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