The news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1882-1891, 1882-05-18

ed her. The privsteer still confined
1.ss most gallant defetc~. Thes,
vt'sFa reminded ne OF Lawrenc !
dyinz sefds Oh the Chesapeake :
Doa't give up the ship g The Car
All o9,i',st one ofsshero topmasts, and
Ter yards were abot away. She wa,
mooheot iuhsr rigging, and,receiyed
several shots 10 her hull. This Oh i.
ged her to haul off to repair and tc
cease firing *i'ss* y
it a-a. .ias
For three days after, we were EN-.
ployei n busying the dead that washed
On 'hore il The surf The number 81
British Killed exceeds 100, and 90
wounded. The enemy, to the sur
prise of mankind, lost bat 2 killed
add 7 wounded. We may well say,
God deliver US from our eoemies' if
this is The way the Americans fight j
Evea this Is Dot all of the strange
story. The squadron was detained
two days At Fayal, repairing damages
and burying the dead, aud the Thsis
and Calypso, two sloops Of var which
had meanwhile arrived, were sent back
TO England with the wounded. Now.
Lloyd's squadron was part Of the feet
concentrating at Jamaica to attack
New Orleans. A British officers mar
rative Of the campaign employs the
following language:
"Wheu Lloyd arrived, and il was
told Sir Admiral Cochran, and Gen.
erals Keane and Packenham what had
befallen him, that he had sustained
loss Of 1000 of his best men, and in
consequence been detained ia Fayal
ten days, they were exceedingly in
dignaut, and loaded Lloyd with bitter
reproachss."
The crippled condition of LIoyd's
command caused further DELAY at
JaDAic', and il is we'll known fact
10 history that General .Jackson
reached New Orleans only four days
before the British feet arrived al the
Chandeleur Islands. near the ENTRANCE
Of Lake BOrge. Thus there is ground
for claiming that Reds battle u FayaI
saved New Orleans from captivity; for
it was defenceless even q week before
Jackson's arrival. 4
The yaiHe of the Armstrong, owasd
asd asEed BY American cItizsus, was
IS settled 10 the Court Of Claims, s48,.
600; the losses, DIRECT and Indirect,
of the officers and men were reckoned
at $27, 7S9-the total being $40 73s.
This has always remained the sam
fxsd for the claim,
The claim for the payment Of this
sum Is now before Congress, and
ought to be allowed, &c the attack waA
made 10 neutral waters.
THE BOYS WHO NEVER GOT HOME.
At recent campfire, given BY W.
h. Sargent post, No.S0, g. A. r., of
Janesville, Wis, Oemrade Thomas 4.
Croft read letter ofregret FROM ore
Of the invited guests, George W.
Peck, who was unable to attend. Ii
10 an amusing production. Says the
writer: / don't know what II Il, but
there is something 10 beans that makes
msn sociAble snd reckless, Beware
OF Beans, Tom, as you value your fus
ture happiness, Look not upon the
bean when it lie baked and givsth i,s
color 10 the psn, fer st last IL swell.
eth like 40 accordion aud bitsth like
3 cucumber. BosI would like 70 be
there, Thomas, and take the cid scl.
diers By the hands and Inok iato the
eyes that are becommipg dim and no.
tice the effect of Father Times pen
cilipgs on the faces Of the boys uho
twenty years ago were full Of vitslify
and as kitteny as any man that ever
kept step to the rafting Of a csnfesn
against cartridge-box, Boys, do
you realize that you are growing old 7
1t Is bard to realize il, but If another
war were to break out your little ba-
BY that you left in its mothers arms
twenty years ago, growing ut the
"hand-me.down" blue uniform 10
which you are disguised. would be
the chap the government would want.
Boys, you are rapidly becoming sold
back numbers" though you feel young
enough to stub round home, you are
exempt now. Do you realize that
the little baby girl that chung to you
as you said gOod-by, twenty years ago
with tears in your eyes as big as glass
paper weights, or an editors diamond
pin, is row a woman married, and
that another baby is trying to utter
the word grandpa" when you come
IN putting on your youthful airs7 Il
is pleasant now to chase the festive
bean around the home camp FIRE and
talk Of the nights when you slept on
the ground 10 pup tent, or on some