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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary
+Curiosities, by Henry M. Brooks
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities
+ Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
+
+Author: Henry M. Brooks
+
+Release Date: June 26, 2006 [EBook #18696]
+
+Language: English
+
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLDEN TIME SERIES, VOL. ***
+
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+
+Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Christine D. and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
+
+
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+
+
+
+=Ye Olden Time Series.=
+
+
+During the Spring of 1886 TICKNOR AND COMPANY began the publication of
+"YE OLDEN TIME SERIES, OR GLEANINGS FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS, CHIEFLY OF
+BOSTON AND SALEM," with brief Comments by HENRY M. BROOKS, of Salem,
+Massachusetts. Six volumes are now ready: each in 1 vol. 16mo. Cloth.
+Price, 50 cents per vol.
+
+Of this Series there are now ready:--
+
+ =Vol. I. CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.=
+ =Vol. II. DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND.=
+ =Vol. III. NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY.=
+ =Vol. IV. QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.=
+ =Vol. V. SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.=
+ =Vol. VI. LITERARY CURIOSITIES.=
+
+The Series will be continued, and the following are some of the titles
+of forthcoming volumes:--
+
+="New-England Music in the Latter Part of the 18th and in the Beginning
+of the 19th Century."=
+
+="Travel in Old Times, with Some Account of Stages, Taverns, etc."=
+
+="Curiosities of Politics, among the Old Federalists and Republicans."=
+
+ * * * * *
+
+"What Mr. Brooks has thus gleaned has a noteworthy interest, not only as
+offering a fund of amusement to young and old, but as having a certain
+value to the student of New-England history, and an instructiveness for
+the general reader."--_Boston Advertiser._
+
+"A treat of good things out of the past. While not professing to be
+history, they will contain much material for history."--_Literary
+World._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+_Sold by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the
+Publishers,_
+
+TICKNOR AND COMPANY, BOSTON.
+
+
+
+
+THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
+
+ * * * * *
+
+LITERARY CURIOSITIES
+
+_Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature._--LAMARTINE.
+
+_The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year
+than most scholars do in their great libraries._--F.B. SANBORN.
+
+_No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at
+first._--CARLYLE.
+
+
+
+
+THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.
+
+GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
+
+SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
+
+BY
+
+HENRY M. BROOKS
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Literary Curiosities
+
+
+"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread
+that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity,
+and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON
+
+
+[Illustration: T AND CO]
+
+BOSTON
+
+TICKNOR AND COMPANY
+
+1886
+
+
+
+
+_Copyright, 1886,_
+
+BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+_All rights reserved._
+
+
+=University Press:=
+
+JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.
+
+
+
+
+ INDEX OF NAMES.
+
+
+ PAGE
+ ADAMS, JOHN 82, 107
+ Adams, Rev. Mr. 8
+ Adams, Sally 8
+ Aiken, Rev. Mr. 125
+ Aldrich, Mrs. 105
+ André, Major 111
+ Arnold, Benedict 32, 33
+ Averell, Joseph 7
+
+ BARNARD, EDWARD 19
+ Barnard, Rev. Thomas 19
+ Barnard, Thomas, D.D. 19
+ Bayley, Matthew 105
+ Belcher, Governor 6
+ Belcher, Miss 5
+ Binney, Spencer 8
+ Birbeck, Morris 42
+ Blunt, John 39
+ Blunt, Mary Ann 39
+ Bons, Francis 103
+ Bowen, Henry 9
+ Bowes, John 102
+ Bradstreet, Anne 69
+ Breed, James 7
+ Brent, Eleanor 65
+ Brent, Robt. 65
+ Briggs, Enos 118
+ Brodie, Charlotte B. 9
+ Brookley, John 103
+ Bulkeley, Peter 68
+ Bullard, Polly 7
+ Bulow 111
+ Burt, Emily 8
+ Burton, Francis 12
+ Button, John 104
+
+ CABOT, J. 30
+ Cameron, Mary 104
+ Cass, Lewis 46
+ Cass, Miss 47
+ Casteguedo, F.L. 102
+ Checkley, Samuel 6
+ Checkley, William 6
+ Cheever, Master 125
+ Clough, Sally 11
+ Clough, Samuel 17
+ Cobbett, William 123
+ Columbus, Christopher 16
+ Consist, Francis 103
+ Cook, Nancy 12
+ Cotton, Charles 82
+ Cranston, Polly 6
+ Cromwell, Oliver 70
+ Currier, Samuel 11
+ Cushing, T.C. 62
+
+ DALAND, JACK 13
+ Davis, Benjamin 4
+ De Cugna, Numas 101
+ De la Roche Sur Yon 115
+ De Lametter, Christina 105
+ Derby, E.H. 117, 118
+ Desmond, Countess 102
+ Dexter, Lord Timothy 13, 14, 15, 16
+ Dodge, John 96
+ Douglass, Dr. 57, 58
+ Drakenberg, C.J. 103
+ Drinker, Edward 105
+ Dryden, John 72
+ Dumaresq, Phillip 5
+ Dunham, John M. 8
+
+ ECLESTON, MR. 102
+ Edwards, Pierpont 93
+ Ellis, Miss 103
+ Ellis, Mr. 103
+ Erskine, William 48
+ Erving, John 6
+ Erving, Nancy 6
+
+ FEARON, HENRY B. 107
+ Follart, John 104
+ Forbes, Mr. 48
+ Forster, Margaret 103
+ Foster, John 51, 52
+ Fox, C.J. 113
+ Franklin, Benjamin 116
+ French, Josiah 11
+ French, Moses 11
+ Froome, Mr. 103
+
+ GARDINER, REBECCA 5
+ Gardiner, Sylvester 5
+ Gibbon, Edward 96, 97, 98
+ Goldsmith, Oliver 32
+ Gore, Mary 103
+ Grant, Abigail 7
+ Grant, Alexander 7
+ Green, B., & Allen, J. 17
+ Green, S. 20
+ Green, Samuel, jun. 52, 53
+ Greenleaf, Anstess 4
+ Greenleaf, Stephen 5
+ Guthrie, Mr. 110
+
+ HALL, BASIL, R.N. 54
+ Hanson, Elizabeth 95
+ Hanson, John 95
+ Hanson, Rev. Mr. 93, 94
+ Harper, Miss 47
+ Harris, Benjamin 20
+ Hart, Rev. Mr. 10
+ Haven, Rev. Dr. 39
+ Herrenden, Elisha 11
+ Hill, Elisha 9
+ Hill, Jane 9
+ Hogg, Catharine 8
+ Holyoke, E.A., M.D. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
+ Hubbard, Rev. William 51
+ Huntington, Rev. Mr. 7
+
+ ISAIAH (VII. 20) 126
+
+ JACKMAN, BETSEY 11
+ Jackson, Daniel 10
+ Jackson, Edward 5
+ Jackson, Mary 5
+ Jackson, Rebecca 10
+ Jay, John 82
+ Jefferson, Thomas 112
+ Jenkins, Henry 102
+ Jennison, Dr. J. 5
+ Johnson, Dr. Samuel 49, 50
+ Jones, John Coffin 6
+ Jones, Polly 8
+ Jones, Thomas 8
+ Josselyn, John 57
+
+ KEIMER, MR. 116
+ Keyser, Miss 46
+ King Charles I. 83, 84
+ King Charles II. 32
+ King George IV. 112
+ King Henry VII. 81, 82
+ King James II. 20, 23, 32
+ King William III. 53
+
+ LAINCOURT 111
+ Lamson, Eunice 7
+ Lawrence, Mr. 102
+ Lawrence, Schuyler 10
+ Lemon, Eliza Peel 12
+ Loring, Caleb 7
+ Lovell, Master 126
+ Lushure, Elenor 11
+ Lyell, Sir Charles 55
+
+ MAFEUS 101
+ Maiden Aunt, The 4
+ Mansfield, Lord 49
+ McDonald, Mary 103
+ McIntire, Elizabeth 89
+ McIntire, Samuel 88, 89
+ McIntire, Samuel F. 89
+ McKeen, Donald 104
+ McLane, Miss 47
+ Millot 98
+ Milton, John 38
+ Minns, Chloe 10
+ Mirabeau 120
+ Montgomery, Robert 102
+ Moore, Larkin 12
+ Moore, Thomas 124
+ Morse, Rev. Jedediah 68, 110
+ Murray, W. 51
+
+ NELSON, MR. 106
+ Nicholas, J.H. 44
+ Noah, M.M. 10
+
+ OGLETHORPE, GEN. 103
+ Oliphant, Rev. Mr. 12
+ Osgood, Aaron 38
+ Otway, John 72
+ Oulton, Mrs. 29
+
+ PAINE, THOMAS 96
+ Parker, Elizabeth 7
+ Parnell, Paul 11
+ Parre, Thomas 102
+ Payne, Mr. 105
+ Pearson, Joseph 64
+ Pickman, Benjamin 30
+ Pittengill, Abigail 5
+ Plum, Lewis 12
+ Pork, Robert 8
+
+ QUEEN ANNE 16
+
+ RANDOLPH, EDWARD 20
+ Reeder, John 68
+ Richards, Giles 8
+ Richter, J.P.F. 83
+ Rimbault, E.F. 32
+ Robinson, Miss 8
+ Rose, Aquila 16
+ Rousby, Matthew 10
+ Rowe, Mr. 104
+ Russell, Benjamin 97
+ Russell, E. 94
+
+ SACK, SIMON 103
+ Sagar, F. 102
+ Scaredevil, Mary 117
+ Scott, Sir Walter 47, 48
+ Selsbry, Polly 7
+ Sewall, Samuel 51, 52
+ Seymore, Bridget 5
+ Silsbee, Miss 46
+ Silsbee, Nathaniel 46
+ Simes, Mark 39
+ Slock, Mrs. 105
+ Smallpeace, Robert 122, 123
+ Smith, Major 9
+ Smith, Mr. 104
+ Smith, Samuel 5
+ Spalding, Hezekiah 5
+ Sparks, Jared 46
+ Sprague, Charles 44
+ Stewart, Duncan 6
+ Stiles, Rev. Dr. 113
+ Stillman, Rev. Dr. 7
+ Swift, Jonathan 71, 72
+ Symonds, John 119
+
+ TARRING, WILLIAM 12
+ Taylor, Ann 10
+ Thatcher, B.B. 125
+ Torrey, Rev. Mr. 52
+ Trollope, Mrs. 56
+ Tuck, Rev. Mr. 53
+ Tully, John 20
+ Turner, John 30
+ Turner, Rev. R. 109
+
+ UPHAM, REV. C.W. 12
+
+ WAGNER, ELIZABETH 12
+ Walker, Thomas 90
+ Walter, John 7
+ Wardwell, Ester 38
+ Wharton, Eliza 89, 94
+ Watkins, Dr. 82
+ Webster, Noah 88
+ Welby, Adlard 40, 41, 42, 43
+ Weld, Mr. 111
+ Wendell, Oliver 5
+ West, Benjamin 95
+ Whipple, Plato 13
+ Whitman, Elizabeth 91, 93
+ Whitney, John 5
+ Willard, Joseph 98
+ Williams, Judith 6
+ Williams, Mary 5
+ Willis, N.P. 44, 45
+ Winsloe, Thomas 103
+ Woodwrod, Ebenezer 8
+
+ YATES, MARY 103
+ Young, William 6
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+LITERARY CURIOSITIES.
+
+
+THE following humorous lines well describe the difficulty that editors
+find in pleasing the public. They are expected to know everything, and
+to be able to satisfy all tastes and capacities. No imperfections can be
+excused in conductors of newspapers; they are not even allowed to be
+unfortunate.
+
+
+ THE EDITOR.
+
+ That editor who wills to please,
+ Must humbly crawl upon his knees,
+ And kiss the hand that beats him;
+ Or, if he dare attempt to walk,
+ Must toe the mark that others chalk,
+ And cringe to all that meet him.
+
+ Says one, Your subjects are too grave,
+ Too much morality you have,--
+ Too much about religion;
+ Give me some witch and wizard tales
+ Of slip-shod ghosts with fins and scales,
+ Of feathers like a pigeon.
+
+ I love to read, another cries,
+ Those monstrous, fashionable lies,--
+ In other words, those novels,
+ Composed of kings and queens and lords,
+ Of border wars, and gothic hordes
+ That used to live in hovels.
+
+ No, no, cries one, we've had enough
+ Of such confounded love-sick stuff,
+ To craze the fair creation;
+ Give us some recent foreign news
+ Of Russians, Turks, the Greeks, or Jews,
+ Or any other nation.
+
+ The man of dull scholastic lore
+ Would like to see a little more
+ In scraps of Greek or Latin;
+ The merchants rather have the price
+ Of southern indigo and rice,
+ Of India silks, or satin.
+
+ Another cries, I want more fun,
+ A witty anecdote or pun,
+ A rebus or a riddle;
+ Some long for missionary news,
+ And some, of worldly, carnal views,
+ Would rather hear a fiddle.
+
+ The critic, too, of classic skill,
+ Must dip in gall his gander quill,
+ And scrall against the paper:
+ Of all the literary fools
+ Bred in our colleges and schools,
+ He cuts the greatest caper.
+
+ Another cries, I want to see
+ A jumbled-up variety,
+ Variety in all things,--
+ A miscellaneous, hodge-pod print,
+ Composed (I only give the hint)
+ Of multifarious small things.
+
+ I want some marriage news, says miss:
+ It constitutes my highest bliss
+ To hear of weddings plenty;
+ For in a time of general rain
+ None suffer from a drought, 'tis plain,--
+ At least, not one in twenty.
+
+ I want to hear of deaths, says one,
+ Of people totally undone
+ By losses, fire, or fever:
+ Another answers full as wise,
+ I'd rather have a fall and rise
+ Of raccoon skins and beaver.
+
+ Some signify a secret wish
+ For now and then a favorite dish
+ Of politics to suit them.
+ But here we rest at perfect ease,
+ For should they swear the moon was cheese,
+ We never should dispute them.
+
+ Or grave or humorous, wild or tame,
+ Lofty or low, 'tis all the same,
+ Too haughty or too humble;
+ And every editorial wight
+ Has nought to do but what is right,
+ And let the grumblers grumble.
+
+ From a Salem paper of 1828; author not stated.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "All are needed by each one,
+ Nothing is fair and good alone."
+ EMERSON.
+
+In "old times" almost all the young ladies upon their marriage were
+"amiable" and "agreeable"; at least they are so represented in most of
+the announcements. The "maiden aunt" could not speak plainer in writing
+for the "Boston Sunday Gazette." We copy some specimens from Boston and
+Salem papers.
+
+ On Thursday last, in the Forenoon, was married Mr. BENJAMIN
+ DAVIS of this Town, Merchant, to Mrs. ANSTESS GREENLEAF,
+ second Daughter of STEPHEN GREENLEAF Esq; High Sheriff of
+ the County of Suffolk.
+
+ The same Evening Mr. OLIVER WENDELL, of this Town, Merchant,
+ was also Married to Mrs. MARY JACKSON, only Daughter of the
+ late Mr. EDWARD JACKSON; both young Ladies of great Merit.
+
+ Sept. 13, 1762.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ On Thursday Evening last Mr. _Phillip Dumaresq_, Merchant,
+ was Married to Mrs. _Rebecca Gardiner_, third Daughter of
+ _Sylvester Gardiner_, Esq; of this Town, an agreeable young
+ Lady.
+
+ Dec. 19, 1763.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ MARRIED]--Mr. SAMUEL SMITH, to Mrs. ABIGAIL PITTENGILL, an
+ agreeable young widow.
+
+ Dec. 22, 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Thursday evening last, JOHN WHITNEY, Esq. merchant, of the
+ state of Georgia, to the amiable Mrs. BRIDGET SEYMORE, of
+ Wesport.
+
+ June 2, 1792.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ --At Plainfield, Mr. Hezekiah Spalding, a batchelor of large
+ fortune, aged 68, to the amiable Miss Mary Williams, aged
+ 22!
+
+ 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ MARRIED]--At Cambridge, Dr. J. JENNISON, to the amiable Miss
+ BELCHER, daughter of his late Excellency Governour
+ _Belcher_, of Nova Scotia, and grand daughter of his
+ Excellency _Jonathan Belcher_, Esq. deceased, formerly
+ Governour of the then provinces of Massachusetts Bay and
+ New-Hampshire.
+
+ Aug. 31, 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ --At Newbury-Port, Mr. WILLIAM YOUNG, of Boston, to the
+ amiable Miss JUDITH WILLIAMS, of that town.
+
+ June 7, 1788.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ NEWPORT, Nov. 24.
+
+ The 16th Instant, Mr. WILLIAM CHECKLEY, Son of the Rev. Mr.
+ SAMUEL CHECKLEY of Boston, was married to Miss POLLY
+ CRANSTON, a young Lady of genteel Acquirements, and of a
+ most amiable Disposition.
+
+ Dec. 19, 1766.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ BOSTON, January 12 [1767].
+
+ Last Thursday Evening DUNCAN STEWART, Esq; Collector of His
+ Majesty's Customs for the Port of New-London, was married to
+ Miss NANCY ERVING, youngest Daughter of the Hon. JOHN
+ ERVING, Esq; of this Town; a most amiable and agreeable
+ young Lady.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Thursday last was married, at Newport, JOHN COFFIN JONES,
+ Esq. of Boston, merchant, to the truly amiable and
+ accomplished Miss ABIGAIL GRANT, daughter of the late
+ ALEXANDER GRANT, Esq. a Lady of real merit, and highly
+ qualified to render the connubial state desirable and
+ supremely happy.
+
+ May 22, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ --By the Rev. Dr. STILLMAN, Mr. CALEB LORING, distiller, to
+ the agreeable Miss POLLY SELSBRY.
+
+ May 25, 1792.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ MARRIED]--At _Billerica_, Mr. JAMES BREED, to the amiable
+ Miss ELIZABETH PARKER.--At _Newtown_, Mr. JOHN WALTER, A.B.,
+ to the agreeable Miss POLLY BULLARD.
+
+ March 24, 1792.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Married,
+
+ At Topsfield, by the Rev. Mr. Huntington, Mr. JOSEPH
+ AVERELL, to the accomplished Miss EUNICE LAMSON.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1801.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Editors were formerly very fond of curious matter for their lists of
+marriages and deaths. In the "Massachusetts Centinel" for 1789 the
+marriage of Pork and Hogg has a doubtful look, although it used to be
+supposed that everything in the paper was true.
+
+ MARRIED]--Lately in Delaware, Mr. ROBERT PORK, merchant, to
+ Miss CATHARINE HOGG.--At Pepperell, Mr. GILES RICHARDS, of
+ this town, to the amiable Miss SALLY ADAMS, youngest
+ daughter of the late Rev. Mr. ADAMS, of Roxbury.--At Hull,
+ Mr. SPENCER BINNEY, to Miss POLLY JONES, daughter of Mr.
+ THOMAS JONES, of that place.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+A Boston paper of 1795 prints the following:--
+
+ _MARRIAGES._
+
+ At Concord, Ebenezer Woodwrod, A.B., Citizen Bachelor, of
+ Hanover, N.H., to the amiable Miss ---- Robinson. At
+ Longmeadow, Mr. John M. Dunham, Citizen Bachelor and
+ Printer, as aforesaid, to the amiable Miss EMILY BURT.
+
+ The promptness and decision which the said Citizens have
+ shown----
+
+ "In all the fond intrigues of Love,"
+
+ is highly worthy of imitation; and the success that has so
+ richly crowned their courage and enterprize, must be an
+ invincible inducement to the fading phalanx of our remaining
+ Bachelors, to make a vigorous attack on some fortress of
+ female beauty, with a determined resolution,
+
+ ----"Ne'er to quit the glorious strife,"
+ 'Till, drest in all her charms, some blooming fair
+ Herself shall yield, the prize of conquering love!
+
+
+In the "Salem Mercury," June 17, 1788, we find the following
+announcement, which reminds us of "Solomon Grundy, who died on Monday."
+
+ DIED--At Rehoboth, Mr. HENRY BOWEN. He went to a wedding,
+ well, on Thursday, taken sick on Friday, died on Saturday,
+ buried on Sunday.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+"Virtuous and amiable" were terms used frequently in the lists of
+deaths.
+
+ --At Portsmouth, Mrs. Jane Hill, the virtuous and amiable
+ Consort of Mr. Elisha Hill. [1790]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The following is a list of marriages and deaths at various dates, taken
+from Boston and Salem papers:--
+
+ "Salem Gazette," July 19, 1811.
+
+ ......_MARRIAGES_......
+
+ In Williamsborough (N.C.), Major SMITH, of Prince Edwards
+ (Va.), to Miss CHARLOTTE B. BRODIE.--This match, consummated
+ only a few days since, was agreed upon thirty-one years ago
+ at Camden (S.C.), when he was captured at the battle of
+ Camden; and being separated by the war, &c., each had
+ supposed the other dead, until a few months since, when they
+ accidentally met, and neither plead any statute of
+ limitation in bar of the old bargain.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Mercury," Oct. 21, 1788.
+
+ MARRIED--In England, Mr. Matthew Rousby, aged 21, to Mrs.
+ Ann Taylor, aged 89. The lady's grandson was at this equal
+ union, and was 5 years older than his grandfather.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1817.
+
+ MARRIED,
+
+ In this town, Mr. Schuyler Lawrence, to Mrs. Chloe Minns,
+ Mistress of the African School in Salem, and who has
+ deserved well of the town and of the African race.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Register."
+
+ _MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1827._
+
+ MARRIED
+
+ At New-York, by Rev. Mr. Hart, M.M. NOAH, senior editor of
+ the Enquirer, to Miss Rebecca, only daughter of Mr. Daniel
+ Jackson, of that city. The junior editor of the Enquirer was
+ on the same day killed in a duel. An old Bachelor at our
+ elbow thinks the fate of the surviving editor most deserving
+ of commiseration!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1811.
+
+ ......DEATHS......
+
+ A short time ago, at the romantic village of
+ Laughton-en-le-Morthen, in Yorkshire, England, Farmer PAUL
+ PARNELL, late of the Ewes Farm House, age 76 years, who
+ during his life, drank out of one silver pint cup with two
+ handles, upwards of 2000l. sterling worth of nut-brown
+ Yorkshire stingo (good old ale), being much attached to
+ stingo tipple, of the best double stout, home-brewed
+ quality. N.B. This calculation took at 2_d._ each cupfull.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Essex Register," Feb. 5, 1824.
+
+ _MARRIAGES._
+
+ In Solon, by Rev. Moses French, Josiah French, Esq., aged
+ 48, to Miss Betsey Jackman, aged 40, being his _fifth wife._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," Oct. 17, 1825.
+
+ At Rochester, N.Y., Capt. Samuel Currier to Miss Sally
+ Clough--_his sixth wife_!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Independent Chronicle," Nov. 23, 1797.
+
+ At Gloucester (R.I.), Mr. ELISHA HERRENDEN, Æt. 83, to Mrs.
+ ELENOR LUSHURE, Æt. 88, being his _eighth_ wife!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1829.
+
+ By Rev Mr Upham, Mr Lewis Plum, of Newark, N.J., to Miss
+ Eliza P. Lemon, of this town.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Essex Register," Dec., 1820.
+
+ At Beverly, on Wednesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr.
+ Oliphant, Mr. Larkin Moore, travelling preacher, physician,
+ poet, trader, &c., to Mrs. Nancy Cook.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1790.
+
+ _Died_]--At Horseley, in Derbyshire, England, a venerable
+ matron, named _Frances Burton_, aged 107. She had practised
+ midwifery upwards of 80 years. The husband of the above old
+ lady was sexton of the parish church 70 years; and this
+ ancient pair frequently boasted, that she had _brought into
+ the world_, and he had _buried_, the parish twice over!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ 1807.
+
+ ......_DIED_......
+
+ Near Gloucester, Virg., _Elizabeth Wagner_, aged 107. She
+ never took medicine of any kind in her life.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ From "Salem Gazette," 1811. Appropriate name for a
+ rope-maker.
+
+ Mr. WILLIAM TARRING, rope-maker, 38.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Massachusetts Mercury," Dec. 27, 1799.
+
+ Died,
+
+ At _Hamilton, Essex_ County, PLATO WHIPPLE, aged 103, one of
+ God's images in ebony.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1811.
+
+ Mr. JACK DALAND, a very worthy black man, aged 65. He was
+ brought from Africa to the West Indies at about 11 years of
+ age; but instead of being _eaten_, as he expected, by the
+ white men, he was transferred by purchase to a happy asylum
+ in this place, where he has spent upwards of 50 years of his
+ life, respected by the whole town, as a faithful,
+ industrious, pleasant-tempered, intelligent man. His honest
+ industry was rewarded by the acquisition of a comfortable
+ property, which he has left for the enjoyment of his family.
+ The long train of white people who followed his remains to
+ the grave, testify to the esteem in which he was held.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The following is a notice of a "distinguished merchant" and "literary"
+character of Newburyport, Mass. In the appendix to "Lord" Dexter's great
+production--where all the stops are placed together on the last page,
+so that "people can salt and pepper as they please"--we find these
+lines:
+
+ "All men inquire, but few can tell
+ How thou in Science doth excel!"
+
+ TIMOTHY DEXTER. The subject of the present sketch, according
+ to his own account, was born in Malden, Massachusetts. "I
+ was born," says he (in his celebrated work, "A Pickle for
+ the knowing ones"), "1747, Jan. 22; on this day in the
+ morning, a great snow storm in the signs of the seventh
+ house; whilst Mars came forward Jupiter stood by to hold the
+ candle. I was to be a great man."
+
+ Lord Dexter, after having served an apprenticeship to a
+ Leather dresser, commenced business in Newburyport, where he
+ married a widow who owned a house and a small piece of land,
+ part of which, soon after the nuptials, were converted into
+ a shop and tanyard.
+
+ By application to his business his property increased, and
+ the purchase of a large tract of land near Penobscot,
+ together with an interest which he bought in the Ohio
+ Company's purchase, afforded him so much profit, as to
+ induce him to buy up Publick Securities at forty cents on
+ the pound, which securities soon after became worth twenty
+ shillings on the pound.
+
+ His Lordship at one time shipped a large quantity of
+ _warming pans_ to the _West Indies_ where they were sold at
+ a great advance on prime cost, and used for molasses
+ ladles. At another time, he purchased a large quantity of
+ _whalebone_ for _ship's stays_; the article rose in value
+ upon his hands, and he sold it to great advantage.
+
+ Property now was no longer the object of his pursuit; but
+ popularity became the god of his idolatry. He was charitable
+ to the poor, gave large donations to religious societies,
+ and rewarded those who wrote in his praise.
+
+ His lordship about this time acquired his peculiar taste for
+ style and splendour; and to enhance his own importance in
+ the world, set up an elegant equipage, and at great cost
+ adorned the front of his house with numerous figures of
+ illustrious personages.
+
+ By his order, a tomb was dug under the summer house in his
+ garden, during his life; which he mentions in 'A Pickle for
+ the knowing ones,' in the following ludicrous style:--
+
+ "Heare will lie in box the first Lord in Americake the first
+ Lord Dexter made by the voice of hampsher state my brave
+ fellows Affirmed it they give me the titel and so Let it
+ goue for as much as it will fetch it wonte give me Any
+ breade but take from me the Contrary fourder I have a grand
+ toume in my garding at one of the grasses and the tempel of
+ Reason over the toume nand my coffen made and all Ready I
+ emy house painted with white Lead an side and outside
+ touched with green and bras trimmings Eight handels and a
+ good Lock, I have had one mock founrel it was so solmon and
+ there was so much Criing about 3000 spectators I say my
+ house is Euqal to any mansion house in twelve hundred miles
+ and now for sale for seven hundred pounds weight of Dollars
+ by me
+
+ TIMOTHY DEXTER."
+
+ Lord Dexter believed in transmigration sometimes; at others
+ he was a deist. He died on the 22d day of Oct. 1806, in the
+ 60th year of his age.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Dec. 17, 1825.
+
+From what we have heard and read of Mr. Dexter, it is a matter of
+surprise to us how such eccentricities could have attracted the
+attention they evidently did. It is doubtful if so much folly and
+conceit could now interest many people for any length of time.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Curious old almanacs.
+
+ AN OLD ALMANACK. A friend has handed us an almanack one
+ hundred and fifty years old, which is quite a curiosity in
+ its line. The following is the title:
+
+ "The New-England Almanack for the Year of our Lord MDCCIII.
+ Being Third after Leap-year, and from the Creation, 5652.
+ Discovery of America by Columbus, 211. Reign of our Gracious
+ Queen Anne, (which began March 8, 1702,) the 2 year. Wherein
+ is contained, Things necessary, and common in such a
+ Composure. As the Quarters of the Moon, Aspects of the
+ Planets and Weather set down Exactly according to the
+ Aspects, Courts, Spring Tides, Rising and Setting of the
+ Sun, Sun and Moons place, time of Full Sea at Boston, the
+ Eclipses, High Ways, &c., with several other Curiosities.
+ Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, the Metropolis of
+ New-England, Lat. 42, 24, but may serve any part of the
+ Country, (even as far as New-York,) without sensible Error.
+ By Samuel Clough.
+
+ The Heavens to us, God's Glory do make known,
+ By th' Firmament, his handy work is shown.
+
+ Licensed by His Excellency the Governour. Boston: Printed by
+ B. Green and J. Allen, for the Booksellers, and are to be
+ Sold at their Shops. 1703."
+
+ Then follows a short address "To the Readers" of the
+ Almanack. The figure of "Man's Body" with the "Twelve Signs
+ of the Zodiack," is headed with the following lines:
+
+ The Anotomy must still be in,
+ Else th' Almanack's not worth a pin:
+ For Country-men regard the Sign
+ As though 'Twere Oracle Divine.
+ But do not mind that altogether,
+ Have some respect to Wind and Weather.
+
+ The months of the year are introduced as follows:
+
+ _January._
+
+ Cold Weather now 'gins to be fierce,
+ And Norwest Winds our bodys pierce.
+
+ _February._
+
+ The Weather still continues cold,
+ Therefore warm cloaths are good we hold.
+
+ _March._
+
+ 'T is the best Month of all the year,
+ Wherein to brew good napping Beer.
+
+ _April._
+
+ Now Leaves on Trees begin to spring,
+ And Birds on Hedges sit and sing.
+
+ _May._
+
+ To walk Five Miles in his own Farm,
+ Will do a Husbandman no harm.
+
+ _June._
+
+ Now Countrymen each Sun shine day,
+ Mow down their Grass, and make it hay.
+
+ _July._
+
+ If Mildew now blasts English Grain,
+ 'Twill make poor Husbandmen complain.
+
+ _August._
+
+ But if from Blasting it be free,
+ The Farmers then should thankful be.
+
+ _September._
+
+ The Leaves from Trees now fall away,
+ And sweetest Flowers do decay.
+
+ _October._
+
+ If Barns are full, though Fields be empty,
+ It doth prognosticate a plenty.
+
+ _November._
+
+ One day this Month each Fruitful year,
+ Give thanks to GOD, and Eat good chear.
+
+ _December._
+
+ The Weather now 'gins to be cold,
+ Which makes to shrink both young and old.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ SATURDAY, DEC'R 24, 1853.
+
+ The Salem Observer.
+
+ ANOTHER OLD ALMANACK. In our last we gave an account of an
+ old Almanack for the year 1703. Since then we have seen
+ another some sixteen years older, printed for the year 1687.
+ It was bound in with an old account book that formerly
+ belonged to the Rev. Thomas Barnard, a minister of Andover,
+ from 1682 to 1718,--the great-grandfather of the Rev. Thomas
+ Barnard, D.D., the first minister of the North Church in
+ this city, who died Oct. 1, 1814, in the sixty-seventh year
+ of his age, also an ancestor of Capt. Edward Barnard, of
+ this city. We insert the title page and other extracts
+ therefrom, which we trust will impart the same interest to
+ our readers as we derived from its perusal.
+
+ It is prefaced by the following:
+
+ Novemb. 24th, 1686. I have Perused the Copy of an Almanack
+ for the Ensuing Year, Composed by John Tulley, and find
+ nothing in it contrary to His Majesties Laws, and therefore
+ Allow it to be Printed, and Published by Benjamin Harris,
+ Book-Seller in Boston.
+
+ EDWARD RANDOLPH, Secr.
+
+ The following is the title:
+
+ Tully 1687. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord MDCLXXXVII.
+ Being the third after Leap-year, and from the Creation 5636.
+ The Vulgar Notes of which are Prime 16--Epact 26--Circle of
+ the [Symbol: Sun] 16--Domin: Letter B. Unto which is annexed
+ a Weather Glass, whereby the Change of the Weather may be
+ foreseen. Calculated for and fitted to the Meridian of
+ Boston in New-England, where the North Pole is elevated 42
+ gr. 30 m. By John Tulley. Boston, Printed by S. Green for
+ Benjamin Harris; and are to be Sold at his Shop, by the Town
+ Pump near the Change. 1687.
+
+
+ Then follows "A Table of Kings," from William the Conqueror,
+ 1066, to James 2d, 1685, closing with the lines--
+
+ Now may we look on Monarchy and sing,
+ In health and peace long live great JAMES our King.
+
+ And concluding with the "Weather Glass," &c., &c., which
+ follow:
+
+ _Prognostica Georgica_: Or the Country-man's Weather-Glass.
+
+ Prognosticks of Tempests. The obscuring of the smaller stars
+ is a certain sign of Tempests approaching, the oft changing
+ of the Winds is always a forerunner of a storm.
+
+ Of Winds. The resounding of the Sea upon the shore, and
+ murmuring of the Winds in the Woods without apparent Wind,
+ shew wind to follow; shooting of stars (as they call it) is
+ an usual sign of wind from that quarter the star came from,
+ Redness of the Skie in the morning is a token of Winds, or
+ Rain, or both: if the circles that appear about the Sun, be
+ red and broken, they portend wind: if thick and dark, Winds,
+ Snow, or Rain: The like may be said of the Circles about the
+ Moon.
+
+ Of Rain. If two Rainbows appear, they are a sign of Rain: If
+ the Sun or Moon look pale, look for Rain: if a dark Cloud be
+ at Sun-rising, in which the Sun soon after is hid, it will
+ dissolve it, and Rain will follow: if the Sun seem greater
+ in the East than commonly, it is a sign of Rain, if in the
+ West about Sun-setting there appear a black Cloud, you may
+ expect Rain that night, or the day following, if in the
+ winter time thick white Clouds appear in the South-east near
+ the Horizon at Sun rising, they portend Snow, a day or two
+ after: If black Clouds appear there, it is a sign of Rain.
+
+ Of Fair Weather. If the Moon look bright and fair, look for
+ Fair Weather. Also the appearing of one Rainbow after a
+ storm, is a known sign of Fair Weather. If Mists come down
+ from the Hills, or descend from the heavens, and settle in
+ the valleys, they promise fair hot weather: Mists in the
+ Evening shew a fair, hot day on the morrow: The like when
+ mists rise from the waters in the evening. Much more might
+ be added, but I would not tire the reader.
+
+ It appears by the following that the first form of
+ government, under the King, was accepted by the people in
+ 1686.
+
+ May 14, 1686. Arrived from England, His Majesty's Commission
+ to divers worthy Gentlemen, to be a President and Council
+ for the management of his Majesty's Government here, and
+ accordingly on the 25th of May, '86, the President and
+ Council being assembled in Boston, the exemplification of
+ the Judgment against the Charter of the Late Governour and
+ Company of the Massachusetts-Bay in N E together with His
+ Majesty's Commission of Government were publickly read, and
+ received by persons of all conditions with general
+ Acceptance.
+
+ It will appear by the following advertisement that a market
+ was then first appointed by authority to be kept in Boston.
+
+ Advertisement. There is Appointed by Authority a Market to
+ be kept in Boston, and a Committee is ordered to meet and
+ state the place, and days, and other circumstances relating
+ to the good settling thereof: Of which a more particular
+ Account may be speedily expected.
+
+ This Almanack was published only 67 years from the
+ settlement at Plymouth, and 59 from that of Salem.
+
+In the eyes of the old New England people the almanac stood next to the
+Bible in importance. Almost the only knowledge we have of many events of
+those early days has been obtained from diaries kept in interleaved
+almanacs. It is true, important facts are often found recorded in
+connection with trifling or quite unimportant matters.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The venerable Dr. Holyoke, of Salem, president of the Massachusetts
+Medical Society, who died in March, 1829, at the age of one hundred
+years and eight months, wrote a letter, a few months before his death,
+in answer to a request that he would furnish some particulars of his
+mode of living. Dr. Holyoke was through life noted for being remarkably
+temperate in all things. After his death it was reported that some
+physician said (perhaps in fun) that if Dr. H. had not been in the
+habit of using intoxicating liquors he might have lived to a _good old
+age._
+
+We give here a copy of this interesting letter.
+
+ Salem.
+
+ SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1829.
+
+ DR. HOLYOKE. The Medical Society of this District have
+ rendered an appropriate tribute of respect for the memory of
+ their venerated associate, the late Dr. E.A. HOLYOKE, by
+ publishing an elegant little volume, containing a memoir of
+ the deceased, prepared by a Committee of the Society, and a
+ few of his writings. We have selected from the latter the
+ following articles, which will interest the reader. The
+ first is an account of Dr. Holyoke's habits of life, diet,
+ &c., furnished by him in a letter to one of his friends; the
+ others are a historical memorandum and a fragment of the
+ Doctor's poetical effusions.
+
+ _To ---- ---- ---- Williamsville, Person County, North
+ Carolina._
+
+ SALEM, Oct'r--1828.
+
+ SIR,--I received yours of the 20th ult. on ye 30th, wherein
+ you wish me to give you some Account of my Mode of Life,
+ &c.--In answer to which I would first mention that I was
+ providentially blessed with an excellent Constitution--that
+ I never injured this constitution by Intemperance of any
+ kind--but invigorated it by constant Exercise, having from
+ my 30th to my 80th Year walked on foot (in the Practice of
+ my Profession)--probably as many as 5 or 6 miles every day,
+ amounting to more than a _million_[A] of miles, and tho'
+ sometimes much fatigued, the next Night's refreshing Sleep,
+ always completely restored me. In early life, between 20 and
+ 30, I used to ride on Horse back, but being often pestered
+ by my Horses slipping their Bridles I found it more
+ convenient to walk.
+
+ As to my Diet, having been taught to eat of any thing that
+ was provided for me, and having always a good Appetite, I am
+ never anxious about my food, and I do not recollect any
+ thing, that is commonly eaten, that does not agree with my
+ Stomach, except fresh roasted Pork, which tho' very
+ agreeable to my Palate, almost always disagrees with me; for
+ which however I have a remedy, in the Spirit of Sal Amoniac.
+ Eight or Ten drops of Aqua Ammonia pura in a wine glass of
+ Water, gives me relief after Pork, and indeed after anything
+ else which offends my stomach. As to the Quantity, I am no
+ great Eater, and I find my appetite sooner satisfied now
+ than formerly;--there is one peculiarity in my Diet which as
+ it may perhaps have contributed to Health I would mention; I
+ am fond of Fruit, and have this 30 or more years daily
+ indulged in eating freely of those of the Season, as
+ Strawberries, Currants, Peaches, Plums, Apples, &c., which
+ in summer and winter I eat just before Dinner, and seldom at
+ any other time, and indeed very seldom eat any thing
+ whatever between meals.--My Breakfast I vary continually.
+ Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, with toasted bread and butter, Milk
+ with Bread toasted in hot weather, but never any meat in my
+ Life--seldom the same Breakfast more than 2 or 3 days
+ running. Bread of Flour makes a large portion of my Food,
+ perhaps near 1-2. After Dinner I most commonly drink one
+ glass of Wine--plain boiled rice I am fond of--it makes
+ nearly 1-2 of my Dinner perhaps as often as every other
+ Day--I rarely eat Pickles or any high seasoned
+ Food--Vegetable food of one kind or other makes commonly 2-3
+ or 3-4 of my nourishment--the condiments I use are chiefly
+ Mustard, Horse radish and Onions. As to Drinks, I seldom
+ take any but at meal times and with my Pipe--in younger Life
+ my most common draft was Cider, seldom Wine, seldom or never
+ Beer or Ale or distilled Spirits--But for the last 40 or 50
+ years, my most usual drink has been a Mixture, a little
+ singular indeed, but as for me it is still palateable and
+ agreeable, I still prefer it--The Mixture is this, viz. Good
+ West India Rum 2 Spoonfuls, Good Cider whether new or old 3
+ Spoonfuls, of Water 9 or 10 Spoonfuls--of this Mixture
+ (which I suppose to be about the strength of common Cider) I
+ drink about 1-2 a Pint with my Dinner and about the same
+ Quantity with my Pipe after Dinner and my Pipe in the
+ Evening, never exceeding a Pint the whole Day; and I desire
+ nothing else except one glass of Wine immediately after
+ Dinner the whole day. I generally take one Pipe after Dinner
+ and another in the Evening, and hold a small piece of
+ pigtail Tobacco in my mouth from Breakfast till near Dinner,
+ and again in the Afternoon till tea; this has been my
+ practice for 80 years--I use no Snuff--I drink tea about
+ sunset and eat with it a small slice of Bread toasted with
+ Butter--I never eat any thing more till Breakfast.
+
+ I have not often had any complaint from indigestion, but
+ when I have, abstinence from Breakfast or Dinner, or both,
+ has usually removed it; indeed I have several times thrown
+ off serious Complaints by Abstinence.--As to Clothing, it is
+ what my Friends call thin; I never wear Flannel next my Skin
+ tho' often advised to it, and am less liable to take cold,
+ as it is called, than most people--a good warm double
+ breasted Waist-Coat and a Cloth coat answers me for winter,
+ and as the season grows warmer I gradually conform my
+ Covering to it. As to the Passions, Sir, I need not tell you
+ that when indulged, they injure the Health; that a calm,
+ quiet self-possession, and a moderation in our Expectations
+ and Pursuits, contribute much to our Health, as well as our
+ happiness, and that Anxiety is injurious to both.
+
+ I had a good Set of Teeth, but they failed me gradually,
+ without Pain, so that by 80 I lost them all.
+
+ Thus, Sir, you have, blundering and imperfect as it is, an
+ answer to your Requests, with my best wishes that it may be
+ of any service to the Purpose for which it was made--But
+ must rely upon it that Nothing I have written be made public
+ in my Name.[B] Wishing you long Life and many happy Days,
+
+ I am Yours, &c.
+ E.A. HOLYOKE.
+
+ P.S. I forgot to speak of my repose. When I began the
+ practice of Physick, I was so often call'd up soon after
+ retiring to Rest, that I found it most convenient to sit to
+ a late Hour, and thus acquired a Habit of sitting up late,
+ which necessarily occasioned my lying in bed to a late Hour
+ in the Morning--till 7 o'cl'k in Summer and 8 in Winter. My
+ Business was fatiguing and called for ample repose, and I
+ have always taken care to have a full proportion of Sleep,
+ which I suppose has contributed to my longevity.
+
+ _Recollections & Memorandums of Past Events._
+
+ The first thing that I entirely remember was the funeral of
+ Aunt Oulton, which was on July 18, 1732.
+
+ The first Aurora Borealis I ever saw, the Northern or rather
+ Northeast Sky appeared suffused by a dark blood-red colored
+ vapour, without any variety of different colored rays. I
+ have never since seen the like. This was about the year
+ 1734. Northern lights were then a novelty, and excited great
+ wonder and terror among the vulgar.
+
+ In 1737, Square Toed Shoes were going out of fashion; I
+ believe few or none were worn after 1737. Buckles instead of
+ Shoe Strings began to be used about the same time, but were
+ not universal in the country towns till 1740 or 1742. Very
+ broad brim'd Hats were worn as early as I remember. My
+ father had a beaver whose Brims were at least 7 inches;
+ which when he left off, I remember I used to wear in the
+ Garden, or in a shower, by way of Umbrella. They were all
+ cock'd triangularly. And pulling them off by way of
+ salutation was invariably the Fashion by all who had any
+ Breeding.
+
+ Boots were never worn except on horseback, or snowy or rainy
+ weather. They frequently had large broad Tops that reach'd
+ full half way up the Thigh. But Boots did not come into
+ general use till the close of the revolutionary war.
+
+ Funerals were extravagantly expensive. Gold Rings to each of
+ the Bearers, the Minister, the Physician, &c., were
+ frequently given when the family could but ill afford it.
+ White gloves in abundance, burnt wine to the company, &c.,
+ &c. This extravagance occasioned the enacting sumptuary
+ laws, which though they check'd did not entirely suppress
+ the complaints till the commencement of the revolutionary
+ war.
+
+ In 1749, it was reported the train band list of the town of
+ Marblehead was equal to that of the town of Salem. The
+ difference is now very great. I suppose Salem has at least
+ twice the number of Marblehead.
+
+ [1749.][C] The Houses (in Salem) were generally very
+ ordinary. The first handsome house was built by Mr. Jno.
+ Turner, then Col. Pickman, then Mr. J. Cabot, &c.
+
+ There was but one ropewalk, and that was on the neck, inside
+ the gate. But one tavern of any note, and that was an old
+ house at the corner now occupied by Stearns' brick store.
+ The Houses for public worship were only the old (first)
+ church--the eastern parish--the secession from the first
+ church--the Friends' meeting house, and the Episcopal
+ church.
+
+ The number of Inhabitants was estimated at between 5 and
+ 6000.
+
+ The Commerce of this town was chiefly with Spain and
+ Portugal and the West Indies, especially with St. Eustatia.
+ The Cod fishery was carried on with success and advantage.
+ The Schooners were employed on the fishing banks in the
+ summer, and in the autumn were laden with Fish, Rum,
+ Molasses, and the produce of the country, and sent to
+ Virginia and Maryland, and there spent the winter retailing
+ their cargoes, and in return brought Corn and Wheat and
+ Tobacco. This Virginia voyage was seldom very profitable,
+ but as it served to keep the crews together, it was
+ continued till more advantageous employment offered.
+
+ There were a few Chaises kept by gentlemen for their own
+ use, but it was no easy matter to hire one to go a journey.
+
+ _Salem Observer._
+
+[A] This seems to have been a slip of the pen; the following is his own
+calculation, made in 1823, and which from his great degree of
+exaggeration falls short of half the actual amount. "If from my age of
+20 to 80 years I have walked 5 miles a day, which is a moderate
+calculation, I must have gone in that 60 years,
+
+ 109,500 miles.
+ And in the first 20 & last 15 years, 38,325
+
+ In 95 years probably, Total, 147,825
+
+
+[B] This prohibition could only have regard to the period of his life
+time and was occasioned by that extreme modesty which always rendered it
+painful to the Doctor to be held up to the public notice.
+
+[C] These remarks refer to the period of Dr. Holyoke's residence in
+Salem, preceding the revolution.
+
+Dr. Holyoke during his whole life, it is said, was never fifty miles
+distant from the spot where he was born. He was the first person to
+receive the degree of M.D. from Harvard College; was the first president
+of the Massachusetts Medical Society; and he made in the course of his
+life three hundred and twenty-four thousand professional visits.
+
+ ANTIQUITY OF NURSERY RHYMES.--Many of these productions have
+ a very curious history, if it could only be traced. Some of
+ them probably owe their origin to names distinguished in our
+ literature; as Oliver Goldsmith, for instance, is believed
+ in his earlier days to have written such compositions. Dr.
+ E.F. Rimbault gives us the following particulars as to some
+ well-known favorites: "Sing a Song of Sixpence," is as old
+ as the sixteenth century. "Three Blind Mice" is found in a
+ music-book dated 1609. "The Frog and the Mouse" was licensed
+ in 1580. "Three Children Sliding on the Ice" dates from
+ 1633. "London Bridge is Broken Down" is of unfathomed
+ antiquity. "Girls and Boys come out to play" is certainly
+ old as the reign of Charles II.; as is also "Lucy Locket
+ lost her Pocket," to the tune of which the American song of
+ "Yankee Doodle" was written. "Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where
+ have you been?" is of the age of Queen Bess. "Little Jack
+ Horner" is older than the seventeenth century. "The Old
+ Woman Tossed in a Blanket" is of the reign of James II., to
+ which monarch it is supposed to allude.
+
+ _Salem Gazette._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Some British opinions of Benedict Arnold.
+
+ "The good whigs of America," says a late paper, "may be
+ assured, that the infamous BENEDICT ARNOLD'S mansion is the
+ very next to TYBURN,--a well chosen habitation for such an
+ abandoned traitor: A step or two conveys him to that fatal
+ spot, where the most guilty of all the miserable beings who
+ have ever suffered, was perfectly innocent compared with
+ him.--He lives despised by the nobility and gentry, and
+ execrated by the people at large--countenanced by none
+ excepting their Britannic and Satanic Majesties, and such of
+ their adherents, respectively, who are looking for promotion
+ under their royal masters."
+
+ By a gentleman from the southward we learn that it is
+ expected Congress will fix their permanent residence at
+ Philadelphia.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ Feb. 26, 1784.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ NEW-YORK, November 16.
+
+ By very recent accounts from St. John, Nova-Scotia, we are
+ informed that _Benedict Arnold_, having attempted to JOCKY
+ some of the inhabitants out of their property, but being
+ detected, and the people being much exasperated, offered to
+ deliver him up to the Americans for ten dollars; but alas!
+ before the bargain was firmly agreed on, he made his escape
+ to Halifax, and there got protection from the populace.
+
+
+ We are informed that Benedict Arnold lately sailed from
+ New-Brunswick for London. It is said that his residence in
+ America, even among the provincial Loyalists, was rather
+ uncomfortable; he therefore wisely preferred being
+ enveloped in the atmosphere of London to residing on a
+ continent which had been the theatre of his traitorous acts,
+ and consequently the occasion of more frequent reflections
+ on the infamy of his crimes.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ November, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Receipt for apple-pudding, in 1788, with the apple and the pudding left
+out.
+
+ _For the_ HERALD _of_ FREEDOM.
+
+ HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PUDDING.
+
+ _Being a curious, elaborate and sublime_ DISSERTATION,
+ _never before published._
+
+ By _YANKEE DOODLE, Esquire._
+
+ (_In Continuation._)
+
+ CHAPTER.--HOW AND ABOUT NAMES.
+
+ _Nugæque canoræ._ Hor.
+
+ I LOOK upon it as the greatest happiness of my life, that
+ fortune has given me _a name_ that corresponds with my
+ nature and constitution. Patriotism is the strongest
+ passion; and I glory in being a _Yankee_.--A _Yankee_ is any
+ man born in New-England--and New-England contains the three
+ northern States, and a certain _little, pestiferous, pseudo
+ Island_. My countrymen generally have the credit of being a
+ good-natured, psalm-singing, religious kind of men, very
+ honest, but plaguy hard in their dealings--insomuch that a
+ _Carolinian_ or a _Georgian_ frequently swear that the very
+ _Satan_ himself could never get to windward of them.
+
+ This puts me in mind of a story.--A certain Boston sea
+ Captain, of a sloop of 60 tons burthen, coming with a cargo
+ of New-England rum, shoes, cheese, potatoes, and other
+ valuable commodities, into _Broadway_, which you must know
+ is a very _narrow_ passage in the _Appomatax_, a branch of
+ _James River_ in _Virginia_.--Before I proceed I must
+ acquaint the serious reader--and who is there but must be
+ serious in reading the solemn truths I am about to
+ declare--that every _iota_ of what I shall delineate in in
+ these sacred depositories of facts, is TRUTH.----I am now
+ about to elucidate the psalm-singing, religious character of
+ _Yankees_, by a TRUE STORY, _never before
+ published_.----When our Boston sea Captain, therefore, came
+ into Broadway, a Virginian comes a-board of him--and as he
+ goes down into the cabbin, had to stoop a little, because
+ the cabbin was low--for, as I said before, the sloop was 60
+ tons, although our religious sea-captain _entered_ but 40
+ tons at the Naval-Office: Howsomever he had a reserve of
+ conscience, for the Naval-Officer charged him for _light
+ money_, when there was not one light-house in all the
+ ancient dominion.--But this is nothing to my story.
+
+ _N.B._ I mean to give the good-natured reader a whole
+ chapter on _the art of_ STORY-TELLING.
+
+ Well, as I was saying, the Virginian being obliged to
+ stoop--the _stooping_ caused his head to be bowed down; and
+ looking down, he saw a _book_ lying upon the starboard
+ locker.--Well, says he, and what the d----l--but I think it
+ expedient to omit the _Virginian_ oath; for this man, not
+ being a moral man, swore consumedly, and did not know a
+ _bible_ by sight, but only by _hearsay_.--And Captain, cried
+ the _Virginian_, will you sell this bible of yours: I hear
+ it's a mighty clever book for children.--And why not for
+ grown people? cried the Captain, taking up the _book_. Why,
+ quoth the _Virginian_, because I mean my three boys, who are
+ from 11 to 14 years old, shall be good _scholards at their
+ larning_--they can all say their letters already, and the
+ youngest can spell.--The Boston sea Captain opening the
+ bible found these words: "_Search the scriptures_;" and
+ without saying any thing himself, pointed out the passage to
+ the _Virginian_.--Pugh! said the _Virginian_, and walked
+ upon deck.--Now, to explain this mystery, you must know the
+ Yankee sea Captain shewed him the passage to denote that he
+ would sooner sell his soul to the d----l, than his bible to
+ a _Virginian_;--and the _Virginian_ said pugh! and walked
+ upon deck, because he could not read.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONGEVITY. Since we published the examples of longevity,
+ collected by the editor of the Medical Adviser, we have seen
+ another list, which is _supposed_ to comprise all, which can
+ be found from the year 66 to 1799. The number of those who
+ lived from _one hundred_ and _seventy_ to _one hundred_ and
+ _eighty-five_ years is 3; from _one hundred_ and _sixty_ to
+ _one hundred_ and _seventy_, 2; from _one hundred_ and
+ _fifty_ to _one hundred_ and _sixty_, 3; from _one hundred_
+ and _forty_ to _one hundred_ and _fifty_, 7; from _one
+ hundred_ and _thirty_ to _one hundred_ and _forty_, 26; from
+ _one hundred_ and _twenty_ to _one hundred_ and _thirty_,
+ 84; from _one hundred_ and _ten_ to _one hundred_ and
+ _twenty_, 277; from _one hundred_ to _one hundred_ and
+ _ten_, 1310. Total of those who survived a century,
+ _Seventeen hundred and twelve_.----This writer could not
+ have included in his list the examples of longevity which
+ Russia furnished, for we frequently find in the bills of
+ mortality of this country for a single year, twice the
+ number of centenarians. We have before us the table of
+ deaths for 1813, which gives the following remarkable ages.
+ One 165;--three 135;--one 130;--fifteen 125;--thirty-three
+ from 115 to 120;--fifty-three from 110 to 115;--one hundred
+ and twenty-seven from 100 to 105;--fourteen hundred from 95
+ to 100;--two thousand eight hundred and forty-nine from 90
+ to 95;--four thousand four hundred and fifty-one from 85 to
+ 90. Whole number of deaths 971,338.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Oct. 29, 1825.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Boston shop-signs in 1789.
+
+ To read the signs in this town is a delicate, sentimental
+ repast.--I hope _Bostonians_ will never complain of want of
+ amusement, while there is one sign standing. If I had time,
+ I would certainly consult _Milton_, to see how he has
+ _arranged_ matters in his description of _chaos_.--I doubt
+ not I could there get a _hint_ for two whole chapters. I had
+ as lief take a walk through Cornhill, as to go to the
+ new-invented moral lectures.
+
+ _Herald of Freedom._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A CURIOUS WOMAN.
+
+We have often heard it said that men are curious, and we can well
+believe it; but now we find it recorded that there has been at least
+_one_ curious woman. Read the following extract from the "Salem Gazette"
+of 1795:--
+
+ Married at Andover, Mr. Aaron Osgood to the _curious_ Miss
+ Ester Wardwell.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "AWFULLY GOOD."
+
+In our opinion the oft-repeated words "awfully good," "jolly fine," and
+similar expressions, which sound so "charmingly sweet" from the lips of
+interesting young ladies, are quite cast into the shade by language used
+in the following extract from the Portsmouth, N.H., "Oracle of the
+Day," Nov. 24, 1798:--
+
+ MARRIED]--In this town, on Sunday evening last, by the Rev.
+ Dr. Haven, MARK SIMES, Esq. Deputy Post-Master, &c. to the
+ elegantly pretty and amiably delicate Miss MARY-ANN BLUNT,
+ youngest daughter of the late Capt. John Blunt, of
+ Little-Harbour.
+
+ _Genius of Hymen; Power of fondest Love!
+ In showers of bliss descend from worlds above,_
+ _On_ Beauty's _rose, and_ Virtue's _manlier form,_
+ _And shield, ah! shield them both, from time's tempestuous storm_!
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A FEW years since, a young gentleman at the University in
+ _Cambridge_ asked of a Collegian the loan of his _W_irgil.
+ The inelegant pronunciation of the word _Virgil_ was
+ burlesqued by the young Collegian in the following story,
+ with which his invention readily supplied him:--_Lately_
+ (says he) _I set out on a woyage to Wersailles, with one
+ Captain Winal, in a British wessel called the Wiper; but we
+ soon met with a wiolent storm, which drove us into a port in
+ Wirginia; where one Capt. Waughn, a wery wicious man,
+ inwited us aboard his wessel, and gave us some weal and
+ wenison, with some winegar, which made me wery sick; so I
+ did womit like wengeance;_ (and added, reaching out the
+ book) _You may have my Wirgil, and welcome_. This humor had
+ the desired effect; the young gentleman saw the absurdity of
+ doing such w_iolence_ to the letter V, and has ever since
+ spoke like other people.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ April 26, 1791.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+What Mr. Welby, an English gentleman, saw when he was in the United
+States in 1821. A very flattering picture of the West.
+
+ More Travellers' Stories.
+
+ _From the National Gazette._
+
+ A new book of Travels in America has been recently issued in
+ London which rivals the volumes of our old friends Weld,
+ Ashe, Fearon, &c. It is entitled "A Visit to North America
+ and the English Settlements in Illinois, with a winter
+ residence in Philadelphia; solely to ascertain the actual
+ prosperity of the Emigrating Agriculturist, Mechanic, and
+ Commercial Speculator"--by Adlard Welby, _Esquire_, of South
+ Rauceby, Lincolnshire. This esquire has said enough, should
+ he be believed, to settle ultimately the point of the truth
+ or falsehood of Godwin's notable doctrine, that we owe the
+ increase of our numbers chiefly to emigration. No sane
+ European would venture among us after having read Mr.
+ Welby's book. He discovered that, in Philadelphia, living
+ was _very dear_, comfort _very uncommon_, and good manners
+ still more rare. Throughout his journey he found in the
+ taverns "a system of impertinence, rudeness, rascality, and
+ filth, rendered more intolerable by an antipathy to the
+ English, in the brutal manifestation of which most of the
+ Colonel, Doctor, and Squire, keepers of the taverns, were
+ pleased to indulge." When he asked an hostler to call him
+ early in the morning, he was answered that--he might call
+ himself and be d----d. In the Western country he found no
+ symptoms of hospitality--witnessed only idleness and
+ licentiousness, and experienced every where brutal rudeness
+ and unbounded extortion. The western people usually combine
+ in cheating all travellers, and sometimes "_rifle_," that is
+ _shoot_ residents among them who do not choose to descend to
+ their own level. In Illinois "a party proposed to each other
+ _coolly_ to go and shoot neighbour *****, who had behaved
+ ill to them sundry times; it was agreed upon; they went to
+ his field, found the old man at plough, and, with unerring
+ aim, laid him dead." And Mr. Welby adds that the country
+ would be desirable to live in, did not the folks _shoot_
+ each other thus, and were they not half savages. The
+ _shooting_ case reminds us of a traveller's story which we
+ heard at a dinner table abroad. A gentleman and esquire of
+ strict veracity, like Mr. Welby, related, in order to shew
+ how common was the calamity of the _coup de soleil_, or
+ stroke of the sun, in the Island of JAVA, that sitting once
+ in the house of an opulent merchant of Batavia, drinking a
+ _cool_ glass of Madeira after dinner, with the merchant's
+ wife in the room, the lady was, in the twinkling of an eye,
+ _reduced to a heap of ashes_ by a _coup de soleil_; when the
+ husband observed to his guest, "don't be alarmed--we are
+ accustomed to this;" then rang the bell with great
+ composure, and on the appearance of the servant, _coolly_
+ said--"Boy--sweep your mistress out, and _bring us clean
+ glasses._"
+
+ In the neighborhood of Mr. Birbeck's settlement in Illinois,
+ Mr. Welby could obtain neither eggs, milk, sugar, salt, nor
+ water; and when he and his party sent a request to Mr.
+ Birbeck for some water, the answer returned was, he made it
+ a general rule to refuse every one. Mr. Birbeck is
+ represented as having deceived and disappointed most of the
+ English who were lured to his settlement by his "Journal."
+ Mr. W. could discover none of "the snug cottages, with
+ adjoining piggeries, cowsteads, gardens and orchards," which
+ Mr. B. had introduced into his canvass. He found nothing but
+ the primitive log building, that served the whole
+ family--"for parlour, for kitchen, and hall." "The strange
+ heterogeneous mixture of characters," says Mr. W. "which are
+ collected here by the magic pen of Morris Birbeck, is truly
+ ludicrous. Among many others, a couple now attend to the
+ store at Albion who lately lived in a dashing style in
+ London, not far from Bond-street; the lady brought over her
+ white satin shoes and gay dresses, rich carpets, and
+ everything but what in such a place she would require--yet
+ I have understood that they have accommodated themselves to
+ their new situations, hand out the plums, sugar, whiskey,
+ &c., with tolerable grace, and at least 'do not seem to mind
+ it.'"
+
+ In one of the principal literary journals of London, Mr.
+ Welby's book is recommended as "carrying on its front the
+ stamp of plain dealing, _truth_ and candor, and entitled,
+ from internal evidence, to the highest authority amid the
+ conflicting statements and opinions respecting emigration to
+ America." The reviewer adds:--"From a country so destitute
+ of moral beauty as the author depicts it, so disgusting in
+ its human externals, and so low in the scale, not merely of
+ refinement, but of good principles, we are happy to
+ withdraw." As Mr. Welby spent a winter in Philadelphia, and
+ had acquaintance here, it is probable that such of the
+ latter as have not seen his book will be pleased to know the
+ complexion of its contents.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ May 18, 1822.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In the "Essex Register" of July 18, 1833, may be found the following
+notice of two well-known American authors:--
+
+ DISCOURSE ON GENIUS. The Richmond Compiler speaks in terms
+ of great praise of a discourse delivered recently in
+ Richmond, before a Young Men's Society, by Joseph Hulbert
+ Nicholas. A number of extracts are also given in the
+ Compiler, as specimens of the performance, from which we
+ take the following notices of two of our
+ fellow-townsmen.--_Boston Courier._
+
+ Of Charles Sprague, of Massachusetts, no language can be
+ spoken but that of unqualified praise. Forsaking the modern
+ school of writing, he is contented with being simple and
+ natural. Sublimity, tenderness, wit, elegance, and
+ beneficial satire characterise his muse.--The only complaint
+ I have ever heard made of him is that _he does not write
+ more_.
+
+ Of Nathaniel Parker Willis, a native of Massachusetts, and a
+ fellow-student with myself at Yale College, I come now to
+ speak. Of him I shall speak familiarly, as of an intimate
+ friend; and impartially and justly, as one who wishes him
+ well. Willis, I venture to pronounce the most remarkable
+ genius our country has yet produced. I do not call him
+ remarkable merely for his unusual precocity of song, but
+ remarkable for the possession of that rare genius, which by
+ any man, young or old, in our land, I do not think has ever
+ been displayed. Nature has done wonderful things for him;
+ but alas! he has thus far done but little for himself. The
+ great pieces he has sometimes given us have cost him but
+ little effort, and he has thrown out his productions, in
+ prose as well as poetry, with a profusion and a variety that
+ seem miraculous; and yet, of all our bards, he has met with
+ the most severe and merciless censures. In some measure he
+ has deserved the treatment. In College he would not
+ condescend to study, and charity only for his high genius
+ enabled him to gain a degree. Besides, he gained his first
+ and best reputation by pieces founded upon scriptural
+ subjects, and he stood committed to the world as a
+ _religious_ man. Many who had never seen aught of him but
+ his productions, and had formed the loftiest estimate of his
+ personal character from the pure tendency of his effusions,
+ were astonished and grieved when introduced to the
+ author.--His head made giddy by the praises of young and
+ old, he forgot himself, and possessing most shrewd good
+ sense, he would talk the reverse. He became fantastic in
+ apparel, as he did likewise in his style of writing; made
+ himself too common, and almost broke a pious father's heart
+ by deserting the altar of that divine Jesus upon whose Bible
+ he had founded the fairest fabric of his fame. My friend, of
+ whom I so sternly speak, is now in Italy; and should these
+ remarks, per chance, ever meet his eye, I beseech him by our
+ past friendship, by our walks "by moon or glittering
+ star-light," through the Eden groves and avenues of
+ New-Haven, by the love he bears to his parents, and above
+ all, by the love he bears that Saviour, upon whose image and
+ the scenes of whose mortal pilgrimage he is rapturously
+ gazing, in the matchless pictures of the Italian masters, I
+ beseech him, when he returns to his native land, to wear no
+ longer a ridiculous mask, but to appear in his own native
+ strength, dignity, and surpassing loveliness.
+
+In the "Salem Observer," March 8, 1834, are to be found the following
+references to well-known young ladies of the day. Miss Silsbee is
+supposed to be the daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee, of Salem,
+Massachusetts senator in Congress. She afterwards married Jared Sparks,
+the well-known historian, president of Harvard College, etc.
+
+ HIGH LIFE AT WASHINGTON. The Washington Correspondent of the
+ Boston Morning Post, in describing Gov. Cass's soiree, thus
+ notices some of the young ladies who were present:--
+
+ Miss Keyser of Baltimore, uniting youth and beauty,
+ possesses an eye as dark as the absence of all light,
+ beaming with a lustre that eclipses all. I never saw a
+ countenance betoken such perfect happiness; it was like a
+ star-lit lake, curling its lips into ripples in some dream
+ of delight, as the west wind salutes them with its balmy
+ breath and disturbs their placid slumber. I never before
+ realised Byron's idea of
+
+ "Music breathing o'er the face;"
+
+ till Miss Keyser's brought it home to the business and
+ bosom.
+
+ Miss Silsbee, of Salem, with a form of great symmetry,
+ possesses a countenance not only beautiful, but entirely
+ intellectual--the most so of any you have met with either
+ here or elsewhere; it is of the Italian model; and should
+ have basked beneath an Italian sky. She is very easy,
+ graceful and modest in her deportment, and dresses 'rich not
+ gaudy;' the cameo necklace that graced her person was only
+ the foil that set off the diamond.
+
+ Miss Harper of Baltimore, with a fine face and form, is
+ particularly unrivalled for a bust of unrivalled symmetry;
+ it would furnish a model for a Canova; and reminds me of
+ Greenough's Medora.
+
+ Miss M'Lane of this city, with many separate charms that
+ could not fail of attraction, unites with them the finest of
+ fine forms.
+
+ And last, not least, the younger Miss Cass possesses the
+ most perfect _Madonna_ countenance I have ever seen clothed
+ in living lustre. It was one of the first that attracted my
+ attention when I entered the saloon, and the last that
+ received my parting glance when I retired; it seemed to be--
+
+ "While in, above the world;"
+
+ I am told it is entirely characteristic; that she is in
+ heart and thought, what you behold in her
+ countenance--happy, but not gay; serious but not sad;
+ devout, yet not a devotee.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In the "Salem Gazette" of 1815 is the following curious information
+about Scott's novels, which shows how easy it is for people to be
+mistaken.
+
+ William Erskine, Esq. is said to be the author of the new
+ and interesting Novel, "_Guy Mannering_."--Walter Scott had
+ been pronounced the author.
+
+ WAVERLY.--It is not yet decided to whom this very
+ interesting novel belongs. It came into the world with all
+ the advantage that the name of Walter Scott could give it;
+ but Guy Mannering's appearance seems to have dissolved that
+ connection. An article in our first page attributes the work
+ to Wm. Erskine; but in the last North-American Review we
+ read the following:--"An English Magazine says, the author
+ of Waverly and Guy Mannering is a young gentleman of the
+ name of FORBES, the son of a Scotch baronet." The Review
+ remarks, that the extract in the title page of the latter,
+ from the _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, was a delicate way of
+ informing the public that they were under a mistake in
+ attributing the former to Walter Scott.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+On the 16th June, 1806, there was a total eclipse of the sun. The
+following is all the "Salem Gazette" of the 17th has to say of such a
+remarkable event.
+
+ Yesterday the great Solar Eclipse took place, agreeably to
+ the calculations which had been made. The day was very
+ favourable to viewing it. The air was remarkably clear, and
+ there was not a cloud in the hemisphere. As the sun shut
+ in, the stars appeared, and many were visible at the time of
+ total darkness. A considerable alteration in the temperature
+ of the atmosphere was felt during the continuance of the
+ Eclipse.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In the "Boston Palladium" of 1819, copied from a London paper, is Lord
+Mansfield's opinion about a word in Johnson's Dictionary. In the
+original editions of this work are to be found many very curious
+definitions, some of which bore so hard upon the government as to be
+construed into libel.
+
+ FROM A LONDON PAPER.
+
+ _EXCISE._
+
+ The following curious little document is the opinion of Lord
+ Mansfield, when Attorney-General, upon Dr. Johnson's
+ explanation of the word Excise:--
+
+ _CASE._
+
+ Mr. Samuel Johnson has lately published a book, entitled "A
+ Dictionary of the English Language, in which the words are
+ deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their
+ different significations by examples from the best writers.
+ To which are prefixed a History of the Language and an
+ English Grammar."
+
+ Under the title "Excise" are the following words:--
+
+ EXCISE, n.s. (_accijs_, Dutch; _excisum_, Latin,) a hateful
+ tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common
+ judges of property, but _wretches_ hired by those to whom
+ "_Excise_" is paid.
+
+ The people should pay a rateable tax for their
+ sheep, and an _Excise_ for every thing which they
+ should eat.--HAYWARD.
+
+ "Ambitious now to take _excise_
+ Of a more fragrant paradise."--CLEVELAND.
+
+ _EXCISE._
+
+ "With hundred rows of teeth the shark exceeds,
+ And on all trades, like Cassawar, she feeds."
+ MARVEL.
+
+ "Can hire large houses and oppress the poor
+ By farm'd Excise."--DRYDEN'S Juvenal, Sat. 3.
+
+ The Author's definition being observed by the Commissioners
+ of Excise, they desire the favour of your opinion:
+
+ _Qu._--Whether it will not be considered as a libel; and if
+ so, whether it is not proper to proceed against the author,
+ printers and publishers thereof, or any and which of them,
+ by information or how otherwise?
+
+ _OPINION._
+
+ "I am of opinion that it is a libel; but under all the
+ circumstances, I should think it better to give him an
+ opportunity of altering his definition; and in case he
+ don't, threaten him with an information.
+
+ "(Signed) W. MURRAY.
+
+ "29th Nov, 1755."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Samuel Sewall, whose remarkable "Diary" has within a few years been
+printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society, appears to have been
+the successor of John Foster, who printed the first book ever issued
+from the press in Boston,--namely, "Hubbard's Election Sermon,"--in
+1676. All previous printing in the colony had been executed at
+Cambridge. Mr. Hubbard was the minister of Ipswich.
+
+ SAMUEL SEWALL.
+
+ When John Foster (the first who carried on printing in
+ Boston) died in 1681, the town was without the benefit of
+ the press; but a continuance of it being thought necessary,
+ _Samuel Sewall_, not a printer but a magistrate, and a man
+ much respected, was selected as a proper person to manage
+ the concerns of it, and as such was recommended to the
+ general court. In consequence of this recommendation, the
+ court, in Oct. 1681, gave him liberty to carry on the
+ business of printing in Boston. The _license_ is thus
+ recorded: "Samuel Sewall, at the instance of some Friends,
+ with respect to the accommodation of the public, being
+ prevailed with to undertake the Management of the Printing
+ Press in Boston, late under the command of Mr. John Foster,
+ deceased, liberty is accordingly granted to him for the same
+ by this court, and none may presume to set up any other
+ Press without the like Liberty first granted."
+
+ Sewall became a bookseller.--Books for himself and others
+ were printed at the press under his management; as were
+ several acts and laws, with other works for government.
+ Samuel Green, jun., was his printer. In 1682 an order passed
+ the general court for the treasurer to pay Sewall ten pounds
+ seventeen shillings, for printing the election sermon,
+ delivered that year by the Rev. Mr. Torrey.
+
+ In 1684, Sewall, by some means, was unable to conduct the
+ press, and requested permission of the general court to be
+ released from his engagement. This was granted; the record
+ of his release is in the words following.
+
+ "Samuel Sewall by the providence of God being unable to
+ attend the press, &c., requested leave to be freed from his
+ obligations concerning it, which was granted, with thanks
+ for the liberty then granted."
+
+ In 1684, and for several subsequent years, the loss of the
+ charter occasioned great confusion and disorder in the
+ political concerns of the colony. Soon after Sewall resigned
+ his office as conductor of the press in Boston, he went to
+ England, and he returned in 1692. He was undoubtedly the
+ same Samuel Sewall who, when a new charter was granted by
+ king William, was for many years one of the council for the
+ province, and who, in 1692, was appointed one of the Judges
+ of the Superior Court; in 1715 Judge of Probate; and in
+ 1718, Chief Justice of Massachusetts. He died Jan. 1, 1729,
+ aged 78 years.--_Boston News Letter._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Knowledge of natural history at the Isles of Shoals in the early part of
+the last century.
+
+ A CENTURY AGO. The N. York Gazette relates that when Rev.
+ Mr. Tuck, in the early part of the last century, was
+ ordained minister of Star Island, one of a cluster called
+ the Isles of Shoals, his parish offered him, beside the
+ usual parsonage house, a quintal of fish each family, but no
+ money, as a salary. It is well known that the fish cured at
+ these islands are called dun fish, and have the highest
+ reputation for excellence wherever known. They are caught in
+ the depth of winter, and are fit for market before the hot
+ weather. They derive the name of _dun_ from the color which
+ they assume. There were at the period of which we speak,
+ about fifty families in the cluster, giving him fifty
+ quintals per year. The average price of a dun fish is about
+ ten dollars, and the worthy pastor always procured a ready
+ sale for them, thereby realizing his five hundred dollars
+ per annum. With this stipend he flourished, and brought up
+ a family, whom he educated himself, and fitted one of his
+ sons for entrance into Harvard College. The lad had never
+ been away from the Shoals till he reached Long wharf on his
+ way to Cambridge. He had never seen a horse, nor heard a
+ church bell. On landing, he saw many horses attached to
+ various vehicles; and speaking to his father, said, "Only
+ see what queer cows they have in Boston! they are not shaped
+ like ours, and are all without horns." In passing by the Old
+ South, in Cornhill, the big bell of that church struck up a
+ peal, the effect of which nearly drove the young man mad.
+
+ _Salem Observer_ [1829].
+
+What Captain Hall, R.N., thought of a Salem gentleman.
+
+ _From Capt. Basil Hall's Travels in America--just
+ published._
+
+ We reached the town of Salem in good time for dinner; and
+ here I feel half tempted to break through my rule, in order
+ to give some account of our dinner-party, chiefly, indeed,
+ that I might have an opportunity of expatiating--which I
+ could do with perfect truth and great pleasure--on the
+ conversation of our excellent host. For I have rarely, in
+ any country, met a man so devoid of prejudice, or so willing
+ to take all matters on their favorable side, and withal, who
+ was so well informed about every thing in his own and in
+ other countries, or who was more ready to impart his
+ knowledge to others.
+
+ To these agreeable attributes and conversational powers he
+ adds such a mirthfulness of fancy, and genuine heartiness of
+ good-humour, to all men, women, and children who have the
+ good fortune to make his acquaintance, that I should have no
+ scruple--if it were not too great a liberty--in naming him
+ as the person I have been most pleased with in all my recent
+ travels.
+
+ After dinner, we repaired to the Museum, the rich treasures
+ of which have been collected exclusively by captains or
+ supercargoes of vessels out of Salem, who had doubled one or
+ other of the great southern promontories,--the Cape, and the
+ Horn, as they are technically called by seamen. As my eye
+ fell on numberless carefully cherished objects, which I had
+ often seen in familiar use on the other side of the globe,
+ my imagination revelled far and wide into regions I may
+ never live to see again.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1826.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Compliment to New England._ In a speech made by Mr. Lyell,
+ the eminent geologist, at a late meeting of the British
+ Geological Association, he said--"Were I ever so unfortunate
+ as to quit my native land to reside permanently elsewhere, I
+ should without hesitation choose the United States for my
+ second country, especially New England, where a population
+ of more than two millions enjoys a higher average standard
+ of prosperity and intellectual advancement than any other
+ population of equal amount on the globe."
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1843.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Mrs. Trollope avers that pigs are caressed by the ladies and gentlemen
+of New York.
+
+ "REFUGEE IN AMERICA."
+
+ NEW-YORK AND BOSTON. Mrs. Trollope, in her new work, called
+ the Refugee in America, introduces some queer comparisons
+ between the manners of the two cities. We quote for
+ example:--"In Boston, there are no persons allowed to vote
+ at the elections of President or Governor of that province
+ but native born yankees; while at New-York, emigrants are
+ forced from the ships in which they arrive directly to the
+ hustings, which are kept open the first two weeks of every
+ month at Mason's lodge, Broadway, where they are allowed to
+ jostle off the sidewalks the most respectable inhabitants.
+ If they are reproved for such conduct, the answer invariably
+ is,--'Isn't this a land of liberty?' I was one forenoon
+ myself stopped at the lodge and offered a vote, with the
+ preliminary question,--'Are you a Clay or a Jackson man?' In
+ Boston, a person seen with a segar in his mouth in the
+ street, is counted a blackguard; but in New-York no
+ gentleman makes his promenade without one. In Boston, a
+ housekeeper would be placed at the Sessions dock for
+ suffering the refuse of his mansion to be thrown into the
+ street; while in N. York he would be fined $1 if he allowed
+ it to be thrown elsewhere near his premises. Swine is a
+ Bostonian's bane, and a N. Yorker's antidote,--indeed this
+ animal is as much caressed by the ladies and gentlemen of
+ the latter city, as a lap-dog in London or Paris. The
+ Governor and his twenty chosen ministers have made it a
+ capital offence to molest one of these interesting
+ quadrupeds while roaming the streets!"--[Oh! what a lying
+ jade!]
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Oct. 13, 1832.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ EARLY ACCOUNTS OF NEW-ENGLAND. The first settlers of
+ New-England must have been blessed with singular powers of
+ vision. One of them speaks of lions in Cape Ann: another
+ (Josselyn), who arrived at Boston in 1663, and resided in
+ this Colony about eight years, says of our frogs, "some,
+ when they sit upon their breech, are a foot high, and some
+ as long as a child one year old." He likewise says "old
+ barley frequently degenerates into oats" in New-England.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+"Enthusiasm" is described as a nervous disorder by Dr. Douglass, author
+of the Historical Summary.
+
+ DR. DOUGLASS'S NOTICE OF SALEM. In looking over Dr.
+ Douglass' historical summary, we found the following note on
+ Salem. The author formerly lived in Boston, and after his
+ removal to England, published his work in 1749. As he was a
+ physician, he probably considered himself authorized to
+ broach new theories. He certainly showed his ingenuity in
+ imputing to our soil a tendency to produce the diseases of
+ which he makes mention. It is perhaps fortunate for us that
+ the Doctor did not live in our day, as he would have found
+ in the excitement which has recently prevailed here in
+ relation to the Mill Dam, Theatre, &c., new proofs of the
+ correctness of his hypothesis.
+
+ "In Salem and its neighborhood _Enthusiasm_ and other
+ _nervous disorders_ seem to be _endemial_. _Hypochondriack_,
+ _hysterick_, and other _maniack_ disorders prevail there,
+ and Ipswich adjoining, to this day."
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1826.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Beer and cider "Federal liquors."
+
+ PHILADELPHIA, July 23 [1788].
+
+ A correspondent wishes that a monument could be erected in
+ UNION GREEN, with the following inscription:--
+
+ IN HONOUR OF
+ AMERICAN BEER AND CYDER.
+
+ It is hereby recorded, for the information of strangers and
+ posterity, that 17000 people assembled on this Green, on
+ the 4th of July, 1788, to celebrate the establishment of the
+ Constitution of the United States, and that they separated
+ at an early hour, without intoxication or a single quarrel.
+ They drank nothing but Beer and Cyder. Learn, reader, to
+ prize those invaluable _federal_ liquors, and to consider
+ them as the companions of those virtues which can alone
+ render our country free and respectable.
+
+ Learn likewise to despise
+ SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, as _antifederal_;
+
+ and to consider them as the companions of all those vices
+ which are calculated to dishonour and enslave our country.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In these "awfully fine" times, the following lines ought to be
+interesting:--
+
+ ......POETRY......
+
+ _From the Lady's Miscellany._
+
+ YANKEE PHRASES.
+
+ AS sound as a nut o'er the plain,
+ I of late whistled chuck full of glee,
+ A stranger to sorrow and pain,
+ As happy as happy could be.
+
+ As plump as a partridge I grew,
+ My heart being lighter than cork;
+ My slumbers were calmer than dew,
+ My body was fatter than pork.
+
+ Thus happy, I hop'd I should pass
+ Slick as grease down the current of time;
+ But pleasures are brittle as glass,
+ Although as a fiddle they're fine.
+
+ Jemima, the pride of the vale,
+ Like a top nimbly danc'd o'er the plains;
+ With envy the lasses were pale,
+ With wonder stood gazing the swains.
+
+ She smil'd like a basket of chips,
+ As tall as a may-pole her size--
+ As sweet as molasses her lips--
+ As bright as a button her eyes.
+
+ Admiring, I gaz'd on her charm,
+ My peace that would trouble so soon,
+ And thought not of danger nor harm,
+ Any more than the man in the moon.
+
+ But now to my sorrow I find
+ Her heart is as hard as a brick,
+ To my passion forever unkind,
+ Though of love I am full as a tick.
+
+ I sought her affection to win,
+ In hope of obtaining relief;
+ Till I like a hatchet grew thin,
+ And she, like a haddock, grew deaf.
+
+ I late was as fat as a doe,
+ And playful and spry as a cat;
+ But now I am as dull as a hoe,
+ And as lean and as weak as a rat.
+
+ Unless the unpitying fates
+ With passion as ardent will cram her,
+ As certain as death or as rates,
+ I soon shall be dead as a hammer.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ April 5, 1811.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Gentlemen and children have sometimes been considered bugbears.
+
+ Boarders Wanted.
+
+ TWO or Three Ladies can be accommodated with Board, on
+ reasonable terms, in a small family, 18 miles from town,
+ where there are neither Gentlemen or Children; a Stage
+ passes the house twice a week, and the Middlesex Canal Boat
+ near it every other day. Inquire at the Centinel Counting
+ Room.
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ July 25, 1812.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LIBERAL DONATIONS_
+
+ Of the Legislature of _New-York_ to the University of that
+ State: 1,500l. for the Library; 200l. for chemical
+ apparatus; 1,200l. for a wall round the College; 5,000l. for
+ erecting a Hall, and additional wing to the College; 750l.
+ for five years annually, for the salaries of additional
+ Professors.--_Blush! Citizens of Massachusetts, for your
+ Legislators--who have so frequently denied relief to your
+ University!!!_
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ May 5, 1792.
+
+The books children read in 1789.
+
+ A great Variety of
+
+ =Children's Books=
+
+ Neatly printed, and adorned with elegant Cuts, are sold by
+ _T.C. CUSHING_, at the Printing-Office in Salem--viz.
+
+ LITTLE ROBIN RED-BREAST.
+ Memoirs of a PEGTOP.
+ The SUGAR-PLUMB; or, sweet Amusement for leisure hours.
+ The JUVENILE BIOGRAPHER, containing the Lives of little Masters and
+ Misses.
+ Be MERRY and WISE; or, the Cream of the Jests, and the Marrow of
+ Maxims, for the Conduct of Life.
+ The HOLY BIBLE abridged.
+ History of little KING PIPPIN.
+ History of GILES GINGERBREAD.
+ History of TOM JONES.
+ History of Master JACKEY and Miss HARRIOT.
+ History of CHARLES CAREFUL and HARRY HEEDLESS.
+ Mother GOOSE's Melody.
+ The Exhibition of TOM THUMB.
+ Tom Thumb's SONG BOOK.
+ The FATHER's Gift.
+ The MOTHER's Gift.
+ The BROTHER's Gift.
+ The SISTER's Gift.
+ Nurse Truelove's NEW-YEAR's GIFT.
+ Death and Burial of COCK-ROBIN.
+ The ROYAL ALPHABET.
+ The HERMIT of the Forest, and the Wandering Infants.
+
+ _Salem Mercury._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+A new way to cure insanity.
+
+ _A CURIOUS IDEA._
+
+ KNOWLEDGE is attained with the greatest difficulty; we have
+ it not by intuition, but acquire it by many unsuccessful
+ trials and long experience. One gives a hint, and the other
+ improves it; but prejudice and ignorance too often stand in
+ the way: "_That cannot be,_" or "_I cannot believe that,_"
+ has crushed many an useful project. How incredible did the
+ recovery of drowned persons appear at first! When the report
+ reached England, that many abroad had been brought again to
+ life, after laying under water some time, who gave it
+ credit? But experience has since convinced us of its
+ possibility.
+
+ Now, from the great success attending the recovery of
+ drowned persons, I would offer a hint to the public, and
+ leave it to be improved by them, respecting the recovery of
+ those who are mad, and given up as incurable.
+
+ When madness breaks forth, the first care of the physician
+ is to reduce and keep his patient low, in order to check the
+ velocity and whirl of his thoughts; and if possible to
+ procure sleep, by quieting the internal turbulency. If all
+ his skill and efforts fail, such a person is as much lost to
+ society as if he were dead. Now if such an one were plunged
+ into water, and there kept until he was apparently dead, and
+ was then recovered by the usual methods (and of which
+ recovery we have now a moral certainty) I am apt to believe
+ we should behold a perfect cure. There is, I own, something
+ shocking to nature in the experiment; but if the patient be
+ already lost, and dead to society, why should we hesitate a
+ moment to make the trial, when the probability of succeeding
+ is so flattering?
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ July 12, 1791.
+
+It would be interesting to see the punch-bowl out of which the members
+of Congress drank in 1811, on the day succeeding the marriage of Mr. and
+Mrs. Pearson.
+
+ At Washington, Hon. JOSEPH PEARSON, Esq. (Federal
+ Representative from N. Carolina), to Miss ELEANOR BRENT,
+ daughter of Robt. Brent, Esq., Mayor of the city.-- --> _The
+ greater part of the members, the next day, left the business
+ of the nation to attend the punch drinking, so that the
+ House adj'd at an early hour_. Dec. 13, 1811.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+As the following lines have the indorsement of a Hartford paper, we
+venture to reproduce them:--
+
+ From the New-York Daily Advertiser, May 10.
+
+ DESCRIPTION OF CONNECTICUT.
+
+ HERE fond remembrance stampt her much lov'd names,
+ Here boasts the soil its _London_ and its _Thames_;
+ Throughout her shores commodious ports abound,
+ Clear flow the waters of the varying ground;
+ Cold nipping winds a lengthen'd winter bring,
+ Late rise the products of the tardy spring.
+ The broken soil a labouring race requires;
+ Each barren hill its generous crops admires,
+ Where nature meanly did her gifts impart,
+ Yet, smiling, owns how much she owes to art.
+
+ But keen as winds that guide the wintry reign,
+ All bow to lucre, all are bent on gain;
+ As chance decreed, their various lots are thrown;
+ Its house each acre, every mile its town;
+ With gilded spire the frequent church is seen,
+ Sacred to him that taught them to be keen;
+ Eternal squabblings grease the lawyer's paw,
+ All have their suits, and all have studied law;
+ With tongue that art and nature taught to speak,
+ Some rave in Latin, some dispute in Greek;
+ Proud of their books, in ancient lore they shine,
+ And one month's study makes a learn'd divine;
+ Fond to converse, with deep designing views,
+ They pump the travelling stranger of his news;
+ Fond of his wit, but fonder to be paid,
+ Each house a tavern, claims a tavern's trade;
+ While he that comes, as surely hears them praise
+ The hospitality of modern days.
+
+ Yet brave in arms, of enterprising soul,
+ They tempt old Neptune to the farthest pole;
+ In learning's walks explore the mazy way
+ (For genius here has shed his golden ray);
+ In war's bold arts thro' various contests try'd,
+ True to themselves, they took their country's side,
+ And, party feuds dismiss'd, join to agree
+ That scepter only just that left them free.
+
+ _Connecticut Courant,_ July 14, 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Errors of the press.
+
+ The following paragraphs will shew how completely the sense
+ is altered by the omission of a single letter of the word in
+ Italics.
+
+ "The conflict was dreadful, and the enemy was repulsed with
+ considerable _laughter_."
+
+ "Robert Jones was yesterday brought before the sitting
+ Magistrate, on a charge of having spoken _reason_ at the
+ Barleymow public-house."
+
+ "In consequence of the numerous accidents occasioned by
+ skaiting on the Serpentine River, measures are taking to put
+ a _top_ to it."
+
+ "When Miss Leserve, late of Covent Garden Theatre, visited
+ the 'Hecla,' she was politely drawn up the ship's side by
+ means of a _hair_."
+
+ "At the Guildhall dinner, none of the poultry was eatable
+ except the _owls_."
+
+ "A gentleman was yesterday brought up to answer a charge of
+ having _eaten_ a hackney-coachman for having demanded more
+ than his fare; and another was accused of having stolen a
+ small _ox_ out of the Bath mail; the stolen property was
+ found in his waistcoat pocket."
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1827.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _A CURIOSITY._
+
+ "We have often heard of the Lord's Prayer being written in
+ the compass of a shilling, but have lately seen a piece of
+ paper of that dimension, which contains, in manuscript, the
+ Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, Psalms 117,
+ 120, 127, 131, 132, 134, and 150; 9th chapter of Proverbs,
+ Prayer of St. Chrysostom, two Collects, Prayer for the
+ Royal Family, Nobility, Clergy, &c., &c., the Blessing, and
+ Junior, 1702, the name of the writer. This curiosity is in
+ the possession of Mr. John Reeder, of Brighton, who being an
+ auctioneer at a sale where it was lately sold, purchased it
+ on very easy terms. It is not legible without a good glass."
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ June 5, 1790. _Eng. pap._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In an old Salem paper we find the following:
+
+ --> We understand the number of deaths in this town the past
+ year was 234, of which 15 died abroad.
+
+This reminds us of the curious jumble made in the first edition of
+Morse's "American Gazetteer," published in Boston in 1797. In the
+description of Albany, N.Y., it says: "This city and suburbs, by
+enumeration in 1797, contained 1,263 buildings, of which 863 were
+dwelling-houses and 6,021 inhabitants. Many of them are in the Gothic
+style with the gable end to the street, which custom the first settlers
+brought from Holland."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ The earliest American writer of whom we have any information
+ was Peter Bulkley, who was born in England in 1583 and died
+ in 1659 in Massachusetts, and wrote Latin Poetry and
+ Sermons. The earliest poetic volume written in this country
+ was by Anne Bradstreet, of Boston, born 1612, died 1672.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1834.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The author of these lines must have been one of the old school.
+
+ [_The following was paid for as an Advertisement._]
+
+ The folloing lines were Presented to A lat skull mistres in
+ this town by 4 of her skolers the morning after her mareg
+
+ MAY all Joiy and happiness Vait
+ To attend your nuptal stat
+ you our instructer and the Guid
+ of our early youth beside
+ as you Quit the plas
+ wich you fild with euery Gras.
+ Our Grateful Thanks are sure your due.
+ Except them thearfor from us fue.
+ Whos shur to you that pras is due.
+ Must euery sorro euery Cear be yourn
+ Forbid it Heauin and let it turn
+ to peas and Joiys next to diuin
+ Rise Glorious euery futer Sun
+ and Bless your days with Joiys as this has dun
+ let sorrows sese and Joiys tak plas
+ to briten euery futer day with equil Gras
+ and wen your cald from hence above
+ may you inioy your souors Loue
+ wee ever shall regrat our los
+ and yet with you wee all reioyss
+
+ _Essex Gazette,_ May 14, 1771.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Boston school-books in 1790.
+
+ The School Committee in Boston have ordered that the
+ following Books be used in the Reading Schools of that town,
+ viz.
+
+ The HOLY BIBLE;
+ WEBSTER's SPELLING-BOOK;
+ The Young Ladies' ACCIDENCE;
+ Webster's American SELECTION of Lessons in Reading and Speaking;
+ The CHILDREN'S FRIEND;
+ MORSE's GEOGRAPHY abridged; and
+ The NEWSPAPERS, occasionally.
+
+ _Salem Gazette._
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ANECDOTE.
+
+ WHEN Oliver Cromwell first coined his money, an old cavalier
+ looking upon one of the new pieces, read this inscription on
+ one side, _God with us_; on the other side, _The
+ Commonwealth of England_. I see, said he, _God and the
+ Commonwealth are on different sides._
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ June 26, 1787.
+
+Two different ways of telling a story.
+
+ _Anecdote_. A CLERGYMAN, who in the Matrimonial Lottery had
+ drawn much worse than a _blank_, and, without the patience
+ of Socrates, had to encounter the turbulent spirit of
+ Xantippe, was interrupted in the middle of a _Curtain
+ Lecture_, by the arrival of a pair, requesting his
+ assistance to introduce them to the _blessed_ state of
+ Wedlock. The poor Priest, actuated at the moment by his own
+ feelings and particular _experience_, rather than a sense of
+ canonical duty, opened the book, and began: "_Man, that is
+ born of a Woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full
+ of trouble, &c., &c.,_" repeating the _burial_ service. The
+ astonished Bridegroom exclaimed, "Sir! Sir! you mistake, I
+ came here to be _married_, not _buried_!" "Well (replied the
+ Clergyman), if you insist on it, I am _obliged_ to marry
+ you--but believe me, my friend, you had _better_ be
+ _buried_."
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ March 12, 1791.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ANECDOTE. It is doubtless recollected that Dean Swift,
+ though a great favorite among the ladies, was (no doubt for
+ good and substantial reasons) nevertheless a bachelor. His
+ opinion of the married state seemed to be not very much
+ exalted. On one occasion, he had been called upon to marry a
+ couple, and after getting them properly arranged, commenced
+ as follows: "Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short
+ time to live, and is full of misery," &c. "My dear sir,"
+ interrupted the bridegroom, "you are reading the burial
+ service, instead of the matrimonial." "Never mind, friend,"
+ whispered the Dean, "_you had better be buried than
+ married_."
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1834.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ AN OPPOSITION.
+
+ Dryden and Otway lived opposite to each other in
+ Queen-street. Otway coming one night from the tavern,
+ chalked upon Dryden's door, _Here lives John Dryden, he is a
+ wit_. Dryden knew his hand writing, and next day chalked on
+ Otway's door, _Here lives Tom Otway, he is oppo-site._
+
+ _Essex Register,_ 1802.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Specimens of old time newspaper poetry.
+
+ To a LADY who admired dancing.
+
+ _MAY I presume in humble lays,
+ My dancing fair, thy steps to praise?
+ While this grand maxim I advance,
+ That all the world is but a dance,
+ That human-kind, both man and woman,
+ Do_ dance _is evident and common.
+ David himself, that God-like king,
+ We know could_ dance, _as well as_ sing.
+ _Folks who at court would keep their ground,
+ Must dance the year attendance round.
+ All nature is one_ ball, _we find:
+ The water dances to the wind;
+ The sea itself at night and noon
+ Rises and capers to the moon;
+ The moon around the earth does tread
+ A Cheshire round in buxom red;
+ The earth and planets round the sun_
+ Dance, _nor will their_ dance _be done
+ 'Till nature in one mass is blended;
+ Then we may say the_ ball _is ended._
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ July 29, 1788.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE FOUNT.
+
+ --> THE following--from the pen of a fair
+ correspondent--cannot be read without PLEASURE and
+ IMPROVEMENT.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LINES FOR A SCREEN._
+
+ TO BE WRITTEN BENEATH THE FIGURE OF "MINERVA HOLDING A CROWN
+ OF OLIVE."
+
+ Ah! lovely Ladies--while with care
+ Ye guard from harm your FACES fair;
+ While spreads the airy PARASOL
+ To shield you from the beams of SOL;
+ And many a FAN and VEIL and BLIND
+ Protect from each intrusive wind:--
+ And whilst ye deign to intervene
+ Twixt you and fire, the humble SCREEN!--
+ Oh! strive alike to guard your _hearts_
+ From VICE, and all her wily arts.
+ Your parasol let VIRTUE prove,
+ To ward th' attacks of _lawless_ love--
+ Prudence will prove a _screen_ to thee,
+ And let thy VEIL be MODESTY.
+ Attend my words, ye Fair, for know,
+ This _Crown_ shall grace the worthiest brow.
+
+ ORA.
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ July 27, 1814.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _From the_ GAZETTE _of the_ U. STATES.
+
+
+ IMPROMPTU.
+
+ _On seeing a young Lady darning Stockings._
+
+ ALONG the stocking's foot, with ease and grace
+ Your fingers, lovely Mira, when you move,
+ On them with eye admiring I will gaze,
+ And drink deep draughts of all resistless love.
+
+ Assume thy gloves, my most enchanting fair,
+ When next your stockings you begin to mend,
+ For though full white the hose, they yet appear
+ As saffron yellow, near thy lily hand.
+
+ As constant as your all obedient thread
+ Does thy bright needle's devious path pursue,
+ So does each thought of my poor brainless head
+ For ever dwell, divinest nymph, on you.
+
+ Oft as thy needles pierce the yielding hose,
+ So oft thy beauties pierce my yielding breast:
+ Oh then compassionate my deep felt woes,
+ And bid awhile the polish'd needle rest.
+
+ Or if one idle minute you disdain,
+ On me be exercis'd your mending art,
+ Yes, lovely maid, to ease of my pain,
+ Come, darn the hole that rankles in my heart.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ August 26, 1800.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE WHITE CLOVER.
+
+ BY A LADY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
+
+ THERE is a little perfum'd flower,
+ It well might grace the lovliest bower,
+ Yet poet never deign'd to sing
+ Of such a humble, rustic thing.
+ Nor is it strange, for it can show
+ Scarcely one tint of Iris' bow:
+ Nature, perchance, in careless hour,
+ With pencil dry, might paint the flower;
+ Yet instant blush'd, her fault to see,
+ So gave a double fragrancy;
+ Rich recompence for aught denied!
+ Who would not homely garb abide,
+ If gentlest soul were breathing there,
+ Blessings through all its little sphere?
+ Sweet flower! the lesson thou hast taught,
+ Shall check each proud, ambitious thought,
+ Teach me internal worth to prize,
+ Though found in lowliest, rudest guise.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ June 27, 1815.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _CASTALIAN FOUNT._
+
+ AMERICAN POETRY.
+
+ A FRAGMENT.
+
+ _The following beautiful lines were written on the death of
+ a young lady in Pennsylvania, whose dissolution was
+ occasioned by her mistaking a poisonous mineral for the
+ flower of sulphur, and swallowing a spoonfull:_
+
+ THUS, o'er the tomb of what she held most dear,
+ The weeping muse no common sorrow pours;
+ No common anguish prompts the falling tear--
+ No common virtues those she now deplores.
+
+ Dear hapless girl, was there no saving power?
+ Where was your guardian angel--where your friend?
+ Could nought prevent the fatal destin'd hour?
+ Nor pitying Heaven would hear or succour lend.
+
+ Then, if nor Heaven _would_ hear--nor friends _could_ save,
+ Be still, my heart, nor breathe another sigh;
+ Drop the last tear upon her early grave,
+ And let it teach you--that _the best must die_.
+
+ --> _A few original favours from our poetick friends would
+ be very acceptable._
+
+ _Massachusetts Centinel,_ March 28, 1789.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _From the New York Daily Advertiser._
+
+ _The Sailor Boy._
+
+ Dark flew the scud along the wave,
+ And echoing thunders rend the sky;
+ All hands aloft! to meet the storm,
+ At midnight was the boatswain's cry.
+
+ On deck flew every gallant tar,
+ But one--bereft of ev'ry joy;
+ Within a hammock's narrow bound,
+ Lay stretch'd this hapless SAILOR BOY.
+
+ Once, when the Boatswain pip'd all hands,
+ The first was he, of all the crew,
+ On deck to spring--to trim the sail--
+ To steer--to reef--to furl or clue.
+
+ Now fell disease had seiz'd a form
+ Which nature cast in finest mould;
+ The midwatch bell now smote his heart,
+ His last, his dying knell it toll'd.
+
+ "O God!" he cried, and gasp'd for breath,
+ "Ere yet my soul shall cleave the skies,
+ "Are there no parents--brethren--near,
+ "To close, in death, my weary eyes?
+
+ "All hands aloft to brave the storm,
+ "I hear the wintry tempest roar;"
+ He rais'd his head to view the scene,
+ And backward fell, to rise no more.
+
+ The morning sun in splendour rose.
+ The gale was hush'd and still'd the wave;
+ The Sea-boy, far from all his friends,
+ Was plung'd into a wat'ry grave.
+
+ But He, who guards the Sea-boy's head,
+ He, who can save or can destroy,
+ Snatch'd up to Heav'n the purest soul
+ That e'er adorn'd a SAILOR BOY.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ Oct. 29, 1805.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ EARLY RISING.
+
+ WIVES, _awake! unveil your eyes;
+ Sluggards, no more yawning;
+ See the Delphick god arise,
+ Bright Apollo dawning._
+
+ _Husbands, rouse at love's alarms,
+ Drowsy slumbers scorning;
+ Rovers, quit your favourite charms,
+ Up! behold, 'tis morning._
+
+ _Virgins fair, have at your hearts;
+ Hymen's torch is flaming;
+ Cupid whets his pointed darts,
+ And look! the rogue is aiming._
+
+ _Fair the bud of beauty blows,
+ Mellow sweets are palling;
+ Crown us with the virgin rose,
+ And so prevent its falling._
+
+ _See the charms that nature yields;_
+ Why _sleep away your duty?
+ Arise! the fragrance of the fields
+ Is friendly to your beauty._
+
+ _Lads, for shame! abed till now!
+ Forsake them, and be wiser;
+ There's health and pleasure, you'll allow,
+ In being an early riser._
+
+ _Bound with ivy, bound with vines,
+ Youth serenely passes;
+ Bacchus round our temples twines,
+ And sparkles in our glasses._
+
+ _No longer drown the mind in sleep;
+ But breathe the vernal air!
+ Our hours may thus improvement reap,
+ And who has any t' spare_?
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ May 17, 1788.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _From the New Monthly Magazine._
+
+ =On seeing a Tomb adorned with Angels weeping.=
+
+ Though sculptors, with mistaken art,
+ Place weeping Angels round the tomb;
+ Yet, when the good and great depart,
+ These shout to bear their conquerors home.
+
+ Glad they survey their labours o'er,
+ And hail them to their native skies;
+ Attend their passage to the shore,
+ And with their mounting spirits rise.
+
+ Britain may mourn her Patriot dead,
+ And pour her sorrows o'er his dust:
+ But streaming eyes, and drooping head,
+ Ill suit those guardians of the just.
+
+ Parents may shed a tender tear,
+ And friends indulge a parting groan;
+ If these in mimic form appear,
+ Such pious grief becomes the stone.
+
+ But if the wounded marble bear
+ Celestial forms to grace the urn,
+ Let triumph in their eyes appear,
+ Nor dare to make an angel mourn.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1819.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Varieties.
+
+ _Origin of the word_ DUN.--Dunny, in the provincial dialect
+ of several countries, signifies deaf: to dun, then, perhaps
+ may mean, to deafen with importunate demands. Some derive it
+ from the word _donnez_, which signifies _give_; but the true
+ original meaning of the word owes its birth to one Joe Dun,
+ a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active
+ and so dexterous in his business, that it became a proverb,
+ when a man refused to pay, "Why do you not _dun_ him?" that
+ is, Why do not you set _Dun_ to arrest him?--Hence it became
+ a cant-word, and is now as old as since the days of Henry
+ VII. Dun was also the general name of hangman, before that
+ of Jack-ketch.
+
+ And presently a halter got,
+ Made of the best strong hempen tear,
+ And e'er a cat could lick her ear,
+ Had tied it up with as much art,
+ As Dun himself could do for 's heart.
+
+ COTTON'S VIRGIL TRA. BOOK iv.
+
+ It is curious to observe that _Dun_, who, as we said before,
+ was _finisher of the law_ in the reign of Henry VII., had a
+ son, who became a bailiff--This bailiff having scraped some
+ money together, made his son an attorney, who changed the
+ name of _Dun_ to _Dunning_--the rest of the genealogy are
+ well known.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Aug. 29, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Biographical Correctness_.--As a specimen of the accurate
+ way in which Biographical Dictionaries are made up, the
+ Enquirer refers to Dr. Watkins' volume, in which he writes
+ down that John Adams "died in 1803."--And yet for 23 years
+ after this date, the old patriarch was living in health and
+ happiness. A still more ludicrous blunder appeared a few
+ years since in a French Biographical Dictionary, in which it
+ was stated that the now venerable John Jay, who yet lives
+ full of years and full of honors, was a Frenchman, who,
+ after having framed the Constitution of the State of
+ New-York, and witnessed the close of the American
+ revolution, returned to France--became a member of the
+ French Convention, and was finally brought to the
+ guillotine!--_N.Y. Com. Adv._
+
+ _Essex Register,_ Sept. 18, 1826.
+
+ The works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to
+ any but Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German,
+ just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of
+ his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled
+ him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went
+ to John Paul himself and asked him what was the meaning of
+ the mysterious passage.--John Paul's reply was very German
+ and characteristic: "My good friend," said he, "when I wrote
+ that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible
+ that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally
+ forgotten."
+
+ _Essex Register,_ Oct. 9, 1826.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ORIGIN OF "FOOLSCAP" PAPER. It is known that Charles I. of
+ England, granted numerous monopolies for the support of his
+ government. Among others was the privilege of manufacturing
+ paper. The water mark of the finest sort was the royal arms
+ of England. The consumption of this article was great at
+ this time, and large fortunes were made by those who had
+ purchased the exclusive right to vend it. This, among other
+ monopolies, was set aside by the parliament that brought
+ Charles to the scaffold, and by way of showing their
+ contempt for the king, they ordered the royal arms to be
+ taken from the paper, and a fool, with his cap and bells, to
+ be substituted. It is now more than an hundred and
+ seventy-five years since the fool's cap and bells were taken
+ from the paper, but still, paper of the size which the Rump
+ Parliament ordered for the journals bears the name of the
+ water mark then ordered as an indignity to Charles.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A new version of "Yankee Doodle," from the "Salem Gazette,"
+ July, 1811.
+
+ YANKEY SONG.
+
+ [_The following song was composed a few years since by a
+ gentleman then one of the officers of the Salem regiment, to
+ be sung at the military celebration of the 4th of July. Its
+ wit and pleasantry continues it a favorite with the Yankies,
+ and it was again sung by the Military at Lynn Hotel, and by
+ the Federalists at Washington Hall, on the late
+ anniversary._]
+
+ I.
+
+ Yankey Doodle is the tune
+ Americans delight in;
+ 'Twill do to whistle, sing, or play,
+ And just the thing for fighting.
+
+ CHORUS.
+
+ _Yankey Doodle, Boys; Huzza!
+ Down outside--up the middle--
+ Yankey Doodle_, fa, sol, la,
+ _Trumpet, Drum, and Fiddle._
+
+ II.
+
+ Should Great Britain, Spain, or France
+ Wage war upon our shore, sir,
+ We'll lead them such a _woundy_ dance,
+ They'll find their toes are sore, sir.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ III.
+
+ Should a haughty foe expect
+ To give our boys a caning,
+ We _guess_ they'll find our boys have _larnt_
+ A _little bit_ of training.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ IV.
+
+ I'll wager now a _mug of flip_,
+ And bring it on the table,
+ Put Yankey boys aboard a ship,
+ To beat them they are able.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ V.
+
+ Then if they go to _argufy._
+ I _rather guess_ they'll find, too,
+ We've got a set of _tonguey blades_,
+ T'out talk 'em, if _they're mind to._
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ VI.
+
+ America's a _dandy_ place;
+ The people are all brothers;
+ And when one's got a _pumpkin pye_,
+ He shares it with the others.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ VII.
+
+ We work, and sleep, and pray, in peace--
+ By industry we thrive, sir;
+ And if a drone won't do his part,
+ We'll scout him from the hive, sir.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ VIII.
+
+ And then, on _Independent Day_,
+ (And who's a better right to?)
+ We eat and drink, and sing and play,
+ And have a dance at night, too.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ IX.
+
+ Our girls are fair, our boys are tough,
+ Our old folks wise and healthy;
+ And when we've every thing we want,
+ We _count_ that we are wealthy.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ X.
+
+ We're _happy_, _free_, and _well to do_,
+ And cannot want for knowledge;
+ For, almost ev'ry mile or two,
+ You find a _school_ or _college._
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ XI.
+
+ The land we till is all our own;
+ Whate'er the price, we paid it;
+ Therefore we'll fight _till all is blue_,
+ Should any dare invade it.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ XII.
+
+ Since we're so bless'd, let's eat and drink
+ With thankfulness and gladness:
+ Should we kick o'er our cup of joy,
+ It would be _sartin_ madness.
+
+ CHORUS.
+
+ _Yankey Doodle, Boys; Huzza!
+ Down outside, up the middle--
+ Yankey Doodle_, fa, sol, la,
+ _Trumpet, Drum, and Fiddle._
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Going snacks."
+
+ At the time of the plague in London, a noted body searcher
+ lived whose name was _Snacks_. His business increased so
+ fast that, finding he could not compass it, he offered to
+ any person who should join him in his hardened practice half
+ the profits; thus, those who joined him were said to go with
+ _Snacks_. Hence going _snacks_, or dividing the spoil.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1823.
+
+ _A Word omitted by Webster_. In a history of the second
+ parish of Beverly, published not long since, a vote passed
+ in 1776, to take measures to collect the "behindments" of
+ certain persons in the parish, is noticed. "Behindments"
+ meant arrearages.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1837.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The following curious collection belonged to Mr. Samuel McIntire, the
+architect of the South Meeting-House in Salem, whose spire is
+acknowledged to be one of the best proportioned and handsomest in New
+England:
+
+ _FOR SALE,_
+
+ SUNDRY Articles belonging to the Estate of SAMUEL MCINTIRE,
+ deceased.--VIZ.
+
+ 1 elegant BARREL ORGAN, 6 feet high, 10 barrels; 1 Wind Chest of
+ an Organ;
+ ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, complete;
+ Paladio's Architecture, best kind;
+ 1 Ware's do.; 1 Paine's do.;
+ 2 vols. French Architecture;
+ 1 large Book Antient Statues, excellent;
+ Lock Hospital Collection of Music;
+ Handel's Messiah, in score;
+ Harmonia Sacra;
+ Magdalen Hymns; Massachusetts Compiler;
+ 1 excellent toned SPINNET;
+ 1 excellent VIOLIN and Case;
+ 1 eight day CLOCK, Mahogany Case;
+ 12 Prints of the Seasons;
+ 1 book Drawings of Ships;
+ 1 large Head of Washington;
+ Number of Busts of the Poets;
+ 2 Figures of Hercules, 2 feet high;
+ 1 Head of Franklin, and Pillar, for a Sign;
+ Composition Ornaments;
+ Number of Moulding Planes, and sundry other Articles. Apply to
+
+ ELIZABETH M'INTIRE, _Adm'x_.
+ or to SAMUEL F. M'INTIRE, _Att'y_.
+
+ N.B.--The Subscriber carries on CARVING as usual at the Shop
+ of the deceased, in Summer-Street, where he will be glad to
+ receive orders in that line. He returns thanks for past
+ favors.
+
+ April 30 [1811]. SAMUEL F. M'INTIRE.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Many years ago there was published in Boston a small volume entitled
+"Eliza Wharton, the Coquette. By a Lady of Massachusetts." It consisted
+of a series of letters said to be founded on fact. A young woman died at
+the Bell Tavern in Danvers in 1788, whose gravestone a few years ago
+might be seen in the old Danvers (now Peabody) burial-ground. We copy
+from the "Salem Mercury" of July 29, 1788, the following account:--
+
+ Last Friday, a female stranger died at the Bell Tavern, in
+ Danvers; and on Sunday her remains were decently interred.
+ The circumstances relative to this woman are such as excite
+ curiosity and interest our feelings. She was brought to the
+ Bell in a chaise, from Watertown, as she said, by a young
+ man whom she had engaged for that purpose. After she had
+ alighted, and taken a trunk with her into the house, the
+ chaise immediately drove off. She remained at this inn till
+ her death, in expectation of the arrival of her husband,
+ whom she expected to come for her, and appeared anxious at
+ his delay. She was averse to being interrogated concerning
+ herself or connexions; and kept much retired to her chamber,
+ employed in needle-work, writing, &c. She said, however,
+ that she came from Westfield, in Connecticut; that her
+ parents lived in that State; that she had been married only
+ a few months; and, that her husband's name was Thomas
+ Walker;--but always carefully concealed her family name. Her
+ linen was all marked E.W. About a fortnight before her
+ death, she was brought to bed of a lifeless child. When
+ those who attended her apprehended her fate, they asked her,
+ whether she did not wish to see her friends: She answered,
+ that she was very desirous of seeing them. It was proposed
+ that she should send for them; to which she objected,
+ hoping in a short time to be able to go to them. From what
+ she said, and from other circumstances, it appeared probable
+ to those who attended her, that she belonged to some country
+ town in Connecticut: Her conversation, her writings and her
+ manners, bespoke the advantage of a respectable family &
+ good education. Her person was agreeable; her deportment,
+ amiable & engaging; and, though in a state of anxiety and
+ suspense, she preserved a cheerfulness, which seemed to be
+ not the effect of insensibility, but of a firm and patient
+ temper. She was supposed to be about 35 years old. Copies of
+ letters, of her writing, dated at Hartford, Springfield, and
+ other places, were left among her things.--This account is
+ given by the family in which she resided; and it is hoped
+ the publication of it will be a means of her friends'
+ ascertaining her fate.
+
+Elizabeth Whitman was the real name of the stranger, and the following
+was the inscription on the stone:--
+
+ "This humble stone, in Memory of Elizabeth Whitman, is
+ inscribed by her weeping friends, to whom she endeared
+ herself by uncommon tenderness and affection. Endowed with
+ superior genius and acquirements, she was still more
+ endeared by humility and benevolence. Let candour throw a
+ veil over her frailities, for great was her charity to
+ others.--She sustained the last painful scene far from
+ every friend, and exhibited an example of calm resignation.
+ Her departure was on the 25th of July, A.D. 1788, in the
+ 37th year of her age, and the tears of strangers watered her
+ grave."
+
+Although we recollect seeing the stone some years ago, when the whole
+inscription could be read, we visited the spot in April, 1885, and found
+only a small portion left,--a triangular piece, perhaps a foot and a
+half high on one side, at the bottom of which we could only make out:
+"A.D. 1788, ... the tears of strangers watered her grave." For years,
+young persons of a romantic turn of mind have visited the grave and
+chipped off small pieces of the freestone for relics. This modern habit
+of chipping monumental stones for relics is inexcusable; for it is not
+done by ignorant or otherwise lawless persons, but too often by the
+educated, who carry their mawkish sentiment to such an extreme as to
+deface and sometimes, as in the present case, entirely to ruin a
+monument. It is in vain to urge that this was only a stranger's stone,
+and that there were none to care. It was all the more an outrage, if
+there were no friends to protect it. We are glad to learn that there
+were people in the town who did what they could to prevent this
+sacrilege.
+
+The following account of this unfortunate lady we take from Hanson's
+"History of Danvers:"--
+
+ "Elizabeth Whitman came from a very respectable family in
+ Connecticut, where her father was a clergyman. She was
+ possessed of an ardent poetical temperament, an inordinate
+ love of praise, and was gifted with the natural endowment of
+ beauty and perfect grace, while she was accomplished with
+ those refinements which education can bestow. She was lovely
+ beyond words. But her natural amiabilities were warped and
+ perverted by reading great numbers of romances, to the
+ exclusion of almost all other reading. She formed her idea
+ of men by the exaggerated standards she saw in the books to
+ which she resorted; and thus when she looked around her she
+ saw no one who realized her ideal. She subsequently became
+ intimate with a lawyer, said to be the Honourable (?) Judge
+ Pierpont Edwards."
+
+We next hear of her in Danvers, "where the novelty of her situation,"
+continues Hanson, "and her attractive beauty and manners during her
+short sojourn, caused the entire village and many from the neighboring
+towns to attend her funeral. A few weeks after her burial, an unknown
+hand erected the gravestone with its eloquent inscription." The stone is
+evidently Connecticut sandstone or freestone. Mr. Hanson says of the
+volume "Eliza Wharton": "The catchpenny volume of letters which pretend
+to give her history has but the figments of the imagination of its
+authoress to recommend it."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Picture of the old Bell Tavern in Danvers. From the "Salem Gazette,"
+January, 1781.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _Danvers, Jan. 1781._
+
+ Just published,
+ And to be SOLD by
+ E. RUSSELL,
+ at his Printing-Office,
+ near the Bell-Tavern;
+
+ _The Second Edition of
+ Russell's_ American ALMANACK,
+
+ For the Year of our Redemption, 1781.
+
+ Being First after Leap Year; and Fifth Year of Independency.
+ Fitted for the Meridian of Boston, N. E. Lat. 42: 25 N.
+ Wherein may be found all Things necessary for this Work.
+
+ To which is added, a Declaration of the Rights of the
+ Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, extracted
+ from the Frame of Government; and a List of the Chief
+ Officers of Government, which is thought necessary to be
+ possessed by every Freeman in this Commonwealth.
+
+ Calculated by that curious and accurate Astronomer, BENJAMIN
+ WEST, Esq; of Providence, State of Rhode-Island.
+
+ _At the same Place may also be had, just published;_
+
+ The Remarkable Captivity and Redemption of
+
+ ELIZABETH HANSON,
+
+ Wife of Mr. _John Hanson_ of _Knoxmarsh_ at _Kecheachy_, in
+ _Dover_ Township, who was taken Captive with her Children
+ and Maid-Servant, by the _Indians_ in _New-England_, in the
+ Year 1724.
+
+ IN WHICH ARE INSERTED
+
+ Sundry remarkable Preservations, Providences, and Marks of
+ Care and Kindness of Providence over her and her Children,
+ worthy to be remembered.
+
+ _The Substance of which was taken from her own Mouth, and
+ now published for general Service._
+
+ THE THIRD EDITION,
+
+ Also, an entertaining Narrative of the cruel and barbarous
+ Treatment and extreme Sufferings of
+
+ Mr. JOHN DODGE,
+
+ During his Captivity of many Months among the _British_, at
+ _Detroit_.
+
+ IN WHICH IS ALSO CONTAINED,
+
+ A particular Detail of the Sufferings of a Virginian, who
+ died in their Hands.
+
+ _Written by himself; and now published to satisfy the
+ Curiosity of every one throughout the_ United States.
+
+ THE SECOND EDITION.
+
+ *** All the above Books, with a Variety of other small
+ Books, &c. will be sold to Shop keepers, Travelling-Traders,
+ &c. at the very lowest Rate, if they purchase by the
+ Hundred, Groce or Dozen.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In these sceptical and agnostic days it may sound a little strange, and
+perhaps to some seem quite absurd, that the authorities of Harvard in
+1791 felt obliged publicly to deny that Gibbon's History was used as a
+text-book at the University. But with the exception perhaps of Tom
+Paine, no one in this country had then ventured to assail the literal
+interpretation of the Scriptures. Probably the masses of the people
+then believed that "Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still,
+and they obeyed him," that Jonah was swallowed by the whale, and that
+
+ "In Adam's fall,
+ We sinned all."
+
+Of course there were exceptions. Therefore, although Gibbon might be an
+able writer, it was not safe for young men to study his works, simply
+because he had thrown doubt or derision on the Christian miracles. So
+when it was reported that a growing liberality of sentiment was being
+manifested at Cambridge, and that Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" was to be
+used, doubtless no little excitement was roused; and hence the notice.
+Before this time doubts concerning many cherished doctrines had been
+openly expressed in Boston, Cambridge, Salem, and other places; but
+Gibbon had rejected and attacked the whole Christian system as false,
+which was a very different matter.
+
+ _For the CENTINEL._
+
+ MR. RUSSELL,
+
+ A WRITER in the CENTINEL of the last _Saturday_, under the
+ signature of _Christianus_, says, "that an abridgment of
+ GIBBON'S history (if his information be true) is directed
+ to make a part of the studies of the young gentlemen at our
+ University." I now beg leave, through the channel of your
+ paper, to acquaint that writer, as also the publick, that
+ his information is _not true_. The system taught is MILLOT'S
+ _Elements_ of _General History, ancient and modern_, and
+ GIBBON'S history was never thought of for the purpose.
+
+ JOSEPH WILLARD, _President._
+ _Cambridge, Nov._ 14, 1791.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE CHOLERA.--It is worthy of remark that the word occurs in
+ two passages of the Bible, both in Ecclesiasticus, and both
+ places in connexion with directions and exhortations to a
+ sober temperate mode of living, which is still recommended
+ as the best preservative against this disorder.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1832.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The character of Boston ladies in 1788 is set forth in a letter in the
+"Herald of Freedom." The writer gives his observations on the error of
+committing children too much to the care of nurses; also makes reference
+to teaching the catechism, etc., showing the value of early religious
+training. There can be no doubt, we think, that the old methods were in
+some respects superior to the present, where in many cases young
+children are left to Sunday-school teachers, or, as is often the case,
+receive no religious instruction whatever, for fear, as we have often
+heard it stated, that they might imbibe some false doctrinal notions at
+an age when the deepest impressions are made.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _For the_ HERALD _of_ FREEDOM.
+
+ LETTER IX.
+
+ DEAR PIERRE,
+
+ No moments glide away more agreeably than those that are
+ employed in writing to a friend. Happy am I in having
+ frequent opportunities of exhibiting my sentiments to you,
+ and in return receiving yours, which palliates in some
+ degree, the sorrow our separation occasions.----The glaring
+ absurdities of the dress of the Boston ladies, occupied the
+ greatest part of my two last letters. It is but just to say
+ something of their more laudable qualities; amongst which,
+ maternal affection deservedly claims precedence.--The
+ barbarous customs of Europe, in this particular, have not as
+ yet, and I hope never will be, practised here. Mothers in
+ this country are so much attached to their tender offspring,
+ as to forego all the pleasures of life (or rather what are
+ so termed in Europe) in attending to their nurture, from
+ which they derive the most superlative of all enjoyments,
+ the heart-felt satisfaction of having done their duty to
+ their God and country, in giving robust, healthy and
+ virtuous citizens to the State. The effeminacy of exotic
+ fashion has not at present extended its pernicious influence
+ so far as to induce them to commit the rearing of their
+ children to mercenary nurses, who are sometimes the very
+ dregs of a people; and whose vicious habits of taking a drop
+ of the _good creature to drown sorrow_, does not promise
+ redundancy of health and vigour to those suckled by them--on
+ the contrary, children thus unnaturally thrown from the arms
+ of a parent into those of a nurse, are, almost without
+ exception, weak and puny; of irrascible tempers and vicious
+ inclinations.--Nor does the attention of the ladies expire
+ with the infancy of their children--they still are unwearied
+ in instructing them as they increase in years, and
+ assiduously endeavour to inculcate principles of virtue into
+ their young minds at a time when they are most liable to
+ make a deep impression--to accomplish which, they never fail
+ to teach them the catechism, Lord's prayer, &c. &c. all of
+ which they oblige them to learn, because they are perfectly
+ adapted to their comprehension, though many parts of the
+ catechism are altogether incomprehensible to most
+ adults.--Yet this is not strange to those who credit the
+ scriptures; nor does it appear the least inconsistent--for
+ there it says, "God hath chosen the foolish things of this
+ world to confound the wise."--Therefore, the wonder that
+ children should be able to _understand_ that, which is the
+ _foundation_ of all polemical divinity, vanishes, when we
+ try it by the touchstone of scripture, which is the
+ criterion by which we ought to judge.--When they are thus
+ instructed in the rudiments of virtue, they are seldom known
+ to apostatize; so that for a native to become dissolute and
+ abandoned, is very rare.--Indeed they have characters of
+ this kind who emigrate from old countries; but they soon
+ find employment for such gentry, by obliging them to labour
+ for the publick good, and "work out their salvation by the
+ sweat of their brow."--Thus the community is not only
+ delivered from such pests, but experience beneficial effects
+ from their confinement. Knavery, though rarely found in a
+ native, is not entirely extirpated from the breasts of some
+ among them.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Remarkable instances of longevity.
+
+ LONGEVITY. Mafeus, who wrote the history of the Indies,
+ which has always been a model of veracity as well as elegant
+ composition, mentions a native of Bengal, named Numas de
+ Cugna, who died 1566, at the age of 370. He was a man of
+ great simplicity and quite illiterate; but of so extensive a
+ memory, that he was a kind of living chronicle, relating
+ distinctly and exactly what had happened within his
+ knowledge in the compass of his life, together with all the
+ circumstances attending it. He had four new sets of teeth;
+ and the color of his hair and beard had been very
+ frequently changed from black to grey, and from grey to
+ black. He asserted that in the course of his life, he had
+ 700 wives, some of whom had died, and the others he had put
+ away. The first century of his life passed in idolatry, from
+ which he was converted to Mahometanism, which he continued
+ to profess to his death.--The account is also confirmed by
+ another Portuguese author, Ferdinand Lopez Casteguedo, who
+ was historiographer royal.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Feb. 22, 1834.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONDON, May 28.
+
+ _Remarkable Instances of Longevity in Europe._
+
+ THOMAS PARRE, of Shropshire, died on the 16th of November,
+ 1635, aged 152.
+
+ James Bowes, of Killinworth, in Shropshire, died the 15th of
+ August, 1656, aged 152.
+
+ Anonymous, of Yorkshire, aged 140, and his son, aged 100,
+ were both living, and attended to give evidence at York
+ Assize, in 1664.
+
+ F. Sagar, of Lancashire, died in January, 1668, aged 112.
+
+ Henry Jenkins, of Yorkshire, died on the 8th of December,
+ 1670, aged 169.
+
+ Robert Montgomery, of Yorkshire, was living in 1670, aged
+ 126.
+
+ Countess of Desmond, Ireland, aged 140.
+
+ Mr. Ecleston, of Ireland, died 1691, aged 143.
+
+ Mr. Lawrence, of Scotland, living, aged 140.
+
+ Mary Gore, born at Collinworth, in Yorkshire, lived 100
+ years in Ireland, and died at Dublin in 1727, aged 125.
+
+ Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died about 1748, aged 137.
+
+ Simon Sack, of Trionia, died on the 30th of May, 1761, aged
+ 141.
+
+ Col. Thomas Winsloe, of Ireland, died on the 12th of August,
+ 1766, aged 156.
+
+ Francis Consist, of Yorkshire, died in January, 1768, aged
+ 150.
+
+ Francis Bons, of France, died on the 6th of February, 1769,
+ aged 124.
+
+ Christopher Jacob Drakenberg, of Norway, a boatswain in the
+ Danish navy, died on the 24th of June, 1770, aged 146.
+
+ Margaret Forster, of Cumberland, aged 136.
+
+ Gen. Oglethorpe died in August last, aged 103.
+
+ A goldsmith, of France, died in June, 1776, aged 140.
+
+ Mary Yates, of Shropshire, died in 1776, aged 128.
+
+ John Brookley, of Devonshire, living in 1777, aged 134.
+
+ Miss Ellis, daughter of Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died in 1781,
+ aged 104.
+
+ Mr. Froome, of Holms-Chapel, in Cheshire, died in May last,
+ aged 125.
+
+ Mary M'Donald, county of Down, in Ireland, died on the 16th
+ of June last, aged 118.
+
+ Mary Cameron, of Invernessshire, in Scotland, died in July
+ last, aged 130.
+
+ Miss Ellis, of Richmond, in Surrey, living on the 16th of
+ August last, aged 105.
+
+ Mr. Rowe, at Nutwell-House, in Scotland, died in August
+ last, aged 106.
+
+ Donald McKeen, of Argyleshire, in Scotland, died in
+ September last, aged 109.
+
+ John Button, of Liverpool, died on the 18th of November
+ last, the oldest burgess of that borough upon record; he
+ lived in six reigns, being born in the reign of James II.
+
+ Mr. Smith, a farmer, at Dolver, in Montgomeryshire, died in
+ November last, aged 103: He was never known to drink any
+ thing but buttermilk.
+
+ John Follart, woolcomber, at Norney, near the city of
+ Exeter, living and in good health on the 30th of November
+ last, aged 121; he works still at his business, and retains
+ his faculties.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 1, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ PHILADELPHIA, August 19.
+
+ _Instances of Longevity in America._
+
+ In South-America there was said, in the year 1785, to be a
+ negro woman living, aged about 175; she remembered her first
+ master, who died in 1615, and that he gave her away with
+ some other property towards sounding a school.
+
+ Some years ago there was living in Virginia, a native of
+ Ireland, who at the age of 109, was able to work at the
+ taylor's trade without spectacles; and what renders this
+ case more remarkable, he was naturally very intemperate, and
+ would get drunk as often as he could get liquor.
+
+ In the year 1776, died one Mr. Payne, in Fairfax, Virginia,
+ upwards of 100 years of age.
+
+ Died, November, 1782, in this city, Mr. Edward Drinker,
+ almost 102, being born December 24, 1680, in Philadelphia.
+
+ In the year 1782, there was living, near this city (and
+ perhaps may be still living) a healthy negro woman, able to
+ walk several miles in a day, and wash clothes, who was then,
+ as near as she could tell, about 103.----She remembers her
+ being brought to this city before any houses were built
+ here.
+
+ Died last summer, in New-York, Mrs. Slock, aged 108 years
+ and one half.
+
+ Last winter died at Jones's creek, a branch of Pee Dee, in
+ North-Carolina, Mr. Mathew Bayley, aged 136: he was baptised
+ when 134 years old; had good eye sight, strength of body and
+ mind until his death.
+
+ There was a woman living last winter, in Uxbridge, state of
+ Massachusetts, of the name of Aldrich, and likely to live
+ many years, who has 12 children, all living, and has lived
+ till 25 of the fifth generation are born, the eldest of
+ which is more than eleven years of age.
+
+ Died on Tuesday the 1st inst. at Hudson, in New-York, Mrs.
+ Christina de Lametter, in the 94th year of her age. She died
+ merely of old age, without any kind of disease or fever; but
+ descended very slowly and patiently to the bottom of the
+ hill of life. She was a woman, who, through life, has been
+ remarkable for her silent resignation to the divine will.
+ What renders the last part of her life remarkable, is, that
+ she lived 39 days without any sustenance whatever, except
+ about two spoonfuls of wine with water daily; the vital
+ motions and functions being so near a cessation, that the
+ solids needed no reparation; yet she retained all her senses
+ to the last moment.
+
+ In the year 1774, died at Danvers, in Massachusetts, Mr.
+ ---- Nelson, aged 106 years.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 1, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ STOCKHOLM, Aug. 8.
+
+ A widow lately died near Landscrone, aged 118 years. She
+ continued to get a livelihood by spinning till she was 116.
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ Nov. 25, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ DINNER IN "OLD TIMES."
+
+It was an old custom in New England to begin dinner with pudding instead
+of soup. Many persons of the last generation may remember, as the writer
+distinctly does, seeing old people who still adhered to this practice as
+late certainly as from 1850 to 1860. The writer was once at a dinner
+where all the family began with soup except the father, a gentleman of
+the old school, who had a piece cut from a fresh-baked plum-pudding. He
+remarked to the company that such had always been his practice; and so
+he excused himself for keeping to his own fashion of dining. The custom
+of eating pudding before meat is still very common in Yorkshire,
+England. The following extract from a Boston paper of 1819 shows that
+John Adams, in 1817, kept up the old style of dinner, which, as might
+perhaps be imagined, was not confined to the common people, so called.
+
+In "old times" it was customary to say to children, "Those who eat the
+most pudding shall have the most meat."
+
+ _Extract from the "Narrative of a Journey of 5000 miles
+ through the Eastern and Western States of America," in
+ 1817.--By Henry B. Fearon, an Englishman._
+
+ PRESIDENT ADAMS.
+
+ The ex-president is a handsome old gentleman of eighty-four;
+ his lady is seventy-six: she has the reputation of superior
+ talents, and great literary acquirements. I was not
+ perfectly a stranger here, as a few days previous to this I
+ had received the honor of an hospitable reception at their
+ mansion. Upon the present occasion the minister (the day
+ being Sunday) was of the dinner party. As a table of a
+ "_late king_" may amuse some of you, take the following
+ particulars:--first course, a pudding made of Indian corn,
+ molasses and butter;--second, veal, bacon, neck of mutton,
+ potatoes, cabbages, carrots, and Indian beans; Madeira wine,
+ of which each drank two glasses. We sat down to dinner at
+ one o'clock; at two, nearly all went a second time to
+ church. For tea, we had pound cake, sweet bread and butter,
+ and bread made of Indian corn and rye, similar to our brown
+ home-made. Tea was brought from the kitchen, and handed
+ round by a neat white servant girl.
+
+ The establishment of this political patriarch consists of a
+ house two stories high, containing, I believe, eight rooms;
+ of two men and three maid servants; three horses and a plain
+ carriage. How great is the contrast between this individual,
+ a man of knowledge and information--without pomp, parade,
+ vitious and expensive establishments, as compared with the
+ costly trappings, the depraved characters, and the
+ profligate expenditure of ---- House, and ----! What a
+ lesson _in this_ does America teach! There are now in this
+ land no less than three Cincinnati!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Hogs in New York streets.
+
+ Yesterday forenoon, while in Broadway, we witnessed another
+ instance of the impropriety of suffering Hogs to run at
+ large in our streets. A highly respectable and most worthy
+ young lady, was literally run down by a large Hog that was
+ pursued by a dog. In her fall, her breast struck the curb
+ stone, and she was considerably injured. After she had
+ partially recovered, the gentleman at whose store she had
+ made some purchases, kindly conveyed her to her father's
+ house in a carriage. The reader may easily imagine the
+ distressing effect produced on the mind of a fond parent, at
+ the sight of a darling child, whose pale cheeks plainly
+ indicated her situation. --> _What would not the citizens of
+ Boston say of their Police, if Hogs were permitted to run
+ loose in the streets_?
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ Boston [1817].
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ English blunders about America in 1802.
+
+ _From the_ (Newyork) EVENING POST.
+
+ SPECIMENS _of the_ IGNORANCE _and_ BLUNDERS _of_ English
+ Geographers, Tourists, _&c. &c. with respect to_ AMERICA.
+
+ THE Rev. R. Turner, who has published a book called
+ Classical Geography, gives the following account of the
+ cities of Philadelphia and Newyork. "Philadelphia, (says he)
+ is the finest and _best situated_ city in America,
+ containing _thirty thousand_ houses and one hundred and
+ twenty thousand inhabitants, who are mostly
+ quakers!!!"--"Newyork contains three thousand houses and
+ twelve thousand inhabitants!"
+
+ Another book, intitled Guthrie's improved Geography, after
+ setting forth in the preface that their (the Editors)
+ relation of America, will be found both satisfactory and
+ complete, as they have not only carefully examined the works
+ of the celebrated Morse, but likewise applied to several
+ other authentic sources, which have enabled them to give the
+ best information in the most satisfactory manner, states
+ that "the city of Newyork contains five thousand
+ inhabitants, chiefly of Dutch extraction." Here is pretty
+ strong evidence of the diligence of these London bookmakers,
+ as to applying to the most authentic sources of information,
+ as they profess to have done. An imposition of this kind in
+ any American publication, would afford a fine opportunity
+ for an English Reviewer to rail against our national
+ honesty.
+
+ The very last edition of Guthrie's original work, describing
+ the river Hudson, states that this river is navigable to
+ Albany, which is "_six hundred miles from Newyork_."
+
+ An English Tourist, whose name is not just now recollected,
+ has published a volume of his travels through the United
+ States, in which he speaks particularly of the orderly
+ manner in which Elections are conducted in the city of
+ Newyork. "On the appointed day, says he, all the citizens
+ take care to be at home at a certain hour, at which time the
+ inspectors of the election go through the city with ballot
+ boxes in their hands, and call at every door for votes,
+ whereupon the citizens step to their doors and deposit
+ their ballots in these same small boxes, which are
+ straightway carried to the City Hall; the votes are there
+ examined, and thus the election is determined in a few
+ hours, without uproar or inconvenience!!!"
+
+ An English Editor of a work, called the _German Museum_, in
+ his translation of some memoirs of Major André, records,
+ that this unfortunate officer was taken and hanged "_at the
+ west point of America_."
+
+ A London paper some time ago made mention of certain
+ improvements which were taking place in Newyork, with a view
+ to promote the health of the city, and observed that our
+ corporation were erecting a range of permanent wharves on
+ one side of the city, which were to extend from Corlear's
+ Hook to the Battery _along the Delaware River_!
+
+ Some notice shall be taken hereafter of the
+ misrepresentations and falsehoods of Laincourt, Weld, Bulow,
+ and a number of others, relative to the United States.
+
+ _An_ AMERICAN.
+ _Worcester Spy._
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ SECRET LOVE.
+
+ _From a very rare volume of old Poetry._
+
+ The fountaines smoake, and yet no flame they shewe;
+ Starres shine all night though undeserned by daye;
+ And trees do spring yet are not seen to growe;
+ And shadowes move although they seem to staye;
+ In winters woe is buried summers bliss,
+ And love loves most, when love most secret is.
+
+ The stillest streame descries the greatest deepe;
+ The clearest skye is subject to a shower;
+ Conceit's most sweete, when as it seems to sleepe;
+ And fairest dayes do in the morning lower:
+ The silent groves, sweete nymphes theye cannot misse,
+ For love loves most, when love most secret is.
+
+ The rarest jewels hidden virtue yield.
+ The sweete of traffique is a secret game;
+ The yeere once old doth show a barren field
+ And plants seeme dead, and yet they spring again.
+ Cupid is blind; the reason why, is this,
+ Love loveth most, when love most secret is.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1827.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _George the Fourth_.--The attributes of this potentate, who
+ was the most popular monarch England has had for many years,
+ are thus severely described, by Thomas Jefferson in his
+ correspondence of 1789.
+
+ "He has not a single element of mathematics, of natural and
+ moral philosophy, or of any other science on earth, nor has
+ the society he kept been such as to supply the void of
+ education. It has been that of the lowest, the most
+ illiterate and profligate persons of the kingdom without
+ choice of rank or mind & with whom the subjects of
+ conversation are only horses, drinking matches, bawdy
+ houses, and in terms the most vulgar. The young nobility,
+ who begin by associating with him, soon leave him disgusted
+ with the insupportable profligacy of his society; and Mr.
+ Fox, who has been supposed his favorite, and not over nice
+ in the choice of his company, would never keep his company
+ habitually.
+
+ "He has not a single idea of justice, morality, religion or
+ of the rights of men, or any anxiety for the opinion of the
+ world. He carries that indifference to fame so far, that he
+ would probably not be hurt were he to lose his throne,
+ provided he could be assured of always having meat, drink,
+ horses & women."
+
+ _Essex Register,_ Aug. 26, 1830.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+President Stiles of Yale College on the public revenue.
+
+ _Extract from President STILES's Election Sermon._
+
+
+ BUT I pass on to another subject in which the welfare of a
+ community is deeply concerned, I mean the publick
+ _revenues_. National character and national faith depend on
+ these. Every people, every large community is able to
+ furnish a revenue adequate to the exigences of government.
+ But this is a most difficult subject; and what the happiest
+ method of raising it, is uncertain. One thing is certain,
+ that however in most kingdoms and empires the people are
+ taxed at the will of the prince, yet in _America_, the
+ people tax themselves, and _therefore cannot tax themselves
+ beyond their abilities_. But whether the power of taxing be
+ in an absolute monarchy, a power independent of the people,
+ or in a body elected by the people, one great error has, I
+ apprehend, entered into the system of Revenue and Finance in
+ almost all nations, viz. restricting the collection to
+ money. Two or three millions can more easily be raised in
+ produce, than one million in money. This collected and
+ deposited in stores and magazines, would, by bills drawn
+ upon these stores, answer all the expenditures of war and
+ peace. In one country it has been tried with success for
+ ages; I mean in _China_, the wisest empire the sun hath ever
+ shined upon. And here, if I recollect aright, not a tenth of
+ the Imperial revenues hath been collected in money. In rice,
+ wheat and millet only are collected 40 millions of sacks, of
+ one hundred and twenty pounds each, equal to 80 million
+ bushels; in raw and wrought silk one million pounds. The
+ rest is taken in salt, wines, cotton, and other fruits of
+ labour and industry, at a certain ratio per cent. and
+ deposited in stores over all the empire. The perishable
+ commodities are immediately sold, and the Mandarins and army
+ are paid by bills on these magazines. In no part of the
+ world are the inhabitants less oppressed than there.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 29, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Religiously Inclined_.--A gentleman perceiving a fellow
+ leaning against the front of St. Paul's church yesterday,
+ who was unable to stand without some such support, asked him
+ if he was going to join the church. 'No,' replied
+ Bottlenose, 'not edzactly to jine, but I'm only
+ lean--leanin'--that way.'
+
+ _New Era_ [1837].
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Meaning of the word.
+
+ GENTLEMEN. How the signification of words alter in the
+ course of a century. There was a time when all persons in
+ England, below the rank of an _Esquire_, were divided into
+ _Gentlemen_, Yeomen and _Rascals_. The former word is now
+ used to signify the individuals of the first order--those
+ whom you would take by the hand in the street, and sup with
+ of an evening. The second term retains pretty nearly its
+ original meaning. But to make an application of the latter
+ appellative at this time, would operate as an invitation to
+ be knocked down. 'Gentlemen,' is used in opposition among
+ the old chronicles to 'simple man,' and neither in any very
+ exalted sense. It is on record, that the French Princess, De
+ La Roche Sur Yon, receiving a sharp reply from a Knight, to
+ whom she gave the epithet of '_Gentilhomme_,' was told by
+ the King, to whom she complained, that she deserved all she
+ got, for so offending, herself, in the first instance. The
+ lower people in England were commonly '_the
+ Rascality_'--equivalent to the '_Canaille_' of the French,
+ or our own significant _Rabble_ of the present day.
+
+ In what sense do they use the word 'Gentlemen' in
+ Congress--Eh?--_Charleston Gaz._
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ April 3, 1820.
+
+ _Professional_ ANECDOTE _of Dr._ FRANKLIN.
+
+ WHEN he came to Philadelphia, in 1723, he was first employed
+ by one Keimer, an eccentric genius, as a pressman, for he
+ was then printing an elegy of his own composition, on the
+ death of Aisquila Rose--and as he had but one small font of
+ types, and used no copy, but composed the elegy in the
+ press, he could not employ him in the composition. Keimer
+ was a visionary, whose mind was frequently elevated above
+ the little concerns of life, and consequently very subject
+ to make mistakes, which he seldom took the pains to correct.
+ Franklin had frequently reasoned with him upon the
+ importance of accuracy in his profession, but in vain. His
+ fertile head however soon furnished him with an opportunity
+ to second his arguments by proof.--They soon after undertook
+ an impression of a primer that had been lately published in
+ New-England.--Franklin overlooked the piece; and when his
+ master had set the following couplet--
+
+ When the last trumpet soundeth,
+ We shall not all die,
+ But we shall all be _changed_
+ In the twinkling of an eye,
+
+ He privately removed the letter _c_, and it was printed
+ off--
+
+ When the last trumpet soundeth,
+ We shall not all die,
+ But we shall all be _hanged_
+ In the twinkling of an eye.
+
+ _Herald of Freedom,_ June 23, 1790.
+
+ _SURNAMES._
+
+ In the Cambridge Chronicle of Saturday, August 1, 1772, is
+ an advertisement said to have been taken from the Canterbury
+ Journal, which beggars the list of surnames lately
+ enumerated:
+
+ "Mary Scaredevil, widow of the late William Scaredevil, of
+ Maidstone, does, by the assistance of the Almighty, intend
+ to carry on the business of Whitesmith, and hopes for the
+ favors and recommendations of the gentlemen and ladies whom
+ the late William Scaredevil had the pleasure to serve, which
+ will be gratefully acknowledged by their most humble
+ servant,
+
+ MARY SCAREDEVIL."
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ Nov., 1805.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Launching of the "Grand Turk."
+
+ Thursday last being a very pleasant day, great numbers of
+ people assembled to see the launching of the large and
+ beautiful ship from Mr. DERBY'S wharf. They were, however,
+ disappointed in the pleasure they expected, by her stopping
+ when she had run about half her length: and all the efforts
+ which could be made were ineffectual in getting her off at
+ that time: the next day, however, with the aid of proper
+ apparatus, and the assistance of the people assembled, she
+ was again put in motion, and gained the water.--The name of
+ _The Grand Turk_ is revived in this ship, heretofore borne
+ by a ship belonging to Mr. DERBY, remarkably successful as a
+ privateer in the late war, and which was some time since
+ sold in India.
+
+ The ingenious Mr. ENOS BRIGGS, from the North River, was the
+ master-builder of the new ship Grand Turk.
+
+
+ A CARD.
+
+ _Mr._ E.H. DERBY _requests his fellow-townsmen and others,
+ to accept his sincere thanks for their ready and unwearied
+ exertions to enable him to complete the launching of his
+ Ship._ MAY 21.
+
+
+ Mr. CUSHING,
+
+ The following lines were addressed to the Ship GRAND TURK,
+ while launching. They are at your service.
+
+ Your's, Z.
+
+ _The swelling waves roll joyfully along,
+ To greet thee, welcome to the azure main;
+ The gaping multitude in anxious throng,
+ Their ardent--vacant--tumult--scarce restrain._
+
+ _Slow o'er the lubrick ways--immense--you move,
+ High o'er the stern your flowing honours stand,
+ In distant climes, on unknown seas to prove
+ The matchless glory of your native land._
+
+ _For thee--the lofty Cedar nods alone,
+ The sturdy Oak its honours lopp'd deplores,
+ The forest mourns its tallest beauties gone
+ To waft Columbian treasure--to the Indian shores._
+
+ _Doom'd to resist the rage of warring waves,
+ Whilst rushing winds impel your foaming way:
+ The firm built sides their utmost fury brave.
+ The tempest mock--and in the whirlwind play._
+
+ _Safe may you reach your distant--destin'd port,
+ Nor rocks--nor treach'rous sands--oppose your fame,
+ May gentle winds your swelling topsails court,
+ And thousands shout you welcome home again._
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ May 24, 1791.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The oldest person who had lived in Salem up to 1791.
+
+ On Friday last, the venerable Mr. JOHN SYMONDS, of this
+ town, entered the _one hundredth year of his age_. He is the
+ only male person who has arrived at that great age, from the
+ first settlement of the town by the English in 1629 to this
+ day.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Irish Litany.
+
+ DUBLIN, May 11.
+
+ _To the Printers of the_ Rights _of_ Irishmen.
+
+ GENTLEMEN,
+
+ I am enabled by an invisible power to communicate to you, a
+ Litany sanctioned by me, and to be adopted by the
+ professors of the patriotic religion of Ireland; a Litany
+ which breathes the spirit of that freedom which I professed
+ when on earth, and has been here on eternal record; if its
+ principle and doctrine tend to enlighten and emancipate your
+ country, it will add (if possible) to that indescribable
+ happiness enjoyed by him, whom, without vanity, I may now
+ call the virtuous and patriotic
+
+ MIRABEAU.
+
+ _Elysium, 5th Feb._ 1792.
+
+ _THE LITANY._
+
+ 1st. Let there be a free, equal, and general representation
+ of your people in Parliament.
+
+ And all the people shall say amen.
+
+ 2d. Let there be a reform of your church, an abolition of
+ tithes, and let each sect maintain its own pastor.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 3d. Let the people of my terrestrial country be an example
+ to your people, and let their freedom be your freedom.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 4th. Let the fetters which the nobles of your land have
+ forged, be broken asunder; and let those who earn,
+ distribute the bread of Ireland.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 5th. Let each man freely worship God according to the
+ dictates of his conscience.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 6th. Let christians be philosophers, and let philosophers be
+ christians.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 7th. Let the rich few no longer be supported by taxes on the
+ many and unrepresented poor.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 8th. Let all the sons of Hibernia be free--yea, even as free
+ as the negroes[D] of Africa.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 9th. Let truth never be deemed a libel, and let the Liberty
+ of your Press be extended.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 10th. Let the noble (tho enlisted) sons of Ireland never
+ become the hired assassins of their countrymen.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 11th. Let the army which eats the bread of Ireland, be her
+ guardian and protector, and not the base invader of her
+ rights and liberties.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 12th. Let him who first proposed a mortgage on the revenues
+ of Ireland, be accursed in the annals of your country.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 13th. Let yourselves no longer be the slaves of religion, or
+ sect, or party, but the united sons of freedom and
+ philosophy.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 14th. Let the majesty of your king reflect the majesty of
+ your people.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ _Mirabeau scripsit._
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ 1792.
+
+ [D] Vide Wilberforce on the emancipation of the slaves.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Boston School of Fashion in 1807.
+
+ Robert Smallpeace,
+
+ _At his_ DRESSING ACADEMY, _and_ SCHOOL _of_ FASHION, _in_
+ MILK STREET, _opposite the South door of the_ Old South,
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ REMINDS the Sons and Daughters of Fashion and Beauty, that
+ tho' they may possess every latent excellence, yet they
+ require the improving hand of ART, like _rough_ diamonds, to
+ obtain the polish and brilliancy of the _first water_. What
+ is elegance of form or contour of beauty without
+ improvement? like "a light hid under a bushel," or whatever
+ can be conceived to be _most unlike_:--And it is a
+ lamentable fact, that
+
+ _Full many a mind is rear'd with toil and care,
+ To waste its worth--by_ SLOV'NLINESS _in_ HAIR.
+
+ The _tailor_, or _milliner_, may encase us with taste and
+ elegance; the _dancing master_ teach us the steps of ease
+ and dignity; the _musician_ instruct us in our throats and
+ fingers; and the _preceptor_ may inform our minds; and yet,
+ with all these _accomplishments_, can we even be PASSABLE,
+ if the _highest_ accomplishment of all be neglected? and the
+ HEAD be left to its own "disorder worse confounded,"
+ exhibiting a "_paltry crown of mud and straw_," placed upon
+ an "_edifice of ivory and gold_!"--and further--
+
+ _What though the_ EYE _voluptuous roll,_
+ _The_ FORM _possess each heavenly grace_;
+ _Say, can they_ ANY HEART _control,_
+ _Draw_ FRIENDSHIP _near--bid_ LOVE _take place,_
+ _'Till_ SMALLPEACE _touch them_!--he _whose trade is,_
+ _T' make_ Gods _of_ Men--_and_ Goddesses _of_ Ladies!
+
+ --> SMALLPEACE has elegant apartments for Ladies and
+ Gentlemen; and will be found constantly at "the post of
+ honour," and attendance, to wait upon them.
+
+ Oct. 17 [1807].
+ _Columbian Centinel._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The novels of 1833; from the "Salem Observer," July 13.
+
+ The decidedly bad moral tendency of some of the most popular
+ novels of the times is forcibly depicted in a magazine
+ recently established in England, by two of the sons of
+ William Cobbett, in the following language:--
+
+ "Would you seduce a wife? Falkland shall teach you to do it
+ with gravity and dignity. Would you murder? Eugene Aram
+ shall show you its necessity for the public advantage. Would
+ you rob? Paul Clifford shall convince you of the injustice
+ of security, and of the abominableness of the safety of a
+ purse on a moonlight night.--Would you eat? Turn to Harry
+ Bertram and Dandy Dinmont to the round of beef. Would you
+ drink? Friar Tuck is the jolliest of companions. Would you
+ dance, dress, and drawl? Pelham shall take you into tuition.
+ Would you lie, fawn, and flatter? Andrew Wylie shall
+ instruct you to crawl upward, without the slime betraying
+ your path. Would you yawn, doze, sleep, or dream? Cloudesly
+ shall do it for you, for the space of the first volume."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THOMAS MOORE.
+
+ Hostile feelings to the Americans having been imputed to the
+ poet MOORE in the first number of the (London) Westminster
+ Review, the following paragraph appeared in the London Times
+ of the 4th Feb., 1824.
+
+ "In the first number of the Westminster Review, just
+ published, there is an article upon a late work of Mr.
+ Moore's, in which the writer says, 'Mr. Moore has resided in
+ America, and, we understand, speaks of the Americans with
+ unbounded dislike and contempt.' In this assertion we can
+ confidently state, the writer is entirely mistaken. Whatever
+ opinions Mr. Moore may have hastily formed, when a very
+ young man, with respect to the character and institutions of
+ the Americans, we know that he has long since learned to
+ correct them, and to feel towards that people all the
+ admiration and respect which the noble example they set to
+ the other nations of the world demands."
+
+ _Boston Telegraph,_ 1824.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+From the "Salem Gazette," Sept. 6, 1811.
+
+ Aiken's blood-letting Sermon
+
+ _for sale by Cushing & Appleton._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+From the "Boston Transcript," Dec., 1834.
+
+ OLD TIMES.--Mr. Thatcher stated, in his Lecture before the
+ Boston Lyceum, that the Old Latin School in this City was
+ commenced two hundred years ago, according to the records of
+ the Town, which begin at the same year. For a long time it
+ was the only school; and there was no writing school among
+ us until November, 1684, (just 150 years since.) Master
+ Cheever presided over the Latin 38 years, till he died at
+ 93. He was the teacher of two of the Mathers, and the second
+ Doctor said of him in an obituary essay, with his own
+ peculiar felicity, that
+
+ ----to vast age he grew,
+ _Till Time's scythe waiting for him rusty grew._
+
+ Lovell was his second successor, and held on 92 years, till
+ in 1776 he left the town a Loyalist. The old gentleman had a
+ house furnished for him in School street, and a garden that
+ reached nearly to Court street, which his best boys were
+ allowed to till; and they had also the privilege as a reward
+ of merit of sawing his wood and bottling his cider.--The
+ Lecturer remarked that this was the first manual labor
+ school he had heard of.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+A quotation from Scripture.
+
+ "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
+ hired."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+From the "Salem Observer," 1840.
+
+ LITERARY CURIOSITY. The following letter was written by a
+ young gentleman to his "lady love," under the direction and
+ eye of a rigid old father. The understanding, however,
+ between the lovers, was, that she should read only every
+ other line, beginning with the first. Love is full of
+ expedients.
+
+ MADAM,--
+
+ The great love I have hitherto expressed for you
+ _is false, and I find that my indifference, toward you_
+ increases daily; the more I see of you, the more
+ _you appear in my eyes an object of contempt._--
+ I feel myself every way disposed and determined to
+ _hate you. Believe me, I never had an intention to_
+ offer you my hand. Our last conversation has
+ _left a tedious insipidity, which has by no means_
+ given me the most exalted idea of your character;
+ _your temper would make me extremely unhappy,_
+ and if we are united, I shall experience nothing but
+ _the hatred of my parents, added to their everlasting dis-_
+ pleasure in living with you. I have, indeed, a heart
+ _to bestow, but I do not wish you to imagine it is_
+ at your service; I could not give it to any one more
+ _inconsistent and capricious than yourself, and less_
+ capable to do honor to my choice and to my family.--
+ _Yes, Madam, I trust you will be persuaded that_
+ I speak sincerely; and you will do me a favor
+ _to avoid me. I shall excuse your taking the trouble_
+ to answer this. Your letters are always full of
+ _impertinence, and you have not the least shadow of_
+ wit or good sense. Adieu! Adieu! believe me, I am
+ _so averse to you that it is impossible for me ever to be_
+ your affectionate friend and ardent lover.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Transcriber's note:
+ Text version
+ *** Represents Inverted Asterism
+ --> Represents Right Index
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+<div class="padding">
+<h3>TABLE OF CONTENTS</h3>
+
+<p class="center"><a href="#THE_OLDEN_TIME_SERIES">THE OLDEN TIME SERIES</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 276px;">
+<a href="images/cover.jpg"><img src="images/coverth.jpg" width="276" height="400" alt="cover" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="bbox">
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg&nbsp;ii]</a></span></p>
+<h1><b>Ye Olden Time Series.</b></h1>
+
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+<p>During the Spring of 1886 <span class="smcap">Ticknor and Company</span> began the publication of
+"<span class="smcap">Ye Olden Time Series, or Gleanings from the Old Newspapers, chiefly of
+Boston and Salem</span>," with brief Comments by <span class="smcap">Henry M. Brooks</span>, of Salem,
+Massachusetts. Six volumes are now ready: each in 1 vol. 16mo. Cloth.
+Price, 50 cents per vol.</p>
+
+<p>Of this Series there are now ready:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><b>Vol. I.&nbsp; CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.</b></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><b>Vol. II.&nbsp; DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND.</b></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><b>Vol. III. NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY.</b></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><b>Vol. IV.&nbsp; QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.</b></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><b>Vol. V.&nbsp; SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.</b></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><b>Vol. VI.&nbsp; LITERARY CURIOSITIES.</b></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>The Series will be continued, and the following are some of the titles
+of forthcoming volumes:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><b>"New-England Music in the Latter Part of the 18th and in the Beginning
+of the 19th Century."</b></p>
+
+<p><b>"Travel in Old Times, with Some Account of Stages, Taverns, etc."</b></p>
+
+<p><b>"Curiosities of Politics, among the Old Federalists and Republicans."</b></p>
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+<p>"What Mr. Brooks has thus gleaned has a noteworthy interest, not only as
+offering a fund of amusement to young and old, but as having a certain
+value to the student of New-England history, and an instructiveness for
+the general reader."&mdash;<i>Boston Advertiser</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"A treat of good things out of the past. While not professing to be
+history, they will contain much material for history."&mdash;<i>Literary
+World</i>.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+
+<p><i>Sold by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the
+Publishers</i>,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg&nbsp;iii]</a></span></p>
+<p class="right">TICKNOR AND COMPANY, <span class="smcap">Boston</span>.</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h2>THE OLDEN TIME SERIES</h2>
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[Pg&nbsp;iv]</a></span></p>
+
+<h3>LITERARY CURIOSITIES</h3>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><i>Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature</i>.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Lamartine.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year
+than most scholars do in their great libraries</i>.&mdash;<span class="smcap">F.B. Sanborn.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at
+first</i>.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Carlyle.</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg&nbsp;v]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_OLDEN_TIME_SERIES" id="THE_OLDEN_TIME_SERIES"></a>THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.</h2>
+
+<h5>GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON<br />
+AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS</h5>
+
+
+<h5>SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS</h5>
+
+<h5>BY</h5>
+
+<h4>HENRY M. BROOKS</h4>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<h2>Literary Curio&#383;ities</h2>
+
+
+<p>"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no
+thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity,
+by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."&mdash;<span class="smcap">Emerson</span></p>
+
+
+<div class="padding">
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 142px;">
+<img src="images/crest1.jpg" width="142" height="142" alt="T AND CO" title="T AND CO" />
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="center">BOSTON<br />
+TICKNOR AND COMPANY<br />
+1886</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg&nbsp;vi]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="padding">
+<p class="center"><i>Copyright, 1886,</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">By Ticknor and Company.</span></p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>All rights reserved.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="padding">
+<p class="center"><b>University Press:</b><br />
+<span class="smcap">John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="INDEX_OF_NAMES" id="INDEX_OF_NAMES"></a><b>INDEX OF NAMES.</b></h2>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'><span class="smcap">Page</span></td><td align='right'></td><td align='right'><span class="smcap">Page</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Adams, John</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a>, <a href="#Page_107">107</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Bullard, Polly</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Adams, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Bulow</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Adams, Sally</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Burt, Emily</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Aiken, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Burton, Francis</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Aldrich, Mrs.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Button, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Andr&eacute;, Major</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Arnold, Benedict</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a>, <a href="#Page_33">33</a></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Cabot, J.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Averell, Joseph</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Cameron, Mary</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Cass, Lewis</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Barnard, Edward</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Cass, Miss</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Barnard, Rev. Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Casteguedo, F.L.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Barnard, Thomas, D.D.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Checkley, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bayley, Matthew</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Checkley, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Belcher, Governor</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Cheever, Master</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Belcher, Miss</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Clough, Sally</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Binney, Spencer</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Clough, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Birbeck, Morris</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Cobbett, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_123">123</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Blunt, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Columbus, Christopher</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Blunt, Mary Ann</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Consist, Francis</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bons, Francis</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Cook, Nancy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bowen, Henry</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Cotton, Charles</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bowes, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Cranston, Polly</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bradstreet, Anne</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Cromwell, Oliver</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Breed, James</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Currier, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Brent, Eleanor</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Cushing, T.C.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Brent, Robt.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Briggs, Enos</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Daland, Jack</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Brodie, Charlotte B.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Davis, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Brookley, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'>De Cugna, Numas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bulkeley, Peter</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td>
+<td align='left'>De la Roche Sur Yon</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_115">115</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan='4'><hr style="width: 65%;" /></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>De Lametter, Christina</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Greenleaf, Stephen</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Derby, E.H.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_117">117</a>, <a href="#Page_118">118</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Guthrie, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Desmond, Countess</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td>
+<td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dexter, Lord Timothy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a>, <a href="#Page_14">14</a>, <a href="#Page_15">15</a>, <a href="#Page_16">16</a></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Hall, Basil, R.N.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dodge, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Hanson, Elizabeth</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_95">95</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Douglass, Dr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a>, <a href="#Page_58">58</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Hanson, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_95">95</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Drakenberg, C.J.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Hanson, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a>, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Drinker, Edward</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Harper, Miss</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dryden, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Harris, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dumaresq, Phillip</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Hart, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dunham, John M.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Haven, Rev. Dr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Herrenden, Elisha</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ecleston, Mr.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Hill, Elisha</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Edwards, Pierpont</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Hill, Jane</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ellis, Miss</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Hogg, Catharine</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ellis, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Holyoke, E.A., M.D.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23</a>, <a href="#Page_24">24</a>, <a href="#Page_25">25</a>, <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, <a href="#Page_27">27</a>, <a href="#Page_28">28</a>, <a href="#Page_29">29</a>, <a href="#Page_30">30</a>, <a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Erskine, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Hubbard, Rev. William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Erving, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Huntington, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Erving, Nancy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td>
+<td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Isaiah (vii. 20)</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Fearon, Henry B.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td>
+<td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Follart, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Jackman, Betsey</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Forbes, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jackson, Daniel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Forster, Margaret</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jackson, Edward</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Foster, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jackson, Mary</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Fox, C.J.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jackson, Rebecca</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Franklin, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jay, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>French, Josiah</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jefferson, Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>French, Moses</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jenkins, Henry</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Froome, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jennison, Dr. J.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Johnson, Dr. Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a>, <a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Gardiner, Rebecca</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jones, John Coffin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Gardiner, Sylvester</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jones, Polly</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Gibbon, Edward</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</a>, <a href="#Page_97">97</a>, <a href="#Page_98">98</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Jones, Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Goldsmith, Oliver</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Josselyn, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Gore, Mary</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Grant, Abigail</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Keimer, Mr.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Grant, Alexander</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Keyser, Miss</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Green, B., &amp; Allen, J.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td>
+<td align='left'>King Charles I.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_83">83</a>, <a href="#Page_84">84</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Green, S.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td>
+<td align='left'>King Charles II.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Green, Samuel, jun.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_52">52</a>, <a href="#Page_53">53</a></td>
+<td align='left'>King George IV.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Greenleaf, Anstess</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td>
+<td align='left'>King Henry VII.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a>, <a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan='4'><hr style="width: 65%;" /></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>King James II.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <a href="#Page_23">23</a>, <a href="#Page_32">32</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Parnell, Paul</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>King William III.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Parre, Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Payne, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Laincourt</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Pearson, Joseph</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lamson, Eunice</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Pickman, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lawrence, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Pittengill, Abigail</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lawrence, Schuyler</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Plum, Lewis</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lemon, Eliza Peel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Pork, Robert</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Loring, Caleb</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+<td align='left'></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lovell, Master</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Queen Anne</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lushure, Elenor</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td>
+<td align='left'></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lyell, Sir Charles</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Randolph, Edward</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Reeder, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Mafeus</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Richards, Giles</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Maiden Aunt, The</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Richter, J.P.F.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Mansfield, Lord</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Rimbault, E.F.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>McDonald, Mary</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Robinson, Miss</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>McIntire, Elizabeth</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Rose, Aquila</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>McIntire, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a>, <a href="#Page_89">89</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Rousby, Matthew</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>McIntire, Samuel F.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Rowe, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>McKeen, Donald</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Russell, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>McLane, Miss</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Russell, E.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Millot</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td>
+<td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Milton, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sack, Simon</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Minns, Chloe</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Sagar, F.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Mirabeau</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Scaredevil, Mary</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Montgomery, Robert</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Scott, Sir Walter</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a>, <a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Moore, Larkin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Selsbry, Polly</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Moore, Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Sewall, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a>, <a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Morse, Rev. Jedediah</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a>, <a href="#Page_110">110</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Seymore, Bridget</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Murray, W.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Silsbee, Miss</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Silsbee, Nathaniel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Nelson, Mr.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Simes, Mark</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Nicholas, J.H.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Slock, Mrs.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Noah, M.M.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Smallpeace, Robert</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_122">122</a>, <a href="#Page_123">123</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Smith, Major</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Oglethorpe, Gen.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Smith, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Oliphant, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Smith, Samuel</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Osgood, Aaron</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Spalding, Hezekiah</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Otway, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Sparks, Jared</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Oulton, Mrs.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Sprague, Charles</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Stewart, Duncan</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Paine, Thomas</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Stiles, Rev. Dr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td>
+</tr><tr><td align='left'>Parker, Elizabeth</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+</tr><tr><td colspan='4'><hr style="width: 65%;" /></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Stillman, Rev. Dr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Wharton, Eliza</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a>, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Swift, Jonathan</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a>, <a href="#Page_72">72</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Watkins, Dr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Symonds, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Webster, Noah</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Welby, Adlard</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_40">40</a>, <a href="#Page_41">41</a>, <a href="#Page_42">42</a>, <a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tarring, William</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Weld, Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Taylor, Ann</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Wendell, Oliver</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thatcher, B.B.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td>
+<td align='left'>West, Benjamin</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_95">95</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Torrey, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Whipple, Plato</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Trollope, Mrs.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Whitman, Elizabeth</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a>, <a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Tuck, Rev. Mr.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Whitney, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Tully, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Willard, Joseph</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Turner, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Williams, Judith</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Turner, Rev. R.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Williams, Mary</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Willis, N.P.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a>, <a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Upham, Rev. C.W.</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Winsloe, Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td>
+<td align='left'>Woodwrod, Ebenezer</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Wagner, Elizabeth</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
+<td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Walker, Thomas</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_90">90</a></td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Yates, Mary</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Walter, John</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
+<td align='left'>Young, William</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Wardwell, Ester</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg&nbsp;1]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img8.jpg"><img src="images/img8th.jpg" width="400" height="138" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<h2><a name="LITERARY_CURIOSITIES" id="LITERARY_CURIOSITIES"></a>LITERARY CURIOSITIES.</h2>
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">The</span> following humorous lines well describe the difficulty that editors
+find in pleasing the public. They are expected to know everything, and
+to be able to satisfy all tastes and capacities. No imperfections can be
+excused in conductors of newspapers; they are not even allowed to be
+unfortunate.</p>
+
+
+<p class='center'>THE EDITOR.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">That editor who wills to please,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Must humbly crawl upon his knees,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And kiss the hand that beats him;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or, if he dare attempt to walk,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Must toe the mark that others chalk,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And cringe to all that meet him.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg&nbsp;2]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Says one, Your subjects are too grave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Too much morality you have,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Too much about religion;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Give me some witch and wizard tales<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of slip-shod ghosts with fins and scales,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of feathers like a pigeon.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I love to read, another cries,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Those monstrous, fashionable lies,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In other words, those novels,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Composed of kings and queens and lords,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of border wars, and gothic hordes<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">That used to live in hovels.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">No, no, cries one, we've had enough<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of such confounded love-sick stuff,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To craze the fair creation;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Give us some recent foreign news<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of Russians, Turks, the Greeks, or Jews,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Or any other nation.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The man of dull scholastic lore<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Would like to see a little more<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In scraps of Greek or Latin;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The merchants rather have the price<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of southern indigo and rice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of India silks, or satin.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Another cries, I want more fun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A witty anecdote or pun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A rebus or a riddle;<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg&nbsp;3]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Some long for missionary news,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And some, of worldly, carnal views,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Would rather hear a fiddle.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The critic, too, of classic skill,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Must dip in gall his gander quill,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And scrall against the paper:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of all the literary fools<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bred in our colleges and schools,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">He cuts the greatest caper.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Another cries, I want to see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A jumbled-up variety,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Variety in all things,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A miscellaneous, hodge-pod print,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Composed (I only give the hint)<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of multifarious small things.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I want some marriage news, says miss:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It constitutes my highest bliss<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To hear of weddings plenty;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For in a time of general rain<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">None suffer from a drought, 'tis plain,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">At least, not one in twenty.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I want to hear of deaths, says one,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of people totally undone<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">By losses, fire, or fever:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Another answers full as wise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'd rather have a fall and rise<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of raccoon skins and beaver.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg&nbsp;4]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Some signify a secret wish<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For now and then a favorite dish<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of politics to suit them.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But here we rest at perfect ease,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For should they swear the moon was cheese,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">We never should dispute them.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Or grave or humorous, wild or tame,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lofty or low, 'tis all the same,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Too haughty or too humble;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And every editorial wight<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Has nought to do but what is right,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And let the grumblers grumble.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'>From a Salem paper of 1828; author not stated.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"All are needed by each one,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nothing is fair and good alone."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><span class="smcap">Emerson.</span></p>
+
+<p>In "old times" almost all the young ladies upon their marriage were
+"amiable" and "agreeable"; at least they are so represented in most of
+the announcements. The "maiden aunt" could not speak plainer in writing
+for the "Boston Sunday Gazette." We copy some specimens from Boston and
+Salem papers.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>On Thur&#383;day la&#383;t, in the Forenoon, was married Mr. <span class="smcap">Benjamin
+Davis</span> of this Town, Merchant, to Mrs. <span class="smcap">Anstess Greenleaf</span>, &#383;econd
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg&nbsp;5]</a></span>Daughter of <span class="smcap">Stephen Greenleaf</span> E&#383;q; High Sheriff of the County
+of Suffolk.</p>
+
+<p>The &#383;ame Evening Mr. <span class="smcap">Oliver Wendell</span>, of this Town, Merchant, was
+al&#383;o Married to Mrs. <span class="smcap">Mary Jackson</span>, only Daughter of the late Mr.
+<span class="smcap">Edward Jackson</span>; both young Ladies of great Merit.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>Sept. 13, 1762. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>On Thur&#383;day Evening la&#383;t Mr. <i>Phillip Dumare&#383;q</i>, Merchant, was
+Married to Mrs. <i>Rebecca Gardiner</i>, third Daughter of <i>Sylve&#383;ter
+Gardiner</i>, E&#383;q; of this Town, an agreeable young Lady.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>Dec. 19, 1763. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>MARRIED]&mdash;Mr. <span class="smcap">Samuel Smith</span>, to Mrs. <span class="smcap">Abigail Pittengill</span>, an
+agreeable young widow.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>Dec. 22, 1790. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Thur&#383;day evening la&#383;t, <span class="smcap">John Whitney</span>, E&#383;q. merchant, of the &#383;tate
+of Georgia, to the amiable Mrs. <span class="smcap">Bridget Seymore</span>, of We&#383;port.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>June 2, 1792. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>&mdash;At Plainfield, Mr. Hezekiah Spalding, a batchelor of large
+fortune, aged 68, to the amiable Mi&#383;s Mary Williams, aged 22!</p>
+
+<p class='right'>1790. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>MARRIED]&mdash;At Cambridge, Dr. J. <span class="smcap">Jennison</span>, to the amiable Mi&#383;s
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg&nbsp;6]</a></span><span class="smcap">Belcher</span>, daughter of his late Excellency Governour <i>Belcher</i>,
+of Nova Scotia, and grand daughter of his Excellency <i>Jonathan
+Belcher</i>, E&#383;q. decea&#383;ed, formerly Governour of the then
+provinces of Ma&#383;&#383;achu&#383;etts Bay and New-Hamp&#383;hire.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>Aug. 31, 1790. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>&mdash;At Newbury-Port, Mr. WILLIAM YOUNG, of Bo&#383;ton, to the amiable
+Mi&#383;s JUDITH WILLIAMS, of that town.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>June 7, 1788. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>NEWPORT, Nov. 24.</p>
+
+<p>The 16th In&#383;tant, Mr. <span class="smcap">William Checkley</span>, Son of the Rev. Mr.
+<span class="smcap">Samuel Checkley</span> of Bo&#383;ton, was married to Mi&#383;s <span class="smcap">Polly Cranston</span>, a
+young Lady of genteel Acquirements, and of a mo&#383;t amiable
+Di&#383;po&#383;ition.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>Dec. 19, 1766. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>BOSTON, January 12 [1767].</p>
+
+<p>La&#383;t Thur&#383;day Evening <span class="smcap">Duncan Stewart</span>, E&#383;q; Collector of His
+Maje&#383;ty's Cu&#383;toms for the Port of New-London, was married to
+Mi&#383;s <span class="smcap">Nancy Erving</span>, younge&#383;t Daughter of the Hon. <span class="smcap">John Erving</span>,
+E&#383;q; of this Town; a mo&#383;t amiable and agreeable young Lady. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Thur&#383;day la&#383;t was married, at Newport, <span class="smcap">John Coffin Jones</span>, E&#383;q.
+of Bo&#383;ton, merchant, to the truly amiable and accompli&#383;hed Mi&#383;s
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg&nbsp;7]</a></span><span class="smcap">Abigail Grant</span>, daughter of the late <span class="smcap">Alexander Grant</span>, E&#383;q. a
+Lady of real merit, and highly qualified to render the connubial
+&#383;tate de&#383;irable and &#383;upremely happy.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>May 22, 1786. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>&mdash;By the Rev. Dr. <span class="smcap">Stillman</span>, Mr. <span class="smcap">Caleb Loring</span>, di&#383;tiller, to the
+agreeable Mi&#383;s <span class="smcap">Polly Selsbry</span>.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>May 25, 1792. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>MARRIED]&mdash;At <i>Billerica</i>, Mr. <span class="smcap">James Breed</span>, to the amiable Mi&#383;s
+<span class="smcap">Elizabeth Parker</span>.&mdash;At <i>Newtown</i>, Mr. <span class="smcap">John Walter</span>, A.B., to the
+agreeable Mi&#383;s <span class="smcap">Polly Bullard</span>.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>March 24, 1792. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big><b>Married</b></big>,</p>
+
+<p>At Topsfield, by the Rev. Mr. Huntington, Mr. <span class="smcap">Joseph Averell</span>, to
+the accompli&#383;hed Mi&#383;s <span class="smcap">Eunice Lamson</span>.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Register</i>, 1801. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Editors were formerly very fond of curious matter for their lists of
+marriages and deaths. In the "Massachusetts Centinel" for 1789 the
+marriage of Pork and Hogg has a doubtful look, although it used to be
+supposed that everything in the paper was true.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg&nbsp;8]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>MARRIED]&mdash;Lately in Delaware, Mr. ROBERT PORK, merchant, to Mi&#383;s
+CATHARINE HOGG.&mdash;At Pepperell, Mr. GILES RICHARDS, of this town,
+to the amiable Mi&#383;s SALLY ADAMS, younge&#383;t daughter of the late
+Rev. Mr. <span class="smcap">Adams</span>, of Roxbury.&mdash;At Hull, Mr. SPENCER BINNEY, to
+Mi&#383;s POLLY JONES, daughter of Mr. <span class="smcap">Thomas Jones</span>, of that place. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>A Boston paper of 1795 prints the following:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>MARRIAGES</i>.</p>
+
+<p>At Concord, Ebenezer Woodwrod, A.B., Citizen Bachelor, of
+Hanover, N.H., to the amiable Mi&#383;s &mdash;&mdash; Robin&#383;on. At Longmeadow,
+Mr. John M. Dunham, Citizen Bachelor and Printer, as afore&#383;aid,
+to the amiable Mi&#383;s <span class="smcap">Emily Burt</span>.</p>
+
+<p>The promptne&#383;s and deci&#383;ion which the said Citizens have
+&#383;hown&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"In all the fond intrigues of Love,"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>is highly worthy of imitation; and the &#383;ucce&#383;s that has &#383;o
+richly crowned their courage and enterprize, mu&#383;t be an
+invincible inducement to the fading phalanx of our remaining
+Bachelors, to make a vigorous attack on &#383;ome fortre&#383;s of female
+beauty, with a determined re&#383;olution,</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">&mdash;&mdash;"Ne'er to quit the glorious &#383;trife,"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Till, dre&#383;t in all her charms, &#383;ome blooming fair<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her&#383;elf &#383;hall yield, the prize of conquering love!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg&nbsp;9]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In the "Salem Mercury," June 17, 1788, we find the following
+announcement, which reminds us of "Solomon Grundy, who died on Monday."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Died</span>&mdash;At Rehoboth, Mr. <span class="smcap">Henry Bowen</span>. He went to a wedding, well,
+on Thur&#383;day, taken &#383;ick on Friday, died on Saturday, buried on
+Sunday. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>"Virtuous and amiable" were terms used frequently in the lists of
+deaths.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>&mdash;At Port&#383;mouth, Mrs. Jane Hill, the virtuous and amiable
+Con&#383;ort of Mr. Eli&#383;ha Hill. [1790] </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>The following is a list of marriages and deaths at various dates, taken
+from Boston and Salem papers:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Salem Gazette," July 19, 1811.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>......<i>MARRIAGES</i>......</p>
+
+<p>In Williamsborough (N.C.), Major <span class="smcap">Smith</span>, of Prince Edwards (Va.),
+to Miss <span class="smcap">Charlotte B. Brodie</span>.&mdash;This match, consummated only a few
+days since, was agreed upon thirty-one years ago at Camden
+(S.C.), when he was captured at the battle of Camden; and being
+separated by the war, &amp;c., each had supposed the other dead,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg&nbsp;10]</a></span>until a few months since, when they accidentally met, and
+neither plead any statute of limitation in bar of the old
+bargain. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Salem Mercury," Oct. 21, 1788.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Married</span>&mdash;In England, Mr. Matthew Rou&#383;by, aged 21, to Mrs. Ann
+Taylor, aged 89. The lady's grand&#383;on was at this equal union,
+and was 5 years older than his grandfather. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Salem Gazette," 1817.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>MARRIED,</p>
+
+<p>In this town, Mr. Schuyler Lawrence, to Mrs. Chloe Minns,
+Mi&#383;tre&#383;s of the African School in Salem, and who has de&#383;erved
+well of the town and of the African race. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Salem Register."</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1827.</i></p>
+
+<p class='center'><b>MARRIED</b></p>
+
+<p>At New-York, by Rev. Mr. Hart, <span class="smcap">M.M. Noah</span>, senior editor of the
+Enquirer, to Miss Rebecca, only daughter of Mr. Daniel Jackson,
+of that city. The junior editor of the Enquirer was on the same
+day killed in a duel. An old Bachelor at our elbow thinks the
+fate of the surviving editor most deserving of commiseration! </p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg&nbsp;11]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Salem Gazette," 1811.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>......DEATHS......</p>
+
+<p>A short time ago, at the romantic village of
+Laughton-en-le-Morthen, in Yorkshire, England, Farmer <span class="smcap">Paul
+Parnell</span>, late of the Ewes Farm House, age 76 years, who during
+his life, drank out of one silver pint cup with two handles,
+upwards of 2000l. sterling worth of nut-brown Yorkshire stingo
+(good old ale), being much attached to stingo tipple, of the
+best double stout, home-brewed quality. N.B. This calculation
+took at 2<i>d.</i> each cupfull. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Essex Register," Feb. 5, 1824.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>MARRIAGES</i>.</p>
+
+<p>In Solon, by Rev. Moses French, Josiah French, Esq., aged 48, to
+Miss Betsey Jackman, aged 40, being his <i>fifth wife</i>. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Salem Gazette," Oct. 17, 1825.</p>
+
+<p>At Rochester, N.Y., Capt. Samuel Currier to Miss Sally
+Clough&mdash;<i>his sixth wife</i>! </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Independent Chronicle," Nov. 23, 1797.</p>
+
+<p>At Glouce&#383;ter (R.I.), Mr. <span class="smcap">Elisha Herrenden</span>, &AElig;t. 83, to Mrs.
+<span class="smcap">Elenor Lushure</span>, &AElig;t. 88, being his <i>eighth</i> wife! </p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg&nbsp;12]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Salem Gazette," 1829.</p>
+
+<p>By Rev Mr Upham, Mr Lewis Plum, of Newark, N.J., to Miss Eliza
+P. Lemon, of this town. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Essex Register," Dec., 1820.</p>
+
+<p>At Beverly, on Wednesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Oliphant,
+Mr. Larkin Moore, travelling preacher, physician, poet, trader,
+&amp;c., to Mrs. Nancy Cook. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Salem Gazette," 1790.</p>
+
+<p><i>Died</i>]&mdash;At Hor&#383;eley, in Derby&#383;hire, England, a venerable
+matron, named <i>Frances Burton</i>, aged 107. She had practi&#383;ed
+midwifery upwards of 80 years. The hu&#383;band of the above old lady
+was &#383;exton of the pari&#383;h church 70 years; and this ancient pair
+frequently boa&#383;ted, that &#383;he had <i>brought into the world</i>, and
+he had <i>buried</i>, the pari&#383;h twice over! </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>1807.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>......<i>DIED</i>......</p>
+
+<p>Near Glouce&#383;ter, Virg., <i>Elizabeth Wagner</i>, aged 107. She never
+took medicine of any kind in her life. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>From "Salem Gazette," 1811. Appropriate name for a rope-maker.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">William Tarring</span>, rope-maker, 38. </p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg&nbsp;13]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Massachusetts Mercury," Dec. 27, 1799.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><big><b>Died</b>,</big></p>
+
+<p>At <i>Hamilton, E&#383;&#383;ex</i> County, <span class="smcap">Plato Whipple</span>, aged 103, one of
+God's images in ebony. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"Salem Gazette," 1811.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Jack Daland</span>, a very worthy black man, aged 65. He was
+brought from Africa to the West Indies at about 11 years of age;
+but instead of being <i>eaten</i>, as he expected, by the white men,
+he was transferred by purchase to a happy asylum in this place,
+where he has spent upwards of 50 years of his life, respected by
+the whole town, as a faithful, industrious, pleasant-tempered,
+intelligent man. His honest industry was rewarded by the
+acquisition of a comfortable property, which he has left for the
+enjoyment of his family. The long train of white people who
+followed his remains to the grave, testify to the esteem in
+which he was held. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>The following is a notice of a "distinguished merchant" and "literary"
+character of Newburyport, Mass. In the appendix to "Lord" Dexter's great
+production&mdash;where all the stops are placed together on the last page,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg&nbsp;14]</a></span>so that "people can salt and pepper as they please"&mdash;we find these
+lines:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"All men inquire, but few can tell<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How thou in Science doth excel!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Timothy Dexter.</span> The subject of the present sketch, according to
+his own account, was born in Malden, Massachusetts. "I was
+born," says he (in his celebrated work, "A Pickle for the
+knowing ones"), "1747, Jan. 22; on this day in the morning, a
+great snow storm in the signs of the seventh house; whilst Mars
+came forward Jupiter stood by to hold the candle. I was to be a
+great man."</p>
+
+<p>Lord Dexter, after having served an apprenticeship to a Leather
+dresser, commenced business in Newburyport, where he married a
+widow who owned a house and a small piece of land, part of
+which, soon after the nuptials, were converted into a shop and
+tanyard.</p>
+
+<p>By application to his business his property increased, and the
+purchase of a large tract of land near Penobscot, together with
+an interest which he bought in the Ohio Company's purchase,
+afforded him so much profit, as to induce him to buy up Publick
+Securities at forty cents on the pound, which securities soon
+after became worth twenty shillings on the pound.</p>
+
+<p>His Lordship at one time shipped a large quantity of <i>warming
+pans</i> to the <i>West Indies</i> where they were sold at a great
+advance on prime cost, and used for molasses ladles. At another<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg&nbsp;15]</a></span>
+time, he purchased a large quantity of <i>whalebone</i> for <i>ship's
+stays</i>; the article rose in value upon his hands, and he sold it
+to great advantage.</p>
+
+<p>Property now was no longer the object of his pursuit; but
+popularity became the god of his idolatry. He was charitable to
+the poor, gave large donations to religious societies, and
+rewarded those who wrote in his praise.</p>
+
+<p>His lordship about this time acquired his peculiar taste for
+style and splendour; and to enhance his own importance in the
+world, set up an elegant equipage, and at great cost adorned the
+front of his house with numerous figures of illustrious
+personages.</p>
+
+<p>By his order, a tomb was dug under the summer house in his
+garden, during his life; which he mentions in 'A Pickle for the
+knowing ones,' in the following ludicrous style:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Heare will lie in box the first Lord in Americake the first
+Lord Dexter made by the voice of hampsher state my brave fellows
+Affirmed it they give me the titel and so Let it goue for as
+much as it will fetch it wonte give me Any breade but take from
+me the Contrary fourder I have a grand toume in my garding at
+one of the grasses and the tempel of Reason over the toume nand
+my coffen made and all Ready I emy house painted with white Lead
+an side and outside touched with green and bras trimmings Eight
+handels and a good Lock, I have had one mock founrel it was so
+solmon and there was so much Criing about 3000 spectators I say<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg&nbsp;16]</a></span>
+my house is Euqal to any mansion house in twelve hundred miles
+and now for sale for seven hundred pounds weight of Dollars by
+me</p>
+
+<p class='right'>TIMOTHY DEXTER."</p>
+
+<p>Lord Dexter believed in transmigration sometimes; at others he
+was a deist. He died on the 22d day of Oct. 1806, in the 60th
+year of his age.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, Dec. 17, 1825. </p></div>
+
+<p>From what we have heard and read of Mr. Dexter, it is a matter of
+surprise to us how such eccentricities could have attracted the
+attention they evidently did. It is doubtful if so much folly and
+conceit could now interest many people for any length of time.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Curious old almanacs.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">An Old Almanack.</span> A friend has handed us an almanack one hundred
+and fifty years old, which is quite a curiosity in its line. The
+following is the title:</p>
+
+<p>"The New-England Almanack for the Year of our Lord MDCCIII.
+Being Third after Leap-year, and from the Creation, 5652.
+Discovery of America by Columbus, 211. Reign of our Gracious
+Queen Anne, (which began March 8, 1702,) the 2 year. Wherein is
+contained, Things necessary, and common in such a Composure. As<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg&nbsp;17]</a></span>
+the Quarters of the Moon, Aspects of the Planets and Weather set
+down Exactly according to the Aspects, Courts, Spring Tides,
+Rising and Setting of the Sun, Sun and Moons place, time of Full
+Sea at Boston, the Eclipses, High Ways, &amp;c., with several other
+Curiosities. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, the
+Metropolis of New-England, Lat. 42, 24, but may serve any part
+of the Country, (even as far as New-York,) without sensible
+Error. By Samuel Clough.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The Heavens to us, God's Glory do make known,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By th' Firmament, his handy work is shown.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Licensed by His Excellency the Governour. Boston: Printed by B.
+Green and J. Allen, for the Booksellers, and are to be Sold at
+their Shops. 1703."</p>
+
+<p>Then follows a short address "To the Readers" of the Almanack.
+The figure of "Man's Body" with the "Twelve Signs of the
+Zodiack," is headed with the following lines:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The Anotomy must still be in,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Else th' Almanack's not worth a pin:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For Country-men regard the Sign<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As though 'Twere Oracle Divine.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But do not mind that altogether,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Have some respect to Wind and Weather.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The months of the year are introduced as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>January</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cold Weather now 'gins to be fierce,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Norwest Winds our bodys pierce.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg&nbsp;18]</a></span></div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>February</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Weather still continues cold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Therefore warm cloaths are good we hold.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>March</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'T is the best Month of all the year,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wherein to brew good napping Beer.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>April</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now Leaves on Trees begin to spring,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Birds on Hedges sit and sing.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>May</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To walk Five Miles in his own Farm,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Will do a Husbandman no harm.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>June</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now Countrymen each Sun shine day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mow down their Grass, and make it hay.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>July</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If Mildew now blasts English Grain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Twill make poor Husbandmen complain.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>August</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But if from Blasting it be free,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Farmers then should thankful be.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>September</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Leaves from Trees now fall away,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And sweetest Flowers do decay.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg&nbsp;19]</a></span></div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>October</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If Barns are full, though Fields be empty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It doth prognosticate a plenty.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>November</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One day this Month each Fruitful year,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Give thanks to G<small>OD</small>, and Eat good chear.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i6"><i>December</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Weather now 'gins to be cold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which makes to shrink both young and old.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><b>SATURDAY, DEC'R 24, 1853.</b></p>
+
+<p class='center'>The Salem Observer.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Another Old Almanack.</span> In our last we gave an account of an old
+Almanack for the year 1703. Since then we have seen another some
+sixteen years older, printed for the year 1687. It was bound in
+with an old account book that formerly belonged to the Rev.
+Thomas Barnard, a minister of Andover, from 1682 to 1718,&mdash;the
+great-grandfather of the Rev. Thomas Barnard, D.D., the first
+minister of the North Church in this city, who died Oct. 1,
+1814, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, also an ancestor of
+Capt. Edward Barnard, of this city. We insert the title page
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg&nbsp;20]</a></span>and other extracts therefrom, which we trust will impart the
+same interest to our readers as we derived from its perusal.</p>
+
+<p>It is prefaced by the following:</p>
+
+<p>Novemb. 24th, 1686. I have Perused the Copy of an Almanack for
+the Ensuing Year, Composed by John Tulley, and find nothing in
+it contrary to His Majesties Laws, and therefore Allow it to be
+Printed, and Published by Benjamin Harris, Book-Seller in
+Boston.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><span class="smcap">Edward Randolph</span>, Secr.</p>
+
+<p>The following is the title:</p>
+
+<p>Tully 1687. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord MDCLXXXVII.
+Being the third after Leap-year, and from the Creation 5636. The
+Vulgar Notes of which are Prime 16&mdash;Epact 26&mdash;Circle of the &#9737;
+16&mdash;Domin: Letter B. Unto which is annexed a Weather Glass,
+whereby the Change of the Weather may be foreseen. Calculated
+for and fitted to the Meridian of Boston in New-England, where
+the North Pole is elevated 42 gr. 30 m. By John Tulley. Boston,
+Printed by S. Green for Benjamin Harris; and are to be Sold at
+his Shop, by the Town Pump near the Change. 1687.</p>
+
+
+<p>Then follows "A Table of Kings," from William the Conqueror,
+1066, to James 2d, 1685, closing with the lines&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now may we look on Monarchy and sing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In health and peace long live great J<small>AMES</small> our King.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg&nbsp;21]</a></span></div></div>
+
+<p>And concluding with the "Weather Glass," &amp;c., &amp;c., which follow:</p>
+
+<p><i>Prognostica Georgica</i>: Or the Country-man's Weather-Glass.</p>
+
+<p>Prognosticks of Tempests. The obscuring of the smaller stars is
+a certain sign of Tempests approaching, the oft changing of the
+Winds is always a forerunner of a storm.</p>
+
+<p>Of Winds. The resounding of the Sea upon the shore, and
+murmuring of the Winds in the Woods without apparent Wind, shew
+wind to follow; shooting of stars (as they call it) is an usual
+sign of wind from that quarter the star came from, Redness of
+the Skie in the morning is a token of Winds, or Rain, or both:
+if the circles that appear about the Sun, be red and broken,
+they portend wind: if thick and dark, Winds, Snow, or Rain: The
+like may be said of the Circles about the Moon.</p>
+
+<p>Of Rain. If two Rainbows appear, they are a sign of Rain: If the
+Sun or Moon look pale, look for Rain: if a dark Cloud be at
+Sun-rising, in which the Sun soon after is hid, it will dissolve
+it, and Rain will follow: if the Sun seem greater in the East
+than commonly, it is a sign of Rain, if in the West about
+Sun-setting there appear a black Cloud, you may expect Rain that
+night, or the day following, if in the winter time thick white
+Clouds appear in the South-east near the Horizon at Sun rising,
+they portend Snow, a day or two after: If black Clouds appear
+there, it is a sign of Rain.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg&nbsp;22]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Of Fair Weather. If the Moon look bright and fair, look for Fair
+Weather. Also the appearing of one Rainbow after a storm, is a
+known sign of Fair Weather. If Mists come down from the Hills,
+or descend from the heavens, and settle in the valleys, they
+promise fair hot weather: Mists in the Evening shew a fair, hot
+day on the morrow: The like when mists rise from the waters in
+the evening. Much more might be added, but I would not tire the
+reader.</p>
+
+<p>It appears by the following that the first form of government,
+under the King, was accepted by the people in 1686.</p>
+
+<p>May 14, 1686. Arrived from England, His Majesty's Commission to
+divers worthy Gentlemen, to be a President and Council for the
+management of his Majesty's Government here, and accordingly on
+the 25th of May, '86, the President and Council being assembled
+in Boston, the exemplification of the Judgment against the
+Charter of the Late Governour and Company of the
+Massachusetts-Bay in N E together with His Majesty's Commission
+of Government were publickly read, and received by persons of
+all conditions with general Acceptance.</p>
+
+<p>It will appear by the following advertisement that a market was
+then first appointed by authority to be kept in Boston.</p>
+
+<p>Advertisement. There is Appointed by Authority a Market to be
+kept in Boston, and a Committee is ordered to meet and state the
+place, and days, and other circumstances relating to the good
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg&nbsp;23]</a></span>settling thereof: Of which a more particular Account may be
+speedily expected.</p>
+
+<p>This Almanack was published only 67 years from the settlement at
+Plymouth, and 59 from that of Salem. </p></div>
+
+<p>In the eyes of the old New England people the almanac stood next to the
+Bible in importance. Almost the only knowledge we have of many events of
+those early days has been obtained from diaries kept in interleaved
+almanacs. It is true, important facts are often found recorded in
+connection with trifling or quite unimportant matters.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>The venerable Dr. Holyoke, of Salem, president of the Massachusetts
+Medical Society, who died in March, 1829, at the age of one hundred
+years and eight months, wrote a letter, a few months before his death,
+in answer to a request that he would furnish some particulars of his
+mode of living. Dr. Holyoke was through life noted for being remarkably
+temperate in all things. After his death it was reported that some
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg&nbsp;24]</a></span>physician said (perhaps in fun) that if Dr. H. had not been in the
+habit of using intoxicating liquors he might have lived to a <i>good old
+age</i>.</p>
+
+<p>We give here a copy of this interesting letter.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big><b>Salem.</b></big></p>
+
+<p class='center'>SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1829.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. Holyoke.</span> The Medical Society of this District have rendered
+an appropriate tribute of respect for the memory of their
+venerated associate, the late Dr. <span class="smcap">E.A. Holyoke</span>, by publishing an
+elegant little volume, containing a memoir of the deceased,
+prepared by a Committee of the Society, and a few of his
+writings. We have selected from the latter the following
+articles, which will interest the reader. The first is an
+account of Dr. Holyoke's habits of life, diet, &amp;c., furnished by
+him in a letter to one of his friends; the others are a
+historical memorandum and a fragment of the Doctor's poetical
+effusions.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>To &mdash;&mdash; &mdash;&mdash; &mdash;&mdash; Williamsville, Person County,<br />
+North Carolina</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><span class="smcap">Salem</span>, Oct'r&mdash;1828.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;I received yours of the 20th ult. on ye 30th, wherein you
+wish me to give you some Account of my Mode of Life, &amp;c.&mdash;In
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg&nbsp;25]</a></span>answer to which I would first mention that I was providentially
+blessed with an excellent Constitution&mdash;that I never injured
+this constitution by Intemperance of any kind&mdash;but invigorated
+it by constant Exercise, having from my 30th to my 80th Year
+walked on foot (in the Practice of my Profession)&mdash;probably as
+many as 5 or 6 miles every day, amounting to more than a
+<i>million</i><a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> of miles, and tho' sometimes much fatigued, the
+next Night's refreshing Sleep, always completely restored me. In
+early life, between 20 and 30, I used to ride on Horse back, but
+being often pestered by my Horses slipping their Bridles I found
+it more convenient to walk.</p>
+
+<p>As to my Diet, having been taught to eat of any thing that was
+provided for me, and having always a good Appetite, I am never
+anxious about my food, and I do not recollect any thing, that is
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg&nbsp;26]</a></span>commonly eaten, that does not agree with my Stomach, except
+fresh roasted Pork, which tho' very agreeable to my Palate,
+almost always disagrees with me; for which however I have a
+remedy, in the Spirit of Sal Amoniac. Eight or Ten drops of Aqua
+Ammonia pura in a wine glass of Water, gives me relief after
+Pork, and indeed after anything else which offends my stomach.
+As to the Quantity, I am no great Eater, and I find my appetite
+sooner satisfied now than formerly;&mdash;there is one peculiarity in
+my Diet which as it may perhaps have contributed to Health I
+would mention; I am fond of Fruit, and have this 30 or more
+years daily indulged in eating freely of those of the Season, as
+Strawberries, Currants, Peaches, Plums, Apples, &amp;c., which in
+summer and winter I eat just before Dinner, and seldom at any
+other time, and indeed very seldom eat any thing whatever
+between meals.&mdash;My Breakfast I vary continually. Coffee, Tea,
+Chocolate, with toasted bread and butter, Milk with Bread
+toasted in hot weather, but never any meat in my Life&mdash;seldom
+the same Breakfast more than 2 or 3 days running. Bread of Flour
+makes a large portion of my Food, perhaps near 1-2. After Dinner
+I most commonly drink one glass of Wine&mdash;plain boiled rice I am
+fond of&mdash;it makes nearly 1-2 of my Dinner perhaps as often as
+every other Day&mdash;I rarely eat Pickles or any high seasoned
+Food&mdash;Vegetable food of one kind or other makes commonly 2-3 or
+3-4 of my nourishment&mdash;the condiments I use are chiefly Mustard,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg&nbsp;27]</a></span>Horse radish and Onions. As to Drinks, I seldom take any but at
+meal times and with my Pipe&mdash;in younger Life my most common
+draft was Cider, seldom Wine, seldom or never Beer or Ale or
+distilled Spirits&mdash;But for the last 40 or 50 years, my most
+usual drink has been a Mixture, a little singular indeed, but as
+for me it is still palateable and agreeable, I still prefer
+it&mdash;The Mixture is this, viz. Good West India Rum 2 Spoonfuls,
+Good Cider whether new or old 3 Spoonfuls, of Water 9 or 10
+Spoonfuls&mdash;of this Mixture (which I suppose to be about the
+strength of common Cider) I drink about 1-2 a Pint with my
+Dinner and about the same Quantity with my Pipe after Dinner and
+my Pipe in the Evening, never exceeding a Pint the whole Day;
+and I desire nothing else except one glass of Wine immediately
+after Dinner the whole day. I generally take one Pipe after
+Dinner and another in the Evening, and hold a small piece of
+pigtail Tobacco in my mouth from Breakfast till near Dinner, and
+again in the Afternoon till tea; this has been my practice for
+80 years&mdash;I use no Snuff&mdash;I drink tea about sunset and eat with
+it a small slice of Bread toasted with Butter&mdash;I never eat any
+thing more till Breakfast.</p>
+
+<p>I have not often had any complaint from indigestion, but when I
+have, abstinence from Breakfast or Dinner, or both, has usually
+removed it; indeed I have several times thrown off serious
+Complaints by Abstinence.&mdash;As to Clothing, it is what my Friends
+call thin; I never wear Flannel next my Skin tho' often advised
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg&nbsp;28]</a></span>to it, and am less liable to take cold, as it is called, than
+most people&mdash;a good warm double breasted Waist-Coat and a Cloth
+coat answers me for winter, and as the season grows warmer I
+gradually conform my Covering to it. As to the Passions, Sir, I
+need not tell you that when indulged, they injure the Health;
+that a calm, quiet self-possession, and a moderation in our
+Expectations and Pursuits, contribute much to our Health, as
+well as our happiness, and that Anxiety is injurious to both.</p>
+
+<p>I had a good Set of Teeth, but they failed me gradually, without
+Pain, so that by 80 I lost them all.</p>
+
+<p>Thus, Sir, you have, blundering and imperfect as it is, an
+answer to your Requests, with my best wishes that it may be of
+any service to the Purpose for which it was made&mdash;But must rely
+upon it that Nothing I have written be made public in my
+Name.<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> Wishing you long Life and many happy Days,</p>
+
+<p class='center'>I am Yours, &amp;c.</p>
+<p class='right'>E.A. HOLYOKE.</p>
+
+<p>P.S. I forgot to speak of my repose. When I began the practice
+of Physick, I was so often call'd up soon after retiring to
+Rest, that I found it most convenient to sit to a late Hour, and
+thus acquired a Habit of sitting up late, which necessarily
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg&nbsp;29]</a></span>occasioned my lying in bed to a late Hour in the Morning&mdash;till
+7 o'cl'k in Summer and 8 in Winter. My Business was fatiguing
+and called for ample repose, and I have always taken care to
+have a full proportion of Sleep, which I suppose has contributed
+to my longevity.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>Recollections &amp; Memorandums of Past Events</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The first thing that I entirely remember was the funeral of Aunt
+Oulton, which was on July 18, 1732.</p>
+
+<p>The first Aurora Borealis I ever saw, the Northern or rather
+Northeast Sky appeared suffused by a dark blood-red colored
+vapour, without any variety of different colored rays. I have
+never since seen the like. This was about the year 1734.
+Northern lights were then a novelty, and excited great wonder
+and terror among the vulgar.</p>
+
+<p>In 1737, Square Toed Shoes were going out of fashion; I believe
+few or none were worn after 1737. Buckles instead of Shoe
+Strings began to be used about the same time, but were not
+universal in the country towns till 1740 or 1742. Very broad
+brim'd Hats were worn as early as I remember. My father had a
+beaver whose Brims were at least 7 inches; which when he left
+off, I remember I used to wear in the Garden, or in a shower, by
+way of Umbrella. They were all cock'd triangularly. And pulling
+them off by way of salutation was invariably the Fashion by all
+who had any Breeding.</p>
+
+<p>Boots were never worn except on horseback, or snowy or rainy
+weather. They frequently had large broad Tops that reach'd full
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg&nbsp;30]</a></span>half way up the Thigh. But Boots did not come into general use
+till the close of the revolutionary war.</p>
+
+<p>Funerals were extravagantly expensive. Gold Rings to each of the
+Bearers, the Minister, the Physician, &amp;c., were frequently given
+when the family could but ill afford it. White gloves in
+abundance, burnt wine to the company, &amp;c., &amp;c. This extravagance
+occasioned the enacting sumptuary laws, which though they
+check'd did not entirely suppress the complaints till the
+commencement of the revolutionary war.</p>
+
+<p>In 1749, it was reported the train band list of the town of
+Marblehead was equal to that of the town of Salem. The
+difference is now very great. I suppose Salem has at least twice
+the number of Marblehead.</p>
+
+<p>[1749.]<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a> The Houses (in Salem) were generally very ordinary.
+The first handsome house was built by Mr. Jno. Turner, then Col.
+Pickman, then Mr. J. Cabot, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>There was but one ropewalk, and that was on the neck, inside the
+gate. But one tavern of any note, and that was an old house at
+the corner now occupied by Stearns' brick store. The Houses for
+public worship were only the old (first) church&mdash;the eastern
+parish&mdash;the secession from the first church&mdash;the Friends'
+meeting house, and the Episcopal church.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg&nbsp;31]</a></span></p>
+<p>The number of Inhabitants was estimated at between 5 and 6000.</p>
+
+<p>The Commerce of this town was chiefly with Spain and Portugal
+and the West Indies, especially with St. Eustatia. The Cod
+fishery was carried on with success and advantage. The Schooners
+were employed on the fishing banks in the summer, and in the
+autumn were laden with Fish, Rum, Molasses, and the produce of
+the country, and sent to Virginia and Maryland, and there spent
+the winter retailing their cargoes, and in return brought Corn
+and Wheat and Tobacco. This Virginia voyage was seldom very
+profitable, but as it served to keep the crews together, it was
+continued till more advantageous employment offered.</p>
+
+<p>There were a few Chaises kept by gentlemen for their own use,
+but it was no easy matter to hire one to go a journey.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>. </p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1">
+<span class="label">[A]</span></a> This seems to have been a slip of the pen; the following is
+his own calculation, made in 1823, and which from his great degree of
+exaggeration falls short of half the actual amount. "If from my age of
+20 to 80 years I have walked 5 miles a day, which is a moderate
+calculation, I must have gone in that 60 years,
+</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="calculation">
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>109,500</td><td align='left'>miles.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>And in the first 20 &amp; last 15 years,</td><td align='right'>38,325</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>In 95 years probably, Total,</td><td align='right'>147,825</td></tr>
+</table></div></div>
+
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> This prohibition could only have regard to the period of
+his life time and was occasioned by that extreme modesty which always
+rendered it painful to the Doctor to be held up to the public notice.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> These remarks refer to the period of Dr. Holyoke's
+residence in Salem, preceding the revolution.</p></div>
+
+<p>Dr. Holyoke during his whole life, it is said, was never fifty miles
+distant from the spot where he was born. He was the first person to
+receive the degree of M.D. from Harvard College; was the first president
+of the Massachusetts Medical Society; and he made in the course of his
+life three hundred and twenty-four thousand professional visits.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg&nbsp;32]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Antiquity of Nursery Rhymes.</span>&mdash;Many of these productions have a
+very curious history, if it could only be traced. Some of them
+probably owe their origin to names distinguished in our
+literature; as Oliver Goldsmith, for instance, is believed in
+his earlier days to have written such compositions. Dr. E.F.
+Rimbault gives us the following particulars as to some
+well-known favorites: "Sing a Song of Sixpence," is as old as
+the sixteenth century. "Three Blind Mice" is found in a
+music-book dated 1609. "The Frog and the Mouse" was licensed in
+1580. "Three Children Sliding on the Ice" dates from 1633.
+"London Bridge is Broken Down" is of unfathomed antiquity.
+"Girls and Boys come out to play" is certainly old as the reign
+of Charles II.; as is also "Lucy Locket lost her Pocket," to the
+tune of which the American song of "Yankee Doodle" was written.
+"Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where have you been?" is of the age of
+Queen Bess. "Little Jack Horner" is older than the seventeenth
+century. "The Old Woman Tossed in a Blanket" is of the reign of
+James II., to which monarch it is supposed to allude.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Some British opinions of Benedict Arnold.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"The good whigs of America," &#383;ays a late paper, "may be a&#383;&#383;ured,
+that the infamous <span class="smcap">Benedict Arnold's</span> man&#383;ion is the very next to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg&nbsp;33]</a></span><span class="smcap">Tyburn</span>,&mdash;a well cho&#383;en habitation for &#383;uch an abandoned
+traitor: A &#383;tep or two conveys him to that fatal &#383;pot, where the
+mo&#383;t guilty of all the mi&#383;erable beings who have ever &#383;uffered,
+was perfectly innocent compared with him.&mdash;He lives de&#383;pi&#383;ed by
+the nobility and gentry, and execrated by the people at
+large&mdash;countenanced by none excepting their Britannic and
+Satanic Maje&#383;ties, and &#383;uch of their adherents, re&#383;pectively,
+who are looking for promotion under their royal ma&#383;ters."</p>
+
+<p>By a gentleman from the &#383;outhward we learn that it is expected
+Congre&#383;s will fix their permanent re&#383;idence at Philadelphia.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, Feb. 26, 1784. </p></div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>NEW-YORK, November 16.</p>
+
+<p>By very recent accounts from St. John, Nova-Scotia, we are
+informed that <i>Benedict Arnold</i>, having attempted to JOCKY &#383;ome
+of the inhabitants out of their property, but being detected,
+and the people being much exa&#383;perated, offered to deliver him up
+to the Americans for ten dollars; but alas! before the bargain
+was firmly agreed on, he made his e&#383;cape to Halifax, and there
+got protection from the populace.</p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>We are informed that Benedict Arnold lately &#383;ailed from
+New-Brun&#383;wick for London. It is &#383;aid that his re&#383;idence in
+America, even among the provincial Loyali&#383;ts, was rather
+uncomfortable; he therefore wi&#383;ely preferred being enveloped in
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg&nbsp;34]</a></span>the atmo&#383;phere of London to re&#383;iding on a continent which had
+been the theatre of his traitorous acts, and con&#383;equently the
+occa&#383;ion of more frequent reflections on the infamy of his
+crimes.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Massachusetts Gazette</i>, November, 1786. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Receipt for apple-pudding, in 1788, with the apple and the pudding left
+out.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>For the</i> HERALD <i>of</i> FREEDOM.<br />
+<span class="smcap">How to make an APPLE PUDDING.</span><br />
+<i>Being a curious, elaborate and &#383;ublime</i> <span class="smcap">Dissertation</span>,<br />
+<i>never before publi&#383;hed</i>.</p>
+<p class='center'>By <i>YANKEE DOODLE, E&#383;quire</i>.</p>
+<p class='center'>(<i>In Continuation.</i>)<br />
+<span class="smcap">Chapter.&mdash;How and about NAMES.</span></p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Nug&aelig;que canor&aelig;.</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hor.<br /></p>
+
+<p>I LOOK upon it as the greate&#383;t happine&#383;s of my life, that
+fortune has given me <i>a name</i> that corre&#383;ponds with my nature
+and con&#383;titution. Patrioti&#383;m is the &#383;tronge&#383;t pa&#383;&#383;ion; and I
+glory in being a <i>Yankee</i>.&mdash;A <i>Yankee</i> is any man born in
+New-England&mdash;and New-England contains the three northern States,
+and a certain <i>little, pe&#383;tiferous, p&#383;eudo I&#383;land</i>. My
+countrymen generally have the credit of being a good-natured,
+p&#383;alm-&#383;inging, religious kind of men, very hone&#383;t, but plaguy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg&nbsp;35]</a></span>
+hard in their dealings&mdash;in&#383;omuch that a <i>Carolinian</i> or a
+<i>Georgian</i> frequently &#383;wear that the very <i>Satan</i> him&#383;elf could
+never get to windward of them.</p>
+
+<p>This puts me in mind of a &#383;tory.&mdash;A certain Bo&#383;ton &#383;ea Captain,
+of a &#383;loop of 60 tons burthen, coming with a cargo of
+New-England rum, &#383;hoes, chee&#383;e, potatoes, and other valuable
+commodities, into <i>Broadway</i>, which you mu&#383;t know is a very
+<i>narrow</i> pa&#383;&#383;age in the <i>Appomatax</i>, a branch of <i>James River</i>
+in <i>Virginia</i>.&mdash;Before I proceed I mu&#383;t acquaint the &#383;erious
+reader&mdash;and who is there but mu&#383;t be &#383;erious in reading the
+&#383;olemn truths I am about to declare&mdash;that every <i>iota</i> of what I
+&#383;hall delineate in the&#383;e &#383;acred depo&#383;itories of facts, is
+<span class="smcap">TRUTH</span>.&mdash;&mdash;I am now about to elucidate the p&#383;alm-&#383;inging,
+religious character of <i>Yankees</i>, by a <span class="smcap">TRUE STORY</span>, <i>never before
+publi&#383;hed</i>.&mdash;&mdash;When our Bo&#383;ton &#383;ea Captain, therefore, came into
+Broadway, a Virginian comes a-board of him&mdash;and as he goes down
+into the cabbin, had to &#383;toop a little, becau&#383;e the cabbin was
+low&mdash;for, as I &#383;aid before, the &#383;loop was 60 tons, although our
+religious &#383;ea-captain <i>entered</i> but 40 tons at the Naval-Office:
+How&#383;omever he had a re&#383;erve of con&#383;cience, for the Naval-Officer
+charged him for <i>light money</i>, when there was not one
+light-hou&#383;e in all the ancient dominion.&mdash;But this is nothing to
+my &#383;tory.</p>
+
+<p><i>N.B.</i> I mean to give the good-natured reader a whole chapter on
+<i>the art of</i> <span class="smcap">Story-telling</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Well, as I was &#383;aying, the Virginian being obliged to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg&nbsp;36]</a></span>&#383;toop&mdash;the <i>&#383;tooping</i> cau&#383;ed his head to be bowed down; and
+looking down, he &#383;aw a <i>book</i> lying upon the &#383;tarboard
+locker.&mdash;Well, &#383;ays he, and what the d&mdash;&mdash;l&mdash;but I think it
+expedient to omit the <i>Virginian</i> oath; for this man, not being
+a moral man, &#383;wore con&#383;umedly, and did not know a <i>bible</i> by
+&#383;ight, but only by <i>hear&#383;ay</i>.&mdash;And Captain, cried the
+<i>Virginian</i>, will you &#383;ell this bible of yours: I hear it's a
+mighty clever book for children.&mdash;And why not for grown people?
+cried the Captain, taking up the <i>book</i>. Why, quoth the
+<i>Virginian</i>, becau&#383;e I mean my three boys, who are from 11 to 14
+years old, &#383;hall be good <i>&#383;cholards at their larning</i>&mdash;they can
+all &#383;ay their letters already, and the younge&#383;t can &#383;pell.&mdash;The
+Bo&#383;ton &#383;ea Captain opening the bible found the&#383;e words: "<i>Search
+the &#383;criptures</i>;" and without &#383;aying any thing him&#383;elf, pointed
+out the pa&#383;&#383;age to the <i>Virginian</i>.&mdash;Pugh! &#383;aid the <i>Virginian</i>,
+and walked upon deck.&mdash;Now, to explain this my&#383;tery, you mu&#383;t
+know the Yankee &#383;ea Captain &#383;hewed him the pa&#383;&#383;age to denote
+that he would &#383;ooner &#383;ell his &#383;oul to the d&mdash;&mdash;l, than his
+bible to a <i>Virginian</i>;&mdash;and the <i>Virginian</i> &#383;aid pugh! and
+walked upon deck, becau&#383;e he could not read. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Longevity.</span> Since we published the examples of longevity,
+collected by the editor of the Medical Adviser, we have seen
+another list, which is <i>supposed</i> to comprise all, which can be
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg&nbsp;37]</a></span>found from the year 66 to 1799. The number of those who lived
+from <i>one hundred</i> and <i>seventy</i> to <i>one hundred</i> and
+<i>eighty-five</i> years is 3; from <i>one hundred</i> and <i>sixty</i> to <i>one
+hundred</i> and <i>seventy</i>, 2; from <i>one hundred</i> and <i>fifty</i> to
+<i>one hundred</i> and <i>sixty</i>, 3; from <i>one hundred</i> and <i>forty</i> to
+<i>one hundred</i> and <i>fifty</i>, 7; from <i>one hundred</i> and <i>thirty</i> to
+<i>one hundred</i> and <i>forty</i>, 26; from <i>one hundred</i> and <i>twenty</i>
+to <i>one hundred</i> and <i>thirty</i>, 84; from <i>one hundred</i> and <i>ten</i>
+to <i>one hundred</i> and <i>twenty</i>, 277; from <i>one hundred</i> to <i>one
+hundred</i> and <i>ten</i>, 1310. Total of those who survived a century,
+<i>Seventeen hundred and twelve</i>.&mdash;&mdash;This writer could not have
+included in his list the examples of longevity which Russia
+furnished, for we frequently find in the bills of mortality of
+this country for a single year, twice the number of
+centenarians. We have before us the table of deaths for 1813,
+which gives the following remarkable ages. One 165;&mdash;three
+135;&mdash;one 130;&mdash;fifteen 125;&mdash;thirty-three from 115 to
+120;&mdash;fifty-three from 110 to 115;&mdash;one hundred and twenty-seven
+from 100 to 105;&mdash;fourteen hundred from 95 to 100;&mdash;two thousand
+eight hundred and forty-nine from 90 to 95;&mdash;four thousand four
+hundred and fifty-one from 85 to 90. Whole number of deaths
+971,338.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, Oct. 29, 1825. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Boston shop-signs in 1789.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>To read the &#383;igns in this town is a delicate, &#383;entimental
+repa&#383;t.&mdash;I hope <i>Bo&#383;tonians</i> will never complain of want of
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg&nbsp;38]</a></span>amu&#383;ement, while there is one &#383;ign &#383;tanding. If I had time, I
+would certainly con&#383;ult <i>Milton</i>, to &#383;ee how he has <i>arranged</i>
+matters in his de&#383;cription of <i>chaos</i>.&mdash;I doubt not I could
+there get a <i>hint</i> for two whole chapters. I had as lief take a
+walk through Cornhill, as to go to the new-invented moral
+lectures.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Herald of Freedom</i>.</p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>A CURIOUS WOMAN.</p>
+
+<p>We have often heard it said that men are curious, and we can well
+believe it; but now we find it recorded that there has been at least
+<i>one</i> curious woman. Read the following extract from the "Salem Gazette"
+of 1795:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Married at Andover, Mr. Aaron O&#383;good to the <i>curious</i> Mi&#383;s E&#383;ter
+Wardwell. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>"AWFULLY GOOD."</p>
+
+<p>In our opinion the oft-repeated words "awfully good," "jolly fine," and
+similar expressions, which sound so "charmingly sweet" from the lips of
+interesting young ladies, are quite cast into the shade by language used
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg&nbsp;39]</a></span>in the following extract from the Portsmouth, N.H., "Oracle of the
+Day," Nov. 24, 1798:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>MARRIED]&mdash;In this town, on Sunday evening la&#383;t, by the Rev. Dr.
+Haven, MARK SIMES, E&#383;q. Deputy Po&#383;t-Ma&#383;ter, &amp;c. to the elegantly
+pretty and amiably delicate Mi&#383;s MARY-ANN BLUNT, younge&#383;t
+daughter of the late Capt. John Blunt, of Little-Harbour.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Genius of Hymen; Power of fonde&#383;t Love</i>!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>In &#383;howers of bli&#383;s de&#383;cend from worlds above</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>On</i> Beauty's <i>ro&#383;e, and</i> Virtue's <i>manlier form</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>And &#383;hield, ah! &#383;hield them both, from time's tempe&#383;tuous &#383;torm</i>!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">A few</span> years &#383;ince, a young gentleman at the Univer&#383;ity in
+<i>Cambridge</i> a&#383;ked of a Collegian the loan of his <i>W</i>irgil. The
+inelegant pronunciation of the word <i>Virgil</i> was burle&#383;qued by
+the young Collegian in the following &#383;tory, with which his
+invention readily &#383;upplied him:&mdash;<i>Lately</i> (&#383;ays he) <i>I &#383;et out
+on a woyage to Wer&#383;ailles, with one Captain Winal, in a Briti&#383;h
+we&#383;&#383;el called the Wiper; but we &#383;oon met with a wiolent &#383;torm,
+which drove us into a port in Wirginia; where one Capt. Waughn,
+a wery wicious man, inwited us aboard his we&#383;&#383;el, and gave us
+&#383;ome weal and weni&#383;on, with &#383;ome winegar, which made me wery
+&#383;ick; &#383;o I did womit like wengeance;</i> (and added, reaching out
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg&nbsp;40]</a></span>the book) <i>You may have my Wirgil, and welcome</i>. This humor had
+the de&#383;ired effect; the young gentleman &#383;aw the ab&#383;urdity of
+doing &#383;uch w<i>iolence</i> to the letter V, and has ever &#383;ince &#383;poke
+like other people.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, April 26, 1791. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>What Mr. Welby, an English gentleman, saw when he was in the United
+States in 1821. A very flattering picture of the West.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big><b>More Travellers' Stories.</b></big></p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>From the National Gazette</i>.</p>
+
+<p>A new book of Travels in America has been recently issued in
+London which rivals the volumes of our old friends Weld, Ashe,
+Fearon, &amp;c. It is entitled "A Visit to North America and the
+English Settlements in Illinois, with a winter residence in
+Philadelphia; solely to ascertain the actual prosperity of the
+Emigrating Agriculturist, Mechanic, and Commercial
+Speculator"&mdash;by Adlard Welby, <i>Esquire</i>, of South Rauceby,
+Lincolnshire. This esquire has said enough, should he be
+believed, to settle ultimately the point of the truth or
+falsehood of Godwin's notable doctrine, that we owe the increase
+of our numbers chiefly to emigration. No sane European would
+venture among us after having read Mr. Welby's book. He
+discovered that, in Philadelphia, living was <i>very dear</i>,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg&nbsp;41]</a></span>comfort <i>very uncommon</i>, and good manners still more rare.
+Throughout his journey he found in the taverns "a system of
+impertinence, rudeness, rascality, and filth, rendered more
+intolerable by an antipathy to the English, in the brutal
+manifestation of which most of the Colonel, Doctor, and Squire,
+keepers of the taverns, were pleased to indulge." When he asked
+an hostler to call him early in the morning, he was answered
+that&mdash;he might call himself and be d&mdash;&mdash;d. In the Western
+country he found no symptoms of hospitality&mdash;witnessed only
+idleness and licentiousness, and experienced every where brutal
+rudeness and unbounded extortion. The western people usually
+combine in cheating all travellers, and sometimes "<i>rifle</i>,"
+that is <i>shoot</i> residents among them who do not choose to
+descend to their own level. In Illinois "a party proposed to
+each other <i>coolly</i> to go and shoot neighbour *****, who had
+behaved ill to them sundry times; it was agreed upon; they went
+to his field, found the old man at plough, and, with unerring
+aim, laid him dead." And Mr. Welby adds that the country would
+be desirable to live in, did not the folks <i>shoot</i> each other
+thus, and were they not half savages. The <i>shooting</i> case
+reminds us of a traveller's story which we heard at a dinner
+table abroad. A gentleman and esquire of strict veracity, like
+Mr. Welby, related, in order to shew how common was the calamity
+of the <i>coup de soleil</i>, or stroke of the sun, in the Island of
+<span class="smcap">Java</span>, that sitting once in the house of an opulent merchant of
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg&nbsp;42]</a></span>Batavia, drinking a <i>cool</i> glass of Madeira after dinner, with
+the merchant's wife in the room, the lady was, in the twinkling
+of an eye, <i>reduced to a heap of ashes</i> by a <i>coup de soleil</i>;
+when the husband observed to his guest, "don't be alarmed&mdash;we
+are accustomed to this;" then rang the bell with great
+composure, and on the appearance of the servant, <i>coolly</i>
+said&mdash;"Boy&mdash;sweep your mistress out, and <i>bring us clean
+glasses</i>."</p>
+
+<p>In the neighborhood of Mr. Birbeck's settlement in Illinois, Mr.
+Welby could obtain neither eggs, milk, sugar, salt, nor water;
+and when he and his party sent a request to Mr. Birbeck for some
+water, the answer returned was, he made it a general rule to
+refuse every one. Mr. Birbeck is represented as having deceived
+and disappointed most of the English who were lured to his
+settlement by his "Journal." Mr. W. could discover none of "the
+snug cottages, with adjoining piggeries, cowsteads, gardens and
+orchards," which Mr. B. had introduced into his canvass. He
+found nothing but the primitive log building, that served the
+whole family&mdash;"for parlour, for kitchen, and hall." "The strange
+heterogeneous mixture of characters," says Mr. W. "which are
+collected here by the magic pen of Morris Birbeck, is truly
+ludicrous. Among many others, a couple now attend to the store
+at Albion who lately lived in a dashing style in London, not far
+from Bond-street; the lady brought over her white satin shoes
+and gay dresses, rich carpets, and everything but what in such<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg&nbsp;43]</a></span>
+a place she would require&mdash;yet I have understood that they have
+accommodated themselves to their new situations, hand out the
+plums, sugar, whiskey, &amp;c., with tolerable grace, and at least
+'do not seem to mind it.'"</p>
+
+<p>In one of the principal literary journals of London, Mr. Welby's
+book is recommended as "carrying on its front the stamp of plain
+dealing, <i>truth</i> and candor, and entitled, from internal
+evidence, to the highest authority amid the conflicting
+statements and opinions respecting emigration to America." The
+reviewer adds:&mdash;"From a country so destitute of moral beauty as
+the author depicts it, so disgusting in its human externals, and
+so low in the scale, not merely of refinement, but of good
+principles, we are happy to withdraw." As Mr. Welby spent a
+winter in Philadelphia, and had acquaintance here, it is
+probable that such of the latter as have not seen his book will
+be pleased to know the complexion of its contents.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Register</i>, May 18, 1822. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>In the "Essex Register" of July 18, 1833, may be found the following
+notice of two well-known American authors:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Discourse on Genius.</span> The Richmond Compiler speaks in terms of
+great praise of a discourse delivered recently in Richmond,
+before a Young Men's Society, by Joseph Hulbert Nicholas. A
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg&nbsp;44]</a></span>number of extracts are also given in the Compiler, as specimens
+of the performance, from which we take the following notices of
+two of our fellow-townsmen.&mdash;<i>Boston Courier</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Of Charles Sprague, of Massachusetts, no language can be spoken
+but that of unqualified praise. Forsaking the modern school of
+writing, he is contented with being simple and natural.
+Sublimity, tenderness, wit, elegance, and beneficial satire
+characterise his muse.&mdash;The only complaint I have ever heard
+made of him is that <i>he does not write more</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Of Nathaniel Parker Willis, a native of Massachusetts, and a
+fellow-student with myself at Yale College, I come now to speak.
+Of him I shall speak familiarly, as of an intimate friend; and
+impartially and justly, as one who wishes him well. Willis, I
+venture to pronounce the most remarkable genius our country has
+yet produced. I do not call him remarkable merely for his
+unusual precocity of song, but remarkable for the possession of
+that rare genius, which by any man, young or old, in our land, I
+do not think has ever been displayed. Nature has done wonderful
+things for him; but alas! he has thus far done but little for
+himself. The great pieces he has sometimes given us have cost
+him but little effort, and he has thrown out his productions, in
+prose as well as poetry, with a profusion and a variety that
+seem miraculous; and yet, of all our bards, he has met with the
+most severe and merciless censures. In some measure he has
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg&nbsp;45]</a></span>deserved the treatment. In College he would not condescend to
+study, and charity only for his high genius enabled him to gain
+a degree. Besides, he gained his first and best reputation by
+pieces founded upon scriptural subjects, and he stood committed
+to the world as a <i>religious</i> man. Many who had never seen aught
+of him but his productions, and had formed the loftiest estimate
+of his personal character from the pure tendency of his
+effusions, were astonished and grieved when introduced to the
+author.&mdash;His head made giddy by the praises of young and old, he
+forgot himself, and possessing most shrewd good sense, he would
+talk the reverse. He became fantastic in apparel, as he did
+likewise in his style of writing; made himself too common, and
+almost broke a pious father's heart by deserting the altar of
+that divine Jesus upon whose Bible he had founded the fairest
+fabric of his fame. My friend, of whom I so sternly speak, is
+now in Italy; and should these remarks, per chance, ever meet
+his eye, I beseech him by our past friendship, by our walks "by
+moon or glittering star-light," through the Eden groves and
+avenues of New-Haven, by the love he bears to his parents, and
+above all, by the love he bears that Saviour, upon whose image
+and the scenes of whose mortal pilgrimage he is rapturously
+gazing, in the matchless pictures of the Italian masters, I
+beseech him, when he returns to his native land, to wear no
+longer a ridiculous mask, but to appear in his own native
+strength, dignity, and surpassing loveliness. </p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg&nbsp;46]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In the "Salem Observer," March 8, 1834, are to be found the following
+references to well-known young ladies of the day. Miss Silsbee is
+supposed to be the daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee, of Salem,
+Massachusetts senator in Congress. She afterwards married Jared Sparks,
+the well-known historian, president of Harvard College, etc.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">High Life at Washington.</span> The Washington Correspondent of the
+Boston Morning Post, in describing Gov. Cass's soiree, thus
+notices some of the young ladies who were present:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>Miss Keyser of Baltimore, uniting youth and beauty, possesses an
+eye as dark as the absence of all light, beaming with a lustre
+that eclipses all. I never saw a countenance betoken such
+perfect happiness; it was like a star-lit lake, curling its lips
+into ripples in some dream of delight, as the west wind salutes
+them with its balmy breath and disturbs their placid slumber. I
+never before realised Byron's idea of</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Music breathing o'er the face;"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>till Miss Keyser's brought it home to the business and bosom.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Silsbee, of Salem, with a form of great symmetry, possesses
+a countenance not only beautiful, but entirely intellectual&mdash;the
+most so of any you have met with either here or elsewhere; it is
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg&nbsp;47]</a></span>of the Italian model; and should have basked beneath an Italian
+sky. She is very easy, graceful and modest in her deportment,
+and dresses 'rich not gaudy;' the cameo necklace that graced her
+person was only the foil that set off the diamond.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Harper of Baltimore, with a fine face and form, is
+particularly unrivalled for a bust of unrivalled symmetry; it
+would furnish a model for a Canova; and reminds me of
+Greenough's Medora.</p>
+
+<p>Miss M'Lane of this city, with many separate charms that could
+not fail of attraction, unites with them the finest of fine
+forms.</p>
+
+<p>And last, not least, the younger Miss Cass possesses the most
+perfect <i>Madonna</i> countenance I have ever seen clothed in living
+lustre. It was one of the first that attracted my attention when
+I entered the saloon, and the last that received my parting
+glance when I retired; it seemed to be&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"While in, above the world;"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>I am told it is entirely characteristic; that she is in heart
+and thought, what you behold in her countenance&mdash;happy, but not
+gay; serious but not sad; devout, yet not a devotee. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>In the "Salem Gazette" of 1815 is the following curious information
+about Scott's novels, which shows how easy it is for people to be
+mistaken.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg&nbsp;48]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>William Er&#383;kine, E&#383;q. is &#383;aid to be the author of the new and
+intere&#383;ting Novel, "<i>Guy Mannering</i>."&mdash;Walter Scott had been
+pronounced the author.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Waverly.</span>&mdash;It is not yet decided to whom this very intere&#383;ting
+novel belongs. It came into the world with all the advantage
+that the name of Walter Scott could give it; but Guy Mannering's
+appearance &#383;eems to have di&#383;&#383;olved that connection. An article
+in our first page attributes the work to Wm. Er&#383;kine; but in the
+la&#383;t North-American Review we read the following:&mdash;"An Engli&#383;h
+Magazine &#383;ays, the author of Waverly and Guy Mannering is a
+young gentleman of the name of <span class="smcap">Forbes</span>, the &#383;on of a Scotch
+baronet." The Review remarks, that the extract in the title page
+of the latter, from the <i>Lay of the La&#383;t Min&#383;trel</i>, was a
+delicate way of informing the public that they were under a
+mi&#383;take in attributing the former to Walter Scott. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>On the 16th June, 1806, there was a total eclipse of the sun. The
+following is all the "Salem Gazette" of the 17th has to say of such a
+remarkable event.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Ye&#383;terday the great Solar Eclip&#383;e took place, agreeably to the
+calculations which had been made. The day was very favourable to
+viewing it. The air was remarkably clear, and there was not a
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg&nbsp;49]</a></span>cloud in the hemi&#383;phere. As the &#383;un &#383;hut in, the &#383;tars
+appeared, and many were vi&#383;ible at the time of total darkne&#383;s. A
+con&#383;iderable alteration in the temperature of the atmo&#383;phere was
+felt during the continuance of the Eclip&#383;e. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>In the "Boston Palladium" of 1819, copied from a London paper, is Lord
+Mansfield's opinion about a word in Johnson's Dictionary. In the
+original editions of this work are to be found many very curious
+definitions, some of which bore so hard upon the government as to be
+construed into libel.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>FROM A LONDON PAPER.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>EXCISE</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The following curious little document is the opinion of Lord
+Mansfield, when Attorney-General, upon Dr. Johnson's explanation
+of the word Excise:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>CASE</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Samuel Johnson has lately published a book, entitled "A
+Dictionary of the English Language, in which the words are
+deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different
+significations by examples from the best writers. To which are
+prefixed a History of the Language and an English Grammar."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg&nbsp;50]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Under the title "Excise" are the following words:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Excise</span>, n.s. (<i>accijs</i>, Dutch; <i>excisum</i>, Latin,) a hateful tax
+levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges
+of property, but <i>wretches</i> hired by those to whom "<i>Excise</i>" is
+paid.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The people should pay a rateable tax for their sheep, and an
+<i>Excise</i> for every thing which they should eat.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Hayward.</span></p>
+
+<p>"Ambitious now to take <i>excise</i> Of a more fragrant
+paradise."&mdash;<span class="smcap">Cleveland.</span> </p></div>
+
+<p class='center'><i>EXCISE</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"With hundred rows of teeth the shark exceeds, And on all
+trades, like Cassawar, she feeds."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><span class="smcap">Marvel.</span> </p></div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"Can hire large houses and oppress the poor By farm'd
+Excise."&mdash;<span class="smcap">Dryden's</span> Juvenal, Sat. 3. </p></div>
+
+<p>The Author's definition being observed by the Commissioners of Excise,
+they desire the favour of your opinion:</p>
+
+<p><i>Qu.</i>&mdash;Whether it will not be considered as a libel; and if so, whether
+it is not proper to proceed against the author, printers and publishers
+thereof, or any and which of them, by information or how otherwise?</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>OPINION</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"I am of opinion that it is a libel; but under all the circumstances, I
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg&nbsp;51]</a></span>should think it better to give him an opportunity of altering his
+definition; and in case he don't, threaten him with an information.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>
+"(Signed)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;W. MURRAY.</p>
+
+<p>"29th Nov, 1755." </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Samuel Sewall, whose remarkable "Diary" has within a few years been
+printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society, appears to have been
+the successor of John Foster, who printed the first book ever issued
+from the press in Boston,&mdash;namely, "Hubbard's Election Sermon,"&mdash;in
+1676. All previous printing in the colony had been executed at
+Cambridge. Mr. Hubbard was the minister of Ipswich.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>SAMUEL SEWALL.</p>
+
+<p>When John Foster (the first who carried on printing in Boston)
+died in 1681, the town was without the benefit of the press; but
+a continuance of it being thought necessary, <i>Samuel Sewall</i>,
+not a printer but a magistrate, and a man much respected, was
+selected as a proper person to manage the concerns of it, and as
+such was recommended to the general court. In consequence of
+this recommendation, the court, in Oct. 1681, gave him liberty
+to carry on the business of printing in Boston. The <i>license</i> is
+thus recorded: "Samuel Sewall, at the instance of some Friends,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg&nbsp;52]</a></span>with respect to the accommodation of the public, being prevailed
+with to undertake the Management of the Printing Press in
+Boston, late under the command of Mr. John Foster, deceased,
+liberty is accordingly granted to him for the same by this
+court, and none may presume to set up any other Press without
+the like Liberty first granted."</p>
+
+<p>Sewall became a bookseller.&mdash;Books for himself and others were
+printed at the press under his management; as were several acts
+and laws, with other works for government. Samuel Green, jun.,
+was his printer. In 1682 an order passed the general court for
+the treasurer to pay Sewall ten pounds seventeen shillings, for
+printing the election sermon, delivered that year by the Rev.
+Mr. Torrey.</p>
+
+<p>In 1684, Sewall, by some means, was unable to conduct the press,
+and requested permission of the general court to be released
+from his engagement. This was granted; the record of his release
+is in the words following.</p>
+
+<p>"Samuel Sewall by the providence of God being unable to attend
+the press, &amp;c., requested leave to be freed from his obligations
+concerning it, which was granted, with thanks for the liberty
+then granted."</p>
+
+<p>In 1684, and for several subsequent years, the loss of the
+charter occasioned great confusion and disorder in the political
+concerns of the colony. Soon after Sewall resigned his office as
+conductor of the press in Boston, he went to England, and he
+returned in 1692. He was undoubtedly the same Samuel Sewall
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg&nbsp;53]</a></span>who, when a new charter was granted by king William, was for
+many years one of the council for the province, and who, in
+1692, was appointed one of the Judges of the Superior Court; in
+1715 Judge of Probate; and in 1718, Chief Justice of
+Massachusetts. He died Jan. 1, 1729, aged 78 years.&mdash;<i>Boston
+News Letter</i>. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Knowledge of natural history at the Isles of Shoals in the early part of
+the last century.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">A Century Ago.</span> The N. York Gazette relates that when Rev. Mr.
+Tuck, in the early part of the last century, was ordained
+minister of Star Island, one of a cluster called the Isles of
+Shoals, his parish offered him, beside the usual parsonage
+house, a quintal of fish each family, but no money, as a salary.
+It is well known that the fish cured at these islands are called
+dun fish, and have the highest reputation for excellence
+wherever known. They are caught in the depth of winter, and are
+fit for market before the hot weather. They derive the name of
+<i>dun</i> from the color which they assume. There were at the period
+of which we speak, about fifty families in the cluster, giving
+him fifty quintals per year. The average price of a dun fish is
+about ten dollars, and the worthy pastor always procured a ready
+sale for them, thereby realizing his five hundred dollars per
+annum. With this stipend he flourished, and brought up a
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg&nbsp;54]</a></span>family, whom he educated himself, and fitted one of his sons for
+entrance into Harvard College. The lad had never been away from
+the Shoals till he reached Long wharf on his way to Cambridge.
+He had never seen a horse, nor heard a church bell. On landing,
+he saw many horses attached to various vehicles; and speaking to
+his father, said, "Only see what queer cows they have in Boston!
+they are not shaped like ours, and are all without horns." In
+passing by the Old South, in Cornhill, the big bell of that
+church struck up a peal, the effect of which nearly drove the
+young man mad.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>[1829].</p></div>
+
+<p>What Captain Hall, R.N., thought of a Salem gentleman.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>From Capt. Basil Hall's Travels in America&mdash;just published</i>.</p>
+
+<p>We reached the town of Salem in good time for dinner; and here I
+feel half tempted to break through my rule, in order to give
+some account of our dinner-party, chiefly, indeed, that I might
+have an opportunity of expatiating&mdash;which I could do with
+perfect truth and great pleasure&mdash;on the conversation of our
+excellent host. For I have rarely, in any country, met a man so
+devoid of prejudice, or so willing to take all matters on their
+favorable side, and withal, who was so well informed about every
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg&nbsp;55]</a></span>thing in his own and in other countries, or who was more ready
+to impart his knowledge to others.</p>
+
+<p>To these agreeable attributes and conversational powers he adds
+such a mirthfulness of fancy, and genuine heartiness of
+good-humour, to all men, women, and children who have the good
+fortune to make his acquaintance, that I should have no
+scruple&mdash;if it were not too great a liberty&mdash;in naming him as
+the person I have been most pleased with in all my recent
+travels.</p>
+
+<p>After dinner, we repaired to the Museum, the rich treasures of
+which have been collected exclusively by captains or
+supercargoes of vessels out of Salem, who had doubled one or
+other of the great southern promontories,&mdash;the Cape, and the
+Horn, as they are technically called by seamen. As my eye fell
+on numberless carefully cherished objects, which I had often
+seen in familiar use on the other side of the globe, my
+imagination revelled far and wide into regions I may never live
+to see again.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, 1826. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Compliment to New England</i>. In a speech made by Mr. Lyell, the
+eminent geologist, at a late meeting of the British Geological
+Association, he said&mdash;"Were I ever so unfortunate as to quit my
+native land to reside permanently elsewhere, I should without
+hesitation choose the United States for my second country,
+especially New England, where a population of more than two
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg&nbsp;56]</a></span>millions enjoys a higher average standard of prosperity and
+intellectual advancement than any other population of equal
+amount on the globe."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, 1843.</p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Mrs. Trollope avers that pigs are caressed by the ladies and gentlemen
+of New York.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>"REFUGEE IN AMERICA."</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">New-York and Boston.</span> Mrs. Trollope, in her new work, called the
+Refugee in America, introduces some queer comparisons between
+the manners of the two cities. We quote for example:&mdash;"In
+Boston, there are no persons allowed to vote at the elections of
+President or Governor of that province but native born yankees;
+while at New-York, emigrants are forced from the ships in which
+they arrive directly to the hustings, which are kept open the
+first two weeks of every month at Mason's lodge, Broadway, where
+they are allowed to jostle off the sidewalks the most
+respectable inhabitants. If they are reproved for such conduct,
+the answer invariably is,&mdash;'Isn't this a land of liberty?' I was
+one forenoon myself stopped at the lodge and offered a vote,
+with the preliminary question,&mdash;'Are you a Clay or a Jackson
+man?' In Boston, a person seen with a segar in his mouth in the
+street, is counted a blackguard; but in New-York no gentleman
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg&nbsp;57]</a></span>makes his promenade without one. In Boston, a housekeeper would
+be placed at the Sessions dock for suffering the refuse of his
+mansion to be thrown into the street; while in N. York he would
+be fined $1 if he allowed it to be thrown elsewhere near his
+premises. Swine is a Bostonian's bane, and a N. Yorker's
+antidote,&mdash;indeed this animal is as much caressed by the ladies
+and gentlemen of the latter city, as a lap-dog in London or
+Paris. The Governor and his twenty chosen ministers have made it
+a capital offence to molest one of these interesting quadrupeds
+while roaming the streets!"&mdash;[Oh! what a lying jade!]</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, Oct. 13, 1832. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Early Accounts of New-England.</span> The first settlers of New-England
+must have been blessed with singular powers of vision. One of
+them speaks of lions in Cape Ann: another (Josselyn), who
+arrived at Boston in 1663, and resided in this Colony about
+eight years, says of our frogs, "some, when they sit upon their
+breech, are a foot high, and some as long as a child one year
+old." He likewise says "old barley frequently degenerates into
+oats" in New-England. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>"Enthusiasm" is described as a nervous disorder by Dr. Douglass, author
+of the Historical Summary.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg&nbsp;58]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Dr. Douglass's Notice of Salem.</span> In looking over Dr. Douglass'
+historical summary, we found the following note on Salem. The
+author formerly lived in Boston, and after his removal to
+England, published his work in 1749. As he was a physician, he
+probably considered himself authorized to broach new theories.
+He certainly showed his ingenuity in imputing to our soil a
+tendency to produce the diseases of which he makes mention. It
+is perhaps fortunate for us that the Doctor did not live in our
+day, as he would have found in the excitement which has recently
+prevailed here in relation to the Mill Dam, Theatre, &amp;c., new
+proofs of the correctness of his hypothesis.</p>
+
+<p>"In Salem and its neighborhood <i>Enthusiasm</i> and other <i>nervous
+disorders</i> seem to be <i>endemial</i>. <i>Hypochondriack</i>, <i>hysterick</i>,
+and other <i>maniack</i> disorders prevail there, and Ipswich
+adjoining, to this day."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Register</i>, 1826. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Beer and cider "Federal liquors."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>PHILADELPHIA, July 23 [1788].</p>
+
+<p>A corre&#383;pondent wi&#383;hes that a monument could be erected in <span class="smcap">Union
+Green</span>, with the following in&#383;cription:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+IN HONOUR OF<br />
+<span class="smcap">AMERICAN BEER and CYDER</span>.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>It is hereby recorded, for the information of &#383;trangers and
+po&#383;terity, that 17000 people a&#383;&#383;embled on this Green, on the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg&nbsp;59]</a></span>4th of July, 1788, to celebrate the e&#383;tabli&#383;hment of the
+Con&#383;titution of the United States, and that they &#383;eparated at an
+early hour, without intoxication or a &#383;ingle quarrel. They drank
+nothing but Beer and Cyder. Learn, reader, to prize tho&#383;e
+invaluable <i>federal</i> liquors, and to con&#383;ider them as the
+companions of tho&#383;e virtues which can alone render our country
+free and re&#383;pectable.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+Learn likewi&#383;e to de&#383;pi&#383;e<br />
+<small><span class="smcap">SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS</span>, as <i>antifederal</i>;</small><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>and to con&#383;ider them as the companions of all tho&#383;e vices which
+are calculated to di&#383;honour and en&#383;lave our country. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>In these "awfully fine" times, the following lines ought to be
+interesting:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>......POETRY......</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>From the Lady's Miscellany</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>YANKEE PHRASES.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">AS sound as a nut o'er the plain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I of late whistled chuck full of glee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A stranger to sorrow and pain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As happy as happy could be.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">As plump as a partridge I grew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">My heart being lighter than cork;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My slumbers were calmer than dew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">My body was fatter than pork.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg&nbsp;60]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thus happy, I hop'd I should pass<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Slick as grease down the current of time;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But pleasures are brittle as glass,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Although as a fiddle they're fine.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Jemima, the pride of the vale,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Like a top nimbly danc'd o'er the plains;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With envy the lasses were pale,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With wonder stood gazing the swains.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">She smil'd like a basket of chips,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As tall as a may-pole her size&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As sweet as molasses her lips&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As bright as a button her eyes.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Admiring, I gaz'd on her charm,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">My peace that would trouble so soon,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thought not of danger nor harm,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Any more than the man in the moon.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But now to my sorrow I find<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Her heart is as hard as a brick,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To my passion forever unkind,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Though of love I am full as a tick.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I sought her affection to win,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In hope of obtaining relief;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till I like a hatchet grew thin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And she, like a haddock, grew deaf.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I late was as fat as a doe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And playful and spry as a cat;<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg&nbsp;61]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">But now I am as dull as a hoe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And as lean and as weak as a rat.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Unless the unpitying fates<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With passion as ardent will cram her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As certain as death or as rates,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I soon shall be dead as a hammer.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, April 5, 1811. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Gentlemen and children have sometimes been considered bugbears.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>Boarders Wanted.</big></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Two</span> or Three Ladies can be accommodated with Board, on
+reasonable terms, in a small family, 18 miles from town, where
+there are neither Gentlemen or Children; a Stage passes the
+house twice a week, and the Middlesex Canal Boat near it every
+other day. Inquire at the Centinel Counting Room.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Columbian Centinel</i>, July 25, 1812. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>LIBERAL DONATIONS</i></p>
+
+<p>Of the Legi&#383;lature of <i>New-York</i> to the Univer&#383;ity of that
+State: 1,500l. for the Library; 200l. for chemical apparatus;
+1,200l. for a wall round the College; 5,000l. for erecting a
+Hall, and additional wing to the College; 750l. for five years
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg&nbsp;62]</a></span>annually, for the &#383;alaries of additional Profe&#383;&#383;ors.&mdash;<i>Blu&#383;h!
+Citizens of Ma&#383;&#383;achu&#383;etts, for your Legi&#383;lators&mdash;who have &#383;o
+frequently denied relief to your Univer&#383;ity!!!</i></p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Columbian Centinel</i>, May 5, 1792. </p></div>
+
+<p>The books children read in 1789.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>A great Variety of</p>
+
+<p class='center'><big><b>Children's Books</b></big></p>
+
+<p>Neatly printed, and adorned with elegant Cuts, are &#383;old by <i>T.C.
+CUSHING</i>, at the Printing-Office in Salem&mdash;viz.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class='smcap'>Little</span> ROBIN RED-BREAST.<br />
+Memoirs of a PEGTOP.<br />
+The SUGAR-PLUMB; or, &#383;weet Amu&#383;ement for lei&#383;ure hours.<br />
+The JUVENILE BIOGRAPHER, containing the Lives of little Ma&#383;ters and Mi&#383;&#383;es.<br />
+Be MERRY and WISE; or, the Cream of the Je&#383;ts, and the Marrow of Maxims, for the Conduct of Life.<br />
+The HOLY BIBLE abridged.<br />
+Hi&#383;tory of little KING PIPPIN.<br />
+Hi&#383;tory of GILES GINGERBREAD.<br />
+Hi&#383;tory of TOM JONES.<br />
+Hi&#383;tory of Ma&#383;ter JACKEY and Mi&#383;s HARRIOT.<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg&nbsp;63]</a></span>Hi&#383;tory of CHARLES CAREFUL and HARRY HEEDLESS.<br />
+Mother GOOSE's Melody.<br />
+The Exhibition of TOM THUMB.<br />
+Tom Thumb's SONG BOOK.<br />
+The FATHER's Gift.<br />
+The MOTHER's Gift.<br />
+The BROTHER's Gift.<br />
+The SISTER's Gift.<br />
+Nur&#383;e Truelove's NEW-YEAR's GIFT.<br />
+Death and Burial of COCK-ROBIN.<br />
+The ROYAL ALPHABET.<br />
+The HERMIT of the Fore&#383;t, and the Wandering Infants.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Mercury</i>. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>A new way to cure insanity.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>A CURIOUS IDEA</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Knowledge</span> is attained with the greate&#383;t difficulty; we have it
+not by intuition, but acquire it by many un&#383;ucce&#383;sful trials and
+long experience. One gives a hint, and the other improves it;
+but prejudice and ignorance too often &#383;tand in the way: "<i>That
+cannot be</i>," or "<i>I cannot believe that</i>," has cru&#383;hed many an
+u&#383;eful project. How incredible did the recovery of drowned
+per&#383;ons appear at fir&#383;t! When the report reached England, that
+many abroad had been brought again to life, after laying under
+water &#383;ome time, who gave it credit? But experience has &#383;ince
+convinced us of its po&#383;&#383;ibility.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg&nbsp;64]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now, from the great &#383;ucce&#383;s attending the recovery of drowned
+per&#383;ons, I would offer a hint to the public, and leave it to be
+improved by them, re&#383;pecting the recovery of tho&#383;e who are mad,
+and given up as incurable.</p>
+
+<p>When madne&#383;s breaks forth, the fir&#383;t care of the phy&#383;ician is to
+reduce and keep his patient low, in order to check the velocity
+and whirl of his thoughts; and if po&#383;&#383;ible to procure &#383;leep, by
+quieting the internal turbulency. If all his &#383;kill and efforts
+fail, &#383;uch a per&#383;on is as much lo&#383;t to &#383;ociety as if he were
+dead. Now if &#383;uch an one were plunged into water, and there kept
+until he was apparently dead, and was then recovered by the
+u&#383;ual methods (and of which recovery we have now a moral
+certainty) I am apt to believe we &#383;hould behold a perfect cure.
+There is, I own, &#383;omething &#383;hocking to nature in the experiment;
+but if the patient be already lo&#383;t, and dead to &#383;ociety, why
+&#383;hould we he&#383;itate a moment to make the trial, when the
+probability of &#383;ucceeding is &#383;o flattering?</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, July 12, 1791. </p></div>
+
+<p>It would be interesting to see the punch-bowl out of which the members
+of Congress drank in 1811, on the day succeeding the marriage of Mr. and
+Mrs. Pearson.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>At Washington, Hon. <span class="smcap">Joseph Pearson</span>, Esq. (Federal Representative
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg&nbsp;65]</a></span>from N. Carolina), to Miss <span class="smcap">Eleanor Brent</span>, daughter of Robt.
+Brent, Esq., Mayor of the city.&mdash; &#9758; <i>The greater part of the
+members, the next day, left the business of the nation to attend
+the punch drinking, so that the House adj'd at an early hour</i>.</p>
+<p class='right'>Dec. 13, 1811. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>As the following lines have the indorsement of a Hartford paper, we
+venture to reproduce them:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>From the New-York Daily Adverti&#383;er, May 10.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><span class="smcap">DESCRIPTION of CONNECTICUT.</span></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">HERE fond remembrance &#383;tampt her much lov'd names,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Here boa&#383;ts the &#383;oil its <i>London</i> and its <i>Thames</i>;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Throughout her &#383;hores commodious ports abound,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Clear flow the waters of the varying ground;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cold nipping winds a lengthen'd winter bring,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Late ri&#383;e the products of the tardy &#383;pring.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The broken &#383;oil a labouring race requires;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Each barren hill its generous crops admires,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where nature meanly did her gifts impart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet, &#383;miling, owns how much &#383;he owes to art.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">But keen as winds that guide the wintry reign,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All bow to lucre, all are bent on gain;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As chance decreed, their various lots are thrown;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Its hou&#383;e each acre, every mile its town;<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg&nbsp;66]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">With gilded &#383;pire the frequent church is &#383;een,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sacred to him that taught them to be keen;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Eternal &#383;quabblings grea&#383;e the lawyer's paw,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All have their &#383;uits, and all have &#383;tudied law;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With tongue that art and nature taught to &#383;peak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Some rave in Latin, &#383;ome di&#383;pute in Greek;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Proud of their books, in ancient lore they &#383;hine,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And one month's &#383;tudy makes a learn'd divine;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fond to conver&#383;e, with deep de&#383;igning views,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They pump the travelling &#383;tranger of his news;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fond of his wit, but fonder to be paid,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Each hou&#383;e a tavern, claims a tavern's trade;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While he that comes, as &#383;urely hears them prai&#383;e<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The ho&#383;pitality of modern days.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">Yet brave in arms, of enterpri&#383;ing &#383;oul,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They tempt old Neptune to the farthe&#383;t pole;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In learning's walks explore the mazy way<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">(For genius here has &#383;hed his golden ray);<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In war's bold arts thro' various conte&#383;ts try'd,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">True to them&#383;elves, they took their country's &#383;ide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And, party feuds di&#383;mi&#383;s'd, join to agree<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That &#383;cepter only ju&#383;t that left them free.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Connecticut Courant</i>, July 14, 1790. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Errors of the press.</p>
+
+<p>The following paragraphs will shew how completely the sense is altered
+by the omission of a single letter of the word in Italics.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg&nbsp;67]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"The conflict was dreadful, and the enemy was repulsed with
+considerable <i>laughter</i>."</p>
+
+<p>"Robert Jones was yesterday brought before the sitting
+Magistrate, on a charge of having spoken <i>reason</i> at the
+Barleymow public-house."</p>
+
+<p>"In consequence of the numerous accidents occasioned by skaiting
+on the Serpentine River, measures are taking to put a <i>top</i> to
+it."</p>
+
+<p>"When Miss Leserve, late of Covent Garden Theatre, visited the
+'Hecla,' she was politely drawn up the ship's side by means of a
+<i>hair</i>."</p>
+
+<p>"At the Guildhall dinner, none of the poultry was eatable except
+the <i>owls</i>."</p>
+
+<p>"A gentleman was yesterday brought up to answer a charge of
+having <i>eaten</i> a hackney-coachman for having demanded more than
+his fare; and another was accused of having stolen a small <i>ox</i>
+out of the Bath mail; the stolen property was found in his
+waistcoat pocket."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Register</i>, 1827. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>A CURIOSITY</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"We have often heard of the Lord's Prayer being written in the
+compa&#383;s of a &#383;hilling, but have lately &#383;een a piece of paper of
+that dimen&#383;ion, which contains, in manu&#383;cript, the Lord's
+Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, P&#383;alms 117, 120, 127,
+131, 132, 134, and 150; 9th chapter of Proverbs, Prayer of St.
+Chry&#383;o&#383;tom, two Collects, Prayer for the Royal Family,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg&nbsp;68]</a></span>Nobility, Clergy, &amp;c., &amp;c., the Ble&#383;&#383;ing, and Junior, 1702, the
+name of the writer. This curio&#383;ity is in the po&#383;&#383;e&#383;&#383;ion of Mr.
+John Reeder, of Brighton, who being an auctioneer at a &#383;ale
+where it was lately &#383;old, purcha&#383;ed it on very ea&#383;y terms. It is
+not legible without a good gla&#383;s."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Columbian Centinel</i>, June 5, 1790. <i>Eng. pap.</i> </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>In an old Salem paper we find the following:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>&#9758; We understand the number of deaths in this town the past year
+was 234, of which 15 died abroad. </p></div>
+
+<p>This reminds us of the curious jumble made in the first edition of
+Morse's "American Gazetteer," published in Boston in 1797. In the
+description of Albany, N.Y., it says: "This city and suburbs, by
+enumeration in 1797, contained 1,263 buildings, of which 863 were
+dwelling-houses and 6,021 inhabitants. Many of them are in the Gothic
+style with the gable end to the street, which custom the first settlers
+brought from Holland."</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The earliest American writer of whom we have any information was
+Peter Bulkley, who was born in England in 1583 and died in 1659
+in Massachusetts, and wrote Latin Poetry and Sermons. The
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg&nbsp;69]</a></span>earliest poetic volume written in this country was by Anne
+Bradstreet, of Boston, born 1612, died 1672.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, 1834. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>The author of these lines must have been one of the old school.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>[<i>The following was paid for as an Adverti&#383;ement</i>.]</p>
+
+<p>The folloing lines were Presented to A lat &#383;kull mi&#383;tres in this
+town by 4 of her &#383;kolers the morning after her mareg</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">MAY all Joiy and happine&#383;s Vait<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To attend your nuptal &#383;tat<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">you our in&#383;tructer and the Guid<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">of our early youth be&#383;ide<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">as you Quit the plas<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">wich you fild with euery Gras.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our Grateful Thanks are &#383;ure your due.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Except them thearfor from us fue.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whos &#383;hur to you that pras is due.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mu&#383;t euery &#383;orro euery Cear be yourn<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Forbid it Heauin and let it turn<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">to peas and Joiys next to diuin<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ri&#383;e Gloriou&#383; euery futer Sun<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">and Bles&#383; your days with Joiys as this has dun<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">let &#383;orrows &#383;ese and Joiys tak plas<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">to briten euery futer day with equil Gras<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg&nbsp;70]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">and wen your cald from hence above<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">may you inioy your &#383;ouors Loue<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">wee ever &#383;hall regrat our los<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">and yet with you wee all reioy&#383;s<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Essex Gazette</i>, May 14, 1771.
+</p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Boston school-books in 1790.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The School Committee in Bo&#383;ton have ordered that the following
+Books be u&#383;ed in the Reading Schools of that town, viz.</p>
+
+<p>
+The HOLY BIBLE;<br />
+WEBSTER's SPELLING-BOOK;<br />
+The Young Ladies' ACCIDENCE;<br />
+Web&#383;ter's American SELECTION of Le&#383;&#383;ons in Reading and Speaking;<br />
+The CHILDREN'S FRIEND;<br />
+MORSE's GEOGRAPHY abridged; and<br />
+The NEWSPAPERS, occa&#383;ionally.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>.</p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>ANECDOTE.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">When</span> Oliver Cromwell fir&#383;t coined his money, an old cavalier
+looking upon one of the new pieces, read this in&#383;cription on one
+&#383;ide, <i>God with us</i>; on the other &#383;ide, <i>The Commonwealth of
+England</i>. I &#383;ee, &#383;aid he, <i>God and the Commonwealth are on
+different &#383;ides</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Mercury</i>, June 26, 1787. </p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg&nbsp;71]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Two different ways of telling a story.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Anecdote</i>. A CLERGYMAN, who in the Matrimonial Lottery had
+drawn much wor&#383;e than a <i>blank</i>, and, without the patience of
+Socrates, had to encounter the turbulent &#383;pirit of Xantippe, was
+interrupted in the middle of a <i>Curtain Lecture</i>, by the arrival
+of a pair, reque&#383;ting his a&#383;&#383;i&#383;tance to introduce them to the
+<i>ble&#383;&#383;ed</i> &#383;tate of Wedlock. The poor Prie&#383;t, actuated at the
+moment by his own feelings and particular <i>experience</i>, rather
+than a &#383;en&#383;e of canonical duty, opened the book, and began:
+"<i>Man, that is born of a Woman, hath but a short time to live,
+and is full of trouble, &amp;c., &amp;c.</i>," repeating the <i>burial</i>
+&#383;ervice. The a&#383;toni&#383;hed Bridegroom exclaimed, "Sir! Sir! you
+mi&#383;take, I came here to be <i>married</i>, not <i>buried</i>!" "Well
+(replied the Clergyman), if you in&#383;i&#383;t on it, I am <i>obliged</i> to
+marry you&mdash;but believe me, my friend, you had <i>better</i> be
+<i>buried</i>."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Columbian Centinel</i>, March 12, 1791.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Anecdote.</span> It is doubtless recollected that Dean Swift, though a
+great favorite among the ladies, was (no doubt for good and
+substantial reasons) nevertheless a bachelor. His opinion of the
+married state seemed to be not very much exalted. On one
+occasion, he had been called upon to marry a couple, and after
+getting them properly arranged, commenced as follows: "Man, that
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg&nbsp;72]</a></span>is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full
+of misery," &amp;c. "My dear sir," interrupted the bridegroom, "you
+are reading the burial service, instead of the matrimonial."
+"Never mind, friend," whispered the Dean, "<i>you had better be
+buried than married</i>."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, 1834. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>AN OPPOSITION.</p>
+
+<p>Dryden and Otway lived oppo&#383;ite to each other in Queen-&#383;treet.
+Otway coming one night from the tavern, chalked upon Dryden's
+door, <i>Here lives John Dryden, he is a wit</i>. Dryden knew his
+hand writing, and next day chalked on Otway's door, <i>Here lives
+Tom Otway, he is oppo-&#383;ite</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Essex Register</i>, 1802. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Specimens of old time newspaper poetry.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>To a <span class="smcap">LADY</span> who admired dancing.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>MAY I presume in humble lays</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>My dancing fair, thy steps to praise</i>?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>While this grand maxim I advance</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>That all the world is but a dance</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>That human-kind, both man and woman</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Do</i> dance <i>is evident and common</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>David himself, that God-like king</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>We know could</i> dance, <i>as well as</i> sing.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Folks who at court would keep their ground</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Must dance the year attendance round.</i><br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg&nbsp;73]</a></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>All nature is one</i> ball, <i>we find:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The water dances to the wind;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The sea itself at night and noon</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Rises and capers to the moon;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The moon around the earth does tread</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>A Cheshire round in buxom red;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The earth and planets round the sun</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dance, <i>nor will their</i> dance <i>be done</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>'Till nature in one mass is blended;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Then we may say the</i> ball <i>is ended</i>.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Mercury</i>, July 29, 1788.
+</p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>THE FOUNT.</p>
+
+<p>&#9758; THE following&mdash;from the pen of a fair correspondent&mdash;cannot be
+read without <small>PLEASURE</small> and <small>IMPROVEMENT</small>.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class='center'><i><span class="smcap">LINES for a SCREEN.</span></i></p>
+
+<p><small>TO BE WRITTEN BENEATH THE FIGURE OF "MINERVA HOLDING A CROWN OF
+OLIVE."</small></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">AH! lovely Ladies&mdash;while with care<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ye guard from harm your <small>FACES</small> fair;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While spreads the airy <small>PARASOL</small><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To shield you from the beams of S<small>OL</small>;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And many a <small>FAN</small> and <small>VEIL</small> and <small>BLIND</small><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Protect from each intrusive wind:&mdash;<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg&nbsp;74]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">And whilst ye deign to intervene<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Twixt you and fire, the humble <small>SCREEN</small>!&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oh! strive alike to guard your <i>hearts</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From V<small>ICE</small>, and all her wily arts.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Your parasol let V<small>IRTUE</small> prove,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To ward th' attacks of <i>lawless</i> love&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Prudence will prove a <i>screen</i> to thee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And let thy <small>VEIL</small> be M<small>ODESTY</small>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Attend my words, ye Fair, for know,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">This <i>Crown</i> shall grace the worthiest brow.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'>ORA.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Columbian Centinel</i>, July 27, 1814.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>From the</i> <span class="smcap">Gazette</span> <i>of the</i> <span class="smcap">U. States</span>.</p>
+
+
+<p class='center'>IMPROMPTU.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>On &#383;eeing a young Lady darning Stockings</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">ALONG the &#383;tocking's foot, with ea&#383;e and grace<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Your fingers, lovely Mira, when you move,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On them with eye admiring I will gaze,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And drink deep draughts of all re&#383;i&#383;tle&#383;s love.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A&#383;&#383;ume thy gloves, my mo&#383;t enchanting fair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">When next your &#383;tockings you begin to mend,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For though full white the ho&#383;e, they yet appear<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As &#383;affron yellow, near thy lily hand.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg&nbsp;75]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">As con&#383;tant as your all obedient thread<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Does thy bright needle's devious path pur&#383;ue,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So does each thought of my poor brainle&#383;s head<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">For ever dwell, divine&#383;t nymph, on you.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Oft as thy needles pierce the yielding ho&#383;e,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">So oft thy beauties pierce my yielding brea&#383;t:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oh then compa&#383;&#383;ionate my deep felt woes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And bid awhile the poli&#383;h'd needle re&#383;t.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Or if one idle minute you di&#383;dain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">On me be exerci&#383;'d your mending art,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yes, lovely maid, to ea&#383;e of my pain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Come, darn the hole that rankles in my heart.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, August 26, 1800.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>THE WHITE CLOVER.</big></p>
+
+<p class='center'><small>BY A LADY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.</small></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">THERE is a little perfum'd flower,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It well might grace the lovliest bower,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet poet never deign'd to sing<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of such a humble, rustic thing.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor is it strange, for it can show<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Scarcely one tint of Iris' bow:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nature, perchance, in careless hour,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With pencil dry, might paint the flower;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet instant blush'd, her fault to see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So gave a double fragrancy;<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg&nbsp;76]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Rich recompence for aught denied!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who would not homely garb abide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If gentlest soul were breathing there,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Blessings through all its little sphere?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet flower! the lesson thou hast taught,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall check each proud, ambitious thought,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Teach me internal worth to prize,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Though found in lowliest, rudest guise.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, June 27, 1815.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<div class="fignoncss" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/img86th.jpg" width="400" height="164" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='figfloat'>
+<i><big>CASTALIAN FOUNT</big></i>,<br />
+<hr class='scrunched' style="width: 25%;" />
+AMERICAN POETRY.<br />
+<hr class='scrunched' style="width: 10%;" />
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>A FRAGMENT.</p>
+
+
+<p><i>The following beautiful lines were written on the death of a
+young lady in Pennsylvania, whose dissolution was occasioned by
+her mistaking a poisonous mineral for the flower of sulphur, and
+swallowing a spoonfull:</i></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">THUS, o'er the tomb of what &#383;he held mo&#383;t dear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The weeping mu&#383;e no common &#383;orrow pours;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No common angui&#383;h prompts the falling tear&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">No common virtues tho&#383;e &#383;he now deplores.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg&nbsp;77]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Dear haple&#383;s girl, was there no &#383;aving power?<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Where was your guardian angel&mdash;where your friend?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Could nought prevent the fatal de&#383;tin'd hour?<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Nor pitying Heaven would hear or &#383;uccour lend.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then, if nor Heaven <i>would</i> hear&mdash;nor friends <i>could</i> &#383;ave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Be &#383;till, my heart, nor breathe another &#383;igh;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Drop the la&#383;t tear upon her early grave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And let it teach you&mdash;that <i>the be&#383;t mu&#383;t die</i>.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>&#9758; <i>A few original favours from our poetick friends would be very
+acceptable</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Massachusetts Centinel</i>, March 28, 1789. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>From the New York Daily Adverti&#383;er</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>The Sailor Boy</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">DARK flew the &#383;cud along the wave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And echoing thunders rend the &#383;ky;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All hands aloft! to meet the &#383;torm,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">At midnight was the boat&#383;wain's cry.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">On deck flew every gallant tar,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">But one&mdash;bereft of ev'ry joy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Within a hammock's narrow bound,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Lay &#383;tretch'd this haple&#383;s S<small>AILOR BOY</small>.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg&nbsp;78]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Once, when the Boat&#383;wain pip'd all hands,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The fir&#383;t was he, of all the crew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On deck to &#383;pring&mdash;to trim the &#383;ail&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To &#383;teer&mdash;to reef&mdash;to furl or clue.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now fell di&#383;ea&#383;e had &#383;eiz'd a form<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Which nature ca&#383;t in fine&#383;t mould;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The midwatch bell now &#383;mote his heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">His la&#383;t, his dying knell it toll'd.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"O God!" he cried, and ga&#383;p'd for breath,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"Ere yet my &#383;oul &#383;hall cleave the &#383;kies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Are there no parents&mdash;brethren&mdash;near,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"To clo&#383;e, in death, my weary eyes?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"All hands aloft to brave the &#383;torm,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"I hear the wintry tempe&#383;t roar;"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He rais'd his head to view the &#383;cene,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And backward fell, to ri&#383;e no more.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The morning &#383;un in &#383;plendour ro&#383;e.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The gale was hu&#383;h'd and &#383;till'd the wave;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Sea-boy, far from all his friends,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Was plung'd into a wat'ry grave.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But He, who guards the Sea-boy's head,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">He, who can &#383;ave or can de&#383;troy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Snatch'd up to Heav'n the pure&#383;t &#383;oul<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">That e'er adorn'd a S<small>AILOR BOY</small>.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, Oct. 29, 1805.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg&nbsp;79]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>EARLY RISING.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">WIVES, <i>awake! unveil your eyes;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Sluggards, no more yawning;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>See the Delphick god arise,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Bright Apollo dawning.</i><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Husbands, rouse at love's alarms,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Drowsy slumbers scorning;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Rovers, quit your favourite charms,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Up! behold, 'tis morning</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Virgins fair, have at your hearts;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Hymen's torch is flaming;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Cupid whets his pointed darts,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And look! the rogue is aiming</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Fair the bud of beauty blows,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Mellow sweets are palling;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Crown us with the virgin rose,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And so prevent its falling</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>See the charms that nature yields;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Why <i>sleep away your duty?</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Arise! the fragrance of the fields</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Is friendly to your beauty</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Lads, for shame! abed till now!</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Forsake them, and be wiser;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>There's health and pleasure, you'll allow,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>In being an early riser</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg&nbsp;80]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Bound with ivy, bound with vines,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Youth serenely passes;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Bacchus round our temples twines,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And sparkles in our glasses</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>No longer drown the mind in sleep;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>But breathe the vernal air!</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Our hours may thus improvement reap,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And who has any t' spare?</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Mercury</i>, May 17, 1788.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>From the New Monthly Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><b><big>On seeing a Tomb adorned with Angels weeping.</big></b></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Though sculptors, with mistaken art,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Place weeping Angels round the tomb;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet, when the good and great depart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">These shout to bear their conquerors home.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Glad they survey their labours o'er,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And hail them to their native skies;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Attend their passage to the shore,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And with their mounting spirits rise.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Britain may mourn her Patriot dead,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And pour her sorrows o'er his dust:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But streaming eyes, and drooping head,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Ill suit those guardians of the just.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg&nbsp;81]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Parents may shed a tender tear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And friends indulge a parting groan;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If these in mimic form appear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Such pious grief becomes the stone.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But if the wounded marble bear<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Celestial forms to grace the urn,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let triumph in their eyes appear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Nor dare to make an angel mourn.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Register</i>, 1819.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Varieties.</p>
+
+<p><i>Origin of the word</i> <span class="smcap">Dun</span>.&mdash;Dunny, in the provincial dialect of
+&#383;everal countries, &#383;ignifies deaf: to dun, then, perhaps may
+mean, to deafen with importunate demands. Some derive it from
+the word <i>donnez</i>, which &#383;ignifies <i>give</i>; but the true original
+meaning of the word owes its birth to one Joe Dun, a famous
+bailiff of the town of Lincoln, &#383;o extremely active and &#383;o
+dexterous in his bu&#383;ine&#383;s, that it became a proverb, when a man
+refu&#383;ed to pay, "Why do you not <i>dun</i> him?" that is, Why do not
+you &#383;et <i>Dun</i> to arre&#383;t him?&mdash;Hence it became a cant-word, and
+is now as old as &#383;ince the days of Henry VII. Dun was al&#383;o the
+general name of hangman, before that of Jack-ketch.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And pre&#383;ently a halter got,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Made of the be&#383;t &#383;trong hempen tear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And e'er a cat could lick her ear,<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg&nbsp;82]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Had tied it up with as much art,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As Dun him&#383;elf could do for 's heart.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><span class="smcap">Cotton's Virgil Tra. Book</span> iv.</p>
+
+<p>It is curious to ob&#383;erve that <i>Dun</i>, who, as we &#383;aid before, was
+<i>fini&#383;her of the law</i> in the reign of Henry VII., had a &#383;on, who
+became a bailiff&mdash;This bailiff having &#383;craped &#383;ome money
+together, made his &#383;on an attorney, who changed the name of
+<i>Dun</i> to <i>Dunning</i>&mdash;the re&#383;t of the genealogy are well known.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Massachusetts Gazette</i>, Aug. 29, 1786. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Biographical Correctness</i>.&mdash;As a specimen of the accurate way
+in which Biographical Dictionaries are made up, the Enquirer
+refers to Dr. Watkins' volume, in which he writes down that John
+Adams "died in 1803."&mdash;And yet for 23 years after this date, the
+old patriarch was living in health and happiness. A still more
+ludicrous blunder appeared a few years since in a French
+Biographical Dictionary, in which it was stated that the now
+venerable John Jay, who yet lives full of years and full of
+honors, was a Frenchman, who, after having framed the
+Constitution of the State of New-York, and witnessed the close
+of the American revolution, returned to France&mdash;became a member
+of the French Convention, and was finally brought to the
+guillotine!&mdash;<i>N.Y. Com. Adv.</i></p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Essex Register</i>, Sept. 18, 1826.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg&nbsp;83]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any
+but Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just
+before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works,
+in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined
+to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself
+and asked him what was the meaning of the mysterious
+passage.&mdash;John Paul's reply was very German and characteristic:
+"My good friend," said he, "when I wrote that passage, God and I
+knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but
+as for me, I have totally forgotten."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Essex Register</i>, Oct. 9, 1826. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Origin of "Foolscap" Paper.</span> It is known that Charles I. of
+England, granted numerous monopolies for the support of his
+government. Among others was the privilege of manufacturing
+paper. The water mark of the finest sort was the royal arms of
+England. The consumption of this article was great at this time,
+and large fortunes were made by those who had purchased the
+exclusive right to vend it. This, among other monopolies, was
+set aside by the parliament that brought Charles to the
+scaffold, and by way of showing their contempt for the king,
+they ordered the royal arms to be taken from the paper, and a
+fool, with his cap and bells, to be substituted. It is now more
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg&nbsp;84]</a></span>than an hundred and seventy-five years since the fool's cap and
+bells were taken from the paper, but still, paper of the size
+which the Rump Parliament ordered for the journals bears the
+name of the water mark then ordered as an indignity to Charles. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A new version of "Yankee Doodle," from the "Salem Gazette,"
+July, 1811.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>YANKEY SONG.</p>
+
+<p>[<i>The following song was composed a few years since by a
+gentleman then one of the officers of the Salem regiment, to be
+sung at the military celebration of the 4th of July. Its wit and
+pleasantry continues it a favorite with the Yankies, and it was
+again sung by the Military at Lynn Hotel, and by the Federalists
+at Washington Hall, on the late anniversary</i>.]</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">I.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Yankey Doodle is the tune<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Americans delight in;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Twill do to whi&#383;tle, &#383;ing, or play,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And ju&#383;t the thing for fighting.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Yankey Doodle, Boys; Huzza!</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Down out&#383;ide&mdash;up the middle&mdash;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Yankey Doodle</i>, fa, &#383;ol, la,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Trumpet, Drum, and Fiddle</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg&nbsp;85]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">II.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Should Great Britain, Spain, or France<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Wage war upon our &#383;hore, &#383;ir,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We'll lead them &#383;uch a <i>woundy</i> dance,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">They'll find their toes are &#383;ore, &#383;ir.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">III.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Should a haughty foe expect<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To give our boys a caning,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We <i>gue&#383;s</i> they'll find our boys have <i>larnt</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A <i>little bit</i> of training.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">IV.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I'll wager now a <i>mug of flip</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And bring it on the table,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Put Yankey boys aboard a &#383;hip,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To beat them they are able.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">V.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then if they go to <i>argufy</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I <i>rather gue&#383;s</i> they'll find, too,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We've got a &#383;et of <i>tonguey blades</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">T'out talk 'em, if <i>they're mind to</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">VI.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">America's a <i>dandy</i> place;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The people are all brothers;<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg&nbsp;86]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">And when one's got a <i>pumpkin pye</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">He &#383;hares it with the others.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">VII.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">We work, and &#383;leep, and pray, in peace&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">By indu&#383;try we thrive, &#383;ir;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And if a drone won't do his part,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">We'll &#383;cout him from the hive, &#383;ir.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">VIII.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And then, on <i>Independent Day</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">(And who's a better right to?)<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We eat and drink, and &#383;ing and play,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And have a dance at night, too.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">IX.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Our girls are fair, our boys are tough,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Our old folks wi&#383;e and healthy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And when we've every thing we want,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">We <i>count</i> that we are wealthy.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">X.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">We're <i>happy</i>, <i>free</i>, and <i>well to do</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And cannot want for knowledge;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For, almo&#383;t ev'ry mile or two,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">You find a <i>&#383;chool</i> or <i>college</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg&nbsp;87]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">XI.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The land we till is all our own;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Whate'er the price, we paid it;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Therefore we'll fight <i>till all is blue</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Should any dare invade it.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4"><small>CHORUS.</small>&mdash;<i>Yankey Doodle</i>, &amp;c.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">XII.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Since we're &#383;o ble&#383;s'd, let's eat and drink<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With thankfulne&#383;s and gladne&#383;s:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Should we kick o'er our cup of joy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">It would be <i>&#383;artin</i> madne&#383;s.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4">CHORUS.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Yankey Doodle, Boys; Huzza!</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Down out&#383;ide, up the middle&mdash;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Yankey Doodle</i>, fa, &#383;ol, la,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Trumpet, Drum, and Fiddle</i>.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"Going snacks."</p>
+
+<p>At the time of the plague in London, a noted body searcher lived
+whose name was <i>Snacks</i>. His business increased so fast that,
+finding he could not compass it, he offered to any person who
+should join him in his hardened practice half the profits; thus,
+those who joined him were said to go with <i>Snacks</i>. Hence going
+<i>snacks</i>, or dividing the spoil.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, 1823.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg&nbsp;88]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><i>A Word omitted by Webster</i>. In a history of the second parish
+of Beverly, published not long since, a vote passed in 1776, to
+take measures to collect the "behindments" of certain persons in
+the parish, is noticed. "Behindments" meant arrearages.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, 1837.</p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>The following curious collection belonged to Mr. Samuel McIntire, the
+architect of the South Meeting-House in Salem, whose spire is
+acknowledged to be one of the best proportioned and handsomest in New
+England:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>FOR SALE</i>,</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sundry</span> Articles belonging to the Estate of <span class="smcap">Samuel McIntire</span>,
+deceased.&mdash;VIZ.</p>
+
+<p>
+1 elegant BARREL ORGAN, 6 feet high, 10 barrels; 1 Wind Chest of an Organ;<br />
+ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, complete;<br />
+Paladio's Architecture, best kind;<br />
+1 Ware's do.; 1 Paine's do.;<br />
+2 vols. French Architecture;<br />
+1 large Book Antient Statues, excellent;<br />
+Lock Hospital Collection of Music;<br />
+Handel's Messiah, in score;<br />
+Harmonia Sacra;<br />
+Magdalen Hymns; Massachusetts Compiler;<br />
+1 excellent toned SPINNET;<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg&nbsp;89]</a></span>1 excellent VIOLIN and Case;<br />
+1 eight day CLOCK, Mahogany Case;<br />
+12 Prints of the Seasons;<br />
+1 book Drawings of Ships;<br />
+1 large Head of Washington;<br />
+Number of Busts of the Poets;<br />
+2 Figures of Hercules, 2 feet high;<br />
+1 Head of Franklin, and Pillar, for a Sign;<br />
+Composition Ornaments;<br />
+Number of Moulding Planes, and sundry other Articles. Apply to</p>
+
+<p class='right'>ELIZABETH M'INTIRE, <i>Adm'x</i>.<br />
+or to SAMUEL F. M'INTIRE, <i>Att'y</i>.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>N.B.&mdash;The Subscriber carries on CARVING as usual at the Shop of
+the deceased, in Summer-Street, where he will be glad to receive
+orders in that line. He returns thanks for past favors.</p>
+
+<p>April 30 [1811]. SAMUEL F. M'INTIRE. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Many years ago there was published in Boston a small volume entitled
+"Eliza Wharton, the Coquette. By a Lady of Massachusetts." It consisted
+of a series of letters said to be founded on fact. A young woman died at
+the Bell Tavern in Danvers in 1788, whose gravestone a few years ago
+might be seen in the old Danvers (now Peabody) burial-ground. We copy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg&nbsp;90]</a></span>
+from the "Salem Mercury" of July 29, 1788, the following account:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>La&#383;t Friday, a female &#383;tranger died at the Bell Tavern, in
+Danvers; and on Sunday her remains were decently interred. The
+circumstances relative to this woman are &#383;uch as excite
+curio&#383;ity and intere&#383;t our feelings. She was brought to the Bell
+in a chai&#383;e, from Watertown, as &#383;he &#383;aid, by a young man whom
+&#383;he had engaged for that purpo&#383;e. After &#383;he had alighted, and
+taken a trunk with her into the hou&#383;e, the chai&#383;e immediately
+drove off. She remained at this inn till her death, in
+expectation of the arrival of her hu&#383;band, whom &#383;he expected to
+come for her, and appeared anxious at his delay. She was aver&#383;e
+to being interrogated concerning her&#383;elf or connexions; and kept
+much retired to her chamber, employed in needle-work, writing,
+&amp;c. She &#383;aid, however, that &#383;he came from We&#383;tfield, in
+Connecticut; that her parents lived in that State; that &#383;he had
+been married only a few months; and, that her hu&#383;band's name was
+Thomas Walker;&mdash;but always carefully concealed her family name.
+Her linen was all marked E.W. About a fortnight before her
+death, &#383;he was brought to bed of a lifele&#383;s child. When tho&#383;e
+who attended her apprehended her fate, they a&#383;ked her, whether
+&#383;he did not wi&#383;h to &#383;ee her friends: She an&#383;wered, that &#383;he was
+very de&#383;irous of &#383;eeing them. It was propo&#383;ed that &#383;he &#383;hould
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg&nbsp;91]</a></span>&#383;end for them; to which &#383;he objected, hoping in a &#383;hort time to
+be able to go to them. From what &#383;he &#383;aid, and from other
+circum&#383;tances, it appeared probable to tho&#383;e who attended her,
+that &#383;he belonged to &#383;ome country town in Connecticut: Her
+conver&#383;ation, her writings and her manners, be&#383;poke the
+advantage of a re&#383;pectable family &amp; good education. Her per&#383;on
+was agreeable; her deportment, amiable &amp; engaging; and, though
+in a &#383;tate of anxiety and &#383;u&#383;pen&#383;e, &#383;he pre&#383;erved a
+cheerfulne&#383;s, which &#383;eemed to be not the effect of
+in&#383;en&#383;ibility, but of a firm and patient temper. She was
+&#383;uppo&#383;ed to be about 35 years old. Copies of letters, of her
+writing, dated at Hartford, Springfield, and other places, were
+left among her things.&mdash;This account is given by the family in
+which &#383;he re&#383;ided; and it is hoped the publication of it will be
+a means of her friends' a&#383;certaining her fate. </p></div>
+
+<p>Elizabeth Whitman was the real name of the stranger, and the following
+was the inscription on the stone:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"This humble &#383;tone, in Memory of Elizabeth Whitman, is in&#383;cribed
+by her weeping friends, to whom she endeared her&#383;elf by uncommon
+tenderne&#383;s and affection. Endowed with &#383;uperior genius and
+acquirements, &#383;he was &#383;till more endeared by humility and
+benevolence. Let candour throw a veil over her frailities, for
+great was her charity to others.&mdash;She &#383;u&#383;tained the la&#383;t<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg&nbsp;92]</a></span>
+painful &#383;cene far from every friend, and exhibited an example of
+calm re&#383;ignation. Her departure was on the 25th of July, <span class="smcap">A.D.</span>
+1788, in the 37th year of her age, and the tears of &#383;trangers
+watered her grave." </p></div>
+
+<p>Although we recollect seeing the stone some years ago, when the whole
+inscription could be read, we visited the spot in April, 1885, and found
+only a small portion left,&mdash;a triangular piece, perhaps a foot and a
+half high on one side, at the bottom of which we could only make out:
+"<span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 1788, ... the tears of strangers watered her grave." For years,
+young persons of a romantic turn of mind have visited the grave and
+chipped off small pieces of the freestone for relics. This modern habit
+of chipping monumental stones for relics is inexcusable; for it is not
+done by ignorant or otherwise lawless persons, but too often by the
+educated, who carry their mawkish sentiment to such an extreme as to
+deface and sometimes, as in the present case, entirely to ruin a
+monument. It is in vain to urge that this was only a stranger's stone,
+and that there were none to care. It was all the more an outrage, if
+there were no friends to protect it. We are glad to learn that there<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg&nbsp;93]</a></span>
+were people in the town who did what they could to prevent this
+sacrilege.</p>
+
+<p>The following account of this unfortunate lady we take from Hanson's
+"History of Danvers:"&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"Elizabeth Whitman came from a very respectable family in
+Connecticut, where her father was a clergyman. She was possessed
+of an ardent poetical temperament, an inordinate love of praise,
+and was gifted with the natural endowment of beauty and perfect
+grace, while she was accomplished with those refinements which
+education can bestow. She was lovely beyond words. But her
+natural amiabilities were warped and perverted by reading great
+numbers of romances, to the exclusion of almost all other
+reading. She formed her idea of men by the exaggerated standards
+she saw in the books to which she resorted; and thus when she
+looked around her she saw no one who realized her ideal. She
+subsequently became intimate with a lawyer, said to be the
+Honourable (?) Judge Pierpont Edwards." </p></div>
+
+<p>We next hear of her in Danvers, "where the novelty of her situation,"
+continues Hanson, "and her attractive beauty and manners during her
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg&nbsp;94]</a></span>short sojourn, caused the entire village and many from the neighboring
+towns to attend her funeral. A few weeks after her burial, an unknown
+hand erected the gravestone with its eloquent inscription." The stone is
+evidently Connecticut sandstone or freestone. Mr. Hanson says of the
+volume "Eliza Wharton": "The catchpenny volume of letters which pretend
+to give her history has but the figments of the imagination of its
+authoress to recommend it."</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Picture of the old Bell Tavern in Danvers. From the "Salem Gazette,"
+January, 1781.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 150px;">
+<a href="images/img104.jpg">
+<img src="images/img104th.jpg" width="150" height="95" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Danvers, Jan. 1781</i>.</p>
+
+<p>
+Ju&#383;t publi&#383;hed,<br />
+And to be SOLD by<br />
+E. RUSSELL,<br />
+at his Printing-Office,<br />
+near the Bell-Tavern;<br />
+<i>The Second Edition of</i><br />
+</p>
+
+<p class='center'>
+<i>Ru&#383;&#383;ell's</i> American ALMANACK,<br />
+For the Year of our Redemption, 1781.</p>
+
+<p>Being Fir&#383;t after Leap Year; and Fifth Year of Independency.
+Fitted for the Meridian of Bo&#383;ton, N. E. Lat. 42: 25 N. Wherein
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg&nbsp;95]</a></span>may be found all Things nece&#383;&#383;ary for this Work.</p>
+
+<p>To which is added, a Declaration of the Rights of the
+Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Ma&#383;&#383;achu&#383;etts, extracted from
+the Frame of Government; and a Li&#383;t of the Chief Officers of
+Government, which is thought nece&#383;&#383;ary to be po&#383;&#383;e&#383;&#383;ed by every
+Freeman in this Commonwealth.</p>
+
+<p>Calculated by that curious and accurate A&#383;tronomer, BENJAMIN
+WEST, E&#383;q; of Providence, State of Rhode-I&#383;land.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>At the &#383;ame Place may al&#383;o be had, ju&#383;t publi&#383;hed;</i></p>
+
+<p class='center'>The Remarkable Captivity and Redemption of</p>
+
+<p class='center'><big>ELIZABETH HANSON,</big></p>
+
+<p>Wife of Mr. <i>John Han&#383;on</i> of <i>Knoxmar&#383;h</i> at <i>Kecheachy</i>, in
+<i>Dover</i> Town&#383;hip, who was taken Captive with her Children and
+Maid-Servant, by the <i>Indians</i> in <i>New-England</i>, in the Year
+1724.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><small>IN WHICH ARE INSERTED</small></p>
+
+<p>Sundry remarkable Pre&#383;ervations, Providences, and Marks of Care
+and Kindne&#383;s of Providence over her and her Children, worthy to
+be remembered.</p>
+
+<p><i>The Sub&#383;tance of which was taken from her own Mouth, and now
+publi&#383;hed for general Service</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><span class="smcap">The Third</span> EDITION,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg&nbsp;96]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Al&#383;o, an entertaining Narrative of the cruel and barbarous
+Treatment and extreme Sufferings of</p>
+
+<p class='center'><big>Mr. JOHN DODGE,</big></p>
+
+<p>During his Captivity of many Months among the <i>Briti&#383;h</i>, at
+<i>Detroit</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><small>IN WHICH IS ALSO CONTAINED,</small></p>
+
+<p>A particular Detail of the Sufferings of a Virginian, who died
+in their Hands.</p>
+
+<p><i>Written by him&#383;elf; and now publi&#383;hed to &#383;atisfy the Curio&#383;ity
+of every one throughout the</i> United States.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><span class="smcap">The Second</span> EDITION.</p>
+
+<p><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> All the above Books, with a Variety of other &#383;mall Books,
+&amp;c. will be &#383;old to Shop keepers, Travelling-Traders, &amp;c. at the
+very lowe&#383;t Rate, if they purcha&#383;e by the Hundred, Groce or
+Dozen. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>In these sceptical and agnostic days it may sound a little strange, and
+perhaps to some seem quite absurd, that the authorities of Harvard in
+1791 felt obliged publicly to deny that Gibbon's History was used as a
+text-book at the University. But with the exception perhaps of Tom
+Paine, no one in this country had then ventured to assail the literal
+interpretation of the Scriptures. Probably the masses of the people
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg&nbsp;97]</a></span>then believed that "Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still,
+and they obeyed him," that Jonah was swallowed by the whale, and that</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"In Adam's fall,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We sinned all."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Of course there were exceptions. Therefore, although Gibbon might be an
+able writer, it was not safe for young men to study his works, simply
+because he had thrown doubt or derision on the Christian miracles. So
+when it was reported that a growing liberality of sentiment was being
+manifested at Cambridge, and that Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" was to be
+used, doubtless no little excitement was roused; and hence the notice.
+Before this time doubts concerning many cherished doctrines had been
+openly expressed in Boston, Cambridge, Salem, and other places; but
+Gibbon had rejected and attacked the whole Christian system as false,
+which was a very different matter.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>For the CENTINEL</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Russell</span>,</p>
+
+<p>A WRITER in the <span class="smcap">Centinel</span> of the la&#383;t <i>Saturday</i>, under the
+&#383;ignature of <i>Chri&#383;tianus</i>, &#383;ays, "that an abridgment of
+<span class="smcap">Gibbon's</span> hi&#383;tory (if his information be true) is directed to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg&nbsp;98]</a></span>make a part of the &#383;tudies of the young gentlemen at our
+Univer&#383;ity." I now beg leave, through the channel of your paper,
+to acquaint that writer, as al&#383;o the publick, that his
+information is <i>not true</i>. The &#383;y&#383;tem taught is <span class="smcap">Millot's</span>
+<i>Elements</i> of <i>General Hi&#383;tory, ancient and modern</i>, and
+<span class="smcap">Gibbon's</span> hi&#383;tory was never thought of for the purpo&#383;e.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>JOSEPH WILLARD, <i>Pre&#383;ident</i>.</p>
+<p><i>Cambridge</i>, <i>Nov.</i> 14, 1791.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">The Cholera.</span>&mdash;It is worthy of remark that the word occurs in two
+passages of the Bible, both in Ecclesiasticus, and both places
+in connexion with directions and exhortations to a sober
+temperate mode of living, which is still recommended as the best
+preservative against this disorder.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, 1832. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>The character of Boston ladies in 1788 is set forth in a letter in the
+"Herald of Freedom." The writer gives his observations on the error of
+committing children too much to the care of nurses; also makes reference
+to teaching the catechism, etc., showing the value of early religious
+training. There can be no doubt, we think, that the old methods were in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg&nbsp;99]</a></span>
+some respects superior to the present, where in many cases young
+children are left to Sunday-school teachers, or, as is often the case,
+receive no religious instruction whatever, for fear, as we have often
+heard it stated, that they might imbibe some false doctrinal notions at
+an age when the deepest impressions are made.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>For the</i> HERALD <i>of</i> FREEDOM.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><span class="smcap">Letter IX.</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;DEAR PIERRE,</p>
+
+<p><span class='smcap'>No</span> moments glide away more agreeably than tho&#383;e that are
+employed in writing to a friend. Happy am I in having frequent
+opportunities of exhibiting my &#383;entiments to you, and in return
+receiving yours, which palliates in &#383;ome degree, the &#383;orrow our
+&#383;eparation occa&#383;ions.&mdash;&mdash;The glaring ab&#383;urdities of the dre&#383;s of
+the Bo&#383;ton ladies, occupied the greate&#383;t part of my two la&#383;t
+letters. It is but ju&#383;t to &#383;ay &#383;omething of their more laudable
+qualities; among&#383;t which, maternal affection de&#383;ervedly claims
+precedence.&mdash;The barbarous cu&#383;toms of Europe, in this
+particular, have not as yet, and I hope never will be, practi&#383;ed
+here. Mothers in this country are &#383;o much attached to their
+tender offspring, as to forego all the plea&#383;ures of life (or
+rather what are &#383;o termed in Europe) in attending to their
+nurture, from which they derive the mo&#383;t &#383;uperlative of all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg&nbsp;100]</a></span>
+enjoyments, the heart-felt &#383;atisfaction of having done their
+duty to their God and country, in giving robu&#383;t, healthy and
+virtuous citizens to the State. The effeminacy of exotic fa&#383;hion
+has not at pre&#383;ent extended its pernicious influence &#383;o far as
+to induce them to commit the rearing of their children to
+mercenary nur&#383;es, who are &#383;ometimes the very dregs of a people;
+and who&#383;e vicious habits of taking a drop of the <i>good creature
+to drown &#383;orrow</i>, does not promi&#383;e redundancy of health and
+vigour to tho&#383;e &#383;uckled by them&mdash;on the contrary, children thus
+unnaturally thrown from the arms of a parent into tho&#383;e of a
+nur&#383;e, are, almo&#383;t without exception, weak and puny; of
+irra&#383;cible tempers and vicious inclinations.&mdash;Nor does the
+attention of the ladies expire with the infancy of their
+children&mdash;they &#383;till are unwearied in in&#383;tructing them as they
+increa&#383;e in years, and a&#383;&#383;iduou&#383;ly endeavour to inculcate
+principles of virtue into their young minds at a time when they
+are mo&#383;t liable to make a deep impre&#383;&#383;ion&mdash;to accompli&#383;h which,
+they never fail to teach them the catechi&#383;m, Lord's prayer, &amp;c.
+&amp;c. all of which they oblige them to learn, becau&#383;e they are
+perfectly adapted to their comprehen&#383;ion, though many parts of
+the catechi&#383;m are altogether incomprehen&#383;ible to mo&#383;t
+adults.&mdash;Yet this is not &#383;trange to tho&#383;e who credit the
+&#383;criptures; nor does it appear the lea&#383;t incon&#383;i&#383;tent&mdash;for there
+it &#383;ays, "God hath cho&#383;en the fooli&#383;h things of this world to
+confound the wi&#383;e."&mdash;Therefore, the wonder that children &#383;hould
+be able to <i>under&#383;tand</i> that, which is the <i>foundation</i> of all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg&nbsp;101]</a></span>
+polemical divinity, vani&#383;hes, when we try it by the touch&#383;tone
+of &#383;cripture, which is the criterion by which we ought to
+judge.&mdash;When they are thus in&#383;tructed in the rudiments of
+virtue, they are &#383;eldom known to apo&#383;tatize; &#383;o that for a
+native to become di&#383;&#383;olute and abandoned, is very rare.&mdash;Indeed
+they have characters of this kind who emigrate from old
+countries; but they &#383;oon find employment for &#383;uch gentry, by
+obliging them to labour for the publick good, and "work out
+their &#383;alvation by the &#383;weat of their brow."&mdash;Thus the community
+is not only delivered from &#383;uch pe&#383;ts, but experience beneficial
+effects from their confinement. Knavery, though rarely found in
+a native, is not entirely extirpated from the brea&#383;ts of &#383;ome
+among them. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Remarkable instances of longevity.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Longevity.</span> Mafeus, who wrote the history of the Indies, which
+has always been a model of veracity as well as elegant
+composition, mentions a native of Bengal, named Numas de Cugna,
+who died 1566, at the age of 370. He was a man of great
+simplicity and quite illiterate; but of so extensive a memory,
+that he was a kind of living chronicle, relating distinctly and
+exactly what had happened within his knowledge in the compass of
+his life, together with all the circumstances attending it. He
+had four new sets of teeth; and the color of his hair and beard
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg&nbsp;102]</a></span>had been very frequently changed from black to grey, and from
+grey to black. He asserted that in the course of his life, he
+had 700 wives, some of whom had died, and the others he had put
+away. The first century of his life passed in idolatry, from
+which he was converted to Mahometanism, which he continued to
+profess to his death.&mdash;The account is also confirmed by another
+Portuguese author, Ferdinand Lopez Casteguedo, who was
+historiographer royal.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, Feb. 22, 1834. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>LONDON, May 28.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>Remarkable In&#383;tances of Longevity in Europe</i>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Thomas Parre</span>, of Shrop&#383;hire, died on the 16th of November, 1635,
+aged 152.</p>
+
+<p>James Bowes, of Killinworth, in Shrop&#383;hire, died the 15th of
+Augu&#383;t, 1656, aged 152.</p>
+
+<p>Anonymous, of York&#383;hire, aged 140, and his &#383;on, aged 100, were
+both living, and attended to give evidence at York A&#383;&#383;ize, in
+1664.</p>
+
+<p>F. Sagar, of Lanca&#383;hire, died in January, 1668, aged 112.</p>
+
+<p>Henry Jenkins, of York&#383;hire, died on the 8th of December, 1670,
+aged 169.</p>
+
+<p>Robert Montgomery, of York&#383;hire, was living in 1670, aged 126.</p>
+
+<p>Counte&#383;s of De&#383;mond, Ireland, aged 140.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Ecle&#383;ton, of Ireland, died 1691, aged 143.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Lawrence, of Scotland, living, aged 140.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg&nbsp;103]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Mary Gore, born at Collinworth, in York&#383;hire, lived 100 years in
+Ireland, and died at Dublin in 1727, aged 125.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died about 1748, aged 137.</p>
+
+<p>Simon Sack, of Trionia, died on the 30th of May, 1761, aged 141.</p>
+
+<p>Col. Thomas Win&#383;loe, of Ireland, died on the 12th of Augu&#383;t,
+1766, aged 156.</p>
+
+<p>Francis Con&#383;i&#383;t, of York&#383;hire, died in January, 1768, aged 150.</p>
+
+<p>Francis Bons, of France, died on the 6th of February, 1769, aged
+124.</p>
+
+<p>Chri&#383;topher Jacob Drakenberg, of Norway, a boat&#383;wain in the
+Dani&#383;h navy, died on the 24th of June, 1770, aged 146.</p>
+
+<p>Margaret For&#383;ter, of Cumberland, aged 136.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. Oglethorpe died in Augu&#383;t la&#383;t, aged 103.</p>
+
+<p>A gold&#383;mith, of France, died in June, 1776, aged 140.</p>
+
+<p>Mary Yates, of Shrop&#383;hire, died in 1776, aged 128.</p>
+
+<p>John Brookley, of Devon&#383;hire, living in 1777, aged 134.</p>
+
+<p>Mi&#383;s Ellis, daughter of Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died in 1781, aged
+104.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Froome, of Holms-Chapel, in Che&#383;hire, died in May la&#383;t, aged
+125.</p>
+
+<p>Mary M'Donald, county of Down, in Ireland, died on the 16th of
+June la&#383;t, aged 118.</p>
+
+<p>Mary Cameron, of Inverne&#383;s&#383;hire, in Scotland, died in July la&#383;t,
+aged 130.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg&nbsp;104]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Mi&#383;s Ellis, of Richmond, in Surrey, living on the 16th of Augu&#383;t
+la&#383;t, aged 105.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Rowe, at Nutwell-Hou&#383;e, in Scotland, died in Augu&#383;t la&#383;t,
+aged 106.</p>
+
+<p>Donald McKeen, of Argyle&#383;hire, in Scotland, died in September
+la&#383;t, aged 109.</p>
+
+<p>John Button, of Liverpool, died on the 18th of November la&#383;t,
+the olde&#383;t burge&#383;s of that borough upon record; he lived in &#383;ix
+reigns, being born in the reign of James II.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Smith, a farmer, at Dolver, in Montgomery&#383;hire, died in
+November la&#383;t, aged 103: He was never known to drink any thing
+but buttermilk.</p>
+
+<p>John Follart, woolcomber, at Norney, near the city of Exeter,
+living and in good health on the 30th of November la&#383;t, aged
+121; he works &#383;till at his bu&#383;ine&#383;s, and retains his faculties.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Massachusetts Gazette</i>, Sept. 1, 1786. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>PHILADELPHIA, Augu&#383;t 19.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>In&#383;tances of Longevity in America</i>.</p>
+
+<p>In South-America there was &#383;aid, in the year 1785, to be a negro
+woman living, aged about 175; &#383;he remembered her fir&#383;t ma&#383;ter,
+who died in 1615, and that he gave her away with &#383;ome other
+property towards &#383;ounding a &#383;chool.</p>
+
+<p>Some years ago there was living in Virginia, a native of
+Ireland, who at the age of 109, was able to work at the taylor's
+trade without &#383;pectacles; and what renders this ca&#383;e more
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg&nbsp;105]</a></span>remarkable, he was naturally very intemperate, and would get
+drunk as often as he could get liquor.</p>
+
+<p>In the year 1776, died one Mr. Payne, in Fairfax, Virginia,
+upwards of 100 years of age.</p>
+
+<p>Died, November, 1782, in this city, Mr. Edward Drinker, almo&#383;t
+102, being born December 24, 1680, in Philadelphia.</p>
+
+<p>In the year 1782, there was living, near this city (and perhaps
+may be &#383;till living) a healthy negro woman, able to walk &#383;everal
+miles in a day, and wa&#383;h clothes, who was then, as near as &#383;he
+could tell, about 103.&mdash;&mdash;She remembers her being brought to
+this city before any hou&#383;es were built here.</p>
+
+<p>Died la&#383;t &#383;ummer, in New-York, Mrs. Slock, aged 108 years and
+one half.</p>
+
+<p>La&#383;t winter died at Jones's creek, a branch of Pee Dee, in
+North-Carolina, Mr. Mathew Bayley, aged 136: he was bapti&#383;ed
+when 134 years old; had good eye &#383;ight, &#383;trength of body and
+mind until his death.</p>
+
+<p>There was a woman living la&#383;t winter, in Uxbridge, &#383;tate of
+Ma&#383;&#383;achu&#383;etts, of the name of Aldrich, and likely to live many
+years, who has 12 children, all living, and has lived till 25 of
+the fifth generation are born, the elde&#383;t of which is more than
+eleven years of age.</p>
+
+<p>Died on Tue&#383;day the 1&#383;t in&#383;t. at Hud&#383;on, in New-York, Mrs.
+Chri&#383;tina de Lametter, in the 94th year of her age. She died
+merely of old age, without any kind of di&#383;ea&#383;e or fever; but
+de&#383;cended very &#383;lowly and patiently to the bottom of the hill<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg&nbsp;106]</a></span>
+of life. She was a woman, who, through life, has been remarkable
+for her &#383;ilent re&#383;ignation to the divine will. What renders the
+la&#383;t part of her life remarkable, is, that &#383;he lived 39 days
+without any &#383;u&#383;tenance whatever, except about two &#383;poonfuls of
+wine with water daily; the vital motions and functions being &#383;o
+near a ce&#383;&#383;ation, that the &#383;olids needed no reparation; yet &#383;he
+retained all her &#383;en&#383;es to the la&#383;t moment.</p>
+
+<p>In the year 1774, died at Danvers, in Ma&#383;&#383;achu&#383;etts, Mr. &mdash;&mdash;
+Nel&#383;on, aged 106 years.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Massachusetts Gazette</i>, Sept. 1, 1786. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>STOCKHOLM, Aug. 8.</p>
+
+<p>A widow lately died near Land&#383;crone, aged 118 years. She
+continued to get a livelihood by &#383;pinning till &#383;he was 116.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Mercury</i>, Nov. 25, 1786. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>DINNER IN "OLD TIMES."</p>
+
+<p>It was an old custom in New England to begin dinner with pudding instead
+of soup. Many persons of the last generation may remember, as the writer
+distinctly does, seeing old people who still adhered to this practice as
+late certainly as from 1850 to 1860. The writer was once at a dinner
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg&nbsp;107]</a></span>where all the family began with soup except the father, a gentleman of
+the old school, who had a piece cut from a fresh-baked plum-pudding. He
+remarked to the company that such had always been his practice; and so
+he excused himself for keeping to his own fashion of dining. The custom
+of eating pudding before meat is still very common in Yorkshire,
+England. The following extract from a Boston paper of 1819 shows that
+John Adams, in 1817, kept up the old style of dinner, which, as might
+perhaps be imagined, was not confined to the common people, so called.</p>
+
+<p>In "old times" it was customary to say to children, "Those who eat the
+most pudding shall have the most meat."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Extract from the "Narrative of a Journey of 5000 miles through
+the Eastern and Western States of America," in 1817.&mdash;By Henry B.
+Fearon, an Englishman</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>PRESIDENT ADAMS.</p>
+
+<p>The ex-president is a handsome old gentleman of eighty-four; his
+lady is seventy-six: she has the reputation of superior talents,
+and great literary acquirements. I was not perfectly a stranger
+here, as a few days previous to this I had received the honor of
+an hospitable reception at their mansion. Upon the present
+occasion the minister (the day being Sunday) was of the dinner
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg&nbsp;108]</a></span>party. As a table of a "<i>late king</i>" may amuse some of you, take
+the following particulars:&mdash;first course, a pudding made of
+Indian corn, molasses and butter;&mdash;second, veal, bacon, neck of
+mutton, potatoes, cabbages, carrots, and Indian beans; Madeira
+wine, of which each drank two glasses. We sat down to dinner at
+one o'clock; at two, nearly all went a second time to church.
+For tea, we had pound cake, sweet bread and butter, and bread
+made of Indian corn and rye, similar to our brown home-made. Tea
+was brought from the kitchen, and handed round by a neat white
+servant girl.</p>
+
+<p>The establishment of this political patriarch consists of a
+house two stories high, containing, I believe, eight rooms; of
+two men and three maid servants; three horses and a plain
+carriage. How great is the contrast between this individual, a
+man of knowledge and information&mdash;without pomp, parade, vitious
+and expensive establishments, as compared with the costly
+trappings, the depraved characters, and the profligate
+expenditure of &mdash;&mdash; House, and &mdash;&mdash;! What a lesson <i>in this</i>
+does America teach! There are now in this land no less than
+three Cincinnati! </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Hogs in New York streets.</p>
+
+<p>Yesterday forenoon, while in Broadway, we witnessed another
+instance of the impropriety of suffering Hogs to run at large in
+our streets. A highly respectable and most worthy young lady,
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg&nbsp;109]</a></span>was literally run down by a large Hog that was pursued by a dog.
+In her fall, her breast struck the curb stone, and she was
+considerably injured. After she had partially recovered, the
+gentleman at whose store she had made some purchases, kindly
+conveyed her to her father's house in a carriage. The reader may
+easily imagine the distressing effect produced on the mind of a
+fond parent, at the sight of a darling child, whose pale cheeks
+plainly indicated her situation. &#9758; <i>What would not the citizens
+of Boston say of their Police, if Hogs were permitted to run
+loose in the streets</i>?</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Columbian Centinel</i>, Boston [1817]. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>English blunders about America in 1802.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>From the</i> (Newyork) <span class="smcap">Evening Post</span>.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Specimens</span> <i>of the</i> <span class="smcap">Ignorance</span> <i>and</i> <span class="smcap">Blunders</span> <i>of</i> English
+Geographers, Tourists, <i>&amp;c. &amp;c. with respect to</i> <span class="smcap">America</span>.</p>
+
+<p>THE Rev. R. Turner, who has publi&#383;hed a book called Cla&#383;&#383;ical
+Geography, gives the following account of the cities of
+Philadelphia and Newyork. "Philadelphia, (&#383;ays he) is the finest
+and <i>be&#383;t &#383;ituated</i> city in America, containing <i>thirty
+thou&#383;and</i> hou&#383;es and one hundred and twenty thou&#383;and
+inhabitants, who are mo&#383;tly quakers!!!"&mdash;"Newyork contains three
+thou&#383;and hou&#383;es and twelve thou&#383;and inhabitants!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg&nbsp;110]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Another book, intitled Guthrie's improved Geography, after
+&#383;etting forth in the preface that their (the Editors) relation
+of America, will be found both &#383;atisfactory and complete, as
+they have not only carefully examined the works of the
+celebrated Mor&#383;e, but likewi&#383;e applied to &#383;everal other
+authentic &#383;ources, which have enabled them to give the be&#383;t
+information in the most &#383;atisfactory manner, &#383;tates that "the
+city of Newyork contains five thou&#383;and inhabitants, chiefly of
+Dutch extraction." Here is pretty &#383;trong evidence of the
+diligence of the&#383;e London bookmakers, as to applying to the mo&#383;t
+authentic &#383;ources of information, as they profe&#383;s to have done.
+An impo&#383;ition of this kind in any American publication, would
+afford a fine opportunity for an English Reviewer to rail
+again&#383;t our national hone&#383;ty.</p>
+
+<p>The very la&#383;t edition of Guthrie's original work, de&#383;cribing the
+river Hud&#383;on, &#383;tates that this river is navigable to Albany,
+which is "<i>&#383;ix hundred miles from Newyork</i>."</p>
+
+<p>An Engli&#383;h Touri&#383;t, who&#383;e name is not ju&#383;t now recollected, has
+publi&#383;hed a volume of his travels through the United States, in
+which he &#383;peaks particularly of the orderly manner in which
+Elections are conducted in the city of Newyork. "On the
+appointed day, &#383;ays he, all the citizens take care to be at home
+at a certain hour, at which time the in&#383;pectors of the election
+go through the city with ballot boxes in their hands, and call
+at every door for votes, whereupon the citizens &#383;tep to their
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg&nbsp;111]</a></span>doors and depo&#383;it their ballots in the&#383;e &#383;ame &#383;mall boxes,
+which are &#383;traightway carried to the City Hall; the votes are
+there examined, and thus the election is determined in a few
+hours, without uproar or inconvenience!!!"</p>
+
+<p>An Engli&#383;h Editor of a work, called the <i>German Mu&#383;eum</i>, in his
+tran&#383;lation of &#383;ome memoirs of Major Andr&eacute;, records, that this
+unfortunate officer was taken and hanged "<i>at the we&#383;t point of
+America</i>."</p>
+
+<p>A London paper &#383;ome time ago made mention of certain
+improvements which were taking place in Newyork, with a view to
+promote the health of the city, and ob&#383;erved that our
+corporation were erecting a range of permanent wharves on one
+&#383;ide of the city, which were to extend from Corlear's Hook to
+the Battery <i>along the Delaware River</i>!</p>
+
+<p>Some notice &#383;hall be taken hereafter of the mi&#383;representations
+and fal&#383;ehoods of Laincourt, Weld, Bulow, and a number of
+others, relative to the United States.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>
+<i>An</i> AMERICAN.<br />
+<i>Worcester Spy</i>.<br />
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>SECRET LOVE.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>From a very rare volume of old Poetry</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The fountaines smoake, and yet no flame they shewe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Starres shine all night though undeserned by daye;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And trees do spring yet are not seen to growe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And shadowes move although they seem to staye;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In winters woe is buried summers bliss,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And love loves most, when love most secret is.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg&nbsp;112]</a></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The stillest streame descries the greatest deepe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The clearest skye is subject to a shower;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Conceit's most sweete, when as it seems to sleepe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And fairest dayes do in the morning lower:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The silent groves, sweete nymphes theye cannot misse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For love loves most, when love most secret is.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The rarest jewels hidden virtue yield.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The sweete of traffique is a secret game;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The yeere once old doth show a barren field<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And plants seeme dead, and yet they spring again.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cupid is blind; the reason why, is this,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love loveth most, when love most secret is.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Register</i>, 1827. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>George the Fourth</i>.&mdash;The attributes of this potentate, who was
+the most popular monarch England has had for many years, are
+thus severely described, by Thomas Jefferson in his
+correspondence of 1789.</p>
+
+<p>"He has not a single element of mathematics, of natural and
+moral philosophy, or of any other science on earth, nor has the
+society he kept been such as to supply the void of education. It
+has been that of the lowest, the most illiterate and profligate
+persons of the kingdom without choice of rank or mind &amp; with
+whom the subjects of conversation are only horses, drinking
+matches, bawdy houses, and in terms the most vulgar. The young
+nobility, who begin by associating with him, soon leave him
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg&nbsp;113]</a></span>disgusted with the insupportable profligacy of his society; and
+Mr. Fox, who has been supposed his favorite, and not over nice
+in the choice of his company, would never keep his company
+habitually.</p>
+
+<p>"He has not a single idea of justice, morality, religion or of
+the rights of men, or any anxiety for the opinion of the world.
+He carries that indifference to fame so far, that he would
+probably not be hurt were he to lose his throne, provided he
+could be assured of always having meat, drink, horses &amp; women."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Essex Register</i>, Aug. 26, 1830. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>President Stiles of Yale College on the public revenue.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>Extract from Pre&#383;ident STILES's Election Sermon</i>.</p>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">But</span> I pa&#383;s on to another &#383;ubject in which the welfare of a
+community is deeply concerned, I mean the publick <i>revenues</i>.
+National character and national faith depend on the&#383;e. Every
+people, every large community is able to furni&#383;h a revenue
+adequate to the exigences of government. But this is a mo&#383;t
+difficult &#383;ubject; and what the happie&#383;t method of rai&#383;ing it,
+is uncertain. One thing is certain, that however in mo&#383;t
+kingdoms and empires the people are taxed at the will of the
+prince, yet in <i>America</i>, the people tax them&#383;elves, and
+<i>therefore cannot tax them&#383;elves beyond their abilities</i>. But
+whether the power of taxing be in an ab&#383;olute monarchy, a power<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg&nbsp;114]</a></span>
+independent of the people, or in a body elected by the people,
+one great error has, I apprehend, entered into the &#383;y&#383;tem of
+Revenue and Finance in almo&#383;t all nations, viz. re&#383;tricting the
+collection to money. Two or three millions can more ea&#383;ily be
+rai&#383;ed in produce, than one million in money. This collected and
+depo&#383;ited in &#383;tores and magazines, would, by bills drawn upon
+the&#383;e &#383;tores, an&#383;wer all the expenditures of war and peace. In
+one country it has been tried with &#383;ucce&#383;s for ages; I mean in
+<i>China</i>, the wi&#383;e&#383;t empire the &#383;un hath ever &#383;hined upon. And
+here, if I recollect aright, not a tenth of the Imperial
+revenues hath been collected in money. In rice, wheat and millet
+only are collected 40 millions of &#383;acks, of one hundred and
+twenty pounds each, equal to 80 million bu&#383;hels; in raw and
+wrought &#383;ilk one million pounds. The rest is taken in &#383;alt,
+wines, cotton, and other fruits of labour and indu&#383;try, at a
+certain ratio per cent. and depo&#383;ited in &#383;tores over all the
+empire. The peri&#383;hable commodities are immediately &#383;old, and the
+Mandarins and army are paid by bills on the&#383;e magazines. In no
+part of the world are the inhabitants le&#383;s oppre&#383;&#383;ed than there.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Massachusetts Gazette</i>, Sept. 29, 1786. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><i>Religiously Inclined</i>.&mdash;A gentleman perceiving a fellow leaning
+against the front of St. Paul's church yesterday, who was unable
+to stand without some such support, asked him if he was going to
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg&nbsp;115]</a></span>join the church. 'No,' replied Bottlenose, 'not edzactly to
+jine, but I'm only lean&mdash;leanin'&mdash;that way.'</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>New Era</i> [1837].</p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Meaning of the word.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Gentlemen.</span> How the signification of words alter in the course of
+a century. There was a time when all persons in England, below
+the rank of an <i>Esquire</i>, were divided into <i>Gentlemen</i>, Yeomen
+and <i>Rascals</i>. The former word is now used to signify the
+individuals of the first order&mdash;those whom you would take by the
+hand in the street, and sup with of an evening. The second term
+retains pretty nearly its original meaning. But to make an
+application of the latter appellative at this time, would
+operate as an invitation to be knocked down. 'Gentlemen,' is
+used in opposition among the old chronicles to 'simple man,' and
+neither in any very exalted sense. It is on record, that the
+French Princess, De La Roche Sur Yon, receiving a sharp reply
+from a Knight, to whom she gave the epithet of '<i>Gentilhomme</i>,'
+was told by the King, to whom she complained, that she deserved
+all she got, for so offending, herself, in the first instance.
+The lower people in England were commonly '<i>the
+Rascality</i>'&mdash;equivalent to the '<i>Canaille</i>' of the French, or
+our own significant <i>Rabble</i> of the present day.</p>
+
+<p>In what sense do they use the word 'Gentlemen' in
+Congress&mdash;Eh?&mdash;<i>Charleston Gaz.</i></p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Observer</i>, April 3, 1820. </p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg&nbsp;116]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>Profe&#383;&#383;ional</i> <span class="smcap">Anecdote</span> <i>of Dr.</i> <span class="smcap">Franklin</span>.</p>
+
+<p>WHEN he came to Philadelphia, in 1723, he was fir&#383;t employed by
+one Keimer, an eccentric genius, as a pre&#383;&#383;man, for he was then
+printing an elegy of his own compo&#383;ition, on the death of
+Ai&#383;quila Ro&#383;e&mdash;and as he had but one &#383;mall font of types, and
+u&#383;ed no copy, but compo&#383;ed the elegy in the pre&#383;s, he could not
+employ him in the compo&#383;ition. Keimer was a vi&#383;ionary, who&#383;e
+mind was frequently elevated above the little concerns of life,
+and con&#383;equently very &#383;ubject to make mi&#383;takes, which he &#383;eldom
+took the pains to correct. Franklin had frequently rea&#383;oned with
+him upon the importance of accuracy in his profe&#383;&#383;ion, but in
+vain. His fertile head however &#383;oon furni&#383;hed him with an
+opportunity to &#383;econd his arguments by proof.&mdash;They &#383;oon after
+undertook an impre&#383;&#383;ion of a primer that had been lately
+publi&#383;hed in New-England.&mdash;Franklin overlooked the piece; and
+when his ma&#383;ter had &#383;et the following couplet&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When the la&#383;t trumpet &#383;oundeth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">We &#383;hall not all die,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But we &#383;hall all be <i>changed</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In the twinkling of an eye,<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>He privately removed the letter <i>c</i>, and it was printed off&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When the la&#383;t trumpet &#383;oundeth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">We &#383;hall not all die,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But we &#383;hall all be <i>hanged</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In the twinkling of an eye.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Herald of Freedom</i>, June 23, 1790. </p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg&nbsp;117]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><i>SURNAMES</i>.</p>
+
+<p>In the Cambridge Chronicle of Saturday, Augu&#383;t 1, 1772, is an
+adverti&#383;ement &#383;aid to have been taken from the Canterbury
+Journal, which beggars the li&#383;t of &#383;urnames lately enumerated:</p>
+
+<p>"Mary Scaredevil, widow of the late William Scaredevil, of
+Maid&#383;tone, does, by the a&#383;&#383;i&#383;tance of the Almighty, intend to
+carry on the bu&#383;ine&#383;s of White&#383;mith, and hopes for the favors
+and recommendations of the gentlemen and ladies whom the late
+William Scaredevil had the plea&#383;ure to &#383;erve, which will be
+gratefully acknowledged by their mo&#383;t humble &#383;ervant,</p>
+
+<p class='right'>MARY SCAREDEVIL."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, Nov., 1805. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Launching of the "Grand Turk."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Thur&#383;day la&#383;t being a very plea&#383;ant day, great numbers of people
+a&#383;&#383;embled to &#383;ee the launching of the large and beautiful &#383;hip
+from Mr. <span class="smcap">Derby's</span> wharf. They were, however, di&#383;appointed in the
+plea&#383;ure they expected, by her &#383;topping when &#383;he had run about
+half her length: and all the efforts which could be made were
+ineffectual in getting her off at that time: the next day,
+however, with the aid of proper apparatus, and the a&#383;&#383;i&#383;tance of
+the people a&#383;&#383;embled, &#383;he was again put in motion, and gained
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg&nbsp;118]</a></span>the water.&mdash;The name of <i>The Grand Turk</i> is revived in this
+&#383;hip, heretofore borne by a &#383;hip belonging to Mr. <span class="smcap">Derby</span>,
+remarkably &#383;ucce&#383;sful as a privateer in the late war, and which
+was &#383;ome time &#383;ince &#383;old in India.</p>
+
+<p>The ingenious Mr. <span class="smcap">Enos Briggs</span>, from the North River, was the
+ma&#383;ter-builder of the new &#383;hip Grand Turk.</p>
+
+
+<p class='center'>A CARD.</p>
+
+<p><i>Mr.</i> E.H. DERBY <i>requests his fellow-townsmen and others, to
+accept his sincere thanks for their ready and unwearied
+exertions to enable him to complete the launching of his Ship</i>.
+<span class="smcap">May 21.</span></p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. <span class="smcap">Cushing</span>,</p>
+
+<p>The following lines were addre&#383;&#383;ed to the Ship <span class="smcap">Grand Turk</span>, while
+launching. They are at your &#383;ervice.</p>
+
+<p class='center'>Your's, Z.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>The swelling waves roll joyfully along,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>To greet thee, welcome to the azure main;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The gaping multitude in anxious throng,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Their ardent&mdash;vacant&mdash;tumult&mdash;scarce restrain</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Slow o'er the lubrick ways&mdash;immense&mdash;you move,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>High o'er the stern your flowing honours stand,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>In distant climes, on unknown seas to prove</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The matchless glory of your native land</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>For thee&mdash;the lofty Cedar nods alone,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The sturdy Oak its honours lopp'd deplores,</i><br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg&nbsp;119]</a></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The forest mourns its tallest beauties gone</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>To waft Columbian treasure&mdash;to the Indian shores</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Doom'd to resist the rage of warring waves,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Whilst rushing winds impel your foaming way:</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The firm built sides their utmost fury brave.</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>The tempest mock&mdash;and in the whirlwind play</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Safe may you reach your distant&mdash;destin'd port,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Nor rocks&mdash;nor treach'rous sands&mdash;oppose your fame,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>May gentle winds your swelling topsails court,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>And thousands shout you welcome home again</i>.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, May 24, 1791. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>The oldest person who had lived in Salem up to 1791.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>On Friday la&#383;t, the venerable Mr. <span class="smcap">John Symonds</span>, of this town,
+entered the <i>one hundredth year of his age</i>. He is the only male
+per&#383;on who has arrived at that great age, from the fir&#383;t
+&#383;ettlement of the town by the Engli&#383;h in 1629 to this day. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>Irish Litany.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><span class="smcap">Dublin</span>, May 11.</p>
+
+<p><i>To the Printers of the</i> Rights <i>of</i> Iri&#383;hmen.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="smcap">Gentlemen</span>,</p>
+
+<p>I am enabled by an invi&#383;ible power to communicate to you, a
+Litany &#383;anctioned by me, and to be adopted by the profe&#383;&#383;ors of
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg&nbsp;120]</a></span>the patriotic religion of Ireland; a Litany which breathes the
+&#383;pirit of that freedom which I profe&#383;&#383;ed when on earth, and has
+been here on eternal record; if its principle and doctrine tend
+to enlighten and emancipate your country, it will add (if
+po&#383;&#383;ible) to that inde&#383;cribable happine&#383;s enjoyed by him, whom,
+without vanity, I may now call the virtuous and patriotic</p>
+
+<p class='right'>MIRABEAU.</p>
+
+<p><i>Ely&#383;ium, 5th Feb.</i> 1792.</p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>THE LITANY</i>.</p>
+
+<p>1&#383;t. Let there be a free, equal, and general repre&#383;entation of
+your people in Parliament.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all the people &#383;hall &#383;ay amen.</p>
+
+<p>2d. Let there be a reform of your church, an abolition of
+tithes, and let each &#383;ect maintain its own pa&#383;tor.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>3d. Let the people of my terre&#383;trial country be an example to
+your people, and let their freedom be your freedom.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>4th. Let the fetters which the nobles of your land have forged,
+be broken a&#383;under; and let tho&#383;e who earn, di&#383;tribute the bread
+of Ireland.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>5th. Let each man freely wor&#383;hip God according to the dictates
+of his con&#383;cience.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg&nbsp;121]</a></span>&amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>6th. Let chri&#383;tians be philo&#383;ophers, and let philo&#383;ophers be
+chri&#383;tians.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>7th. Let the rich few no longer be &#383;upported by taxes on the
+many and unrepre&#383;ented poor.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>8th. Let all the &#383;ons of Hibernia be free&mdash;yea, even as free as
+the negroes<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4" class="fnanchor">[D]</a> of Africa.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>9th. Let truth never be deemed a libel, and let the Liberty of
+your Pre&#383;s be extended.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>10th. Let the noble (tho enli&#383;ted) &#383;ons of Ireland never become
+the hired a&#383;&#383;a&#383;&#383;ins of their countrymen.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>11th. Let the army which eats the bread of Ireland, be her
+guardian and protector, and not the ba&#383;e invader of her rights
+and liberties.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>12th. Let him who fir&#383;t proposed a mortgage on the revenues of
+Ireland, be accur&#383;ed in the annals of your country.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>13th. Let your&#383;elves no longer be the &#383;laves of religion, or
+&#383;ect, or party, but the united &#383;ons of freedom and philo&#383;ophy.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg&nbsp;122]</a></span></p><p>14th. Let the maje&#383;ty of your king reflect the maje&#383;ty of your
+people.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>And all, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p><i>Mirabeau &#383;crip&#383;it</i>.</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Salem Gazette</i>, 1792.</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">[D]</span></a> Vide Wilberforce on the emancipation of the
+slaves.</p></div></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p class='center'>Boston School of Fashion in 1807.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>Robert Smallpeace,</big></p>
+
+<p><i>At his</i> DRESSING ACADEMY, <i>and</i> SCHOOL <i>of</i> FASHION, <i>in</i> <span class="smcap">Milk
+street</span>, <i>oppo&#383;ite the South door of the</i> Old South,</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 94px;">
+<a href="images/img132.jpg">
+<img src="images/img132th.jpg" width="93" height="150" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>REMINDS the Sons and Daughters
+of Fa&#383;hion and Beauty, that tho' they
+may po&#383;&#383;e&#383;s every latent excellence,
+yet they require the improving hand
+of <span class="smcap">Art</span>, like <i>rough</i> diamonds, to obtain
+the poli&#383;h and brilliancy of the
+<i>fir&#383;t water</i>. What is elegance of form
+or contour of beauty without improvement?
+like "a light hid under a bu&#383;hel,"
+or whatever can be conceived to be <i>mo&#383;t unlike</i>:&mdash;
+And it is a lamentable fact, that</p>
+
+<div class="poem" style="clear:left"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>Full many a mind is rear'd with toil and care,</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>To wa&#383;te its worth&mdash;by</i> <small>SLOV'NLINESS</small> <i>in</i> <small>HAIR</small>.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The <i>tailor</i>, or <i>milliner</i>, may enca&#383;e us with ta&#383;te and
+elegance; the <i>dancing ma&#383;ter</i> teach us the &#383;teps of ea&#383;e and
+dignity; the <i>mu&#383;ician</i> in&#383;truct us in our throats and fingers;
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg&nbsp;123]</a></span>and the <i>preceptor</i> may inform our minds; and yet, with all
+these <i>accompli&#383;hments</i>, can we even be <span class="smcap">PASSABLE</span>, if the
+<i>highe&#383;t</i> accompli&#383;hment of all be neglected? and the <span class="smcap">HEAD</span> be
+left to its own "di&#383;order wor&#383;e confounded," exhibiting a
+"<i>paltry crown of mud and &#383;traw</i>," placed upon an "<i>edifice of
+ivory and gold</i>!"&mdash;and further&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><i>What though the</i> <small>EYE</small> <i>voluptuous roll</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>The</i> <small>FORM</small> <i>po&#383;&#383;e&#383;s each heavenly grace</i>;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Say, can they</i> <small>ANY HEART</small> <i>control</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>Draw</i> <small>FRIENDSHIP</small> <i>near&mdash;bid</i> <small>LOVE</small> <i>take place</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>'Till</i> <small>SMALLPEACE</small> <i>touch them</i>!&mdash;he <i>who&#383;e trade is</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>T' make</i> Gods <i>of</i> Men&mdash;<i>and</i> Godde&#383;&#383;es <i>of</i> Ladies!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>&#9758; SMALLPEACE has elegant apartments for Ladies and Gentlemen;
+and will be found con&#383;tantly at "the po&#383;t of honour," and
+attendance, to wait upon them.</p>
+
+<p class='right'>Oct. 17 [1807].<br />
+<i>Columbian Centinel</i>. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>The novels of 1833; from the "Salem Observer," July 13.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The decidedly bad moral tendency of some of the most popular
+novels of the times is forcibly depicted in a magazine recently
+established in England, by two of the sons of William Cobbett,
+in the following language:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Would you seduce a wife? Falkland shall teach you to do it with
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg&nbsp;124]</a></span>gravity and dignity. Would you murder? Eugene Aram shall show
+you its necessity for the public advantage. Would you rob? Paul
+Clifford shall convince you of the injustice of security, and of
+the abominableness of the safety of a purse on a moonlight
+night.&mdash;Would you eat? Turn to Harry Bertram and Dandy Dinmont
+to the round of beef. Would you drink? Friar Tuck is the
+jolliest of companions. Would you dance, dress, and drawl?
+Pelham shall take you into tuition. Would you lie, fawn, and
+flatter? Andrew Wylie shall instruct you to crawl upward,
+without the slime betraying your path. Would you yawn, doze,
+sleep, or dream? Cloudesly shall do it for you, for the space of
+the first volume." </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'>THOMAS MOORE.</p>
+
+<p>Hostile feelings to the Americans having been imputed to the
+poet <span class="smcap">Moore</span> in the first number of the (London) Westminster
+Review, the following paragraph appeared in the London Times of
+the 4th Feb., 1824.</p>
+
+<p>"In the first number of the Westminster Review, just published,
+there is an article upon a late work of Mr. Moore's, in which
+the writer says, 'Mr. Moore has resided in America, and, we
+understand, speaks of the Americans with unbounded dislike and
+contempt.' In this assertion we can confidently state, the
+writer is entirely mistaken. Whatever opinions Mr. Moore may
+have hastily formed, when a very young man, with respect to the
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg&nbsp;125]</a></span>character and institutions of the Americans, we know that he has
+long since learned to correct them, and to feel towards that
+people all the admiration and respect which the noble example
+they set to the other nations of the world demands."</p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Boston Telegraph</i>, 1824. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>From the "Salem Gazette," Sept. 6, 1811.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class='center'><big>Aiken's blood-letting Sermon</big></p>
+
+<p class='center'><i>for &#383;ale by Cu&#383;hing &amp; Appleton</i>. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>From the "Boston Transcript," Dec., 1834.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Old times.</span>&mdash;Mr. Thatcher stated, in his Lecture before the
+Boston Lyceum, that the Old Latin School in this City was
+commenced two hundred years ago, according to the records of the
+Town, which begin at the same year. For a long time it was the
+only school; and there was no writing school among us until
+November, 1684, (just 150 years since.) Master Cheever presided
+over the Latin 38 years, till he died at 93. He was the teacher
+of two of the Mathers, and the second Doctor said of him in an
+obituary essay, with his own peculiar felicity, that</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;&mdash;to vast age he grew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Till Time's scythe waiting for him rusty grew</i>.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg&nbsp;126]</a></span></div></div>
+
+<p>Lovell was his second successor, and held on 92 years, till in
+1776 he left the town a Loyalist. The old gentleman had a house
+furnished for him in School street, and a garden that reached
+nearly to Court street, which his best boys were allowed to
+till; and they had also the privilege as a reward of merit of
+sawing his wood and bottling his cider.&mdash;The Lecturer remarked
+that this was the first manual labor school he had heard of. </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>A quotation from Scripture.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
+hired." </p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>From the "Salem Observer," 1840.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Literary Curiosity.</span> The following letter was written by a young
+gentleman to his "lady love," under the direction and eye of a
+rigid old father. The understanding, however, between the
+lovers, was, that she should read only every other line,
+beginning with the first. Love is full of expedients.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">&nbsp;&nbsp;Madam</span>,&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The great love I have hitherto expressed for you<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>is false, and I find that my indifference, toward you</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">increases daily; the more I see of you, the more<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>you appear in my eyes an object of contempt</i>.&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I feel myself every way disposed and determined to<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg&nbsp;127]</a></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>hate you. Believe me, I never had an intention to</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">offer you my hand. Our last conversation has<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>left a tedious insipidity, which has by no means</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">given me the most exalted idea of your character;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>your temper would make me extremely unhappy</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">and if we are united, I shall experience nothing but<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>the hatred of my parents, added to their everlasting dis-</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">pleasure in living with you. I have, indeed, a heart<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>to bestow, but I do not wish you to imagine it is</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">at your service; I could not give it to any one more<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>inconsistent and capricious than yourself, and less</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">capable to do honor to my choice and to my family.&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Yes, Madam, I trust you will be persuaded that</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I speak sincerely; and you will do me a favor<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>to avoid me. I shall excuse your taking the trouble</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">to answer this. Your letters are always full of<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>impertinence, and you have not the least shadow of</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">wit or good sense. Adieu! Adieu! believe me, I am<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>so averse to you that it is impossible for me ever to be</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">your affectionate friend and ardent lover.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 189px;">
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+</div>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary
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+Title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities
+ Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
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+During the Spring of 1886 TICKNOR AND COMPANY began the publication of
+"YE OLDEN TIME SERIES, OR GLEANINGS FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS, CHIEFLY OF
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+ =Vol. IV. QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.=
+ =Vol. V. SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.=
+ =Vol. VI. LITERARY CURIOSITIES.=
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+The Series will be continued, and the following are some of the titles
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+of the 19th Century."=
+
+="Travel in Old Times, with Some Account of Stages, Taverns, etc."=
+
+="Curiosities of Politics, among the Old Federalists and Republicans."=
+
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+value to the student of New-England history, and an instructiveness for
+the general reader."--_Boston Advertiser._
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+THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
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+LITERARY CURIOSITIES
+
+_Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature._--LAMARTINE.
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+
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+THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.
+
+GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
+
+SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
+
+BY
+
+HENRY M. BROOKS
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Literary Curiosities
+
+
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+that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity,
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+_Copyright, 1886,_
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+
+JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.
+
+
+
+
+ INDEX OF NAMES.
+
+
+ PAGE
+ ADAMS, JOHN 82, 107
+ Adams, Rev. Mr. 8
+ Adams, Sally 8
+ Aiken, Rev. Mr. 125
+ Aldrich, Mrs. 105
+ Andre, Major 111
+ Arnold, Benedict 32, 33
+ Averell, Joseph 7
+
+ BARNARD, EDWARD 19
+ Barnard, Rev. Thomas 19
+ Barnard, Thomas, D.D. 19
+ Bayley, Matthew 105
+ Belcher, Governor 6
+ Belcher, Miss 5
+ Binney, Spencer 8
+ Birbeck, Morris 42
+ Blunt, John 39
+ Blunt, Mary Ann 39
+ Bons, Francis 103
+ Bowen, Henry 9
+ Bowes, John 102
+ Bradstreet, Anne 69
+ Breed, James 7
+ Brent, Eleanor 65
+ Brent, Robt. 65
+ Briggs, Enos 118
+ Brodie, Charlotte B. 9
+ Brookley, John 103
+ Bulkeley, Peter 68
+ Bullard, Polly 7
+ Bulow 111
+ Burt, Emily 8
+ Burton, Francis 12
+ Button, John 104
+
+ CABOT, J. 30
+ Cameron, Mary 104
+ Cass, Lewis 46
+ Cass, Miss 47
+ Casteguedo, F.L. 102
+ Checkley, Samuel 6
+ Checkley, William 6
+ Cheever, Master 125
+ Clough, Sally 11
+ Clough, Samuel 17
+ Cobbett, William 123
+ Columbus, Christopher 16
+ Consist, Francis 103
+ Cook, Nancy 12
+ Cotton, Charles 82
+ Cranston, Polly 6
+ Cromwell, Oliver 70
+ Currier, Samuel 11
+ Cushing, T.C. 62
+
+ DALAND, JACK 13
+ Davis, Benjamin 4
+ De Cugna, Numas 101
+ De la Roche Sur Yon 115
+ De Lametter, Christina 105
+ Derby, E.H. 117, 118
+ Desmond, Countess 102
+ Dexter, Lord Timothy 13, 14, 15, 16
+ Dodge, John 96
+ Douglass, Dr. 57, 58
+ Drakenberg, C.J. 103
+ Drinker, Edward 105
+ Dryden, John 72
+ Dumaresq, Phillip 5
+ Dunham, John M. 8
+
+ ECLESTON, MR. 102
+ Edwards, Pierpont 93
+ Ellis, Miss 103
+ Ellis, Mr. 103
+ Erskine, William 48
+ Erving, John 6
+ Erving, Nancy 6
+
+ FEARON, HENRY B. 107
+ Follart, John 104
+ Forbes, Mr. 48
+ Forster, Margaret 103
+ Foster, John 51, 52
+ Fox, C.J. 113
+ Franklin, Benjamin 116
+ French, Josiah 11
+ French, Moses 11
+ Froome, Mr. 103
+
+ GARDINER, REBECCA 5
+ Gardiner, Sylvester 5
+ Gibbon, Edward 96, 97, 98
+ Goldsmith, Oliver 32
+ Gore, Mary 103
+ Grant, Abigail 7
+ Grant, Alexander 7
+ Green, B., & Allen, J. 17
+ Green, S. 20
+ Green, Samuel, jun. 52, 53
+ Greenleaf, Anstess 4
+ Greenleaf, Stephen 5
+ Guthrie, Mr. 110
+
+ HALL, BASIL, R.N. 54
+ Hanson, Elizabeth 95
+ Hanson, John 95
+ Hanson, Rev. Mr. 93, 94
+ Harper, Miss 47
+ Harris, Benjamin 20
+ Hart, Rev. Mr. 10
+ Haven, Rev. Dr. 39
+ Herrenden, Elisha 11
+ Hill, Elisha 9
+ Hill, Jane 9
+ Hogg, Catharine 8
+ Holyoke, E.A., M.D. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
+ Hubbard, Rev. William 51
+ Huntington, Rev. Mr. 7
+
+ ISAIAH (VII. 20) 126
+
+ JACKMAN, BETSEY 11
+ Jackson, Daniel 10
+ Jackson, Edward 5
+ Jackson, Mary 5
+ Jackson, Rebecca 10
+ Jay, John 82
+ Jefferson, Thomas 112
+ Jenkins, Henry 102
+ Jennison, Dr. J. 5
+ Johnson, Dr. Samuel 49, 50
+ Jones, John Coffin 6
+ Jones, Polly 8
+ Jones, Thomas 8
+ Josselyn, John 57
+
+ KEIMER, MR. 116
+ Keyser, Miss 46
+ King Charles I. 83, 84
+ King Charles II. 32
+ King George IV. 112
+ King Henry VII. 81, 82
+ King James II. 20, 23, 32
+ King William III. 53
+
+ LAINCOURT 111
+ Lamson, Eunice 7
+ Lawrence, Mr. 102
+ Lawrence, Schuyler 10
+ Lemon, Eliza Peel 12
+ Loring, Caleb 7
+ Lovell, Master 126
+ Lushure, Elenor 11
+ Lyell, Sir Charles 55
+
+ MAFEUS 101
+ Maiden Aunt, The 4
+ Mansfield, Lord 49
+ McDonald, Mary 103
+ McIntire, Elizabeth 89
+ McIntire, Samuel 88, 89
+ McIntire, Samuel F. 89
+ McKeen, Donald 104
+ McLane, Miss 47
+ Millot 98
+ Milton, John 38
+ Minns, Chloe 10
+ Mirabeau 120
+ Montgomery, Robert 102
+ Moore, Larkin 12
+ Moore, Thomas 124
+ Morse, Rev. Jedediah 68, 110
+ Murray, W. 51
+
+ NELSON, MR. 106
+ Nicholas, J.H. 44
+ Noah, M.M. 10
+
+ OGLETHORPE, GEN. 103
+ Oliphant, Rev. Mr. 12
+ Osgood, Aaron 38
+ Otway, John 72
+ Oulton, Mrs. 29
+
+ PAINE, THOMAS 96
+ Parker, Elizabeth 7
+ Parnell, Paul 11
+ Parre, Thomas 102
+ Payne, Mr. 105
+ Pearson, Joseph 64
+ Pickman, Benjamin 30
+ Pittengill, Abigail 5
+ Plum, Lewis 12
+ Pork, Robert 8
+
+ QUEEN ANNE 16
+
+ RANDOLPH, EDWARD 20
+ Reeder, John 68
+ Richards, Giles 8
+ Richter, J.P.F. 83
+ Rimbault, E.F. 32
+ Robinson, Miss 8
+ Rose, Aquila 16
+ Rousby, Matthew 10
+ Rowe, Mr. 104
+ Russell, Benjamin 97
+ Russell, E. 94
+
+ SACK, SIMON 103
+ Sagar, F. 102
+ Scaredevil, Mary 117
+ Scott, Sir Walter 47, 48
+ Selsbry, Polly 7
+ Sewall, Samuel 51, 52
+ Seymore, Bridget 5
+ Silsbee, Miss 46
+ Silsbee, Nathaniel 46
+ Simes, Mark 39
+ Slock, Mrs. 105
+ Smallpeace, Robert 122, 123
+ Smith, Major 9
+ Smith, Mr. 104
+ Smith, Samuel 5
+ Spalding, Hezekiah 5
+ Sparks, Jared 46
+ Sprague, Charles 44
+ Stewart, Duncan 6
+ Stiles, Rev. Dr. 113
+ Stillman, Rev. Dr. 7
+ Swift, Jonathan 71, 72
+ Symonds, John 119
+
+ TARRING, WILLIAM 12
+ Taylor, Ann 10
+ Thatcher, B.B. 125
+ Torrey, Rev. Mr. 52
+ Trollope, Mrs. 56
+ Tuck, Rev. Mr. 53
+ Tully, John 20
+ Turner, John 30
+ Turner, Rev. R. 109
+
+ UPHAM, REV. C.W. 12
+
+ WAGNER, ELIZABETH 12
+ Walker, Thomas 90
+ Walter, John 7
+ Wardwell, Ester 38
+ Wharton, Eliza 89, 94
+ Watkins, Dr. 82
+ Webster, Noah 88
+ Welby, Adlard 40, 41, 42, 43
+ Weld, Mr. 111
+ Wendell, Oliver 5
+ West, Benjamin 95
+ Whipple, Plato 13
+ Whitman, Elizabeth 91, 93
+ Whitney, John 5
+ Willard, Joseph 98
+ Williams, Judith 6
+ Williams, Mary 5
+ Willis, N.P. 44, 45
+ Winsloe, Thomas 103
+ Woodwrod, Ebenezer 8
+
+ YATES, MARY 103
+ Young, William 6
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+LITERARY CURIOSITIES.
+
+
+THE following humorous lines well describe the difficulty that editors
+find in pleasing the public. They are expected to know everything, and
+to be able to satisfy all tastes and capacities. No imperfections can be
+excused in conductors of newspapers; they are not even allowed to be
+unfortunate.
+
+
+ THE EDITOR.
+
+ That editor who wills to please,
+ Must humbly crawl upon his knees,
+ And kiss the hand that beats him;
+ Or, if he dare attempt to walk,
+ Must toe the mark that others chalk,
+ And cringe to all that meet him.
+
+ Says one, Your subjects are too grave,
+ Too much morality you have,--
+ Too much about religion;
+ Give me some witch and wizard tales
+ Of slip-shod ghosts with fins and scales,
+ Of feathers like a pigeon.
+
+ I love to read, another cries,
+ Those monstrous, fashionable lies,--
+ In other words, those novels,
+ Composed of kings and queens and lords,
+ Of border wars, and gothic hordes
+ That used to live in hovels.
+
+ No, no, cries one, we've had enough
+ Of such confounded love-sick stuff,
+ To craze the fair creation;
+ Give us some recent foreign news
+ Of Russians, Turks, the Greeks, or Jews,
+ Or any other nation.
+
+ The man of dull scholastic lore
+ Would like to see a little more
+ In scraps of Greek or Latin;
+ The merchants rather have the price
+ Of southern indigo and rice,
+ Of India silks, or satin.
+
+ Another cries, I want more fun,
+ A witty anecdote or pun,
+ A rebus or a riddle;
+ Some long for missionary news,
+ And some, of worldly, carnal views,
+ Would rather hear a fiddle.
+
+ The critic, too, of classic skill,
+ Must dip in gall his gander quill,
+ And scrall against the paper:
+ Of all the literary fools
+ Bred in our colleges and schools,
+ He cuts the greatest caper.
+
+ Another cries, I want to see
+ A jumbled-up variety,
+ Variety in all things,--
+ A miscellaneous, hodge-pod print,
+ Composed (I only give the hint)
+ Of multifarious small things.
+
+ I want some marriage news, says miss:
+ It constitutes my highest bliss
+ To hear of weddings plenty;
+ For in a time of general rain
+ None suffer from a drought, 'tis plain,--
+ At least, not one in twenty.
+
+ I want to hear of deaths, says one,
+ Of people totally undone
+ By losses, fire, or fever:
+ Another answers full as wise,
+ I'd rather have a fall and rise
+ Of raccoon skins and beaver.
+
+ Some signify a secret wish
+ For now and then a favorite dish
+ Of politics to suit them.
+ But here we rest at perfect ease,
+ For should they swear the moon was cheese,
+ We never should dispute them.
+
+ Or grave or humorous, wild or tame,
+ Lofty or low, 'tis all the same,
+ Too haughty or too humble;
+ And every editorial wight
+ Has nought to do but what is right,
+ And let the grumblers grumble.
+
+ From a Salem paper of 1828; author not stated.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "All are needed by each one,
+ Nothing is fair and good alone."
+ EMERSON.
+
+In "old times" almost all the young ladies upon their marriage were
+"amiable" and "agreeable"; at least they are so represented in most of
+the announcements. The "maiden aunt" could not speak plainer in writing
+for the "Boston Sunday Gazette." We copy some specimens from Boston and
+Salem papers.
+
+ On Thursday last, in the Forenoon, was married Mr. BENJAMIN
+ DAVIS of this Town, Merchant, to Mrs. ANSTESS GREENLEAF,
+ second Daughter of STEPHEN GREENLEAF Esq; High Sheriff of
+ the County of Suffolk.
+
+ The same Evening Mr. OLIVER WENDELL, of this Town, Merchant,
+ was also Married to Mrs. MARY JACKSON, only Daughter of the
+ late Mr. EDWARD JACKSON; both young Ladies of great Merit.
+
+ Sept. 13, 1762.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ On Thursday Evening last Mr. _Phillip Dumaresq_, Merchant,
+ was Married to Mrs. _Rebecca Gardiner_, third Daughter of
+ _Sylvester Gardiner_, Esq; of this Town, an agreeable young
+ Lady.
+
+ Dec. 19, 1763.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ MARRIED]--Mr. SAMUEL SMITH, to Mrs. ABIGAIL PITTENGILL, an
+ agreeable young widow.
+
+ Dec. 22, 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Thursday evening last, JOHN WHITNEY, Esq. merchant, of the
+ state of Georgia, to the amiable Mrs. BRIDGET SEYMORE, of
+ Wesport.
+
+ June 2, 1792.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ --At Plainfield, Mr. Hezekiah Spalding, a batchelor of large
+ fortune, aged 68, to the amiable Miss Mary Williams, aged
+ 22!
+
+ 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ MARRIED]--At Cambridge, Dr. J. JENNISON, to the amiable Miss
+ BELCHER, daughter of his late Excellency Governour
+ _Belcher_, of Nova Scotia, and grand daughter of his
+ Excellency _Jonathan Belcher_, Esq. deceased, formerly
+ Governour of the then provinces of Massachusetts Bay and
+ New-Hampshire.
+
+ Aug. 31, 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ --At Newbury-Port, Mr. WILLIAM YOUNG, of Boston, to the
+ amiable Miss JUDITH WILLIAMS, of that town.
+
+ June 7, 1788.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ NEWPORT, Nov. 24.
+
+ The 16th Instant, Mr. WILLIAM CHECKLEY, Son of the Rev. Mr.
+ SAMUEL CHECKLEY of Boston, was married to Miss POLLY
+ CRANSTON, a young Lady of genteel Acquirements, and of a
+ most amiable Disposition.
+
+ Dec. 19, 1766.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ BOSTON, January 12 [1767].
+
+ Last Thursday Evening DUNCAN STEWART, Esq; Collector of His
+ Majesty's Customs for the Port of New-London, was married to
+ Miss NANCY ERVING, youngest Daughter of the Hon. JOHN
+ ERVING, Esq; of this Town; a most amiable and agreeable
+ young Lady.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Thursday last was married, at Newport, JOHN COFFIN JONES,
+ Esq. of Boston, merchant, to the truly amiable and
+ accomplished Miss ABIGAIL GRANT, daughter of the late
+ ALEXANDER GRANT, Esq. a Lady of real merit, and highly
+ qualified to render the connubial state desirable and
+ supremely happy.
+
+ May 22, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ --By the Rev. Dr. STILLMAN, Mr. CALEB LORING, distiller, to
+ the agreeable Miss POLLY SELSBRY.
+
+ May 25, 1792.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ MARRIED]--At _Billerica_, Mr. JAMES BREED, to the amiable
+ Miss ELIZABETH PARKER.--At _Newtown_, Mr. JOHN WALTER, A.B.,
+ to the agreeable Miss POLLY BULLARD.
+
+ March 24, 1792.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Married,
+
+ At Topsfield, by the Rev. Mr. Huntington, Mr. JOSEPH
+ AVERELL, to the accomplished Miss EUNICE LAMSON.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1801.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Editors were formerly very fond of curious matter for their lists of
+marriages and deaths. In the "Massachusetts Centinel" for 1789 the
+marriage of Pork and Hogg has a doubtful look, although it used to be
+supposed that everything in the paper was true.
+
+ MARRIED]--Lately in Delaware, Mr. ROBERT PORK, merchant, to
+ Miss CATHARINE HOGG.--At Pepperell, Mr. GILES RICHARDS, of
+ this town, to the amiable Miss SALLY ADAMS, youngest
+ daughter of the late Rev. Mr. ADAMS, of Roxbury.--At Hull,
+ Mr. SPENCER BINNEY, to Miss POLLY JONES, daughter of Mr.
+ THOMAS JONES, of that place.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+A Boston paper of 1795 prints the following:--
+
+ _MARRIAGES._
+
+ At Concord, Ebenezer Woodwrod, A.B., Citizen Bachelor, of
+ Hanover, N.H., to the amiable Miss ---- Robinson. At
+ Longmeadow, Mr. John M. Dunham, Citizen Bachelor and
+ Printer, as aforesaid, to the amiable Miss EMILY BURT.
+
+ The promptness and decision which the said Citizens have
+ shown----
+
+ "In all the fond intrigues of Love,"
+
+ is highly worthy of imitation; and the success that has so
+ richly crowned their courage and enterprize, must be an
+ invincible inducement to the fading phalanx of our remaining
+ Bachelors, to make a vigorous attack on some fortress of
+ female beauty, with a determined resolution,
+
+ ----"Ne'er to quit the glorious strife,"
+ 'Till, drest in all her charms, some blooming fair
+ Herself shall yield, the prize of conquering love!
+
+
+In the "Salem Mercury," June 17, 1788, we find the following
+announcement, which reminds us of "Solomon Grundy, who died on Monday."
+
+ DIED--At Rehoboth, Mr. HENRY BOWEN. He went to a wedding,
+ well, on Thursday, taken sick on Friday, died on Saturday,
+ buried on Sunday.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+"Virtuous and amiable" were terms used frequently in the lists of
+deaths.
+
+ --At Portsmouth, Mrs. Jane Hill, the virtuous and amiable
+ Consort of Mr. Elisha Hill. [1790]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The following is a list of marriages and deaths at various dates, taken
+from Boston and Salem papers:--
+
+ "Salem Gazette," July 19, 1811.
+
+ ......_MARRIAGES_......
+
+ In Williamsborough (N.C.), Major SMITH, of Prince Edwards
+ (Va.), to Miss CHARLOTTE B. BRODIE.--This match, consummated
+ only a few days since, was agreed upon thirty-one years ago
+ at Camden (S.C.), when he was captured at the battle of
+ Camden; and being separated by the war, &c., each had
+ supposed the other dead, until a few months since, when they
+ accidentally met, and neither plead any statute of
+ limitation in bar of the old bargain.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Mercury," Oct. 21, 1788.
+
+ MARRIED--In England, Mr. Matthew Rousby, aged 21, to Mrs.
+ Ann Taylor, aged 89. The lady's grandson was at this equal
+ union, and was 5 years older than his grandfather.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1817.
+
+ MARRIED,
+
+ In this town, Mr. Schuyler Lawrence, to Mrs. Chloe Minns,
+ Mistress of the African School in Salem, and who has
+ deserved well of the town and of the African race.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Register."
+
+ _MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1827._
+
+ MARRIED
+
+ At New-York, by Rev. Mr. Hart, M.M. NOAH, senior editor of
+ the Enquirer, to Miss Rebecca, only daughter of Mr. Daniel
+ Jackson, of that city. The junior editor of the Enquirer was
+ on the same day killed in a duel. An old Bachelor at our
+ elbow thinks the fate of the surviving editor most deserving
+ of commiseration!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1811.
+
+ ......DEATHS......
+
+ A short time ago, at the romantic village of
+ Laughton-en-le-Morthen, in Yorkshire, England, Farmer PAUL
+ PARNELL, late of the Ewes Farm House, age 76 years, who
+ during his life, drank out of one silver pint cup with two
+ handles, upwards of 2000l. sterling worth of nut-brown
+ Yorkshire stingo (good old ale), being much attached to
+ stingo tipple, of the best double stout, home-brewed
+ quality. N.B. This calculation took at 2_d._ each cupfull.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Essex Register," Feb. 5, 1824.
+
+ _MARRIAGES._
+
+ In Solon, by Rev. Moses French, Josiah French, Esq., aged
+ 48, to Miss Betsey Jackman, aged 40, being his _fifth wife._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," Oct. 17, 1825.
+
+ At Rochester, N.Y., Capt. Samuel Currier to Miss Sally
+ Clough--_his sixth wife_!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Independent Chronicle," Nov. 23, 1797.
+
+ At Gloucester (R.I.), Mr. ELISHA HERRENDEN, AEt. 83, to Mrs.
+ ELENOR LUSHURE, AEt. 88, being his _eighth_ wife!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1829.
+
+ By Rev Mr Upham, Mr Lewis Plum, of Newark, N.J., to Miss
+ Eliza P. Lemon, of this town.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Essex Register," Dec., 1820.
+
+ At Beverly, on Wednesday evening last, by the Rev. Mr.
+ Oliphant, Mr. Larkin Moore, travelling preacher, physician,
+ poet, trader, &c., to Mrs. Nancy Cook.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1790.
+
+ _Died_]--At Horseley, in Derbyshire, England, a venerable
+ matron, named _Frances Burton_, aged 107. She had practised
+ midwifery upwards of 80 years. The husband of the above old
+ lady was sexton of the parish church 70 years; and this
+ ancient pair frequently boasted, that she had _brought into
+ the world_, and he had _buried_, the parish twice over!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ 1807.
+
+ ......_DIED_......
+
+ Near Gloucester, Virg., _Elizabeth Wagner_, aged 107. She
+ never took medicine of any kind in her life.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ From "Salem Gazette," 1811. Appropriate name for a
+ rope-maker.
+
+ Mr. WILLIAM TARRING, rope-maker, 38.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Massachusetts Mercury," Dec. 27, 1799.
+
+ Died,
+
+ At _Hamilton, Essex_ County, PLATO WHIPPLE, aged 103, one of
+ God's images in ebony.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Salem Gazette," 1811.
+
+ Mr. JACK DALAND, a very worthy black man, aged 65. He was
+ brought from Africa to the West Indies at about 11 years of
+ age; but instead of being _eaten_, as he expected, by the
+ white men, he was transferred by purchase to a happy asylum
+ in this place, where he has spent upwards of 50 years of his
+ life, respected by the whole town, as a faithful,
+ industrious, pleasant-tempered, intelligent man. His honest
+ industry was rewarded by the acquisition of a comfortable
+ property, which he has left for the enjoyment of his family.
+ The long train of white people who followed his remains to
+ the grave, testify to the esteem in which he was held.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The following is a notice of a "distinguished merchant" and "literary"
+character of Newburyport, Mass. In the appendix to "Lord" Dexter's great
+production--where all the stops are placed together on the last page,
+so that "people can salt and pepper as they please"--we find these
+lines:
+
+ "All men inquire, but few can tell
+ How thou in Science doth excel!"
+
+ TIMOTHY DEXTER. The subject of the present sketch, according
+ to his own account, was born in Malden, Massachusetts. "I
+ was born," says he (in his celebrated work, "A Pickle for
+ the knowing ones"), "1747, Jan. 22; on this day in the
+ morning, a great snow storm in the signs of the seventh
+ house; whilst Mars came forward Jupiter stood by to hold the
+ candle. I was to be a great man."
+
+ Lord Dexter, after having served an apprenticeship to a
+ Leather dresser, commenced business in Newburyport, where he
+ married a widow who owned a house and a small piece of land,
+ part of which, soon after the nuptials, were converted into
+ a shop and tanyard.
+
+ By application to his business his property increased, and
+ the purchase of a large tract of land near Penobscot,
+ together with an interest which he bought in the Ohio
+ Company's purchase, afforded him so much profit, as to
+ induce him to buy up Publick Securities at forty cents on
+ the pound, which securities soon after became worth twenty
+ shillings on the pound.
+
+ His Lordship at one time shipped a large quantity of
+ _warming pans_ to the _West Indies_ where they were sold at
+ a great advance on prime cost, and used for molasses
+ ladles. At another time, he purchased a large quantity of
+ _whalebone_ for _ship's stays_; the article rose in value
+ upon his hands, and he sold it to great advantage.
+
+ Property now was no longer the object of his pursuit; but
+ popularity became the god of his idolatry. He was charitable
+ to the poor, gave large donations to religious societies,
+ and rewarded those who wrote in his praise.
+
+ His lordship about this time acquired his peculiar taste for
+ style and splendour; and to enhance his own importance in
+ the world, set up an elegant equipage, and at great cost
+ adorned the front of his house with numerous figures of
+ illustrious personages.
+
+ By his order, a tomb was dug under the summer house in his
+ garden, during his life; which he mentions in 'A Pickle for
+ the knowing ones,' in the following ludicrous style:--
+
+ "Heare will lie in box the first Lord in Americake the first
+ Lord Dexter made by the voice of hampsher state my brave
+ fellows Affirmed it they give me the titel and so Let it
+ goue for as much as it will fetch it wonte give me Any
+ breade but take from me the Contrary fourder I have a grand
+ toume in my garding at one of the grasses and the tempel of
+ Reason over the toume nand my coffen made and all Ready I
+ emy house painted with white Lead an side and outside
+ touched with green and bras trimmings Eight handels and a
+ good Lock, I have had one mock founrel it was so solmon and
+ there was so much Criing about 3000 spectators I say my
+ house is Euqal to any mansion house in twelve hundred miles
+ and now for sale for seven hundred pounds weight of Dollars
+ by me
+
+ TIMOTHY DEXTER."
+
+ Lord Dexter believed in transmigration sometimes; at others
+ he was a deist. He died on the 22d day of Oct. 1806, in the
+ 60th year of his age.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Dec. 17, 1825.
+
+From what we have heard and read of Mr. Dexter, it is a matter of
+surprise to us how such eccentricities could have attracted the
+attention they evidently did. It is doubtful if so much folly and
+conceit could now interest many people for any length of time.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Curious old almanacs.
+
+ AN OLD ALMANACK. A friend has handed us an almanack one
+ hundred and fifty years old, which is quite a curiosity in
+ its line. The following is the title:
+
+ "The New-England Almanack for the Year of our Lord MDCCIII.
+ Being Third after Leap-year, and from the Creation, 5652.
+ Discovery of America by Columbus, 211. Reign of our Gracious
+ Queen Anne, (which began March 8, 1702,) the 2 year. Wherein
+ is contained, Things necessary, and common in such a
+ Composure. As the Quarters of the Moon, Aspects of the
+ Planets and Weather set down Exactly according to the
+ Aspects, Courts, Spring Tides, Rising and Setting of the
+ Sun, Sun and Moons place, time of Full Sea at Boston, the
+ Eclipses, High Ways, &c., with several other Curiosities.
+ Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, the Metropolis of
+ New-England, Lat. 42, 24, but may serve any part of the
+ Country, (even as far as New-York,) without sensible Error.
+ By Samuel Clough.
+
+ The Heavens to us, God's Glory do make known,
+ By th' Firmament, his handy work is shown.
+
+ Licensed by His Excellency the Governour. Boston: Printed by
+ B. Green and J. Allen, for the Booksellers, and are to be
+ Sold at their Shops. 1703."
+
+ Then follows a short address "To the Readers" of the
+ Almanack. The figure of "Man's Body" with the "Twelve Signs
+ of the Zodiack," is headed with the following lines:
+
+ The Anotomy must still be in,
+ Else th' Almanack's not worth a pin:
+ For Country-men regard the Sign
+ As though 'Twere Oracle Divine.
+ But do not mind that altogether,
+ Have some respect to Wind and Weather.
+
+ The months of the year are introduced as follows:
+
+ _January._
+
+ Cold Weather now 'gins to be fierce,
+ And Norwest Winds our bodys pierce.
+
+ _February._
+
+ The Weather still continues cold,
+ Therefore warm cloaths are good we hold.
+
+ _March._
+
+ 'T is the best Month of all the year,
+ Wherein to brew good napping Beer.
+
+ _April._
+
+ Now Leaves on Trees begin to spring,
+ And Birds on Hedges sit and sing.
+
+ _May._
+
+ To walk Five Miles in his own Farm,
+ Will do a Husbandman no harm.
+
+ _June._
+
+ Now Countrymen each Sun shine day,
+ Mow down their Grass, and make it hay.
+
+ _July._
+
+ If Mildew now blasts English Grain,
+ 'Twill make poor Husbandmen complain.
+
+ _August._
+
+ But if from Blasting it be free,
+ The Farmers then should thankful be.
+
+ _September._
+
+ The Leaves from Trees now fall away,
+ And sweetest Flowers do decay.
+
+ _October._
+
+ If Barns are full, though Fields be empty,
+ It doth prognosticate a plenty.
+
+ _November._
+
+ One day this Month each Fruitful year,
+ Give thanks to GOD, and Eat good chear.
+
+ _December._
+
+ The Weather now 'gins to be cold,
+ Which makes to shrink both young and old.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ SATURDAY, DEC'R 24, 1853.
+
+ The Salem Observer.
+
+ ANOTHER OLD ALMANACK. In our last we gave an account of an
+ old Almanack for the year 1703. Since then we have seen
+ another some sixteen years older, printed for the year 1687.
+ It was bound in with an old account book that formerly
+ belonged to the Rev. Thomas Barnard, a minister of Andover,
+ from 1682 to 1718,--the great-grandfather of the Rev. Thomas
+ Barnard, D.D., the first minister of the North Church in
+ this city, who died Oct. 1, 1814, in the sixty-seventh year
+ of his age, also an ancestor of Capt. Edward Barnard, of
+ this city. We insert the title page and other extracts
+ therefrom, which we trust will impart the same interest to
+ our readers as we derived from its perusal.
+
+ It is prefaced by the following:
+
+ Novemb. 24th, 1686. I have Perused the Copy of an Almanack
+ for the Ensuing Year, Composed by John Tulley, and find
+ nothing in it contrary to His Majesties Laws, and therefore
+ Allow it to be Printed, and Published by Benjamin Harris,
+ Book-Seller in Boston.
+
+ EDWARD RANDOLPH, Secr.
+
+ The following is the title:
+
+ Tully 1687. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord MDCLXXXVII.
+ Being the third after Leap-year, and from the Creation 5636.
+ The Vulgar Notes of which are Prime 16--Epact 26--Circle of
+ the [Symbol: Sun] 16--Domin: Letter B. Unto which is annexed
+ a Weather Glass, whereby the Change of the Weather may be
+ foreseen. Calculated for and fitted to the Meridian of
+ Boston in New-England, where the North Pole is elevated 42
+ gr. 30 m. By John Tulley. Boston, Printed by S. Green for
+ Benjamin Harris; and are to be Sold at his Shop, by the Town
+ Pump near the Change. 1687.
+
+
+ Then follows "A Table of Kings," from William the Conqueror,
+ 1066, to James 2d, 1685, closing with the lines--
+
+ Now may we look on Monarchy and sing,
+ In health and peace long live great JAMES our King.
+
+ And concluding with the "Weather Glass," &c., &c., which
+ follow:
+
+ _Prognostica Georgica_: Or the Country-man's Weather-Glass.
+
+ Prognosticks of Tempests. The obscuring of the smaller stars
+ is a certain sign of Tempests approaching, the oft changing
+ of the Winds is always a forerunner of a storm.
+
+ Of Winds. The resounding of the Sea upon the shore, and
+ murmuring of the Winds in the Woods without apparent Wind,
+ shew wind to follow; shooting of stars (as they call it) is
+ an usual sign of wind from that quarter the star came from,
+ Redness of the Skie in the morning is a token of Winds, or
+ Rain, or both: if the circles that appear about the Sun, be
+ red and broken, they portend wind: if thick and dark, Winds,
+ Snow, or Rain: The like may be said of the Circles about the
+ Moon.
+
+ Of Rain. If two Rainbows appear, they are a sign of Rain: If
+ the Sun or Moon look pale, look for Rain: if a dark Cloud be
+ at Sun-rising, in which the Sun soon after is hid, it will
+ dissolve it, and Rain will follow: if the Sun seem greater
+ in the East than commonly, it is a sign of Rain, if in the
+ West about Sun-setting there appear a black Cloud, you may
+ expect Rain that night, or the day following, if in the
+ winter time thick white Clouds appear in the South-east near
+ the Horizon at Sun rising, they portend Snow, a day or two
+ after: If black Clouds appear there, it is a sign of Rain.
+
+ Of Fair Weather. If the Moon look bright and fair, look for
+ Fair Weather. Also the appearing of one Rainbow after a
+ storm, is a known sign of Fair Weather. If Mists come down
+ from the Hills, or descend from the heavens, and settle in
+ the valleys, they promise fair hot weather: Mists in the
+ Evening shew a fair, hot day on the morrow: The like when
+ mists rise from the waters in the evening. Much more might
+ be added, but I would not tire the reader.
+
+ It appears by the following that the first form of
+ government, under the King, was accepted by the people in
+ 1686.
+
+ May 14, 1686. Arrived from England, His Majesty's Commission
+ to divers worthy Gentlemen, to be a President and Council
+ for the management of his Majesty's Government here, and
+ accordingly on the 25th of May, '86, the President and
+ Council being assembled in Boston, the exemplification of
+ the Judgment against the Charter of the Late Governour and
+ Company of the Massachusetts-Bay in N E together with His
+ Majesty's Commission of Government were publickly read, and
+ received by persons of all conditions with general
+ Acceptance.
+
+ It will appear by the following advertisement that a market
+ was then first appointed by authority to be kept in Boston.
+
+ Advertisement. There is Appointed by Authority a Market to
+ be kept in Boston, and a Committee is ordered to meet and
+ state the place, and days, and other circumstances relating
+ to the good settling thereof: Of which a more particular
+ Account may be speedily expected.
+
+ This Almanack was published only 67 years from the
+ settlement at Plymouth, and 59 from that of Salem.
+
+In the eyes of the old New England people the almanac stood next to the
+Bible in importance. Almost the only knowledge we have of many events of
+those early days has been obtained from diaries kept in interleaved
+almanacs. It is true, important facts are often found recorded in
+connection with trifling or quite unimportant matters.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The venerable Dr. Holyoke, of Salem, president of the Massachusetts
+Medical Society, who died in March, 1829, at the age of one hundred
+years and eight months, wrote a letter, a few months before his death,
+in answer to a request that he would furnish some particulars of his
+mode of living. Dr. Holyoke was through life noted for being remarkably
+temperate in all things. After his death it was reported that some
+physician said (perhaps in fun) that if Dr. H. had not been in the
+habit of using intoxicating liquors he might have lived to a _good old
+age._
+
+We give here a copy of this interesting letter.
+
+ Salem.
+
+ SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1829.
+
+ DR. HOLYOKE. The Medical Society of this District have
+ rendered an appropriate tribute of respect for the memory of
+ their venerated associate, the late Dr. E.A. HOLYOKE, by
+ publishing an elegant little volume, containing a memoir of
+ the deceased, prepared by a Committee of the Society, and a
+ few of his writings. We have selected from the latter the
+ following articles, which will interest the reader. The
+ first is an account of Dr. Holyoke's habits of life, diet,
+ &c., furnished by him in a letter to one of his friends; the
+ others are a historical memorandum and a fragment of the
+ Doctor's poetical effusions.
+
+ _To ---- ---- ---- Williamsville, Person County, North
+ Carolina._
+
+ SALEM, Oct'r--1828.
+
+ SIR,--I received yours of the 20th ult. on ye 30th, wherein
+ you wish me to give you some Account of my Mode of Life,
+ &c.--In answer to which I would first mention that I was
+ providentially blessed with an excellent Constitution--that
+ I never injured this constitution by Intemperance of any
+ kind--but invigorated it by constant Exercise, having from
+ my 30th to my 80th Year walked on foot (in the Practice of
+ my Profession)--probably as many as 5 or 6 miles every day,
+ amounting to more than a _million_[A] of miles, and tho'
+ sometimes much fatigued, the next Night's refreshing Sleep,
+ always completely restored me. In early life, between 20 and
+ 30, I used to ride on Horse back, but being often pestered
+ by my Horses slipping their Bridles I found it more
+ convenient to walk.
+
+ As to my Diet, having been taught to eat of any thing that
+ was provided for me, and having always a good Appetite, I am
+ never anxious about my food, and I do not recollect any
+ thing, that is commonly eaten, that does not agree with my
+ Stomach, except fresh roasted Pork, which tho' very
+ agreeable to my Palate, almost always disagrees with me; for
+ which however I have a remedy, in the Spirit of Sal Amoniac.
+ Eight or Ten drops of Aqua Ammonia pura in a wine glass of
+ Water, gives me relief after Pork, and indeed after anything
+ else which offends my stomach. As to the Quantity, I am no
+ great Eater, and I find my appetite sooner satisfied now
+ than formerly;--there is one peculiarity in my Diet which as
+ it may perhaps have contributed to Health I would mention; I
+ am fond of Fruit, and have this 30 or more years daily
+ indulged in eating freely of those of the Season, as
+ Strawberries, Currants, Peaches, Plums, Apples, &c., which
+ in summer and winter I eat just before Dinner, and seldom at
+ any other time, and indeed very seldom eat any thing
+ whatever between meals.--My Breakfast I vary continually.
+ Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, with toasted bread and butter, Milk
+ with Bread toasted in hot weather, but never any meat in my
+ Life--seldom the same Breakfast more than 2 or 3 days
+ running. Bread of Flour makes a large portion of my Food,
+ perhaps near 1-2. After Dinner I most commonly drink one
+ glass of Wine--plain boiled rice I am fond of--it makes
+ nearly 1-2 of my Dinner perhaps as often as every other
+ Day--I rarely eat Pickles or any high seasoned
+ Food--Vegetable food of one kind or other makes commonly 2-3
+ or 3-4 of my nourishment--the condiments I use are chiefly
+ Mustard, Horse radish and Onions. As to Drinks, I seldom
+ take any but at meal times and with my Pipe--in younger Life
+ my most common draft was Cider, seldom Wine, seldom or never
+ Beer or Ale or distilled Spirits--But for the last 40 or 50
+ years, my most usual drink has been a Mixture, a little
+ singular indeed, but as for me it is still palateable and
+ agreeable, I still prefer it--The Mixture is this, viz. Good
+ West India Rum 2 Spoonfuls, Good Cider whether new or old 3
+ Spoonfuls, of Water 9 or 10 Spoonfuls--of this Mixture
+ (which I suppose to be about the strength of common Cider) I
+ drink about 1-2 a Pint with my Dinner and about the same
+ Quantity with my Pipe after Dinner and my Pipe in the
+ Evening, never exceeding a Pint the whole Day; and I desire
+ nothing else except one glass of Wine immediately after
+ Dinner the whole day. I generally take one Pipe after Dinner
+ and another in the Evening, and hold a small piece of
+ pigtail Tobacco in my mouth from Breakfast till near Dinner,
+ and again in the Afternoon till tea; this has been my
+ practice for 80 years--I use no Snuff--I drink tea about
+ sunset and eat with it a small slice of Bread toasted with
+ Butter--I never eat any thing more till Breakfast.
+
+ I have not often had any complaint from indigestion, but
+ when I have, abstinence from Breakfast or Dinner, or both,
+ has usually removed it; indeed I have several times thrown
+ off serious Complaints by Abstinence.--As to Clothing, it is
+ what my Friends call thin; I never wear Flannel next my Skin
+ tho' often advised to it, and am less liable to take cold,
+ as it is called, than most people--a good warm double
+ breasted Waist-Coat and a Cloth coat answers me for winter,
+ and as the season grows warmer I gradually conform my
+ Covering to it. As to the Passions, Sir, I need not tell you
+ that when indulged, they injure the Health; that a calm,
+ quiet self-possession, and a moderation in our Expectations
+ and Pursuits, contribute much to our Health, as well as our
+ happiness, and that Anxiety is injurious to both.
+
+ I had a good Set of Teeth, but they failed me gradually,
+ without Pain, so that by 80 I lost them all.
+
+ Thus, Sir, you have, blundering and imperfect as it is, an
+ answer to your Requests, with my best wishes that it may be
+ of any service to the Purpose for which it was made--But
+ must rely upon it that Nothing I have written be made public
+ in my Name.[B] Wishing you long Life and many happy Days,
+
+ I am Yours, &c.
+ E.A. HOLYOKE.
+
+ P.S. I forgot to speak of my repose. When I began the
+ practice of Physick, I was so often call'd up soon after
+ retiring to Rest, that I found it most convenient to sit to
+ a late Hour, and thus acquired a Habit of sitting up late,
+ which necessarily occasioned my lying in bed to a late Hour
+ in the Morning--till 7 o'cl'k in Summer and 8 in Winter. My
+ Business was fatiguing and called for ample repose, and I
+ have always taken care to have a full proportion of Sleep,
+ which I suppose has contributed to my longevity.
+
+ _Recollections & Memorandums of Past Events._
+
+ The first thing that I entirely remember was the funeral of
+ Aunt Oulton, which was on July 18, 1732.
+
+ The first Aurora Borealis I ever saw, the Northern or rather
+ Northeast Sky appeared suffused by a dark blood-red colored
+ vapour, without any variety of different colored rays. I
+ have never since seen the like. This was about the year
+ 1734. Northern lights were then a novelty, and excited great
+ wonder and terror among the vulgar.
+
+ In 1737, Square Toed Shoes were going out of fashion; I
+ believe few or none were worn after 1737. Buckles instead of
+ Shoe Strings began to be used about the same time, but were
+ not universal in the country towns till 1740 or 1742. Very
+ broad brim'd Hats were worn as early as I remember. My
+ father had a beaver whose Brims were at least 7 inches;
+ which when he left off, I remember I used to wear in the
+ Garden, or in a shower, by way of Umbrella. They were all
+ cock'd triangularly. And pulling them off by way of
+ salutation was invariably the Fashion by all who had any
+ Breeding.
+
+ Boots were never worn except on horseback, or snowy or rainy
+ weather. They frequently had large broad Tops that reach'd
+ full half way up the Thigh. But Boots did not come into
+ general use till the close of the revolutionary war.
+
+ Funerals were extravagantly expensive. Gold Rings to each of
+ the Bearers, the Minister, the Physician, &c., were
+ frequently given when the family could but ill afford it.
+ White gloves in abundance, burnt wine to the company, &c.,
+ &c. This extravagance occasioned the enacting sumptuary
+ laws, which though they check'd did not entirely suppress
+ the complaints till the commencement of the revolutionary
+ war.
+
+ In 1749, it was reported the train band list of the town of
+ Marblehead was equal to that of the town of Salem. The
+ difference is now very great. I suppose Salem has at least
+ twice the number of Marblehead.
+
+ [1749.][C] The Houses (in Salem) were generally very
+ ordinary. The first handsome house was built by Mr. Jno.
+ Turner, then Col. Pickman, then Mr. J. Cabot, &c.
+
+ There was but one ropewalk, and that was on the neck, inside
+ the gate. But one tavern of any note, and that was an old
+ house at the corner now occupied by Stearns' brick store.
+ The Houses for public worship were only the old (first)
+ church--the eastern parish--the secession from the first
+ church--the Friends' meeting house, and the Episcopal
+ church.
+
+ The number of Inhabitants was estimated at between 5 and
+ 6000.
+
+ The Commerce of this town was chiefly with Spain and
+ Portugal and the West Indies, especially with St. Eustatia.
+ The Cod fishery was carried on with success and advantage.
+ The Schooners were employed on the fishing banks in the
+ summer, and in the autumn were laden with Fish, Rum,
+ Molasses, and the produce of the country, and sent to
+ Virginia and Maryland, and there spent the winter retailing
+ their cargoes, and in return brought Corn and Wheat and
+ Tobacco. This Virginia voyage was seldom very profitable,
+ but as it served to keep the crews together, it was
+ continued till more advantageous employment offered.
+
+ There were a few Chaises kept by gentlemen for their own
+ use, but it was no easy matter to hire one to go a journey.
+
+ _Salem Observer._
+
+[A] This seems to have been a slip of the pen; the following is his own
+calculation, made in 1823, and which from his great degree of
+exaggeration falls short of half the actual amount. "If from my age of
+20 to 80 years I have walked 5 miles a day, which is a moderate
+calculation, I must have gone in that 60 years,
+
+ 109,500 miles.
+ And in the first 20 & last 15 years, 38,325
+
+ In 95 years probably, Total, 147,825
+
+
+[B] This prohibition could only have regard to the period of his life
+time and was occasioned by that extreme modesty which always rendered it
+painful to the Doctor to be held up to the public notice.
+
+[C] These remarks refer to the period of Dr. Holyoke's residence in
+Salem, preceding the revolution.
+
+Dr. Holyoke during his whole life, it is said, was never fifty miles
+distant from the spot where he was born. He was the first person to
+receive the degree of M.D. from Harvard College; was the first president
+of the Massachusetts Medical Society; and he made in the course of his
+life three hundred and twenty-four thousand professional visits.
+
+ ANTIQUITY OF NURSERY RHYMES.--Many of these productions have
+ a very curious history, if it could only be traced. Some of
+ them probably owe their origin to names distinguished in our
+ literature; as Oliver Goldsmith, for instance, is believed
+ in his earlier days to have written such compositions. Dr.
+ E.F. Rimbault gives us the following particulars as to some
+ well-known favorites: "Sing a Song of Sixpence," is as old
+ as the sixteenth century. "Three Blind Mice" is found in a
+ music-book dated 1609. "The Frog and the Mouse" was licensed
+ in 1580. "Three Children Sliding on the Ice" dates from
+ 1633. "London Bridge is Broken Down" is of unfathomed
+ antiquity. "Girls and Boys come out to play" is certainly
+ old as the reign of Charles II.; as is also "Lucy Locket
+ lost her Pocket," to the tune of which the American song of
+ "Yankee Doodle" was written. "Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where
+ have you been?" is of the age of Queen Bess. "Little Jack
+ Horner" is older than the seventeenth century. "The Old
+ Woman Tossed in a Blanket" is of the reign of James II., to
+ which monarch it is supposed to allude.
+
+ _Salem Gazette._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Some British opinions of Benedict Arnold.
+
+ "The good whigs of America," says a late paper, "may be
+ assured, that the infamous BENEDICT ARNOLD'S mansion is the
+ very next to TYBURN,--a well chosen habitation for such an
+ abandoned traitor: A step or two conveys him to that fatal
+ spot, where the most guilty of all the miserable beings who
+ have ever suffered, was perfectly innocent compared with
+ him.--He lives despised by the nobility and gentry, and
+ execrated by the people at large--countenanced by none
+ excepting their Britannic and Satanic Majesties, and such of
+ their adherents, respectively, who are looking for promotion
+ under their royal masters."
+
+ By a gentleman from the southward we learn that it is
+ expected Congress will fix their permanent residence at
+ Philadelphia.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ Feb. 26, 1784.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ NEW-YORK, November 16.
+
+ By very recent accounts from St. John, Nova-Scotia, we are
+ informed that _Benedict Arnold_, having attempted to JOCKY
+ some of the inhabitants out of their property, but being
+ detected, and the people being much exasperated, offered to
+ deliver him up to the Americans for ten dollars; but alas!
+ before the bargain was firmly agreed on, he made his escape
+ to Halifax, and there got protection from the populace.
+
+
+ We are informed that Benedict Arnold lately sailed from
+ New-Brunswick for London. It is said that his residence in
+ America, even among the provincial Loyalists, was rather
+ uncomfortable; he therefore wisely preferred being
+ enveloped in the atmosphere of London to residing on a
+ continent which had been the theatre of his traitorous acts,
+ and consequently the occasion of more frequent reflections
+ on the infamy of his crimes.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ November, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Receipt for apple-pudding, in 1788, with the apple and the pudding left
+out.
+
+ _For the_ HERALD _of_ FREEDOM.
+
+ HOW TO MAKE AN APPLE PUDDING.
+
+ _Being a curious, elaborate and sublime_ DISSERTATION,
+ _never before published._
+
+ By _YANKEE DOODLE, Esquire._
+
+ (_In Continuation._)
+
+ CHAPTER.--HOW AND ABOUT NAMES.
+
+ _Nugaeque canorae._ Hor.
+
+ I LOOK upon it as the greatest happiness of my life, that
+ fortune has given me _a name_ that corresponds with my
+ nature and constitution. Patriotism is the strongest
+ passion; and I glory in being a _Yankee_.--A _Yankee_ is any
+ man born in New-England--and New-England contains the three
+ northern States, and a certain _little, pestiferous, pseudo
+ Island_. My countrymen generally have the credit of being a
+ good-natured, psalm-singing, religious kind of men, very
+ honest, but plaguy hard in their dealings--insomuch that a
+ _Carolinian_ or a _Georgian_ frequently swear that the very
+ _Satan_ himself could never get to windward of them.
+
+ This puts me in mind of a story.--A certain Boston sea
+ Captain, of a sloop of 60 tons burthen, coming with a cargo
+ of New-England rum, shoes, cheese, potatoes, and other
+ valuable commodities, into _Broadway_, which you must know
+ is a very _narrow_ passage in the _Appomatax_, a branch of
+ _James River_ in _Virginia_.--Before I proceed I must
+ acquaint the serious reader--and who is there but must be
+ serious in reading the solemn truths I am about to
+ declare--that every _iota_ of what I shall delineate in in
+ these sacred depositories of facts, is TRUTH.----I am now
+ about to elucidate the psalm-singing, religious character of
+ _Yankees_, by a TRUE STORY, _never before
+ published_.----When our Boston sea Captain, therefore, came
+ into Broadway, a Virginian comes a-board of him--and as he
+ goes down into the cabbin, had to stoop a little, because
+ the cabbin was low--for, as I said before, the sloop was 60
+ tons, although our religious sea-captain _entered_ but 40
+ tons at the Naval-Office: Howsomever he had a reserve of
+ conscience, for the Naval-Officer charged him for _light
+ money_, when there was not one light-house in all the
+ ancient dominion.--But this is nothing to my story.
+
+ _N.B._ I mean to give the good-natured reader a whole
+ chapter on _the art of_ STORY-TELLING.
+
+ Well, as I was saying, the Virginian being obliged to
+ stoop--the _stooping_ caused his head to be bowed down; and
+ looking down, he saw a _book_ lying upon the starboard
+ locker.--Well, says he, and what the d----l--but I think it
+ expedient to omit the _Virginian_ oath; for this man, not
+ being a moral man, swore consumedly, and did not know a
+ _bible_ by sight, but only by _hearsay_.--And Captain, cried
+ the _Virginian_, will you sell this bible of yours: I hear
+ it's a mighty clever book for children.--And why not for
+ grown people? cried the Captain, taking up the _book_. Why,
+ quoth the _Virginian_, because I mean my three boys, who are
+ from 11 to 14 years old, shall be good _scholards at their
+ larning_--they can all say their letters already, and the
+ youngest can spell.--The Boston sea Captain opening the
+ bible found these words: "_Search the scriptures_;" and
+ without saying any thing himself, pointed out the passage to
+ the _Virginian_.--Pugh! said the _Virginian_, and walked
+ upon deck.--Now, to explain this mystery, you must know the
+ Yankee sea Captain shewed him the passage to denote that he
+ would sooner sell his soul to the d----l, than his bible to
+ a _Virginian_;--and the _Virginian_ said pugh! and walked
+ upon deck, because he could not read.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONGEVITY. Since we published the examples of longevity,
+ collected by the editor of the Medical Adviser, we have seen
+ another list, which is _supposed_ to comprise all, which can
+ be found from the year 66 to 1799. The number of those who
+ lived from _one hundred_ and _seventy_ to _one hundred_ and
+ _eighty-five_ years is 3; from _one hundred_ and _sixty_ to
+ _one hundred_ and _seventy_, 2; from _one hundred_ and
+ _fifty_ to _one hundred_ and _sixty_, 3; from _one hundred_
+ and _forty_ to _one hundred_ and _fifty_, 7; from _one
+ hundred_ and _thirty_ to _one hundred_ and _forty_, 26; from
+ _one hundred_ and _twenty_ to _one hundred_ and _thirty_,
+ 84; from _one hundred_ and _ten_ to _one hundred_ and
+ _twenty_, 277; from _one hundred_ to _one hundred_ and
+ _ten_, 1310. Total of those who survived a century,
+ _Seventeen hundred and twelve_.----This writer could not
+ have included in his list the examples of longevity which
+ Russia furnished, for we frequently find in the bills of
+ mortality of this country for a single year, twice the
+ number of centenarians. We have before us the table of
+ deaths for 1813, which gives the following remarkable ages.
+ One 165;--three 135;--one 130;--fifteen 125;--thirty-three
+ from 115 to 120;--fifty-three from 110 to 115;--one hundred
+ and twenty-seven from 100 to 105;--fourteen hundred from 95
+ to 100;--two thousand eight hundred and forty-nine from 90
+ to 95;--four thousand four hundred and fifty-one from 85 to
+ 90. Whole number of deaths 971,338.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Oct. 29, 1825.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Boston shop-signs in 1789.
+
+ To read the signs in this town is a delicate, sentimental
+ repast.--I hope _Bostonians_ will never complain of want of
+ amusement, while there is one sign standing. If I had time,
+ I would certainly consult _Milton_, to see how he has
+ _arranged_ matters in his description of _chaos_.--I doubt
+ not I could there get a _hint_ for two whole chapters. I had
+ as lief take a walk through Cornhill, as to go to the
+ new-invented moral lectures.
+
+ _Herald of Freedom._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A CURIOUS WOMAN.
+
+We have often heard it said that men are curious, and we can well
+believe it; but now we find it recorded that there has been at least
+_one_ curious woman. Read the following extract from the "Salem Gazette"
+of 1795:--
+
+ Married at Andover, Mr. Aaron Osgood to the _curious_ Miss
+ Ester Wardwell.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "AWFULLY GOOD."
+
+In our opinion the oft-repeated words "awfully good," "jolly fine," and
+similar expressions, which sound so "charmingly sweet" from the lips of
+interesting young ladies, are quite cast into the shade by language used
+in the following extract from the Portsmouth, N.H., "Oracle of the
+Day," Nov. 24, 1798:--
+
+ MARRIED]--In this town, on Sunday evening last, by the Rev.
+ Dr. Haven, MARK SIMES, Esq. Deputy Post-Master, &c. to the
+ elegantly pretty and amiably delicate Miss MARY-ANN BLUNT,
+ youngest daughter of the late Capt. John Blunt, of
+ Little-Harbour.
+
+ _Genius of Hymen; Power of fondest Love!
+ In showers of bliss descend from worlds above,_
+ _On_ Beauty's _rose, and_ Virtue's _manlier form,_
+ _And shield, ah! shield them both, from time's tempestuous storm_!
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A FEW years since, a young gentleman at the University in
+ _Cambridge_ asked of a Collegian the loan of his _W_irgil.
+ The inelegant pronunciation of the word _Virgil_ was
+ burlesqued by the young Collegian in the following story,
+ with which his invention readily supplied him:--_Lately_
+ (says he) _I set out on a woyage to Wersailles, with one
+ Captain Winal, in a British wessel called the Wiper; but we
+ soon met with a wiolent storm, which drove us into a port in
+ Wirginia; where one Capt. Waughn, a wery wicious man,
+ inwited us aboard his wessel, and gave us some weal and
+ wenison, with some winegar, which made me wery sick; so I
+ did womit like wengeance;_ (and added, reaching out the
+ book) _You may have my Wirgil, and welcome_. This humor had
+ the desired effect; the young gentleman saw the absurdity of
+ doing such w_iolence_ to the letter V, and has ever since
+ spoke like other people.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ April 26, 1791.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+What Mr. Welby, an English gentleman, saw when he was in the United
+States in 1821. A very flattering picture of the West.
+
+ More Travellers' Stories.
+
+ _From the National Gazette._
+
+ A new book of Travels in America has been recently issued in
+ London which rivals the volumes of our old friends Weld,
+ Ashe, Fearon, &c. It is entitled "A Visit to North America
+ and the English Settlements in Illinois, with a winter
+ residence in Philadelphia; solely to ascertain the actual
+ prosperity of the Emigrating Agriculturist, Mechanic, and
+ Commercial Speculator"--by Adlard Welby, _Esquire_, of South
+ Rauceby, Lincolnshire. This esquire has said enough, should
+ he be believed, to settle ultimately the point of the truth
+ or falsehood of Godwin's notable doctrine, that we owe the
+ increase of our numbers chiefly to emigration. No sane
+ European would venture among us after having read Mr.
+ Welby's book. He discovered that, in Philadelphia, living
+ was _very dear_, comfort _very uncommon_, and good manners
+ still more rare. Throughout his journey he found in the
+ taverns "a system of impertinence, rudeness, rascality, and
+ filth, rendered more intolerable by an antipathy to the
+ English, in the brutal manifestation of which most of the
+ Colonel, Doctor, and Squire, keepers of the taverns, were
+ pleased to indulge." When he asked an hostler to call him
+ early in the morning, he was answered that--he might call
+ himself and be d----d. In the Western country he found no
+ symptoms of hospitality--witnessed only idleness and
+ licentiousness, and experienced every where brutal rudeness
+ and unbounded extortion. The western people usually combine
+ in cheating all travellers, and sometimes "_rifle_," that is
+ _shoot_ residents among them who do not choose to descend to
+ their own level. In Illinois "a party proposed to each other
+ _coolly_ to go and shoot neighbour *****, who had behaved
+ ill to them sundry times; it was agreed upon; they went to
+ his field, found the old man at plough, and, with unerring
+ aim, laid him dead." And Mr. Welby adds that the country
+ would be desirable to live in, did not the folks _shoot_
+ each other thus, and were they not half savages. The
+ _shooting_ case reminds us of a traveller's story which we
+ heard at a dinner table abroad. A gentleman and esquire of
+ strict veracity, like Mr. Welby, related, in order to shew
+ how common was the calamity of the _coup de soleil_, or
+ stroke of the sun, in the Island of JAVA, that sitting once
+ in the house of an opulent merchant of Batavia, drinking a
+ _cool_ glass of Madeira after dinner, with the merchant's
+ wife in the room, the lady was, in the twinkling of an eye,
+ _reduced to a heap of ashes_ by a _coup de soleil_; when the
+ husband observed to his guest, "don't be alarmed--we are
+ accustomed to this;" then rang the bell with great
+ composure, and on the appearance of the servant, _coolly_
+ said--"Boy--sweep your mistress out, and _bring us clean
+ glasses._"
+
+ In the neighborhood of Mr. Birbeck's settlement in Illinois,
+ Mr. Welby could obtain neither eggs, milk, sugar, salt, nor
+ water; and when he and his party sent a request to Mr.
+ Birbeck for some water, the answer returned was, he made it
+ a general rule to refuse every one. Mr. Birbeck is
+ represented as having deceived and disappointed most of the
+ English who were lured to his settlement by his "Journal."
+ Mr. W. could discover none of "the snug cottages, with
+ adjoining piggeries, cowsteads, gardens and orchards," which
+ Mr. B. had introduced into his canvass. He found nothing but
+ the primitive log building, that served the whole
+ family--"for parlour, for kitchen, and hall." "The strange
+ heterogeneous mixture of characters," says Mr. W. "which are
+ collected here by the magic pen of Morris Birbeck, is truly
+ ludicrous. Among many others, a couple now attend to the
+ store at Albion who lately lived in a dashing style in
+ London, not far from Bond-street; the lady brought over her
+ white satin shoes and gay dresses, rich carpets, and
+ everything but what in such a place she would require--yet
+ I have understood that they have accommodated themselves to
+ their new situations, hand out the plums, sugar, whiskey,
+ &c., with tolerable grace, and at least 'do not seem to mind
+ it.'"
+
+ In one of the principal literary journals of London, Mr.
+ Welby's book is recommended as "carrying on its front the
+ stamp of plain dealing, _truth_ and candor, and entitled,
+ from internal evidence, to the highest authority amid the
+ conflicting statements and opinions respecting emigration to
+ America." The reviewer adds:--"From a country so destitute
+ of moral beauty as the author depicts it, so disgusting in
+ its human externals, and so low in the scale, not merely of
+ refinement, but of good principles, we are happy to
+ withdraw." As Mr. Welby spent a winter in Philadelphia, and
+ had acquaintance here, it is probable that such of the
+ latter as have not seen his book will be pleased to know the
+ complexion of its contents.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ May 18, 1822.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In the "Essex Register" of July 18, 1833, may be found the following
+notice of two well-known American authors:--
+
+ DISCOURSE ON GENIUS. The Richmond Compiler speaks in terms
+ of great praise of a discourse delivered recently in
+ Richmond, before a Young Men's Society, by Joseph Hulbert
+ Nicholas. A number of extracts are also given in the
+ Compiler, as specimens of the performance, from which we
+ take the following notices of two of our
+ fellow-townsmen.--_Boston Courier._
+
+ Of Charles Sprague, of Massachusetts, no language can be
+ spoken but that of unqualified praise. Forsaking the modern
+ school of writing, he is contented with being simple and
+ natural. Sublimity, tenderness, wit, elegance, and
+ beneficial satire characterise his muse.--The only complaint
+ I have ever heard made of him is that _he does not write
+ more_.
+
+ Of Nathaniel Parker Willis, a native of Massachusetts, and a
+ fellow-student with myself at Yale College, I come now to
+ speak. Of him I shall speak familiarly, as of an intimate
+ friend; and impartially and justly, as one who wishes him
+ well. Willis, I venture to pronounce the most remarkable
+ genius our country has yet produced. I do not call him
+ remarkable merely for his unusual precocity of song, but
+ remarkable for the possession of that rare genius, which by
+ any man, young or old, in our land, I do not think has ever
+ been displayed. Nature has done wonderful things for him;
+ but alas! he has thus far done but little for himself. The
+ great pieces he has sometimes given us have cost him but
+ little effort, and he has thrown out his productions, in
+ prose as well as poetry, with a profusion and a variety that
+ seem miraculous; and yet, of all our bards, he has met with
+ the most severe and merciless censures. In some measure he
+ has deserved the treatment. In College he would not
+ condescend to study, and charity only for his high genius
+ enabled him to gain a degree. Besides, he gained his first
+ and best reputation by pieces founded upon scriptural
+ subjects, and he stood committed to the world as a
+ _religious_ man. Many who had never seen aught of him but
+ his productions, and had formed the loftiest estimate of his
+ personal character from the pure tendency of his effusions,
+ were astonished and grieved when introduced to the
+ author.--His head made giddy by the praises of young and
+ old, he forgot himself, and possessing most shrewd good
+ sense, he would talk the reverse. He became fantastic in
+ apparel, as he did likewise in his style of writing; made
+ himself too common, and almost broke a pious father's heart
+ by deserting the altar of that divine Jesus upon whose Bible
+ he had founded the fairest fabric of his fame. My friend, of
+ whom I so sternly speak, is now in Italy; and should these
+ remarks, per chance, ever meet his eye, I beseech him by our
+ past friendship, by our walks "by moon or glittering
+ star-light," through the Eden groves and avenues of
+ New-Haven, by the love he bears to his parents, and above
+ all, by the love he bears that Saviour, upon whose image and
+ the scenes of whose mortal pilgrimage he is rapturously
+ gazing, in the matchless pictures of the Italian masters, I
+ beseech him, when he returns to his native land, to wear no
+ longer a ridiculous mask, but to appear in his own native
+ strength, dignity, and surpassing loveliness.
+
+In the "Salem Observer," March 8, 1834, are to be found the following
+references to well-known young ladies of the day. Miss Silsbee is
+supposed to be the daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee, of Salem,
+Massachusetts senator in Congress. She afterwards married Jared Sparks,
+the well-known historian, president of Harvard College, etc.
+
+ HIGH LIFE AT WASHINGTON. The Washington Correspondent of the
+ Boston Morning Post, in describing Gov. Cass's soiree, thus
+ notices some of the young ladies who were present:--
+
+ Miss Keyser of Baltimore, uniting youth and beauty,
+ possesses an eye as dark as the absence of all light,
+ beaming with a lustre that eclipses all. I never saw a
+ countenance betoken such perfect happiness; it was like a
+ star-lit lake, curling its lips into ripples in some dream
+ of delight, as the west wind salutes them with its balmy
+ breath and disturbs their placid slumber. I never before
+ realised Byron's idea of
+
+ "Music breathing o'er the face;"
+
+ till Miss Keyser's brought it home to the business and
+ bosom.
+
+ Miss Silsbee, of Salem, with a form of great symmetry,
+ possesses a countenance not only beautiful, but entirely
+ intellectual--the most so of any you have met with either
+ here or elsewhere; it is of the Italian model; and should
+ have basked beneath an Italian sky. She is very easy,
+ graceful and modest in her deportment, and dresses 'rich not
+ gaudy;' the cameo necklace that graced her person was only
+ the foil that set off the diamond.
+
+ Miss Harper of Baltimore, with a fine face and form, is
+ particularly unrivalled for a bust of unrivalled symmetry;
+ it would furnish a model for a Canova; and reminds me of
+ Greenough's Medora.
+
+ Miss M'Lane of this city, with many separate charms that
+ could not fail of attraction, unites with them the finest of
+ fine forms.
+
+ And last, not least, the younger Miss Cass possesses the
+ most perfect _Madonna_ countenance I have ever seen clothed
+ in living lustre. It was one of the first that attracted my
+ attention when I entered the saloon, and the last that
+ received my parting glance when I retired; it seemed to be--
+
+ "While in, above the world;"
+
+ I am told it is entirely characteristic; that she is in
+ heart and thought, what you behold in her
+ countenance--happy, but not gay; serious but not sad;
+ devout, yet not a devotee.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In the "Salem Gazette" of 1815 is the following curious information
+about Scott's novels, which shows how easy it is for people to be
+mistaken.
+
+ William Erskine, Esq. is said to be the author of the new
+ and interesting Novel, "_Guy Mannering_."--Walter Scott had
+ been pronounced the author.
+
+ WAVERLY.--It is not yet decided to whom this very
+ interesting novel belongs. It came into the world with all
+ the advantage that the name of Walter Scott could give it;
+ but Guy Mannering's appearance seems to have dissolved that
+ connection. An article in our first page attributes the work
+ to Wm. Erskine; but in the last North-American Review we
+ read the following:--"An English Magazine says, the author
+ of Waverly and Guy Mannering is a young gentleman of the
+ name of FORBES, the son of a Scotch baronet." The Review
+ remarks, that the extract in the title page of the latter,
+ from the _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, was a delicate way of
+ informing the public that they were under a mistake in
+ attributing the former to Walter Scott.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+On the 16th June, 1806, there was a total eclipse of the sun. The
+following is all the "Salem Gazette" of the 17th has to say of such a
+remarkable event.
+
+ Yesterday the great Solar Eclipse took place, agreeably to
+ the calculations which had been made. The day was very
+ favourable to viewing it. The air was remarkably clear, and
+ there was not a cloud in the hemisphere. As the sun shut
+ in, the stars appeared, and many were visible at the time of
+ total darkness. A considerable alteration in the temperature
+ of the atmosphere was felt during the continuance of the
+ Eclipse.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In the "Boston Palladium" of 1819, copied from a London paper, is Lord
+Mansfield's opinion about a word in Johnson's Dictionary. In the
+original editions of this work are to be found many very curious
+definitions, some of which bore so hard upon the government as to be
+construed into libel.
+
+ FROM A LONDON PAPER.
+
+ _EXCISE._
+
+ The following curious little document is the opinion of Lord
+ Mansfield, when Attorney-General, upon Dr. Johnson's
+ explanation of the word Excise:--
+
+ _CASE._
+
+ Mr. Samuel Johnson has lately published a book, entitled "A
+ Dictionary of the English Language, in which the words are
+ deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their
+ different significations by examples from the best writers.
+ To which are prefixed a History of the Language and an
+ English Grammar."
+
+ Under the title "Excise" are the following words:--
+
+ EXCISE, n.s. (_accijs_, Dutch; _excisum_, Latin,) a hateful
+ tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common
+ judges of property, but _wretches_ hired by those to whom
+ "_Excise_" is paid.
+
+ The people should pay a rateable tax for their
+ sheep, and an _Excise_ for every thing which they
+ should eat.--HAYWARD.
+
+ "Ambitious now to take _excise_
+ Of a more fragrant paradise."--CLEVELAND.
+
+ _EXCISE._
+
+ "With hundred rows of teeth the shark exceeds,
+ And on all trades, like Cassawar, she feeds."
+ MARVEL.
+
+ "Can hire large houses and oppress the poor
+ By farm'd Excise."--DRYDEN'S Juvenal, Sat. 3.
+
+ The Author's definition being observed by the Commissioners
+ of Excise, they desire the favour of your opinion:
+
+ _Qu._--Whether it will not be considered as a libel; and if
+ so, whether it is not proper to proceed against the author,
+ printers and publishers thereof, or any and which of them,
+ by information or how otherwise?
+
+ _OPINION._
+
+ "I am of opinion that it is a libel; but under all the
+ circumstances, I should think it better to give him an
+ opportunity of altering his definition; and in case he
+ don't, threaten him with an information.
+
+ "(Signed) W. MURRAY.
+
+ "29th Nov, 1755."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Samuel Sewall, whose remarkable "Diary" has within a few years been
+printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society, appears to have been
+the successor of John Foster, who printed the first book ever issued
+from the press in Boston,--namely, "Hubbard's Election Sermon,"--in
+1676. All previous printing in the colony had been executed at
+Cambridge. Mr. Hubbard was the minister of Ipswich.
+
+ SAMUEL SEWALL.
+
+ When John Foster (the first who carried on printing in
+ Boston) died in 1681, the town was without the benefit of
+ the press; but a continuance of it being thought necessary,
+ _Samuel Sewall_, not a printer but a magistrate, and a man
+ much respected, was selected as a proper person to manage
+ the concerns of it, and as such was recommended to the
+ general court. In consequence of this recommendation, the
+ court, in Oct. 1681, gave him liberty to carry on the
+ business of printing in Boston. The _license_ is thus
+ recorded: "Samuel Sewall, at the instance of some Friends,
+ with respect to the accommodation of the public, being
+ prevailed with to undertake the Management of the Printing
+ Press in Boston, late under the command of Mr. John Foster,
+ deceased, liberty is accordingly granted to him for the same
+ by this court, and none may presume to set up any other
+ Press without the like Liberty first granted."
+
+ Sewall became a bookseller.--Books for himself and others
+ were printed at the press under his management; as were
+ several acts and laws, with other works for government.
+ Samuel Green, jun., was his printer. In 1682 an order passed
+ the general court for the treasurer to pay Sewall ten pounds
+ seventeen shillings, for printing the election sermon,
+ delivered that year by the Rev. Mr. Torrey.
+
+ In 1684, Sewall, by some means, was unable to conduct the
+ press, and requested permission of the general court to be
+ released from his engagement. This was granted; the record
+ of his release is in the words following.
+
+ "Samuel Sewall by the providence of God being unable to
+ attend the press, &c., requested leave to be freed from his
+ obligations concerning it, which was granted, with thanks
+ for the liberty then granted."
+
+ In 1684, and for several subsequent years, the loss of the
+ charter occasioned great confusion and disorder in the
+ political concerns of the colony. Soon after Sewall resigned
+ his office as conductor of the press in Boston, he went to
+ England, and he returned in 1692. He was undoubtedly the
+ same Samuel Sewall who, when a new charter was granted by
+ king William, was for many years one of the council for the
+ province, and who, in 1692, was appointed one of the Judges
+ of the Superior Court; in 1715 Judge of Probate; and in
+ 1718, Chief Justice of Massachusetts. He died Jan. 1, 1729,
+ aged 78 years.--_Boston News Letter._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Knowledge of natural history at the Isles of Shoals in the early part of
+the last century.
+
+ A CENTURY AGO. The N. York Gazette relates that when Rev.
+ Mr. Tuck, in the early part of the last century, was
+ ordained minister of Star Island, one of a cluster called
+ the Isles of Shoals, his parish offered him, beside the
+ usual parsonage house, a quintal of fish each family, but no
+ money, as a salary. It is well known that the fish cured at
+ these islands are called dun fish, and have the highest
+ reputation for excellence wherever known. They are caught in
+ the depth of winter, and are fit for market before the hot
+ weather. They derive the name of _dun_ from the color which
+ they assume. There were at the period of which we speak,
+ about fifty families in the cluster, giving him fifty
+ quintals per year. The average price of a dun fish is about
+ ten dollars, and the worthy pastor always procured a ready
+ sale for them, thereby realizing his five hundred dollars
+ per annum. With this stipend he flourished, and brought up
+ a family, whom he educated himself, and fitted one of his
+ sons for entrance into Harvard College. The lad had never
+ been away from the Shoals till he reached Long wharf on his
+ way to Cambridge. He had never seen a horse, nor heard a
+ church bell. On landing, he saw many horses attached to
+ various vehicles; and speaking to his father, said, "Only
+ see what queer cows they have in Boston! they are not shaped
+ like ours, and are all without horns." In passing by the Old
+ South, in Cornhill, the big bell of that church struck up a
+ peal, the effect of which nearly drove the young man mad.
+
+ _Salem Observer_ [1829].
+
+What Captain Hall, R.N., thought of a Salem gentleman.
+
+ _From Capt. Basil Hall's Travels in America--just
+ published._
+
+ We reached the town of Salem in good time for dinner; and
+ here I feel half tempted to break through my rule, in order
+ to give some account of our dinner-party, chiefly, indeed,
+ that I might have an opportunity of expatiating--which I
+ could do with perfect truth and great pleasure--on the
+ conversation of our excellent host. For I have rarely, in
+ any country, met a man so devoid of prejudice, or so willing
+ to take all matters on their favorable side, and withal, who
+ was so well informed about every thing in his own and in
+ other countries, or who was more ready to impart his
+ knowledge to others.
+
+ To these agreeable attributes and conversational powers he
+ adds such a mirthfulness of fancy, and genuine heartiness of
+ good-humour, to all men, women, and children who have the
+ good fortune to make his acquaintance, that I should have no
+ scruple--if it were not too great a liberty--in naming him
+ as the person I have been most pleased with in all my recent
+ travels.
+
+ After dinner, we repaired to the Museum, the rich treasures
+ of which have been collected exclusively by captains or
+ supercargoes of vessels out of Salem, who had doubled one or
+ other of the great southern promontories,--the Cape, and the
+ Horn, as they are technically called by seamen. As my eye
+ fell on numberless carefully cherished objects, which I had
+ often seen in familiar use on the other side of the globe,
+ my imagination revelled far and wide into regions I may
+ never live to see again.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1826.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Compliment to New England._ In a speech made by Mr. Lyell,
+ the eminent geologist, at a late meeting of the British
+ Geological Association, he said--"Were I ever so unfortunate
+ as to quit my native land to reside permanently elsewhere, I
+ should without hesitation choose the United States for my
+ second country, especially New England, where a population
+ of more than two millions enjoys a higher average standard
+ of prosperity and intellectual advancement than any other
+ population of equal amount on the globe."
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1843.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Mrs. Trollope avers that pigs are caressed by the ladies and gentlemen
+of New York.
+
+ "REFUGEE IN AMERICA."
+
+ NEW-YORK AND BOSTON. Mrs. Trollope, in her new work, called
+ the Refugee in America, introduces some queer comparisons
+ between the manners of the two cities. We quote for
+ example:--"In Boston, there are no persons allowed to vote
+ at the elections of President or Governor of that province
+ but native born yankees; while at New-York, emigrants are
+ forced from the ships in which they arrive directly to the
+ hustings, which are kept open the first two weeks of every
+ month at Mason's lodge, Broadway, where they are allowed to
+ jostle off the sidewalks the most respectable inhabitants.
+ If they are reproved for such conduct, the answer invariably
+ is,--'Isn't this a land of liberty?' I was one forenoon
+ myself stopped at the lodge and offered a vote, with the
+ preliminary question,--'Are you a Clay or a Jackson man?' In
+ Boston, a person seen with a segar in his mouth in the
+ street, is counted a blackguard; but in New-York no
+ gentleman makes his promenade without one. In Boston, a
+ housekeeper would be placed at the Sessions dock for
+ suffering the refuse of his mansion to be thrown into the
+ street; while in N. York he would be fined $1 if he allowed
+ it to be thrown elsewhere near his premises. Swine is a
+ Bostonian's bane, and a N. Yorker's antidote,--indeed this
+ animal is as much caressed by the ladies and gentlemen of
+ the latter city, as a lap-dog in London or Paris. The
+ Governor and his twenty chosen ministers have made it a
+ capital offence to molest one of these interesting
+ quadrupeds while roaming the streets!"--[Oh! what a lying
+ jade!]
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Oct. 13, 1832.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ EARLY ACCOUNTS OF NEW-ENGLAND. The first settlers of
+ New-England must have been blessed with singular powers of
+ vision. One of them speaks of lions in Cape Ann: another
+ (Josselyn), who arrived at Boston in 1663, and resided in
+ this Colony about eight years, says of our frogs, "some,
+ when they sit upon their breech, are a foot high, and some
+ as long as a child one year old." He likewise says "old
+ barley frequently degenerates into oats" in New-England.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+"Enthusiasm" is described as a nervous disorder by Dr. Douglass, author
+of the Historical Summary.
+
+ DR. DOUGLASS'S NOTICE OF SALEM. In looking over Dr.
+ Douglass' historical summary, we found the following note on
+ Salem. The author formerly lived in Boston, and after his
+ removal to England, published his work in 1749. As he was a
+ physician, he probably considered himself authorized to
+ broach new theories. He certainly showed his ingenuity in
+ imputing to our soil a tendency to produce the diseases of
+ which he makes mention. It is perhaps fortunate for us that
+ the Doctor did not live in our day, as he would have found
+ in the excitement which has recently prevailed here in
+ relation to the Mill Dam, Theatre, &c., new proofs of the
+ correctness of his hypothesis.
+
+ "In Salem and its neighborhood _Enthusiasm_ and other
+ _nervous disorders_ seem to be _endemial_. _Hypochondriack_,
+ _hysterick_, and other _maniack_ disorders prevail there,
+ and Ipswich adjoining, to this day."
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1826.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Beer and cider "Federal liquors."
+
+ PHILADELPHIA, July 23 [1788].
+
+ A correspondent wishes that a monument could be erected in
+ UNION GREEN, with the following inscription:--
+
+ IN HONOUR OF
+ AMERICAN BEER AND CYDER.
+
+ It is hereby recorded, for the information of strangers and
+ posterity, that 17000 people assembled on this Green, on
+ the 4th of July, 1788, to celebrate the establishment of the
+ Constitution of the United States, and that they separated
+ at an early hour, without intoxication or a single quarrel.
+ They drank nothing but Beer and Cyder. Learn, reader, to
+ prize those invaluable _federal_ liquors, and to consider
+ them as the companions of those virtues which can alone
+ render our country free and respectable.
+
+ Learn likewise to despise
+ SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, as _antifederal_;
+
+ and to consider them as the companions of all those vices
+ which are calculated to dishonour and enslave our country.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In these "awfully fine" times, the following lines ought to be
+interesting:--
+
+ ......POETRY......
+
+ _From the Lady's Miscellany._
+
+ YANKEE PHRASES.
+
+ AS sound as a nut o'er the plain,
+ I of late whistled chuck full of glee,
+ A stranger to sorrow and pain,
+ As happy as happy could be.
+
+ As plump as a partridge I grew,
+ My heart being lighter than cork;
+ My slumbers were calmer than dew,
+ My body was fatter than pork.
+
+ Thus happy, I hop'd I should pass
+ Slick as grease down the current of time;
+ But pleasures are brittle as glass,
+ Although as a fiddle they're fine.
+
+ Jemima, the pride of the vale,
+ Like a top nimbly danc'd o'er the plains;
+ With envy the lasses were pale,
+ With wonder stood gazing the swains.
+
+ She smil'd like a basket of chips,
+ As tall as a may-pole her size--
+ As sweet as molasses her lips--
+ As bright as a button her eyes.
+
+ Admiring, I gaz'd on her charm,
+ My peace that would trouble so soon,
+ And thought not of danger nor harm,
+ Any more than the man in the moon.
+
+ But now to my sorrow I find
+ Her heart is as hard as a brick,
+ To my passion forever unkind,
+ Though of love I am full as a tick.
+
+ I sought her affection to win,
+ In hope of obtaining relief;
+ Till I like a hatchet grew thin,
+ And she, like a haddock, grew deaf.
+
+ I late was as fat as a doe,
+ And playful and spry as a cat;
+ But now I am as dull as a hoe,
+ And as lean and as weak as a rat.
+
+ Unless the unpitying fates
+ With passion as ardent will cram her,
+ As certain as death or as rates,
+ I soon shall be dead as a hammer.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ April 5, 1811.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Gentlemen and children have sometimes been considered bugbears.
+
+ Boarders Wanted.
+
+ TWO or Three Ladies can be accommodated with Board, on
+ reasonable terms, in a small family, 18 miles from town,
+ where there are neither Gentlemen or Children; a Stage
+ passes the house twice a week, and the Middlesex Canal Boat
+ near it every other day. Inquire at the Centinel Counting
+ Room.
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ July 25, 1812.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LIBERAL DONATIONS_
+
+ Of the Legislature of _New-York_ to the University of that
+ State: 1,500l. for the Library; 200l. for chemical
+ apparatus; 1,200l. for a wall round the College; 5,000l. for
+ erecting a Hall, and additional wing to the College; 750l.
+ for five years annually, for the salaries of additional
+ Professors.--_Blush! Citizens of Massachusetts, for your
+ Legislators--who have so frequently denied relief to your
+ University!!!_
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ May 5, 1792.
+
+The books children read in 1789.
+
+ A great Variety of
+
+ =Children's Books=
+
+ Neatly printed, and adorned with elegant Cuts, are sold by
+ _T.C. CUSHING_, at the Printing-Office in Salem--viz.
+
+ LITTLE ROBIN RED-BREAST.
+ Memoirs of a PEGTOP.
+ The SUGAR-PLUMB; or, sweet Amusement for leisure hours.
+ The JUVENILE BIOGRAPHER, containing the Lives of little Masters and
+ Misses.
+ Be MERRY and WISE; or, the Cream of the Jests, and the Marrow of
+ Maxims, for the Conduct of Life.
+ The HOLY BIBLE abridged.
+ History of little KING PIPPIN.
+ History of GILES GINGERBREAD.
+ History of TOM JONES.
+ History of Master JACKEY and Miss HARRIOT.
+ History of CHARLES CAREFUL and HARRY HEEDLESS.
+ Mother GOOSE's Melody.
+ The Exhibition of TOM THUMB.
+ Tom Thumb's SONG BOOK.
+ The FATHER's Gift.
+ The MOTHER's Gift.
+ The BROTHER's Gift.
+ The SISTER's Gift.
+ Nurse Truelove's NEW-YEAR's GIFT.
+ Death and Burial of COCK-ROBIN.
+ The ROYAL ALPHABET.
+ The HERMIT of the Forest, and the Wandering Infants.
+
+ _Salem Mercury._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+A new way to cure insanity.
+
+ _A CURIOUS IDEA._
+
+ KNOWLEDGE is attained with the greatest difficulty; we have
+ it not by intuition, but acquire it by many unsuccessful
+ trials and long experience. One gives a hint, and the other
+ improves it; but prejudice and ignorance too often stand in
+ the way: "_That cannot be,_" or "_I cannot believe that,_"
+ has crushed many an useful project. How incredible did the
+ recovery of drowned persons appear at first! When the report
+ reached England, that many abroad had been brought again to
+ life, after laying under water some time, who gave it
+ credit? But experience has since convinced us of its
+ possibility.
+
+ Now, from the great success attending the recovery of
+ drowned persons, I would offer a hint to the public, and
+ leave it to be improved by them, respecting the recovery of
+ those who are mad, and given up as incurable.
+
+ When madness breaks forth, the first care of the physician
+ is to reduce and keep his patient low, in order to check the
+ velocity and whirl of his thoughts; and if possible to
+ procure sleep, by quieting the internal turbulency. If all
+ his skill and efforts fail, such a person is as much lost to
+ society as if he were dead. Now if such an one were plunged
+ into water, and there kept until he was apparently dead, and
+ was then recovered by the usual methods (and of which
+ recovery we have now a moral certainty) I am apt to believe
+ we should behold a perfect cure. There is, I own, something
+ shocking to nature in the experiment; but if the patient be
+ already lost, and dead to society, why should we hesitate a
+ moment to make the trial, when the probability of succeeding
+ is so flattering?
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ July 12, 1791.
+
+It would be interesting to see the punch-bowl out of which the members
+of Congress drank in 1811, on the day succeeding the marriage of Mr. and
+Mrs. Pearson.
+
+ At Washington, Hon. JOSEPH PEARSON, Esq. (Federal
+ Representative from N. Carolina), to Miss ELEANOR BRENT,
+ daughter of Robt. Brent, Esq., Mayor of the city.-- --> _The
+ greater part of the members, the next day, left the business
+ of the nation to attend the punch drinking, so that the
+ House adj'd at an early hour_. Dec. 13, 1811.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+As the following lines have the indorsement of a Hartford paper, we
+venture to reproduce them:--
+
+ From the New-York Daily Advertiser, May 10.
+
+ DESCRIPTION OF CONNECTICUT.
+
+ HERE fond remembrance stampt her much lov'd names,
+ Here boasts the soil its _London_ and its _Thames_;
+ Throughout her shores commodious ports abound,
+ Clear flow the waters of the varying ground;
+ Cold nipping winds a lengthen'd winter bring,
+ Late rise the products of the tardy spring.
+ The broken soil a labouring race requires;
+ Each barren hill its generous crops admires,
+ Where nature meanly did her gifts impart,
+ Yet, smiling, owns how much she owes to art.
+
+ But keen as winds that guide the wintry reign,
+ All bow to lucre, all are bent on gain;
+ As chance decreed, their various lots are thrown;
+ Its house each acre, every mile its town;
+ With gilded spire the frequent church is seen,
+ Sacred to him that taught them to be keen;
+ Eternal squabblings grease the lawyer's paw,
+ All have their suits, and all have studied law;
+ With tongue that art and nature taught to speak,
+ Some rave in Latin, some dispute in Greek;
+ Proud of their books, in ancient lore they shine,
+ And one month's study makes a learn'd divine;
+ Fond to converse, with deep designing views,
+ They pump the travelling stranger of his news;
+ Fond of his wit, but fonder to be paid,
+ Each house a tavern, claims a tavern's trade;
+ While he that comes, as surely hears them praise
+ The hospitality of modern days.
+
+ Yet brave in arms, of enterprising soul,
+ They tempt old Neptune to the farthest pole;
+ In learning's walks explore the mazy way
+ (For genius here has shed his golden ray);
+ In war's bold arts thro' various contests try'd,
+ True to themselves, they took their country's side,
+ And, party feuds dismiss'd, join to agree
+ That scepter only just that left them free.
+
+ _Connecticut Courant,_ July 14, 1790.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Errors of the press.
+
+ The following paragraphs will shew how completely the sense
+ is altered by the omission of a single letter of the word in
+ Italics.
+
+ "The conflict was dreadful, and the enemy was repulsed with
+ considerable _laughter_."
+
+ "Robert Jones was yesterday brought before the sitting
+ Magistrate, on a charge of having spoken _reason_ at the
+ Barleymow public-house."
+
+ "In consequence of the numerous accidents occasioned by
+ skaiting on the Serpentine River, measures are taking to put
+ a _top_ to it."
+
+ "When Miss Leserve, late of Covent Garden Theatre, visited
+ the 'Hecla,' she was politely drawn up the ship's side by
+ means of a _hair_."
+
+ "At the Guildhall dinner, none of the poultry was eatable
+ except the _owls_."
+
+ "A gentleman was yesterday brought up to answer a charge of
+ having _eaten_ a hackney-coachman for having demanded more
+ than his fare; and another was accused of having stolen a
+ small _ox_ out of the Bath mail; the stolen property was
+ found in his waistcoat pocket."
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1827.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _A CURIOSITY._
+
+ "We have often heard of the Lord's Prayer being written in
+ the compass of a shilling, but have lately seen a piece of
+ paper of that dimension, which contains, in manuscript, the
+ Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, Psalms 117,
+ 120, 127, 131, 132, 134, and 150; 9th chapter of Proverbs,
+ Prayer of St. Chrysostom, two Collects, Prayer for the
+ Royal Family, Nobility, Clergy, &c., &c., the Blessing, and
+ Junior, 1702, the name of the writer. This curiosity is in
+ the possession of Mr. John Reeder, of Brighton, who being an
+ auctioneer at a sale where it was lately sold, purchased it
+ on very easy terms. It is not legible without a good glass."
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ June 5, 1790. _Eng. pap._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In an old Salem paper we find the following:
+
+ --> We understand the number of deaths in this town the past
+ year was 234, of which 15 died abroad.
+
+This reminds us of the curious jumble made in the first edition of
+Morse's "American Gazetteer," published in Boston in 1797. In the
+description of Albany, N.Y., it says: "This city and suburbs, by
+enumeration in 1797, contained 1,263 buildings, of which 863 were
+dwelling-houses and 6,021 inhabitants. Many of them are in the Gothic
+style with the gable end to the street, which custom the first settlers
+brought from Holland."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ The earliest American writer of whom we have any information
+ was Peter Bulkley, who was born in England in 1583 and died
+ in 1659 in Massachusetts, and wrote Latin Poetry and
+ Sermons. The earliest poetic volume written in this country
+ was by Anne Bradstreet, of Boston, born 1612, died 1672.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1834.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The author of these lines must have been one of the old school.
+
+ [_The following was paid for as an Advertisement._]
+
+ The folloing lines were Presented to A lat skull mistres in
+ this town by 4 of her skolers the morning after her mareg
+
+ MAY all Joiy and happiness Vait
+ To attend your nuptal stat
+ you our instructer and the Guid
+ of our early youth beside
+ as you Quit the plas
+ wich you fild with euery Gras.
+ Our Grateful Thanks are sure your due.
+ Except them thearfor from us fue.
+ Whos shur to you that pras is due.
+ Must euery sorro euery Cear be yourn
+ Forbid it Heauin and let it turn
+ to peas and Joiys next to diuin
+ Rise Glorious euery futer Sun
+ and Bless your days with Joiys as this has dun
+ let sorrows sese and Joiys tak plas
+ to briten euery futer day with equil Gras
+ and wen your cald from hence above
+ may you inioy your souors Loue
+ wee ever shall regrat our los
+ and yet with you wee all reioyss
+
+ _Essex Gazette,_ May 14, 1771.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Boston school-books in 1790.
+
+ The School Committee in Boston have ordered that the
+ following Books be used in the Reading Schools of that town,
+ viz.
+
+ The HOLY BIBLE;
+ WEBSTER's SPELLING-BOOK;
+ The Young Ladies' ACCIDENCE;
+ Webster's American SELECTION of Lessons in Reading and Speaking;
+ The CHILDREN'S FRIEND;
+ MORSE's GEOGRAPHY abridged; and
+ The NEWSPAPERS, occasionally.
+
+ _Salem Gazette._
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ANECDOTE.
+
+ WHEN Oliver Cromwell first coined his money, an old cavalier
+ looking upon one of the new pieces, read this inscription on
+ one side, _God with us_; on the other side, _The
+ Commonwealth of England_. I see, said he, _God and the
+ Commonwealth are on different sides._
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ June 26, 1787.
+
+Two different ways of telling a story.
+
+ _Anecdote_. A CLERGYMAN, who in the Matrimonial Lottery had
+ drawn much worse than a _blank_, and, without the patience
+ of Socrates, had to encounter the turbulent spirit of
+ Xantippe, was interrupted in the middle of a _Curtain
+ Lecture_, by the arrival of a pair, requesting his
+ assistance to introduce them to the _blessed_ state of
+ Wedlock. The poor Priest, actuated at the moment by his own
+ feelings and particular _experience_, rather than a sense of
+ canonical duty, opened the book, and began: "_Man, that is
+ born of a Woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full
+ of trouble, &c., &c.,_" repeating the _burial_ service. The
+ astonished Bridegroom exclaimed, "Sir! Sir! you mistake, I
+ came here to be _married_, not _buried_!" "Well (replied the
+ Clergyman), if you insist on it, I am _obliged_ to marry
+ you--but believe me, my friend, you had _better_ be
+ _buried_."
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ March 12, 1791.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ANECDOTE. It is doubtless recollected that Dean Swift,
+ though a great favorite among the ladies, was (no doubt for
+ good and substantial reasons) nevertheless a bachelor. His
+ opinion of the married state seemed to be not very much
+ exalted. On one occasion, he had been called upon to marry a
+ couple, and after getting them properly arranged, commenced
+ as follows: "Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short
+ time to live, and is full of misery," &c. "My dear sir,"
+ interrupted the bridegroom, "you are reading the burial
+ service, instead of the matrimonial." "Never mind, friend,"
+ whispered the Dean, "_you had better be buried than
+ married_."
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1834.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ AN OPPOSITION.
+
+ Dryden and Otway lived opposite to each other in
+ Queen-street. Otway coming one night from the tavern,
+ chalked upon Dryden's door, _Here lives John Dryden, he is a
+ wit_. Dryden knew his hand writing, and next day chalked on
+ Otway's door, _Here lives Tom Otway, he is oppo-site._
+
+ _Essex Register,_ 1802.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Specimens of old time newspaper poetry.
+
+ To a LADY who admired dancing.
+
+ _MAY I presume in humble lays,
+ My dancing fair, thy steps to praise?
+ While this grand maxim I advance,
+ That all the world is but a dance,
+ That human-kind, both man and woman,
+ Do_ dance _is evident and common.
+ David himself, that God-like king,
+ We know could_ dance, _as well as_ sing.
+ _Folks who at court would keep their ground,
+ Must dance the year attendance round.
+ All nature is one_ ball, _we find:
+ The water dances to the wind;
+ The sea itself at night and noon
+ Rises and capers to the moon;
+ The moon around the earth does tread
+ A Cheshire round in buxom red;
+ The earth and planets round the sun_
+ Dance, _nor will their_ dance _be done
+ 'Till nature in one mass is blended;
+ Then we may say the_ ball _is ended._
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ July 29, 1788.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE FOUNT.
+
+ --> THE following--from the pen of a fair
+ correspondent--cannot be read without PLEASURE and
+ IMPROVEMENT.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LINES FOR A SCREEN._
+
+ TO BE WRITTEN BENEATH THE FIGURE OF "MINERVA HOLDING A CROWN
+ OF OLIVE."
+
+ Ah! lovely Ladies--while with care
+ Ye guard from harm your FACES fair;
+ While spreads the airy PARASOL
+ To shield you from the beams of SOL;
+ And many a FAN and VEIL and BLIND
+ Protect from each intrusive wind:--
+ And whilst ye deign to intervene
+ Twixt you and fire, the humble SCREEN!--
+ Oh! strive alike to guard your _hearts_
+ From VICE, and all her wily arts.
+ Your parasol let VIRTUE prove,
+ To ward th' attacks of _lawless_ love--
+ Prudence will prove a _screen_ to thee,
+ And let thy VEIL be MODESTY.
+ Attend my words, ye Fair, for know,
+ This _Crown_ shall grace the worthiest brow.
+
+ ORA.
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ July 27, 1814.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _From the_ GAZETTE _of the_ U. STATES.
+
+
+ IMPROMPTU.
+
+ _On seeing a young Lady darning Stockings._
+
+ ALONG the stocking's foot, with ease and grace
+ Your fingers, lovely Mira, when you move,
+ On them with eye admiring I will gaze,
+ And drink deep draughts of all resistless love.
+
+ Assume thy gloves, my most enchanting fair,
+ When next your stockings you begin to mend,
+ For though full white the hose, they yet appear
+ As saffron yellow, near thy lily hand.
+
+ As constant as your all obedient thread
+ Does thy bright needle's devious path pursue,
+ So does each thought of my poor brainless head
+ For ever dwell, divinest nymph, on you.
+
+ Oft as thy needles pierce the yielding hose,
+ So oft thy beauties pierce my yielding breast:
+ Oh then compassionate my deep felt woes,
+ And bid awhile the polish'd needle rest.
+
+ Or if one idle minute you disdain,
+ On me be exercis'd your mending art,
+ Yes, lovely maid, to ease of my pain,
+ Come, darn the hole that rankles in my heart.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ August 26, 1800.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE WHITE CLOVER.
+
+ BY A LADY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
+
+ THERE is a little perfum'd flower,
+ It well might grace the lovliest bower,
+ Yet poet never deign'd to sing
+ Of such a humble, rustic thing.
+ Nor is it strange, for it can show
+ Scarcely one tint of Iris' bow:
+ Nature, perchance, in careless hour,
+ With pencil dry, might paint the flower;
+ Yet instant blush'd, her fault to see,
+ So gave a double fragrancy;
+ Rich recompence for aught denied!
+ Who would not homely garb abide,
+ If gentlest soul were breathing there,
+ Blessings through all its little sphere?
+ Sweet flower! the lesson thou hast taught,
+ Shall check each proud, ambitious thought,
+ Teach me internal worth to prize,
+ Though found in lowliest, rudest guise.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ June 27, 1815.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _CASTALIAN FOUNT._
+
+ AMERICAN POETRY.
+
+ A FRAGMENT.
+
+ _The following beautiful lines were written on the death of
+ a young lady in Pennsylvania, whose dissolution was
+ occasioned by her mistaking a poisonous mineral for the
+ flower of sulphur, and swallowing a spoonfull:_
+
+ THUS, o'er the tomb of what she held most dear,
+ The weeping muse no common sorrow pours;
+ No common anguish prompts the falling tear--
+ No common virtues those she now deplores.
+
+ Dear hapless girl, was there no saving power?
+ Where was your guardian angel--where your friend?
+ Could nought prevent the fatal destin'd hour?
+ Nor pitying Heaven would hear or succour lend.
+
+ Then, if nor Heaven _would_ hear--nor friends _could_ save,
+ Be still, my heart, nor breathe another sigh;
+ Drop the last tear upon her early grave,
+ And let it teach you--that _the best must die_.
+
+ --> _A few original favours from our poetick friends would
+ be very acceptable._
+
+ _Massachusetts Centinel,_ March 28, 1789.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _From the New York Daily Advertiser._
+
+ _The Sailor Boy._
+
+ Dark flew the scud along the wave,
+ And echoing thunders rend the sky;
+ All hands aloft! to meet the storm,
+ At midnight was the boatswain's cry.
+
+ On deck flew every gallant tar,
+ But one--bereft of ev'ry joy;
+ Within a hammock's narrow bound,
+ Lay stretch'd this hapless SAILOR BOY.
+
+ Once, when the Boatswain pip'd all hands,
+ The first was he, of all the crew,
+ On deck to spring--to trim the sail--
+ To steer--to reef--to furl or clue.
+
+ Now fell disease had seiz'd a form
+ Which nature cast in finest mould;
+ The midwatch bell now smote his heart,
+ His last, his dying knell it toll'd.
+
+ "O God!" he cried, and gasp'd for breath,
+ "Ere yet my soul shall cleave the skies,
+ "Are there no parents--brethren--near,
+ "To close, in death, my weary eyes?
+
+ "All hands aloft to brave the storm,
+ "I hear the wintry tempest roar;"
+ He rais'd his head to view the scene,
+ And backward fell, to rise no more.
+
+ The morning sun in splendour rose.
+ The gale was hush'd and still'd the wave;
+ The Sea-boy, far from all his friends,
+ Was plung'd into a wat'ry grave.
+
+ But He, who guards the Sea-boy's head,
+ He, who can save or can destroy,
+ Snatch'd up to Heav'n the purest soul
+ That e'er adorn'd a SAILOR BOY.
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ Oct. 29, 1805.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ EARLY RISING.
+
+ WIVES, _awake! unveil your eyes;
+ Sluggards, no more yawning;
+ See the Delphick god arise,
+ Bright Apollo dawning._
+
+ _Husbands, rouse at love's alarms,
+ Drowsy slumbers scorning;
+ Rovers, quit your favourite charms,
+ Up! behold, 'tis morning._
+
+ _Virgins fair, have at your hearts;
+ Hymen's torch is flaming;
+ Cupid whets his pointed darts,
+ And look! the rogue is aiming._
+
+ _Fair the bud of beauty blows,
+ Mellow sweets are palling;
+ Crown us with the virgin rose,
+ And so prevent its falling._
+
+ _See the charms that nature yields;_
+ Why _sleep away your duty?
+ Arise! the fragrance of the fields
+ Is friendly to your beauty._
+
+ _Lads, for shame! abed till now!
+ Forsake them, and be wiser;
+ There's health and pleasure, you'll allow,
+ In being an early riser._
+
+ _Bound with ivy, bound with vines,
+ Youth serenely passes;
+ Bacchus round our temples twines,
+ And sparkles in our glasses._
+
+ _No longer drown the mind in sleep;
+ But breathe the vernal air!
+ Our hours may thus improvement reap,
+ And who has any t' spare_?
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ May 17, 1788.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _From the New Monthly Magazine._
+
+ =On seeing a Tomb adorned with Angels weeping.=
+
+ Though sculptors, with mistaken art,
+ Place weeping Angels round the tomb;
+ Yet, when the good and great depart,
+ These shout to bear their conquerors home.
+
+ Glad they survey their labours o'er,
+ And hail them to their native skies;
+ Attend their passage to the shore,
+ And with their mounting spirits rise.
+
+ Britain may mourn her Patriot dead,
+ And pour her sorrows o'er his dust:
+ But streaming eyes, and drooping head,
+ Ill suit those guardians of the just.
+
+ Parents may shed a tender tear,
+ And friends indulge a parting groan;
+ If these in mimic form appear,
+ Such pious grief becomes the stone.
+
+ But if the wounded marble bear
+ Celestial forms to grace the urn,
+ Let triumph in their eyes appear,
+ Nor dare to make an angel mourn.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1819.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Varieties.
+
+ _Origin of the word_ DUN.--Dunny, in the provincial dialect
+ of several countries, signifies deaf: to dun, then, perhaps
+ may mean, to deafen with importunate demands. Some derive it
+ from the word _donnez_, which signifies _give_; but the true
+ original meaning of the word owes its birth to one Joe Dun,
+ a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, so extremely active
+ and so dexterous in his business, that it became a proverb,
+ when a man refused to pay, "Why do you not _dun_ him?" that
+ is, Why do not you set _Dun_ to arrest him?--Hence it became
+ a cant-word, and is now as old as since the days of Henry
+ VII. Dun was also the general name of hangman, before that
+ of Jack-ketch.
+
+ And presently a halter got,
+ Made of the best strong hempen tear,
+ And e'er a cat could lick her ear,
+ Had tied it up with as much art,
+ As Dun himself could do for 's heart.
+
+ COTTON'S VIRGIL TRA. BOOK iv.
+
+ It is curious to observe that _Dun_, who, as we said before,
+ was _finisher of the law_ in the reign of Henry VII., had a
+ son, who became a bailiff--This bailiff having scraped some
+ money together, made his son an attorney, who changed the
+ name of _Dun_ to _Dunning_--the rest of the genealogy are
+ well known.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Aug. 29, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Biographical Correctness_.--As a specimen of the accurate
+ way in which Biographical Dictionaries are made up, the
+ Enquirer refers to Dr. Watkins' volume, in which he writes
+ down that John Adams "died in 1803."--And yet for 23 years
+ after this date, the old patriarch was living in health and
+ happiness. A still more ludicrous blunder appeared a few
+ years since in a French Biographical Dictionary, in which it
+ was stated that the now venerable John Jay, who yet lives
+ full of years and full of honors, was a Frenchman, who,
+ after having framed the Constitution of the State of
+ New-York, and witnessed the close of the American
+ revolution, returned to France--became a member of the
+ French Convention, and was finally brought to the
+ guillotine!--_N.Y. Com. Adv._
+
+ _Essex Register,_ Sept. 18, 1826.
+
+ The works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to
+ any but Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German,
+ just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of
+ his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled
+ him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went
+ to John Paul himself and asked him what was the meaning of
+ the mysterious passage.--John Paul's reply was very German
+ and characteristic: "My good friend," said he, "when I wrote
+ that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible
+ that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally
+ forgotten."
+
+ _Essex Register,_ Oct. 9, 1826.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ORIGIN OF "FOOLSCAP" PAPER. It is known that Charles I. of
+ England, granted numerous monopolies for the support of his
+ government. Among others was the privilege of manufacturing
+ paper. The water mark of the finest sort was the royal arms
+ of England. The consumption of this article was great at
+ this time, and large fortunes were made by those who had
+ purchased the exclusive right to vend it. This, among other
+ monopolies, was set aside by the parliament that brought
+ Charles to the scaffold, and by way of showing their
+ contempt for the king, they ordered the royal arms to be
+ taken from the paper, and a fool, with his cap and bells, to
+ be substituted. It is now more than an hundred and
+ seventy-five years since the fool's cap and bells were taken
+ from the paper, but still, paper of the size which the Rump
+ Parliament ordered for the journals bears the name of the
+ water mark then ordered as an indignity to Charles.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A new version of "Yankee Doodle," from the "Salem Gazette,"
+ July, 1811.
+
+ YANKEY SONG.
+
+ [_The following song was composed a few years since by a
+ gentleman then one of the officers of the Salem regiment, to
+ be sung at the military celebration of the 4th of July. Its
+ wit and pleasantry continues it a favorite with the Yankies,
+ and it was again sung by the Military at Lynn Hotel, and by
+ the Federalists at Washington Hall, on the late
+ anniversary._]
+
+ I.
+
+ Yankey Doodle is the tune
+ Americans delight in;
+ 'Twill do to whistle, sing, or play,
+ And just the thing for fighting.
+
+ CHORUS.
+
+ _Yankey Doodle, Boys; Huzza!
+ Down outside--up the middle--
+ Yankey Doodle_, fa, sol, la,
+ _Trumpet, Drum, and Fiddle._
+
+ II.
+
+ Should Great Britain, Spain, or France
+ Wage war upon our shore, sir,
+ We'll lead them such a _woundy_ dance,
+ They'll find their toes are sore, sir.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ III.
+
+ Should a haughty foe expect
+ To give our boys a caning,
+ We _guess_ they'll find our boys have _larnt_
+ A _little bit_ of training.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ IV.
+
+ I'll wager now a _mug of flip_,
+ And bring it on the table,
+ Put Yankey boys aboard a ship,
+ To beat them they are able.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ V.
+
+ Then if they go to _argufy._
+ I _rather guess_ they'll find, too,
+ We've got a set of _tonguey blades_,
+ T'out talk 'em, if _they're mind to._
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ VI.
+
+ America's a _dandy_ place;
+ The people are all brothers;
+ And when one's got a _pumpkin pye_,
+ He shares it with the others.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ VII.
+
+ We work, and sleep, and pray, in peace--
+ By industry we thrive, sir;
+ And if a drone won't do his part,
+ We'll scout him from the hive, sir.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ VIII.
+
+ And then, on _Independent Day_,
+ (And who's a better right to?)
+ We eat and drink, and sing and play,
+ And have a dance at night, too.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ IX.
+
+ Our girls are fair, our boys are tough,
+ Our old folks wise and healthy;
+ And when we've every thing we want,
+ We _count_ that we are wealthy.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ X.
+
+ We're _happy_, _free_, and _well to do_,
+ And cannot want for knowledge;
+ For, almost ev'ry mile or two,
+ You find a _school_ or _college._
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ XI.
+
+ The land we till is all our own;
+ Whate'er the price, we paid it;
+ Therefore we'll fight _till all is blue_,
+ Should any dare invade it.
+ CHORUS.--_Yankey Doodle_, &c.
+
+ XII.
+
+ Since we're so bless'd, let's eat and drink
+ With thankfulness and gladness:
+ Should we kick o'er our cup of joy,
+ It would be _sartin_ madness.
+
+ CHORUS.
+
+ _Yankey Doodle, Boys; Huzza!
+ Down outside, up the middle--
+ Yankey Doodle_, fa, sol, la,
+ _Trumpet, Drum, and Fiddle._
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ "Going snacks."
+
+ At the time of the plague in London, a noted body searcher
+ lived whose name was _Snacks_. His business increased so
+ fast that, finding he could not compass it, he offered to
+ any person who should join him in his hardened practice half
+ the profits; thus, those who joined him were said to go with
+ _Snacks_. Hence going _snacks_, or dividing the spoil.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1823.
+
+ _A Word omitted by Webster_. In a history of the second
+ parish of Beverly, published not long since, a vote passed
+ in 1776, to take measures to collect the "behindments" of
+ certain persons in the parish, is noticed. "Behindments"
+ meant arrearages.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1837.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The following curious collection belonged to Mr. Samuel McIntire, the
+architect of the South Meeting-House in Salem, whose spire is
+acknowledged to be one of the best proportioned and handsomest in New
+England:
+
+ _FOR SALE,_
+
+ SUNDRY Articles belonging to the Estate of SAMUEL MCINTIRE,
+ deceased.--VIZ.
+
+ 1 elegant BARREL ORGAN, 6 feet high, 10 barrels; 1 Wind Chest of
+ an Organ;
+ ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, complete;
+ Paladio's Architecture, best kind;
+ 1 Ware's do.; 1 Paine's do.;
+ 2 vols. French Architecture;
+ 1 large Book Antient Statues, excellent;
+ Lock Hospital Collection of Music;
+ Handel's Messiah, in score;
+ Harmonia Sacra;
+ Magdalen Hymns; Massachusetts Compiler;
+ 1 excellent toned SPINNET;
+ 1 excellent VIOLIN and Case;
+ 1 eight day CLOCK, Mahogany Case;
+ 12 Prints of the Seasons;
+ 1 book Drawings of Ships;
+ 1 large Head of Washington;
+ Number of Busts of the Poets;
+ 2 Figures of Hercules, 2 feet high;
+ 1 Head of Franklin, and Pillar, for a Sign;
+ Composition Ornaments;
+ Number of Moulding Planes, and sundry other Articles. Apply to
+
+ ELIZABETH M'INTIRE, _Adm'x_.
+ or to SAMUEL F. M'INTIRE, _Att'y_.
+
+ N.B.--The Subscriber carries on CARVING as usual at the Shop
+ of the deceased, in Summer-Street, where he will be glad to
+ receive orders in that line. He returns thanks for past
+ favors.
+
+ April 30 [1811]. SAMUEL F. M'INTIRE.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Many years ago there was published in Boston a small volume entitled
+"Eliza Wharton, the Coquette. By a Lady of Massachusetts." It consisted
+of a series of letters said to be founded on fact. A young woman died at
+the Bell Tavern in Danvers in 1788, whose gravestone a few years ago
+might be seen in the old Danvers (now Peabody) burial-ground. We copy
+from the "Salem Mercury" of July 29, 1788, the following account:--
+
+ Last Friday, a female stranger died at the Bell Tavern, in
+ Danvers; and on Sunday her remains were decently interred.
+ The circumstances relative to this woman are such as excite
+ curiosity and interest our feelings. She was brought to the
+ Bell in a chaise, from Watertown, as she said, by a young
+ man whom she had engaged for that purpose. After she had
+ alighted, and taken a trunk with her into the house, the
+ chaise immediately drove off. She remained at this inn till
+ her death, in expectation of the arrival of her husband,
+ whom she expected to come for her, and appeared anxious at
+ his delay. She was averse to being interrogated concerning
+ herself or connexions; and kept much retired to her chamber,
+ employed in needle-work, writing, &c. She said, however,
+ that she came from Westfield, in Connecticut; that her
+ parents lived in that State; that she had been married only
+ a few months; and, that her husband's name was Thomas
+ Walker;--but always carefully concealed her family name. Her
+ linen was all marked E.W. About a fortnight before her
+ death, she was brought to bed of a lifeless child. When
+ those who attended her apprehended her fate, they asked her,
+ whether she did not wish to see her friends: She answered,
+ that she was very desirous of seeing them. It was proposed
+ that she should send for them; to which she objected,
+ hoping in a short time to be able to go to them. From what
+ she said, and from other circumstances, it appeared probable
+ to those who attended her, that she belonged to some country
+ town in Connecticut: Her conversation, her writings and her
+ manners, bespoke the advantage of a respectable family &
+ good education. Her person was agreeable; her deportment,
+ amiable & engaging; and, though in a state of anxiety and
+ suspense, she preserved a cheerfulness, which seemed to be
+ not the effect of insensibility, but of a firm and patient
+ temper. She was supposed to be about 35 years old. Copies of
+ letters, of her writing, dated at Hartford, Springfield, and
+ other places, were left among her things.--This account is
+ given by the family in which she resided; and it is hoped
+ the publication of it will be a means of her friends'
+ ascertaining her fate.
+
+Elizabeth Whitman was the real name of the stranger, and the following
+was the inscription on the stone:--
+
+ "This humble stone, in Memory of Elizabeth Whitman, is
+ inscribed by her weeping friends, to whom she endeared
+ herself by uncommon tenderness and affection. Endowed with
+ superior genius and acquirements, she was still more
+ endeared by humility and benevolence. Let candour throw a
+ veil over her frailities, for great was her charity to
+ others.--She sustained the last painful scene far from
+ every friend, and exhibited an example of calm resignation.
+ Her departure was on the 25th of July, A.D. 1788, in the
+ 37th year of her age, and the tears of strangers watered her
+ grave."
+
+Although we recollect seeing the stone some years ago, when the whole
+inscription could be read, we visited the spot in April, 1885, and found
+only a small portion left,--a triangular piece, perhaps a foot and a
+half high on one side, at the bottom of which we could only make out:
+"A.D. 1788, ... the tears of strangers watered her grave." For years,
+young persons of a romantic turn of mind have visited the grave and
+chipped off small pieces of the freestone for relics. This modern habit
+of chipping monumental stones for relics is inexcusable; for it is not
+done by ignorant or otherwise lawless persons, but too often by the
+educated, who carry their mawkish sentiment to such an extreme as to
+deface and sometimes, as in the present case, entirely to ruin a
+monument. It is in vain to urge that this was only a stranger's stone,
+and that there were none to care. It was all the more an outrage, if
+there were no friends to protect it. We are glad to learn that there
+were people in the town who did what they could to prevent this
+sacrilege.
+
+The following account of this unfortunate lady we take from Hanson's
+"History of Danvers:"--
+
+ "Elizabeth Whitman came from a very respectable family in
+ Connecticut, where her father was a clergyman. She was
+ possessed of an ardent poetical temperament, an inordinate
+ love of praise, and was gifted with the natural endowment of
+ beauty and perfect grace, while she was accomplished with
+ those refinements which education can bestow. She was lovely
+ beyond words. But her natural amiabilities were warped and
+ perverted by reading great numbers of romances, to the
+ exclusion of almost all other reading. She formed her idea
+ of men by the exaggerated standards she saw in the books to
+ which she resorted; and thus when she looked around her she
+ saw no one who realized her ideal. She subsequently became
+ intimate with a lawyer, said to be the Honourable (?) Judge
+ Pierpont Edwards."
+
+We next hear of her in Danvers, "where the novelty of her situation,"
+continues Hanson, "and her attractive beauty and manners during her
+short sojourn, caused the entire village and many from the neighboring
+towns to attend her funeral. A few weeks after her burial, an unknown
+hand erected the gravestone with its eloquent inscription." The stone is
+evidently Connecticut sandstone or freestone. Mr. Hanson says of the
+volume "Eliza Wharton": "The catchpenny volume of letters which pretend
+to give her history has but the figments of the imagination of its
+authoress to recommend it."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Picture of the old Bell Tavern in Danvers. From the "Salem Gazette,"
+January, 1781.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _Danvers, Jan. 1781._
+
+ Just published,
+ And to be SOLD by
+ E. RUSSELL,
+ at his Printing-Office,
+ near the Bell-Tavern;
+
+ _The Second Edition of
+ Russell's_ American ALMANACK,
+
+ For the Year of our Redemption, 1781.
+
+ Being First after Leap Year; and Fifth Year of Independency.
+ Fitted for the Meridian of Boston, N. E. Lat. 42: 25 N.
+ Wherein may be found all Things necessary for this Work.
+
+ To which is added, a Declaration of the Rights of the
+ Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, extracted
+ from the Frame of Government; and a List of the Chief
+ Officers of Government, which is thought necessary to be
+ possessed by every Freeman in this Commonwealth.
+
+ Calculated by that curious and accurate Astronomer, BENJAMIN
+ WEST, Esq; of Providence, State of Rhode-Island.
+
+ _At the same Place may also be had, just published;_
+
+ The Remarkable Captivity and Redemption of
+
+ ELIZABETH HANSON,
+
+ Wife of Mr. _John Hanson_ of _Knoxmarsh_ at _Kecheachy_, in
+ _Dover_ Township, who was taken Captive with her Children
+ and Maid-Servant, by the _Indians_ in _New-England_, in the
+ Year 1724.
+
+ IN WHICH ARE INSERTED
+
+ Sundry remarkable Preservations, Providences, and Marks of
+ Care and Kindness of Providence over her and her Children,
+ worthy to be remembered.
+
+ _The Substance of which was taken from her own Mouth, and
+ now published for general Service._
+
+ THE THIRD EDITION,
+
+ Also, an entertaining Narrative of the cruel and barbarous
+ Treatment and extreme Sufferings of
+
+ Mr. JOHN DODGE,
+
+ During his Captivity of many Months among the _British_, at
+ _Detroit_.
+
+ IN WHICH IS ALSO CONTAINED,
+
+ A particular Detail of the Sufferings of a Virginian, who
+ died in their Hands.
+
+ _Written by himself; and now published to satisfy the
+ Curiosity of every one throughout the_ United States.
+
+ THE SECOND EDITION.
+
+ *** All the above Books, with a Variety of other small
+ Books, &c. will be sold to Shop keepers, Travelling-Traders,
+ &c. at the very lowest Rate, if they purchase by the
+ Hundred, Groce or Dozen.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+In these sceptical and agnostic days it may sound a little strange, and
+perhaps to some seem quite absurd, that the authorities of Harvard in
+1791 felt obliged publicly to deny that Gibbon's History was used as a
+text-book at the University. But with the exception perhaps of Tom
+Paine, no one in this country had then ventured to assail the literal
+interpretation of the Scriptures. Probably the masses of the people
+then believed that "Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still,
+and they obeyed him," that Jonah was swallowed by the whale, and that
+
+ "In Adam's fall,
+ We sinned all."
+
+Of course there were exceptions. Therefore, although Gibbon might be an
+able writer, it was not safe for young men to study his works, simply
+because he had thrown doubt or derision on the Christian miracles. So
+when it was reported that a growing liberality of sentiment was being
+manifested at Cambridge, and that Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" was to be
+used, doubtless no little excitement was roused; and hence the notice.
+Before this time doubts concerning many cherished doctrines had been
+openly expressed in Boston, Cambridge, Salem, and other places; but
+Gibbon had rejected and attacked the whole Christian system as false,
+which was a very different matter.
+
+ _For the CENTINEL._
+
+ MR. RUSSELL,
+
+ A WRITER in the CENTINEL of the last _Saturday_, under the
+ signature of _Christianus_, says, "that an abridgment of
+ GIBBON'S history (if his information be true) is directed
+ to make a part of the studies of the young gentlemen at our
+ University." I now beg leave, through the channel of your
+ paper, to acquaint that writer, as also the publick, that
+ his information is _not true_. The system taught is MILLOT'S
+ _Elements_ of _General History, ancient and modern_, and
+ GIBBON'S history was never thought of for the purpose.
+
+ JOSEPH WILLARD, _President._
+ _Cambridge, Nov._ 14, 1791.
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE CHOLERA.--It is worthy of remark that the word occurs in
+ two passages of the Bible, both in Ecclesiasticus, and both
+ places in connexion with directions and exhortations to a
+ sober temperate mode of living, which is still recommended
+ as the best preservative against this disorder.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ 1832.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The character of Boston ladies in 1788 is set forth in a letter in the
+"Herald of Freedom." The writer gives his observations on the error of
+committing children too much to the care of nurses; also makes reference
+to teaching the catechism, etc., showing the value of early religious
+training. There can be no doubt, we think, that the old methods were in
+some respects superior to the present, where in many cases young
+children are left to Sunday-school teachers, or, as is often the case,
+receive no religious instruction whatever, for fear, as we have often
+heard it stated, that they might imbibe some false doctrinal notions at
+an age when the deepest impressions are made.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _For the_ HERALD _of_ FREEDOM.
+
+ LETTER IX.
+
+ DEAR PIERRE,
+
+ No moments glide away more agreeably than those that are
+ employed in writing to a friend. Happy am I in having
+ frequent opportunities of exhibiting my sentiments to you,
+ and in return receiving yours, which palliates in some
+ degree, the sorrow our separation occasions.----The glaring
+ absurdities of the dress of the Boston ladies, occupied the
+ greatest part of my two last letters. It is but just to say
+ something of their more laudable qualities; amongst which,
+ maternal affection deservedly claims precedence.--The
+ barbarous customs of Europe, in this particular, have not as
+ yet, and I hope never will be, practised here. Mothers in
+ this country are so much attached to their tender offspring,
+ as to forego all the pleasures of life (or rather what are
+ so termed in Europe) in attending to their nurture, from
+ which they derive the most superlative of all enjoyments,
+ the heart-felt satisfaction of having done their duty to
+ their God and country, in giving robust, healthy and
+ virtuous citizens to the State. The effeminacy of exotic
+ fashion has not at present extended its pernicious influence
+ so far as to induce them to commit the rearing of their
+ children to mercenary nurses, who are sometimes the very
+ dregs of a people; and whose vicious habits of taking a drop
+ of the _good creature to drown sorrow_, does not promise
+ redundancy of health and vigour to those suckled by them--on
+ the contrary, children thus unnaturally thrown from the arms
+ of a parent into those of a nurse, are, almost without
+ exception, weak and puny; of irrascible tempers and vicious
+ inclinations.--Nor does the attention of the ladies expire
+ with the infancy of their children--they still are unwearied
+ in instructing them as they increase in years, and
+ assiduously endeavour to inculcate principles of virtue into
+ their young minds at a time when they are most liable to
+ make a deep impression--to accomplish which, they never fail
+ to teach them the catechism, Lord's prayer, &c. &c. all of
+ which they oblige them to learn, because they are perfectly
+ adapted to their comprehension, though many parts of the
+ catechism are altogether incomprehensible to most
+ adults.--Yet this is not strange to those who credit the
+ scriptures; nor does it appear the least inconsistent--for
+ there it says, "God hath chosen the foolish things of this
+ world to confound the wise."--Therefore, the wonder that
+ children should be able to _understand_ that, which is the
+ _foundation_ of all polemical divinity, vanishes, when we
+ try it by the touchstone of scripture, which is the
+ criterion by which we ought to judge.--When they are thus
+ instructed in the rudiments of virtue, they are seldom known
+ to apostatize; so that for a native to become dissolute and
+ abandoned, is very rare.--Indeed they have characters of
+ this kind who emigrate from old countries; but they soon
+ find employment for such gentry, by obliging them to labour
+ for the publick good, and "work out their salvation by the
+ sweat of their brow."--Thus the community is not only
+ delivered from such pests, but experience beneficial effects
+ from their confinement. Knavery, though rarely found in a
+ native, is not entirely extirpated from the breasts of some
+ among them.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Remarkable instances of longevity.
+
+ LONGEVITY. Mafeus, who wrote the history of the Indies,
+ which has always been a model of veracity as well as elegant
+ composition, mentions a native of Bengal, named Numas de
+ Cugna, who died 1566, at the age of 370. He was a man of
+ great simplicity and quite illiterate; but of so extensive a
+ memory, that he was a kind of living chronicle, relating
+ distinctly and exactly what had happened within his
+ knowledge in the compass of his life, together with all the
+ circumstances attending it. He had four new sets of teeth;
+ and the color of his hair and beard had been very
+ frequently changed from black to grey, and from grey to
+ black. He asserted that in the course of his life, he had
+ 700 wives, some of whom had died, and the others he had put
+ away. The first century of his life passed in idolatry, from
+ which he was converted to Mahometanism, which he continued
+ to profess to his death.--The account is also confirmed by
+ another Portuguese author, Ferdinand Lopez Casteguedo, who
+ was historiographer royal.
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ Feb. 22, 1834.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONDON, May 28.
+
+ _Remarkable Instances of Longevity in Europe._
+
+ THOMAS PARRE, of Shropshire, died on the 16th of November,
+ 1635, aged 152.
+
+ James Bowes, of Killinworth, in Shropshire, died the 15th of
+ August, 1656, aged 152.
+
+ Anonymous, of Yorkshire, aged 140, and his son, aged 100,
+ were both living, and attended to give evidence at York
+ Assize, in 1664.
+
+ F. Sagar, of Lancashire, died in January, 1668, aged 112.
+
+ Henry Jenkins, of Yorkshire, died on the 8th of December,
+ 1670, aged 169.
+
+ Robert Montgomery, of Yorkshire, was living in 1670, aged
+ 126.
+
+ Countess of Desmond, Ireland, aged 140.
+
+ Mr. Ecleston, of Ireland, died 1691, aged 143.
+
+ Mr. Lawrence, of Scotland, living, aged 140.
+
+ Mary Gore, born at Collinworth, in Yorkshire, lived 100
+ years in Ireland, and died at Dublin in 1727, aged 125.
+
+ Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died about 1748, aged 137.
+
+ Simon Sack, of Trionia, died on the 30th of May, 1761, aged
+ 141.
+
+ Col. Thomas Winsloe, of Ireland, died on the 12th of August,
+ 1766, aged 156.
+
+ Francis Consist, of Yorkshire, died in January, 1768, aged
+ 150.
+
+ Francis Bons, of France, died on the 6th of February, 1769,
+ aged 124.
+
+ Christopher Jacob Drakenberg, of Norway, a boatswain in the
+ Danish navy, died on the 24th of June, 1770, aged 146.
+
+ Margaret Forster, of Cumberland, aged 136.
+
+ Gen. Oglethorpe died in August last, aged 103.
+
+ A goldsmith, of France, died in June, 1776, aged 140.
+
+ Mary Yates, of Shropshire, died in 1776, aged 128.
+
+ John Brookley, of Devonshire, living in 1777, aged 134.
+
+ Miss Ellis, daughter of Mr. Ellis, of Surrey, died in 1781,
+ aged 104.
+
+ Mr. Froome, of Holms-Chapel, in Cheshire, died in May last,
+ aged 125.
+
+ Mary M'Donald, county of Down, in Ireland, died on the 16th
+ of June last, aged 118.
+
+ Mary Cameron, of Invernessshire, in Scotland, died in July
+ last, aged 130.
+
+ Miss Ellis, of Richmond, in Surrey, living on the 16th of
+ August last, aged 105.
+
+ Mr. Rowe, at Nutwell-House, in Scotland, died in August
+ last, aged 106.
+
+ Donald McKeen, of Argyleshire, in Scotland, died in
+ September last, aged 109.
+
+ John Button, of Liverpool, died on the 18th of November
+ last, the oldest burgess of that borough upon record; he
+ lived in six reigns, being born in the reign of James II.
+
+ Mr. Smith, a farmer, at Dolver, in Montgomeryshire, died in
+ November last, aged 103: He was never known to drink any
+ thing but buttermilk.
+
+ John Follart, woolcomber, at Norney, near the city of
+ Exeter, living and in good health on the 30th of November
+ last, aged 121; he works still at his business, and retains
+ his faculties.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 1, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ PHILADELPHIA, August 19.
+
+ _Instances of Longevity in America._
+
+ In South-America there was said, in the year 1785, to be a
+ negro woman living, aged about 175; she remembered her first
+ master, who died in 1615, and that he gave her away with
+ some other property towards sounding a school.
+
+ Some years ago there was living in Virginia, a native of
+ Ireland, who at the age of 109, was able to work at the
+ taylor's trade without spectacles; and what renders this
+ case more remarkable, he was naturally very intemperate, and
+ would get drunk as often as he could get liquor.
+
+ In the year 1776, died one Mr. Payne, in Fairfax, Virginia,
+ upwards of 100 years of age.
+
+ Died, November, 1782, in this city, Mr. Edward Drinker,
+ almost 102, being born December 24, 1680, in Philadelphia.
+
+ In the year 1782, there was living, near this city (and
+ perhaps may be still living) a healthy negro woman, able to
+ walk several miles in a day, and wash clothes, who was then,
+ as near as she could tell, about 103.----She remembers her
+ being brought to this city before any houses were built
+ here.
+
+ Died last summer, in New-York, Mrs. Slock, aged 108 years
+ and one half.
+
+ Last winter died at Jones's creek, a branch of Pee Dee, in
+ North-Carolina, Mr. Mathew Bayley, aged 136: he was baptised
+ when 134 years old; had good eye sight, strength of body and
+ mind until his death.
+
+ There was a woman living last winter, in Uxbridge, state of
+ Massachusetts, of the name of Aldrich, and likely to live
+ many years, who has 12 children, all living, and has lived
+ till 25 of the fifth generation are born, the eldest of
+ which is more than eleven years of age.
+
+ Died on Tuesday the 1st inst. at Hudson, in New-York, Mrs.
+ Christina de Lametter, in the 94th year of her age. She died
+ merely of old age, without any kind of disease or fever; but
+ descended very slowly and patiently to the bottom of the
+ hill of life. She was a woman, who, through life, has been
+ remarkable for her silent resignation to the divine will.
+ What renders the last part of her life remarkable, is, that
+ she lived 39 days without any sustenance whatever, except
+ about two spoonfuls of wine with water daily; the vital
+ motions and functions being so near a cessation, that the
+ solids needed no reparation; yet she retained all her senses
+ to the last moment.
+
+ In the year 1774, died at Danvers, in Massachusetts, Mr.
+ ---- Nelson, aged 106 years.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 1, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ STOCKHOLM, Aug. 8.
+
+ A widow lately died near Landscrone, aged 118 years. She
+ continued to get a livelihood by spinning till she was 116.
+
+ _Salem Mercury,_ Nov. 25, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ DINNER IN "OLD TIMES."
+
+It was an old custom in New England to begin dinner with pudding instead
+of soup. Many persons of the last generation may remember, as the writer
+distinctly does, seeing old people who still adhered to this practice as
+late certainly as from 1850 to 1860. The writer was once at a dinner
+where all the family began with soup except the father, a gentleman of
+the old school, who had a piece cut from a fresh-baked plum-pudding. He
+remarked to the company that such had always been his practice; and so
+he excused himself for keeping to his own fashion of dining. The custom
+of eating pudding before meat is still very common in Yorkshire,
+England. The following extract from a Boston paper of 1819 shows that
+John Adams, in 1817, kept up the old style of dinner, which, as might
+perhaps be imagined, was not confined to the common people, so called.
+
+In "old times" it was customary to say to children, "Those who eat the
+most pudding shall have the most meat."
+
+ _Extract from the "Narrative of a Journey of 5000 miles
+ through the Eastern and Western States of America," in
+ 1817.--By Henry B. Fearon, an Englishman._
+
+ PRESIDENT ADAMS.
+
+ The ex-president is a handsome old gentleman of eighty-four;
+ his lady is seventy-six: she has the reputation of superior
+ talents, and great literary acquirements. I was not
+ perfectly a stranger here, as a few days previous to this I
+ had received the honor of an hospitable reception at their
+ mansion. Upon the present occasion the minister (the day
+ being Sunday) was of the dinner party. As a table of a
+ "_late king_" may amuse some of you, take the following
+ particulars:--first course, a pudding made of Indian corn,
+ molasses and butter;--second, veal, bacon, neck of mutton,
+ potatoes, cabbages, carrots, and Indian beans; Madeira wine,
+ of which each drank two glasses. We sat down to dinner at
+ one o'clock; at two, nearly all went a second time to
+ church. For tea, we had pound cake, sweet bread and butter,
+ and bread made of Indian corn and rye, similar to our brown
+ home-made. Tea was brought from the kitchen, and handed
+ round by a neat white servant girl.
+
+ The establishment of this political patriarch consists of a
+ house two stories high, containing, I believe, eight rooms;
+ of two men and three maid servants; three horses and a plain
+ carriage. How great is the contrast between this individual,
+ a man of knowledge and information--without pomp, parade,
+ vitious and expensive establishments, as compared with the
+ costly trappings, the depraved characters, and the
+ profligate expenditure of ---- House, and ----! What a
+ lesson _in this_ does America teach! There are now in this
+ land no less than three Cincinnati!
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Hogs in New York streets.
+
+ Yesterday forenoon, while in Broadway, we witnessed another
+ instance of the impropriety of suffering Hogs to run at
+ large in our streets. A highly respectable and most worthy
+ young lady, was literally run down by a large Hog that was
+ pursued by a dog. In her fall, her breast struck the curb
+ stone, and she was considerably injured. After she had
+ partially recovered, the gentleman at whose store she had
+ made some purchases, kindly conveyed her to her father's
+ house in a carriage. The reader may easily imagine the
+ distressing effect produced on the mind of a fond parent, at
+ the sight of a darling child, whose pale cheeks plainly
+ indicated her situation. --> _What would not the citizens of
+ Boston say of their Police, if Hogs were permitted to run
+ loose in the streets_?
+
+ _Columbian Centinel,_ Boston [1817].
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ English blunders about America in 1802.
+
+ _From the_ (Newyork) EVENING POST.
+
+ SPECIMENS _of the_ IGNORANCE _and_ BLUNDERS _of_ English
+ Geographers, Tourists, _&c. &c. with respect to_ AMERICA.
+
+ THE Rev. R. Turner, who has published a book called
+ Classical Geography, gives the following account of the
+ cities of Philadelphia and Newyork. "Philadelphia, (says he)
+ is the finest and _best situated_ city in America,
+ containing _thirty thousand_ houses and one hundred and
+ twenty thousand inhabitants, who are mostly
+ quakers!!!"--"Newyork contains three thousand houses and
+ twelve thousand inhabitants!"
+
+ Another book, intitled Guthrie's improved Geography, after
+ setting forth in the preface that their (the Editors)
+ relation of America, will be found both satisfactory and
+ complete, as they have not only carefully examined the works
+ of the celebrated Morse, but likewise applied to several
+ other authentic sources, which have enabled them to give the
+ best information in the most satisfactory manner, states
+ that "the city of Newyork contains five thousand
+ inhabitants, chiefly of Dutch extraction." Here is pretty
+ strong evidence of the diligence of these London bookmakers,
+ as to applying to the most authentic sources of information,
+ as they profess to have done. An imposition of this kind in
+ any American publication, would afford a fine opportunity
+ for an English Reviewer to rail against our national
+ honesty.
+
+ The very last edition of Guthrie's original work, describing
+ the river Hudson, states that this river is navigable to
+ Albany, which is "_six hundred miles from Newyork_."
+
+ An English Tourist, whose name is not just now recollected,
+ has published a volume of his travels through the United
+ States, in which he speaks particularly of the orderly
+ manner in which Elections are conducted in the city of
+ Newyork. "On the appointed day, says he, all the citizens
+ take care to be at home at a certain hour, at which time the
+ inspectors of the election go through the city with ballot
+ boxes in their hands, and call at every door for votes,
+ whereupon the citizens step to their doors and deposit
+ their ballots in these same small boxes, which are
+ straightway carried to the City Hall; the votes are there
+ examined, and thus the election is determined in a few
+ hours, without uproar or inconvenience!!!"
+
+ An English Editor of a work, called the _German Museum_, in
+ his translation of some memoirs of Major Andre, records,
+ that this unfortunate officer was taken and hanged "_at the
+ west point of America_."
+
+ A London paper some time ago made mention of certain
+ improvements which were taking place in Newyork, with a view
+ to promote the health of the city, and observed that our
+ corporation were erecting a range of permanent wharves on
+ one side of the city, which were to extend from Corlear's
+ Hook to the Battery _along the Delaware River_!
+
+ Some notice shall be taken hereafter of the
+ misrepresentations and falsehoods of Laincourt, Weld, Bulow,
+ and a number of others, relative to the United States.
+
+ _An_ AMERICAN.
+ _Worcester Spy._
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ SECRET LOVE.
+
+ _From a very rare volume of old Poetry._
+
+ The fountaines smoake, and yet no flame they shewe;
+ Starres shine all night though undeserned by daye;
+ And trees do spring yet are not seen to growe;
+ And shadowes move although they seem to staye;
+ In winters woe is buried summers bliss,
+ And love loves most, when love most secret is.
+
+ The stillest streame descries the greatest deepe;
+ The clearest skye is subject to a shower;
+ Conceit's most sweete, when as it seems to sleepe;
+ And fairest dayes do in the morning lower:
+ The silent groves, sweete nymphes theye cannot misse,
+ For love loves most, when love most secret is.
+
+ The rarest jewels hidden virtue yield.
+ The sweete of traffique is a secret game;
+ The yeere once old doth show a barren field
+ And plants seeme dead, and yet they spring again.
+ Cupid is blind; the reason why, is this,
+ Love loveth most, when love most secret is.
+
+ _Salem Register,_ 1827.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _George the Fourth_.--The attributes of this potentate, who
+ was the most popular monarch England has had for many years,
+ are thus severely described, by Thomas Jefferson in his
+ correspondence of 1789.
+
+ "He has not a single element of mathematics, of natural and
+ moral philosophy, or of any other science on earth, nor has
+ the society he kept been such as to supply the void of
+ education. It has been that of the lowest, the most
+ illiterate and profligate persons of the kingdom without
+ choice of rank or mind & with whom the subjects of
+ conversation are only horses, drinking matches, bawdy
+ houses, and in terms the most vulgar. The young nobility,
+ who begin by associating with him, soon leave him disgusted
+ with the insupportable profligacy of his society; and Mr.
+ Fox, who has been supposed his favorite, and not over nice
+ in the choice of his company, would never keep his company
+ habitually.
+
+ "He has not a single idea of justice, morality, religion or
+ of the rights of men, or any anxiety for the opinion of the
+ world. He carries that indifference to fame so far, that he
+ would probably not be hurt were he to lose his throne,
+ provided he could be assured of always having meat, drink,
+ horses & women."
+
+ _Essex Register,_ Aug. 26, 1830.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+President Stiles of Yale College on the public revenue.
+
+ _Extract from President STILES's Election Sermon._
+
+
+ BUT I pass on to another subject in which the welfare of a
+ community is deeply concerned, I mean the publick
+ _revenues_. National character and national faith depend on
+ these. Every people, every large community is able to
+ furnish a revenue adequate to the exigences of government.
+ But this is a most difficult subject; and what the happiest
+ method of raising it, is uncertain. One thing is certain,
+ that however in most kingdoms and empires the people are
+ taxed at the will of the prince, yet in _America_, the
+ people tax themselves, and _therefore cannot tax themselves
+ beyond their abilities_. But whether the power of taxing be
+ in an absolute monarchy, a power independent of the people,
+ or in a body elected by the people, one great error has, I
+ apprehend, entered into the system of Revenue and Finance in
+ almost all nations, viz. restricting the collection to
+ money. Two or three millions can more easily be raised in
+ produce, than one million in money. This collected and
+ deposited in stores and magazines, would, by bills drawn
+ upon these stores, answer all the expenditures of war and
+ peace. In one country it has been tried with success for
+ ages; I mean in _China_, the wisest empire the sun hath ever
+ shined upon. And here, if I recollect aright, not a tenth of
+ the Imperial revenues hath been collected in money. In rice,
+ wheat and millet only are collected 40 millions of sacks, of
+ one hundred and twenty pounds each, equal to 80 million
+ bushels; in raw and wrought silk one million pounds. The
+ rest is taken in salt, wines, cotton, and other fruits of
+ labour and industry, at a certain ratio per cent. and
+ deposited in stores over all the empire. The perishable
+ commodities are immediately sold, and the Mandarins and army
+ are paid by bills on these magazines. In no part of the
+ world are the inhabitants less oppressed than there.
+
+ _Massachusetts Gazette,_ Sept. 29, 1786.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Religiously Inclined_.--A gentleman perceiving a fellow
+ leaning against the front of St. Paul's church yesterday,
+ who was unable to stand without some such support, asked him
+ if he was going to join the church. 'No,' replied
+ Bottlenose, 'not edzactly to jine, but I'm only
+ lean--leanin'--that way.'
+
+ _New Era_ [1837].
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Meaning of the word.
+
+ GENTLEMEN. How the signification of words alter in the
+ course of a century. There was a time when all persons in
+ England, below the rank of an _Esquire_, were divided into
+ _Gentlemen_, Yeomen and _Rascals_. The former word is now
+ used to signify the individuals of the first order--those
+ whom you would take by the hand in the street, and sup with
+ of an evening. The second term retains pretty nearly its
+ original meaning. But to make an application of the latter
+ appellative at this time, would operate as an invitation to
+ be knocked down. 'Gentlemen,' is used in opposition among
+ the old chronicles to 'simple man,' and neither in any very
+ exalted sense. It is on record, that the French Princess, De
+ La Roche Sur Yon, receiving a sharp reply from a Knight, to
+ whom she gave the epithet of '_Gentilhomme_,' was told by
+ the King, to whom she complained, that she deserved all she
+ got, for so offending, herself, in the first instance. The
+ lower people in England were commonly '_the
+ Rascality_'--equivalent to the '_Canaille_' of the French,
+ or our own significant _Rabble_ of the present day.
+
+ In what sense do they use the word 'Gentlemen' in
+ Congress--Eh?--_Charleston Gaz._
+
+ _Salem Observer,_ April 3, 1820.
+
+ _Professional_ ANECDOTE _of Dr._ FRANKLIN.
+
+ WHEN he came to Philadelphia, in 1723, he was first employed
+ by one Keimer, an eccentric genius, as a pressman, for he
+ was then printing an elegy of his own composition, on the
+ death of Aisquila Rose--and as he had but one small font of
+ types, and used no copy, but composed the elegy in the
+ press, he could not employ him in the composition. Keimer
+ was a visionary, whose mind was frequently elevated above
+ the little concerns of life, and consequently very subject
+ to make mistakes, which he seldom took the pains to correct.
+ Franklin had frequently reasoned with him upon the
+ importance of accuracy in his profession, but in vain. His
+ fertile head however soon furnished him with an opportunity
+ to second his arguments by proof.--They soon after undertook
+ an impression of a primer that had been lately published in
+ New-England.--Franklin overlooked the piece; and when his
+ master had set the following couplet--
+
+ When the last trumpet soundeth,
+ We shall not all die,
+ But we shall all be _changed_
+ In the twinkling of an eye,
+
+ He privately removed the letter _c_, and it was printed
+ off--
+
+ When the last trumpet soundeth,
+ We shall not all die,
+ But we shall all be _hanged_
+ In the twinkling of an eye.
+
+ _Herald of Freedom,_ June 23, 1790.
+
+ _SURNAMES._
+
+ In the Cambridge Chronicle of Saturday, August 1, 1772, is
+ an advertisement said to have been taken from the Canterbury
+ Journal, which beggars the list of surnames lately
+ enumerated:
+
+ "Mary Scaredevil, widow of the late William Scaredevil, of
+ Maidstone, does, by the assistance of the Almighty, intend
+ to carry on the business of Whitesmith, and hopes for the
+ favors and recommendations of the gentlemen and ladies whom
+ the late William Scaredevil had the pleasure to serve, which
+ will be gratefully acknowledged by their most humble
+ servant,
+
+ MARY SCAREDEVIL."
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ Nov., 1805.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Launching of the "Grand Turk."
+
+ Thursday last being a very pleasant day, great numbers of
+ people assembled to see the launching of the large and
+ beautiful ship from Mr. DERBY'S wharf. They were, however,
+ disappointed in the pleasure they expected, by her stopping
+ when she had run about half her length: and all the efforts
+ which could be made were ineffectual in getting her off at
+ that time: the next day, however, with the aid of proper
+ apparatus, and the assistance of the people assembled, she
+ was again put in motion, and gained the water.--The name of
+ _The Grand Turk_ is revived in this ship, heretofore borne
+ by a ship belonging to Mr. DERBY, remarkably successful as a
+ privateer in the late war, and which was some time since
+ sold in India.
+
+ The ingenious Mr. ENOS BRIGGS, from the North River, was the
+ master-builder of the new ship Grand Turk.
+
+
+ A CARD.
+
+ _Mr._ E.H. DERBY _requests his fellow-townsmen and others,
+ to accept his sincere thanks for their ready and unwearied
+ exertions to enable him to complete the launching of his
+ Ship._ MAY 21.
+
+
+ Mr. CUSHING,
+
+ The following lines were addressed to the Ship GRAND TURK,
+ while launching. They are at your service.
+
+ Your's, Z.
+
+ _The swelling waves roll joyfully along,
+ To greet thee, welcome to the azure main;
+ The gaping multitude in anxious throng,
+ Their ardent--vacant--tumult--scarce restrain._
+
+ _Slow o'er the lubrick ways--immense--you move,
+ High o'er the stern your flowing honours stand,
+ In distant climes, on unknown seas to prove
+ The matchless glory of your native land._
+
+ _For thee--the lofty Cedar nods alone,
+ The sturdy Oak its honours lopp'd deplores,
+ The forest mourns its tallest beauties gone
+ To waft Columbian treasure--to the Indian shores._
+
+ _Doom'd to resist the rage of warring waves,
+ Whilst rushing winds impel your foaming way:
+ The firm built sides their utmost fury brave.
+ The tempest mock--and in the whirlwind play._
+
+ _Safe may you reach your distant--destin'd port,
+ Nor rocks--nor treach'rous sands--oppose your fame,
+ May gentle winds your swelling topsails court,
+ And thousands shout you welcome home again._
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ May 24, 1791.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The oldest person who had lived in Salem up to 1791.
+
+ On Friday last, the venerable Mr. JOHN SYMONDS, of this
+ town, entered the _one hundredth year of his age_. He is the
+ only male person who has arrived at that great age, from the
+ first settlement of the town by the English in 1629 to this
+ day.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Irish Litany.
+
+ DUBLIN, May 11.
+
+ _To the Printers of the_ Rights _of_ Irishmen.
+
+ GENTLEMEN,
+
+ I am enabled by an invisible power to communicate to you, a
+ Litany sanctioned by me, and to be adopted by the
+ professors of the patriotic religion of Ireland; a Litany
+ which breathes the spirit of that freedom which I professed
+ when on earth, and has been here on eternal record; if its
+ principle and doctrine tend to enlighten and emancipate your
+ country, it will add (if possible) to that indescribable
+ happiness enjoyed by him, whom, without vanity, I may now
+ call the virtuous and patriotic
+
+ MIRABEAU.
+
+ _Elysium, 5th Feb._ 1792.
+
+ _THE LITANY._
+
+ 1st. Let there be a free, equal, and general representation
+ of your people in Parliament.
+
+ And all the people shall say amen.
+
+ 2d. Let there be a reform of your church, an abolition of
+ tithes, and let each sect maintain its own pastor.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 3d. Let the people of my terrestrial country be an example
+ to your people, and let their freedom be your freedom.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 4th. Let the fetters which the nobles of your land have
+ forged, be broken asunder; and let those who earn,
+ distribute the bread of Ireland.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 5th. Let each man freely worship God according to the
+ dictates of his conscience.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 6th. Let christians be philosophers, and let philosophers be
+ christians.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 7th. Let the rich few no longer be supported by taxes on the
+ many and unrepresented poor.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 8th. Let all the sons of Hibernia be free--yea, even as free
+ as the negroes[D] of Africa.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 9th. Let truth never be deemed a libel, and let the Liberty
+ of your Press be extended.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 10th. Let the noble (tho enlisted) sons of Ireland never
+ become the hired assassins of their countrymen.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 11th. Let the army which eats the bread of Ireland, be her
+ guardian and protector, and not the base invader of her
+ rights and liberties.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 12th. Let him who first proposed a mortgage on the revenues
+ of Ireland, be accursed in the annals of your country.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 13th. Let yourselves no longer be the slaves of religion, or
+ sect, or party, but the united sons of freedom and
+ philosophy.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ 14th. Let the majesty of your king reflect the majesty of
+ your people.
+
+ And all, &c.
+
+ _Mirabeau scripsit._
+
+ _Salem Gazette,_ 1792.
+
+ [D] Vide Wilberforce on the emancipation of the slaves.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Boston School of Fashion in 1807.
+
+ Robert Smallpeace,
+
+ _At his_ DRESSING ACADEMY, _and_ SCHOOL _of_ FASHION, _in_
+ MILK STREET, _opposite the South door of the_ Old South,
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ REMINDS the Sons and Daughters of Fashion and Beauty, that
+ tho' they may possess every latent excellence, yet they
+ require the improving hand of ART, like _rough_ diamonds, to
+ obtain the polish and brilliancy of the _first water_. What
+ is elegance of form or contour of beauty without
+ improvement? like "a light hid under a bushel," or whatever
+ can be conceived to be _most unlike_:--And it is a
+ lamentable fact, that
+
+ _Full many a mind is rear'd with toil and care,
+ To waste its worth--by_ SLOV'NLINESS _in_ HAIR.
+
+ The _tailor_, or _milliner_, may encase us with taste and
+ elegance; the _dancing master_ teach us the steps of ease
+ and dignity; the _musician_ instruct us in our throats and
+ fingers; and the _preceptor_ may inform our minds; and yet,
+ with all these _accomplishments_, can we even be PASSABLE,
+ if the _highest_ accomplishment of all be neglected? and the
+ HEAD be left to its own "disorder worse confounded,"
+ exhibiting a "_paltry crown of mud and straw_," placed upon
+ an "_edifice of ivory and gold_!"--and further--
+
+ _What though the_ EYE _voluptuous roll,_
+ _The_ FORM _possess each heavenly grace_;
+ _Say, can they_ ANY HEART _control,_
+ _Draw_ FRIENDSHIP _near--bid_ LOVE _take place,_
+ _'Till_ SMALLPEACE _touch them_!--he _whose trade is,_
+ _T' make_ Gods _of_ Men--_and_ Goddesses _of_ Ladies!
+
+ --> SMALLPEACE has elegant apartments for Ladies and
+ Gentlemen; and will be found constantly at "the post of
+ honour," and attendance, to wait upon them.
+
+ Oct. 17 [1807].
+ _Columbian Centinel._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+The novels of 1833; from the "Salem Observer," July 13.
+
+ The decidedly bad moral tendency of some of the most popular
+ novels of the times is forcibly depicted in a magazine
+ recently established in England, by two of the sons of
+ William Cobbett, in the following language:--
+
+ "Would you seduce a wife? Falkland shall teach you to do it
+ with gravity and dignity. Would you murder? Eugene Aram
+ shall show you its necessity for the public advantage. Would
+ you rob? Paul Clifford shall convince you of the injustice
+ of security, and of the abominableness of the safety of a
+ purse on a moonlight night.--Would you eat? Turn to Harry
+ Bertram and Dandy Dinmont to the round of beef. Would you
+ drink? Friar Tuck is the jolliest of companions. Would you
+ dance, dress, and drawl? Pelham shall take you into tuition.
+ Would you lie, fawn, and flatter? Andrew Wylie shall
+ instruct you to crawl upward, without the slime betraying
+ your path. Would you yawn, doze, sleep, or dream? Cloudesly
+ shall do it for you, for the space of the first volume."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THOMAS MOORE.
+
+ Hostile feelings to the Americans having been imputed to the
+ poet MOORE in the first number of the (London) Westminster
+ Review, the following paragraph appeared in the London Times
+ of the 4th Feb., 1824.
+
+ "In the first number of the Westminster Review, just
+ published, there is an article upon a late work of Mr.
+ Moore's, in which the writer says, 'Mr. Moore has resided in
+ America, and, we understand, speaks of the Americans with
+ unbounded dislike and contempt.' In this assertion we can
+ confidently state, the writer is entirely mistaken. Whatever
+ opinions Mr. Moore may have hastily formed, when a very
+ young man, with respect to the character and institutions of
+ the Americans, we know that he has long since learned to
+ correct them, and to feel towards that people all the
+ admiration and respect which the noble example they set to
+ the other nations of the world demands."
+
+ _Boston Telegraph,_ 1824.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+From the "Salem Gazette," Sept. 6, 1811.
+
+ Aiken's blood-letting Sermon
+
+ _for sale by Cushing & Appleton._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+From the "Boston Transcript," Dec., 1834.
+
+ OLD TIMES.--Mr. Thatcher stated, in his Lecture before the
+ Boston Lyceum, that the Old Latin School in this City was
+ commenced two hundred years ago, according to the records of
+ the Town, which begin at the same year. For a long time it
+ was the only school; and there was no writing school among
+ us until November, 1684, (just 150 years since.) Master
+ Cheever presided over the Latin 38 years, till he died at
+ 93. He was the teacher of two of the Mathers, and the second
+ Doctor said of him in an obituary essay, with his own
+ peculiar felicity, that
+
+ ----to vast age he grew,
+ _Till Time's scythe waiting for him rusty grew._
+
+ Lovell was his second successor, and held on 92 years, till
+ in 1776 he left the town a Loyalist. The old gentleman had a
+ house furnished for him in School street, and a garden that
+ reached nearly to Court street, which his best boys were
+ allowed to till; and they had also the privilege as a reward
+ of merit of sawing his wood and bottling his cider.--The
+ Lecturer remarked that this was the first manual labor
+ school he had heard of.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+A quotation from Scripture.
+
+ "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is
+ hired."
+
+ * * * * *
+
+From the "Salem Observer," 1840.
+
+ LITERARY CURIOSITY. The following letter was written by a
+ young gentleman to his "lady love," under the direction and
+ eye of a rigid old father. The understanding, however,
+ between the lovers, was, that she should read only every
+ other line, beginning with the first. Love is full of
+ expedients.
+
+ MADAM,--
+
+ The great love I have hitherto expressed for you
+ _is false, and I find that my indifference, toward you_
+ increases daily; the more I see of you, the more
+ _you appear in my eyes an object of contempt._--
+ I feel myself every way disposed and determined to
+ _hate you. Believe me, I never had an intention to_
+ offer you my hand. Our last conversation has
+ _left a tedious insipidity, which has by no means_
+ given me the most exalted idea of your character;
+ _your temper would make me extremely unhappy,_
+ and if we are united, I shall experience nothing but
+ _the hatred of my parents, added to their everlasting dis-_
+ pleasure in living with you. I have, indeed, a heart
+ _to bestow, but I do not wish you to imagine it is_
+ at your service; I could not give it to any one more
+ _inconsistent and capricious than yourself, and less_
+ capable to do honor to my choice and to my family.--
+ _Yes, Madam, I trust you will be persuaded that_
+ I speak sincerely; and you will do me a favor
+ _to avoid me. I shall excuse your taking the trouble_
+ to answer this. Your letters are always full of
+ _impertinence, and you have not the least shadow of_
+ wit or good sense. Adieu! Adieu! believe me, I am
+ _so averse to you that it is impossible for me ever to be_
+ your affectionate friend and ardent lover.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Transcriber's note:
+ Text version
+ *** Represents Inverted Asterism
+ --> Represents Right Index
+
+
+
+
+
+
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