and in the struggle the woman have lost by savage hands, which have also taken forty valuable horses, and an abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I spent, separated from the cheerful society of men, scorched by summer's sun, and pinched by the winter's cold, an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness. But now the scene is changed; peace crowns the sylvan shade. cut off his head with an axe, whilst her little daughter shut the door. The savages instantly came up, and applied their tomahawks to the door, when the mother putting an old rusty gunbarrel through a crevice, the savages went off. From that time until the happy return of peace between the United States and Great Britain, the Indians did us no mischief. Soon after the Indians desired peace. Two darling sons and a brother Il DANIEL BOONE. Fayette county, Kentucky." JOHN CADWALADER, THIS zealous and inflexible friend of America was born in Philadelphia, 1742. He was distinguished for his intrepidity as a soldier, in upholding the cause of freedom, during the most discouraging periods of danger and misfortune, that America ever beheld. confidence and regard he uniformly enjoyed. The merits and services of General Cadwalader, induced congress, early in 1778, to compliment him by an unanimous vote, with the appointment of general of cavalry; which appointment he declined, under an impression that he could be more useful to his country, in the sphere in which he had been acting. He was strongly and ardently attached to General Washington, and his celebrated duel with General Conway arose from his spirited opposition to the intrigues of that officer, to undermine the standing of the commander in chief. The following anecdote of the rencounter, is related in the "Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War:" At the dawn of the revolution, he commanded a corps of vol unteers, designated as the silk stocking company,' " of which nearly all the members were appointed to commissions in the line of the army. He after wards was appointed colonel of one of the city battalions, and being thence promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, was entrusted with the command of the...Pennsylvania troops, in the important operations of the winter campaign of 1776 and 1777. He acted with his command, as a volunteer, in the The particulars of this duel, actions of Princeton, Brandy- originating in the honourable wine, Germantown and Mon- feelings of General Cadwalader, mouth, and on other occa-indignant at the attempt of his sions, and received the thanks adversary to injure the reputaof General Washington, whose I tion of the commander in chief 66 sed through his head greatly to the derangement of his tongue and teeth, but did not inflict a mortal wound. As soon as the blood was sufficiently washed away to allow him to speak, General Conway, turning to his edly, "You fire, General, with much deliberation, and certainly with a great deal of effect." The parties then parted, free from all resentment. by representing him as unqual- sented a full front. General ified for the exalted station Cadwalader fired, and his ball which he held, appears worthy entering the mouth of his anof record. Nor ought the cool-tagonist, he fell directly for ness observed on the occasion, ward on his face. Colonel Morby the parties, to be forgotten, gan running to his assistance, as it evinces very strongly, that found the blood spouting from although imperious circumstan- behind his neck, and lifting up ces may compel men of nice the club of his hair, saw the feeling to meet, that the dic-ball drop from it. It had pastates of honour may be satisfied, without the smallest deviation from the most rigid rules of politeness. When arrived at the appointed rendezvous, General Cadwalader, accompanied by General Dickenson, of Pennsylvania, General Conway by Co-opponent, said, good humourlonel Morgan, of Princeton, it was agreed upon by the seconds, that, on the word being given, the principals might fire in their own time, and at discretion, either by an off-hand shot, or by taking a deliberate aim. The parties having declared themselves ready, the word was given to proceed. General Conway immediately raised his pistol, and fired with great composure, but without effect. General Cadwalader was about to do so, when a sudden gust of wind occurring, he kept his pistol down and remained trauquil. Why do you not fire, General Cadwalader?" exclaimed Conway. Because," replied General Cadwalader, we came not here to trifle. Let the gale pass, and I shall act my part.' You shall have a fair chance of performing it well," rejoined Conway, and immediately pre 66 66 This patriotic and exemplary man died February 10th, 1786, In his private life he exemplifi ed all the virtues that ennoble the character of man. His conduct was not marked with the least degree of malevolence, or party spirit. Those who honestly differed from him in opinion, he always treated with singular tenderness. In sociability, and cheerfulness of temper, honesty and goodness of heart, independence of spirit, and warmth of bis friendship, he had no superior. Never did any man die more lamented by his friends and neighbours; to his family and relations, his death was a stroke, still more severe. JAMES CLINTON, In the war of 1756, usually denominated the French war, Clinton first encountered the fatigues and dangers of a military life. He was a captain under Colonel Bradstreet, at the capture of Fort Frontenac, and rendered essential service in that expedition by the capture GENERAL CLINTON was the an intrepid and skilful officer. fourth son of Col. Charles Clinton, and was born in Ulster County, N. Y. Aug. 19th, 1736. In common with his brothers,he received an excellent education. In the critical and eventful affairs of nations, when their rights and their interests are invaded, Providence, in the plenitude of its beneficence, has of a sloop of war on Lake Ongenerally provided men quali-tario. fied to raise the standard of re- "His company was placed in sistance, and has infused a re- row-galleys, and, favoured by deeming spirit into the commu- a calm, compelled the French nity, which enabled it to rise vessel to strike after an obstisuperior to the calamities that nate resistance. His designamenaced its liberty and its pros- tion as captain commandant of perity. History does not re- the four companies, raised for cord a more brilliant illustra- the protection of the western tion of this truth than the Amer-frontiers of the counties of Orican revolution. In defiance of ange and Ulster, was a post of the most appalling considera-great responsibility and hazard, tions, constellations of the most and demonstated the confidence illustrious men, pierced the dark of the government. The safety and gloomy clouds which en-of a line of settlements, extendveloped this oppressed people, ing at least fifty miles, was inand shone forth in the councils trusted to his vigilance and inand the armies of the nation. trepidity. The ascendancy of Their wisdom drew forth the the French, over the ruthless resources, and their energy vin- savages, was always predomidicated the rights of America.nant, and the inhabitant of the They took their lives in their hands, and liberty or death was inscribed on their hearts.Amidst this gallant band, Gen. Clinton stood deservedly conspicuous. To an iron constitution and an invincible courage, he added great coolness in action and perseverance in effort. The predominant inclination of his mind was to a military life, and by a close attention to the studies connected with it, he prepared himself to perform those duties which afterwards devolved upon him, and thereby established his character as frontiers was compelled to hold the plough with one hand, for his sustenance, and to grasp his gun with the other for his defence; and he was constantly in danger of being awakened, in the hour of darkness, by the war-whoop of the savages, to witness the conflagration of his dwelling and the murder.of his family. After the termination of the French war, Mr. Clinton married Mary De Witt, and he retired from the camp to enjoy the repose of domestic life. When the American Revolu tion was on the eve of its com mencement, he was appointed, wounded by the thrust of a bayon the 30th June, 1775, by the onet; pursued and fired at by continental congress, colonel of the enemy, and his attending the 3d regiment of New-York servant killed. He bled pro forces. On the 25th of Octo-fusely, and when he dismountber following, he was appointed from his war horse, in order ed by the provincial congress to effect his escape from the of New-York, colonel of the enemy, who were close on him, regiment of foot in Ulster coun- it occurred to him that he must ty; on the 8th of March, 1776, either perish on the mountains by the continental congress, co- or be captured, unless he could lonel of the second battalion of supply himself with another New-York troops; and on the horse; an animal which some9th of August, 1776, a Briga- times roamed at large in that dier General in the army of the wild region. In this emergenUnited States; in which station cy he took the bridle from his he continued during the greater horse, and slid down a precipart of the war, having the pice of one hundred feet to the command of the New-York line, ravine of the creek which sepor the troops of that state; and arated the forts, and feeling at its close he was constituted a cautiously his way along its preMajor-General. cipitous banks, he reached the In 1775, his regiment com-mountain at a distance from posed part of the army under the enemy, after having fallen General Montgomery, which into the stream, the cold water invaded Canada; and he par- of which arrested a copious efticipated in all the fatigues, fusion of blood. The return of dangers and privations, of that light furnished him with the celebrated but unfortunate ex- sight of a horse, which conveypedition. ed him to his house, about sixIn October, 1777, he com- teen miles from the fort, where manded at Fort Clinton, which, he arrived about noon, covered together with its neighbour, with blood and labouring under Fort Montgomery, constituted a severe fever. In his helpthe defence of the Hudson Riv-less condition the British paser, against the ascent of an en-sed up the Hudson, within a emy. His brother, the govern- a few miles of his house, and or, commanded in chief at both destroyed the town of Kingston. forts. Sir Henry Clinton, with The cruel ravages and horria view to create a diversion in ble irruptions of the Iroquois, favour of General Burgoyne, or six nations of Indians, on our moved up the Hudson with an frontier settlements, rendered it army of 4000 men, and attack- necessary to inflict a terrible ed those works, which were chastisement, which would prevery imperfectly fortified, and vent a repetition of their atroonly defended by 500 men, cities. An expedition was ac composed principally of mili-cordingly planned, and the printia. After a most gallant resistance, the forts were carried by storm. General Clinton was the last man who left the works, and not until he was severely cipal command was committed to General Sullivan, who was to proceed up the Susquehannah, with the main body of the ar my, while General Clinton was to join him by the way of the Mohawk. between the Cayuga and Sene ca lakes, by Geneva and CanThe Iroquois inhabited, or andaigua, and as far west as the occasionally occupied, that im- Genessee River, destroying mense and fertile region which large settlements and villages. composes the western parts of and fields of corn; orchards of New-York and Pennsylvania, fruit trees, and gardens aboundand besides their own ravages, ing with esculent vegetables. from the vicinity of their settle- The progress of the Indians in ments to the inhabited parts of agriculture, struck the Amerithe United States, they facili- cans with astonishment. Many tated the inroads of the more of their ears of corn measured remote Indians. When Gener-22 inches in length. They had their ardour; to check their arrogance; to restrain their cruelty, and to inflict an irrecoverable blow on their resources of extensive aggression. al Sullivan was on his way to horses, cows, and hogs, in abun the Indian country, he was join- dance. They manufactured ed by General Clinton with up- salt and sugar, and raised the wards of sixteen hundred men. best of apples and peaches, The latter had gone up the and their dwellings were large Mohawk in batteaux,from Sche- and commodious. The desolanectady, and after ascending tion of their settlements, the that river about fifty-four miles, destruction of their provisions, he conveyed his batteaux from and the conflagration of their Canajoharie to the head of Ot- houses, drove them to the Britsego Lake, one of the sources of ish fortress of Niagara for subthe Susquehanna. Finding the sistence, where, living on salt stream of water, in that river, provisions, to which they were too low to float his boats, he unaccustomed, they died in erected a dam across the mouth great numbers, and the effect of of the lake, which soon rose to this expedition, was to dimin the altitude of the dam. Hav-ish their population; to damp ing got his batteaux ready, he opened a passage through the dam for the water to flow. This raised the river so high, that he was enabled to embark all his troops to float them down to For a considerable portion of Tioga, and to join General Sul- of the war, General Clinton was livan in good season. The in- stationed at Albany, where he dians collected their strength at commanded, in the northern Newtown; took possession of department of the union, a proper ground, and fortified it place of high responsibility and with judgment, and on the 29th requiring uncommon vigilance August, 1779, an attack was and continual exertion. An inmade on them; their works cident occurred, when on this were forced, and their conster-command, which strongly illusnation was so great, that they trates his character. A regiabandoned all further resist-ment which had been ordered ance; for, as the Americans ad- to march, mutinied under arms, vanced into their settlements, and peremptorily refused obethey retreated before them with-dience. The general, on being out throwing any obstructions in apprised of this, immediately their way. The army passed repaired with his pistols to the |