Old Steamboat Days On the Hudson River Tales And Reminiscences of the Stirring
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On one of his trips to New Orleans, with ord- ^ 134 Old SlouTnl)()al Days nance and ammunition for (Jen. Jackson, in 181-t, Mr. Dyke and the crow wore pressed into service. They fouglit gallantly in the defense of that city. Mr. Dyke received a wound in the leg, and he bore the scar to the day of his death. ' " Nautical Gazette. THE ONLY KNOWN STATUE OF FULTON "The statue of Fulton, which was ordered about a year ago by the Union Ferry Company, was this morning conveyed from the atelier of Mess...rs. M. J. Seelig & Co. , sculptors and founders, Maujer street, Williamsburgh, and placed in the niche designated for it in ^ront of the new ferryhouse. "The statue is ten feet six inches high, modeled by Buberl, from a picture of Fulton, by Jarvis, which formerly belonged to Cadwallader C. Colden, his biographer, and which was subsequently given by Mrs. Colden to the late Dr. Vinton, in the possession of whose family it now remains. This appears to be the only portrait of Fulton in existence. And Mr.
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