COLONEL ISAAC HAYNES.

1. AFTER the city of Charleston had fallen into the hands of Lord Cornwallis, his lordship issued a proclamation, requiring of the inhabitants of the colony, that they should no longer take part in the contest, but continue peaceably at their homes, and they should be most sacredly protected in property and person.

2. This was accompanied with an instrument of neutrality, which soon obtained the signatures of many thousands of the citizens of South Carolina, among whom was Colonel Haynes, who now conceived that he was entitled to peace and security for his family and fortune.

3. But it was not long before Cornwallis put a new construction on the instrument of neutrality, denominating it a bond of allegiance to the king, and called upon all who had signed it to take up arms against the Rebels! threatening to treat as deserters, those who refused! This fraudulent proceeding in Lord Cornwallis roused the indignation of every honourable and honest man.

4. Colonel Haynes now being compelled, in violation of the most solemn compact, to take up arms, resolved that the invaders of his native country should be the objects of his vengeance. He withdrew from the British, and was invested with a command in the continental service; but it was soon his hard fortune to be captured by the and carried into Charleston.

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5. Lord Rawdon, the commandant, immediately ordered him to be loaded with irons, and after a sort of a mock trial, he was sentenced to be hung! This sentence seized all classes of people with horror and dismay. A petition, headed by the British Governor Bull, and signed by a number of royalists, was presented in his behalf, but was totally disregarded.

6. The ladies of Charleston, both whigs and tories, now united in a petition to Lord Rawdon, couched in the most eloquent and moving language, praying that the valuable life of Colonel Haynes might be spared; but this also was treated with neglect. It was next proposed that Colonel Haynes's children (the mother had recently deceased,) should, in their mourning habiliments, be presented to plead for the life of their only surviving parent.

7. Being introduced into his presence, they fell on their

knees, and with clasped hands and weeping eyes they lisped their father's name and pleaded most earnestly for his life, but in vain: the unfeeling man was still inexorable! His son, a youth of thirteen, was permitted to stay with his father in prison, who beholding his only parent loaded with irons and condemned to die, was overwhelmed in grief and sorrow.

8. " Why," said he, "my son, will you thus break your father's heart with unavailing sorrow? Have I not often told you that we came into this world to prepare for a better? For that better life, my dear boy, your father is prepared. Instead then of weeping, rejoice with me, my son, that my troubles are so near an end. To-morrow I set out for immortality. You will accompany me to the place of my execution, and, when I am dead, take and bury me by the side of your mother."

9. The youth here fell on his father's neck, crying, "O my father! my father! I will die with you! I will die with you!" Colonel Haynes would have returned the strong embrace of his son, but alas! his hands were confined with irons. 66 Live," said he, my son, live to honour God by a good life, live to serve your country; and live to take care of your little sisters and brother!"

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10. The next morning Colonel Haynes was conducted to the place of execution. His son accompanied him. Soon as they came in sight of the gallows, the father strengthened himself and said—" Now, my son, show yourself a man! That tree is the boundary of my life, and of all my life's sorrows. Beyond that the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. Don't lay too much to heart our separation from you; it will be but short. It was but lately your dear mother died. To-day I die, and you, my son, though but young, must shortly follow us." "Yes, my father," replied the broken-hearted youth, "I shall shortly follow you; for indeed I feel that I cannot live long."

11. On seeing therefore his father in the hands of the executioner, and then struggling in the halter, he stood like one transfixed and motionless with horror. Till then he had wept incessantly, but as soon as he saw that sight, the fountain of his tears was stanched, and he never wept more. He died insane, and in his last moments often called on the name of his father in terms that wrung tears from the hardest hearts.

SKETCH OF THE KAMTSCHATDALES.

1. THE Kamtschatdales are of low stature, have broad shoulders, large heads, swarthy complexions, long flat noses, prominent cheek bones, small sunken eyes, large mouths, thin lips, and very little beard. They are mild and hospitable, and live together in great harmony. They subsist chiefly on fish, which they most commonly eat raw; and their habits of living are extremely filthy; yet their manners are lively and cheerful; their songs full of gay images; and they possess the talent of mimicry to an uncommon degree.

2. They have two kinds of habitations, one for winter and the other for summer. The winter habitations are In constructing their

sunk some feet into the ground. summer houses they place a number of posts at equal distances from each other, which serve as pillars to support a platform raised about twelve feet from the ground. This platform, covered with clay, forms the floor, whence the house ascends in the form of a cone, covered with thatch and dried grass.

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3. They possess but few articles of furniture. and fishing are their principal employments. They have nominally adopted the Christian religion from the Russians, yet they know little more of it than the rite of baptism. A striking peculiarity in the Kamtschatdale manners consists in the use of dogs for the purpose of labour and travelling.

4. These dogs are not very large, but resemble the mountain or shepherd dogs of Europe. Every individual owns at least five of these dogs. In the summer, when their services are not required, they are left to provide for themselves, by ranging over the country, and along the sides of lakes and rivers; but at the approach of winter they regularly return home to their masters. They are harnessed in a sledge two and two abreast, with one peculiarly intelligent and well trained, placed in front as a leader.

5. For carrying an individual five dogs are commonly used; and a greater number for conveying baggage. It is said that a certain governor in the country used to travel in a sledge like a small house, drawn by a hundred dogs. The travelling sledge is in the form of an oblong

basket, both ends of which are elevated in a curve.

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a box three feet long, and one foot broad, and is raised about three feet from the ground.

6. It is placed on two parallel planks or runners, bent upward in front like skates. The whole vehicle is very light, sometimes weighing only about ten pounds. The seat of the driver is covered with a bear's skin. He sits either astride, or more commonly sideways, like a lady on horseback. The highest achievement, however, is to drive standing on one foot. The utmost care is necessary in the driver in order to keep his seat, and also to prevent the sledge from being overturned.

7. The dogs are trained to the service when young; and are taught to obey the voice of the driver in setting off, stopping, turning to the right or left; but those that are well trained are guided rather by signals than sounds. For this purpose the driver carries in his hand a curved stick, which he employs also to preserve the sledge from being overset, and which is sometimes pointed with iron, to take a firmer hold of the ice, while the other end is provided with two iron rings, which serve as bells to encourage the dogs.

8. He turns them to the left by merely striking this stick upon the ice; or to the right, by striking the poles of the sledge; or stops their progress, by placing it between the snow and the front of the vehicle; or corrects them when inattentive, by throwing it among them; and to recover it, as he passes along, is the greatest test of his skill.

Note. Kamtschatka is a peninsula of Asia, which includes the north east extremity of that continent, and extends from 51° to 62° north latitude. The soil is miserably barren, producing but little grain to reward the labour of the cultivator.

AUTHORITY OF VIRTUOUS AGE.

1. AGE in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. If to be saluted, attended, and consulted with deference, are instances of pleasure, they are such as never fail a virtuous old age. In the enumeration of the

imperfections and advantages of the younger and later years of man, they are so near in their condition, that, methinks, it should be incredible we see so little commerce of kindness between them.

2. If we consider youth and age with Tully, regarding the affinity to death, youth has many more chances to be near to it than age. What youth can say more than an old man, "He shall live till night?" Youth catches distempers more easily, its sickness is more violent, and its recovery more doubtful. The youth indeed hopes for many more days, so cannot the old man.

3. The youth's hopes are ill grounded; for what is more foolish than to place any confidence in an uncertainty? But the old man has not room so much as to hope; he is still happier than the youth, he has already enjoyed what the other does but hope for: one wishes to live long, the other has lived long.

4. But, alas! is there any thing in human life, the duration of which can be called long? There is nothing which must end to be valued for its continuance. If hours, days, months, and years, pass away, it is no matter what hour, what day, what month, or what year we die. The applause of a good actor is due to him at whatever scene of the play he makes his exit.

5. It is thus in the life of a man of sense; a short life is sufficient to manifest himself a man of honour and virtue : when he ceases to be such, he has lived too long; and while he is such, it is of no consequence to him how long he shall be so, provided he is so to his life's end.

ANECDOTES OF THE REVOLUTION.

1. AFTER the defeat of our army on Long Island, in 1776, the remainder of our troops were reduced to a situation of extreme hazard, and by many it was supposed that a few hours would seal their fate. They were fatigued and discouraged by defeat, a superior enemy in their front, and a powerful fleet about to enter the East river, with a view of cutting off their retreat, and leaving them no alternative but to surrender.

2. The commander in chief resolved to attempt to extri