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and call us blessed. Now let us onward, and may the man who first turns his back upon the contest be forever branded as d coward" This speech was met with a loud .murmur of applause the pieces were charged, the bayonets fixed, and with shouIdered arms they marched to the pre- ciPitous cliffs which overhung the shore. A hat were their thoughts and feelings on the march we must leave the readerto con jeclure. They doubtless felt the fear which always attends the soldier when going into actual service they thought. of the pain of gun-shot wounds and that some among their number would be cold in the embrace of death ere the sun should reach his nleri- dian. Such thoughts at least fevoiyed in the mind of Captain B. :; but whether these outweighed his lofty ideas Of the pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war, or whether he doubted the prowess of his tfeops, VIC. cannot ascertain. Certain it is, however, that on arriving at the cliff, below which the fishermen were quietly pursuing their occupation, he instantly turned upon his heel, exclaiming, < There are the red coats let every man take care of him. self" This speech was evidently more welcome than the first; the whole party im- mediately took to flight, not one yenturing to look behind him, until they were snugly intenched in the mud and bogs of Beaver Dam Swamp. -0ld Colony Democrat.

 