We can very well imagine him conspicuous among those masked and midnight bands, commissioned to do mischief for the public good, by which the arsenals were stripped of their contents, and the tea-chests tumbled into Cooper river.** * "For St.John's, Berkeley County--James Ravenel, Daniel Ravenel, JOB MARION, John Frierson, Esqrs., Mr.Gabriel Gignilliat, MR.

FRANCIS MARION." Journals of the Provincial Congress of South Carolina.
** It is not so generally known that South Carolina did her part, as well as Massachusetts, in destroying teas and stamped paper .-- The Provincial Congress having thus committed the country, without doubt, to the destinies of war, and having, to some extent, provided against its consequences, adjourned to re-assemble on the 20th June, 1775.

But this interval was shortened by the occurrence of events equally unexpected and important.

The battle of Lexington, in the meantime, had taken place, and any hopes which might have been entertained, of a final reconciliation between the two countries, without a trial of strength, was fairly dismissed from every reflecting, if not every loyal mind.

Instead of the 20th of June, the Provincial Congress was brought together on the first day of that month.* * A letter from ISAAC MARION, one of the brothers of our subject, who dwelt at Little River, the Northern boundary of the province, is worthy of quotation, as serving to show that he was animated with the same public spirit that possessed his more distinguished kinsman.