval Asylums, and for two years
afterward he did the nominal duty of
Port Admiral at Boston. In 1871 he
retired to his farm, near Huntington,
L. l., where he died, on the goth inst,
of embolism of the heart
In person Admiral Paulding was tall
and commanding, with stalwart
frame and great dignity in mannerl
He was universally admired by the Of
ficers and men under him, and it is
said in an active professional career of
sixty-tive years he never made a per-
sonal enemy in the navy.-CyeUeJa@d
Herald.
| A MAN was recently literally cooked