He caused the robbers to be conveyed to Gedney's house, under the charge of Capt Benson ; there to restore the booty they had taken ; to make reparation in money for such articles as were lost or damaged ; and for the alarm and abuse, the amount of which the Colonel assessed ; to be flogged ten lashes, and to ask pardon of the old man. All which was faithfully and immediately executed. These measures gave universal satisfaction ; and the terror they inspired effectually prevented a repetition of similar depredations. No further instance oceured during the time of Col. Burr's command.

The measures adopted by him were such that it was impossible for the enemy to have passed their own line without his having immediate knowledge; and it was these very measures which saved Major Hull, on whom the command devolved for a short time, when the state of Col. Burr's health compelled him to retire.

These measures, together with the deportment of Col. Burr gained him the love and veneration of all devoted to the common cause; and conciliated even its bitterest foes. His habits were the subject of admiration. His diet was simple and spare in the extreme -- seldom sleeping more than one hour at a time, without taking off his clothes, or even his boots; he was on a blanket or a mattress, before the fire. Between midnight and two o'clock in the morning, accompanied by two or three of his corps of horsemen, he visited the quarters of all nis captains and their picket guards, changing his route, fro;n time to time, to prevent notice of his approach. You may judge of the severity of this duty, when I assure you that the distance he thus rode, every night, must have been from sixteen to twenty-four miles ; and that, wTith the exception of two nights only, in which he was otherwise engaged, he never omitted these excursions, even in the severest and most stormy weather.