Indians and a few Canadians, headed An incident which now occurred must by Blackfish and Captain Duquesne; have touched the heart of the old the latter for the British interest. The frontiersman to the quick. While regarrison was but sixty or seventy, but turning from the Blue Licks with his Boone determined not to surrender. brother, that companion of so many He began, like a skilful commander, lonely privations and difficulties sucto gain time by a parley, while he got cessfully overcome was killed by in the cattle and water for a siege. Indians lying in ambush, while he The British officers then proposed a himself narrowly escaped their pursuit. treaty, which turned out to be an effort In the organization of the country to entrap the negotiators, the chief men which was now made by Virginia, of the fort. Neither party being armed, which, it will be remembered, at that the Indians grappled with their antago- time exercised jurisdiction over the ternists, but they had men who loved ritory, Major Boone was appointed fight to deal with, and the contest was Lieutenant-Colonel for Lincoln County. resumed from the fort. A little courage The agitation of Indian fighting was in storming might have carried it, but kept up with various alarms. The the besiegers preferred the safer arts history of Kentucky in that period, of firing the roof and mining, in both is the story of deadly encounters and of which they were disappointed. In hair-breadth escapes, of ingenious refine, after nine days of this species of sources in warfare with a cunning and warfare, in which they had lost thirty- unscrupulous foe. One of the Indian seven killed, Duquesne and his Indians acts of aggression was of more than took their departure. The result, of ordinary scope, the attack by Simon course, redounded greatly to the valor Girty and his confederated bands of and skill of the defence and the ex-warriors upon Raddle's Station, just at cellence of the marksmen within the fort. the present Lexington. It was, however, met by craft equal to his own; After this affair was over, Boone and his forces suffered so, that he was visited his family on the Yadkin. obliged to raise the siege. Colonel Looking to the settlement of the Boone, with his brother, Samuel, and country in which he had labored, he son, Israel, were at the head of the mustered some twenty thousand dol- Boonesborough party, which joined the lars in paper money, with which to rest from different parts of the country proceed to Richmond, to take out the in pursuit. They were entrapped in necessary land warrants, of which he an ambuscade, when Boone, fighting was unhappily robbed by the way. It valiantly, bore from the field in the was not fated that Boone should enjoy much fruit of his explorations. Fascinated, however, by the old scene, and undeterred by its toils or perils, he returned to Boonesborough in 1780. retreat the body of his dying son. General Clark, the great military hero of Kentucky, then took the field in an incursion into the Indian country, across the Ohio, and drove the savages before him, burning their towns and desolat- death of his wife, who was taken from ing the region. This was the last great movement of the war. Peace was declared, and Boone rested for awhile in his pacific hunting and farming pursuits. When Kentucky was admitted as a State, in 1792, Boone's old North Carolina pest, the lawyers, from whom he had migrated in his youth, swarmed with the claimants of land titles. His property was assailed; he did his best to defend it by the aid of counsel, but he was stripped, and again turned westward, first resting on a farm in Virginia, at the mouth of the Kanawha. He then made, for those days, a great stretch, to upper Louisiana, where he settled in the country back of St. Louis, in quest of the receding dream of his youth. He had members of his family already there, two sons and a son-in-law. He was received with favor by the Spanish authorities, and appointed commandant of the Femme Osage district. Boone had a valuable grant of land from the Spaniards, the title of which, on the delivery of the country to the United States, as usual in his affairs of the law, was pronounced defective. He had neglected to take the necessary means to perfect it before the Spanish authorities. He appealed to Kentucky to aid his memorial to Congress, which listened to his request, and established his title to a thousand arpents of land in the Missouri district, where he had first settled. His later years were passed with his family, in comparative ease and comfort, though sadly invaded by the him in 1813, having followed his hazardous fortunes through youth, manhood, and age. After this, death and a grave by her side, were habitually in his thoughts. He prepared a coffin for his burial at a spot above the Missouri, and there his remains were interred. His death took place September 26. 1820. Such was the life of Daniel Boone, the strong pioneer of the wilderness, chequered by many vicissitudes and some sad trials, but proceeding ever straight on to its mark. He was like many others whom we are accustomed to associate with a rough frontier mode of life, eminently simple and moderate in his habits and manners. He was quiet and reserved, fond of the solitude of the forest; averse from the arts and intrigues of civilized man. The fresh air, the open sky, the scented woods, his faithful gun, were all that he asked of the world. His delight was in the company of nature, with nothing poetical or peculiarly reflective about him, but in the simple consciousness of strength and manhood. The domestic affections, doubtless, divided with him those emotions. He lived with his family, and often for a long time saw few others. His virtues were allied to his temperance and sobriety. He worshipped truth and honor, and left behind him at his death the ideal of the genuine man of the woods, in love with his employments, an enthu siast, subduing by his manliness all the rough hardships of the scene in which he was placed. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY." pre The outlay, whatever it may have been, was not thrown away upon inefficient instructors. We read of the paratory training of Charles-he was seven years old when he was taken to England-for five years previous to his entering Westminster school, then under the charge of Dr. Markham, afterwards Archbishop of York, and of his proceeding thence to Christ Church, Oxford, where no less a person than Cyril Jackson, the sub-preceptor of that virtuous prince who became George IV., was his private tutor. Or that honorable band of South secured at any price before the return Carolinians, men of birth and fortune, home of his children, even if a part of who stood forth at the outset of the his estate were to be sold to pay the Revolution, no one brought more ac expense. complishments or a better zeal to the cause than Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. He was of an old family in the province, dating from an ancestor who came from England toward the end of the seventeenth century. A descendant of the latter-the old colonial chief justice, Charles Pinckney, of repute in his day-married his second wife, the daughter of a British officer, and governor of Antigua, and became the father of Charles Cotesworth, who came into the world at Charleston, on the twentyfifth of February, 1746. Thomas, who also afterwards became greatly distin- At Oxford, Pinckney had the good guished in the military and civil history fortune, in view of his future profession, of the country, was his younger brother of listening to the law lectures of the by several years. The father, whose famous commentator, Blackstone, then position gave him the best opportunity employed in the delivery of those to value a good education, was deter- famous discourses at the University, mined that his sons should be in the which, on their publication, were to way of possessing whatever advan- create a revolution in the study of the tage it might afford. He, according to law, smoothing the way to future stu the custom of the wealthy in the country, dents, of the thorny path hitherto trod sent his sons to England for instruction. only in the bewildering pages of Coke So thoroughly indeed was the chief jus- and the old crabbed fathers. The tice impressed with the importance of first volume of the lectures was not this foreign education, that he left di- published till 1765. Before he was rections in his will that it must be eighteen, Pinckney had taken copious |