York, having been taken prisoner at the battle of discovered them-he ordered a few of his ludians Fort Montgomery-the colonel received the news to keep in sight and decoy them to the very spot that evening-he instantly issued orders to the where they intended to surprise him: but before officers of the regiment to rendezvous at Minisink, they reached the place captain Tyler was shot, where he would meet them Having taken an affec. which damped the spirits of our men. During tionate, and it proved a final, leave of his family, he this confusion a party of Indians hove in sightcollected what few he could, and was at the ap colonel H. ordered that no man should fire until pointed place by morning. In the after part of they had prepared for a general battle; a large that day, about 120 men were collected, when a Indian howèver rode past on a borse which had council was held, to determine whether it would been stolen from Minisink, and which one of our be best to pursue the Indians into the woods; a men knew, the temptation was too great, and our majority of the officers were in favor of that mea-hero fired his rifle and brought the Indian to the sure; colonel Tusten, who viewed things in a calm ground. The advanced Indians then fired and manner and judicious light, was opposed to that rushed towards our men, in order to divide them, plan: he gave, as his reasons for his opposition, and about thirty were separated from the main that the men were not sufficiently supplied with body, who could not afterwards be brought into ammunition for a battle-that there were probably action. In a few minutes Brandt appeared with a much greater number of Indians than had been his whole force, when the firing became general. seen-that they were piloted by tories and Indians A very confused and irregular fire was kept up well acquainted with the woods, and commanded from behind trees and rocks both by the Indians by Brandt, a well known warrior, who would never and our men. From the situation in which they risk a battle unless he had superior advantages. were placed every one fought in his own way and To this was answered, that there was no danger it was impossible for any one to command: colonel of their numbers-that the Indians dare not fight Tusten retired to a spot surrounded by rocks, -that they had several cattle and horses which were he directed the wounded to be conveyed to they had plundered from the inhabitants which him, and he now became the surgeon and friend they must guard or leave upon the appearance of an of the wounded. Early in the battle he had reenemy-that they might be pursued with delibera ceived a slight wound in the hand, though not tion until they came to the fording place of the sufficient to prevent his dressing the wounds of Delaware river, which was near the enterance of the soldiers, The battle lasted the whole day; Lacawac river into the Delaware, and finally, ma the Indians constantly endeavoring to divide and jor Meeker mounted his horse and flourished his break the main body which had possession of the sword, requesting all those who were men of ground until sunset, when their ammunition was courage to follow him, and let the cowards stay behind. This last appeal was too much for Ameri can valor, and the men immediately turned out, determined to pursue and destroy the Indians or perish in the attempt. They marched that even ing about 17 miles, when they encamped for the night.

expended, and a general retreat was ordered-No regularity could be preserved, and every one was left to effect his escape in the best manner he could- -some crossed the river, while others were shot in it; some retreated through the woods, while others were destroyed in the attempt; but now a scene presented itself which of all others was the most trying. Dr. Tusten had seventeen with him, In the morning they were overtaken by colonel whose wounds he had dressed, and whose lives Hathorn, of the Warwick regiment, who, being the might have been saved-the cries they kept up oldest colonel and highest officer in rank, took for mercy and protection when they heard the rethe command. He called a council and himself treat ordered, beggared all description; they were opposed the pursuit, but here it was urged that necessarily left to be sacrificed by savage barbaritys they had a pilot, captain Tyler, who was as well and whether Dr. Tusten stayed and perished with acquainted with the woods as any among their is wounded countrymen, or attempted to make enemies, and who could bring them to a spot most his retreat, is not known. This is the last time eligible for an attack with perfect safety, and the he was ever seen by any white man, though it is same scene of bullying was acted by major Meeker, generally believed that he suffered by the same who is well calculated by the poet, "a fool devoid of tomahawk which destroyed those that were with rule," and the fatal line of march was again com- him. On this fatal day forty-four of our country. menced. They had not proceeded far before Brandt men fell, some of whom might emphatically be

called the pride and flower of Goshen. Among purchase any of the above enumerated articles, them was a Jones, a Little, a Duncan, a Wisner, a imported from abroad, after the said 31st of March, Vail, a Townsend, and a Knapp; and there perished and that they will be careful to promote the saving our friend and brother in profession, Dr. Tusten, of linen rags, and other materials, proper for maka sacrifice for the independence and liberty of our ing paper in this colony. country.

'Dear sir-I have lust-and cannot tell how-an

"The foregoing report being considered by the town, was by a full vote approved of and accepted. A true copy of record, Test,

SAMUEL BISHOP, jr. town clerk."

COURT MARTIAL.-From the Providence (R. I.) old and favorite penknife, and am much distressed Patriot.-A friend has handed us the following for want of one-if you have any in your stores, extract from the orderly book of general Sullivan, please send me one-if you have not, be so good in command here during the revolution, as being as to get one immediately. Perhaps Mr. Bailey Connected with a case somewhat analogous to one which occurred in the Seminole war. We have could furnish me. One with two blades I should omitted names, for obvious reasons. prefer, when choice can be had.-I am, dear sir, 'Your most obedient,

'GEO. WASHINGTON.'

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

"Head quarters, Providence, July 24, 1778. "The sentence of the court martial, whereof colonel E- was president, against M. A. and D. C. the general totally disapproves, as illegal and absurd. The clearest evidence having appeared to the court, that the said A. was employed by the enemy, repeatedly, to come on the main as a

"At a town meeting holden in New Haven, by adjournment, upon the 22d day of Feb. 1768. "The committee appointed in consequence of a letter from the selectmen of the town of Boston to the selectmen of this town, to consider of spy, and that he enticed men to go on to Rhodesome measures to be agreed upon for promoting economy, manufactures, &c. report, That it is their opinion, that it is expedient for the town to take all prudent and legal measures to encourage the produce and manufactures of this colony, and to lessen the use of superfluities, and more especially the following articles imported from abroad, viz.

Island, to enlist in the enemy's service, and his confessions from day to day being so different as to prove him not only a spy, but to be a person in whom the least confidence cannot be placed; the court having found him guilty of all this, nothing could be more absurd than to sentence him to be whipped one hundred lashes, and afterwards to be taken into a service which he has been long endeavoring in the most malicious and secret man"Carriages of all sorts, house furniture, men's ner to injure! The man who is found guilty of and women's hats, men's and women's apparel, acting as a spy, can have but one judgment by all ready made household furniture, men's and wo the laws of war, which is to suffer death; and the men's shoes, sole leather, gold, silver, and thread sentence of a man to be whipped when found guilty lace, gold and silver buttons, wrought plate, of this crime, is as absurd as for the common law diamond, stone, and paste ware, clocks, silver- courts to order a man to he set in te stocks for smith's and jeweller's ware, broad cloths that cost above ten shillings sterling per yard, muffs, furs, and tippets, starch, women's and children's toys, silk and cotton velvets, gauze, linseed oil, mal: liquors, and cheese.

wilful murder. The same absurdity appearing in the judgment against D. C. for the same reasons, [the gen.] disapproves them both, dissolves the court, and orders another court to sit for the trial of those persons, to-morrow morning, at 9 o'clock: The adjutant general to lodge a crime against A. for acting as a spy, and for enticing men to enlist into the enemy's service, and against C. for acting as a spy."

"And that a subscription be recommended to the several inhabitants and house holders of the town, whereby they may mutually agree and engage, that they will encourage the use and consumption of articles manufactured in the British American colo At the subsequent court, A. was found guilty as nies, and more especially in this colony, and that before, and sentenced to be hung, which sentence they will not, after the 31st day of March next, the general approved and executed.

In storming the works of Quebec by general, general in Massachusetts, and eminent by his pub Montgomery, the gallant captain Cheeseman, of lic services. He was in this brig during three New-York, aid to Montgomery, being as active as cruizes, and was at the taking of eight prizes, the he was brave, the moment be reached the picket, first of which was the king's armed schooner Displaced his hand on one of the palisadoes, exclaim- patch, belonging to lord Howe's fleet, then on ing to his comrades, 'If there be any honor in being their passage from Halifax to New-York, it being the first man in Quebec, I have it.' 'He sprung over 10th July. In the engagement one man was killed and fell by a shot within the picket. in the Tyrannicide, three wounded, and one died of his wounds. He continued in this vessel till

When col. Gardner of Brookline was brought the 14th of February, 1777, when he returned off from Bunker's Hill, where he was mortally from a four and an half month's cruise in the West wounded, he was asked if he did not wish to see Indies, and all were discharged. He is now 72 years his son, who had been also in the battle. If my of age. In the action with the Dispatch, which son has done his duty, I shall be glad to see him.' lasted 7 glasses, her commander, John Goodrich, He was answered that his son had done his duty. 2d lieut. of the Renown of 50 guns, then in the He saw and embraced him. Bost. Patriot. fleet, was killed, and several men. Mr. More, sailing naster, was wounded and his limb amputated. Mr. The first sea-fight.—The late rev. Dr. BENTLEY, of Collingsin, midshipman, had his limb amputated Salem, Mass. whose decease was equally deplored but he died. The Dispatch was so disabled that by the friends of religion, patriotism and literature they were obliged to take her in tow, and they —who for many years enriched the columns of the brought her into Salem, after being out 17 days. "Essex Register" with his remarks, when speak. The Dispatch had eight carriage guns, 12 swivels, ing of the revolutionary pension law, seized the opportunity to give us the following interesting scrap of history:

and a compliment of 41 picked men from different ships in the fleet. This was the first sea fight. The Tyrannicide was the first vessel that was built for "The following history may discover how a man the public service, and her commission was signed may engage in the public service, and yet not be by John Hancock. The Dispatch was no prize to qualified according to law for the bounty of a term the crew, excepting a small bounty on her guns. short of one year's service. Joshua Ward, who And yet this worthy man in his poverty, comes belonged to Salem, but who has lived many years not within the letter of the law, and instead of his in Marblehead, a painter, marched on the 19th of bounty, must accept a hearty recommendation to April, to Charlestown neck, as a fifer of the first the generous care of his fellow-citizens.”

STRONG MEASURES PROPOSED.

company in colonel Timothy Pickering's regiment of militia, commanded by capt. William Pickman, and soon after entered the army under captain In congress Oct. 21, 1778.-" Whereas there is Thomas Barnes. From Cambridge, he was ordered every reason to expect that our unnatural enemies, to Watertown to guard the public stores, and re. despairing of being ever able to subdue and enmained at this station till the battle of Bunker's slave us by open force, or persuade us to break Hill. He then joined the regiment under colonel through the solemn treaties, as having entered into Mansfield on Prospect Hill, in Charlestown, in the with our great and good ally, his Most Christian Massachusetts line, and acted as fife-major, till majesty, and return to the dependence of Great he joined gen. Sullivan's brigade, on Winter Hill, Britain, will, as the last effort, ravage, burn, and when he was promoted as fife-major general. He destroy every city and town on this continent they continued in the service till the first day of Janu- can come at:

ary 1776, when he was discharged, having continu- Resolved, That it be recommended to such inha. ed the time of his enlistment. He then entered bitants of these states, as live in places exposed captain Benjamin Ward's company, and performed to the ravages of the enemy, immediately to build garrison duty at fort William and Mary, now fort huts, at least 30 miles distant from their present Pickering, till the 19th of June following. He habitations, there to convey their women, children, then volunteered with the first lieutenant Haraden, and others not capable of bearing arms, and thema well known brave and able officer, with others selves in case of necessity, together with their of his companions, on board the Tyrannicide, a furniture, wares, and merchandise of every sort; public armned brig of 14 guns and 75 men, com- also, that they send off all their cattle; being manded by captain John Fiske, afterwards a major measures they cannot think hardships in such timer

of public calamity, when so many of their gallant lord Cornwallis made his overture for capitulation. countrymen are daily exposed in the hardships of The proposals were immediately despatched to the field, fighting in defence of their rights and the commander in chief, and the negociation, as liberties.

Resolved, That immediately, when the enemy begin to burn or destroy any town, it be recom mended to the good people of these states to set fire to, ravage, burn, and destroy, the houses and properties of all tories, and enemies to the freedom and independence of America, and secure the persons of such, so as to prevent them from assisting the enemy, always taking care not to treat them or their families with any wanton cruelties, as we do not wish, in this particular, to copy after our enemies, or their German, negro, and coppercoloured allies.

Extract from the minutes,

CHARLES THOMSON, sec.'

we say, progressed.-The Marquis de la Fayette, trenches, marched to relieve the Baron, who, to whose tour it was next to mount guard in the his astonishment, refused to be relieved. He informed general de la Fayette, that the custom of European war was in his favor, and that it was a point of honor which he could neither give up for himself, nor deprive his troops of-that the offer to capitulate had been made during his guard, and that in the trenches he would remain until the capitulation was signed or hostilities commenced. The Marquis immediately galloped to head quarters:general Washington decided in favor of the Baron -to the joy of one, and to the mortification of the other of those brave and valuable men. The Baron remained till the business was finished. I should not have sent you this recollection, had I not seen in your paper of this morning an extract from Lee's memoirs relative to the surrender. My anecdote may not be worth much now, but such as it is, it is at your service.

One who was in the trenches.

LORD CHATHAM thus expressed himself, when speaking in parliament, of the congress that declar ed independence. "I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation, and it has been my favorite study, I have read Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master states of the world, but for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation ing fact, though altogether worthy of being reor body of men can stand in preference to the gemembered, has never, I believe, been reported by neral congress at Philadelphia." the pen of any historian.

From the New Orleans Chronicle.-The follow

A brave-fellow.-Among numberless feats of valor Lest it should be thought a mere fabrication to performed by individuals of the American revolu. occupy a vacant column in the newspaper, I think tionary army, none has pleased me more than the it not unimportant to state, that the subject of this following, related by an eye witness:-"During the memoir, Mr. Hunter, is well known in Darlington heat of the battle at Germantown, while bullets district, South Carolina; and the following narrafew as thick as hail-stones, one Barkelew (of tive, which I had from himself, is familiar to his Monmouth) was levelling his musket at the ene friends and acquaintances. my, when his lock was carried away by a ball.Hunter, though a youth of perhaps 18 years old, Undismayed, he caught up the gun of a comrade just killed by his side, and taking aim, a bullet was very active in defence of his country's rights entered the muzzle, and twisted the barrel round during the revolutionary war. It was the fate of like a corkscrew! Still undaunted, our hero imme. this Tyro in arms to fall into the hands of major diately kneeled down, unscrewed the whole lock Fanning, whose deeds as a cruel partizan leader in from the twisted barrel, screwed it on to the the service of Great Britain, are written in North barrel from which the lock had been torn, and and South Carolina, in characters of blood. Hun. blazed away at the enemy." Can ancient Sparta ter, whose active services had roused the ire of the or medern Britain boast a more brilliant display major, was told upon the spot to prepare for his of cool, deliberate, unshaken courage? This hero fate, which was nothing less than death, for which is still living. awful event a few minutes only were allowed him to prepare. A band of tories, thirsting for the Anecdote connected with the surrender at Yorktown. blood of a patriot, instantly formed a circle round From the N. Y. "National Advocate”—1818. Baron the boy, leaving him no reasonable chance of Steuben commanded in the trenches at the moment escape.

At this moment thought followed thought in quick succession. His home, his friends, his coun try, and the circumstances under which he was about to be torn from them all, together with the reflection that he must quickly realize a state of untried being, crowded upon his mind, and called up feelings not to be described.

For the first time he bent his knees to the power which wields the destinies of man, and no sooner had he breathed a wish to the throne of mercy, than he felt a strong persuasion that deliverance was possible. This important point settled in his mind, he cast his eyes round in search of the means to be employed. At the distance of a few paces from the encircling band stood a beautiful filly, furnished with the major's riding establishment, complete. This animal, late the idol of sportsmen in Virginia, had fallen into the hands of the present owner, and was highly prized, as affording the means of escape from impending danger.

Van Rensselaer, esq. To this day vestiges of their encampment remain; and after a lapse of sixty years, when a great proportion of the actors of those days have passed away, like shadows from the earth, the inquisitive traveller can observe the remains of the ashes, the places where they boiled their camp kettles. It was this army, that, under the command of Abercrombie, was foiled, with a severe loss, in the attack on Ticonderoga, where the distinguished Howe fell at the head of his troops, in an hour that history has consecrated to his fame. In the early part of June, the eastern troops began to pour in, company after company, and such a mo:ley assemblage of men never before thronged together on such an occasion, unless an example may be found in the ragged regiment of sır John Falstaff, of right merry and facetious memory. It would, said my worthy ancestor, who relates to me the story, have relaxed the gravity of an anchorite, to have seen the descendants of the Puritans, marchtheir station on the left of the British armying through the streets of our ancient city, to take others with no coats at all, in colours as varied as some with long coats, some with short coats, and the rain-bow, some with their hair cropped like

"Cannot I," thought Hunter, "spring from my knees, gain the saddle, and under the favor of that power which has so fully assured my heart, escape this threatening death?" Having resolved, if he must perish, to perish in the attempt, he the darted like lightning through his enemies, and seizing the bridle, which was held by a servant boy, as he vaulted into the saddle, he put the major's courser to her speed, and went off with his booty, to the no small disappointment and morti. fication of the astonished beholders. After gazing a while in stupid amazement, the redoubtable Fanning recollected that his soldiers had guns, but it was too late; and the order to "shoot at the rebel," was obeyed without effect.

INTERESTING HISTORY.

curls flowed with grace around their shoulders. army of Cromwell, and others with wigs whose Their march, their accoutrements, and the whole arrangement of the troops, furnished matter of amusement to the wits of the British army. The the tout ensemble, upon the whole, exhibited a sight music played the airs of two centuries ago, and unaccustomed to in their own land. Among the to the wondering strangers that they had been club of wits that belonged to the British army, there was a physician attached to the staff, by the name of Doctor Shackburg, who combined with It is known as a matter of history, that in the the science of the surgeon, the skill and talents of early part of 1755, great exertions were made by a musician. To please brother Jonathan he comthe British ministry, at the head of which was the posed a tune, and with much gravity recommend. illustrious earl of Chatham, for the reduction of ed it to the officers, as one of the most celebrated the French power in the provinces of the Canadas. airs of martial music. The joke took, to the no To carry the object into effect, general Amberst, referred to in the letters of Junius, was appointed to the command of the British army in North Western America; and the British colonies in America were called upon for assistance, who contributed with alacrity their severa! quotas of men, to effect the grand object of British enterprize. It is a fact still within the recollection of some of our oldest inhabitants, that the British army lay encamped, in the summer of 1755, on the eastern bank of the Hudson, a little south of the city of Albany, on the ground now belonging to John I.

small amusement of the British corps. Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was nation fine, and in a few days nothing was heard in the provincial camp but the air of Yankee Doodle. Little did the author or his coadjutors then suppose, that an air made for the purpose of levity and ridicule, should ever be marked for such high destinies; in twenty years from that time our national march inspired the hearts of the heroes of Bunker Hill, and less than hirty, lord Cornwallis and his army marched into the American lines to the tune of Yankee Doodle. [Albany Statesman.