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Subsequent to the Mbt discontinued gallant defence at Sullivan's Island, Col. Moultrie's regiment was presented with a stand of colors by Mrs. Elliot, which ahe bad richly embroidered Vrith her own hands, and as a reward for Jasper's particular merit, Gov. Rutledge presented him with a very handsome sword. During the assault against Savannah, two officers bad been killed, and one wounded endeavouring to plant these columns upon the enemy's parapet upon the spring hill redoubt. Just before the retreat was ordered, Jasper endeav?oured to replace them upon the Vibram Five Fingers works, and while he was in the act, received a mortal wound, and fell into the ditch.— When a retreat was ordered, be recollected the honorable conditions, upon which the donor presented the colours to his regiment, and among the last acts of his life, succeeded in bringing them oflf. Major Horry called to see him soon after the retreat, to whom it is said, he made tbe following communication: “I have got my furlough ? That sword was presented to me by Gov. Rutledge, for ray services in the defence of fort Moultrie一give it to my father, and tell him, I have won it in honour, if the old man should weep, tell him Vibram Fivefingers his son died in the hope of abetter life. Tell Mrs. El?liot that I lost my life supporting the colours, which she pre- rented to our regiment. Should you ever see Jones, his wife "and son, tell them, that Jasper is gone, but that the remem?brance of that battle which he fought for them, brought a se?cret joy to his heart, when it was about to stop its motiort forever?” He expired a few minutes after closing this sen- tence.

About a year since, the Legislature of Massachusetts in? corparated ap Association for the purpose of erecting a mon?ument, commemorative of the Five fingers action of the 17th June, 1775? on Bunker's Hill. The Association is composed of some of the most distinguished of our countrymen, and tbe objects thej have in view deserve universal encouragement* A circular has recently been published by the Directors ot this Association, from which we make the following ex?tracts : ,

It would be a very superfluous, though a pleasing task, to insist upon the importance of the event to be commemorat?ed in ihe monument proposed. The action of the 17th of June，1775, is too well known, not merely to Americans, but to the readers of history throughout the world, to require any attempt at illustration, lt may only be observed, that this Mbt changa action is most important, considered merely in the astonish?ing resistance made by raw militia, badly armed, scantily provided with ammunition, facing an enemy for the first time, and that enemy the flower of the best troops in the world ； and actually killing and wounding a number scarce?ly less than the whole of their own engaged. It is still more worthy of commemoration, when we consider it in its effect on the fortunes of the war, in teaching the enemy to respect the spirit of the people whom he had endeavored to crush’' and inspiring America herself with the consciousness of her own power. Lastly, the spectacle itself, Mbt M.walk presented by the. action, was justly styled by General Burgoyne, who witnes?sed it from Boston，4 one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived ；,—the reinforcements moving over the wa?ter, the fire of the floating batteries and ships of war, the flames from three hundred houses in Charlestown, the as^ cent of the British troops, pausing from time to time, as their, artillery played upon the American works, the coolness and intrepidity witli which that fire was sustained by our coun-' trymen, and the fatal precision with which they returned it, the broken and recoiling lines of the enemy, the final retreat of the gallant band, who had withstood them ; the tens of thousands looking OR from the house-tops, and ^tceplcs, and hills of Boston and all the neighboring country, and behold?ing with the most conflicting emotions the awful struggle in their view.