They took a last look at the spots which were hallowed by association Emigrants' wagon crossing a stream Morgianna Carried the ship by the board after a terrible hand-to-hand conflict Stephen Decatur "Do you think dar is any Angler-Saxun blood in dese veins?

[Illustration: Stephen Decatur.]

Lieutenant Decatur, on February 3, 1804, by a stratagem, got alongside the Philadelphia with seventy-four brave young sailors like himself and carried the ship by the board after a terrible hand-to-hand conflict.

As, he touched the deck, Captain Garden saluted his captor, Captain Decatur, and offered him his sword; but it was courteously declined.

The Macedonian had gone into Norfolk with despatches; while Decatur was in that port.

But the new American Confederation was too weak financially to support his views, and the piracy and tribute continued until Captain Decatur bombarded Tripoli and chastised Algiers, during Jefferson's presidency, 1803-4.

I can not close this communication without bringing to your view the just claim of the representatives of Commodore Decatur, his officers and crew, arising from the recapture of the frigate Philadelphia under the heavy batteries of Tripoli.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: Agreeably to your resolution of the 9th instant, I now lay before you a statement of the circumstances attending the destruction of the frigate Philadelphia, with the names of the officers and the number of men employed on the occasion, to which I have to add that Lieutenant Decatur was thereupon advanced to be a captain in the Navy of the United States. TH.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit to Congress copies of a letter to the Secretary of the Navy from Captain Decatur, of the frigate United States, reporting his combat and capture of the British frigate Macedonian.

But a vigorous constitution at length prevailed, and weeks after all the party had left the ground, I was permitted to embark in a vessel called the Decatur on the 23d of September for Detroit.

The journey was a long and hard one; but in two weeks they reached Decatur, where they had decided to make their new home.

When the War of 1812 was over, his friend Commodore Decatur invited him to accompany him on an expedition to the Mediterranean, the United States having declared war against the pirates of Algiers.

Irving's trunks were put on board the Guerriere, but as the expedition was delayed on account of the escape of Napoleon from Elba, he had them again brought ashore, and finally gave up his plan of going with Decatur.

Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Selie Anderson, Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born near Decatur, Alabama and lived there till I was fifteen years old.

This famous racer had beaten the general's Decatur in that year's sweepstakes, and he had sworn by his strongest oath that he would find a horse to beat her if there was one in the world that could do it.

We should all adopt Commodore Decatur's motto; 'Our countryright or wrong.'

When the Lincolns reached their new home, near Decatur, Illinois, Abraham wrote back to my father, stating that he had doubled his money on his purchases by selling them along the road.

The party settled some ten miles west of Decatur, in Macon County.

When it did go off, which was about March 1, 1831, the country was so flooded as to make travelling by land impracticable; to obviate which difficulty they purchased a large canoe and came down the Sangamon River in it from where they were all living (near Decatur).

While the Illinois State Republican Convention was in session at Decatur (May 10), about a week before the Chicago Convention, the balloting for State officers was interrupted by the announcement, made with much mystery, that "an old citizen of Macon County" had something to present to the convention.

By John Decatur Messick.

John Decatur Messick (A); 29Apr76; R631427. R631430.

Hence, in Chartres and Decatur streets, to-dayand in the cross-streets betweenso many store-buildings with balconies, dormer windows, and sometimes even belvideres.

Decatur and Hull were engaged in a social rather than in a political contest, and were aware that the serious work on their hands had little to do with England's power, but much to do with her manners.

Decatur, Stephen, portrait; in Algerine War.