He was exchanged in November for General Phillips, and in 1781 he joined the army, then around New-York, and marched with Washington to Yorktown. Here, on the 6th of October, he had the honor of opening the first parallel. It was within generally the victors in these encounters. The arrival of three thousand men from New York enabled Clinton to throw a powerful detachment to the east of the river, and completely invest the town; all retreat was now cut off. The second parallel was finished, and a second sum-six hundred yards of the enemy, and nearly mons sent to Lincoln to surrender. It was refused, as the former had been, and the siege proceeded, and day and night, by land and sea, a terrific cannonade went on. Fort Moultrie surrendered, and the third parallel was completed. It was so near that the Hessian sharp-shooters could pick off the garrison while at their guns, or on the parapets. The besieged retaliated to the best of their feeble ability; but as they numbered scarcely four thousand men, while the enemy was at least thirteen thousand, it was evident that they must surrender or perish. two miles in extent. His men, a large detachment of French and American troops, worked with such secrecy and dispatch, in the darkness of the night, that they were not discovered until daylight. A severe cannonade was opened upon them, but they were under cover, and continued working; the parallel was completed on the afternoon of the 9th, and three batteries were ready to fire upon the town. "Washington," says Thacher, in his Military Journal, " put the match to the first gun." I shall not describe in detail the memorable battle of Yorktown, for the part that Lincoln performed in it, however much it tended to the success of the American army, was a subordinate one. Cornwallis and his army surrendered. The garrison was allowed the same honors granted to the garrison of Charleston, when the latter surrendered to Sir Henry Clinton, and Lincoln was assigned the pleasant duty of receiving the submission of the royal army. It was a delicate compliment to the old warrior, and he, doubtless, appreciated it. The surrender took place on the 19th of October, just twelve days after he had opened the first parallel. Lincoln did all that he could to animate his men, riding continually along the lines. He is said to have been ten hours in the saddle one day without ever dismounting. During the last fortnight of the siege he never took off his clothes to rest. The provisions of the garrison were nearly exhausted, and starvation began to stare them in the face. The British parallels drew nearer and nearer, until the batteries opened within eighty yards of the town, and preparations were made for a general storming, The works of the Americans being in ruins, and most of their guns dismounted, dreading the horrors of an At about twelve o'clock, says Thacher, assault, the inhabitants petitioned Lincoln, the combined army was drawn up in two and finally induced him to surrender, ac- lines, more than a mile in length, the cepting terms which had been previously Americans on the right side of the road, offered and refused. the French on the left. Washington, The terms were granted, and the cap-mounted on a noble steed, and attended by itulation signed on the 12th of May. The gallant garrison were allowed some of the honors of war; they were to march out and deposit their arms between the canal and works, but their colors were not to be uncased. his staff, was in front of the former; the Count de Rochambeau and his suite of the latter. The French troops, in complete uniform and well equipped, made a brilliant appearance, and had marched to the ground The continental troops and sea-with a band of music playing, which was a men were allowed their baggage, but were novelty in the American service. The to remain prisoners of war. The officers American troops, but part in uniform, and of the army and navy were to retain their | all in garments much the worse for wear, servants, swords, and pistols, and their yet had a spirited, soldier-like air, and baggage unsearched; the citizens and mil- were not the worse in the eyes of their itia were to be considered prisoners on countrymen for bearing the marks of hard parole. The loss of the British was sev- service and great privations. The conenty-six killed, and one hundred and eighty- course of spectators from the country nine wounded; that of the Americans seemed equal in numbers to the military, nearly the same. Lincoln was sent to yet order and silence prevailed. New-York on board an English vessel. About two o'clock the garrison sallied forth, and passed through with shouldered arms, slow and solemn steps, colors cased, and drums beating a British march. They were all well clad, having been furnished with new suits prior to the capitulation. They were led by General O'Hara on horseback, who, riding up to General Washington, took off his hat, and apologised for the non-appearance of Lord Cornwallis, on account of indisposition. Washington received him with dignified courtesy, but pointed to Major-general Lincoln as the officer who was to receive the submission of the garrison. By him they were conducted into a field, where they were to ground their arms. In passing through the line formed by the allied army their march was careless and irregular, and their aspect sullen; the order to "ground arms" was given by their platoon officers with a tone of deep chagrin, and many of the soldiers threw down their muskets with a violence sufficient to break them. This irregularity was checked by General Lincoln; yet it was excusable, Thacher thinks, in brave men in their unfortunate predicament. This ceremony over, they were conducted back to Yorktown, to remain under guard until removed to their places of destination. Lincoln's military career ended with the battle of Yorktown, and he was chosen a member of Congress. He resigned at the end of two years, and retired to private life on his estate in Hingham. Several times afterward he was engaged in public business. He treated with the Penobscot Indians, and settled a tract of land in Maine; quelled Shay's rebellion, and was delegated a commissioner to treat with the Creek Indians, and other western tribes. This was in 1789 and 1793. In 1787 he was elected lieutenant-governor, and the next year was chosen a member of the convention to ratify the new constitution. The close of his life, says Headley, was spent in literary and scientific pursuits, and he stepped gradually down the declivity of life until at length, May 9, 1810, at the good old age of seventy-seven, he passed to a better world. O STAR OF THE EVENING. O STAR of the evening, trembling and clear, What dost thou see in our silent sphere? Dark woods, in which when the day is bright, There floats but a green and shady light— Wild hills, where the paths of the joyous lie, That danc'd in the breeze of the early morn. vines; Where the festoon'd lattice is open'd wide SKETCHES FROM THE PAINTERS. A LMOST all the modern nations have a belief in the existence of guardianspirits-familiars of the soul who post themselves beside the mental ear, and there whisper adjuration or counsel as contingency may require. The " airy tongues that syllable men's names are the voices of such. One class of these spirits, or rather one fancy respecting them, was, that they assumed charge of the child at birth, taking a shadowy resemblance of its shape, growing with its growth, and being ever present to warn, advise, or admonish its human fellow of those events which its keener spiritual senses saw more clearly than did the corporeal and limited powers of the human being. Such a spirit is this in the engraving before us: the winged counsellor has grown with the maiden's strength, and as she sleeps beside the spinning-wheel now ethereally floats on poised wings, and murmurs softly in her ear the thoughts whose tenor shall take in dreams shape, color, and consist they revisit us in spirit. The law, which is universally allowed to exist, that these spiritual visitations should bring no news from the immaterial world, would prohibit information respecting the condition of the dead; but to them even the incongruous meeting of the embodied and disembodied beings might render comfort; and to us, the living, certain it is the knowledge of their presence would at any time be cause of pleasure; for we may presume, beyond question, that the spirit of no friend would appear in an appalling form, but rather as some fair inhabitant of the higher worlds, like the winged one who whispers between the long locks of our sleeping spinster. The old Swedish superstition says, that no spinning must be done on Thursday night, or direful spirits will appear, and unravel all the labor of that time. Neither must there be spinning done between Christmas and New-Year's day, or the spinners will see evil spirits. Persons born on Sunday were reputed to have the faculty of seeing spirits, a gift at times not without its inconveniences, as many stories, fearful or grotesque, testify, for they can never meet a hearse or pass a churchyard at night without some such vision. THE bridegroom smiled a happy smile, And o'er the water's tranquil breast The bridesmaids laugh'd, or watch'd the light But shadows dimm'd the boatman's face Slow fell his oars; his thoughts were sad: As to the font they brought her; And now once more across the stream- "A third time she must cross the flood, Row, boatman, row; your oars are slow, And you shall earn a double fee, ots. MASADA AND ITS TRAGEDY. LEAZAR, who, as we have before garrison at Masada, had no idea of flight himself, and he was fully resolved to allow no such dastardly course to his compatriReduced to despair by seeing his last intrenchment destroyed, and reflecting also on the cruel treatment and ignominious fate reserved by the Roman conquerors for their wives and children, he determined to die, together with all his people, as, in his view, the best alternative remaining in their choice. In this dread crisis of their affairs, he accordingly assembled around him all the bravest spirits in the garrison, and reminded them that the hour had now come when they must vindicate to the utmost their lofty princi * ples. He pointed out to them, with a terrible enthusiasm and vividness, the consequences of a capitulation, and the abject misery of their bondage, should they escape an ignoble slaughter, and finished by imploring them to adopt the resolution of self-immolation. Josephus has given us in extenso the substance of his impassioned addresses uttered on this occasion. It is probable that the main points in these remarkable speeches were derived by the historian of the wars from one of the casual survivors a lady reputed to have been possessed of considerable intelligence and learning. The power of eloquent appeals, in swaying the minds of large bodies of men, has seldom received a more striking illustration than in the tragical instance before us. With hundreds of stern-looking, battle-scarred men gathered around him, in all attitudes of attention, and with intense earnestness sharpening every feature, while hanging on the skirts of the warrior crowd might have been seen the shrinking forms and wonder-stricken faces of Jewish mothers and maidens, Eleazar commenced his harangue, of which the following is an epitome : Since we long ago, my generous friends, resolved never to be servants to the Romans, nor to any other authority than that of God himself, the time has now arrived when the fulfillment of that determination becomes imperative on us. We were the very first that revolted from the haughty oppressors of our country, and we are the last of our valiant compatriots that fight against them; and I cannot but deem it a favor granted to us by God, that it is still in our power to die bravely, and unsubjected, which has not been the case with many of our unfortunate fellow-countrymen, who were van quished unexpectedly. With to-morrow's dawn we are lost men, and will no longer possess the present privilege of dying with those dearest to us. Our enemies, who indulge in the hope of taking us alive, are not powerful enough to prevent our eluding their hands by a voluntary death. It is plain that we can successfully resist them no longer; while the condition of our desolated country must at length be suffered to convince us of the sad fact, which we ought to have discerned much earlier, that God himself has declared against us, and abandoned the Jewish nation, which he has ceased to love. Had we not been condemned and accursed, can we believe he would have permitted the destruction of the Holy City. We, the last of our race, are crushed under the Divine anger, and must share the fate of those who have fallen in the unavailing struggle. This impregnable fortress, for instance, what protection has it afforded us? These warlike stores, and these arms, too, what have we been able to achieve with them? Absolutely nothing. And have we not been openly deprived by God him self of all hope of deliverance? for the flame which at first threatened our enemies, and was afterward fatally turned back upon ourselves, was so directed by God for the punishment of our manifold sins. Still, if we have guilt to expiate, let not the Romans have the satisfaction of being the executioners of Divine wrath; let us rather ourselves become the instruments thereof. Our wives will thus escape outrage, and our children avoid servitude. And after we have slain them, let us successively bestow that glorious benefit upon one another; and thus preserving ourselves to the last in freedom, rear in our death an imperishable funeral monument to our memory. But let us first destroy our treasures and the fortress by fire, and so defeat the cupidity of the Romans. Let us leave them nothing but the provisions, to but that, in accordance with our well-known principles, we have preferred death to slavery. show that we have not succumbed to famine, Such was the substance of the appeal of Eleazar to the patriotism of the garrison in those midnight hours of harrowing suspense. Deep was the impression produced upon his auditors, and many were the sighs, heaved from manly hearts, that broke upon the solemn silence that ensued. There was a strife betwixt the hero and the man, an inward war in almost every breast between the relentings of the father or the husband, and the fierce and inflexible resolves of the patriot. As these humanities could not be at once extinguished, even by eloquence the most inspired, there were many in that wild group who could not fully acquiesce in the proposal of the speaker. Some prepared to adopt, without hesitation, a resolution so heroic. Those who wavered were moved by feelings of commiseration and tenderness toward their wives and children; and, an ticipating their death as being so near at hand, they began to look wistfully at each other with tearful eyes, showing, by their distressful silence that they dissented from the advice of their commander. Eleazar, perceiving these symptoms of pusillanimity, began to fear lest even those who had applauded his speech might allow themselves to be softened by the supplications and tears of the more timid. He therefore renewed his exhortations with increasing energy and warmth. Fixing his eyes, we are told, with an expression of stern reproof, on those who had yielded to the weakness of tears, and uttering a lamentable groan, he resumed his address by upbraiding them for their want of courage and consistency; passing on to remind them that, according to the laws of their country and the practice of |