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THE RUTLAND HERALD.
VOLUME 56.
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THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1850.
NUMBER 22.
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TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE IN I
GREAT BRITAIN,
r.v 4. 11. .vmi:.
One of the most refined expedients
or tyranny is the maintenance of ig
norance; and ono of the most effica
ctoua agents of slavery is the screw
upon the prcti. This screw acta with
a irtinacious, suppressive gravity
upon the press of great Britain, re
tarding the progress of the mind and
the interchange of free thoughl,ainong
the very class that the aristocratic
faction brands with ignorance when
they demand the right of enfranchise
ment. In the year 18(8 there was a
duty of about forty thousand dollars
levied upon foreign books not books
of British authors that had been sur
reptitiously published abroad and
sought admission here for a market,
but chiefly French, German and oth
er European productions that came
to supply our authors for literary pur
poses, and our libraries for the use of
the poor students. On paper alone,
in 1B40, a duty of nenrly four mill
ions of dollars was paid. For adver
tisements nearly 0110 million of duty,
and for newspaper stamps about two
millions. The duty upon foreign
books is vexatious and oppressive in
eo far as it tends to circumscribe the
operations of authors, who arc the
medium through which our neighbors'
minds arc revealed to us; but its ef
fects arc not so generally vicious and
absurd as those of the paper and ad
vertisement duties. It you wish to
start a public journal in Great Britain
you are taxed for telling the people
your intention of doing so at the rate
of ona shilling and sixpence sterling
for each advertisement over and above
the publisher's charge; then they pay
a tax of three half pence per pound on
the paper, and one penny of stamp
duty upon each paper published.
A newspaper circulating 10,000 co
pics daily, pavs the Government for
paper duty alone, about $20,000.
W. & R, Chambers, in a remon
strance to the Government, state that
the cost of their series of Tracts was
25,766 sterling of which sum,
JC 5,4111 were for paper duty, being
nearly four times as much as was paid
for authorship, and nearly halt as
much as the cost of printing. These
fublishcrs solemnly declare that the
lOvcrntnent by their imjwst, derive
more profit from tln3 one enterprise of
educating the people, than they did
who had all the labor and risk.
The triple tax upon newspapers,
which so circumscribes their circula
tion, is enforced by heavy penalties;
and the Government-assumes to dic
tate what a newspaper is. Any pub
lication sold at less than sixpeuce
occupying less than two large sheets
published at intervals not exceeding
twenty-one days and containing an
account of public events, or comment
thereon is declared to be a newspa
per, and taxed accordingly . Any
person possessing one number of an
unstamped newspaper is liable to a
penalty of twenty pounds sterling,and
for distributing copies of the same, to
a penalty, of fifty pounds Sterling.
A urintcr hnv'mtf a conv. forfeits all
his presses and type-cases to the pa-
tenia! law: and ins premises can be
broken open; upon tho suspicion of
his having such a pajicr. The stamp
duty upon a paper at fourpence half-
E;nny, the general price in Great
ritain, is upwards of twenty per
cent;-a very pretty profit truly. The
advertisement duty is a most dispro
portionate and indiscriminate one also;
for the poor girl who, in five lines
ourowu, asks leave to toil, pays as
mncVi in thn ranarinin treasury as
does the quack for his half column
u w
It iano "wonder that the press of tcenth, seventnth and eighteenth cen
ni. nnnmllv treats uncn-1 turiea have no living descendants at tins
X4lrr "
franchise with scorn. That press
is almost under the control of the
moneyed class. A large capital roust
at the very outset of a newspaper s
career, be sunk to meet the impcri
tire demand of tho 'king's tax gath
erer at the door;' and cautioners must
bo found ready to pay down the fines
thai the law may see fit to exact for
case of libel. It is no wonder that
the "Times" cheers on Haynau, and
defames Kossuth and Maxzini. I t is
an instruroeut of a few capitalists
whose wealth depends upon tho sta
bility of the brutal despotism to whom
they have lent it to suppress liberty.
No mop nan. bo he a Thomas Car-
lyle or William llowitt, can publish
on iitdeMndcnl tmner here, uur no
blest hearts aud brightest minds may
rrit, but tho rich determine what
In the United States wo believe there '
are 200 rkilv turners. 1400 weekly. 1
and 180 At other intervals. In Paris ,
there are about twenty or thirty daily ,
paper. j
The working-men of London hare
Conned from their body a Newspaper-1
Ump abolition Committee; and the
friends of nonular instruction arc ex-
PsinK ! Vstom of restriction a ml I
nKttl-ilftl rtti tiWlnlinArl 11 linn lm mnn
I tal growth of this people by those tax
es uon knowledge taxes winch were
chiefly imposed in the reign of Queen
Anne, to raise means for tho war of
the Spanish succession. We fight
with ignorance in this land with or.c
arm bound by law, and ignorance
looks for knowledge with one eye put
out by tho same paternal agency.
Cirittian Citizen.
M 1 1 TON SI I A KS PEA RE
POPE. Nkitiikr of these great poct3 has
tiny living representative. .Shakspcare '
was llm first mnn of letters, Pope tho I
eeoiid, ami Sir Walter Scott the third, '
who, in Ureal liritian, ever realized u I
large fortune by literature or in Chris
tendoni, if we except Voltaire, and two
dubious eases in Italy.
Milton was thrice mnrricd, nnd left
three daughters, nil by his first wife
(Alary Powell, i Anne, the eldest, mnr
ried a master builder, and died soon af
terwanls; Mary, the second, died in a
single slate ; and Deborah, tho young
est, married Abraham Clarke, n weav
er in SpitalfieM, by whom she had sev
en sons and three daughters. The dis
tress into which she fell in consequence
of this imprudent marriage, experienced
Mime kite and partial relief from the
liberality of Addison, nnd the less splen
did munificence of Queen Caroline.
Of her ten children two only left off
spring ; Caleb, who, marrying in the
East Indie, had two sons, whose his
tory cannot now be traced ; and Eliza
beth, who married Thomas Foster, a
weaver, by whom she had three sons
and four daughters, who all died young
nnd without issue. In old age and in
penury, Mrs. Fo-ter was dicovered in
a small chandler's shop, nnd brought in
to public notice by Dr. Birch and Dr.
Newton. Attention being thus awak
ened to the grand-daughter of Milton,
Cotntu was performed for her benefit in
1750; and .lohnson, associated ns he
then was in the labors of the infamous
Lauder, did not dentate to supply tho
occasional prologue. The profits of the
1 j 1 1 1 1 were onlv K!0 sterling : vet this
1 win the greatest benefaction that the
I'uratlise htil ever procure I the autli
1 or's descendants. Mrs. FoMer died on
i the 9ili of May, 17.ri 1, and with her ex-
piren the In-t ileecendant of the immor
tal jKiet. Milton realized fifteen pounds
only for the copyright and extra sale
of Paradise Lost.
Shnkspeare married Anne Hathaway
in L182, in his nineteenth year. He
had two daughters. Susanna married,
on the olh June, 1C07, Dr. .John Hall,
a physician in Stratford. The doctor
died in November, 1(535, aged CO his
wife died at the nge of sixty-six, on .Tuly
11th, 1040. They had one child, n
dnughfer named Elizabeth.born in 1C08,
married, April 22, lG2G, to Thomas
Nashe, Esq. ; left a widow in 1 047, and
subsequently re married to Sir John
Barnard ; but this Lady Uarnard, tho
sole grand-daughter of the poet, had no
children by either marriage. The se
cond daughter, Judith, in February,
1 010, (about ten weeks before her fath
er's death.) married Thomas Quincy,
of Stratford, by whom she had three
sons, Shnkpeiiro, Richard and Thomas.
juaitl was nliout thirty-one years old nt
the time of her marriage; and living
just forty-six years afterwards, she died
' in February. lCft'i.nt the ase of scven-
ly-sayen. 'Her three sons died without
ISSUU , 1IU1I lllll?, Ill lliu uiiLvi ,mi.i, u.'
scent, it is certain thnt no representa
tive has survived of this transcendnnt
poet, the most august amongst created
intellect
Pope was born on the 21st of May,
1C88, and died on the IJOih of May,
174j. in the fifty-seventh year of his
ace. "so quietly Uiat his attendant
could not distinguish 'be exact moment
of his dissolution." He was at all times
feeble in bodily health, and his death
was hastened by dropsy in tlie ciicfi
Pope was never married.
Thus the threctirreat twets of the six
period,
The four or five latter years of Slink-
speare's life, he passed iu dignified case,
in proiounu nieuuuuoo, nuu in uonci
sal respect, at his native town of Strat
ford. Pope obtained, from the sale of the
Iliad. J310, and from the Odyuey
jt?3,C85. He enjoyed for many years
the retreat of Twickenham, w here many
of his later productions were written.
Anecdote of Dajciki. Wr-nsTr-B.
At one time Daniel Webster had a dif
ficult case to plead, and a venlict ren
dered against his client. One of the
witness came to him and suid u Mr.
Webster, if I bad thought we should
Imve lost the cnio. 1 might liave tes
tified a great dcol more tlian Idid."
" It is of no 'consequence," replied
the lawyer, "the jury did not believe
a word you iaid."
CURIOUS MARRIAGES.
A curious legfnd iiTelated to EgU
vnrd, a secretary of Charlemagne, and
n dn lighter of the emperor. Ihc ec-
I. .1 ..!.. !.. I .!.!. .1.-1
prince?, who at length allowed his ad
Tnnces. Ono winter's night his visit
was prolonged to a late hour, nnd in the
inenntimc a deep body of snow hud fall
en. If he left hi foot marks would be
tray him, and et to remain longer
would expose him no less to dungcr. At
length the princess resolved to carry
him on her back to a neighboring house,
which she did. It hrppened, however,
that from the window of his chamber
the emperor witnesfed this novel pro
cieding ; and in the aembly of the
lords on the following day, when daugh
ter nnd Eg! van! were present, he nsked
what ought to be done to a man wh
should c mpel n king's daughter to car
ry him on her shoulders through frost
and snow, on a winter's night ? They
answer that ho was worthy of death.
The lorers became alarmed, but the
emperor, nddie.sj.ing Egivard, said,
"lladstthou loved my daughter, thou
houhUt have come to tue ; thou nre
worthy of death but I give thee two
lives j take thy fair porter in marriage,
fear God, and love one another." This
wns worthy of one of the greatest prin
ces, nnd also worthy the imitation of
many a pune-proud nri.Urocrat of later
times.
Ralzac, the French novelet, exhibits
another example of ecentricity in matri
monial affairs. Accordiiitr to a Pnrisnit
corrcsiMiiident. the nrrivnl of thU rdf. I
bratrd author from CJermany caused
an immense sensation in certain circles,
owing to the romantic circumstances
connected with his marriage. It np
peares that some fifteen yearn ago, when
Ilalziic wus nt the zenith of his fame, he
was traveling in Switzerland, and had
arrived at the inn just at the very mo
ment the prince and princess ilanski
were, leaving it. ISalzae was ushered
into the room they had jtist vacated,
nnd was leaning upon the window to ob
serve their departure, when his atten
tion was arrested by a soft voice nt his
elbow, aking for n book which had
been left behind upon the window sent.
The lady was certainly fair, but appear
ed doubly so in the eyes of the poor
author, who " intimated thnt the book
she was in quest of was a pocket edit.
ion ot Ins own works, adding that she
never travelled without it. nnd thnt
without it she could not exist!" She
drew the volume from beneath his el
bow, and flew down stairs obedient to
tho screaming summons of her hus
band, n pussy old gentleman who whs
already seated in the carriage, railing
in a loud voice against dilatory habits
of women in general, and his own
spouse in particular ; nnd the begilt
and emblazoned vehicle drove off, leav
ing the novelist in n state of self com
placency tko nioit enviable to be con
ceived. This was the only occasion up
on which Ualznc and the l'nnccss
llnniski had met, till his recent visit to
Germany, when he presented himself
as her accepted husband.
During these long intervening fifteen
years, however, n literary correspon
dence was steadily kept up between
the parties, till n letter containing lite
rary strictures upon his writings, a mis
sive of another kind having a still more
direct personal tendency, reached him
from the fair hand of the princess. It
contained tho announcement of the de-
miso of her husband, tho prince -that
he had bequeathed to her his domain?,
and his grent wealth, -and consequent-
ly that she felt bound to requite him in
some measure mr ins uueraiiiy, aim
1 1. -ui ucieriniucu upon giving a suc
cessor in the person ol liulzac. It is
needless to sny the delighted author
wailed not a second summons ; they
were forthwith united in wedlock, a t
her Chatlcnu on the Rhine, nnd a suc
cession of splendid fetes celebrated the
auspicious event.
The story of the marriage of Lnmar
tinu is'also one of romantic interest.
The lady whose maiden name was
Birch, was possessed of considerable
property, nnd when past the bloom of
youth she became pitsmonately enamor-. t,ic ucjd. Then apply with a soft brush
ed of the jioct, from the perusal of his tbc following mixture; one ounci of
Meditations;' for some lime she nursed dragon's blood, dissolved in about a
this sentiment in secret, and being np- pint' of spirits of wine, nnd with the ad
prised of tho embarrassed state of his dilion of a third of an tmnce of carbon
affairs, sho wrote him tendering the nteofsodamixf.il and filtered. When
bulk of her fortune. J oueheil with
this rcmaiKHOie prooi m ucr peneromiy
nnd supoing it could be only caused
by a preference for himself, lie at once
inado an offer of his baud and heart.
He judged rightly nnd the jei wus
promptly accepted. Holdcn's Mag.
Ducu.khlv oxe or 'km. William
.......
D. Mains one of the jail birds who re -
cently escaped from eustody in this
city, has written a letter, dated Lowell.
Mass., to Mr. Wellington, tho jailor in
which be excuse his sudden leave tak-
in;
He says that he had for some time ,
dissatisfied with his manner uf liv-;
been dissati
intr: he had been in Mr. Wellingtons
family a long time, and had never been
...... . 1 .:. ... 1.:. . ..i.i. . .I.j ..,.1 il.tiil-
111 VllCU IU ail Ul 1113 MIUIC , wwia wi ,m...
he shall return until autumn ; and as it
is now getting along towards warm
weather and the cholera may be here
1 soon. He wishes Mr. W. to send him
' his boots which " iu the hurry and con-
I fusion of the moment" he forgot to take
. . . . .. , 1
with bun, tinatiy ne enjoineu ujkjii jh,
W. not to blab the letter about tow n,
but to keep dark adding "for you know
yuu arc one of us." litnyor Mercury,
TIIE ANIMAL WORLD.
Few persons are aware of tho ox-
icni 01 iac auimai wotkj. jluc nine
beings, which the nnaided human can
see, and hich require the most power
ful magnifying gbt.W to render thrm
visible, are incalculably numerous, nnd
thty were found to exist in places,
where, till recently it was umocd next
to impossible anything could rtmnin a
live. Dr. Uowilitcli of It-riton hns dijeov
cred that thcic infinitetinnl creatures
infest Hie teeth of men nnd women,
cauMng their removal and destruction
He has made microscopical observation
of matter deposited 011 the teeth nnd
gums of more than forty persons, from
all elaises of society, h all states of
health, aud in nearjy every ense, pnra
sites in great nii'mtur have been dis
covered. Keglet of cleanliness he mys
is tho eniiu of the prentice of these
parti;ilej, or Uetli deMroycrs. The
only persons whose mouths were found
entirely free from them, demised their
teeth four times a day, uing 6onp once.
All the common agents or detergents,
tooth powders and tooth wahes avail
not to their destruct'on. They live
aud thrive in the midst of tobacco smoke
and tobacco juice. But the application
of pure white soap destroys them in
stantly. AVlint will the Hindoos sny to
this discovery ? The religion of some
of them, forbids them to ent nnyibiug
that has, or hashad life. 'When the
fact of living creatures residing about
the human teeth, Is known in the East
Indies, we may believe that pure white
soap will be in grent demand there, and
it is not improbable that the demand
for it will be increased at home.
Bloody spots on bread hnve occasion
ally been discovered, and the incredu
lous have attributed them to miracle.
But they have been ascertained to he
animalcules. They appear as corpus
cule, almost round, and from one eight
thousandth to one three thousandth of
a line in length, transparent when sep
arately examined, hut in mass, they ap
pear red like blood. It bus been cal
culated that the space of a cubic inch
would hold from forty-six billions to
eight hundred nnd eighty-fuur billions
of them that is from fifty to a thou
sand times more than the whole limn-
her of human beings on the face of the
'n...: i i:iii..... .
earth, llieir extreme littleness mny
make them seem very insignificant be
ings, but wo can easily see from their
incalculable numbers, the animalcules
which nre almost everywhere found,
must be important agents in the hands
of infinite w'sdom.
New Hampshire Sentinel.
THE SECRET OF PROSPERITY.
In the mirror wo met with the fol
lowing sentiment, which we very cor
dially endorse: "Let our working
classes assure themselves that, after all
it is little or nothing that government
or society can do for them, compared
witli what they can do for
. I. .!...
by their own induslrv. forethought and .
manlv self rontrol" This U tr.nl, in
nutshell the true answer to the theo
ries and speculations and social move-
mi'Tlta IV if It ia' I i vim tirnrtiit firm la
-:r.. -ri,,, ,.f ..... I
erntive depends unon his own charac
ui mm itaui nun. ;im mi vjt noruoicr. nil
i -. n i i
proved. Many of our most opivilcnt '
i ... . . 1 . . I
,
merchants are living testimonies to tins t
truth. The man who gives himself to
his vocation who to employ sacred
phraseology has a 4,6liijr1e eye" and can
not i,e diverted from his purpose of per
sonal advancement by the thousand and
one schemes which tempt him to rely
1 un0n others for promotion or success
jiC ,t Wio summons every difficulty
and triumphs over all onnnsition. A
reputation for personal industry
ami
steadiness of puipose, for independence
aud self reliance, is worth more than
antliing else in this practical business
loving world. X. Y Commercial Ad
vertiser. Anv wond of a cloe grain mny be
made perfectly to imitate mahogany,
by the following French process-: Let ,
the surface be planed perfectly smooth ;
and then rubbed with n solution of ui-
the polish diminishes iu brilliancy, it
I... rni.i.o.l I... i:i.i i.i .i
...
linseed oil. Dragon's blood, as most of
iii.i, J-y 11.011111.11 tij iiiiiu wuiil tlliinil
nor remler tfnnw ic r r...in r.lkOiiii.wl iv (
incision from certain tropical plants,
nnd is Eold by the druggists, to the vnr
uinhcrs nnd marble staincr. The rne-
thud is extensively aJopted in France,
mill tlllirlil li,l Ul.ll niOifiti..! in llm I in.
7 -
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Tnc Lauihs. Mrs. Francis I).
Gnge, iu a letter to the Ohio State dour
mil, comuienls iifKm the ptculinrly
cool' mode in which American Ladies
receive a favor fiom gentlemen. She
says :
i "'I
I'wo years ago I made a jouniey
to New Kngland, accompanied by my
hufcband, nnd also by my father-in-law',
an old man of fourscore years. I have
often 6een that pood old man offer his
seat to some hale woman oflialf or lets
than half his age, and teen her
and teen her accent
it as if it were a
richt, without even a
nassiii" notice of his Cray hairs, or the
weight of years that entitled him to her
kiiidiiCU and attention. Once, nnd on-
!v once, n lady of ,uccnly gnuc nnd 'day of April, 1775, and was then
bojiuiy, siirang from her seat ns ween- nineteen vean and and eleven davs
tcml, and w.ih nvo.ee that watery joU. Mv" irotlPr Nathaniel, who
musical Mini father lake tl.U n I ,,,, ., ,(, ,
chair. Hi.w my heart pmng to meet i , ... . ', 5 . 1
her in her angel goodi.ci ! Such has , r hlom 1,0 '"wanls married, was
ever been our idea of a Imly-U y- st ,',0,',0"sc wl,rro ,l,c staying
nonymous with a true woman. - "Car V'c ll,,u hvXevn ,,cx" 3 " ml
1 Lincoln, Hint received the alarm there
Maxims .,11.811.7,. .M.mr,.r.Tox.- froin 1)r, t?amu.1 J'cott, and came
Persevere against discoi.rngen.ent, keep over an.l gave it to inc. My father
vour temper, employ lcuuro in tudv And v four bmt tcrs, Jacob, Nath
and always have some work on hand amcl, Jamrs and fcamncl, and my
be punctual nnd methodical in business bruthcr-iti liiw, Daniel llosmcr, were
aud never procrastinate never be in a ' in arms at the North Ilridge. After
huiry preserve self possession nnd not
be talked into conviction 1 rie early
..1 .
and be nu economist of time ; maintain
dignity without the appearance of pride
-manner in. something with every bo
dy nnd overything with some be guar
ded in discourse, attentive and slow to
speak never acquiesce in immoral or 1
111. rum. i.iiid .inuii.iiiK 1 1. iwif f.if.t.nwl fn I
lui..i. rrmm.. In llni.n u lin In.r.i '
right to ask -think nothing in conduct j
unimportant and indifferent rather set
than follow example practice strict
temperance, and in all your transactions
remember the final account.
Bi:xi:i-its ok R.wi.uo.vds. An evi
dence, of the value of Railroads in fa
cilitating thu transit of commerce be
tween the great markets aud the inte
rior, is given by Mr. Northrop, a well
known diover from Vermont. He left
the station of the Rutland Railroad at
Burlington with a drove of cattle, reach
ed Cambridge, sold his cattle, pocketed
the cash, and was again at his starting
o'clock. P. M. haviny; been absent f.om
home :J I hours, and traveled about four y were the only men who una
hundred and sixty miles. Under the old bayonet, nnd it was not curtain wheth
'regime' it took about nine or ten days er the British would fire, or whether
to reach Boston with a drove of cuttle, 1 they would charge bayonets without '
nnd besides the expenses of driving and firing. I do not remember which of
feeding, the eatlle depreciated in value 1 then.' riaul it, but both agreed to it 1
about ten ner cent, in their nominal , ,,,w'(it..ni 1 Invw' ntm.iiiiv nf mm. '
value, ami they were rem ere. aiuin.u
liltd, I..I. c ,11m iln. 'I t. ft .nll-....il lifll.rva I
....I.. .-I..UI... I.
them down in a day, fat and wholesome
ns when they leave, too pasture or the
stall. Boston Mail.
SiiAKr.n Stokv. We had a glimpse a
i day or two since, of a Shaker Bible
', -V . r. . . , ... i i .. .,
IkhiI: not often allowed to lie seen hv "tho
j world's pciple.' It is entitled 'A Holy.
Sacred, and Divine Roll from the Lord
of Heaven to the inhabitants ot the eaith,
revealed in the Society nt New Lebanon,
County cf Columbia, State of New York,
United States of America.' This edition
was published seven yeats since nt the
Shaker establishment nt Canterbury, N.
II. and the publishers stiy that as they
have no regular printer anion"; them, 'the
i mechanical execution may not lie perfect
in all its ptuK' We imagine, however,
that some iirinterhud a hand in it, from
its neatness nnd accuracy unless indeed
it wai printed by inspiration,
i tends to be a Revelation and
It nre-1
the testi-1
is uiven. I
"" "l' elevci. niightya..gels is given I
Mho attended the writing ot the mil.
the mil.
i One of the angels is named ton-sole-teae-
j Jiih-n.on-shue, and another Pre-line fi-1
naii-vas-teii-va-ren-ve-ne. Accenting to i
the imcelie injunction
the book must be
p.u.ted and hound by the hh;i
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selves, in ii eve ii us s.it iconcss uuin n-
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l""'"""1
nl'llltllltr i-im
by profane hands. The '
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wus done at Ciiuteiburv, but it
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was lounn so lar necesNiry io iievuiiu iiuiii .
lliu im mi: ciiiiiiii.uiu .1. ft iv .uihihii
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to have the volume bound there bein'rjnil.
no bookbinders at the establishment. ltl
is bound in yellow according to the r-
der fioin on high. The book appears to I
contain y.n.e passaged f.om heripture, a -
te.vd, tuiietided enlarge, or curtailed,
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rts ini'V in i: i loo: oiv iirunii.ti. iu I'm iiiv
1a;c. It is a very curious volume, even
more remarkable, though of less pretend
ed untiipiity, limn the Mormon Bible. A
copy is ordered to be sfnt to every King
or Potentate in Christendom and one
sent to tho fjovernoi of Canada, some
time b'uiee, was leturned or refused.
Lowell Courier.
pccuilill limii'lis oi iim- ni iiin-.T vi ..imiv
1 ' .
LAST SURVIVOR OF THE CON
CORD FIGHT. j
The Bunker Hill Aurora of Satur
day publishes the following affidavit,
taken before Judge Hoar, on the 2-d
ult., who states that Mr Baker "known '
as a man of iiood character, ami in
.... . .... . .
' In iiosscasinn ot Inn mind nnil memo.
1 -
ry
, I IIUUC IIIU DUllUIOClIt IU 1113 UIU3-
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ence. aim uuvii.ii nuu 1110 saino rc-
duccd to writing! sulncribcd it, and
made oath to it at the time. It would
be well if such statements, touching
important events, were oftcner taken
from tho lip3 of our departing revolu
tionary heroes
'lite Affidavit of Amos Baker, of
Lincoln, given April 22, j he
being the solo survivor of the men
who woro present at tho North
Bridge, at Concord, on the 1'Jth of
April, 177., and the only man
living who bore arm that day.
He was present at the
celebration
.a1 I A l I t f 11 Ifllt
years at. ays. Many uii-iepresmttlioiis and eonflii-t-
I, Atno4 l aker, of Lincoln, in the . J;m,uJ , einulation. nU
county of Middlesex, and Common-. tj . U) t,w Tr, ail(,
i.'riHli nt atir.riiidi.tl j .ri Autli lli I .. i i ... i .
I w . " i -v
' YJV anci say .
That I wan ninety-four years old on
the eighth day of April, liO. I w as
at Concotd tight, the ninvtccuth
, the fight at tho Bridge, I saw nothing
..1 .1 1 . 1
mure ot tlictn, and cud not know
II1CII1,
whether they were alivo or dead, un
til I found two nf my brothers engag
ed -in the pursuit near Lexington
mccting-liouse. Nathaniel followed
the enemy to Charlustown.
When I went to Conconl in the
mOI'lUng, I joined tllC l.illColll
com-
I1' at the brook by Flint's pond,
near the house then of Zachary Smith,
MUM I IV If Ml IS VI I II .3 1141 III A IVIIUVU
my gun there with two balls, ounce
balls, and powder accordingly.
I saw the British troops coming up
the rond that lends on to tho cjiiiinon
at Conconl ; the sun shone very bright
on their bayonets and guns.
Abijuh i'ierce, of Lincoln, tho
Colonel of the Minute men,! went up,
armed with nothing but a cane.
When we were going to march
down to the Bridge, it was mentioned
between Major Buttriok and Captain
Isaac Davis, that the minute men
bcttcr 1,e. Imt
front, because
.1 .1 1 lit!
, bmv,xl oll
. . ... . 1
.1 1 . .1
the
re i t
right, ihen tney saw ttio smouo 01
the town house, and I think Major
Bultrick said, "Will you stand here
and see them burn the town down V J
Anil the order was given to march,
, mid we all marched down without any
further order or arrangement.
The British had got up two of the
planks to the Bridge, ll was a mer
cy that they fired on us at tho bridge
for wc were going to march into the
town, and the British could loud nnd
fire three times to our once, because
we had only powder horns nnd no
cartridge boxes, nnd it would have
been presumptuous. I understood
that Colonel Abijah Pierco got the
gun of ono of the British soldiets who
was killed at the bridge. I saw them
when 1 went over the bridge, lying
close together, side in side, dead.
Joshua Brooks, of Lincoln, wns nt
the bridge, nnd was struck with u
the bridge, nnd
'ball that-cut through his hat, nnd
ball that cut
(lr(!W-blond on his loiehcsid, and it
.,s Ji' jt wns cut with a knike
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. " J
, , n y ...
acMiivco.
lien wc nnti nreu in me
bridge
i .i i xr - ..i
awl Kliieu mo jinus.ii, num.
'hurst, ot Lincoln, who was my
,. . . , uv,.... ,.
has
iiiiuii man, oai. ...j.. .,.w
and no ono knows when it will
uuiin,
Before the fiithtitu; begun, when
wc wcrc 0 (w ',it James Nichols,
of j;mco w10 Was an Englishuiaii,
a & (h.o feUow ,m ft f,nu ringcr
. , t.lf y 0f you will hold my gun
1 will no down and talk to then.
- a ,
Some of them held Ins cun, ami lie
-- i, ... i i
, 1 ... ,1... HmI.oI. cr.l.
wont down n one 10 mv; iiiiiou
' dicrs at the Bridgo and talked to
them some time. Then he came
back aud took his gun and said he
was going home, and went off before
, tho fighting.
1 Afterwards ho enlisted to go to
' Dorchester, and there desei ted to the
British, und 1 necr heard of liiui u
gain. j I believe I was the only man from
Lincoln that had a bayonet. My
father got it in the time of the Fiend,
war.
I went into the house where Davis
and llosmcr were carried after they
i.. ii ii ci. in itp I ll ll ii I. u
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I mipisis-
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eu the nouse w oe .Minor nuiim
1 .1 1 l . f. II .
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i U li.in vi f inrirelo'll down to the
, ., . ,, .. , , if ,
l & l?jor "uttnek marehctl lirat
, l al'iai " ,"1e?4 10 ,.
did not see Col. Robinson to know
him. I verily believe that I felt bet
ter that day, take it all the day
through, than if I bad staid at home
Amos Bakuu. (Seal.;
Wc saw Atnas U.iker sign thu a
hove, after it was read to htm.
Pi. It. Hoar, Josiah Barllett, Jas.
Baker.
TROY iV RITLAND. AND ItlT
LAND & WASHINGTON RAIL
ROADS.
, jiutianu and v ashiii'ion ii.uiro-is, o
tdeeiu it our duty to present to the public,
thtoiigh your eolunnn, a M.itenient of tint
progress and pro-cnt condition of ihc'i
roaUs
The Kuthitrd and Waatiuigtrm Rvl
h.u Ih'oii put under nmtrart hi folk.
The first tlivinonof 1 mile, from Rut
Ian I to the State line, at IVultncy, wm
let itcarlv n vnr glt. to Mr r film ng V.
t'i.. aiv(int lids tln.e alivmly grflded to
the Pniiltnoy line The inm U purchased
and is now on its way to Rutlnnd S
much of the nvid an lys Itetwci'ii (.'.
tletoti and Rutland Indng n distance of
lit miles will Ih 0'iiel forum? by the
tirst of Augii-t next. Tho n'limining di
vision from I'oultnry line to Salem 1
distance of miles wns contracted iu
Fehtmuy hist, to Messrs Unta.an Ac Pnp'
who luve given nmphi security fr lis
completion by the first of May, lfM.
ti'iiiun.'l has ulrc.tdy been bmken in llm
towns of Poiiltuey Utaiiville. anil Paw
let, und by the 1st of duly liot Oleri
tious will lie coiiiiiHMii isl in Hiipert. Te
ernl of the heaviest M-ctinu have alrcody
Im-cii gradiM and we have the stnmgeM
guar.inty. in the well known diameter of
the innt.netois, that the work will l
pulieil with the utmost energy.
Tlie Tniy and Rutland Ron'l, from Si.
lem to its inteiiction with the Troy nnd
Huston Itond, at I'iigle lllidgo adistnueo
of 17 miles uis on tho -1st int. let to
tieorge W. IJaiker V Co., who lime
given the lequi.ed security for its com
(ilction by the 1st of duly, 18;M. With
in the next ten days giou.nl will be bro
k:n by ilie-o contnictoiy, nnd ll.u work
jii.Oied to completion by the day sjievified
in their loiittui t. All' the stock which
they weni requiieil to take, ban 1ku sult
wrilKxl by thowi living along tho line of
the rond 'from Ka-de Rr'ulgo to Rutlaml,
ten percent of which was paid in April
hist.
From Eagle Rridgu to Tiny, the Road
will lie built by the Troy mid Boston
Company, the particulais of which have
lieen spiead U'l'oro the public. It Li al
ready under contract, und ojieration will
lie commenced iu the coutsu of u few
days.
When these reads nre completed, they
will form, in loiniection Mill, thu Tioy
and Boston mail, the most diiect coinniit
iiieatiou, not onlv fima Tioy, Itulluud.but.
also fiom New Votk to Moutieal le'.n
17 miles slimier than the S.uatoga and
Wliittliall road, and nt least 14 miles1
shoiter than thu lteuniugtoii or Western
Vermont mute. Should it, however, be
come mi ess.'iry to shorten the line Mill
more, in consequence of the building of
n rival road through Western Vermont,
it will be iu our power to do mi ut any
time, by extending the Rutland nnd
Washington load fiom t'nstletou to Lei
cester a distance of IS miles there to
coimcet with the Rutland nnd Rurliuetou
toad, at a point within -til miles of iiur
lint;ton. This would give us in. addition
al saving of 15 miles, and would make n
total saving of 1211 miles over the Reming
ton or Western VcmiioiiI route. Tho
distance fiom Troy to Jim lington would
he only l.'il miles, mid calling it 80 miles
fiom !ii. lington to Mont.cul, and Kilt
from Tioy to New York, it makes a total
of Ho I milei, or, at the sliced run iqioii
the Hudson Uier road, iilxiut 11 bonis,
fiom Montreal to New York thus fur
nishing the most diiect mule which cun
be built, with liijilrr gnides and fewer
en. ves than can he found iqou any con
templated road between these two lei mi
ni. We do not (impose to enter into thu
business plnxpcots of our loads. If it.
were necessary ve eoulil show statistics
ftir superior to ihoe of any oil er mute.
Accoiding to tlio Tinted .Stales census,
we have upon the line of our roads. thttt
timet lite trralti. tirice. the. pnjndution,
mid more Mo 11 twice tlie Imnincit rtiour
cet, mimss4iI along the line of the pn-
jsiscil Western Vermont road, Jheso
matters, hottever, me well uiiderstixKl,
and therefi re need not he presented by
ll".
It has been our policy heretofore to n
void ostentatious display and newspajs r
warfare with other and rival proji:U.
The Directors of our resiectivo romls
have quietly hut iu urtr'ously Uen m
work iu pieparing the way for un early
eonqiletion of the whole, and we nre hap
py to say, that lints far their efforts have
Ix-cii ciouued with nieces. Wo enn how
with certainly untioiinee that our retpect
ire math will Ite Itiiilt, and we expect to
oe the whole line from Tioy to Rutland
in 111. initig older bv the 1st July, 18."1
Itl'.lt'NAItl) ltl, Alii,
I'tes't ,of Ihe Trov and Rutland Komi.
Ml'MMTT CLARK.
I'res't. of tho Rutland t Wash. Roud.
Salem, May mh,
Wohin's Fi osomv. (inv. RarUmr
of Virginia, in tin address l-foni hit agri
cultural soeiely, says ; ''Let eieiv mull
have the foititude to mj! his afliiiia in
the fai.-o, lii keep .111 iu count of his ihhts
and items of eAs-iiiIituic, nohmlter how
long 1 r Iioh black the list ; if In; don't
lisilc into it his ncighWs will and more,
let him show it to his wife, if he has one
If a prudent woman it will he of service;
if imprudent it will Isj no harm. Hut,
there are few of the Liter, and I cheer
fully ls.-ar evidence to the care nnd econ
omy of a woman. When iu a sit mil ion
to ob-orve, I vifely viy, tlut I never
knew a woman left Ui the one of an em
barrdd estate, that did not extricate it
I it ViUA JlOrrihle,
Onto. The constitutional Stale
Convention in session at Columbus
will agreo upon biennial sersions of
the legislature and two year' tc rrn ol
service to senators.
f-rt'rThc. celebrated Dr. A mo-:
Twt roiiKi.i., of Kceiic, N. II. , died m
his rcisid;ui;c on r'unday lust.
