In stature Mr. H. was above the middle size, of excellent proportion of limbs, of extreme benignity of countenance, possessing a flexible and harmonious voice, a manly and dignified aspect. By the improvement of these natural qualities from observation and extensive intercourse with the world, he had acquired a pleasing elocution, with the most graceful and conciliating manners. Of his talents it is a sufficient evidence, that in the various stations he filled, he acquitted himself with an honourable distinction and capacity. His communications to the General Assembly, and his correspondence as President of Congress, are enduring proofs of his putting his shoulder effectively to the wheel of public affairs. His knowledge was practical and familiar. He neither penetrated the intricacies of profound research, nor did he mount to inaccessible elevations.

the most conspicuous, the case of Mr. Otis, who were left to inherit his fortune or perpetuate bis at the instigation of a British officer, was assail-name; his only son having died during his youth. ed by a band of ruffians, with a violence which impaired his reason and hastened his death. About the same time, a vessel belonging to Mr. Hancock, being loaded it was said, in contravention of the revenue laws, was seized, by the custom house officers, and carried under the guns of an armed vessel at the time in the harbor, for security; but the people exasperated by this offensive exertion of authority, assembled and pursuing the officers, beat them with clubs, and drove them on board their vessels for protection. The boat of the collector was then burnt in triumph by the mob, and the houses of some of his most obnoxious adherents were, in the first transports of this popular fury, razed to the ground. Thus Mr. Hancock in more ways than one contributed to set the great wheel of the revolution in motion, though he could not himself have approved of such acts, which were disapproved by the legal authorities. Yet Hancock derived from his connection with the affair an increased popularity. At an assembly of the citizens, Mr. Hancock and others were appointed to request of the Governor, a removal of the British troops from the town, which the Governor attempted to evade. A second committee being selected of which Mr. Hancock was chairman, voted the excuses made inadmissible, and by a more peremptory tone of expostulation, urged and obtained their removal. This Governor had complimented Hancock in 1767, with a lieutenancy. But declaring his determination to hold no office under a man whose vices and principles he considered hostile to the liberties of his country, he tore up the commission in presence of many citizens; for which bold act he received the severe reprehension and threats of the royal government.

Of the modesty of Hancock, there is a very beautiful anecdote related by his biographers. That there were members of the first Congress of superior age to his, and men, at the same time of preeminent virtues and talents, will not be denied. The occasion was one upon which calmness was essential, for rarely in the vicissitudes of nations, has it happened that interests more sacred have been confided to the infirmity of human wisdom and integrity, or that a spectacle more imposing has been exhibited to human observation. Mr. Hancock's timidity at being called to fill the chair was relieved, it is said, by a strong nerved member from the South, who led or bore him to the Speaker's seat; when placed in that conspicuous position, all agree that he presided with a dignity and capacity that extorted the respect and approbation of even his enemies.

After his death, his body lay in state at his mansion, where great multitudes thronged to pay the last offices of their grief and affection. His obsequies were attended with great pomp and solemnity, and amidst the tears of his countrymen, he was committed to the dust.

His wife was a Miss Quincy, whom he married about twenty years before his death. She was the daughter of an eminent magistrate of Boston, and one of the most distinguished families in New England. No children of this connection

Hancock first put his name to the immortal Declaration of Independence; had his life been marked by no other event, it would have entitled him to ever enduring renown-but in connection with that act, he combined great and useful wisdom in the councils of our infant nation, and his name will descend to posterity with unqualified lustre.

ORIGINAL.

THE YOUNG POLE.
"Go, where thy father fell,

In his hour of victory;
Bright as his course on glory's field,
May thine, my love, be.
Hark to thy country's call,
In its struggles to be free;

Thou must leave thy home for a sterner one--
The war path now for thee!"

And the mother wept as she bless'd her son-
He thought of the fields his father won.
"Think on thy early love,

And the vows thy heart hath given:
Her prayer shall rise for thy glorious cause,

To the patriot's Friend in heaven!
When thy arm is against the foe,

Think of the tears we shed;

O! could she shield thee when dangers press,

Or Poland laments her dead."

And the maiden wept as the warrior passed
To his field of glory-his first, his last!
In the pride of liberty,

All to the conflict rush'd;

But the tyrant's force and his lawless crowds,
The hopes of the patriots crushed;
And the son on that last sad field,

In his youth and glory slept;
O'er their blighted hopes and early love
The mother, the maiden wept.

He fell but his slumber is with the brave,
And the laurels bloom on the freeman's grave.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
E. C, S. S.

The seat of praise is in his heart, and only there; and if it be not there, it is neither in the look nor in the clothes.-Lord Clarendon.

CROGHAN.

Written for the Casket.

CROGHAN,

OR THE HERO OF FORT SANDUSKY. Towards the close of a sultry day, in the middle of July, 179, was seen gliding along the broad and placid bosom of the Ohio, a solitary boat, in which were three watermen, a gentleman with his wife and child, a large Newfoundland dog, and some packages of merchandize, which, with various implements of husbandry, constituted the entire cargo.

Their appearance indicated much fatigue, from long exposure to the scorching rays of a summer sun, whose declining beams lent a transient lustre to the lurid clouds which now arose above the eastern horizon, in threatening magnificence, portending a night of unusual inclemency; while the resplendent orb, as if conscious of the distress he had caused the impotent little company, seemed hastening to cover the confusion of his reddening countenance beneath the shades of the western forests.

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Dreams." remarked the father, "are of little consequence, and though it sometimes happens that something similar to what we have dreamt does fortuitously occur, they are, however, not the more to be credited on that account. Yet, I cannot but acknowledge that I have myself been a little disturbed by dreams for some nights past, which seemed to me by their unusual tenor, to forebode something strangely wild and uncommon."

While they were thus speaking, flash followed flash in such rapid succession, that there was presented to the eye a continued stream of flame, which, being reflected by the river, gave it so much the appearance of a torrent of lignid lava, as to cause them to shudder as they looked apprehenScarcely had the upper edge of his expansive forehead sively on its luminous surface. The dog howled piteously, sunk beyond the verdure of the mighty oaks, when a vivid and approaching the child, began to lick his extended flash from a distant thunder cloud announced the approach hand; when suddenly, the electric fluid, descending by the of the gathering tempest, and admonished them of the pro-aged cedar, struck the boat, killing the three watermen and priety of seeking refuge nearer to the shore, until nature stunning the gentleman and his wife; then passing through should again have resumed her former serenity. Accord- the bottom it expended its fury in the current beneath. In ingly, doubling a projecting point of land, a short distance a moment the boat sunk with all it contained, except the before, they approached an overhanging cluster of stunted dog, which, with peculiar sagacity, seized the child by his cedars, and taking a few turns of a rope around the trunk garment and bore him to the bank, where leaving him in of the stoutest, moored their flimsy bark in apparent safety safety, he returned for the mother, whom he also succeed for the night. ed in saving. Then plunging in again he eagerly sought his master, diving several times beneath the turbid waters: but, alas! he sought in vain, for, incapable of any exertion at the moment of sinking, the treacherous element bore him away; and the poor animal was at length obliged to abandon the search and return, exhausted, to the destitute pair who owed their preservation to his fidelity.

No sooner had this been accomplished than the watermen, taking each from an earthen jug, which lay snugly secured in the bow, a hearty swig of Monongahela, followed by a copious draught of Heaven's imperial, laid themselves down to rest; while the others, as if fearful of some impending calamity, awaited in mute apprehension, the issue of the menacing scene.

Slowly did the unhappy mother recover her scattered senses sufficiently to discover the misery of her situation; and bitterly did she bemoan the rude fate that had thus deprived her of an affectionate husband, and cast her helpless and worse than alone on a desolate wilderness, with

stroyed by the sunburned savage, or the beasts of the desert. But as water finds its level, so does grief sometimes meet consolation even in the bosom of necessity, and merge the woeful reflections of the past in the paramount need of providing for the future.

Long and lond grew the roarings of the murmuring thunder, and quick and appalling the flashing of the forked lightning, whilst ever and anon, as the terrific blaze burst upon the gaze of the affrighted passengers, threatening every thing with instant annihilation, each shrunk for protec-out any other prospect than to die of famine, or be detion to the rest; and the next moment all was again enveloped in dreary and impenetrable darkness. Near and more near the tumult approached, and fast poured the rain in accumulating torrents; when the little boy, who had hitherto observed an unbroken silence, looking innocently into the face of his mother. who was now pressing him close to her bosom, as if to afford him greater safety from the fury of the contending elements, asked in a soft but anxious tone, "Ma, I wonder if that's Washington firing at the English?" She, only replying by a kiss on his youthful brow, he resumed; "If I was there," pointing to a flaming cloud, "I'd help him to kill every one of them." "My son," said his father, who was no less surprised than amused at the military spirit evinced by his little bantling, "if ever the time arrive, when your country shall need your services, I hope you may not be found wanting, either in determination to oppose the aggressions of her foes, or in prudence to direct you as to the surest means of maintaining her rights."

"This," said the mother, "reminds me of a dream, which last night broke in upon my disturbed slumbers. Methought I was ranging a wild and desart tract of country, somewhat resembling that which now lies before us, in quest of some human habitation, where I might obtain sustenance and lodging for myself and this child, whom I carried in my arms. The full moon shone brightly through the foliage of the towering trees; the wind, which had hitherto agitated the forest, was now sunk into silent repose; not a leaf was in motion, and nought was heard on either side but the low murmur of a distant cascade, and the rapid flutter of the gloomy night-bird, as it shot through the branches and immediately disappeared in the surrounding arbors. Suddenly the woods opened into an extensive prairie, an eagle darted from a lofty pine top-I saw him pursue his flight high in air, to the bright luminary of night and scratch on its face with the end of his beak, in large characters, the name of my child; when, uttering a shriek, which was ten thousand times resounded by the distant echoes, a crowd of nymphs, clothed in flowing robes, exceeding in whiteness the purest snow, issuing from a fleecy cloud, and standing on its summit, bowed three times to

Having long sought a place of shelter from the weather. she at length, finding no better asylum, took refuge in the hollow of a blasted sycamore, where, reclining with her child, exhausted nature soon became insensible, and both sank into a profound sleep, which was only disturbed occasionally by a convulsive sigh, or the whistling of the expiring storm; while Tiger, squatting on the herbage with out, vigilantly kept guard for the night.

Thus they remained till the orient beams of expanding morning burst asunder the fettering ties of the sombre shroud which had tramineled the earth in its darkening folds; when the feathered tenants of the sylvan landscape merrily chaunting their notes of gladness, hailed in straine of softest melody, the triumph of tranquillity over tempest, of light over darkness: all was gaiety and cheerfulness, and the resplendent luminary of day, as he arose in refulgent majesty above the tops of the woodcrested hills, seemed smiling in ecstacy at the beauty exhibited by the renovated face of nature. Nought was there to mar the hilarity of the joyous scene, save the inmates of the hollow-hearted sycamore, who, awakened by the growing harmony around, sought with sadness somewhat to alleviate the cravings of appetite and recruit their wasted vigor. A few nuts and wild berries were all that their utmost exertions could procure, upon which, however, they fed with eagerness; and having slaked their thirst at a purling rill. which hastily pursued its rippling course along the side of a gentle declivity, they pressed forward in quest of some settlement, where the lenient hand of sympathizing humanity might mitigate their suffering. Three days did they spend in fruitless search, until at length exhausted with fatigue and hunger, they sat them down under the shade of a weeping willow, to await that stern destiny which now appeared inevitable; when a hunter at a distance seeing the dog indistinctly through the brambles, and mistaking him for a grisly bear, levelled his rifle and fired.

But, alas the ball intended for Tiger's head passing him | by, buried itself deep in the bosom of the unfortunate lady beyond, who starting suddenly upon her feet, uttered a piercing shriek and then fell insensibly to the earth. The astonished hunter hastening to the spot, was furiously attacked by the faithful animal, but stepping aside he avoided the plunge and instantly laid him prostrate with the but end of his piece. Then seeing the helpless victim weltering in her blood, he ran to her assistance and lifting her up-horror seized his vitals; his frame shook in agony -he staggered, and with a groan fell senseless beneath his burden. The tide of life gradually resumed its wonted course, and recovering himself, he took from his pouch some cotton with which he stopped the hæmorrhage, and tying up the wound with a bandage torn from his neckcloth, he chafed her temples with a little whiskey from a flask which hung at his side; then running to a rivulet hard by he filled it up with water, and applying it to her lips, she heaved a long drawn sigh. Still did he persevere in his endeavors to resusitate her, until at length she looked up, and stretching forth her arms, exclaimed: "Oh, Albert! my dear brother!"

What has caused this blood?" said she, examining her garments as she rose to a sitting posture. Has some person been endeavoring to murder me in this solitary wilderness?"

"I am the guilty one," he replied, wiping aside a trickling tear, 'tis a doleful meeting after a seven years' absence. Would to heaven, Annette, we had never again met, rather than I should thus be the means of inflicting misery on the playmate of my infancy-the object of tenderest affection!"

my

"Tell me," she resumed with a faultering voice, "how it came to pass"? I am already satisfied the fault could not be yours" And having listened to a brief rehearsal of the melancholy occurrence, she added: "It is well; you are free from censure; and I thank the Almighty Ruler of the Universe for having in his mercy directed you hither for the preservation of my child, though it were even at the expense of that poor remnant of life which, but for him, I was already willing to resign. But you will ask what revolution of nature has cast me on this abode of solitude without a protector or guide, so far from the scenes of my childhood--the graves of my ancestors."

"Hark!" said his wife, as she approached from an inner apartment, "heard you that hollow moan, as of some one in agony?"

Tis nought," replied he, "but the wheezing breath of expiring autumn, hastening to bury its withering face in the icy mantle of winter; or the lowing of the fattening herds in the adjacent pasture grounds."

"List! there it is again," she resumed, going towards the door, "it seems to proceed in the direction of the lane leading from the road. I fear it must be some way-worn traveller perishing for want, or writhing, perhaps, under the assassin's dagger. I'll see, at all events." "Stay," said he, starting from his chair, "there seems something unearthly in the sound; it must be the troubled ghost of Annette coming to haunt me, for surely no mortal ever uttered such a hideous groan as that which now assailed my ear. But be it unearthly or not, I must ascertain the cause." So saying, he sallied forth, rifle in hand.

"Murder! help! help!" cried a voice near the extremity of the lane; when running with his utmost speed, he beheld by the glimmer of the rising moon, a man lying on the ground and firmly grasping the leg of another, who was struggling to make his escape; but finding his exertions to extricate himself inflicient, he flashed his pistol in the face of him who held him, and with a desperate ef fort disengaging himself, ran swiftly towards the road, while the cottager followed in close pursuit. But the pursued perceiving him gaining on him suddenly turned round and fired a second pistol, the ball of which whizzed harmless by his ear.

My turn next," cried the cottager, dropping on one knee and levelling his piece, "stand, or you speed to eternity!"

Try your skill, my hearty," was the reply, as he unremittingly pursued his course. It was his last, for the next moment the ball pierced his back below the left shoulder, passed through his heart, and he fell a breathless corse.

"Not now," said he, "we must haste to my cottage close by the side of yonder brushwood that skirts the brow Well done!" exclaimed the man behind, as he saw of the mazy precipice; and when we have found a surgeon him tumble to the ground, "thou hast saved me ten thouto repair the breach I have made, and you have recovered sand dollars by thy timely arrival, of which a tithe shall be sufficient strength to enable you to converse without diffi-thine for the valorous spirit thou hast displayed, and more culty or danger, I will listen to your tale of sadness; till anon, should circumstances prove propitious, as my specuthen you must endeavor-" lations have led me to anticipate."

compensation: the consciousness of having saved the life of a fellow being, by ridding the world of a villain, is of itself a sufficient reward: whence come you?"

Look!" she exclaimed, staring wildly, "see you that "Thanks, friend, for your gratitude; but as I have done grim-visaged cannibal preparing to plunge his glittering for you no more than I should consider it the duty of anothblade in the vitals of him who lies at his feet, and strug-er to do for me in a similar situation, I shall accept of no gling to disengage himself from the murderous grasp of that dingy hand which encircles his throat-haste! save him-Oh, heavens! 'tis my husband. Ah, see, the deed is done!" and with a frantic laugh she relapsed into her former insensibility. He looked, but saw nothing. The dreadful conviction now flashed on his mind, that the wound which he a few moments before fondly hoped was not mortal, had, together with her former enfeebled condition, so operated as to produce mental alienation; and that, in all probability, she was shortly to die a maniac.

Again he used all exertions to revive her, until finding his utmost efforts unavailable, he lifted her in his arms and carrying her to his dwelling, left her in care of his wife, while he, mounting his swiftest steed, rode away for the nearest physician. He brought him, but too late, for death having sufficiently dallied with his prey, now sat triumphant on her pallid countenance, hurling defiance at the feeble resources of men; and ere the careering orb of day had finished his circuit of the etherial canopy, her gentle spirit, weary of its terrestrial thraldom, sprung away in ecstacy towards the mansions of bliss.

Deeply afflicted for his melancholy bereavement, her sorrow stricken brother dug in the centre of his flower garden, her lonely grave, and having bedewed her bier with the tears of bitter compunction, laid her mortal remains quietly to rest in the maternal lap of her parent dust, placing at her head as her simple monument, a plain pine slab, upon which he cut with his knife in rude but deep characters, the two words," POOR ANNETTE."

From Virginia and destined for Chillicothe, the place of my residence. Proceeding to your house to seek lodging for the night, I was assailed by that robber, who springing from his ambush, stopped my horse and demanded my money; and on my hesitating to surrender it, stabbed me in the side with a dagger, which, as I fell to the ground, broke in two; then placing his knee on my breast, he took from me my pocket book, with which he was about to escape, when you fortunately came to my assistance."

Having returned the pocket book, the cottager with the assistance of his wife, helped him to the house, and extracting the broken blade with a pair of pincers, dressed the wound as well as circumstances would admit. A few days were sufficient 10 restore him to convalescence, when amusing himself with examining the various species of flowers in the garden, his eyes fell on a grave, decorated with taste, and surrounded with evergreens. He approached, and observing the board which indicated the head, read in a subdued but sympathetic tone, "PoOR ANNETTE." He appeared for a moment absorbed in thought, then looking round, inquired of his host, whom he saw busily employed at a small distance, "Who was this Annette, whose humble epitaph marks the scite of her lowly sepulchre?"

Alas!" replied he, with a deep sigh, "my ill-fated sister, whom the destinies decreed to die by my own hand." What!" exclaimed the stranger, with a look of mingled astonishment and horror, "how could that hap

Nine years had sped their monotonous course and sunk to oblivion in the fathomless ocean of eternity, when sit-pen?"

He recited to him the circumstances of the unhappy tra- | implicit obedience to the will of their sovereign, than did gedy.

With whom do you live?" he resumed, as he wiped of his rib;" and picking up a fan which she dropped in her away the traces of the briny moisture.

"Lead me to him quickly, my son, and I shall soon re-ness, which reached his inmost soul, observed, that "inmove your doubts."

Cursed wretches!" cried Croghan, as he sprang from his hiding place, and got between them and their victim, you shall have two to scalp or none," and stopping short, he took a deadly aim at the one who had reserved Young Croghan having attained the age of manhood and his fire-the Indian also levelled at him, but ere he had been appointed captain of a volunteer corps, was one day time to pull, received Croghan's ball through his head, and walking hastily along the street, reflecting on the strange instantly dropped dead as his piece exploded in the air. occurrences of his life, and contemplating his future pros-The surviving savage stood a moment, as if to survey the pects, when, turning swiftly round a corner, he suddenly strength of his antagonist; then casting on him a look of encountered a young lady, who was proceeding against contempt, he advanced with a ferocious coolness, well calhim, and though each endeavored to avoid the concussion, culated to intimidate a spirit less intrepid than that of his their contiguity rendered the essay ineffectual, and they adversary, and flung his tomahawk with a force and premet with a force which, to use a nautical phrase, must cision that must have proved fatal, had he not fortunately have thrown the lady on her beam ends, had he not instant-parried it off with his piece; when springing at him with ly caught her in his arms, and so prevented the disagreeable consequences. She smiled forgiveness, and extricating herself from his unexpected embrace, was ff before he had time to apologize for the unceremonious introduction.