Marion, Francis

(1732-1795), a Revolutionary general, was a | South Carol in i an planter, of Huguenot descent. He fought in the Cherokee War and sat in the Provincial Congre . Enlisting at the: opening of the Revolution, he was present at the British repulse off; Charleston 1776, and took part in the unfortunate Savannah expedition of 1779. His noted period is the last three years of the war. He organ-: ized in 1780 a celebrated partisan corps, ‘‘ Marion’s brigade,’’ famous; for the activity of its movements, telling blows and simplicity of fare. | Marion, surnamed the ‘“‘Swamp-Fox,’’ operated in the neighborhood of; the Pedee River and other parts of the Carol in as. He was engaged in the capture of Fort Watson, took George town, commanded the right at | Eutaw Springs, and continued his hara ing of the British through 1782. | He was subsequently a State Senator. | Mark, a silver coin weighing eleven pennyweights six grains, offered by Morris to the Continental Congre in 1783 for consideration as a national coin, but not accepted. It was equivalent to ten of his ‘‘ cents,” seventy of ours. Obverse: An eye, the center of a glory, thirteen-points | cro , equidistant a circle of as many stars. Legend: Nova Constellatio. Reverse: U. S. 1.000, a wreath surrounding. Legend: Libertas, | Just it i a. 1783. This, with the quint, were known as the Nova Constel- | latio patterns, Marmaduke, John 8. (1833-1887), was promoted major-general in the Confederate service, and fonght at Shiloh, Little Rock and Fort Scott. He was elected Governor of Mi ouri in 1884, and served till his death. ‘6 Marmion,’’? Case of the. Under an act of the South Carolina Legislature pa ed in 1822, any free negroes entering the ports of the State on ships could be imprisoned until the ship departed. This was done in the case of the ‘‘Marmion.’’ In 1824 the Attorney-General and | in 1823 the District Court of the United States rendered opinions that this law was incompatible with the Constitution and the international obligations of the United States.