The Abilene Gazette from Abilene, Kansas • 6

the terrors of oar war for lib- ton, Mam 1731. lie entered jttarvaxu NIGHTFALL. JOHN HABT. This patriot of the Revolution died in CoUflg me age of 14 years, ana graauaxeu with the usual honors. Be Iras active in politics, and was a member of the first Congress, and was re-elected to that of 76.

He voted for the Declaration of Independence, and was meeting of the Congress of '76. When his State removed the prohibition forbidding her members to vote for independence, he was elected a delegate to the Congress, with instructions to vote as the judgment of the delegates should dictate. Mr. Carroll proceeded to Philadelphia, where he arrived on the 8th of Julv, too late to vote for the Declaration of Independence, but in ample time to affix his signature to the parchment. He was the son of Edward Mart, oi uopeweu, N.J.

He was a member of the Congress of 1774, and in 1776 signed the Declaration of Alone I stand On either hand hSi: In gathering gloom stretch sea and las. 3 Beneath uiy feet, With ceaseless beat, mnmnr Inw and SKPI'L one of its signers. EI.KIHIOE OEKKT, Elbridge Geny was born in Marblehead, age, having been mortally wounded in a duel with a Col. Mcintosh, whom he had looked upon as a rival and personal enemy. LYMAN HALL, a true American, was born in 1721 in Connecticut.

He received his education at Tale College, from which he graduated after four years study. He died in toe year 1874, at toe age of sixty-three, greatly beloved and widely lamented. GEORGE WALTON. George Weston waa bora in Virginia in 1740. During the time when the Colonies were in blaze respecting the various acts of the British Parliament which invaded colonial rights, he was among the patriots who stood firm for their privileges.

Mr. Walton was favorable to the proposition for independence, and he used all his influence to bring about that result. He voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence, Hie subject of this sketch was born February on the 17th of July, 174. ne was well educated, beng a graduate of Har- 5. 1726, at Euzabetnwjwn, jm.

ana was bred a farmer, but gave his chief attention to ard, In Januarv. 177b. Mr. trerry was eiecteu a delegate to the Continental Congress. There survevmg, convevanemg.

miu me uiauui gratuitous legal advice to his neighbors. Being Virginia. RICHARD HENRY, tthe. Richard Henrv Lee was born in the county of Westmoreland. on the 20th day of Janu-mrv.

1732. within a month of time and within his commercial Knowledge proveu very uaeiu, and he was nut nnon many committees where Rpr omtea a memoer oi ougreou, ue twcu the Declaration Of. Independence, and affixed his name to that instrument. He died in con such knowledge was needed. He was a warm Slow fall the night; The tender light Of stars grows brighter and more bright The lingering raj Of dying day 'mM'' fgink deeper down and fades away.

Now fast, now slow, The south winds blow, And softly whisper, breathing low With gentle grace They kiss my face. Or fold me in their cool embrace. a few miles1 space of George Washington. He supporter of the resolution oi jar. juee, aeciar-ing the United States free and independent, was educated in Mngland.

but his nana wo early imbued with republican sentiments gathered from the annals of ancient history. His and tie signed his name to me j-eciaxauuu uu the 2d of August, following its adoption. and the fortune and honor he there pledged were freelv devoted to its support. He uvea Bhode Island. STEPHEN' HOPKINS.

to enjoy the benefits reaped from our independence for a considerable number of years, dying at the age of sixty-four, in 1804. Ktenhen Honkina was born in the town of Providence, R. on the 7th of March, 1 707 Ha waa a member of the first Congress, sequence of stroke of the sua, in September, 1794, aged sixty-seven, and was buried at Railway. Pennsylvania BOBEBT MORRIS. Robert Morris, the distinguished financier of the Bevolution, was born in Lancashire, England, in January, 1733.

Mr. Morris was elected to Congress on the 18th of July, 1776, fourteen days after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and being in favor of the measure he affixed his signature thereto on the 2d of August following. BENJAMIN BUSH. Dr. Benjamin Bush was born at Byberry, about twelve miles northeast of Philadelphia, and vu re-elected in 1776, and had the privi Wit amd Humor.

The baggage-smasher is enjoying th history in connection with the Revolution is too familiar to need repetition. He was one of the most sterling of patriots, and his name will five as such so long as history exists. On the 7th of June, 1776, he presented in Congress the following resolution "BesolvedL That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States that they are absolved from ah aHs-giance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally jflSj ii 1 vcl The consideration of the resolution was made the special order of the day for the first Mon-dav in July, and a committee, of which Thomas Jefferson was chairman, was appointed to draw lege of signing the Declaration of Independence. He was chosen a delegate to the General Congress for the last time in 1778, and was one of the committee who drafted the Articles of Confederation for the government of the States. Notwithstanding he was then over 70 years, Iia was exceedingly active, and was almost con ta 1 1 a member of some important committee.

Where one pale star, O'er waters far, Droops down to touch the harbor bar, A faint light gleams, A light that seems To grow and grow till nature teems) With mellow haze And to my gaze Comes proudly rising, with its rays No longer dim, The moon its rln In splendor gilds the billowy brim. I watch it gain The heavenly plain; Behind it trails a starry train, While low and sweet I The wavelets beat Tneir murmuring music at my ee4p Fair night of June Yon silver moon Gleams pale and still. The tender tune, 7 9t.r Famt-fioating, plays, 'd In moon-lit lays, A melody of other days. Tie sacred ground; A peace profound Comes o'er my soul. I hear no sound, up a Declaration of Independence.

This docu He died on the 19th of July, 3785, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. WILLIAM F.LLEKY. William FIIatv. the colleague of Stephen on the 24th day of December, 1745. He was solicited to take a eeat in the general Congress of 1775, but declined but when, in 1776, some of the Pennsylvania delegates in Congress refused to vote for independence, and withdrew from their seats, he was elected to fill nnA of them.

He was not a member when the Why is an old maid luce a onea orange? Because neither of them is worth a good squeeze. We suppose there can be no disputing the fact that the first ArkHc expedition was got up by Noah. The crystalized kisses of young maidens if exposed for sale would be labelled "lasses candy." Bath Times. How is it proved that Adam was orthodox in his sentiments? Because his belief was undoubtedly Eve-angelical. True love can no more be diminished by showers of evil-hap, than flowers are marred by timely rains.

Sir I. Sidney. A Western editor having published a long leader on hogs, a rival paper in Declaration was adopted, but was present and ment was presented to Jongress on ww to day of July, and, after several amendments made in committee of the whole, it was adopted on the 4th by the unanimous votes of the thirteen United Colonies. THOMAS JEFFERSON. American history represents few names to its students more attractive and distinguished than that of Thomas Jefferson, and rarely has a single individual, in civil station, acquired such as ascendency over the feelings and ac-tinna of neonlA as was nossessed bv the sub signed it on the 2d of August following.

BENJAMIN FRANKXXN. It would be superfluous to say anything of Benjamin Frankhn. He was elected a delegate to the general Congress in 1775, and was Hopkins, of Bhode Island, in the Continental Congress of 1776, was born at Newport on the 22d of December, 1827. Mr. Ellery was a very active member of Congress, and on the 2d day of August, 1776, he signed the Declaration of Independence.

Connecticut. BOGKR SHERMAN. One of the most remarkable men of the Bevolution was Roger Sherman. He was born in Newton, on the 19th of April, 1721. He was elected a delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress, in 1774, and was present at the opening on the 5th of September.

He was one of the most active members of that body, and was appointed one of the eommittee to nrenare a draft of a Declaration again elected in 1776. He was one of the committee appointed to draft a Declaration of Independence, voted for its adoption, and signed on the 2d of August. The remark that broke he silence following the announcement of the ject of this brief memoir. It would be out of niaA to attemnt to outline his history to this Save at my teei The ceaseless beat Of waters murmuring low and sweet. Scribner for July.

Mr-iof btwa for nothinfir could be said that Declaration to the assembled uongress xes. would not be familiar to every schoolboy. Ha vm eiAoted a delegate to represent Vir the same village upbraids him for pro ginia in the Continental Congress of 1775, and gentlemen, we must all hang together, or we will all hang separately," is attributed to him. JOHN MOBTON. John Morton descended from ancestors of truding Ins family matter upon tne pur lie.

for several vears he was one or tne most efficient members of that body. He soon oe-came distinguished among the men of talent there, although comparatively young; and Swedish birth. He was born in 1724, his father Emerson said in a recent lecture, in of Independence, a document to which he af- SSYed 00 4.rist itia rrtiotiiro TirifSl IIMI I (rnnfl Will HI I Hi 1 a after fixed his aienature with hearty, good will He was elected to tne oiamp act uongress in 1765, and in 1776 he was made High Sheriff of the eonntv in which he resided. In 1774 Boston, that the art of writing was the greatest permitted to man. We suppose this is the reason why so few are great in it.

INDEPENDENCE DAY. The Men Who Signed the Declaration A Brief Biography of Each and Every One of Them The Patriots Who Ban the Bisk of Being Bung. JOHN HANCOCK. John Hancock, who was the President of the Congress, was one of the most distinguished personages of the war of independence. He was born near the village of Quincy; in Massachusetts, in the year 1737.

His father died while John was an infant, and left him to the care of a paternal uncle. This relative was a merchant In Boston, who had amassed a large fortune, and, after having given John a colle-ciate education at Harvard College, he took when, in the succeeding year, a commistee waa appointed to draft a Declaration of Independence, he waa chosen one of the members. Although the youngest member of the committee, he waa appointed the chairman, and was requested by the others to draw up the instrument, which he did, and his draft was adopted on the 4th of July, 1776. This instrument forms an everlasting monument to his memory, and it was adopted by Congress. For two years after the organization of the Government under the Constitution he was a member of the United States House of Bepresentatives.

He was then promoted to the Senate, which office he filled at the time of his death, which took place on the 23d of July, 1793, in the seventy-third year of his age. I will lay you a wager," said Bonn- mm J. a the Assemblv of Pennsylvania appointed Mr. Morton a delegate to the General Congress. He was re-elected for 1775 in December of the same year, and he was also elected in 1776 to the same office.

His election did not take lace until some days after the Declaration of ndenendence was adopted, but he had the cer, tnat will snoot more crows SAMUEL HUNTINGTON. day than you 4 Oh, yes," rephed tne companion, 44 you always beat me at crowing. gives, oy iar, a wioer range me xuo 9 a a.1 HlAv.4 nanommA Samuel Huntington was born in Windham I privilege of signing it in August. He was annomted Associate Judge or GEORGE CliIMEB In a discussion in the Connecticut the Superior Court in 1774, and in 1775 he was appointed one of the delegates from Connecticut in the General Congress. The following year he had the glorious privilege of voting Legislative Agricultural Club, last year, a wag recommended the farmers to put George Clymer was born in Philadelphia in 1739, and was brought up by his mother's brother.

Wm. Coleman, and was educated in his counting-room. He accepted the command of a volunteer corps belonging to Gen. Cad-wallader's brigade. In 1776, after two of the Pennsylvania delegates in the General Congress declined voting for the Declaration of Independence, and snuff on then: corn, so as to mane tne crows sneeze, and then to shoot the sneezing ones as the rogues.

for and signing the ieciaration oi inuepeuu-ence. He was a member of Congress nearly five successive years, and was esteemed as one of the most active men there. His integrity and patriotism were stern and unbending, and so conspicuous became his sound judgment talents ano patriotism uuw diiutmi. or sculptured epitaph. OEOBOE WYTHE, a Chancellor of Virginia, and friend of his country, died June 8, 1806, aged eighty.

He was born in the county of Elizabeth, in 1725, and was sent to Congress in 1775, where he signed the Declaration of Independence. After a short illness he died. It was supposed that he was poisoned. BENJAMIN HARRISON, a Governor of Virginia, died 'April, 1791. In 1774 he became a member of Congress, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

In 1777 he resigned his seat. He was afterward a member of the convention for adopting the Constitution of the United States. THOMAS NELSON. Tom 44 Don't you think some werses would touch her, Charley a beautiful withdrew from their seats, Mr. Clymer and Dr and untiring industrv, that in 1779 he was ap- were appointed to succeed them, and they him into nis connuuij-rwui abilities proved such that in 1760 he sent him on a business mission to England, where he was present at the funeral rites of George and the coronation ceremonies of George III.

Soon after his return to America his uncle died, and left him, at the age of twenty-six, in possession of a princely fortune one of the largest in the province of Massachusetts. He soon relinquished his commercial pursuits and became an active politician, always taking sides with those whose sentiments were liberal and democratic. In 1766 he was chosen a representative for Boston in the General Provincial Assembly. He was chosen a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1774, and was re-elected to the same station in 1775. When Peyton Bandolph left the presidential chair of that bodv.

John Hancock was elected pome?" Charley 44 Oh, hang your werses, Tom. If you want to enjoy life, pointed President oi uongress, men wie uigu- a rfsr i.1 1 both affixed their signatures to that instrument. JAMES SMITH. est omce in me nnuou. drop poetry and the gals altogether, ana jine a fire-company.

James Smith was born in Ireland, date of birth not known. He came to this country with hia parents when auite vounsr. He was WILLIAM WILLIAMS This patriot was born at Lebanon, in In a suburban school ateacher gave out 1721. At the age of twenty-hve he was chosen a member of the Connecticut Assembly, and the word 44 psalter" to a class spelling. n.

OovArnor of Virerinia. died Jan. 4, 1789, aged elected to the Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the withdrawal of part of the delegation of his State, and affixed his signature on the 2d for forty-five years he held a seat there. Me was always present at its sessions, except when fifty. He was born at York, and at the age of It was a 44 poser" to all till it reached the foot of the class, when a curly-headed fonrteen was sent to England to be educated.

attending to his duties in tne uenerai uon day of August. GEO. TATLOB Ha rtiirned in 1761. and was sent to Congress gress, to which body he was elected a delegate in 1775. He was an ardent supporter of the Geo.

Taylor was born in Ireland, in the year 1716. and came to this country when he was little fellow spelt it correctly, and on being asked to define it, shouted out, 4 Mere salt." in 1175. In the next year he signed the Declaration of Independence. He was appointed proposition for independence, and cheerfully signed the Declaration when it was adopted. Wi-v General, and was at the capture of to the station.

In that office he labored ardu-ouslv, and tilled that chair on the ever memorable Fourth of July, 1776. As President he first signed the Declaration of Independence, and his bold signature has always excited the admiration of the beholder. about twenty years of age. He was one of those elected to fill vacancies occasioned by the withdrawal of a mimber of members, and put his A FORTUNE-HUNTER, DCing in a DSU- Yoxktown. a FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE.

a statesman of Virginia, Was born 0 name to the document on the 2d of August. JAMES WTLSON. 17514. Tn 1775 he was elected member of Con OLIVER WOLCOTT. The subject of the Bketch was born at Windsor, Ct, in 1726.

Toward the close of 1775, Mr. Wolcott was elected a delegate to the second General Congress, and took his seat in January, 1776. He took a prominent part in the debates respecting the independence of the colonies, and voted for and signed the gress, in which body he continued toll tne spring 1779. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, but seldom took part in the pubhc discussions. CARTER BBAXTON.

a TYiAmhpr of Congress in 1776, and signer of iiouu a count of the death of a rich old widow. 44 Died yesterday, in her eighty-ninth year," said the narrator. 44 What a pity!" exclaimed the fortune-hunter, 4 4 what a fine match she would have made two days ago A Harvard student, born with too much genius to look after details, sings the folio win lament Broke, broke, broke; I have squandered the uttermost sou, And have failed in an effort to utter, New Hampshire. JOSIAH BARTLKTT. Josiah was born in Ameebury, in Massachusetts, in November, 1729.

In 1776 he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety of his State. He was soon elected a member of the Continental Congress. In August, 1775, he was chosen delegate to the Continental Congress, and was again re-elected in 1776. He warmly supported the proposition fnr inriAnandence. and when, on the 2d of Au the Declaration of Independence, died Oct.

10, New Toxic. 1797, aged sixty-one. This distinguished patriot was born in Scotland in 1742, and emigrated to this country in 1766. In May, 1775, he was chosen a delegate to the General Congress, together with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Willing. He was again elected for the session of 1776, and warmly supported the motion of Bichard Henry L3e for absolute independence.

He voted for and signed the Declaration, and remained an active member of Congress until 1777, when he and Mr. Clymer were not re-elected in consequence of the operations of a strong party spirit which at that time existed in the Pennsylvania Assembly. QEOBOE ROSS. George Boss was born in New Castle, Delaware, in the year 1730. He first appeared in public fife in 1768, when he was elected a member of the Pennsylvania AwAmhlv for Lancaster, He was chosen to the North Carolina.

WILLIAM HOOPER, of the Declaration of Independence, gust, 1776, the members of Congress signed th Twiaration. Dr. Bartlett was the first who was sent to Congress in 1774. His private affair indnced him to resign his place in One trivial, law u. well for the infant in arms That for ducats he need not fret well for the placid corpse February, 1777.

He died October, 1790, aged affixed his signature, New Hampshire being the first State called. WILLIAM WHIPPLE. forty-eight. PHTLLIP LIVINGSTON. Among the bright names of the Bevolution era is that of Livingston.

Phillip was born at Albany on the 15th of January. 1716. Mr. Livingston first entered upon public life in 1754. In 1774 Mr.

Liviogston was elected a delegate to the first Continental Congress, and was on the committee that prepared the address to the people of Great Britain. In 1778, although his health was in a precarious state, occasioned by dropsy in the chest, he obeyed the calls of duty and took his seat in Congress, to which he bad been elected. He died on the 12th of June following. WILLIAM FLOYD, a General, died Aug. 4, 1821, aged eighty-six.

That he's setuea nis rauu aeu. Last week a 44 straw fiend was going JOSEPH HEWES. a Quaker, was born in 1730, in New Jersey, but William Whipple was born at Kittery, in New Hampshire (that portion which is now the State of MainAY in the rear 1730. In January, 1776, through a train on the Illinois Midland he was chosen a 'delegate to the Continental rsnnsrreea. and was among those who, on the settled in.

North Carolina, in xn no was sent to Congress, and remained there, with toe exception of a year, till his death at Philadelphia, November 10, 1779, aged forty-nine. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. railway, wild a pt-ut-n uu taking the vote for President, when the car be was in jumped the track, and he Continental Congress in 1774, and remained there till 1777. He was a warm supporter of the resolution of Mr. Lee, proposing independence, and signed the Declaration thereof, on the 2d of August.

Fourth of July of that year, voted for the 1 at ion of Independence. He remained in Congress until 1777. MATTHEW THORNTON. was thrown into tne wood-Dox, ana ae, five lamps and a stove banged in on He was born Dec. 17, 1735.

He was a delegate to the Congress of 1774, and continued a mem Matthew Thornton was born in Ireland, in ber till after the Declaration ox independence. JOHN PENN, a lawyer, was born in Virginia, May 17, 1741, and died in September. aged forty-seven. In 1774 he removed to North Carolina. Being a member of Congress from 1775 to 1779, he signed the Declaration of Independence.

When the British took possession of Island his family fled for safety to Connecticut, top of him, and wnen iney nw there wasn't a whole bone in his body and he never will know how the vote on that train stood. Let not this terrible his house was occupied by troops, and ior Delaware. GEORGE READ. Another of our time liberty men was born in Cecil county, in the province of Maryland, in the year 1734, and was the eldest of six brothers. His useful life was suddenly closed in the autnmn of 1798, by a sudden illness, which 1714, and was brought to tlus country by nis father when he was between two and three years of age.

Matthew studied medicine and settled at Londonderry, N. and in 1745 was appointed surgeon of the New Hampshire troops, and accompanied them in the expedition against Louisbuxg. In September, 1770. he was appointed a delegate to the Continental Congress for one year, and was permitted to sign his name to the Declaration of Independence when he took his seat in November. ended in bis death at the age of sixty-rour years.

CESAR BOPNfY. This active and very popular man was born at Dover, in the year 1730. Mr. Bodney was a member of the Provincial Assembly in 1769, and was chosen its Speaker. He con warning be thrown away.

A bagged and uncouth alms-asker (says the Detroit Free Press) was begging of pedestrians on Michigan avenue, yesterday, when a poUceman asked him why he didn't go to the County House. "Iko to the Poor House!" exclaimed the old man. It would be much better than begging. 4 You keep away from me, sir Sowted tte vagrant 44 A man who will deliberately advise me to degrade my character and stain my honor is an unsafe officer, and I will have you broken, sir I nearly seven years he was an exile from his dwelling, and derived no benefit from his landed estate. In October, 1778, he was again a member of Congress, and was frequently a member of the Legislature of the State.

FRANCIS LEWIS. Francis Lewis died Dec. 30, 1803, aged ninety. He was born in Landaff, South Wales, in 1713. In April, 1775, he was elected a member of Congress the next year he signed the Declaration of Independence.

In 1775 he removed to Long Island in the autumn of 1776 bis house was plundered by the British. In his last days he lived in comparative poverty. LEWIS MORRIS, a Major General, grandson of Gov. Lewis Morris, died Jan. 22, 1798, aged seventy-one.

He was born at the manor of Morrisania, N. -in 1726. South. Carolina. EPWABP BPTLFPGE.

Edward Rutledge was of Irish descent. His father, Dr. John Kutledge, emigrated from Ireland to America in 1735, and settled at Charleston, South Carolina. When but twenty-five he was elected to the first Congress, and was present at toe opening, September 5, 1774. Partly on account of ill health, and partly because of the disturbed condition of his State, he withdrew from Congress in 1777, but was returned again in 1779.

In the interval he was activelv engaged at home in measures for the defense of the State and to repeal invasion. THOMAS HATWARP, JB. Thomas Havward was born in St. Luke's narish. South Carolina, in the year 1746, tinued a member and the Sneaker of that body until 1774, and as Chairman of the Correspond-iner Committee he was arduous in plying his pen in the interchange of political sentiments with his compatriots in other colonies.

He iiifA earlv in thfl vear of 1783. when in the Massachusetts. SAMUEL APA3IS. This distinguished patriot of the Bevolution was born in Boston on the 22d of September, 1722. Adams was among those who secretly matured the plan of proposing a general Congress, and appointing delegates thereto, in spite of the opposition of Gov.

Gage. The Governor, hearing of the movement in the General Assembly, then sitting at Salem, sent his secretary to dissolve them, but he found the door locked, and the key was safely lodged in Samuel Adams' pocket Mr. Adams was one of the five delegates appointed to Congress, and fifty-third year of his age. THOMAS M'KEAK. This talented e-entlenian and firm defender In 1775 Mr.

Havward was chosen a del egato of our countrv'B rights was born in New Lon inCoh- to the General Congress. He remained don. Chester oountv. in 1734. He died at appolht- press until 1778.

when he accepted the New Jersey. RICHARD STOCKTON. a ripe old age, after a long and useful life both Courts ment of Judge of the Criminal and Civil born upon The subject-of this memoir was of South Carolina. ARTHUR 300BLETON. 1st of October, he took his seat in that body on the 5th of September.

1774. He continued an active member to himself and his country. Maryland. SA-MTTEL CHASE. the Stockton manor, on the 1730.

This gentleman held an important position in his State, where his influence was considerable The Provincial Congress of New Jersey of Congress until 1781. JOHN apams. fUmnal Cham was born on the 17th day of in ahaoing the public sentiment of the people. Anril. 1741.

in Somerset county, Md. Mr, John Adams was born at Brain tree (now OninovB. in Massachusetts, on the 30th of Oc Chase was one of the five delegates to the In toe winter of 1776 Mr. Middleton was elected by the Provincial Legislature a delegate to the first Continental Congress, to 174, ap General Congress at Philadelphia. pointed by a convention of the people Mr.

Middleton continued a member of Con of Marvland. He was also appointed by the Good for an This is good enough to be American A Member of Parliament, well known for his ready and unfailing humor, had lately to undergo a serious operation for aTabscess inSie leg. It was at one time feared, but without cause, that amputation of the limb would be necessary. Just as the operator waf about to begin, ThonorabirmembejqmeUy rented to the surgeon: "Remember, that if youmt off my leg I can't stand for the Sty any more? But," he added, after a tSriT nanse. as if for consideration, ae aM shall be able to stump the county.

Heroism Rewarded. Th last official act of Secretary Rris-toweTwarW under ihe act of lESfof June 20, 1874, of three life-edalsof 1 brothers named Hubbard, Marblehead, a wjio 00 ite May, same meeting one of the Committee of Correspondence for that colony. He continued a member of Congress until 1778, and was almost gress until the close of 1777, ween he returned to South Carolina. In 1778 the Assembly adopted a State Constitution, and Arthur Middleton was elected first Governor under it. Doubting the legality of toe proceedings of the Assemblv in framing the Constitution, he constantly employed in tne uuuee uu portant committees.

TWO-MAS ST A native of Maryland and delegate to the Con declined toe acceptance of the appointment. THOMAS LYNCH. Cankain in the 1st South Carolina Regimen t. tinental Congress, he performed his dunes ac- Am-dimr to the instruction Of tUS State. He was born August 5.

1749, at Prince George's was several years in Congress, and died in the elected him a delegate to the General Congress in 1776, and he took his seat in time to take part in the debate upon the proposition for independence. At first he seemed doubtful of the expediency of an immediate declaration of independence, but after hearing toe sentiments of nearly all. and the conclusive arguments of John Adams, he voted In favor of toe measure and cheerfully signed the Declaration. JOHN WITHEBSFOOX. John Witherspoon was born in the parish of Tester, near Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 5th of February, 1722.

He was a lineal descendant of the great reformer, John Knox. He graduated at Edinburgh, lie went through a regular theological course of study, and at toe age of twenty-two years he graduated a licensed jpaacher. He took a conspicuous part in both military and financial matters, and his colleagues were astonished at the versatility of his knowledge, FRANCIS HOFKINSON. Jp. 2 v4 This old revolutionary star, ardent in his patriotism, and keenly alive to toe stirring events of that time, was not known as a powerful debater, yet still he had an immense amount of true genius.

He was born in Philadelphia in 1837, and at the age of fourteen was left to battle with the world for himself. He was in the fifty-third year of his age when he died, a by no means small term of life for a man who PariKh. 8. C. He went to Congress in 1776, r.H aA Hi a Declaration of Independence.

forty-nf tii year of his age. ivm. PACA. tober, 1735. Having chosen the law as a profession, he entered upon the study of it with an eminent barrister in Worcester by the name of Putnam.

He was admitted to the bar in 1758 ttti commenced practice in Braintree. Adams took his seat in the first Continental Congress, convened in 1-hiladelphia on the 5th of September, 1774. He was again elected a delegate in 1775, and through his influence George Washington, of Virginia, was elected commander-m-ohief of all the forces of the united colonies. JM He was appointed one of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, and he placed his signature to that document on the i of August, 1776. His eminent services throughout the Bevolution and afterwards aa well known.

President himself, he lived to see his son in the same position. Ha died on the 4th of Julv. 1826, aged ninety-two. On the Tory same day, and at nearly the same hour, I in 'fellow committee-man in drawing up the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson, also died. It was on the fiftieth armivan-arv of that glorious act and the coincidence made a deep impression on the public mind BOBEBT TREAT PA TNE.

This distinguished patriot was bom inBos- In 1779 he was lost at sea, being twenty-eight This patriot was one of the four Maryland lrM iip a man of education and years of age, Georgia. thought. He was an ardent advocate of the Continental Congress, and afterward of the Declaration, although his State was slow to indorse these measures. After the war he held ETTTTON GWINNETT. gre per- "Wi This old veteran of 1776 wa two nita ii, born who emigrated to this coun- important offices in his trv in the vear 1770 at the age of thirty-eight.

Mr. Gwinnett was a firm defender of the colo Revolutionary lead- lkefee! faction of thTI3 One of subject of this ers in Marvland was toe nies against the tyranny of Greet JaKem ye he at some particular times felt doubts as to be at some heroio on of the most Ha to. a krr the mother bards is one record. the success of the colonies tifnlarlv ditincmihed as a political writer. live to an old not country.

He, however, did before the He performed important service.