GRANDFATHER'S P0WDER-H0RN--WAR WITH PIRATES.

Time sped on. The earth had traveled its circuit many times since fathersold his little place in Putnam County, State of New York, and bade adieuto all the dear scenes of his childhood and youth and came to battle, forhimself and family in the ferociouss of Michigan. And he did his part bravely.He was a strong man; mentally and physically strong, and possessed justenough of the love of a romantic and strange life, to help him battlesuccessfully with the incidents and privations common to such as settlein a very recent country, with but little capital. He worked his way through. Hehad a very retentive memory and possessed the faculty of pleasing hisvisitors, to no common extent.

Father at the close of the Tripoli war, 1805, was about the age that Iwas when we started for Michigan. He occasionally told me of the war withTripoli and trouble with Algiers. He gloried in the name of an Americanand occasionally related the prowess and bravery of our soldiers, in defendingtheir flag and the rights of American citizens, at home and abroad, onthe land and on the sea.