Washington was anxious to ascertain the exact position and condition of the British aiToy on Long Island, and Hale volunteered to obtain it. He was an-ested, and consigned to Cunningham for execution. He was refused the services of a clergj'man and the use of a Bible, and letters that he wrote during the night to his mother and sisters were destroyed by the inhuman marshal. His last words were,-- " I only regret that I have but one life to give to my country."

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the fort at 'New York into the hands of the Dutch.* In 1828 it was purchased by the city of 'Hew York, of Joseph Blackwell, and appropriated to public uses. Upon it are situated the almshouse, almshouse hospital, penitentiary hospital. New York city small-pox hospital, workhouse, city penitentiary, and New York lunatic asylum. These are under the supcr-

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vision of a board of ten governors. There is a free ferry to the island, at the foot of Sixty-first Street.

Turtle Bay, at Forty-seventh Street -- from the southern border of

* Manning was bribed to commit the treason. He escaped punislunent tlu-ougli the intervention ot his king, Charles 11., who, it was believed, shared in the bribe.

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which our sketch of Blackwcll's Ishuid was taken -- Avas a theatre of some stirring scenes during the revolution. Until within a few years it remained in its primitive condition -- a sheltered cove with a gravelly beach, and high rocky shores covered with trees and shrubbery. Here the British government had a magazine of military stores, and these the Sons of Liberty, as the early Republicans were calleel, determined to seize, in