BY D. A. & 0. H. iiIIEDLER VOLUME XXVI. HYMN OF DEATH. Death is thn finling o cloud, Tim breaking of a chain; The rending of a mortal shroud ne'er shall see again. The wand of drum sod trumpet, the elattek of hoofs, the rattling of guteearriae ges and all the other military din and bus de in the streets of Boston ;non apprised the Americans on their rudely fortified height of impending attack. They wore !illl fitted to withstand it. being jaded by the night's labor and want of sleep ; hungry and thirsty, having brought but scanty supplies, and oppressed by the heat of the weather. Prescott sent repeated messages to Gen. Ward. asking reenforeements and provisions. Putnam seconded the request in person. urging the exigencies of the ewe. I Ward hesitated. He feared to weaken his /mein body at Cembridge, as his military stores were deposited there and it might have to sustain the principal attack: At length, having taken advice of the Council , of Safety. he issued orders to Cols., Stark' and Bead , then at Medford, to march to the reliefOf Prescott with their New-Hemp shire regiments. The orders reached Med ford about 11 o'clock. Ammunition was !distributed in all haste—two flints, a gill of pander and fift ten bells to each man.— [ The balls had to be suited to the different !calibers of the guns ; the powder to be car ' Tie.: in powder-horns, or loose in the pock et. for there were no cartridges prepared. It was :he rude turn-out of yeoman soldiery destitute of regular accoutrements. In the meanwhile the Americans on Breed's 11111 were sustaining the fire from the ships,and from the battery on Copp's 11111, which opened upon them about 10 o'clock_ They returned an occasional shot from one corner of the redoubt without much harm to the enemy, and continued strengthening their position untill about 1 11 n'elock, when they erased to work, pile leel up their .ietrenching tools in the rear and looked out anxiously and impatiently for the anticipated reenfoneements and sup ' plies. Abent this time Gen. Putnam, who had been to bead quarters. arrived at the re doubt on horseback. Same words passed between him and Pre s cott with regard to the intrenching tools which have been vs rionely repeated._ The most probable ver is that he uretel where them taken front their pr sent piety, where they might fall into the hands of the enemy, and carried to, Bunker's Hill to be employed in throwing A Learned Oddity. up a redoubt. which was part of the origi 'The 'Baltimore correspondent of the nal plan, and which would be very impor 1N ow Orleans Picayune gives the follow-f taut s h ou ld t h e t roo p s b e obliged to retreat jug' brief sketch of a very singular anti ec- from Breed's Hill. To this Prescott de e:merle personage whom we met a few c- k nurre e t h a t t h ose em pl o yed to convey venings , since :—"His•name is Henry i them. and who were already jaded with "thlsoer• He was born some fifty-twoi toil, might Dot eeturn to his redoubt. A ettemse, inee,Segmeseletme,nte - sititatolyontz. an ll l - . 41 4 Greaten liwientbfle‘ 'thr 1111 nef . tried ea Bunker's Hill lutes breastwork t,, Baltimitre when a boy, and served an commenced by order of Gea. Putnam.— eippren ticeshipeo a watch tanker. Wort-The importance of suc h a work was after ing in this city until beyond his majority.t wards made apparent. he got sick of city life and retired to the! About noon the Americans descried country. flaying a Last for study, and twenty.eiebt barges crossing from Boston with only a redo education, he applied iin parallel lines. They contained a large himself to hooks. The taste for literature , d etee e u .„ l , or grenadiers; rangers and .and science grew upon him, and ever since tight i u e en t e ,,, a d m i ra bly equipped and he has been a laborious student. Solitary leeminuanded by Major-General Howe.— and alone, lie toiled day and night, until, They .made a splendid and formidable sp ite necomplisited a thorough knowledge of: ce with their scarlet uniforms and Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Hebrew,! the son flashing ripen muskets and hayo :German and several other fueguages.— I nets and brass field-pieces. A heavy fire This done, he betook himself to the his- f from t h e s hi ps and batteries covered their tory of sciences, etc., and now ranks a- ladvance, but no attempt was made to op. song the best scholars of his age- His pose them, and they lauded about 1 o'clock present favorite study is mathematics, and ! at m ee h ot e a Point, a little to the north of admits of but twit' problems which hare! Breed's , Hill. given him pause— these are squaring the Here General Howe nude a pause. On circle, and the soln tion of cubic eqnations. He is an astronomer, philosopher, cheat- reconnoitering the works from this point let, mathetnatittian, and somewhat of a the Amerieene appeared to be much more , strongly posted than he had imagined.— theologian. lit my whole life I have ne ver seen such a singular personage.--lle.d'eened troops also hastening to their lives in a small isolated cottage, apart front t shire troops , led en bweyrestarthke.Neßw-ollweaLP: society. Peter the Hermit was not so diatel thorough a recluse, nor Diogones more me of eannon-balls. those learned. He father eschews w oman , etas- lives a bachelor, has a fi ne library ofthebroughtfolay sent over to Gen - Gage for more n b a y a h m"ly im being found, through some ion.s overeight, too large for the ord .sics and modern literature, and is happy egreg 1 awaiting their arrival, re .beyond measure. His expression to me ; r een e ee- Whke t to the troops was, tied Ire would not exchange positions t LT,: ments .7 b ere y •with the most favorite crowned heads of' """'"greg the bucketful; °u tantelizing , :Europe. He professes ne religion, but it was to the hungry and thirsty previa ' respects all, and takes the bible alone as 62_11 to look dowt d eee fre l e 72„e their arts s j o e f person uide and standard of morality. His gto erk ' u 7 pu rr uptol % see the — gnus , pal appesmnee is remarkably singn lar. Seareelyo hair can be seen on his t and plepann g . themselves by a Their hearty onlyel iltead, which shines like a greased pump.' f or "nt,e„ coming kin. Beneath- a high intelligent forehead e ee ,_ ese ',, ° l was to take advantage o ; f ., the and a projecting brow, is seen a small, "e'''Y w hile th e enem y were eeroes'ele to quick, penetrating black eye, full of char - ' steers hen their position . The breast acter and intelligence. He never shaves.l work on the left of the position extended has a fine enottatanhe and ample whiskers, to what weemiled the Slough, but beyond with a face vivid in expression. His en- this theridge of the hill, anti the slope he tire costume would not sell for ten dimes, :'yond 3lystat Riverirere undefended, leav if put up.at public , auction. A passer by i leg a rift by which the enemy might turu would suppose him a poor mendicant, and, the left flank of the position and seize up ou ibe,inelined to extend the hand ofcharity; Bunker's Hill. Putnam ordered his eho and .yet he is comfortable in this world's ' , see officer. Capt. Knowlton. to cover this ,goods—owes no man a farthing, is lode - P aes with the Ceeneetker troops under ,pendent as a king, happy as a lord. His sa hisc° ri a tt i g mm of nt ul ealeice, v wasart ikra stel b l de noel kind sl Tnput ; tfood is literalure, and his delight classics: vo 'he is, by profession, a skilful repairer of the rustic Gener4 About six hundred endi about'chicks ;and after finding his funds geniis', tale hundred feet to the I feet the mar of the redoubt left of the breast-, low, eels out on an expedition through the counter on a professional lour of clock I work wee a P eet ' atwlrs ' l fence set ill el°w Mending I foot-wall of stone, extending down to • . tic River. The pest and rails of another fence where hastily pulled up and set a few feet in behind this. and the intermediate space was filled up with now mown hay from,_ the adjacent medows. The double fence it will be lowed proved an important protection to the redoubt, although there still remained an unprotected interval of about seven hundred feet. While Knowlton and his men were put-, mg up this fence Putnam proceeded with other of his troops to throw up the works ' on Banker's 114, dispatching his son, Capt. Putnam ' on horseback to hurry up the e remainder of his men from Cambridge.— Ey this time his carapace in Freneheand l Indus warfare, the veteran Stark, made his appearance with the New-Hempsbiro ; troops, five hundred strong. He %ad grown cool and wary with age, and his I march from Medfoni, a distance of five or six miles, bad been in character. He led his men ate moderate pace to bring them into action fresh anti vigorous- In cross ' ing th e Neck, which was euflladed by the ertenly's ships and batteries, Capt. Dear ' born, who was by his side, suggested a quick step. The ncteran shook his head Death hi_ the conqueror's welcome home, 1 The heavenly city's door ; The entrance of the . ,World to come— Ms life forever Mbre. Death is the mightier second birth, The unrolling of the soul 'Tin freedom from the chains of earth, The pilgrim's heavenly goal. Death in the purer, nobler spring, The second Eden's bloom ; e robe of bliss that angels bring, Our victory o'er the tomb. Leath is the close of life's alarms, The watch-light ou time shore; TIM clasping in immortal arms Of loved ones gone before. Death ix the gaining of a crown Where saints and angels mist; The laving or our burden down At the Deliverer's feet: Death is a song from seraph's lips, Tim ,lay•sprim , from on high ; The soiling or the sours'aelipse,„ its transit to the sky. STOCK IN I EAVEN.r••A few years ago a glom emigrant fell from a steamboat on .the Ohio river, and was drowned, leaving his wife and one or two sm3ll children, •who were on board, in destitute and dis tressing circumstances.. On coming into port, the ease was spoken of among a inumberof "river men" on the wharf, when (me of them -with characteristic bluntness •observe:l, 4iCOTC boys. let's take a little stock in heaven," at the same time taking Irani his pocket a couple of &liars as his part of the contribution foe the benefit of the poor widow. Ilia example was fol lowed by others, and a handsome present was the result Oldie rough impromptu ex hortation: Can we not hope dint like 'the alms of Cornelius 'this act came up as 4 .0 memorial befoieGod ?" It is a glorious truth whether our generous friend of the steamboat understood it or not, that we ,ere privileged-to take stock in heaven.— ..Lay up for yourselves treasuresiu heaven,' said Christ. The poor widow who threw in two mites became a large stockholder, •atitl her certificate is recorded there and here, Come, let us take stockin heaven. Popriw'd Tns ianairrtrut !—The Spring- Aeldßeityicart addi to the story of the man, who, when told by his landlord he .could, not keit!' his house until' he paid his hill,replied, "Good, just put that in writing, make a regular agreement of it ; rlllstay with ski as long as I litre !" the following must have been' the same l e dw i de a l who, tot; poor to get married. was Yel.fo susceptible to let the girls alone; and of whom is told' this circumstance : 'lre was, riding with lady "all of a stun mere'ihiy," and accidentilly—men's arms, at !a id things, ever in the way--tlrop pe'd ad arm around her waist. No objec tiori*B ma d e for ;while, and Alio arm grSdualry relieved the side of the carriage Auf the. pressure upon it. But of a sudden. whether from 'a late recognition of the im- Propriety of the thing, or the sight of a nother beau coining,' never was known ; the latly'started with volcanic energy, and vii a'Qaehing eye - exclaimed: "Mr. B. I can support myself I" "Capital!" was tbet instant reply, "you're just the girl I've been looking for these five .years—will you marry me 1" [Rest "lirring's Life of Washington. BATTLE OF .4RIKER'S RILL GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNEI9, '1865. "Ono fresh man in action is worth ten tired ones," replied he, and marched steadily on. Putnam detained some of Stark's men to aid in throwing up the works h Bun:. ker's Hill. and directed him to reenforco Knowlton with the rest. Stark made a short speech to his mon, now that they were likely to have warm work. He then pushed on, and did good service that day at the rustic bulwark. About two o'clock Warren arrived on the heights, ready to engage in their peri lous defense, although he had opposed the scheme of their occupation. Ho. had ro cently been elected a major-general, but had islet received his commission ; like Pomeroy, ho came to servo in tho ranks With a musket on his shoulder. Putnam offered him the command at the fence; ho declined it, awl merely asked, whore he could bo of most service as a volunteer.— Putnam pointed to the redoubt, observing that there ho would bo under cover:— I "Dont think I seek a place of safety," re plied Warren, quickly; "where will the at tack bo hottest ?" Putnam still pointed to the redoubt. "That is tho enemy's object ; if that can be maintained the day is ours." Warren was cheered by the troops as he entered the redoubt. Col. Prescott tender ed him the command.. He again deelned. "I have come to serve only as a volunteer, and shall be happy to learn from a soldier of yolk. experience." Such were the no ble spirits assembled on these perilous heights. The British now prepared fora general assault. An easy victory was anticipated; the main thought was how to makk*it fectual. The lett wing commanded 'by Gen, Pigot, was to mount the hill and fore° the redoubt, while General Howe, with the right wing, was to push on between the fort and Mystic River, turn the left flank of the Americans,' and cut off their retreat. Gen. Pigot accordingly advanced up the hill under cover of a lire from field.pie ccs and howitzers planted on a small bight near the landing-place on Moulto❑'s Point. His troops commended a discharge of Mus ketry while yet a long distance from the redoubts. Tho Americans within the works, obedient to strict command, retain ed their fire until the enemy were within thirty or forty paces, when they opened upon them with a tremendous volley. Be ing all marksmen, accuittomed to deliberate aim, the slaughter was immense, and espe cially fatal to officers. The assailants fell hack in some confusion ; but, ralied on by their officers, advanced within pistol shot. Another volley, more effective than the first, made them again recoil. To add to their confusion, they were galled by a flanking fire from the handful of Provin cials posted'in Charlestown, _Sliocked "orclinago,Fit l a ifienittfirfltWin .6 1- 61 his troops, 'Gem Piget* was urged to give the word for retreat. In the meanwhile Gen. Howe, with the left wing, advanced along Mystic River, toward the fence where Stark, Read and Knowlton were stationed, thinking to car ry this slight breastwork with ease, and so get in the rear of the fortress. His artil lery proved of little avail, being stopped by a swampy piece of ground, while his col umns suffered from two or three field pie ces with which Putnam had fortified the fence. Howe's men kept up a fire of mus ketry as they advanced; but, not taking aim, their shot passed over the heads of the Americans. The latter had received the same orders as those in the redoubt, not to fire until the enemy should be with in thirty paces. Some few transgressed the command. Putnam rode up .and swore ho would cut down the. next man that fired contrary to orders. When the British arrived within the stated distance ' a sheeted fire opened upon them from rifles, muskets and fowling•pieces, all leveled with deadly aim. The carnage, as in the other instance, was horrible. The British were thrown into confusion and fell back; some oven retreated to the boats. There was a general pause on the part of the British. The Amnion officers availed themselves of it to preprint for an other attack, which must soon be niado.— Prescott mingled among his men in the re doubt, who were all in high spirits at the severe check that' had given "the regulars." He praised them for their steadfastness in maintaining their post and their good conduct in resolving their fire until the word of command, and exhorted them to do tho same iu the next attack. Putnam rode about Bunker's Hill and its skirts to rally and bring on reinforce ments which had been checked or scatter ed in crossing Charlestown Nock by the raking fire from the ships and batteries.— Before many could be brought to the scene of action the British had commenced their second attack. They again ascended the hill to storm the redoubt; their advance was covered as before by discharges of ar tillery. Charlestown, which had annoyed them on their first attack by a . flanking fire, was in flames by shells thrown from Copp's Hill and from marines 'from the ships. Being built of wood, tho place was soon , wrapped in a general conflagra tion. The thunder of artillery from bat teries and ships; the bursting of bomb.. shells the sharp disoharge of musketry ; the, silouts and yells of. the combatants ; the crash of burning buildings,. and ,the dense volumes of smoke which obscured the summer sun, all formed a trentend ouesPeetaele. "Sure' I am," said Bur goyne Ilk one of his letters—" Sere I am, nothing diver has or over can be more dread fully terrible than what Was to be seen or heard at this time. The most incessant discharge of f uns that over was heard by mortal ears.' The Anunican troops, although unused to mit., stood undismayed amidst a scene .whereit was bursting upon them with all its horrors. 11eiteriing their. fire, as be fore, until the enemy was close at (mild,. they again poured forth repeated volleys with the fatal aim of sharpshooters. • The British stood the first shook, and main= ued to advance ; but .the incessant stream of fire staggered them. Their officers . -re monstrated, threatened, and oven attomp to goad them on with their swords; but the havoc was to deadly; whole ranks wore mowed down ; many 'of the 'officers were either slam ur wounded, and among them "FEARLESS AND FREE." several of the staff of General Howe.' The troops again gave way and retreated shwa the hill. ' . • All this passed,under the eye r iitt . thou sands of speatators of both, sexes' 'add all ages, watching irom afar every turn of a [ battle in which the lives of those most dear to them were at hazard. The Brit ish soldery in Boston gaited With astonish ment and almostiticrodulity at the resolute and protracted stand of Taw militia, whoin they bad been taught .to despise, and at the havoc made among. their. own voteran troops. Every convoy of wounded hrouett over to the town increased their• coaster natior. t and General .01inton, who had watched the action front (Jopp' a . Hill, em barking in a boat, hurried over as a volun teer, taking with him Aiinforeements. A third attack was now determinnd on, though some of Heiwei officers remonstra ted, declaring it Would be downright hutch: cry. A different pima was adopted. In stead of advancing in front of she redoubt, it was to be taken in flank on the left, where the open spaeq bet Ween the breast. work and the fortified, fence presented a weak point. It havifig been accidentally discovered that the ammunition of the A mericans was nearly expended, prepara tions were made to, carry the works at the point of the bayonet; and the soldiery threw off their knapitacks, and some even their coats, to be more light for action. Gen. Howe, with the main body, now made a feint of attaching the fortified fence; but while a part of his force was thus en gaged, the rest brought some field-pieces '.to enfilade the brainwork on the left of the redoubt. A 'raking 'fire ,soon drove the Au:teaming out pf, this exposed place into the inclosure:r lifitiffi 'damage, too,• was done in tho latter by balls which en tered the sallyport: J,,, • ':The troops wereifeseled on to assail the works; those whoffinehed were as before ,goaded on by tho*cers. The Atrrri cans again reservedghoir firo until their assailant's were clo,ft at hand, and then mode a murdprotur,*lley, by witieh sever al officers were lab**, and General Howe him'self was ivounitd in the foot. The British soldiery this time likewise reserved their fire, and rushed on with fixed bay onet. Clinton and Pigot had reached the southern and eastern' sides of the redoubt, and it was now assailed on three sides at once. Prescott ordered those who had no bayonets to retirolO the back part of the redoubt, and fire on the enemy as' they appeared on the parapet. The first who mounted exclaitne4 in triumph,' ..The day is ours 1" He was instantly shot down, and so were several' others who mounted about the same time. The Americans, . however, had ,firepheir last round, Aheir . Itaintittiltrcitt Win exhanitedl. and now line- ceeded a desperate and deadly struggle, band to hand, with bayonets, stones and the stocks of their muskets. At length as the British continued to pour in, Prescott I gave the order to retreat. His men had I to out their way thmugh two divisions of the enemy who were getting in roar of the redoubt, and they received a. destructive volley rem those who had formed on the I captured works. By that volley fell the i patriot Warren who , had distinguished himself throughout the action. Ile was among the last to leave the redoubt and hail scarce done so when he was shot through the head with a' musket ball and fell dead on the spot. While the Americans woro thus slowly dislodged from the redoubt; Stark, Read and Knowlton maintained their ground at the fortified fence, which indeed had been' nobly defended throegliont . the action.— Pomeroy distinguislnd himself here by his sharp shooting until his musket was shat tered by a ball. The resistance at this hastily-construoied work was kept 'up af ter the troops in the redoubt had given way and until Colonel Prescott hail left the hill, thus defeating General Howo's design of cutting off the retreat of the main body which would have produced a scene of direful confusion and slaughter.— Having affected their purpose, the bravo associates of the fend° abandoned their weak outpost, retiring slowly and dispn. ling the ground inch by inch with a, regu larity remarkable in treops many of whom had never before bcenin action. The main retreat was across Bunker's Hill, where Putnam bad endeavored to throw up .11. breastwork. The veteran, sword in band, rode to the rear of the re treatiug troops reg4less of the bails whistling about him. its only thought was to rally them at thenantinished works. "Halt! make a stand hero 1" cried he, "we Can check them yet. In God's name, fotm, and give them ono hot more." Pomeroy wielding hi shattered naus ket as a truncheon, sem 'ed him in his efforts to stay the torreu . 'lt was impos sible, however, , to bring the . troops to a stand. They , continued n down the hill to, the Neck, and across i to Cambridge, exposed to a raking fire f oat the ships andi batteries, and only pi d• by a single piece of ordnance. The ritish. wore too I exhausted to pursue the ' they content ed themselves with taki possession of , Bunker's Hill, were rein reed from Boa ten, and threw up additio works dUring the 'night.' Bitoon CORN.—This pla I India, and was introduced try by Dr.llenjamin Frank a aced in an imported whit, it; and from this small b thin valuable( . &Ind of Intl lollytxr , ••'suggests that t xuarriedlitimis: tialt their iv' because lh are so bXhee. Somebody ought to,broo , who .would. make such a re',l A young gent in Schen • from a too strong sensation tender feelings, ..41elines his an attack of lassitude. The Esquintaux, says B are afritid to die of a windy soul' should be blown away NEW Yonx • Crry is get. old village, as it was incorpo dred and ninety years ago, June, 1865. • DECLARATION By the Itepresentatires of the Units& Stales of - A merica, in. Congress assembled, JULY 4, 1776. • . . Witcx, in the course of human evetibh it be comes necessary for one people to diasolvelho political bands which have connected thernwith another, and to assume, among the poWers of the earth, the separate and. equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's Clod en title them, a decent respect - for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ' We bola these truths to be self:evident: that all men are emitted' equal; that they are en flowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ; that 'mincing thee are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinesn that, to secure these rights, governments areinstitnted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of the m ootti; it is the right of theVeople to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its I foundations ou each principles, and ominizing its powers in such form, as to there 'shall seem most likely to effect their'safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not he changed for, light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience bath shown, that mankind, are /mere dispo s sed to stiffer ! while evils `,are. ferable, -than to .right,themselves by abolish! big the forms to which they:are acensterued.-,.- But, when a long train of 'abinies and usurpa. puniuing invariably the Seine object, yin : . eesn design to reduce them Oiler absolute det potism, it is their right, it it their duty, to ihro* off such government, and to provide new guardS for their future security.. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to al ter their former systems of go4rument. Tim history of tile present king of. Brent Britain is a history or repeated injuries and usurpations, ell haling, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny overthese States, To prove this . Jet facts be submitted to a candid world; fklf: hasrausedltis assent to Its the . ..post whidesuiliettedittecithelialliie'iood;;: He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till hisassent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected.to attend to them. Ho has refu.setito pass other laws for thO ac eommodat ion of large districts of people, nolesi those people would relinquish the right of rep. resentation in the legislature; a right inostiren bib to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has coifed together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncoinfortable,and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. ' , He has dis.solved representative houses n pentedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the peoplii. Ho has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause otheis to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the prople nt large for'their exordia() ; the State reAtaining, in the menu time, exposed to all the daugers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. Helms endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose, obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their mi gration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of landsi • • • He has obstructed the e.dmiaistsation of jos tice, by refusing his lument to laws for estab lishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, fur the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude pf new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harms our people, and oat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armidi, Without the consent of our legislature:' He has affected to render the Military inde pendent of, and superior to,' the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : I For quartering large bodies of armed troops ~. , • among us : ' For preteating them; by's • Mock trial, from penisment, for animurdera which they should eon:mit:on the inhabiter:hi..of these States For cutting off our triulo with all, parts of ho world : t is a native of i n to this noun. n, who found and planted *ntling, arose , try. -v. qreasonswhy es .. 4 ileai." is veto keep.— , tick the wan ark. For imposing taxes on us without our con sent: • , 'For depriving us, in many cases, of the boa . eftts of trial by jury i. : • - ._For transporting us beyond seas to be tried preiended offences !,.For abolishing: the fret SyStim 'of English 'MR in a neighboring province, establishig therein an arbitrr‘ry government, andenlarging its boundariek so as to . render it' at once alio:, ample and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these.colonies : ady. atiffering of. tho....more complaint to, takingnway our eltarters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and tdinFirig;• fandime.ntab ly, the powers of our governments:. - For suspending our own legislatures, and de. -daring theinselvei invested . with power to le gislate for us in all cases whatimever. ' He has abdicated, gowernMeitt here, by de claring us out of ids protection, and waging war against us. • - and _Taylor, .y; kat their to be to tot) onehtm n the 14th He has planderedourseas, rarageo our coluitst , .. , p bzrn pi t e. our towns, and destroyedtho:lirea of our EDITORIAL CORMBPONDIVWE. ' . He is, at this time, transporting large armies , . . Dayros, Ohio, JunoB, HISS. of foreign mercenaries - to complete the works i saute / Du islet fcnin Pittnbavg• knee that, I of death, desolation and tyranny, already be , I have passed over the Ohio and Pennsylvania 'learned to Crestline, thence by the Cleaveland gun, with circumstances of cruelty and peril dysearcely paralleled in the. most &shames and Columbus and other i nteesecting roads to thla kir, and totally unworthy the head-Of a civil- place, it distil:ice of over 300 miles, stopping by ized nitt i oth - - the any as pleasure or convenience suggested. Tie luta constrained our fellowoitizena, taken The fennel' road, leftvini the Ohio viVer at captive, on the , high seas, to bear arms against Beaver, hi its mute through the mare t% orth their country, to become the ereentione ern counties or the States, passing by. Salem, their friends and bre th ren, or tOfpll them sl Alliance,. Canton, .igisillon, 'Worcester, Mane. by their hands. . . field, and other growing towns, and through He has excited domestic insurrections a• a country bearin g evidenc e - o f e nc ellent " Id * .inpngst, us, and h a y endeltvored to b r i ngs° , the cultural development, At Crestline, the Ohio inhabitants of "our frontiers, the'mereilesa In- and india " interwebir w ith it and the'Clenve" land and Columbus mad, carrying the trageler diem savages, whose known rule of warfnee is an . nndietinguished des . traction of all ages set- literally t hmugh at he wwwds" to Fort Mr eo es, and conditions. ' 111116' and thelicsll othettiromb to ChteogO ___ In everystage of these, oppressions, we have petitioned for retirees, in tho moat humble terms; our repeated petitions have been an sweied only by, repeated injury. A prince., whose character is thus marked by every net which may defino a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of ti free people.: Nor have we been wanting in atteation to our British brethren.. We have rued them, from,time to time, of attempts, 'de . by their legislature to extend as unwarrantable joie diction over us. Me have reminded thetit of, tIM circumstances of our emlgration and ant- tioment here. We Inive appealtd jo their .na five justice and magnanimity, and walleye con Hired them, by the ties of our common kin. drbd, to disavow these 118;11:potions, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice • and consanguinity. must, therefore r acquiesee in, tho necessity, which denounces our separation ,; m iii toh[; them, as we hold, the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace, friends. We, theretiire, the representatives of the UNITED STATES OF, AMERICA, in GEN ERAL, CONGRESS assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rec titude °four intentions, do ill the name, and by theqiuthority Of the good people of these colonies, selennily pnblish ' And _declare, That the.so United Colonies• are,. and of . right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES ; Suit the - y are absolved from - all al_ legiance to the British crown, and that all po. litieal eonnexion between them end the State of Greatintitilyt t , us, and ought to, be, totally dissolved ; and that, 'as free and . independent States, they, have full powerla levy war, eon. elude peace, contract alliances, establish cum. ,niereo u pod tin slo„ ail -ollie.R.Aglis, .and, things which Independent States mar of right do.— And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection ofdivino Provi denceove mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our furtuues, and, our sacred honor. ADVANCE OP BOMOMPATHY.— A. popular English writer and bomceopa thie physician, Dr. Wilkinson. has writ ten a letter to a member of the Board of Regents of Michigan, preparatory to-the appointment of a Professor of Hoinceopa thy in the University of that State, in compliance with a recent act of its Login lature. In his letter ho says that most of the crowned heads of Europe consnit ha 1 inceopathie medical adviiers ; that more than sixty pears and peer's sons have po. titioned fora trial of lioinceopathy by the government at the seat of war, and that a large and increasing proportion of the generals;adtnirais and prominent English statesmen arc of the same medical faith. WHY• FEMALES FAVOR PROM BITION.--in an address <delivered by him at a temperance meeting in Brook. lyn, Mayor Hall made the following state ment,: ."More than three hundred itl.used vrives hero &Ted upon tee since the first of *Tannery, to complain of their drunken husbands who , squandered all their money in rum, and left them without the means of support." He estimated the total ex penditure for rum in Brooklyn, during the course ,of a year, at near dim millions of dollars. CURIOUS COURSE OF Tnanc.—.A. three masted schooner was loaded last'week at Lodus Bay, Lake Unlade, with wood at $2 38 percord, to be sold in Chicago, Illi nois, where it is held at five or six Millers. This is a strange cargo to carry westward for a thousand miles. - ,The following is frotu the pen of Wat er savage Landon :—. , The damps of an num sink into the leaves and prepare hem for the neGessity of the IA ; and thus insensibly are vre, as, years close around is, detached'lront our tenacity to life by he geode pressure of recorded sorrow'? GOOD OLD AGE FOR A NEWSPAPER...—. rhe Newport (Rhode Island). Mercury plotted its ninety-seventh year of publica tion ou the 12111 Inst. it is, we believe, the oldest newspaper iu the United Suttee, it itot in the world. COLORED .. WOMEN‘E Itiuirrs."-741- pha Shum, a "lady of color," has been preaching in various Prinittieu Methodist Chapels in England, and her discourses are said to be much allmired. Archbishop Hughes , has repeatedly cros• sed 'the ocean without injury to his gauged person, but recently, says the Philadelphia. Times, he Was .'put his fin& into it,' in •tittempting to cros some Ilrook in New York. • .„ A Coot. STAT!CMENT. —The Nnremberg ,(Germany) Courier. atatce under the head of Stuttgart!, that the corporation of !lei• aingen, in the province of llorb, have aohl their poor•bouses to the Jae% and sent qui, poor to anterica. • terThe siege at Sevastopol is said lo re. amble a fashionable story,- because none can tell hose lung it is "to be continued.' A Past•isto VortutiDßUN.—Of all pos; 'eased of a long tongue aid empty bead. why u a. • bell the meat discreet T Because it inner 9ealls till it's tollad.l " 407 :' TWO DOLLARS Pia 'ANNIThit:" IN BBR`It and tho Great West : 7 For, be it remembered, "the West" is a ' phrase about equally de finiteax to locality with the famons "down fast" of the Yankees. We in' Pennsylvania talk of Ohio asuthe West," whilehete, some 600 miles from home, yon scarcely get a glimpse of its ever-receding habitation. Nothing so muck surprises the traveler from our Eastern States, uccustomed to associate ideate of new ness and undeveloped resources, if not ofrudt.- AIM, with our conceptions of Western life,S4 to witness the beauty, a c tivity, enterprise, and social conveniences am! refinement so tuna singly characteristic of nearly all the towns through which he passes. It needs personal Inkten ! ntion to realize, the evidences of the 1 preseut greatness of this Western world"- 'in all the elements of social, political and physical progress and the clear foreshadowing of still vaster greatness in the future, whew the almost indefinite capitu l ate of territory stretch ing to the far-off Pacific., shall he teeming with ! . life, and huffiness, and industry. .- •'h is astonishing to observe the facility with which Railroads are hero constructed, inter- Peeling each other suety here and there, a*. stretching over the State their netdilgi inter weaving* bewildering the tiatieler is to his proper mute, even with map and irgeide•book in hand. From this place, for instance, where nine years ego there was not a single railroad, there WO now no less than seven leading North and South; East and West, with intermediate points, and running two or three dailytrains. : At Crestline, where the Cleaveland and the I, Ohio and Pennsylvania roads intersect, the I passengeralights upon alma*, wilderness, the innumerable' stumps of trees but recently felled, dearly indicating that the station is but one of , yeterday. ; And yet he is already mtatbyequel , ltliear lidiatiamsthat but a year or two will i ; produce a thrivingandpopnlous town. Streets Tare already laid out and houses being built,- mostly on piles, in consequence of the marshy soil, and probably intended as temporary ex pedients to accommodate a present want. Se at Forest, a point some forty ndles west of Crestline, where the Ohio and Indiana and the Mad River and bike Erie roads intersect A 1 single house is now all that greets the eye of 'the A traveler. year or two„, will develope a. „ thriving town. -Indeed these Western terms spring up as it were by magic, and what-is bet ter, beauty and architectural taste spring up with them. Villages of yesterday are now large cities teeming with busy, active life. ` Yon may have heard of Dayttin as "one , of the handsomest towns in the West." I ex. petted much of it, but confess that my anticipa tions were fats below the reality. Accustonfed to the comparatively narrow streets and corn pactly built rows of red brick housei t 'sdarcely ever varying in shape or style, of , our Eastern towns; one not prepared to witness the beau ty, elegance and varied architectural taste so characteristic of most Western places, and e. specially that from which I write. Containing a population of over 70,000, Dayton lies in a beautiful and rich Miley through' which flows the Miama River. The streets • are unusually nide and finely paved. • Main street 7 -that in which the priucipal wholesale and hobses are located—is over one hundred feet in width, The sidewalks are of corresponding width and generally paved with largo blocks of grey limestone, which is found in large quantities in the neighborhood, and furnishes admi mble building material. The' tat:Maim dt velope beautiful strata labia:nine ofthese stones varying from four and five inches to two and three feet in thickness, Each 'layer being of uniform thickness, the stones require little or no dressing, to reduce to the requisite size in length and 'width. I saw some slabs as they canto from the quarry full six feet in width Ind some thirty feet in length, with a nniform thick. plena of about fifteen inches. The facility with which these stones are ;worked causes them to to be steed for paving, steps, sills, gate-ways, • posts,- 1 --entire buildings being frequently put up roan them. ,' • • But that which gives to Dayton its distill. guishing beauty, aside from the width' and cleanlincis of the streets, is the taste evinced in the construction of the private and -public ' buildings, and the embellishnient of the yards and lawns which almost invariably surround them. The buildings are generally lame and showy, in every style of architecture, present ing a variety and frishnem unknown in East crn cities. Betides this, almost eseryresidenee has its yard fronting upon 'the street, embel lished, as snits the taste of the occupant, with "various shade trees, Matey cedars, trailing titles, and rosea The first aim of the builder would . seem to be, the possession of sufficient ground to enable him to put his building in the centre, and then have "elbow.room" enough le, pre- _ vent being cramped by his neighbor. Thus it seldom happens that you find dwellings in ma. . tact, beautiful green lawns stretching between, and giving to the whole "city a rich " rural ail* pest. From the top of tbe Courtheass--itielf ..,, *stately building of solid • limestone, roar and all:—thai town piesents *lovely aspOt # this season of the year. , Stretching oat ism. dm valley to a distance ahriest twice as' groat se Would be occupied by one of oar sonspaotis of equal popths*ldn, Ir arreatilna' °f la " 1 " 4 4 AP /II Mad, II built lOWA'mo,: we
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