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At the northern end of the harbor of Rouse's Point is the terminus of the Ogdensburg and the Champlain and St. Lawrence railroads. The Vermont Central Railroad connects with the above by means of a bridge twenty-two hundred feet in length, which crosses the lake.
Her going filled my days with a lingering and pervasive sadness. I saw in it sometimes the shadow of a heavier loss than I dared to contemplate. She had come home once a week from Ogdensburg and I had always had a letter between times.
Small British garrisons still remained in the frontier posts of Ogdensburg, Oswego, Niagara, Erie, Sandusky, Detroit, and Mackinaw, but by the terms of the treaty these places were to be promptly surrendered to the United States. On the 4th of December a barge waited at the South Ferry in New York to carry General Washington across the river to Paulus Hook.
On the other hand Colonel George Macdonell made a successful attack on Ogdensburg and fittingly avenged the raid that an American force had made a short time previously on Elizabethtown, which was called Brockville not long afterwards in honour of the noted general.
He had no need to ask questions. It was the talk of the table. Ogdensburg had been captured the day before. The story is well known. Colonel MacDonnell with his Glengarry Highlanders at Prescott went to drill daily on the ice of the St. Lawrence opposite Ogdensburg. Sometimes they marched past just out of range, sometimes they charged and wheeled before coming too near.
Ten minutes after, he burst into Forbes's room with the open letter in his hand. "See here, old fellow, I'm off to the Profile House. Can you get ready?" "Get ready? Why, you can't go anywhere tonight." "Yes I can. The proprietor says he will send us across to Redwood to catch the night train for Ogdensburg." "But how about the Lachine Rapids?
The Americans watched it as it neared, but instead of wheeling at the brink the little army scrambled up with merry shouts, and before the garrison could realize that this was war, they were overpowered and Ogdensburg was taken. The American commander was captured. Captain Forsyth, the second in command, had been off on a snowshoe trip, so had escaped.
Then in a casual way he learned that this was the Oswegatchie River and thirty miles down he would find the town of Ogdensburg. No great recent events did he hear of, but evidently the British troops across the river were only awaiting the springtime before taking offensive measures.
Smith, have given as much time and attention to it as most men would to a matter in which they had a business interest. The result has been a performance of contract obligations in which the State got its money's worth. The people of Ogdensburg, too, have taken a great interest in the institution.
Why deny yourself the luxury of remembering such a game as that? It was a man's game, and well worth the playing. Your former head of the army, at least, lost; and he paid. The other won. All Ogdensburg can tell you about that to-day. They lived there together Parish and the woman, till he went abroad. Yes, and she was a prisoner there not simply for a short time; she lived and died there.
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